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NAME: Sarah Hillesland, 21 BIRTHPLACE: Decorah, IA CURRENT JOB: In-debt student DREAM JOB: Billionaire foundation donor COVETED SUPERPOWER: Ability to morph into anything DREAM VACATION: Rome, Italy with 20 of my best friends FAVORITE LOCAL RESTAURANT: Yoko's FAVORITE BAR IN TOWN: Bodega 3 MOVIES YOU’D TAKE ON A DESERTED ISLAND: Garden State, Shawshank Redemption, Breakfast at Tiffany's
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HOW DO YOU KNOW EVERETTE? He's just a boob.
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What: La Crosse Pride 2008 When: Saturday,Aug. 23, 11 a.m.-midnight Where: South Side Oktoberfest Grounds Most of the time, La Crosse is not a very gay city. Although too many people in this world use “gay” as an insult, to us “gay” just means “gay,” and we think La Crosse could handle being just a little bit gayer. And our editorial stance is that there isn’t anything wrong with that. It’s beyond unfortunate that bigots in this area can prevent some of our neighbors from acting how they feel, so we hope this Saturday’s La Crosse Pride 2008 will be an out-and-out celebration of freedom! The daylong event at the Southside Fest Grounds will feature informational sessions from 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. and musical acts — including Nodyne, Irene Keenan Jr. and Ronnie Nyles — from noon to midnight.The variety show, which begins at 8:45 p.m., should be a special treat as it will feature over a dozen performers competing for the title of Pride King and Queen 2008 as well as a performance by Miss Gay Universe 2007, Candi Stratton. How lucky are we, La Crosse? Following the pageant God-des & She, a renowned hip-hop duo, will close the party with an hour-long show. “Ya’ll ever heard of a white dyke Jew from WI?” a promotional flyer asks about God-des. Well, not many, but perhaps events like La Crosse Pride will encourage more to come out on the town.Tickets are $7.
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Sometimes fun happens for no reason at all, and sometimes people can plan and plan for some wicked fun and really just end up being disappointed in the wasted time. I’ll be the first to admit that alcohol has a lot to do with it, but not everything. This past weekend I went camping with family and friends in our annual weekend of drunken fun and it lived up to every expectation I held of it.The 2008 Jamboree in Whitewater State Park, Minnesota, was the highlight of my summer, hands down. The annual weekend of craziness all started with my parents. Basically, I think they were just looking for an excuse to go away for a weekend in the summer and drink excessively with friends, and in reality it hasn’t changed all that much.The same weekend that started with my parents getting trashed with pals is now giving my friends and I the opportunity to get silly drunk and dance around a campfire without pants on. Basically it’s a bunch of my parents’ friends that hang out and then all of their children (e.g. me) and their friends (e.g. my friends), which is where all the fun comes in. The old geezers are cool and all, but nothing compares to a bunch of people ages twenty to thirty-five who loosely know each other and all have the common goal of one rockin' good time. My favorite part about the Jamboree however, is that it’s not real camping. At the state park, they have a group camp that we rent out that has nine cabins that sleep about 20 people a piece and there’s a main lodge with a kitchen and big meeting area. No tents? Heck yeah I love “camping!” Every year, the Jamboree starts out with a bang on Friday night with illegal yard games and the most excessive drinking of the weekend. If you’ve never played Jarts, don’t; they are illegal and dangerous. It’s basically darts but 20 times bigger and the point is to throw them at your partner's feet about 20 yards away. With all of the alcohol involved, some people have taken a jart or two in the head and many many people have taken at least one jart in the foot. I, personally, was a junior jarts champ about 10 years in a row as a kid and I never let anyone forget it! That’s right, there’s always a junior tourney
the next day for the kids because that’s SOO safe. This year however, the real fun came after the jarts tourney. My cousin whom we refer to as the Bohemian Beast and his partner won again at about 2 a.m. At that point in time, most of the old folks went to bed which left us young punks all alone in the lodge. We were all just sitting around, talking in our own little groups that we came in when someone had the genius idea to play Flip Cup; best idea ever! It was the most inter-generational game I have ever played which was WAY cooler than I thought it would be. The funniest part about the night came right around the five o’clock a.m. hour though. I brought four friends with me this year, and there also happened to be four or five guys around our age there, too. Since I don’t hang around ugly bitches and these guys weren’t half bad looking, I knew what would be happening by the end of the night. One of my friends was slowly creeping towards the boys’ cabin, another one was slowly creeping toward a different boy by the fire and one of my more petite friends was puking in the weeds where yet another boy was creeping in to hold her hair. A classic hormone and alcohol mix. Some of you may be wondering why I, the newly single badass bitch that I am, didn’t jump on the horny train. Well, I set my sights really high this year; I was into an older man who was far too polite to shove his tongue down my throat in the wee morning hours. He’s my older cousin’s best friend, has one leg because of a motorcycle accident a few years ago and I’m pretty sure I’m going to marry him in three years. Three years you ask? Well, I know I’ll be marrying him in three years because he’s now on the Maria Pint Three Year Plan. The Three Year Plan goes a little something like this: year one is for casual convo, year two is for serious flirting which leads to serious dating and year three is for popping the question. I’ve got it all figured out, and before long I shall be part of a three-legged duo. As all of my friends were hooking up with the random guys at the Jamboree this year, I was sitting around the smoldering campfire with my future husband planning out the Jamboree for next summer; better known as Year Two in the plan. Ah yes, you can’t plan fun like that and some people might try to tell me that you can’t just put someone on a Three Year Plan and expect it to work out either. To them I say “F off!” and remember that I’m Maria Pint; my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard you know! Even the amputees.
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The Failed Weekend
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brett.emerson@secondsupper.com My piece for this week was supposed to be based upon my old theory that our passive culture has warped offensiveness into something resembling virtue. All the typical reactionaries were cited as evidence: Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Fred Phelps and rock & roll.And smug in knee-jerk humanity’s shortcomings, the conclusion stated that we need to move past our red herring relationships with such jackasses and focus on the real problems in the world. I do strongly believe in the idea that people are too easily derailed by trivial offensiveness that would be better dealt with by ignoring it. Still, it was noted with irony that I wasted all of this Sunday in my own utterly derailed state, trying way too hard to cram these thoughts into my own loudmouthed articulation. I spent an hour wallowing in each paragraph, getting nowhere. Most of that time floated by with me drifting off from the stunted column and trying to draw inspiration from police brutality videos on YouTube and Jello Biafra’s incendiary spoken word. During this progression I erased at least half of what came out and might as well have bumped into the usable words by accident. I spent the entire day wanting to throw my computer through a window and quit. But I kept coming back, kept flicking a sentence on the page and then losing my nerve, repeating the process, feeling like a withdrawal junkie. Eight hours passed in this torture. It was devoid of inspiration and drained all hope. I began to wish that I would just accept the fact that I am way too distracted to ever be a serious writer. And when I read the almost completed column, it was horrible. So I killed it. I wanted to kill more. Saturday is supposed to be the day of the week when I get newspaper business done.The rest of the week is taken up by short stories, comedy writing and work on stories that will hopefully become novels someday. I’ve had to assign each day to a specific project in order to keep them all above the surface, so I don’t run in one direction at the expense of the others. Unfortunately, having a full-time job doesn’t
always make these timetables plausible. This past Saturday was one such day with an awkward schedule, leaving little time for writing, and a lot to write. Appropriately, I spent that afternoon at work talking shop with a touring writer promoting her first book, a murder mystery played out amidst sailboats. She discussed the long road which carried this story over the threshold from theory to reality, and showed amazement that the book was doing so well. According to something she had heard from another author, only about two percent of all published books sell more than 2,000 copies. Hers had broken that mark, so even though doing promotion had actually taken her pocketbook into the hole, the book was a success. After a few more words, she packed up and left, and I spent my final hours of work very bored, very impatient. I came home in the late evening, determined to bust out my homework in short order, before my friends came over for drinks and tomfoolery. As I sat at my desk and stared at the computer’s screen, my stupid brain kneecapped that determination and followed its tendency to suggest a dozen other things to do instead of writing. Go running, ride your bike, take a shower, get something to eat, drink some water, read a book, listen to some music and the worst one of all, take a quick look at the Internet. In all seriousness, I’d rather shoot heroin than have the Internet. I suppose it’s to my credit that I did none of these things, and instead watched the newest subject in my Crap Films pantheon. It still wasted an hour and a half of my time, the end of which left me with a drained screwdriver and my friends on their way. Time was running out. Being that I’ve found that I can barely write when music is playing, there would be no hope of progress once my cohorts arrived. And after they arrived at my place and sat on my floor, the drinking continued and the disappointment amplified. I forced myself to keep my back turned and stick to business, but the words weren’t genius and my thoughts on mediocre indie and synth-pop were incomplete. It’s surprising that I accomplished as much as I did in that state. So the backup plan emerged. Since I didn’t have to work on Sunday, I’d finish up paper business in the afternoon and jump on short stories in the evening. But Sunday was even more disastrous than Saturday. As this failed weekend closed its curtains, I sat under water and let the depression and disappointment rampage. I thought of joining a writer’s group, an addict’s group. Something. And then I had an idea. I’d write about this failure, get it out. So I returned to my desk at the windows. This has been the fastest thing I’ve written in ages. I feel much better. This was an excellent protest. I promise I’ll be surly again.
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August 21, 2008
Musings of a Gen-X activist
By Shuggypop Jackson
shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com Protesting. If I think about it, which I don't do much these days, for some reason this word triggers a shuddering reaction of eye rolling "whatever" in me, whether it's the radicals on the left or those at an abortion clinic. I have whole-heartedly participated in protests in my past. It's not like I'm coming from an ignorant point of view as to how I formed the opinion I now hold.While in high school during the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, I superficially went to a pro-marijuana rally in Madison organized by NORML. This was my first experience with protesting, though I wasn't really protesting as much as I was going to a giant smoke out Following this, I got involved in the protest spirit that surrounded my college days in Eugene, Oregon. During the mid-â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, the area was engulfed in a battle to protect old growth forests that logging companies were looking to chop down just outside of town in a place called Warner Creek. I started going to Earth First meetings and going out to tree sits. I was what you could describe as a dreadlocked tree hugger. This particular battle, the hippie won, which brought encouragement to an empowered generation of idealists in Eugene who felt they could make a change. This success spread through the activist grapevine and daily a new busload of Smash the State twentysomething's rolled into town. Unfortunately, it soon became a manic shouting match of one upsmanship of who was more radical than the rest and things got ugly fast. I left Eugene for a year and a half because of this and spent several of those months living in Garbersville, California, participating in the Headwaters protest, made famous by the
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tree sitting of Julia "Butterfly" Hill who lived in a redwood tree she named Luna nonstop for just over two years. Celebrities such as Woody Harrelson, Bonnie Raitt and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead gave voice to this cause. It was a magical Koom-By-Ya moment in the enchanted Ewok forest of giant trees. Word started seeping in about some goings on up in Seattle, a World Trade Organization meeting that the troops were ready to take to the streets to protest. This was the fall of 1999. I was excited to reconnect with old friends from Eugene. This ended up being the largest protest of my generation, one that got aroundthe-clock media coverage and put the "Eugene Anarchist" movement on the national map as a result of the Zapatista costumes worn by the guerrilla-style window smashing of corporate storefronts brought about by my friends and neighbors. Tear gas ensued with a giant melee of tens of thousands of people in the streets saying Fuck the Man. Protesting in the forests was much different than the abrasive urban tactics that were employed. I was overwhelmed and confused. A week after this, I headed off to backpack through Central America for the winter and spent time with the actual Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, limbless former revolutionaries of the Sandinistas/Contras war of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s in Managua, Nicaragua, and orphans whose entire families were killed as a result of similar wars in El Salvador and Guatemala.This experience gave me a different perspective than the privileged and entitled middle-class white kid struggle I experienced in Oregon. These were people who were ready to die for their cause. Even more mind-blowing for me was living among the locals and experiencing the sense of community and love from dirt poor people
who had next to nothing. It is incomparable to anything I've experienced in America. It was sobering and maturing. Returning to Eugene the following spring, I no longer related to the rabble rousing going on anymore. The FBI had taken an interest in the Anarchists and paranoia was the norm. Needle drugs were prevalent and nihilist gutter punks took up the face of the cause. I was also tired of the self-aggrandizing Boomer culture that lingered in Eugene with their whole nostalgic "we stopped a war" rhetoric they flaunted like a badge of pride who took to bashing my generation for our ways of operating. Their trapped-in-a-time-warp tactics hadn't evolved, nor had they really accomplished much, despite what Boomers will tell you, other than create a huge divide in society. Later that summer, I made my way down to Los Angeles to attend the Democratic National Convention protest that was going on. Ralph Nader was our guy. Fuck Al Gore and the two-party monopoly was the rallying call.While seeing a decent free show from Rage Against the Machine, I also wound up getting food poisoning from the Food Not Bombs handouts due to the lack of hygiene of food preparers, became annoyed with the paranoid wack job throwbacks with their conspiracy theories who were lurking around, and disgusted by the power-tripping going on by the professional protesters on their bully pulpits barking orders at what we "needed" to do. No thanks. Reliving the philosophies of Chairman Mao telling people to take it to the streets was flawed and didn't resonate within me anymore. I was becoming disillusioned with the hypocrisy, with the imagery from my winter sojourn still in my mind contrasting the battle of ideology I witnessed waged in front of me. It was the end of my participating in organized protests. I just didn't see the point anymore. And then along came George W. Bush followed by the World Train Center tragedy, which put a damper on the radical spirits of the time. By accident, I ended up at a protest in Mexico City in 2002 to stop the war before the U.S. went into Iraq, but I was more interested in looking at Diego Rivera murals and the Metropolitan Cathedral in the Zocalo where the bongo-beating protesters were. So where am I now, a person who spent his early 20s on the front line of protest? I've
matured and taken off the rose-colored glasses of idealism I once held and went out and got a job. But I don't feel I have necessarily sold out. I don't own a car and I get around on bicycle. I grow much of my own food, which is about the most revolutionary thing a person can do. What I don't grow, I try to buy locally as much as possible. I did Americorps for a year working with disadvantaged children in rural Oregon as well as volunteering for several nonprofit organizations. I write self-indulgent articles for an independent newspaper as a way to hopefully influence and educate others, while calling out what I perceive as bullshit. I find Gandhi and Banksy equally inspiring for their subversive actions, but the confrontational stylings of the Yippies, Leonard Peltier and Che Guevera no longer seem so cool as they once did. But mostly, I feel jaded about the ability to make a change. Like many in my generation, I don't see the world as such an amazing place with limitless possibilities presented to me the way it once did. Obama is promising us hope, which is striking a central nerve with so many my age, but I am finding myself not really buying it. The real radical shit I see is in the simple everyday things such as kindness to your fellow human beings and lending a compassionate hand to others.To me, these are more powerful ways to make a change than waving a divisive sign from a street corner that has become the stereotype of protesting. This is the call to action I'd love to see. I don't want to rain on the parade of those of you who want to do something to make a change. Too many of us are apathetic and don't do a thing outside of complaining about what's wrong. Get involved in something you feel passionate about, be it direct action or something in the background, but have a reason. Don't just follow the herd. Don't make things into Us Against Them, because by doing that you have already lost integrity and my respect. Listen to what the other side has to say, don't assume you know better and actively seek common grounds to connect on.You will find this sort of empathy in the teachings of Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and MLK. Lead by example, live the ideals you preach, but don't become a self-righteous prick. And most importantly, always remember to laugh.
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Legend # Constellations In late winter the stars in the northern sky area at their brightest. The big dipper, the little dipper, the Pleiades, are all visible to the cognizant viewer, although the shapes seen by the ancients in a warmer clime are not always convincing to the cold eye of the northern skeptic. Each latitude is likely to see the shapes it wants to see, or perhaps needs to see, in a sky they must consider of special significance to them. When we see the old shapes, it is a measure of our faith, rather than our ability to discern design amidst the millions of visible stars. There is, or should be, room for the invention of new constellations at any time. The little group gathered in front of the Capitol that night was not looking at the sky at all. Its members were concentrating on the book they were passing around. They were there to pay their respects to the people of their generation who had died beneath distant stars, on the other side of the planet. The names of the dead had been carefully recorded and entered into the records of their country’s legislative body and therefore made available to the public. This particular group of citizens, large in spirit, though small in number, had determined they would read the name of every soldier who had fallen, even if it took many hours. Since the temperature had was well below zero and dropping quickly by the time they began reading, the size of the group fluctuated continually, as members left to warm themselves at the lunch counter of a nearby pharmacy or to bring coffee to their comrades.The stars above them, the ones named by the ancients and even those named by escaping slaves, seem frozen in place and indifferent to their cause. E. C. and Marie-Therese were with the little group, taking their turns reading and going after coffee. The names were arranged according to state and then alphabetized by the last names of the fallen. The order of the states was alphabetized as well, so it took a long time for the group to reach Wisconsin. By the time the book came to Marie-Therese they had gotten through the names beginning with B, and as she handed the book to E. C. she pointed to the place in the D’s where she had left off. He read the first three names in a serious and respectful tone, but when he reached the fourth name he stopped. Something that shone like stars formed in his eyes and began to slide down his cheeks and freeze to his skin. When he finally spoke, his voice sounded like a hurt dog. “Corky Disbrow.”Then silence.Then, as he handed the book to the person next in line to read and left the group. He walked down State Street toward the campus slowly and deliberately, seemingly unaware of the people he passed or the young woman who followed him. Only occasionally did he look upward at the new constellations forming in the sky. Do you see them there, in the north? Do you see them now? Just above the Capitol this time of year, so that the golden woman standing atop the dome seems to be pointing to them with her right arm? There, the one on the left with his arm extended is the Quarterback who has just thrown a perfect spiral. And there, on the right, is the Receiver, who seems to be running at top speed.That tiny group of stars, just above his outstretched hands, is the ball. If he will never enter the end zone, neither will he be tackled. E. C. Tripp was certain the heavens had shifted that night, but it was just as certain that something had shifted inside of him, and he would never be the same.
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Dissent, meet Minnesota Nice By Adam Bissen
adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Neither the delegates nor the nor the anarchists nor the police nor the protesters know exactly what will happen when the Republican National Convention kicks off in St. Paul, Minnesota on the first day of September. We can assume a few things. John McCain will be named the GOP nominee for president, and people within the Xcel Energy Center will cheer. People will express their displeasure outside the convention center, and enforcement officials will attempt to keep order. Whatever else may happen between September first and fourth is a variable, the conflict of pacifist tendencies, anarchist urges, creative expression, authoritarian powers and historical precedents ranging from Chicago in 1968 to Denver in the last week of August. Something very big or very banal could go down in St. Paul, and you won’t be able to experience it unless you make the 150 mile trip up north. The Twin Cities aren’t really known for being a riotous place. A national championship by the college hockey team can get people rushing into the streets, but generally people stay indoors or traverse the skywalks that connect downtown. If anything, Minnesota is known as one of the most polite places in the country, so
it will be interesting to see how it handles the anarchists. Protesting figures are notoriously hard to calculate, but every official release from the March on the RNC campaign says it expects “tens of thousands” of people to protest in the streets of St. Paul. A lot of them — tens of thousands — will be of the traditional protest school, that archetypal ‘60s ideal of peaceful marches and pointed signs. In this group there will be many — thousands, perhaps — who seek to make a statement by getting arrested, and the 3,500 extra police officers on hand will likely be able to accommodate them. Then there’s the new generation of protesters, those spurred by a generation of stalled tactics. Following the window-smashing demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999, they came to be known as the Black Bloc, their name derived from the black clothing and bandanas protestors wear to avoid detection by authorities. Often anarchist and anti-authoritarian, they don’t have a central organizing committee or even unified positions. Nonetheless, 40 antiauthoritarian organizations have endorsed a “Crash the Convention” strategy that includes blockades of bridges, intersections and other transportation targets. “What we create here will send the convention crashing off course
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into insignificance,” reads the statement posted on nornc.org. While Black Bloc tactics have gotten the most media attention in recent years, others in the protest establishment denounce the destructive actions. This rift played out most recently in Denver, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention from August 25-28. For nearly a year, protest groups organized their actions under the moniker Recreate ’68, a reference to the 1968 DNC in Chicago that was categorized by street brawls between police officers and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators. Seeking to distance themselves from those destructive roots, a dozen protest organizations — including CODEPINK, the Green Party and Iraq Veterans Against the War — splintered off from Recreate ’68 to form the Alliance for Real Democracy. Coming just one week prior, the protests in Denver will undoubtedly have some affect on what plays out in St. Paul. For one, many activists will demonstrate in both cities and bring along tactics that proved effective, as well as improvements on what failed in Denver.Violent episodes in the Mile High City would likely encourage St. Paul to beef up security, while a negative response could encourage Minnesotans to scale back anti-authoritarian tactics. Traditionally, though, the majority of American political protestors are non-violent, and March on the RNC organizers have put in over a year scheduling activities and developing logistical plans. The major march is scheduled for Sept. 1, the first day of the convention. It begins at 11 a.m. with a rally at the state capital, and afterwards marchers will begin the 12block trek to the Xcel Energy Center before making a loop and heading back to the capital lawn along largely the same streets. While sending 50,000 people on a mile-long march may be the definition of a clusterfuck, it could nonetheless be one of those once-in-a-lifetime events (or something so inspiring you'll repeat it every four years). There are scores of other events going on, too, such as Tuesday’s Ripple Effect Music Festival, which will occur on the capital lawn and feature Michael Franti,Anti-Flag, Dead Prez, Wookie Foot, Matisyahu and several other acts. Rage Against the Machine, the rabblerous-
ing band that’s performing a free show at the DNC, is also coming to the Twin Cities Sept. 3, but tickets for the $60 show at the Target Center sold out weeks ago. Should a protester find himself in need of a lawyer, there will be a free legal collective and a 24-hour jail support hotline (651.356.8635). There will also be a medical collective, a communications collective, a bicycle collective and convergent spaces planned around the Twin Cities. Of course, there will be myriad speakers and ancillary marches for peace and against capitalism. As for social events there will be the Peace Island Picnic, the Magickal Activist Day Camp and the New Moon Ritual for an Upwelling of Earth Wisdom. (Twin Cities Indymedia has a full schedule of RNC protest events on in its Web site, http://tc.indymedia. org/event/2008/09/). One happening that is not to be missed is the Foul Weather Warning in Sector 5, where the “renegade reindeer squadron” vows to seed the clouds above St. Paul to dump a record Labor Day snowfall on the area. “As for the cold and fluffy justice dropping from the sky, we know it may be inconvenient, but the snowswarm guarantees that our snowbanks will not foreclose on your home, rob your family, bankroll nazis, or redline your neighborhood. Bring a sled, hop on, and join the fun.” It’s a bit of an Abbie Hoffman-esque prank, but no one said 1968 was all bad.You’ve just got to get up to St. Paul to recreate the best parts.
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It’s kinda funny how paths cross, how one little action can lead to a whole pool of new perspectives, ideas and smells. Our natural curiosities lead us to the basement of the La Crosse Public Library on August 14, where we met our new friends, the Witness Against War and Voices For Creative Nonviolence. The antiwar "movement's" inspiration originates in Chicago in 1968 at the Democratic Convention. Now 40 years later, the origin of the physical walk is in Chicago, but the inspirations and ideals are traveling on foot, 500ish miles, to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. The 10 walkers in the 2008 Witness Against War said they wanted to press our country to fully fund the reconstruction of Iraq following 18 years of economic and military warfare. They also desire to end all U.S. military action against Iraq, safely bring home all U.S. troops and prevent future military deployment to Iraq.To do so they went straight to the source: Fort McCoy. While there, the troupe was peacefully arrested for trespassing during their attempt to inform troops of a GI rights Web site. They said their imprisonment was welcomed, however. They hope through the minor difficulties they face they will better connect with those affected by the war. Part of why the pilgrimage was on foot was to feel the discomfort and suffering felt by others. The walk is a dramatic change in lifestyle, a symbol of the change they want in U.S. policies. Also, walking is more environmentally conscious, as would be diverting the money spent on war to battle global warming, which they feel is true "social security." Though they are one united group, each activist has his or her own reasons for enduring blisters, surprisingly "friendly" cops and sun. For example, Dan Pearson walks because of what he witnessed during the eight months he spent in Syria. "There's far more ugliness that comes with war than those who die. That's what compels
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me to walk on," he said. Then there's Josh Broiller, the Dylan-esque musician who writes antiwar songs. He has seen the effects of war through both his work with refugees from Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan as well as growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., where half the town works for nearby Fort Campbell. Although only walking for a week, Brian Terrell wants to draw more attention to the war than what is being supplied by the rhetoric of politicians. Perhaps the most directly connected to the war is Paul Melling, the Iraq War veteran who spoke honestly and straight-forward about his feelings concerning the war. In his eyes, the Iraqis are just fighting for their freedom, the same way our fathers of liberty did over 200 years ago. Melling said he liked his time in the military — in the beginning — until March 18, 2004, when his comrade "Happy" was killed. After that, he didn't know what Happy had died for. He began to question if his and his friends' sacrifices were being misused because in his eyes "freedom is free. Oppression is what costs money." It is obvious that a key component of the walkers' journey is forming relationships, not unlike their desire to form relationships with the Iraqi people. They seem to greatly value the simple relationships they formed with construction workers, a crossing guard and a jail keeper along the walk. And now we, teenagers with nothing better to do on a Thursday night, have been interwoven in their web of relationships. Thanks to them, we've seen beyond our sheltered French Island demographic to a world of alternative fotware, hairstyle and perfumes. And we'd like to publicly thank mysterious donor X for the delicious loaf of what we assume was nut bread. You, maker of such delectability, have opened our mouths to a world of new tastes.
By Adam Bissen
adam.bissen@secondsupper.com The protesters are coming! The protesters are coming! Whether by train or plane or car or foot, people are already traveling to St. Paul to display their displeasure at the Republican National Convention. This Friday La Crosse will play host to another caravan making its way to the RNC, and everyone in this group is rolling in on two wheels. On Friday, Aug. 22, around 50 bicyclists from the Madison-based Grass Routes Caravan will roll into the city for a short stay downtown and a free show and Bluffland Bloom and Brew. The riders left Madison on Aug. 17, will stop in Winona on Aug. 24 and hope to arrive at the convention in St. Paul on Aug. 30. “This is not a protest,” reads a press release put out by the riders. “The Caravan will demonstrate in motion the power of the bicycle as a real form of transportation and a tool for the liberation of people who are willing to ride the distance together in intentional community.” Along the route, riders plan on stopping in small communities in Wisconsin and Minnesota to help with local projects, including community gardening and cleanup work from recent floods. The Grass Routes Caravan also contains a number of artists who will be per-
forming music and even staging a puppet show in certain cities. The riders are scheduled to arrive at the La Crosse River Trail parking lot (near the intersection of Hwy. B and Hwy. 16) at 5 p.m. on Friday. Local bicyclists seeking to show their support are invited to meet the Caravan at the trailhead and ride with them to the Cameron Park Farmers Market for some mingling and generalized lounging. At 7 p.m. the community is invited to join the Caravan at Bluffland Bloom and Brew where two folk groups will perform and an art collective will stage a Peter Pan puppet show. “This is going to be like taking a little slice of the DNC protest and the RNC protest and moving it along the trail from Madison to St. Paul,” said Kevin Hundt, a La Crosse volunteer who is helping host the group. “Everyone who wants to see what all the hubbub is about should come to this.” On Saturday, the group will do a work project in La Crosse before riding to the Great River Bluffs State Park to camp. They’ll roll into Winona on Sunday, but an activity schedule could not be found as of press time. The Caravan is scheduled to arrive in St. Paul on Aug. 30, two days before the start of the RNC.
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Cornmeal crosses ‘'the cusp'’ CG: It was quite an honor, I tell you. Like I said we’ve been plugging away on it for eight years and mostly really playing shows in the Midwest. When we get an award like this it’s a national thing. It’s really an honor to know that the rest of the country is paying attention to what you are doing and are really onboard with it. It’s a really cool thing. SS: I was kind of cracking up when I saw Best New Groove. I used to live in Madison and it seems like I’d see you six years ago when you played at the little King Club.
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adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Cornmeal may be the best bluegrass band to ever come out of Chicago, but it’s not often that you’ll find them in the Second City. For eight years the band has lived on the road, first tearing up bars around the Midwest and now spreading to clubs around the country. The band will be in the area again this weekend when it plays a Saturday evening slot at Fat Fest in Wabasha, Minn. In advance of that performance Second Supper phoned bass player Chris Gangi in Chicago, where he was catching his breath between tours, to figure out what it takes to bring the band to the next level. Second Supper: I’ve followed you guys for a little bit, and I get your emailer. This tour that’s coming up is extensive, but it seems almost normal for you to be touring this hard. Chris Gangi: Yeah, the last couple years we’ve definitely stepped up the amount of touring and the territories in which we tour. We’re really trying to break out of the Midwestern and open ourselves to a more national audience. Yeah, we’ve been hitting the East Coast a bit more and we’re definitely out in Colorado, just keep plugging away. SS: Is there a secret to touring so extensively, tricks you have to pick up? CG: Love what you do, and change your socks. That’s pretty much it. Nah, we all love traveling and meeting new people and seeing new faces so it’s one of those things that’s especially not for the feint of heart. It sort of becomes the consistency of the motion where you just kind of get used to being out on the road. SS: Are the touring accommodations getting a little nicer for you? CG: Uhh, it depends on the night, [laughs] but for the most part. We bought a bus last year, and it’s our home. We’re comfortable in that. We own it and operate it ourselves, so we pretty much do what we want with it and go wherever we need to go. SS: One of the first stops up on this fall tour is
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CG: Oh, yeah.We’ve been playing all those Wisconsin venues for years. Wisconsin’s been like our second home. All the way from Eau Claire to Stevens Point to Milwaukee to wherever. So it is kind of funny, but in the big grand scheme of things we are pretty new. There’s been a lot of territory that we haven’t toured, and a lot of people have not really heard us. Certainly we’ve been happy, but we’re ready for the next step, tour the country full-force. going to be Fat Fest, where you guys performed last year. Do you remember that show? CG: Oh, yeah! I think this is our third year at Fat Fest as well. We know those guys in the band [Fat Maw Rooney], and we really love with what they’re doing up there. Really, the community within all the bands at Fat Fest is pretty good. We’re really looking forward to our return trip. SS: I think my favorite part from last year was when you guys played that, like, secret unplugged show at 2 a.m. when the crew was breaking down the stage. You played the bluegrass classics, a little Flat and Scruggs. CG:Yeah, we’ll do a lot of that in the traditional setting. We’ll do a lot of stuff that we don’t do electric. It’s nice to have that versatility within the band, and that’s the kind of music we enjoy playing. SS: But the kind of electric fusion that you guys play, it’s kind of bluegrass-inspired but it’s not the purest bluegrass. I know you have a drummer behind you. CG: Yeah, it’s far from it. The purists, they have banished us from their flock. SS: So how did you guys develop the sound that you did? Do you have bluegrass roots or were you Deadheads or how did this rock & roll/ bluegrass blend come together? CG: When you get a group of people into a room together, if you’re ever open-minded enough to come together to write your own tunes together and let it all seep in, it just tends to happens. We never set out when I formed this band with a very straight purist direction. As players came and went, little things were added. Pieces were added into what became Cornmeal. The band that we are now, just the five of us, we’re just all really open and giving to each other musically of the stuff that we are inspired by. SS: How did it feel to win the Jammy [jamband Grammy] this year for Best New Groove?
SS: Yeah, and it seems like you really have the potential to grow even larger. I was checking your tour dates and you’re opening for Perpetual Groove in the south and Tea Leaf Green in the west. CG: Yeah. We’ve been jumping on with a bunch of different bands recently and making shows with them. It’s just making acquaintances in a bunch of helpful ways, collaborating together and things like that. We’re in this cool place as a band right now where we’re doing it and we can continue to keep it going. Every musician wants to be out there doing it. SS: Does it feel more special or different in recent times than when you first started this thing eight years ago? CG: I would say it’s just as special, but it’s definitively affirming all the work that we put into it over the years. Every day is a new day, and we have a great time every time that we step on the stage. And to see people out there — people around the Midwest that have been around and seeing us for so long and coming out time and time against and then to see our fan base grow, it’s a really exciting time. SS: Did you guys get to quit your day jobs? CG: Umm, we’re on the cusp of making that bridge, but we’re not so quick to let go of our work and our day jobs quite yet. I’m a workaholic. Myself and Allie — our fiddle player — both teach music, so we’ll continue teaching music forever. We don’t do it as much when we’re on the road, That’s a different story, but it’s something that she and I have been dealing with for years, as well as our drummer teaching off and on as well, too. Those are the kind of things that we’ll always continue to do.
you pick up whatever work you can do. It’s just the nature of the beast. Guys in our band have done everything from working delivery jobs to construction jobs, restaurants that kind of thing. Basically whatever we can do in order to be able to pursue our goals and our dreams as musicians. SS: But being on the cusp, it seems like all those sacrifices are coming together for you guys. CG: Yeah, they are. We’ll see what happens in this coming year. I think that’s really going to determine it for us because we’re coming off a really big summer, a lot of great new festival exposures and stuff like that. So, um, we’ll see what happens, you know, but we certainly hope for more positive change. SS: Yeah, where do you see the band going in the next couple years? CG: Um, that’s a hard question to answer. We’re just happy to be playing and we hope to grow a fan base outside the Midwest and keep the fans that we have do have here. We’re anxious to get back into the studio, too.We haven’t had a studio album in quite a while since we’ve been touring so much, trying to get a firm hand in these markets, so we could decide to get back into the studio and get a new release out there, because we have a ton of material that we haven’t laid down. SS: If I could make one small plug for a tour stop, you guys would be welcome up in La Crosse. CG: Oh, thanks. I’ll definitely keep it in mind. It’s weird. I think we’ve only played there maybe once in our whole eight years, and it was a long time ago. Maybe it was just scheduling or passing through or what not, I think it didn’t work out. But I love Wisconsin. I like the town, and people in general in Wisconsin are just great. SS: Aw, thanks. CG: Well, I like La Crosse. It’s a cool town.
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Reviews: Your Guide to Consumption The Faint – Fasciinatiion
The Faint is a band that is pumped by bassbounce and grand electronics, but deflated by monotone vocals delivering overly clever lyrics. The end result of this formula is that half of each album tends to dazzle while the rest falls into languid self-congratulation. Their newest album doesn’t buck that trend, though the ratio has moved closer to the positive end. The good songs are better than the good songs of the past, and the mediocrity of Fasciinatiion is more tolerable. Among the best: “The Geeks were Right” as the bass-and-electro centerpiece of the disc, “Machine in the Ghost” as a perky beat box concerned with the divisions of faith, “Forever Growing Centipedes” as the fuzz-bass science song, swinging a rock stomp that carries a whiff of the Caribbean. “Get Seduced” comes into the second tier, a great music marred by paparazzi lyrics.The worst song is “I Treat You Wrong,” this album’s equivalent of an Internet argument (“If you’d see it my way, we could both see it right.”). Even here, the music is good; it’s only the lyrics that fail. So, if you can get past lackluster wordplay presented in flatliner tones, you’ll find a very good album to dance to. — Brett Emerson
Pete and the Pirates – Little Death
It’s like every gangly guitar pop work laden with British accents. Little Death is a pretty album, but no more so than the rest of these sorts. Most times, Pete and the Pirates pull in Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party uptempos in the guitars, though there’s not so much arthouse snob in it. Vocally, this falls in the same field, a slightly less arrogant and jaded form of these bands. Everything here is very nice, well arranged, and musically sound, so if you’re a fan of quirky guitar Britpop, there’s a lot to like on this disc. But to those outside of the genre, it’s going
Southern Hemisphere Harvest Sierra Nevada Chico, California I like to live by the 100 mile beer diet. Drinking from the home kettle not only supports the local economy, it keeps the environment cleaner by lessening the shipping distance between brewer and belly. Gotta keep that carbon footprint down, I know, but sometimes I’ll make an exception for an exceptional beer, and Sierra Nevada’s Southern Hemisphere Harvest is just such a specimen. This is an ale subjected to such a ridiculous quest in the name of hophead gluttony that I can’t help but love it. In the name of fresh smells, the folks from Sierra Nevada flew down to New Zealand, harvested hops that were only mature in the Appearance: 10 Southern Hemisphere, dried them, Aroma: 10 flew them back to the home brewery Taste: 8 in Chico and had them fermenting Mouthfeel: 6 in kettles within a week. The sensible Drinkability: 7 citizen in me would denounce the extraneous harvest Total: 41 that will just be repeated in northern
California in the fall. But the beer drinker in me got a good, long whiff of those hops. This beer could very well have the most intense aroma I’ve smelled all year, a superlative owed to the oils found in fresh hops. It pours a rich, foamy head that hangs beautifully atop a dark amber ale. Although piney hops comprise the majority of the nose, they don’t dominate, and nice apple and lemongrass aromas arise over the oils. The beer comes on slick, sliding across the tongue, but the citrus notes flush on the back of the cheeks. It’s a full-flavored beer with some complex pepper notes, much more robust than your typical pale ale. The finish is slimy and the drinkability is a little heavy, and truth be told you’ll be feeling it if you finish the whole bottle. You’ll also pay a little extra — $4.50 for a 24 ounces — but that’s just the cost of flying first class. — Adam Bissen
to sound very namby-pamby. — Brett Emerson
Ladytron – Velocifero
Sweet Eurotrash electronica! Ladytron’s newest release brings more of their patent blend of voulezvous whispers and synth-guitar tunes. To the band’s credit, the songs on Velocifero spread out within this finite sphere, drawing together diverse variations on the same theme. This expansiveness makes Ladytron listenable longer than they ought to be. Even though the vocals wind up limiting the horizon and giving the whole thing a fake fur monotone, songs like “Ghosts” and “Season of Illusions” are solid representations of Ladytron’s pop sensibilities. The most interesting and unusual track here is a Russian-language tune named “Kletva” that comes across as minimalist in comparison to the rest of the album, and all the more striking for that restraint. But ultimately, this album serves as post-80s wallpaper, not singular enough for anything beyond. — Brett Emerson
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Reviews: Your Guide to Consumption Cult Classics Wild Zero (2000) Directed By: Tetsuro Takeuchi Starring: Guitar Wolf, Bass Wolf, Drum Wolf Written By: Tetsuro Takeuchi, Satoshi Takagi I strongly dislike Rockabilly, and I find Japanese pop culture frighteningly insipid. Yet in spite of these prejudices, Wild Zero combines the two and whips my ass with a belt. Why? Sure, alien zombies ravaging Japan’s fair countryside help, but zombies have always been in and of themselves rather useless monsters.They tend to be more bitey Bengal Tiger Traps than monsters, when they aren’t sprinting after Englishmen and drawing flak for abandoning the scene. I did also appreciate the sensible omission of any octopiinitiated rape sequences which have plagued the nation’s fragile artistry for centuries. Yes, a lady or two does get repeatedly punched in the face, but you can’t expect everything in Japanese cinema to conform to our Western, pube-covered sensibilities. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. Ace, the adorably doofy greaser acolyte of Guitar Wolf (the band – I think), also draws high marks for his sensitivity in landing a hot babe, only to realize that she’s a man. (Don’t get snooty; you’d get fooled, too.) All of these things, as well as the frenetic preachings of Guitar Wolf (the guy) in praise
of the eternal power of Rock ‘N Roll, make for a fine film, but none of them match up to the creepy glory that is… The Captain! The movie’s villain is John Leguizamo’s Asian lookalike, a man with a pedophile’s squinty grin, an assortment of bowl cut wigs in various colors, and, best of all, he rocks short shorts that would make Daisy Duke look like a Puritan. Apparently, The Captain had the wrong gym teacher, and we get to reap the benefits. The spirit of Rock ‘N Roll is strong in Wild Zero, strong enough to infuse even the plaid camel-toed gun smuggler and the stupid uggo couple with six-string righteousness. It stands as an inspiration to all who wish to rock. Just remember the immortal (subtitled) words of Guitar Wolf (the guy), “Love has no borders, nationalities, or genders!” Believe in Rock ‘N Roll! — Brett Emerson
Bibliophile Norah Vincent - Self Made Man (2006) I’m sure that the normal reaction to an account of a lesbian’s infiltration of modern manhood would be, “Why? – as though not sleeping with one gender makes a person immune to it. Ignoring that preconception, Norah Vincent spent eighteen months masquerading as a man in order to obtain a picture of life on the other side of the gender fence. Between an opening and a closing chapter, this book is divided into six pieces: Friendship, Sex, Love, Life, Work and Self. Each of these sections recounts a different adventure in “Ned’s” journey. Friendship details Ned’s acceptance into a bowling league, the camaraderie between he and the guys. Sex discusses distorted life at the strip club. Love tells the story of Ned’s life on the dating scene, his attempts to hook up with women and a temporary misogyny that followed. Life shows his bizarre infiltration into a monastery, giving an analysis of men who have — at least on the surface — escaped gender conflict altogether. Work takes Ned on a trip into the cultish world of door-to-door salesmanship, where both sexes are exploited without shame. And finally, Self begins as a tourist’s view of a men’s help group, but becomes the opening scene of Norah’s psychological meltdown. Though Ned does encounter his fair share of scumbags along the way — most notably shown in the disturbing Work chapter — Vincent more often paints her fellow men with a highly charitable brush. She has an enviable manner of putting her prejudices front and center, and then
moving past them to see her subjects’ bluster and bullshitting as just that. Her experiences with the sympathetic men on the bowling alley, in the m o n a s t e r y, and at the help group do the most to dispel her expectations of universal male entitlement. The men described here go through their lives as silent wrecks, as bound by behavioral codes of conduct as everyone else. Vincent concludes her story by advocating a truthful men’s movement, moving past sluggish reactions to modern emasculation and arriving at some real freedom. My favorite thing about this book is that Vincent writes like a bruiser savant, the type of chick who can down five shots of whiskey and give a swear-laden metaphysical lecture. Her writing is both highbrow and earthen, cutting straight to the chase but not dumbing itself down. Consequently, Self-Made Man emerges as an all-inclusive work of great insight, applicable to readers of both genders. — Brett Emerson
Film Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) HHHH Director: Woody Allen Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz Writer: Woody Allen The battle between liberalism and conservatism has spilled out of the political arena and entered the multiplex. Despite being polar opposites in terms of sex and relationships, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Johansson), are best friends. Vicky holds more conservative, traditional values, while Cristina embraces spontaneity, intuition and even uncertainty. Both women want happiness, but as is the case with politics, it's the means to an end on which the two can't agree. At a Barcelona restaurant, a smooth-talking artist, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), proposes a weekend of wine, sight-seeing and love-making to the two female American tourists.This modest proposal intrigues bohemian Cristina, but Vicky finds the proposal appalling because, valuing tradition and structure in a relationship, she recently became engaged to a young, successful businessman whose life goals include wearing nice suits, drinking lattes and doing work on his laptop while vacationing in Spain. Before long, Cristina has moved in with Juan Antonio, and a steamy love triangle develops amongst her, Juan Antonio and his ex-wife Maria Elena.
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Meanwhile, after her own steamy night with Juan Antonio, Vicky questions her decision to get engaged at such a young age. Amidst all the juicy love-making and dialogs on relationship, it never becomes clear with whom the movie takes sides. Both girls' opinions have upsides and downsides, all of which come to light throughout the course of the film. Thanks in part to some pretty vibrant dialog and intriguing characters, it's tough to tell where Vicky Cristina Barcelona is heading, foresee what conclusions it will reach or predict its penultimate message. Vicky Cristina Barcelona feels like an exercise on Allen's part to navigate the sex and relationship labyrinth. It may be complex, but at least it's enjoyable. As is the case with politics, there's no right answer when it comes to relationships, and both Vicky and Cristina happen to be correct. — Nicholas Cabreza
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ongoing events WINONA AREA PEACEMAKERS VIGIL
Every Thursday Central Park Winona, Minn. 4:30 p.m. COMMUNITY HARVEST
Every Sunday Sobieski Park Winona, Minn. 2 p.m. Free food and talent
upcoming events GREAT RIVER FOLK FESTIVAL
August 22 - 24 UWL Campus La Crosse http://www.greatriverfolkfest.org Great Music, Great Crafts, Great Food Under the sun and stars on the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Campus. This family event has traditional & contemporary folk music, crafts, childrens activities & dance. There are hands on activities as well as sights & sounds to enjoy. FLASHBACK ROCKIN' THE PRAIRIE!
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ongoing events SOCRATES CAFE
Every Monday Acoustic Cafe Winona, Minn. 8 p.m. Philosophical discussion group YOGA
Every Tuesday Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse approx. 7 p.m. All ages, skill levels welcome Donations gladly accepted
Gate opens at 5:30 pm W7886 County Road ZN Brice Prairie, Wis. (For directions, visit: http://www.bpfr.org/map.shtml) First Responders' 25 Years of Service Celebration. Food, beverage, raffles, tip boards, music Raffle Items: Signed 2007 Green Bay Packer Football, 32" Flat Screen HDTV, Cash Prize Silent auction items donated by generous local businesses Tickets: $5.00 in advance $7.00 at the door All proceeds from this fundraiser will go towards the purchase of a water rescue banana boat.
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OPEN MIC/ 4 BANDS
Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., cost is $3
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OPEN STAGE/MIC
Every Thursday Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. Free and open to all ages.
Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse Open mic starts at 7 p.m. Bands start at 8:30 p.m. Featuring The Songs For, Joshua Franke, Prehistoric Forest, We Are Patterns $3 cover charge, all ages
art galleries
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BLUFFLAND BLOOM & BREW 119 S. 4th St., La Crosse (608) 782-BREW Weekly art classes, open mic sessions. Drawings, paintings, photography, and prints by local artists for sale or trade.
GOOSE ISLAND 3 mi. south of La Crosse on Hwy 35 W6488 County Road GI Stoddard, WI 608-788-7018 Open until October 30
HEIDER CENTER FOR THE ARTS 405 East Hamlin St. West Salem, WI 608-786-1220 x 4 http://www.wsalem.k12.wi.us/ Heider.html PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS Open noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. No admission charge, donations accepted. Features exhibits of local artists and performances. 119 King St., La Crosse 608-785-1434 www.thepumphouse.org. SATORI ARTS Unique hand crafted jewelry, Mississippi River pearls, ancient Chinese artifacts, Custom-made jewelry, original art works, and a variety of unique gifts. 201 Pearl Street, La Crosse 608-785-2779 UW-L ART GALLERY The gallery displays works by students, faculty, regional and nationally-known artists in all areas of art. The gallery is on the first floor of the Center for the Arts located at the corner of 16th and Pine on the UW-L campus. VISIONS OF LIGHT Stained Glass 129 4th St S, La Crosse 608-793-1032 GREEN BAY STREET STUDIO greenbaystreetstudio.blogspot.com 1500 Green Bay St., La Crosse Hours currently by appointment only.Various workshops, including painting and printmaking, coming this summer, as well as opportunity for full and part-time membership. ODIN WHITE MOTH GALLERY AND TEA ROOM 715 Logan St., La Crosse 608-769-3963 Hours are Tues: 12-3 pm, Thurs: 4-7 pm, Fri: 12-3, Sat: 10-2. Call for an appointment or more info. Enjoy some tea, art and vintage stuff.
VETERANS MEMORIAL 9 mi. east of La Crosse on Hwy 16 N4668 County Road VP West Salem, WI 608 786-4011 Open until October 15 WHISPERING PINES 15 minutes north of La Crosse, on Hwy 53 925 Dana Ln. Holmen, WI 608-526-2152 NESHONOC LAKESIDE CAMP RESORT N5334 Neshonoc Rd. West Salem, WI 608-786-1792 PETTIBONE PARK RESORT 333 Park Plaza Dr. La Crosse, WI 608-782-5858 GREAT RIVER BLUFFS STATE PARK 43605 Kipp Drive Winona, MN 507-643-6849 BEAVER CREEK VALLEY 15954 County 1 Caledonia, MN 507-724-2107 JOHN A. LATSCH PARK From Winona go approximately 12 miles northwest on U.S. Highway 61. (507-643-6849
art exhibits A SEASON OF ART
First Saturday in June - Sept. 7203 N. Shore Drive, County Z Brice Prairie, on Lake Onalaska. (Look for the white barn) Enjoy extraordinary shopping at an outdoor art fair. This FREE event is sponsored by the La Crosse Society of Arts & Crafts. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. UCHIKAKE: WEDDING KIMONOS
July 24 through August 30 Pump House (La Crosse) Lecture and fashion show July 25
performances HARVEY
Commonweal Theatre 208 Parkway Avenue North Lanesboro, MN 800-657-7025 www.commonwealtheatre.org Dreams and dreamers figure prominently in this 1940s comedy. Running from May 31-October 25. HARD OF HERON
Presented by the Heart of La Crosse New, locally written sketch comedy, music and improvisation show. The Pump House 119 King st. in La Crosse. 608-785-1434 Shows are Sept. 4-6, 12, 13, 19, 20 at All shows start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 day of show (Tickets are 2 for 1 on opening night!)
farmers' markets CAMERON PARK Every Friday, May - October 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Downtown La Crosse Fresh produce, pasture-raised buffalo and beef, honey, maple syrup, plants, artists, handmade jewelry, paintings, beeswax candles, live performances and more! BRIDGEVIEW PLAZA Every Wednesday, June - Oct. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Bridgeview Plaza parking lot Northside of La Crosse LA CROSSE COUNTY Every Saturday, June - Oct. 6 a.m. - 1 p.m. County parking lot Downtown La Crosse CROSSING MEADOWS Every Sunday, June - Oct. 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Festival Foods parking lot Onalaska WINONA Every Saturday, 7:30 a.m. - noon Every Wednesday, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. May - October Downtown Winona Fresh produce, plants, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, elk & buffalo meat, bakery. jams, pickles, honey, decorative gourds, wreaths & Indian corn. Our herbalists bring salves, teas, & catnip.
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The quest continues! Somewhere within our official distribution territory we have hidden our very own Second Supper Medallion. Your job? To follow our clues, find the prize and bask in the riches* that await if you, Dear Reader, are clever enough to decipher our riddle. We've established the following guidelines to aid you in your quest: -The medallion may be found in any of the communities we serve, including La Crosse, La Crescent, Winona, Onalaska and Holmen. -The medallion is not hidden inside any businesses or buildings. -One need not break any laws to find the medallion (unless you really want to). -We will print a clue each week until it is found. Clue #1 At the place to go to get a five, You've seen this all before, Clocks and tools and kitchen knives When you walk into the store. Clue #2 Sometimes colors bland, in the city of Grand, The seasons reflect the change. And change is what's left, when I open my hand A fact that I sometimes find strange. Clue #3 They're more than landlocked to the east But the river is to the west They do their best to keep the beat But we supply the rest
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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food & drink specials ] LA CROSSE All Star Lanes 4735 4735 Mormon Mormon Coulee Coulee
Alpine Inn W5715 W5715 Bliss Bliss rd. rd.
Alumni
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33 games games for for $5 $5 starts at 8 starts at 8 p.m. p.m.
bucket bucket special special
Bud Bud Night Night 66 -- CL: CL: $1.75 $1.75 bottles bottles $5 $5 pitchers pitchers
Beer Pong $7.00 $7 four cans 48 Cans p.m. -8-close close
16oz top sirloin $7 22oz tbone 5-8 p.m. 16oz Sirloin $7, Blue 9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 Cheese Stuffed Sirloin $8, Jack jack daniels tips 8 $1 shots of Daniels Tips $8, 22oz T Bone Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl $9.75, $1 shots doc and cherry Happy hour 4-6 $1.75 cans, $2 doc 8 p.m. - close mix drinks
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Buck Buck Night Night starts starts at at 66 p.m. p.m.
33 games games for for $5 $5 starts at 7 starts at 7 p.m. p.m.
Import Import night night starts starts at at 77 p.m. p.m.
66 -- CL CL $2.50 $2.50 Sparks Sparks
1/4 1/4 barrel barrel giveaway giveaway 8-11 8-11 $1 $1 burgers burgers
bucket bucket night night 66 for for $9 $9
$6.00 $6.00 AUCD AUCD
Beef & Etc.
1203 1203 La La Crosse Crosse st. st.
Italian beef w/dog meal: $6.69 Pizza Puff meal: $4.49
meatball sandwich sandwich meatball meal: $6.15 $6.69 meal: Chicago dogs meal: 22 dogs meal: $ 5.25 $5.89
Italian Italian beef beef meal: meal: $6.15 $6.69 Chicago Chicago chili chili dog: dog: $3.45 $3.89
Big Al’s Brothers 115 S 3rd st.
free pitcher of beer or soda with large closed pizza
meat or marinara spaghetti:$2.50 $3.45 Italian sausage: $4.95 Blatz vs. Old Style
$1.25 make your own tacos, $4.75 taco salad $2.25$1.50 margaritas, $2 U-Call-Its off large taco pizza
2005 2005 West West ave. ave.
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Brothers The Cavalier 306 Pearl st.
22 for for 11 cans cans & & bottles during bottles during Packer Packer games games
114 114 5th 5th ave. ave.
CheapShots 318 318 Pearl Pearl st. st.
Chuck’s
1101 1101 La La Crosse Crosse st. st.
Coconut Joe’s 223 223 Pearl Pearl st. st.
HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM
Happy Hour 12 - 7
Martini Madness $2 off all martinis
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77 -- CL CL Tequila’s Tequila’s chips chips & & salsa, salsa, $2 Coronas, $2.50 $2 Coronas, $2.50 Mike’s, Mike’s, Mike-arita Mike-arita
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Mexican Mexican Monday Monday $2.00 $2.00 Corona, Corona, Corona Light, Corona Light, Cuervo Cuervo
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chicken & veggie fajitas for two
football night dollar domestic beer: $1.50 burgers Mexican beer: $2.00
chicken dollar primavera
chicken veggie Build your& own fajitas Bloody Mary N3287 County Coulee OA 5200 Mormon for two 16oz Mug - $4.00
football night Homemade Pizza domestic $1.50 & PItcherbeer: of Beer Mexican beer: $2.00 $9.00
chicken $1.25 primavera BURGERS
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Fox FiestaHollow Mexicana Goal Post FoxCampbell Hollow 1904 rd.
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Cosmic Cosmic Bowl Bowl starts starts at at 99 p.m. p.m.
3-7 3-7 happy happy hour hour batterfried cod, fries, 5-8 p.m. beans, and garlic bread fish dinner $5.25 $5.50
pepper pepper & & egg egg sandwich sandwich meal: $4.50, meal: $5.00 fish sandwich meal:meal: $4.99, Italian sausage Italian $6.69 sausage meal: $6.15
Italian Italian beef beef meal: meal: $6.15 $6.69 22 Chicago Chicago dog dog meal: meal: $3.45 $5.89
$6.75 $3.00 Three Olives mixers/ mojitosshrimp dinner $2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes
$3.00bloody Bacardi mixers/ marys mojitos 11 a.m. - 4 p.m $2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes
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$3.00 Bacardi mixers/ mojitos $2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes
2 for 1 taps
50 cent taps 4 - 7 (increases 50 cents per hour) $1 rails
Happy Hour 12 - 7
HAPPY HOUR 4 - 7 HAPPY$1HOUR Dr. shots 3 - 7 $3 Jager Bombs
77 -- midnight midnight $2 $2 Malibu Malibu madness madness $2 $2 pineapple pineapple upsidedown upsidedown cake cake
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$2.00 $2.00 Cruzan Cruzan Rum Rum Mixers, Mixers, $2.50 $2.50 Jameson Jameson Shots, Shots, $3.00 $3.00 Mixers Mixers
$3.00 $3.00 Patron Patron Shots Shots WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB BUFFALO, SMOKEY BBQ, PLAIN BUFFALO, SMOKEY BBQ, PLAIN $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES BOTTLES $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT OF THE WEEK OF THE WEEK
Happy Hour 12 - 7
$2.00 $2.00 Captain Captain Mixers Mixers
Wristband Wristband Night Night $5 COLLEGE $5 COLLEGE I.D. I.D. $9 $9 general general public public Karaoke Karaoke $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
live live DJ DJ $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
shrimp Early Bird Special 20% offburrito dinner items 3:00 - 5:30 p.m.
chili verde Happy Hour 4-6 $1.75 domestics
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HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6
chili 25 Cent Wings verde
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6
beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95$1.25 16 oz steak
Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer $9.00 $5.99 gyro fries & soda
BURGERS Buy one gyro free baklava, ice - 9 AM getHAPPY one HOUR 6 AM cream or sundae beer pong 6 p.m. half price with6 meal free wings p.m. - 9 p.m.
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EVERYDAY 3 BuyHAPPY one gyroHOUR free baklava, ice get one cream or sundae half price with meal
$1.75 domestic bottles
free wings 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Bucket of Domestic Cans 5 for $9.00
$8.95 16 oz steak
$1.75 domestic HAPPY HOUR bottles
HAPPY HOUR 25 Cent Wings 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
$1.25 domestic taps buy one burger HOUR getHAPPY one half price 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.
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HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7 EVERYDAY 3 -7 and 9 - 11
$2.00 $2.00 Malibu, Malibu, $2.50 $2.50 Jaeger, Jaeger, $3.00 $3.00 Jaeger Jaeger Bombs Bombs
$2.50 $2.50 JUMBO JUMBO CAPTAIN CAPTAIN AND AND FLAVORED BACARDI MIXERS FLAVORED BACARDI MIXERS $3.00 $3.00 JAGER JAGER BOMBS BOMBS
Ladies Ladies Night Night buy buy one, one, get get one one free free wear wear aa bikini, bikini, drink drink free free
Bucketshrimp of Domestic Cans burrito 5 for $9.00
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2-8 p.m. AUCE wings $5
$4.50 $4.50 domestic domestic pitchers pitchers barrel barrel parties parties at at cost cost
HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM
Build your own Bloody Mary 16oz Mug - $4.00
1904 Campbell rd.
Huck Finn’s Gracie’s
$1railDr. shots $1.50 mixers $2$3 Guinness pints Jager Bombs
$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
$1 $1 Kul Kul Light Light cans cans
411 411 3rd 3rd st. st.
Cosmic Cosmic Bowl Bowl & & Karaoke starts Karaoke starts at at 99 p.m. p.m.
All All day, day, everyday: everyday: $1.00 $1.00 Shots Shots of of Doctor, Doctor, $2.00 $2.00 Cherry Cherry Bombs, Bombs, $1.75 $1.75 Silos Silos of of Busch Busch Light/Coors Light/Coors
$4 $4 full pint full pint Irish Irish Car Car Bomb Bomb
Dan’s Place
hamburger hamburger meal: or $3.69 cheeseburger meal: $3.89 cheeseburger meal: Italian Beef w/dog $3.89 meal: $7.89 soup or salad bar $2.25 burgers, $2.60 HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM cheeseburgers, $2 off FREE with entree or 10 cent wings (9 - CL) sandwich until 3 p.m. Wristband large pizza, $1 fries $1.25 High Life bottles ($3.95 by itself) with anyrailpizza Night $1.50 mixers 10 cent wings (9 - CL) 4 - 7 HAPPY HOUR Wristband $1 High Life bottles
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grilled grilled chicken chicken sandsandwich wich meal: meal: $5.29 $5.29 Polish Polish sausage sausage meal: meal: $3.99 $4.49
$2.50 Blatz vs. Old Style Martini Madness pitchers
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AUCE wings $5.00 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. AUCE free crazy bingo Wings $5, Bingo buyBOGO one cherry bomb $1 cherry get one bombs for $1
$1 5-8 11 softshell a.m. - 9 tacos p.m. $5 p.m. bbqBBQ ribscounand $1 shots of doctor, try style ribs $5, fries hard or soft shell cherry doctor
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Barrel Inn
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$2 $2 Silos Silos
tacos $1
beer pong
Friday
Fry
Karaoke Karaoke
reservations available
Ask server for details HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8 $8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
GREEK ALL DAY
buy oneHOUR appetizer HAPPY 3-8 get one half price appetizer half price
$8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
with meal
buy one appetizer get one half price
GREEK ALL DAY appetizer half price with meal
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday & drink specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food
LA CROSSE JB’s Speakeasy 717 Rose st.
The Joint 324 Jay st.
Legend’s
$1.75 domestic bottles
123 3rd st.
Loons
1128 La Crosse st.
$1.75 domestic bottles
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 4 - 8, $2 domestic beer and rail drinks ALL DAY, EVERYDAY $1 shots of Dr.
closed
223 Pearl st.
The Library
$1.75 domestic bottles
come in and find out ... you’ll be glad you did 9-cl- NBC night. (Night Before Class) $3 pitchers of the beast Happy Hour 4-9 p.m.
closed
closed 9-cl$3.50 Domestic pitchers
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7
$1.00 off all Irish shots $2.50 pints of Guinness $3.00 imperial pints
$2 Love Stories $5 Wu Tang Teas $1 shots of the DOC! WING NIGHT $2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50 JACK MIXERS $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
closed $1 taps $1 rails 1/2 price Tequila
9-cl- $1 rails, $2.50 pitchers, Beer Pong
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
KARAOKE $2 double rails $3 double calls $2 ALL bottles
Wristband Night and Beer Pong Tourney
9-cl $2 pitchers miller lite til midnight. After midnight $2 ucall its
9-cl $1.25 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans
$2 SHOTS OF GOLDSCHLAGER $5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK $3 Three Olives $3 Bacardi Mixers $3 jumbo Long Islands mixers
$3 jumbo Long Islands 9-cl -$2 captain mixers, 9-cl $2 bacardi mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 jager $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy bombs
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
Nutbush
3264 George st.
Players
Price by Dice
214 Main St
Ralph's
In John's Bar 109 3rd st. N
Ringside 223 Pearl st.
Schmidty’s
Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6
closed
3119 State rd.
breakfast buffet $9.95 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Shooter’s
$1 Shot Night
120 S 3rd st.
Tailgators 1019 S 10th st.
Top Shots 137 S 4th st.
Yesterdays 317 Pearl st.
LA CRESCENT
Crescent Inn 444 Chestnut st.
WINONA Brothers 129 W 3rd st.
Godfather’s 3021 Walnut st.
2 for 1 Happy Hour ALL NIGHT LONG
happy hour all day
closed
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
$2 mixers, taps, bottles $1.00 OFF YOUR CHOICE OF FOOD
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 $5.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY
happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.
LUNCH BUFFET $6.45 LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY Ask Nicely See What Happens $4 domestic pitchers
Tie Tuesday Great Prices For Sharp Dressers
$1 Rails, $1.50 Pint Taps, $3 Long Island Pints
$2 Bacardi mixers
$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints $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 martinis $2 mojitos $3 margaritas & Michelob Golden pitchers
family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age
$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
closed
Southwest chicken pita $5
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM $1.00 OFF CHICKEN HOOP DAY!! MAKE PHILLY, $1.00 OFF YOUR SHOT AND CHEESE CURDS YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
$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.
$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs
Bucket Night 5 for $9 5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers
$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12
$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs
Thursday
Friday
Thursday
Saturday $2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish
$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)
HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM $1 off anything that pours $1 O-Bombs/ 10 cent wings, $3 filled 2 for 1 mug ($1 tap refills, $2 Bazooka Joes, anything rail refills) $1 High Life Wristband Night 9 p.m. - close bottles/kamikaze shots
any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints
Friday $2.50 Three Olives Mixers $1.00 Long Islands $2.00 Rail Mixers $3.50 Domestic Pitchers Hot Shots Menu
Saturday $2.50 Bacardi Mixers $1.00 Long Islands $2.00 Rail Mixers $3.50 Domestic Pitchers Hot Shots Menu
August 21, 2008
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Entertainment Directory 8/21 - 8/27
Thursday, August 21 Dan’s Place Live DJ
The Recovery Room Live DJ Nutbush Live DJ Popcorn Tavern Sterus Nighthawks Dave Orr's Damn Jam (gear provided, no cover) Ringside Comedy Night
Just A Roadie Away...
Sunday, August 24 9:00
Popcorn Tavern Somethin' Jazz
9:00
Monday, August 25
10:00 10:00
10:00
Winona population
George St. Pub Adam Palm’s Open Jam Popcorn Tavern Shawn Wooden w/ Up and Coming
9:00
10:00
10:00 Tuesday, August 26 8:00
Player’s Live DJ Nutbush Live DJ Popcorn Tavern Earthbound Alumni Re Load
10:00
Saturday, August 23 Bluffland Bloom & Brew The Songs for, Joshua Franke, Prehistoric Forest, We are Patterns 8:30 All Star Lanes Karaoke Popcorn Tavern The Histronic
9:00 10:00
Players Live DJ
10:00
Nutbush Live DJ
10:00
Alumni Re Load Supper 10:00 Second vol. 8, issue 128
Holly Hansen and Josiah Newsom
Acoustic Cafe
Fri., 8/22
Black Valentine
Draught Haus
Fri., 8/22
Acoustic Jam Session
Winona Arts Center
Sat., 8/23
Joe & Vicki Price
Northwoods Lounge
Sat., 8/23
Really Really Free Market and Grassroots Caravan Sobieski Park
Sun., 8/24
Popcorn Tavern Paulie
10:00
Sandman, Moustaches, Billy B.
Ed's no-name bar
Sun., 8/24
Alumni Open Jam
10:00
Sweet Pick
The Annex
Fri., 8/22
New Wave Bossa Nova Ill Groove Movement The Selfish Gene Stukenberg
Clockmaker Festival
Sat., 8/23
Garaj Mahal
Orton Park Festival
Sun., 8/24
El Valiente
High Noon Saloon
Mon., 8/25
Loon’s Comedy Night
8:30
Library Karaoke
9:00
Coconut’s Live DJ
Madison population
Wednesday, August 27
10:00
27,069
10:00
10:00 10:00
Nutbush Live DJ
Friday, August 22 Bluffland Bloom & Brew Music & puppet show 8:00
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10:00
Longhorn Karaoke
10:00
Player’s Karaoke
10:00
Popcorn Tavern Brownie’s Open Jam
10:00
The Joint Wu-Tang Wednesday
10:00
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Film Review Step Brothers (2008) Director: Adam McKay Cast:Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen Writers:Will Ferrell and Adam McKay By Nicholas Cabreza
nicholas.cabreza@secondsupper.com If you've seen more than one Will Ferrell movie in the last five years, you'll notice they all follow a very clear cut formula. Be it Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, or the new Step Brothers, every Ferrell movie concerns a wacky, bumbling man-child whose zany antics cause him to fall from grace, requiring an even zanier scheme to set things right. Luckily for Ferrell, it's a formula that's worked well so far. Ferrell and writer/director Adam McKay have seemingly mastered the man-child prototype they introduced in Anchorman. The one thing they haven't mastered? Writing a unique third act that's as funny as the rest of the film. In Step Brothers, McKay and Ferrell again team with John C. Reilly who, thanks in part to McKay and Ferrell, is now more popular as a comedy star than he ever was as a dramatic actor. Again Reilly seems content with playing
sidekick to the powerhouse Ferrell, though screen time between the two appears to be rationed a little more equally. The plot alone, which focuses on their rivalry, is completely unoriginal, relying on copious f-bombs and penis humor to make the formulaic comedy-competition feel original. Essentially, Step Brothers is a dirtier Talladega Nights, minus the racing. You can visibly see how much fun Ferrell and Reilly are having making movies together, and it's impossible not to enjoy Step Brothers on some childish, whimsical level. The first act is relentless; Ferrell and Reilly are in rapid-fire mode, effortlessly slinging jokes and insults off each others' egos. Unlike Anchorman, this Ferrell/McKay isn't littered with too many colorful supporting characters, so it's no surprise that Ferrell and Reilly run out of both steam and material as the movie wanes. But the first half is a riot, full of laugh-out-loud moments. Sober, the laughs are decent; drunk, they'll probably have you upchucking with joy. ,
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