Fairs and Carnivals

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You Say Yi-ro, I Say Dji-ro

Jungle George's Exotic Meats Returns to the South Florida Fair

Are you wild? Wild enough to eat chocolate-covered scorpions and crickets? If you are, Jungle George's Amusements will be serving up a variety of exotic meats and animals for you to try at the 101st South Florida Fair next week.This will be the rare and exotic food vendor's second year at the fair, ... More >>

Guide to Art Basel 2012: The Satellite Fairs Have Sexting, James Franco, and a Candy Roller Coaster

Deep-Fried-Twinkie Time

Scare Tactics: Haunted Houses From West Palm to Miami

British Newspaper The Telegraph Mocks American Food; We Fight Back

The British newspaper The Telegraph has a slideshow up today mocking the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, California. The slideshow is titled "Only In America".As you can probably guess, it features image after image of deep-fried American specialties such as deep fried Oreos, deep-fried Snickers, ... More >>

President Obama Brews Beer and Buys a Round at the Fair

When choosing the next president of the United States, one has to weigh many issues. There's the economy, health care, beer appreciation...President Barack Obama, for instance, likes his beer so much that he's brewing and bottling his own private-label stash at the White House.For more than a year, ... More >>

Normal Ducks Are Boring Anyway

American Fine Wine Competition Hosts Wine Carnival at Bogart's

​What's better than a carnival with its games of chance, prizes, bright lights, and crazed toothless carnies?  How about a carnival where the games are wine centric and everyone practices good dental hygiene?The American Fine Wine Competition is hosting a Consumer Challenge Wine Carnival this ... More >>

Broward County Fair: Time For Fried Food And Carnival Rides

Dan Rakofsky PhotographyThe fair - where you eat fried stuff then pay to get spun around.​The fair's in town. Time to load up on food you would never normally eat on the drunkest of escapades and then allow yourself to be spun high into the air in a giant erector set, operated by a guy who resembl ... More >>

A Mystical Land at the Fair

Jane Jane Pollock at Propaganda July 27

Fried Kool-Aid Balls: Coming to a Fair Near You?

ktreb at Flickr.comFried Kool-Aid balls​Move over, Mr. Kool-Aid mascot. There's a new Kool-Aid man around. His name is Charlie Boghosian, creator of the recently famous fried Kool-Aid balls that debuted at the San Diego County Fair this past weekend.But how, exactly, do you fry a liquid?  ... More >>

The Craft Mafia

Renaissance Festival Food -- Huzzah!

divemasterking2000Old-fashioned root beer -- is it fit for a king?​This weekend is your last chance to visit this year's Florida Renaissance Festival in Deerfield Beach. There you can practice chess or archery, watch jousts with live horses, listen to live music, witness artisan glass blowing, be ... More >>

Fair Is Fair

Fried Oreos and More at the Broward County Fair: Q&A With Rene Piche, "King of Fried Food"

Click here to see more photos of food from the Broward County Fair.​For half a century, Rene Piche has been bringing delicious fried food to fairgoers throughout the country and even Canada. Piche, who claims to be the inventor of fried dough, will be one of the many food vendors found at the Brow ... More >>

Viernes Swirls Up the Night at Propaganda

"Iron Man 2" Will Lead to "3" and Probably "4," but That Doesn't Mean It's Good

Tick-Tock Goes the Holiday Clock

Scarier than a Gun Show and Craft Show… Combined

Seaside Craft Fair

Get a Whiff of Good Times

Halloween, Clowns, and Sausage

Terror strikes The Florida Fairgrounds

That’s Where a Rat Can Glut, Glut, Glut, Glut!

Come Out and Party Already!

Bite Off More Than You Can Swallow