Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest migration began in the late 1970s, accelerating after martial law was declared in Poland in 1981. Among the 30,000 new Polonians to arrive in Chicago were cosmopolitan intellectuals who found they had little in common with their predecessors. "Polka is not a Polish dance," laughs Bozena Nowicka, who teaches Polish at Loyola University. "Pirogen is not a noble dish. Polish America is an archive for a culture that no longer exists." In June, Nowicka and 4,500 other new Polonians lined up outside the Polish consulate in Chicago to cast their votes in the historic election back home...
WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New Braunfels, Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as yodelers, dancers and polka players with down-home names like Oma and the Oompahs. Nov. 3 through...
...offers an unself-conscious mixture: round middles barely disguised by oversize T shirts or bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities of a kid's Crayola...
Brave Combo and Nuclear Polka at Johnny D's Uptown...
...Washington nightlife is more than just Georgetown. The 9:30 Club in downtown D.C. features a wide variety of bands, from the polka band Das Furleines to the Pogues. Dancers will find a strange home at Tracks, the club where Washington's gay community meets its straight, and where the Old Milwaukee flows like water...