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...says the owner of Siegel's Cottonwood Farms in Crest Hill, Ill., near Chicago. But Siegel admits that it is his annual Pumpkin Fest that keeps his farm afloat. Started in 1990, with a pumpkin patch and hayrides, Siegel's fall festival has mushroomed into a full-fledged theme park complete with haunted barns, a petting zoo, a 10-acre corn maze and snacks such as smoked turkey legs, kettle corn and funnel cake. The festival attracts more than 30,000 visitors each fall and brings in three times the revenue of Siegel's 400 acres of corn, soybean...
League organizers hope a mix of ancient rituals, like the prefight greeting in which opponents squat facing each other, and innovations (theme songs! acrobatics!) will generate a massive fan base. The fights, which last less than a minute each, are real. But in other ways, S.U.M.O. is following in the large and lucrative footsteps of that other pro-wrestling circuit, World Wrestling Entertainment: it groups chest-thumping characters into four rival clans to heighten the drama of matches and plans a nationally broadcast TV series...
...Tokyo Motor Show produced some fascinating variations on the hybrid theme, among them the Mercedes "Bluetec Hybrid" concept vehicle. This vehicle is a diesel-electric engine known as a "mild" hybrid, because it's a scaled-down version. The diesel engine stops when idle and the electric motor boosts acceleration, but unlike full hybrids (such as Toyota's Prius), this vehicle can't run on the electric motor alone. The mibrid is cheaper to make and has a small battery, which lightens the load. And diesel makes it more fuel efficient than a regular gasoline hybrid. Mercedes' parent company, DaimlerChrysler...
...Part of that consistency is in the careful follow-through of visual motifs introduced in the earliest chapters. Black Hole may be the most Freudian graphic novel you will every read. Dreams and symbols play a major role the development of character and theme. Vaginal-like openings appear in such forms as branches being pushed aside or a cut on someone's foot. Guns and serpents make for opposing sexual symbolism. While such imagery has been used before, Burns smartly applies them in ways unique to the medium, integrating them into the very design of the book...
...Impressed yet? You should be, because Danger Doom’s debut, “The Mouse and the Mask,” is a hip-hop cocktail party of the scene’s brightest stars, brought together under the bizarre theme of Adult Swim cartoons...