Summerfest ( also known as " The Big Gig ") is a yearly music festival held at the Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States.

Twenty-five statues of squirrels in varying attire have been placed by certain buildings in the style of downtown Cincinnati's Big Pig Gig.

Doug Anthony's name was used by the anarchic Canberra comedy trio the Doug Anthony All Stars, who rose to fame with celebrated appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1980s and came to national prominence in Australia in 1990 with their popular performances on the TV comedy series The Big Gig.

Also in 2008, the ceremony was followed by the NME Big Gig at the adjacent O2 Arena, where The Cribs performed with Johnny Marr, followed by Klaxons, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, and Manic Street Preachers, who also performed with Tom Clarke of The Enemy and Cerys Matthews.

After initially struggling to gain success in Australia, in 1989 DAAS was picked up to perform on the ABC show The Big Gig, on which they became a popular feature.

In 1996, McDermott was recruited by director Ted Robinson, with whom he had previously worked on The Big Gig, to host Good News Week, which aired on the ABC from 1996 to 1998, and on Network Ten from 1999 to 2000 and then returned in 2008 for a new series.

McDermott reunited with Robinson in 2007 when he was named host of a new ABC variety program, The Sideshow, a show described as a successor to The Big Gig.

In the late 1980s, Delahunty — then the chief newsreader for the ABC in Victoria — was parodied by comedian Jean Kittson on the popular TV comedy series The Big Gig, where Kittson portrayed a snobbish, acid-tongued announcer called Veronica Glenhuntly ( whose surname was taken from that of the elite Melbourne suburb ).

They quickly gained popularity in the United Kingdom, where they made numerous television appearances, but remained virtually unknown in Australia until 1989 when they were made regular performers on the Australian comedy show The Big Gig.

DAAS in an appearance on The Big Gig

This changed in 1989 when ABC comedy producer Ted Robinson invited them to appear on a new comedy show, The Big Gig.

The group continued to appear weekly on The Big Gig until 1991 when their own series, DAAS Kapital, premiered on the ABC.

A DAAS DVD entitled The Unlimited Uncollectible Sterling Deluxe Edition, a 2-disc collection of their performances from the first two seasons of The Big Gig, was released on 6 November 2008.

He reunited with Robinson again in 2007 when he was named host of a new ABC variety program, The Sideshow, a show described as a successor to The Big Gig.

The Big Gig was a popular Australian television comedy series based on the British TV series Saturday Live.

Starting in 1989 and running until 1992 and originally named Tuesday Night Live, The Big Gig showcased both comedy and music and offered opportunities not available to the performers otherwise.

A regular feature of The Big Gig was the character ' Veronica Glenhuntly ' ( played by comedian Jean Kittson ), an acid-tongued newsreader.

Viewers often taped The Big Gig on their VCRs in order to replay the Lager Boys segments in slow motion.

Repeats of The Big Gig are occasionally still shown on The Comedy Channel.

* The Big Gig at the National Film and Sound Archive

Following early TV appearances on Theatre Sports ( 1987 ) and The Big Gig ( 1989 ), in early 1993 Micallef was offered a job writing for the Jimeoin show which was soon followed by an offer to also write for the sketch comedy show Full Frontal where six months later he took on the role as co-producer with Gary McCaffrie.

They became semi-regulars on ABC TV's The Big Gig, a show known for boosting the careers of new comedy acts, had their own commercial radio show for six months and were part of the short-lived Seven Network sketch show The Comedy Sale.

They became semi-regulars on ABC TV's The Big Gig, a show known for boosting the careers of new comedy acts, had their own commercial radio show for six months and were part of the short-lived Seven Network sketch show The Comedy Sale.

Later in his career Partch drew the successful syndicated comic strip Big George and created the lesser-known but somewhat edgier strip, The Captain's Gig ( about a motley bunch of mariners and castaways ), syndicated by Field Enterprises.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

* The fifth UK edition introduced the " Evil " touch, whereby the authority character " Big Brother " became almost a villain.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Although The Vanguard folded in 1926, the others were a great triumph and became known as " The Big Five "; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

He became the newest incarnation of the Cyborg Ninja after he was captured by The Patriots after he stole the body of Big Boss for the Paradise Lost Army.

Numerous commercial and public-domain programs for this purpose became available, the best-known being SOGWAP's " Big Blue Reader ".

Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

In his book, Big Business in the Third Reich, Arthur Schweitzer notes that, " Monopolistic price fixing became the rule in most industries, and cartels were no longer confined to the heavy or large-scale industries.

The Match Game became " Big Money " Match Game 73, which proved popular enough to prompt a spin-off, Family Feud, on ABC in 1976.

In the late 1990s, Puerto Rican rapper Big Punisher became the first Latino solo artist to reach platinum sales for an LP with his debut album Capital Punishment, which included hit song Still Not a Player.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

In 1995, he played at the first The Big Chill festival, and then became a resident for the next 16 years.

* was created for the discussion of the humanities ( e. g. literature, philosophy ), and the Big 7 became the Big 8.

* The Big Test ( 1999 ) ISBN 978-0-374-52751-8 ( The story of how standardized tests ( such as the SAT ) became very important in the United States )

However, the Big Bang theory introduces a new paradox: it states that the sky was much brighter in the past, especially at the end of the recombination era, when it first became transparent.

The moniker of " The Big O " would eventually follow him back to the States, where it became an unofficial nickname for Orbison.

Following the 1966 tour, the group moved with Dylan to Saugerties, New York, where they made the informal 1967 recordings that became The Basement Tapes, which forged the basis for their 1968 debut album Music from Big Pink.

The cartoon ran in theaters for many months, featuring the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ".

They initially invested $ 1, 500 each and formed a board of directors: The investors became known as The Big Four and their railroad was called the Central Pacific Railroad.

In Britain, Jade Goody became famous after appearing on Big Brother 3 in 2002 ; she later appeared on other reality programs, wrote a bestselling autobiography and launched a top-selling perfume line.