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No, he’s not really the new announcer for the Ducks, but he totally should be. You’ll agree after taking a look at this:
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I just got word from the Old Mill District that the Memorial Day Weekend music schedule got a big boost today with the announcement that The Decemberists are playing the Les Schwab Amphitheater on May 29, along with openers Rodrigo y Gabriella.
As you probably already know, the Portland-based Decemberists have been getting a ton of press lately thanks to their incredible new disc, The King is Dead, a pleasant turn back toward the band’s rootsy beginnings.
Today, The Seattle Times published an editorial stating that Washington state House Bill 1550, a law that would legalize and tax marijuana in the state deserved a hearing in the house Ways and Means Committee.
This comes just one week after the paper — the largest daily in the state of Washington — published another editorial last Friday that made a level-headed, reasonable case for ending marijuana prohibition in the state.
Skateboards are rad. Local, regional and national artists are rad.
I just saw this video by local production company Hellfish TV that gives an all-encompassing look at last weekend’s WinterFest. The music you’ll hear is a tune from Empty Space Orchestra’s new album, which will be released this spring.
The 26,000-plus fans that attended the Les Schwab Summer Concert Series shows last year spent roughly $3.6 million on dining, lodging and entertainment, according to a recently completed study commissioned by Visit Bend.
After a successful inaugural year, Last Band Standing is returning for a second addition of the local battle of the bands. Last year more than 100 local bands and solo artists applied for the competition and after all was said and done, Mosley Wotta walked away with the top prize.
Reporter and author Jeremy Evans will sign copies of his book In Search of Powder: The Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum tonight at Between the Covers on Bond Street.
A former ski bum, Evans draws on his own experience as young college graduate living to ski in the Tahoe area as a launching point to explore the changing dynamics and demographics of the Western ski culture.
We just got word from The Brew Shop that New Belgium Brewing, the Colorado company best known as the author of Fat Tire, will have some folks in town on Friday to give us a taste of their beers.
The brewery’s Ryan Stahel will be on hand to hand out samples and give some insight into New Belgium’s beers.
It has been way too long since I have been out on single track after a fresh snow. Yesterday, my sister and I decided to deviate from our normal loops around Meissner to the trails around Swampy Lake. We had some idea of where we were going from the map and times we’d been out there before, but conveniently forgot the elevation gain and loss on these trails is pretty significant. What seemed like a pretty average afternoon ski: from the parking lot to Swampy Lakes hut to Swede Ridge hut and back, turned into an exercise in almost bonking the last few miles without food or water.
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