Mamaligele and The Glorious Pastramalamas

WOW! What an amazing array of talent we saw at last night's fifth anniversary of PIZZAZZ! (Portland's funnest talent show!) There was music, bellydancing, Romanian shenanigans, booty rapping, beatboxing, comedy, and burlesque-y striptease (and even a special guest appearance from Sarah Palin)! First of all, a big thanks to all our contestants who worked so hard to bring our sold-out audience the most entertaining show of the year. It takes a ton of guts to put your stuff out there, and in my opinion, you guys provided the toughest competition yet! Secondly thanks to our judges, who was scoring last night's competition on both talent AND creativity, and really had their work cut out for them.
But there can be only three winners of Pizzazz, and here they are:

THIRD PLACE: The amazing hoop manipulations of Dustin Hubel!
SECOND PLACE: The 11-year-old wunderkind Tony Green, who knows every single TriMet bus route by heart!
AND THE PIZZAZZ $1000 GRAND PRIZE WINNER: The brain-melting music from the kids of SCHOOL OF ROCK, who completely blew away the audience with an incredible performance!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• portland
• mercury
• pizzazz
• 2008
• wonder
• ballroom

[pemmett0]

TO dareack. It's a Yiddish song. No need to invoke our Christian Deity. It sings the praises of Romania, so no need to feel offended, I would hope.

[Romanisipunctum]

Very ingenious, cute and funny!

Thank you for Romania,

From Romania With Love!

[eyepartner]

hey, this far from Romania- and finally I am happy when saying it. But she is so right when she says Romania has beautifull women;)

bad song, bad romaniad language:D (actually not romanian at all) good someone is still defending our old Romania brand

[traian96]

what the hell? :)

[bmesesan]

s . t. u. . .p. ..i ... d

[mihaibig]

she's no romanian.

[corcodusa]

eartha kitt cover.

[adyrotaru]

WTF? What a crap!

[ucrual]

This is an old jewis song first sing by Aaron Lebedeff in the 20's, named Romania (Rumenye). Mamaliga=polenta, and pastramă you already know what is. The song reached America with the jewish emigration. Lebedeff himself emigrated to NY. The song is the most loved klezmer song by the jews from USA

[dareack]

wtf?!?!?!? are u fcuking with me?!?! there is not one person there romanian, that's why no one can speak romanian there! and i'm telling you that because i'm romanian....jesus christ! but i'm not feeling offended.... ignorance is bliss sometimes....