HAPPY 4-20! I dedicate this post to my high school stoner pals who used to smoke up in Shabbona Park and various other places on Chicago’s NW Side. Something tells me they’re still hanging out there. Or at least their spawn are. Crazy to think my best friend during my...
Once a clothing boutique, now a bank, there’s a building in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood that used to house my family’s sausage store. My grandfather and his brother still made their own sausage long after the place closed. It was open for about 40 or 50 years, now part of...
A pizzeria and pastry shop in Redford, Michigan has more than just calzones and cannoli, it’s also home to Italian immigrant Silvio Barile’s Italian American Artistic Museum. A sculptor for over five decades, the museum combines his birthplace and new home with not just statuary but strange and somewhat confusing...
Ann Arbor is always on those lists of “Best Places to Live,” but when I went a few years ago I wasn’t that impressed. But now I have a reason to go back because I just found out the college town has a Dinnerware Museum. Started a few years ago...
Distracted drivers going north on I-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff might notice a large Christmas tree in the middle of the desert…you know, that dry and barren area of land where it’s not cold with freezing rain like most of the United States right now. Located in the middle of...
I didn’t intend for this to be Presidents Week, but it just sort of happened, so let’s finish this freakin’ thing! Believe it or not, there is an actual Presidents Museum in a high school in San Diego. Yeah, talk about random. Started by one of the history teachers, Jim...
I don’t know if I’m scared to fly, but I certainly hate it, especially when it involves long ass overseas trips. Always remember to take an airline that serves free alcohol or you’ll be sorry. Probably the worst part of traveling is all the time spent waiting in airports due...
To the rest of the world, marzipan is that layer on a wedding cake no one really eats, but try telling that to the Hungarians. Believe it or not, there are two museums devoted to marzipan in Hungary, one being Keszthely and the other being Szentendre. Szentendre’s Marzipan Museum is...
It’s not a songbird, it’s not Led Zeppelin’s airplane, it’s not a even a Musical Instrument Museum…it’s the Museum of Making Music. Get it right, man. Part of the National Association of Music Merchants, the mission of the eleven year old museum in California is to “celebrate the rich history...
Continuing yesterday’s post on random antique stores with one in Michigan that I recently visited. Located on the Blue Star Highway near South Haven, Sunset Junque is, like, stepping onto the set of some horror movie. For those who do not know, this little stretch of the old state road...
