UPDATE:  CONGRATULATIONS TO LORI FROM MENTOR!  SHE KNEW THIS MOTHER… TOM CRUISES MAMA!  SHE WON A MUNCHKIN GIFT BASKET AND IS QUALIFIED FOR THE GRAND PRIZE DRAWING COMING UP TODAY AFTER 5 PM… JONAS BROTHERS PAVILION SEATS AND MEET AND GREET PASSES!  WAY TO GO!

This is the mother of a VERY famous celebrity… know who it is?

MOMS (remember it’s MOTHERS for BROTHERS this week!), email your answer PLUS your name and phone number to me at jen@q104.com.

1 Lucky winner (drawn randomly) will get a call back before 4 pm…

Not only will you win a MUNCHKIN GIFT BASKET but you’ll also GET QUALIFIED FOR 2 TIX AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO THE JONAS BROTHERS SHOW! WINNER DRAWN TODAY AFTER 5 PM!

GOOD LUCK!

UPDATE:  CONGRATULATIONS TO CHRISTINE FROM TWINSBURG!  SHE KNEW THAT THIS IS MILEY CYRUS’S BROTHER TRACE CYRUS FROM THE BAND METROSTATION!  She won the Jonas Brothers new CD, a BK T-shirt and is QUALIFIED FOR 2 TIX AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO THE JONAS BROTHERS SHOW!

This is the brother of a VERY famous celebrity… know who it is? Email your answer PLUS your name and phone number to me at jen@q104.com. 1 Lucky winner (drawn randomly) will get a call back before 4 pm and win the Jonas Brothers new CD, a BK T-shirt and GET QUALIFIED FOR 2 TIX AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO THE JONAS BROTHERS SHOW! GOOD LUCK!

I seriously felt like a teenager when I was getting ready to go to the Poison concert last night… probably because I WAS a teenager when I was a big fan of the band!  After watching the past two seasons of “Rock of Love” my love for Bret Michaels was reignited, and he did not disappoint last night!  The show was GREAT!!!  Here’s some pix and two short videos I took with my digital cam…

Bumped into Glenn the Funny Song Man and Brian the Prize Guy hangin’ at the show too!

Bret rose from the floor at the beginning of the show!  We were all screaming so loud!

Every Rose Has It’s Thorn

“Talk Dirty To Me”… even got a shot of Glenn the Funny Song Man rockin’ out to this one!

 PLUS - CHECK OUT THIS EMAIL I GOT FROM LISTENER ROBYN!!  TOO COOL!  SHE MET BRET!!!

Hey Jen!

Did you go to the Poison concert last night?  My friend and I went  - AWESOME!!!!  BUT guess what Bret  announced?  He said - see you in January for Rock of Love 3!!!!!    Can’t wait! 

P.S.  Went to the after party at the Barley House in Akron.  We got to meet Bret and get autographed pictures.  WOW u should see this pic, talk about hot!  Plus he is way cuter in real life than on tv.  He was so nice, down to earth and normal.  Very genuinely appreciative for his fans and took time to acknowledge us, shook my hand, looked right at me as he talked to me….not just the typical celebrity, signing pics without looking, etc.  Makes me like him even more.    :-)       My friend was hilarious - she wanted to ask him how we can be on the show!  Could u imagine?! 

UPDATE:  CONGRATULATIONS TO LISA FROM MASSILLON WHO KNEW THAT THE PIC IS MADONNA’S BROTHER CHRISTOPHER CICCONE!  SHE WON THE JONAS BROTHERS CD, A BK T-SHIRT AND SHE’S QUALIFIED FOR THE GRAND PRIZE!  WOO HOO!

This is the brother of a VERY famous celebrity… know who it is? Email your answer PLUS your name and phone number to me at jen@q104.com. 1 Lucky winner (drawn randomly) will get a call back before 4 pm and win the Jonas Brothers new CD, a BK T-shirt and GET QUALIFIED FOR 2 TIX AND BACKSTAGE PASSES TO THE JONAS BROTHERS SHOW! GOOD LUCK!

And there’s a sign contest to win JONAS BROTHERS tickets!  Check it out!  GREAT SIGNS!!!

HOOKED ON PHONICS

My five-year old students, are learning to read. 
 

Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,                       
  
‘Look at this!  It’s a frickin’ elephant!’

‘It’s a frickin’ elephant!    It says so on the picture!’  

 And so it does…  (scroll down)

“A F R I C A N ELEPHANT”

Hooked on phonics!    Ain’t it wonderful?

It was a busy weekend of weddings… had to go to two on Saturday!  What PERFECT weather for a wedding day!  You may have heard Allan on the Wilde and Fee show talking about his friend Brian getting married… Brian is also a good friend of mine and both he and his new wife looked absolutely amazing!  Allan was in the wedding and we got to hang a bit so I wanted to post a couple of pix… A.  Because Allan is lookin sharp in his wedding attire, and B. because the setting was ABSOLUTELY gorgeous!  Right on the water, sunshine - just absolutely perfect!

Zesty Cleveland (www.ZestyCleveland.com) is hosting a free “Zesty Ipod Dance” event on Aug.8 at 6 p.m. in Tremont.  You should bring you Ipod and meet at Lincoln Park (www.tremontartwalk.org/map.htm).  We will engage in Dance-related shenanigans lead by our fun “Dance Leaders” before forming a large “Congo-Line” and grooving down to and through the Tremont Art Walk.   There will be fun contests and cool prizes. 
 
Zesty Cleveland is a new on-line resource for finding “Unusual Arts & Entertainment” and “Unique Food & Drink” in Northeast Ohio.  We produce interesting articles and off-beat, but useful, videos.  This first-time-ever Cleveland event is part of our “Quest for Zest”!!  So….Come!  Join Us!  Bring your friends and meet new ones!!  We hope to see you there!

Fresh back from vacation, I just had to share some pix!  Went to a new place (for me) - Bald Head Island… just off the coast of North Carolina.  Above, you can see North Carolina ’s oldest standing lighthouse, Old Baldy, right at the mouth of the Cape Fear River… nearly 200 years old!  And if it looks familiar to you, that’s because part of the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s” was filmed here and you see tons of shots of this lighthouse in the film…  

One of the coolest things about Bald Head Island is that there are NO CARS!  No gas stations - nothing.  EVERYONE drives around in Golf Carts… above, you can see me chilin’ in ours fresh back from the one and only grocery store on the island.

I learned something new on vaction, did you know that you can GRILL pizza?  Oh yes you can… and it is DELICIOUS!  Check out one of our masterpieces above…

On the island, there’s a Turtle Conservatory… a HUGE pond filled with tons of turtles of all sizes.  The day we went, there was a GATOR in the pond!  LOOK HOW CLOSE WE GOT TO HIM!!!  He was HUGE!

Of course while we were lounging on the beach and enjoying the sunshine, I didn’t forget about one of my favorite things at home… Q104!!!

One night around dusk, we took a beach walk and saw this storm rolling in.  The weather was perfect every day, and two nights we got rain (thank goodness not during the day!) Obviously this pic was taken one of the nights we got rain…

View from the villa… so close to the water, so BEAUTIFUL!!!

AND HERE’S ALL THE INFO YOU NEED!

The 33 Annual Twins Days festival, August 2 & 3 (Always the first full weekend in August) It started in 1976 for the country’s bi-centennial.)

 
Open to the public. (3500 sets of twins expected, general attendance at 65,000) National and International media will be there. (Discovery, HBO, BBC) Great people watching event.

 
Glen Chamberlin Park on Rt. 14, Ravenna Road in Twinsburg Ohio. Park is behind the Chamberlin Middle School. (Broadway-Forbes exit on I-480, follow Rt. 14 into Twinsburg.)

 
Parking across the street at Dodge Middle school, or next door at the Twinsburg High School. $2 parking fee for the Twinsburg Sports Boosters. Free shuttle service to the festival entrance.  

 
2½ hour Saturday Morning all-twins, “Double Take Parade” at 9am, from the square (Rts. 91 & 82, half mile up Rt. 14, to the festival grounds. (This year featuring the entire Twinsburg Police Dept. and fallen Officer Josh Miktarian’s canine, Bajio.”) (The sheriff’s department will patrol the city.)  

 
Activities: Twins Talent Show, Twins look-alike contests, Twins research tents, Arts & Crafts, children’s games and rides, Food venders, BBQ chicken dinners, twins’ group photo, 2 stages with live entertainment, souvenir tent, and Saturday night twin fireworks display at dusk, dedicated to Officer Miktarian.

 
Festival is operated by a non-profit festival committee, not the city, therefore to help pay expenses, there is a $3 gate admission for all ages 5 and older. Twins not yet registered, can do so right at the festival entrance.  

Info: call 330-425-3652, or visit the web site at www.twinsdays.org