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Being named a top 10 place to live in the United States — as La Crosse was recently anointed in the latest issue U.S. News and World Report — will likely bring about some changes in this town. City Hall will probably puff itself up with the ego boost. LADCO and other recruiters will cite the tidbit whenever possible to bring more businesses to the area, and I hope our new appeal is astounding. We could sure use a half dozen more
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major employers in the city — preferably something high-tech and ecologically sound, a 21st century gig to keep all those college graduates who really want to live here but need to scuttle off to find something in their field. I also think La Crosse will now be on the relocation radar for bubble-bursted suburbanites, What's the point in holding on to a $400,000 mortgage for some box that looks just like your neighbors', fenced in by cul-de-sacs, framed by strip malls, 75 minutes from your work? Compared to that, La Crosse is paradise. Load up your SUV and c'mon down! We're nice; we're clean; we're cheap — but we don't appreciate making a scene, so please don't grumble when your Fayze's waitress brings out your hamburger medium-well (and throw some cheese on that, son). But one element that may also come knocking is Everytown U.S.A. We're semi-famous now, and someone's going to want to make a buck off us, but we don't need a Häagen-Dazs or a Kinko's or an Urban Outfitters or a Costco. I'm quite OK with our locally owned culture.That's what makes La Crosse La Crosse (or L-Crizzy, as the kids are calling it.) We've got out own style.We like it. And, apparently, so do non-scientifically trained editors of a failing magazines eager to create a buzz and sell additional copies — just as they have with arbitrary rankings of US colleges and universities. It's a funky little thing we got going on in La Crosse. Let's just keep it real.
— Adam Bissen
Table of Contents This Page ................................................3 Death God A ........................................4 Olde GnarlyWine ............................... 5 2 Minute Love ..................................... 6 Mississippi Valley Mayhem ..................7 La Crosse Skating Sirens .................. 8 Advertisements ....................................9 Marilyn Manson ................................... 10 Crossword ............................................11 Community Service ............................12,13 Rock Out! .............................................14
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Most lederhosen per capita Coulee-est regions Places you shouldn't go swimming Youngest mayor Best bowlers Loveliest love handles Segregated cities
Things that make La Crosse great 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Riverside Park at 7 a.m. Beer is cheaper than gasoline The relative lack of chain stores UW-L fitness majors Second Supper Oktoberfest lasts two weeks Summer
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Where in the world would we be without the magical culmination of fat and taste that is butter? Well, I don't want to know, and frankly, neither do the good folks in Sparta, who will be throwing the 25th annual Butterfest this coming weekend! With their motto of "keep churning!", Butterfest celebrates all that is the creamy goodness of real Dairyland butter, as made by award-winning butter makers from Sparta (from one of the local milk plants). In addition to celebrating Sparta's recognition as a premium city for producing premium butter, the festival will be holding tons of events in which people of all ages can enjoy. Thursday unveils the opening of the carnival and the fest tent, which will be featuring food, drink, and a variety of live music. Friday will feature an arts and crafts show, as well as a show by local rockers The Freezers, who will be playing at 8 p.m. at the Mix 96 Rock tent. Saturday brings about an arts and crafts show/flea market, as well as the Sparta stampede 5 mile run/2 mile walk. Come on down to celebrate one of the biggest festivals the region has to offer! For more information, churn to www.spartabutterfest.com.
— Ben Clark
Social Networking NAME AND AGE: Jason LaCourse BIRTHPLACE: Gundersen-Lutheran hospital CURRENT JOB: Second Supper mascot/professional troublemaker DREAM JOB: I'd like to get paid to sleep. LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: David Carradine Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? The Playboy Mansion HOW WOULD YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR LAST NIGHT ON EARTH? In hedonistic bacchanalia with all my favorite people FAVORITE BAR IN TOWN: It all depends on the crowd. CELEBRITY CRUSH: That sexy hunk of manmeat, Shuggypop Jackson TELL US YOUR GUILTIEST PLEASURE: Several of the reality TV shows on VH1
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When the U.S. surgeon general decides to write new warning labels for legal libations, he could learn a few points in style and honestly from this cautionary note on the bottle of Lagunitas Olde GnarlyWine: "The first sip is for thirst, the second one for pleasure. The third sip is for knowing, and the fourth for pure madness.” That’s about as forthright as you can be with any intoxicating product — and since it took me a few sips to come up with that introduction, brace yourself for how this review may read at the finish. This, friends, is a real barleywine. For those readers who have never sampled the style (and this is its first review in this column), a barleywine isn’t a wine at all: It just tastes fruity and has 11 percent alcohol by volume. To be sure, it’s an indulgent drink, a slow sipper, a brew for celebrations — and I cannot remember tasting a barleywine finer than this one from Lagunitas. The GnarlyWine pours a scarlet brown color with a thin grey head. There’s some light carbonation bubbles upon close inspection, but I also notice a heft and sheen like I’ve never seen in another beer. (Or perhaps this booze is just hitting me early.) The aroma is complex like rotten fruit over toffee with honey and licorice and hops. Clearly there’s a lot of alcohol churn-
ing through simple sugars, but while the initial taste comes on sweet it’s backed by a blanket of swirling flavors that makes it tough to differentiate exactly what you’re drinking. It tastes a bit like fruit-infused caramel or figs marinated in molasses. Barleywines are great beers for cel- Appearance: 8 laring, and I imagine the sweetness would die Aroma: 7 down after a year in a cool place. Still, oily hops Taste: 8 manage to cut through all the sugars, and there’s Mouthfeel: 10 a nice dry finish after a creamy swallow. While Drinkability: 7 it surely packs a wallop, the GnarlyWine is actually one of the least Total: 40 alcohol-flavored barleywines I’ve ever sampled, so be careful if you’re going to pick up these $4 “bombers.” I’m actually about to put a half-full bottle back in the refrigerator now and climb into bed, but I’d still endorse this other warning posted on the Lagunitas Web site: “This is Surely Not a Beer for the Designated Driver.” — Adam Bissen
The healthy bean Coffee, as popular as it is, gets a lot of attention from scientists studying possible health benefits or repercussions. A plethora of studies, some which tout the benefits and others which proclaim the beverage an imminent murderer, have been brought to the rapt attention of popular media. From my own perusal of the published results, I’d bet my last buck on the benefits of coffee winning out in the end (maybe I’m a tad biased, but still). More studies have shown a positive impact on health, and in my opinion, an important thing to remember about coffee is that it’s a complex beverage, full of all sorts of compounds, some of which are bound to be helpful and some of which may be harmful. The total effect of coffee consumption, however, appears to be pretty darn healthful. So, fellow coffee lovers, pat yourselves on the back, because you’ve set yourself up for reduced risk of some nasty diseases — Parkinson’s, colon cancer, and type II diabetes, to name the biggies. Fewer headaches, asthma attacks, and cavities are a plus, too. And the moodenhancing effects have not gone unnoticed by the bulk of folks reading a coffee column, no doubt. People who regularly drink the stuff know all about the improved cognitive func-
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brett.emerson@secondsupper.com It’s appropriate that the most paranoid, wanna-be Orwellian person I know wouldn’t get the Big Brother humor behind naming a rant column “The Two Minute Hate.” Then again, I learned this while that same creature crawled beside me in his car as I walked from my house to last week’s Supper meeting, berating me on an empty street in attempt to expose me as an asshole to all the ghosts. I suppose there’s no shortage of humor and appropriateness to be found in our most excellent relationship. How quickly Sunday’s “articulate” becomes Tuesday’s “amateurish, negative,” once the tantrum throwing sociopaths don’t get their baby bottles. The idea to balance out my indignation and go conventionally positive wasn’t born through that delightful altercation, but the timetable was accelerated as a result. So here’s a list of the things that have given the cockles of my heart a warm feeling as of late. I believe that it’s more far more negative to say nothing about our stupidities than to mock them, but without an appreciation for the joys in one’s life, that irritated optimism doesn’t offer much solace in replacement. Long live Goldstein. n Eminem getting an angelic ass full of Sascha Baron Cohen at the MTV Movie Awards was one of the most perfect stunts I’ve ever seen, far surpassing its spiritual predecessor, Howard Stern’s Fartman. Content aside, the logistics of the thing were breathtaking. Dropping winged faux-Eurotrash from the rafters and into one specific crotch can go wrong in so many ways. It’s amazing that the thing didn’t become infamy over legend. Cheers to Cohen and Eminem for having the (ahem) balls to pull off this masterpiece. n Due to the terrific new Star Trek film, I’ve been poring over the preceding ten flicks. Though I’m finding that I like them all, there’s one person of note who steals the show every time he comes on screen — DeForrest Kelley, Dr. “Bones” of the original series. While his curmudgeon act was great on television, he really blossomed in cinema, largely owing to one factor — glamour! The first time Bones appears in the movies, he’s wearing tight disco pants, bellybutton high, a giant gold belt buckle, a half-unbuttoned shirt, and what I assume to be an Aquarius pendant. And he has a big fuckoff beard! Bones continues to take no fashion prisoners throughout the film series, often shown lounging around in similarly chest-exposing leisure suits, cool as the Arctic Circle. I’ve said this many times before, but God bless the fucking '70s. n Mark-Paul Gosselaar appearing on the Jimmy Fallon Show, in character as Saved by the Bell’s Zack Morris, was glorious. Dude
pulled out a brick cell phone, caused temporal havoc, delivered monologues to the camera, and played a Zack Attack song with the Roots. The best part came when Gosselaar explained Saved by the Bell’s sudden jump from middle school in Indiana to high school in California, stating that he moved West with two friends and his principal. Jimmy Fallon really held his own during the vaudeville, getting encyclopedic with Gosselaar and hyped his attempt to bring about a Saved by the Bell reunion. Needless to say, I geeked out, hard. n In this vein, I love when random people tell me how the Beldings have enriched/damaged their lives. For a submusical gay punk band, it tends to scar people pretty well. n The Midwest is often stereotyped as the coastal states’ dimwitted sibling, but it’s got a far superior bullshit detector. An example: when I lived in California, I took a job in an Orange County pet store. While the job was a blast, I was always disturbed by what my deliriously rich customers would buy: animal strollers, animal purses, and Dick van Patten’s brand of dog food (featuring Hobo Chili!). That’s before factoring in the region’s jones for purebred dogs — the tinier, the better, never mind the coyotes — which sold for a grand and a half on average. As I took these people’s money, I often noted that very few Midwesterners would go for this kind of excess, or for many other stripes of entitled nonsense. If I had to choose between these two states, I’d live here, any day of the week. n I may not want to live in La Crosse forever, but it’s a gorgeous town. And it has weather. n The true test of friendship is absence, and when two people can continue the same conversation after ages of silence, their relationship is unbreakable. A night took place a few weekends back, bringing back two of my oldest friends, reuniting us in abject, spontaneous coincidence. And we had a goddamn adventure. Despite brief moments of awkwardness and despite our growing up into separate lives, we were the same for each other, if only for a fleeting era. I don’t make friends easily or hastily, but those I keep are often lifelong. It’s nice that this regard isn’t one sided. n I also like my new crowd of surly, ambitious philosopher types. n Finally, I’m grateful to the large group of people who supported me through the recent madness which had threatened to take over my life. Invisibility and solitude may be my strongest suits, but this time neither one was an option. To everyone who helped and to everyone who did nothing more than listen, thank you.
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A Night at the Roller Derby Nonstop action when the Mississippi Valley Mayhem roll into the OmniCenter By Emily Faeth
emily.faeth@secondsupper.com photos by Maura Henn The last time Second Supper checked in with the ladies (and the occasional gentleman) of La Crosse's own Flat Track Roller Derby League, the Mississippi Valley Mayhem, was all the way back in March when they were showing off their skating skills for the very first time at their Friends and Family Night, a by-invite-only scrimmage bout at High Roller Skating Center. Since then, the women of MVM have honed their craft even more, and have taken the next big step in their journey — scheduling bouts against other leagues from around the upper Midwest. On Saturday, May 30, MVM's supporters came out in full force for the league's first home bout against Duluth-Superior's Harbor City Roller Dames. The Onalaska OmniCenter played host to the event, and the league informed spectators via event programs that proceeds from the event would benefit the Coulee Region Humane Society. With that explosive combination of girls on skates, music,
beer, and goodwill, the fans — along with the league itself — were in for an action-packed evening. May 30's May Massacre Roller Derby Bout was not MVM's first bout against an opposing team, however. Earlier in May, MVM traveled to Appleton to duel with the Paper Valley Roller Girls. The ladies of MVM considered their first bout to be an excellent learning experience. “We learned a lot...a lot,” emphasizes MVM's Miss Chaseme Lain. “We learned how to have a bout, we made awesome connections, they gave us plenty of tips. They were an awesome team to play.” MVM's The Ambusher agreed. “They were giving us — well, they were giving me, at least — pointers while we played. They were like, 'Hey, try this.' They were really great.” It would be a few more minutes before we'd be able to check out those new skills in action, though. The bout was introduced by
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the High Roller Skate Crew, who performed routines to Michael Jackson's “Beat It,” among other songs.Their highly acrobatic moves combined break-dancing with roller skating; needless to say, they impressed the crowd. Also on hand to entertain the masses was MVM's new team mascot, Mayhem. A large, green...something, I had to ask the team for clarification: they laughed and informed me that Mayhem was simply “mayhem personified,” which aptly described the acid-green, fuzzy polygon. At long last, it was time for the ladies of MVM and the Harbor City Roller Dames to take their places on the track. The referees blew their whistles, and the first jam began amid a torrent of cheers from the spectators lining the rink. The ladies sped around the track, each jammer attempting to be the first to pass the pack of fellow and opposing skaters in order to secure lead jammer status. This coveted position allows the jammer to call off the jam at any time, often to the benefit of her respective team. After the lead jammer is established, though, both jammers fight their way around the rink, earning a point for each member of the opposing team they pass. The other players' jobs are to keep the opposing jammer from scoring, while simultaneously attempting to assist their team's jammer as much as possible in getting through the pack. Each jam lasts two minutes, or until the lead jammer calls it off. The first several jams highly favored the Harbor City Roller Dames. By the third jam, the visiting team led 16-0, but MVM began to edge upwards soon after, earning a respectable four points in the fourth jam. At five minutes to halftime, the scoreboard showed the Harbor City Roller Dames still leading 17-51, but five minutes later, the ladies of MVM had earned an impressive sixteen additional points to the visiting teams eight, bringing the score to 33-59. Local rockers Chuff provided the halftime entertainment, complete with strobe lights and a smoke machine. Families rocked out to the band, their small children occasionally covering their ears in response to the raucous rhythms coming from the band. The ladies of MVM and the Harbor City Roller Dames took their opportunity to breathe, drink some water, and tend to any of the minor scrapes they may have accumulated during the first half. The spectators replenished their beer supplies, and Mayhem the Mascot waved enthusiastically at those remaining in the stands. Before long, however, the ladies were reassembling on the rink, and the whistle was blown yet again as the second half began. The women of MVM were on decidedly
surer footing this time around. Their jammers consistently earned lead jammer status during the first few jams, with Kayla Smash and the Wrathematician narrowing the gap in points further still. While the Harbor City Roller Dames quickly redoubled their efforts and eventually began to gain a wider berth in points, MVM were tenacious, and did their damnedest to keep up with the more experienced team. Midway through the second half, MVM's Dani was proving to be an impressive skater, quickly earning lead jammer status and promising a successful jam for La Crosse's team. However, a collsion on the track caused a major pile-up, sending many of the women — Dani included — sprawling out on to the floor. It was immediately clear that Dani had caught the worst of the collision. The crowd held a collective breath as several referees rushed out to her aid, carefully checking her injuries. The tension exploded into cheers and applause, however, when Dani finally regained her feet with the assistance of the referees, and she made her way back to her team. The injury forced her from the rest of the bout, but her team, as well as the spectators, roared their appreciation for her efforts. After an impressive run as lead jammer by MVM's Soi Fon, who scored her team an additional five points with just seconds on the clock, the bout ended with a final score of 6192 in favor of the Harbor City Roller Dames. But as MVM's The Ambusher had quipped earlier in the evening, “Winning isn't necessarily what's on the scoreboard. We're winners [because] we learned a ton.” Said Miss Chaseme Lain, “It's derby on the rink, but when it's done, we can sit down and talk.” And that they did. Of course, no good Roller Derby bout would be complete without an after party, and the folks of MVM and Yesterday's bar were certainly up to the task of hosting their new out-of-town friends. The teams gathered around tables with plates of sandwiches and hummus, drinks in hand, and chatted animatedly about the bout. Even Dani managed to attend the party — after a visit to the hospital first. Many members of the Harbor City Roller Dames came over to offer hugs and to share their concerns, as well as their admiration for her performance that night. An outside observer would never have guessed that these women were, only minutes earlier, engaged in a violent battle for points. But that camaraderie is, of course, the beauty of Roller Derby. The Mississippi Valley Mayhem will hold their season-ending bout Saturday, June 13 at the Onalaska OmniCenter, beginning at 2 p.m.
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Last Monday evening the La Crosse Skating Sirens — our city’s second roller derby league — gathered for their third practice of the season, their final one at Copeland Park. The big pavilion proved too rocky for skating, and the smaller shelter didn’t meet their needs, so next week they’ll take up new practices digs at the former La Crosse Footwear building. After going so long without any roller derby leagues, it’s surprising La Crosse has room for competing ones, but the two leagues currently exist side by side — just not amicably. “Right now when people see ‘roller derby’ in La Crosse, they think we’re the same thing. And we’re not,” explained Melissa Larivee, a cofounder of the Skating Sirens, as she took a break from leading the team through drills. Larivee used to be a player and trainer on the city’s other roller derby team, the Mississippi Valley Mayhem. A lifelong roller skater (at age 12 she took 7th place at a national speed skating competition), Larivee joined the Mayhem last year shortly after the league’s founding. It was her first experience with roller derby, but she found some aspects lacking. Larivee wanted to split the skaters between a skilled “A team” that would work on strategy and a more novice “B team” that would develop fundamentals. There were also personality clashes on top of organizational differences, and they all came to a head at a league meeting in March. “It was turned into just a way bigger issue than it had to be,” said Larivee, a 27-year-old mother of seven. “It’s already a lot of drama when you have a lot of girls in the same room, and we had a big disagreement about how a league should be run. It just wasn’t going to work. … My options were either to quit roller derby or start a new league because there was no option for me to stay where I was at.” So on April 1, the La Crosse Skating Sirens were born. Along with Larivee and fellow cofounder Leslie Berling, four other Mayhem skaters soon migrated over to the La Crosse Skating Sirens. As of Monday’s practice, the Sirens roster officially included 10 women, but invited spectators were also checking out the scene — debating, perhaps, if they wanted to join a roller derby league that takes the sport seriously and demands attendance at 75 per-
cent of all practices and fundraising events. In Larivee’s vision, the La Crosse Skating Sirens will consist of four teams: one A team, two B teams, and a traveling team comprised of the best A- and B-level players. She hopes to book one bout per month, alternating between home and away contests, where the two B teams bout each other on the first card before the A team takes on a traveling team from around the country. While the Mayhem hold their bouts at the Onalaska OmniCenter, the Sirens are set to skate in the La Crosse Center’s main arena, with their first bout scheduled for Sept. 12. In a 10 month season, the Sirens are looking to hold competitions against regional opponents like Appleton, Duluth/Superior, Minneapolis, and Cedar Rapids, but Larivee has also been in contact with teams from New York, Maine, and Mississippi and she hopes the team can compete at the annual RollerCon in Las Vegas. “We’re in it for the competitiveness. We want to do whatever we can to be number one in the nation,” said Larivee, contrasting her league with her experiences with the Mayhem. “They’re more into it for the fun — a complete hobby — and that’s fine. They’re more in for the ‘positive attitude’ winner type. We’re more in it for ‘we won the game.’” When reached by email to comment on the split, MVM cofounder Amanda Boucher was reluctant to discuss the competing leagues. “Mississippi Valley Mayhem women's roller derby league is not affiliated with the Skating Sirens,” is all she would write on the topic. But while there appears to be some genuine ill will between the La Crosse Skating Sirens and Mississippi Valley Mayhem — a feud worthy of the golden age of roller derby — no interleague bouts have been scheduled. “Honestly, I can say that if one league lasted, it will be this one,” said Larivee, who sports a wicked cut on her chin from a recent digger at Copeland. “That’s because everyone has a say in this league, and eventually I think that wears on people, when they don’t have a say as adults.” Players must be 18 years or older. For more information visit www.skatingsirens.com.
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Marilyn Manson hasn’t put out a consistently good album since 2000’s Holy Wood. The two albums which followed came off as two ends of a bipolar spectrum. The Golden Age of Grotesque was Weimar imitating bombast, lyrically inventive yet often musically repetitive. Following this album came Eat Me, Drink Me, which flipped the formula into flatlining romanticism, its searing guitars choked out by the typical deliveries of clichéd vocals. Though there are gems on both albums, they feature some of Manson’s worst songs: the droning girl-fuck failed experiment of “Para-noir,” the old man bitchfest of “Mutilation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery,” and songs as horribly titled as the Rob Zombie imitating “You and Me and the Devil Makes 3” and Twilight favorite, “If I Was Your Vampire.” (Live the Gimmick, baby!) Credit much of this descent to Manson’s growing aversion to the big ideas which made him so interesting in the first place, and to his insistence upon creating concept albums about the famous people he’s fucking. Yet credit an equal share of this plummet to the post-Holy Wood departure of Twiggy, Manson’s musical right hand man whose songcraft put the band on the map.While The High End of Low doesn’t remedy the former problem, Twiggy’s return last year provided a shot of vitality and focus that the band desperately needed. Nonetheless, there remain trivial, self-impressed tracks on The High End of Low. “Pretty as a Swastika” is a bland rockout that cashes in on cheap Nazi™ shock without really challenging anything. “Wight Spider” is sleazy and sluggish, only coming around through Manson’s final wails. And as its title would suggest, “I Want to Kill You like They Do In the Movies” is nine minutes of meandering mess that would have been interesting if Manson wasn’t rambling about the similarities between eroticism and cinema. Some tracks are well-intentioned, but fall a bit short. “Blank and White” is a toned down
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guitar twang version of “The Fight Song” which sounds good and mocks the “stupid teenage girls” and faux-rebels in the audience, but doesn’t really pack in much uniqueness. There’s a real life, major key acoustic rock ballad in “Running to the Edge of the World,” and its opening may be the album’s most head-turning moment. However, when Manson’s vocals kick in, the mood turns slightly into spoiled Bonnie and Clyde territory, and the only attraction to this love song becomes who sings it, not the merits of the song itself. The album closes with “15,” a neat little electronic pulse which finds itself dulled by Manson’s petulant words. The disc’s singles are good tracks, though they’re a little too similar to the back catalogue. While nothing on this album comes off as a blatant grab for the shock ring like a song titled “Arma-goddamn-motherfucking-geddon,” the song itself brings a satisfying mix of Manson mouth with an old school “Dope Hat” swagger. “Leave a Scar” lays the firearm romance metaphors on a bit thick, and Manson gets a bit waily in the chorus, but the song is a solid piece of radio play that faithfully chugs along to the end without a derailing misfire. “We’re from America” is a bit of contradiction; the lyrics are simultaneously Manson-by-numbers and yet clever and unique. Appropriately enough, the song’s pogo punk sounds a lot like “Mesopotamia” by Black Light Burns, a tune written by brief Manson alumni Wes Borland. Where The High End of Low shines is in the alterations to the usual formula, as well as in the flat-out unexpected. The opening track is “Devour,” which builds up a low-end pulse into a bare offer of love before exploding and smoldering at the end. While Eat Me Drink Me’s “You and Me and the Devil Makes 3” sounded like a bad Rob Zombie chugger, “Four Rusted Horses” evokes Zombie’s more expansive sense of gloom and obsessively ponders one’s own funeral while Twiggy’s guitar strings gently dig the hole. “Unkillable Monster” is major key done right, a classic sounding rock song that belongs in a surrealist film.The words on “Into the Fire” dip into cliché territory on occasion (“rapist werewolves”?), but its piano dirge compliments the voice so well that the flaw becomes irrelevant. The two zenith songs on the album are “WOW” and “I Have to Look Up Just to See Hell.” The former is a dirty, grabassing electronic malfunction on par with the most danceable tracks on Mechanical Animals, whereas the latter is a spiraling waltz into the inferno that resurrects the menace of Antichrist Superstar. As a whole, the album isn’t a glorious return to Marilyn Manson's dangerous form, but at its worst, The High End of Low lends credence to the hope that the band isn’t dead in the water. It's easily its best album since 2000, and it’s all that damn Twiggy’s fault, bless his darling soul.
— Brett Emerson
Oh hi, right now it’s cold and grey outside for the third day in a row, which is perfect weather for breaking out a bunch of albums that fit into the kissing cousin subgenres of slowcore and sadcore. While putting bands into subgenres is sorta inane, a whole slew of noteworthy indie musicians started popping up on the radar in the ‘90s with a similar sound and ambiance, many who are still relevant heavy hitters today. While sadcore and slowcore are for the most part interchangeable, with most of the bands listed below easily falling into either category, sadcore tends to be songs written by some depressed humans who pour their misery and heartache out in their lyrics over hypnotic and austere instrumentation. While this has been done for ages, from blues musicians to several Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams and Billie Holiday albums, through flower-power era wordsmiths like Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, to the mopings of Tom Waits, Morrissey and Ian Curtis in the post-punk era, there is something timeless and hauntingly beautiful about a sad sack whisper their woes and bare their souls. On the sadcore side of things, leading figures include Elliott Smith, Cat Power, (Smog), Low, Red House Painters, Arab Strap, Ida, and American Music Club, as well as relatively recent sensations Scout Niblett, Damien Jurado and Eau Claire native made good Bon Iver. Listen to any of these some lonely late night and purge
your pains away with somber lyrics to capture your current reason why your life sucks. If you find yourself doing this too often though, you might want to consider getting on the Lexipro. Slowcore tends to be more of an overall musical atmospheric crawling along at the speed of a snail, shrouded in thick morose, with lyrics that tend to be more cryptic and opaque than their sadcore counterparts, if lyrics exist at all. Galaxie 500 is thought of as putting out the first slowcore album in 1989, followed shortly by releases from Codeine, Talk Talk, Mazzy Star, Damon and Naomi, Bedhead, Duster, Mogwai, Dirty Three, Slowdive, Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Black Heart Procession and early Death Cab For Cutie. Many of those bands can also be lumped in with the instrumental postrock or shoegaze subgenres as well, as is often the case with trying to categorize music, but breaking down that ball of wax is for another episode of Gettin’ Shuggy. If you want to get deeper into more obscure and recent bands, check out www.3hive.com/slowcore/ for a solid mp3 blog with a whole lot more info than I can cram into this column. So for those of you who are freshly dumped, your dog just died, you have a serotonin imbalance, or can just appreciate the beauty in sorrow, everything listed above is worth your time.
— Shuggypop Jackson
Drag Me To Hell (2009) Director: Sam Raimi Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver Writers: Sam Raimi and Ivan Raimi
There's a specific flavor of horror film popular in American cinema today, and it certainly ain't the kind of horror on tap in Drag Me to Hell. That's probably why the teenagers seated in the row in front of me spent a good portion of the movie snickering condescendingly. Maybe that's just how they laugh (the movie is very funny), but that doesn't explain the callous "Oh my GAWDs" they kept emitting. To be sure, Drag Me to Hell scores high on the goofiness meter, especially in instances where the ying of absurdity isn't matched by an equally ridiculous yang of over-the-top violence. But tame PG-13 rating and all, the film still accomplishes what it sets out to do: turn stomachs, tug heart strings, and tickle funny bones, often simultaneously. Taking a breather from the horriblymishandled Spider-Man franchise, Sam Raimi returns to his horror-comedy roots, explicitly indicated by the '80s Universal logo preceding the film. Within minutes, Raimi has young protagonist Chrstine Brown (Alison Lohman) doing battle in her car with a mean old gypsy (Lorna Raver) whose loan extension she just denied. Faces get stapled, heads smack against
dashboards, and Christine gets slimed as the woman, sans false teeth, tries to take a bite out of her — all this before Christine is even cursed to get dragged to hell. From there, the horror-comedy set pieces occur one after another. They aren't nearly as gruesome as the gags in Raimi's Evil Dead series, but what they lack in gratuity they make up for in sheer quantity. And it works. In fact, it's because Christine gets her ass kicked by demons so much that the audience connects with her. The film's more disturbing elements work to great effect because Christine is so well characterized. She's also the source of a great deal of the film's slapstick gags, the funniest of which finds the gypsy repeatedly managing to rip out Christine's hair. There's rarely a dull moment in the film's nonstop barrage of funny/gross scenarios. But it helps to know what you're getting into, because Raimi has never played by the genre's rules. Here he's made another horror movie that people will actually give a crap about long after the J-horror and torture-porn phases have passed.
— Nick Cabreza
Second Supper vol. 9, issue 167
I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword "Enjoy the Silence" -- it gets kinda quiet in places.
Answers to Issue 166's "Clean Cinema"
By Matt Jones Across 1 Tycho's friend, in the webcomic "Penny Arcade" 5 Walk nervously 9 Flair 14 Neighbor 15 Takes drugs 16 Thin as ___ 17 Where the siblings from "Beverly Hills, 90210" shop? 19 Sound necessary to get "high"? 20 Cold War Soviet grp. 21 "___ no mountain high enough..." 22 Status if you do or don't? 23 Kingdom that doesn't accept credit cards? 25 Rock singer Jackson 28 Kimono sash 29 Vampire-like female 30 Drive-___ 32 Class with Bunsen burners: abbr. 36 Barn-raising and
Clues" host 59 Switch out 60 Flair 61 They may go flat outside a flat 62 "We have met the enemy, and he ___" ("Pogo" quote) 63 TV warrior born in Amphipolis
butter-churning all out of whack? 39 "Splish Splash" spot 40 Any female, to a typical Jerry Lewis character
41 Will figures 42 Skosh 43 Pirate 44 Part of being red in the face? 50 Fluffy ducks 51 O.K. Corral fig-
ure Wyatt 52 Absurd ending? 55 Giant with a posse 56 Class with a shoe-shining lab? 58 First "Blue's
Down 1 Stare vacantly 2 "All that and ___ of chips" 3 Three-way, e.g. 4 Tabloid abductors 5 Stone used in pedicures 6 Yoga posture 7 Altoids competitor 8 Ballpark fig. 9 Hidden meat? 10 Step heavily 11 One-named New Age musician 12 Hybrid cat "bred for its skills in magic," according to Napoleon Dynamite
13 Skip a sound 18 Montana handle 22 Fix a laptop 23 "Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen to me..." 24 Ready to do it 25 Say too much 26 Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With ___" 27 Exclude 30 Overly faithful assistant 31 Became a hermit 32 Prince hit 33 Rock musical with a 2009 Broadway revival 34 Better Than ___ 35 1990s puzzle game set in an island world 37 It may be half full 38 Great Pyramid pharaoh 42 Go Fish request, maybe 43 Goes topless 44 Hemingway's "A Moveable ___" 45 Like some dryer
The Wine Guyz
traps 46 Feature mistakenly added to some male cartoon bovines 47 Tennis match start 48 Cat show noises 49 Tiny island nation that gained independence in 1994 52 ___ of Wight 53 Read bar codes 54 Alec's "30 Rock" costar
56 Next-to-last Greek letter 57 Curse Š2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0418.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE [ Area food & drink specials ] LA CROSSE All Star Lanes 4735 Mormon Coulee
Alpine Inn Animal W5715 BlissHouse rd. 110 3rd st.
Alumni 620 Gillette st. Arena
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Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Barrel Inn 2005 West ave. Beef & Etc. 1203 La Crosse st. Brothers Beef & Etc. 306 Pearl st. 1203 La Crosse Big Al’s st. 115 st. TheS 3rd Cavalier The Cavalier 114 5th ave.
Sunday
Monday
3 games for $5 starts at 8 p.m.
3 games for $5 starts at 8 p.m.
bucket special
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
$2.00 Domestic Silos $2.50 Jack Daniel Mixers $2.00 Goldschlager
Beer Pong $7.00 4 Cans 8-close
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2 for 1 cans & bottles during Packer games
2.25 for mini pitcher
Italian beef w/dog meal: $6.69 closed Pizza Puff meal: free pitcher of beer $4.49 or soda with large pizza
114 5th ave.
CheapShots 318 318 Pearl Pearl st. st.
Chuck’s
1101 1101 La La Crosse Crosse st. st.
Coconut Joe’s 223 Pearl st.
Buck Night starts at 6 p.m.
Bud Night 6 - CL:
9.75 sutffed sirloin 8 jack daniels tips 8 $1 shots of Doctor, cherry doctor - 8-cl Happy hour 4-6 $1.75 cans, $2 mix drinks
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1/4 barrel giveaway 8-11Buck $1 Burgers burgers
$2.50 Select imports/craft Beers $2.50 Top shelf Mixers $2 Mich Golden bottles
3 games for $5 starts at 7 p.m.
Import night starts at 7 p.m.
Happy Hour64-p.m. CL- 9 p.m. M-F
$1 softshell tacos $1 shots of doctor, cherry doctor to 83361
$2 $2.50 DomesticSparks Silos $2.50 Premium Silos $2.50 Three Olive Mixers $2. Goldschlager
$5 bbq ribs and fries AUCE wings $5.00
free crazy bingo buy one cherry bomb get one for $1 specials batterfried cod, fries,
$6.00 AUCD
3 p.m. - midnight 25 cent hot wings $1 shots of Dr. 25 cent wings Dollar
bucket night 6 for $9
Bucket Night 6 beers for $9meal: Italian beef $6.15 Chicago chili dog: Italian beef meal: $3.45 Thirsty $6.69
AUCD Taps and Rails
77 -- CL CL Tequila’s Tequila’s chips chips & & salsa, salsa, $2 Coronas, $2.50 $2 Coronas, $2.50 Mike’s, Mike’s, Mike-arita Mike-arita
$3.00 Domestic Pitchers, $2.00 Shots of Cuervo, $3 Pitchers 1.75 Rails Rumpleminz, Goldschlager
Mexican Monday Guys'$2.00 Nite Corona, out 1.50 silos Corona Light, Cuervo
77 -- midnight midnight Ladies: Ladies: 22 for for 11 Guys: $1.50 Guys: $1.50 Coors Coors and and Kul Kul Light Light bottles bottles
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$.50 domestic taps, $1 microbrews, $3 domestic $.50 taps Domestic 3.00 pitchers, pitchers $6 microbrew pitchers
$2 $2Tuesdays, Tuesdays, including including $2 $2 bottles, bottles, import import taps, taps, beer beer pong, pong, apps, apps, single single shot shot mixers, mixers, featured featured shots, shots, and and 50 50 cent cent taps taps
WING WING NIGHT-$1.25/LB NIGHT-$1.25/LB BUFFALO, BUFFALO,SMOKEY SMOKEY BBQ, BBQ,PLAIN PLAIN $1.00 PABST LIGHT $1.00 PABST SHOT AND OF THE WEEK BOTTLES$1.50 $4 DOMESTIC ROLLING PITCHERSROCK BOTTLES $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT OF THE WEEK
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chicken & veggie OPEN-CL fajitas $2 U "Call" it for two
7-CL:night football domestic beer: $1.50 $1.50 domestic Mexican beer:rails $2.00 pints, $1.50
7-CL: chicken $1.50 domestic primavera pints, $1.50 rails
7-CL: shrimp $1.50 domestic pints, burrito $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
chicken & veggie fajitasown Build your 5200 Mormon for Mary two Bloody N3287 County Coulee OA 16oz Mug - $4.00
football night domestic beer:Pizza $1.50 Homemade Mexican beer: $2.00 & PItcher of Beer
Fiesta Eagle'sMexicana Nest 5200 1914 Mormon CampbellCoulee rd.
FiestaHollow Mexicana Fox
Goal Post Gracie’s Gracie’s Howie's
1908 1128 Campbell La Crosserd. st.
Huck Finn’s The Helm 127 108 Marina 3rd st dr.
$9.00 $5.99 gyro fries & soda
1904 1908 Campbell Campbell rd. rd. 9-cl- NBC night. (Night Before Class) $3 pitchers of the beast Happy Hour 4-9 p.m.
9-cl- $5.99 gyro $3.50 Domestic fries pitchers & soda
717 Rose st. 12
$1.75 domestic bottles
HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AM Buy one gyro free baklava, ice beer pong 6 p.m. get one free wings 6or p.m. - 9 p.m. cream sundae $8.95 16 oz steak half price with meal Buy$1one gyro free baklava, ice 9-clrails, $2.50 $5 AUCD get one cream or sundae pitchers, Beer Pong half price with meal
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75hour domestic happy 4 -7 bottles $2 domestic cans
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
W4980 Knoblach Rd.
JB’s Speakeasy
$1 cherry bombs $1Keystone silos
pepper & egg sandwich meal: $4.50, fish sandwich meal: $4.99, pepper & egg sandwich ItalianCaptain sausage meal: $3.00 mixers/ mojitos meal: $6.15$5.00 $2 Cherry Bombs meal: Italian sausage $1 Bazooka Joes $6.69 $6.75 shrimp dinner 50 cent taps 4 - 7 (increases 50 cents per Great drinks! hour) $1 rails
$1 cherry bombs $1Keystone silos
Italian beef meal: $6.15 2 Chicago meal: Italian beefdog meal: $3.00 Bacardi mixers/ $3.45 $6.69 mojitos $2 Cherry Bombs 2 Chicago dog $1.50 $1 Bazooka Joes $5.89
meal:
bloody marys 11 a.m. - 4 p.m Great drinks!
Happy Hour 12 - 7
After ClassMixers $3 $2.00 Captain Pitchers $1.75 Rails
12-3: Buy one get Jaeger, one $2.00 Malibu, $2.50 domestic $3.00 Jaeger beer Bombs Holmen Meat Locker Jerky Raffle
Wristband Happy Hour 7 - 9. $2 for all single shot mixers and all AND beers. $2.50 JUMBO CAPTAIN Night $3.00 JUMBO Svedka Mixers Wristband Night FLAVORED BACARDI MIXERS $2.50 Corona bottles $5$5COLLEGE I.D. COLLEGE I.D. $2 Jonestown shots $3.00 JAGER BOMBS $2.50 Cuervo shots $9$9general public general public Karaoke Karaoke $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
live live DJ DJ $1 shot $1 shot specials specials
7-CL: chili $1.50 domestic pints, verde $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
HAPPY HOURshrimp EVERYDAY 3 - 6 chili chicken primavera $1.25 Bucketburrito of Domestic verde 25 Cent Wings BURGERS Cans 5 for $9.00
HAPPY specials HOUR All day (everyday!) $1.25 Old Style Light $1.50 LAX Lager/Light $1 shots of Dr.
Bloody Mary specials 10 - 2
JB’s Speakeasy $1.75 domestic Irish Hills bottles 717 Rose st.
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$2.50 X-Rated Mixers $2 Captain Mixers $2 Premium Grain Belt $2 Snake Bites
$4.50 domestic pitchers barrel parties at cost $4.50 domestic pitchers Pitcher and Pizza $10
$2.00 Cruzan Rum Mixers, $2.50 Ladies'Jameson Nite outShots, 1.50 $3.00 Raill Mixers mixers/ $2.50 X bombs
$3.00 Patron Shots $2 Pearl Street Brewery beers
$1 $1 Kul Kul Light Light cans cans
411 3rd st.
Cosmic Bowl starts at 9 p.m.
All day, everyday: $1.00 Shots of Doctor, $2.00 Cherry Bombs, $1.75 Silos of Busch Light/Coors All day Everyday: $1 Doctor $2 Silos. M-F: Happy Hour 2-6 $.50 off everything but the daily special
$4 $4 full full pint pint Irish Irish Car Car Bomb Bomb
Dan’s Place
Cosmic Bowl & Karaoke starts at 9 p.m.
beans, and bread $5.50
77 -- midnight midnight $2 $2 Malibu Malibu madness madness $2 $2 pineapple pineapple upsidedown upsidedown cake cake
7 - midnight 7 - midnight $1 rail mixers $1 rail mixers $2 Bacardi mixers $2 Bacardi mixers
Saturday
$2.50happy Bomb Shots hour $2.50 Ketel One Mixers $2 Retro Beers "Your Dad's Beer"
Stop in for Value Menu too big to list here
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Friday
3-7
$2 Silos
shots of Doctor hamburger meal: 8-Midnight grilled chicken$6 sandmeatball sandwich $3.69 wich meal: $5.29 meal: $6.15 HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 hamburger PM cheeseburger Polish sausage or meal: grilled chicken meal: sandmeatball sandwich 2 dogs meal: $ 5.25 10 cent wings (9 - CL) $3.89 cheeseburger meal: $3.99 $2.50 wich meal: meal: $6.69 Wristband $1 High Life$5.29 bottles $3.89 Blatz vs. Old Style Chicago dog: Polish sausage meal: $1.50burgers, rail mixers$2.60 Tuesday 2meat Chicago dogs meal: $1.25 soup orNight saladw/dog bar makechili your own $2.25 Italian Beef orpitchers marinara $2 Guinness pints $3.89 $4.49 $5.89 FREE with entree or meal: $7.89 tacos, $4.75 taco salad cheeseburgers, $2 off spaghetti: $3.45 large pizza, $1 fries4 - 7 sandwich until 3 p.m. HOUR Italian sausage: $4.95 $2.25 margaritas, $2 HAPPY Martini Ladies' Night ($3.95 by itself) off largeclosed taco pizza with $1 any6pizza Martini Madness Dr. 2 for 1$5 8shots All Mojitos James Martini: vodka, triple $2 off all martinis $3 Jager Bombs taps sec, orange juice $1.50 taps
77 -- CL CL $1 $1 domestic domestic 12 12 oz oz $2 $2 Stoli Stoli mixers mixers
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Ask 2server 3-9: for 1 for details domestic bottles and rail drinks
Karaoke Karaoke OPEN-CL $2 U "Call" it
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$1.25 domestic taps HAPPY HOUR 3 - 8 GREEK ALL DAY buy one $8.95 16 appetizer oz. steak buy oneHOUR burger HAPPY get one half price appetizer half price 5 p.m. 10 p.m. get one- half price $8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter with meal 9-cl $2 bacardi $1.25 domestic taps 9-cl -$2 captain mixers, GREEK ALLmixers, DAY 9-cl $1.25 rails, buy one appetizer $2 domestic pints, $1.50 $2 bottles/cans, $3 jager appetizer buy one burger half price $1.75 bottles/cans bombs get one half price shots blackberry brandy get one half price with meal
EVERYDAY 3 -7 and 9 - 11 $1 Vodka Drinks $1.00 12 oz Dom.Taps $1.25 12oz prem. Taps $3 Orange Bombs
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7 Steak and golf $14.95
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7
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Area food food & & drink drink specials specials ] COMMUNITY SERVICE [Area LA CROSSE
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
Friday
Saturday
Fish Fry
Prime Rib
$2 domestics and rails, 4-8
The Joint
Shots of Doctor $1 all day, everyday
324 Jay st.
Lakeview
Free Wings
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Legend’s
Thursday
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Nutbush
WING NIGHT $2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50 JACK MIXERS $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
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Euchre, 7 p.m. 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
$2 SHOTS OF GOLDSCHLAGER $5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
3264 George st.
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Ralph's
In John's Bar 109 3rd st. N
Ringside 223 Pearl st.
Schmidty’s 3119 State rd.
2 for 1 Happy Hour ALL NIGHT LONG
Chef specials daily Mighty Meatball sub $6
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breakfast buffet $9.95 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
BBQ Sandwich
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
Buck Burgers
Sports Nut 801 Rose st.
Train Station BBQ 601 St. Andrew st.
Top Shots 137 S 4th st.
Yesterdays 317 Pearl st.
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WINONA Godfather’s 30 Walnut st.
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HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM cheeseburger HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
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.
Chili Dogs
Tacos
Fish Sandwich
12 oz. T-Bone $8.99
Fish Fry $6.95
All day (everyday!) specials $3 Double Captain & Cokes $2 Double rails $1 Cans of beer
120 S 3rd st.
1019 S 10th st.
Southwest chicken pita $5
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9 Best Damned DJ'S @ 10 p.m.
LUNCH BUFFET $6.95 Tacos
Shooter’s
Tailgators
double $6.50
2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10 $2 Capt. mixers $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.
happy hour all day
$4 domestic pitchers
Tacos $1.25
15 cent wings
HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM $2 Bacardi mixers
$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints
Bucket Night 5 for $9
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11-3: Extra side with sandwich 4-9: $1 off rib dinner
Special varies
11-3: Barn burner $7.95 4-9: Hobo dinner (serves 2) $30.95
$1.75 light taps and Dr. shots
$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
ask for great eats
Fiesta Night 7 - 12 $2 tequila shots $2.50 margaritas
family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age
$1 domestic taps $3 Jager Bombs
5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 11-3 $7.95 Chicken on fire 4-9: Bones & briskets $13.95
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles, Captain mixers
15 cent wings
$1 Dr. shots $3 16 oz Captain mixers 1/2 Chicken 3 bones $12.95
$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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June 13 continued
Del’s Bar Derek Ramnarace and Joe Gantzer
Nighthawks Black Dog
10:00
The Bodega Soapbox Project
10:00
The Root Note Open Mic Night
10:00 7:00
10:00
Nighthawks Dave Orr's Damn Jam
10:00
Bandit County Fair (DeSoto) Smokin' Bandits, Fat Maw Rooney, Moon Boot Posse, White Iron Band, Willy Porter 11:15
Starlite Lounge Kies & Kompanie
5:00 Sunday, June 14
Howie's Karaoke
Popcorn Tavern 8:00 Som'n Jazz
Ciatti's Runaway (John Smith and Dan Sebranek)
10:00
Monday, June 15 6:00
Popcorn Tavern Shawn's Open Jam
10:00
Friday, June 12
Del's Bar Open Jam with Chubba and Cheech
10:00
Popcorn Tavern The Histronic
Houghton’s John and Mike Caucutt
10:00
Cruz-In Adam Palm
Live Music Every Night
Beer Camp (Holmen) Reimer Revolution, Nodyne 4:00
Popcorn Tavern Natty Nation with Roster McCabe
7:00
10:00
George Street Pub Adam Palm's Summer Jam
JB's FCAB with This Could Be the Day
10:00
Nighthawks Milk Toast
10:00
9:00
Popcorn Tavern Paulie The Joint Open Jam
Northside Oasis Stoney Ridge Band
9:00
The Root Note Jazz Night
The Root Note Don D. Harvey
8:30
North Side Oasis Dan Berger and Abbey Lane 7:00
Beer Camp (Holmen) Tendrill, Moon Boot Posse
4:00 Wednesday, June 17
8:00 10:00
Bandit County Fair (DeSoto) Great American Taxi, Shoeless Revolution, T.U.G.G., Feelin' Band, Rooster McCabe, Porcupine 3:00
Popcorn Tavern Dave's Open Jam
10:00
Baus Haus Greg "Cheech" Hall
7:00
Saturday, June 13
Howie's Shane Mauss (comedy) 10:00
JB's Groovitational Pull with Ralphed
10:00
The Root Note Jim Seem
8:30
June 12.....Histronic..............10PM June 18.....Abbey Lane..........10PM
10:00
8:30
Popcorn Tavern TBA
W/ Roster McCabe www.popcorntavern.com
Tuesday, June 16
Howie's Comedy
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