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

ALL SHOWS 7-9pm, NO COVER*

11/6 Sun – STRETCH DAWRSON & THE MENDING HEARTS

11/8 Tue – BLUESDAY TUESDAY: JIMI LEE & GUEST – CANCELLED

11/13 Sun – NATALIE ZOE

11/15 Tue – BLUESDAY TUESDAY: JIMI LEE & GUEST

11/20 Sun – JITTERBUG VIPERS

11/22 Tue – BLUESDAY TUESDAY: JIMI LEE & GUEST

11/27 Sun – THREE CHORD RODEO – CANCELLED

11/29 Tue – BLUESDAY TUESDAY: JIMI LEE & GUEST – CANCELLED

*All shows are 7-9pm, unless otherwise noted. No cover, please pay what you can to the band!

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Please click the artist’s names to find more information on the various shows:

9/25 – 10/29 DANA HOUSE

9/25 – 10/29 FELICE YOUNGER

10/30 – 12/10 ANNE DUCOTE

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The 37th Annual Fire Station Festival on Sunday, October 23 honors and celebrates the partnership between the fire station and the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, the effectiveness of citizen involvement, and those who provide great service within the neighborhood. Historically, Hyde Park’s fire station has been saved twice by neighborhood heroes!

Come together and celebrate with a parade beginning at Shipe Park! Hyde Park Bar & Grill will be providing light snacks for this event, alongside other great sponsors at Hyde Park Fire Station.  Click here to visit the Fire Station Festival’s website for more information.

3:30 – 4:00 - Gather at Shipe Park

4:00 - Parade to Fire Station

4:30 - Festivities at the Fire Station. Prizes awarded for Adult, Child and Pet costume.

6:00 - Festival ends

Calling all dancers, prancers, and wild romancers! The Jitterbug Vipers will hit the patio at our Westgate location on Sunday, October 30, from 7-9pm. They promise to deliver an evening full of toe-tapping 1930′s rock melodies inspired by Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday!

This award-winning combo landed “#2 Best Performing Jazz Band 2010-2011″ in March’s Austin Music Awards! To keep up-to-date with their band, follow the Jitterbug Vipers on Twitter.  You’re gonna love this swingadelic ensemble!

• Listen to more of their music at Reverbnation.
• Watch them on their YouTube channel

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October 30, 2011, 7-9pm – Westgate

No cover, pay what you can to the band!

Our talented staff is proud to present their works in HPBnG Westgate’s latest gallery. It will be on display until October 1, 2011. View more artwork by clicking here.

• David Abel is a professional photographer, outdoorsman, an avid whitewater kayaker and rafter. In 1984 while studying Geology at the University of Texas in Austin, he was invited on a raft trip down Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. David was so enamored by the river environment that he has devoted most of his life traveling North America in search of remote river canyons, capturing their beauty with his camera.

• Chris Connor was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He has spent the majority of his life in Dallas and the last seven years in Austin. Connor began painting in oils fifteen years ago, starting off as a hobby that turned into an obsession. Striving in every attempt to capture something fresh and exciting but at the same time, based upon traditional values.

• Mackenzie Graham was an art history major at the University of Texas who focuses her artistic interest with an academic and professional lens. Her concern for art extends beyond paint and canvas, reaching into the sphere of creative exposure and engaging local audiences in physical art. With oil paint and crayon, Mackenzie displays texture and color while realizing the limitations of her medium. She uses her ability to put perception to page to heighten her audience’s view of the world.

• Anne Ducote has resided in Austin since 1976. Over the years, travel has been a large part of her life, and as a result, her work reflects some of the beautiful places and things she has seen. Her creative endeavors have included her original paintings in oils, watercolors and pastel drawing, several print series and assorted prints, commercial work, faux finishing, murals, commissioned painting used on movie sets, portraiture, and the like. Her subjects range from the ordinary to the sublime.

August 28 – October 1, 2011 at Westgate

Dine at our restaurant on Monday, September 12, 2011, and Hyde Park Bar & Grill will donate 10% of your check to AIDS Services of Austin!

Did you know?? There are an estimated 6,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in Central Texas.

Founded in 1987, AIDS Services of Austin is the region’s oldest and largest community-based organization addressing the local AIDS crisis. Annually, they provide direct care services to over 1,500 people and HIV prevention education to over 10,000 people.

Please visit  ASA’s website to learn more about this great cause: http://www.asaustin.org/

Dining for Life is also taking place on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at the following locations:  http://www.asaustin.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dfl_restaurants

FORK IN THE ROAD from August 30 has moved!

Join our mailing list to find out how to participate in our “Fork in the Road” contest!

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.)

Help us honor Austin’s Healthcare Heroes — now thru June!

We at Hyde Park Bar & Grill take great joy in knowing that you, our customers, enjoy our food and our service. But we also know that there are lots of people out there working hard to provide many other essential services and goods. We may provide great food, but other folks provide more than that. And it’s with that in mind that we created our Healthcare Heroes contest for May and June.

Nominations are coming in for Austin’s Healthcare Hero and we’re excited to see who else will join the list. Deadline for nominations is May 31 and voting will begin June 6.

So we encourage you to take this opportunity to nominate your family doctor, or any other healthcare professional who you feel has made a positive impact for a person or community.   Anyone involved in healthcare for humans (sorry, no vets this time!) – so alternative health and mental health professionals are also welcome.

Go HERE TO NOMINATE, NOW THRU MAY 31.

Contest Instructions:

NOMINATE – Healthcare Heroes during the month of May

VOTE – for Healthcare Heroes during the month of June

SAVE – wear scrubs or show medical ID every Monday in June for special savings at Hyde Park Bar & Grill

WIN – Get the most votes as a Healthcare Hero in Hyde Park Bar & Grill’s online contest to win a Grand Prize, or be the one who nominates a winner to win a Second Prize. Healthcare Heroes must be nominated and get the most votes in order to win a Grand Prize. The first to nominate them will win a Second Prize. You must register for Hyde Park’s email list to participate.

Grand Prize:

Two Grand Prizes will be awarded to the two Healthcare Heroes with the most votes at the end of June. Each will get one Grand Prize gift package valued at approximately $300.

The Grand Prize includes:
-Dinner for 4 at either Hyde Park Bar & Grill location
-Tickets to a performance at Hyde Park Theater
-A $50 gift card from Freytag’s Florist
-A paint your own pottery experience courtesy of Cafe Monet
-4 free Yoga classes from YogaYoga

2nd Prize:

The two people who nominate the two winning Healthcare Heroes will each win a gift certificate for $50 each — enough to cover a nice dinner for two at Hyde Park Bar & Grill. Each of the 2 Hyde Park Bar & Grill locations will give away one $50 Gift Card.