Twas the Drugged Night Before Xmas

(the poem below was a shameful attempt at creative humor...but I got tired and sick of it and here's whattcha get) Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Mom was frantic still looking for that kid’s damn blouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, So she’ll have a stocking…

The Silverstein Brass Band Strikes Again

It began in 1973. 3 guys decided to perform some Christmas carols on Monument Square in Downtown Racine. And that was the formation of the Silverstein Brass Band and their annual holiday flash mobs. A group of about 20 or so guys get together every year, dust off their drums, trumpets and trombones and head…