I-80 in 26 hours
Already, hiatus
I’m going to be on the road for the next few days–stay tuned for reports from Culture Shock 2008.
Boys of summer
The season is ON. Downtown–aka the Mann’s Store parking lot–is jammed with Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota license plates. There’s an all-island potluck at the Red Barn park this afternoon, followed by a parade, which steps off from the Legion Hall at 7:45, and fireworks at the ball field after dark.* Tomorrow night the Island Players’ … Continued
One more for the road
Deanna Isaacs at the Reader has more on Oobleck’s 11th-hour off-Broadway debut. Which allows me to indulge in just a hair of schadenfreude. As she points out, neither of the first-string critics from the Trib or Sun-Times managed to make it to the show in any of its iterations over the last 15 months. If … Continued
A cautionary tale
“So there was this guy come up here years ago, all the way from Columbia University. A sociologist. He wanted to write his thesis on tourism and how small towns deal with it—or something like that anyway. So he gets a house up here and starts hanging around the bars and talking to people. Starts … Continued
Island eVite
The Big Sort
Though the grocery store up here carries both the NYT and the Tribune, I’ve been getting most of my news from Wisconsin Public Radio—its “Ideas Network” station is both more reliably interesting than WBEZ and a good white noise cover when the frogs of sunset get too deafening. I caught this interview with Bill Bishop, … Continued