We were just in A.C. for a college basketball tournament, to cheer on my MSU Spartans.  While in the East Coast gambling mecca, we hit a couple of the well-promoted family holiday events.  Here’s my quick take on what we saw: The Tropicana indoor snowfall (every 15 minutes) was underwhelming,...

All it took was one innocuous Facebook post. Over the weekend, Bill Childs of Spare the Rock Spoil the Child wrote, quite simply, that he was plotting his family’s Summer road trip. That’s all…no details, no dreamy locale mentioned. I read this sentence and my mind quickly began...

Boy o boy was Sunday a better day for us in Rhode Island. We decided to spend the afternoon in town, walking the streets, hopping in and out of stores and having a delicious lunch (lobster pizza with roasted red peppers, green onions and a lobster sherry sauce in place of tomato sauce – yum!)....

It’s been one hell of a musical week so far and we haven’t even gotten to Newport yet. After a rockin’ good time at World Cafe Live on Monday afternoon where the Bear and I saw, heard and danced to Recess Monkey, the Mrs. and I spent last night in Philly at the Wolf Parade show. They...

It’s Friday morning. We’re 1/2 way through our Sarasota sojourn. A bit of rain in the A.M. yesterday forced us to the Mote Aquarium and Marine Lab, a place we first visited a couple years ago. The Mote seemed vastly improved/enhanced from the summer of ‘06 but that is based on my...

OWTK is heading back to Rhode Island in early August for the Newport Folk Festival! Long time readers of Out With The Kids may recall that we’ve taken the Bear to a pair of Newport Folk Fests in her young life (at age 5 months and then again at age 1 1/2). Back in 2006 I wrote pretty extensively...