The Last Annual Slugfest

Vejay investigates the poisoning death of one of the town's most powerful citizens during its oddest annual event

Though it sounds violent, Henderson's annual slugfest is less vicious than it is slimy. The regional festival honors the normally detested California banana slug with competitions to prove which slug is the biggest, fastest, or—in the event that gives the festival its notoriety—the tastiest. Rather than eat crow, the area's local politicians atone for their sins by eating slug h...