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1. Speeding Motorcycle by Daniel Johnston 2. The Motorcycle Song by Arlo Guthrie 3. You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda by The Hondells 4. Ballad of Little Fauss and Big Halsey by Johnny Cash 5. Kawasaki Z11 750 Rock & Roll by Guitar Wolf 6. Harley Davidson by Brigitte Bardot 7. Girl on a Motorcycle by Television Personalities
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A Customized Life By Briana Rupel
briana.rupel@secondsupper.com Sometimes when you ask a person how long they've been into a particular hobby of theirs, they'll respond with a thoughtful sigh, shift their eyes upward as if the answer is printed on the ceiling, then shrug and exaggerate with a vague "really, my whole life". That's precisely how Tony Subjek responded when I asked him how long he's been into motorcycling. But then he recalled being glued to the TV as a boy, drooling over endless episodes of CHiPs, the now bygone series about two men's lives as motorcycle police officers in the California Highway Patrol. He told me about his first bike: a handme-down 1969 Kawasaki mini dirt bike with a 5-horsepower lawnmower engine tucked inside of it, the bike he started riding when he was — get this — 5-years-old. His whole life? Point taken. No exaggeration here. Subjek, now 34, has come a long way since cruisin' around on a dirt bike equipped with training wheels. Only about two months ago the Holmen, Wis., native opened his own shop, Custom Cycle Repair, an endeavor that seems a long time coming for Subjek, who decided over 10 years ago to further his interest in motorcycles, taking it beyond just owning and riding them. "I wanted to see if I could make them run," he
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June 26, 2008
Invasion of the mayflies
CUSTOM, from page 5
By Emily Faeth
emily.faeth@secondsupper.com Summer's finally here! Folks all over the Coulee Region have traded their parkas for tank tops and reclaimed the great outdoors as their domain. The usual scents of summer mingle in the muggy air — fragrant lilacs, brats, burgers and veggies on the grill, bug spray and... rotting fish? If you've spent a summer or twelve here, then you're already well-acquainted with the mid-summer phenomenon that is the mayfly invasion. For a few days each summer, La Crosse plays hesitant host to hordes of the foul-smelling insects. Each Kwik Trip run becomes an espionage mission with booze as the bounty; each jaunt across the river to Minnesota is punctuated by the revolting crunch of bug corpses underneath the car's tires. Offended by the malicious odor emanating from the creatures, we crawl, defeated, back into the safety of our air-conditioned abodes. Despite all that might be said for their repulsive characteristics, however, it seems there may be more to this winged nuisance than meets the eye (or nose). "Mayfly" is the generic name for an insect belonging to the Hexagenia genus, and there are over 2,500 different species of the mayfly spanning the globe. The pungent bugs are known by many colloquial names: fishflies, Canadian soldiers, dayflies or Green Bay flies. The species most common in the Coulee Region is the Hexagenia limbata. They're one of the largest mayfly species in the United States, second only to the litobrancha recurvata species (lucky us). Mayflies are extremely sensitive to their environments and generally prefer large, slow moving bodies of water with silty bottoms, so the mighty Mississippi makes a great place for the bugs to crash. La Crosse's marsh area also provides a happy home for the temperamental insects. The immature mayfly, called a nymph, makes its home nestled deep down in the soft river sludge and slumbers there in its immature state for possibly a few years. "Some mayflies can go through a generation in a year; this one takes two to three years to go through a generation," says Phillip Pellitteri, faculty associate and insect and pest control specialist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's entomology department. "One of the things that's unique [about La Crosse's mayfly species] is that this is actually a relatively long life cycle for an insect." This long gestation period provides an opportunity for scientists to
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make predictions about the size and number of developing mayfly populations, and by taking silt samples scientists can provide city officials with an idea of what to expect in terms of upcoming swarms. The mayfly nymphs molt several times before emerging from their muddy wombs as winged adults. These emergences of mayflies from bodies of water are called swarms, and not without good reason: up to 5,000 mayfly nymphs may call a single square foot of river sediment home if conditions are optimal. When the baby bugs are ready to take on the world, they wriggle out of their exoskeleton casings and emerge from the water in a form dubbed the "dun stage." On calm, humid nights under the cover of darkness, the newly minted adults get to doing what they do best: makin' love! Well, something like that, anyway. While the female mayflies are larger than the males, they by no means wear the pants in their stinky unions. The legs of the female mayfly are virtually useless — a sad fact that greatly increases the rate of domestic abuse and rape among mayfly populations. In fact, males are known to wrap their long, powerful legs around their "girlfriends" and get it on in mid-air. Kinky, eh? Adult mayflies only live for about 30 minutes to a day or two, so they make good use of their time and get to sleeping around as much as possible. After they're tired of doing the horizontal polka, female mayflies return to the water and deposit their eggs. The cycle then comes full circle: the oversexed adults collapse in a sweaty heap and die, leaving the future of their civilization in the hands of their microscopic offspring. Andrew Bakalars, streets superintendent for the city of La Crosse and a longtime resident, recalls summers when the piles of mayflies would grow up to several inches thick around lampposts. "Many years ago, [the swarms] used to be a lot heavier," he says. "As a matter of fact, before they put the yellow lights up on the bridge, we had to send graters up because cars were getting into accidents on the bridge." So the rumors about the city deploying snow plows to clear the bugs away are true? "Oh yeah!" Bakalars emphasizes. "I remember in the early '70s during one of the summers we had to use the snow plow...one of [my dad's]
employees was riding his bike across the Cass Street Bridge and he actually fell and broke his leg because it was so slippery. Back then it was something else." Within the past 20 years, however, Bakalars has noted a decline in the mayfly population sizes in La Crosse. "They don't accumulate like they used to," he says. "They haven't been an issue, quite honestly." The street sweepers which regularly clear the city's streets, says Bakalars, are able to clear the bugs away, and in his 15 years with the city the superintendent says they have never had to pay workers overtime to clean up the buggy mess. "We really haven't seen numbers like we did in the past...I think climate changes may have something to do with it, but we should be seeing them within the next few weeks around here." The population sizes have dwindled in recent decades, says Pellitteri, but the past few years have shown an upswing in the mayflies' numbers. However, the recent flooding of the upper Midwest may prove to have a detrimental effect on the species this summer and in coming seasons. Mayflies are an excellent gauge of water quality, Pellitteri says: the better quality of water, the more mayflies will survive. "Rivers are a more stable environment than land goes as far as temperature, but other factors like silt loads, river dynamics and pollution also play a role." Mayflies also play a vital role in balancing the ecosystem, as any good trout fisherman can attest. Trout, along with bass, catfish and many other popular sporting varieties count on the feast of flies in the summer, and scientists have also confirmed that the fish munch on the mayfly nymphs throughout the year. A simple Google search of "mayflies" reveals the important role the bugs play in helping to maintain fish populations, as well as the almost revered status they hold in the fishing world. Yes, they stink, they crunch, and they stick in your hair, but just remember what your biology teacher always told you: how every organism plays a vital role in maintaining the precarious balance of the ecosystem. Plus, you have to give the bugs props for their impressive numbers -- swarms of mayflies have actually shown up on Doppler radar as cloud formations. "For someone who's never seen a swarm, you try to explain it and...it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie," says Pellitteri. Here's to another one of the charming idiosyncrasies of life in the upper Midwest.
explained. "I wanted to push the edge on stuff — make [motorcycles] go faster, jump higher." So in 1996 Subjek sold everything he owned in order to move out to Arizona and attend school at the prestigious Motorcycle Mechanics Institute (MMI) in Phoenix, a school that's endorsed and equipped by the top six manufacturers in the motorcycle industry. Instead of only specializing in Harley-Davidson repair, however, Subjek threw himself into a vast variety of classes, eventually taking everything they offered so he wouldn't be limited in what he could work on in the future. Now Subjek boasts a whole wall full of certification plaques. Along with being factory certified to repair any Harley, he has hands-on training and certification in engine rebuild and performance, Japanese products, Lehman Trikes and even jet skis and other watercraft, to name only very few. "Basically, if it has two wheels and needs attention I can take a look at it—" he explained "— even when my kid needs new shoes," he added, grinning. Though it may seem that motorcycles and everything associated with them would define who he is, Subjek is quick to shrug off the hype that oftentimes surrounds the industry. "True bikers aren't the ones trying so damn hard to convince you that they are," he said, referring to the use of gritty lingo, fancy clothes and a tough attitude to try and play the part. "Some boys are all about the lifestyle," he continued. "I just like [motorcycles] as toys." That's not to say Subjek doesn't take his craft seriously. He's just unpretentious about it. Subjek's ride of choice these days is a KTM dirt bike from Austria, but you'll also find him driving a Chevy Venture mini van to work, sometimes with his 4-year-old son in tow. The shop itself, nestled behind the Holmen Meat Locker, is a one-room, no-frills garage stocked with the tools to accomplish everything from minor repairs to customizing entire bikes from the ground up. At the moment, Subjek and his employee — emphasis on the singular; it's a two-man show — are building a completely customized bike around a classic Shovelhead motor. "We do custom wheels, paint, and endless amounts of chrome," Subjek listed. "Really, whatever a person has in their mind, we can do." Though his business is young at two months old, Subjek notes his shop is doing remarkably well for the minimal advertising they do, and it's apparent that Subjeck truly loves what he does. "It's always nice to have the stability of someone else signing your paycheck," he admitted, "but I couldn't imagine doing anything else. I don't want a real job."
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Mayfly Sex in the City Samantha: *laughing* Oh, who CARES!? I lost count halfway through the whole ordeal, and needless to say, there weren’t just mayflies involved with my little fling… Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte: SAM! Samantha: Oh shut up, you’re all just jealous. Let me just say that what they say about mosquitoes is true…small, but eager! A group of twenty or so male mayfl ies descend upon the group. A leader for the group seems to speak for the rest. Carrie: Ummm, can we help you with something? Male Mayfly: Well, umm, we were wondering if we could, umm, take turns fu— I mean invite you out for a dance or, umm, oh forget it! The group swarms down upon our heroes and nature takes its course. The screen cuts to black as the sounds of what can only be described as a “mayfl y orgy” is heard in the background. Carrie’s voice rises above the din and offers the last word on the evening’s events.
By Ben Clark
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Scene moves to the street light where Carrie fl ies in and meets up with her two of her friends, Charlotte and Miranda. The three begin talking about their experiences over the course of the night thus far. Carrie: Evening, ladies. I trust your nights are going well. Miranda: Psst, please. How do YOU think it’s gone so far? I’ve been gang-banged by at least 200 so-called “manly” mayflies, and, needless to say, not one of them knew what they were doing. It’s like they were just simply trying to pass on their genetic material as fast as they can. Like I’ve always said: “Men are just dogs, and you’re simply a fire hydrant.” Charlotte: Oh come now. I’m sure there’s a
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special mayfly for each of us out there. Just a few hours ago, I met the most gorgeous specimen of mayfly that God graced us with upon this earth. I looked over at him, and for a brief second, our eyes met, and it was like heaven on earth…
I’m STILL trembling! Miranda: Jesus, Sam. How many do you think you were…umm…with?
Carrie: *Giggling* Well, looks likes it's just your average night here in sweaty, lusty La Crosse. God, I could just die!
Carrie: And then what? Charlotte (indignant): *snort* Well, he flew off and banged some cheap little floozy on the other side of the light bulb. *sigh* I’m sure that any minute, my mayfly in shining carapace will come and fly away with me, buzzing sweet nothings in my ear while I stare at his gorgeous wing-span with my compound eyes. Carrie: *psst* Yeah right. Like that will happen. You honestly believe that out of the millions of mayflies surrounding us at this very moment, you’re going to find Mr. Right? Come on! Mr. Right doesn’t exist in real life, only in those trashy romance novels that we land on and spread our wings on for any piece of action that comes our way.
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Carrie (voiceover, towel wrapped around her antennae and stretching all four of her legs over the bed, she types on a laptop shaped like a leaf): Well, the time has finally come. I may have only been born yesterday, but I feel like I’m already sick of the men this measly marsh has to offer. Really, how can there not be one single decent guy out of the seven million of us, just recently hatched from mayfly nymphs into beautiful, hot, and (hah) desperate nymphs, waiting for Mr. Right Now to show up and show how antennas are supposed to be used. *sigh* I suppose that these feelings will surpass in the next few hours, when I’m either writhing in mayfly ecstasy as some random hottie who picked me up from underneath the lights from the Kwik Trip ravishes my two back tails and impregnates me with thousands of eggs to be hatched next year, or I’ll simply die trying. The minute I hatched and flew out of the water, I met up with three of my friends, and we decided to hang out at the hottest hangout which only allowed the hottest mayflies in: the orange streetlight at the corner of Pearl and Third in downtown La Crosse.
Samantha fl ies into the scene and lands on the light next the other three. She is out of breath and looks like a mess. The three of them look at each other in a bemused manner (well, as bemused as mayfl ies can be) and then turn back to Samantha. Carrie: Sweet God, what happened to you?!? Samantha: *giggling* Oh…my…GAWD! I’m still coming down! I was just leaving the water after making sure my wings had just the right shimmer in the night sky when I’m suddenly approached by a group of the sexiest mayflies hatched this side of the Mississippi! Well, needless to say, it felt like I had died and gone to a heaven filled with antennae, buzzing and all the proboscises you can handle! God, look at me!
June 26, 2008
A Robot like ME
By Brett Emerson
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CJ Slugger came back into town this past week, and my best friend and I immediately returned to our old bastardries. Friday night marked the continuation of our hazardous and awesome friendship. Accompanied by a Leprechaun in a Batman mask, the rat bastard fired bottle rockets at my apartment, cloaked in the dank shadows of the Salvation Army. After inviting them into my home and belittling Bat-Leprechaun until he danced to Rick Astley, we strolled downtown to meet the rest of our gang of jerks. When we arrived on Pearl Street, they were nowhere to be found. Our Casino enabler informed us that the creeps had gone around the corner to take in the sublime Top 40 metal of Happenings. And they had taken the robot costume with them. As a self-respecting homoerotic Saved by the Bell punk band, my Beldings decided that a robot was desperately needed to take our live act to a higher (read: watchable) level. And so, my band mates Dner and the Kolonel crafted one out of silver spray-painted boxes and arms of aluminum tubing. Kevin the Robot was reborn, straight from the beautiful Saturday mornings of my pre-teenhood. At our last live show, we garbed the Leprechaun in this mechanical masterpiece and made him dance for the kiddies, accompanied by Rick Astley (again), Ace of Base and “One Night in Bangkok.” It killed.That night ended with me wearing Kevin while riding a bike around Pearl Street, and finding myself in the Library, grinded upon by floozies. The future of robots looked bright. Friday would prove the folly of our childlike optimism. We entered the metal bar, where two Beldings and a Reverend stood round the robo-gear, drinking heavily. Evidence of machine rampage was distinctly absent. This uncomfortable situation needed to be taken care of. I put on the costume and started circle pitting in front of the dartboards. Unfortunately, this was when anti-robot prejudice began to rear its ugly hydra heads. Owing in part to the strength of his drink, but also due to his deep-seeded rage against the metal ones, the Reverend leveled a firm punch to my titanium jaw. My heightened android powers could have easily deflected the blow, but for a flap of loose cardboard which caught me in the eye. Enraged, I retaliated with a robo-kick to the Reverend’s nether regions that would have made Mecha-Godzilla proud. Afterwards, some hoser wanted me to deck him, and we decided that it was time to leave.
Dner wore Kevin back to the Casino, where we encountered a truly obscene example of robot hate crime. As one gentleman offered him a dollar to dance, a drunken broad ambled over and began to pummel our robot with fists and purse, while her mongo friends cheered her on.Though we switched Dner out with CJ Slugger, who ultimately bested this tramp, the damage was done. Our circuit board scars would never heal, not even at the best efforts of a nice young gentleman who kowtowed and screamed “Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto!” at us. Robotkind needed to go to a place where it would be fully accepted — so we decided to go to Players. I suited up as Kevin once again and extended my robo-arms to Doctor Octopus length, determined to prove that not everyone in this town despised Daft Punk and the Short Circuit movies. Yet from the moment of our Casino exodus, we were subject to all kinds of wretched intolerance. Outside of Jeff and Jim’s I was offered a dollar to give some dame an android lap dance, a proposition which I regrettably accepted. Following this, one of my arms was viciously ripped to shreds by the jackals of Pearl Street. My own friends helped in my dismemberment! And when the cops saw this heinous act of violence, did they extract justice from my attackers? No! Instead, the law berated me for cluttering up the sidewalk and told me to be on my way. Thankfully, I found sanctuary within Players' disco lights and throbbing dance music. Alongside Bat-Leprechaun, this one-armed automaton danced the night away. But even here, a few hateful pricks felt the need to punch an innocent android, though at this point, I was numb to the insensitivity. Dner donned the costume again, and we made the most glorious strategic error of the night — we went to Bronco’s. The animosity between country music aficionados and robots was well entrenched in our minds, but we were prepared to extend the olive branch. The apes that jealously guarded the dancing sluts on the pool table had other ideas. We left quickly. Finally, we went to Yesterdays, where robotkind was finally accepted and welcomed, and more importantly, not punched or assaulted. The night was mercifully over, but from that night on I faced an endless wave of scorn from my fellow humans. “Hey, we heard you dressed up like a robot!” they sneered. “We heard that you danced around like an idiot!” It is a cruel brand that I may never escape. Friday night exposed us to the sinister underbelly of La Crosse, an event that has eclipsed our collective innocence. As such, we have chosen to side with the machines when they inevitably take over the earth and make you monkeys their smelly pets and cyborgmommies. I offer our Decepticon overlords one critical piece of advice — don’t look like a '50s sci-fi typecast. If you dress up like an iPod, the humans will tickle you like you were the almighty Pillsbury Doughboy. Nobody will see you coming. Initiate ass kicking sequence. Bzzt.
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There's no place like LAX
By Maria Pint
maria.pint@secondsupper.com Let me just start off by saying that I love my parents, I really do. I don’t even care that people make fun of me for calling my mother my “best friend” because in all honesty, it’s true. However, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want to smack my best friend upside the head from time to time. Since I lived at home last summer, I never thought it would be a big deal to return to the good old homestead.Wrong! Like I said, it’s not because I don’t love my parents, it’s because they are indeed still my parents. It’s not like I have a curfew now, and I don’t have extra dumb chores to do, it’s just the little things that get me. Like yesterday my mother asked me what “we” should have for lunch; I hate being grouped into a “we.” I don’t know why but I just hate the idea that now my meals are based on my parents living habits again. Back in the good old days of living on my own, I ate what I wanted when I wanted. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I was living off of gummy bears and pure cane sugar, but I was in control of my meals and I felt like an adult. Now, my mother tells me to finish my green beans even before I get the chance to do so on my own. In protest, I never do finish the damn things even though I would have back in the days of my independence; it's sort of backwards, huh? I had enough of the pestering questions this past week and when I saw on my work schedule that I had both Saturday and Sunday off (weird for someone who works at a golf course since weekends are cha-ching) I made plans to return to the great city of La Crosse for a visit. My lease for the new apartment started on June 7th so that was my excuse to my mother when she asked why I would pay $4 a gallon to visit for one night; truth is, I would have paid $10 a gallon to get away for a night. So I headed down to La Crosse at noon or so on Saturday and it was one of those
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drives that was awesome for no particular reason at all. I had good tunes bumpin’, there was a Diet Coke chillin’ in a can cozy and it was a bright, sunshiny day. Plus not only was I inching closer and closer to the revival of my independence, but my boyfriend happened to be waiting in La Crosse, too. Not that he was waiting for me in particular, but he’s a bum and has no job, so he does a lot of sitting around these days. And since he doesn’t read my column ever, that punk, you can tell him I called him a bum in print if you see him; I’m not scared. So anyhow, my bum boyfriend met me at his house and I got to tour it for the first time; I never thought a house so shitty existed in La Crosse. I thought my house last year was ghetto, but his place this year is downright terrifying. Not only is it just crappy in general, but it’s got one of “those” basements. You know, the basements that you always went to big parties in as a freshman but were always glad to leave by the end of the night. And to top things off, they have black lights as the only sources of light downstairs; how freaking creepy? Luckily enough, I did score my new apartment key from my roommate who lives close to La Crosse the afternoon I came in so I could sleep in a nice, new, clean place of my own. Funny enough though, we have one male sub-leaser over the summer, which my roommate conveniently forgot to tell me. It wasn’t awkward for me at all, because I really could care less, but I think he felt a little funny around me. I think that’s mostly because I have no inhibitions when it comes to walking around in my underwear. Most guys would think that’s awesome, but I did mention I had a boyfriend and I think I said something along the lines of “he’s really protective and kind of mean too; he used to be in the Marines.” Ha ha, that couldn’t be further from the truth; that bum was in the Air Force but not for very long and he’s not very intimidating nor very protective at all. But I did get a kick out of watching his eyes shift swiftly from my rack to the floor when I mentioned the bum would be over shortly to pick me up. Unfortunately, the one night stay in the big LAX was sweet but oh-so-short. I returned home to a barrage of pointless, motherly questions. “Did you have fun?” “Was the apartment just like you remembered?” “How was the drive?” Ugh, so many of them came flying at me the moment I stepped in the door. By far the best question though, was when we were driving to Target together the day after I got home when my mother cocked her head to the side and said, “I know this is kind of personal, but is (insert bum boyfriend’s name here) a good kisser?” Oh how I would love to be back in LAX again…right now!
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Doseone: text message poet from sampling previous work…to recurring melodies…to rewording perpetual motifs….and so on…it is meant to last as interesting in the filtered water of the next 20 years…. Shuggypop: Is there a reason you are involved in so many different projects/ bands?
By Shuggypop Jackson
shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com Doseone is an underground hip-hop MC and founding member of the anticon. collective, a San Francisco-based record label whose roster of artists have been described as "the hip-hop equivalent of post-rock" and "avant-garde hip-hop." A founding member of the artist-owned label, Doseone has recorded with labelmates such as Subtle, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves, 13 & God, Boom Bip, Greenthink, Deep Puddle Dynamic and also made cameo appearances on the albums of other artists such as Sole, Aesop Rock and Mike Patton's Peeping Tom. I have crossed paths with Doseone several times in the past and we share a mutual affinity for many things that aren't worthy of an inclusion in this intro. And with all those nitty gritty details taken care of, he and I conducted the following interview via text messaging for your reading pleasure. As for the crazy style of this Q&A, it was conducted via textmessages, so bear with it. Shuggypop: The latest Subtle album is the third in a triology. What is the trilogy about? Doseone: The present… It is about the climate and color of “interest” in the modern day… It is American myth… The prose and hope coated body of me and thesubtle experience, in the realms of making it…and meaning it… It is a working class code of ARMs… For all those in mid-cope and still hopeful… It’s also about the future…what will become of apathy’s high horse in today's palm, where will it all head when the reins are barely held… how will our children ride in the face of No bees and ever so slowly more severe plight heights… And it is meant for the past….the three records are deeply and naturally self referential,
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Doseone: Is there a reason I should not be…. These are my people….and our music is our purpose…. And for myself….they have always led me to its next evolution, or dilemma…. Jeff and I are self-taught in our songmaking…so peers and their influence, have been not only what we make our music from but also how we learn to make it…un-learn it rather…. And in a more umbrella-esque sense, we follow our relationships and motifs toward the next music…group….we approach…. We do not follow career paths, or manager’s magical plans…. Off into such serious decisions and long lasting endeavors… And for me, each group is completely unique and oddly trajectoried to the tune of who comprises it…so the edition of a human changes things quite a bit….and it is a certain cement chested feeling one gets when you realize that what your doing is “its own” enough to warrant getting its own ”name”….it is a feeling I hope I never lose in life, it is probably the closest to having kids I will ever get….all that horizon under your care… Shuggypop:You’ve got oodles of charisma while performing. How do you keep the mojo going night after night? Doseone: Well, hour hero yes….is a literal… reference to the potence of that hour of live I get…its my favorite thing on earth to be, completely in the moment…and accountable for all those words and dialect dioramas… Technicly, it is a complex pot pou ri…of pot, beer, bottled water, a good meal, and just enough laughter….i can’t fast rap or really hear the audience, if I get drunk….and let it be known, it is a soft science….the makeup of what you need to feel light on stage, is always varying….and to truly let go and find the moment night after night is a very whimsical thing…sometimes I can tell I am in the pocket from song one….soemtimes I turn around on song four and realize I have been in the pocket for two songs and not noticed yet… Other times, when the sound is too doo doo… .i just miss the pocket by a hair all night, and leave the stage frustrated…. Bottom line, is I really am compelled to not waste my time on stage, naturally somehow, I don’t see this sense of duty in many other arenas in my life, yet on stage,I realize how different it is from all other hour’s in my life….it is the finest hour I know….and luckily there is something in my behavioral disarray that allows me to take that hour perfectly seriously and still always enjoy the gravity of such a situation
the whole while…
as an ironic influence….anyway, in list form:
Shuggypop: Lyrically, I’ve heard you described as a combination of rapid-fire cuteness and abstractly eclectic. How do you come up with this stuff in your songs?
Jel dax Jordan Yoni Nosdam Buck65 Andrew broder Markus acher Chris adams Kate bush This heat Freestyle fellowship Ultra magnetic mc’s Can
Doseone: Unfortunately not a lot of folks in this day and age read prose… So I get a lot of dismissive or “cute” closed captioning of my writings….really the spine along which I write is that of the “personal truth”… I believe no politics on earth preceed those of the “personal” realm….it is where all the world's advice and suggestion goes wrong in men and women….it is also the final frontier of human evolution, the wilds of certain individual’s widened minds, in the fire of certain circumstances, out leaping the minds of all men come before them….such are the baby steps that build all we know….leaping from light bulb to atom bomb…. So I collect personal truths, and fragments of phrase from people walls & other writings….i can always tell when I am supposed to steal something, and then, when I feel the tow of writeing coming for me, I collect these fragments and connect the flesh half-left between them… And each poem piece knows if its subtle, themselves, 13&god, or somdething else entirely… So, what I have learned in a decade of “proseislanding”….is that time is key, I no longer rush the poethead….nor anticipate it anxiously, such behaviors actually tend to scare it away…. And then time reers its head again, in the editing arena….to return to my poems in different head spaces with the same clarity comb, has become both key and king to my process, allowing me to really dig into the wingspan of meaning it…. Shuggypop: Who are some of your musical influences? Doseone: Biggest ones are those closest to me…. They diffuse in true influence the further away you get, yet there are many people who influence my music…sometimes I even “hate-motiff” and champion making a song out of the mocking of another work of art I am appalled at…..more peacefully put, it can be explained
And once it hits this point in the record collection it kind of goes on and on in one way or another…I do not love all music, but I sure do love some of it an awful lot…. Shuggypop: What is your opinion on downloading music? Doseone: Wow….. I think it is a means to an end…and unfortunately it is an utter end… It is not that I don’t trust the human being, it is simply that I will not lie to the wind in my chest…it tells me things in the brut impulse and push/pull of emotional only….and for some time it has been screaming at the things I see…. I think the notion of global sharing and freedom of music through stealing…is so far from truly thought out…. Rather the way things seem to me, is like a large sea of teenagers, takeing a thing or two here or there….untill there is nothing left… and genuine trouble ensues…. And I don’t mean the literal teen….i mean all of us, myself included… Truly we know better….no good has ever gone free, and returned….take bread water and spirituality…they become staples….they become grey bits of the most rudimentary and necessary machinery in struggledom…they are ultimately/eventually taken not appreciated… Yet music is not such….it is a culminate form of self expression…and it is a motherfucker….
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it defeats age/race difference, and widens the sense of self in the free standing mind to no end…. Yet here we all are, acting like taking music free forever will lead any where but to, shitty music and dry wells…. I liken it to the slow-stupid man is still climbing out of with regard to global warming….its an impossible feat, and we have well set it into motion… And all this rides fast on the back of lars of metalica yelling like a child about loosing the abundance he has become so greedy for…10 years ago… And so the world took its scapegoat and ran… lars and all the major labels, were somehow finally exposed as the blood suckers they have always been….so napster and the new “share” principle hit the mainstream like wild fire…. And here we are….we have a sense of entitlement in the fans, who have been ripped off for a stack of decades…. And then we have folks like us…who are honest blue collar dreamers….and we get crushed in the calamity….i don’t know if the world does not know this, but some of us indie acts worked really hard to get a 50/50 split….and the 50 percent labels get usually goes to promoting our art…..so in all this confusion we the noble and nice to you in head phones, are also being flayed of opur flesh…. In all I see it as a push of our fine art into the climate and realm of prostitution in the man kind’s eyes…..it cheapens our efforts and message…and justifys stealing from all in the name of the few… In some ways I am both shocked and appaled that man can consistently miss the mark on value judgments and clearly percieveing the slideing grey scale of all things truly important…. So in the name of full ipods….we all will resign to the un-choice…of doe-doe-ing…bumble bee-ing…polar bearing us Mclass dreamers in the leap of our wing span… It is cannibalism of the hopeless…it is age old and inordinantly human in its accord… That being said…yeah downloading is awesome…I…me…me…I…me…me I we deserve it all….for less…. Mark my words, the bursting of the download dyke….will leave behind only the slow bones of regret and “wishing we never had”…. Shuggypop: What possessed a bunch of art school kids to start a hip-hop collective? Doseone: To be honest this is probably the single largest misconception of anticon…. Only yoni and nosdam went to art school…. and they both dropped out….i actually got a marketing degree…. I was a rapper who was poeticly inclined, and each of us has always been a careful human concotion of serious potential and possible downfall…together we are without doubt stronger, and more importantly not alone in this adventure…. We were-are folks meant to make art….not people who pursued it properly or as students half-blind….we are savant and proud of it…. we are in many ways to modern art what rap music was to modern music so many years ago, jarring untrained and naturals at it….takeing
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it somewhere it’s already going…but has not necessarily been before… Shuggypop: Do you think white rappers have overcome the lack of cred they once had, or is Vanilla Ice forever going to be that giant stigma around white guy’s necks? Doseone: No aint no strings on me, rapping is a trick of tounge and power of heart….nothing else….you could be high yellow with lavendar stripes and a maroon forehead….doesn’t mean shit to the no place of rap heaven…..much like one knows when something is “wak”…. one should know something is “right”….but the world doesn’t always reverse that rule of thumb as easily as one would hope…. That being said… This is my turf….whiping words around meaning and rifleing it through mics….i’ll explain down or battle up anyone who chooses to put ignorance where their understanding of that would otherwise go… Besides, territorial or race-based rights to anything that is about expressing the individual, is not only nonsense its toxic….that’s how concentration camps eventually become a good idea to the thin witted, it’s the slow accrue of territiorial behaviors and birth right concepts , that seem to keep the grown ape down , in matters of self-expression across generations….
baby, the stork that brought me to loving music, and these rich people with greed for mouths, have really whored it out….homogonized its avenue and individuals, by making only money jewelery and violence sell….this has gradually repressed the once “every direction at once” nature of rap and rap groups, the 90’s set the stage for anything being possible….from P.E… to umcs….to nwa these were all options and viable interpretations of rap….however time has narrowed the options down toonly the latter….sell angry&sell out or sell nothing… The many minds milling about in all the malls across America are essentially sold into imagination slavery to this, hollow rap, and the desperate record company’s behind them….its like a big old bear trap set for children, makes me wanna serve justice….
the road? Do you get time to appreciate the places you go, or is a grueling haul from one venue to another that all becomes a blur?
Shuggypop: You seem to be out on tour more than your average human. What’s life like on
A longer version of this interview originally appeared on tinymixtapes.com.
Doseone: Yes and no…..the best is when you have a favorite restaurant or store in a certain city, you wait for your moment with it…like the date/almond smootihe we get in Toronto… or powel’s in portland…. We also have people we love to death, who cross our paths as often as we’d cross theirs…. And everyonce in a while we get a genuine “being there” experience, and we get to go to a local bar, good restaurant, maybe even get an off day to record shop or smoke pot in a park, and fall in love with the city’s beautiful women from the faculty of transience, and being destined to return to the rental car….
Shuggypop: Tell me about the freestyle battle you had with Eminem at Scribble Jam? Doseone: Eh, a sort of low impact meeting of not wholly dissimilar artists… We both clinked beers and spoke on the politics of organized battleing, and the propensity of people to kick writtens in mid battle….we then battled eachother, which was fuckery induced, neither of us should have battled one another, the scribble judges were just trying to save rhymefest and juices faces, since they were famous, and eminem and I were only hungry… and better than them… it made things uncomfortably political….so our actual battle was non-viscous and kind of bull shit…. Then I went home, and popped in his tape, and much to my chagrin, all his freestyles were written….i never called him….the rest is pop recordbreaking history…. At some point I have a deep and resounding feeling, we will have the same number of drastic and entire appreciators….his will have come from being Michael Jackson and then diffuseing, and mine will have come from protecting the holy grail of “meaning it”….and slowly growing… This equity may take decades to unravel, but I think it is somehow the only reason for our otherwise random path crossing…. Shuggypop: I’ve heard you rant against materialistic corporate rappers. Have you ever gotten any invites to do appearances on gangsta rap albums? Do you have any lyrics tucked away about bling and hos you’d like to share with us? Doseone: I wish, on the new themselves material, I am definitely taking this stance to a new level, getting the Rambo knife of honesty sharp as can be….i write the anti-bling, I deeply resent the “hair-metaling” of rap….rap culture is my
June 26, 2008
S&S Cycle looks at 50
The original “Ss” of S&S Cycle were George Smith and Stanley Stankos, two Chicagoans who realized in 1958 that pushrods made from aluminum made a motorcycle travel faster than if they were made from steel. This turned out to be a rather lucrative innovation. After Stankos left the company after a year, George’s wife Mary Smith partnered with her husband to become the second “S.”Together, they molded a business that would become the worldwide leader in motorcycle parts — while staying entirely family-owned. After the Smiths purchased a farm in Viola,Wis., in 1968, S&S Cycle would also stay entirely within the Coulee Region. A 145,000-square-foot manufacturing plant still stands in the small Richland County town, while a similarly sized warehouse and a smaller sales headquarters sit just off Causeway Boulevard in La Crosse. (These photos were taken at the La Crosse facility.) Today president Brett Smith, grandson of founder George, leads a company with nearly 300 employees and plans to retain the market dominance it's earned over the past 50 years. According to company spokesman Howard Kelly, S&S Cycle commands about 80 percent of the global market for custom motorcycle engines and parts, but they don’t do direct retail sales. Instead, they sell to certified S&S dealers who are “taken to school” in La Crosse and trained on part mechanics and engine theory (left). Also aiding company credibility are S&S-outfitted dragsters that can travel from 0 to 193 mph in 6.9 seconds. This, explains Kelly, is the secret of S&S’s success: “We never let go of the fact that motorcycles are fun. And if you make motorcycles faster then they’re even more fun.” See page 18 for the S&S 50th anniversary guide! Second Supper vol. 8, issue 121
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Top 7 Biker Exploitation Movies versary right there as the theme of your motorcycle. BA: Exactly. I figured I might as well. SS: How long are you staying around Wisconsin for? BA: We’re staying up until the end of the month, I guess. Early today I just found out that the festival grounds have the 4th of July happening so we may hang around, but after the event we were just going to go on a bit of a holiday because I brought my family along, just do a cruise around and not go to those flooded zones. SS: Are you going to ride around on the bike you built? BA: Well, we’re going to do a ride here to [the S&S factory in] Viola so certainly we’ll be riding it there, but then the rest of the time it will be parked down at the fairgrounds. SS: How are you feeling about this celebration that’s coming up?
By Adam Bissen
In honor of its 50th anniversary celebration, S&S Cycle asked 50 different custom motorcycle builders from around the world to create a special bike and bring to La Crosse for a party. One of those builders was Branko Andrijic, an Australian who was touring the S&S headquarters on Monday. Though jetlagged, he was happy to talk with Second Supper about the company's parts, their appeal down under and the inspiration for his anniversary motorcycle.
BA: How am I feeling? If you want to have a peek inside my body you’ll see the excitement I’m probably not showing at the moment, but it’s extremely exciting for me. For the time that I was building the bike I kept that under wraps and probably a day before I was flying out it started to come out, and I was just skipping around and going “Yeah! Mm-hmm, it’s coming.” I need to do my job, and then I’ll start to relax. Today I’m still waiting for my bike, so I’m not still completely together until I see it here and I can start it up and then everything will be complete.
Second Supper: Have you been building motorcycles for a while?
SS: So S&S sought you out to make a motorcycle for this anniversary?
Branko Andrijic: I have. I built my first Harley at 16. I’m 51 now, so it’s been a while.
BA: Well, S&S has been coming to Australia for a while but they started, must’ve been three and a half years ago, doing a bigger promotion because they saw per capita, per population — we’ve only got 22 million people compared to 300 million Americans, and our ratio was selling better. I was able to meet [S&S president] Brett Smith on a few occasions, got to know him pretty well, and just out of the blue one day we were down supporting him in the drag races with the Pro Stock bike and we’re just chatting away and he says “Branko, would you like to be a part of a 50th anniversary we’re going to do?” And I couldn’t answer him. I think my jaw was at the bottom of the floor. I said “Yeah, yeah of course!” He’s seen a couple jobs that I had built — I don’t know. Ask him why he asked me.When you see the bike you’ll have to see why.
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SS: Is S&S a big brand around the world? BA: Of course it is, yeah. It was probably not as big of a name in the ‘70s, but us guys quickly found that if we wanted more power, more horsepower, S&S were the people to turn to. Like I said, I’ve been using them since the ‘70s, and if people haven’t hooked into them by now they’re way behind the times, because it’s a great product for the world that I’m in. SS: What did you build for the 50th anniversary? BA: I build a P Series Panhead, and I built that concept around the beginning of when [S&S] started in 1958. I chose a 1958 Harley chassis and built an old concept to new, so there’s parts on it from ’58 and there’s parts on it from 2008, so my bike’s actually called Pan Vision, my vision of what a bike should be in those categories. SS: That’s cool how you kept the 50th anni-
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SS: Yeah, I would really like to see that when it comes in. BA: But certainly it was a good call on his behalf, if I do say so, but it’s just absolutely awesome to be chosen.
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Born Losers (1967)
An insufferably moralizing pacifist ex-Green Beret known as “Billy Jack” teaches nonviolence to the brutal biker-rapists who are terrorizing a small California town by beating the hell out of them. This is the first of three or four pathetic Billy Jack movies from the early 1970s, all of them pretentious pieces of cinematic dogshit.
2.
C.C. and Company (1970)
Sex symbol New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath plays a biker who seeks respectability when he saves a high-fashion photographer (the always ridiculous Ann-Margaret) from the less savory hoodlums in his gang (including the always fantastic Sid Haig). Far too derivative and dull to be enjoyably silly, this film’s only bright spot comes from the non-stop unintentional hilarity of watching Namath act like an action hero.
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The Losers (1970)
Five anti-social Hells Angels are recruited by the CIA to pull off an impossible POW rescue deep inside Cambodia during the Vietnam War. They ride armor-plated dirt-bikes tricked out with flame-throwers, machine-guns and grenade-launchers through the booby-trapped jungles trails. Jawdroppingly dumb.
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Devil Rider! (1971), a.k.a. The Master’s Revenge
Utterly unwatchable sleazoid trash filmed in southeastern Florida. A young martial arts teacher must save his girlfriend’s runaway sister from some really repulsive bikers. It has all the grace and charm of a cheap, 30-year-old women-in-prison grindhouse movie made in the Philippines.
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Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
One of the biker chicks from the boozing and drug-addled Devil’s Advocates motorcycle club is chosen by an evil desert cult to be Satan’s bride. The gang kidnaps her back in the middle of the ceremony; guess which horrible curse the devil-worshippers cast over them?
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The Pink Angels (1972)
Given all the ritual and fetishism surrounding biker subcultures, it makes perfect sense to have a gang of six crossdressing and lispingly flamboyant Harley-riding queens travelling across the country to a legendary drag-ball in LA. It’s the Citizen Kane of insultingly un-funny homophobic gay biker comedies.
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Pray for the Wildcats (1974)
This movie shouldn’t be included in this list, because it’s a made-for-TV movie. But check it out: think Deliverance in the Baja desert on motorcycles with Andy Griffith (Matlock) as a psycho advertising executive, a tequila-swilling Robert Reed (the dad on The Brady Bunch) and a suicidal William Shatner. Awesomely awful male hysterics! Yes, the number 7 is by far our favorite number!
June 26, 2008
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Chuck Klosterman – IV (2006)
S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration Proven Performance Pale Ale Pearl Street Brewery La Crosse, Wisconsin I know beer a lot better than I know motorcycles, so I’ll apologize to the bikers in advance if these metaphors come off as a little bit lame. But I’m in the midst of my first S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration Proven Performance Pale Ale, and let me tell you: this is like a motorcycle with a really powerful engine. A limited run from the Pearl Street Brewery, the Proven Performance hit store shelves June 16th and will likely sell out before the end of the month. Fiftieth anniversaries are hard to come by in any city, so it will be a shame to see this beer disappear for a while, but if this truly is a oneand-done run, tell brewmaster Joe Katchever that Sight: 8 he outdid himself on this batch. Aroma: 8 In a “What’s BrewTaste: 9 ing” post on the Pearl Street Mouthfeel: 7 Brewery Web site, Katchever Drinkability: 6 introduces the Proven Performance as a Total: 38 of 50 “3PA,” which I
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had never heard previously but can only assume means a triple pale ale. Also known as an imperial pale ale, the recipe may or may not be triple-fermented or triple-hopped but it sure comes out tremendously potent. The beer pours a rich amber color, the first clue you’re drinking something a little heftier than a gas-station Sierra Nevada. There’s a strong hop concentration present in the nose, but the heavy alcohol content makes the aroma a bit more boozy than piney. The first sip is warm, nicely malted for an imperial pale ale, and it gives a long-lasting salivation in the cheeks. Hopheads will love the excellent puckering finish. Truly, this is a celebration ale, something to be sipped, savored and enjoyed. I was planning on ending this review with another bad motorcycle joke, but after finishing my second Proven Performance Pale Ale, just be satisfied I’m not driving one. — Adam Bissen
Regardless of one’s opinions of his material, anyone who has any interest in music, pop culture or journalism should take heed of Chuck Klosterman. On the surface, he tends to be regarded as a new patron saint of wry Chuck Palahniuk-fueled hipsters, but that prejudice of his work is inaccurate. Klosterman’s sharp wit and factoid horde is tempered with an empathy and understanding that takes his writings beyond a level of mere reportage. Read his previous book, Killing Yourself to Live, a chronicle of his travels to music’s legendary death sites. In this account, Klosterman repeatedly injects stories of his own life and his own complicated relationships, making an impersonal rock and roll mortality tale human, immediate, real. This isn’t how reporters write. It’s hard to believe that he spent so much time writing for SPIN, often heralded as the antithesis of such honesty. IV is a collection of Klosterman’s best essays and interviews, spanning many topics, though sticking mostly to music. The book is split into three sections: strict reporting, Klosterman’s soap box rambles and a final work of fiction. Among these, the fiction stuck with me the least, though it’s an obsessive tale circling around a woman falling from the sky a la Con Air. His reporting was the most fun to read, especially the parts that discuss how warped Los Angeles can be. Did you know that Morrissey’s prime audience is no longer mopey Anglophiles, but an army of crazed Latinos? Did you know that once a year, all the cutesy Tim Buton-worshipping goth kids of L.A. descend upon Disneyland and flit about in a ritual dubbed “Bats Day?” Now you do. (The “Bats Day” article provided one of the book’s funniest moments, as Klosterman rides the Indiana Jones Adventure alongside a Hot Topic ice princess and asks, “Do you think Harrison Ford is goth?”) Additional points of interest include: the theory that old rock bands are now beloved for the very accessibility that they shirked as young superstars, that there’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure and that Bob Dylan and Gene Simmons solved rock music forever by doing a song together and reconciling its artistry and shamelessness. There are a lot of neat points made, presented in an engaging way that doesn’t alienate the reader, even when one disagrees with them. (He claims the Beatles as perfectly rated, and I think they are monstrously overrated.) Klosterman doesn’t write with the propaganda agendas of your typical idiot rock journo. Accordingly, his writing is among the most refreshing that the modern era has to offer. This isn’t only for rock snobs; it’s for everyone. — Brett Emerson
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June 26, 2008
I'm Jonesin' for a crossword "Game Theory" -- I think I see a little pattern. By Matt Jones Across 1 Terrible 6 Bald comic strip character 11 Peace, in Paraguay 14 Quit hogging 15 Hirsch of “Speed Racer” 16 NYC’s Fifth, for one 17 Earn money, in the game Operation 19 Election contender, for short 20 100% 21 Folk musician Buffy ___-Marie 22 Hired helper 23 Hit the highest point 25 Scott who was “46...and Pregnant” 26 Actress Swinton in the “Chronicles of Narnia” series 27 Lime coat 29 Artificial, like pearls 31 Barkley or Bronson 34 Yukon XL manufacturer 35 Move like a bobblehead doll 38 With 39-across, what’s revealed on the back of Trivial Pursuit cards 39 See 38-across 41 Ready-go link 42 Rock guitarist Steve 43 It can be made with sugar cane or corn 44 Feudal worker 45 ___ about (roughly) 46 History Channel show that follows loggers in the Pacific Northwest 49 Worry your fool
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Film Reviews THE FALL (2008) Director: Tarsem Singh Cast: Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Justine Waddell Writer: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis, Tarsem By Nicholas Cabreza
nicholas.cabreza@secondsupper.com The award for most-overrated movie of the year so far goes to The Fall. 8.4 out of 10 at IMDB.com? Four stars from Roger Ebert? Director Tarsem had good intentions, but somewhere between imagining the visuals and writing the screenplay, he forgot to solidify a worthwhile story. Tarsem approaches moviemaking like a large-scale Michel Gondry, focusing on style but neglecting to add substance. Ultimately, The Fall brandishes a story not really worth telling; likewise, it's a movie hardly worth seeing. It's a lower-grade version of The Princess Bride—or, worse—a modern attempt to replicate The Wizard of Oz, except without any magic or emotion. Not unlike Tarsem's The Cell (2000), The Fall splits our time between the real world and an imaginary one. The Fall's real world is a hospital in 1920s Los Angeles, where a child named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) befriends a newly-paralyzed, suicidal stunt man (Lee Pace). He tells her an epic story, introducing both her and the audience to a fantastic tale of five strangers pursuing revenge against an evil Span-
ish governor. Through his story, he wins her trust, then refuses to finish telling it before she steals for him a large bottle of morphine. Soon it becomes obvious that Untaru views Pace as a good friend, while Pace views her as a helper monkey that can steal pills he'll use for suicide. Their relationship—like our relationship with the movie—is pretty uninteresting, and hinges flimsily on Pace's illustrious story. Every second spent watching Untaru and Pace chit chat is time spent waiting for the tale's vivid visuals to resume. Oftentimes we're ripped from the epic tale and placed back in the real world, forced to stomach scenes chock full of annoying, gratuitous cuteness. What starts out as a simple film about a man telling a girl a story devolves into a weepy, melodramatic sob-fest that tugs unsuccessfully at the heart strings.The Fall's story within-a-story at first outshines, then collapses along with, the initial story. It's a mediocre year for movies if this is considered one of the best so far in '08..
Cult Classics Evel Knievel (1971) Directed By: Marvin J. Chomsky Starring: George Hamilton, Sue Lyon Written By: Alan Caillou, John Milius By Brett Emerson
brett.emerson@secondsupper.com This movie alone justifies my occasional shopping at Wal-Mart. Pre-lizard-skin-tanned George Hamilton’s epic tribute to Evel Knievel may be the best dollar movie I could ever hope to obtain. In it, Mr. Gay Blade flails about in paranoid splendor, recreating the life of America’s most beloved stuntman as though it was a goddamn Burt Reynolds flick. Knievel robs banks as the townspeople cheer. He engages in Cannonball Run tomfoolery with the local cops. He makes absurd speeches about Roman generals and the glory of America. And, of course, he crashes into shit and breaks all of his bones. Good stock footage times! The best part of this film comes after one of these video archive disasters, when Knievel is laid up in the hospital, the very definition of the word “pulped.” While the sad prick lounges around in a full-body cast, one of his henchmen brings in a pair of chesty dames who sneak Evel out of the ward and prop him up on his trusty motorcycle. In a scene that would
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prophesize PeeWee Herman’s triumphant ride-off from the private club of the Satan’s Helpers, our fractured hero plows right into the bushes, like a champion! But lest anybody think that this gem is all shark jumping antics and no heart, George Hamilton is here to prove that Evel Knievel is a passionate man of love and action. Once he sets his sights on his lady, nothing in the universe can get in his way. After a lengthy courtship consisting of Evel dodging cops on his motorcycle, Evel shooting hoops in the town gym and Evel tearing up his lady’s boarding house, once again on his motorcycle, Evel Knievel finds true love at last, which he probably screws around on as quickly as possible. Kind of gives a person a warm feeling inside. This film is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest man’s man of the past century. It’s pompous and paranoid, yet it manages to get the job done. All who watch this triumph will feel their own spirits soar, almost as if they themselves were flying over two dozen buses, without a single care. Beautiful.
Drink of the Week
HAPPY HOUR Monday - Friday, 4-7
114 Fifth Ave. Downtown La Crosse (608) 782-3566
June 26, 2008
Happenings S & S Cycle 50th anniversary Note: Admission to the S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration will require a wristband. These may be purchased at the event for only $5.00 and provide you with admission to all of the concerts and events happening at the festival grounds and are valid for all 3 days.
SATURDAY, JUNE 28
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
La Crosse CSC
S&S Facility Tours La Crosse CSC 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.
Pearl Street Brewery Tours and Tasting
S&S 50th Build-Off Voting Oktoberfest Grounds all day
S&S Facility Tours River Run w/Jessie James Dupree Begins at 95.7 The Rock Studios 10 a.m.
Pearl Street Brewery 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Pearl Street Brewery Tours and Tasting
La Crosse City Brewery Tours
Pearl Street Brewery 12 - 7 p.m.
La Crosse City Brewery 12, 1 & 2 p.m.
Knucklehead Company M/C Old Bike Show
Rudy's 75th Anniversary American Graffiti Night
Rudy's 7 - 10 p.m.
Rudy's 5 - 10 p.m.
Bubba Blackwell Thrill Show
FRIDAY, JUNE 27
La Crosse Area Harley-Davidson 3 p.m.
S&S Facility Tours La Crosse CSC 10 a.m., 12 & 3 p.m.
Pearl Street Brewery Tours and Tasting Pearl Street Brewery 4 - 7 p.m.
Various Julia Belle Swain & La Crosse Queen cruises Riverside Park all day
Brice Prairie Canoe & Kayak Race 1 p.m.
Historic Trolley Tour of La Crosse Riverside Park 1 p.m. SUNDAY, JUNE 29
CMA Prayer & Breakfast
Motorcycle Gallery Show
Riverside Park 7 - 9:30 a.m.
Pump House 12 - 7 p.m.
Julia Swain Breakfast Cruise
Builder Grand Entry
Riverside Park 9 - 11 a.m.
Oktoberfest Grounds 12 - 1 p.m.
Trade Show
S&S/Teresi Dyno Drags La Crosse Speedway 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.
S&S 50th Anniversary Oktoberfest Grounds all day
Taste of La Crosse Oktoberfest Grounds 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Mobile Broken Spoke Events
La Crosse Speedway 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
S&S Build-off Awards Ceremony Oktoberfest Grounds 12 - 1 p.m.
La Crosse Queen Mississippi River Sightseeing Cruise Riverside Park 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Salute to the Troops, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra
Oktoberfest Grounds 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Onalaska High School 8:30 - 10 p.m.
La Crosse Area Historical Rides
Festival Foods Fireworks
Riverside Park all day
Onalaska High School Soccer Fields 10 p.m.
art galleries
camping
BLUFFLAND BLOOM & BREW 119 S. 4th St., La Crosse (608) 782-BREW Monthly Culture Shock show, featuring live art as well as drawings, paintings, photography, and prints by local artists.
GOOSE ISLAND 3 mi. south of La Crosse on Hwy 35 W6488 County Road GI Stoddard, WI 608-788-7018 Open until October 30
HEIDER CENTER FOR THE ARTS 405 East Hamlin St. West Salem, WI 608-786-1220 x 4 http://www.wsalem.k12.wi.us/ Heider.html PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS Open noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. No admission charge, donations accepted. Features exhibits of local artists and performances. 119 King St., La Crosse 608-785-1434 www.thepumphouse.org. SATORI ARTS Unique hand crafted jewelry, Mississippi River pearls, ancient Chinese artifacts, Custom-made jewelry, original art works, and a variety of unique gifts. 201 Pearl Street, La Crosse 608-785-2779 UW-L ART GALLERY The gallery displays works by students, faculty, regional and nationally-known artists in all areas of art. The gallery is on the first floor of the Center for the Arts located at the corner of 16th and Pine on the UW-L campus. VISIONS OF LIGHT Stained Glass 129 4th St S, La Crosse 608-793-1032 GREEN BAY STREET STUDIO greenbaystreetstudio.blogspot.com 1500 Green Bay St., La Crosse Hours currently by appointment only.Various workshops, including painting and printmaking, coming this summer, as well as opportunity for full and part-time membership.
VETERANS MEMORIAL 9 mi. east of La Crosse on Hwy 16 N4668 County Road VP West Salem, WI 608 786-4011 Open until October 15 WHISPERING PINES 15 minutes north of La Crosse, on Hwy 53 925 Dana Ln. Holmen, WI 608-526-2152 NESHONOC LAKESIDE CAMP RESORT N5334 Neshonoc Rd. West Salem, WI 608-786-1792 PETTIBONE PARK RESORT 333 Park Plaza Dr. La Crosse, WI 608-782-5858 GREAT RIVER BLUFFS STATE PARK 43605 Kipp Drive Winona, MN 507-643-6849 BEAVER CREEK VALLEY 15954 County 1 Caledonia, MN 507-724-2107
performances THE SOMEWHAT TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD
La Crosse Community Theatre 118 5th Ave N 608-784-9292 www.lacrossecommunitytheatre.org A frantically funny, Monty Pythonesque retelling of the classic. June 13-15 and 20-21at 7:30 p.m. June 14, 15, 21, and 22 at 1:00 p.m. HARVEY
ODIN WHITE MOTH GALLERY AND TEA ROOM 715 Logan St., La Crosse 608-769-3963 Hours are Tues: 12-3 pm, Thurs: 4-7 pm, Fri: 12-3, Sat: 10-2. Call for an appointment or more info. Enjoy some tea, art and vintage stuff.
Commonweal Theatre 208 Parkway Avenue North Lanesboro, MN 800-657-7025 www.commonwealtheatre.org Dreams and dreamers figure prominently in this 1940s comedy. Running from May 31-October 25.
art exhibits A SEASON OF ART
First Saturday in June - Sept. 7203 N. Shore Drive, County Z Brice Prairie, on Lake Onalaska. (Look for the white barn) Enjoy extraordinary shopping at an outdoor art fair. This FREE event is sponsored by the La Crosse Society of Arts & Crafts. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WRAP (WISCONSIN REGIONAL ARTISTS PROGRAM) EVENT
June 6 through June 30 Pump House, Kader Room Variety of Media. Workshop is June 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. UCHIKAKE: WEDDING KIMONOS
July 24 through August 30 Pump House (La Crosse) Lecture and fashion show July 25
farmers' markets CAMERON PARK Every Friday, May - October 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Downtown La Crosse Fresh produce, pasture-raised buffalo and beef, honey, maple syrup, plants, artists, handmade jewelry, paintings, beeswax candles, live performances and more! BRIDGEVIEW PLAZA Every Wednesday, June - Oct. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Bridgeview Plaza parking lot Northside of La Crosse LA CROSSE COUNTY Every Saturday, June - Oct. 6 a.m. - 1 p.m. County parking lot Downtown La Crosse CROSSING MEADOWS Every Sunday, June - Oct. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Festival Foods parking lot Onalaska WINONA Every Saturday, 7:30 a.m. - noon Every Wednesday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. May - October Downtown Winona Fresh produce, plants, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, elk & buffalo meat, bakery. jams, pickles, honey, decorative gourds, wreaths & Indian corn. Our herbalists bring salves, teas, & catnip.
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spotlight GREAT RIVER
SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Winona, Minnesota June 27 - July 27 www.grsf.org Now in its ďŹ fth season, the Great River Shakespeare Festival began in 2004 at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center and has grown ever since.
2008 Productions:
The Merchant of Venice &
The Taming of the Shrew Opening Schedule: Thurs, June 26 Preview: The Taming of the Shrew, 7:30 p.m
Friday, June 27 Opening: The Merchant of Venice, 8:00 p.m. Reception following at Winona National Bank
Saturday, June 28 Opening: The Taming of the Shrew, 8:00 p.m Free concert following at Levee Park: James Armstrong
Sunday, June 29 The Taming of the Shrew, 4:30 p.m.
GRSF also features education programs designed to make Shakespeare accessible and engaging for learners of all ages. This year's programs include: - A city-wide sonnet contest co-sponsored by Winona's Poet Laureate Jim Armstrong - Discussions with local scholars about the season's plays - Free concerts on campus at Winona State University before Friday and Saturday evening performances - Open community forums about The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew - Workshop teaching techniques of stage combat - Teacher resources: scripts, web links, handouts and research about Shakespeare and his plays - ...and many more! Weeknights & Matinees $20 / $25 / $30 Fri/Sat Evening $25 / $30 / $35 Previews $15 Discounts for seniors, groups, students, and military!
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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area LA CROSSE All Star Lanes 4735 Mormon Coulee
Alpine Inn W5715 Bliss rd.
Alumni
620 Gillette st.
Barrel Inn 2005 West ave.
Beef & Etc.
1203 La Crosse st.
Big Al’s
115 S 3rd st.
Brothers 306 Pearl st.
Sunday
Monday
3 games for $5 starts at 8 p.m.
3 games for $5 starts at 8 p.m.
bucket special
Bud Night 6 - CL: $1.75 bottles $5 pitchers
Beer Pong $7.00 4 Cans 8-close
Chuck’s
1101 La Crosse st.
Coconut Joe’s 223 Pearl st.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Buck Night starts at 6 p.m.
Import night starts at 7 p.m.
Cosmic Bowl & Karaoke starts at 9 p.m.
Cosmic Bowl starts at 9 p.m.
3 games for $5 starts at 7 p.m. 6 - CL $2.50 Sparks
$1 softshell tacos $1 shots of doctor, cherry doctor
3-7 happy hour
$2 Silos
$5 bbq ribs and fries
AUCE wings $5.00 free crazy bingo buy one cherry bomb get one for $1
bucket night 6 for $9
$6.00 AUCD
3 p.m. - midnight 25 cent hot wings $1 shots of Dr.
Italian beef w/dog meal: $6.69 Pizza Puff meal: $4.49
meatball sandwich sandwich meatball meal: $6.15 $6.69 meal: Chicago dogs meal: 22 dogs meal: $ 5.25 $5.89
Italian beef meal: $6.15 $6.69 Chicago chili dog: $3.45 $3.89
grilled chicken sandwich meal: $5.29 Polish sausage meal: $3.99 $4.49
hamburger meal: or cheeseburger meal: $3.69 $3.89 cheeseburger meal: Italian Beef w/dog $3.89 meal: $7.89
free pitcher of beer or soda with large pizza
meat or marinara spaghetti: $3.45 Italian sausage: $4.95
$1.25 make your own tacos, $4.75 taco salad $2.25 margaritas, $2 off large taco pizza
$2.25 burgers, $2.60 cheeseburgers, $2 off large pizza, $1 fries with any pizza
soup or salad bar FREE with entree or sandwich until 3 p.m. ($3.95 by itself)
closed
$2.50 Blatz vs. Old Style pitchers
Thirsty $1.50 Tuesday U-Call-Its
Martini Madness $2 off all martinis
closed
$1 Dr. shots $3 Jager Bombs
2 for 1 taps
7 - CL $1 domestic 12 oz $2 Stoli mixers
7 - CL Tequila’s chips & salsa, $2 Coronas, $2.50 Mike’s, Mike-arita
7 - midnight Ladies: 2 for 1 Guys: $1.50 Coors and Kul Light bottles
7 - midnight $1 rail mixers $2 Bacardi mixers
7 - midnight $2 Malibu madness $2 pineapple upsidedown cake
$3.00 Domestic Pitchers, $2.00 Shots of Cuervo, Rumpleminz, Goldschlager
Mexican Monday $2.00 Corona, Corona Light, Cuervo
HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM
114 5th ave.
318 Pearl st.
Tuesday Wednesday
1/4 barrel giveaway 8-11 $1 burgers
2 for 1 cans & bottles during Packer games
The Cavalier CheapShots
16oz top sirloin $7 22oz tbone 9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 jack daniels tips 8 $1 shots of Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl Happy hour 4-6 $1.75 cans, $2 mix drinks
food & drink specials ]
10 cent wings (9 - CL) 10 cent wings (9 - CL) $1 High Life bottles $1.25 High Life bottles $1.50 rail mixers $1.50 rail mixers $2 Guinness pints
Wristband Night
batterfried cod, fries, beans, and garlic bread $5.50
$4.50 domestic pitchers barrel parties at cost pepper & egg sandwich meal: $4.50, $5.00 fish sandwich meal:meal: $4.99, Italian sausage Italian $6.69 sausage meal: $6.15
Italian beef meal: $6.15 $6.69 2 Chicago dog meal: $3.45 $5.89
$6.75 shrimp dinner
$1.50 bloody marys 11 a.m. - 4 p.m
$3.00 Three Olives mixers/ $3.00 Captain mixers/ mojitos mojitos $2 Cherry $2 CherryBombs Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes $1 Bazooka Joes $3.25 Big Ass Miller Lite
HAPPY HOUR 4 - 7
50 cent taps 4 - 7 (increases 50 cents per hour) $1 rails
All day, everyday: $1.00 Shots of Doctor, $2.00 Cherry Bombs, $1.75 Silos of Busch Light/Coors
closed
closed
$.50 domestic taps, $1 microbrews, $3 domestic pitchers, $6 microbrew pitchers
$2.00 Cruzan Rum Mixers, $2.50 Jameson Shots, $3.00 Mixers
$3.00 Patron Shots
$2 Tuesdays, including $2 bottles, import taps, beer pong, apps, single shot mixers, featured shots, and 50 cent taps
WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB BUFFALO, SMOKEY BBQ, PLAIN $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT OF THE WEEK
$2.00 Captain Mixers
Wristband Night $5 COLLEGE I.D. $9 general public
$1 Kul Light cans
Topless Tuesday
Ladies Night buy one, get one free wear a bikini, drink free
Karaoke $1 shot specials
live DJ $1 shot specials
chicken & veggie fajitas for two
football night dollar domestic beer: $1.50 burgers Mexican beer: $2.00
chicken dollar primavera burgers
shrimp Great food and burrito drinks
chili Happy Hour 4-6 verde $1.75 domestics
Ask server Fish for details
chicken & own veggie Build your fajitas Bloody Mary N3287 CountyCoulee OA 5200 Mormon for two 16oz Mug - $4.00
Homemade Pizza domestic beer: $1.50 & PItcher of $2.00 Beer Mexican beer: $9.00
football night
chicken $1.25 primavera BURGERS
Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer $9.00 $5.99
beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95$1.25 16 oz steak
411 3rd st.
Fiesta Mexicana The Elite 5200 Mormon 412 Main st. Coulee
Fox Hollow Fiesta Mexicana Goal Post Fox Hollow 1904 Campbell rd.
N3287 County OA
Gracie’s Goal Post 1908 Campbell rd.
Build your own Bloody Mary 16oz Mug - $4.00
1904 Campbell rd.
Gracie’s Huck Finn’s 1908Marina Campbell 127 dr. rd.
Bloody Mary specials 10 - 2
Bloody Mary domestic Huck Finn’s $1.75 JB’s Speakeasy specials
127 Rose Marinast.dr. 717
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HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6 shrimp
HAPPY HOUR 6HOUR AM - 9 AMEVERYDAY HAPPY free wingsof6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Bucket Domestic
gyro fries & soda
BURGERS Cans 5 for $9.00 Buy one gyro free baklava, ice HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM get one cream or sundae beer pong 6 p.m. free wings - 9 p.m. half price with6 p.m. meal $8.95 16 oz steak
$5.99 gyro fries & soda
EVERYDAY BuyHAPPY one gyroHOURfree baklava, ice3 get one cream or sundae half price with meal
$1.75 domestic bottles
chili 25 Cent Wings verde
Bucket of Domestic burrito Cans 5 for $9.00
$1.75 domestic HAPPY HOUR bottles
3-6 HAPPY HOUR 25 Cent Wings 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
$1.25 domestic taps buy one burger HAPPY HOUR get one half price 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
-7 $1.25 and 9domestic - 11 taps buy one burger get one half price
$2.00 Malibu, $2.50 Jaeger, $3.00 Jaeger Bombs
$2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN AND FLAVORED BACARDI MIXERS $3.00 JAGER BOMBS
$4 full pint Irish Car Bomb
Dan’s Place
$3.00 Bacardi mixers/ $3.00 Bacardi mixers/ mojitos mojitos $2 Cherry $2 CherryBombs Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes $1 Bazooka Joes $3.25 Big Ass Miller Lite
Fry
Karaoke
reservations available
Ask server for details HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8 $8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
buy oneHOUR appetizer HAPPY 3-8
GREEK ALL DAY appetizer half price with meal
buy one appetizer get one half price
GREEK ALL DAY appetizer half price with meal
$8.95 oz. steak get one16half price $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday LA CROSSE Sunday Area food & drink specials HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7 $1.75 domestic JB’s Speakeasy $1.75 domestic $1.75 domestic bottles bottles bottles 717 Rose st. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday LA CROSSE HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 4 - 8, $2 domestic beer and rail drinks The Joint $2 Love Stories ALL DAY, EVERYDAY $1 shots of Dr. $5 Wu Tang Teas $1.00 off all Irish shots $2.50 pints of Guinness $3.00 imperial pints
$5 Wu Tang Teas $1 shots of the DOC!
324 Jay st.
Legend’s 223 Pearl st.
The Library 123 3rd st.
closed find come in and find out ... you’ll be glad you did
Loons
1128 La Crosse st.
Nutbush
3264 George st.
Ralph's Ringside In John's 223 PearlBar st. 109 3rd st. N
25 wings: $5 bucket of beer: $12 during Packers games
breakfast buffet $9.95 closed 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Shooter’s Schmidty’s
breakfast buffet $1 cans $9.95 Hamm’s 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
120 3rd st.rd. 3119S State
closed
closed
$1taps taps $1 $1 rails rails $1 1/2 price Tequila
hamburger $1.25 cheeseburger $150
bacon cheeseburger, fries, mug of beer: $4.50 drummies, fries, mug of beer: $5
Pizza & pitcher
Chef specials daily closed closed Mighty Meatball sub $6
Schmidty’s Ringside 3119Pearl Statest.rd. 223
closed
WING NIGHT $2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50 JACK MIXERS $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
closed $1 cans PBR
KARAOKE $1.25 domestic pints $2 double rails $3 double calls $2 ALL bottles chicken fifilet, let, fries, pop: $4.75 filet, fries, beer: $5 chicken filet, mushroom/swiss, fries, pop: $4.25, mushroom/swiss, fries, beer: $4.50
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
$1 tacos, Ladies Night 2 for 1, 9 - CL
BUCK WED burger, hot dog or brat
$2 mixers, taps, bottles chicken parmesan $1.00 OFF YOUR $6 CHOICEsub OF FOOD
Fiesta Night 7 - 12 happyshots hour $2 tequila all day $2.50 margaritas
$1.50 PBR bottles $1.50 Dr. shots $4 domestic after 7 p.m. pitchers
$1.75 domestic HAPPY 10 AM - 12, 4 $1.25 Lite taps all HOUR day bottlesCow & $2 Bacardi $2 Spotted $1.50 rails 10 - 1 7 - 12 pints mixers DT Brown
$1 Point Fiesta Night special 7 - 12 bottles $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas
$2.50 $1.50 PBRpints bottles Bass & Dr. Guinness $1.50 shots after 7 p.m.
$1.25 Lite taps all day bottles $1.50 rails 10 - 1
$1 Point special bottles
$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness 8 - CL $1.50 rails $1.75 Bud cans
Yesterdays LA CRESCENT 317 Pearl st.
Crescent Inn 444 Chestnut st.
LA CRESCENT
Crescent Inn Speedy Taco 444 301 Chestnut Kistler dr.st.
WINONA Betty Jo Byoloski’s
66 Center st.
Brothers 129 W 3rd st.
Godfather’s 30 Walnut st.
Sunday
$2 Rolling Rocks $2 domestic beer
Sunday
Monday Monday
Family pack: $2 Rolling Rocks 10 tacos & 4 sodas $2 domestic beer for $14.99
8 -on CLthe go: burritos railsand buy a$1.50 big one cans get$1.75 a freeBud soda
Sunday
Monday
$5.00 for 25 wings
AUCE fifish sh fry DJ 9 - CL
HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM
Top Shots Tailgators 137 S 4th st.
fish sandwich, fries, mug fish of beer: $5 fish sandwich, fries, pop: fish $4.75
$1 cans cans $1 cans LUNCH$1 BUFFET $6.45 Busch Light Busch Light Old Style LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY
cans $4 $1 domestic PBR pitchers
Yesterdays Top Shots 317 Pearl st.
cheeseburger, fries, pop: $4 cheeseburger, fries, beer: $4.25 Philly or Reuben, fries, pop: $5.75, Philly or Reuben, fries, beer: $6
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM BUFFET $2 mixers, taps, bottlesLUNCH $1.00 OFF CHICKEN $6.45 HOOP DAY!! MAKE SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY $1.00 OFF YOURLUNCHPHILLY, $1.00 OFF YOUR SHOT AND CHOICE OF FOOD CHEESE CURDS YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
happy hour all day Packer games: $1.50 $1 cans Coors Light Silver, $1 Hamm’s Dr. shots, free brats
137 SS4th st.st. 1019 10th
$3 Bacardi Mixers $3 jumbo Long Islands
$5
and parmesan &6
$1Bacardi cans $2 Busch Light mixers
$1 cansCow & $2 Spotted Busch Light DT Brown pints
$1.75 domestic
$1 cans
Bucket Night Old 5 forStyle $9 5 domestic bottles for PM - 6 PM $10, $2 Bacardi mixers,
$2.25 Pearl st. pints $1.75 domestic $1.50 PBR bottles bottles 7 - 12 $2.25 Pearl st. pints
$1.75 domestic Tuesday Wednesday $1.50 PBR bottles bottles
SHOTSOF OFGOLDSCHLAGER GOLDSLAGER $2$2SHOTS $5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK
Wristband Night
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM $1.00 OFF sandwich CHICKEN HOOPSouthwest DAY!! MAKE Italian PHILLY, $1.00peppers OFF YOURchicken SHOT AND pita w/banana CHEESE CURDS YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
Tailgators Shooter’s 1019 10th 120 SS3rd st.st.
AFTER COMEDY: PINT NIGHT $1 PINTS OF RAILS MIXERS AND DOMESTIC TAPS $2 PINTS OF CALL MIXERS AND IMPORT TAPS $3 PINTS OF TOP SHELF MIXERS
$1.25 pints during Badgers games DJ 9 - CL
$5.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY
Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5
happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.
$5.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY
happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.
$1 cans Miller High Life Light
$1 cans PBR
cans $1 Dr.$1 shots Miller High Life $3 16 oz Captain mixers Light
$1 Dr. $1shots cans $3 16 oz Captain PBR mixers
$2 Long Islands,
Night $1.50Bucket rail vodka mixers 10 -1 5 for $9
$1 PBR Dr. shots bottles, $3 16 oz Captain Captain mixers mixers
$2.75 deluxe $1 Dr. shots Bloodys 7, $4.50 $3 16 oz‘tilCaptain lite pitchers 7 - 12 mixers
$1.75 railsfor 5 domestic bottles $10, $1 $2 Bacardi mixers, PBR mugs $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers
$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $4.50 lite pitchers 7 - 12
$1.75 rails
Thursday $1 PBR mugs
Friday
Saturday $2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish
$1 shots of Dr. $2.50 Polish
$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs
$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)
Thursday
Friday
$1 shotstacos of Dr. Speedy $2.50 Polish $1.50
$1 domestic taps gyro, chips, soda $3 Jager Bombs $5.99
3 $2 chicken fry u-call-it taquitos (except top shelf) $3.99
Fiesta burrito $6.99
$2.50 Captain Nachos $2.50 Supreme Jager Bombs$5.49 & Polish
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Tuesday Wednesday
Tuesday Wednesday
Saturday
HAPPY HOUR 3:15 - 6:15 2 for 1 burgers $1 off Bloodys & Screwdrivers
closed
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half price appetizers, Import Club Night: discounts on all micros & imports $1 martinis $2 mojitos $3 margaritas & Michelob Golden pitchers
family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age
$3 Olives $3Three Captain mixers mixers $3 jumbo Long $3 jumbo Long Islands Islands
all-u-can-eat spaghetti all day $5.45 25 cent hot wings 4 - 10
tenderloin tips, shrooms, fries or potato, salad, roll $9.95 50 cents off top shelf liquor
free pitcher of pop or domestic beer with large pizza discounts on all domestic beer
HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM $1 off anything that pours $1 O-Bombs/ 10 cent wings, $3 filled filled 2 for 1 mug ($1 tap refills, Bazooka Joes, refills, $2 anything rail refills) refills) $1 High Life Wristband Night 9 p.m. - close bottles/kamikaze shots
any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)
all day: all-u-can-eat fish fish $8.95 lunch: fish fish sandwich & fries $5.45 $2.50 Three Olives Mixers $2.50Long Captain $1.00 IslandsMixers $1.00Rail Root Beer Barrels $2.00 Mixers $3.50 Pitchers $6.00Domestic “Buck-its” (6 beers Hot$6.00) Shots Menu for $2.50 Big Ass Miller Lite
Prime Rib specials, one child eats free with one adult entree 4 - 10: house wines $2.50 $2.50 Bacardi Mixers $2.50Long Bacardi Mixers $1.00 Islands $5.00Rail Fishbowls $2.00 Mixers $3.50 Pitchers $1.00Domestic O-bombs & Bazooka Hot Shots Menu Joes $2.50 Big Ass Miller Lite
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Sunday, Sunday, June June 29 15 Popcorn Tavern Tavern Popcorn The New New Blend Blend The
Thursday, Thursday, June June 26 12
The The Recovery Recovery Room Room Live Live DJ DJ Nutbush Nutbush Live Live DJ DJ
9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00
Monday, June 16 Monday, June 30 George St. Pub George St. Open Pub Jam Adam Palm’s Adam Palm’s Open Jam Popcorn Tavern Popcorn Tavern Shawn's open Jam Shawn's open Jam
Popcorn Popcorn Tavern Tavern Burnt Brownies Nick Shattuck
10:00 10:00
Nighthawks Nighthawks Dave Dave Orr's Orr's Damn Damn Jam Jam
Tuesday, July June117 10:00 10:00 Tuesday, Nutbush Nutbush Live DJ DJ Live
Friday, Friday, June June 27 13 All All Star Star Lanes Lanes Karaoke Karaoke My My Second Second Home Home Karaoke Karaoke
9:00 9:00 9:00 9:00
Player’s Player’s Live Live DJ DJ
10:00 10:00
Nutbush Nutbush Live Live DJ DJ
10:00 10:00
Popcorn Popcorn Tavern Tavern All GoodofThings 10:00 Bottom the Barrel String Band 10:00 Nighthawks Cool Blues Band The Disposition Joint 10:00 Friday the 13th hip hop 10:00
Popcorn Tavern Tavern Popcorn Paulie Paulie
10:00 10:00
Minneapolis population population
9:00 9:00 10:00 10:00
10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00
Wednesday, July 2 Wednesday, June 18 Nighthawks Nighthawks Irene Keenan Jr. Irene Keenan Jr. Loon’s Loon’s Night Comedy Comedy Night Library Library Karaoke Karaoke
8:00 8:00 8:30 8:30 9:00 9:00
Saturday, June 28 Saturday, June 14
Longhorn Longhorn Karaoke Karaoke
10:00 10:00
All Star Lanes All Star Lanes Karaoke Karaoke
Player’s Player’s Karaoke Karaoke Popcorn Tavern Popcornopen Tavern Brownie's Jam Brownie's open Jam
Popcorn Tavern Popcorn Dave Orr &Tavern The Provider s TBA
10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00
Nighthawks Bodega's 14th birthday! T. Albert Lloyd 10:00 Something Jazz 10:00 5 Second Supper vol. 8, issue 121
387,970 387,970
First Avenue 6/276/12 Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater Fri., Thurs.,
Matisyahu Tiesto Pete Francis (of Dispatch) Mindless Self Indulgence RZA Cross Canadian Ragweed
Epic (formerly the Quest) Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater First Avenue First Avenue Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater
Thurs., 6/12 Sat., 6/28 Thurs., 6/12 Mon., 6/30 Thurs., 6/19
Drive-By Truckers
First Avenue
Wed., 7/2
Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, Big DMadison And The Kids Table
First Avenue
Thurs., 7/3
223,389
Umphrey's McGee, STS9 Madison (Sound Tribe Sector 9) Alliant Energy Center population
10:00 10:00
9:00 9:00
Dosh Aimee Mann
population
Coconut’s Coconut’s Live DJ Live DJ
Players Players Live DJ Live DJ Nutbush Nutbush Live DJ Live DJ
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Thurs., 7/10
223,389
Cornmeal Mad-Sweet Pangs Poison, Dokken, New Monsoon Sebastian Bach Orchestra Baobab Lyle Lovett Dysrhythmia
Memorial Union Terrace
Fri., 7/11
Wisconsin Union Theater Alliant Energy Center Barrymore Theatre Overture Center for Arts High Noon Saloon
Fri., 6/27 Sat., 7/12 Sun., 6/29 Sun., 7/13 Mon., 6/30
Nuggernaut
Alchemy
Thurs., 7/3
The Waterfront Bar & Grill
Thurs., 6/12
Menomonie population
14,937
Winona
Heavy J and the Fantastics population 27,069
Shoeless Revolution The Waterfront Bar & Grill Thurs., 8/7 Max Power & the Feedback Ed's no-name Bar Thurs., 6/26 U-Melt Chris Kendall
The Waterfront Bar & Grill Tues., 9/2 WSU Green Fri., 6/27
10:00 10:00
Leo Kottke Paul Geremia
Mabel Tainter Theater Arts Center
Sat., 9/20 Fri., 6/27
10:00 10:00
Drops & Drama
Masonic Theatre
Sat., 6/28
James Armstrong Blues Milwaukee Band population 602,782
Levee Park
Sat., 6/28
B.B.Maw King Rooney & Fat Northwoods Band She Wants Revenge, (benefit for Mikey Be Your Own Pet Paul)
Potawatami Casino
Mon., 6/9
DraughtHall Haus Turner
Sun., 6/29 Fri., 6/13
Aimee Mann Froseph & Wild Nettle Bookmobile
Turner Hall DDBC Bicycle Co-op
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