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Want Travel Updates? Just Twitter. All right, I admit it: occasionally, I find it really hard to sit down and blog. Some days it's hard to string one coherent sentence together, let alone a whole paragraph of them. Fortunately, a guy named Jack Dorsey and a couple of his cohorts came up with a solution for me: Twitter. It's only been around for about a year and a half, but the concept is so great that it's taken off like Diablo Cody's career (who has a Twitter account, by the way). The idea is simple: micro-blogging, or blog posts of 140 characters or less. It sounded a little dopey to me at first, but SEO guru Matt Bailey finally turned me on to it. The applications are pretty great. With Twitter, you suddenly have the ability to blog 10 times a day without having to give up... well, the whole rest of your life. You can update from text messages on your mobile phone. Shorter updates mean less time for readers to stay updated. I've set up a Black Hills Twitter account as an experiment at www.twitter.com/BlackHills. If you're still not sure about this whole Twitter thing, don't sweat it. Go take a look at the Black Hills Twitter page and you'll get it figured out pretty quickly.
Wallflowers to headline Deadwood Jam Don't know if you've heard, but the Wallflowers, fronted once by Jakob Dylan, will be the Saturday night headliner at the 18th annual Deadwood Jam. The annual music festival in downtown Deadwood, is set for Sept. 12 and 13. The event is staged in the Visitor Center parking lot next to Deadwood's main road.
Crazy Horse at the Black Hills Playhouse
Custer State Park is famous for its scenic drives, free-roaming wildlife, and impressively pointy geology. This might not be where you'd expect to find one of the longest-running summer theater companies in the United States, but there it is - tucked unpretentiously off Needles Highway. The Black Hills Playhouse was established in 1946 by a professor at the University of South Dakota. He moved his company into buildings which had originally been constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. Since then, there have been numerous updates and improvements made to the facilities, which now host a world-class theater company composed of people from all over the country.
A new winter sport for the Black Hills Winter sports in the Black Hills usually means skiing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. But next winter, professional hockey is coming to the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. A new multi-use arena is under construction right now, and it should be done by December 1. That will be just in time for the Rapid City Rush, the new Central Hockey League team to take to the ice on its new home ice.
A big homecoming for Sue, the T. rex Normally, the Field Museum of Chicago brings its “A T. rex Named Sue,” traveling exhibit – with a 42-foot plaster replica of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found -- only to large-city venues. But Faith, S.D., can claim something no other city can. It’s Sue’s hometown. Just 13 miles north of town, Sue was unearthed by a team from Hill City, S.D.,-based Black Hills Institute of Geological Research back in 1990. The Field Museum later acquired the fossil for $8.4 million and put her on display in Chicago. The Field Museum's traveling Sue exhibit opens in Faith on Saturday, May 10, and runs through Sept. 1, said Ron Frame, head of the Faith Chamber of Commerce.
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