What started out 365 days ago as a joke between co-workers is now coming of age.
Plaid Week 2010 is the 2nd annual weeklong celebration of plaid. Now that Plaid Week has reached international phenomena status (just go with it) we want to see how you are celebrating. Send us your photos [...]

In the United States (west coast) Plaid Week may still be 40 minutes away but in Japan, Plaid Week is well underway. Our Japanese corespondent Yoshi Chiyo caught up with two Japanese Plaid Weekers Akemi Rin (pictured above) and Takara Yui (pictured below).
Yoshi – Why are you participating in Plaid Week?
Akemi – I love [...]

What is only 4 days away? Plaid Week!
Hope all of you are ready. Be sure to check the countdown page so you don’t miss it.
If you want your own plaid clock check out this site.

Here is a little known fact about Chuck Norris…
If Chuck Norris does not wear plaid his aura will melt your face off.
Want another? Mike Huckabee was going to choose Chuck Norris to be his running-mate. If Huckabee announced this earlier there would have been no way he could have lost the [...]

Plaid is the new gold. Yep, thats right and you read it here on plaidweek.com first. Take that CNBC.
Iannone Design a Philadelphia based design/build firm designed a cork sideboard that retails for $3,400. Only “plaid-platting” could drive up prices like that.
We spoke to known economist Ryan Hoffman about this, here are [...]

The year is 1957; Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as President; Jimmy Hoffa was arrested by the FBI; the Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles; Toyota export their first cars to the United States and Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Fats Domino are topping the charts.
In 1957 a group of Hepcats, [...]

Is this what passes for news in Miami? Really Miami Herald?? Is there nothing more news worthy going on? Have they not heard of a place called Haiti? A little something called Bank Reform? The impending launch of the Apple Tablet?
With everything going on we are glad The Miami Herald [...]

The “Scarecrow Bandit” is not the villain in the latest Batman film or a Dorothy’s mindless companion from The Wizard of Oz.
The “Scarecrow Bandit” is a Chicagoland bank robber who received his moniker for his, gardening gloves, broad-brimmed floppy hat, sawed-off wooden broomstick and unfortunate use of a plaid shirt. It is [...]

With Plaid Week almost 200 days away it is no surprise Madison Avenue is trying to cash in. You may have seen Starburst’s “Contradictions” commercial on TV lately.
If for Plaid, Scotch-Koreans or Albinos are your thing then this commercial is for you. If not then it is just a strange commercial [...]

Tragedy has struck both the horse racing and plaid community. Mad for Plaid, a maiden claimer, had to be euthanized just days before the Del Mar opener. After breaking her left front leg, Mad for Plaid tried to escape for the ambulance; a daunting site for spectators. Eventually the horse was caught, [...]