Summer Trippin': Where to go and what to do from coast to coast

September 12, 2007

Discomfort Inn

“Motel” Art Installation

You’ve stayed in hotels, motels, and Holiday Inns.

But the sketchiest was the Norman Bates charmer between Nowheresville and Barelyexistsburg on your freshman year road trip to buy crappy fake IDs.

Still, if the roaches (and stains) left a glimmer of your inner Kerouac intact, you’ll dig Motel, an artist-run ode to the American roadside institution.

This Saturday, Aurora’s Bridge Motel will be overrun with performance and installation artists who are transforming the ultra-dodgy spot’s rooms for one riotous night before it gets turned into townhomes.

Visit the Front Office to hear scientist-poets Vis-à-Vis Society. Check into Room Ten to see what always unpredictable pranksters PDL have up their sleeves. Or linger in a hallway to see what One Pot’s Michael Hebberoy’s got cooking.

At the least, it’ll be an out-of-the-ordinary evening.

And a better way to get your motel fix.

Saturday, 5 p.m.-midnight, at Bridge Motel, 3650 Bridge Way North. For more information, go to motelmotelmotel.com.