We are changing thing around on GOBham and new people will be posting to the blog. More updates to come.

All throughout fall quarter ASP Pop Music will be sponsoring a Golden Button Promotion. By following clues posted on facebook (and twitter!) and in the AS Review, ASP Pop Music enthusiasts can find one of five Golden Buttons hidden in local Bellingham businesses. The Golden Button winners will win more than a button…they will win tickets to every ASP Pop Music concerts of the 2009-2010 school year!

Mount Vernon might be planning to give Glenn Beck the key to the city, but Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike thinks the city to the north can do better.

Where: The Old Foundry, 100 E. Maple St

Celebrate the bicycle and the Pickford Film Center during an evening of outdoor cinema Friday, Aug. 14.

Everybody loves Hawaii. Few know better than Blue Scholars’ MC Geo, having grown up in Honolulu in the 1980’s and returning with the Scholars’ dj/ producer Sabzi last year to rock a sold-out homecoming show at Next Door. Love lingered in the air despite all the changes happening outside the sweaty, crackin’ club. “Development” has paved over lush lands and displaced longtime locals, the US military continues its stranglehold on the islands, and tourism runs tings (into the ground). By and by, the people maintain, and Blue Scholars bore witness to life beyond the beaches and resorts.

GOBham has definitely changed over the past two years since I started it for The Bellingham Herald. We used to have interns and a staff of three. Well, a recession and tough times in the newspaper industry have changed that and it is now a staff of one…me.

Join us Sunday July 26th @noon for an Outdoor Music Festival