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Featured Story: Podcast: The Mad Ripple Hootenanny

By: David de Young

Mad Ripple Hoot at the Beat Coffeehouse - Photo by Jenn Barnett HowWasTheShow will be offering audio and video simulcasts of The Mad Ripple Hootenanny throughout 2009.  You can tune in to the live broadcasts from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday at this link, or select the "Live" link at the top of any page on howwastheshow.com's main site. Dozens of people tuned into the first broadcast on Thursday, January 1st and joined in the live chat.  HowWasTheShow will also be offering audio re-podcasts of each hoot, and this is the first in that series.  Below is an MP3 stream player and download link for the f...

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Photo of the Week for January, 1, 2009

How do you top playing the piano with a revved up gas-powered motor scooter? (New Year’s 2007.) Well, if you are Mark Mallman, you dress like some sort of dark lord, have yourself hoisted by above the Varsity Theater stage by a pulley and use a leaf blower to fly a Japanese dragon kite over the audience.  I’m betting that is weirder than some of the stuff that happens in your craziest dreams. I will say no more as words simply cannot do this justice. Here’s this ...

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Photo by: Sara Montour

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