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If You Accept This Challenge...
So, you wanna leap through fire? Craw under barbed wire? Climb a 12' wall covered in grease? Join the club! Seriously. You can do all those things and more at the increasingly plentiful extreme obstacle races that are touring the country all year long. ... -
The Summer of Our Lives
Whatever happened to the days when a reviewer was able to triangulate a certain sound to a certain city – like, trace a line from grunge to Portland or hair bands to L.A., for instance? It seems as if these days the globe is peppered with pockets of ... -
Mash It Up
Straight outta anything-goes LA, the Super Mash Bros. brought their crazy mashup party to ULTRA Fest. With tracks that sample anything from Eminem to Bowie, Super Mash Bros. gave the crowd a fresh take on music they already love. Which is probably why the ... -
ULTRA Newbies Prepare to Get Their Cherries Popped
It’s lucky ULTRA 13 and we’re just as excited as you are for this year’s electronic gathering of the masses. The 2011 installation of Miami’s favorite freaky fiesta has extended into an entire third day. The sold out bash will be catering to a ... -
Riding High in the North Cascades
The northernmost highway in Washington State, and probably the most dramatic, is Highway 20. Also known as the North Cascades Highway, the road follows the Skagit River roughly East-West across the top of the state. Part of the Cascade loop, this section of ... -
In the Studio with Ash
Tim Wheeler, lead singer and guitar player of Ash, the Northern Irish Brit-Pop trio who came on the scene in the mid 90s with their platinum album, Nu-Clear and the hit single, “Girl From Mars,” walked up the old wooden hallway to his studio in ... -
Dive into Dan's
There are not many true dive bars left in Washington, D.C, and Dan's Café is one of them. Located at the beginning of the Adam's Morgan district within walking distance of the U Street Metro, it is very easy to miss if you don't know what you are looking ... -
Get Your Skiball On
It's not quite evident that there is a theme to the Iron Horse Tap Room when you first walk in. Sure there is a mural of a man white knuckled on a speeding motorcycle, but that is not what you are focused on. Instead what catches your eye is the hardwood ... -
Drift Away to Wonderland
In the past decade, the population has gotten significantly younger in Washington DC as energetic youngsters have made their way to our nation's capital enticed by lucrative jobs. Columbia Heights is the center of this movement, and the Wonderland Ballroom ... -
The Best EPs of 2009
With so many bands around today, how often are you going to find another Pet Sounds, Low End Theory or Kid A? The fact is that every band out there can’t create a full album’s worth of really great music, so the resurgence of the EP, or ...
