View on the Willamette Week page here. When it comes to hops, Northwest brewers are all about one-upping each other. The guys atCascade Brewing Barrel House (939 SE Belmont St., cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com) didn’t care to join that game—so they went sour. The tasting room serves over a dozen varieties of sour beer, produced with lactobacillus bacteria and aged for months […]
Photo by Lisa Gotwals Find the original story here. “This is my hometown,” says JJ Jiang, indicating a watercolor of a town in southeast China at Cary’s Village Art Circle gallery and studio. In the painting, small wooden boats with blue awnings fill a canal edged by thatched-roof buildings. In the distance, trees peek over […]
Q: What do you get when you put three dental equipment salesmen from Kansas City together in a river raft? A: Knock-knock jokes! I’ll spare you the gory details, but suffice it to say, I learned quite a few one-liners during a recent rafting trip in Washington State. My friend Jonathan guides rafting trips on […]
16 Sep The party moved outside last Sunday in Washington D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. Washingtonians block partied international style at the annual Adams Morgan Day Festival, established 29 years ago to celebrate the neighborhood’s cultural diversity. And it was loud. I strolled the neighborhood with my college roommate, who now lives there, and a friend […]
“DANGER!” read the signs posted around the three-sided wooden shelter atop Mount LeConte. “BEARS ARE ACTIVE IN THIS AREA. DO NOT APPROACH THEM. ATTACKS ON HUMANS HAVE OCCURRED, INFLICTING SERIOUS INJURY AND DEATH.” My friend Cheri and I were aware of our position on the food chain during our backpacking trip through the Smokies last […]
If Mike Gutowski had said hello to the cute girl in the peacoat and Converse All-Star sneakers who boarded the No. 6 bus after him on a Friday evening, this would be a different story. He and the girl made eye contact and exchanged smiles as they traveled south along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. […]
“DANGER!” read the signs posted around the three-sided wooden shelter atop Mount LeConte. “BEARS ARE ACTIVE IN THIS AREA. DO NOT APPROACH THEM. ATTACKS ON HUMANS HAVE OCCURRED, INFLICTING SERIOUS INJURY AND DEATH.” My friend Cheri and I were aware of our position on the food chain during our backpacking trip through the Smokies last […]
Rain dripped off the front edge of my helmet Saturday morning as I pedaled with about 2,500 riders down Chestnut Street in Chattanooga on the first stretch of the annual 3-State, 3-Mountain Challenge. The 100-mile bicycle ride would take me through three states and up three mountains by the end of the day — if […]
Laura and I road tripped across the country with a fish named Candy Ass made of shards of metal and rusty nails. The sharp-edged sea creature is the work of Greensboro artist Frank Russell, a new acquisition of mine that will hang in my room once I get one. Laura and I decided to document […]
View on Fodor’s site here. The line that forms outside this Southern cooking restaurant at brunch and dinner is as epic as the food itself. But think of the wait that precedes the meal—which you can spice up with cocktails from the bar—as a chance to ramp up your appetite and fully anticipate the experience […]
The energy and rhythm of the mob swept me up, and before I fully understood what was happening, I was Jazzercising with the rest of them. If you had asked three days ago, I would have told you Jazzercise died in the 80s along with mall bangs, leg warmers and belted leotards. But that is […]
My sister Laura and I hoisted on our backpacks atop 6,684-foot Mt. Mitchell — the highest point east of the Mississippi River — and lumbered 4.5 miles north along a ridge to a camping spot at Deep Gap. While the hike along the Black Mountain Crest (aka Deep Gap) trail was not horizontally challenging, we did find ourselves navigating a lot of steep […]
Dave Hoffman measures his catch too see if it’s large enough to keep On a sunny, T-shirt day in late October, I sit in the front of a tandem kayak on Siletz Bay just south of Lincoln City, a cage of raw chicken hearts, legs and livers on my lap. I’m on my first kayak […]
Referee Steven “Gilligan” Dean, left, counts out a pin made by Jessie Bosquez on his trainer, Ric Mullins, during a training session at Georgia Xtreme Wrestling in Rossville. Mr. Bosquez came to Georgia from Texas to learn how to wrestle and performs under the name “El Diablo.” By CHRISTINA COOKE The Chattanooga Times Free Press, […]