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		<title>Friday Facts: I Have Two Orange Triangles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The 33rd Gourd Festival this weekend will include gourd carving, a gourd/squash bake off, gourd costume contest and prize for largest gourd (last year&#8217;s winner, with a 4lb, 3oz gourd received $25 TGI Friday&#8217;s gift card). :: The first incarnation of the Gourd Festival was held in 1943. Pumpkins were in short supply due to the war effort (Pumpkin seed oil being vital for making incendiary explosives), so the annual Pumpkin Days Octoberfestival was changed to Gourd Days. :: The Gourd Festival was revived in 1974 during the Great Pumpkin Blight. Over 4,500 people showed up (as opposed to 1973&#8242;s anemic Pumpkin Palace Carve-Off, which featured only three contestants). The festival has been celebrated ever since. :: In 1996, the festival was boycotted by local Indian tribes and the ACLU, who objected to the &#8220;Chief Gourd Head&#8221; character, who is represented with peace pipe, headdress and frighteningly oversized papier-mâché gourd head. This did nothing to deter visitors- in fact, 1996 was the most popular year to date. The Chief remains a popular attraction, well known for his gourd war cries and &#8220;red-man gourd chop.&#8221; :: Tons of copper stolen from air-conditioning units, construction sites, and electrical conduits annually: 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Mayors, Making Out, Meatloaf</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/08/24/friday-facts-mayors-making-out-meatloaf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Clarence ‘Big Stan’ Stanton is the only mayor to be recalled (1910) in the city’s history, though it is widely believed that Mordecai M. Miller resigned (1877) to avoid the same fate. His successor, M. Seymour Haley, faced recall in 1879, but retained his office by a single vote. Both Haley and Miller died in a mysterious warehouse fire at the 17th Street Pier in 1887. :: According to a poll by local youth blog CityTeenz, the three most popular places to &#8220;hook up&#8221; are: 1) under the bench in the middle of the Max Schmeling Garden of A Thousand Faces, found within the Jack Dempsey Memorial Statue Gardens; 2) in the greenhouse tool shed at Miles Muzio Memorial High School; 3) anywhere on the Great Lawn of the historic Fonda-Dodge House. :: The poll, conducted during the week of Aug. 3, also found that it&#8217;s becoming popular among &#8220;extreme&#8221; young men to stick forks in their forearm. :: Of the 216 area teens who took part in the poll, 78 percent said they &#8220;Want to get out of the City as quickly as humanly possible.&#8221; :: Water levels in the central branch of the Ostahanoc River are at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: Founder&#8217;s Day Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/07/12/go-there-founders-day-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. Our city might never match the multicultural chic of Cannes or the spectacular scenery of Park City, Utah, but that won’t stop it from holding the tenth iteration of the Founder’s Day Film Festival (FFF), August 3-6, at Old State Fairgrounds Park. This decade-long tradition of showing films both celebrated and obscure on a giant temporary screen erected on the city’s south side was nearly canceled due to the announcement that the 1915 D.W. Griffith silent classic The Birth of a Nation would lead off the festival lineup on Friday, August 3rd. Long hailed as a innovative masterpiece, the film is also reviled for its depiction of Civil War era African-Americans as either cowering simpletons or predatory animals. Acrimonious exchanges between the Department of Parks and Recreation and local civil rights groups made news throughout the winter, ceasing only when City Historian Clara McNee stepped in to offer a compromise deemed acceptable by both sides. Thus The Birth of a Nation will be shown as scheduled, but will be preceded by the documentary Glory Road: The Legacy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Delays, Tags, Dial Tones</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/07/06/friday-facts-delays-tags-dial-tones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: This year&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks display has been moved to Saturday, at 9pm, at Founder&#8217;s Pier. :: Number of times throughout the years that the City&#8217;s fireworks display has been postponed due to the weather: 7 :: Estimated boost in attendance this will bring to the Lithuanian Pride Festival, which had already been scheduled to take place Saturday night at Founder&#8217;s Pier: 215% :: Estimated damage to private and public property caused by the well-known tagger &#8220;Joey Ballgame&#8221;: $125,000 :: Rumored leading candidates for Ballgame&#8217;s true identity: Shamed former Deputy Police Chief Andrew Hotel, tenth-grade French teacher Jane Kapitzky, tenth-grader Lowell Thomas (Kapitzky&#8217;s rumored secret lover). :: Joey Ballgame&#8217;s primary neighborhood of activity: The working-class neighborhood surrounding the underground mansion at Sutter&#8217;s Hill. Street lore has it that Ballgame&#8217;s ultimate goal is to tag the home&#8217;s sealed bottom four floors. :: Northsiders who&#8217;ve suffered spotty telephone service these last four days can thank local newsmaker Kevin Sturgiss (Wonsley High Class of &#8217;86). An unexploded grenade hurled by Sturgiss during his June 26 bank robbery misadventure lodged under the door of a telephone switch box on Garrick Ave. until it was discovered by several Hilworth Junior High students after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of Walloon Christmas Beer Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many years as a small, localized celebration of cultural heritage, the Sons of Walloon Christmas Beer Festival has become one of the city’s most popular holiday tourist destinations. Founded in 1898 by Voornaam Goossens, the self-proclaimed ‘Mayor of Belgium Town’ (as the Belgian Quarter was known until 1939), the festival celebrates the over 450 varieties of beer produced in this diminutive northern European kingdom. This year’s celebration of the brewer’s art will take place December 16 and 17, at the Westvleteren Community Center (WCC), 6701 N. Flanders St., one block north of Essen Blvd. Doors open at 9 a.m., with last call at 2 a.m. Be sure to arrive by 10 p.m. Saturday for the opening of four bottles of 1906 vintage Lambic beer from Brussels, a non-malted wheat beer naturally fermented by wild, airborne yeasts, with an effervescence and flavor that improves with years in the bottle, much like wine. WCC’s main hall will be arranged and decorated like a 19th century Belgian street, with over 200 of the more than 450 varieties of Belgian beer represented in stalls and kiosks along the main ‘street.’ Many varieties will come in specialized beer glasses in which that beer, and [...]]]></description>
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