35th Annual WALNUT VALLEY FESTIVAL NOTICE Bluestem Misty River Hot Strings The Wilders Steve Kaufman Pete Huttlinger The Greencards The Waybacks Marley's Ghost Still on the Hill Tommy Emmanu National Flat Picking Championships September 13-17,2006 Winfield,KS Buy your tickets now! For details and tickets, visit www.wvfest.com Stephen Bennett $93,383 in prizes Cadillac Sky Dave Stamey Andy May Bill Barwick Roz Brown Julie Davis Barry Patton Linda Tilton Bruce Graybill Small Potatoes Mountain Smoke Tim O'Brien Trio John McCutcheon Byron Berline Band David Munnelly Band Spontaneous Combustion Cathy Barton & Dave Para Dan Crary & Thunderation Adrienne Young & Little Sadie Tom Chapin w/ Michael Mark JoAnn Smith & Pocket Change Chris Jones & The Night Drivers • Arts and Crafts • Four stages • Eight contests • Workshops Pat Flynn, Buddy Greene, & Friends RAINE REVIEWS NEWS YOU CAN USE HAWK TOPICS A SUSPECT IS ARRESTED, CONFESSES IN THE 10 YEAR-OLD MURDER CASE OF CHILD BEAUTY QUEEN JONBENET RAMSEY. 1 News producers breathe a sigh of relief as the revival of the Ramsey case gives them an excuse to not cover all those other things that are happening in the world right now. A CANADIAN STUDY LINKS WOMEN WITH BREAST IMPLANTS TO HIGHER SUICIDE RATES. Think about that the next time you're sliding a dollar into Chastity's g-string. Instead of a dollar, maybe she just needs a friend... which might be a good way to get a free lap dance. 4 HALEY JOEL OSMENT, CHILD STAR OF "THE SIXTH SENSE" AND "PAY IT FORWARD," IS ARRESTED FOR DRUNK DRIVING AND POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA. A Hollywood-rock star marriage falls apart AND a former child star falls from grace? In the same WEEK? Somewhere an Entertainment Tonight producer is writhing on the ground in ecstasy, and not from the handful of ecstacy pills he just downed with a swig of his Tom Collins. ACTRESS KATE HUDSON AND ROCKER HUSBAND CHRIS ROBINSON OF THE BLACK CROWES ANNOUNCES THAT THEY ARE SEPARATING AFTER NEARLY SIX YEARS OF MARRIAGE. Apparently, Robinson agreed with moviegoers nationwide:"You, Me and Dupree" really was that bad. TROY LEE GENTRY OF COUNTRY MUSIC ACT MONTGOMERY GENTRY IS CHARGED WITH A FELONY AFTER KILLING A CAGED, TAME BEAR WITH A BOW AND ARROW. Sounds like Mr Gentry was just having some "Good Clean Fun." And if you get that, joke, you listen to really crappy music. 6 MASTER ILLUSIONIST DAVID COPPERFIELD CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND THE LEGENDARY "FOUNDAIN OF YOUTH" ON HIS RITZY BAHAMAS RESORT. Hopefully this is a trick to lure Joan Rivers to a secluded island where someone can put that sad, shriveled fembot out of her misery once and for all. FORD MOTORS ANNOUNCES PLANS TO HALT PRODUCTION AT 10 ASSEMBLY PLANTS BY THE END OF THE YEAR. Ford claimed that high gas prices have made their gas-guzzling SUVs economically unfeasible, even for men with the tiniest of penises. FORMER 'KU FOOTBALL PLAYER' ERIC BUTLER LOSSES HIS APPEAL FOR ANOTHER YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY AFTER TAKEING A YEAR OFF FOR THE BIRTH OF His DAUGHTER. Maybe if Butler had put the needs of the team ahead of his family, he wouldn't be in this predicament. After all there's no "Showing immense personal responsibility and character and taking care of my family first" in team. 8 A NEW STUDY FINDS THAT EATING HOT DOGS MAY CAUSE GENETIC MUTATIONS AND CANCER. It's hard to believe that a product made from leftover organs, snouts, hooves, hair and whatever else falls into the meat grinder might be harmful to consume. It's also hard to believe that after knowing what hot dogs are made of and that they probably cause cancer, a hot dog sounds really delicious right now. 10 JAKUB VOBORIL, WICHITA HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, SCORES PERFECT MARKS ON BOTH THE ACT AND THE SAT. The perfect scores helped to offset the disappointing results from Voboril's poor showing on the "Are you a Wild Woman in the Bedroom?" test from a recent issue of Cosmopolitan, on which he was rated a "Frigid Franny." THINK YOU HAYE A BETTER JOKE? E-MAIL ME AT HAWKTOPICS@KANSAN.COM 12 ➤ JAYPLAY 08.24.2006 Chris Raine