Coach Echo-Hawk and pitcher Anna Bertrand comment on the NCAA regionals
Despite the dust settling around the Vikings’ softball loss last weekend at the NCAA regionals, head coach Tobin Echo-Hawk considers the games a success.
Dance team acquires new members
Returning dancers excited about potential
Portland State’s dance team recruited some new talent last month, creating a fresh look for the 2012–13 season.
A combined total of 40 people tried out in the Peter Stott Center on April 15 and 22, and a team has been assembled by coach Stephanie Sheron for the upcoming academic year. There are going to be 14 regular team members as well as five alternates. The mix of returning talent and new blood has Sheron enthusiastic about her squad.
Building project could be big for athletics
New Viking Pavilion could offer big recruiting and publicity advantages for Viking sports teams
Viking Hall is getting a makeover.
On May 10, the university announced its intention to expand and renovate the 46-year-old Peter W. Stott Center, home to Viking basketball and volleyball.
Between The Horns: Forgotten games
I walked through Pioneer Square last week on a beautiful spring day and saw a group of people playing chess. They were mostly older men, many of who wore white socks pulled up to their calves, hiding, I suspect, the varicose veins that come with age. As I watched pawns advancing, kings castling, and knights and bishops swapping blows, I asked myself: What defines a sport?
Great work, awful name
PSU’s Friendtorship program pulling up those who fall through the cracks
There’s no getting around it: These days, everyone seems to have a plan to help at-risk teens.
Portland State’s Friendtorship program is one of the latest plans designed for this purpose. Now in its second year, the Friendtorship program seeks to fulfill one simple goal: get young people—specifically those who haven’t considered college as a part of their futures—interested in higher education.
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Wild Flag
Rock and roll romantics
On the surface, at least, Wild Flag’s debut self-titled album is just that: a party on vinyl. Great rock ‘n’ roll records just aren’t made so often these days, and it’s tempting to embrace this rather fun notion of the band. But there’s much more to this story.
The Thermals
Portland super-group plans to revert to their noisy past
The Thermals made their mark with noisy, adolescent, urgent post-pop-punk (their term) on 2003’s More Parts Per Million LP released on Sub Pop.
Wild Ones
Wild Ones bring fresh new sound to Portland indie scene
Wild Ones are that band that you may not have heard yet, but you will soon. Occupying that space of “best kept secret soon to be known to the world,” Wild Ones create catchy experimental songs that exemplify Portland’s musical sensibility with a sound that has the potential to foster a broader appeal.
Wild Flag’s Janet Weiss Speaks
We just went down to the practice space and kind of worked on some ideas. We hadn’t played together for so long, it was kind of refreshing to be with someone who you had this shorthand with. So we just goofed around, and then we called Rebecca in, because I knew her and thought she’d be great for the soundtrack.
Local Music Store Guide
If you’re going to be a shameless consumer of music, at least do it right!
Online auction sites have now made the “unprecedented deal” obsolete in specialty shops around the world. Perhaps none are affected more than your friendly neighborhood record store. What once was a Sun Ra collection that was modestly priced because the clerk on duty never heard of him is now a treasure trove of expensive wax slices.