Word: feste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band was emotionless. Lennon never even eked out more than a smile. Bright vocals buoyed the performance a bit, but the mood of the show came crashing down when the band broke out in a Beastie-like rap tune and then followed it with a Satan-core metal shriek fest. Rock bottom suddenly took on a whole new meaning...
...size of Graceland and then cruised in prefab splendor, instead of staring moose-eyed at flight-delayed lights in airports across the land. We could have taken a band along too--Elkhart is also the band-instrument capital of the world--and turned this thing into a national polka fest...
...your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which runs all next week along the breathtaking Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan. Not since Gerald and Betty Ford decided to stop by in 1975 has a development created such a stir at the gathering...
What happened to the "fest" in Springfest? It appears as if the Undergraduate Council won't even be able to top its pathetic performance of last year. The thoroughly mediocre God Street Wine has been replaced by God-knows-who, and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has canned the idea of kegs. The council asked for permission to serve eight kegs throughout the festivities, but Dean Epps only allowed them to serve beer in cans from noon to 3:30 p.m. Worse yet, the administration will forcibly herd drinkers into an area cordoned off from the rest...
...Holy Grail: it refuses to die even though it has no way to support itself. The administration has proved that it will never allocate enough money to buy big-name bands and that it will never relax its alcohol policies enough to allow for a true college-style "fest." And the council seems more preoccupied with fighting the administration over frozen yogurt at Annenberg than with lobbying for better Springfest entertainment...