Fat Tuesday: Facial Restoration
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Fat Tuesday: Facial Restoration
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It’s been 10 weeks since my gastric bypass and my body has been on a rollercoaster ride of changes. It’s almost as bad as pregnancy! Nausea, finicky food picking, mood swings, humongous body changes, we bariatric surgical patients enjoy them all. It’s hard to believe it’s all come about from having a smaller stomach. And stomach size really can’t explain it all because a gastric bypass also results in enormous hormonal changes… just like in pregnancy.
Last week my doctor gave me permission to discontinue all my diabetic meds, and my blood tests show that I’m now in the healthy range in every sense. But one change that has surprised me more than the others is in my face. I’ve lost 45 pounds, but it doesn’t feel as though my face is getting thinner. Instead, I feel that it’s simply returning to normal, which is weird since I haven’t been thin since I was a late-stage teenager. So I’ve had a fat face for the vast majority of my life, and continuously for the last 20+ years… shouldn’t that face, the one I’ve begun shedding over the last couple of months, be my most memorable mug? It should, but it’s not. Instead, I have the feeling of finally arriving home. As if the fat version was just a facade and the mask is finally falling away.
I’m not alone. Susana, who also has lost weight recently due to drug treatment for hypothyroidism, feels the same way. She doesn’t viscerally feel thinner in the face–she instead feels that she’s reappropriated her real visage. She recognizes herself better in the mirror now than she has for years.
From a neuroscience of body image perspective, this seems opposite to a common problem with rapid weight loss. Patients sometime gain back the weight, partly because their body image does not update to match their new actual body quickly enough. Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee explain this effect in detail in their excellent book “The Body Has a Mind of its Own”. This known problem suggests a potential solution, in the form of special exercises to retrain weight loss patients’ brains to “own” the new thinner version of their bodies, lest the brains sabotage all of their efforts and seek to rapidly regain the weight, to get their bodies back to “normal”.
I’m not sure what my experience with “facial restoration” means about the brain, or even its significance to how we process our own body’s self-image. As I do have the simultaneous experience of being a fat man in a thin(ner) man’s body, the co-existence of these two feelings (normal face and thin body with roughly equivalent weight loss in both)could suggest that the self-image of the face and body are handled by different brain circuits, or else the effect of weight loss on self-image would go in the same direction for face and body.
About the Author: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik are laboratory directors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Follow on Twitter @illusionchasers.
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Fat Tuesday Was Phat
Leland Torrance, decked out in outfit blurring the difference between a court jester and a court justice. scratched the chest of Thomas Griggs, Jr., an affectionate and nutty gesture wholly in keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras.
The two were part of a crowd of more than 250 who filled the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for a Nemo-delayed but not less fat or festive fundraising celebration Tuesday night.
While a band above the bead-strewn main lobby played a funky version of “Come on Baby, Light My Fire,” The Amazing Andy greeted the revelers.
Asked how tall he was in stilts, Andy replied, “Nine feet, three toes.”
Click here for the story of last year’s library revels when farfallina flew in from the Venice carnevale.
Public library Director of Development Clare Meade said that organized hoped to raise $55,000 through the annual party and silent auction. The money is to be targeted for initiatives like a youth summer reading program.
At least nine restaurants had set up earlier in the day and were filling partygoers’ plates with Fat Tuesday-themed treats.
They included shrimp etouffe from Zinc’s chef extraordinaire [and,alas, no relation to this reporter] Denise Appel; alligator ceviche from Soul de Cuba; and adobo de puerco from Ricardo Trejo’s Mezcal, among others.
City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg said she had actually fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited New Orleans at Mardi Gras this year. At Tuesday night’s ball she donned which she purchased there, with its purple, gold, and green Mardi Gras colors.
As she inched closer to sampling the alligator ceviche, Gilvarg demonstrated a magical ring that had been tossed to her husband by some of the revelers in the Krewe of Muses parade, one of many festive processions that occur in the Big Easy between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.
The Krewe of Muses parade is an all-women event. GIlvarg’s husband, who caught the ring, had the good sense to pass it along to her.
She did not reveal if she intended to wear it to City Plan meetings in the future.
Mead said that library Director Christopher Korenowsky is launching a campaign to raise $1.25 million to support the Readmobile, to refit all the branch libraries with enhanced homework centers, to provide online and new staff resources for local entrepreneurs and job-seekers, and to restore the library’s historic treasures.
The latter will include restoring the facade of the Fair Haven branch to its original 1916 Carnegie good looks.
The “historic treasures” component of the new initiative will also include restoration of five Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals located in the library’s downstairs program room and corridor.
The murals depict Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, a story whose themes include the perils of deferred maintenance.
Korenowsky said the murals, last reapired 20 years ago, are in dire need of restoration. The project might reveal some additional panels now covered by walls.
Korenowsky estimated this aspect of the work will cost approximately $60,000.
Article source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mardis_gras/
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Fat Tuesday Was Phat
Leland Torrance, decked out in outfit blurring the difference between a court jester and a court justice. scratched the chest of Thomas Griggs, Jr., an affectionate and nutty gesture wholly in keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras.
The two were part of a crowd of more than 250 who filled the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for a Nemo-delayed but not less fat or festive fundraising celebration Tuesday night.
While a band above the bead-strewn main lobby played a funky version of “Come on Baby, Light My Fire,” The Amazing Andy greeted the revelers.
Asked how tall he was in stilts, Andy replied, “Nine feet, three toes.”
Click here for the story of last year’s library revels when farfallina flew in from the Venice carnevale.
Public library Director of Development Clare Meade said that organized hoped to raise $55,000 through the annual party and silent auction. The money is to be targeted for initiatives like a youth summer reading program.
At least nine restaurants had set up earlier in the day and were filling partygoers’ plates with Fat Tuesday-themed treats.
They included shrimp etouffe from Zinc’s chef extraordinaire [and,alas, no relation to this reporter] Denise Appel; alligator ceviche from Soul de Cuba; and adobo de puerco from Ricardo Trejo’s Mezcal, among others.
City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg said she had actually fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited New Orleans at Mardi Gras this year. At Tuesday night’s ball she donned which she purchased there, with its purple, gold, and green Mardi Gras colors.
As she inched closer to sampling the alligator ceviche, Gilvarg demonstrated a magical ring that had been tossed to her husband by some of the revelers in the Krewe of Muses parade, one of many festive processions that occur in the Big Easy between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.
The Krewe of Muses parade is an all-women event. GIlvarg’s husband, who caught the ring, had the good sense to pass it along to her.
She did not reveal if she intended to wear it to City Plan meetings in the future.
Mead said that library Director Christopher Korenowsky is launching a campaign to raise $1.25 million to support the Readmobile, to refit all the branch libraries with enhanced homework centers, to provide online and new staff resources for local entrepreneurs and job-seekers, and to restore the library’s historic treasures.
The latter will include restoring the facade of the Fair Haven branch to its original 1916 Carnegie good looks.
The “historic treasures” component of the new initiative will also include restoration of five Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals located in the library’s downstairs program room and corridor.
The murals depict Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, a story whose themes include the perils of deferred maintenance.
Korenowsky said the murals, last reapired 20 years ago, are in dire need of restoration. The project might reveal some additional panels now covered by walls.
Korenowsky estimated this aspect of the work will cost approximately $60,000.
Article source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mardis_gras/
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Fat Tuesday Was Phat
Leland Torrance, decked out in outfit blurring the difference between a court jester and a court justice. scratched the chest of Thomas Griggs, Jr., an affectionate and nutty gesture wholly in keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras.
The two were part of a crowd of more than 250 who filled the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for a Nemo-delayed but not less fat or festive fundraising celebration Tuesday night.
While a band above the bead-strewn main lobby played a funky version of “Come on Baby, Light My Fire,” The Amazing Andy greeted the revelers.
Asked how tall he was in stilts, Andy replied, “Nine feet, three toes.”
Click here for the story of last year’s library revels when farfallina flew in from the Venice carnevale.
Public library Director of Development Clare Meade said that organized hoped to raise $55,000 through the annual party and silent auction. The money is to be targeted for initiatives like a youth summer reading program.
At least nine restaurants had set up earlier in the day and were filling partygoers’ plates with Fat Tuesday-themed treats.
They included shrimp etouffe from Zinc’s chef extraordinaire [and,alas, no relation to this reporter] Denise Appel; alligator ceviche from Soul de Cuba; and adobo de puerco from Ricardo Trejo’s Mezcal, among others.
City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg said she had actually fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited New Orleans at Mardi Gras this year. At Tuesday night’s ball she donned which she purchased there, with its purple, gold, and green Mardi Gras colors.
As she inched closer to sampling the alligator ceviche, Gilvarg demonstrated a magical ring that had been tossed to her husband by some of the revelers in the Krewe of Muses parade, one of many festive processions that occur in the Big Easy between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.
The Krewe of Muses parade is an all-women event. GIlvarg’s husband, who caught the ring, had the good sense to pass it along to her.
She did not reveal if she intended to wear it to City Plan meetings in the future.
Mead said that library Director Christopher Korenowsky is launching a campaign to raise $1.25 million to support the Readmobile, to refit all the branch libraries with enhanced homework centers, to provide online and new staff resources for local entrepreneurs and job-seekers, and to restore the library’s historic treasures.
The latter will include restoring the facade of the Fair Haven branch to its original 1916 Carnegie good looks.
The “historic treasures” component of the new initiative will also include restoration of five Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals located in the library’s downstairs program room and corridor.
The murals depict Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, a story whose themes include the perils of deferred maintenance.
Korenowsky said the murals, last reapired 20 years ago, are in dire need of restoration. The project might reveal some additional panels now covered by walls.
Korenowsky estimated this aspect of the work will cost approximately $60,000.
Article source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mardis_gras/
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Fat Tuesday Was Phat
Leland Torrance, decked out in outfit blurring the difference between a court jester and a court justice. scratched the chest of Thomas Griggs, Jr., an affectionate and nutty gesture wholly in keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras.
The two were part of a crowd of more than 250 who filled the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for a Nemo-delayed but not less fat or festive fundraising celebration Tuesday night.
While a band above the bead-strewn main lobby played a funky version of “Come on Baby, Light My Fire,” The Amazing Andy greeted the revelers.
Asked how tall he was in stilts, Andy replied, “Nine feet, three toes.”
Click here for the story of last year’s library revels when farfallina flew in from the Venice carnevale.
Public library Director of Development Clare Meade said that organized hoped to raise $55,000 through the annual party and silent auction. The money is to be targeted for initiatives like a youth summer reading program.
At least nine restaurants had set up earlier in the day and were filling partygoers’ plates with Fat Tuesday-themed treats.
They included shrimp etouffe from Zinc’s chef extraordinaire [and,alas, no relation to this reporter] Denise Appel; alligator ceviche from Soul de Cuba; and adobo de puerco from Ricardo Trejo’s Mezcal, among others.
City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg said she had actually fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited New Orleans at Mardi Gras this year. At Tuesday night’s ball she donned which she purchased there, with its purple, gold, and green Mardi Gras colors.
As she inched closer to sampling the alligator ceviche, Gilvarg demonstrated a magical ring that had been tossed to her husband by some of the revelers in the Krewe of Muses parade, one of many festive processions that occur in the Big Easy between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.
The Krewe of Muses parade is an all-women event. GIlvarg’s husband, who caught the ring, had the good sense to pass it along to her.
She did not reveal if she intended to wear it to City Plan meetings in the future.
Mead said that library Director Christopher Korenowsky is launching a campaign to raise $1.25 million to support the Readmobile, to refit all the branch libraries with enhanced homework centers, to provide online and new staff resources for local entrepreneurs and job-seekers, and to restore the library’s historic treasures.
The latter will include restoring the facade of the Fair Haven branch to its original 1916 Carnegie good looks.
The “historic treasures” component of the new initiative will also include restoration of five Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals located in the library’s downstairs program room and corridor.
The murals depict Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, a story whose themes include the perils of deferred maintenance.
Korenowsky said the murals, last reapired 20 years ago, are in dire need of restoration. The project might reveal some additional panels now covered by walls.
Korenowsky estimated this aspect of the work will cost approximately $60,000.
Article source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mardis_gras/
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Fat Tuesday Was Phat
Leland Torrance, decked out in outfit blurring the difference between a court jester and a court justice. scratched the chest of Thomas Griggs, Jr., an affectionate and nutty gesture wholly in keeping with the spirit of Mardi Gras.
The two were part of a crowd of more than 250 who filled the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library for a Nemo-delayed but not less fat or festive fundraising celebration Tuesday night.
While a band above the bead-strewn main lobby played a funky version of “Come on Baby, Light My Fire,” The Amazing Andy greeted the revelers.
Asked how tall he was in stilts, Andy replied, “Nine feet, three toes.”
Click here for the story of last year’s library revels when farfallina flew in from the Venice carnevale.
Public library Director of Development Clare Meade said that organized hoped to raise $55,000 through the annual party and silent auction. The money is to be targeted for initiatives like a youth summer reading program.
At least nine restaurants had set up earlier in the day and were filling partygoers’ plates with Fat Tuesday-themed treats.
They included shrimp etouffe from Zinc’s chef extraordinaire [and,alas, no relation to this reporter] Denise Appel; alligator ceviche from Soul de Cuba; and adobo de puerco from Ricardo Trejo’s Mezcal, among others.
City Plan chief Karyn Gilvarg said she had actually fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited New Orleans at Mardi Gras this year. At Tuesday night’s ball she donned which she purchased there, with its purple, gold, and green Mardi Gras colors.
As she inched closer to sampling the alligator ceviche, Gilvarg demonstrated a magical ring that had been tossed to her husband by some of the revelers in the Krewe of Muses parade, one of many festive processions that occur in the Big Easy between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday.
The Krewe of Muses parade is an all-women event. GIlvarg’s husband, who caught the ring, had the good sense to pass it along to her.
She did not reveal if she intended to wear it to City Plan meetings in the future.
Mead said that library Director Christopher Korenowsky is launching a campaign to raise $1.25 million to support the Readmobile, to refit all the branch libraries with enhanced homework centers, to provide online and new staff resources for local entrepreneurs and job-seekers, and to restore the library’s historic treasures.
The latter will include restoring the facade of the Fair Haven branch to its original 1916 Carnegie good looks.
The “historic treasures” component of the new initiative will also include restoration of five Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals located in the library’s downstairs program room and corridor.
The murals depict Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, a story whose themes include the perils of deferred maintenance.
Korenowsky said the murals, last reapired 20 years ago, are in dire need of restoration. The project might reveal some additional panels now covered by walls.
Korenowsky estimated this aspect of the work will cost approximately $60,000.
Article source: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/mardis_gras/
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Michael Deeds: Winner of Fat Tuesday implants was … huh? A guy? Plus, ‘Bob …
Now that someone has won Downtown Boise’s notorious Fat Tuesday door prize, prepare yourself for the possibility of a Craigslist ad.”Free breast implants. Will trade.”
What else is a single guy supposed to do?
When Andy Thompson of Boise realized he was holding the winning ticket, the gravity of the situation at Dirty Little Roddy’s bar took a moment to hit.
“I looked at it twice, and I’m like, ‘You gotta be kidding me,’ ” Thompson, 37, remembers. “… I didn’t go Downtown thinking I was going to get some boobs.
“Not in that sense, anyway, right?”
Huh-huh. Right, Beavis.
Considering the attention my Scene column Feb. 8 attracted, I’m a boob for not following up sooner on this zany Mardi Gras story.
A quick recap: To help celebrate the beads and flesh-flashing tradition Feb. 12, three Boise bars gave away what amounted to a $3,000 gift certificate toward a breast augmentation.
News website The Huffington Post picked up the story. Last time I checked, it had spread as far as Canadian media. (Swell publicity for Boise, right?)
Fat Tuesday came and went. I assumed some happy gal won the surgery. End of story.
The salient point I missed about this saline scenario is the very definition of “door prize.” Every person – not just women – who walked through the doors of Roddy’s, China Blue or Main Street Bistro was entered into the drawing.
Thompson finds humor in his good fortune, even if he hasn’t quite figured out how to, um, handle the prize.
He could sell the augmentation. He could give it to his ex-wife. (Nah.) He could donate it to charity – or how about to a breast cancer survivor?
Thompson is leaning toward gifting the implants to a married, platonic friend, he says.
But he’s in no hurry to make a decision.
“I’m gonna sit on ‘em,” he quips. “I’ve always wanted to sit on boobs.”
(Sorry, man, even I don’t get that joke.)
Whatever the case, it has made his life more interesting for the past several days – just like it did on Fat Tuesday, which never quite lives up to the drooling male hype. Downtown Boise certainly provides spectacle during Mardi Gras, but it ain’t exactly Bourbon Street.
“One guy said, ‘I was hoping to see some boobs tonight,’ ” Thompson remembers.
“I got my own pair.”
YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE
Boise is on a roll of concerts selling out in advance. Here’s a rundown of events that have zero tickets remaining:
- Alabama Shakes, March 1, Knitting Factory
- Tiesto, March 8, Revolution Center, Garden City
- Kip Moore, April 3, Knitting Factory
- The Postal Service, May 28, Knitting Factory
- Fun., Aug. 28, Idaho Botanical Garden
If you want to stay on top of concerts – so you don’t get shut out when it comes to tickets – hit my “Words Deeds” blog on Thursdays. I post a round-up of the shows that go on sale each weekend.
BOISE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS ON FACEBOOK
Speaking of staying on top of the latest entertainment news, the aforementioned weekly concert roundup – plus all my columns and most blog posts (such as “Five Things You Should Do This Weekend”) – are available through a quick “like” on Facebook: facebook.com/michaeldeedsidahostatesman
‘BOB AND TOM’ COMEDIAN IN BOISE
Comedian Costaki Economopoulos is a familiar name if you listen to the syndicated “Bob Tom Show” on 96.9 FM The Eagle.
He’ll make a one-night stop at Liquid Laughs, 405 S. 8th St., Boise, on Wednesday, Feb. 27. It’s an 8 p.m. show and costs $10. Call 941-2459 or hit liquidlaughs.com.
TONIGHT IN ‘THE OTHER STUDIO’
Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard tore it up Feb. 16 on “Saturday Night Live.” I’ll talk to her about performing on “SNL,” her influences and the Shakes’ success. Plus, co-host Tim Johnstone and I will spin music from Charles Bradley, Phoenix, Mad Season and Leftover Salmon.
“The Other Studio” airs from 9 to 10 p.m. Sundays on 94.9 FM The River.
COMING IN SCENE MARCH 1
- Soulful rock newcomers Alabama Shakes soak up success.
- Contemporary dance company Pilobolus makes its Idaho debut at the Morrison Center.
- An update on 10 Barrel Brewing Company’s pub coming to Downtown Boise. (It’s opening sooner than you might think.)
Michael Deeds’ column runs Fridays in Scene and Sundays in Life. Email: mdeeds@idahostatesman.com. Twitter: @IDS_Deeds
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Fat Tuesday in New Orleans
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Paczkis and gumbo make for a successful Fat Tuesday
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GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) – If we’re talking Fat Tuesday, you might as well go all out, right?
Twelve high schoolers from West Catholic, Comstock Park, and Kenowa Hills high schools think so.
The annual paczki-eating contest at Plumb’s grocery store in Alpine Township forced them to shove in five pacziks in five minutes – or at least try to.
“I just ate the outside because I didn’t like the cream, then watered it down,” said Rene’ Salazar of Kenowa Hills.
“I feel on top of my game. I was taking it seriously at first, then I started slowing down when I got down to the last couple of them,” said Nick Walters of West Catholic.
Just as they were coming off the sugar high, the gumbo competition was heating up at the Mardi Gras Celebration in downtown Grand Rapids.
“We spent four days on our gumbo, day alone on the roux,” said Jeremy Britt with Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
“You’re really try to stick to the traditional classic gumbos with a dark roux, andouille, as well as the seafood and tomatoes,” said Chris Simpson with Fifth Third Ballpark of his recipe.
All of this is new to Wendy Rickson of Spring Lake. This is her first Mardi Gras celebration ever.
“We were over at the gumbo thing, and now I’m expecting to cool my mouth down,” she said.
Just as important as the food to Mardi Gras is the music.
And the Calder City Street Stompers trekked to ten downtown restaurants to jazz up the crowds.
“We love to make people smile. You can’t look at a Dixieland band like this and not have some kind of happy feelings,” said band member Shannon Hughes.
So we’ve covered the pacziks and gumbo competitions.
Turns out, there was one more competition people showed up for.
“Tonight we’re here to watch Michigan-Michigan State,” said Pam Nolta.
Louis Benton Steakhouse won the gumbo contest at the B.O.B.
The Kenowa Hills High School students ate the most paczkis in five minutes to win their competition.
Article source: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/243097/14/Paczkis-gumbo-spice-up-Fat-Tuesday?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cbc%7Clarge
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GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) – If we’re talking Fat Tuesday, you might as well go all out, right?
Twelve high schoolers from West Catholic, Comstock Park, and Kenowa Hills high schools think so.
The annual paczki-eating contest at Plumb’s grocery store in Alpine Township forced them to shove in five pacziks in five minutes – or at least try to.
“I just ate the outside because I didn’t like the cream, then watered it down,” said Rene’ Salazar of Kenowa Hills.
“I feel on top of my game. I was taking it seriously at first, then I started slowing down when I got down to the last couple of them,” said Nick Walters of West Catholic.
Just as they were coming off the sugar high, the gumbo competition was heating up at the Mardi Gras Celebration in downtown Grand Rapids.
“We spent four days on our gumbo, day alone on the roux,” said Jeremy Britt with Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
“You’re really try to stick to the traditional classic gumbos with a dark roux, andouille, as well as the seafood and tomatoes,” said Chris Simpson with Fifth Third Ballpark of his recipe.
All of this is new to Wendy Rickson of Spring Lake. This is her first Mardi Gras celebration ever.
“We were over at the gumbo thing, and now I’m expecting to cool my mouth down,” she said.
Just as important as the food to Mardi Gras is the music.
And the Calder City Street Stompers trekked to ten downtown restaurants to jazz up the crowds.
“We love to make people smile. You can’t look at a Dixieland band like this and not have some kind of happy feelings,” said band member Shannon Hughes.
So we’ve covered the pacziks and gumbo competitions.
Turns out, there was one more competition people showed up for.
“Tonight we’re here to watch Michigan-Michigan State,” said Pam Nolta.
Louis Benton Steakhouse won the gumbo contest at the B.O.B.
The Kenowa Hills High School students ate the most paczkis in five minutes to win their competition.
Article source: http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/243097/14/Paczkis-gumbo-spice-up-Fat-Tuesday?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cbc%7Clarge
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