
Amanda with her son Kain, who has inspired several of her tattoos. See one of her parent tattoos and hear what she has to say about it after the jump!

Amanda with her son Kain, who has inspired several of her tattoos. See one of her parent tattoos and hear what she has to say about it after the jump!
While we do love brunch, it’s a titch over played as a Mother’s Day thing to do. So every year, on the day before M-Day, Bunch plans an experience that is a bit wilder than eggs benny and every bit as flavourful as fresh squeezed O.J. It’s Bunch Family Dance Party: Mother’s Day Edition and it’s legendary.
Women: Who among you who didn’t dream of growing up, directing music videos for Sonic Youth, Depeche Mode and Hole, marrying Mike D from the Beastie Boys and cooking delicious organic meals for your sun kissed kids, your husband and the other Beasties?
For the past three years, folks living in Toronto’s Brockton Triangle have celebrated Earth Day by organizing a clean-up of their very downtown Toronto hood. Older kids and parents pitch in and younger kids do crafts and decorate the street with sidewalk chalk while being collectively supervised. Sound charming? Well, it is. But it didn’t just get charming all by itself.

When Tor Hyams wanted to put on an awesome music festival for kids and grown-ups alike, he turned to Perry Farrell for guidance. Together, the two created Kidzapalooza. Kidzapalooza debuted in 2005 at Ferrell’s famous Lollapalooza Festival (see the Kidzapalooza sub-page at the Lollapalooza site here) at Chicago’s Grant park, featuring family oriented musicians, performers, and DJ’s, as well as booths offering rocker hairstyles and temporary tattoos and music-themed workshops and games. In 2009, Kidzapalooza will run concurrently with Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival (August 7-9). This year’s line up has yet to be announced, but Farrell and Hyams are polling now on facebook for suggestions. Previous years have seen performances by Jeff Tweedy, Perry Farrell, School of Rock and many more! Advance tickets for Chicago’s Lollapalooza – including all access to Kidzapalooza, are on sale now.

Emily and her son Aaron, whose toddler handprints provided the template for her “wings” tattoo. Click through the jump to check out what Emily had to say when we interviewed her about it!