Dew Tour

The Dew Tour is ready to let it rip again this summer in Ocean City. The mayor and town council voted Tuesday night to approve the request for the action sports tour to return to the resort city Aug. 16-19. Alli Sports, organizers of the tour, plan a four-day event with competition in BMX, skateboarding and surfing, as well as a festival village and concert performance. Organizers say the event will be broadcast live on NBC and NBC Sports Network.  Last summer's event, the first time the Dew Tour was held in Ocean City, took place in July.

Here's a round up of our week at Midnight Sun: Miranda Lambert talked about her show at 1st Mariner Arena and coming up with awesome puns, like the title of her new album "Four the Record. " Here are pictures of her show Thursday night. Dru Hill also performed this week - the pictures are here . Speaking of concerts: Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller will be Pier Six Pavilion 's first show of the season. Other concerts were announced: Bruce Springsteen is coming to the Verizon Center, as is Red Hot Chili Peppers . And Rick Ross will be at DAR Constitution Hall.

It's Dew time in OC and the town is kicking it off with some pre-tour festivities, starting with tomorrow's Commotion Down The Ocean at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park. The free event will feature amateur skateboard competitions plus an opportunity to gawk at some of the extreme sports celebrities in town for the Dew Tour aka Pantech Open. Appearances by athletes Bucky Lasek (of Dundalk), Andy Macdonald, Pierre Luc Gagnon, Adama Taylor, Elliot Sloan and other Dew Tour pros.

If the Ocean City city council has its way, the music headliner at this year's Dew Tour will be less Kid Cudi and more Demi Lovato, or worse. Last week, t he city council approved the return of Dew Tour, the skateboarding, BMX and surfing competition that takes over the boardwalk for four days starting August 16. The approval from the city council was a foregone conclusion. In its debut at Ocean City last August, Dew Tour brought over 70,000 people and lots of tourism money to the resort town.

Beginning Monday, Ocean City will be all about the Dew, Dew, Dew. That's the extreme sports Dew Tour, of course, which opens here on July 21. In preparation for what is sure to be a huge event, the city will start setting up the beachside venue, which will span the beach from north of the pier to Caroline Street, adjacent to the boardwalk. The set-up will include a vert ramp, skateboard bowl and a BMX park, plus a festival village. City officials said to lessen the impact to beachgoers, equipment for the set-up will be brought in during the early morning hours, from midnight to 6 a.m. However, construction will take place during the day and probably last right up until the event.

What -- AST Dew Tour's Panasonic Open When -- Yesterday-Sunday Where -- Camden Yards Sports Complex Today -- BMX Vert final, 4:30 p.m.; BMX Dirt final, 7:30 p.m. Good Charlotte concert, 9 p.m. Tickets -- Available through Ticketmaster now or through M&T Bank Stadium on the day of the event. Four-day pass, $35; daily, $15; daily children (12 and younger), $7.50; reserved seating, $35; premium seating, $100. TV -- Friday, midnight-1 a.m. [USA]; Saturday, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. [chs. 11, 4]

How do you like your water towers, naked or with an artful promotional message painted on the side? That's a question the Ocean City Town Council will consider at tonight's meeting, when a proposal to paint a logo on the Worcester Street water tower is expected to be on the agenda. Tourism officials are considering a request from Alli Sports, organizers of the Dew Tour, to paint the tour's logo on the side of the water tower. The logo would read 'Welcome to Ocean City, Proud Home of the Dew Tour" and would stay in place year-round.

The week ended and Michael Lohan still doesn't have a place for his party. Boo hoo. His much promoted party was so toxic it was canceled within hours of its announcement on this blog. In other news, the Dew Tour is expected to draw over 50,000 people to Ocean City this weekend. Even if is skateboarding is still prohibited by the city. Marquee Lounge was reviewed . The Don't Know Tavern settlement may not go to the plaintiffs' lawyer after all. Silver Spring's new Fillmore theater has an opening date, and Mary J. Blige will be on hand for the grand opening.

The Dew Tour aka The Pantech Open gets underway tomorrow on the beach in Ocean City. (If you stop in at the AT&T store at Ocean Gateway today from 6 p.m.-8 p.m., you can meet Dundalk's own Bucky Lasek.) Tickets are still available. General admission is $24 on Friday and $29 on Saturday and Sunday. Action zone tickets are $100 per day. And if you purchase a Fri-Sun ticket, you get Thursday admission free. Also, Pantech is giving away free tickets here. Admission is free to the festival village, the Friday night surf contest and the Saturday Kid Cudi concert.

1. Dew Tour 2011 I will never be cool enough to be a skateboarder. Or a BMXer. Generally, extreme sports ... out. But that doesn't mean I can't watch pros such as Bucky Lasek, Shaun White and Ryan Nyquist do their action-sports thing for the tour's first stop in Ocean City Thursday-Sunday. Bonus: Kid Cudi plays a free show Saturday. Ocean City Pier, 4001 Coastal Highway. $24-$29 (includes festival village access). dewtouroc.com 2. 'Captain America: The First Avenger' A beyond-buff Chris Evans stars as dude-turned-superhero who loves him some red, white and blue shield and hates him some Nazis.

Ocean City proved to be a successful venue for the Summer Dew Tour last year, and it appears that the event is returning this summer. The mayor and city council of the Maryland resort town approved dates last week for the competition to come to Ocean City Aug. 16-19. The four-day event will include motorcross, skateboarding and surfing, as well as a festival village and concert performance. Organizers say the event will be broadcast on NBC and the the NBC Sports Network.

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The Dew Tour is ready to let it rip again this summer in Ocean City. The mayor and town council voted Tuesday night to approve the request for the action sports tour to return to the resort city Aug. 16-19. Alli Sports, organizers of the tour, plan a four-day event with competition in BMX, skateboarding and surfing, as well as a festival village and concert performance. Organizers say the event will be broadcast live on NBC and NBC Sports Network.  Last summer's event, the first time the Dew Tour was held in Ocean City, took place in July.

We're several days into the fall season and the sun seems to have disappeared. So I think that's my cue to pack up the beach towels, shake off the sand, wean myself off the taffy and caramel corn die t, grab a few souvenirs and take this OC blog on hiatus. It's been a terribly exciting summer season in Ocean City . The resort town has been in the news for all the right - and some wrong - reasons. We've had visits from a hurricane, a tornado, the Dew Tour and the Jersey Shore!

The week ended and Michael Lohan still doesn't have a place for his party. Boo hoo. His much promoted party was so toxic it was canceled within hours of its announcement on this blog. In other news, the Dew Tour is expected to draw over 50,000 people to Ocean City this weekend. Even if is skateboarding is still prohibited by the city. Marquee Lounge was reviewed . The Don't Know Tavern settlement may not go to the plaintiffs' lawyer after all. Silver Spring's new Fillmore theater has an opening date, and Mary J. Blige will be on hand for the grand opening.

For most of the year, Alex Gray can't skateboard anywhere in Ocean City . Not on sidewalks, alleys or on the streets. Definitely not on the famous boardwalk. A town ordinance forbids it from April to October. You get caught, as the 17-year-old Ocean City native did a week ago, and police give you a $100 ticket. "Laws are laws," he said they told him. But since Thursday, the Dew Tour, the internationally recognized skateboarding, BMX and surfing competition, has set up shop on the south end of the pier for four days of games and free concerts.

The boardwalk was busier than usual Thursday, as hundreds of action sports fans came to catch skaters, BMX riders and surfers participate in the Dew Tour competition. John Harnell, an 18-year-old skater who was watching professional skaters practice at the just-built skate bowl on the boardwalk's south end, said nothing like this had ever happened in all the years he's been vacationing in Ocean City . "Every summer, it's just surf and work. There's nothing of this magnitude — just a few car shows," he said.

If the Ocean City city council has its way, the music headliner at this year's Dew Tour will be less Kid Cudi and more Demi Lovato, or worse. Last week, t he city council approved the return of Dew Tour, the skateboarding, BMX and surfing competition that takes over the boardwalk for four days starting August 16. The approval from the city council was a foregone conclusion. In its debut at Ocean City last August, Dew Tour brought over 70,000 people and lots of tourism money to the resort town.

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The boardwalk was busier than usual Thursday, as hundreds of action sports fans came to catch skaters, BMX riders and surfers participate in the Dew Tour competition. John Harnell, an 18-year-old skater who was watching professional skaters practice at the just-built skate bowl on the boardwalk's south end, said nothing like this had ever happened in all the years he's been vacationing in Ocean City . "Every summer, it's just surf and work. There's nothing of this magnitude — just a few car shows," he said.