Written by The Ozarks will take on a decidedly West Coast feel during the last weekend of August this year. That’s when hundreds of VW’s,–“Bugs,” vans and otherwise–invade Northwest Arkansas. They’ll be here for the 15th Annual Eureka Springs VW Weekend, and the theme this year is “Cal Lookin’.” The majestic vehicles proudly parade through town beginning [...]
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5th Annual Bluegrass Festival
The “King of Newgrass,” mandolin prodigy Sam Bush, and legendary picker Marty Stuart will headline the 2007 Bluegrass Festival in Eureka Springs, AR, August 23-26. The festival opens Aug. 23 at 6 pm in Basin Spring Park with a new event, the Watermelon Social. Besides the main shows in the Auditorium, the 5th Annual event [...]
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MUSIC BY: FRED TACKETT and friends CONTESTS: Kinkiest boots–highest heels & best branding advertising plan PLUS– coolest Little Feat memorabilia SYNOPSIS: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business, but he never thought that he would take his father’s place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him [...]
READ MORE »Cars & Bullitt Double Feature at the Lucky 13
MUSIC BY: Pine Mountain Jambouree CONTESTS: Heck on wheels–homemade non-motorized soap box derby team race (team can push the driver to victory!) CARS SYNOPSIS: Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make [...]
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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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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 »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 »Pinnacle Hills Promenade Art Festival
The “streets” of The Pinnacle Hills Promenade in Northwest Arkansas will be transformed into a major Art Festival featuring national and regional artists. The event will be a wonderful place for serious enthusiasts to find one-of-a-kind original art treasures, and to talk one-on-one with the artists about their work. Festival admission is free and [...]
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