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Bullhead City has gone from being used as a navigation point for riverboats to performing as a gold-mining site to being a lovely attraction for visitors and residents as well.

Of the residents of Bullhead City, Arizona, in 1990, 13,453 were families, and of late, a reported 100-149 gays and lesbians make Bullhead their home. Of all these, later stats show that 17% are of German ancestry, 16% are Mexican, 13% are Irish, 11% are English, 5% are Italian, and those of other descent include French, Hispanic or Latin, Polish, Norwegian, Dutch, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Native American, Swedish, African American, French-Canadian, European, Portuguese, Danish, and Welsh.

Every generation has its own musical identity, often beginning as street culture and becoming part of the mainstream. This is the case for Hip Hop songs, a controversial genre that now enjoys international, commercial success. Hip Hop began in the Bronx district of New York City in the 1970s when DJs started to rap over the music at block parties, often using clever rhyme and alliteration.

The music caught on with inner city communities across the US with a predominately African American following. Hip Hop songs developed a style, with percussion breaks and often using synthesizers and drum machines. The DJs and producers were elevated to great importance, skilled in the medium of scratching and mixing. Sounds from previous recordings of other artists were sampled and added to records. These were often from classic soul and R&B tracks. The live performances were sometimes accompanied by breakdancing, an acrobatic display that had evolved on the streets.

Pop Chart success came in the 1980s and Hip Hop songs began to get more airplay on radio and MTV. The musical success has always run into trouble however, especially when the sub genre of Gangsta Rap began to be noticed. During the 1990s, there was great hostility between the rappers on the West Coast and those on the East Coast. This conflict is said to have caused the violent deaths of two of the greatest Hip Hop stars; Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

Certain lyrics have been a bone of contention with radio and TV stations often blanking out expletives. Sentiments of misogyny and homophobia have also caused offence. However, there are some openly gay and lesbian performers. Some Hip Hop songs appear to endorse the use of guns, general violence and drug abuse. There is often a theme of opposing authority, the songs being expressed in street slang. Some of these words and phrases have entered everyday vocabulary amongst the young from all backgrounds.

A culture, known as bling bling has sprung up, exemplified by artists such as Puff Daddy. They promote an affluent image of flash jewelry, clothes and cars and some fans from poor backgrounds choose this as something to aspire to. Other Hip Hop musicians accuse such artists of selling out.

The music is firmly established around the world with different countries producing their own acts. It is very popular in Britain with many Hip Hop artists getting in the pop charts e.g. So Solid Crew, Goldie Lookin Chain and Dizzee Rascal.

When you look up trivia for Bullhead City, Arizona, you get one fun fact: “The largest freshwater striped bass caught in Arizona was at Bullhead City. It weighed 59 lbs. 12 oz.” As exciting as this is for the avid fisherman, there is much more to Bullhead City, Arizona than fish tales.

With a population of an approximated 36,255 people in 2003 (up from 33,769 in 2000), the modest township of Bullhead City, Arizona has relatively low crime: violent crimes as reported by the FBI in 2003, for example was a low 215, with only 4 homicides—making for a crime rate of 5.9 per 1,000 people.

Of the multicultural mix of inhabitants, many enjoy the annual Bullhead City, Arizona celebration called Hardyville Days, during which time (every October) the gaming and tourist town becomes one where parades, crafts fairs, art—painting, sculpture, and more--, awards dinners, competitions, musical events, and presentations and activities keep everyone engaged and frolicking in one way or another.

The rest of the year, the people of Bullhead City, Arizona work in the area to being in a healthy income of, reportedly, between $30,221 and $40,994, or groom their fine homes and yards, visit the local museum, or enjoy their library, newspaper, and coffee…which of course is of the Starbucks brand.

As a gaming and tourist area, Bullhead City, Arizona features two hotels, the Colorado River Museums, numerous retail outlets (which it is evidently known for, now), and weather conditions that for most visitors is a reasonable 86 degrees F on the average.

For the town once called Hardyville, then abandoned, then re-settled and re-named according to the appearance of a massive boulder along the Colorado,

A Cape Cod vacation is one thing, but a Cape Cod vacation is another thing, a better thing, when done the way many students, artists, and others do it: they spend a summer living and working in the most beautiful and inspiring (and wild!) of areas. This is what I did with two friends, one from the west coast, in the mid seventies, and I have it down as one of the best summers I ever experienced.

We rented rooms from a fisherman and his wife in P-town (Provincetown). We worked odd jobs during the day, doing chambermaid work, framing in the galleries, etc., and partying all night long! Come on. This is what you do when you are meant to go to Paris as a young man (as Hemingway would have it) or woman but instead must stay closer to home and need to save money for that upcoming first semester of college. That is, you hang out with the peeps who live in town (and I recommend this for any vacation, not just a Cape Cod vacation). That way, you get to do non-touristy things like let an amount of air out of the dune buggy or jeep tires and go dune-hopping or hang out in the pools which are between the beach and the bars.

Conversely, if you want to have a small sense of a Cape Cod vacation as a tourist would experience it, you “play tourist” and go to the art shows, the marine surplus and other schlock shops, and eat all the fudge, cotton candy, candy apples, and cashew butter & banana sandwiches you want.

The residents of P-town (which is surrounded by water on three sides) are friendly, laid back, and hella bright and creative. They also make their living on the tourism. They work through the frigid winters, then sell their artwork in the summer. So BUY something!

Then, take off with a local to the neighboring towns, the ones you had to pass through, most likely, on your way into P-town (unless you took the illustrious Cape Cod vacation route, via air on a little, teeny plane that brought you right into the Provincetown airport). Explore Hyannis, Woods Hole, and the mouths: Falmouth and Plymouth (though the latter is not really part of Cape Cod, just in Massachusetts and close by, for those who want to include the real geography of the “founding” of this nation on their Cape Cod vacation).

Then, since you are there on your however brief Cape Cod vacation, you must take a ferry to the vineyard, Martha’s Vineyard, and stop over in Nantucket, as well. The homes and other buildings are quaint historical throwbacks to the first colonists, the land is varied and inviting, and the towns have a vivid history that includes the hoity toity such as the Kennedys.

So, whether you “play tourist”, “play celeb” (if you don’t get overshadowed by the actual celebrities who appear all the time on the Cape), “or play gay” (for P-town is predominantly gay and lesbian populated)…you will have a unique time of it on your Cape Cod vacation.