Profiles of Love

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Profiles of Love

How four Coulee Region couples keep the romance burning Page 4 PLUS: PUMP HOUSE PREVIEW • PAGE 6 | SHOELESS GETS FUNKY • PAGE 7 | A BEER FOR A-RODG • PAGE 9

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VOLUME 11, NO. 4 | FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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Social Networking WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? Wastefulness

NAME AND AGE: Kurtis Lee Nieman, 22

TELL US A JOKE: I'm more of the "in the moment" kinda of joke guy.

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? LAX, but lived in MN my whole life

WHAT'S THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? Pancake, Two eggs over easy, local bacon

CURRENT JOB: Practicing the art of pushing snow, i.e. laid off.

DREAM JOB: Paid to travel the world and eat, basically the life of Tony Bourdain.

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: First Avenue's concert page IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? New Zealand

WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE: Go into space

WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW?: I'm answering this question in my boxers, but my snuggie's kangaroo pouch has my remote in it if that counts.

IF A GENIE GRANTED YOU ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR? For people to stop caring about material crap and enjoy the beauty that surrounds them.

WHAT PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH? Ben Franklin FIRST CONCERT YOU WENT TO: Drowning Pool & Sevendust at the La Crescent Community Arena

WHAT IS YOUR BEVERAGE OF CHOICE? Southern sweet tea

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF SECOND SUPPER? Drink/Food specials, local music page.

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WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? Reading a stack of Nat Geo's that I recieved from a hair salon.

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The Top First dates 1. County fair 2. Ice skating 3. BINGO 4. Scenic drive 5. Bowling 6. Canoeing 7. Art museum Platonic love stories 1. Scully and Mulder 2. The Fox and the Hound 3. Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion 4. E.T. 5. Lost in Translation 6. Ghost World 7. Schultze Gets the Blues

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FIRST THINGS FIRST

Show your support at the 2nd Annual Realtors Rock the Cause, a benefit for The Sunshine Kids Foundation this Saturday, Feb. 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Varsity Club. This fun event will benefit families with kids that have cancer and start out in the afternoon with a Corn Hole Tournament beginning at 1 p.m. It is a double elimination tourney with competitive and social divisions. From 6-9 p.m. there will be a Casino night with live music by Abbey Lane & the Backbone from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Beloved retro-rockers Flashback takes the stage from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be raffles and tip boards throughout the night along with prizes and drawings. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the Varsity Club, Neuie’s Northstar, and Prudential-Lovejoy Real Estate in Onalaska. For more information, call (608) 788-1919.

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Make it a Museum night!

Parents get a night out on the town, and kids get a night out at the museum: Sounds like the best of both worlds! Night Out at the Museum will take place on Friday from 5:30-8 p.m. at the La Crosse Children’s Museum and is for children ages 3-11. The cost is $10 per member child and $15 per non-member child.

Pre-registration and pre-payment is required so grab those tickets by calling (608) 784-2652 before it’s too late.

(Sorry, there will be no Ben Stiller.)

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Be on a boat!

Picture yourself soaking up some rays at the Boat, Sport and Travel Show, February 10-13 at the La Crosse Center. Show hours are: Thursday from 5-10 p.m., Friday & Saturday from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for kids 6 to 17, and under 5 will be admitted free. Check out that cool boat you have always been dreaming about!

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Pajiv Satyal, a comedian who has opened for notable funnymen like Tim Allen and Kevin Nealon, will be at UW-La Crosse tonight at 7 p.m. to get your laugh on. Originally from Ohio, Satyal has performed from Boston to Bangalore and covers a variety of topics from racial issues to dish soap. The performance takes place in the Cellar of the Cartwright Center, and admission is free.

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Drink some beers!

Snag that ticket quick for the 12th Annual Pearl Street Winter Ball on Saturday, February 12 from noon to 10 p.m. at the Pearl Street Brewery. Tickets include 5 specialty taps (Bedwetter Barleywine, Hockey Brown Apple Ale, Bourbon Barrell Aged Smokin’ Hemp Porter, Bourbon Barrel Aged Cherry Stout and the famous Raspberry Tambois), 1 souvenir pint glass, and 10 hours of live local music. Tickets are $35 and VIP tickets are $50 and are on sale at Pearl Street Brewery, The Joint, The Root Note, and Del’s Bar.

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Love Stories

Every couple has a story. Here are four from the Coulee Region, where romance burns through the years

By Emily Faeth

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Rock 'n Roll Romance

corn Tavern and … I don't know. I guess it was something about the lighting that just kind of hit me when I looked at her and I thought, ‘hey, that's who I want to be with.’”

Mike Caucutt & Nancy Stoll Caucutt Married 13 years

At first, Nancy Stoll, keyboardist and backing vocalist for local band Mr. Blink, couldn't stand her new bandmate, Mike Caucutt. It was 1989, and the UW-La Crosse students had just formed the side project from three other groups: Union Jack, Disorient Express and Buzz Butler.

“I guess I just thought he was too bossy … just not as nice as I thought he should be,” says Nancy with a chuckle.

So what finally brought them together?

“Well, it was inevitable!” says Mike, who proposed to Nancy on Valentine's Day 1997 at Traditions Restaurant in Onalaska. “Yeah, it might have been inevitable,” agrees Nancy.

“We were in our mid-twenties, and … you kind of get to that point where you know what you're looking for in a person for the rest of your life. And it's been really good.”

Twenty-two years later, Mr. Blink — and Mike and Nancy — are still going strong.

They've even added some much younger groupies to the brood, that is, two daughters and a son.

Mike sounds a bit sentimental as he reminisces. “We were playing at the Pop-

Going the Distance

Andrea Craig & Faizon Osman Dating 3+ years

Andrea Craig wasn't looking for a serious connection when she began chatting on the popular social site, ustream.tv. Entertainment, some interesting conversations, maybe, but nothing profound. That is, until she began chatting with a young man a few years her senior named Faizon. “It was like we just clicked,” says Andrea. “And I'm sure a lot of people say that, but this was just … different.”

After a year of chatting both online and over the phone, Andrea decided to finally meet Faizon where he lives … in Toronto, Canada. “Of course [the Amtrak ride] was nerve-wracking … but we were comfortable together right away,” says Andrea. “And it was after that first week, when I was leaving for home, that we decided we should be together.”

“Together,” of course, being the operative word here — Andrea lives in La Crosse, while Faizon remains in Toronto. And the pair is divided not only by geography; they

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bridge cultural, religious and ethnic divides, as well. Faizon, of East Indian descent, practices Islam and has lived in several countries, while Andrea, who is of primarily Caucasian descent, is a Coulee Region native who isn't particularly religious. But their differences have only served to enrich their union even more, and will surely continue to do so, as the couple has plans to eventually marry.

“[Faizon's] mom and dad were kind of hard for me to understand for the first couple times visiting, but I am learning their language slowly,” Andrea says. “Faiz tells me certain words and I say them a lot instead of the English ones now. His mom told me our kids are going speak both languages if [she] has anything to do with it. Sounds good to me.”

Let Me Count the Ways...

Randy & Katherine Erickson Married 22 years

It was September of 2009, and Randy Erickson was preparing songs to play at an upcoming wedding gig. He wanted to play Bob Dylan's “Make You Feel My Love,” and so practiced the poetic ballad over … and over … and over again. “It kind of got ingrained in my head,” says Randy. “And I came up with some funny alternate lyrics for it. After I did the first two verses, I thought, you know, I could just do this every day for a year.”

And so he did. Penning what he calls his “Dylanesque Declarations of Devotion,” Randy has spent the past 17 months writing new verses for his wife, Katherine. And declarations they are — in addition to playing the verses for Katherine, Randy also frequently posts his lyrics online. “In most of them there's usually a kernel of romanticism, but with a twist. My goal was to make her laugh more than anything. I've also always had trouble coming up with anything interesting to say on Facebook, so I thought, I could just post one of these every day and I wouldn't have to come up with anything else,” he says with a laugh. But after a year had passed, Randy didn't feel the well had yet dried up.

“So I figured, well, I'll go to 500, and I set my goal for Valentine's Day.”

The verdict? “It's very sweet,” says Katherine. “It kind of gives us something to touch base with every day when our worlds get so crazy and so busy … we'll miss them. It's a neat scrapbook of our family … for the past 500 days.”

Breaking all the Rules

Marsha Wohlwend & Kari Haun Dating 3+ years

“We're actually pretty boring, if you ask us,” says Marsha Wohlwend with a laugh.

Well, perhaps, if by boring she means thriving, healthy and engaged in the kind of mature, caring relationship most of us envision for ourselves. But anyone witnessing the onset of Marsha and Kari's relationship would probably have predicted quite the opposite.

“We actually met at work. Kari was working at the company that she's currently with, and I started as a new employee,” says Marsha. “She was a trainer in the classroom next to me. We just started talking, and flirting...”

And in prototypical whirlwind fashion, the two were officially a couple within about two weeks … and living together within less than two months.

Such a heavy commitment — some might say the kiss of death to a burgeoning relationship — so early on might scare off even the most seasoned relationship veteran, but couple that with the fact that, shortly after they began dating, Kari actually became Marsha's supervisor at work. “The fact that we worked together and lived together was never really an issue,” says Kari, “[but] for me it was kind of a Catch-22 in some regards.”

While Marsha, who has since pursued a different opportunity, was a great team member who understood Kari's goals and would go the extra mile to help in achieving them, working together also meant that “we spent a lot of time outside of work talking about work.”

But despite the close quarters, and the obvious potential for relationship burn-outs or conflict flare-ups, Kari and Marsha's relationship has never suffered. “After three years, we still act like we've been together for just a month or two,” says Kari. “We're still together, and we're still completely happy.”

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Review: 4 Sisters a chic, tasty addition to city's food scene Spanish 'tapas' small in portions but big in flavor

By Marcel Dunn Special to Second Supper

You can thank a Spanish king, Alfonso X of Castile to be specific, for the little gem of a restaurant tucked away at 100 Harborview Plaza on the Mississippi. The story goes that while Alfonso was recovering from an unknown illness, the royal indulged in wine with small snacks between his daily meals.

Convinced that his diet helped in his recovery, the king decreed that taverns within Castile would not be allowed to serve wine to their patrons unless accompanied by a “tapa,” or light snack.

It is that spirit that 4 Sisters embodies in our little corner of Wisconsin. Located in a nondescript office building originally intended for cubicles, the owners have completely renovated the space they have to work with. Upon entering the restaurant you really get a feel for the openness of the dining area. No part of the dining area is separated from any other part of the room except the kitchen. The colors are muted but warm, with splashes of black for class.

Simple tables and chairs take up most of the dining space but along one half of the floorto-ceiling windows that look out on the river are several comfortable couches and armchairs that are perfect for sitting (or slouching), talking, drinking and eating. But what about the food? After all, 4 Sisters is a restaurant and without good food all the chic design principles and squishy armchairs in the world wouldn’t bring customers back.

The food, I am delighted to say, certainly trumps the interior decorating. Diverse to the point of overwhelming, the menu offered a little bit of something for every taste bud. When I sat down with the menu, I simply could not settle on one or two items to try, so I ordered four. The first dishes to arrive were the Special X tacos and the empanada najel, along with a 1554 Black Ale by New Belgium to wash it down. Small

in stature but stout in flavor, the tacos were my favorite of the two lead-in dishes. They came out of the kitchen warm and skewered on a very long toothpick to keep them at attention. Each small tortilla, roughly a little larger than the bottom of a wine bottle, was filled with juicy pulled pork and just the right amount of cilantro and lime for flavor, which complimented the queso drizzled on top quite well. Next up were the empanadas, a small, puffy pastry filled with shredded beef, gruyere, diced onions and peppers and topped with a creamy homemade buttermilk sauce. Though a bit heavy on the dough, these small pastries were a sumptuous alternative to the typical boring appetizer involving something breaded and deep fried.

I then moved onto the two small sandwiches ordered from the lunch menu, both of which came with a small cup of delicious chili topped with a dollop of Fritos. My guest and I (you didn’t think I ate all of this by myself I hope), split the sandwiches, one a panini with roast beef, cheddar cheese and banana peppers, the other a cold chicken club with diced pancetta and a house caesar sauce. Both sandwiches favored their respective meats, but not to the point of overstuffing. Though delicious, the panini was fairly standard when it comes to paninis. Not your standard restaurant chain debacle but not overly special. The cold chicken on LaBacci bread was more inventive, with a variation on the standard caesar sauce that I have not tasted anywhere else.

So if you have the time and some extra money in your pocket in these lean days, I ask you to rethink your monthly visit to Outback or Red Lobster and head downtown.

4 Sisters is the perfect place to take a date this Valentines or to meet up with friends after work. With its chic design, European sensibilities and delicious food, it is exactly the kind of refreshing change the city of La Crosse needs from the usual franchise fare.

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Pump House production zips with love and laugher Take your Valentine to 'Becky's New Car' and you won't upgrade models

By Jonathan Majak jonathan.majak@secondsupper.com

Love, not unlike cars, comes in all sorts of makes and models and in “Becky’s New Car,” opening Friday at the Pump House Regional Arts Center, a wife finds herself taking love, marriage and her life in for a tune-up when a wealthy man saunters into the car dealership she works at and causes Becky to tell the tiniest fib that her husband is dead.

Despite the screwball comedy-like premise, the cast members of the production say that the play is grounded in a lot of the reality of life.

For cast members of the show, it’s the details — from the set design to the emotions — woven into the comedy that makes it realistic in spite of the heightened reality plot line.

“There’s a lot of ring of truth in it,” said Sean McDevitt, who plays the not-so-dearlydeparted husband of title character Becky.

“She’s having a crisis in her life,” said Diane Breeser, who plays Becky. “I think she’s trying to find herself.”

“She forgets that life has consequences,” added director Anne Drecktrah.

“I feel like Every Woman,” said Breeser.

“Everybody gets to a point in life where they are like, ‘I’m tired of this!’”

According to Dan Schneider, who plays the wealthy man who finds himself trying to romance the not actually widowed Becky, the show is about people who are a little bit adrift.

“I think it’s about a group of people who are a bit of lost sheep,” Schneider explained.

“By chance and misfortune they meet and have a snowball effect and end up smushed together.”

To Adam Petchel, who plays Becky’s coworker Steve, the play delves into a lot of the ways people sometimes let their imagination run away with them when dealing with their own life choices.

“From an instance of truth,” Petchel said, “you can derive a whole scenario of whatIfs.”

For Schneider, though the play is primarily a comedy, the show doesn’t play the comedy in necessarily broad strokes to get laughs.

“It’s a well-written show,” Schneider said.

“It’s naturally funny. There are big laughs, but it’s one of those shows that you giggle all the way through.”

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And while the story may have plenty of grounding in the mundane realities of life, it doesn’t mean that show itself isn’t a whimsical journey through those realities. The show occasionally breaks the “fourth wall,” that invisible barrier of sorts between the audience and the performers. For the actors, it’s a trick to maintain the balance of the in-show moments and the moments that have them speaking/ interacting directly with the audience.

“You have to wear the two hats,” said Petchel, who plays Becky’s co-worker Steve.

“The actor hat and the character hat. Without that, you’re standing there, saying some lines.”

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With all of the excitement surrounding the most recent Oktoberfest celebration, many of you may have missed out on the release of Shoeless Revolution’s latest album, From the Inside Out, which was held at two, back-to-back-filled-to-capacity shows at the Popcorn Tavern. If you were unfortunate enough to miss these guys last time, they will be returning to the Popcorn March 4, but they will also be one of five bands performing at the Pearl Street Winter Ball this Saturday.

The band recommends listening to From the Inside Out straight through without interruption, as their intention was to create one seamless piece of music, rather than a series of single songs. Even the album’s cover seems to reflect this idea, featuring a collage comprised completely of photographs sent in by fans, which makes up an image of a Vitruvian Man inside of a sunburst design.

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Oh Cupid, how you doing? It’s that time of year when you flap your wings back and forth while assaulting people with arrows in the name of love. It must be difficult for you nowadays to even get work as the Internet has become the technological equivalent of you, profiles being the new arrows. From Match.com to eHarmony.com to the, how shall we say, less relationship-minded websites like AdultFriendFinder, ManHunt or SkanksUnited (the last one we made up but no doubt probably think is real somewhere on the Internet), you’ve found yourself made obsolete by technological advances. But we here find something rather quaint about the idea of some mythical creature pairing people together for his own shits and giggles like life is nothing more than one big Sims game.

So in honor of you and your yearly winged flight around the universe, bringing people together for a lifetime or until the sun comes up, we’ve put mix to groove to that we’re calling simply “Cupid, ShuffleYour iTunes Playlist.”

Up first, nothing makes quite sway as much Miles Davis and his instrumental version of “If I Were a Bell” from the musical “Guys and Dolls” off his “Relaxin” album.

Iron & Wine’s newest collection of electrified singer-songwriting is pretty much the well-orchestrated affair that followers of Samuel Beam have come to expect. That said, maybe it’s a bit too formulaic in places; Beam’s tendency to whisper and coo lullabies alongside soft-spoken accompaniment may be approaching typecasting. All of this gives Kiss Each Other Clean a hit or miss quality.

After the bright fuzz-gospel of the opening track (“Walking Far from Home”) the album seems to coast through its midpoint. That midpoint, however, brings the work’s best piece, the gloomy and seething “Rabbit Will Run,” which is both the album’s most musical and lyrical track. From there, the album slides down a hill of the usual orchestrated guitar tracks, a jazzy funk track (“Big Burned Hand”), and an ending that drags a mantra out three minutes past the point of sense.

Brand loyalty will carry this new release through the spots where Beam’s songwriting flags, but make no mistake; this is a very good album. Kiss Each Other Clean is certainly deserving of attention beyond the core fanboys, but it nevertheless feels a bit niche.

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Jaunty and smart, it’s the perfect sort of song to put on at the beginning of an evening while getting ready to go out on a romantic date or, for Cupid, sharpening the tips of his arrows for maximum strike. And if you’re not really into jazz instrumentals, there is also a wonderful version of the song by former Groove Theory singer/solo chanteuse Amel Larrieux off her “Lovely Standards” album.

Once Cupid takes flight, he probably isn’t going to be about the easy listening so our next song in this play list is from the nowdefunct but eternally awesome Junior Senior and their song “Dance Chance Romance” from their brilliant sophomore album “Hey Hey My My Yo Yo.” Unrepentantly gleeful with a shred of hipster irony to cloud the proceedings, we imagine Cupid could be so busy nodding his head along that he might be haphazardly firing his arrows all over. It’d explain all those polygamist compounds.

And finally, after a night out bringing love together, you have to end the Mix with some sort of slow jam of course. You can’t have a love mix without some Marvin Gaye, and we’d choose his song “I Want You.” Madonna even did a trip-hoppy remake of the tune in the 1990s before the recessive genes that turned into Gollum took over.

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sive looking cover, and it really fits the jam ous people freestyling in the background. band and funk sensibilities of the album. The rapping is actually pretty good, and the It successfully captures the essence of what rhymes are executed really well, but coupled makes From the Inside Out such an engag- with the instrumentation it just comes across ing listen; songs with completely contrast- a lot like DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince ing styles and moods somehow flow effort- singing “Summertime,” (Drums ppplease!).

To contrast these two low lessly right into one points on the album, there another, eventually are quite a few really standcreating one comout tracks. “Lights Out” has plex piece of music. a catchy, almost dirty groove Tracks one, two and to it (I mean that in a good seven (respectively way), and “Something New” titled “one,” “two” and “Inside Out” have been and “seven”) are stuck in my head for a few instrumental “interdays now. Overall, From the lude” tracks that act Inside Out is a good-time as a sort of glue to upbeat jam band/funk/ keep the album flowalternative effort that will ing, and surprisingly definitely not disappoint aren’t crippled by the fans of the genre. typical uninspired filler-track curse, exShoeless Revolution will be cept for “ten,” which Shoeless Revolution one of five acts performing at made me feel like I Inside Out the 12th Annual Pearl Street was standing in a hotel Brewery Winter Ball on Saturlobby or trapped in an day from noon to 10 p.m. Joinelevator. This elevator may have had some nice prog elements to it, ing Shoeless on the bill are Casey/Stacey &Luke, Brown Palm and The Get Down Band, Moon but I still wish I could have taken the stairs.

The only other track that really hurts Boot Posse and The Smokin' Bandits. Tickets are the flow of the album is “Always Creating,” $35 at the door and include 5 specialty taps. some kind of funk/hip-hop hybrid with vari-

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STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO// FEB. 18 Triple Rock Social Club • $16

FREIGHT HOUSE // 107 Vine St. LaBarge (father/daughter duo) • 6 p.m.

OLD 97’S // FEB. 20 First Avenue • $18.75

HOFFER'S // 500 Copeland Ave. Tendrill (hard rock) • 10 p.m.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS // FEB. 20-22 Dakota Jazz Club • $50-$60

PEARL STREET BREWERY // 1401 St. Andrew St.

Adam Palm & Abbey Lane (rock) • 5 p.m.

MURS // MARCH 3 Fine Line Music Café • $13.50

PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. Doghouse Jon and the Misbehavers We hope you've got your dancing shoes polished and your liver strong, La Crosse, because the social and beer(blues) • 8 p.m. drinking event of the season is here. The Pearl Street Brewery is hosting its 12th Annual Winter Ball on Saturday, and

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this year’s festivities are bigger than ever. There's no space here to write about the beer, but the musical acts include Casey, Stacey & Luke, Brown Palm and The Get Down Band, Moon Boot Posse, The Smokin' Bandits and Shoeless Revolution (pictured here with a ghostly glow). Tickets will be $35 at the door, assuming they're still available.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Moon Boot Posse (Pearl Street Brewery Winter Ball Pre-party) • 10 p.m.

NELL'S CITY GRILL // 1111 S. Third St. THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Karl Friedline (baritone) • 6 p.m.

Dustin Thomas, Chase Binnie, The Coral SHER BEARS // 329 Goddard St. Riffs, Kathy Kloth (songwriters) • 8:30 p.m.

The Fabulous Baloney Skins (oldies) • NEUIE'S VARSITY CLUB // 1920 Ward Ave. 8:30 p.m.

Flashback, Abbey Lane and the Back- THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. bone (Rock the Cause) • 9 p.m.

Dan Sebranek (folk) • 8 p.m.

THE ARTERIAL // 1003 S. 16th St. Paxico (rock) • 9 p.m.

NORTH SIDE OASIS // 620 Gillette St. SUNDAY, Geared Under (hard rock) • 9:30 p.m.

THE JOINT // 324 Jay St. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Goulash, Key Lime Special (reggae, PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. The Sunday Blend (rock, jams) • 10 p.m. rock) • 10 p.m.

Doghouse Jon and the Misbehavers (blues) • 8 p.m.

SOUTHSIDE NEIGH. CENTER // 1300 S. 6th St. THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Bluegrass Acoustic Jam • 12:30 p.m.

Josh Harty (alt-country) • 8:30 p.m.

PEARL STREET BREWERY // 1401 St. Andrew St. Casey, Stacey & Luke, Brown Palm and THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. The Get Down Band, Moon Boot PosMONDAY, Dan Sebranek (folk) • 8 p.m. se, Shoeless Revolution, The Smokin' Bandits (Winter Ball) • 5 p.m.

DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. SATURDAY, Open Jam • 10 p.m.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Deece Posse (supergroup) • 10 p.m.

BOOT HILL PUB // 1501 St. Andrew St. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Jerry Anderson & Neil Duresky Shawn's Open jam • 10 p.m.

RED PINES BAR & GRILL // W7305 Hwy Z (lounge, variety) • 6 p.m.

Don D. Harvey (songwriter) • 7:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, FREIGHT HOUSE // 107 Vine St. LaBarge (father/daughter duo) • 6 p.m. RIVER JACK'S //1835 Rose St. CAVALIER LOUNGE // 114 5th Ave. N. Olson Dunn Band (country) • 8 p.m.

The Beat Up Lunch, Boyle, Igloo MarJB'SSPEAKEASY // 717 Rose St. tian & the Magical Star Traveling RepFayme Rochelle, Abby Lane, Julica THE JOINT // 324 Jay St. ertory Theatre, Roquefort, Office Park Rose, Abbi Rajasekhar (“Girl Power!” Clovis Mann (Pearl Street Brewery (Day after VD Noise Show) • 10 p.m.

Winter Ball after-party) • 10 p.m. showcase) • 10 p.m.

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FLOGGING MOLLY // MARCH 7 First Avenue • $30.75

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Dave Orr (open jam) • 10 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. 3rd Relation Jazz Trio (jazz) • 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY,

February 16

DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Kokopelliens (jam grass) • 10 p.m.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Paulie (one-man band) • 10 p.m.

RECOVERY ROOM // 901 7th St. S. Kin Pickin' (jam grass) • 10 p.m.

THURSDAY,

February 17

DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Andy from T.U.G.G. (acoustic) • 10 p.m.

MAGGIE’S // 205 Main St. (Onalaska) Co'Duo (Shay and Joe Cody) • 6 p.m.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. The Adam Palm Band (rock) • 10 p.m.

THE STARLITE LOUNGE // 222 Pearl St. Kies and Kompanie (jazz) • 5 p.m.

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YOUR GUIDE TO CONSUMPTION

The Beer Review Estate Homegrown Ale (2010) Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Chico, California

Alright, I promise this will be my last Packer-themed beer review (at least until draft day). So apologies to anyone that loves beer and hates Green Bay, but did you see the way Aaron Rogers carved up the best defense in the NFL? Title belt, baby! I got all tingly when I saw Rodgers on Letterman last night, and also today when I heard him pumping up the faithful at Lambeau Field.

Yep, that’s our golden boy, A-Rodg, the pride of Chico, California. But he’s not the

only thing Chico should be proud of.

Chico is also home to the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, arguably the most important microbrewery in America. This NorCal institution changed a whole swath of taste buds by putting its hoppy pale ale in seemingly every convenience store in America.

The story of Sierra Nevada is the story of those hops — and the Central Valley foothills that produced them. Now with a nod to its winemaking neighbors, Sierra Nevada claims to be the first brewery to develop its own terroir, as every ingredient in this Estate Ale was harvested fresh from the brewery grounds in Chico. If this is the same earth that raised Aaron Rogers, then of course it would be so delicious.

Purchase: One 25-ounce bottle of the

2010 Estate Ale from Woodman’s, $9.99

Style: American IPA

Strength: 6.7 percent ABV

Packaging: Quite possibly the most beautiful beer packaging I’d ever seen, with an ornately painted floral label and a seal of green wax. It’s also “Certified Organic by Oregon Tilth.”

Appearance:The beer pours a hazy amber-brown, characteristic of wet hopping, with a bubbly grey head.

Aroma: This one is all fresh, juicy hops, more grassy than citrusy, though it also has a caramel malt base.

Taste: When it first hits the tongue, the Estate Ale tastes green, but it grows into a supremely complex beer. Lemons give way to oranges then toasted grains before distinct

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strawberry and peach flavors pop out of nowhere. The flavors hit powerfully together, yet the finish is quite refreshing.

Mouthfeel: Thick, chewy, resiny with a super-long aftertaste that leaves the cheeks dripping with saliva.

Drinkability: This beer is supremely drinkable. If it didn’t cost so much I could probably down five bombers a day.

Ratings: RateBeer scores this a 98, while rate BeerAdvocate gives it an A-, which I’m a little more apt to agree with. It might not be worth the $10 price tag — it’s expensive to grow organic on this scale — but the Estate Ale drinks like a champ.

— Adam Bissen

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Wyld Wednesday: $2 jumbo UV mixers, $2 Coronas

Ladies drink free 9-11 p.m., or w/ $5 wristband, includes UV Vodkas & XXX; $5 Long island pitchers

$1 Cherry Bombs, $1 Keystone Light $1 Cherry Bombs, $1 Keystone Light silos silos

$2 BBQ Pork Sliders

2-Fers, Buy any regularly priced food item and get one of equal or lesser value for free

$4 Rueben Sliders

CLOSED

$2.50 Coors vs. Keystone pitchers. All specials 9 p.m. to close

AUC2D: $5, domestic taps, rail mix- 10-cent wings, $1 Miller High Life ers, Long Islands. All specials 9 p.m. bottles, $1.50 rail mixers; $2.50 call to close drinks. All specials 9 p.m. to close.

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AUC2D, $5 domestic taps, rail mixers $2.50 Bud Light bottles, $3 Witches $2.50 Bud Light bottles, $3 Witches and Long Islands. Wristband Night: Brew and Scary Shot Specials, $2.75 Brew and Scary Shot Specials, $2.75 $2.50 SoCo & Jack. 50-cent shots Miller Lite Bottles Miller Lite Bottles (two flavors). All specials 9 to close. $2 domestic pints and $2 rail mixers; $1 shots of Doctor (3 flavors);

Taco buffet 11-2; $1 Pabst bottles and $1 bowling after 9

All you care to eat pizza buffet, 11-2 (Holmen)

All you can eat wings, includes a Wisconsin cheese steak sandwich choice of potatoe, slaw and a frosted with a pint of beer, $8.99 pint, 4-9:30 p.m., $8.99

Ladies Night, $1 off all drinks, 4 to All you can eat boneless wings, inclose; Pint-Aritas $3 (lime or straw- cludes a choice of potatoe, slaw and berry) a frosted pint, 4-9:30 p.m., $8.99

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Fish Tacos: 1 / $2.50, 2 / $5.00, 3 / $6.50.

$1.50 domestic taps and rail drinks, Bird Brain Trivia 8 p.m.; $1.50 do- Wing Night - 25-cent wings (dine- $1.50 domestic bottles and rail 4 p.m. to close mestic bottles and rails 4 p.m. to in only); $1 Miller High Life silos and drinks, $2 craft bottles, 4 p.m. to close PBR silos; $1.50 taps and rail drinks; close $2 craft taps. All specials 4 to close.

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$3 Bacardi mixers; $3 Three Olives vocka mixers (8 flavors); $2 domestic pints and $2 rail mixers

Happy Hour: 2 for 1 domestic bottles Karaoke 9 p.m. to close and rail drinks, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

All you care to eat fish fry 4-10; un- Prime rib dinner 4-10; limited Glow-N-Bowl $9.99 unlimited Glow-N-Bowl $9.99

Happy hour 4 to 9 p.m.; 9 p.m. to 9 p.m. to close: $3.50 domestic 9 p.m. to close: $1 rails, $2.50 pitch- $5 all you can drink close: Night Before Class - $3 pitch- pitchers ers, beer pong ers of the beast

9 p.m. to close: $1.25 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans

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Breakfast 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Alcohol-free night, 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., for ages 25 and younger; live DJ, dancing, giveaways, AUC2D soda, $10 cover

$5 AUC2D wristbands: domestic taps, rail mixers, Long Islands, 9 p.m. to close; karaoke 9 p.m. to close

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Tuesday Boozeday $1 off all liquor Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m. drinks and 50 cents off all shots, $2 Bombs

9 p.m. to close: $2 Captain mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 Jager bombs

Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m.

Hat Night: Buy 1 drink, get 1 free w/ Rail drinks $2 (4:30 to close); Buckets of beer $10, Boston Bobby's Margaritas $4 (Straw, rasp, mango, hat (4:30 to close); $1.50 chili dogs After 8 p.m. specials: $5 skewer of drummies 10 for $2 (4:30 to close), peach and reg); After 8 p.m. specials: (after 8 p.m.) shrimp,l $1.79 burger, $1.50 chili dogs $1.79 burger (after 8 p.m.) $5 skewer of shrimp, $1.79 burger

$1.50 Tacos, $4.99 nachos;: $11 Tacos: $11 buckets during pro and 12-inch pizza $8.99 buckets during pro and college foot- college football games. Happy Hour Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m. ball games.

2 to 6 p.m.; $2 pints all day $1 Taps & Rails during the game ; Wristband night starts at 6 p.m.

14-inch pizza, $2 off; Wings Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m.

$1.89 hamburger + toppings Ladies Fish Dinner Special-$7.89 night, 2 for 1 drinks (6-close), Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m.

Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m.

9 p.m. to close: $2 Bacardi mixers, $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy

Breakfast 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; lunch buffet 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., $6.99 $1.50 Tacos, $4.99 nachos; $11 buckets during pro and college football games.

Half price tequilla, $1 domestic taps Karaoke, $2 Double rails and all Wristband night, $2 cherry bombs, $3 Three Olives Mixers & $4 wrist- $3 Bacardi mixers & $4 wristbands and rails bottles; $3 Double call drinks 50¢ shots (3 flavors); $2.50 Tuaca, bands after midnight after midnight Jack Daniel's & SoCo Mixers

$5 Pitchers/$2 bottles of Miller prod- $1.75 Miller/Bud Light Taps, $2.25 $1.75 Rails, $1.50 Domestic Taps, $2 domestic bottles, $2.50 Skyy/ ucts (11-4pm) $2 Corona Bottles, $2 MIcro/Craft Taps, $2.50 Cherry $3.50 Jager Bombs Absolut mixers, $2 Dr. shots (7-1 Kilo Kai Mixers , $3 Bloodys (7-1 a.m.) Bombs (7-1 a.m.)

(7-1 a.m.) a.m.)

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$5 Miller/Bud Light Pitchers, $2.25 Leinies Bottles (7-1 a.m.)

POPCORN TAVERN

$2.50 Captain mixers $2 16oz Old Style & Lost Lake cans

$1.75 PBR Bottles $2.50 Captain mixers $2 16oz Old Style & Lost Lake cans

$2.50 Captain mixers $2 16oz Old Style & Lost Lake cans

$2.50 Captain mixers $2 Grain Belt

$2 Coors & Coors Light Bottles, $2.50 $2 16oz Old Style & Lost Lake cans Skyy mixers, $2.50 Captain mixers $2 16oz Old Style & Lost Lake cans

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$3 call doubles, $2 Bud products

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4 Less leafy, like a tree 9 Govt. group with a director 12 Evening, in France 13 "___ of Two Cities" 14 "I got you good on that one!"

15 ___ extra charge 16 Mail-in payment 18 Caught the villain, on the piano?

20 "The Waste Land" poet 21 How-___ (instruction guides) 22 In ___ (hurried) 25 Free letters in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round

27 Audrey Tautou role 28 Cole slaw left out in the sun, on the piano?

32 Pet for Harry Potter 35 Prince's unpronounceable symbol, for one 36 Boxing match div.

37 Make a pop star eat the meat dress she wore, on the piano?

42 Person with phobias 43 Roots expose it 47 Combine 48 Getaway spot 51 Winter month, in Mexico

Answers to Feb. 3 puzzle "Prez Pet Parade" — Livin' in the White House

52 "Stayin' Alive" is suddenly unhip, on the piano?

55 Rips to shreds 57 Sea eagle variety 58 Storyline paths 59 Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, for one 60 Dipstick wipers 61 Bug 62 Full of lip 63 Sault ___ Marie Canals DOWN 1 Wrecks (a car) 2 Encouragement to a vocalist 3 Woods' field 4 Shakespeare, for one 5 Troubled 6 Filmdom's "one man army" 7 Sewing machine inventor Howe 8 Like some generals: abbr.

9 2000s wireless company 10 Ltd., in the States 11 Mellow 12 Swashbuckler's sword 14 Croatian capital 17 Second side in a game, perhaps 19 Sicilian volcano 23 Omen

24 Pay attention to 26 Painter Degas 27 Reacted to a trapeze artist 29 Taina of "The Mirror Has Two Faces" 30 "___ think so?"

31 Annenberg/___ (non-profit behind educational programming) 32 "...long walk ___ short pier" 33 Stash stuff 34 Trace (to) 38 Substances that make paint set more quickly 39 Trait carriers 40 Gave the look to 41 Wheel covers 44 Be derisive to 45 "___ you glad I didn't say 'banana'?"

46 Indicates 48 Shade in old pictures 49 Rings out 50 Fuzzy 'dos 53 Hiatuses 54 Court figure: abbr.

55 ___ chi 56 Mess up Š2010 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords. com)

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February 10, 2011 // 11

THE LAST WORD

The Advice Goddess

By Amy Alkon amy.alkon@secondsupper.com Menopause In the heterosexuality

I’m a 56-year-old married woman, and as

far as I can tell, I’ve been happily heterosexual all my life — until recently. For the past year, I’ve been thinking about a woman until I can no longer think about anything else. I have such powerful and authentic sexual feelings that I feel compelled to reveal myself to her, but I think she’d probably knock me out. We’re both married to men, and she’s a pretty prominent member in our community whom I’ve long respected, so there are also elements of danger and hero worship here. There are other reasons to leave this alone, but I’m having a hard time doing it. I just want her so desperately. I should add that I haven’t been in an intimate relationship for a long time, as my husband was an alcoholic who’s now recovering. But, when my desire returned, it wasn’t for him; it was all for her! I have no idea what’s happening. ARGGGH! I think I love her!

— Oh-Oh!

Too bad you aren’t 19 and in college.

You’d be free to take a little tour of the Isle of Lesbos, change your ringtone to “I Kissed A Girl,” and come out to your parents (then maybe take it back a week later to date the cute guy you met at the GrrrlPower Rally). Unfortunately, once you’re married, “experimenting” with somebody who isn’t your spouse is called “cheating,” regardless of whether you’re “Chasing Amy” — or in your case, Chasing Amy’s Mother.

I’m sure this woman is all that and a bag of Indigo Girls CDs, but she’s also a convenient distraction from your difficult marriage already in progress. Adding to the fun is the drama: Your crush is smalltown famous, married, and has shown zero interest in you, women, or becoming a divorced woman with a girlfriend. Of course, getting high on the prospect of forbidden love beats getting over to a marriage counselor: “It’s raining, it’s pouring, my marriage is boring!”

Every time you moon over this woman, you’re giving your brain’s motivation and reward centers a hit of the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. In doing that, you’re the cartoon horse with the carrot in front of its face, repeatedly engaging your brain in reward-seeking without rewardsatisfaction, and revving an attraction into an obsession. Anthropologist Helen Fisher explains in “Why We Love”: “When a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the brain increase their work, pumping out more of this natural stimulant to energize

the brain, focus attention, and drive the pursuer to strive even harder to acquire a reward.”

You get out of a habit the same way you get in: through repetition. Every time you don’t let yourself think about this woman, it’ll be a little easier to not think about her the next time. Of course, you can’t just say “I’m not going to think about her.” When you start, you need to shove the thoughts out of the way by engaging your memory and your speech (when you’re talking and remembering, you can’t also be obsessing).

Have a substitute program at the ready: Recite the Cyrillic alphabet, run through the 50 states and their capitals, and move on to Canada if need be … whatever it takes to pry your mind off how dreamy her varicose veins look when the sun hits them.

This brain retraining will be really hard at first, and seem stupid and futile, but it should eventually take if you keep at it. And you do need to keep at it. Only when you stop being the lab rat pushing the little bar for the hit of middle-aged married woman will you have clarity on why looking at your husband sends you into a heterosexually vegetative state.

Now, maybe you are a lesbian late bloomer, bi-curious, or just bored-curious.

But, it’s possible that you’re simply angry and resentful and maybe worried that your husband will go back on the sauce. While men can have sex without an emotional connection, women generally need to feel emotionally close to their partner first. You

won’t figure out what your deal is by chasing this woman around the hors d’oeuvres table but by taking a hard look at the man and the marriage you still have. You may need to forgive him in order to want him again. You may need more proof that he won’t rekindle his affair with Jack Daniel and Mr. Cuervo. Or, you may need him to be a chick. In which case … sayonara. As successful as many people are in going to A.A. meetings and “humbly asking God to remove their shortcomings,” it's best if those shortcomings are things like impulsivity and anger issues — not testicles.

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$5 Miller Lite/Bud Light Pitchers $2.25 Leinies Bottles (7-1am)

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