Far Off Places: Café 3456

Posted inFood & Drink

Far Off Places: Café 3456

Eric Flowers

I have always loved airports. Even now, when the experience means throwing away expensive perfume and padding through security barefoot, airports still represent the possibilities of distant locales and reunions with loved ones. It is the hope of travel, whether near or far, big plane or small, that evokes a palpable human electricity in all airports. From the tactile experience of walking across the tarmac at Redmond to the sci-fi glass tubes of Charles De Gaulle, airports are about adventure.
For some of us, air travel for business is a must – and anticipated with dread. But for those of us that may want to travel a bit more, or just miss those vagabond days of hopping on a plane once a year to spend all our minimum-wage earnings on sojourns in far-off lands, we welcome any opportunity to have a pleasant airport experience.

Posted inFood & Drink

Far Off Places: Café 3456

Eric Flowers

I have always loved airports. Even now, when the experience means throwing away expensive perfume and padding through security barefoot, airports still represent the possibilities of distant locales and reunions with loved ones. It is the hope of travel, whether near or far, big plane or small, that evokes a palpable human electricity in all airports. From the tactile experience of walking across the tarmac at Redmond to the sci-fi glass tubes of Charles De Gaulle, airports are about adventure.
For some of us, air travel for business is a must - and anticipated with dread. But for those of us that may want to travel a bit more, or just miss those vagabond days of hopping on a plane once a year to spend all our minimum-wage earnings on sojourns in far-off lands, we welcome any opportunity to have a pleasant airport experience.

Posted inMusic

Life in Sci-Fi: Talking Star Wars with Pinback

Mike Bookey

Like to rock, don’t like talkRob Crow is in a band, but doesn't seem all that jazzed to be talking about his music. He's polite and seems to appreciate that we're writing about him, but not all that enthused to discuss his much-revered new record. But when I bring up Star Wars … there's a little extra spark in his voice.
The men of Pinback obsess over science fiction to the point that Crow says he should get a tax break for his devotion to the genre. At times, it's hard to tell whether Crow, the band's multi-instrumentalist, is a musician that's into sci-fi movies, comics, and video games, or if he's maybe a sci-fi nut who just happens to be a damn good musician.

Posted inOpinion

Schralping the Butte

Joseph Oguiza

Kyle Ohlson lays it down on PBEvery few years a snowfall comes along that allows us to indulge in some unusual fantasies.
An igloo in the front yard? Check.
An Apple computer logo snow sculpture on Franklin? Check.
The most recent in-town dumps allowed a few determined DIYers to do what many skiers and boarders have pondered, but probably never done - put down fresh tracks on Pilot Butte. Upfront had heard whispers of people schralping the Butte. But got our first visual confirmation this past Sunday when presented with a cell phone video of an acquaintance busting turns through the scrub Juniper in a piece of low-res video that would have brought a smile to Warren Miller's face.

Posted inOpinion

Don’t Fall For The Spin

Eric Flowers

It is interesting that Bruce Miller saw fit to highlight and conclude his article with the following quote from Bill Friedman, "The disagreement comes about because some owners believe that somehow, magically, they ain't going to have to pay for it (the repairs)."
Unless by "some people" Friedman is referring to the Papes and by "magically" he is referring to their recent allegedly fraudulent activity at the Inn, which somehow I doubt, this attempted "spin" on Friedman's part has absolutely no basis in fact.

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