Detroit has the Dirty Show (always on Valentine's Day weekend) and Seattle has its own sort of "dirty show."
"While the first weekend in May was still too dreary-skied to mark a true end to April showers, Seattleites who flocked to the Seattle Center exhibition hall found plenty of joy indoors. Erotic joy, that is," writes Katie Farden in the Seattle Spectator. Bet you'll enjoy the rest of the story: Seattle Celebrates Sex
Meanwhile in Raleigh, NC, in conjunction with their Spring event, Artsplosure, a City of Raleigh public art project featuring original art by local artists on the sides of Capital Area Transit (CAT) buses, will officially roll out on Saturday, May 11. The 12 selected artists whose work will be emblazoned on the sides of CAT buses are Nancy Baker, Samuel Cox, Bart Cusick, Patrick FitzGerald, Paul Friedrich, Suzanne Kratzer, Anna Podris, Ian Sands, Amy Sawyer, Pat Scull, Kaci Torres, and a partnership of Tonic Design and Gail Peter Borden. Read all about it here: Eye Catching Buses to Cruise Raleigh.
And here's an interesting statistic from Madison, WI's, Fair on the Square:
The beer tent has cleared about $10,000 annually in recent years, says post treasurer Bob Topel. That's about half of what it was in decades past, something Topel attributes to changing attitudes about drinking and a transformed entertainment landscape.
"People don't drink as much in public as they did in the past, and that's probably a good thing," says Topel, who notes such festivals may no longer draw the entire community like they did when he was a kid in the 1960s. "Now there's other entertainment options -- bars have music every weekend -- and every town has one of these events."
Now that I've reread the article I see it isn't Fair on the Square, but another festival. I'd bet Madison does better than $10,000 on beer. Anyway, you may find the entire article interesting. It discusses the impact of beer sales on the non profits who run the beer tents. I never knew beer could do so much good!
Here it is: http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/449951Read more…
