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Flamingo Flap

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The proud pink flamingo which adorned a steel fire escape above Baltimore’s Cafe Hon has triumphed in its bureaucratic battle with city officials.
Back in early October — after the decorative bird had spent about seven years minding its own business — city inspectors made a big stink over the giant pink waterfowl. A governmental brouhaha [...]

Reach Party (or: Johnson & Johnson & More Johnson)

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

A second casting of J. Seward Johnson’s undeniably eye-catching 4,100-pound struggling sculpture, “The Awakening,” has been permanently installed in a grassy expanse in Chesterfield, Missouri. The grasping giant was added to Chesterfield Arts‘ public art collection and will be available for perpetual public gaping and climbing, forever frozen in an angry state, quite annoyed at [...]

Roadside News: August 13, 2009

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Motorcycles to Hell – OH | The Real First US President – MD | Not Quite Nirvana Monument – WA | Dungeon Master Immortal – WI

Roadside News: August 2, 2009

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Barker Vs. Bear Pits – NC | Sisters Frown on Wax for Great Blacks – MD | Music and Hair Inseparable? – SC | James Bond Vehicle Museum – IL

Roadside News: July 14, 2009

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

No Jackson Behemoth for Vegas – NV | The Bucket Was On My Bucket List – TN | Cider Barrel Rules – MD | Magical Monoliths Rise Again in Texas – TX

Jinxed 9-11 Statue in Trouble Again

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

In late 2007, sculptor Stan Watts finally erected his large statue of three 18-foot-tall firefighters raising a U.S. flag above the rubble of the World Trade Center — literally, with real rubble from Ground Zero scattered at their feet.

Emmitsburg, Maryland
Watts had worked on the sculpture for five years. The 8-ton bronze, titled To Lift A [...]

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