Colin McEnroe Show: UConn's Bowl Bid & Carnival Tricks Revealed

We live in the age of the slick, the packaged, the downloadable.

When my son was younger, I insisted that he go with me, whenever possible, to see examples of the burgeoning counter-movement loosely grouped together as neo-vaudeville. A good place to see a lot of that stuff is New York City, as far away from Times Square as you can get.

We've seen the Flying Karamazov Brothers, the Flaming Idiots, Stomp, Monday Night Magic in the Village, the Box on the lower east side, Absinthe down at the Seaport.  I could keep going. Some of these are motley assortments of live acts, often straddling the line between avant garde and the most primitive form of carnival entertainment.

And I think I gradually convinced him that it's a small feat to make something weird happen on a video game or a DVD. Weird stuff done in front of a live audience often gets genuinely weird.

We'll talk about that today. Also a discussion on what makes for "lake effect" snow here in Connecticut where there are - last time I checked - no Great Lakes. And Paul Doyle from the Hartford Courant updates us on the latest developments in UConn Husky football.

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