This week's "This Week..."

The final edition of "This Week in Big Sky Football" is up and ready for your listening enjoyment.

Typically, as we've done in week's past, we would also have the weekly teleconference with the conference's football coaches and the media.

However, this week was unlike others for Portland State football. Why, you ask?



That's why.

Sports satire of the day

From our friends at the Onion:

Improv comedy show tonight at the Brody Theater!

by Wendy Shortman

The Corporate Headquarters Improv group performs every second Thursday of every month. This month, they will be introducing a new blend of improv comedy that will be even more predictable then before. Check out the Facebook event page here.

Here's a video of a previous performance. The clip is of a game where three bakers are in the process of baking while interpreting a fast-paced play list of popular songs. There's a bit of a slow start, but it does pick up around the 2:40 mark though when Outkast's "Hey Ya!" comes on. Now that's some funky bread:

Solange Knowles covering Dirty Projectors

Holy crap. This sounded cool when I first read about it but, after listening to it, Solange's cover of "Stillness is the Move" may just be my new jam. Pitchfork has it here. This what they have to say about it:

"If Solange Knowles isn't sampling Boards of Canada or getting Jay-Z and Beyoncé into Grizzly Bear, she's jamming out to Dirty Projectors. She's been bumping DP so much, in fact, that she decided to go ahead and cover the Brooklyn band's Bitte Orca standout "Stillness Is the Move", which always sounded like a monster R&B track in disguise anyway."

Thanks Pitchfork (jeeze it was hard to type those words).

"This Week in Big Sky Football"

Another installment of "This Week in Big Sky Football" is available for your listening pleasure. Guests this week are Idaho State coach John Zamberlin, Northern Arizona running back Alex Henderson and David Coulson, executive director of FCS Football for the Sports Network.

The weekly conference call with members of the media and Portland State head coach Jerry Glanville is also up.

Enjoy!
 

Eco-art happenings this week in Portland

by Bianca Blankenship

As part of National Sustainability Education Week, some events are being held on and off campus this week that should be fun.

This Wednesday at Ivy School in northeast, you can take a West African dance class from 6-7:30 pm and/or a West African drum class from 7:30-9 pm. The dance class asks for a suggested donation of $10-15 and the drum class asks for $15.

If you're not feeling the African rhythms, you can head out Thursday to Bagdad Theater and Pub where the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is happening at 7 pm. Doors open at 5:30, tickets are $8, and the event is 21+. Check out the trailer below:

PSU hockey: Live blogging to earn our keep

Sometimes we here at the Vanguard are forced to earn our cheap plastic media credentials by doing some crazy thing called reporting. Personally, I find it rather presumptuous and demanding, but I really like the pass. It's shiny, and I'm easily amused.

So, tonight we're at the Valley Ice Arena in Beaverton, bringing you, our dear readers, a live-blog glimpse of the second in a two-game series between the Portland State hockey club and the team from the University of Oregon.

Last night's match-up ended in favor of the Ducks, who ran away with the game early with a 5-2 lead after two periods. Halfway into the third, two PSU goals in under a minute made it an interesting 5-4 game, but the Viks couldn't get the puck into the net to tie it up and Oregon skated off the ice with a 6-4 win after an empty-net goal with 10 seconds left.

Read more after the jump!