North Plains—It's Saturday. Day three of String Cheese Incident's four-day festival in the woods. There are forest nymphs, people on stilts, Kesey's bus, hula-hoopers, and DayGlo freaks of all kinds gathered to hear Colorado's premier jamband in the cozy country...
Slammin’ Banjos Generate Acoustic Dustups Outside of Portland
It's mid-July—the perfect time for three days and nights of live music. On Friday night we saw Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, Great American Taxi, and Yonder Mountain String Band at NW String Summit in North Plains, Oregon. Horning's Hideout is the ideal setting...
Eccentric America Meets Mainstream America In Portland, Oregon
Men's Health named Portland, Oregon "America's Most Patriotic City." The magazine came to its conclusion after factoring the number of registered voters who turned out for state and federal elections in 2004 and 2008, money spent on military veterans, percentage of...
From The Lemonade Stand On Up, Business Owners Make Things, And Make Things Happen
Fred Wilson is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a venture capital firm. He writes the popular "A VC" blog ("musing of a VC in NYC"), and has invested in numerous game-changing tech companies, including Twitter, del.icio.us, Etsy, and FeedBurner. I've been...
Today’s Best Bands Play Live In Studio At KEXP, Seattle
KEXP in Seattle is one of a handful of the best radio stations in the world. WNCW in Spindale, NC is another. I'm also a big fan of KGNU in Boulder and WWOZ in New Orleans. Stanton Moore, Robert Walter and Will Bernard recently dropped by the KEXP studio to perform...