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What goes best with face-melting 100+ degree temperatures? Deep fried grub and off-key tunes, of course.
Tonight marks the inaugural session of the Hawthorne Cart Village’s “Foodkartaroke.” Which is exactly what it sounds like. Fried pie man and Twitter addict Gregg Abbott over at Whiffie’s Fried Pies has been tweeting about the song-party all week—begging for a PA (he found one) and engendering increasingly excited flutters of tweets about Ying Yang Twins, Pixies and, of course, Warrant’s “Cherry Pie.” It all goes down tonight: The short karaoke session at the 12th and Hawthorne pod is scheduled for around 8 pm to 10 pm.
“It’ll be a trial run,” he texted WW. “At 10 we’ll turn it down enough to be good neighbors!!” Which is good, considering all the hell we caught for mentioning the village’s neighbors ire over the pod’s late night loudness in the first place.
You don’t have air conditioning anyway, so you might as well swelter through Summergeddon with a good soundtrack. After all, where else can devour a whole barbecued turkey leg (thanks Q BBQ!) and then sing “Jessie’s Girl” with a mouthful of Belgian frites and/or vegan pie?
That’s what I thought.
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Tags: food carts, karaoke, summergeddon
I LOVE the Hawthorne food carts – they’re close to my apartment and I go there to eat pretty often.
But I don’t blame the neighbors one bit for disliking the noise. This place can be a major zoo, just when people who have to get up early are laying down for the night.
Does the city have NO rules about what can happen at these outdoor places? As someone who lives close to Alberta, I honestly feel like residents have zero protection in this town. If this were a regular thing within earshot of my house, I would seriously be heading out there with a gun.
wow, schemes, sounds like you need to live far, far away from here…