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Paul your sympathy is overwhelming. http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
I'm telling you, Chicago is overrun with cicadas. They're everywhere ( OK I didn't see any in the Loop, but they are every place else) on the ground, in the air, on the side of houses, on tree trunks and in your car if you're a slow mover http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emotic...on_biggrin.gif
Keep'em flying
I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about! I grew up on the southern Plains west of the Mississippi where cicadas are annual.
And they're tasty too!
Cicada Stir-Fry
Ingredients:
1 onion, minced
2 tbsps fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped
1 tbsp fresh gingerroot, minced
3/4 cup sliced carrots
3/4 cup chopped cauliflower and/or broccoli
1 can water chestnuts
3/4cup bean sprouts
3/4cup snow peas
40 blanched teneral cicadas
Directions:
1. Capture cicadas at night as they emerge from the ground. Blanche for 1 minute in boiling water. They can now be stored in freezer or used immediately in recipes.
2. In a wok or other suitable pan, heat a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add ingredients in the order listed above when those in the most recent addition are partially cooked.
3. Serve over whole-grain rice and add soy sauce to taste
Below is a photo taken by our neighbor. One had landed on my towel while we were out by our pool.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Randy:
I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about! I grew up on the southern Plains west of the Mississippi where cicadas are annual.
And they're tasty too! </div></BLOCKQUOTE> Don't tell me, it's a delicacy. *THUD*
"...In a wok or other suitable pan....."
Randy have you seen the cicadas in the northern Chicago suburbs.... they're refueling at O'Hare! http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emotic...on_biggrin.gif
Keep'em flying
Exactly! http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif
Keep'em flying
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Columbus Day Parade
October 8, 2007
Columbus from Balbo to Monroe
Start Time: 12:30 p.m.
Halloween Happening
October 20, 2007
State Street from Lake Clark; South on State St. from Randolph to Monroe; West on Monroe to Dearborn; North on Dearborn to Daley Plaza at Washington and Dearborn
Start Time: 12 p.m.
North Halsted Halloween Costume Parade
October 31, 2007
800 W. Belmont (On Halsted btwn. Belmont & Cornelia)
Start Time: 7:30 p.m.
Magnificent Mile Lights Festival
November 17, 2007
Michigan Ave. from Oak Street to Chicago River
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
www.themagnificentmile.com
McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade
November 22, 2007
State Street from Congress to Randolph
Start Time: 8:45 a.m.
Toys For Tots Motorcycle Parade
December 2, 2007
8300 S. Western Ave.
Start Time: 6:00 a.m.
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Chicago Cubs win National League Central Division!
September 29, 2007
Southwest unveils Illinois One
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Anyone have photos.....Randy?
Southwest news release
Check out this link:
Illinois One
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Disability Pride Parade and Celebration
July 26, 2008
Clark from Van Buren to Washington
Start Time: Noon
Venetian Night
July 26, 2008
Boat Parade and Fireworks Display
Along Lake Michigan between the Shedd Aquarium at Roosevelt Road and the Chicago Yacht Club at Monroe Street
8:30pm Boat Parade
9:30pm Fireworks
Ecuador Parade
August 10, 2008
Montrose from California to Kimball
Start Time: 12 p.m.
India Independence Day Parade
August 16, 2008
Devon from Western to California
Start Time: 12 p.m.
Pakistan Independence Parade
August 17, 2008
Devon from Ridge to Western
Start Time: 12:30 p.m.
General Von Steuben Day Parade
September 6, 2008
Will start at 4000 N Lincoln Ave to Wilson Ave, continue north on Western Ave and end in the Festival area. The reviewing stand will be at Leland/Western Ave.
Start Time: 2:00 p.m.
Mexican Independence Day Parade
September 6, 2008
Columbus from Balbo to Monroe
Start Time: 12 p.m.
Central American Parade
September 7, 2008
Montrose from California to Kimball
Start Time: 12 p.m.
Pilsen Mexican Independence Day Parade
September 13, 2008
Newberry & 18th Street; West on 18th Street to Wolcott
Start Time: 12 p.m.
South Chicago Mexican Independence Day Parade
September 14, 2008
Commercial Avenue from 87th to 100th Street
Start Time: 12 p.m.
26th St. Mexican Independence Day Parade
September 14, 2008
26th Street from Albany to Kostner
Start Time: 12 p.m.
Columbus Day Parade
October 13, 2008
Columbus from Balbo to Monroe
Start Time: 12:30 p.m.
State Street Halloween Happening Parade
Saturday October 25, 2008
State and Randolph
Start Time: Noon
Magnificent Mile Lights Festival & Parade
November 22, 2008
Michigan Ave. from Oak Street to Chicago River
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
State Street Thanksgiving Parade
November 27, 2008
State Street from Congress to Randolph
Start Time: 8:30 a.m.
63rd Street Holiday Parade
December 6, 2008
63rd Street from Tripp to Oakley
Start Time: 1:00 p.m.
Chicagoland Toys For Tots Motorcycle Parade
December 7, 2008
On Western from 87th Street to Foster, West to Kedzie
Start Time: 9:30 a.m.
Venetian Night
51st Annual Venetian Night
Saturday, July 26, 2008
7:45pm - Dramatic re-enactment of air/sea rescue
8:25pm - Lima Lima (out of Naperville) flyover
8:30pm - Boat Parade
9:30pm - Fireworks
Approximately 35 boats will be decorated with lights and props as they sail along beautiful Lake Michigan, between the Shedd Aquarium at Roosevelt Road and the Chicago Yacht Club at Monroe Street. People of all ages stake out spots along the lakefront as early as 9 a.m. to ensure a good view of the event. With an expected attendance of 675,000, public transportation, walking or biking to Venetian Night is suggested.
Venetian Night is the longest running event that the City of Chicago produces, and was once a multiple day event that featured a beauty pageant and parade on State Street in addition to the lighted boat parade and fireworks show on the waterfront.
GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL: VENETIAN NIGHT PROGRAM
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI TRIBUTE CONCERT
SATURDAY, JULY 26, 6:30PM
Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Millennium Park
The Italian singing sensation and an heir to Luciano Pavarotti's throne as the king of tenors presents a program of familiar opera arias, Neapolitan songs and pop opera hits from his debut album, Vittorio.
The 50th Annual Chicago Air & Water Show!
Three Days of Daredevil Thirlls along the Lakefront
August 15, 16 & 17
The 2008 Chicago Air and Water Show celebrates 50 years with three days of daredevil thrills in the air and on the water at North Avenue Beach and along Chicago's magnificent lakefront August 15, 16 & 17. Over the years, the show has become a summer tradition featuring aviation's top military and civilian pilots. The 50th Annual Chicago Air & Water Show presented by Shell Oil Products U.S. and the City of Chicago promises to be like no other for the first time there will be a Friday night show and evening concert at North Avenue Beach.
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team will headline the show along with a surprise line-up to be announced at a later date. Friday, August 15 is a special addition to this years show. In prior years, Friday has been designated as a rehearsal for the big show that weekend. This year the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will kick off the festivities at 3:00 p.m. followed by the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team. Immediately following the headliners there will be a FREE concert at the North Avenue Beach Boat House (talent details to be announced at a later date). The night show will conclude at 9:00 p.m. with a spectacular fireworks display. You don't want to miss this show!
Returning civilian performers include Lima Lima Flight Team, Aeroshell Aerobatic Team and audience favorite, Sean Tucker and Team Oracle. The Chicago Air and Water Show is held along the lakefront from Fullerton to Oak Street, with North Avenue Beach as the focal point. On Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 the water show begins at 9 a.m. and air show runs from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.
The first show was held in 1959 at Chicago Avenue and Lake Michigan. Titled the Lakeshore Park Air & Water Show it featured a Coast Guard Air Sea Rescue demonstration, water skiers, a water ballet, games and a diving competition. Forty nine shows later and with audience numbers reaching an average of 2.2 million annually, it is one of the largest consecutively running spectator events in the United States. The Chicago Air and Water Show is more than an event; it is an occasion and an established tradition for many Chicagoans and visitors alike
The 50th Annual Chicago Air and Water is free to the public and made possible by presenting sponsor Shell Oil Products U.S. and these additional sponsors: The Boeing Company, Chicago Tribune, ABC 7 Chicago, WBBM Newsradio 780, U.S. Cellular, American Airlines, Hinckley Springs, M*M Graphics, Gavin Arts, Oracle, Chicago Transit Authority, Communications Direct, Ford, LaGrou Distribution System, Military Channel and Pepsi-Cola. For more information on the 50th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show, please call the Mayor's Office of Special Events at (312) 744-3315 or visit the web at www.chicagoairandwatershow.us. For hotel reservations contact the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, the host hotel for the 50th Annual Chicago Air & Water Show, via their website at www.mccormickplace.hyatt.com or visit www.choosechicago.com
More info: <a href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalEntityHomeAction.do?0&entityName=Chicago+Air +and+Water+Show&entityNameEnumValue=183" target="_blank">
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Chicago Commemorates 30th Annual Jazz Festival
With Headliners Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman
August 28-31, 2008
30 never looked so good! The Chicago Jazz Festival, the city of Chicago's longest running music festival, announces headliners Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman for the 30th Annual event, August 28-31, 2008. What was born from concerts to remember jazz greats Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, has turned into an annual celebration of jazz music that is not to be missed. This Labor Day weekend tradition begins with a free evening concert at Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion on August 28, and then moves to Grant Park for three days of free music, August 29-31.
What better way to begin the celebration of 30 years of jazz than with two-time GRAMMYŌ Award winner and 2004 GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Sonny Rollins. Rollins officially opens The Chicago Jazz Festival on August 28 at 6:30 p.m. at a new location, the world-renowned Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Rollins is one of the last of the originals-a running mate of Miles Davis, Clifford Jordan and Max Roach, he was among the inventors of the language of Bebop. Rollins emerged from shedding time in Chicago in the 50s with a signature sound that has astounded audiences and inspired countless musicians for over 50 years.
The Chicago Jazz Festival then moves to Grant Park, August 29-31, for three stages of free music, activities and more from 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily. This year's Artist-in-Residence is Chicago-based composer, arranger, musician and educator, Edward Wilkerson, Jr. As a composer, Wilkerson has been highly inspired by the music of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, as a reed player his sound takes flight from Coleman Hawkins. Like many Chicago reed players you can hear the whole history of jazz in his ideas. Known for founding the cutting edge 8 Bold Souls (with whom he performs on Sunday evening at the Petrillo Music Shell), Wilkerson kicks-off the music at 12 noon at the Jazz on Jackson Stage on Friday, August 29.
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Closing out the event on Sunday, August 31 at the Petrillo Music Shell is saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman. Known as the creator of what has been called "free jazz," Coleman's contribution to the jazz idiom has been the theory and practice of "harmolodics" -an approach that has been internationally recognized as a founding principle of creative improvised music. Over the course of five decades he has been recognized with awards including the MacArthur "Genius" Award, an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letter. the NEA Jazz Masters and more. And after fifty years of being in the vanguard the rest of the world finally caught up to him as indicated by his receiving of both a Grammy award for his acclaimed album Sound Grammar, and the 2007 Pulitzer Award.
In celebration of the 30th Annual event, Gerald Wilson, T.S. Galloway, Vijay Iyer and Dave Douglas have each been commissioned by the Chicago Jazz Festival to create a piece in honor of the milestone anniversary. In addition to this year's incredible line-up of Chicago's and the world's greatest jazz musicians, the Chicago Jazz Festival features an art fair located in the rose garden between Jackson Blvd. and Buckingham Fountain, Chicago's world famous restaurants will offer delights and beer and soda vendors will have thirst quenchers onsite. As always, the entire family can enjoy jazz at all of the stages and a new kid's activity area will be making its debut this year.
Other highlights include Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Dee Dee Bridgewater and more!
The four day festival is the centerpiece of seven days of jazz activities beginning with Monday's Made in Chicago closing concert in Millennium Park, Tuesday's Jazz Institute 40th Birthday gala concert and Wednesday's Jazz Club Tour.
The Chicago Jazz Festival is produced by the Mayor's Office of Special Events and programmed with the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Current sponsors include the Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Tribune, CLTV-Chicagoland's Television, Comcast, Communications Direct, DownBeat Magazine, Hinckley Springs, Jazz Times Magazine, National City, Pepsi Cola, TAVA and WGN-Television.
More info: <a href="http://www.chicagojazzfestival.us" target="_blank">
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Howdy stranger! Yes Randy you've definately been missed!!!! http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/wink.gif
Greetings highly exalted one! http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...DIR#>/cool.gif
Since you are such a world traveler; perhaps you could tell me what internet site to check for hotels in Sydney, Australia. I've tried the usual (orbitz, travelocity, expedia etc) but they don't much too offer under $250 per night. I was also checking out the nonrev.net website for a resort in cabo and asked how many persons and for how long. The price quoted was $144 is that per night, or per person or what. Its too cheep to be per night and kind of pricey to be per person. How do you read those quotes. Any help would be appreciated.
Since you are such a world traveler; perhaps you could tell me what internet site to check for hotels in Sydney, Australia. I've tried the usual (orbitz, travelocity, expedia etc) but they don't much too offer under $250 per night. I was also checking out the nonrev.net website for a resort in cabo and asked how many persons and for how long. The price quoted was $144 is that per night, or per person or what. Its too cheep to be per night and kind of pricey to be per person. How do you read those quotes. Any help would be appreciated.
Try ID90.com, www.idtraveller.com, www.openskiesonline.com, www.perx.com (cruises and resorts), www.zappoff.com, www.dargal.com (cruises and resorts). This should give you a good start. You should also post directly to the Australia forum for something more direct. Hope this helps! http://www.nonrev.net/forums/style_e...IR#>/blink.gif
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (hobo @ Jul 11 2008, 02:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>Hi Hobo,Quote:
I was also checking out the nonrev.net website for a resort in cabo and asked how many persons and for how long. The price quoted was $144 is that per night, or per person or what. Its too cheep to be per night and kind of pricey to be per person. How do you read those quotes. Any help would be appreciated.[/b]
Sorry I just came across this. We've got a Support category in the forum for these kinda questions. Our regular hotel search quotes are per night.
refer to
http://www.tidd.com.au/html/entry_splash.asp
this is a subscription for industry discounts (based in Australia). I use their partner www.iddeals.co.uk
It's about $16 year and they have seat info for most world carriers
LEt us know if you found any good deals please!
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