"a little trouble makes it worth the going"

It's a late October night, everything seems broken around town, and you're thinking maybe it's time for a long getaway tour of cheap Midwest motels. Perhaps, but before you go, make a little sidetrip and join us for the 2002 24hr Tom Waits festival, from 6 am October 26th to 6 am October 27! We've got bartenders and bowling alleys, bands and bookies, chefs, charlatans, raconteurs and roustabouts, dealers and demi-mondes here for you. So bring along friends, so-called friends, and anyone you meet along the way, and together we'll have a time not soon unremembered. And don't forget to haul up your accordion, autoharp, unfinished art, or anything else that needs an audience.

Getting to Uncle Bob's Dead Battery Farm is a little adventure. Best is to take the TW Special from Meanhattan on Friday Night. But if you're here for the weekend or only an hour, when you're in for a penny you're in for a pound.

Here's what's in store.