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Roadside News: June 3, 2009

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Metal Otter, Dead Indians – MN | Great Hunt Clean-Up – UT | Accordion Due Respect – NV | Bat About Face – TX

Medusirena is a fire-eating, glass-walking, belly dancing Mermaid. (No, her talents are not demonstrated simultaneously!) She performs swimmingly at Fort Lauderdale’s nautical-themed Wreck Bar during Friday night Happy Hour.

Star Trek Gambles For Quickie Vegas Opening; Loses

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Everyone: remove your rubber Klingon foreheads. Star Trek: The Experience, is not re-opening yet, apparently stuck in that little room between the clown make-up and anti-clown make-up universes. The Nevada attraction, which closed September 2008 at its old location in the Las Vegas Hilton, was supposed to reopen in the city’s Neonopolis mall this Friday, […]

Roadside News: April 16, 2009

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Apache Leap Doom – AZ | Libbo Museum’s 30th – NV | Diagnosing Dead Abe – PA | Rocky Marciano Statue – MA

Roadside News: Feb. 21, 2009

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Hard Rock Park | Wind Power in the Wild West | Carver Plans to Age Indian Heads | Commando Frogmen Memorial

A New Spirit of America?

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Last week, news reports noted that Barack Obama wax figures were being officially installed in Madame Tussauds around the globe (He was already in place in the Washington DC Tussauds). In Amsterdam, for example, the wax George W Bush was given a set of luggage, and put on the street outside the museum as if […]

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