New TDA Pix From Oshkosh Waterfest
Just in time for the next Midwest tour: Here's what we looked like on the last one! Thanks to Bill from Milwaukee for sending the photos.
Just in time for the next Midwest tour: Here's what we looked like on the last one! Thanks to Bill from Milwaukee for sending the photos.
C'mon, British Columbia. Don't let a squeeze fest die. Keep the Chemainus Accordion Festival alive.
The Tribune-Democrat's preview piece on the Johnstown FolkFest includes this colorful quote about TDA from Shelley Johansson, marketing manager of the festival's producer:
Put on your snorkel and dive into this bunch of new photos from the Cotati Accordion Festival posted over at Flickr. I see a TDA shirt, but no shots of us performing.
Forget about getting America off the Arab oil teat: Ethanol might be the key ingredient in the perfect martini. Engineer and liquor visionary Hans van Leeuwen says food-grade ethanol "tastes just like vodka" and could turn corn into a cheap-but-effective source for booze.
Yet another reason to love the Midwest: Five crop circles showed up this month in Jim Stahl's soybean field in Geneseo, Ill.
Step No. 1 would apparently be "keep your bigfoot trap in proper working order." Which the folks up at the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest haven't done -- the world's only known bigfoot trap has fallen into disrepair, according to the Mail Tribune.
Today's the day: The 2006 version of the Cotati Accordion Festival kicks off in, oh, a couple of hours.
Dr. Andrew Sutherland calls for "a better understanding of altitude sickness" to help keep climbers from meeting their makers on Mount Everest, Reuters reports. Perhaps he'd be better off advocating for IQ tests administered to the buttocks area.
So I'm guessing the beers are high in a citywide toast as Brew City salutes its No. 1 status, as ranked by Forbes.com. Cheers, Milwaukee!
That's what playwright Tim Bauer reports in his blog, Direct Address. Who knew?
Big thanks go out to Cathy Ingalls at The Entertainer for giving a boost to our upcoming show at Monteith Riverpark in Albany, Ore. I'm only slightly worried about the "air-propelled rockets and wheely-bugs" -- all in all, it sounds like a great family-friendly event.
The Los Angeles Times pays tribute to the recently departed Anthony Galla-Rini, a pioneering accordion player whose motto was, "Have trunk, will travel." Guess what was in the trunk.
A gravity-defying sleep platform created by a Dutch architect looks cool as can be, but it costs $1.54 million and isn't even comfortable, Reuters reports. Don't miss the picture that goes with the story.
I know the Internet is a great opportunity to let everybody publish whatever they want with no editorial hang-ups or anything. But this sad review of the book How to Be an Accordion Player is an excellent example of why editors are a good thing. Not that I'm biased.
Sort of. L.E. Leone, author of this loopy article in San Francisco's aging alternative rag, implores readers to go the Cotati shindig.
The Ladysmith Chronicle tells me that "playing the accordion is no longer nerdy" as it introduces me to the Chemainus Accordion Fest in Chemainus, British Columbia.
Something tells me Those Darn Accordions needs to play the Rocky Mountain Accordion Celebration in Philipsburg, Mont. Maybe it's the festival-starting call to arms: "Get on your accordions," shouted by Dale Pahrman, according to The Missoulian. Maybe it's the pubs with chalkboard signs that read "Accordions Welcome."
About 100 Wisconsin cheese factory workers who pooled money to buy Powerball tickets apparently won the $208.6 million jackpot.
Takeru Kobayashi downed 58 brats in 10 minutes Saturday to take top prize at the Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship in Sheboygan, Wis.
No, really. A bear walked into the classy new MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa in Lake Tahoe, Nev. And KXTV has the surveillance video to prove it.
It's one thing when Led Zeppelin trashes a hotel room. It's another when a college marching band lays waste to its temporary on-campus digs.
And the award for coolest geek kite goes to ... Windfire Designs for its pointy cursor in the sky!
When life hands Sandi Fontaine lemons, she makes lemonade. Or, more specifically, when a heat wave hits, she makes chocolate chip cookies on her SUV's blazing-hot dashboard.