The Grannies do Alaska
“Wow,” I thought. “The Grannies weren’t supposed to be this good.” I was standing on a chair in the back of the New Golden Saloon at the McCarthy Lodge in the small end-of-the-road town some 300 miles from Anchorage, watching the five guys I’d picked up at the airport some 28 hours earlier thrash around the stage area in colored wigs and old lady dresses, inspiring the first mosh pit ever in ...
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As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons
IN 1932, when the Great Depression was getting its second wind, a New York-based wire editor for the Associated Press published a novel about the agricultural shows he remembered from his childhood in a middle-of-nowhere Iowa town that doesn't even exist anymore.
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At homespun state fairs, tradition still trumps technology
In 1932, when the Great Depression was getting its second wind, a New York-based wire editor for The Associated Press published a novel about the agricultural shows he remembered from his childhood in a middle-of-nowhere Iowa town that does not even exist anymore.
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Ohio State Football: Best Game Day Traditions, Thurman Family Style
Game Day with the Thurmans Dave Thurman (10:13 a.m.) With less than a week until Ohio State's opener against Marshall, it is time to get geared up for the best time of the year, a three-month span filled with an abundance of sights and sounds unlike anything else on the planet. Buckeye football is so much more than just a game, it is truly a spectacle: an event that sends chills up and down the ...
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Pop Candy chats with ... 'Great Food Truck Race'-rs Grill 'Em All about metal and meat
If you enjoy the the culinary competition of Top Chef and the adventurousness of The Amazing Race, then I hope you've been watching the Food ...
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