I stayed in all weekend, fussing about my elbows, missing good shows and avoiding everyone. So there.

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Hanna Music has announced a casual musical performance night in the multi-purpose room at Barkeyville Church of God on the second Saturday of every month.

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Jerome Wincek and the Old Hats will play a 45 minute set on Wedensday as part of Oil City’s Pipeline Alley Summer Series at noon.

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Brother Bean hosts a big ol’ show this Friday. There’s a $4 cover and the show starts at 6pm. Remora Deign, Signal Home, and The Victory Year all play.

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Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch Tom Snyder’s soul , now, as it flies through the air.

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Ingmar Bergman has died

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No more Weekly World News? I’m pig-biting mad!

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The Trib-Review wonders why has Pittsburgh been so popular on TV?

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Pittsburgh’s 48 Hour Film Project is this week

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Etta James has been hospitalized

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What could be more fun than riding a Segway around Pittsburgh?. Pretty much anything, I'd think....

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Music labels are getting tough on blogs that post MP3s, according to NPR.

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The Post Gazette looks at an art therapist who is muralizing his home.

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My alma mater’s kicky t-shirt is among those featured in a NYTimes slideshow.

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West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Asylum for the Insane is up for auction. And yet, the Franklin Club can't find a buyer...

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AMG is looking for non-US music experts around the world to cover their local markets with album reviews, artist biographies, and discography information.Applicants should email freelance.apps@allmusic.com with the following infomation:
Country
List styles/genre expertise
Sample writing (album review or bio in AMG style)
List specific gaps in coverage that you could fill

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So, tomorrow is my birthday, but I’m giving you the present with two great downloads:

At the beginning of this month, uber-weirdo Robyn Hitchcock performed the whole of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at London’s 3 Kings Pub. Download it here

And a mix to make you happy (via).

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - Birthday Party
Frank Sinatra - Happy Birthday to Me
Junior Boys - Birthday
Clem Snide - Happy Birthday
Michael Bach - Happy Birthday (to Me)
The Amateurs - Your Birthday
Fugazi - Birthday Pony
The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday
Sufjan Stevens - Happy Birthday
Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song
Pizzicato Five - Happy Birthday
Ween - Birthday Boy
Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake
Mirah - Birthday Present
Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday
The Ramones - Happy Birthday (from the Simpsons)

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The Derrick profiles Charlie Whipple, the first artist Arts Czar Joann Wheeler has brought to Oil City, and his plans to open a gallery and coffeeshop.

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Remora Deign plays an acoustic set at Seneca’s Brother Bean on Saturday at 7 pm. No cover.

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The Meadville Tribune takes a look at this weekend’s Firefly Festival.

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The Pittsburgh City Paper reviews Nancy Krygowski’s Velocity, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

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“Carryin' On” , an exhibition of renowned Pittsburgh Photographer Tennie “One Shot” Harris’ documentation of gay life in the ‘burgh in the 50s, continues through Sept. 2 at The Andy Warhol Museum. I spent a long time looking at these photos to create the gay bar scene in Small Brutal Incidents.

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Pittsburgh’s Handmade Arcade is now accepting vendor applications for 2007. This year's Handmade Arcade will take place on Saturday, November 10 and Sunday, November 11 at Construction Junction.

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New York magazine excerpts Osamu Tezuka's graphic novel, Apollo's Song.

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The Independent Weekly examines Durham's status as a "national hotbed for spoken-word poetry."

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Minnesota Public Radio's the Current features an in-studio performance by St. Vincent.

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The 2007 Oil Heritage Festival art show winners have been announced.

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Connie Lane, author of Knit Two Together, will be at Kindred Spirits Yarn Studio in Franklin (507 13th St) from 11 -1pm on July 28th

Pittsburgh based Libby Cartwright hadn't planned on inheriting a yarn shop from her estranged mother. But that was before she found her favorite childhood stuffed animal amidst the dust and moldering yarn. And before she encountered a motley crew of locals determined to resurrect the store. So what else had Mom been hiding?

Lane has been nominated for the RITA award by the Romance Writers of America and received the KISS award from Romantic Times magazine.

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Meadville will soon have some new public art:

Berry Breene, who graduated from Allegheny in May, has designed a mural for the Park Avenue side of the Hovis Annex on Chestnut Street. The mural, which will highlight Meadville’s history as a mill town, will be completed as a community “Painting-Bee” that brings intergenerational groups together.
The project is funded by KPB and a gift from the Richards Family in memory of artist Gwen Barboni, former director of the Meadville Council on the Arts.

Josh Dracup, a 2007 graduate of Allegheny College, has designed a sculptural mural for an area adjacent to Mill Run between Voodoo Brewery and a parking garage. The hand-painted 3-D sculptural relief is being constructed of reclaimed road signs and will include the words “Meta MASH,” a play on mash as a product and stage of the beer brewing process.

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The PostGazette reviews Fiberart International 2007

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The clock is ticking on a "window of opportunity" to keep Wanango Country Club from going public.
It must be hell being rich.

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Thanks to an ill - advised double workout on Sunday, I damaged the tendons in both elbows, which is pretty much a worse case scenario for a writer and swimmer. Consequently, I’m grumpy as all heck.

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In Oil City, Oil Heritage Days ended with one of the stupidest things I’ve seen in a while – a muscle car burn out contest on downtown's open streets with no barriers. Does no one read the news?

In a happier note, the Heritage Days' art show was incredible – I, quite frankly, expected a lot of kitsch and was instead amazed at the talent on display (full disclosure – both my daughter and I entered works in the contest and were awarded prizes). It was my first time attending the show and was so impressed that I grabbed a membership form to throw a (very) small donation their way. Strangely enough, you can’t get the form online, but check out the website nonetheless.

They’ve also announced the Oil City Bluegrass Festival for 2008

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Linda Henderson is holding musician jam nights at Oil City’s Latonia Theatre this and every Tuesday evening from 6:30-9 musician and public welcome – assuming I’m not hopped up on pain meds, I’m going to try to make it.

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While I hadn’t planned on heading to the Smoke on the Allegheny BBQ competiton this weekend fellow Etsy-er LazyTCrochet wrote to say that she’ll have a table at the craft show attached to the contest, so I think I will try to drop by after all.

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Venango poet Philip Terman and big Pittsburgh poet Ed Ochester will be launching their books Thursday, August 9, 7:30 pm at Joseph-Beth Booksellers (2705 E. Carson Street (Southside Works – Pittsburgh). Terman’s book is Rabbis of the Air and you can see some samples of his work..

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Urinetown is coming to Tool City! Auditions are Friday, August 10 from 7-9pm and Saturday, August 11 from 1-3pm Meadville Community Theatre 400 North Main St. Meadville, Pennsylvania 16335 (814) 333-1773

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This weekend is Cambridge Springs’ Firefly music fest

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The Jeff Goldblum film Pittsburgh, a part-scripted, part-reality film, gets its TV premiere on premium cable channel Starz Cinema at 10 p.m. Aug. 26. The cameras follow Goldblum back to his hometown as he stars in a production of "The Music Man." Having the basic-basic-QVC,CSPAN and BET 10 channel cable package, I won’t be seeing it, but if someone does (or wanted to tape it…) drop me a line and tell me how it is.

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Headed to Pittsburgh for school in the fall? College Prowler is an award-winning college-guidebook publisher in Pittsburgh, PA with an immediate opening for an editorial intern. Send your resume, a personalized cover letter, and two writing samples (academic papers are fine) to kelly@collegeprowler.com.

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The number one question I get asked as an artist is, “Who the hell do you think you are?” The second most common question is, “How do I become a writer?”

There’s a lot of roads of course, but I started with lots of practice in zines. To that end, Define the Meaning, a quarterly National zine created for fans of hardcore and punk are looking for 15-30 college students or college grads who have a degree in journalism. Define the Meaning will be expanding over the next year, so we need people who are interested in writing cd reviews, show reviews, doing interviews (phoners/email/in person): If you do a phone interview or in person interview you must transcribe the interview yourself. We are also looking to add vegan recipes, restaurant reviews, tattoo and skateboarding sections. If this is something you are interested in please send us a few clips you have done for other publications or some writing samples along with your resume to: Email: definethemeaningzine@gmail.com Aim: Jerseydtm

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The 19th Confluence Sci-Fi conference will be held July 27th through July 29th at the DoubleTree Hotel Pittsburgh Airport

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Think Captivity meets Dumb and Dumber. 200 writers from all over pay $395 apiece to take face-to-face meetings with legitimate Hollywood buyers and brokers.

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Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept Up In Harry Potter Craze

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It’s gonna hard to say no to the Vincent Van-Go Teeshirt from Threadless

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Not that community theater is for the half-hearted. The audition process can be cutthroat; one keeps hearing that it is infused with — and this word is said with a grimace and a shaking of the head — politics.
“It’s hard to get cast in these shows,” said Scott Avery, 56, who is playing Hortensio, a first-timer at Trilogy. “A lot of these groups have cliques.”

Do tell!

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David Bazan will play Pittsburgh’s Garfield Artworks on October 25th

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A Kerouac roadtrip and In 1907, exactly fifty years before Jack Kerouac's On the Road reached the New York Times bestseller list, Jack London--then one of the most popular authors in America--published a memoir titled simply The Road..

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“The Mortal Kombat of poetry.”

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Performance Poet Sekou Sundiata has died.

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Iron and Wine’s Pitchfork set:
1.Sunset Soon Forgotten
2. Boy With A Coin
3. Weary Memory
4. Love Song Of A Buzzard
5. Peace Beneath The City
6. Beneath The Balcony
7. House By The Sea
8. The Devil Never Sleeps
9. Woman King
10. Flightless Bird, American Mouth
11. No Surprises (Radiohead Cover)

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On a mission to tally the Virgin Marys in Somerville, MA lawns.

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In a rare day-of posting, Venangoland features the same Oil Heritage column that runs in today’s paper! Huzzah and kudos!

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The Venango Digital Film Association website is up

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Nate Hall plays Brother Bean this Saturday from 7-9 pm.

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Mr. Bear, hero of Erie’s ill fated cable access TV show on cable access is up for sale on eBay

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Speaking of eBay, if you really loved me, you’d buy me a Jack Kerouac bobblehead.

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The local band that sounds most like Coldplay, Idiosympathy, (decide amongst yourselves if that’s a compliment or insult) will play its last ever show July 28 at Sun Gin in Grove City, ironically, It is also the release party for its Overachiever in Love CD.

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Pete Greene mentioned it and I second it. Don’t miss the Latonia Theatre Building Tour tonight from 6 pm- 8 pm 1 East First Street in Oil City.

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Friday’s Union Room show in Meadville includes God’s Day Off, A Voice like Rhetoric (who played the Ernie Ball stage at the Pittsburgh Warped Tour stop this year, but don’t hold it against them) , Mankin, Deep Field, and Mark This Day Show starts at 6pm. $5 cover.

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The Roadhouse Theatre is looking for a 29 year old male who has acting experience, and are willing to appear unclothed on stage. For more information please call 814-459-8215 and ask for Scott McClelland. Please tell them you saw it at Venangago-go.

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I can’t stop reading Flannery O’Conner’s blog
When I went to Iowa I had never heard of Faulkner, Kafka, Joyce, much less read them. Then I began to read everything at once so that I didn't have time I suppose to be influenced by any one writer. I read all the Catholic novelists, Mauriac, Bernanos, Bloy, Greene, Waugh; I read all the nuts like Djuna Barnes and Dorothy Richardson and Va. Wolfe (unfair to the dear lady of course); I read the best Southern writers like Faulkner and the Tates, K. A. Porter, Eudora Welty and Peter Taylor; read the Russians, not Tolstoy so much but Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov and Gogol. I became a great admirer of Conrad and have read almost all of his fiction. I have totally skipped such people as Dreiser, Anderson (except for a few stories) and Thomas Wolfe. I have learned from Kafka, though I've never been able to finish one of his novels. I've read almost all of Henry James -- from a sense of High Duty and because when I read James I feel something is happening to me, in slow motion but happening nevertheless. I admire Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets. But always the largest thing that looms up is The Humerous Tales of Edgar Allen Poe. I am sure that he wrote them all while drunk too.

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NPR is streaming Gogol Bordello's 9:30 Club performance originally webcast live on NPR.org July 18, but I sorely wish it was available for download (and yes, I know I could jut run it through Audacity, but I’m lazy aight? Oh, and I should mention the language is R-rated. Not safe for work or kids, IMHO .

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The punk who led me to Americana, John Doe (formerly of X) will be at Pittsburgh’s Club Café on Monday at 7. Call (412) 323-1919 for tickets.

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Here's some great news: Psalters and Potter Street Records are making The Divine Liturgy of the Wretched Exiles and US vs. US available online for free. Although the Psalters are offering these albums free of charge, please consider making a contribution to help them continue to tour and make music as they depend entirely on fan contributions.

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Although I don’t talk much about non-art business here, I felt obligated to give a shout out to Mark Benvenuti, my daughter’s volleyball coach and co-owner of K B Pizza which recently closed on a $123,700 SBF loan from The Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission the loan was used to purchase land and install equipment and do renovations.

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Foxburg's fantastic performance space, Forward Hall, is getting some much needed AC. How do I know? I drove down yesterday to get some photos to go along with the article Pennsylvania Magazine bought from me. I elected to reschedule.

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Venangoland lays out the “Rules for Marriage”

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Clarion filmmaker Marty Callaghan’s movie Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One is featured in Netflix’s “Watch Now” instant viewing service.

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The Derrick profiles illustrator Phil Wilson -- July's featured artist at the Transit Fine Arts Gallery in downtown Oil City, and judge of the Oil Heritage Art Show

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As Harry Potter mania grows, our own Waldenbooks at the Cranbery Mall will open late on 7/20 from “9:30 pm until the last customer leaves” (suckers). Call them at (814) 673-0037 for more information. Wal-Mart’s doing something too, if you're more Slytherin than Gryffindor.

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The Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League, in conjunction with the Erie Playhouse, are inviting all aspiring actors, singers and personalities to join us for auditions for the positions of mascot, anthem singers and game night host being held Sunday, August 12th from 6-8 p.m. at the Tullio Arena. For more information or to reserve an audition opportunity please call the Otters Office at 814-455-7779 or email

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New York Magazine's The Comics Page blog is excerpting Percy Gloom

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The "Celebrate the Starving Artist" festival is looking for visual artists and performers to take part in the Septmeber 8th event at the Pepsi Roadhouse.

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Oil City’s Pipeline lunchtime concerts (from 12 to 1) move to Central Avenue Plaza Wednesday, July 18 outside the library. The concert will feature Jim Teifer and is free and open to the public.

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Shot in Erie, the film Virgin Pockets will have its World Theatrical Premiere at the 2007 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival. The film features the regional musicians like Friction, Best of Seven, FORMER, Roger Montgomery, Sudden Impulse, Sam Hyman, Lucy Dank, The Barstool Hooligans, Moving In Stereo and more.

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Finally, a little music to lull you to sweet dreams of frangipangi and moonbeams:

Download "Bethe Bethe Kese Kese" (mp3)
from "Dub Qawwali"
by Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan


Download "You! Me! Dancing!" (mp3)
from "Sticking Fingers Into Sockets"
by Los Campesinos!

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A reader wrote last week to ask when the Newmen CD review was coming – this week, I promise.

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Brother Bean has announced more shows:

8-17-07 Remora Deign CD Release Show
8-18-07 Donna Donahue
8-25-07 Nate Custer

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The former Meadville Cinemas will reopen with a “dollar theatre” business model.

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Kelly Colleen McMahon is the new managing director of Meadville’s Academy Theatre.

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The Butler Art Center seeks all fiber artists for THREADS; an all fiber arts exhibit! The deadline is Friday, July 20th, 2007. Call (724-283-6922) or email

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The Lion and Thistle Highlanders of Butler is seeking highland drummers and bagpipers to join their band. Must provide own instrument and uniform. No dues or membership fee. Non competition band at this point. The Highlanders are led by a former officer of the Black Watch of Scotland. If you are interested please contact Pipe Corporal Amanda Brewster at (724) 290-3154.

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The nephew of August Wilson is restoring the playwright’s boyhood home.

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Knitting is cool, says the NYTimes. Allow me to put in a blatant plug for the place where my daughter buys her knitting stuff and takes classes – Kindred Spirits Yarn Studio in Franklin

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Why do I wish I was in Salem, MA – not for the witch knick-knacks, but for the Jospeh Cornell exhibit

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Sean Penn and Iggy Pop have signed on as voice talent for the English-language version of Sony Pictures Classics' animated Persepolis, reports Variety.

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NPR profiles wizard rock.

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Add Pittsburgh area escape artist David Doyle to the list of performers I’d like to bring to Venango.

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Transylvanian folk? Why not.

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My family has given up on plastic shopping bags, and despite the strange looks we get at Shop N Save when we whip out our Wegman’s reusuable bags, we’re glad we made the switch. I now, however, wished I had waited and bought these rice bag bags

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Out of town on business, so probably no new posts until Sunday.

Erie’s Photomedia Center has a photo contest open to all artists internationally working in any photographic media—including collage, digital, traditional and alternative processes, and new media. Deadline for entries is July 18, 2007.

Bruce Swartz and Andy Weckerly play Seneca’s Brother Bean Saturday at 7. No cover.

The music blog Stereogum has a snazzy OK Computer tribute album including tracks from David Bazan and John Vanderslice available for a free and legal download..

John McConnell at Franklin's Barrow Civic Theatre has asked me to pass along the fact that tickets are still available for the Jason Michael Carroll show tonight at 8:00pm concert at the door. Venango County’s own Jeffrey Michael Lloyd will open the show.

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Speaking of the Barrow, The Franklin Rotary Club has taken on the project of refurbishing the Barrow Little Theatre and is looking for volunteers for the following:
July 13-- 6:00 to 8:30 pm Rip-up existing carpet
July 14-- 8:30 am to noon Begin cleaning and scrub down of walls
July 20-- 6:00-8:30 pm Finish Prepping Walls
July 21-- 8:30am - noon Prime Walls
July 27-- 6:00-8:30pm Paint Walls

Drop Ronnie Beith a line and tell her when you’ll be there and please mention you saw it here.

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HOLeY JEANS plays Oil City’s Concert series at noon tomorrow at the Central Avenue Plaza.

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Jerome Wincek plays Hollywood theater in Pittsburgh on July 12, 2007 at 7:30 pm

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After two years, Yankee Zydeco Company is calling it quits. Which I guess means they will not playing in OC later this summer as scheduled.

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Venangoland has been updates with a local treasures post.

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New Castle’s Hoyt Institute show, A Sampling of Contemporary Mid-Atlantic Artists, is running from now until Aug. 3. Look for a review here in the next week or so.

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New York's the Comics Page blog is excerpting the graphic novel Crossing Midnight.

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Poet Philip Booth has died.

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I’ve been listening to a lot of St. Vincent this summer. She’s profiled as Paste magazine's band of the week and some live tunes are available.

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The Sew Useful Contest, a joint project of Etsy and Instructables just extended their deadline to July 16th,

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Several years ago, my wife and I took her parents on one of the scheduled winery tours along Lake Erie. While I expected fancy pants like myself learning about local wines, instead there were busloads of drunks (include a group of Erie area teachers who somehow got permission to use one of the district buses – I’m guessing they didn’t mention the keg they placed on board. I will admit however, that I was less shocked by that than I was at the Volant Winery where the woman at the wine bar told my brother and me that Brokeback Mountain was the funniest movie she had ever seen) flinging elbows, cursing, and, then having a very special moment when one of the patrons wet himself while shouting nonsense.

That was the last time I went on one of the tours and I always try to steer people away from them. I thought it some sort of hillbilly spillover, but it turns out that all the nations’ wine regions are suffering from drunks.

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The New York-based National Coalition against Censorship has asked Three Rivers Arts Festival executive director Elizabeth Reiss to "clarify the festival's relationship with its various contributors and re-affirm [her] commitment to artistic merit, open dialogue and free expression."

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The Post Gazette lists upcoming readings including Lee Gutkind and Jim Daniels

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A Gannon prof who lives in Pittsburgh writes about his commute. Perhaps what's most interesting is not the commute (I know plenty of profs who do crazy long commutes), but how he characterizes Erie of being berefit of chess clubs and ballet. Ouch. On a side note, I too someday dream of ditching my current commute for a sweet teaching gig at Venango Campus. Someday....

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I know nothing about baseball aside from the fact that my wife likes the Seawolves and I like drinking beer in the sun. But when a gadget like Livebox comes out, geek-lust supercededs common sense.

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My friend Jared Cater’s latest book of poems, Cross This Bridge At A Walk, has been named a poetry finalist in the “Best Books of Indiana 2007” competition.

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The literary journal ginosko has asked me to pass on that they are accepting short fiction & poetry. Downloadable issues are available on their website.

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A quick bit of clarification. Now that the posts by email function is fixed, you will need to re-sign up for it.

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It’s been a big week so far for me so let me begin with some self-serving announcements. Although I can’t (contractually) give any specifics yet, I’ve spent a good deal of time this week working on a piece on upcycled art to be part of a big-press book sometime in ’08.

Yesterday, I also got the call that Bent Tree Books wants to contract me to write two textbooks – one an introduction to studying the novel and the other a plagiarism (presumably anti-plagiarism) piece, one out fall ’08 the other Winter 09.

Finally, my first review (Jimmy Catlett’s The Big Beat) with Indie Music Stop is now up.

So, it looks like I’ll be able to buy shoes for my baby.

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Brother Bean hosts Dennis McCurdy and the Lonesome No More Band Saturday 7-9 pm, no cover.

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The Butler Art Center’s 17th Annual Nature & Wildlife Show is seeking artists. For more information, including rules and application forms, visit the Art Center. Taxidermists, please call The Art Center at 724-283-6922 or email aabc_exhibit@earthlink.net.

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Tomorrow, Allegheny Cemetery will host the second annual Stephen Foster Music and Heritage Festival/Doo Dah Days.

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If there is a distinct Pittsburgh Blues sound, I’m guessing it doesn’t have a lot to do with a wealthy pasty-white guy.

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In the Guardian, Steven Adams of the Broken Family Band discusses being in a band while working a regular job (via Largeheartedboy).

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One of you kindly emailed me to tell me the “subscribe by email” function wasn’t working. It is now. Remember, any suggestions or reports of failure are welcomed. Send them to me.

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Former Venango guy Todd Richards is kicking it artistically in Cleveland these days, but he runs a web site for alumni of FHS 1989,

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Pete Greene and the rest of The Bully Hill Brass Band tootles their way into your hearts tonight with of traditional dixieland jazz at Franklin’s South Park bandstand.

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Sprague Farm & Brew Works in Venango, Crawford County is holding an Oktoberfest on July 14 at the outdoor pavilion of the Venango Valley Inn.

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Speaking of beer (and when aren’t I?) Bass Ale is giving away New British Invasion compilation CDs on its website.

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The Erie Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is one again running its amateur photo contest. Deadline is Oct. 1, 2007.

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The Trumbell (OH) Art Gallery is accepting artists from this area for the 43rd annual juried festival.

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The second annual PodCamp Pittsburgh is Aug 18th and 19th at the Art Insittiure of Pittsburgh.

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It’s true. If you wait long enough, every thing winds up on the internet. How about two websites. One tracking former Erie Disc Jockeys and one doing the same for Erie TV personalities.

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Punk Planet is selling its back issues for $1.

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Another quick entry as I'm pushing up against another deadline.

Jim Tiefer plays classic rock at Brother Bean tomorrow at 7 pm.

Pittsburgh’s Thank You Felix and the alternative art space Future Tenant are accepting scripts for the fourth installment of Future Ten, the annual 10-minute play festival.

Sax player Boots Randolph has died.

The OSU Press is making some of its books available free in pdf format.

Finally, although I'm finding it really hard to muster up celebratory feelings about the state of independence in the US this year, a quick mix to keep you happy at your BBQs. Drink a PBR for me.

Ani DiFranco – Independence Day
Francis Dunnery - American Life In The Summertime
Mike Watt & Thurston Moore – Fourth Day of July
Sufjan Stevens - The Star-Spangled Banner
X - 4th of July
Aimee Mann - 4th of July
The Decemberists - “July, July!”
Johnny Cash - From_Sea_to_Shining Sea

I'm up to my neck in real-world writing work, so just a quick post.

The good people at Indie Music Stop have asked me to join them as a reviewer. Who cares? You should if you’re in a local band. Part of the agreement allows me to profile local bands on this international platform. So, if you have something you want reviewed, please send it:

Dittman
POB 1082
Franklin PA 16323
And make sure I know about your shows.

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If Venango farmers won’t do a CSA, maybe it’s time to make the drive to Meadville:

…in exchange for advance payments, subscribers receive 10 weekly shipments of fruits and vegetables throughout the mid-summer and early fall growing season. The arrangement offers economic stability to local farm operations and high-quality produce, often below retail prices, to consumers.
The Summer’s Bounty Subscription Program offers family-sized boxes, enough for a family of four, for $36 per week or smaller boxes, just right for two, for $18 per week.

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Open Mic night at BroBean – 7 pm, no cover.

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Where do I wish I was going this summer? Explosives camp.

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What was it like living above the most famous jazz spot in the world?

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Allegheny County has produced more National Marbles Tournament kings and queens than any other region in the country.

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Even anarchists enjoy a good three legged race (I can’t help but see Emma and John tied at the thigh, but that may just be the adjustment in medication…)

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