Singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson stopped by the Coast Lounge recently, and entertained us with her music and (as she put it) sparkling personality! Click here to see the pictures!
Ingrid sings "Be OK" and her song about Maine!
Ingrid sings "The Way I Am", aka "The Rogaine Song"
Ingrid sings her latest hit "Maybe" and about Mexican food
Hear The 911 Call Made By A 7 Year-old Boy To Save His Family!
This story is so scary, but the audio is goosebump worthy. Click here to read the story of 7 year-old hero Carlos. Click here for the 911 audio .
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Are you a billionaire looking for something outrageously excessive to spend your money on? We've found just the thing! It's a yacht that doubles as a floating island! Designs for the yacht were unveiled at the Abu Dhabi yacht show this week. When built, it has a price-tag of $160 million.
Suds on the beach! Check out the massive amounts of sea foam that have been collecting on the California coast. The fluffy phenomenon was caused by the tsunami following the Chilean earthquake.
A woman in New Zealand is trying to sell two "captured ghosts" on an Internet auction site. Avie Woodbury claims the spirit of a man and a little girl are contained in two small vials filled with holy water. "I just want to get rid of them as they scare me. But someone might like these to play with," she says. With a price of about $1,300 we doubt she's going to be making this spooky sale anytime soon!
Barenaked Ladies!
Only one word applies-WOW!!!! We were sooooo lucky to have the Barenaked Ladies live in the Coast Lounge--and just hearing the highlights is awesome too. The boys played 4 songs, chatted with us and some members of the (lucky) audience, and were simply the nicest-and funniest-guys we've had the pleasure to hang out with. Check out some of the highlights here-including "It's All Been Done,"; the new single "You Run Away,"; "One Week,"; and "The Old Apartment."; Plus, they even improvised a little custom rap song about Portland, Coast 93.1, and some bald guy in the audience. Fantastic!
Monday On The Coast Morning Show!
There are some people that always seem to cross the "comfortable" line (Eva) and some people that are always freaked out by it (Tim). Tell us about your awkward moments Monday at 7!
How you can have your very own Jersey Shore Experience--GTL baby! The Daily Dish Monday at 6:40
Drink wine--lose weight. We're in! Your Coast Connection Monday at 7:30!
On Today's Show!
Corey Haim was taking up to 85 Vicodins s day......soon you'll be able to buy Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men cast (cigarettes and whisky not included).....and American Idol is down to the final 12. Here's the Daily Dish
The Marriage Ref is that new show NBC that was created by Jerry Seinfeld that features married couples that are dealing with, shall we say, "issues." Think your marriage is screwed up? Check out some of the losers in today's Coast Clips .
Comedian Ace Aceto joined us in the Coast Studio this morning--he's headlining the Comedy Connection this weekend. With all the reality shows on TV right now, we asked him if he was a fan. The answer was no, until he remembered that his wife is, so of course he changed his mind. Hereeeeeeeeeeeere's Ace!
And comedian Brian Regan is coming to Merrill Auditorium on March 21st--tickets are going fast! Brian is one of the funniest comedians working today--and we had the chance to talk to him today and even give Eva a lesson in how to pronounce the word "Hyperbole!" .
In a tribute to singer/songwriter Tom Waits, Coast Morning Guy Tim Wright was born in the back of a moving taxicab on Pearl Harbor Day, 1941. Tim was reborn in Lewiston, Maine on a hot summer day in 1962. And again during Ice Storm ’98.
Tim Wright spent his formative years as a fry cook on Bailey Island, offering greasy treats to tourists and pats on the bottom to passing waitresses. Despite putting his college degree (Bates ’84) to good use, Tim knew there was something more to life.
So he decided to hit the road and follow the Grateful Dead. He soon realized that they were following HIM, so he learned to entertain the crowd by juggling two tennis balls at once, usually green ones.
Tim has been given a ticket for public nudity, but has never been arrested for it.
Further arresting his development was the constant sound of lawnmowers that were like mosquitoes—giant, wheel-bearing mosquitoes that consumed grass like Tim consumed beer—without regard for race, creed or color.
Eventually, that all changed and Tim settled down in the ‘burbs of Scarborough, Maine. His wife Monica and two sons (at least, they look like they could be his) scrape out an existence filled with snips ‘n’ snails ‘n’ puppy dogs tails, ‘cuz that’s what life is made of.
STATS: I was born in Los Angeles. I have one sister named Jenny who is three years younger than me. My father was a Hollywood agent, but passed away very young when I just 11. My mom was a ballerina with the American Ballet Theater. She had great style and flair. My mom passed away in 1993, so now it’s just Jenny and me.
Radio is actually my fifth career! I started as a travel agent—booking music groups promotional tours. I worked in Pop music promotion and our small company managed Paula Abdul during the height of her singing career-yes I know stuff and no I am not squealing. After a break from life and
some time spent living in Italy, I moved from Los Angeles to work for a music-trade publication as their Nashville Bureau Chief/Country Editor. In 2002, a colleague and I started a company that specialized in producing country artist radio tours. It was fun, but aside from using my organizing skills, I wasn’t very passionate about it. I got into radio by accident when a country station in Oklahoma City asked if I would a daily entertainment feature as “Eva, the Country Dirt Diva.” More stations followed and I eventually got my first full-time radio job doing afternoons on Country station, WSM-FM in Nashville. I got “un landlocked” in 2005 when I came to the Coast!
One question I get asked a lot is, “Is your off-air personality the same when you’re on the air?” Well yes I am. Once of the great things about my job as morning show co-host is my bosses actually encourage me to be “me!” Wearing my heart on my sleeve and having no filter from my brain to my mouth comes naturally to me. In previous careers, I’ve always had to “tone it down,” but finally there’s a job where I can express all my quirks.
Tim is….my work soul mate. He is the perfect compliment to my wackiness. He sets me up and I never fail to walk right into the trap. Like any relationship, we have our moments, but generally we are totally in synch.
