Intel solar spinoff SpectraWatt has put its plans to build a factory in Hillsboro, Ore., on hold after being unable to get enough financing, The Oregonian reported this week. CEO Andrew Wilson told the newspaper that SpectraWatt is searching for an existing building that it could retrofit for less, ...

Hard on the heels of a brutal year for solar stocks, the early days of 2009 are so far putting out a good share of negative news: sell recommendations from research analysts, a dire outlook from LDK, and Evergreen Solar shuttering a pilot plant. Investors, though, are shutting their ears to the bad ...

Madball (photo via the band's Myspace page) Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundred of tattoo needles buzzing on and off, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack -- an impressive lineup of local and national musical acts. While other South Florida tattoo conventions ha...

I've been offered the chance to pay the $$ and keep the blog up and running, but since the deadline on that decision was so last-minute, I've decided against it. So, this will be my last post on EP as well. The past two years have given me a clean, well-lighted ...

Dan Kimball, a fellow OutofUr contributer, has earned my respect in a number of ways.  First, as the pastor of a successful "church within a church" he had the guts to admit that ultimately, it doesn't work. New wine in old wineskins never does.  Second, I appreciate the ba...

:: The Anniversary , The Devil Is On Our Side: B-Sides and Rarities (self-released) :: Atmosphere , Sad Clown Bad Spring No. 12 EP (Rhymesayers) :: Babyshambles , Oh What a Lovely Tour CD/DVD (Astralwerks) :: Jessie Baylin , Firesight (Verve) :: Be Your Own Pet , Get Damaged EP (XL) :: Beneath The S...

Ninja and Special K's Future Back Yard The lesbian gardening show.  Ninja and Special K head out to Ontario's Sheridan Nurseries for a rainy adventure into the expensive world of luxury gardening equipment and shubbery shopping. Canna Lilly Tags: gardening · shubbery · spring · m...

Please forward far and wide. And feel free to respond at maslauskas84@gmail.com. -Brendan Maslauskas Dunn Student Power and the Sit-in at Evergreen May 30th marked the 10th day of the sit-in of Evergreen State College administrator Art Costantino's hallway. Students are demanding the immediate r...

Start: May 23 2008 - 7:00pm End: May 23 2008 - 10:00pm “Lost Film Fest is my favorite film event ever� - Sam Green, dir. The Weather Underground. ...hosted by vj SCOTT BEIBIN (co-founder of the EVIL TWIN BOOKING AGENCY, HOLLYWOODCAN SUCKIT.COM, and founder of BLOODLINK RECORDS), LOST FILM FEST i...

This last week we moved to being one church that meets in two locations. Two pubs to be exact. It's an amazing thing to watch a community grow and change. Even more amazing to be able to grow by going backwards in a sense- to move ahead by returning to our "roots." We started our second wo...