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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Pasty Poetry Throwdown June 26 to kick off Calumet Pasty Fest

CALUMET -- A "Pasty Poetry Throwdown" will take place at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, June 26, at the Conglomerate Café, 104 Fifth St., in Calumet. The event is a poetry reading with a theme of pasties.*

"Everybody's welcome," said Babette Jokela, Conglomerate Café owner. "We're just looking for pasty poetry."

The poetry event kicks off Main Street Calumet's "PastyFest 2008," June 26-28, a weekend of family fun, including, on Saturday, June 28, a Pasty Parade at 10 a.m.; live music, a pasty bake-off, more pasty poetry and kids' games in Agassiz Park; a Karaoke Sing-off at 5 p.m. and more.

The New Christy Minstrels will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 27, in the Calumet Theatre. At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday evening, the Calumet Theatre will host "Richard Rodgers in Revue!"

Visit the Main Street Calumet Web site for the complete schedule of events.

*Editor's Note: For visitors who may not know, pasty rhymes with "nasty" (no connection, necessarily) and is a type of Cornish meat pie, that may contain potatoes and vegetables such as onions, turnips or rutabaga. Cornish miners carried them down in the mines. It's a portable whole meal. Some people put catsup on them, but they're good with plain yogurt on top, especially if you skip the meat. (Hei, this is a blog so I can give my opinion here!)

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