karaoke

If you really want to let it all go there is a place in Louisiana where you can commune with nature the way nature intended. Oh, and they have karaoke too.

Here in Grand Rapids there's an annual art contest called ArtPrize. It's a 19-day city-wide art exhibit in which artists display their work for everyone to see. People and a juried panel then vote on which pieces they think are the best and the winners receive $560,000 in cash prizes. There are many mediums, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and even performance art. One piece was titled

Boomtown's Belt It Out Karaoke Contest takes place every Wednesday night through May 25th, and I was there last night as one of the judges. It's a great chance for those of you who rock out at karaoke, but don't have a band. The nightly winner gets $200 and grand prize is a $5500 recording session at Blade Studios. It was a close competition with only two singers getting gonged. Yes, I got to gong