Volume 9, No. 178
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Can cars and bikes coexist in La Crosse?
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FIRST THINGS FIRST
Ask the average La Crosse resident to describe a “crane,” and they might tell you about a long-legged wading bird with white feathers and a slender beak. New Yorkers would say they build highrises. But lately our own skyline, such as it stands, has seen an invasion of those spindly urban giants. After so many years of strip malls, wide parking lots and ranch houses, La Crosse is finally growing up — literally. This issue contains reports on six multistory, “green” building projects arising in the downtown area. In La Crosse this qualifies as something of a building boom, which is all the more noteworthy considering the global slowdown in construction. Understandably, some residents are unnerved by this development. They like La Crosse to be small and familiar, and while I have a lot of respect for those values, I know we’re capable of a more aesthetic, intelligent and thriving hometown. As urbanists everywhere are apt to say, architecture can be the catalyst. I’ve heard plenty of people knock the new transit center for being large, unnecessary and attracting the wrong crowd (young artists), but that’s old thinking. Clustered housing near efficient public transportation should be our goal. And let’s not forget grand design. The Myrick-Hixon EcoPark should become the model of La Crosse architectural style: inspired by nature but bettering the town. — Adam Bissen
Things to do over Labor Day weekend
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1. Light off the rest of your fireworks. 2. See Smokin' Bandits and T.U.G.G. at Huck Finn's. 3. Read the collected writings of Eugene Victor Debs. 4. Relax. 5. Improve the s'more with a fourth ingredient. 6. Make the final cuts to your fantasy football team 7. Hold a bocce ball, disc golf, trapshooting triathlon
Predictions for the 2009 Green Bay Packers 1. 13-3 record 2. A.J. Hawk bites the head off an eagle. 3. 52 Lambeau Leaps 4. Aaron Rogers' beard becomes thick and lustrous. 5. Lindy Infante attends two games. 6. Defense maims one player. 7. Brett Favre follows them on Twitter
Do This WHAT: Pla-Mor Lanes World Record Attempt! WHERE: Pla-Mor Lanes in La Crosse! WHEN: noon to close, Saturday, Sept. 8! COST: $1 per game!
This Saturday, Pla-Mor Lanes in La Crosse will attempt to break the world record for most games bowled during the day. Starting at noon and going all the way to close, each game will cost only $1 per person. The event will be open to people of all ages and is sure to be great fun, including a chance to win prizes. Keep in mind that PlaMor Lanes also offers a great selection of food, including fresh Kemp ice cream and a variety of meals that the whole family can Ideal school lunch menu enjoy. If you get tired of throwing gutters, you can visit Nicholas J's Pro Shop and see 1. Monday — Chicken patty & tator tots if you can find a cure for what ails you. Who 2. Tuesday — Pizza burger knows? Maybe you'll find something that can finally help nail that 7-10 split. So come 3. Wednesday — Walking tacos on down to Pla-Mor lanes this Saturday for 4. Thursday — Stromboli a (hopefully) world record-breaking good 5. Friday — Fish sticks time! It's sure to be a strike with the whole 6. Snack — Ants on a log family!
7. Surprise — Breakfast for lunch
— Ben Clark
Coming next week in Second Supper • Stimulus package aids first-time homebuyers • Walking tour teaches downtown history • The Remainders rock Mt. La Crosse
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e-Mail to the editor
Re: issue with issue 175 l'editor
How it is possible for you to know what Logan's Run is and believe that Medicare pays every bill for folks over 65? (Gag, calling me folks is right up there with calling me dear.) Medicare part A is something we have paid for all our working life. Like the average person receiving social security I pay $1,156.80 a year for Medicare part B, $2,216.49 a year to a private insurance company and additional $277.20 for the prescription coverage. To add salt to the wound (that is cheaper than antibiotics), I just had to pay $8 to fill a small prescription for antibiotics because Medicare and my private insurance still do not offer complete coverage. So, buddy, back off the false facts about us over 65-ers, do you want to get us erroronously euthanized as burdens to the young? Incidentally, my entire social security check goes to pay Medicare and Social Security on my employees. Remember the atmosphere you create for your elders is the world you will live in when you are older. You probably do not believe it but, if you are lucky, you will get there.
— M. Leuther
Story Update
Re: last week's cover story, "in the Raw"
On the very same day Second Supper's raw milk story hit the streets Aug. 27, an agent of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection descended upon Jordan, a source we interviewed but did not identify with his real name in the story, and threatened him with a heavy fine if he did not immediately cease and desist from the sale of raw milk. Jordan vows to fight this action in court. Also on the same day, news sources carried the report that 13 people in Southwestern Wisconsin became ill from drinking raw milk. Finally, the author of the article feels compelled to confess that he imbibed raw milk by the glassful as a boy on his grandfather's farm. More recently he has sampled raw milk from Jordan's farm. In neither case did he suffer any ill effects.
— Bob Treu
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Rising La Crosse
A survey of downtown construction Law Enforcement Center Two years ago this month, Sheriff Steve Helgeson told the County Board that the men's jail was in crisis. "We're overcrowded," he said. "Right now, the jail is dangerous." It still is. Following a medical-related death and other issues at the jail, administrators earlier this summer worked on a policy manual to ensure a safer facility. However, officials say the real solution to myriad problems at the 12-year-old Law Enforcement Center is its 145,000-squarefoot addition under construction at Fourth and Vine streets. The $29.8 million addition is needed, proponents say, because other local facilities became antiquated and inefficient. Also, advocates for people with mental illness say the jail's design is causing additional problems for some inmates. The addition will enable the county to centralize three operations. The women's security facility, housed in the 1965 jail in the former courthouse, will be closed and its inmates relocated to the expanded jail, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the space in the addition. The facility also will house the Justice Sanctions Department and Probation and Parole for the state of Wisconsin. The local Huber work release center, which operated in a former Montgomery Ward auto service center for many years,
closed in recent years and low-risk inmates h a v e b e e n placed in the community. Scheduled to open in April 2011, the addition is running slightly behind schedule, said James M. Speropulos, county facilities director. "We're hoping to make it up over the next several months," he noted. The new facility will provide 316 beds for short- and long-term housing, compared to 244 currently. The number of workers dedicated to the facility has already increased as the county prepares for the opening, but overall officials expect staffing to stay about the same. There should be no more than the current 53 jailers, for example, when the addition opens, according to Capt. Doris Daggett of the La Crosse County Sheriff's Department. Speropulos said the expansion will create a state-of-the-art facility. What that actually means to its residents, however, is classified information. Not really, but Sporapolis would not divulge the facility's inner workings. "I can tell you how to get in," he laughed, "but not how to get out."
— Roger Bartel
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Jim Gallagher, interim executive director of the Myrick-Hixon EcoPark project, is a swell guy who agreed to sate my curiosity on the park's status. The project's goal is to educate folks in the Seven Rivers Region about how to keep La Crosse's natural beauty healthy. Organizers have received $3.5 million for the project, and need another $2 million to create better habitats for the animals they plan on bringing into the exhibit. I asked if, to save time and resources, they planned on using existing structures at the former zoo. “We were hoping we would be able to do that, but when we changed over the name, it raised some questions with the state, and some inspectors came in. They shook their heads and said it wasn't up to code, either with humane animal housing
or safety regulations,” Gallagher replied. He frowns upon public display of animals for human entertainment and informed me that all the former zoo's non-regional animals (including the much-beloved spider monkeys) had found homes in other zoos. The new zoo's animals will include otters, which Jim says are quite the success story. “We've seen a comeback with otters because the water quality is better," he said. " That gives us an opening to talk about what people can do, like what they put on their lawns or what they dump down drains, to keep the water clean.” Visitors can also expect to see bald eagles, porcupines, black bears, bobcats, a special-needs raccoon and endangered species. Jim thinks that our EcoPark will be unlike anything in the state, and that it will be a great asset to the community when complete. So when will it be done? Well, that all depends on the donations. The first phase of the project (main building and exhibit area) is practically finished, but the second phase, comprised of constructing and filling the animal facilities, has yet to begin. Jim hopes that the EcoPark will be open to the public in a year or two, provided there's a steady stream of donations.
— Stephanie Schultz
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COMMUNITY Grand River Station
Eighteen months ago, workers broke ground on Grand River Station, a multi-use development on Third Street between Jay and King, but a new downtown transit center has been in the works for over a decade. A warm bus depot is a must for most any northern city. One that is centralized and removed from street traffic would be an improvement over the current hub near the State Street post office. But while the need for a new bus stop has long been evident to the city’s transit authorities, securing a site, agreeing on plans, finding a developer and securing funding would prove much more time consuming. Now, after years of debate and $20 million worth of construction, the city’s portion of the project — the bus depot — is nearing completion. City planner Larry Kirch said he expects the first story of Grand River Plaza to be completed by November or December. After that, the city will turn construction duties over to Gorman & Co., a Madison-based developer, to complete the six-story building
Computer rendering of Grand River Station by Gorman & Co.
WTC dorm
and manage its housing and retail space. “Clearly we could have built a transit center seven, eight, ten years ago,” Kirch said, “but to actually put a mixed-use development in” takes more time. Grand River Station incorporates national urbanization trends toward clustering housing near transportation hubs, but its design looks to the past with a brick façade and supporting arches that evoke neighboring architecture. After completing the transit center, it will take 12 to 18 months to finish the rest of the building, which will have one floor of commercial space in addition to 90 housing units, Kirch said. Of those units, 70 apartments will be reserved for low-income renters — defined as those earning 30 percent, 50 percent and 60 percent of the County Median Income. This not only opens up prime real estate to renters of all means, it also guarantees some federal financing for Gorman & Co., essential in the current credit and housing market. And while the effect of new commercial space on a downtown that is already riddled with vacancies is unclear, Kirch said businesses such as law firms or insurance offices may be more likely to occupy Grand River Station than traditional retail stores.
— Adam Bissen
About 200 students will move on up when Western Technical College's new sixfloor residence hall opens next fall at the corners of La Crosse Avenue and 9th Street. The hall will feature 51 three-bedroom, suite-style apartments. The apartments include kitchen, full bathroom, halfbathroom, living room and dining area. Residents also will have access to a large recreation room, first-floor laundry and storage. Just like home. The 75,000-square-foot facility carries a price tag of $7.5 million. It should be completed in June 2010. The exterior will feature a decorative masonry and facade chosen to blend with the other buildings on campus. It will be Western's second residence hall. A 99-bed hall at the corner of 6th and Vine streets houses men and women.
— Roger Bartel
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Rising La Crosse UW-L Centennial Building
For most of the summer, those who frequent the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse campus have been greeted with a massive pile of rubble that used to be Trowbridge, Baird and Wilder halls. They are being replaced by the Centennial Building, which will open for classes in fall of 2011. With construction already under way, the new academic building will be UW-L's first addition to classroom space since 1974. The Centennial Building construction will cost nearly $50 million, with $38 million coming from the state, $6 million from the UW-L Foundation in private gifts and $3 million from citizens wishing to contribute. To date, $2.3 million has been raised by donations. The building is designed to let in as much natural light as possible and will use a variety of gardens surrounding
the building to catch rainfall. These extra sustainability plans are designed with the hope that the building will use 35 percent less energy than what is called for in current state building codes. The real meat and potatoes of the project, however, are 44 new classrooms, each able to hold 40 to 70 students. In addition to the classrooms, there will be two auditoriums, which can hold up to 250 students each. The Centennial Building will also be home to the Hall of Nations, International Education, Career and Multicultural services, Honor services, as well as the Women’s and Communications Studies departments. For students wandering through the campus throughout the next semester, keep in mind that the pile of rubble surrounding our beloved clock tower and Fine Arts Center will take shape into something befitting … dare I say it? ... UW-Madison?! Looking at the floor plans and the projected look, I say this building will be fine addition to the UW-L campus and will provide all students with their biggest wishes: smaller class sizes for all of those pesky gen eds. and, of course, a whole new building to consider skipping walking to class to when the weather turns cold!
— Ben Clark
Three Rivers Plaza An extended stay hotel is rising on Copeland Avenue despite a contentious billboard that may threaten the entire project. Last month, crews began work on the final phase of Three Rivers Plaza, a $20 million redevelopment that replaced a blighted district on the Causeway with a Festival Foods, adjacent retail and office space, and a 44-unit condominium. Now construction is moving north. Local developers are pairing with Candlewood Suites, a national hotel chain, to build a four-story, 96-room hotel on the site of the former Chameleon Club. Construction should take 10 to 12 months, said city planning director Lary Kirch “They are going to have a gazebo in the back and work with the natural amenities that are right out the back door,” said Kirch, referencing the La Crosse River, which flows to the east of the site. But progress will hinge on a long-simmering conflict between developers and Collins Advertising, which owns a 14- by 48-foot billboard near the construction site. The sign stands in a right of way and will need to be relocated for vehicles to safely enter the hotel. So far, Collins has not budged. According to local media reports, the company rejected a $120,000 offer to sell the billboard and said it would fight any city efforts of condemnation.
La Crosse recently received a $52,000 beautification grant from the Federal Highway Administration that the city hoped to use toward the purchase of the billboard. (Copeland Avenue is part of the Great River Road, Highway 53, which is a national scenic byway.) Neither Kirch nor developers would comment on the unresolved billboard scrap, but construction continues on the hotel site as developers hope to get the building up before winter. Meanwhile, Festival Foods is moving forward with a planned expansion into the space currently occupied by Quiznos. As a result, that sandwich shop will move to the north end of the building and occupy the recently closed Peaberry’s.
— Adam Bissen
COMMUNITY
Downtown doesn't fit city's bicycle friendly image Area poses challenges for bicycle riders, planners
By Shuggypop Jackson shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com
La Crosse has an ordinance that states no bicycles are allowed on the sidewalks of business districts. For the purpose of this article, I will focus solely on the downtown business district, defined as everything from Seventh Street to the Mississippi River, and from Cass to Vine. La Crosse Police Department Sgt. Gary Hauser said the law, which he says has been on the books at least the entire 20 years he has been an officer, is there "for the protection of the people and pedestrians." Violators run the risk of getting fined $101. However, nowhere in the downtown area is there a sign to make the public aware of the ordinance. And in an anonymous polling of two dozen downtown business owners and nearly as many people riding bicycles downtown, many of them didn't know the ordinance existed. On a Thursday afternoon, between 3 and 5, I stopped 17 people riding bicycles on the sidewalk around Fourth and Pearl to ask if they were aware they were violating a city ordinance. The majority did not, and those who did, showed an open disdain for obeying the law. One bicyclist, a man in his mid-30s who works downtown, stated, "If I was suicidal, I'd ride on the street in this traffic. Cars here don't see you or respect the rights of a bicyclist. The city really needs to put bike lanes in." Herein lies the main dilemma facing bicyclists in downtown La Crosse: Do they ride in the streets risking injury to themselves and the anger of motorists, or do they violate the ordinance and risk getting fined? Similar concerns were echoed by many of the downtown business owners I polled. City Councilman John Satory said he took this issue up with the chief of police many years ago when he lived above his shop, Satori Arts, on Second and Pearl streets. Satory had an infant child, who under this ordinance ran the risk of getting ticketed for riding his tricycle on the sidewalk in front of his home.
At a Glance
Recommendations from the La Crosse Area Planning Committee's 2010 La Crosse and La Crescent Bicycle Plan for accommodating bicycles in the downtown area include: Front Street • 2nd Street to Jackson Street // Sign as bike route only 2nd Street • La Crosse Street to Vine Street // Install shared bike/park lanes • Vine Street to Pearl Street // Remove parking from one side and install bike lanes
During my research, I was informed of a tragic incident that happened in the mid1990s. A retired professor was walking on a downtown sidewalk when a bicyclist ran into him, knocking him down. He hit his head on the pavement and died from the injuries. Situations like this are the reason the ordinance is in place. A few business owners expressed concern about the lack of safety often shown by bicyclists riding past their businesses. If a shopper were to open the door and step out into a sidewalk where a bicyclist is traveling at an unsafe speed, someone could get seriously injured or, as history shows, killed. Accidents can happen. Much of this comes down to bicyclists' using common sense and respect. I personally have been angered by thrill-seeking bicyclists who nearly clipped me while they play a game of weaving through pedestrians while traveling at high speeds. Where does La Crosse go from here? Revitalizing downtown seems to be a priority, and the city wants to be known as a bicycle friendly community to attract eco-tourists to enjoy the numerous area trails, and thus attract the dollars they'd spend. Yet we have a downtown business area that is unfriendly and unsafe for bicyclists, many of whom live and work here. With downtown parking already an issue for some downtown businesses, several owners stated the lack of a reasonably safe place for bicyclists is just another reason discouraging some citizens from coming downtown to shop. The city, they said, should do more to attract people to the downtown. On what I hope will have a positive outcome, City Planner Larry Kirch informed me of meetings being held by the La Crosse Area Planning Committee to discuss the 2010 La Crosse and La Crescent Regional Bicycle Plan, in which citizen participation and input are encouraged. Kirch, a rumored bicycle enthusiast who has the opinion "the more bikes the merrier," said the city last discussed a bike/pedestrian plan in 1976, when La Crosse was given an $80,000 grant that helped establish many of the
trails around the city. He also informed me of funding that the city will get in April 2010 to install several bike racks downtown. Tom Faella, La Crosse Area Planning Committee executive director, said the downtown area presents unique challenges to planners because of the volume of traffic on some of the major arterials. The committee's recommendations for dealing with those challenges include bike lanes, shared bike/park lanes and "sharrows," which Faella described as placards painted on the driving lanes of roads to alert motorists that bicyclists also are apt to be in that roadway. "It is a way to provide an additional element of safety," he said, and typically is used where it is impractical to remove parking or put in a bike lane. Shared bike/park lanes also are not the optimal way to help protect bicyclists where cars and bikes mingle, but they, too, help provide a little more safety, he said. Usually, it's simply a stripe between the parking and travel lane to again ensure motorists are more aware of bicycles sharing the space. Faella expects the plan to be finalized early in 2010. No one knows how many, or if any, of the proposals will be adopted by the city. "We trying to identify some of the better things that could happen," Faella said. "Then it's up to the municipalities themselves to start implementing them." But he is optimistic: "There is a lot of interest among policy makers to provide safer bicycling accommodations." The next planning meeting will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16 at the La Crosse County Administrative Center, 400 4th St. N., Room 3220. The public is encouraged to attend.
• Pearl Street to La Crosse Center // Install bike lanes • Market Street to Front Street // Sign as bike route only 3rd Street • Badger Street to Pearl Street // Install southbound sharrow with parking • Pearl Street to Market Street // Install southbound bike lane 6th Street N. • Entire segment // Sign for 3 Rivers Trail access 7th Street • La Crosse Street to Main // Install bike lanes • Main Street to Cass Street // Remove parking from one side; install bike lane and shared bike/park lane
Main Street • 2nd Street to 5th Avenue // Install sharrows with parking • 5th Avenue to 17th Street // Install shared bike/park lanes La Crosse Street • 2nd Street N. to 4th Street N. // Install bike lanes • 4th Street N. to 7th Street No. // Install curbside sharrows and Bikes May Take Lane signage Cameron Avenue • 3rd Street to 4th Street // Install bike lane symbols in shared bike/park lane • 4th Street to 8th Street // Convert four-lane road to three lanes and install bike lanes
Editor's Note: More information about the city bicycle plans can be found at the La Crosse Area Planning Committee's Web site at http://www. lapc.org/Content/Plans/Bicycle%20Plan/ Welcome.htm or by calling La Crosse Area Planning Committee Executive Director Tom Faella at (608) 785-5977.
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JAY: I ride my bicycle through downtown. I'm aware there's an ordinance, but I don't pay attention to that.
MARY: I think we should have them. I just came back from Copenhagen and everybody rides bicycles there, so I think we need a spot. Bike lanes would help, it would encourage people that are bicycle riders to ride their bikes and save on the energy.
LANE BUTZ: I think we should have them. I wish we had bike lanes on the streets so we don't have to ride on the sidewalks.
JUNE KJOME: Oh, I think it's a good idea, but they better have some better traffic patterns and bike lanes because it isn't too safe, I think, for many of the bikers. But I think it's important for anybody who can peddle should do that because it would save a lot of gas and parking fees.
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Stay off the sidewalk ... and the street!
By Shuggypop Jackson shuggypop.jackson@secondsupper.com
Besides the obvious hazards of cars and pedestrians, bicyclists also worry about how they will be treated by police when traveling downtown. And, based on interviews with several residents, enforcement of the city's bicycling rules seems at best inconsistent and at its worst selective. Emma, a talented artist in her late 20s, lives on the outskirts of what is considered the downtown business district. (Note: Name has been changed to protect her privacy). Following a traumatic incident a few years ago, she began showing symptoms of an anxiety disorder and frequently suffered panic attacks. Things progressed to the point where Emma developed agoraphobia, which is more or less a fear of leaving her home. The only time Emma felt confident leaving her home was in the middle of the night when few if any people were out on the streets. She would ride her bike around her neighborhood, limited to an area not more than 10 blocks from where she lived. Riding her bike made her feel carefree. She rarely rode at a speed much faster
than a light jog, always had a light on her bike and preferred to keep to the sidewalks, not trusting the sobriety of anybody behind the wheel of a car or truck at those hours. Her nightly bike rides, weather permitting, became something she looked forward to, and the distance she was able to travel from her house as well as the time she spent outside began to slowly increase. Then one night around 4 a.m., a police officer working the night shift rolled up behind Emma, flashed his lights and asked Emma to dismount her bike around King and 6th, surrounded mostly by empty parking lots. The officer checked her identification, grilled her with a few questions and then ran her name through the computer system. The officer returned, issued Emma a warning citation and sent her along her way. This encounter triggered a panic attack, and Emma, not far from where she lived, froze, unable to travel the short distance to the safety zone of her home. Eventually she made it back, but that was the last time Emma went on her bike ride. Multiple bicyclists who have spoken to me, none who wanted to give their names for fear of retribution, reported what they considered to be harassment when they
ride their bikes downtown at night. All of them claimed that during the day, police cars drive by and don't even give them a second look, but once the sun goes down, they feel officers use the ordinance as a reason to pull them over and run their ID, perhaps looking for outstanding warrants, intoxicated individuals or underage drinkers.Many of the bicyclists said they were pulled over even if they were riding on the streets and told that bicycles aren't allowed anywhere downtown period. When asked if there was a difference in how the ordinance was enforced depending on the time of day, Sgt. Gary Hauser of the La Crosse Police Department denied there was, and his tone of voice implied surprise that I was even asking the question. A bicyclist we met downtown Sept. 2, however, would disagree. He also would not give his name. He seemed surprised to learn there was an ordinance restricting bicyclists from riding on the sidewalk. He said he had been told by police to use the sidewalk instead of the road. "They won't let me ride on the street," he said. "I've been stopped by cops and they said don't ride in the street. "They're just not consistent about it."
Know the Laws: La Crosse Municipal Code — Chapter IX, Section15, Part B No person operating a bicycle upon any highway, bicycle path or bicycle way within the City shall fail to observe all applicable traffic regulations of the municipality and State or to comply with the following regulations:
highway within the City unless such race or contest is held pursuant to permission granted by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway.
No person shall operate a bicycle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under existing conditions or in excess of any posted speed limit.
(3) Towing With Bicycle.
(6) Riding on Sidewalks.
(1) Carrying Extra Passengers.
No person riding or operating a bicycle shall tow, drag or cause to be drawn behind the bicycle, any person on roller skates, coaster sled, or any other type of conveyance not designed to be towed by a bicycle.
No person shall ride a bicycle on any public sidewalk in the business district, or past any building which has any entrance or exit abutting on the sidewalk. Except as herein specified, it shall be lawful to ride on any public sidewalk provided that a reasonable rate of speed is maintained and every person operating a bicycle upon a sidewalk shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall exercise due care and give an audible signal when passing a bicycle or electric personal assistive mobility device or a pedestrian proceeding in the same direction. If unable to pass in a safe manner the operator shall dismount from the bicycle and push it past the pedestrian. (Ord. #4272 – 8/11/05)
Bicycle operators shall not use a bicycle, except a tandem, to carry another person; provided, a bicycle operator may carry a child securely attached to his or her person in a back pack or sling and may carry another person on a bicycle if it is equipped with a child's seat securely attached to and properly designed for use on a bicycle. (2) Stunt or Trick Riding. No person operating or pedaling a bicycle shall participate in any trick or stunt riding or racing on any
(4) Obedience to Traffic Control Devices. Any person operating a bicycle shall obey the instructions of official Traffic Control Devices applicable to vehicles unless otherwise directed by a law enforcement officer. (5) Speed.
PEG: Bike lanes would be really nice to have. Bikes have just as much right to be here as cars do, if you want take your life into your hands, like around here (laughter).
SARAH BEVERLY: I think we should have bicycles downtown, more bike racks so people can park their bikes, and it would be good if there were a lane for bicycles because, you know, like on 4th Street, it's probably not safe to be bicycling.
ANNA: I think bikes are great always.
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Most of us have moved beyond the elementary-school belief that teachers live in the classroom, but you may not realize how talented some of our area teachers really are. Now is your chance to take your appreciation of teachers to a new level at the Area Art Educators: From Within exhibition, starting at noon Thursday, Sept. 3, at the Pump House. The show, which incorporates a wide variety of artistic media, is coordinated by Mara Mason, 10-year volunteer at the Pump House and teacher at School of Technology & Arts 1 at Hamilton Elementary School. Also a contributor to the show, Mason says the title, From Within, "is about where we get our inspiration, our ideas that we’re bringing out, whatever motivates us, things from our past.” The exhibition provides area students, parents and locals an opportunity to appreciate the unique creations of community educators, who more commonly work behind the scenes, teaching classes, running studios and making art in their own homes. “Community members get a chance to see what we do besides teaching, and it’s fun for the artists to come together and enjoy each other,” Mason said. “The Pump House is newly renovated and beautiful — it’s a great venue to record artists’ work.” Another featured artist is Lisa Ulik, La Crosse Central High School art teacher and Pump House education coordinator, whose contribution includes a set of charcoal drawings of gestures in irises. “When you look at them, you should see subtle differences in motion or movement or reaching," she explained. "It’s about human gesture in something that is not human. ... They’re fully abstract but make you feel like your body could move in that way.” Ulik agrees with Mason about the importance of supporting area art, and also emphasizes the importance for art educators
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whAT: Pump House Area Art Educators Show whEN: Sept. 3 through Sept. 26 (noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Saturday) whERE: Kader Room, Front Gallery, Pump House, 119 King St. ALSO: Reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11. PhONE: (608) 785-1434 wEB: www.thepumphouse.org in particular to model their own practice. “Art and education are synonymous terms,” Ulik said. “In order to teach, you need to make, and if it is my expectation of students to share their art, then I need to do the same.” Ulik is also active in the artist community via her work at the Green Bay Street Studio, which she cofounded with Matt Duckett, arts administrator at the Pump House. Local artist and retired West Salem educator Marianne Stanke will contribute a series of prints that she says is representative of art she creates with a printmaking press at Brown Dog studio, located in her home and named after her chocolate Lab retriever. Stanke gains inspiration from the beauty of the outdoors, beginning with sketches first and using whatever is in her environment. One of her pieces on exhibit, entitled “Weed Dance,” was created by pressing the plants onto paper with her printmaking press to create impressions of leaves. Another piece, “Grotto Guardian,” features the Wegner Grotto near Cataract. The exhibit features contributors from many surrounding communities, including Black River Falls, De Soto and Viroqua, as well as artists from Minnesota. “The area has an incredible amount of talent,” Stanke said.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) Director: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent Writer: Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds opens with one of the best scenes Quentin Tarantino has ever written, features one of the best characters he's ever created, and contains one of the best performances — by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz — in any of his films. It's a sharp, masterfully crafted scene that may actually do a disservice to the rest of the film, setting the bar impossibly high and establishing Waltz's antagonist — nicknamed "The Jew Hunter" — a little too well. Part of the problem is the film's length. At over twoand-a-half hours, the long-winded Basterds meanders often, plagued by a number of superfluous characters and scenes. But that shouldn't undermine the fact that Basterds, on the heels of the poorly aging Death Proof, is both a thematic and stylistic step forward for Tarantino. The reality of Inglourious Basterds' content couldn't be further from its marketing campaign's promise of non-stop action, blood and guts, a campaign built around Brad Pitt's Lt. Aldo Raine demanding each of his soldiers rack up no less than 100 Nazi scalps. It's a campaign that will undoubtedly leave many film-goers scratching their heads, especially in the wake of Kill Bill, Tarantino's ode to cinematic violence across cultures. Basterds' primary focus is actually Jew-in-hiding Mélanie Laurent, owner of a French mov-
ie theater scheduled to host a premier for the (fictional) German film, Nation's Pride. There's an element of disappointment in the surprisingly small amount of screen time given to Pitt and his Basterds — the movie almost feels incomplete because of it, as if a few reels of the explosive action we were promised went missing. But the lack of sheer action also deserves credit for most of what works in Basterds. It's easy to have predicted that Tarantino would churn out a senseless orgy of violence, but the end result is a richer movie with more depth and intelligence. Of particular interest is the undercurrent of film's use as propaganda and its ability to build up a nation's spirits or — in this, a most literal of cases — destroy them. It's a theme that warrants a closer look, particularly with regard to Nazi Germany and the power of the cinema in trying times. Tarantino builds his case around bits of action, inklings of espionage, outstanding performances, and back-and-forth dialogue so potent it practically carries the movie itself, a testament to his ability to craft a powder keg of tension with words alone. As is the case in much of Tarantino's work — or in any good thriller or piece of suspense, for that matter — the real prize in Inglourious Basterds is the build-up, not the pay-off.
— Nick Cabreza
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) Directed by: Michael Patrick Jann Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Denise Richards Written by: Lona Williams Beauty pageants usually fill me with dread, horror and disdain for my species. In my mind, the only good thing to come from the institution came in a segment of Wonder Showzen that featured a surly ginger kid insulting a group of oblivious contestants. Beyond serving as objects of misplaced derision, envy and lust, the professionally beautiful are fairly useless creatures. I certainly would never have guessed that I would enjoy a film about beauty pageants, satirical or no, but this is an unusual stripe of cat. On its surface, Drop Dead Gorgeous is the fake documentary of a pageant tearing through a small Minnesota town like a trailer park tornado. The main plot becomes a murder mystery showdown between the good dimwit (Dunst) and the evil dimwit (Richards), yet this is a film carried by an ensemble of absurd background characters. Though Denise Richards continues her fine tradition of chewing up scenery with her big choppers and measly acting, the void in a spectator’s heart is soon filled by the likes of a pervy judge, a flailing man-child, Adam
West, and a dingbat hawking pork products. The marquee names are largely irrelevant. The real star of this film, in fact, is the accent. The over-the-top savaging of the dontcha know Midwestern caricature is ridiculously wonderful. The inhabitants of the town bumble through the events with wide-eyed idiocy, screeching out their rube lines with horridly exaggerated Minnesota accents. It’s as though The State’s Michael Patrick Jann instructed his actors to talk like how you’d imagine potato salad would talk if it were first dipped in a deep fryer and wrapped in lefse. The cultural self-loathing inspired by this film is magnificent. Nothing smarts quite like watching beauty contestants flail about a stage in search of approval, but this movie offers sweet escape from the status quo. Many great one-liners are to be found in Drop Dead Gorgeous, if one has the strength to withstand Denise Richards. She dies, if that helps.
— Brett Emerson
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MUSIC Medium: Video Game (PSP) Stimulus: Dissidia — Final Fantasy Anno: 2009
Leave it to the makers of Final Fantasy to create a fighting game that takes days to complete. Back in the waning days of the arcade, Squaresoft put their toe in the streetfighting pool with a game called Ehrgeiz. It was a frustrating creature, full of elaborate button combinations that rendered the action unusable for anything beyond button mashing. When the game was ported to PlayStation, the company inserted characters from the bestselling Final Fantasy VII to drive up interest. And it worked — at least in my case, but aside from an interesting dungeon crawl side quest, Ehrgeiz was a disappointment. While that game is technically the first Final Fantasy fighter, it in no way captured the series’ role-playing spirit. Two weeks ago, the company behind Final Fantasy (now Square Enix) released Dissidia, a proper spinoff that stands as a full roleplaying fighter. Bringing together a hero and villain from each of the first 10 games, its premise is an uncomplicated slugfest between good and evil. The story is the game’s weak point; any fan of the series looking for a greater insight to their favorite characters will be let down by the “find the crystals, smash the bad guys” plot. Considering this, the game could very well have become a case of vacant fanservice, coasting on brand loyalty and delivering mediocre gameplay. This isn’t the case.
The personalities of the characters, while stunted in the cutscenes, really come through in the fighting. As opposed to the button-mashers that sprang up in Street Fighter’s wake, the characters in Dissidia are wholly unique, demanding unique strategies to operate. The game controls are uniform — there are six possible attacks on the ground and six performed while flying Superman-style about the arena, but the attack styles are all different. As the characters progress in level, additional attacks are unlocked, developing one’s strategy further. And that’s the word that aptly describes this game and sets this game apart from any other in the field — strategy. In Dissidia, one has no choice but to fight with one’s mind. The worst thing about this game is that it takes forever, not only in the length of the story modes but in the loading times, which come often and long. An option to install data in order to make the game run faster is available, but if one is using the memory card that came with the PSP, this option is off the table. Nonetheless, Dissidia is one of the most original fighting games in the field. Fanboys will flock to the game for the nostalgia, but it’s excellent in its own right.
Oh hi, right now I am listening to albums by Fela Kuti. Fela Kuti is from Abeokuta, Nigeria, located just north of capital city Lagos, and went on to become the biggest musician in all of Africa. Fela studied music in London in the late '50s, and lived in the United States in the late '60s, where he studied African-American history and made contact with the Black Panthers, who had a huge influence on his political outlook. Moving back to Lagos in 1970, he began releasing albums with his band Africa 70. He called the music he created Afro-Beat, a fiery hybrid of traditional Yoruba music (traditional African drumming that has influenced Afro-Cuban music), jazz, highlife (genre of music with jazzy horns and multiple guitars that is popular in Western Africa), the soul of James Brown, and some nasty, nasty funk. Over the years, Fela has put out over 50 albums containing some of the most hard-hitting grooves you are likely to ever hear in your life. His band had more than 20 musicians in it, and at times, more than 40. Fela alternated between playing tenor sax, alto sax and keyboards, while also holding down the lead vocals. His lyrics were often highly political, standing up for the poor and radically challenging political corruption, and throughout his life Fela faced violence and arrests at the hands of Nigeria's military government. In concert, Fela was always shirtless, dripping with sweat, his face frequently covered in tribal war paint, regularly with a giant spliff in his hand, as he led
his band during marathon concerts that would go through the wee hours of the night. During his concerts, he would frequently launch into rants about injustices to incite the crowds while his band grooved behind him. His political posturings I find a bit heavy handed and often ill conceived, but the grooves his bands lay down, songs often stretching out over 20 minutes on recordings, even longer in concert, are what I am all about. Fela's personal life is interesting as well, having 28 wives and a whole shitload of kids, both by his wives and from random affairs, which frequently make him the target of feminist groups who label him sexist. In response, in 1986, Fela, in a highly publicized event, divorced all of his wives saying "no man has the right to own a woman's vagina." Fela's fast living caught up to him; he died from AIDS in 1997. But the genre of music Fela created, Afro-Beat, lives on, both in Nigeria and world wide. His son Femi Kuti led Fela's band while he was imprisoned and now leads a band of his own, as does Fela's drummer since the beginning, Tony Allen. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra out of Brooklyn has been making the rounds on the touring circuit, as has the Chicago Afrobeat Orchestra, showing that Fela's reach has extended beyond Africa. Many hip-hopper have sampled his beats as well over the years. This music hits on all cylinders; do yourself a favor and listen to it.
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Well, it’s the final day of August and I’m wearing a sweatshirt and have a down comforter draped across my legs, which can only mean one thing — fall beer season! That’s how we do sour grapes in Wisconsin. Sure, this summer has sucked weather-wise. The Milwaukee Brewers haven’t seen playoff contention in months, and everyone seems mega-bummed that America lost all its money. But fear not, hearty men and women of the North Country. Autumn is upon you. The Packers look like they’re going to totally kick ass this season, and when you cheer them on you may take off your shirt and chug something hearty and brown (apologies for any disturbing mental images). I’ve already observed Oktoberfest beers rolling into grocery stores, so the days of IPA reviews in this space are numbered. And that’s cool, because fall is a time for beer palette rebirth. We kick off the autumn brew season with the newest offering from one of Wisconsin’s oldest breweries, Point Burly Brown. As advertised, the beer pours a solid brown color. Even when held to the light there are only trace tints of amber, and the head is thin but long-lasting. The aroma comes on lager-like with a heavy malt pres-
ence and a caramel kick, but clean hop Appearance 8 notes rise above the base to introduce Aroma: 6 a truly interesting brew. Unlike many Taste: 7 brown ales — especially those from the Mouthfeel: 7 Midwest — the Burly Brown hits the tongue Drinkability: 8 with a light touch. It takes a few seconds for the toasty malt flavors Total: 36 to arrive, but the dry grass notes are more dominant than the chocolate. This is due to a smart hop blend, something Point Brewery has rarely excelled at. I’m not really sure where the “burly” taste is supposed to come from, as this is more of a clean sipper with a long and dry finish that is owed to the Willamette hops. Truthfully, this beer surprised me. I don’t care for most offerings in the Point lineup, but the dark hues, crisp finish and easy drinkability make this the perfect beer to straddle summer and fall. Next up: Oktoberfest!
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BARREl iNN Bucket Night, six beers for $9 Sunday BROTHERS BARREl iNN Thirsty Tuesday, $1.50 U-Call-its $2.25 for mini pitcher CHuCk’S CHuCk'S 50-cent taps domestic, $3 pitchers All day everyday: $1 Doctor, $2 Silos COCONuT JOE’S $3 pitchers, $1.75 rails $2 Tuesdays, including $2 bottles, import taps, beer pong, apps, EAglE’S NEST single shot-mixers, featured shots, 50-cent taps Open to close: $2 U “Call” it EAglE’S NEST HOWiE’S 7 p.m. to close: $1.50 domestic pints, $1.50 rails Happy hour 4 to 9 p.m.; 9 p.m. to close: Night Before Class - $3 HOWiE’S pitchers of the beast 9 p.m. to close: $1 rails, $2.50 pitchers, beer pong iRiSH HillS iRiSH HillS Happy Hour 4 to 7 p.m. daily $2 domestic cans JB’S SPEAkEASy JB’S SPEAkEASy $1.75 domestic bottles $1.75 domestic bottles PETTiBONE BOAT CluB PETTiBONE BOAT CluB $1 off fried chicken 2 for 1 burger night PlAyERS PlAyERS Price by Dice Karaoke @ 10 p.m., 2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 to 10 p.m., all you can drink RiNgSiDE rail mixers @ 10 p.m. closed RiNgSiDE SCHmiDTy’S Open 4-9 $6.95 lunch buffet SCHmiDTy’S $9.95 breakfast buffet 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tacos SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER $11 buckets of beers (pregame-close), taco specials during game $2 can beer (2-6 p.m.) 12" pizza: $8.99 up to 5 toppings (4-close) THE JOiNT SPORTS NuT $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 all day, ev- Tacos $1.25 eryday THE JOiNT THE HElm $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 All day (everyday!) specials $1.25 Old Style Light, $1.50 LAX Lager/ THE liBRARy Light, $1 shots of Dr. $1 domestic taps and rails, one-half price Tequila THE liBRARy TOP SHOTS Sunday Fun Day - Wristband Night $1.75 Rails, $1.50 Domestic Taps, $3.50 Jager Bombs (7-1AM) TOP SHOTS TRAiN STATiON BBQ after 9pm drink for FREE! [Make sure you bring friends!] $5 Pitchers/$2 bottlesand of Miller products (11-4pm) 11 a.m.some to 3 p.m., extra side with sandwich; 4 to 9 p.m., $1 off rib $2 Corona Bottles, $2 Kilo Kai Mixers , $3 Bloodys (7-1AM) dinner TRAiN STATiON BBQ Ask for great eats wednesday BARREl iNN Monday $6 all you can drink taps and rails, 8 to midnight BARREl iNN BROTHERS Buck burgers 10-cent wings, $1 Miller High Life bottles, $1.50 rail mixers BROTHERS CHuCk’S $2.50 Blatz vs. Old Style pitchers $2 Pearl Street Brewery beers CHuCk’S COCONuT JOE’S Monday-Friday: Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m., 50 cents off everything $1.25 for 1 pound of wings, $1 PBR/PBR Light bottles, $1.50 Rolling but the daily special Rock, $2 jumbo rail mixers, $2.25 Bud Lights, $1 shot of the week Guys’ Nite Out: $1.50 silos EAglE’S NEST EAglE’S NEST 7 p.m. to close: $1.50 domestic pints, $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails 7 p.m. to close: $1.50 domestic pints, $1.50 rails HOWiE’S HOWiE’S $5 all you can drink 9 p.m. to close: $3.50 domestic pitchers JB’S SPEAkEASy JB’S SPEAkEASy Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m. $1.75 domestic bottles lEgEND’S PETTiBONE BOAT CluB $1 shot of the week, $4 domestic pitchers, $1.25 1 pound of wings Kids eat free with adult PETTiBONE BOAT CluB PlAyERS $6.99 AUCE pasta Happy Hour all night long, two-for-one PlAyERS RiNgSiDE Karaoke @ 10 p.m., 2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 to 10 p.m., $1 Pabst cans, Closed Dr. shots @ 10 p.m. SCHmiDTy’S RiNgSiDE BBQ sandwich $6.50 double cheeseburger SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER SCHmiDTy’S $2 can beer (2-6 p.m.) $11 buckets of beers (6-close) Chili dogs SPORTS NuT SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER Buck Burgers Wings, Wings, Wings... $2 off 14: pizza, $2 can beer (2-6 p.m.) THE CAvAliER SPORTS NuT Martini Ladies’ Night, James Martini: vodka, triple sec, orange juice 15-cent wings THE JOiNT THE CAvAliER $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 $1.50 taps 6 to 8 p.m. TOP SHOTS THE JOiNT $1.75 Miller/Bud Light Taps, $2.25 MIcro/Craft Taps, $2.50 Cherry $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 Bombs (7-1AM) THE liBRARy Karaoke, $2 double rails & all bottles
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BARREl iNN 25-cent wings, $1 shots of Doctor BROTHERS Wristband night, $1 shots with wristband $2.50 SoCo and Jack CHuCk’S Ladies’ Nite Out: $1.50 rail mixers, $2.50 X bombs COCONuT JOE’S Happy Hour 7 to 9 p.m.: $2 for all single shot mixers and all beers. Wristband Night: $5 college I.D., $9 general public EAglE’S NEST 7 p.m. to close: $1.50 domestic pints, $2 craft pints, $1.50 rails HOWiE’S 9 p.m. to close: $1.25 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans iRiSH HillS $14.95 steak and golf JB’S SPEAkEASy Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m. THE CAvAliER All Mojitos $5 THE JOiNT $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 lEgEND’S After comedy: Pint Night - $1 pints of rail mixers and domestic taps, $2 pints of call mixers and import taps, $3 pints of top-shelf mixers PETTiBONE BOAT CluB BBQ night, $1 off PlAyERS 2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 to 10 p.m., $2 Captain mixers, $1.75 domestic beer, $1.50 rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m. RAlPH’S Southwest chicken pita $5 RiNgSiDE Southwest chicken pita SCHmiDTy’S Tacos SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER Ladies night, 2 for 1 drinks (6-close), $2 can beer (2-6 p.m.) SPORTS NuT $8.99 12-ounce T-bone THE HElm $1 Vodka Drinks, $1.00 12 oz Dom. Taps, $1.25 12 oz prem. Taps, $3 Orange Bombs THE liBRARy Wristband Night and Beer Pong Tourney TOP SHOTS 5 Domestic Bottles for $10, $5 Micro/Import Bottles $11.50, $7 Micro/Craft Pitchers (7-1AM) TRAiN STATiON BBQ 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Barn burner $7.95; 4 to 9 p.m., Hobo dinner (serves two) $30.95
Friday
BARREl iNN $4.50 domestic pitchers BROTHERS $3 Three Olive mixers, $3 Mojitos, $2 Cherry Bombs, $1 Bazooka Joes CHuCk’S After-Class $3 Pitchers, $1.75 Rails COCONuT JOE’S Happy Hour 7 to 9 p.m.: $2 for all single-shot mixers and all beers, $2.50 jumbo Captain Morgan mixers, $2.50 jumbo Bacardi mixers (all flavors), $3 Jagerbombs EAglE’S NEST 3 to 9 p.m.: two-for-one domestic bottles and rail drinks HOWiE’S 9 p.m. to close: $2 Captain mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 Jager bombs JB’S SPEAkEASy Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m. lEgEND’S $3 jumbo Svedka mixers, $2.50 Corona bottles, $2.50 Cuervo shots PETTiBONE BOAT CluB Pettibone Fish Fry
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PlAyERS 2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 to 9 p.m. RiNgSiDE $5 chicken salad on rye w/ lettuve, tomato and onion SCHmiDTy’S Fish sandwich SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER Friday Fish, $2 can beer (2-6 p.m.) THE JOiNT $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 THE liBRARy $3 Bacardi mixers and jumbo Long Islands TOP SHOTS $2.00 Captain Mixers, $2.00 Long Island Mixers, $3.00 Effen Vodka Mixers (7-1AM) TRAiN STATiON BBQ 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Chicken on fire $7.95; 4 to 9 p.m., Bones and briskets $13.95
Saturday
BARREL INN $10 pitcher and pizza BROTHERS FAC 4 to 8 p.m.: $2 taps, $2 rails, $2.50 Miller Lite pitchers, $3 Bacardi mixers, $3 Mojitos, $2 Cherry Bombs, $1 Bazooka Joes CHuCk’S 12 to 3 p.m.: Buy one, get one domestic beer; Holmen Meat Locker jerky raffle COCONuT JOE’S Happy Hour 7 to 9 p.m.: $2 for all single-shot mixers and all beers, $2.50 jumbo Captain Morgan mixers, $2.50 jumbo Bacardi mixers (all flavors), $3 Jagerbombs EAglE’S NEST Open to close: $2 U “Call” it HOWiE’S 9 p.m. to close: $2 Bacardi mixers, $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy iRiSH HillS $14.95 steak and golf JB’S SPEAkEASy Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m. THE JOiNT $2 domestics and rails, 4 to 8 p.m., Shots of Doctor $1 lEgEND’S $3 jumbo Svedka mixers, $2 Jonestown shots PETTiBONE BOAT CluB Prime riv PlAyERS 2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 to 8 p.m. RiNgSiDE $1 off wild wings, $1 off philly steak and cheese SlOOPy'S AlmA mATER $11 buckets for college football, 2 for 1 pints/pitches w/ student ID over 21 SPORTS NuT 15-cent wings THE liBRARy $3 Three Olives mixers and jumbo Long Islands TOP SHOTS $5 Miller/Bud Light Pitchers, $2.25 Leinies Bottles (7-1AM)TRAiN STATiON BBQ One-half chicken three bones $12.95
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CROSSWORD "You Sound Like L"--and so do these entries. By Matt Jones
Across 1 It starts by "springing forward": abbr. 4 New Year's Eve mo. 7 Member of the fam 10 Half-___ (latte order) 13 "Yo te ___" 14 Largest school in the Granite St. 15 Sea ___, animal that contracts when touched 17 Triscuit maker 19 Time that athletes prepare for 20 Hip to sounds from Rice Krispies? 22 Like some trigger fingers 23 Affirmative votes 24 They're checked at the door 27 IBM competitor 28 Blood relatives 30 "Dukes of Hazzard" deputy sheriff 31 Getting the right pitch and volume, for a lion? 37 Dubuque's state 38 Teen follower 39 Leftovers from sticking doughy lumps in a coffee percolator? 46 Mayberry kid 47 "I'm so excited!" squeal 48 Indignation 49 USO entertainees Answers to Issue 177's
"King John"
50 Prefix for "dilation" 53 Eagle's nest 55 Scaring yet again? 59 Squealer 61 Allergy spray brand 62 Message that never goes to the victor 63 Circle section: abbr. 64 Greek letter Ns 65 Braille bit 66 House member, for short 67 Gold, in them there cerros 68 College-level high school tests: abbr.
Down 1 Dinner follower, on some dates 2 More likely to join Mensa 3 Put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 Like the sky just after sunset 5 Env. attachment 6 "Top Chef Masters" host Kelly 7 Like bodies, after gravity takes over 8 With jaw to floor 9 Some tournament rounds 10 Substance in some cough syrups 11 Top-ranked tennis player Ivanovic 12 "SNL" alum Tina 16 My, to Mitterrand 18 I as in Innsbruck? 21 Da ___ (Vietnamese port city) 25 Palme ___ (Cannes film award) 26 1040 digits: abbr. 28 Green fruit 29 ___ instant 30 Neutral shade 32 Clear the screen 33 "Ha!," in chat 34 Where newspaper may be laid down 35 Shrek, e.g.
36 Conservative opener 39 TV bounty hunter 40 Alternative to Reuters 41 Lose an opportunity 42 Rock sci. 43 "In Utero" band 44 Withers 45 She can see the future 50 Reason for a medal 51 Come up 52 Costly 53 Whisky ___ (L.A. rock club) 54 Reeeeeeally long time 56 "My mama done ___ me..." 57 "Provided that..." 58 Card or Cub, for short 59 Pink Floyd member Barrett 60 Overly ©2009 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-2262800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0430.
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THE LAST WORD
Y Marks the Spot By Brett Emerson brett.emerson@secondsupper.com The voices of a thousand sanctimonious mothers rushed through my head as I stood in the bathroom, stunned into laughter by the sudden oblivion. As a man, I don’t understand true pain, they said. It’s the battle of the sexes' equivalent of playing the Hitler card: No matter how much physical pain a man has experienced in life, his suffering is inferior to woman’s, because outside of the Marquis de Sade’s imagination, a man will never push an object the size of a watermelon through an opening the size of an orange. Childbirth trumps all. But when I looked into a strainer on one hard night, the trump card was rendered meaningless. After years of gestation, I had finally given birth to a bouncing baby kidney stone.
Everything began two years ago in April, on the Tuesday when Nine Inch Nails had released its newest album. Work was a tired, happy boredom that I was eager to absorb. The thing crawled into existence while the shift was young, a warm ache in the right side of my lower back. It grew louder, louder, until I could feel the teeth emerge from its infant gums. The pain was tolerable at first, but I knew that my shift at work was due for premature burial. The manager OK'd my hospital trip, but before leaving for the clinic I bought the Nine Inch Nails album. The waiting room in urgent care wasn’t packed to capacity, but there were too many people ahead of me. As the thing continued to gnaw, my posture in the seat developed a slow hunch, elbows making acquaintances with knees. Stoic dignity was slipping out the window. A nurse led me into a room, then another, and she handed me a plastic cup. Next came the first wretched, dribbling piss of my life, and I was embarrassed as I emerged with my paltry droplets of urine. A taste test followed, and blood was found in the mix. My suspicions were confirmed — kidney stone. At that point, I wanted a miracle solution, some drug that would flush out the pipes and break down the debris, or at least dull the pain. Instead, the doctor gave me a strainer to pee in. I was to suck it up, and when the thing was expelled, I was to bring
it in for examination to determine if it was a uric acid or calcium stone. I limped out of the clinic, painfully disappointed, and spent the rest of the day in explosive pain. After lugging around the unwieldy piss strainer for a week, nothing came out, and I gave up. Months later, the thing returned and ruined another day of work. The doctor gave me another strainer to pee in and sent me on my way. The copy of The 40 Year Old Virgin that I had bought that day went unwatched. I spent the entire weekend in horror, drinking water until I gagged it back up and screaming at anyone in sight. I found that boiling water in my bathtub was my best defense against the agony. The clinic was useless. When the pain continued to repeat itself every eight months or so, I would skip it and scream my way to the scalding. Things were different the last time. Where the previous stabbings kept their stings in my lower back, the new ache that sprung up a month ago was dull, constant and, to put it politely, in the tubes. No matter how rarely a guy engages in the amorous arts, the moment something disrupts the regularly scheduled programming of his junk, the mind jumps, slithers or glances shyly to one conclusion — venereal disease. Had I sat on the wrong toilet seat? Highly unlikely, but still. The day after I finally returned to the clinic and once again hit a diagnostic brick wall made things worse. At work, I wan-
dered to the urinal and made ready for a standard piss. Instead, I became intimately acquainted with the term, “burning sensation.” It was more shock than pain, but the dull ache had grown to the point where walking around was uncomfortable. Once again, I had to tell my boss that my body demanded retreat. Back to the clinic, back to the waiting room, and back to an exam room, where I read a Wisconsin magazine and tried to ignore why I was there. Another diagnosis of kidney stone and another pee strainer, though this time I had to expose myself to the doctor, and he gave me solid advice. To paraphrase — drink lots of water and blast it out. It sounded joyous, so I did, making it through the rest of work, chugging water the whole time. As usual when dealing with these kidney adventures, the urge to piss had vanished, but the influx of water wore away the resistance. Pumping myself up to face certain suffering, I grabbed my strainer and made for the toilet. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Thunk! And then the pain was gone, and I giggled. A week later, I brought my newborn to the urologist orphanage. The nurses oohed and aahed over my pee-pee meteor before sending me to the doctor. He wasn’t sure if I ought to send the evidence in for examination, but I was. After two years of dealing with this, I wanted closure. My baby was Dumpstered in the lab. I shed no tears. That’s how a dad gets things done.
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