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Letter from the Editor In 2008, I was pretty pleased by everyone’s general outlook on participatory democracy. Everyone knew who Obama was, and at least three-quarters of my friends could tell me something about John McCain. Yeah, it was great. People even voted — bragged about standing in line, no less! — because there was a feeling in the air that this kind of stuff was important. Flush with such Heavy Responsibilities as an American, people even did something else that’s rare in this country: They tried to learn what was going on. Crazy concept, I know, but because voting was all hip and stuff, friends made a point to get together, teach, and debate. Oh, it was just awesome. We had the Daily Show to entertain us, naturally, and tons of viral videos and blog links and SNL skits and rap songs, and everything was so groovy and fun that Election Night parties were most people’s social event of the season. When we were all so hopped up on participatory Democracy, everyone went out and voted and somebody won the presidency by 10 million votes so none of our waiting in line really meant too much anyway: Time to stop caring about elections until the next time Kanye West makes an endorsement. So here we are, less than a half year removed from November 4, 2008, and I don’t think the interest in next week’s mayoral elections is even a tenth of what it was back then. It’s a pity, too, since your say is so much greater.When Mark Johnsrud won La Crosse’s last mayoral race in 2005, he collected 5,519 votes, or about 600 more than his opponent. Think about that for a second: 600 people decided the future of the city. There are dorms that hold fewer voters than that. And that race was between Johnsrud and Deak Swanson! (which an early Second Supper headline summarized as “Clone#654173 defeats Clone#536518”). This year, though, it’s hard to imagine two more opposite candidates than Dorothy Lenard and Matt Harter. Lenard is a progressive city councilwoman as well as a university administrator and mother of grown children. Harter is a 24-year-old with solidly conservative principals who has never run for office and was training to be a Navy SEAL just two years ago. With this ballot, it’s like choosing between Indian food or Swedish meatballs,Tyra Banks or Dick Vitale, heavy metal or opera: They all have their upsides, but it’s a little weird to be undecided. So between now and next Tuesday, it is your duty to do some research and become a decider. You can start by reading this Second Supper, and even if you forgot where you voted last November, you check the City Clerk’s Web site to find your current polling place. The Second Supper editorial staff isn’t in the business of making endorsements, but we will do this one: Get out and vote on Tuesday and let’s make this election stuff a party again!
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WHAT: 2009 Wisconsin Film Festival WHERE: Downtown Madison WHEN: April 2-5 COST: $7 per ticket per film I generally regard the act of sitting around and watching movies all day day as an activity reserved only for the extremely hungover, but this weekend, watching movies all day will be the norm as hundreds of people converge on the state capital for the annual Wisconsin Film Festival. The Madison event expects to carry on the tradition of being bigger and better every year; this its eleventh, by this time selling some 30,000 tickets while running from this Thursday through Sunday at 10 downtown Madison venues. Roughly 200 films from around the world will play over the festival's fourday duration. In addition to featuring Wisconsin filmmakers and their work, the festival will dedicate itself to such diverse platforms as Asian American Film, Disabilities on Film, and the Sconnie-friendly, to-be-expected Farming and the Land on Film. The event also includes conversations with filmmakers and special screenings of both classic films like Werner Herzog's "Stroszek" (1977) and current award winners, like Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning "Departures" (2008). More information is available on the official Web site at wifilmfest.org, including a complete schedule of movie showtimes and maps to guide you throughout the sure-to-be-bustling downtown Madison area. Although the period to pre-order tickets is already over, and by the time this paper hits the racks the festival will be just hours away from starting, there's still no reason why you, the film-enthused La Crosse resident you are, shouldn't hop in the car and head to Madison right this instant to be a part of all the hullubaloo. — Nick Cabreza
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You know those times, for better or for worse, when you realize you’re just like your mother (or father)? It has recently dawned on me that not only am I indeed my mother, but also that it’s no coincidence of genetics and mimicry. It’s not a mere accident that many of us turn out to be remarkably similar to our parents — they planned it that way. Maybe not consciously, but it has become gradually more obvious to me that parents strive to turn their children into tiny replicas of themselves (again, for better or for worse). Is this some kind of sinister parenting plan to spawn clones and dominate the universe? Or is it as human and simple as wanting to live on after we’re gone? Maybe it’s just people being as arrogant and egotistical as possible, but I really don’t think it’s intentional, at least in most ways. I didn’t even realize that that’s my goal with my son until I was talking to a friend about what I want for him, what I want him to become, and what I hope he can get out of life. The realization came quickly — I want him to be the better version of me. That may seem incredibly conceited, but I assure you it’s much more than that. Having a kid and realizing that you are their way in to the world, you are their point of reference, you are the one who largely shapes their universe (at least while they’re little)…it freaks you out. It makes your flaws blatantly obvious and motivates you to fix them — and quick! Nobody is perfect, but self-improvement is always a possibility. Becoming a parent is life-changing for the easily observed reasons: a total change in your priorities, a lack of a healthy sleep life, a lack of a healthy sex life…but an overlooked consequence to parenthood is the enormous effort that should be made to make yourself a better person, on top of all the sleep deprivation, nonexistent free time, and eternal poop. It’s hard to self-improve, especially when you don’t have much time or mental capacity to tackle such a serious undertaking. But the motivation is intense and the pressure is high — if you want to be a good parent, you have to be a decent template for a kid to base their reality on — which brings us to some of the crazy things some people do when raising their kids.You know how it’s kind of funny in a really not funny way when a kid gets spanked for hitting the other kids in the sandbox? Way to be a hypocrite, parent! I heard something that is similarly ridiculous today. A person who shall remain unnamed told me that he heard some “really smart” person on NPR talking about how to discipline a kid for biting (apparently, lots of kids go through a stage where they behave
like wild, rabid animals and latch on to anything and everything — including Mommy’s face — with their sharp little baby fangs…We’re not there yet, but I’m not looking forward to it). The “expert” suggests the following for a biter: bite the kid back. Yes, I’m totally confident that biting a two-year old sends the message loud and clear that biting is bad. How do people even begin to adhere to those ideas?! It seems relatively absurd to me to use various forms of violence against little kids (who don’t grasp the idea of cause-and-effect anyway) to teach them not to use violence. I mean, really, is this so difficult to understand? “Do as I say and not as I do” doesn’t do much for little kids who — like pretty much everybody — learn from example. Which brings us to another facet of selfupgrading for the sake of parenting: When all you eat is junk food, is it really fair to expect your child will eat healthy foods? I guess it doesn’t matter to people who aren’t too worried about what their kids consume, but with more and more XXL kids’ clothing being manufactured, maybe a second thought about feeding hot dogs and bologna to the three-year old is called for. Of course everyone has their downfalls and bad habits, and thankfully, children tend to be pretty resilient. Lots of kids can recognize the not so good aspects of their parents and learn how not to be from that. And it’s good for kids to know that perfection isn’t possible or healthy — it can be helpful for them to see that their parents have flaws. It’s the dealing with those flaws that teaches kids how to be persistent and flexible and understanding. So now that I’ve come to the realization that I’m making a daily attempt to turn my little boy into me (!), I’m working hard to make sure that I’m a suitable template. It’s really been an interesting endeavor to step back and look at my reactions to things and realize I wouldn’t want him to be like that. I don’t want him to be a worrier, a control freak, or a micro-manager, and when I first recognized that I might be a just the tiniest little bit like that, I worried about it and tried to manage and control it in a freakish way. But since that wasn’t working and I was only worrying more, I took a good long look at what anxiety accomplishes and kissed it goodbye. I’ve been doing a lot of tai chi and really settling down, appreciating instead of abhorring the fact that not a single one of us has control over the universe — that all we can do is make the best of ourselves and our situations, cross our fingers, and hope that it all works out.
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Aprihop Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton, Delaware
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jacob.bielanski@secondsupper.com Miller brewing company has haunted my father — and I suspect a great deal other Baby Boomers — for the entirety of his life. He started by drinking Meister Brau, moved on to Old Style and eventually went to Leinenkugel’s Original. Meister Brau, legend tells, was once a great beer, bought by Miller, watered down and run into the ground. Old Style — once a La Crosse icon — was eventually purchased by Miller, taken out of La Crosse and watered down. When it quietly leaked that the Leinenkugel’s brewery was going to be purchased by SABMiller (for those of you saying “Go Wisconsin!” every time you hear the name, bear in mind that the company is owned by SAB[South African Breweries]Miller, the same people who own Peroni and Pilsner Urquell), my father did the only reasonable thing a man in his beer drinking shoes could do — he moved to New Orleans and switched to Corona. OK, perhaps the purchase of the Leinenkugel’s brewery wasn’t the driving force behind his major life change, but it did seem to mark the end of yet another era. What was going to happen? Would Leinenkugel’s Original become that obscure beer in the far refrigerator at Kwik Trip, purchased only by college students out of equal parts irony and frugality? One would think — after what happened in La Crosse to Heileman — that Leinie’s would suffer the same fate of so many mighty beers before it. I was afraid to make this trip north.
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Leinenkugel’s beer still existed and its many brands — from the original to the “hibernated” Northwoods blend — held a special place in my upbringing. For a long time, I feared that the brewery in Chippewa Falls would present only a cheesy façade; like the Boston Brewing company in Boston, Mass., (the maker of Samuel Adams lager), the location would be an empty shell, the recipes broken up and shipped off to contract brew facilities throughout the U.S. with the remaining buildings used by charismatic tour guides to hock logo-engraved merchandise and have sunburned tourists sniff at raw, stale hop flowers. Getting my hand stamped by a charismatic tour desk operator and receiving two tickets for 8 oz. samples didn’t immediately serve to assuage my fears. Like some sort of brand narcissism, thousand of products — from canoe paddles to knit caps — became a canvas upon which various iterations of the brewery’s image was emblazoned. Every square inch of the “Leinie’s Lodge” was used to sell these items. This was a pity, because it was my intention to leave with some form of obligatory Leinie’s merchandise; the selection was at once intimidating and then off-putting. The actual tour was led by a disaffected young lady who admitted, of her own volition, that doing brewery tours was a way to make money while home on spring break. She flipped through the introduction of the Leinenkugel family — literally, a binder with printouts of the pictures from the Web site — with the exuberance of someone talking about the ancestors of the people who pay a shitty salary. Inside, it was heartening to see a vibrant operation. Not only was there a rush of 1,500 beer-barrel-per-day production, but the tour guide pointed out some pretty forward-thinking techniques implemented at Leinenkugels. Beer brewing generates vast quantities of carbon dioxide that is normally allow to escape; the brewery captures that CO2, stores it, and uses it later to force-carbonate their beer. The thousands of pounds of spent barely and corn grain husks are offload-
ed onto a truck and shipped to area farmers as livestock feed. Despite the apathy with which the tour was conducted, there was a fascinating dichotomy to the whole experience. Standing in the parking lot, you can literally see the chronology of Leinenkugel’s as it crashes violently into the future. A barn sits that once stable the horses used for local delivery (“We use different horses now,” the disaffected tour guide motions half-heartedly towards semi-trucks; the tour group offers disaffected laughter). Behind it sits a brick, building — maybe 5 stories tall — whose mortar is rougher than the surrounding buildings. The majority of brewing and fermentation activities is housed in an early twentieth century brick building that looks like it smashed into a '70s-era brick revitalization. Attached to that is an '90s-era construct of clean brick, cinder block and sheet metal that houses bottling and shipping. Like a rock core sample, one can literally see the history of Leinenkugel’s — and really, Wisconsin itself — from the employee parking lot. Returning to the lodge, we stopped to enjoy our free samples (“all malt” doesn’t necessarily mean “good,” by the way) and contemplate the nature of the Wisconsin icon. Leinenkugels seems to have been bought at a unique time in brewing history — a time where giants like Miller are seeing a good portion of their market slowly eroded by “craft” breweries (breweries that employ fewer than 50 people…such as Leinenkugels). It's not hard to see that Miller bought Leinenkugels in order to abuse the name for this market share — Summer Shandy, Sunset Wheat and now “Classic Amber” are rolled out across the nation, pumped out by contract breweries and shipped to a naïve public who is looking for a taste of the “Northwoods” from a “craft brewery.” In spite of this, the Leinenkugel’s brewery has maintained a unique, Wisconsin image. In a beer cooler at the far end of gas stations and liquor stores sits an icon of Wisconsin that bears the name “Leinenkugel’s Origina.l” I can’t imagine its purchase by college students — in a subtle blend of irony and frugality — is that different from when it was purchased by lumberjacks. These days my father can’t get the Original — it only appears in Wisconsin and certain locations in Illinois and Minnesota. Miller-owned or not, I think that’s something he can respect.
Now I know this is the April Fools Day issue and all — sorry to spoil the fun if you read the beer column first — but you’ll have to trust me that this review is legit. We don’t often feature fruit beers in this space. For one, we prefer to review local microbrews, and there aren’t too many fruity Wisconsin drinks filling grocers’ shelves. For two, I think most fruit beers suck. It’s not that I’m against brewers pushing boundaries or anything, but I feel too many fruit beers err on the side of gimmickry when they could be creative fusions.That’s why I was so intrigued when my beer-loving friends starting talking up the merits of Dogfish Head’s new apricot-flavored beer. As one of America’s premier craft breweries, Dogfish Head gets plenty of fluffing, but the chatter about this Aprihop was different: “Dude, you’ve got to try this DFH apricot beer,” my bros would Appearance: 8 say. “It tastes way more like an IPA than anything Aroma: 5 fruity.” OK, that’s a paraphrase, but it’s what got Taste: 7 me to buy this beer. I guess the Aprihop Mouthfeel: 6 pours an apricot-y color — it’s redder than Drinkability: 6 most anyway — but it also retains the beautiful creamy head that’s a Total: 32 hallmark of the brewer’s flagship IPAs (90 Minute being my favorite). While there’s definitely some apricot sweetness on the nose, it doesn’t dominate the aroma — nor do the hops, despite their billing. Instead, it almost has a stale smell, like an aroma of dusty legumes. The aroma was a bit baffling, but the Aprihop comes clean with the first sip. While many fruit beers seep in on syrupy sweetness, this has that clean hoppy intro that’s common to Delaware’s finest. It rushes down the throat like a quenching IPA, salivating the cheeks and taunting the taste buds, and the real apricot flavor doesn’t hit until the finish. But when it hits, it hits big. Credit Dogfish Head for making the least fake-tasting fruit beer I’ve ever sampled. It actually finishes like a real apricot — tangy and earthy — and not like some saccharine creation cooked up in a lab. Although the mouthfeel is creamy and the flavor is crisp, I don’t see myself drinking a whole lot of these in one sitting. I look at this beer as just one more trophy in Dogfish Head’s case. Despite all the odds, it took a wimpy beer recipe and produced an enviable specimen from the genre of fruit beers. Now it can quit fooling around and get back to real IPAs. — Adam Bissen
Handicapping the mayor's race: Shuggypop calls it as he sees it By Shuggypop Jackson shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com I don’t know if it should surprise me that more people I’ve talked to in La Crosse than not couldn’t tell me who the candidates running for mayor were, let alone in some cases that an election was even about to happen. Personally, until the primaries, I didn’t know who our mayor was, and I couldn’t tell you who is on the city council. I don’t know if it is ignorance, or more that it is apathetic indifference, but let’s face it, city politics doesn’t interest a large majority of us.When it comes down to it, it seems that the Tavern League, the non-profit trifecta of churches, hospitals and universities, and a select upper echelon of prominent business leaders hold the real power here in River City. It would almost be fair to say that these groups have the ability to make or break a candidate by turning out large voting blocks, so it would seem smart politics would be to not make an enemy of them. Keeping that in mind, let’s look past the campaign rhetoric and break down the personalities of the two candidates running for mayor, Dorothy Lenard and Matt Harter, while doing my best not to burn any bridges, which would totally piss of Mikey, the Second Supper owner. Lenard, who has been on city council for the past four years and has an administrative background from her job at Viterbo, far and away has more experience. The possibility of her being the first female mayor La Crosse has ever had is a significant achievement. She has progressive ideals, and in a town that is largely
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conservative, this has the potential to rile the comfort levels of quite a few. Despite the fact that Lenard has lived and raised her family in La Crosse for twenty years, she is considered an outsider by many longtime residents because she was educated and has lived elsewhere, bringing perspectives outside of the La Crosse status quo to the table that fit more of the mold of a typical Madison or Minneapolis resident’s mentality. She resides in the neighborhood that we at HQ like to refer to as the liberal power corridor, the residential area between Main and Cass that runs through the heart of town where many professors and other p ro g re s s i ve minded individuals call home. Even though the progressives make up an estimated 15 percent of our city’s population (Editor's note: I have no idea how Shuggypop got that figure), they tend to have high turnouts at the polls. This is the backbone of Lenard’s supporters and entourage. Those who attended a local meet and greet I dropped in on as a fly on the wall consisted of several middle-aged sandaled men with beards and ponytails, there was a Celtic fiddle band
playing background music that wouldn’t be out of place on a PBS program soundtrack, and at one point, I caught a whiff of patchouli oil. Many of these smiling faces were familiar to me as individuals I’ve frequently seen shopping and socializing at the co-op (often to my chagrin, as they have a bad habit of blocking the aisles while they banter with each other. Seriously, get out of the way, people!). I had the chance to sit down with Leonard recently off the record and found her to be a genuinely sweet and intelligent lady. Harter is a person I can’t help but be intrigued by simply by the fact that he is a mere 24 years old. When I was that age, I took on the responsibility of owning a dog, which is nowhere near the task of running a small city. Harter gives us a life story of an energetic and hard working go-getter that seems to have been crafted by a top-notch publicist that helped get him to get out of the primaries despite being inexperienced and such a tender young age, somewhat shocking us down at HQ. His clean-cut appearance and All-American
life style, in the mold of a Ken doll or Hardy Boy, has an appeal to many a Midwesterner, charming the residents on his tireless crusade to knock on every door in town to press the palms of whomever is home during the day. What grandmother in town wouldn’t approve of such a fine young man? Harter comes from prominent and very large families, both on his mother and father’s side, who are well-established and respected long time La Crosse residents on the north side of town that are active members of the Lutheran congregation. He is a scion of a successful family whose business provides our town with a valuable service, familiar to anybody who has ever noticed a dumpster in town. The Tavern League is also predominantly in his corner, which seems to be more in opposition to Lenard who they feel is a threat to their profiting off of liquor sales and have started a rumor that she will try to pass a city-wide smoking ban (which she flat out told me she considers a decision of the state that she isn’t looking to get into, even though I personally wish she would). On the north side of town, which has traditionally been salt of the earth blue collar and working class types, Harter signs are a dime a dozen. I keep waiting for him to show up on my doorstep so I can get the chance to meet him, and get beyond his vague talking points and catchphrases to see what he is all about, but so far it hasn’t happened. Please stop by Matt, I always have a gallon of orange juice in my refrigerator. Publisher's note: The views of Shuggypop Jackson, that idiot, are his own and do not reflect the official opinion of Second Supper.
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adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Minutes before the start of a televised mayoral debate last week, Matt Harter, age 24, sits with his arms crossed over a rumpled black suit and stares at his right shoe in silence. His lips are pursed and his brow looks furrowed. Clearly he’s preparing for the show. In just 12 days, Harter, a political novice, will square off against the woman to his left, first-term city council member Dorothy Lenard, in a mayoral election that has no clear-cut favorite. With such a small margin of victory, the candidates’ on-air performance tonight could very well determine the election. So naturally Harter comes prepared. At the cameraman’s signal, a newsman clears his throat and Harter looks up at the crowd gathered in a lecture hall at the Health Science Center on the UW-La Crosse campus. Around 40 people are in attendance. Most are sporting white campaign buttons (for Lenard) or yellow stickers (for Harter), and they are split between the aisles as if this were a wedding. As a moderator from the League of Women Voters reads an introduction, Harter clenches a tight smile and sits high in his stool. His hair is feathery and combed back like a Kennedy. His young face is brightly scrubbed. In contrast to Lenard, who is 30 years his senior but fidgets a bit before the camera, Har-
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ter displays the picture of confidence. When asked to give an introductory statement, he rises to answer — as he will for every question, rebuttal, and follow-up during the hourlong debate. He doesn’t pace very far, but an actor would note how he constantly upstages his seated opponent. When making a point, he hits his open palm as if it were a karate chop. Harter knows what he wants to talk about — taxes: they’re too high — and he makes the point immediate and often. He also wants to portray himself as an active leader, so he closes his introductory remarks with a rhetorical flourish: “Leadership is not a position. Leadership is an action.” It’s a good line — and he will repeat it four more times verbatim before the end of the debate. Clearly, the kid’s got poise. If he seems to act older than his age — probably a political necessity — Harter will tell you that it’s always been that way. In fact, this seems to be the most memorable part of his entire campaign, repeated at every appearance and included in most every news report: Harter got his first job at 6-years-old, a newspaper boy, and by the time he was 9 he was working two more. At age 15 he bought his first house, a rental property that his grandfather built. After graduating from Luther High School in 2004, he joined the family business, the multi-million-dollar Harter’s Quick Cleanup, which he left after a year to enroll at Minnesota State University-Mankato. At age 20, Harter enlisted in the Navy, served for three years, began Navy SEAL training, and got medically discharged after rupturing a lung. He then returned to Mankato, studied for a semester, moved back to La Crosse, rejoined Harter’s Quick Cleanup, worked as a business development coordinator, took a leave of absence, and campaigned for mayor pretty much full-time since October 2008. Got all that? It is impressive by anyone’s standards, but it’s especially commendable in a blue-collar place like La Crosse. For the most part, Harter looked good on the TV debate. He stayed on point — taxes are high; the mayor should listen to citizens — but he also looked rehearsed and stumbled when asked for specifics. I didn’t tally the number of times he pledged to institute a city-wide spending freeze, but he
drove the point home on over a dozen occasions. A handful of questions during the TV debate were submitted by audience members, and since I don’t wear a suit or sit behind an anchor’s desk, I decided to make my first inquiry that way: “If you think the city budget is too high, name some programs you’d like to cut.” It seemed straightforward enough, but Harter spent two minutes dodging the question.When WKBT’s Mark McPherson asked for specifics during a follow-up, Harter pledged that as mayor he would go out and plow snow on Saturday afternoons. ... Seriously? (Lenard cited energy savings through her sustainability plan.) Some of Harter’s responses sounded uncommon, and more than a few were unsubstantiated, but thankfully I had a meeting lined up with the candidate the following afternoon. When I scheduled the interview earlier in the week, I suggested that we meet downtown, perhaps at a coffee shop or a bar. Harter immediately proposed a meeting at Jimmy John’s, the national sandwich chain on Pearl Street, so that’s where we slid into a booth last Friday afternoon. Having come fresh from a round of door-knocking, Harter sported his trademark sticker over a black windbreaker. “Do you think your age will be an issue during this race?” I asked Harter as he sat before a roast beef sub topped with lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. “Obviously it’s an obstacle to overcome, but I think it’s also an asset,” he explained patiently. “Being that I’m young, I have a lot of time, maybe a little bit more energy, very aggressive, so it has it’s up and downs.” Fair enough. But should it be an issue that he hasn’t graduated from college? “No,” he snaps back almost instantly. “We’ve had successful mayors in the past who don’t have college degrees. Pat Zielke (mayor, 1975-97) didn’t have a college degree, so I don’t think it’s an issue. I don’t think a college education is necessary at all to do anything. It’s just a matter of educating yourself to what you need to know.” Since few people will fund opinion polls
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Dorothy Lenard
The eco campaign Viterbo administrator works to become La Crosse's first female mayor — the sustainable way
By Amber Miller
amber.miller@secondsupper.com With our fair city’s mayoral race coming fast to a close, it is time for us, fellow citizens of this beautiful bluff land, to look each candidate in the eye and make some decisions. By anybody’s standards and numbers alone, it is apparent that Dorothy Lenard has quite a bit of experience. And her experience isn’t in one specialized area — she certainly seems to be the jack of all trades, and an eco-friendly one, at that. One of her campaign goals was to create as little waste as possible — hence, few yard signs were made. The ones that were made used the ends of the rolls of canvas that would have been thrown away, or they used the back side of old signs. All the wire for the yard signs is recycled, as are the documents she has sent out. The buttons were made using recycled paper, and she’s worked with local businesses to reduce waste and support the community during these difficult economic times. Lenard has done it all, from owning a business to being on the city council to administrating the science department at Viterbo University…and the list could go on for quite a while. Not to mention, Lenard would be La Crosse’s first lady mayor. And that’s cool. Having a female mayor for the first time isn’t a possibility that has been mentioned much by anyone — including Lenard herself. “I haven’t campaigned on this point because I’ve campaigned on being the best candidate. I am excited for women everywhere to be able to hold this office and pave the way for future women to feel that they can be included in the government process as a leader,” she said. Lenard grew up in a time when there weren’t even organized sports for girls. When she went on to college to study forestry, her professors told her that they didn’t think she should even be there, but that they were forced to teach her anyway. Now, she is an administrator in the science department at Viterbo University and sees the interface between women and science as a common thing. Being the sole woman
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in male-dominated arenas is a recurring theme for Lenard. “My style has been to understand where [opponents] were coming from, but not let them stop me.” Not only is Lenard determined to run a campaign based on merit and eco-friendliness, but she’s also committed to ethical interactions with her opponent. “In this last week, many people will give political advice and say you need to go after your opponent and et cetera. I’m just not going to do that, but I will defend myself on false info,” said Lenard in response to several instances of misinformation on Harter’s part. There have been allegations about Lenard’s stance on our beloved Rotary Lights; the Harter campaign has been citing a single response in a survey about sustainability that is located in an appendix of the Sustainability Plan. Rest assured, Lights Lovers, that Lenard has been a part of supporting the Rotary Lights for more than a decade. Rest assured, too, that she is committed to a sustainability plan that aims to conserve both resources and money, another stab that the Harter campaign has made against Lenard. At last Saturday’s meet and greet with Lenard at the North Community Library, I spoke with several interested and concerned members of our community. Many of them were frustrated at what they deemed to be a lack of coverage by major news sources in the city (so a pat on the back for us at the Second Supper is called for!); people are upset at the absence of coverage of a race as important as a mayoral one. But these folks were doing what good citizens of a democracy do best — they investigate. And they came to right place; at this event, people could simply sit down with Lenard and talk, discuss, ask questions — get to the bottom of the Mayoral Mystery: Who will be La Crosse’s next top mayor? David Lemmon, a young man I spoke with, was researching both candidates especially well because this is the first election he can vote in — he wants to make it count. He said that thus far, he hasn’t been very intrigued by Matt Harter’s clichéd mantras of hope and change — way to jump on the Obama train, Harter! David was checking out the scene with his
dad, Mike Lemmon, who was also there to poke around and get some questions answered. Before talking with Lenard, Mike said his main requirements in a mayor are an executive sense of leadership and the ability to “break through the city council’s inertia.” It doesn’t matter to him whether a candidate is a Democrat or a Republican. Some of Lenard’s supporters were also there to help out (and eat the brownies, maybe). One such supporter said, “Dorothy is definitely the right candidate for the job” because she has years and years of experience, much
of which involves tackling tough problems. Not only does Lenard have years of experience, but she also has a wide breadth of experience in a variety of issues. Many political candidates focus on a single issue, maybe a handful of them, but Lenard has a background as diverse as a rainforest. Many people at the meet and greet contrasted Lenard with her opponent, and the same setback for Harter kept coming up — he just doesn’t have enough experience. Some
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Supper buys Tribune By Ben Clark ben.clark@secondsupper.com Well, folks.As you may have heard, we’re moving up in the world…not quite to that apartment in the sky, but rather a swanky new headquarters. As the rest of our “dailies” brethren same to be dropping out of the sky, we’ve been doing well. Very well, in fact. How well, do you ask? Well, considering that we have just bought the majority of stock in Lee Enterprises, the owners of such fine publications as the La Crosse Tribune, the Foxxy Shopper, and the Onalaska/ Holmen Courier-Life, we are now poised to become not only the leading publication in the city, but instead, the only publication. You see, Lee Enterprises has not been doing well in the stock market as of late. With their stocks reaching the pathetic price of 30 cents/share, buying them out was a piece of cake. All we did was bring up the topic at one of our weekly meetings, had each of the staff members pitch in as much as they could afford, and lo and behold, we’re the new and proud owners of the company responsible for practically all of the publishing in the region. Look to us, La Crosse, for your future news needs! And thanks to Lee Enterprises’ “aggressive cost reduction” plans for the fiscal year of 2009, guess who’s going to be lapping up all of the ex-Tribune and Foxxy Shopper employees laid off earlier due to this terrible economy? That’s right! Thanks to our new purchase and our Hearst-like attitude of acquire or be acquired, we’re sitting pretty and on top. And the best thing about hiring a majority of the former Tribune staff is that they’re used to working for peanuts! Plus with most of the staff turning to the evils of drink to try and soften the dark times that are approaching for them, all we have to do is buy them a bottle of vodka every other day, and they work on silently and without problems. It’s a win/win for everyone involved! Now that we’ve acquired full control of publications for the Coulee Region, we are well on our way to becoming an unstoppable publication. With the acquisition of Lee Enterprises, we are now the premier (and only) periodical in the region that will still be providing you with the best, objective, and most importantly, unique perspective on the happenings in the local region and the world at large. We realize
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that we are undertaking a huge responsibility here, but rest assured; our coverage of the region will be just as good, if not phenomenally better than the coverage that the Tribune used to provide. For example, you can wrap up at least two large carp with our paper, whereas the Tribune is only good for one. Talk about efficiency! And if you’re worried that you won’t be able to go online and spout your opinions on the latest news story, worry no more! We at the Second Supper are very open to your concerns, which is why effective immediately, we will enable our Web site to accept comments after each article. Say, for example, that you want to call me a “pinko-commie loving faggot who hates children” after one of my Smock Talk columns, but you don’t want to take the time and effort to write me a nasty email detailing how I’ve failed in every aspect of my life. With our brand new comment system, your voice will be heard loud and clear over the Internet, letting everyone who clicks the link to my article know that I enjoy fucking dogs. As for the folks who are worried that our new found stance within the community will mean the end of neutrality and objectivist journalism, fear not. We at Second Supper take the utmost pride in presenting all sides of the story, whether it be from the ultra-ultra left wing, the ultra left wing, or even just the left wing. Hell, we may even throw in a story from a moderate! How crazy is that?! Rest assured that we will make sure that every opinion is heard, whether it come from our anarchist brother or our feminist sister. Every view will be appreciated. I hope this prevents any confusion that may occur within the next few weeks as you begin to see the La Crosee Tribune and the Foxxy Shopper phased out. Keep in mind that we will be accepting all new subscriptions for the 2009 year within the next month. So if you want a shiny Second Supper sitting on your doorstep next week Thursday, just send an email our way, or send a letter to 614 Main Street, La Crosse WI, 54601. We’ll be seeing you on the racks, La Crosse!
Squirrels steal dignity Apparently the current state of our economy is having a much more widespread effect than otherwise thought, and has finally hit home for our furry, bushy-tailed neighbors. An elderly gentleman trying to enjoy a peaceful lunch in Cameron Park last week was accosted by a ruthless gang of starving rodents whose stock of nuts had been wiped out by the recent heavy losses on Wall Street. “I could tell that something was going on as they crept closer, twitching their tails and eyeing me greedily with their little black eyes.” said the man who wishes to remain anonymous. “As they began to circle in closer, I realized that my only chance of fleeing was to throw them some of my sandwich. This sacrifice allowed me the opportunity to escape
before they got me.” He stated that he used to feed the squirrels on a regular basis, but that with things the way they are, lately he’s had to eat his whole lunch by himself just to get by. When I attempted to reach one of the squirrels for comment, I was approached by whom I could only assume was the leader of this particular group. Though, once he realized that I wasn’t there to bail him out with government cheese, he flatly refused to speak with me, and rudely turned away and ran up a tree. This is a story being heard all over the country. Luckily this time, the man escaped with most of his sandwich intact, although he left his pride behind on that park bench.
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Beef & Etc. now just “& ETC” The rising cost of beef, coupled with the economically stable market of et cetera, has forced the sandwich shop to discontinue service of bovine-based products indefinitely. The company feels confident in dealing solely in et cetera and et cetera-based products, noting that this was “…a large part of [their] business anyway.” “In a fluctuating economy, beef is a subject to a myriad of market fluctuations because it has to come from cows,” says area economics expert Sal “Harpo” Schroeder. “But ‘et cetera’ is more resilient…it can come from anywhere.” Officials at “& ETC” would not comment on what goes into their new Italian Et Cetera
sandwich, but did recommend washing it down with a cool glass of Et Cetera Light and 5mg of tetracycline.
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In contrast with the literary catalogue of his brother Joe Hill — whose namesake, labor martyr Joe Hillstrom, makes numerous appearances through this book’s centerpiece, coincidentally or otherwise — Owen King’s collections of short stories eschew the overt supernatural bent of their old man, Stephen King. Instead, whatever weirdness takes shape fits in a bursting, human mold (except in the case of Julius Squeezer, the boa constrictor). The only ghosts in these tales are those of memory; the only hauntings are those of regret. Still, there is a circus sideshow abortionist and a vandal in a Nixon mask. The stories which follow the title story don’t match its arresting majesty, though they are nonetheless emotive, beautiful pieces. “Frozen Animals” details a chemical and grime mountain climb, a quest for dentistry which swerves inebriated in the end. “Wonders” melds Coney Island baseball with freakshows, grating attachment, and hecklers. “Snake” tells of a disaffected son’s wanderings through a local mall and his encounter with the titular exhibit. “My Second Wife” is a story of misadventure in the name of serial killer worship. All four of these supporting works blend together with each other and the main story, often overlapping themes of bitter family dysfunction coupled with an unordinary element. At times, these similarities make the stories blend a little too well and lose some definition that would be more apparent had these stories been spread into separate publications, but as supporting
Medium: Literature Stimulus: Owen King — We’re All in This Together Anno: 2005 pieces to the main course, they serve their purpose, and the main course is very worthy of this aid. The story of “We’re All in This Together” features none of its supporters’ odd exhibitions; its characters are ordinary turn of the millennium New Englanders with typical anxieties, all trying to transform upside-down lives into ones of safety. The eyes of this tale belong to George, a restless teenager struggling to deal with his mother’s square boyfriend, a Phil Collins-worshipping doctor with a pair of Pekinese dogs. George’s escape comes in the form of his grandfather, in whose place George tends to find himself among the politics-talking, nude Swede watching oldsters. The obvious plot point is found here, carried by the political atmosphere following the 2000 presidential election. A hard-line, old school unionist, Gramps reacts to the Bush election by erecting a massive sign declaring Al Gore the true president. The sign’s vandalism and Grandpa’s subsequent search for revenge take the story through its hills of hilarity and alienation, where nothing turns out as expected. “We’re All in This Together” is a beautifully cinematic story, made more accessible by current events but by no means limited by them. Its haunting power is greater than most ghosts.
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with an endless supply of smarmy one-liners to rip these songs and fashions apart. Trashy pop culture at it’s finest. VH1 is just one of several cottage industries that have sprung up to sell the past to people of a certain age. Internet web program Yacht Rock spawned a cult following, launching the trend of makeshift Yacht Rock parties for hipsters in big cities across America, and I don’t know how many times I’ve found myself watching a half hour infomercial for a Time Life collection at 3 in the morning hosted by some has been, such as the singer from Air Supply, who are currently featured at county fair main stages throughout the fly over parts of the country. I might be a petri dish of communicable diseases right now, but as long as I’m reminded of the chart topping hit "Doin’ Da Butt" by EU, things aren’t as bad as they could be.Thank you VH1 for making my day not suck as much as it could by tossing out these little bundles of joy that make up the atics of my life. — Shuggypop Jackson
— Brett Emerson
Coffee training One of my favorite things about working in a coffeehouse is training new people, especially people who have never worked in coffee before. If the trainee doesn’t absolutely love coffee and all things coffee-related with every molecule of love in his or her body, I wouldn’t even give it a try. Being a good barista doesn’t just mean that a person can churn out a decent espresso or foamy cappuccino — being a barista means that your goal in life is to make others aware of the possibilities of coffee. This is not something one can teach; either a person is capable of being molded into a barista or not.That’s not to say that a potential Padawan must already possess vast stores of coffee knowledge; it just means that the desire to know everything about coffee and a loyalty to the bean must exist independently of a scheme to get free daily coffee. So after that’s established, starting the training with a little demonstration is always a good idea. Making a cappuccino is a good indication of barista-ability because it requires both perfect espresso and beautifully steamed milk in just the right proportions. When an outstanding barista displays these skills, it should appear that she is performing a dance of intricate complexity, fine precision, and rapid fluidity. It should inspire
Oh hi, right now I have a face full of snot, am coughing up phlegm, feel aches across my entire body, and want to do nothing but sleep. So here I am, all wrapped up in blankets on my couch, sucking on Ricola cough drops and sipping some not so pleasant tea. Blah. Fortunately, VH1 is keeping me from entirely hating life by running a marathon of the Top 100 One Hit Wonder’s of the '80s hosted by Judah Friedberg. I think I’ve been deliriously watching this for about 4 hours straight so far, getting my fill of guilty pleasures and random jams that I had forgotten about from my youth. VH1 tends to specialize in these retro flashback programs to help remind me that I’m not a spring chicken anymore. New wave styles, hair metal mullets, and some seriously big hair are popping up all over this show as they countdown videos from the Reagan years. I was a child weened on MTV back in it’s heyday and am fully enjoying this nostalgia trip. They take one of these songs, by a group of where-are-they-now musicians such as Aldo Nova, Frank Stallone, and JJ Fad, and then roll out these smartass commentators
Two Lovers (2009) awe and excitement in the barista-to-be. There is no “trick” to becoming a good barista — it takes time and many hours facing the espresso machine. One secret that I can share, however, is that it takes a very sensual person to make it in the café world. All the senses must be engaged — the carefully constructed look of the silky, micro-foam bubbles in the milk; the smell of the espresso falling into the shot glass; the fingers’ knowledge of milk temperature just by touching the outside of the pitcher; the gentle hiss-hiss of the steaming wand; the taste of the final product — all need to be matched in exquisite symphony to be successful. The most important thing to remember when becoming a barista is that there is no end to the lesson. It can always be better or faster or more consistent. Even now when I watch barista championships and see how amazing some in the coffee-realm have become, I get chills and it motivates me to carry on in my eternal quest for coffee perfection.
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Director: James Gray Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow,Vinessa Shaw Writers: James Gray, Ric Menello It's customary for any artist, actors included, to want to save their best work for last. Such is the case with the supposedly now retiredfrom-acting Joaquin Phoenix, who puts forth one of his best efforts in Two Lovers as an anxious, shy everyman trying to get his life back on track while recovering emotionally from an attempted suicide. Phoenix molds the apprehensive Leonard Kraditor into the kind of fumbling nice guy who's destined to find himself in troublesome situations simply because of his personality. Playing this kind of awkward, disillusioned character allows Phoenix to deliver a quiet but poignant swan song, one that stands out as one of the most captivating releases so far this year. There's a distress in Phoenix's character that leads him to cling to hopeless situations that a more experienced person would avoid. Both distress and the resulting blind determination run rampant throughout the lives of the film's three main characters. In an attempt to forget about the fiance who left him, Leonard becomes infatuated with Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), his unstable neighbor who's dating a married partner at her employer's law firm. While Michelle pines for her lover to leave his
wife, Leonard begins dating Sandra (Vinessa Shaw) at the behest of his father. Caught between the woman he desires and the woman he settles for, Phoenix hopelessly pursues Michelle while stringing the naive-but-affectionate Sandra along the way.That Leonard is genuinely good at heart never comes into question; even when he's blowing off Sandra in order to do nice things for Michelle (albeit with ulterior motives), Leonard never seems like a bad guy. Both his niceness and gullibility are palpable forces that propel him to situations carrying grave consequences. I worried for a long time that Two Lovers would take on the "two dates at a time" sitcom template in which the male character goes on two simultaneous dates only to have the two women he's been deceiving come face to face, causing the plan to blow up in his face. But Two Lovers is smarter than that. It lacks the rigidity of a conventional drama, and expects more from its characters as should its audience. There are too many quiet nuances and subtle insights in this film to go into right now, but just rest assured that Joaquin Phoenix has indeed saved his best for last.
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HARTER, from page 10 for local elections, it’s hard to say how educated La Crosse voters have become about Matt Harter. He does have a marked lead in the sign contest — the battle for unclaimed yards and business windows — but it’s unclear how those will translate to real votes. Still, his mug is up on at least two billboards, and in some parts of his Northside stronghold, every other yard will sport a yellow Harter sign. Carol Wateski, a retired La Crosse woman who lives across from the Harter family home on Caledonia Street, attended the mayoral debate and said she was impressed by both candidates, but she had to support her former neighbor. “They’re some of the hardest-working-est people you ever met,” Wateski said about the Harters. “When the wee little ones were small they were already starting to work, so when Matt says he was working three jobs by the time he was nine, he’s telling you the truth.” Paul Weber, another Northside resident, also attended the debate and was impressed by both candidates. Still he sported a yellow Harter sticker and said a Harter victory would be a major win for the independent political movement. “Matt Harter really represents a true change because he’s coming in and he doesn’t have any predispositions or any attitudes or opinions. He really is a great candidate,” Weber opined. I tried to interview three other people with yellow stickers, but they all ended up being related to the candidate, so maybe that tells you a little something about his base. Still, it wasn’t hard to find opponents either, such a
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Susan Hesel, a La Crosse writer who was the first person I interviewed with a Lenard pin. “I think we’re in very serious times — very serious times — and to keep saying the same thing over and over without any specifics as Matt Harter does, without having any real experience to put behind it is absurd,” Hesel explained. But perhaps La Crosse is ready for the absurd. Sure, it’s uncommon for a 24-year-old with no political experience, no college degree, and little professional background to be elected mayor of a moderate-sized city, but I‘ve never heard of a sitting mayor taking fifth place in an open primary either. Harter got to be one of the last two standing by tapping his youthful energy and getting out into the community. Ever since last October, the 24-year-old has spent practically every day, right up until 9 p.m., knocking on people’s doors, pitching his campaign, and hearing residents’ thoughts on the future of La Crosse. He’s got a bit of an edge over Lenard in that he doesn’t have a job or a family to feed right now, but when he shows up on people's doorsteps, I imagine a lot of folks look at Harter as if he were the All-American boy.This door-to-door campaigning has proved so effective, that Harter even boasted during the debate that he will continue to knock on 50 doors per week, even after he is elected mayor, just to get the pulse of the city.That pledge sounded unrehearsed at the time, a rare moment of spontaneity from campaign dedicated to staying on message, but credit Harter for sticking with what works.
LENARD, from page 11 people thought he would make a good councilman, but that he simply isn’t ready at this time to be the executive of a whole city, especially one as amazing as La Crosse. Another gentleman at the event has known Lenard for some time, and has worked with her on the city council. He said he would usually hesitate to help out with a campaign, but that it was a no-brainer to support Lenard. From his perspective, Lenard’s best qualities are that she is as ethical as they come, very bright, sensitive to opposing viewpoints, and fearless when it comes to taking on very difficult issues. “You won’t meet a harder worker,” he said. In his opinion, no one else is as willing or able to put in the time and effort to make La Crosse an even more rockin’ location. Other supporters cited additional qualities that make Lenard their choice: She has a real sense of inclusion and always lends an ear to a diversity of opinions. There are too many politicians who are combative and confrontational, but Lenard is able to handle differences in opinion with cleverness. She is rather skilled at finding mutually agreeable courses of action in response to complex problems, like the ones that our next mayor will inevitably face. I caught up with the father-son investigation team, Mike and David, after their chat with Lenard. David had acquired a “Dorothy Lenard for Mayor” button, so it was fairly obvious that she had won him over. He said that he was impressed by her deep knowledge of the commu-
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nity and her familiarity with the intricacies of how a city works. David said that Lenard is the prime candidate because “she knows what to work and how to work it to get things done.” Mike was more reserved and wanted to take more time to compare the two candidates, but he did connect with Lenard because they share similar issues — mortgages, kids in college, real life stuff. She understands those complicated subjects because they’re part of her life, too. He thought the most striking positive aspect about her is that she would make a very competent executive. Although he is still unsure, Mike said he was encouraged by his encounter with Dorothy Lenard. Our next mayor needs to be someone who can handle the intensity and the diversity of a city like ours — someone who has dealt with a plethora of challenges with wit, grace, intelligence, and strength. The election this Tuesday, April 7, is an important one; do your homework, make a decision, and get your vote on. Something to think about when you make your decision: I asked Lenard who wouldn’t vote for her. This is what she said: “There are people who are afraid of change.They would see me as a progressive person when they are ultraconservative, but they shouldn’t be afraid because I truly do listen to all sides and opinions on an issue and appreciate the fact that we all have value, and our opinions should too. I really think we’re balanced by different points of view; they’re important. We all help each other.”
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I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword
Maze Efflux by Erich Boldt
"Go Digital"--turning over a new page in technology. By Matt Jones Across 1 It's made before blowing 5 Esteem 10 Pirate's mugful 14 Jai ___ (ball game) 15 "Hello, ___ Be Going!" (Phil Collins album) 16 Charlie Chaplin's wife O'Neill 17 With 52-across, song for long road trips, after the digital conversion? 20 Get rid of, after the digital conversion? 21 Satan's equivalent, in Islam 22 He interviewed Obama 23 Waters, in Oaxaca 24 Labor relations class? 27 Airplane speed numbers 29 Auction site that owns Skype 30 With 35-across, Nick Lachey's former boy band, after the digital conversion? 34 ___ Diego Chicken 35 See 30-across 37 Prefix meaning "height" 38 Do a basic surfing move, after the digital conversion? 40 Actress de Matteo of "Sons of Anarchy" 41 2008 documentary about the national debt 42 Full of spunk 44 Department that creates products, for short 46 Titmouse, e.g. 47 "Grey's Anatomy" actress Katherine
48 Cat food brand, after the digital conversion? 52 See 17-across 55 Fashion house that released the perfume J'adore 56 Name of fine violin makers 57 Spot in the water 58 "___ McGee" (2006 animated series about a detective with no head, torso or arms) 59 Mascot of Kellogg's Honey Smacks 60 Financial aid criterion Down 1 Letter presets used in place of arrows in keyboard-based computer games 2 Tennis Hall-of-Famer Nastase 3 ___-Coburg and
Answers to Issue 156's "Revenge!"
April 2,
Gotha (royal house of Europe) 4 Get the CD started, say 5 Brand that "gets the red out" 6 Acid in proteins 7 Sumptuousness 8 Type of computer port 9 D.D.E.'s command in WWII 10 Started in on lovemaking 11 Rockn___ (2008 U.K. movie) 12 "___ the loneliest number..." 13 Tenacious D bandmate Kyle 18 California's Santa ___ Valley 19 Hose 23 Twinge 24 Grateful Dead bass guitarist Phil 25 Four-line rhyme scheme 26 Singer-songwriter Aimee 27 Charla's taller racing partner, on "The Amazing Race: AllStars" 28 "A Death in the Family" writer James 30 They give people big heads 31 Respiratory disease in 2002 news 32 Rapper who appeared in "Johnny Mnemonic" 33 Look deeper inside? 35 Draw idly
36 Exiting Israeli prime minister Olmert 39 How some Christmas cookies taste 40 Question from an unsure competitor 42 "The Broken American Male: And How to ___" (2008 book) 43 Perry Mason creator ___ Stanley Gardner 44 Reconfigures a mortgage loan, slangily 45 Sony robotic pets 46 Word that partners with "danke" 47 "Today" cohost Kotb 48 Get caught on 49 Florist's holder 50 Dakota Fanning's younger sister 51 It goes downhill pretty quickly 53 Like, totally bitchin' 54 "___ To Fu" (part of the 2008 Damon Albarn project "Monkey: Journey to the West") Š2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0408.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food & drink specials ] LA CROSSE All Star Lanes Arena 4735 Mormon Coulee ArenaLAX.com
Alpine Inn Animal W5715 BlissHouse rd. 110 3rd st.
Alumni 620 Gillette st. Beef & Etc.
1203 La Crosse st.
Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Beef & Etc. 1203 La Crosse st. Brothers The Cavalier 306 st. 114 Pearl 5th ave. Big Al’s 115 S 3rd st. The Cavalier Chances 114 5th ave. R 417 Jay st.
CheapShots 318 318 Pearl Pearl st. st.
Chuck’s
1101 1101 La La Crosse Crosse st. st.
Coconut Joe’s 223 Pearl st.
Sunday
Monday
ALLfor NEW! 3 games $5 starts at 8 p.m. text
3 games for $5 starts Arenaat 8 p.m.
bucket special $2.00 Domestic Silos $2.50 Jack Daniel Mixers $2.00 Goldschlager
Beer Pong $7.00 w/dog 4Italian Cansbeef 8-close meal: $6.69 Pizza Puff meal: $4.49 2 for 1 cans &
bottles during 2 for 1 bottles and cans Packer games during the game 2.25 for mini pitcher
closed free pitcher of beer or soda with large pizza 12 - 7:
2-4-1 rails $2.50 beers
Buck Night starts at 6 p.m. to 83361
Bud Night 6 - CL: bottles $1$1.75 Domestic Taps $2$5 Craft Import Taps pitchers $2.50 Vodka Mixers $1 Shot Menu $7 22oz tbone 16oz top sirloin 9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 jack daniels tips 8 $1 shots of meatball sandwich Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl meal: $6.69 Happy hour 4-6 $1.75 cans, $2 mix drinks 2 Chicago dogs meal:
$5.891/4 barrel
giveaway Buck Burgers 8-11 $1 burgers 1/4 Barrel giveaway during Monday night meatballfootball sandwich
$2.50 Select imports/craft Beers $2.50 Top shelf Mixers $2 Mich Golden bottles
3 games for $5 starts at 7 p.m. for specials
Import Ladies drink night free Rails and Domestic starts at 7Light p.m.Tap Beer 9-11pm on the Dance Floor
Happy Hour64-p.m. CL- 9 p.m. M-F $2 $2.50 DomesticSparks Silos $2.50 Premium Silos $2.50 Three Olive Mixers $2. Goldschlager
$1 softshell tacos $1 shots of meal: doctor, Italian beef cherry $6.69 doctor Chicago chili dog: $3.89 Bucket Night 6 beers
for $9meal: Italian beef $6.15 Chicago chili dog: $3.45 Thirsty
(rocks only)
77 -- CL CL Tequila’s Tequila’s chips chips & & salsa, salsa, $2 $2 Coronas, Coronas, $2.50 $2.50 Mike’s, Mike’s, Mike-arita Mike-arita
$3.00 Domestic Pitchers, $2.00 Shots of Cuervo, $3 Pitchers 1.75 Rails Rumpleminz, Goldschlager
Mexican Monday Guys'$2.00 Nite Corona, out 1.50 silos Corona Light, Cuervo
AUCD Taps and Rails
25 cent hot wings $1 shots of Dr. 25 cent wings Dollar
domestic pitchers barrel parties at cost $4.50 domestic pitchers Pitcher and Pizza $10
77 -- midnight midnight Ladies: Ladies: 22 for for 11 Guys: $1.50 Guys: $1.50 Coors Coors and and Kul Kul Light Light bottles bottles $.50 domestic taps, $1 microbrews, $3 domestic $.50 taps Domestic 3.00 pitchers, pitchers $6 microbrew pitchers
$2 $2Tuesdays, Tuesdays, including including $2 $2 bottles, bottles, import import taps, taps, beer beer pong, pong, apps, apps, single single shot shot mixers, mixers, featured featured shots, shots, and and 50 50 cent cent taps taps
WING WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB NIGHT-$1.25/LB BUFFALO, BUFFALO,SMOKEY SMOKEY BBQ, BBQ,PLAIN PLAIN $1.00 $1.00 PABST PABSTAND AND PABST PABST LIGHT LIGHT BOTTLES$1.50 BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROLLING ROCK ROCK BOTTLES BOTTLES $2.25 $2.25 BUD BUD LIGHTS LIGHTS $1.00 $1.00 SHOT SHOT OF OFTHE THEWEEK WEEK
Wristband Night Wristband Night $5$5COLLEGE I.D. COLLEGE I.D. $9$9general public general public Karaoke Karaoke $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
7-CL:night football domestic beer: $1.50 $1.50 domestic Mexican beer:rails $2.00 pints, $1.50
7-CL: chicken $1.50 domestic primavera pints, $1.50 rails
7-CL: shrimp $1.50 domestic pints, burrito $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
FiestaHollow Mexicana Fox 5200 Mormon Coulee
chicken & veggie fajitasown Build your for Mary two Bloody 16oz Mug - $4.00
football night domestic beer:Pizza $1.50 Homemade Mexican beer: $2.00 & PItcher of Beer
$9.00
1908 Campbell rd. 9-clNBC Mary night. (Night Bloody Before Class) $3 pitchspecials ers of the beast - 2 4-9 p.m. Happy10 Hour
Football Sunday $1.75 domestic JB’s Speakeasy 11-7 happy hour, free The Helm 717 Rose st. food,bottles $1.50 bloody, 1/2
108 3rd st
price pitchers DTB
Arterial
$1.50 U call domestics and rails
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9-cl$3.50 Domestic pitchers $1.75 domestic bottles
Buy Buy one one gyro gyro get get one one half half price price
live live DJ DJ $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
7-CL: chili $1.50 domestic pints, verde $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
Ask 2server 3-9: for 1 for details domestic bottles and rail drinks
HAPPY HOUR 9-cl- $1 rails, $2.50 pitchers, Beer Pong
OPEN-CL $2 U "Call" it
$8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
GREEK GREEK ALL ALL DAY DAY buy buy one one appetizer appetizer appetizer half price appetizer half price get get one one half half price price with meal with meal 9-cl -$2 captain mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 jager bombs
9-cl $2 bacardi mixers, $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy
3 12 oz. dom. taps $2 $1 vodka drinks $1 12 oz taps
$1.50 LAX Lager/Light $1 shots of Dr.
$2 Domestic Bottles and Cans
$1.75 bottles/cans
Karaoke Karaoke
HAPPY HOUR2-CL 5-7 Thirsty Thursday
All day (everyday!) $1.75 domesticspecials $1.25 Old Style Light bottles
happy hour 1 -6 M - F $1 Most Pints, $2 Absolut Mixers
buy one get one Domestic $2.00 Malibu, $2.50 Jaeger, beerJaeger ('til 6 Bombs p.m.) $3.00 Holmen Meat Locker Jerky Raffle
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8
$1.25 $1.25 domestic domestic taps taps buy buy one one burger burger get get one one half half price price
EVERYDAY 3 -7 9-cl and$1.25 9 - 11 rails, $5 AUCD
most
Ask server for details
5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
free free baklava, baklava, ice ice cream cream or or sundae sundae with with meal meal
12 - 7 cents off items
$2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN AND FLAVORED FLAVORED BACARDI MIXERS BACARDI MIXERS $3.00 JAGER BOMBS $3.00 JAGER BOMBS
HAPPY HOUR 3HAPPY - 6 HOUR free wings 6EVERYDAY p.m. - 9 p.m.
$5.99 $5.99 gyro gyro fries fries & & soda soda
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Happy Hour 7 - 9. $2 for$2.50 all single shot mixers and all beers. JUMBO CAPTAIN AND
HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM
Gracie’s Gracie’s 1908 Campbell rd.
1003 16th st
After ClassMixers $3 $2.00 Captain Pitchers $1.75 Rails
HAPPY HOURshrimp EVERYDAY 3 - 6 chili chicken burrito verde primavera $1.25 Bucket of Domestic 25 Cent Wings BURGERS Cans 5 for $9.00 beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95 16 oz steak
N3287 County rd. OA 1904 Campbell
127 dr. st. 1128Marina La Crosse
10 - 50 CL: (increases cents per hour) $1.50 rails $1 rails
Italian beef meal: $6.15 2 Chicago dog meal: $3.00 Bacardi mixers/ $3.45 mojitos Great drinks! $2 Cherry Bombs $1.50 $1 Bazooka Joes bloody marys 11Happy a.m. Hour - 4 p.m
Happy Hour 12 - 7
$2.00 Cruzan Rum Mixers, $2.50 Ladies'Jameson Nite outShots, 1.50 $3.00 Raill Mixers mixers/ $2.50 X bombs
$3.00 Patron Shots $2 Pearl Street Brewery beers
chicken & veggie OPEN-CL fajitas $2 U "Call" it for two
Huck Finn’s Howie's
$6.75 shrimp dinner 50 cent taps 4 - 7
77 -- midnight midnight $2 $2 Malibu Malibu madness madness $2 $2 pineapple pineapple upsidedown upsidedown cake cake
77 -- midnight midnight $1 $1 rail rail mixers mixers $2 $2 Bacardi Bacardi mixers mixers
Fiesta Eagle'sMexicana Nest
Fox Hollow Goal Post
$2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes
beers & rails
Ladies Ladies Night Night buy buy one, one, get get one one free free wear wear aa bikini, bikini, drink drink free free
N3287 County OA
pepper & egg sandwich meal: $4.50, fish sandwich meal: $4.99, ItalianCaptain sausage meal: $3.00 mixers/ mojitos $6.15 Great drinks!
All day, everyday: $1.00 Shots of Doctor, $2.00 Cherry Bombs, $1.75 Silos of Busch Light/Coors All day Everyday: $1 Doctor $2 Silos. M-F: Happy Hour 2-6 $.50 off everything but the daily special
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$2.50 X-Rated Mixers $2 Captain Mixers $2 Premium Grain Belt $2 Snake Bites
batterfried cod, fries, Italian beef meal: pepper & egg sandwich beans, and garlic bread $6.69 meal: $5.50$5.00 2 Chicago dog meal: Italian sausage meal: $6.69 $4.50$5.89
Topless Topless Tuesday Tuesday
5200 1914 Mormon CampbellCoulee rd.
$2.50happy Bomb Shots hour $2.50 Ketel One Mixers $2 Retro Beers "Your Dad's Beer"
Cosmic $1 cherryBowl bombs starts at 9 p.m. until midnight
AUCE wings $5.00 free crazy bingo hamburger or cheeseburger buy one cherry meal: bomb $3.89 get one for $1 Italian Beef w/dog meal: 3 p.m.$7.89 - midnight
$1 $1 Kul Kul Light Light cans cans
411 3rd st.
3-7
$2 Silos
Saturday
$5 bbq ribs and grilled chicken sandfries wich meal: $5.29 Polish sausage meal: $4.49
$4 $4 full full pint pint Irish Irish Car Car Bomb Bomb
Dan’s Place
Cosmic & $1 cherryBowl bombs Karaoke starts at until 9 p.m. midnight
Stop in for Value Menu too big to list here
$6.00 AUCD
bucket night 6 for $9
Friday
shots of Doctor hamburger meal: 8-1 $6 sandgrilled chicken $3.69 wich meal: $5.29 meal: $6.15 HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 cheeseburger PM meal: Polish sausage meal: 2 dogs meal: $ 5.25 10 cent wings (9 - CL) $3.89 $3.99 Martini$2.50 Ladies' Night Wristband $1 High Life 6- 8bottles All Mojitos $5 Blatz vs. Old Styletriple James Martini: vodka, $1.50burgers, rail mixers$2.60 soup orNight salad bar $1.25Tuesday make your own $2.25 meatsec, orpitchers marinara orange juice $1.50 taps $2 Guinness pints FREE with entree or tacos, $4.75 taco salad cheeseburgers, $2 off spaghetti: $3.45 $2 HAPPY large pizza, $1 fries4 - 7 sandwich until 3 p.m. HOUR 7- CL: $4.95 $2.25 margaritas, Italian sausage: 3- CL: 7- CL: 7- CL: ($3.95 by itself) largeclosed taco pizza with $1 anyDr. pizza Martini Madness shots Margarita Monday off 2 for 1 2 Beers, Ladies' Night Guys' Night 61-topping 8 p.m. pizza $2 off $2.50 all martinis $3 Jager Bombs taps $11 $1.25 beers & rails $1.25 $1.50 rails/domestics
77 -- CL CL $1 $1 domestic domestic 12 12 oz oz $2 $2 Stoli Stoli mixers mixers
closed closed
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
$2 U Call it imports $3 Crown Mixers
$5 All Pitchers
$2 Corona/Corona Light, $4 Patron
$2 Stoli Mixers, $1 DR Shots
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Area food food & & drink drink specials specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [Area LA CROSSE JB’s Speakeasy 717 Rose st.
The Joint 324 Jay st.
Legend’s
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
1/2 off Pearl Street pitchers during Packer game
4 - 8 p.m. Bacardi $3 doubles/pints
closed
223 Pearl st.
closed
Nutbush
Thursday
Saturday
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7 $1.00 off all Irish shots $2.50 pints of Guinness $3.00 imperial pints
$2 domestics and rails, 4-8
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75
closed
Friday
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75
WING NIGHT $2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50 JACK MIXERS $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
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
5 - 7 p.m. 2-4-1 happy hour
great drinks!
$2 SHOTS OF GOLDSCHLAGER $5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
3264 George st.
Players
Price by Dice
214 Main St
Ralph's
In John's Bar 109 3rd st. N
Ringside
2 for 1 Happy Hour ALL NIGHT LONG
Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6
CLOSED
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3119 State rd.
breakfast buffet $9.95 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
BBQ Sandwich
Shooter’s
$1 Shot Night
223 Pearl st.
Schmidty’s 120 S 3rd st.
Sports Nut 801 Rose st.
Tailgators 1019 S 10th st.
Train Station BBQ 601 St. Andrew st.
Top Shots 137 S 4th st.
Yesterdays 317 Pearl st.
LA CRESCENT
Crescent Inn 444 Chestnut st.
WINONA Godfather’s 30 Walnut st.
April 2,
happy hour all day
Karaoke @ 10 p.m. 2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 AUCD Rail mixers @ 10 p.m.
Karaoke @ 10 p.m. 2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $1 Pabst cans, Dr. shots @ 10 p.m.
chicken parmesan sub $6
Italian sandwich w/banana peppers and parmesan &6
open 4-9
double $6.50
Southwest chicken pita $5
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM cheeseburger HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 8 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.
Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5 $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $7.99 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.
LUNCH BUFFET $6.95 Tacos
Ask Nicely See What Happens
Tie Tuesday Great Prices For Sharp Dressers
Buck Burgers
Tacos $1.25
$4 domestic pitchers
ask for great eats
Chili Dogs
15 cent wings
12 oz. T-Bone $8.99
$2 Bacardi mixers
$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints
Bucket Night 5 for $9
11-3: Extra side with sandwich 4-9: $1 off rib dinner
11-3: Ruben $6.95 4-9: Wings $4.99
11-3: Barn burner $7.95 4-9: Hobo dinner (serves 2) $25.95
$2 domestic bottles 7 - 12, $2.50 Skyy/ Absolute mixers 10-1 $2 Dr. drinks
$1 Point special bottles
$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness
$1.75 domestic bottles
$2.25 Pearl st. pints $1.50 PBR 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
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs
Fish Sandwich
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints
HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM
$1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/ PBR taps all day $1.75 rails 10 - 1
family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age
Tacos
$1 Rails, $1.50 Pint Taps, $3 Long Island Pints
$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots
Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas
2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.
5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
Fish Fry $6.95
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 11-3 Crispy chicken salad 4-9: Bones & briskets $13.95
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints 15 cent wings
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 1/2 Chicken 3 bones
$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12
$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs
Thursday
Friday
$2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish
$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)
Thursday
Saturday
Friday
Saturday
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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Thursday, April 2 Del’s Bar Soul Logic The Root Note Open Mic Night Popcorn Tavern New Grass Revue Nighthawks Dave Orr's open jam Starlite Lounge Kies & Kompanie Howie's Karaoke Cavalier Lounge Bad Axe River Band
10:00
The Root Note The Prizefighters and Dub District
7:00
Nighthawk's Baron Von Volume
10:00 10:00 5:00
10:00
Howie's Flashback
9:00
The Waterfront Chris Bucheit and Steve Neger
8:00
8:00
8:00
10:00
The Joint Houses in Motion
10:00
Glory Days Defcon 5 and Tendrill
10:00
Neuie's North Star Heavy Water
10:00
10:00
Sunday, April 5
8:00
Popcorn Tavern Som'n Jazz
10:00
Monday, April 6
Dan's Place The Grilled Cheese Experience
9:30
Popcorn Tavern Shawn's Open Jam w/ Up and Coming
Howie's Comedy
8:30
Houghton’s Hootenanny w/ Mike Caucutt 10:00
Piggy's Blues Lounge Brandon Scott Sellner
Del’s 8:00 Open jam with Chubba
Freight House Blake Peters JB's Moonshine Conspiracy
The Joint Sons of a Peach
10:00
9:00
Saturday, April 4 Popcorn Tavern Bottom of the Barrel String Band Cavalier Lounge Bumpity Boom Boom
10:00 10:00
Bodega Brew Pub Adam Palm and Joe Gantzer
9:00
The Timbers Dave Kerska
8:00
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10:00
10:00
Tuesday, April 7 Popcorn Tavern Paulie
10:00
The Joint Brownie's Open Jam
10:00
27,069
Manfort
Ed's Bar
Earthbound
Ed's Bar
Fri. 4/3
Acoustic Cafe
Fri. 4/3
Secondhand Serenade WSU's McCowan Gynmasium
Fri. 4/3
Stars after the Storm
Sat., 4/4
Poetry and Jazz
Thurs., 4/2
Acoustic Cafe Ed's Bar
Friday April 3rd
Sat., 4/4
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Garrigan's Quarrel
Freight House The Floodlight
7:30
Popcorn Tavern Lettuce Inn
7:00
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Pump House Clay Riness
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April 4, continued
Friday, April 3
Alpine Inn PatMcCurdy
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Entertainment Directory 4/2 - 4/8
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