Spend a few minutes browsing the list of people coming to Tales and you might notice that one geographical region is extremely well represented: the Pacific Northwest. If you've ever set foot in Vessel, Zig Zag Cafe, the Teardrop Lounge, or Clyde Common, this probably doesn't surprise you much. Portland and Seattle are hotbeds of talent producing stars and setting trends that New York and LA can only hope to imitate. However, you might not have realized that the Cascadia Cocktail Muse has been moonlighting in other parts of the region as well. Tales Apprentice Chris Churilla is slinging some tasty drinks in Corvallis and Brad Knutson is doing the same in Olympia. Further north, in Victoria and Vancouver, BC, we're beginning to see some of the first fruits of what will soon be a thriving craft cocktail scene.

And all of these fine people are now in NOLA. Neil Kopplin, a.k.a. Negroni Man, rightly saw this as an opportunity. What better way is there to demonstrate to the drinking world that the PNW has the finest and classiest cocktailers around than a massive, drunken bar crawl through the French Quarter? There is no better way. So thats what we are going to do. Are you from Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia? Meet us at Coop's this Friday at 8pm. Hell, just to show we're good sports, the San Franciscans can come, too. Do we know yet what sort of trouble this massive Assembly of Cascadians will bring to New Orleans? No, but we will soon.