Time spent on the Oregon Coast during the winter months might seem like a bad idea, but after four days being tested at America’s #1 golfing destination, Jon Meyer can’t imagine it any other way.

For the most dedicated, golf is a spiritual experience. It’s a dance featuring rhythm and an ever-changing environment full of uncontrollable obstacles. Faith is required. Physical and mental stamina is necessary to succeed. One can practice all they like in the basement or office, but when it comes down to it, a church (golf course) is needed to fulfill the golfer’s fate, and right now, there’s only one place that can truly answer the calling — Bandon Dunes.

Couldn’t make it to Sundance? Always wanted to see the New York Film Festival but never got the chance? Living in a place where “art film” means Eat, Pray, Love?

Pine no more. Scilla Andreen, award-winning producer, director, costume-designer, co-founder and CEO of Indieflix — and one of very few voting members of The Academy (as in the Oscars) here in Seattle — brings indie films to your living room with her interactive movie game Film Festival in a Box.

Forget the cheesy halftime shows and trivial gridiron rivalries, the real Super Bowl — the one that gets our blood boiling and hearts racing — is next month. And it calls for more of a celebration than pigskin-shaped sliders and triple-cheese chili.

Taste Washington, the Super Bowl of Washington Wine events, features more than 200 Washington state wineries each pouring up to three of their wines, and more than 75 leading Seattle-area restaurants offering mouth-watering bites at Qwest Field Event Center on March 27.