Roadside News: March 30, 2009

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Big Leather Boot – MN | Woodstock Monument Guy Dies – NY | Museum of Clean – ID | Elvis Presley Haircut Celebration – AR

Roadside News: Dec. 31, 2008

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Big Bopper Casket | Surfer Dude Nude – Not! | Red Badge of Shopping | Kids Bathe Lincoln

Report Casts Doubt On Bra Tree Evolution

Monday, December 15th, 2008

We’ve been reporting on shoe trees for years, but every so often a rumor would trickle in about a bra tree. More specific bra tree tips arrived starting in 2005, in states such as California and Vermont and Arizona. We figured Bra Trees might be just a natural (and naughty) progression from the more [...]

You Say Potato: The Power Of The “M” Word

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

We’ve said it before: “museum” is not a bad word, even though some branding gurus and museum owners would say otherwise.
Or maybe it’s just not as bad a word as some others.
Latest example: Blackfoot, Idaho, where the Potato Museum is wrapping up a record attendance year. This may be in part due to its [...]

Big Guns Causing Large Caliber Controversy

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

A new piece of art is causing a public dust-up along Hwy 75 in Hailey, Idaho. Line of Hope 2 is two black, 20-foot-tall AK-47 and M-16 assault rifles, muzzles in the air, connected by a clothesline pinned with military uniforms. White butterflies perch on the muzzles.
Passers-by on Hwy 75 are [...]