I’m sad to admit this to the world but I have never stepped inside the Busy Beaver Button’s storefront on Armitage Avenue here in Chicago. I need to fix this problem. In the meantime, I can satisfy all my button needs by looking over their newly launched Button Museum website....
Next to two African American cemeteries is African Village in America, the home of Joe Minter and his wife Hilda of Birmingham (emphasis on the ham), Alabama. Standing since 1989 when Joe had a vision from God, the theme of the place is African-American history if you can get past...
Modern art has become so modern that it now needs to be displayed in a place few people go to…yeah, I’m talking about the bottom of the sea. In Cancun, Mexico artist Jason deCaires Taylor has an installation at the Museum of Underwater Modern Art. The “underwater” was included in...
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming of creepy museums and attractions in the month of October to bring you a museum dedicated to a film star, who was born on this day in 1895: In the small town of Piqua (pronounced Pick-way), Kansas is a small one-room museum dedicated to...
May 15 seventy-nine years ago Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a barbeque restaurant, which would later become known as the fast food chain McDonald’s, forever clogging people’s arteries all over the world. The original San Bernardino restaurant was demolished in 1976 (or 1971, according to some sources) and the site...
If you lack a green thumb, then follow the footsteps of Canadian Joe Delaney. After many attempts to grow a garden in his Cap le Moine, Novia Scotia home, Joe and his son Chester planted a scarecrow garden. Travelers began to stop and admire their creations, so the garden grew...
Anyone else have donations to give to the Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Georgia?
Always remember to drink plenty of fluids during the summer. It’s so freakin’ hot and humid here in Chicago that I’ve already consumed six bottles each of Point Root Beer and Strongbow Cider, a pitcher of limeade, several iced coffees, a homemade chocolate milkshake and who knows what else just...
If you’ve been religiously following this blog for the past month (which is probably, like, two of you) then you know how much I love visiting cemeteries. Nothing really creeps me out too much, except when I see those bricked-up mausoleums, which basically means it is filled to capacity or...
Today is National Hot Dog Day, because clearly Americans do not consume enough hot dogs and need to eat more. Stop it with the salads, people! At O’Betty’s Red Hot! in Athens, Ohio is the Wonderful Wacky Hot Dog Museum. Their slogan is “The Weenie with the Wiggle” and apparently...
Happy Pride! At the Chicago History Museum, a new exhibit “Out in Chicago” explores the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Chicagoans who shaped the city and various communities over the past 150 years. In 1958, Chuck Renslow and his friends had an affinity for leather that was too...
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, the Hollywood Museum has a special exhibit on her life. Yep, it’s this weekend, folks. August 5, 1962. First of all, I had no idea Hollywood had a museum. Second, I grew up on the edge of Chicago surrounded by...
