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Detroit’s Historic Dead – Look Under Their Statues

Monday, November 1st, 2010

How do you make certain you won’t lose the corpse of an important historic person? In Detroit, the practical answer is to bury it in the base of that person’s statue.

‘Tis The Season For Dark Art

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

It may be simplistic to describe two new, all-black, public outdoor artworks as creepy — but they are, and they’ve arrived just in time for Halloween. They are Non-Sign II and Geometric Death Frequency-141.

Hootie And The Blowfish, Immortal

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

Flashback to the mid-1990s. Grunge music was in the air, unsettling the young. America needed a soothing aural balm, and a band out of Columbia, South Carolina provided it.

42 Corners, 42 Presidents

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

For decades, the civic leaders of Rapid City, South Dakota, have seen millions of tourists drive through town heading south to view the big heads at Mt. Rushmore.

End Times Jesus Draws Battle Line Along Interstate

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Appearances of invincibility, even in a roadside statue of an all-powerful being, can be deceiving.

Circus Memories in a Giant’s Boot

Monday, October 4th, 2010

For over 40 years, a rotting rubber boot was the unofficial civic symbol of Gibsonton, Florida.

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