Archive for 'Heritage Fest'

Food for thought

Posted 01 July 2008 | By | Categories: Features, Heritage Fest | 12 Comments

Moving along from the musical offerings of this year’s Heritage Fest, let’s talk food. This diner must regrettably turn thumbs down on even my favorite old stand-bys. Part of it is price: We usually like to share what we euphemistically call the “brown plate” sold by one local restaurant, but at $8 a serving we’re [...]

It rocked

Posted 01 July 2008 | By | Categories: Features, Heritage Fest | 7 Comments

DGreport readers have worked over the Heritage Fest musical talent pretty well and I only wish I knew even 1/10th of the bands that have been bandied about as possible future headliners. What can I say? I was a Dan Fogelberg fan in college, which tells you all you need to know about my musical [...]

The rumble that wasn’t

Posted 01 July 2008 | By | Categories: Downtown Redevelopment, Features, Fire and police, Heritage Fest | 9 Comments

Heritage Fest this year was about as pleasant as they come — no 90-degree heat, no sticky humidity, no acres and acres of rides meaning no mortgaging of the house to pay for tickets. In fact, it wasn’t until Sunday evening that I caught wind of rumors of a rumble that supposedly had been penciled [...]