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FREE Volume 9 Issue 147 January 22, 2009

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Frozen River Film Festival Live Nude Girls on Film Second Supper Movie Quiz Q & A with a Documentary Film Maker

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Table of Contents Second Supper's Movie Quote Quiz: How much of a film freak are you?

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Nudity in the film industry (and, no, we're not talking porn)

9

Interview with Joan Juster, producer and director of "Alaska Far Away"

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Frozen River Film Festival preview

11

A look at the Korean film industry, from our overseas contributor

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What's the deal with the Hollywood Theater? 14

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January 22, 2008

Social Networking

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Second Supper’s finally on the social networking bandwagon, with a whole chain of townies to answer our deliciously revealing questions. Each week, the interviewee will name someone they're connected to, who will become the next person interviewed, and so it shall continue. You see? We really are all connected.

Greatest Actors of Our Generation

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3 BOOKS YOU’D TAKE TO PRISON: The Alchemist, Life of Pi, She's Come Undone TELL US A JOKE: What do you get when you cross a brown chicken with a brown cow?

Brown-chicken-brown-cow (say it like a porn funk guitar: bow-chicka-bow-wow)

1. And as my first act of office, I will hereby throw some Ds on it.

2. So, Chief Justice Roberts, do you party?

3. Blagojevich, I got yo’ pardon, baby!

4. Steelers by six.

5. Dr. Biden, lookin’ hot.

6. Please give it up for Parliament Funkadelic.

7. Special thank you to George W. Bush. I couldn’t be here without you.

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Letter from the Editor

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It was a day fit for cinema, with Coppola-like intrigue and huge scenes so contrived and saccharine you’d have call them Bruckheimer-esque. Maybe it was because Inauguration Day just seemed so unreal, but on more than a few occasions — as we laid on the couch, looked up from our laptops, and watched the news roll in for hours — someone from Second Supper spoke up: “It’s like we’re watching a movie.”

We had our soundtrack playing all day. Sure Aretha was an icon, the spirit of “Young, Gifted, and Black,” and that Yo-Yo Ma/Itzhak Perlman quartet moved us more than we expected, but our voices of change didn’t come from the past. After an hour we grew tired of Charlie Gibson O RLY?-ing his way through history, so we cast the scene in our terms. The TV got muted and we watched the parade to the beat of Z-Trip, the hip-hop DJ whose Obama Mix got us pumped plenty of times through November. On Inauguration Day we learned that he had scratched out a sequel, the Victory Lap, so we downloaded it and danced that evening while raising a toast to change.

Throughout it all, grand characters marched — those who were given power and those who had it snatched away. Could Dick Cheney have been more tragic? Once the nostril-flaring face of American wrath, Cheney’s Hannibal Lecter entrance was, from here, both the definition of schadenfreude and a metaphor for eight years of ineptitude. And that image of Bush taking off by helicopter, leaving in the bright afternoon while the current occupants — and America by extension— waved good-bye, Kurosawa couldn’t have framed it any finer.

Then we saw the man on the marquee: cool, composed, and even a little cocky. America expects those traits in it heroes. Right now I have this image of Barack Obama that may stay seared in my brain for life, scored only for me by Z-Trip. Obama strides down Pennsylvania Avenue — strutting perhaps — flanked by five bulletproof limousines, bodyguards in black, and a bodacious woman in a mustard seed dress. All around him, people scream and cell phone cameras flash. In my movie, Obama glides in perfect 4/4 time.The music rises as the camera pans wide.The streets aren’t full, but every rooftop is packed with people.Though he is surrounded by family that loves him, strangers that need him, and professionals hired to keep him safe, our hero walks alone.

The clearness of his eyes jump out at me. I see the way his chin lifts to the horizon and the how his cheeks return the cheers with an appreciative smile.While everyone stands and cheers, Barack Obama walks to work.

It is time for the second act. — Adam Bissen

WHAT: 19th Annual Shades of Blue Tattoo Show WHEN: Friday, Jan. 23-Sunday, Jan. 25 WHERE: La Crosse Center, North Hall COST: Day pass $15, weekend pass $25

We've all got a little masochist in us, so what better place to let your freak flag fly than the 19th Annual Shades of Blue Tattoo Show?

For almost two decades, crowds have been wowed by the tattoo competitions, body piercing exhibitions, and live entertainment that Shades of Blue affords. This year is no exception. As it has for several years, our own local purveyor of fetish fashions will be featured in its own show: Vatican PX will strut its stuff with a one-of-a-kind fashion show. For those with a stronger stomach, the Wing Nut Suspension Group will perform feats of phenomenal — or perhaps maniacal — strength. Never ones to ignore the more sensual side which inks itself upon all of us, the Shades of Blue organizers have also arranged a lingerie show, and belly dancers fill out the entertainment roster. If that's not enough to tantalize your virgin tongue, consider this: hundreds of award-winning tattoo artists have tread beneath the banner of Shades of Blue. I know you've been thinking about getting that lame-ass high school India ink tattoo covered up for awhile — why not see what the best artists our country has to offer have to offer? **OK, I'll digress. I have an issue with tattoos. But my editor has kindly reminded me that I can write about body art and despise...er, disapprove of...said art...at the same time. So here's my warning: If you're an over-tanned, spoiled, ignorant clone of any of the bitches I served during my career as a Tattoo Wench, and you request a unicorn or butterfly surrounded by tribal whatever on the base of your back — if you walk out of those doors and I catch you...you're mine, bitch.You're mine. — Emily Faeth

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Adios, Peru!

By Maria Pint

maria.pint@secondsupper.com I have decided that I was an Inca in a past life. I used to think that I was a Princess, but now I’m pretty sure I was living it up in South America.

Don’t be too impressed though, I’m also pretty sure the Incas were idiots.

I don’t mean to be disrespectful, especially to my own people, but the more I learned in Peru the less impressed I became with the civilization. At the time that Christopher Columbus was sailing the ocean blue, the Incas were still playing with rocks. When the Spanish came and started shooting guns at them, they threw rocks back. Don’t get me wrong, they had some nice boulders, but they were just a little behind the rest of the world to say the least.

You know, I kind of like the fact that they were a simple people though. They didn’t have written language, but they knew how to get down. They used to chew on coca leaves for energy which is pretty badass if you ask me, seeing as how now they make cocaine out of the stuff. Not that I think cocaine is cool or anything; don’t do drugs kids.

It really is too bad that the U.S. government doesn’t allow any coca into the country though, because it does make a pretty tasty tea.

It is supposedly very good for digestion and impotency interestingly enough; I only felt the effects on my digestive system for the record.

The Incas also had some really kinky pottery. Again, I’m not condoning sexual promiscuity here; abstinence kids, abstinence. But it was kind of funny to see a water jug with two Incas doing it doggy-style on top.

It was also funny to see how the museum labeled the erotic pieces of pottery, they were actually very descriptive. I remember one of them word for word:“The moment before vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman.”

I thought that one was a little odd but then

I looked down at the said pot and sure enough, it was pretty much the “moment before.” It was actually really disturbing, especially since that was apparently a bowl for everyday use.

The fact that I snickered through that entire section of the museum shows how immature I still am. I never like to admit such a thing; in fact, I spend most of my time trying to convince people I’m very mature for my age. Alas, Peru brought out the child in me.

I got very distracted any time I caught sight of a llama or alpaca, kind of like a kid at a zoo. We took a two-hour guided tour of Machu Picchu, but I spent the whole time looking for all eight llamas that they have there. I can’t tell you a word that man said but I can tell you that I liked the llama with the dark brown coat the best; the white and light brown one really rubbed me the wrong way.

I liked almost all llamas I ran into, besides the mean one at Machu Picchu of course, and I’m fairly confident that they liked me too. Of course, the Peruvian men liked us as well, but is that really a surprise to any one? I mean, good looks run in the family so you can hardly blame them.

All the cat calls we received were totally my sister’s fault though, not because she’s better looking (obviously) but because she always had her guide book out. That right there pegged us for tourists, as if our glowing white skin wasn’t enough. She also wore really dorky travel clothing even when we went to nicer restaurants in Lima; I’d like to say I was embarrassed, but I did grow up with the girl so I’m pretty much immune to it.

Our tastes in clothing weren’t the only differences we had on the trip. We never really fought, which was good, but we quarreled a little here and there. We also greatly disagreed one night when we saw a live band in a restaurant. She had asked me which band member I liked best and I replied that I of course liked the lead singer; he was cute and had a nice Dr. McDreamy-type hair cut. She then told me that she liked the drummer; he was a short, pudgy guy with a bad plaid shirt on and an even worse bowl cut. I shook my head and she said, “I bet he’s got a good personality.” Well, he would have to.

That’s basically how the rest of the trip was; I was more attracted to the glitz and glamour of Peru while she was more preoccupied with activities that didn’t necessarily appear great but had “good personalities.” And you know what, it made for a nice balance for our two weeks in Peru.

I definitely enjoyed my time in South America and would recommend a similar trip to almost anyone. Who doesn’t love a place where an afternoon siesta is basically mandatory? God bless Peru, and the dumb Incas too.

Size 13 adventure: part one

Y Marks

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By Brett Emerson

brett.emerson@secondsupper.com On the Saturday night when hard, unyielding ice coated everything in reach, CJ Slugger, the Leprechaun, the Snake, and I were supposed to go to Rochester. There had been little in the way of a plan, beyond eating as well as scrounging the bounties of pawn shops. The greater purpose of the trip — one which we all knew but didn’t need to mention — was that it would get us out and get us together. But then Saturday rained, and it froze, and the roads went to shit.

Rochester was out, but Rochester be damned. Before the trip was called off, Snake had backed out of the journey, but the rest of us decided to persevere. Something would happen tonight, outside of the boring or alcoholic.

However astray our average lives may be, my friends and I have always been good for tomfoolery, even in La Crosse.

CJ and Lep showed up at my palatial manor at the crack of evening, throwing pennies at each other as I finished some Saturday work.

“So where are we going to eat?” CJ raised the question.

My thoughtless answer released an irony that has been stuck in my head for years.

“Old Country Buffet!”

We tried to talk ourselves out of it, but the horrible thought of it had been too perfect to reject. It had to be done; we had to return to the place I had worked for three years, the place which had taken any and all of my hopes for adulthood and broken them. I hadn’t been there in eight years, since right after the World Trade Center collapsed. The piss and pudding I had thrown against Buffets, Inc. National Headquarters has long since washed away.

Every so often, a group of us would pass the building as we drove along Highway 16, and I would joke that we needed to drop in and stuff our faces. Knowing us, it was inevitable that this oft-disdained challenge would one day be accepted.

Snake wouldn’t come with us, but he told us to stop by his place after we had finished our tour of duty. And so, the three of us left my manor, discovered and collected an abandoned cell phone, piled into CJ’s car, and strode proudly to our cholesterol doom.

A modicum of protest and conscience remained in our mealy-mouthed souls, and as such we counted all the locations between my palatial manor and Old Country Buffet where

we could have dined instead. Eateries, sub-eateries, gas stations pretending to be eateries, and all places bearing “& Etc.” in their titles were tallied. By the time we pulled into the foreboding OCB/Olive Garden parking complex, we had counted 35 alternatives. Yet as I peed on a nearby pickup and led my friends into my hallowed past life, I knew that we were doing the right thing.

And then the smell of refrigeration and fryer grease hit me, and I went into a post-traumatic flashback, and I wasn’t so sure.

The restaurant was exactly as I had left it almost a decade before, the addition of a taco bar nonwithstanding. The voices of gluttonous rubes slurped through audible space and drawled praises for roast beef and barbecue ribs. Employees drifted and slouched, their eyes downcast, their spirits deadened.

I was home. Help me.

We found a booth at the back of the place as I scanned the environs for anybody remaining from the turn of the millennium. There was one. He had been a boss back then, and a good guy — one of two or three authority figures who hadn’t been an officious prick. The paint on the outside windows proclaimed him the reigning king of the buffet, but I didn’t envy his station. I saw averted disaster and the three years I had already lost.

But we weren’t here for closure.We were here to be disastrous.

The three of us looked at each other, playing a triple-threat game of Russian Roulette. Nobody wanted to be the first to leap onto the gravy train. So I stood first.With irony, and depression, and the enthusiasm of terrorist japes, I led the charge.

“Let’s get to work, boys,” I said, and headed for the salad bar.

The goal was to eat until we got sick, to devour mass-produced fodder until the forthcoming pleasures of the naked dancing ladies (which inevitably accompany a night out with CJ Slugger) would hold no joy. We would become avatars of Fat Elvis.

After four mountainous plates, CJ and I succeeded, but the Leprechaun was unfazed.

As we destroyed the inner lining of our stomachs with orange chicken, fatty ribs, and spaghetti wrapped around Rice Krispy treats, we found another souvenir hidden in the folds of the booth, a self-photograph of two teenage girls locked in a greasy-faced vanity. I regret that I didn’t remember to pocket it.

Following this discovery, we began to harass those friends who had shared my past life, those who had suffered beneath the buffet’s shadow. CJ phoned our old friend Mr. Canada, who was likely patrolling the Vegas streets and nabbing crooks. To him, we left a protracted voicemail of our chewings and giggling. I texted my old friend Z and described our plight, but she couldn’t help. She was busy taking hallucinogens, lying on her bathroom floor, and attempting to melt the ceiling with her mind. I was jealous.

Moving onward, CJ menaced the Snake with threatening text. Family members were cursed, with all due respect, and condemned to all the painful and degrading hells at hand.

Following these outbursts, CJ had an idea.

(Editor's note: To be continued...)

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Second Supper's Very Own Movie Quote Quiz!

Test your might! Match the quote with the film you heard it from. Answers on page 17.

18. "Call it, friend-o"

1. "8-year-olds, dude" 2. "When this baby hits 88 miles per hour...you're going to see some serious shit."

3. "I'll show you life of the mind!!!"

a. Barton Fink b. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind c. Airplane d. Shaun of the Dead e. Wet Hot American Summer

4. "They've gone to plaid!"

f. Dogma

5. "Would anyone like a peanut?"

h. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy i. Saving Silverman

7. "Goddamn robots, John!"

j. Duck Soup

8 "We will not go silently into the night."

k. Labyrinth m. Back To The Future

10."Yes I'm old. Old enough to remember when the MCP was just a chess program!"

o. Independence Day

13. "As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, Fred."

14. "Have you ever been struck by lightning? It hurts."

p. The Crow

s.The Big Lebowski t. Adaptation u. No Country For Old Men

17. "I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes.

Maybe a banana-nut. That's a good muffin."

w. Office Space x. Bicentennial Man y. Spaceballs

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29. I'll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman".

bb. Caddyshack 30. "You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."

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27. "Take a letter: 'Dear dentist, please find enclosed one check for $500, sign Rufus T. Firefly' send it off immediately" "I'll need to enclose a check for $500" "Do that and I'll have you fired."

28. "I'm sorry I don't speak German" "That's okay, I know a little German, he's sitting right over there."

v. Cool Hand Luke

z. Top Secret

16. "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

Hobbies

26. "I think I'm a sofa."

q. I, Robot

15. "It can't rain all the time."

City

25. "I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"

r. Clerks

12."Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!

This is the War Room."

River

24. "The way I understand it, it's mostly a joke down here, too."

n. Magnolia

11. "You remind me of the babe..."

22. "Me winning isn't important. You do."

23. "Does this suit make me look fat?

No, your face does."

l. A Clockwork Orange

9. "Two nachos stuck together, that's one nacho"

20. "How can you shoot women or children? Easy! You just don't lead them so much! Ain't war hell?"

21. "And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!"

g. Apollo 13

6. "You can't run a vacuum cleaner on twelve amps, John!"

19. "What does the Buddhist say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one of everything."

31. "Shake in the bush, boss, shake in the bush."

32. "Drink up, young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant."

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amber.miller@secondsupper.com Question: Whose skin do you see more of in contemporary film — men’s or women’s? OK, so that was an easy one, but the harder question is this: What does this say about filmmakers, audience members, and the broader American culture? I wouldn’t try to answer this one myself, but Dr. Anna Sanders-Bonelli, a sociologist at Viterbo University, is working on it. With the help of several research students, SandersBonelli is conducting a study that examines the differences between male and female nudity in contemporary American film. Over 100 films that contain naked folks (but not porn!) were randomly selected; these films were released after 2004 and shown in theaters. The frequency, duration, severity, and context of nudity were compared between the sexes.

The preliminary results show that nude women are shown much more frequently than nude men, and that the context in which we see bare women is frequently a sexual and/or violent one, compared to the comedic context where we see the uncovered butt of a man.

And that’s usually all we see of the male physique; full-frontal shots of men are fairly rare.

Shots of exposed women, however, are almost always more severe than just the butt — usually at least the breasts, and often times, genital or full-frontal shots are shown as well. In analysis, the breasts were considered genitals to account for the fact that men don’t have breasts.

Good point.

Dr. Sanders-Bonelli describes two ways that these results reflect power differentials

between the genders. First of all, most nudity occurs in sex scenes, almost all of which depict heterosexual couples. These scenes almost always give the audience a peek at the female’s form, but not as often the man’s. It’s easy to relate to the vulnerability of being seen naked, so when there’s such a clear cut distinction in whom we see nude and who we don’t, it reflects a basic power difference.

When women are the only ones shown naked in a scene where it is just as reasonable to show the undressed man, it portrays the female character as more sexualized and more objectified. The male character is subject to less vulnerability, and this gives him more power relative to his partner.

The second way that this reflects power differences is not in the film itself, but in the audience. Examining studies in advertising, it becomes clear that women are not comfortable seeing naked women on screen, nor are men comfortable seeing naked men on screen.

It could easily go without saying that men are more than comfortable seeing nude women on screen, however. Women’s response to seeing naked men on screen, while not as frenzied as men’s response to naked women, is positive nevertheless. Most (heterosexual) ladies want to see naked guys, too! So when movie-goers see lots of nudie women, but few unclothed men, it becomes clear who the films are marketed towards. When most films give more to male preferences than women’s, it reflects the privileges that are given so freely to the straight guys in front of the screen. A specific decision is made by — mostly male — writers, directors, and producers to give male audience members what they want while ignoring what would be a positive female response to male nudity. No one has to ask the average Joe if he wants to see an undressed Angelina Jolie, but no one seems to care about the answer that the average Josephine would give ss if asked about seeing Wirele e e r F Brad Pitt sans boxet! ers.

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North to Alaska: a film fest Q&A

By Emily Faeth

emily.faeth@secondsupper.com Desperate times call for desperate measures: never mind the cliche, but these sentiments were likely ringing in the heads of those affected by the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Alaska Far Away, a new film from Juster Hill productions, is one of the features at the Frozen River Film Festival, and it will certainly bring fresh poignancy to that old cry of desperation. The film presents the story of the over 200 families who were relocated from the Midwest to an unsettled valley in Alaska as one of FDR's New Deal projects. Part social experiment, part economic relief program, the Matanuska Colonization Project changed the course of thousands of lives, and is just one of the countless as-yet untold stories of our nation's history. Second Supper had the opportunity to speak with Alaska Far Away producer and director Joan Juster from her home in San Francisco about the unique story behind her film, as well as its relevancy in our economically-challenged world.

Second Supper: I haven't seen the film yet, but I've been doing a bit of research, and this is definitely something I'd never heard of before.

Obviously it's something that hasn't really gotten a lot of attention, though — the Matanuska Colonization Project — so I guess I'm really curious about how you came upon this as a subject for a documentary.

Joan Juster: Well, we came upon the subject either by accident or by fate, depending on how you look at it. But you're right — it was a story that received a tremendous amount of attention at the time. It was front page news all over the country, and people followed the story...in the newspapers and in the news reels, but over time it kind of faded away and disappeared as, first of all, the colony itself ceased to be a colony by about 1939, and as people eventually went about...their lives and it was no longer news, per se. But the fact that the Matanuska Colony was just one of the hundreds of relocation colonies around the country...it's hard to believe that that doesn't make it into history classes.

So, when [co-producer] Paul [Hill] and I learned about this, we said, "My god, what a fascinating thing for the government to be do-

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ing!" to be taking people from...areas that were particularly hard hit by the Depression, and relocating them — and, relocating sometimes has a negative connotation, and these were all volunteers, of course — relocating them to areas...closer to infrastructure, or even building new infrastructure so that they could have a town and a decent place to live...maybe even build a factory or some sort of work project... and create opportunity for people in clusters around the country. Johnny Cash actually grew up in [a relocation colony] in Dyess, Arkansas.

If you saw the movie Walk the Line, there's a scene at the beginning where he and his brother are walking down a dusty road and there's a sign that says "Dyess Colony"...one of those little details that only Paul or I would pick up on [laughs].

SS:Yeah, I hadn't noticed that!

JJ: So we stumbled upon this in 1994. Our friend, Jim Fox, was living in Alaska...so we said, let's go visit Jim, let's have an adventure in Alaska. Jim was living with his grandmother at the time in her little house built by the colony in 1935; she was one of the original colonists. And what we learned at the time was that not only was she one of the original colonists, but our dear friend Jim was the world's leading historian on the subject of the colony. He had spent 20 years collecting stories and interviews and photographs, but never knew what to do with them. Along come his friends from San Francisco, who say, "Wow, what a great story! Somebody ought to make a film out of it." Next thing you knew, we were making the film. Fourteen years later, we've finally been showing [the film] around the country at film festivals.

The response everywhere we've taken it has been tremendously positive. Of course, we started this back in the mid-'90s when it was merely a historical curiosity, but suddenly the zeitgeist has caught up with us. A story about the Depression, about hard times, when people were turning to the government, [asking] what can the government do to help us, and the government comes up with this New Deal to help people, to raise people out of poverty and give them a fresh start in life, these are all subjects all of a sudden are on everybody's front pages every day. So all of a sudden, history has caught up with us. In fact, even as we speak, I am pack-

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If you talk to historians about these colonies, historians will tell you that they weren't a success: they cost a tremendous amount of money for a very low economic return, helping a relatively low amount of people, so they weren't a success. You talk to any family that was helped by these relocation colonies, and you get a very different story.

They say, "They gave my family a chance when nobody else had a chance to give out. All of a sudden we were guaranteed...food and an education for the kids...where else were we going to get that opportunity?"

SS: You said you'd been working on this for 14 years. I imagine a lot of challenges cropped up; did you, at any time, think the project might have to be scrapped?

JJ: After awhile, we were in so deep that there was no question of quitting. We always knew that it would get done, but there were a whole lot of times when we wondered how it would get done. Money has always been tight, and there were certainly personal challenges along the way. I think possibly, and Paul mentioned this in his interview in The Isthmus, one of the hardest parts was during the actual editing process. It took a lot longer than we expected, and we were paying a professional editor every week, and seeing the bills go through the roof.

And in the middle of this, I was going through a prolonged illness, and I couldn't work...and then Paul's father died. It was a very dark time.

But, you know, you just...you just do it. You just do what you have to do. And we got through it, and we finished the film, and now we've been enjoying taking it around the country, sharing it with other people.

SS: I guess one final question that I have — and we're just now wrapping up our Inauguration Issue — so of course on a lot of people's minds is what the new presidency will bring, and there has been a lot of talk about something like the New Deal happening again. So I'm just curious if you think that the response to the film might be more pronounced because of the synchronicity between the two periods [the Depression and the present]?

JJ: Absolutely. Like I said, our film couldn't be more timely. As hard as times are now, we can only begin to imagine how hard it was during the Depression.Times are very scary right now, things are very unsettled, because the whole

economic system as we know it has had a great tectonic shift. I speak in California terms, you know, it's like a constant earthquake going on.

But we can all relate to the Depression. President Obama is pulling together probably the most capable and brilliant team of economic advisers that we have seen in Washington since FDR...there are tremendous similarities between how FDR reacted to the economic crisis of his time and how Obama is reacting to the current economic crisis. One of the things that is no accident is that so many of the posters and signs that you see about Obama use the word "hope." That is precisely what FDR brought to this country. He may not have been the smartest or the most liberal or the most capable leader we've ever had — although I think he was many of those things — but he brought the country hope at a time when it had none. And at a time when Hoover was such a... he was not an inspiring man...and along comes this tremendously positive and tremendously energetic candidate at the time, FDR, who was promising a New Deal for people, and he connected with people on a very visceral level, to offer them hope. I see that same thing happening with Obama.

SS:Yeah, that definitely sounds familiar.

JJ: No one man, no one person can solve immediately, or even within a year, all of the problems that we are facing, they're just tremendously complex. But he does offer us hope, and we can go nowhere without that hope. Without that hope, we are lost. With hope, we can struggle through, and get to the next step. And I think there is tremendous — I like the word you use — synchronicity between what we are depicting in our film, the particular moment in time that we are depicting in our film, and what the country is going though right now. I'm just very excited that we're getting to bring our film to Frozen River during Inauguration Week. Perfect timing. And it's going to be an honor.

Check out Alaska Far Away on Saturday, January 24, at 8:30 p.m. at the Frozen River Film Festival.

Directors and producers Joan Juster and Paul Hill will appear in person to present their film on the brave souls who dared to venture into the great unknown.

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Winona's Frozen River Film Festival goes with the flow

By Adam Bissen

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The Mississippi may be iced over, but water will be a running theme at this weekend’s fourth-annual Frozen River Film Festival in Winona.

Over 40 movies, most of which carry an independent or outdoors-y bent, will be screened between Wednesday and Sunday at various locations around the river city.The films range from feature-length documentaries to animated shorts to historical adaptations, none of which will likely to be shown anywhere else in the area. Couple that with a full slate of speakers, workshops, meals, and music, and you’ve got the makings for a pretty interesting weekend.

While the documentary subjects range from banjo pickers to “freegans” to falcons to Hunter S.Thompson, a majority of them — either obliquely or directly — examine our most prevalent natural resource: water. “It’s kind of a hidden theme,” said Shannon Lippke, a WSU senior and third-year volunteer with the festival.

A Thursday night kickoff event, for example, will feature FLOW: For the Love of Water, an award-winning documentary that examines the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply. Other H20-related docs profile “The Water Carriers” in Kenya, a flooded slum in Brazil, and a natural space advocate who proposes draining Lake Powel to save the submerged Glen Canyon.

In addition to films, the FRFF also includes a slate of speakers and workshops, the most aquatic being discussion of how water shaped the unique geography of the Driftless Region over the previous 600 million years, and the most interesting being a man who spent 22 years walking the earth, 17 of them while taking a vow of silence.There will also be workshops on organic cooking, home brewing and year-round gardening.

To discover films suitable for the Frozen River Film Festival, organizers attend the iconic Telluride Film Festival, a 35-year-old institution that serves as the American model for these cinema events. Other short films were found on WithoutABox.com, a clearinghouse for indy moviemakers.

Tickets range from $7 for one screening to a deluxe $50 weekend pass. There will also be an organic menu served each day and official musical performances by Pert Near Sandstone, the Sans Souci Quartet, and the Beef Slough Boys.

“I think that a festival can offer so much more than just pure entertainment. It’s not just about staying in and watching movies and eating food,” Lippke said. “It’s an alternative form of learning.”

A complete festival schedule can be found at FRFF.org, but Second Supper would recommend checking out these three flicks.

Everyone we know who’s seen this movie has raved about it — and so have a bunch of famous critics — and while we haven’t seen Random Lunacy ourselves, it’s hard to imagine that a film this cool actually exists. The movie follows a family of street performers who call themselves The Flying Neutrinos. They were homeless by choice and spent 20 years on the road, doing everything from performing in a Mexican circus to sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a boat made from garbage. Best of all, they filmed the whole thing on an old HI-8 camera, giving patriarch Poppa Neutrino the rare opportunity to narrate his whole life.

“This guy makes Jack Kerouac seem like he lived at home with his mother and went out on the road on weekends,” said a writer from the New Yorker featured in the movie trailer.

Oh, and the five kids raised on the road seem absolutely normal, which might make have you rethinking conventional parenting techniques.

Blasted!!! The Gonzo Patriots of Hunter S. Thompson Saturday, 10:30 a.m. in Miller Auditorium Saturday, 6 p.m. in Performing Arts Center When Hunter S. Thompson, the grand poobah of Gonzo journalism, blasted himself out of this world in February 2005, he left behind detailed instructions for his remains— most notably that they be fired from a cannon on his estate outside Aspen, Colorado.

But how to find the artillery? At the Thompson family’s request, the Aspen Daily News sponsored an essay contest seeking cannon owners willing to lend their services to the cause. Over 50 artillery enthusiasts volunteered, but showoff Johnny Depp decided to erect a 153-foot, $2 million cannon in the shape of the Gonzo fist. Striking, yes, but way to steal the glory from hard-working cannon owners. In Blasted!!!, filmmaker Blue Kraning interviews every entrant in the essay contest, giving them an opportunity to muse on Dr. Gonzo while also proudly displaying their substantial artilleries.

Alaska Far Away Saturday, 8:30 p.m. in Somsen Oh, you gotta love the New Deal. Back when America was grappling with the Great Depression, no plan to pull folks out of poverty seemed too outlandish. People poor? Hey, let’s put them to work building a dam or trimming trees or, you know, relocating to Alaska to farm some underpopulated valley. In comparison, perhaps Barack Obama’s plans to build windmill factories don’t sound so loony. Alaska Far Away documents the over 200 impoverished upper Midwestern farm families that relocated to the fertile Matanuska Valley in 1935 under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. It’s a story of the New Deal, but as the U.S. stares down its own pending depression, it’s also a tale for our times. Directors Joan Juster and Paul Hill will be on hand Saturday to discuss their documentary, and you can also find our interview with Juster on that page to your left.

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The Korean film scene

By Nate Willer

foreign correspondent Looking for something different to watch on your next Sunday Funday? How about picking up a few international films and kicking back with your favorite brew and your special squeeze? Sounds like the ticket to a nice lazy Sunday. If this is par for your course, then head on down to your local video store, or jump on the Internet and use it for something other than checking out the latest sports scores or who’s unmentionables made the front page this week.

When most of you think of foreign films you probably aren’t thinking "Hey what’s that great new Korean flick about poker?" You’re probably thinking about something from Ang Lee or wondering if Jackie Chan will ever stop making bad movies with sweet stunts. So here is a look at how South Koreans like their film and their Film Festivals.

Most Korean films follow the same pattern set forth by Hollywood. However most of these films never make it outside the country; the films that do are true gems. The best Korean films deal with issues like nationalism, reunification with North Korea, the environment, sexuality, mental stability, and recently the serious plight of disabled (mentally and physically) Koreans (Korea is notoriously unequipped to accommodate disabled citizens or visitors).

And Koreans flock to these movies by the millions.

Unlike the US, Korea measures a movie's success by the number of tickets sold and not the millions of dollars made. The top selling Korean movie of all time is a movie called The Host. The Host is about a giant fish monster that terrorizes Seoul. At first glance the movie looks and sounds like a standard horror movie; however, the theme of the movie is some-

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thing more environmental and slightly anti-West. The movie begins with a scene, in which a Korean scientist is forced by his foreign boss to dump gallons of chemical waste down the drain. This act is subsequently what spawns the giant monster fish. Throughout the movie foreigners are often shown as intrusive and unhelpful.

The Host sold more than 13 millions tickets, and was released the same time as the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, which sold about 10 million tickets.

Unlike most countries, South Korean movies are more popular in South Korea than Hollywood films.

This may be due to the fact that the South Korean government regulates how long foreign films can be screened, or it could be because the Hollywood films that are shown there are films like Yes Man and Madagascar 2. This government regulation on films hasn’t always been limited to foreign films. During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the occupying government censored and heavily regulated Korean films. During the 1930s most films in Korea were silent, and instead of having an orchestra play during the screening of a film, most theatres hired a narrator who — when no Japanese officials were present — would often add nationalistic and patriotic commentary to the films. With the increasing popularity and affordability of talkies the Japanese government increasingly cracked down on Korean cinema, and in 1942 banned the use of Korean language in film.

With the Japanese surrender in 1945 the regulations were obviously removed, and the Korean film industry blossomed slightly until the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950.

During the war very few Korean films were made. But after the war the new President of South Korea, Syngman Rhee (SING-man Ri) removed all taxes on the film industry.

This caused the film

industry to rapidly grow for a short time. But by 1962 the new president enacted a series of laws that again restricted the number and type of films being produced in South Korea. It also reduced the number of Korean film studios from 71 to 16, in 1963.

By doing this, the government basically took control of the entire film industry, and it wasn’t until 1992 that a movie was financed by a non-government agency (Samsung Corp.).

This new freedom allowed the film industry to reach its full potential.

No longer were studios restricted by government regulations. They were free to make and distribute the movies they wanted to make. And did they ever!

Some of the most acclaimed movies worldwide have come from South Korea after 1992. In 2002 at the Venice Film Festival the film Oasis won Second Prize. Oasis is about a young woman with cerebral palsy, who falls in love with a mentally disabled man who is responsible for the death of the woman’s father. The film offers an interesting take on traditional Korean culture as well as a look at how a majority of Koreans are unwilling to accept or understand South Korea’s disabled citizens.

Another highlight for South Korean Films on the world stage is the movie Oldboy, which is one of the best and most famous Korean movies. Oldboy was awarded second place at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

The only film deemed better (by the French) was Fahrenheit 9/11.

Oldboy deals with mental stability and sexuality. The movie is about a man who is imprisoned for 15 years, fed the same thing, from the same restaurant everyday, and is finally released, only to enact revenge on his captors and learn the true reason for his imprisonment, while finding comfort in the arms of a mysterious young woman.

The movie is

perhaps South Korea’s best and most celebrated attempt at modern Film Noir.

South Korea didn’t win the Onion’s award for being Number One at being Number Two for their films and worldwide exports alone.

South Korea is also host to the Second Biggest Film Festival in Asia. The Pusan International Film Festival, or P.I.F.F. as the natives call it, has been held annually in October since 1996. The festival focuses on films from third world countries as well as young filmmakers and more importantly connecting young filmmakers with funding to get their films produced and distributed. At the 2007 Festival there were nearly 300 films screen from 64 different countries.

The festival is incredibly popular with Koreans and people from around the world. Much like the movies made in South Korea, the films screened at the festival are progressive and have more to offer the viewer than just hot babes and big explosions.

So as you lounge about reading the finest news source in the La Crosse area, which you should be doing, imagine would you could do when you’re finished with this.Your options may seem limited to trolling the Internet for that special someone, trolling your local pub for that special someone or trolling the streets for that special something.You could try something different and check out some foreign films. With that said, on your next trip through Blockbuster or cyberspace, pick up or download a copy of Oldboy, Tazza: The High Rollers (The aforementioned movie about Poker), Oasis, The Host, or Silmido (an excellent movie about the true story of a group of South Korean convicts trained to assassinate Kim JongIl’s father Kim Il-Sung) and kick back and relax to a different sort of film fare.

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The New American Mecca: New Orleans, LA

By Jacob Bielanski

jacob.bielanski@secondsupper.com I’m standing in line at the Rouse’s Grocery store on Royal and St. Peter, holding a two six packs of beer (which includes the Pecan Harvest from Abita, reviewed by our venerable editor Adam Bissen). I’m lost in my own thoughts as I mindlessly stare at the goods being purchased by the person ahead of me: canned ravioli, some bread, a bottle of aspirin and some beer. I’ve been in New Orleans so long, I barely take note of the fact that the man is — head to toe, clothes and skin — painted gold. Welcome to New Orleans (pronounced “N’awlins”, you Yankee).

Thousands of talented writers have penned volumes of glorious words in a vain attempt to encapsulate the feeling and purpose of New Orleans. This is not one of those volumes. In around 1,000 words, I can barely begin to describe an ounce of what New Orleans entails. One part Acadian fur trader, one part Spanish snob, one part dirty sailor with just a touch of good ‘ol deep south redneck, it’s damn difficult to describe a city of this magnitude.

The closest modern attempt was by my father when he said, “In a trip down the Mississippi by canoe, New Orleans was the last dry piece of land on which to take a sh*t, so they built a city here.”

For starters, New Orleans is one of few cities in the entire United States that allows open alcoholic containers on the streets in its French Quarter district. The United States is one of the few countries in the world who will happily consume so much alcohol, and yet treat its consumption like a sexual interlude — a dirty act to be done only in discrete, preordained locations. In spite of the stigma of drunken tourists stumbling about with brightly colored drinks, there’s a certain dignity to enjoying your cocktail with the breeze of the Mississippi on a starry night.

Then there’s the music.The music permeates the very air. The French Quarter and other neighborhoods acting as a creative sponge, dripping and soaked to capacity with trombonists, trumpeters, saxophonists, violinists, fiddlers, banjoists, snare drummers and even plastic bucket percussionist, all of whom cover every cubic inch of the sweet air with sound.

How can I tell you to check out Preservation Hall, Kat’s Meow or the Spotted Cat when a simple three block walk and a stop at a convenience store will net you a cheap drink and a front row seat to jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel and second line concerts?

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With the increasing crime, the crumbling infrastructure and the soon-to-be-discontinued street cleaning services (which have recently been employed to spray the previous night’s excesses with citrus-smelling water), it’s hard, at first, to understand why I would recommend such a place. Not only is New Orleans plagued by the aforementioned problems, but it has the terrible luck of being a part of the state of Louisiana (queue Zydeco-style “Dueling Banjos”).

Common sense dictates that this is the wrong place to be in the world at any given time. Yet, after five years of visits (pre- and post-Katrina) as a tourist and a “local,” I’ve discovered this to be the single most important journey an American can take. This latest journey may have finally shown me why.

There is no “strange” here. There is no wrong way. This is the place where American presidents (Gen. Andrew Jackson) fought alongside pirates (Jean Lafitte) in the successful defense of our great nation against the world’s ultimate buzzkill, the British. This is where monuments are crafted around artists (read: 320-acre Louis Armstrong park) and not just politicians and businesspeople. This is where a man can be painted gold and the cashier at the grocery store will simply say “How was work?”

In post-colonialism America, this is the last free city in the god damn United States.

Living free is dangerous — there’s no doubt that those stumbling drunkenly back to their hotel alone down a dark street, may be accosted. This is not a journey with which to leave your common sense behind. New Orleans is raw, corrupt and sometimes a little unkempt — but that is the essence of life and to scorn it is deny the fundamental yearnings that make us humans such a fascinating biological experiment.

Coming to New Orleans — a task that, similar to the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, should be accomplished by every American citizen in their lifetime — is difficult to describe.

Creating a “where to go” guide is fruitless, as the City — particularly the French Quarter — is a Labyrinth, different from day to day, angle to angle. It is a living juxtaposition, at one point looking like a decrepit third world country and then rising into old south opulence. Decadence takes up residence a stones throw from decency; the aristocrats live half a block from the underprivileged. One man can no sooner tell you what to do in New Orleans than one man could describe your favorite shirt to you.

One simply gets here and explores. One must get here and explore.

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By Briana Rupel

briana.rupel@secondsupper.com You don't have to stroll the streets of downtown La Crosse very long to notice one of the things that makes this city so charming. Sure, people say "hi" as you cross paths on the sidewalk; the riverfront is serene and scenic, but what most out-of-towners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and residents, at that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; love about La Crosse is the uniqueness and beauty of the city's historic buildings.

Perched on the corner of Fifth and Jay is a perfect example of what makes this downtown stand apart from others. The Hollywood Theater was built in the art deco style in 1936. It boasts a giant classic marquee and used to be a booming movie theater and concert venue. It used to be. Peer inside the hazy windows now and you'll see nothing but small reminders of a place people flocked to just to see a new flick.

Frames that advertise "Now Showing" still hang, with only tiny remnants of ripped down movie posters stuck to their corners. The concession stand still has prices sticking to its shelves, but the shelves remain empty. There's even a small paper plate in the corner, with bits of popcorn scattered around it, as if the last person to turn the lights out and lock the doors just shrugged their shoulders as they walked past it, because no one would be coming in the next day, the next month, and eventually, for years.

It seems when you mention the theater around town, everyone has a memory to share, from seeing Jurassic Park with their mom to rocking out at an Everclear show with their high school friends. Yet, the story of the Hollywood's long-time vacancy remains a clouded mystery to most area residents, and a surprisingly large amount of them have passionate views about its downfall.

"There are so many possible uses for that building," said Katie Peterson, who works downtown. "To have it sitting empty is just ridiculous."

The Hollywood has been, for the most part, empty since 2003 when Fortney Companies donated the building to the Children's Museum.

The museum hosted a handful of public events; they showed a few children's movies and a couple of concerts, the last being a Bobby Vee concert in 2004. Leanne Poellinger, the museum's marketing and development director, said they had every intention of fully utilizing the space,

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"With 900 seats to fill, we just weren't making enough money to cover it," she explained, "and there's no way we were going to get 900 people in there with the way the interior is.

(The building) has issues we just couldn't afford to deal with."

The Children's Museum then sold the building to The Fortella Group Corp. of Viroqua, Wis., for $57,500 in March, according to records from the La Crosse County Registrar of Deeds. The reality of the need for massive repairs, however, hit Fortella as well, as they realized that the theater needed a new heating and ventilation system and a completely new roof, among other things. They ended up selling the Hollywood, for almost three times what they paid for it, to a company in Plain, Wis., Schluter Construction, Inc. Their plans for the building remain in the dark, as they have not publicly discussed their intentions for the theater, and the owner did not return any calls from a reporter.

Though many La Crosse residents are sad to see such a great space just be passed from hand to hand, a glimpse of what the theater could be was offered in September, when filmmakers of the movie "Fort McCoy" shot a few scenes in front of the theater. After La Crosse Sign Co. repaired all of the old marquee bulbs, the lights flashed on and once again lit up Fifth Avenue as crowds passed by and looked on.

But a day later, the lights were off, and the Hollywood went back to what its been for years: empty and ignored.

"Downtown people are looking for something that can't be replicated...something that's one-of-a-kind," Peterson continued. "Why not preserve what we have instead of building new?

Why just disregard something as original as the Hollywood? It doesn't make sense."

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Esbjorn Svensson Trio – Leucocyte

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Following the recent death of pianist Esbjorn Svensson, this trio’s remaining members released its final album. Leucocyte comes not as an unfinished, posthumous work, but rather a pulsating piece of film-noir space and silence.

Such usage of conceptual landscapes and crawling gloom evokes kinship with prog-rock acts such as Peter Gabriel’s Genesis and The Mars Volta, and keeps enough of its own piano jazz sensibilities to avoid rock’s necessity for structure and limitation. The result is a soundtrack not yet post-produced alongside words and images, describing creatures of terrifying ambiguity swimming beneath unconfirmed waters.

Following an introductory track, the album is divided into three acts: the opening pair of Premonition tracks, a series of three individual songs in the disc’s center, and the concluding Leucocyte quadrilogy. Premonition’s first track begins dominated by a heartbeat of bass leading into an eventual piano interjection. At midpoint, drums explode onto the landscape, antagonizing the piano into a frenetic tailspin, landing on the sudden sci-fi Casablanca calm of Premonition’s second half.

“Jazz” leads the second act, standing as the closest this work comes to straight jazz

trio. The remainder of this section has more of a soundtrack feel, heavy on electronics and samples and featuring less of the trio as a unit.

The final piece of this album is its grandest. The four parts of this cycle are utterly unlike one another, the only common theme among the majority being manipulates shrieks and howls of electronic fauna. “Initio” has the harshness, instrumentation, and rhythm of a rock song, but leads into “Interim,” a minute of silence. Resuming sound with “Mortem,” Leucocyte becomes a time capsule-damaged recording of minimalist piano, soon usurped by noise, hip-hop beats, and the sea, before the piano comes back upon itself and retakes control. It drifts random through the two note mantra and sonic flotsam of “Infinitum,” before the rumble of a sea monster’s ascent brings the album to a close.

The minute of silence alone feels out of place, but everything else on Leucocyte is amazingly horizon-challenging. It’s dark, symphonic, and if one looks too much into it, eerily prophetic. It’s worth listening to, on its own high merits and outside of prophecy.

— Brett Emerson

Coffee drinkers, prepare to dive deep into a cup of Guatemalan coffee, roasted at La Crosse’s very own Bean Juice Coffee Roasters and Espresso Bar and also available at Peaberry’s Coffee House. This particular Guatemalan is classified as strictly hard bean. Translation: this kind of bean is the Zeus of coffees. Grown high in the mountains, it matures slowly in the shade. Because it can be tricky to get to these areas, these beans are almost always handpicked, which results in only the ripest and most perfect specimens ending up in your cup.

Guatemala is both an ecologist’s and a coffee drinker’s utopia. Its climate is one of the most diverse in the world, with an array of altitudes, soil types, rainfall levels, temperatures, and humidity levels more colorful than Bob Ross’s palette. Because of this wild climatic variety, Guatemala — a small country — can produce seven distinct types of Arabica beans.

The beans involved in the flavor sensation in Bean Juice’s roast are from the northern highlands of Huehuetenango. They are grown between 5,000 and 6,000 feet in relative humidity of 70-80 percent; they get about 1,800 mm of rain yearly and the average temperature is a comfortable 73 degrees Farenheit. Add to this lovely scenario hot, dry winds from the Tehuantepec plain in neighboring Mexico and voilà — a dreamy microclimate that leads to brilliant coffee.

Now for the really stimulating part: this

dark roasted coffee has a medium to bold intensity and its prime characteristics are floral and berry flavors. It has a brown sugar sweetness and attractive balance. But that’s not all — this coffee is quite complex; notes of spices, mainly cinnamon, make your tongue reminisce about cinnamon-sugar toast and nicely complement the whisper of wine. As the cup cools, the sweetness becomes the star flavor that is characterized by plum and nectarine flavors embedded in a scaffold that also includes bittersweet chocolate and a louder wine bite in the finish.

This cup, to say the least, has dimension. This Byzantine coffee is like a book with so many multifaceted characters, intricate plot twists, and poetic language selections that you have no choice but to read it at least twice. This is the kind of coffee you could start a relationship with, one that you won’t completely understand for years. My final word on this cup — it holds on long and tight, as a lover would before leaving for a lengthy journey, suggesting sweetness and love, but alluding to so much more. — Amber Miller

Gettin' Shuggy with it Oh hi. For those of you who are unaware, pitchforkmedia.com has become a juggernaut in the world of music. A Web site that reviews new music with a predominant focus on indie rock, it has grown into a site that generates 240,000 readers a day and more than 1.5 million unique visitors per month. From its humble beginning in Minneapolis in 1995, through a relocation to its current home of Chicago in 1999, Pitchfork is now widely regarded as the main place that set the trends in independent music. Current bands that can consider Pitchfork a huge factor in breaking them to the masses include Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, The Books, Interpol, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Personally, I find the writing on the site overwrought, painfully pretentious, and quite frankly boring to read, yet its cultural relevance is undeniable, particularly in a world where Clear Channel and their ilk control the radio airwaves with bland programming, while the established music magazines suck up to major label duds when not falling back

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on reminding us just how awesome the '60s were for the ten thousandth time.

I've been a fan of Pitchfork's top 50 end of the year picks for many years, but don't check the site that often otherwise. It was when checking the site late December for their best of lists that I noticed they released a book called The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to the Present. This book gives essays on what they consider the best 500 songs, ranging from punk to post-punk, through the launch of hip hop, the underground college rock of the '80s that turned into the alternative music of the '90s, the dance music of the rave culture and the current indie rock fad, all are represented. To the Web-savvy out there, these 500 songs have been compiled and are widely available on various torrent sites. If I were a violator of copyright laws, this playlist might be on my i-tunes, and I may even be listening to it on shuffle right now.These 500 songs are music appreciation 101. — Shuggypop Jackson

January 22, 2008

Reviews: Your Guide to Consumption Film Notorious (2008)

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his relationships with his children, and even his relationship with Puffy hastily get left in the dust. Notorious shifts gears too frequently to be the great, Academy-Award caliber film that might have been produced about Biggie's life.

But that doesn't mean the movie fails completely. Biggie doppelganger Jamal Woolard plays the rap legend with a sleepy-eyed enthusiasm that commands recognition even in the midst of other top notch performances, particularly those of Naughton as Kim and Mackie as Tupac. Woolard also rhymes — on stage and briefly on the street — with Biggie's vicious, nasal-breathed intensity. Even though the movie's musical performances — mostly of Big's bestknown songs — coincide with his life's turmoil ("Juicy" with finally realizing the dream, "Who Shot Ya" with the beginning of his feud with Pac, etc.), the film still lacks any common glue to tie it all together, and trying to fit what basically amounts to the whole enchilada into one resultingly chaotic flick wasn't the path to take.

It might then be a testament to Biggie that the film's message still works, his story resonates over a decade after his death, and a feature film about his life manages to be more uplifting and inspirational than tragic. — Nick Cabreza

Notorious B.I.G.'s life was far too interesting and complex to cram-jam into a two-hour movie, most of which smartly avoids revolving around the Bad Boy/Death Row rivalry, already the subject of too many straight-to-DVD documentaries. Listening to the man's music offers infinite more insight into his life. Notorious, on the other hand, feels like "Biggie for beginners." It's a scant assemblage of the important moments of his life, moments pasted together with barely-visible transitions that result from hurrying along events that otherwise deserve more focus and investigation.

Biggie's pre-record deal MCing, for example, takes up a barely-noticeable fraction of the film.

Before long, he's meeting Puff Daddy (Derek Luke), befriending Tupac (Anthony Mackie), and sleeping with a plethora of women, including Lil Kim (Naturi Naughton) and Faith Evans (Antonique Smith). Scenes raising questions about his tumultuous relationships with Kim and Faith,

Cappuccino Stout The Lagunitas Brewing Company Petaluma, California For whatever reason — maybe because I’m an incredible snob about my beans and my brews — I often get asked to pick my favorite beverage: beer or coffee. It’s a tough question to answer, impossible really, so I usually shoot back some kind of cliché about picking a favorite child or preferring to have an arm or a leg amputated. It’s a night and day argument — literally! — as I start every morning with some freshly ground roasts and can sip microbrews until your best bro slams his last Keystone. I just prefer to write about beer. Coffee, though, is far too delicious a drink to be slighted, so I’m proud to welcome the return of The Last Drop, a weekly Second Supper coffee review now authored by Amber Miller. (Whaddup, Amber!) With this spirit of beverage unity in mind, I decided to celebrate with a bottle of my dual liquid loves this week. Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout is brewed with locally roasted Colombian coffee and — I shit you not — it is one of the tastiest beverages I’ve had all year.

(And, yes, I’ve already drank plenty of beer and coffee in 2009.)

Although the terms “cappuccino” and “stout” would both seem to imply a black beverage, this Lagunitas pours a translucent brown, which is actually the only disappointment contained in the bottle. Actually, the aroma isn’t that sexy either — just some earthy malts and

a hint of piney hops — but this beer is all about the flavor. It hits the tongue luxuriously, seeping in with vanilla notes before the coffee taste slowly unfolds with some masterfully roasted beans. Then there’s a hint of caramel, a touch of roasted nuts, some dark chocolates, and an English-style bitter finish — but that only rounds out the coffee complexity. The real treat of the Cappuccino Stout is its creaminess — so, so, so smooth. If there were ice cream in beer heaven, this would be the soft serve. In retrospect, it doesn’t really taste much like a cappuccino; more like a café au lait that’s twothirds whole milk. It doesn’t taste much Appearance: 6 like a stout either; more like a brown Aroma: 6 ale infused with butterscotch pudding. Taste: 10 Sure, it’s not “traditional” or “authen- Mouthfeel: 10 tic” or “local” or “reasonably priced,” Drinkability: 8 but it beautifully blends beer and coffee, and I think I’m in Total: 40 love. — Adam Bissen

Bizzaro Masterpiece Theatre After School Special: Francesca, Baby Bibliophile

Francesca’s own attempts to make friends Norah Vincent – Voluntary Madness (2008) Directed by: Larry Elikann Starring: Carol Jones, Alice Nunn Written by: Bob Rodgers This landmark tale of alcohol abuse harkens back to a more innocent time in American history, where young lads sported blonde afros while the girls wore tight shirts with bad flower print. The notion of alcoholism was lost upon this gilded generation, and children of alcoholics were as mythical as Perseus and the Kraken.

But guess what? Mommy drinks!

“Francesca, Baby” is not just the title of this fine opus; it’s also the excuse offered by sweet Francesca’s mother every time the woman runs amok on her family. Encouraged by her absentee husband and enabled by the neighbor lady (the spectral Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure), Mom terrorizes her two lovely daughters with bleary-eyed stumbles and complaints. Francesca tries her best to cope, but alcoholism is an uncomfortable situation that cannot be ignored or rationalized away.

Young Katie’s wicked costume party brings about a turning point. It’s a sweet shindig, involving cake, bobbing for apples, and sitting on balloons, until Mom shuffles down the stairs and blathers in front of the kids. Large Marge tries to head her off, but the damage is done. Somehow, seeing a drunk lady for all of five seconds is enough to drive off these hyperaware children, and the party is ruined.

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are equally disastrous. After new neighbors move in, she accidentally hoses down the family’s teenage daughter. Despite this embarrassing introduction, the two girls are fast friends.

Unfortunately, Mom screws this up by cutting her hand on a broken glass and sobbing tequila tears. When the neighbor girl asks Francesca about her mom’s drinking problem, she refuses to acknowledge it and gets crabby.

Things don’t work out much better in her pursuit of a strapping young Ron Howard Doppelganger. Francesca tries to sex him up by luring him to her place and playing Tchaikovski’s “Romeo and Juliet Overture.” As could be expected, Ron Howard Doppelganger takes in the music with an awkward, bored expression. He is saved when Mom stumbles in, wearing her nightgown, and complains about the ungodly racket. When he is asked to leave, he does so without question. Francesca, however, flips out on her mom’s boozed-up cock blocking.

Lest he be unfairly painted as a heartless cad, Ron Howard Doppelganger turns Francesca on to Alateen, a program for relatives of alcoholics. Due to the '70s backdrop, Alateen is portrayed as a program akin to Scientology.

Nonetheless, it begins the road to recovery, which culminates in a glorious fire drill.

I wish my parents were alcoholics from the '70s. — Brett Emerson

After undertaking the XY adventures described in the wonderfully frank chronicle, Self-Made Man, Norah Vincent hit a steep low. The strain of maintaining an alter ego of the opposite sex led to something of an identity crisis, an attack of conscience. As discussed in Self-Made Man, Vincent suffered a mental shutdown and began to search for others to damage her, suicide-bycop style. At story’s end, she committed herself to a psychiatric ward. It is through the terrors found in institutionalized care by which Vincent draws inspiration for this sequel.

The premise behind this book and its predecessor are largely the same: Vincent throws on the guise of The Pretender and infiltrates an unknown culture. In this case, she wears the costume of mental illness and admits herself – with disturbing ease – into three separate and vastly different psychiatric facilities. Yet while Vincent’s infiltrator journalism is recycled, its use in this book is unique. In studying the insides of mental institutions, she doesn’t completely break from her usual identity. Inside the wards, she remains Norah Vincent, however exaggerated her mental condition may be. As such, the transition from imposter to sincere, help-seeking patient allows Vincent to own the breakthroughs and insights into her own psychology. Self-Made Man ends with understanding but also rejection of her alter ego.Voluntary

Madness ends with understanding alongside acceptance.

Vincent’s initial disdain of the mental health industry doesn’t go away in the course of her experiments, though her attempts to understand the viewpoints of both patients and caregivers lends this book an evenhanded perspective. Even within the confines of the initial ward — an inner-city shithole — she acknowledges that it’s near impossible to have empathy on demand, especially when patients aren’t really looking for help. It’s easier to act as a jailer instead of a healer, to sedate behavior into submission rather than treat it. As Vincent works her way up through the ranks and encounters healthier approaches to mental health care it becomes clear that the hospital’s environment and staff do play a role in the effect of treatment. However, Vincent’s main point in this book is that therapy is a two-way road. Unless a patient takes an active role in his or her treatment, nothing will improve, and the patient is all but guaranteed a return trip to the nuthouse.

The style of this work, as with Self-Made Man, is blunt and honest, though not as course as its predecessor. Vincent shows no reservation in exposing her own faults and shames. It is this style and personal courage which makes an otherwise normal message exemplary. — Brett Emerson

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Philosophical discussion group

January 30-February 1, 5-8, and 12-14, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., February 15, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

Godspell takes parables, mostly from the Gospel According to Matthew, and updates them with energetic force and creative twists.

Jesus and his disciples sing their way through his life from his baptism

by John the Baptist to the Passion of Christ. This uplifting journey through the Gospels is a classic tale of discovering hope and building community.

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Every Tuesday Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse approx. 7 p.m.

All ages, skill levels welcome Donations gladly accepted FIGURE DRAWING

Every Wednesday Green Bay Street Studio La Crosse greenbaystreetstudio.blogspot.com 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. cost is $5 ($3 for members and students) WINONA AREA PEACEMAKERS VIGIL

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performances

Every Sunday Bluffland Bloom & Brew La Crosse Begins at dusk Open mic reading, come to read or just to watch.

Free and open to all ages.

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Free food and talent HATHA YOGA

Every Tuesday & Thursday 5:30-6:30pm All levels. Walk-ins are welcome.

Please bring own mat or towel. $3 per session, due each class.

PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS

The Pump House, La Crosse Clay Riness is currently accepting students for guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and music theory lessons.

Private lessons are available at the Pump House for a fee of $17 for a half-hour session and $34 for a full hour. Time slots are available to accomodate school and work schedules. A weekly 30-minute time slot is recommended for children.

All students must register for four weeks of lessons at a time.

Twelfth Night

La Crosse Community Theatre March 20-22, 26-29, and April 2-4, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.

April 5, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

As with most Shakespeare comedies, Twelfth Night is all about mistaken identity.Viola masquerades as a young page for Orsino, who is in love with Olivia. Cesario (Viola) soon falls in love with "his" master. Whilst Viola falls in love with Orsino, Olivia falls in love with Cesario, whilst being pursued at the same time by her servant Malvolio.

Olivia's house is turned upside down by the antics of her drunken uncle, Sir Toby Belch, and the whole crazy situation reaches boiling point when Sebastian reappears.

Auditions Feb 2 & 3, call for an audition time!

upcoming events SHADES OF BLUE TATTOO SHOW

January 23-25 La Crosse Center North Hall Fri 4-10pm, Sat 10:30am-10pm, Sun 10:30am-7pm $15 for a day pass or $25 for a weekend pass.

Tattoo Competition • Award Winning Tattoo Artist • Body Piercing Live Entertainment • Leather, Jewelry & T-Shirt Vendors...and more!

COULEE CLASSIC BASKETBALL

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La Crosse Center Arena $5 for adults and $3 for students

upcoming events upcoming events JOHNSMITH WITH DAN SEBRANEK CONCERT

January 23 - 24 Pump House Regional Arts Center, 608-785-1434 www.thepumphouse.org 7:30 p.m.

Whenever you read or hear about the music of Johnsmith, certain watchwords like uplifting, integrity, heart, and soul always come to mind. $18 ($3 discount for advance purchases) LA CROSSE AREA JAZZ SOCIETY WINTER CONCERT

January 25 Freight House Hiawatha Room, La Crosse 608-791-1190 www.lacrossejazz.com 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

"A Journey Through the sounds of Jazz in America". Al Townsend's Wonderful World Jazz Band with Don Chesebro and Steve Clay. Tickets available by phone or at the gate.

LAJS Members: $10. Non-members: $12. Students with ID: $2 MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION

January 25 608-783-2159 info@LacrosseMardiGras.com www.lacrossemardigras.com/ A Proclamation to the Good People of La Crosse: Whereas Gods Country is well known for its community festivals, and whereas the cold of winter has caused many citizens to suffer from that awful malaise known as Cabin Fever, And whereas the first flowers of Spring, the bonnets of Easter, and the warm breezes from the South remain weeks away, I, the reigning king of the Annual La Crosse Mardi Gras celebration, with my Queen, do proclaim: That ALL members of every family throughout the region of our reign have the permission to cavort, carry on, laugh, dance, act silly, and dress in exotic costumes, and that they should enthusiastically make this La Crosse Mardi Gras celebration a huge success and a harbinger of the many more to come. Having thus whereas-ed and proclaimed, I hereby declare the La Crosse Mardi Gras celebration should commence.

La Crosse Mardi Gras Festival is a

family celebration designed to unite the surrounding communities, while raising funds for school scholarships, youth and community centers along with their activities.

PROGRESSIVE STATE OF THE UNION PARTY January 30 5:30 p.m..

Concordia Ballroom, La Crosse Contact Jessica Thill, 608-792-5920, thill.jess@gmail.com The Coulee Region Progressives would like to extend an invitation to join us at our Fifth Annual Progressive State of the Union Party.

This gathering will provide an opportunity to mix and mingle with community members, to celebrate the year's accomplishments, and to look ahead to the challenges of the upcoming year. Our theme this year is "A New Day".

This year's event will take place on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at the Concordia Ballroom at 1129 La Crosse Street. We will host a Community Fair from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, when our keynote address will begin. This year's speaker is Ben Manski, Executive Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation. The Liberty Tree Foundation is dedicated to helping people participate in direct democracy.

We will serve a light dinner starting at 6. There will also be an open bar.

If you would like to display information you can reserve table space by contacting us before January 15th. Even if you do not wish to reserve table space, please join us so that you may learn more about the recent successes and upcoming challenges of the local progressive community.

Donations will be accepted on a sliding scale of $2 to $20 to help cover costs, and to raise funds for future events. We will also be collecting non-perishable food items for WAFER food pantry at the door.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have questions or would like to reserve table space!

We hope to see you on the 30th.

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Coconut Joe’s Dan’s Place 223 3rd Pearlst.st.

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16oz top sirloin $7 22oz tbone 9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 jack daniels tipsTaps 8 $1 shots of $1 Domestic Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl $2 Craft Import Taps Happy $1.75 cans, $2 $2.50 hour Vodka4-6Mixers mix drinks

$1 Shot Menu

1/4 barrel meatball sandwich giveaway meal: $6.69 8-11 $1 burgers 2 Chicago dogs meal:

during Monday night football

meat or marinara spaghetti: $3.45 $2.50 Italian sausage: $4.95 Blatz vs. Old Style pitchers

$1 off apps closed Happy Hour All Day 20 wings and 5 miller lites for $15

Kids Eat$2.50 Free With Blatz vs. Old Style Adult pitchers $3.00 Long Islands Martini Ladies' Night Martini Madness James Martini: vodka, triple $2 off all martinis

114 5th ave.

417 Jay st.

Bud Night 6 - CL: $1.75 bottles $5 pitchers

$5.89 meatball sandwich Burgers 2 for 1 bottles and cans meal:Buck $6.15 1/4 Barrel during the game 2 dogs meal:giveaway $ 5.25

The The Cavalier Cavalier 114 5th ave.

CheapShots Chances R 318 Pearl st.

5-8 p.m. 16oz Sirloin $7, Blue Cheese Stuffed Sirloin $8, Jack Daniels Tips $8, 22oz T Bone $9.75, $1 shots doc and cherry doc 8 p.m. - close

sec, orange juice

712- CL - 7: $1 domestic 12 oz 2-4-1 rails $2 Stoli mixers

$2.50 beers 7 - CL

$3.00 Domestic Pitchers, $1 domestic 12 oz $2.00 Shots of Cuervo, $2 StoliGoldschlager mixers Rumpleminz,

closed $3 Pitchers 1.75 Rails $1 dom. taps, Dr. $4 imports, shots, $2 rails, full pint Irish Bud, $3 calls mixers, all apps, $4 Bomb top shelf Car

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Buck Night starts at 6 p.m. under

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

11 a.m. - 9 p.m. hard or soft shell tacos $1

5-8 p.m. BBQ coun6 - CL try style ribs $5, $2.50 Sparks euchre tourney 7:30

Import Ladies drink night free Rails and Domestic starts at 7Light p.m.Tap Beer 9-11pm on the Dance Floor 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. AUCE Wings $5, Bingo $2 Silos BOGO $1 cherry bombs

$1 softshell tacos Happy Hour 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. M-FAUCE wings $5.00 $5 bbq ribs and free crazy bingo $2 Domestic Silos fries buy bomb $2.50 Premium Silos Stopone in forcherry Value Menu too $2.50 Three Olive Mixers big to here get one forlist$1

$2.50 Select imports/craft $1 shots of doctor, Beers cherry doctor $2.50 Top shelf Mixers $2 Mich Golden bottles

$2. Goldschlager

3 p.m. - midnight

grilled$6.00 chicken sandwich meal: $5.29 AUCD

Italian beefnight meal: bucket $6.69 6 for $9 Chicago chili dog: $3.89 beef meal: Italian $6.15 Bucket Night beers Chicago chili6dog: $3.45 for $9

hamburger or 25 cent hot wings cheeseburger meal: $3.89 $1 shots of Dr. Italian Beef w/dog hamburger meal: $7.89meal: $3.69 cheeseburger meal: 25 cent wings Dollar $3.89 shots of Doctor

Polish sausage meal: $4.49 chicken sandgrilled wich meal: $5.29 Polish AUCDsausage Taps andmeal: Rails $3.99 8-1 $6

soup or salad bar $1.25 make your own $2.25 burgers, $2.60 FREE with entree or 3 - 8cheeseburgers, p.m. 1/2 off anything that pours tacos, $4.75 taco salad $2 off $1.50 U-Call-Its $2 10 cent wings - CL) sandwich until 3 p.m. $5 beer, wells, & long islands. $2.25 margaritas, large pizza, $1(9fries $1.25 High Life bottles $1 shots with ($3.95 by itself) off large taco pizza with any pizza wristband. $2.50 Jack mixers or HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8Soco PM& lime

Thirsty - $1 Mexi-Night Tuesday Soft Shell Tacos $2.50 Margaritas

10 cent wings (9 - CL) $12-4-1 High Life bottles Burgers $1.50 rail Pitchers mixers Kul Light $5 $2 Guinness pints

Wristband Rib Nite Night Beer Pong @10 p.m.

Wii Night

$1 Dr. 6- shots 8 $3 $1.50 Jager Bombs taps

7 - midnight 7 - CL 7- CL: 3- CL: Ladies: 2 for 1 Tequila’s chips & salsa, Margarita Monday 2 Beers, 1 topping pizza Guys: $1.50 Coors $2 Coronas, $2.50 $2.50 $11 and Kul Light bottles Mike’s, Mike-arita (rocks only) Tequila’s chips & salsa, Mexican Monday $2.00 Corona, $2 Coronas, $2.50 Corona Light, Cuervo Mike’s, Mike-arita

$.50 Ladies: domestic2taps, for$11 microbrews, $3 domestic Guys: $1.50 Coors pitchers, $6 microbrew and Kul Light bottles pitchers

$2 Malibu $2.00 Cruzan madness Rum Mixers, $2.50$2 Jameson Shots, $3.00 pineapple Mixers

$1 rail mixers $3.00 Patron Shots $2 Bacardi mixers

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

HAPPY HOURshrimp EVERYDAY 3 - 6 chili chicken burrito verde primavera $1.25 Bucket of Domestic 25 Cent Wings BURGERS Cans 5 for $9.00

Build your own Bloody Mary 16oz Mug - $4.00

Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer $9.00 $5.99 $5.99 gyro gyro fries fries & & soda soda

Gracie’s Gracie’s 1908 Campbell rd.

1908 Campbell rd.

Huck Finn’s Howie's

127 dr. st.

1128Marina La Crosse

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 bottles 717 Rose st. food, $1.50 bloody, 1/2

108 3rd st price pitchers DTB Second Supper vol. 9, issue 147

$4.50

$1 Bazooka Joes

$3.00 Captain mixers/ mojitos Fish Fry $2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes

$1 Bazooka Joes

$3.00 Bacardi mixers/ mojitos $3 bloodys $2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka 'til Joes noon

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

10 - CL: $1.50 rails Hour 12 - 7

$2.00 Captain Mixers

Great drinks!

50

Happy Hour 12 - 7 cents off most items

$2.00 Malibu, $2.50 Jaeger, $3.00 Jaeger Bombs

upsidedown cake

chicken Topless primavera Tuesday

N3287 County rd.

OA 1904 Campbell

$2.50 X-Rated Mixers $2 Captain Mixers $2 Premium Grain Belt $2 Snake Bites

WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB $2 Tuesdays, including Wristband All day Everyday: $1 Doctor $2 Silos. M-F: Happy HourBBQ, 2-6PLAIN $.50 off everything but the daily special$2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN AND BUFFALO, SMOKEY buy one get one Domestic $2 bottles, import taps, $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT Night After Class $3 beerMIXERS ('til 6 p.m.)

Ladies' Nite out 1.50 Raill $.50 pong, taps Domestic 3.00 BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK RING TOSS NIGHT beer apps, single FLAVORED BACARDI Guys'closed Nite out 1.50 silos $5 COLLEGE I.D. Pitchers $1.75 Rails Holmen Meat Locker Jerky BOTTLES mixers/ $2.50 X bombs pitchers shot mixers, featured 3 Rings for $1 $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT $3.00 JAGER BOMBS Raffle $9 general public shots, and 50 cent taps OF THENIGHT-$1.25/LB WEEK WING $2 Tuesdays, including BUFFALO, SMOKEY BBQ, PLAIN Happy Hour 7 - 9. $2 for all single shot mixers and all beers. $1 Ladies Night $2 bottles, import taps, $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT Topless Karaoke live DJ Wristband Night buy one, get one free $2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN AND Karaoke FLAVORED Kul Light BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK closed beer pong, apps, single Tuesday $1 shot specials $1 shot specials BOTTLES $5 COLLEGE I.D. BACARDI MIXERS wear a bikini, drink free shot mixers, featured cans $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT $9 general public $3.00 JAGER BOMBS shots, and 50 cent taps OF THE WEEK

football $1 night domestic Kul beer: Light $1.50 Mexicancans beer: $2.00

Fox Hollow Goal Post

2-8 p.m.

AUCE wings $5

beers & rails 7 -$1.00 midnight 7 - midnight 7 - CL All day, everyday: Shots of Doctor, $2.00 Cherry Bombs, $1.75 Silos of Busch Light/Coors 7 - midnight Happy

chicken$4 & veggie full fajitas pint Irish for Bomb two Car

N3287 County OA

5-83-7 p.m. fishhappy dinnerhour $5.25

$1.50 $6.75 bloody marys $3 Three Olivesdinner mixers/ mojitos $3 Bacardi mixers/ mojitos shrimp 11 a.m. - 4 p.m $2 Cherry bombs $2 Cherry bombs

7 - midnight 7- CL: $2 Malibu madness Guys' Night $2 pineapple $1.25 upsidedown cake

$1.25 beers & rails

Cosmic $1 cherryBowl bombs starts at 9 p.m. until midnight

pepper & egg sandwich Italian beef meal: domestic pitchers $6.69 meal: $5.00 barrel parties2 Chicago at cost dog meal: Italian sausage meal: pepper & egg sandwich $5.89 $6.69 Italian beef meal: meal: $4.50, fish $6.15 sandwich meal: $4.99, 2 Chicago dog meal: $4.50 domestic pitchers Pitcher and Pizza $10 Italian sausage meal: $3.45 $6.15

for 1 $5 All 2Mojitos taps

7 - midnight 7- CL: $1 rail mixers Ladies' Night $2 Bacardi mixers

Cosmic & $1 cherryBowl bombs Karaoke starts at until 9 p.m. midnight

Dad's Beer"

HAPPY HOUR 4 - 7

6closed - 8 p.m. $1.50 rails/domestics

Saturday

batterfried cod, fries, $2.50 Bomb Shots beans, and garlic bread $2.50 Ketel One Mixers $5.50 $2 Retro Beers "Your

$1.50 rail mixers

Fiesta Dan’s Mexicana Place 5200 Mormon Coulee 411 3rd st.

Friday

$9.00

9-cl$3.50 Domestic pitchers $1.75 domestic bottles

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

chili Karaoke verde $1 shot specials

Asklive server DJ for details $1 shot specials Ask server for details

HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6

HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM

$1.25 beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95 16 oz steak BURGERS

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

Bucket of Domestic Cans 5 for $9.00

25 CentHOUR Wings HAPPY

Buy Buy one one gyro gyro get get one one half half price price

free free baklava, baklava, ice ice cream cream or or sundae sundae with with meal meal

$1.25 $1.25 domestic domestic taps taps buy buy one one burger burger get get one one half half price price

HAPPY HOUR 9-cl- $1 rails, $2.50 pitchers, Beer Pong All day (everyday!) $1.75 domesticspecials $1.25 Old Style Light bottles $1.50 LAX Lager/Light $1 shots of Dr.

$5 AUCD

HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8 $8.95 16 oz. steak $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter

5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

EVERYDAY 3 -7 9-cl and$1.25 9 - 11 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans

Karaoke

GREEK GREEK ALL ALL DAY DAY buy buy one one appetizer appetizer appetizer half price appetizer half price get one half price get one half 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

HAPPY HOUR2-CL 5-7 Thirsty Thursday 3 12 oz. dom. taps $2 $1 vodka drinks $1 12 oz taps

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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday & drink specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food

LA CROSSE Jai's Bar 168 Rose st.

JB’s Speakeasy 717 Rose st.

The Joint 324 Jay st.

Legend’s

Happy Hour 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. everyday. $1.50 rails & domestics

$3 bloodys $1 priced-to-move 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.

The Library 123 3rd st.

$2 Guinness all day

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

closed closed

Nutbush

Ladies' night 7-CL buy one, get one rails and dom. bottles

$1.75 domestic bottles

$2 Boddington's English Pub Ale ALL DAY

50 cents off all drinks 7-CL

$1.00 off all Irish shots $2.50 pints of Guinness $3.00 imperial pints

every day $1 shots of Doc

$1 taps $1 rails 1/2 price Tequila

All your fav drinks at low prices

HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7

4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75

closed

$2 Irish Car Bombs (go out the Irish way) 7-CL

4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75

5 - 7 p.m.

2-4-1 happy hour

great drinks!

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

KARAOKE $2 double rails, $3 double calls, $2 ALL bottles

Wristband Night and Beer Pong Tourney

Play bags and win prizes in January

Play bags and win prizes in January

2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.

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.

$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 223 Pearl st.

Schmidty’s

Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6 open 11 - 6 $2 Screwdrivers and $2 Domestic Bottles w/NFL Sun. Ticket

3119 State rd.

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

Shooter’s

$1 Shot Night

120 S 3rd st.

Sports Nut 801 Rose 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 30 Walnut st.

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2 for 1 Happy Hour ALL NIGHT LONG

happy hour all day

open 4-9

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

HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM cheeseburger HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!

$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 $6.45

Ask Nicely See What Happens

Tie Tuesday Great Prices For Sharp Dressers

Buck Burgers

Tacos $1.25

$4 domestic pitchers

$1 Rails, $1.50 Pint Taps, $3 Long Island Pints 15 cent wings

$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

M3= $1 martinis, $2 mojitos, $3 margaritas $2 domestic pitchers

family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age

$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints 12 oz. T-Bone $8.99

HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM $1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/ PBR taps all day $1.75 rails 10 - 1

closed

Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5

LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY

$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots

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

Southwest chicken pita $5

$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

10 cent wings, $3 filled mug ($1 tap refills, $2 rail refills) $1 High Life bottles/kamikaze shots

15 cent wings

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers

$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers

$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers

$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12

$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs

Thursday

Friday

Saturday $2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish

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

Thursday

3 - 8pm 1.00 off anything that Pours

2 for 1 anything 9 p.m. - close

Fish Fry $6.95

$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints

$1 O-Bombs/Bazooka Joes, Wristband Night, $2.50 SoCo or Jack mixers

Friday

Saturday

$2.50 Three Olives mixers $1 Cherry & Jäger Bombs wristband night 'til 12 a.m.

$2.50 Bacardi mixers $1 Cherry & Jäger Bombs wristband night 'til 12 a.m.

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

January 22, 2008

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Entertainment Directory 1/22 - 1/28

Thursday, January 22

January 24, continued

Kreekside Irene Keenan Jr.

7:00

Coconut Joe's Live DJ

10:00

Ringside Comedy Night

8:00

Legend's Live DJ

10:00

Howie's Karaoke

8:00

Sunday, January 25

Dan’s Place Live DJ

9:00

The Recovery Room Live DJ

9:00

Popcorn Tavern LAX All Stars

10:00

Nutbush Live DJ

10:00

Nighthawks Dave Orr's open jam

10:00

Coconut Joe's Live DJ

10:00

Popcorn Tavern Som'n Jazz

Just A Roadie Away...

10:00

10:00

Tuesday, January 27 Nutbush Live DJ

10:00

Friday, January 23

Popcorn Tavern Paulie

10:00

The Warehouse Orwell, Cleobury, Miss August Thyateira, Doomsday Catalyst Wrath of the Girth 6:00

Alumni Brownie's Open Jam

10:00

Players Live DJ

Wednesday, January 28

10:00 10:00

Howie’s Comedy Night

8:30

Coconut Joe's Live DJ

10:00

Library Karaoke

9:00

Legend's Live DJ

10:00

Nighthawks Irene Keenan Jr.

9:00

Popcorn Tavern Public Property

Saturday, January 24 The Warehouse And Hope to Die, Iron Thrones, Silentium Inferus, We are Legion, Our Judgement, The Angle Obscure 6:00 Popcorn Tavern Moose Noodle

10:00

Nighthawks PROTO MELEI (no cover)

10:00

JB's Dan Tedesco and the Long Haul

10:00

Players Live DJ 10:00 Second Supper vol. 9, issue 147

Recovery Room Kin Pickin open jam

10:00

Coconut’s Live DJ

10:00

Players Karaoke

10:00

Popcorn Tavern Brownie's Open Jam

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Heatbox The New Congress

Bunkers

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Yellow Minnow

Club Underground

Thurs., 1/22

The Disco Biscuits Future Rock

First Avenue

Fri., 1/23

Slipknot Coheed and Cambria Trivium

Xcel Energy Center

Fri., 1/23

Happy Birthday Janis!

Cabooze

Sat., 1/24

Cradle of Filth Satyricon Septic Flesh

First Avenue

Mon., 1/26

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