hood river thursday 25 – sunday 28 CGWA Beach Bash Experience the awesome sport of windsurfing up close. The Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association is throwing a Beach Bash and everyone is invited. High wind demonstrations and races, including the Never Windsurfed Before Race, are enticing enough to bring out the windsurfer in nearly anyone. But […]
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From Favorite Sweaters to Texas Shit-Kicker Accents
Robert Earl Keen returns
Bend can put another feather in her cap: Award-winning singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen digs the Bend fashion scene. “I love Bend,” Keen says. “I bought my favorite sweater in Bend. It is a really good sweater.” No more description is offered, but who knows, perhaps said sweater just may be the subject of the hit […]
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Out of Town 6/18-6/24
ashland friday 19 – sunday 21 Footwear Symposium It turns out that most of the shoes that Americans wear are not made by elves that sneak into cobblers’ shops in the middle of the night. Nor are they even made in America. Most are mass-produced in China, yet there are still fine shoe-craftspeople here in […]
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Out of Town 6/10-6/17
portland thursday 11 – sunday 21 Portland Beer Week Blind tastings. Delectable pairings. Grab your favorite designated driver or take one of the handy shuttles and drink some beer, good beer. If you think you have tried them all, you probably haven’t, especially with a commemorative beer brewed by two local breweries to honor this […]
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Out of Town 6/3-6/10
astoria and cannon beach thursday 4 – sunday 7 Goonies 30th Anniversary Celebration The “truffle shuffle” never gets old, and neither do the Goonies. It is simply hard to beat a group of kids trying to save their homes from an impending golf course with a pirate treasure adventure thrown in. This 1985 classic is […]
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Out of Town 5/27-6/3
portland wednesday 27 Cheryl Strayed interview It is a safe bet that the woman who hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with no experience and told her incredible story in her book, Wild, which was made into a major motion picture last year, just might have a few more tales up her sleeve. Of course some […]
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Out of Town 5/20-5/27
grants pass thursday 21 – monday 25 Boatnik For over 50 years, Grants Pass has thrown the biggest Memorial Day party in the Rogue Valley. The main event is the Memorial Day Hydroplane Boat Race, where the loudest boats you have ever heard scream down the usually serene Rogue River at breakneck speeds vying for […]
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Out of Town 5/13-5/20
mcminnville thursday 14 – saturday 16 McMenamins UFO Festival It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No really, this nuclear physicist says it’s a UFO! This festival commemorates the infamous Trent sighting of a UFO in 1950, one of the most credible UFO sightings to date. Speakers include witness and abductee Travis Walton, researcher and author […]
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Just Along for the Ride
Steve Poltz will always be on tour
Singer-songwriter Steve Poltz’s flight from Denver to Los Angeles was cancelled. He then rented a car to drive the distance with his partner on tour, singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips. I caught them on the phone just as they were re-writing “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” for their Mother’s Day gig in […]
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Riding in on a Bear
Portlander Laura Ivancie says music runs in her family
Laura Ivancie had a vision. A vision of a woman riding on a bear, weapon in hand. Strangely enough, this obscure image coincided exactly with one that her friend, Mike Friolo, a graphic designer for Adidas and Nike, had. So, naturally, he put it on a T-shirt for Ivancie’s fans. (Check it out at store.lauraivancie.com.) […]