We are a little under two weeks away from the Fall Festival taking over Franklin St and I know you are all looking forward to it. To whet the appetite for grease a bit leading up to the event, I thought I’d share some of the new food creations that will be available at this year’s edition of the festival. The number at the end is the booth number so you can find it easily with your munchie map.
I think we can all agree that Bobby Knight is one of the greatest motivational speakers coaches of our time (see above video). Coach Knight will be in town Sunday evening at The Centre (7PM) to benefit the Greater St James Community Recreation Education Center. The Recreation Center was founded by former IU player, and local native, Calbert Chaney.
Along with Bobby Knight’s speech, there will also be a silent auction. Tickets are $14 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.
Brian Regan is one of the funniest comedians around these days. He’ll be in Evansville on Saturday to play a show at the Victory Theatre at 8PM. Regan is a frequent guest on Bob & Tom (boo) as well as Opie & Anthony (yay). He is one of the few clean comics that I find legitimately funny.
I’m prepping to move next week and part of the process is getting rid of a bunch of stuff I no longer use or need. I’ve been selling a lot of stuff through Craigslist and MySpace, but want to bring the last part of the sale to here in hopes I can avoid having to ship this stuff out of town.
A few days ago we went to El Rio, a Mexican restaurant on North Green River Rd that we had been eying for quite a while. It is not new, and I believe its been there since I was in high school, but until this month, we’d never eaten there. I hadn’t heard much about it from anyone either.
The restaurant is located in a strip mall, so its outer decor isn’t much to be seen. Unfortunately, the interior isn’t very different. The first things I noticed when I walked in were its darkness, blandness, and over all brown color. Plain old brown tables and booths seemed to be sporadically, yet neatly, placed throughout the one large room. A handful of booths have carved and painted scenes (ie. birds or fish), but only a handful at best. I’ll give it to them that they tried to liven up the place by putting up a few pinatas and banners, but that’s it. The restaurant could really use some fresh (bright) paint and more than sparse “stereotypical” decorations.
The menu seemed to be of a good size and actually had some things on it that weren’t the norm for Mexican restaurants, though we did stick to the basics. I thought the chips and salsa were great, and we ordered cheese dip to go along with it. While the foundation of the cheese dip itself was good, there was no kick from spices and jalapenos to go along with it like any good cheese dip has. He decided on getting the chicken chimichanga that came with rice and beans—it looked good and though I didn’t try it, he said it was good. I ordered a dinner combination that came with rice, beans, a taco, and enchilada. The rice wasn’t my favorite; though it wasn’t bad, it was just average. I thought the taco was good and the enchiladas were average. The problem was that the meat was hardly seasoned; it tasted just like basic ground beef without any flavor. Had it been flavored better, I imagine I would’ve liked this restaurant a lot more.
Overall, I won’t be going back here on my own, but if someone else wanted to eat here, I wouldn’t resist. It wasn’t good, but it wasn’t bad—it was just “eh.” I think there are a lot of logical improvements to the decor and the food that the restaurant could make to easily improve their quality: paint and seasoning.
Last years season of Heroes was a major letdown. Boring story. I’m going to give it another chance, but I fear the show is finished. Oh yeah, and I cancelled my Fringe season pass. 1.5 episodes and I realized that science on TV is boring. Plus I loathe gross out TV.
This week’s Wiki project is to work on our other university’s page. I’ve setup stub pages for both USI and will work on expanding the content during the week and hope you can help as well.
If you have any feedback or suggestions for the wiki project, let me know. I want to build something that is useful to everyone in the city, not just the people reading It’s Evansville.
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A reader sent this Missed Connection from the Evansville Craigslist today and I can honestly say it is, at the same time, the greatest and most horrific thing I have read in a long time. This thing is completely NSFW, so be warned.
This one is so raunchy, I don’t even want to post the unedited version on the site. Rather than using asterisks to bleep out the words, I think it’d be far more fun to adjust the verbage much in the way TBS does to my favorite movies.
If you want, you can read the original message uncensored
I was teaching my step-daughters how to drive, and we were turning into Simpson’s.
You were walking on Covert Avenue wearing a beige trenchcoat and outfit similar to Carmen Sandiego. Although you had long, brunette hair, I knew you had a shopping cart that had my name written all over it.
I got excruciatingly anxious in anticipation for you to checkout as we drove by. I wanted to see those 6-pack abs with the “happy trail” of air leading down that glorious aisle. Haha, we couldn’t have done anything anyway because I had to sit down for 30 minutes shortly thereafter! I re-read some of the TVGuide!!
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