Midstate madness – April 22
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- New spirit for an old game
- Family Challenge: James Medd takes the family bowling | Life and…
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Midstate madness – April 22
Penn Live – Apr 19, 2008
It’s not often that you have choices in musical entertainment on a Tuesday night in the midstate. This week is different though. I am not sure if it’s Earth Day or what but you actually have several great music options to enliven your mid-week. The biggest concert is the… They will be rockin’ the Chameleon Club in Lancaster. Also if you have the time to take a little road trip indie fans might want to check out Brooklyn’s.
New spirit for an old game
Online Athens – Online Athens (subscription) – Apr 19, 2008
No metal bats whacked softballs there; no ultimate discs lofted; no soccer balls soared. –> New spirit for an old game Story Photos – Click to Enlarge. Grimes a UGA grad and now Athens-Clarke County police officer said he still plays with the club team because the game is so much fun… The tradition of toli stems from American Indian tribes including Seminole Creek and Cherokee who each practice a variation of what they also call stickball. Trees served as goals in original contests designed to settle disputes and avoid tribal wars. Philosophical undertones Keyes said include the underworld death chaos survival and natural forces of good and bad. Keyes picked Choctaw as the best example to follow because their rules meshed best with the Athens group’s desire for healthy competition and cultural experience. “At the time I wasn’t exactly religious but I did have that impulse in that direction” Keyes said. “It made me feel better about life and it was a lot of fun. Once I got the impulse to start it it just kind of continued from there.
Family Challenge: James Medd takes the family bowling | Life and…
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 19, 2008
That’s because the activity in which he is going to crush and kill me is tenpin bowling a sport (and yes that’s sport in its broadest chess-and-darts-included sense) at which he has much experience in the virtual world. Louis and his five-year-old brother Alfie are big fans of bowling on Nintendo Wii the interactive TV gaming platform that gives parents the reassuring illusion of genuine sporting action by having players wave the controls around instead of merely press them. They prefer Sonic and Mario (the most likely source of those death threats) but bowling comes pretty high and they are very good at it. But then they should be – it’s really really easy. Before we head off for their first taste of real-life bowling we have a practice on the Wii. Even I – “incredibly old” as Alfie has just pointed out – score two strikes in a row. Alfie on my team does the same giving us a big flashing turkey and me a good excuse to show I’m still just about capable of jumping around the room high-fiving… The activityI came to the tenpin bowling alley in Acton west London for my stag night 10 years ago. Apart from the name it doesn’t seem to have changed at all even seen through the eyes of a parent. It’s like any pleasure dome: dark hectic and full of piped music with adults and teenagers drinking and playing pool just across an invisible line from families playing machines or eating fast food. Once we have checked in swapped our shoes for the red white and blue Paul Weller lace-ups (which we boys all love and Emma of course hates) and crossed over into the bowling area things get better. Well after we wait 20 minutes for the previous lane-holders to finish their game (that’s how it works – apparently the place is running an hour and a half late) and one of the “Alley Katz” comes to fix our scoring machine then comes back to make the pins come down it gets better. Before then we were in danger of losing the kids before we had started – a firm reminder that the times I’ve played before were as much about the booze and banter as anything to do with a ball. Soon we are happy in our little family bubble.
With a response area of 49 square miles and cramped headquarters…
Fort Dodge Messenger – Apr 19, 2008
with auctioneer Donovan Adson of Vincent. Music by deejay The Sound Shoppe of the Boone-Ogden area will continue from the end of the auction till midnight. An adult door prize will be a new laptop computer and the children?s door prize is a set of tickets to King?s Pointe a water park resort in Storm Lake. Offered in a raffle will be a mini chopper which is a small motorcycle donated to the cause by Fort Dodge Trailer World. The Fireman?s Ball is sponsored by the Otho Fire and Rescue Association Inc. and the city of Otho… Smith hopes to turn the second floor into a place where firefighters can work out. Nationwide he said there?s a new emphasis on physical fitness for firefighters. Being fit can mean the difference between life and death in the physically taxing work of being a firefighter he said. He?s applied for a federal grant to purchase some exercise machines for the new station. Contact Bill Shea at (515) 573-2141 or. net’>bshea@messengernews.