Tim Samoff // Weblog (old)

September 27, 2004

Nachtwurst and art... A brave combo?

(Yeah, I know, I don’t actually eat nachtwurst, but it made for a good title.)

I’m coming down off of a fun weekend…

On Friday evening, a few friends, Julianna and I went to Oktoberfest on the Wasserfront. We ate, drank, cheered racing pigs (ask Julianna about that), and danced the polka well into the night — we even participated in a few competitions where we tried to say German phrases to win beer steins, but came out empty-handed. There was more processed meat and people dressed in funny clothes that you could shake a stick at. A highlight was seeing Brave Combo play a set of high-paced polka renditions of popular songs and old standards (the saxaphone/clarinet payer is in…cre…di…ble). Check out their website, listen to some music, and buy some of their CDs. You won’t be disappointed.

On Saturday, we had lunch with Julianna’s parents and then headed over to the Plaza Art Fair. Take the picture to the lft, multiply it by twenty, and you’ll have a pretty good idea how big this annual event is. There were some familiar booths — people that seem to get into every art fair that take place around the country — and some very cool new ones that we found very inpiring (we may even try to recreate some of the art we saw for our home). Of course, there was tons of food and plenty to drink here as well, but since we had just eaten at one of our favorite Kansas City restaurants, Blue Koi, we didn’t partake — that is until we got to our favorite Kansas City frozen custard-makers, Cherries; yum.

On Sunday, after church, a bunch of us headed over to a new Pizza joint called Pizza 51. The slices are huge and the pizza isn’t half bad. The best part was hanging out on the “patio” with all of our friends. The people who run Pizza 51 are very laid-back and probably wouldn’t have cared if we stayed there all day. I highly recommend Pizza 51 as a cool hang-out location alone.

Time to see what this week brings us.

Posted at 09:45 am

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Ummm… Katy? Well, it wasn’t necessarily an accidental glaring omission… Yes, I do painfully admit that I didn’t even step foot into the store. But, it was my intention, believe me. It’s just that once I was down there, looking at all of the art and people and… Well, I mean, I was planning on going to check it our, but…


Ok, ok, I completely forgot about it, all right!


I guess I will just have to check it out another time.


And Rob… We miss you in Kansas City!

timsamoff () (URL) - September 28, 2004 at 07:11 am