AltWeeklies Wire
Toys of Summernew
Lured by fair weather into the sporting life, one backyard athlete finds the fracture behind the Frisbie, the sprain behind the shuttlecock.
Metroland |
Rick Marshall |
07-08-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Fake Bands A to Zorak
The Rocklopedia Fakebandica is a website with everything you never knew you wanted to know about fake bands from TV and movies.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-30-2005 |
Recreation
Josh Arieh Can Beat You in Poker. Wanna Bet?new
Josh Arieh took third place and $2.5 million
at last year's World Series of Poker. All that at 29 years old and a long way from the pool halls and home games in Atlanta.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
06-23-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Vintage Is Innew
Huntington Beach pro skater Dave Reul lives to find, patch and skate abandoned swimming pools in the California low desert--on other people's money. Recently, actor Stephen Baldwin became the latest person to pay him to do just that.
OC Weekly |
Theo Douglas |
06-15-2005 |
Recreation
Off and Gunnin'new
Action shooting clubs are a blast all over the Midwest. Lock and load, baby!
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
06-02-2005 |
Recreation
And the Nominees for Poet Laureate Are...new
The Independent goes hunting for Montana's first poet laureate at Harold's Club in Milltown.
Missoula Independent |
Robin Troy |
05-13-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: bars & clubs
Electric Lacrossenew
If horse racing is the sport of kings, WhirlyBall is the sport of drunks. It's like lacrosse but here's the wild card: It's played on 300-pound bumper cars with no steering wheels.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
05-04-2005 |
Recreation
Vail Hits Back When an Injured Skier Suesnew
Those who buy season passes to Colorado ski resorts may not realize they've signed a waiver that essentially holds the resorts harmless for any accident, whether the law says they are at fault or not.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
04-12-2005 |
Recreation
Chasing Lady Luck: College Students' New Obsession with Pokernew
Poker is booming among the college set. Young players are driven by a competitive edge, impulsive urges and the dream of being among those who hold the nation's wealth.
Metroland |
David King |
03-04-2005 |
Recreation
Maritime Messiah
Pirate Jesus fights all other theological interpretations to become the one true Jesus in a rollicking Web comic.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
02-24-2005 |
Recreation
Out of Thin Airnew
The writer fell 15 feet while climbing in the North Cascades last summer, and might have died were it not for the people he met along the way.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
02-03-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
It's Not Easy Being Meannew
New Jack stabbed William "Hunter" Lane nine times with a shiv during a wrestling match in Jacksonville. But only four of the wounds were serious. And, besides, Lane had agreed to be cut. It was part of the show.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
01-21-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Female Pool Players Kick Ass With a Cue Sticknew
Players with nicknames like "The Empress," "The Irish Invader" and "The Black Widow' competed at the Women's Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour last month.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Wyatt Olson |
01-18-2005 |
Recreation
Car Stereo Geeks Turn Kansas City Into Giant Boomboxnew
Stereo aficionados from around the country converge once a year at the Tuner Jam, morphing their cars into the world's most powerful portable boomboxes, pitting sound system against sound system to find out whose is loudest.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
01-04-2005 |
Recreation
Looking Back on Blue Christmasesnew
A new stepbrother expecting the hamster-massacreist, a brother transformed by Thorazine, an old girlfriend resurfacing as a roommate's date: City Pages writers remember some of their most miserable holidays.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Staff Writers |
12-23-2004 |
Recreation
Tags: schizophrenia, Christmas 2004
