Take the Skinheads Bowling

My pal Jim Ruland, host of last night's Chinatown reading in LA, has a terrific new story out about a punk rock bowling tournament in Vegas.

Friday night at Sam’s Town Casino, five miles south of the Las Vegas strip: The unsuspecting locals didn’t know what hit them. Dangerous-looking men with tattooed heads and hands were perched at the blackjack tables. Women wearing ripped-up fishnets and fuchsia-pink mohawks blew kisses on the dice at the craps table. Bleary-eyed boys and girls cavorted around the slot machines wearing hoodies and clutching bottles of screw-top wine. Down in the basement bowling alley, it was like a Mad Max cast reunion, an amateur porn convention and visiting day at the Las Vegas State Penitentiary all rolled into one. The Sixth Annual Punk Rock Bowling Tournament was officially underway.

Every year, on the second weekend in February, scores of punk rockers from all over the United States descend on Sin City for three days of drinking, bowling, music and more drinking. The centrepiece of the event is a bona fide tournament with cash prizes, trophies and swag (read: porno) doled out to the top teams.

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