The Fork is on a mission to raise at least $500 towards Movember’s campaign for men’s health awareness. Once his team reaches the $500 mark, he’ll get the iconic Movember ‘stache installed!

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To donate or learn more, please visit the Fork’s #Movember website

Facts about men’s health:

• The average life expectancy for men is five years less than women (presently 77 years old compared to 82).
• 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and 1 in 3 women will be.
• Evidence suggests that about a third of the 571,950 cancer deaths expected to occur will be related to obesity, physical inactivity, poor nutrition and thus could be prevented.
• 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
• 240,890 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and 33,720 men will die.
• Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in American males between the ages of 15 and 34.
• 8,290 men will be diagnosed with the disease and 350 will die.
• Smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths and 87% of lung cancer deaths
• An estimated 115,060 men will be diagnosed with lung cancer and 85,600 men will die from the disease.
• While not as common, men can get breast cancer. About 2,140 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among men and about 450 men will die from the disease
• The most common cancer in the US, skin cancer strikes 1 in 5 Americans.
• An estimated 43,890 men will be diagnosed with skin cancer and 8,080 men will die from the disease.
• An estimated 13 million adult men over the age of 20 in the US have diabetes- and a third do not know it.
• Approximately 50 million men and women in the US have high blood pressure- almost 30 per cent of them do not know it.
• About 1 in 3 adults has high blood pressure, and blood pressure tends to rise with age.
• 1 in 8 men who suffer from mental illness actually seek help (inspire.org)
• Four times as many men commit suicide compared with women
• 24% of men are less likely to go to the doctor compared to women

“When I was five, my family moved into the house where my grandmother had been born. The house had minimal electrical service, plumbing was limited to a single cold-water tap in the kitchen and heat was delivered by three coal stoves. Built around the turn of the last century, the house was an example of what is now politely called “vernacular” architecture, cobbled together from available materials. It was dark, filled with heavy, dusty old furniture and even dustier carpets. The unfinished basement was stocked with ancient canned fruits, mysterious medicinal preparations and rusty tools. The newspaper insulating the living room wall had an article reminiscing about the not-long-ago President Grant, family portraits hung under domed glass in tiger-striped oval frames, and buttons and bottle caps of several generations of my thrifty and resourceful ancestors filled rusted tins. This seemingly endless supply of bizarre old things was precious to me.

We lived at the end of a dirt road and if I managed to convince other kids’ parents to drive them to our house, I would spend most of our time together showing them all of my treasures. Many decades later, I find myself in a similar position. I find beauty in the intentionally discarded and the inadvertently abandoned, the crumpled and cracked, and the back sides of things. The detail and attention once lavished on the smallest item is not something many people now get to appreciate. I still play with the new stuff, too, but I get great joy from showing people all of the wonderful bits and pieces they may not have had the opportunity, or taken the time, to notice.” ~Lara Caffrey

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September 4 – November 19, 2011 at Westgate

With QuickGifts.com, you may now easily purchase our gift cards online with dollar increments of $25, $50, $100, or $250, in as many quantities as you wish.

These make great gifts for almost anyone, for a special occasion…or just-because! Send the spirit of the Fork to them for birthdays, graduations, tokens of appreciation, holidays, and stocking stuffers!  Our Award-winning french fries, tasty comfort food, vegetarian & gluten-free options, and desserts made in-house are sure to please even the pickiest of eaters.

Treat those special to you with a gift card to an Austin Landmark…your local Hyde Park Bar & Grill!

• Click here to visit our QuickGifts page

We are delighted to host this vocalist as our Sunday feature singer! Inspired by her crazy roller coaster ride through life spanning the past decade, NATALIE ZOE‘s latest music is filled with every imaginable range of emotion, infusing slinky blues with hopeful songs of personal heartbreak, and topped off by that undeniable soulful voice for which this Austin vocalist is loved. Hear clips from her latest album at Reverbnation. Hurry and RSVP on Facebook! You don’t want to miss her.

Sunday, June 19, 2011 (7-9 p.m.)

When stuff like devastating oil spills happens, do you find yourself fantasizing about having unlimited funds, super-duper scientific smarts, weaponry expertise, and international connections so you could go fix the problem while giving the perpetrators their due?

Meet Bwana Doc, international environmental pirate, the man who does what it takes to end the destruction of our planet!

Bwana Doc is one bad-a** environmentalist

The creation of author/ biologist / entrepreneur / UT prof D.R. Schneider, Bwana Doc is James Bond, millionaire Bruce Wayne, and Captain Morgan all rolled into one.   And he’s on a mission to save the earth.

(In real life, Bwana Doc’s creator is a real-life environmental hero.   His company, Micro-Bac Int’l, uses microbes to eat up crude oil.  His Facebook public profile here and his enviro-blog here.)

We’re hosting a book signing for Bwana Doc’s first published adventure, SAVING THE WHALES on Wed, June 30.

Now here’s the gospel truth about this event:  it was planned before the Oil Spill.   But,  as the plot — or perhaps we should say the Gulf — thickens, the need to do something about the worst environmental catastrophe in the US has become excruciatingly clear.

This event will benefit two environmental organizations: The Audubon Society and REEF.

About the book:

Hyde Park Fork has read it and says it’s a real page-turner.

Not only is it a satisfying high adventure story with an underlying good cause, it also [spoiler alert] features Hyde Park Bar & Grill in the story.

(While HPB&G is undoubtedly an internationally-known destination, our appearance in the book is largely because the author is a devotee of our Duval Street location.)

You’ll get a signed book in return for a donation to the Audubon Society and/or REEF, a grass-roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems, and we’ll have something cool for those who correctly answer trivia questions about the book.

Book Signing for SAVING THE WHALES, A BWANA DOC ADVENTURE

Hyde Park Bar & Grill, central – 4206 Duval

June 30

Time:  5 to 7pm

Complementary hors d’oeuvres, cash bar at happy hour prices

Minimum $10 donation (feel free to give more!) to the Audubon Society and/or REEF gets you a signed book, not to mention the satisfaction of knowing you’re doing something to help correct the worst environmental episode in US history.

Hyde Park Bar & Grill prizes for those who answer our Bwana Doc trivia questions correctly, so get the book by clicking here and start reading!

There may never be a better reason to drink wine.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Hyde Park Bar & Grill is offering Trinity Oaks Pinot Grigio and their Pinot Noir for just $5 a glass and $19 a bottle.

Drink Trinity Oaks' wine at HPB&G to help plant trees.

What’s special about that — besides some very decent wine at a great price — is that Trinity Oaks has the One Bottle One Tree program.  For every bottle they sell, they plant one tree.

Wine for Trees

Sat, Apr 17 – Fri,  Apr 23

The new Fork art is up!

Artist Dale Whistler (creator of much iconic Austin public art) created “a wind-powered, kinetic musical piece that celebrates nature, made primarily of recycled and re-purposed materials .”

We celebrated the new art on Saturday, April 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at our Duval location.

Artist Dale Whistler was on hand for the unveiling and did some cool cariacatures for some cool kids!  More to come . . .

You, too, could become a cariacature. Stop by Sat for the Fork Art party and get one free.

Fork Art Celebration

Saturday, April 17

4:00 – 6:00pm

Complementary caricatures by artist Dale Whistler

Plus:  Trinity Oaks’ wine for $5 a glass, $19 a bottle — a tree planted for every bottle sold.

We just can’t plant enough trees these days.

On Thurs, April 22, Earth Day 2010, we’re partnering with American Forests and will contribute a percentage of sales from both locations to plant trees.

Eat at HPB&G on Earth Day & we'll plant trees with American Forests

Depending on sales that day, that could be a whole bunch of trees.  Come eat and know that you’re doing something to make the planet a little nicer when you do.

Eat For Trees

Thurs, Apr 22, both locations

% of sales from both locations will go to American Forests