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COOL RUNNINGS - A TOUR OF THE HILLS, p. 6 A WINTER REC FEST PREVIEW, p.7 SCRABBLE SUNDAY, p.8 WHY ICE FISHING IS PRETTY DARN COOL, p.12 Q&A with ROBERT JAMES MINI, LIVE PAINTER, p.14

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I’m Not There Lords of Dogtown Brokeback Mountain The Dark Knight (probably) Monster’s Ball 10 Things I Hate About You The Patriot

Progresso Soups 1. Creamy Chicken Wild Rice 2. Rich and Hearty Steak & Sautéed Mushroom 3. Split Pea with Ham 4. Italian-Style Wedding 5. Chicken and Homestyle Noodle 6. Cheese and Herb Tortellini 7. Beef and Vegetable

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Big Butt Doppelbock Creamy Dark Red Original Honey Weiss Oktoberfest Northwoods Lager

Phish Songs 1. I am Hydrogen 2. You Enjoy Myself 3. Mike’s Song 4. Buried Alive 5. Stash 6. Bathtub Gin 7. Reba Alfred Hitchcock films 1. North by Northwest 2. Rope 3. Psycho 4. Vertigo 5. Rear Window 6. The Man Who Knew Too Much 7. The Birds

Circumstances in which you can’t say “It could be worse” 1. Living in the Midwest with no heat 2. Trapped in a broken elevator with Tony Robbins and Dr. Phil Mc Graw 3. Watching all that you’ve built during your lifetime crumble to the ground, your name fading into obscurity 4. Trapped in a burning car, escaping, only to fall in a river and drown 5. Being Joe Gullo 6. Having a TV with one channel: Fox News 7. Being stuck front row in a Barry Manilow concert for eternity

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Yes, Second Supper has decided to hop onto the social networking bandwagon.

What sets our new gem apart from the rest, however, is that we ask the important questions. That, and there’s no risk of being hacked.

Here’s how it works: Each week, our featured person will lead us to someone new who they’re in someway connected to. So keep reading and enjoy getting to know your fellow townies.

NAME & AGE: Pear of the Popcorn ...

BIRTHPLACE: Oconto, WI CURRENT JOB: Popcorn Tavern owner for 35 years DREAM JOB: Underwater explorer COVETED SUPERPOWER: Infinite wisdom DREAM VACATION: Costa Rica BEST LOCAL RESTAURANT: Digger’s FAVORITE BAR IN TOWN: The Popcorn, even before I owned it TELL US A JOKE: There’s a guy falling through the sky, struggling with his parachute. On his way down, he meets a guy going up.

He says, “hey, you know anything about parachutes?” The guy says, “no... you know anything about gas grills?”

3 MOVIES YOU’D TAKE ON A DESERTED ISLAND: “Blade Runner” “Dune” “Terminator” #1 PET PEEVE: People tapping their glasses or bottles on the bar

CITY OR COUNTRY? Country 3 BOOKS YOU’D TAKE TO PRISON: “Atlas Shrugged” “Brothers Karamazov” “Catch 22” 3 CDs YOU’D TAKE ON A ROAD TRIP: Pink Floyd - “Pulse” Eric Clapton - “461 Ocean Boulevard” Miles Davis - “Kind of Blue” IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRUMENT PERFECTLY, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Guitar WHAT’S IN YOUR POCKETS? Driver’s license, one dollar. That’s it.

HOW DO YOU KNOW LAST WEEK’S INTERVIEWEE? Nick has played in various bands at the Popcorn, and he dated one of my bartenders.

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Toads Tumble From Sky Friday, July 12th, 1878, La Crosse Republican & Leader

What:

UW-L Jazz Festival

Where: Valhalla on the UW-L Campus When:

Saturday January 26, 2008 @ 7 PM

Tired of the freezing cold? Take shelter inside and warm up to the sound of some hot, hot jazz. Local high school jazz bands will be competing all day for a chance to play with the elite in jazz music; the UW-L Jazz Ensemble I. The main concert will be starting at 7 p.m., and will have three of the winning high school bands playing selections, immediately followed by a feature performances by the UW-L Jazz Ensemble I with special guest artist and trumpeter extraordinaire Brian Lynch. The concert will be held in Valhalla Hall in Cartwright Center on the UW-L campus. Tickets will be sold at the door.

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During the heavy shower yesterday afternoon an exceedingly large number of small but exceedingly active toads put in an appearance, in many places almost covering the ground and sidewalks. They were most numerous about the depot at 2nd and Vine streets, where they excited much wonder among the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad employees.

The important question is, of course, “Where did the toads come from?”

Captain Moulton, being placed upon the rack by a reporter, duely testified and said he was on a platform adjoining the depot and saw the toads fall from the sky. Not only did he see them as they struck the platform, but also saw them in the air before they reached the end of their aerial flight. This is good testimony, and we submit it.

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COOL RUNNINGS - a tour of the hills

French Island French Island’s most popular sledding hill is located near the overpass to Interstate 90, which also happens to be one of the highest points on the island. Aesthetics could be better as the vista takes in a rest area, a softball diamond and an outlet mall, and the sound of speeding cars is ceaseless. Still, the ride is steep and swift, especially when the Summit Elementary kids wear in a good trail. On the downside, it’s often a bumpy run and a little too short for all the effort that goes into climbing the hill.

Suicide Hill The Granddaddy of La Crosse sledding hills, Suicide is located near the base of Grandad’s Bluff and is easily one of the ten most fun spots in the city. It is conventionally reached via Bliss Road, where one would park at the second landing, but since the street appears to be closed for the foreseeable future, it’s worth parking at Forest Hills or the Hixon Forest lot and hiking in. The long, wooded path down from the parking lot is still the scariest run in the Coulee Region, but even starting halfway, near the tee box, is still close to perfect as the

three graceful humps provide a nearly minutelong run. There are plenty of other great spots to explore in Forest Hills, but we couldn’t in good conscience recommend the jumps. Can you say eight feet in the air? Danger!

Green Island We all gotta learn somewhere, right? This tykefriendly bunny hill is located near the Green Island Ice Arena on La Crosse’s south side and is good for short, pleasant runs and easy climbs.

The mound looks manmade — likely dredged from the nearby river — and has a play tower at the top. Frankly, this hill is more fun in the summertime, for a good logroll goes about three times faster than the sled run.

Hagen Road La Crosse’s other monster hill is located at the end of Hagen Road, a mile past State Road Elementary, deep into southern coulee country.

There’s a lower jumping-off point for amateurs and an upper run that gives one of the fastest, longest slides in the area. It starts steep, flies over two humps and continues at cruising speeds for the length of the park. Jumps dot

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the hill, and they should either be avoided or hit with gusto for full effect. The Hagen hill has long been a winter hot spot among southside residents, but word of its greatness has yet to spread far north. Hop on Highway 33 and check it out for yourself.

Coulee Golf Bowl A number of runs can be found behind Coulee Golf Bowl in Onalaska, making it a good stop for sledding parties of mixed abilities. The sloping fairways provide gentle runs that can last about 45 seconds if the snow is icy. If it’s powdery, expect slow-goings or a face full of flakes.

Intrepid sledders may discover faster runs careening down to the course, but those are kept steep, wooded, dangerous and secret.

OmniCenter Leave it to Onalaska to take all the danger out of sledding.The city maintains a hill in Van Riper Park near the Aquatic Center that is treeless, graded, illuminated and practically injury-proof.

The hill is grooved so there’s no edge to fall off, and the 45-degree incline can be walked up as fast as it can be sledded down. It’s a popular spot so the snow is usually worn smooth. Still, you have to dodge people, obey rules and wait your turn in line, which can be kind of a drag.

We skip the water park for those exact same reasons.

Deer Wood Park

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There’s a speedy little chute in Holmen’s Deer Wood Park, an imaginatively named place where you often sled amongst trees and over deer tracks. Just beyond the baseball diamond, a hill of about 200 feet drops at a nearly 60 degree angle — incredibly fast, in other words.

When properly formed by Viking Elementary students, the run starts in the woods at the top of the hill before making a luge-like de-

scent. Two quick bumps and an artfully crafted jump follow, sending riders airborne at a tailbone-threatening speed. If you stick the landing, remember to dig your boots in the snow or you’ll wipe out on the asphalt walking path that arrives within seconds. With danger, speed and trees aplenty, Deer Wood is one of the better hills in the area and is certainly worth the trip to Holmen.

Ft. McCoy And finally, a sled hill for the lazy. The Whitetail Ridge Ski Area in Ft. McCoy offers an 800-foot tubing hill alongside its run for people on planks, and both hills get their own lift! The tubing hill curves along a ridgeline before opening to a wide swath leading down to the chalet, an easy run thanks to the complimentary cushion of air. Should you not feel sufficiently exhilarated, simply strap the ride into the lift and enjoy the tube-top trip to the summit. This cushy service costs three bucks per hour, and the hill is open Friday through Sunday, although it can be reserved during the week for parties. Tubular, dude! Combat armor not included.

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Get out there!

It’s not easy to throw on the layers and venture outdoors, especially when the wind-chill is so cold your nose actually faces the possiblity of falling off, but try to do it anyway! We’ve put together a list of a few places to have some winter fun, so now it’s up to you. Get out there!

Downhill Ski Mount La Crosse, 1411 16th St S 784-5324 mtlacrosse.com Cascade Mountain, Portage, Wis 608-742-2550 cascademountain.com Christmas Mountain, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., 608-253-1000 christmasmountainvillage.com Devil’s Head Resort, Merrimac, Wis., 800-338-4579 devils-head.com Granite Peak, Wausau, Wis., 715-845-2846 skigranitepeak.com Little Switzerland Ski Area, Slinger, Wis., 262-644-5020 littleswitz.com Nordic Mountain Ski Area, Hancock, Wis 715-249-5703 nordicmountain.com Tyrol Basin, Mount Horeb, Wis., 608-437-4754 tyrolbasin.com

Cross-Country Ski All trails groomed and maintained by La Crosse County

By Ben Clark

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Along with the new year and newly fallen snow comes the 22nd Annual Winter Rec Fest. Put on by the city of La Crosse’s Park and Recreation Department and the Youth Enrichment Association, nearly 200 volunteers will help the Winter Rec Fest offer a variety of activities for kids and adults alike. Here’s a little preview for those of you who are looking for those perfect activities to take the family to and have a great time. Six thousand La Crossians can’t be wrong, so pick up your Winter Rec Fest Buttons (only $2 and available around the area) and have some fun in the snow this weekend!

The Green Island Ice Arena (Seventh and Cook streets) will be hosting a Hockey Jamboree for all ages, requiring only the Winter Rec-Fest button for admission. The hockey Jamboree will be running steadily Friday through Sunday. Game times will be announced at a later date, or can be seen at the arena on the day of the games.

You don’t have to be Michelangelo to create your very own frozen version of David, but be sure you make that snow-leaf,There will be kids present! Pettibone Park will be having a Snow Sculpture Contest Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. The only admission for this event is the possession of a Winter-Rec Fest button.

The competition will be open to all ages and has three divisions: youth, family and adults. Get your sculpting on at Pettibone! You can sign up on site or by calling 789-7533.

Mount La Crosse will be hosting a special Family Ski and Snowboard Day on Saturday from noon to 9 p.m. If you have that Winter-Rec Fest button, Mt. La Crosse will be offering special deals: $5 for ski rental and $15 for snowboard rental, with lift tickets only costing $20! And if you’re just content with watching the action from the lodge with a big, steamy cup of cocoa, there will be a Free Ride

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Team Trick exhibition at 3 p.m.

The Forest Hills Golf Course and Restaurant will be putting on a special Torchlight Ski/Hike, complete with a lighted sledding hill and fireworks. And after all that action, there will be a fish fry to satisfy the appetite you worked up after all that sledding!

The fun begins at 5 p.m. and will continue until 9 p.m. The only admission requirement is a Winter-Rec Fest button, and you must bring your own equipment for the sledding and skiing.

Life bites, but so do fish! There will be an ice fishing derby on the Pettibone Park Lagoon on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

There are two divisions: 17 and under and Adults. Admission is only $1 for youth fishers and $2 for adults, and of course, a Winter-Rec Fest button is required. Everyone is invited to attend, from avid ice fishers to those just wanting to learn.

Pettibone Park will be hosting a Snow Disc Golf Tournament on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There will be a variety of divisions available for kids and adults alike, including recreational and competitive. The recreational divisions cost $6 and require a Winter-Rec Fest button, and all players in the rec. divisions will receive a free Rec Fest disc!

Competitive divisions cost each player $15 and require a Winter-Rec Fest button, and will have cash-payouts for prizes as based on amount of entries. Call 789-7533 to pre-register or signup on site.

Lincoln Middle School will have the TriStar Basketball Skills Challenge and Kids’ Carnival on Saturday at noon. The Basketball Skills challenge will be for kids ages 6-13 and will include dribbling, shooting and passing. The Kids’ Carnival will last from noon to 3 p.m. There will games, snacks, prizes and much more for kids of all ages! Admission is a Winter-Rec Fest button.

Pla Mor Lanes will be hosting bowling

Goose Island Park - 5 miles Raymond Bice Forest Preserve - 6 miles Great River Trail - 8 miles Hixon Forest - 5 miles Experimental Farm - 3 miles

Snowmobile A comprehensive trail map can be found at laxsnowmobile.com

Ice Skate Green Island Ice Arena, 2312 7th St. S., 789-7199 OmniCenter, 255 Riders Club Rd., Onalaska 781-9566 La Crescent Ice Arena, 520 S. 14th St, La Crescent, Minn., 507- 895-4160 Hood Park, 500 Hood St., La Crosse, Copeland Park, 800 Copeland Avenue, La Crosse Community Park, 515 Quincy Street, Onalaska Deer Wood Park, 500 Anderson St., Holmen Plainview Park, 600 Dauphin Street, French Island

Skateboard Coalition Skate Park, 215 State St., La Crosse 782-4300 coalitionskatepark.com

Pump Iron The Gym, 605 Gillette St, La Crosse 779-7680 Premeir Fitness, 505 King St # 5, La Crosse, 793-1300 La Crosse/Onalaska Fitness, 4008 Mormon Coulee Rd, La Crosse , 788-0274 Valley View Athletic Club, 3939 County Road B, La Crosse, 781-4614 Viking Athletic Club, 1111 Linden Dr, Holmen, WI 608-526-9595 Curves — Eight locations in the La Crosse area. Find them at curves.com

Mall Walk Valley View Mall, 3800 Highway 16, La Crosse, 781-8606

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A Verbial Day

By Briana Rupel

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This past Sunday morning, most Wisconsinites threw the covers back and rose to a bright sky with two things dominating their thoughts: green and gold. Maybe three, if you consider the obligatory game-time snack spread. Don’t get me wrong, tapping into my ever-growing state pride, I also had football on the brain, but as I stretched out of bed on Sunday, I had a more pressing game to think about: Scrabble.

Back in the early 1930s, Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect from Poughkeepsie, New York, suddenly lost his job, as was commonplace when living through the heart of the Depression. It was because of this that he decided to pursue his true loves: games and words.

After devising the initial idea of a word game, originally dubbed “Lexico,” he began religiously combing the New York Times to determine the frequency of each letter in the alphabet. Construction of Lexico began shortly after, with Butts scrawling letters on paper, gluing the paper to quarter-inch plywood, then cutting out tiles to fit the squares on the board. After numerous rejections from patent boards, as well as numerous alterations to Lexico, Butts de-

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cided to change the name of the game. In 1948, along with Rick James, Stevie Nicks and Alice Cooper, Scrabble was born.

My own history with unarguably the world’s most beloved word game began just after entering grade school, when my parents let the rules slide and allowed me to browse through my Sesame Street dictionary as I shuffled my tiles along with them.As the years went on, my dad would occasionally remark, “It’s too bad you couldn’t have played with your grandpa.

He knew how to play the game. Nobody could beat him.”

I have to admit that these days I can get a bit obsessed. With old roommates, those who didn’t hold Scrabble in such high regard, I’d persuade them to play me by offering to wash our piled-up dishes afterward. With current friends who’d rather play video games than the classic word game, I offer a compromise: a round of Scrabble and then a round of PlayStation. Hey, I have a legacy to uphold.

Fortunately, there are others who share my obsession., and they gathered at the Southside Neighborhood Center Sunday afternoon for a Scrabble tournament that helped kick off La Crosse’s Winter Rec Fest.

As I shuffled briskly along the snowencrusted sidewalks on my way to the center, my imagination sketched out a scene of what a Scrabble tournament must look like. I pictured stoic, wool sweater-wearing intellectuals, sipping from their paper cups of coffee as they habitually nudged their glasses back up onto the bridges of their noses. I pictured people kindly speaking to each other in low, soft tones, reminiscent of an NPR host, cooing phrases like, “Ooh, I like your placement. Well done!” or, “Wow, a Q, Z and Y, all in one word? Fantastic!” And I wondered: Did the Neighborhood Center have a fireplace? Please, please have a fireplace!

They didn’t have a fireplace. And the competitors were anything but stoic.

Though I arrived unintentionally late, I made it in time for the end of Round Two, which was — refreshingly — the most intense Scrabble battle I had ever witnessed. The six playing tables were littered with 20-ounce bottles of Mountain Dew, empty plastic water cups and, as I expected, half-full cups of coffee. Players scrunched their brows in concentration as they sought out last-ditch words rich in points that would contribute to their final score of the round. I was observing, at an amiable distance, one of the two intermediate-level games

as the last plastic hourglass timer ran out, when the unexpected happened.

“Okay, guys, add up the last of your letters so I can subtract them from your score.”

An older man with a full gray beard frowned.

“What? Already?!” His voice became agitated. “But there are still tiles left in the bag.”

“Well, yes,” the scorekeeper coaxed gently, “but time is out. That means the game is done, no matter if anything’s left in the bag.”

A minor, yet still awfully awkward, argument ensued, resulting in the bearded man rising hastily from his chair to seek affirmation for his argument from one of the two volunteers coordinating the event.Yes, she confirmed, time was out, which meant the game was over. Even if there were still some gems hiding in the bag.

“Have you ever played a tournament before?” the scorekeeper asked the man.

“Well...no. But that’s how I’ve always played.”

And so it was settled. Any tournament, no matter the sport, is assumed to become a bit heated at times, and this one was no exception.

Obviously, the players at the Rec Fest tournament took their Scrabble seriously. Finally, I thought, players I could relate to! I sat on the sidelines, watching with admiration and awe, contemplating whether or not a bucket of buttery popcorn would be appropriate.

As one of the volunteers recorded Round Two’s scores on the dry-erase board at the front of the room, I couldn’t help but giggle at the banter from the table of three boys at the

beginner’s table.

“Nooo, don’t write it up there,” one of the kids lamented, watching his score of 11 be set in stone in blue marker, for all to see.

“Nice job, dude,” jested one of his friends, playfully slapping him on the shoulder.

Similar end-of-the game commentary followed. One woman, who has probably been playing Scrabble since I — no, my parents — were in diapers, defined one of her plays to her inquistive counterparts.

“Pyx? Well, it’s from the Catholic religion.

It’s that little container that holds the bread — a good Scrabble word.”

After a short break, and a switch-up of players within their levels, Round Three was underway. For 45 minutes I wandered the room, watching players with crossed fingers be defeated by the Scrabble Bible in challenges, players survive challenges without breaking a sweat (“Of course it’s in the dictionary,” a younger woman exclaimed, “I wouldn’t trick you!”), veteran players scratching their heads, unsure of what to lay (“Oh, I don’t know what to do... . That’s unusual!”), confident players push their rivals into challenges they knew they would win (“Hey, if you want to challenge me, go ahead,” one woman offered coolly, “It’s your perrogative.”) and considerate players compliment others (‘Well, I didn’t like the way you began that, but that’s OK. It was really a smart move.”)

Once time was called on Round Three, everyone sat on the edges of their chairs, eyes fixed on the scoreboard awaiting the final tally.

Scores from all three rounds were added together to determine a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner from each level, and an enthusiastic awards ceremony, complete with plaques and T-shirts, took place shortly afterward. Most impressive, and by far the highlight of the tournament for me, was hearing what the kids from the beginner’s table had to say about their time at the tournament.

“We had a ton of challenges, like with ‘Zion’.” said Justin Cavanaugh. He continued, justifying his need to dispute the word. “It’s a proper noun,” he said matter-of-factly. “You can’t do that.”

And this boy isn’t even a teenager yet.

As everyone gathered up their belongings and starting tugging their coats on, one man looked at the clock. “Oh, good,” he exclaimed,

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One of the volunteers within earshot touched his shoulder gently. “Oh,” she said, a bit concerned, “we could’ve put it on the TV in the other room for you!”

“Naw,” he drawled. “This was way more fun.”

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Missed the tournament? The Southside Neighborhood Center will host another this coming April. Check the Happenings section of Second Supper in the spring for exact dates and more information

RIGHT: 1st place winner of the beginner division (ages 7-12), Alex Mac Rogers, who says his best word was “hex” on a double-word score for 26 points.

scrab·ble 'skrabәl

verb [ intrans. ] make great efforts to get somewhere or achieve something. noun [ trademark ] a board game in which players use lettered tiles to create words in a crossword fashion.

Your guide to tournament lingo...

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BINGO Any word played that uses all seven letters on the rack, earning a bonus of 50 points.

BLUFFING The act of deliberately playing a phoney word. This is completely ethical and is a weapon used by many experts, even against other experts.

CHALLENGE An opponent calls “CHALLENGE” when s/he thinks a play is not acceptable (i.e. not in the OWL or Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition). A Word Judge is called to verify which words are acceptable or not. Whenever there is a challenge, someone loses exactly one turn.

COFFEE-HOUSING To make small talk, crack knuckles, or do anything meant to distract or mislead your opponent.

This is unethical and strictly forbidden in clubs and tournaments. It is generally considered impolite to talk during a tournament game unless it is pertinent to the score or the play.

EXTENSION PLAY The extension of one word by adding two or more letters. Example: With QUEST on the board, adding CON to the front creates the extension “CONQUEST” FISHING (A.K.A. DUMPING) To play only one or two tiles, usually for few points, keeping five or six really good tiles, with the hope of playing a high-scoring word next turn.

HOOK LETTER (A.K.A. HOOK) A letter that will spell a new word when it is played with in the front of or at the end of a word already on the board. Example: With HARD on the board, the letter Y is a hook letter since HARDY is acceptable.

OSPD4 The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition.

TURNOVER Players are going for “turnover” when they play as many tiles as possible in order to draw as many new tiles as possible.

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January 24, 2008

Album Reviews

AMERICAN GLADIATORS, nuf said

By Tim Bavlnka

tim.bavlnka@secondsupper.com

I don’t know if you’ve decided to be a decent human being and have watched any of the first three episodes of The Greatest Show Ever Created, but if not, then I highly suggest some self-immolation. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but the glorious second coming written about previously in ancient text has happened, and its host is Hulk Hogan. I have no idea what else is on TV on Monday nights anymore, but I guarantee you that there is absolutely nothing else worth spending an hour of your time staring at in complete awe about the glory of America.

Forget the War on Terror; it is all about the war that takes place in the gladiatorial arena in California.

If you value the head on your shoulders, and any sort of respect from me, you already know Titan, Crush, Fury, Helga, Mayhem, Justice, Toa, Militia, Siren, Stealth, Venom and most importantly motherfucking Wolf. If you are truly my friend, or worth me acknowledging on a primal and basic human level, then I shouldn’t have to explain things to you like Assault, Gauntlet, Hang Tough, Powerball, Pyramid, Joust,The Wall, Hit & Run, Earthquake and The Eliminator.

You say you have other television to watch? I say, what other television! Where else will you see in the first episode, in the first event, one of the contenders (a woman who sold toilet paper — don’t ask me how or where — in order to feed her two children) getting injured and taken out of competition, and see their replacement come back from a 20 point deficit in order to win. What other show will have a Jewish shark fisherman get replaced by an ordained Christian priest after he gets mangled by a man named Titan. No other show in existence can boast such a bold claim.

You have other stuff to do on a Monday night? I say thee nay! Everything you have to do should either already be done from the weekend, or can be put off until later in the week. Important budget proposal? Why not watch some people dodge giant, 100-pound

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balls being swung at them while running across a flimsy bridge. You say you have cleaning to do around your home? Why not put on some people wrestling on top of a floating piece of plastic? Children bothering you with their insistent crying? Just plop them down in front of the television while two large adults smack each other around with big padded sticks.

American Gladiators (2008) also boasts quite possibly the greatest Gladiator of all time, and that man is Wolf. He’s smellin’ fear, he’s smellin’ blood and he’s gonna eat ya. Wolf looks and acts just like Ben Stiller’s character in that Dodgeball move. He’ll not only take a person down, but mock them while they lay stunned on the matting and then howl into the echo-y vastness of the arena.

My main issue with she show isn’t the overly scripted feel of the dialogue by the clearly unableto-act-whatsoever hosts, but more so that everyone is referred to by their jobs almost constantly. And if your job isn’t wholesome enough (fireman, bull rider, military mom, priest etc.) the Hulkster will come up with some sort of awkward nickname for you (which may be seen as an honor in some circles). And any time that person is on camera, the audience will be reminded about what it is that they do, or what their new nickname is that will stick with them for the rest of their lives whether they like it or not.

Another issue I have with the show is the Eliminator. After watching countless numbers of episodes of Ninja Warrior, the final “grueling” challenge just seems like a walk in the park compared to what those perfect physical specimens do on the Japanese game show.The most physically demanding part of it is the Hand Bike, where they must pedel their way across a stretch using their arms. It seems faster to just drop from it and run across the mats and climb up to the next part. Another thing that bothers me about the Eliminator is that it lacks the presence of the Gladiators. They aren’t involved in shattering someone’s dream of victory, and that upsets me deeply.

Chikita Violenta - The Stars & Suns Session Chikita Violenta is an indie rock band from Mexico, and this album was produced by and features members of the Canadian indie rock supergroup Broken Social Scene.The sound, obviously, is very reminiscent of BSS, but it has a slightly different edge that I really dig. It’s basically music to listen to when you’re in a really great mood, so nab it now in case you’re anticipating a day like that coming up.You won’t be disappointed. — Tim Bavlnka

Wu-Tang Clan — 8 Diagrams

Let’s face it, nobody wanted to see Wu-Tang Clan call it quits as a group after 2001’s Iron Flag, a release that felt more like a half-baked mix tape than a serious album. Listening to 8 Diagrams makes me wonder if the Clan, by putting out a new collaborative album, isn’t trying to fit too many awesome ingredients into one overstuffed pie. While it’s impossible to expect another 36 Chambers, efforts have been made to make 8 Diagrams better than its two vapid predecessors.

The key to 36 Chambers’ success was the catchiness of the samples and the back-hand intensity of the lyrical delivery.The energy on 8 Diagrams wavers from an easy swagger to a smooth assault, and the production samples the likes of George Harrison, Curtis Mayfield and Nancy Sinatra (a blatant nod to RZA’s work on “Kill Bill”?). It’s a simultaneous upper and downer that the individual members have grown far beyond any single shell that can hold them, because while most have produced great solo material, every Wu album since The W has felt like a lethargic reunion project. Good news for 36 Chambers purists: 8 Diagrams comes close to replicating the magic of that stellar debut, a magic that may not be duplicated again by any hip-hop artist, Clansman or otherwise. — Nicholas Cabreza

Ghostface Killah — Big Doe Rehab

Ghostface Killah sounds poised, insightful and fluid on his latest album, and the beats he rhymes over are soulful and well-timed. In fact, it’s hard to find flaws on Big Doe Rehab, which is a rarity for anyone’s seventh album, but Ghostface is the rare MC who improves with age. He sounds completely at ease here. Unfortunately, that’s also what makes it a little unsatisfying.

If he releases his promised collaboration with MF DOOM in 2008, Ghostface Killah will have dropped four albums in two years. The first of those, Fishscale, was a dense crime narrative that will stand has a high point for hip-hop this decade.The follow-ups — this record and last year’s More Fish — also have fine beats and dizzying rhymes, but they would be served by a little more focus.

If Fishscale was about making money, then Big Doe Rehab is mostly about spending it. Ghost has some great boasts here — it costs him $50,000 in Windex to clean his glass-bottom pool — and the most detail-rich lyrics this side of Nas. But while the freeform beats on Fishscale served as jaggy crags to his rolling-boulder flow, the looping soul vamps on Big Doe rein it in. Ghostface Killah is just too good of a writer to settle for generic beats. It’s clear he has fine taste — “Got fresh oxygen tanks, got world-renowned surgeons/Plush robes made of suede and knitted by virgins. “ He just needs to hold his producers to the same standards. — Adam Bissen

Okkervil River — Golden Opportunities

Radiohead’s surprise-your-fans-with-a-free-album business model may have lasting effects on the music industry, but if the most immediate one is Okkervil River — a punchy Austin, Texas Americana band — releasing a surprise “mixtape” of live cover songs, I wholeheartedly endorse the practice. Available for free download at okkervilriver.com, Golden Opportunities features nine songs taped for friends, radio programs and live crowds worldwide.

Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff is renowned for his idiosyncratic lyrics and vocal delivery, and these covers sound uniquely Okkervil— meaning, mostly, hushed and/or aching. On “Do What You Gotta Do,” a song popularized by Nina Simone, Sheff warbles over a simple acoustic guitar line, while the full band backs Joni Mitchell and John Cale songs with apprehension. In the liner notes, Sheff said he recorded Randy Newman’s “Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear” as a gift for a friend, but thought it would be amusing to have the heartbroken children’s song in circulation.

Golden Opportunities was first released on the band’s Web site in December, with no hype or advance notice. In a posting, Sheff called the traditional way of releasing albums “extremely tiring” and thought the clandestine covers collection would be fun. He added, “And I kind of got off on the fact that no one knew this thing existed until the very minute we posted it.” The music world could use more surprises like this. — Adam Bissen

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Architecture in Helsinki – Places like This

Listening to this album felt like a mixture of many things.

Among them: the video arcade boogaloo of Beck, Bobcat Goldthwait handling lead vocals for Modest Mouse and a choir of cracked-out Muppets rocking out at the Tropic of Cancer. As could be guessed, Places like This is something very unusual, an endearing kind of unusual.This is childish, cheerful rock music that isn’t buried in pretension or typical poses. And this outlook leaves a fantastic album in its wake, the rare disc that is so consistently fun that it can be listened to from start to finish.

Architecture in Helsinki certainly bears noticeable influences.Yet though its style may not be in itself unique, the execution of this music is. It’s all in how one swings the hammer, and this band swings admirably, if not gleefully. — Brett Emerson

Daft Punk – Alive 2007

I like live albums. In some cases (such as Rammstein’s Live aus Berlin and Volkerball), I find live albums so great that I tend to listen to them far more frequently than I do the original studio recordings. Unfortunately, Daft Punk’s new live disc hasn’t left me with that level of excitement. Instead I feel as though I’m plodding through a victory lap series of audience-enhanced mash-ups.

Make no mistake – the music itself is not the problem. The songs are perfectly executed, and drastically different from Daft Punk’s albums.This flawlessness, however, also serves as the album’s greatest flaw.There is as much spontaneity here as a presidential press conference. Perhaps it’s the nature of the genre, but it feels like any DJ could have spun this music with the same result. Just press play.

I’m sure that seeing Daft Punk in concert would be a tremendous experience, and had I the opportunity, I would. There are moments of amazing intensity and power within the album which create something more akin to jealousy than satisfaction. Yet Alive loses something crucial in its translation. Though it is worth listening to, I’m left with a strongly mixed opinion. Maybe watching a video of the show would be better. — Brett Emerson

Robert Wyatt – Comicopera

This isn’t quite jazz or big band, but Comicopera does fall somewhere into that vein by default. Its tracks flow with jazz-bar ambience, augmented with the occasional electronics and guitar work. As a vocalist, Wyatt works in a gangly sort of croon, which goes over well with the experimental tone of his work. But even with Wyatt holding the center, there doesn’t seem to be a universal connection in the songs, owing in large part to the amount of collaborators on this album, including ambient legend Brian Eno. A good example of this is found at the album’s end. While one track is a weird bells-only instrumental, its successor becomes an experiment in backwards masking before drifting into the meringue conclusion.

The end result is a mostly soft spoken recording that is quirky enough to warrant a listen.

Though it isn’t something which necessarily cries out for attention, fans of ambient music, jazz, or anything unusual will find more than enough in this strange creature to hold interest. — Brett Emerson

The Evpatoria Report – Golevka

The Evpatoria Report is a post-rock outfit from Switzerland, and I think that I might be in love. Like, literally in love with this band. I’ve listened to a decent amount of post-rock, in a lot of varying forms, but I must say that this might be the most beautiful and most powerful album I’ve ever heard constructed in the vein of the genre. Everything just flows together seamlessly: the guitars, the percussion, the bass, the violins and the keyboard, into this huge, epic composition that can only be heard to truly understand.

If this description alone wasn’t enough of a plea to spend 68 minutes listening to this album, perhaps this will: The second track is titled “Taijin Kyofusho,” which in Japanese, is the word for “anthropophobia,” the fear of people or society. The track starts with a quiet build, but over the entire instrumental the final audio log of the doomed Columbia mission STS-107 from 2003, where the shuttle disintegrated during re-entry to the Earth’s atmosphere, is overlaid. Hearing the final lines of the recording, where Houston keeps trying to get a response over the build of the music is almost too much to bear, honestly, and the song continues to gain momentum and intensity for the entire 11 minute runtime, until the climax hits and leaves you feeling empty and alone.

This is some fucking music, ladies and gentlemen, and it will touch your soul. — Tim Bavlnka

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By Maria Pint

maria.pint@secondsupper.com

America smells delicious. That’s not even an opinion; it really smells like a wonderful, wonderful…I don’t even know, it just smells wonderful. I’ve always been the type of person to really take my sense of smell for granted but that was very foolish on my part. My last two and a half weeks in India have been spectacular and all, but my nose didn’t know what it was missing until we were back on America soil.

When we got off the plane in Cincinnati from Paris, I took one big whiff and almost wept; the beautiful smell was almost overpowering.

The sleep deprivation might not have helped the situation, but the Cinnabon couldn’t have hurt either. It had been close to 25 hours since we had left Bangalore, and I was just so happy not to be within inches of either my mother or sister anymore. Before our trip, I really thought I’d get sick of the food or the bathrooms or the constant lack of hot water, but I never really did. Basically, all I got sick of was my family.

It was convenient that we could leave one sister behind in India, and my other sister lives in Minneapolis, so within hours of landing in the good old Minneapolis/Saint Paul Airport, we had ditched two-thirds of my problem. The remaining third, my mother, remains to be an issue.

It didn’t help that throughout all of our travels in India, I was stuck with my mother as a roommate. I didn’t think it would be all that bad in the beginning since the alternatives were so much worse. My oldest sister has always been convinced that she should have been an only child, so I would have feared being killed in the middle of the night had I shared a room with her. My other sister is the lightest sleeper ever, and apparently I’m restless. One time on a trip in Montana, we had to share a bed and I woke up with bruises on my face because she was elbowing me in the night to try to make me stop moving.

So I thought my mother would be the best choice of the three, but it turns out she steals more covers than the freaking Hamburgler steals hamburgers. In my sister’s apartment and select hotels throughout our travels, we had to share a bed and that was hell.Absolute hell I tell you. Needless to say, our first night home I lie

Õ in my queen sized bed, fully covered for the first time in weeks, and thanked the sweet lord.

Ever since we got back, I’ve been avoiding her like the plague to no avail. I’m sure V-dawg is starting to think I’m a creeper since any time he leaves the house I’m literally begging to go with him.

The other day he went to the hardware store and there was nothing more I wanted to do at that moment than look at nuts and bolts with my father. It is creepy and out of character for me but I don’t care, it gets me away from my mother.

It was horrible this afternoon though, because I was forced to spend an extended period of time with her. She had scheduled an appointment for me to get my hair cut at the local salon at noon, but what she didn’t mention was that she had an appointment at 11:45 also. We could go together, and chat.Yay!

We pulled up to the salon and my mother bounded out like a little bunny and greeted the stylist with a purse full of pictures from our trip. Annoying enough, since no one really wants to see your vacation pictures, it’s just common courtesy to say “ohh” and “ahh” once in a while. When show and tell was over, the cosmetologist (just trying to be p.c. here) started dying my mom’s hair while I waited. In ten minutes or so she was letting my mom’s color set and was ready for me. I was sitting way back in the salon, thinking I was safe for a few moments, and she was washing my hair when my mom just suddenly appeared around the corner and started talking…again! Always the talking! Talk talk talk!

I thought we were done when we were pulling out of the parking lot, but she directed me right to my grandparents’ apartment. Shit. I love my grandparents and all but I was not in the mood. I sat sulking in the corner while my mother talked to my grandma in the loudest possible voice. For the record, my grandmother doesn’t actually have a hearing problem. Eventually, my grandpa Rock and I stole the bowl of homemade caramels and sneaked into the other room to watch the Australian Open for a while, bless his soul.

After getting home, she’s been even worse. The woman has just been barging into my room every ten minutes, asking dumb questions like, “So, did you like India? Would you go back? How’s your haircut? What did you think about Grandma’s new duvet cover?” I had to get away, so I’m now sitting in the bathroom because it’s the only room in the house with a lock. Extreme I know, but I feel as if it’s necessary.

Yikes, she better not read this anytime soon.

January 24, 2008

Why Ice Fishing?

By Adam Bissen

adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Plunking one’s keister on an overturned bucket, hunkering down on a frozen lake and prodding a crappie to nibble one’s wax worm isn’t most people’s idea of a good time, but hundreds of people go ice fishing each day. We’re not exactly sure why, so we asked the best experts we could find: Tony Christnovic, owner of Schafer’s Bait Shop on Brice Prairie, and Harland “Red” Edmunds, who owned it for 34 years prior to him. On a subzero afternoon last week, both men were at the bait shop, and about 20 ice anglers could be seen out the front window. This reporter’s cheeks froze just walking from the car, so he had to ask: Why do people ice fish? This is what Tony and Red had to say.

It’s cozy

Don’t forget about the ladies

“A lot of people call us crazy because they think of a guy sitting out in the middle of the ice in the cold, but actually the guys have nice heated tents. Some of them even have radios and TVs.” — Tony

“There’s a lot of women that ice fish, real good at it, too. There’s four, five of them out there that are experts.” — Red

You can do it whenever

“A lot of people that open-water fish don’t ice fish and vice-versa. Some guys are hardcore ice fishermen and feel that they can catch better fish during the winter.” — Tony

“There’s a faction that fishes at night all the time. There’s guys that come in here real early in the morning. There’s a special faction that fish tip-up, and if they could get minnows at five o’clock in the morning they would.” — Red It’s just that hard-core “There’s a guy I went fishing with. He used to fish with a big parka on him from the Pipeline.

He used to sit out there with that open on 20-below-zero weather and sweat. I’d say that guy probably fished five, maybe six times a week.” — Red

It’s the principle of the thing

It’s unpredictable “We’ve had good fishing, and there’s days when you can’t get a bite. It’s like Tony yesterday. He got 25, and today we went out there and never got one.” — Red The walk-on-water factor “Ice fishing is cheaper than it is for regular fishing because you don’t need a boat to get into the middle of a lake.” — Tony

You don’t need much equipment Element of danger “I can remember when I was a boy, fishing with a stick and a line and a bare hook and a wax worm.You can do pretty good.” — Tony You can still have lots of toys

Photos by Adam Bissen

“Obviously if you take too many chances you’re going to fall through the ice. It’s just like if you take too many chances speeding you’re going to get a ticket.” — Tony

“But now you’ve got all kinds of specific jigs.

You’ve got craw jigs. You’ve got rockers. You’ve got glows. You’ve got Marmooskas. You’ve got fresh-water shrimp jigs.You’ve got ginseng bugs.

You’ve got moon jigs. You’ve got all kinds of different bait you can use to try and trick the fish.” — Tony

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Ever tried fresh walleye in February?

“Plus you’ve got underwater cameras now, and you can watch the fish come up and bite and set the hook.” — Tony.

“The meat’s colder and it just tastes better that way.” — Tony

“I’d say the whole thing about ice fishing is just that people like to fool them. They like to fool the fish and know that they can catch them.”

— Red

It helps to drink a warm beverage “Alcohol and cold weather don’t mix. Coffee, that’s about the only thing that’s really good to

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Play your cards right and you might never have to go home

“There’s a faction that all they do is ice fish, and predominantly those are people that work in the construction business. Once the guys are laid off in the wintertime, they got plenty of time to fish.

They’re getting rocking chair money for fishing.”

— Red

“There’s a camping trailer out there, been there for, what, four or five weeks. He goes out there and he stays in it overnight, got holes in the floor and he fishes right in there.

I don’t know where he lives, but I’d say about 75 percent of the time he stays out there.”

— Red It’s something to do “A lot of guys don’t want to sit around the house and get cabin fever, and this is a good way to get out and get some exercise.” — Tony Ends

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When it’s good, it’s really good “The perfect ice fishing moment, you’re catching 8- to 9-inch bluegills, and you can only use one pole because they’re biting so fast. You end up with the limit in 45 minutes.” — Tony Just because “I don’t know how to explain ice fishing. People just love to do it.” — Red

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Photos by Kelly Morrison

Check out the Q&A with Rob on page 14!

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Q&A with Robert James Mini, Live Painter

By Joel Kuennen

joel.kuennen@secondsupper.com Rob has long been a fixture at the Culture Shock pre-shows at Bluffland Bloom & Brew.

He’s usually the guy in the window — painting.

Second Supper: How did you get involved with Culture Shock?

Rob Mini: Larry Stego, I met Dane and Ian through him at a Culture Shock show he took me to. I took some artwork down there and after that became good friends with them.

SS: Every show I’ve been to, you’ve been livepainting. How’s that?

RM: Well, first time I ever did it was at that first show with Larry Stego. It was strange at first, but it’s a really comfortable atmosphere.

Natural light, wonderful people, it’s a great experience in its difference.

SS:You paint there during the day too, right?

RM: Yeah, that’s where I paint most of the time now.I work construction in the summer, then do this in the winter, in the off-season.

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SS: How Page 1 did you get into construction?

RM: I’ve just kinda always been in it. I suppose

it all really started with carpentry. I’ve always had an interest in carpentry, there’s a lot of art in that. What I’m doing now mainly is church restoring.

describe your method of mixing spray, acrylic, and markers?

RM: I’ll just do a whole background, usually

see MINI, page 19

SS: Put your paintings into words.

RM: My style is kinda organic. It just grows as a painting. I have an idea and it just morphs off of that.

Most of my paintings take a matter of a few days and just kinda evolves from within.

SS: Do you try to work with themes?

RM: Sometimes.

SS: You work a lot with limbs — both of trees and of people, why?

RM: Well, it started with that first blue one where I was going more for a graffiti base, that was the first tree I did. I envisioned the person being consumed by a tree. It was just natural, the tree of life, plants, everything just growing together.

SS: So for those who haven’t seen anything from you, how would you

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If I weren’t allowed to use the words “very,” “sweet,” or “fruity,” it would be essentially impossible to write a review about this wine. That being said, this Piesporter is a very sweet fruity wine. The immediate and almost unmistakable taste is one of green apples and pears, complemented by a similarly light and fruity aroma. What it lacks is a bit of acidity, which leads you to think you may be tasting a mixture of three parts wine and one part apple juice. This is because Kabinett grapes are harvested earlier than any other variety of Piesporter (like you care), whereas Spaetlese and Auslese Piesporters are left on the vine, slightly changing the acidity and sugar content.

If you enjoy Rieslings, or any sweet white wine, you will like Piesporters; you just need to find the correct varietal for you. This is as close to guarantee as I can give you. This should come as no surprise, as they are both wines that (generally) originate from Germany’s west-central Mosel region. Piesporters, this one included, are usually made of Riesling grapes, and in fact produce some of the sweetest flavors in this category.

I would consider this more of a review of Piesporters in general than of this specific wine.

Although this variety isn’t particularly my favorite, as it tastes a bit too much like juice, it’s worth a try. If you’re like me and like sweet wines, but not particularly this one, you have to give some other types of Piesporter a try. The wine pairs amazingly with a wide variety of light pastas, chicken and wheat dishes. Check out an Auslese or Spaetlese if you don’t care for this one, because I’m sure you’ll find a Piesporter that suits your taste. - Geoff Johnson

Southern Pecan

Cranberry Special Ale Sand Creek Brewing Company Black River Falls, Wisconsin

A brewmaster assumes a risk when he tackles a fruit beer. He could be entering Mike’s Hard Lemonade country, where people pair gimmicky beverages with waterskiing, sunbathing or perhaps their post-prom. These beers are normally frizzy and fake-tasting, but proportioned right, a fruit beer can deliver unexpected flavors and genuine refreshment. Right now I’m willing to place Sand Creek Brewery’s Cranberry Ale in the “bold idea, unfortunately executed” file. It would be filed under “crazy idea that crashed and burned,” but I appreciate the respect paid to Wisconsin’s leading fruit crop. Too bad it ended up tasting so empty.

Give Sand Creek some credit; they didn’t take the easy way out on this one. They tried to make a balanced ale where the cranberry functions like a hop to cut through the malty overtones. The flavor isn’t stressed for novelty, and, Ratings: in fact, the cranberry is underrepresented in this mostly balanced ale.

The mouthfeel is medium-bodied and long-lasting, a contrast to many 4 of 10 fruit beers. The cranberry is most evident in the color and smell of the ale, but once it hits the throat it washes to a sweet cherry, which 3 of 10 is disappointing. A cranberry is known for its tartness. Why it’s played sweet here I have no idea, but the beer tastes caramelized and over3 of 10 malted.

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Prior to drinking the ale I had wondered if the cranberry could be used in an interesting way. Some craft beers are becoming so hop2 of 10 py that they’re practically pucker-enduing, but this Cranberry Special is about the opposite of that. Perhaps the flavors could be mixed up Total: better in someone else’s kettles, but if an enterprising brewer in the midst of Wisconsin cranberry country can’t do it, maybe the fruit is 17 of 50 doomed to a life of turkey sides and vodka chasers. - Adam Bissen

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Colombian coffees are some of the finest beans in the world and it’s definitely a plus that this flavored brew is 100%, though I’m guessing most readers don’t have a clue as to why. So I’ll tell you — Colombian coffee picking laws dictate that coffee beans may only be picked when they are ripe and by hand. Counterintuitively this is not the practice of most coffee producing lands. Coffee berries ripen at different times eventhough they are on the same bush. I’m not really too sure on the hortilogical reasoning for this, but what-evs. Most other countries use coffee-combines and there is just no easy way to sort out the unripe berries. So when you actually do see 100% Colombian on a package of coffee, all it means is that the berries in there were ripe when they were picked — providing for a more mellow, sweeter, bodilicous coffee than other types.

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(THE ORPHANAGE) 2007 Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Cast: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla Writer: Sergio G. Sanchez

Nobody likes children, especially children in horror movies; They’re like smaller, dumber versions of real people, and whenever they’re in horror films, they cry, scream, whine and are usually responsible for whatever horrific misfortune befalls the main character. Unfortunately, children often play very important roles in horror films. “The Orphanage,” on the other hand, has it right: the plot is set in motion when the child disappears.With the brat out of the way, the film has the chance to establish tone and setting.With children, because their vocabularies are so bad and their minds so undeveloped, it’s hard for them to express exactly what they experience. Often horror filmmakers rely on children to carry and withhold plot points, but such stagnation cannot be found in “The Orphanage,” which relieves us of this burden and instead lets us follow the main character, thank Jebus.

Here’s a horror film that cuts away the fat and gets down to business. With very few cheesy shriek moments, “The Orphanage” has more time to build character, setting and background exposition. It spends more time on these elements, all while allowing the terror and anticipation to ferment in the darkness as the horror blossoms.

When beloved wife and mother Laura returns to the now-abandoned orphanage where she spent a portion of her childhood, her son begins making several imaginary friends. Only after a mysterious child who wears a sack over his face, and whom only she remembers seeing, does she begin to believe that there’s more to the orphanage’s past than she can remember.

Many horror films, like the recent “One Missed Call,” for example, try to draw too many absurd connections and fumble to account for random loose ends, but “The Orphanage” keeps its composure throughout. Produced by horror auteur Guillermo del Toro, “The Orphanage” is a horror film that one can actually enjoy for its strengths rather than chastise for its absurdity.

—Nicholas Cabreza

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) 2007

Director: Julian Schnabel Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Emmanuelle Seigner Writer: Ronald Harwood, based on the novel by Jean-Dominique Bauby Had I seen it before I composed my best-of list for 2007 films, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” would have been on that list. It tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (aka Jean-Do) and the novel he wrote despite having “locked-in syndrome,” a condition which leaves almost 100 percent of the body paralyzed. Screenwriter Harwood and director Schnabel have a difficult task in front of them: How do you make the audience feel affection for Bauby rather than pity?

Imagine that you are Jean-Do Bauby: you have a stroke, and upon waking from a three-week coma find that you are completely paralyzed. Now imagine that you can still blink your left eye.

For a significant portion of its runtime, “Diving Bell” allows you to experience the condition first-hand. Using first-person point of view to perfection, the film opens with a series of blurring, dizzying shots from Bauby’s perspective. They’re able to completely submerge the viewer in the mind of the main character.You want the camera to pull away, and you want to see more of what’s going on, but like Bauby, you’re stuck, confined to that one point of view. Bauby likens his condition to being stuck in a diving suit submerged alone in the vast ocean.

Salvation comes in the form of Henriette (Croze), a social worker who teaches Bauby a system that allows him to communicate by blinking his left eye. Slowly, very slowly, Bauby blinks out a memoir. Sounds boring, doesn’t it: a movie about a man whose only form of communication is blinking his left eye. But the film thrives from Bauby’s trouble with communicating to others. It’s actually ablaze with the memories and fantasies that play inside Bauby’s head like a picturesque short-film festival.What Bauby could not communicate with his voice, the film communicates with sweet vignettes, touching flashbacks and impassioned fantasies. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is very artistic, aesthetic filmmaking that’s even more amazing because every ounce of it actually happened. — Nicholas Cabreza

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MINI, from page 14 with acrylics, whatever colors I want, make it smooth and then layer over the top of that. I’ll take pieces of the top and blend that in so the painting becomes smoother. Sometimes I just like the background so much that I don’t want to put anything over the top of it.

SS: You also use markers in your paintings, giving them this sort of graphic appeal.

RM: Yeah, I really like them, it’s just like an acrylic paint marker. In a way, I feel like I’m just doodling.

SS: Your work obviously shows roots from street art. What got you into that?

REC, from page 7 world and people should consider it more. I have gotten some legitimate spray jobs though.

I did this indoor mural at Coalition and one at Exclusively Kicks last month. The one I did at Coalition is from an old-school “rip board” design. 95.7 came down and liked it so much they might want to do something at their big old office party.

SS: Where do you see yourself in five years?

RM: Finishing school probably over in San Francisco for Interior Architectural Design. I don’t really want to go to school to be an artist. It’s kind of bullshit, rather just have it as a hobby and leave it at that.

RM: Met a kid from South Carolina, he was a graf artist down there. I looked through his books, and some of his stuff just blew open this spectrum of art to me. It wasn’t just going out and vandalizing something anymore. It became more than that. I mean it’s huge! It’s found all around the

parties all Saturday evening. Games will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission for both is a WinterRec Fest button and $5, and that includes a package of two games, shoes, a hot dog and soda.

Lay down all your queens n’ jacks and no-trick some suckas! Euchre and Sheepshead tournaments will be held at the City Brewery Hospitality Center on Saturday.

A $15 entry fee includes a Winter-Rec Fest button, but unfortunately entry fees needed to be in by Jan. 21.

There will be a variety of Co-Rec tournaments available for the snowed-in athlete.

A Snow Volleyball tournament will be held at the Alpine Inn (limit 12 teams) and Nutbush City Limits (limit 12 teams). Entry fee costs $75 and includes six Winter-Rec Fest buttons.

A Snow Softball Tournament will be held at Green Island & Erickson Softball Fields, and has a $75 entry fee which includes 10 Winter-Rec Fest buttons. If you love the idea of hitting a ball

Õ with a broom through goals, then Broomball is for you! Broomball tournaments will be held at Copeland Park Ice Rink, and has a $75 entry fee which includes 10 Winter-Rec Fest buttons.

Sorry, but the sign-up period closed Jan. 16.

Forest Hills Golf Course will be hosting a Polar Golf Open on Sunday. Entry fee is $4 and Winter-Rec Fest button and is open to ages. To pre-register, call 789-7533. Tee time starts at 10 a.m.

Hood Park and the South Side Neighborhood Center will be hosting an afternoon of skating, games, prizes and fun!

Starting at 1 p.m. and lasting to 4 p.m., the events are open to all ages, with the only admission requirement being a Winter-Rec Fest button.

To close the fest, there will be a appreciation party & bean bag tournament at the City Brewery Hospitality Center from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., with the only admission being a Winter-Rec Fest button.

Enjoy the Winter Rec Festival, La Crosse!

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January 24, 2008

I'm Jonesin' for a crossword

Bibliophile

“Think Twice”--’cuz once is never enough.

by Matt Jones Across 1 Pole on a sailing ship 5 Letters on Soviet rockets 9 Thin type of toast 14 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s ___...”

15 “October ___” (TV drama) 16 Oak-to-be 17 Willie of “Charles in Charge” taking over an entire state?

19 Taboos 20 Fire dept. positions 21 Telepathy, e.g.

22 Beer ___ (dorm game) 23 “Now I’ve found you!”

24 Mistake that’s in a class of its own?

29 Alternative to Facebook 31 Calgary Stampede event 32 Singer Corinne Bailey ___ 33 Thurman of “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” 35 “That’s funny!”

36 Oreo flavor 37 Pets owned by one of the Medicis?

41 Celebrity chef Matsuhisa, or his restaurant 42 MySpace president Anderson who always shows up as a first friend 43 “La Cage ___ Folles” 44 Super Mario Bros.

3 platform, for short 45 Out-of-focus shapes 47 Kelly Clarkson’s “___ U Been Gone” 51 TV controllers during the 1940s?

54 Hoop site, maybe 55 “Let’s Make a Deal” option 56 “American Gladiators” co-host Laila 57 Mil. branch 58 Alpha-___ acid 60 Creepy place to go boating?

63 Make a rope 64 Tina’s “30 Rock” co-star 65 Geologic time periods 66 Ohio city, familiarly 67 Outdo 68 Shoelace tangle

Down 1 Antacid advertised with “Moments” 2 First name in mysteries 3 Dude Delilah delighted 4 Mao ___-Tung 5 Like good lettuce 6 “Hangin’ With Mr. ___” 7 Crow noise 8 Blackberry, for one 9 Shoe designer Blahnik 10 ___ Lodge (motel chain) 11 Eva married to NBA guard Tony Parker 12 Term of endearment to a frat boy 13 Response: abbr.

18 Kind of seeds used in tahini 22 Dish made with

saffron 25 Sri Lanka’s capital 26 “Survivor” immunity item 27 Gives zero stars 28 Movie studio filming site 30 Wise guy?

34 Horn on the range 36 Year when Super Bowl XLV will be held 37 Movie theater magnate Marcus 38 Dark glass formed by cooling lava 39 Show that asked kids to write to “Boston, Mass., 0-2-1-3-4” 40 Down Under dweller 41 Dir. opposite SSE 45 Introspective 46 They get high in Nevada

Answers to “I Curse You” Issue #99

Second Supper vol. 8, issue 101

48 Brain cell 49 1995 Scorsese movie 50 Ron Paul’s middle name 52 ___ Breeze (The Sharper Image air purifier) 53 Put in office 58 “Duel” network 59 Medical scan, for short 60 Place for experimenting 61 British brew 62 “A rat!” noise ©2007 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute.

Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548.

Reference puzzle #0342.

Soon I Will Be Invincible

By Austin Grossman

A book based on comicbookdom’s storied, sometimes laughable history? One whose plot plays almost exactly in line with the superhero team versus diabolical supergenius cliché? Multiple uses of a mwa-ha-ha? Damn straight! But while the majority of this story falls directly into a style which has been humped into senility over the past century, Grossman provides a sense of humor and sensitivity that makes Soon I Will Be Invincible a markedly different swerve.

The chapters alternate between the perspectives of Doctor Impossible, smartest and most insipidly dastardly man on Earth, and Fatale, a cyborg newbie to the good guy Champions. The story starts with Impossible stewing in prison, waiting for an escape opportunity to present itself.

Naturally, it does. Meanwhile, Fatale’s story begins with her invitation to the Champions, a group whose members are blatant tributes to Justice League members such as Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman – whose equivalent here has gone missing. Both accounts ultimately center upon Impossible’s newest master plan, though each narrator’s individual point of view is invaluable to the plot’s development. Doctor Impossible comes off as a hilariously resigned villain, driven by the rules of the game to have an arch-enemy, a doofy costume and absurdly sinister mannerisms, though he knows better. For her part, Fatale serves more to point out how dysfunctional and neurotic the heroes are, as well as to point out her own alienations and uncertainties. Though Doctor Impossible’s side of the tale is more fun to read, the Champions eventually grow more sympathetic as one picks up more details about their fragmented lives. Contrary to the title, this is not a story about invincibility. The perspectives here come from very vulnerable people who are trying to make sense of their bizarre (and sometimes conquerable) world. Doctor Impossible in particular stands out as a tremendous character – sad, alienated and tragic.

Cheesy comic book plots like these are a dime a dozen. Execution with this level of selfawareness and sympathy isn’t. This neat tale is simultaneously reverential and questioning in a way that results in a grand tribute to the entire history of comics, not to mention a sweet novel in its own right. — Brett Emerson

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Õ A gentleman does not carry a cellular phone into a theatre.

If a gentleman has left a message for another person, he does not leave badgering follow-up calls, especially if no deadline is involved.

DVD, Video, Clothing, Novelties, Gifts, Lingerie, Tobacco Shop

A gentleman is not obliged to return unsolicited messages or voice mail.

At a formal dinner, general conversation and deep discussions are not possible. The guests talk to those next to them, the hostess manages the turn of the conversation by her own conversation, she talks to the gentleman on her right for about 15 minutes, then turns to the gentleman on her left. This is the cue for all to change conversational partners.

Gentleman - Bridges, John. How to be a Gentleman. Rutledge Hill Press for Brookes Brothers. 1998 Ladies - Ames, Elinor. Book of Modern Etiquette. P.J. Collier & Sons Corporation. 1940

Downtown Book & Video 72 E Third St. 507-453-9031

Any blog where you can watch Star Trek bloopers right on the main page while browsing its content is great in my book. Including reviews and articles about television, movies, comics, video games and all things nerd-related., this is a very good and well thought out blog, with lots of interesting posts.

315 Fifth Ave. So. La Crosse,WI tel. 784.5798 www.pfc.coop

Grinding.be http://grinding.be/

Grinders are people who practice extreme body modification — the term comes from computer gaming, where it refers to unlocking features (or, more commonly, improving one’s character) through repetitive gameplay. This isn’t about modifications, but about people’s unrest with the concept of the future (a common mental reason behind body mods), and each post is directly related to concepts of science futurism.

UCBcomedy.com

http://www.ucbcomedy.com/ A comedy video site along the lines of Super Delux, but by those involved in the Upright Citizens Brigade theater scene. They show continuing series or one-shot comedy bits, of which all are perfectly odd in the UCB style.

Downtown Book & Video 220 SW First Ave 507-252-1997

Your community owned natural foods store

Alert nerd.

http://alertnerd.com/

Intimate Treasures 310 4th St. Downtown 608-782-3287

open daily 7 am–10 pm

organics • deli with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free selections, fabulous soups & interesting sandwiches • fair trade coffee & tea • bakery • specialty cheeses • local products • fresh, local, & conventional produce • wine & beer • vitamins • cosmetics • health & beauty • floral • housewares and so much more ...

:Show Hours: Fri. 4 pm - 11 pm, Sat. 10:30 AM - 11 PM, Sun. 10:30 AM - 7 PM Open to the public (may not be suitable for children.)

Admission at the door, $12 Day pass / $30 Weekend Pass tattoo competition-award winning tattoo artists-body piercingleather-jewelry-live entertainment feat. Vatican PX, Undercover Ware-Live Suspension Show-Sahara Desert Belly Dancers

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January 24, 2008

Happenings Art galleries 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.

HEIDER CENTER FOR THE ARTS 405 East Hamlin Street 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.

Sports UW-L

Women’s Basketball: Wed, Jan. 30 UW-Whitewater @ UW-L 7 p.m.

Men’s Wrestling: Fri, Jan. 25 Lawrence University @ UW-L 7 p.m.

Sat, Jan. 27 Augsburg College @UW-L 2 p.m.

Women’s Gymnastics: Fri, Jan. 25 Winona State @ UW-L 7 p.m.

WWTC

Men’s Basketball: Mon, Jan. 28 UW-Barron @ WWTC 7 p.m.

WINONA STATE

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

Women’s Basketball:

STORY PEOPLE www.storypeople.com 110 Winnebago St, Decorah, IA 563-382-8060

Tues, Jan. 29 Crown College @ Winona 7 p.m.

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

Theaters COMMONWEAL THEATRE www.commonwealtheatre.org/ 208 Parkway Avenue North, Lanesboro, MN 55949 800-657-7025 LA CROSSE COMMUNITY THEATRE www.lacrossecommunitytheatre.org 118 5th Ave N La Crosse, WI 608-784-9292

Fri, Jan. 25 Northern State @ Winona 6 p.m.

Sat, Jan. 26 U of Mary @ Winona 6 p.m.

Men’s Basketball: Fri, Jan. 25 Northern State @ Winona 8 p.m.

Sat, Jan. 26 U of Mary @ Winona 8 p.m.

LUTHER COLLEGE

Women’s Basketball: Sat, Jan. 26 Coe @ Luther 6 p.m.

Men’s Basketball: Sat, Jan. 26 Coe @ Luther 8 p.m.

Swimming & Diving: Sat, Jan. 26 Grinnell @ Luther 1 p.m.

performances What: Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, a hilarious farce that will “leave you teary-eyed with laughter”.

Date: Dec. 31-Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.

(Feb. 2 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.)

Where: La Crosse Community Theatre UW–L THEATRE: What: Oklahoma!

Date: Feb. 29-March 1 and March 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. and March 2 and 9 at 2:00 p.m.

Where: Toland Theatre, Center for the Arts building on campus VITERBO THEATRE: What: My Name is Rachel Corrie Date: Jan. 31 and Feb. 1-2 Where: La Croix Black Box Theatre WINONA THEATRE: What: Dancescapes Date: Feb. 14-16 at 7:30 p.m.

(Feb. 16 at 2:00 p.m. also) Where: PAC Main Theatre SAINT MARY’S THEATRE: What: When You Comin’ Back Red Ryder?

Date: Feb. 28-March 3 at 7:30 p.m.

(March 2 at 3:00 p.m. also) Where: Academy Theatre,Valencia Arts Center

Art Exhibits DOLL EXHIBIT

Jan.19 - Feb. 3 Pump House Regional Center for the Arts (La Crosse) 608-785-1434 24 doll artists will exhibit their creations.Various media and meanings will be displayed.

WATERCOLORS

BY PHYLLIS MARTINO

Jan. 1 - 31 Heider Center for the Arts (West Salem) 608-786-0700 ABSTRACT PRINTS AND VARIOUS WORKS

ongoing

By James (La Crosse) 608-785-2637 Prints by Dr. Seuss; works by Dali, Chagall, Ouida Touchon, the latest by 21st century talent, and more.

Men’s Wrestling:

PAINTING, POTTERY, PHOTOS, JEWELRY

Sat, Jan. 26 IIAC Duals @ Luther 8:30 a.m.

Edland Art Gallery (La Crosse) 608-785-2787

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ongoing

Art Exhibits, cont.

SERVEWARE; JEWELRY; HAND-WROUGHT IRON, ALUMINUM, AND PEWTER PIECES

ongoing State Street Gallery (La Crosse) 608-782-0101.

“RETROSPECTIVE: GLASS AND FIBER” BY BERNADETTE MAHFOOD

through Jan. 27 Winona Arts Center 507-453-9959 “TEMPEST, TRAGEDY, AND TRIUMPH”

through March 23 Minnesota Marine Art Museum (Winona) 507-474-6626 Art depicting naval and yachting victories and losses, storms, shipwrecks and rescue.

SENSORY OVERLOAD: LIGHT, MOTION, SOUND, AND THE OPTICAL IN ART SINCE 1945

ongoing, starting Jan. 24 Milwaukee Art Museum 414-224-3200 European and American art, including Stanley Landsman’s Infinity Chamber, which has not been on view for nearly twenty years. Also featured is Erwin Redl’s Matrix, a 25 x 50 foot LED installation.

Upcoming Events, cont.

SHADES OF BLUE TATTOO SHOW

Jan. 25 - Jan. 27 La Crosse Center North Hall Friday: 4:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Admission: $12/day $25/weekend pass Featuring a tattoo competition, award winning tattoo artists, body piercing, live entertainment, leather, jewelry, and T-Shirt vendors JEAN FERACA BOOK SIGNING

Saturday, Jan. 26 The Wine Guyz (La Crosse) 608-782-9463 Noon - 2 p.m.

Admission: free Public radio personality and host of Here on Earth, Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca, will be reading from and signing copies of her new book I Hear Voices. Books available for a reduced price in advance at The Wine Guyz.

UW-L JAZZ FESTIVAL

Saturday, Jan. 26 UW-L campus Learn the language of jazz, how to improvise, and more with daytime lessons taught by grammy-winning trumpet player Brian Lynch.

Public concert in Valhalla, Cartwright Center from 7 - 9:30 p.m.

Admission: adults - $15 students - $10

“WHO IS A CITIZEN? WHAT IS CITIZENSHIP?”

WINTER BLUES FEST

ongoing

Saturday, Jan. 26

Frederick R. Weisman Museum (University of Minnesota)

Anjero’s Sports Bar & Grill (Mauston, WI) 608-847-4000 3 p.m.

Admission: $20 in advance, $30 day of the show.

Music provided by Big Daddy Cade and the Bluesmasters, Lisa Stange and the Third Shift Band, Howard Luedtke, and Blue Max and the Lamont Cranston Band.

The first in a year-long series of exhibitions and programs examining the role of art and artists in a democracy. Featuring 30 paintings, photographs, and prints from various artists.

Upcoming Events CHILI & CHICKEN DRUMMIE FAMILY FUN NIGHT

Friday, Jan. 25 Caledonia, MN 5 - 9 p.m.

Food, beer, and gambling.

Call 507-725-8647 for more information

“AN ELEMENT OF CHANCE”

Saturday, Jan. 26 Heider Center for the Arts (West Salem, WI) 608-786-1220. ext. 4 7:30 p.m.

Admission: adults - $10 students - $8 DRP Dance presents a 50 minute journey through life’s ordinary and unexpected events. Choreography

by Danielle Robinson-Prater and visual art by Joel Prater.

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What to Watch for...

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GAVIN THEORY’S BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA!

Wednesday, Jan. 30 The Joint (La Crosse) 21+ 10 p.m.

The night will begin at 10:00 with peformances from Efftupp, Hyphon/Def Mech (aka US) with a possible DJ set before Neon Autumn Records (Gavin Theory, Lucas Dix, Hives Inquiry Squad, Still Life) finish the night off.

Drink specials for the night as well.

TANGO FIRE DANCE SHOW

Wednesday, Jan. 30 Viterbo University Main Theatre (La Crosse) 608-796-3100 Admission: $36/$34/$29 Argentina`s hottest tango show, complete with passionate dancers and a quartet of brilliant musicians, delivers an evening of high-energy and sophistication that will leave you breathless.

LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Feb. 1 - Feb. 2 Viterbo University Fine Arts Center (La Crosse) 608-783-2121 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $35/$19 Featuring Symphony No. 5, Reformation and Piano Concerto #3. Jon Nakamatsu on the piano.

WESTBY SNOWFLAKE SKI JUMPING TOURNAMENT

Feb. 8 - Feb. 9 Timber Coulee, Cty P (between Westby & Coon Valley) 608-634-3211 Opening ceremonies at noon both days.

International ski jump competition on an Olympic size hill. Skiers from the United States and numerous foreign countries compete. Food and drink available on grounds. Tailgating is permitted.

BUTCH THOMPSON, RENOWNED JAZZ PIANIST

Sunday, Feb. 10 City Brewery Hospitality Center 608-791-1190 2 - 5 p.m.

Admission: LAJS members - $14 non-members - $16 students with ID - $5 International expert on early jazz and master of jazz piano styles.You have heard him on Prairie Home Companion, now hear him here!

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January 24, 2008

COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area LA CROSSE All Star Lanes 4735 Mormon Coulee

Alpine Inn W5715 Bliss rd.

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

Alumni

620 Gillette st.

Barrel Inn 2005 West ave.

2 for 1 cans & bottles during Packer games

Beef & Etc.

1203 La Crosse st.

Big Al’s

115 S 3rd st.

Brothers 306 Pearl st.

free pitcher of beer or soda with large pizza

closed

114 5th ave.

318 Pearl st.

Tuesday Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Buck Night starts at 7 p.m.

Import night starts at 7 p.m.

Cosmic Bowl & Karaoke starts at 9 p.m.

Cosmic Bowl starts at 9 p.m.

6 - CL $2.50 Sparks $1.00 softshell tacos

$5.00 BBQ ribs & fries

$5.00 all you can eat wings

1/4 barrel giveaway 8-11 $1 burgers

bucket night 6 for $9

$6.00 AUCD

3 p.m. - midnight 25 cent hot wings $1 shots of Dr.

meatball sandwich meal: $6.15 2 dogs meal: $ 5.25

Italian beef meal: $6.15 Chicago chili dog: $3.45

grilled chicken sandwich meal: $5.29 Polish sausage meal: $3.99

hamburger meal: $3.69 cheeseburger meal: $3.89

$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)

$2.50 Blatz vs. Old Style pitchers

Thirsty Tuesday

10 cent wings (9 - CL) $1 High Life bottles $1.50 rail mixers $2 Guinness pints

Martini Madness $2 off all martinis

closed

$1 Dr. shots $3 Jager Bombs

2 for 1 taps

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

10 cent wings (6-CL) $1 shot of the week, $1.50 PBR bottles, rails, Rolling Rocks, $2 Miller lite bottles

happy hour (open-9) jumbo pints (9-CL) $1 rails, domestic taps $2 calls, import/micro taps $3 top shelf mixers

meat or marinara spaghetti: $3.45 Italian sausage: $4.95

Fiesta Mexicana 5200 Mormon Coulee

Fox Hollow

N3287 County OA

7 - CL $1 domestic 12 oz $2 Stoli mixers

$1.50 bloody marys 11 a.m. - 4 p.m

Wristband Night

$3.00 Captain mixers/ mojitos $2.00 Cherry Bombs $1.00 Bazooka Joes

all Bud family bottles $2.50

$2 Bacardi flavor mixers $2 jumbo Captain & Cokes $2.50 Jager Bombs

Karaoke $1 shot specials

live DJ $1 shot specials

chicken & veggie fajitas for two

football night domestic beer: $1.50 Mexican beer: $2.00

chicken primavera

shrimp burrito

chili verde

Ask server for details

Build your own Bloody Mary 16oz Mug - $4.00

Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer $9.00

Bucket of Domestic Cans 5 for $9.00

25 Cent Wings

$2 off all pitchers

717 Rose st.

$1.50 PBR $1 shots of Dr.

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HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8

beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95 16 oz steak

free wings 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

$8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter

Buy one gyro get one half price

free baklava, ice cream or sundae with meal

$1.25 domestic taps buy one burger get one half price

buy one appetizer get one half price

GREEK ALL DAY appetizer half price with meal

HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 -7 and 9 - 11

Bloody Mary specials 10 - 2

JB’s Speakeasy

Karaoke

HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6 $1.25 BURGERS

HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM

$5.99 gyro fries & soda

$3.00 Bacardi mixers/ mojitos $2.00 Cherry Bombs $1.00 Bazooka Joes

50 cent taps 4 - 7 (increases 50 cents per hour) $1 rails

Ladies Night buy one, get one free wear a bikini, drink free

1908 Campbell rd.

324 Jay st.

$6.75 shrimp dinner

Topless Tuesday

Gracie’s

The Joint

Italian beef meal: $6.15 2 Chicago dog meal: $3.45

$1 Kul Light cans

1904 Campbell rd.

127 Marina dr.

pepper & egg sandwich meal: $4.50, fish sandwich meal: $4.99, Italian sausage meal: $6.15

$4 full pint Irish Car Bomb

Goal Post

Huck Finn’s

$5.50 $5.00 batterfried cod, all you can eat fries, beans, & garlic wings bread $4.50 domestic pitchers barrel parties at cost

HAPPY HOUR 4 - 7

223 Pearl st.

411 3rd st.

3-7 happy hour

$2 Silos

16 oz top sirloin $6.75 22 oz t-bone $9.75 blue cheese stuffed sirloin $7.75 Jack Daniels sirloin tips $7

Coconut Joe’s Dan’s Place

3 games for $5 starts at 7 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM

The Cavalier CheapShots

food & drink specials ]

6 domestic bottles for $10

HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM

HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6 $1.50 PBR $2 Love Stories $5 Wu Tang Teas $1 shots of the DOC!

$1.50 PBR $1 shots of Dr.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area LA CROSSE Legend’s

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

223 Pearl st.

The Library 123 3rd st.

come in and find out ... you’ll be glad you did

Loons

1128 La Crosse st.

Nutbush

25 wings: $5 bucket of beer: $12 during Packers games

Ringside

$1 off Phillies $2 Bloodys $2 domestic taps & bottles

3264 George st.

223 Pearl st.

Schmidty’s 3119 State rd.

Shooter’s 120 S 3rd st.

Sports Nut 801 Rose st.

closed

$1 taps $1 rails

hamburger $1.25 cheeseburger $150

bacon cheeseburger, fries, mug of beer: $4.50 drummies, fries, mug of beer: $5

Pizza & pitcher half price app with sandwich or burger

breakfast buffet $9.95 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

$1.50 cans Hamm’s $1 domestic taps

Õ] food & drink specials Thursday

$2 SVEDKA mixers & Miller Lite bottles

jumbo pints (9-CL) $1 rails, domestic taps $2 calls, import/micro taps $3 top shelf mixers

KARAOKE $1.25 domestic pints $2 double rails $3 double calls $2 ALL bottles

Ladies Night (8-12) 50 cent u-call-its Wristband Night

chicken filet, fries, pop: $4.75 chicken filet, fries, beer: $5 mushroom/swiss, fries, pop: $4.25, mushroom/swiss, fries, beer: $4.50

AUCE fish fry DJ 9 - CL

HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM $2 mixers, taps, bottles $1 off all burgers/ 3 p.m. - midnight buy one sandwich/burger sandwiches, 25 cent hot wings get one half price bottomless fries $1 shots of Dr.

$1.50 cans PBR

$1.50 cans Busch Light

$1.50 cans Busch Light

$1.50 cans Old Style

$1 burgers $1 domestic taps

$1 softshell tacos $1 domestic taps

10 cent wings $1 domestic taps

12 oz T-Bones $7.99 $1 domestic taps

HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM $2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints

Bucket Night 5 for $9

Top Shots

Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas

$1.50 PBR bottles $1.50 Dr. shots after 7 p.m.

$1.25 Lite taps all day $1.50 rails 10 - 1

$1.75 domestic bottles 7 - 12

5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1

$1 Point special bottles

$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness

$1.75 domestic bottles

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday Wednesday

$2 Rolling Rocks $2 domestic beer

8 - CL $1.50 rails $1.75 Bud cans

$1 shots of Dr. $2.50 Polish

$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs

$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)

Family pack: 10 tacos & 4 sodas for $14.99

burritos on the go: buy a big one and get a free soda

Speedy tacos $1.50

gyro, chips, soda $5.99

3 chicken fry taquitos $3.99

Sunday

Monday

LA CRESCENT

Crescent Inn 444 Chestnut st.

Speedy Taco 301 Kistler dr.

WINONA Betty Jo Byoloski’s

66 Center st.

Brothers 129 W 3rd st.

Godfather’s 30 Walnut st.

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$2.25 Pearl st. pints $1.50 PBR bottles

Tuesday Wednesday

$1.50 cans Miller High Life Light Fish Fry $6.99 $1 domestic taps $1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers

$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers

closed

$2 happy hour all day long!

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

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

HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM 10 cent wings, $3 filled 2 for 1 mug ($1 tap refills, $2 anything rail refills) $1 High Life 9 p.m. - CL bottles/kamikaze shots

$1.50 cans PBR 10 cent wings 5- gone $1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers

$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $4.50 lite pitchers 7 - 12

$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs

Thursday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday $2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish

Fiesta burrito $6.99

Nachos Supreme $5.49

Friday

Saturday

HAPPY HOUR 3:15 - 6:15 2 for 1 burgers $1 off Bloodys & Screwdrivers

$1.25 pints during Badgers games DJ 9 - CL

LUNCH BUFFET $6.45

$2 Bacardi mixers

317 Pearl st.

AUCE all day $9.99 walleye/perch/catfish, mashed potatoes/fries coleslaw/salad

$3 Captain mixers $3 jumbo Long Islands

LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY

$4 domestic pitchers

Yesterdays

$3 Bacardi mixers $3 jumbo Long Islands

$5.00 for 25 wings

BUCK WED burger, hot dog or brat

happy hour all day Packer games: $1.50 Coors Light Silver, $1 Dr. shots, free brats

137 S 4th st.

$5 double vodka energy drink $2 shots of Goldschlager

fish sandwich, fries, mug of beer: $5 fish sandwich, fries, pop: $4.75

Tailgators 1019 S 10th st.

Saturday

cheeseburger, fries, pop: $4 cheeseburger, fries, beer: $4.25 Philly or Reuben, fries, pop: $5.75, Philly or Reuben, fries, beer: $6

HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6

$1 tacos, Ladies Night 2 for 1, 9 - CL

Friday

free pitcher of pop or domestic beer with large pizza discounts on all domestic beer

all day: all-u-can-eat fish $8.95 lunch: fish sandwich & fries $5.45

$1 O-Bombs/ Bazooka Joes, Wristband Night

3 - 8: $2 High Life pitchers, $3 dom. pitchers. $5 fish bowls, $1 shot/week, $2.50 Capt. mixers, $2.25 Bud/Bud Light taps

Prime Rib specials, one child eats free with one adult entree 4 - 10: house wines $2.50 $1 O-Bombs/Bazooka Joes, $2.50 Bacardi mixers, $2.50 U-Call-Its, $3 flavored long islands

any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)

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La Crosse Thursday, January 24

Sunday, January 27

La Crosse Center Everclear, Seven Mary Three, Eve 6, The Black Mollys 8:00

Popcorn Tavern Sterus

Dan’s Place Live DJ

9:00

Popcorn Tavern The New Blend

The Recovery Room Live DJ

9:00

Nutbush Live DJ Popcorn Tavern Run Side Down

10:00 10:00

Friday, January 25

All Star Lanes Karaoke

9:00

My Second Home Karaoke Player’s Live DJ Nutbush Live DJ Popcorn Tavern Sol Spectre

Minneapolis population

10:00

Monday, January 28 Popcorn Tavern Cocktail Hour with Shawn and Steve

10:00

The Warehouse We the Living, Rickpat, Ryan Rodenburg

387,970

moe.

First Avenue

Sun, 1/27

Sound Tribe Sector 9, sub-ID

First Avenue

Wed, 1/30

Cornmeal

Cabooze

Thurs, 1/31

DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist

First Avenue

Mon, 2/4

Dark Star Orchestra

Guthrie Theater

Mon, 2/4

Nutbush Live DJ

Editors, Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV

Majestic Theatre

Tues 1/29

Popcorn Tavern Paulie

Dark Star Orchestra

Barrymore Theatre

Thurs, 2/7

Puddle of Mudd

Majestic Theatre

Thurs, 2/14

Dub Trio

High Noon Saloon

Mon, 2/25

Euforquestra

The Waterfront Bar & Grill

Sat, 2/2

Shoeless Revolution

The Waterfront Bar & Grill

Thurs, 2/14

Smokin’ Bandits

The Waterfront Bar & Grill

Sat, 2/23

Velvet Revolver

The Rave/Eagles Ballroom

Fri, 1/25

moe., Cornmeal

The Rave/Eagles Ballroom

Sat, 1/26

Kid Rock, Reverend Run

The Rave/Eagles Ballroom

Wed, 1/30

Madison 6:00 10:00 10:00

9:00 Wednesday, January 30 10:00 10:00 10:00

Saturday, January 26 The Warehouse Eyes of the Decayed, Verge of Collapse, Silentium Inferus, Buried Face Down, Ritual Fixx

Players Live DJ

10:00

Tuesday, January 29

The Warehouse Born of Osiris, After the Burial, Veil of Maya, Sea of Treachery, With Dead Hands Rising, For Blood 6:00

All Star Lanes Karaoke

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Entertainment Directory 1/24-1/30

6:00 9:00

10:00

Nutbush Live DJ 10:00 Second Supper vol. 8, issue 101

Loon’s Comedy Night Library Karaoke

8:30 9:00 10:00

Longhorn Karaoke

10:00

Player’s Karaoke

10:00 10:00

The Joint Efftupp, Hyphon/Def Mech, Lucas Dix, Gavin Theory, Hives Inquiry Squad 10:00

223,389

Menomonie population

Coconut’s Live DJ

Popcorn Tavern Brownie’s Open Jam

population

14,937

Milwaukee population

602,782

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Marcus Center for Performing Arts

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