Wander Words

The Siren Project (Indie, Alternative, Other )
http://www.thesirenproject.com/
http://www.myspace.com/19687067
Live at The Colorado Dark Arts Festival
Downtown Denver, Colorado
http://www.coloradodarkarts.com/CDAF.html
An incredible talented band … The Siren Project will enchant you and entice you into their otherworldly realm. Formed in 1998 by Malgorzata Wacht (from Poland), a new musical experience was unleashed upon Denver’s music scene. Blended with keyboardist Alex Seminara, [...]

The Colorado Dark Arts Festival (2006; Occurs Annually in Denver)
Cafe @ Netherworld * The Church * The Shelter
Downtown Denver, Colorado
http://www.coloradodarkarts.com/CDAF.html
This Year’s Colorado Dark Arts Festival took place at three venues : Cafe @ Netherworld, The Church, and the Shelter with a fabulous smorgasboard of entertainment from over 9 local bands, International bands like “Zombie Girl” [...]

As Jeff and Fresca both said, mere words cannot describe the constant staring in Kafaqu, but I’m going to try anyway. I can understand it on some level, a foriegn girl playing games in your local net cafe might grab some attention. But what’s with the grocery store stares? Surely it’s not a surprise [...]

The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas has reopened in New Orleans and visitors can once again flock to the tanks teaming with beautiful bright colored fish. When hurricane Katrina hit more than 10,000 animals at the Aquarium died and about 2,000 survived. Places like Sea World in Orlando helped them get back on their feet [...]

In the beginning of Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw says that English dialects are so varied that an Englishman cannot open his mouth in public without another Englishman instantly hating him. He might have been writing about China in 2006, but instead of disliking the speaker, the listeners are at a total loss to understand him. [...]

  We decided to wander around Qingdao to find a good place to have dinner. Ok, that’s not exactly true. I remember saying something about finding a German place for dinner, because I remember thinking that a town that was a German concession and holds a huge brewery, there would be lots of German restaurants. [...]

Originally opened in 1949 this gator tourist attraction was around long before Disney, Universal and all the big ride themeparks. Gatorland is a place to go to see not just gators but snakes, beautiful bright colored flamingos, colorful lorikeets and a barnyard.
One of the first things you see when you come to this reptile lovers [...]

Fresca came to class with me today. I was at the middle school (that paragon of all educational virtues that is Number Three) and I was asking everyone what they could do over May Holiday in order to talk about future tense and present tense. The kids came up with the usual, like play games, [...]

Punkie Night
October 28 or 29, or on the fourth Thursday of October
Custom: Great Britain
Punkie Night is a quaint holiday celebrated in Great Britain where children carve lanters from beets or other vegetable roots and go from house to house begging for pennies. According to “Punkies” by K Palmer in Folklore 83 (Autum 1972: pg. 240-244) [...]

Seminole Okalee Indian Village and Museum
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, 5716 Seminole Way, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
www.SemTribe.com/ email: museum@semtribe.com, phone: 954.797.5551
Directions: Coming from Naples or Ft. Lauderdale, follow I-95, Exit on Stirling road west to State Road 7 (441) on the NW corner of Stirling and 441.
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9-6, Sun 10-6 (as of Sept [...]