Written by MUSIC BY: The One Ups CONTESTS: Johnny Depp look-a-like & nerf sword fight skill contest SYNOPSIS: Picking up where the first movie left off, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan are to be married. However this is interrupted when both are arrested for aiding in the notorious Captain Jack Sparrow’s escape. The new captain, Beckett, will [...]
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Waiting for Guffman at the Lucky 13
MUSIC BY: The Awesome Possums CONTESTS: Worst audition monologue SYNOPSIS: The town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town’s history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a car [...]
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MUSIC BY: Mountain Sprout CONTESTS: Get-a-way toss SYNOPSIS: Colorful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi (Nicholas Cage) and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quints. Thus begins a series [...]
READ MORE »You can’t hush, hush Miss Charlotte
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Ever energetic and often controversial, Charlotte Buchanan can’t be hushed when it comes to promoting the arts in Eureka Springs. Whether it is the art of the pen, the cinema, or the visual arts, Buchanan never wavers in her determination to keep creativity alive and in the forefront of her adopted hometown. One of Charlotte’s [...]
READ MORE »Dear Jericho Riders
Written by I saw an article in the news today describing how your organization is protesting the decision of the city of Eureka Springs, Arkansas to welcome participants in the Celebrate Diversity festivities this coming weekend. After hearing about the goings on in Eureka Springs during the last visit by a motorcycle gang in which a handful [...]
READ MORE »Domestic Partners get their just desserts at festive reception
Compared to the Diversity Weekend dance parties, pool parties and the non-confrontational showdown with the motorcycle evangelists in Basin Spring Park on Saturday, the Cake n’ Cocktails reception for Domestic Partners was low-key, high-calorie affair. Several out-of-town couples who arrived early enough on Friday to get their Domestic Partnership certificates at city hall were in [...]
READ MORE »Proselytizers, patrons (and a pig) join Saturday’s PDA in the Park
In a show of civic and civil solidarity, town residents and tourists turned out en masse to celebrate Diversity at noon in Basin Spring Park on Saturday, August 4th. There were singles, couples, entire families with kids, dogs and even a pig. They stood shoulder to shoulder to mug for the camera with big, genuine [...]
READ MORE »Summer 2007 Diversity Weekend
Because GLBT travelers can’t get enough of the place our favorite preacher calls “the most homosexual city in the South,” Eureka Springs cannot content itself with just one Gay Pride Day nor even a single Southern Decadence meltdown per year. Nooooooooo, we got to have ourselves four–count ‘em four–Diversity Weekends scattered throughout the 12-month calendar. [...]
READ MORE »Gay business owners unite to promote gay tourism
On the heels of a successful campaign to have the first municipal Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas, gay and lesbian business owners in Eureka Springs are now joining forces to create the first gay business association in the state. The goal, advocates say, is to bring more gay tourists to a resort town that has [...]
READ MORE »Bye-bye Hells Angels, hello you little devils
On the level you’re a little devil (but I’ll soon make an angel of you.)–Ragtime ditty, 1918 The Hells Angels left Eureka Springs on Sunday morning in a cloud of exhaust and badass attitude. Curtain call. Set change. Enter stage left: Simmering Summer Diversity revelers and their faithful, helpful saviors– the Jericho Riders– who will [...]
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