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TABLE OF CONTENTS GOT MILK? La Crosse didn't, p. 6 WHAT'S A TIF? Ben Clark knows, p. 8 WHERE'S THE HIP NEW SPOT? Fourth Street, p. 9 WHAT'S IT MEAN TO BE "ORGANIC"? Depends who you ask, p. 10 WHO ARE THOSE GIRLS ON SKATES? Mayhem, p. 11 WHAT DOES VINCE HERMAN LOVE? La Crosse, p. 12
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Letter from the Editor It’s easy to complain about La Crosse. Some people here have spent the better part of their lives doing it, and Second Supper would be a bunch of hypocrites if we didn’t admit to taking a potshot or two. But right here in these pages, this very introduction, quite possibly at the end of this sentence, I’ll be the bigger man and advocate a traditional, if unpopular, point of view: Being negative will just get you nowhere. Yeah, we’re La Crosse. We’re not very big and there’s a lot of stuff we don’t have. We see the same people all the time, and we don’t have money for nice things, and we don’t keep up on what’s cool, and nobody famous stops by, and nothing new hits our plates, and we don’t have a happening arts scene, and … see what I mean? Being negative is practically infectious, but there’s little point in surrounding yourself with the futilities of your own existence. Whoa — I just re-read the sentence above and came to a couple of conclusions: 1.) I probably shouldn’t write these letters so late at night and on deadline, and 2.) I can see why people miss the Second Supper that used to only crack jokes. But I think this newspaper has carried the “responsibility” banner fine. When we point out what La Crosse is lacking, we don’t do it to mock — … uh, for the most part — we criticize because we hope it will prod some people to action. By definition, the voids of this world are easy to spot but hard to fill. This week, Second Supper focuses on some folks who are filling the niches we’ve long bitched about. For our cover story, we profile a group of young people — full disclosure: many of them are our friends — who are trying to bring a little life and culture back downtown. It’s funny, living down here. Around 2 a.m., every night of the week, the streets fill with boisterous hoots, but it can be eerily silent come six in the afternoon. You see a disheartening amount of empty storefronts but plenty of people speeding down Fourth Street. With luck — actually, let’s hope it’s business savvy — the Root Note will give people a new incentive to park their cars and walk around this funny little place. If nothing else, the café will give readers a chance to actually see Shuggypop Jackson as he spins the ones and twos. The rest of this issue examines other ways La Crosse could improve itself. Ben Clark takes a look at TIFs, those buggy development districts that drive talk radio hosts mad but do wonders for city planners. Jacob Bielanski visits one of the nation’s largest organic conferences — held right here in La Crosse — to see if a new way of farming can lift up the Coulee Region. And finally, contributing editor Robert Treu hopes to improve the city’s movie scene by bringing the Oscar-winning Milk to La Crosse. Granted, these aren’t the hugest achievements in the world, but it’s a good start for home improvement. — Adam Bissen
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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.
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contributing editor My first idea was to write a review of Milk, a sparkling thing including insights into everything from the evolution of gay politics to cinematography, and including witty encounters with the far-right folks carrying posters outside the theater. But no, no crowd and no review, either blistering or glowing, because like most people living in the La Crosse area I didn’t see Milk. It still hasn’t come to any of our local theaters. I waited patiently through December and January, hoping it would make it to town, and then, when I watched Sean Penn grab his sexless widget at the Academy ceremonies, I was upset. I wanted to know who was responsible for keeping this film out of our viewing area. Harvey Milk was one of my generation’s collective memories, a flamboyant and gutsy character who managed to take gay politics where they hadn’t been before, right into city hall. And he did it with style, winning a seat among San Francisco’s supervisors and even running for mayor. He capped it all by getting himself shot, along with the Mayor Moscone, by a man appropriately named White. Dan White had been the only supervisor to vote against the city’s gay civil rights bill, after which he resigned. Then, when the mayor wouldn’t let him return, he flipped out. He also ate a lot of sugar and invented the “twinkie” defense. I was eager to see how the film would handle this material, and how Sean Penn would present Harvey Milk. So I sent e-mails to a lot of people and got a few responses. Clearly I wasn’t alone in my frustration. Then someone suggested I talk to Rosanne St. Sauver, head of the 7 Rivers LGTB. I found her cozy office on Pearl Street, a few doors from the Second Supper office, and listened to her stories of being stonewalled by the local managers. She’s been trying to get Milk to La Crosse for months, with no success. It turns out dealing with the managers of movie chains is about like dealing with HMOs.You had better be healthy and very patient. For example, when I tried to talk with the manager of Cinema, she smiled and said yes, but she’d have to e-mail corporate headquarters for permission first. When I came back for the scheduled appointment, she had left town. I could communicate with her an e-mail. What were these people so nervous about? Did they have visions of gangs of gays and lesbians making out in the back rows? Who knows? The best thing I learned at the local theaters is that movies still come on reels. I spent a significant part of my high school years lugging heavy cans of movie reels up the carpeted
steps of the old Grand Theater to the projection booth. Sometimes I carried them down and took them to the Greyhound bus station where they would be sped away to the next theater. I found it reassuring that things haven’t changed. On the other hand, the reels were part of why we couldn’t get Milk fresh. One of the messages Rosanne St. Sauver received from someone called Guest Relations Coordinator (for the Marcus people) read, in part: “With any limited release, we have very little to say on what theatres will play the film. It is at the discretion of the studios. Due to the high cost of print production, studios will only create as many prints as they deem necessary.” The GRC went on to say she’d mention the problem to their booker. Okay, that takes some heat off of the local manager.When you’re dealing with a GRC, a booker and a studio, assigning responsibility is pretty difficult. It’s also very difficult for a community or group to make its wishes felt in this Byzantine arrangement. About then, with my editor’s help, I discovered Milk was playing in Eau Claire, at London Square, and in Decorah, Iowa, at the Viking. Eau Claire is about the same size as La Crosse and has a campus of the state university system. The similarities are too obvious to overlook. It’s possible Eau Claire just got lucky, but Decorah is harder to explain. It has a population of barely over 9,000 and is home to Luther College. That really hurt. When I phoned the manager of the Viking he agreed that Milk is hard to get. They had been trying since December. But it played to average size crowds and there were no protests. In fact, I haven’t heard of any protests against showing Milk anywhere. Rosanne thinks it’s not about protests, but about money. Here’s some information I took from the net that will help you understand how the process works: Box Office Gross; Number of Theaters Playing He’s Just Not That Into You $72,649,906; 3,O52 The International $18,129,352; 2,364 The Reader $23,835,932; 1002 Milk $28,424,890; 441 So you can see at a glance that Milk was handled in an intelligent, business-like manner. But there’s more. A few weeks ago Milk was playing in 882 theatres. Shortly before that it played at only 250 locations. Assuming that the number of theatres is roughly equivalent to prints (only roughly, since theaters do sometimes share prints), one has to wonder what happened to approximately 400 prints which are no longer being shown in theaters. And how did the studio manage to jump from 250 to 882 prints so quickly? So there is no thrilling story about local mangers caving in to the demands of outraged religious groups. Or, if such groups did try to apply pressure, they got lost somewhere in the world of guest relations coordinators and bookers, and they aren’t talking. According to the person I chatted with at Valley View, their corporation keeps a close tally of how each film does, and that determines the length of stay at any location. Like the other managers I spoke to, he said that local theatres have little say in what plays. But they do have some influSee Milk, page 14
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Worst. Song. Ever.
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brett.emerson@secondsupper.com The cold clutches of a hundred VH1 propagandists came for me one Friday night, as my friends and I gathered around a bar rail and drank off the approaching bar time. The button-up middle aged prick to our right was having trouble keeping his head from exploding, due to my usual disdain for the Beatles circle-jerk. In typical hipster fashion, he reacted as though I had just punched his mom in the face, though I only called Lennon an overrated prick and McCartney a dopey slinger of trite. After the freakout he sniffed that I needed to expand my musical horizons. Ever notice that this statement usually means fawning over whatever safe/edgy acts populate the current Rolling Stone best-ever list? That’s not expansive; it’s not even musical. Still, after the namedropper declared that he couldn’t handle our level of ignorance and ran off, I decided to think a bit more about my musical tastes. A question shot out of me, and it shocked me that I had never asked it before. What’s the worst song ever? I blinked. Naming all the various Top 5s of preference was easy and had been done before, but perhaps because music is a form of media (alongside television) with a constant barrage of involuntarily absorbed crap, it’s hard to single out one shining turd to carry the shame. For a second, there was no answer. I looked down at my drink, sideways at my friends, rolling the magic 8-ball around in my head before the answer leaped out and punched me in the face. “Bodies,” by Drowning Pool, is the worst song of all time. Now I’ll admit that a big part of my Beatles loathing is cultural and not musical. I was born well after the band’s place in history was set in stone and made it an unassailable cliché. Music, in our state of propaganda, is much more
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than music; it’s marketing, packaging, radio play, monthly messianic music media. You can be bombarded from a dozen different directions by a musician whose music you’ve never even heard (see: the Osbournes, Chris Brown, the Heartagram). Therefore, I think it’s acceptable to dislike a musician based on the culture he or she creates. I say this to point out that culture was secondary in declaring “Bodies” my worst song ever. Musically, it’s a mediocre song with a predictable low end and vaguely interesting guitar wails, but Dave Williams’ inane, repetitive growling of third-grade lyrics pushes “Bodies” into shit superstardom. We get sinister whispers in the opening, building tension. We get winded, contrived couplets that would make William Hung piss razors (“Beaten, why for/Can't take much more”? Really?). We get a pre-chorus counting game that transforms Dave Williams into the mongoloid cousin of Sesame Street’s Count von Count (“One! One, nothing’s wrong with me! Ah! Ah! Ah!”). And of course, there’s the Cookie Monster call to arms: “Let the bodies hit the floor!” Stir these ingredients, add a pinch of the requisite walls-are-caving-in metal lyrics at the interlude, throw in a few randomly placed adolescent wails, and you’ve got a real piece of shit anthem on your hands! Now here’s the cultural. It was bad enough hearing this song before Dave Williams died in 2002 and martyred the goddamn thing. Now, “Bodies” has become a permanent Bat-Signal for fistheads across the globe; wherever there are pro wrestling shows, monster truck rallies, or scattered gunfire, there by the grace of God goes Drowning Pool. It gets better. Last year, a story broke which stated that American soldiers at Guantanamo Bay were torturing detainees with loud, abrasive music, blaring it at all hours. Guess what one of the songs was. And while most reactions from the appropriated musicians ranged from moderately disturbed to fury and outrage (Metallica’s James Hetfield was a rare case of the cautiously supportive), Drowning Pool’s bassist, Stevie Benton, had the arrogance to say the following: “People assume we should be offended that somebody in the military thinks our song is annoying enough that played over and over it can psychologically break someone down. I take it as an honor to think that perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or something like that.” Reader, just stop right here. Go back to that quote, and read it again. Then read it another time. Let’s get this straight. Drowning Pool’s music is going to STOP another 9/11? If I was forced to listen to “Bodies,” on repeat, cranked to unbearable volume, I would want to perform an act of destruction so monstrous that it would make terrorism seem like a tea party. So yeah. For reasons both musical and cultural, I deem “Bodies” the worst song of all time. But fear not, sinners, for although Drowning Pool has authored the greatest abomination in music history, they are not, in fact my worst band ever. For making Paul McCartney’s postBeatles retirement home rock look viciously Satanic, that title belongs to the Carpenters.
Second Supper Poetry Corner we are zeroes and ones by jason wild we are all ones and zeroes and dead. the nothing-soul of a nothingland where robots have become us at last. we are everyone buttons and wires like dead circuits exposed (like dead seeds unsown); we are forms and data corrupt ed by virus; corrupt ing the virus; we are the virus; decaying digital worms burrowing through soft, cyber-soil where we shit shit shit and that’s it. we are worms and we are dirt and we forgot we exist. or that sometimes the sun shines like some Greek god whose name is hard to text.
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Anyone with access to some type of news source knows that the economy is not doing well, and more and more communities are forced to come up with new ways of keeping themselves viable and successful. What’s the key to a successful community? Development! But there’s a Catch-22 associated with new developments…how can the community pay for these new projects when there is seemingly no extra money to do it? Welcome to the world of Tax Increment Financing, or TIFs. When a city proposes a public project, whether it be new roads, public school or simply redeveloping an area for new business, the value of that district increases. And with the increase in the site values, the tax revenue for that district also increases. An increment of these increased tax revenues is then used to pay for the costs of developing that new project. Basically, parts of the taxes paid in that area so straight into funding that new project. TIFs were originally created in California back in the 1950s, and are still one of the most powerful tools at small municipalities disposal to develop areas of a city where there may have been no other way to provide funding for the project. The TIF’s main function is to prevent urban decay and to provide means for affordable redevelopment in municipalities. Currently, there are 13 TIF districts in La Crosse with three of them still active and eight of them “retired”, while Onalaska has only had two TIF districts, both no longer active. When a TIF district is “retired”, it refers to the project being completely paid off. In the city of Onalaska, the two TIF districts included the Crossing Meadows shopping plaza and the area surrounding the Gunderson Lutheran clinic. Jason Gilman, the director for land use and development for Onalaska, said that the two TIF districts had done their job. “We’ve only had two situations with them and they worked both very well, mainly to provide infrastructure and new development. We are contemplating a new TIF in our downtown area, near the waterfront.” Despite their successful use in Onalaska, there are still a few criticisms that exist with the implementation of TIFs, as Gilman explained. “There have been some criticisms that TIFS can be used to promote urban sprawl when it was originally meant for urban redevelopment and the prevention of blight.” TIF districts have to be in place for a number of years in order for the project to be fully paid, which some people believe is far too long of a time to have any
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benefit for the community. “Another criticism is the length of time that a TIF is put in place. The debt structure strings out longer than the public would like. The area with the TIF is not paying the base value for that first year, then anything that is after that goes into a special fund for increments. All of that redevelopment creates a new need for the new [public] services in that area, and if a TIF is in place for a long period of time, it puts to much burden on the tax payers for that amount of time.” Larry Kirch, the Director of Planning for the city of La Crosse, agrees with Gilman’s views that TIFs are a great asset to communities: “By and large they work. They helped keep the downtown from becoming a ghost town. Created the airport terminal and surrounding industrial park, saved the Amtrak Depot from the wrecking ball. We have now tried to expand the TIF Concept into use as a neighborhood revitalization tool in the Amtrak TIF (with limited success) and the Gundersen Lutheran TIF (which is in its early stages so there is still a lot of work to do).” Currently, the city of La Crosse is considering adding a new TIF district for a third building for the Riverside Center.The city has proposed to offer $4 million in the TIF and has also proposed to attach a $750,000 cash grant to aid in the construction. The project is estimated to cost well over $5 million due to inflation before completion. La Crosse is planning on using this new TIF to reimburse founder, chairman, and CEO of Logistics Health, Inc. Don Weber the $4 million for the building plus interest. The city hopes that the new building will bring about at least 300 new jobs to the area, and will help revive the downtown economy. The date for the vote on the proposed Riverside Center TIF will be held on March 12. However, there is some criticism that is surfacing with the proposed TIF. Some feel that the project is a waste of money when the second building for the Riverside Center still contains vacancies for businesses. Others worry on whether or not the construction for this new project will remain local, or if the money will be siphoned out of the city to another contractor and construction company. Kirch acknowledges that there is much more serious side to how TIFs can be utilized: “TIF can and does get abused. One I have criticized (as I think my predecessor did) was the Valley View Mall. The question for TIF use is whether the development would have occurred without the TIF. I think it is pretty easy to say that the mall would have developed with or without a TIF. While there are many great projects as a result of TIF, the City recently has gotten away from public improvements associated with TIF and moving more and more toward direct/indirect subsidies to developers. There needs to be a balance and a well thought out TIF incentive policy. We are not seeing the benefits of TIF as much as we could if we had a policy on how and why we subsidize developers.” Whatever your opinion on TIFs, the simple fact remains that these relatively unknown financing tools will remain an important tool in virtually every community across the country in the funding for new community development. The important thing to remember is that even though TIFs are an excellent way for a community to create growth, there has to be a proper level of responsibility and regulation to ensure that they benefit the most important people in the community in the end…you.
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Now open: the Root Note
In the culture business With storefronts shuttering around downtown, can a handful of local kids survive with art and organic pizza?
By Shuggypop Jackson
shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com For those of you who have been brave enough to walk around downtown this winter, perhaps you’ve noticed the drawn curtains covering the windows of the former home brew shop on Fourth Street for the past couple of months. While I often overheard people walking past asking “What is that place?” due to all the eclectic trinkets and giant fishpond seen through the window, that shop is no more. Whether it was because people just didn’t know what to make of the place, or due to the collection of unwashed freeloaders who began to congregate
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there towards the end of summer because Dane Gonzalez, the owner, is too nice of a guy to tell them to fuck off and go away, the place wasn’t making enough to stay afloat despite having a cozy atmosphere to chill out in. In December, Dane decided a change needed to happen, and that is when he reached out to friends, myself included, to help him out. A superstar team of faces, all under the age of 30, you’ll recognize from their jobs at some of the best shops La Crosse has to offer:Workers from the Co-op Deli, Dave’s Guitar Shop, Pearl Street Books, Jules Coffee Shop, Dale's Clothing Store, and this little newspaper you are reading, have joined forces as partners in a new enterprise now known as the Root Note. Over the past two months, a group of friends got together to help pitch in to spruce that place up. The trinkets got flushed out the door, some paint was put on the walls, the wood floors got some love, paintings and photography of local artist were hung, and in came some nice tables, chairs and a sophisticated vibe. The place looks hot now, and you can check it out for yourself since they opened their doors to the public this past Tuesday. Corrie Brekke, who ran the Hob Knob Café in La Crescent has moved her culi-
nary skills into the Root Note, and along with Emmy Carlson, who runs the kitchen at the Three Rivers School, are serving up a menu of regional, organic whole foods, getting much of their ingredients from local CSAs and farmers markets. They also serve up Kickapoo Coffee and Rishi Tea if you just want to stop in for that coffee house experience. You can down some microbrews too from Pearl Street Brewery and drink local wines to unwind and socialize after work or on the weekend. Music is also a huge factor of the Root Note. Plans exist for musicians to create lunchtime ambiance. A rotating collection of local musicians will take the stage, be it playing jazzy piano, strumming an acoustic guitar, or plucking a harp. On most Friday and Saturday nights, the Root Note will be hosting concerts of regional and national touring acts. This past Saturday saw a folky duo from Seattle, this upcoming weekend offers local bluegrass group The Bottom of the Barrel String Band on Friday and acoustic guitarist Nick Shattuck on Saturday. Alex Johnson is handling the booking of performers, and can be reached via email at therootnote@gmail.com. When live music isn’t going on, the Root Note offers something else that is special. Carl Meine recently inherited his father’s record shop in Winona, and will be bringing down the store’s inventory of thousands of vinyl LPs for customers to select from to be played over the house stereo system. You could bring in your own records to play too. Oh, and I should probably mention, yours truly, Shuggypop Jackson, is the resident DJ. I will be spinning records at various times, be it afternoon chill out music or sporadic nighttime dance parties. The Root Note is an all-ages venue and is smoke free. They serve up healthy vegetarian dishes and offer music.They have comfy couches in the back to curl up with a book, catch up with a good friend or make use of the wi-fi. There are shelves of books to page through and a fishpond to entertain the little ones. For fuck's sake, La Crosse, what else could you possibly ask for? A place like this is what many of
us have been dying for in the downtown sea of empty storefronts and drink-'til-you-puke college bars. They open the doors at 11 in the morning Tuesday through Sunday, and stay open until 10 during the week and midnight on the weekends. On Mondays, the café part is closed, however there are yoga and qi gong groups that will be meeting in the evenings you can drop in on.There are also special events hosted by others. Dan Cutler will be hosting his first International Potluck Club on Sunday March 29 starting at 4 p.m. in which different cultures who live in our community will come together to share their heritage with authentic cuisine and entertainment. Each potluck will focus on a different part of the world, be it Asian, Middle Eastern, European, Latin American, or African. Umm, hello, theme nights where you get to eat yummy foods you won’t find in any La Crosse restaurants? Another topic being discussed is Shuggypop Movie Nights in which I will show films of the cult, indie or foreign variety that aren’t shown at our local multiplex movie theaters, filling the void due to a lack of an art house cinema in La Crosse. Once the weather gets nice, eco-friendly bicycle deliveries will be offered to downtown and campus area homes and businesses. The summer will also offer to-go food at a walk up window for the weekend bar crowd to offer something other than the subs and pizza slices that is found downtown for late night eats to soak up the booze. Other people involved in making this place flow that I should mention include Ashly Conrad who has loyally been around since the Bluffland days, Blake Auler-Murphy who handles the marketing, Harlan Mitchell who did the majority of the construction renovation and will most likely be playing acoustic blues on his guitar regularly for the lunch crowd, Chelsie Heidke who offers a smiling face behind the counter, El Jefe who seems to fix anything that is broken, and Rich Bettini who has volunteered many hours of grunt work to get this place ready to open. Come down to 119 Fourth Street to see what these individuals have created.
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If Dr. Vandana Shiva is right, then Wisconsin’s farm culture may very way be an epochal part of mankind’s future. “Organic agriculture is not just about farming,” says Dr. Shiva, author of numerous books on organic agriculture and Friday's keynote speaker at one of the nation's largest organic farming conferences, “but I think it is the biggest peace movement of our times.” For 20 years, the Midwest Organic and Sustainability Education Services (MOSES) has been a champion for this change, collecting and dispensing knowledge on the best, most sustainable practices for farmers to use in converting their fields to organic practices. Over these 20 years, their operation has grown from a quiet gathering of over 100 attendees in the Baus Haus on the southside of La Crosse, to over 2,350 attendees at the La Crosse Center last year. When you put the word “organic” on anything — be it a jug of milk, a beeswax candle or a major farmers conference — there comes an image that often include gobs of gnarled dreadlocks, a thick scent of patchouli, flip flops, and enough facial hair/body hair to make even ZZ-Top cringe. The MOSES conference did not disappoint on these counts — certainly the organic farmer was living up to his or her name by being the alternative name in farming. What seemed most uplifting about the conference was the exceptions to this rule. The cleanly shaved — if tanned and weather-beaten — faces of America’s industrial farm tradition, perusing literature on topics such as soy-based feed pellets. I can’t help but think that it’s these people — not the bearded, tie-dye wearers — who are shaping our future farm culture. Thomas Frantzen, MOSES Farmer of the Year for 2009, is one of those pioneers. “… when I used those things [insecticides] I used to have to get off my tractor … go back and dig in the ground with these gloves on, because I was scared to touch what I was using,” Frantzen, of New Hampton, Ohio says. “That is a conflict with my quality of life.” Quality of life seems to be the main selling point of organic farming practices. With looming job cuts and shrinking paychecks the world over contrasted with the often higher price of organically produced goods, it would seem almost seem as if groups like MOSES are asking a lot of the farmers and the general populace — to invest in an ideology, instead of a business. But the arguments made by keynote speakers Shiva and Dr. Allen Greene go beyond economic issues to argue that organic practices are an important of our public health, fossil fuel dependency, social reform and even world peace. This may seemed far-fetched, considering the extent to which the conference goes to demonize what seems to be the very farm practices that sustain us today. Interestingly, experts like Dr. Green note that what is labeled as “conventional” or “industrial” farming — the Lex Luther to the Superman image of organic farming, if you will — are actually a very recent creation. The practice of applying nitrates, for example, stems (no pun intended) from the increased need for nitrates in explosives dur-
ing World War II. A literal story of “Swords to plowshares,” the nitrates were found to feed plants and accelerate growth, thus at the end of World War II these factories were able to continue producing nitrates for the agricultural market. I’m left wondering — as a non-farmer living on a street that regularly sees large trucks passing by, hauling Anhydrous Ammonia — why aren’t these industrial practices sustainable? The check-in clerk is from Missouri, and lauds Wisconsin’s efforts in soil control. “Missouri is lucky; we have soil that can be abused and is still bouncing back,” he says. He trails off, a foreboding message about the limited time left for Missouri soil and the hope that their farmer will find wisdom among Wisconsinites. As with all deep questions, I turn to the polite man, working on a crossword puzzle and manning the Nature Safe Natural and Organic Fertilizers booth in what could probably be described as the quietest corner of the exhibition hall. “The soil is the only thing that keeps us alive…if the
soil is not active then we can’t grow anything,” says Kenneth Quarandt, “They figure we’ve lost probably 25 percent of our topsoil in the U.S. in the past 30 or 40 years.” The problem seems to be that these growing chemicals feed the plant itself — be it corn, soybean, or something we actually put at our dinner table on a regular basis — and neglects to provide nutrition to the soil. Neglecting the soil itself causes the death of the microbes that sustain it. “We’re sacrificing [the soil] to the high yields,” he says. The problems of non-organic farming practices don’t merely stop with expanding yields, but in the killing of other parasites. Pesticides and herbicides used to control weed and insect population have consistently found their way into the food that reaches our dinner table. While many have refuted the effect of pesticides found in vegetables, Dr. Green offers a different view. He notes that Cialis — the drug that treats erectile dysfunction — operates at only 30 parts per billion. “And, notice-
ably, affects the reproductive system,” he says to laughter. He then relates a study done by the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington that found organophosphorus pesticide levels in suburban Seattle children were consistently present in levels three times higher than allowed by EPA standards — when their diet consisted of conventional produce. This same study found that switching to organically produced foods rectified these levels almost immediately. It seems like a doomsday conference — our children are dying, our soil is washing away, and the tenants of peace are affected by organic practices. But MOSES themselves don’t seem to be in the businesses finger wagging and name calling. MOSES has quietly plugged along for 20myears, by providing farmer’s education in how to introduce — or convert — to organic practices on their own fields. They provide a “farmer’s transition hotline,” staffed by a 16-year veteran of organic certification and an organic farmer. They even provide packets of information sheets that cover everything from certification requirements to crop production strategies to the marketing of goods, all of it free on their Web site. The conference itself tries to minimize its impact and let nothing go to waste. All of the food provided seemed to be organic, though I cannot speak for the gallon of unlabeled black coffee that was consumed by this author. Free glass mugs were disbursed to all attendees, in an effort to minimize the amount of disposable cups that went to the landfill. MOSES even went as far as to provide childcare for the attendees, so that working farm families would not be isolated. Wandering through the miasma of opportunities, from workshops on worm fertilizers to one-on-one sessions with organic cooperative representatives, it seemed that the very word “organic” was redefined. I began to notice different facets of the crowd — looking beyond the stereotypical organic image, I failed to see anyone who was morbidly obese. I saw an abundance of smiling faces and calm dispositions. My own daughter — her third tooth poking through — turned out to be loudest child I observed during the Saturday session (also, the only one wearing tie-dye). Perhaps this notion of organic isn’t some fanciful ideology of new age hippies, but a sensible notion that brings peace to those who dare try it — whether as a consumer or a producer. I ask the Kenneth at the Nature Safe booth if he thinks we’ll see a return to organic farming return to the mainstream within our lifetime. “I don’t know if it’ll happen in my lifetime, but we’re gonna have to, otherwise were gonna lose…our whole ability to produce food for ourselves,” he says. The MOSES approach throughout this conference hasn’t seemed so much bent on selling organic farming practices like an upscale commodity, but rather makes its inevitable transition a comfortable one. Even formerly traditional farmers, like the Frantzen’s, begin to echo a philosophy that almost sound plucked from the teachings of Prince Siddhartha himself. Frantzen’s wife, Irene, succinctly summarize the changes that led to their farm going organic: “We want to leave our farm, and the community around it, a better place than when it was,” she says.“We’re here to take care of the land, not own the land.”
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emily.faeth@secondsupper.com The parking lot at High Roller Skating Center was packed. Dozens of people stood shivering in the cold, waiting their turn to enter the arena's warmth. For a Sunday night, the local roller rink seemed absurdly packed. But these folks weren't waiting to hit the floor themselves: they were braving the frigid temperatures for their first glimpse of La Crosse's first and only Roller Derby league, Mississippi Valley Mayhem! Mississippi Valley Mayhem (MVM) is the moniker given to the group of ladies (and some gentlemen) who have been working — and skating — their butts off for the past several months to be a part of an athletic craze that's been popping up from Madison to Seattle, Austin to Chicago, and all the way to La Crosse. The brainchild of Amanda Boucher and Stephanie Powers, the team is a throwback to the days when Roller Derby featured prominently on most large cities' entertainment and sports menus. But today's Roller Derby leagues are of a different breed than their predecessors. Rather than exploiting its athletes and creating inter-team melodramas to sate the appetite for theatrics among the Derby's spectators, the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (the official rules of which MVM follows) is an organization dedicated to “the development of athletic ability, sportswomanship, and goodwill among member leagues” To sum up, Roller Derby leagues across the country are putting the “grr” back in girl, and the integrity back into the sport. While the ladies of MVM have been practicing for months, Sunday night's scrimmage bout was a first. The team had never before displayed their months-long worth of hard work in front of spectators, and Powers' eyes were wide as she watched the flood of supporters entering High Roller. “I didn't know how many to expect,” she said with a grin. After the spectators arranged themselves around the track, the announcers introduced the scrimmage teams. One half of MVM donned black and played as the Miss Fits, and each player skated a lap around the rink as her name was called over the strains of “Paint It Black.” The Mean Green Fighting Machines were introduced next, as their theme, Drowning Pool's “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” throttled out of the speakers. The rules of Roller Derby are fairly straightforward: typically, ten women take to the track, with one woman from each team leading the group. These first two players, called Pivots,
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Vince Herman loves La Crosse! VH: Yeah. Um, yeah. We don’t really like to take days off on the road, you know. Just because, we went up there to play, why hang somewhere and not have anywhere to play when that’s the only thing you came up there to do? SS: Have you been up in Colorado for a bit?
By Adam Bissen adam.bissen@secondsupper.com Vince Herman loves to tour. More than that, he loves touring in Wisconsin. Even more particular, he loves coming to La Crosse. Few national artists have been more devoted to the Coulee Region than Herman, who seems to appear at the Joint every few months with his group Great American Taxi. Like Herman’s previous band, the seminal “Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass" outfit Leftover Salmon, Great American Taxi has a rollicking rootsy sound that comes to life on stage. In advance of the band’s spring tour, which kicked off Wednesday night in Minneapolis, Second Supper phoned Herman at his Colorado rehearsal space. He seemed quite eager to come to town, perhaps too eager. Second Supper:What is it about La Crosse that keeps you booking shows up here? Vince Herman: Well, Chad [Staehly, the keyboardist] is a ‘Sconnie, so he is just like a magnet to get us back to Wisconsin.We have no choice in the matter… just kidding. I don’t know. People seem to appreciate music up there and (audible clicking) — I’m sorry. I’m just trying to get this lock together. (Band discussion) I’m all distracted here. We like La Crosse, man. I think people get rowdy and all worked up and drink a lot, do the things that we like to do, so we keep going back there a lot, I guess.
VH: Uh, yeah, we’ve been home for a little while. There’s been a good amount of chaos since the beginning of the year, but we’re just finishing up the record and mixing it and doing all those sorts of things. SS: Hmm, would that be the second Great American Taxi record? VH: Yeah, our second Great American Taxi record. It’s going to be called Reckless Habits. Man, I’m really, really psyched about it. I don’t even know how to talk about it, man. I’m just deliriously fired up about getting it out. We’re not quite sure how we’re going to do that yet, but we’re going to. SS: How does the new record compare to your work in the past? VH: Well, I would say we use the studio a lot more on this record. We have horn sections and gospel singers and chambers players and a couple guests:Tim Carbone from Railroad Earth on fiddle, Barry Sless from Phil and Friends, and Lou Ellis on pedal steel. We weren’t necessarily concerned with making a record that we could reproduce on stage every time that we play, so we just kind of went for the biggest kind of conception of how to produce the tunes. We went big, and we’re really excited for it. SS:Yeah, it sounds pretty ambitious.
SS: You’re kind of turning into an honorary ‘Sconnie.
VH: Yeah, yeah. It’s a strange time to be making a record and trying to sell a record in this environment and all that stuff, but you just keep going, you know?
VH: Oh, nice! You know, I even try to get my haircut every time I’m in La Crosse, so I’m even a little more better groomed in the Wisconsin style.
SS: Definitely. What is it that motivates you to make records? Do you feel obligated to put stuff down in the recording studio?
SS: So when are you guys hitting the road? VH: Uh, right now. We’re just loading up the trailer. SS: This very moment? VH: We’re getting ready to drive. SS: I was checking out your tour dates. It looks like you booked this one pretty heavy, shows almost every single night.
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VH: To me, doing a record is kind of like being in the Olympics. It’s when, I think, you’re at your clearest as a musician, when you know that this is going down onto like in your permanent record file. I think you rally, and you kind of be all that you can be, that’s the way I look at it. It’s a good process. SS: How does that differ from your mentality when you perform live?
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Oh hi, right now I’m listening to the hum of my furnace. As interesting of an article as that sound would make, instead, at the request of a reader, I’m going to get into an area I totally ignore in this column, metal. I’ll be the first to admit, when it comes to heavy metal, I’m pretty much a pussy. I don’t know much about metal bands, and a whole lot of it is as pleasant to my ears as the sound of puppies getting boiled. Most likely I don’t have enough kickass flowing through my veins to understand this genre. I’ll skip over discussing the difference between black metal, speed metal, grindcore, thrash, and all the other subgenres. Instead I’m going to focus on the record labels that dwell in this realm with bands I consider worth checking out. A Wikipedia search for “Heavy metal record labels” lists 136 different companies. When I click on the various links to go check out the musicians on their roster, overwhelmingly I am clueless as to who these bands are and am way too uninterested to research them. The two labels that stood out to me with bands I recognize are also labels I already knew about before this search began: Southern Lord Records and Earache Records (though two not on the list, Hydra Head Records and Rise Above Records I’m going to write about also). Southern Lord
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An unfortunate comparison jumped into my head while I plotted out what to say about this well written, adventuresome, compassionate tale of agoraphobia. That comparison was with the movie Bubble Boy, Jake Gyllenhaal’s, um, triumphant follow-up to Donnie Darko. Both Bubble Boy and Going Out tackle the pressing issue of young boys who can’t go outside, lest allergens slay them. However, only Bubble Boy features a boy in a plastic bubble hurtling about willy-nilly, or circus geeks, or a cameo by Boti Bliss, the actress who played Ted Bundy’s insipid girlfriend in Ted Bundy, the funniest serial killer movie ever. The balance is that Bubble Boy is a crap film, and that Going Out is tremendous. Appropriately enough, the home base of Going Out is a cul-de-sac, and it is along its curved boulevards where a group of trembling lifers huddle from the world. Though Luke, being the boy with all the allergies under the sun (and including it), is the obvious shut-in, each of the book’s main characters is crippled by some inner failing and the knowledge that they could be doing more with their lives. The book’s heroine is Julie, a recluse by choice. Her fear of driving, eating, excelling, dying, and living has kept her at home with her dad, and makes her a perfect best friend to a mega-allergic. Their
focuses on doom metal, stoner rock, and drone and includes bands like Boris, Sunn O))) and Earth. Earache records was the shit back in the late 80s-early 90s (sorry for being so outdated) whose roster includes Napalm Death, Fudge Tunnel, Deicide, Morbid Angel and Yesterdays jukebox favorite Clutch. Hydra Head falls under the experimental noise umbrella mixed with sludge and doom. Included here are Isis, Lustmord, Merzbow, These Arms Are Snakes and Harvey Milk. Lastly, Rise Above started as grindcore but switched to the stoner and doom I am seemingly biased towards, with a roster including Sleep and Electric Wizard. Another label I want to throw out there just because is Moonfog Productions that specializes in black metal bands out of those Nordic European countries. That Viking shit makes me lol with their costumes and how serious they are about the metal lifestyle. My metalhead friend Jim that I consulted also wants you to know about Metal Blade Records that has releases from Slayer, GWAR, and Cannibal Corpse, and Ipecac Records that has Orthrelm, Melvins and multiple Mike Patton projects. That’s all I’ve got for a Shuggypop metal primer. Get hesh. — Shuggypop Jackson
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crowd – a spoiled potential witch, a bro with testicular cancer, a glammy widowed girlfriend, and a surf-hungry lottery winner — join them in alienation and reclusiveness, each person hiding some part of themselves away from the outside. Nobody’s sure just how to break through the holding patterns of their lives and leap into true and fulfilling existence. Ostensibly, the story’s main line involves Luke’s friends dressing him up in an astronaut suit and taking him into the big open world, in search of a Chinese mystic who might be able to heal him. In practice, the journey changes each person in a distinct way. Seeing Julie’s and Luke’s thoughts change from and alternate between fear and courage, security and adventure, builds a story that on the surface draws dickheaded comparisons to Bubble Boy into a much deeper work entirely. And while Luke is the obvious plot point, it’s Julie who carries the book, whose growth is the real triumph, because someone who can’t go outside doesn’t have as much of a problem as one who won’t. — Brett Emerson
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Reviews: Your Guide to Consumption Stone Soup Colombian Diamente New Glarus Brewing Company Coulee Region Coffee Roasters New Glarus, Wisconsin
Devout readers of this newspaper — hi, mom! — might expect me to be drinking a California beer right now. Just last night I flew in from San Francisco, and on the way out of town I made sure to stow away some New Glarus Spotted Cow for my old college roommate, who was pining for it by the Bay. I used to do this every single time I’d fly (well, not always Spotted Cow; I usually smuggled Capitol Amber), but then Northwest Airlines merged with Delta and now it costs $15 to check a bag. That’s some real money in this economy — it buys two beers in San Francisco, five in La Crosse — and I couldn’t convince myself to fork over 15 more bucks for the return trip, not when there’s so many good beers waiting for me at home. This includes most everything from New Glarus, still America’s most smuggleworthy brewery, whose Stone Soup, now on grocers’ shelves, exemplifies the company’s “do everything perfect” MO. The Stone Soup is an Abbey-style pale ale, a complex beer that tastes like a frothy mash up of styles. It pours a murky yellow color with a four-finger head that foams madly and sticks
around for the duration. Held to a Appearance: 7 light, Stone Soup proves to be paler Aroma: 8 than expected but still translucent and Taste: 8 racing with bubbles. The nose is a fruity Mouthfeel: 7 one, with bananas predominating, but Drinkability: 7 apple skin and raisin notes rise over a clove and yeast Total: 37 foundation. The beer enters on a bubbly wave, spritzing the top of the mouth but smoothing out as the yeast takes root and a banana bread flavor seeps in. It’s sweet, for sure — with red licorice, honey, and lemon drop notes — and it’s got a creamy mouthfeel, but this is not a candy shop beer. The Stone Soup finishes briskly on theretofore hidden hops, leaving a surprisingly dry aftertaste that lingers with just a hint of bubblegum. Trust me, there are some freakish beers out in California, but nothing came as effortlessly delicious as this hybrid pale/Abbey ale. I can’t wait to drink one come spring. It's a true Wisconsin original. — Adam Bissen
This week, I’ll tell you a story about a Colombian Diamente that I enjoyed in the comfort of my own home. While I adore going to coffeehouses, sometimes making my own coffee is reassuring. I’m not forced to eavesdrop on old ladies discussing weight loss and Jesus; I get to make the coffee as wickedly strong as I please; I don’t have to hear that damn Jack Johnson playing his mediocre music in the background…the benefits are endless. But back to the story… This particular coffee is a Colombian Diamante roasted by La Crosse’s own Coulee Region Coffee Roasters. The aroma pulls you in, like the enticing back-cover summary of an intriguing novel. The tone speaks of honey, comforts you in your anticipation — will it be worth it? The answer is soon revealed — this brew has a pleasing full-body, filling the cup rim to rim, cover to cover, in its introduction, a smoky earthiness overtakes your taste buds. The earthy nature of this bean is balanced out with dark chocolate and yam sweetness on one end and just the right amount of acidity on the other, characters that complement each other by the design of some mastermind author, which in a coffee-case is the interaction between the genetic make-up of the bean and the Colombian microenvironment in which it grows. But like an author who is influenced heavily by her life story, the bean too is influenced by the weather, the grower, the process-
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Film Che (Roadshow Edition) (2008) Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Catalina Sandino Moreno Writers: Peter Buchman and Benjamin A. van der Veen, based on "Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary Way" an-d "The Bolivian Diary" by Ernesto Guevara If you think the epic Che, Steven Soderbergh's concentrated quasi-biopic, would be four straight hours of liberal-minded Hollywood gushing over and praising Guevara as the superhuman legend he's come to resemble in the minds of the far left, then you'll be surprised to find out it's nothing of the sort. Neither does Che — Broken into Part One ("The Argentine") and Part Two ("Guerrilla") — do anything more than hint at all the atrocities committed as a result of the revolution. What we get is a bare bones guerrilla war movie, an unfiltered look at the front lines of the Cuban and Bolivian Revolutions and the people fighting them. Both parts subsist on relatively quiet moments of reflection, preparation and planning contrasted with sudden gun battles and the resulting injuries, suffering and death.An interview with Benicio Del Toro's Che Guevara doubles as voice-over narration for "The Argentine," adding a unique introspective element to his trip to New York and speech before the UN. But the meat of both films is the gruelinglyrelentless campaigns in the jungles of Cuba in Part One and Bolivia in part Two.The films take a very methodical and unelaborate approach, careful to examine in great detail Che and his
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ing, storage, and roasting. Pretty complex little life story, eh? Anyway… As the plot thickens, you notice a sprinkle of cinnamon and then, a twist: a bright fruitiness starts to ripen in your mouth, sweettart like cherries. The earthiness is still there, but has become a setting rather than a distinct character. The fruitiness steals the show later in the cupnovel, and at the cup-cooling-climax, the brightness blossoms like a bright orange tiger lily in the midst of a flavor-forest understory. That lovely honey note comes back in the finish and the story ends happily ever after (of course). That’s my rendition of what this bean has to say; Why don’t you grind up a good handful of these beans and see what they tell you? You will have to be just a bit patient, though, as the main shipment of beans is still on its journey to our fair city. And please, avoid listening to Jack Johnson as you sip — he’ll taint the experience. — Amber Miller
battalions, immersing the audience into the jungle so much so that it's not unlikely to forget the revolution is much grander and larger scale than the movie cares to let on. By offering virtually no context on the armed struggles into which it so unreservedly plunges us, Che avoids addressing the controversy surrounding the icon just as it refuses to romanticize him. Observation, the film suggests, is the key to enlightenment; we watch guerrillas barter with peasants, farmers bargain with Batista's army, and deserters give up and go home. They discuss things like fair wages, freedom of press, and the right to medical care. All of this occurs amongst a central cast of dozens of characters, human faces put to a struggle that's easy to forget was anyone's but Fidel Castro's. Despite focusing on two very minuscule moments in Guevara's life, Che effectively works as a rise-and-fall biopic, covering the high of victory in Cuba and the low of his capture and execution in Bolivia. Ambitious and incredibly focused, Che, despite portraying war as arduous and brutal, captures the passion with which a revolutionary seeking freedom will fight. — Nick Cabreza
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Herman, cont. from page 9 VH: With there, one of the keys is to get that interaction with the audience going. I, myself, maybe am not so worried about making each note perfectly clear and having more of a sense of moving around and creating a little show for the folks, you know joking around a little more than you do in the studio. There’s different focuses, yeah. SS: Yeah, after so many years in the music business — I mean, Leftover Salmon, what did you play for like 15 years — does your opinion of what a live show can be change over time? VH: Umm, yeah, every night, I guess. Every crowd is really a unique collection of people, you know, and you don’t know what it is that you can make them do. But generally we find that when you come to La Crosse — you know, maybe not by the first set, but by the second set everyone is pretty damn willing! They’ll walk down any alley you lead ‘em down. SS:Yeah, I guess La Crosse has a bit of a reputation for that. VH:Yeah. SS: How do we differ from the scene up in Colorado? VH:Actually, it’s pretty similar. Lots of people do all kinds of outdoor things and spend a lot of times indoors at night, around the ol’ watering hole. I think there’s a lot of parallels — more accordions up your way. SS: Yeah, there are a lot of accordions! Maybe we could try to arrange a guest while you’re up here. VH: Nice. SS: What’s the status of Leftover Salmon? Any more reunion shows in the works? VH:Yeah, there’s a couple shows this summer.
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SS: Just festy dates, or anything special planned? VH: Nothing’s nailed down quite yet. (audible band chatter) Oh, yeah! And Taxi’s going to be at the Bandit County Fair. SS: Yeah, we’ve been real excited about that. That lineup just came out recently. VH: We’re all fired up about that one. SS: I hear you might be doing some MCing for that festival. VH: I am. Hopefully we’ll be able to get there early enough to observe the whole thing. SS: And I just got the press release today, saw you’re booked for the Big Wu Family Reunion 10. VH: Yeah, you know I just heard about that today myself. SS: (laughs) Well, we’re all excited up here in Wu country. VH: (to band member) So that Big Wu Family Reunion is happening, Jeff? [“yeah”] See that’s a good thing, man. That’s why the media is so important, to keep us informed. Not only readers, but the person you’re interviewing. SS: You know I try to do a good deed every day. VH: Absolutely, man. SS: Alright, well we’re looking forward to having a good time when you’re in town. You’re coming on Sunday night. Any special words of wisdom for the people of La Crosse? VH: Well, it’s still a party crowd from where we come from. So tell ‘em not to worry that it’s a Sunday night or anything. Fat Tuesday has been delayed for two weeks due to inclement weather.
Milk, cont. from page 6 ence. For example, the Marcus GRC promised to send Rosanne’s request to her superiors. Still hopeful, I stopped at the Rivoli to see if they might get Milk. But they don’t get films unless they show at Cinema or Valley View first. So I could forget that possibility too. In his Oscar acceptance remarks, Sean Penn hoped his film would help change how people think. But for that to happen, people have to actually see the film, and the movie have never been in the education business in more than an incidental way. I’m not sure we would want it to be. Not totally. We want to be entertained. But some films are entertaining in educational ways, and that is not something we should ignore. Since Rosanne knows and likes Decorah, she thought she might organize a trip to the Viking
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this weekend. Unfortunately, Milk had just left town. More frustration. But maybe, if enough people really want to see Milk and say so, it will still show at one of our local theaters. Or we can wait a few months until it appears in DVD form. Maybe in the future all movies will appear that way, and that could end the movie house business. But not even my experience trying to see Milk makes me want that. I don’t want to watch films on a computer or a big plasma screen. I want to go to the movies, eat popcorn, hold hands, that sort of stuff. It’s in my blood. Editor's note: As this issue went to press, Second Supper learned that La Crosse Cinemas will screen Milk, beginning Friday afternoon. Robert Treu is excited to see the film.
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I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword "Slash of Inspiration"--you have to draw the line somewhere.
Answers to Issue 152's "I Don't Got U, Babe"
By Matt Jones Across 1 Geodesic dome designer's monogram 4 "This ___ unfair!" 8 River of Arag贸n 12 "In the Valley of ___" (2007 Tommy Lee Jones film) 14 It may be seen before 69 15 Frequent-___ miles 16 Doody 17 1963 Peter Weiss play set in the French Revolution 19 Unique items or people 21 House paint ingredient 22 Jean-___ Picard 23 "Back in Black" rockers 24 "What a fun ride!" 25 Flexible mineral 26 Count in a grocery store? 28 Billiards variation with 15 red balls 30 Publishing magnate with a famous mansion, familiarly 31 Sphere 33 Emilio Estevez, to Martin Sheen 34 2008 historical
drama 39 She may get sheared 40 "___ is me!" 41 Glass of public radio 44 Chevy models produced in every decade since the 1950s 48 Jack's first landlord, on "Three's
Company" 51 It's measured in pennies 52 Sith opponent 54 Variety of most car radios 55 Scissor Sisters lead
singer ___ Matronic 56 Punctuation mark with two dots 57 DC public transportation 58 Category or aisle in some music stores
61 ___ gum (thickener in toothpastes) 62 Allied landing site of WWII 63 Robert ___ (Civil War general) 64 Wile E. Coyote's supplier 65 Sir's counterpart 66 Coarse file 67 Prefix for "plunk" Down 1 Train once more 2 DuBois of "A Streetcar Named Desire" 3 1997 identity switch movie with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage 4 End of perfection? 5 Strong and unwavering 6 Pol Palin 7 Delivers a speech 8 Golfer Ernie 9 Mayim who played TV's "Blossom" 10 Cut down 11 Freight train section that carries mined rocks
13 It begins "cube," but not "circle" 15 1986 thriller starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy 18 More microscopic 20 Khaled Hosseini's Bay Area alma mater, for short 25 Stereo divided by two 27 Get downsized, like many in the recession, unfortunately 29 Losing tic-tac-toe line 32 Like some old TV sets, in want ads 35 "The ___ Housewives of Orange County" 36 Wise bird 37 Possible winners 38 TV drama centered around a plastic surgery clinic 42 Draw up a new draft of a document 43 One whose business is protection 44 Stuck 45 Tomorrow, in Ti-
juana 46 Former catcher and 12-time All-Star Mike 47 Vendor 49 Door-busting tool 50 Alpha's counterpart 53 Childbirth assistant 56 Abbr. on an envelope to be sent to a third party 59 "Invader ___" (former Nickelodeon cartoon)
60 Back-to-school mo. 漏2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0404.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food & drink specials ] LA CROSSE All Star Lanes Arena 4735 Mormon Coulee 109 3rd st.
Alpine Inn Animal W5715 BlissHouse rd. 110 3rd st.
Alumni 620 Gillette st. Beef & Etc.
1203 La Crosse st.
Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Beef & Etc. 1203 La Crosse st. Brothers Bruisers 306 Pearl st. 620 Cass Big Al’sst. 115 S 3rd st. The Cavalier The Cavalier 114 5th ave.
Sunday
Monday
ALLfor NEW! 3 games $5 starts at 8 p.m. text
3 games for $5 starts Arenaat 8 p.m.
bucket special $2.00 Domestic Silos $2.50 Jack Daniel Mixers $2.00 Goldschlager
Beer Pong $7.00 w/dog 4Italian Cansbeef 8-close meal: $6.69 Pizza Puff meal: $4.49 2 for 1 cans &
bottles during 2 for 1 bottles and cans Packer games during the game 2.25 for mini pitcher
$1 off apps closed Happy Hour All Day 20 wings and 5 of miller lites free pitcher beer $15 large or sodaforwith
pizza
114 5th ave.
CheapShots Chances R 318 Pearl st. 417 Jay st.
CheapShots Chuck’s 318 Pearl st. 1101 La Crosse st.
Chuck’s Joe’s Coconut 1101Pearl La Crosse st. 223 st.
Coconut Joe’s Dan’s Place 223 3rd Pearlst.st. 411
$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, pintmixers, Irish Bud,full $3 calls all apps, $4 Bomb top shelf Car
Buck Night starts at 6 p.m. to 83361
Bud Night 6 - CL: bottles $1$1.75 Domestic Taps $2$5 Craft Import Taps pitchers $2.50 Vodka Mixers $1 Shot Menu $7 22oz tbone 16oz top sirloin 9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 jack daniels tips 8 $1 shots of meatball sandwich Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl meal: $6.69 Happy hour 4-6 $1.75 cans, $2 mix drinks 2 Chicago dogs meal:
$5.891/4 barrel
giveaway Buck Burgers 8-11 $1 burgers 1/4 Barrel giveaway during Monday night meatballfootball sandwich
meal: $6.15 2 dogs meal: $ 5.25 Kids Eat$2.50 Free With Blatz vs. Old Style Adult meat orpitchers marinara $3.00 Long Islands spaghetti: $3.45 Italian sausage: $4.95 Martini Ladies' Night Martini Madness James Martini: vodka, triple $2 off all martinis sec, orange juice
712- CL - 7: $1 domestic 12 oz 2-4-1 rails $2 Stoli mixers
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
$2.50 Select imports/craft Beers $2.50 Top shelf Mixers $2 Mich Golden bottles
3 games for $5 starts at 7 p.m. for specials
Import Ladies drink night free Rails and Domestic starts at 7Light p.m.Tap Beer 9-11pm on the Dance Floor
Happy Hour64-p.m. CL- 9 p.m. M-F $2 $2.50 DomesticSparks Silos $2.50 Premium Silos $2.50 Three Olive Mixers $2. Goldschlager
$1 softshell tacos $1 shots of meal: doctor, Italian beef cherry $6.69 doctor Chicago chili dog: $3.89 Bucket Night 6 beers
for $9meal: Italian beef $6.15 Chicago chili dog: $3.45 Thirsty - $1 Mexi-Night
AUCD Taps and Rails
25 cent hot wings $1 shots of Dr. 25 cent wings Dollar
domestic pitchers barrel parties at cost $4.50 domestic pitchers Pitcher and Pizza $10
shots of Doctor hamburger meal: 8-1 $6 sandgrilled chicken $3.69 wich meal: $5.29 HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 cheeseburger PM meal: Polish sausage meal: 10 cent wings (9 - CL) $3.89 $3.99 Wristband $12-4-1 High Life bottles Burgers Rib Nite $1.50 rail Pitchers mixers$2.60 Tuesday soup orNight salad bar Soft Shellyour Tacos $1.25 make own $2.25 burgers, Kul Light $5 Beer Pong @10 p.m. $2 Guinness pints tacos, $4.75 taco salad cheeseburgers, $2.50 Margaritas Wii Night$2 off FREE with entree or $2.25 margaritas, $2 HAPPY large pizza, $1 fries4 - 7 sandwich until 3 p.m. HOUR ($3.95 by itself) off largeclosed taco pizza with $1 anyDr. pizza for 1 $5 6 - 8 p.m. 6- shots 8 All 2Mojitos $3 Jager Bombs taps $1.50 rails/domestics $1.50 taps
$1.25 beers & rails
$.50 Ladies: domestic2taps, for$11 microbrews, $3 domestic Guys: $1.50 Coors pitchers, $6 microbrew and Kul Light bottles pitchers
Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer $9.00 $5.99 $5.99 gyro gyro fries fries & & soda soda
Football Sunday $1.75 domestic JB’s Speakeasy 11-7 happy hour, free The Helm 717 Rose st. food,bottles $1.50 bloody, 1/2
108 3rd st
price pitchers DTB
Arterial
$1.50 U call domestics and rails
1003 16th st 16
bloody marys 11 a.m. - 4 p.m Great drinks!
(increases 50 cents per Great drinks! hour) $1 rails
Hour 12 - 7
$2.00 Captain Mixers
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Happy Hour 12 - 7 cents off most items
$2.00 Malibu, $2.50 Jaeger, $3.00 Jaeger Bombs
$2 Tuesdays, including Wristband All day Everyday: $1 Doctor $2 Silos. off everything but the daily special$2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN AND buy one get one Domestic $2 bottles, import taps, Night After Class $3 beerMIXERS ('til 6 p.m.) Ladies' Nite out 1.50 Raill $.50 pong, taps Domestic 3.00 beer apps, single FLAVORED BACARDI Guys'closed Nite out 1.50 silos $5 COLLEGE I.D. Pitchers $1.75 Rails Holmen Meat Locker Jerky mixers/ $2.50 X bombs pitchers shot mixers, featured $3.00 JAGER BOMBS Raffle $9 general public shots, and 50 cent taps $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
Build your own Bloody Mary 16oz Mug - $4.00
127 dr. st. 1128Marina La Crosse
mojitos $3 bloodys $2 Cherry Bombs $1.50 $1 Bazooka Joes 'til noon
upsidedown cake
HAPPY HOURshrimp EVERYDAY 3 - 6 chili chicken burrito verde primavera $1.25 Bucket of Domestic 25 Cent Wings BURGERS Cans 5 for $9.00
9-clNBC Mary night. (Night Bloody Before Class) $3 pitchspecials ers of the beast - 2 4-9 p.m. Happy10 Hour
Italian beef meal: $6.15 2 Chicago dog meal: $3.00 Bacardi mixers/ $3.45
WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB M-F: Happy HourBBQ, 2-6PLAIN $.50 BUFFALO, SMOKEY $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK RING TOSS NIGHT BOTTLES 3 Rings for $1 $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT OF THENIGHT-$1.25/LB WEEK WING
football night domestic beer:Pizza $1.50 Homemade Mexican beer: $2.00 & PItcher of Beer
Huck Finn’s Howie's
$6.75 shrimp dinner 50 cent taps 4 - 7
10 - CL: $1.50 rails
$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
chicken & veggie fajitasown Build your for Mary two Bloody 16oz Mug - $4.00
1908 Campbell rd.
$2 Cherry Bombs $1 Bazooka Joes
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
FiestaHollow Mexicana Fox 5200 Mormon Coulee
Gracie’s Gracie’s 1908 Campbell rd.
pepper & egg sandwich meal: $4.50, fish sandwich meal: $4.99, ItalianCaptain sausage meal: $3.00 mixers/ mojitos $6.15 Fish Fry
7 - midnight 7- CL: $2 Malibu madness Guys' Night $2 pineapple $1.25 upsidedown cake
7 - midnight 7- CL: $1 rail mixers $2 Ladies' BacardiNight mixers
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
batterfried cod, fries, Italian beef meal: pepper & egg sandwich beans, and garlic bread $6.69 meal: $5.50$5.00 2 Chicago dog meal: Italian sausage meal: $6.69 $4.50$5.89
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
Cosmic $1 cherryBowl bombs starts at 9 p.m. until midnight
AUCE wings $5.00 free crazy bingo hamburger or cheeseburger buy one cherry meal: bomb $3.89 get one for $1 Italian Beef w/dog meal: 3 p.m.$7.89 - midnight
football $1 night domestic Kul beer: Light $1.50 Mexicancans beer: $2.00
Fox Hollow Goal Post
$2.50happy Bomb Shots hour $2.50 Ketel One Mixers $2 Retro Beers "Your Dad's Beer"
Saturday
$5 bbq ribs and grilled chicken sandfries wich meal: $5.29 Polish sausage meal: $4.49
chicken$4 & veggie full fajitas pint Irish for Bomb two Car
N3287 County OA
3-7
$2 Silos
Fiesta Dan’s Mexicana Place 5200 Mormon Coulee 411 3rd st.
Cosmic & $1 cherryBowl bombs Karaoke starts at until 9 p.m. midnight
Stop in for Value Menu too big to list here
$6.00 AUCD
bucket night 6 for $9
Friday
$9.00
9-cl$3.50 Domestic pitchers $1.75 domestic bottles
chili Karaoke verde $1 shot specials
Asklive server DJ for details $1 shot specials
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6
HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8
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
$5 AUCD
$1.75 bottles/cans
GREEK GREEK ALL ALL DAY DAY buy buy one one appetizer appetizer appetizer half price appetizer half price get get one one half half price price with meal with meal 9-cl -$2 captain mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 jager bombs
9-cl $2 bacardi mixers, $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy
HAPPY HOUR2-CL 5-7 Thirsty Thursday
All day (everyday!) $1.75 domesticspecials $1.25 Old Style Light bottles
3 12 oz. dom. taps $2 $1 vodka drinks $1 12 oz taps
$1.50 LAX Lager/Light $1 shots of Dr.
$2 Domestic Bottles and Cans
$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,
Karaoke
Ask server for details
$1.25 beer pong 6 p.m. $8.95 16 oz steak BURGERS
happy hour 1 -6 M - F $1 Most Pints, $2 Absolut Mixers
shrimp Ladies Night buy one, get one free burrito wear a bikini, drink free
$2 U Call it imports $3 Crown Mixers
$5 All Pitchers
$2 Corona/Corona Light, $4 Patron
$2 Stoli Mixers, $1 DR Shots
Second Supper vol. 9, issue 153
Area food food & & drink drink specials specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [Area LA CROSSE JB’s Speakeasy 717 Rose st.
The Joint 324 Jay st.
Legend’s
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
1/2 off Pearl Street pitchers during Packer game
4 - 8 p.m. Bacardi $3 doubles/pints
closed
223 Pearl st.
closed
Nutbush
Thursday
Saturday
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7 $1.00 off all Irish shots $2.50 pints of Guinness $3.00 imperial pints
every day $1 shots of Doc
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75
closed
Friday
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails $1.75
WING NIGHT $2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50 JACK MIXERS $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
AFTER COMEDY: PINT NIGHT $1 PINTS OF RAILS MIXERS AND DOMESTIC TAPS $2 PINTS OF CALL MIXERS AND IMPORT TAPS $3 PINTS OF TOP SHELF MIXERS
5 - 7 p.m. 2-4-1 happy hour
great drinks!
$2 SHOTS OF GOLDSCHLAGER $5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
3264 George st.
Players
Price by Dice
214 Main St
Ralph's
In John's Bar 109 3rd st. N
Ringside 223 Pearl st.
Schmidty’s
Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6 CLOSED
3119 State rd.
breakfast buffet $9.95 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Shooter’s
$1 Shot Night
120 S 3rd st.
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 Godfather’s 30 Walnut st.
March 5, 2009
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
Southwest chicken pita $5
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM cheeseburger HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 8 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.
Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce, tomato, onion $5 $6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $7.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR DINNER, $9.99 ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY
happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND CHEESE.
LUNCH BUFFET $6.45 LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY 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
$1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/ PBR taps all day $1.75 rails 10 - 1
$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
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
$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots
Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas
2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.
$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs
Bucket Night 5 for $9 5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
Fish Fry $6.95
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long Island Pints 15 cent wings
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers
$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5 lite pitchers 7 - 12
$1.75 rails $1 PBR mugs
Thursday
Friday
$2.50 Captain $2.50 Jager Bombs & Polish
$2 u-call-it (except top shelf)
Thursday
Saturday
Friday
Saturday
any jumbo, large, or large 1 topping pizza medium pizza up to 5 $9.99 toppings: $11.99 (get 2nd large for $5)
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Entertainment Directory 3/5 - 3/11
Thursday, March 5 Del’s Bar Andy and Jake from T.U.G.G.
Northside Oasis Caleb and Joe and the People They Know
Just A Roadie Away...
March 7, continued Trempealeau Hotel Dangergrass with 10:00 the Rev. Ed Danger The Cavalier Bumpity Boom Boom
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Popcorn Tavern New Grass Revue
10:00
Nighthawks Dave Orr's open jam
The Joint 10:00 Great American Taxi
10:00
Frank Merchlewitz
Big River Room
Thurs., 3/5
Popcorn Tavern Som’n Jazz
10:00
Ptisis
Big River Room
Sat. 3/7
Lonnie Knight
Acoustic Café
Friday, March 6
Manfort
Monday, March 9
Ed's Bar
Thurs., 3/5
Sat. 3/7
Popcorn Tavern Super Deece Band
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My Second Home Time and a Half
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