What's that noise?

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Walker's budget battle extends beyond Madison

PHOTO BY JASON CRIDER

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What's that Noise?

Emerging music scene turns knobs, heads Page 5

PLUS: A MIXTAPE FOR CHARLIE • PAGE 6 | MEET ELLIOT ARMS • PAGE 7 | GREAT DANE SWEET STOUT • PAGE 10

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Things To Do Take the plunge

The Top Noises 1. Ping-pong 2. Tuning orchestras 3. Spray paint clanks 4. Champaign pop 5. Baby laughter 6. Chopping lettuce 7. Bullfrogs Charlie Sheen roles 1. Rick “Wild Thing” Vaughn 2. Topper Harley 3. Pvt. Chris Taylor 4. Boy in Police Station 5. Charlie Harper 6. Bud Fox 7. Himself

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Picture this — you’re on the beach and it’s a perfect sunny day, the kind of day Brian Wilson sings about. You want to be a beach boy, so you decide to saunter about at Pettibone in your finest European man thong. All the ladies are enamored with your confidence and they’re all like, “Where have you been all my life?” Then you decide to run into the river, but WAIT, it’s only March! Oh, but it’s cool; it’s for the Polar Plunge. Nice work, man. The 13th-annual Polar Plunge will be raising unfrozen funds for the Special Olympics this Saturday at Pettibone Beach. Plunging begins at noon, but there will be on-site registration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call the La Crosse Park & Recreation Department's office at 789-7596. Or, visit their web site at www.specialolympicswisconsin.org. (Man thong not required.)

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When you were a kid, the biggest and baddest monsters came from your closet, right? They were in there foaming like that dog in The Sandlot while you slept. It’s OK to cry when you think back to those days. Crying is totally cool. But how about when you were a kid and you saw Monster Trucks at the La Crosse Center? Awesome! They’ve been bringing in these massive wrecking machines for years and it’s still a thrill every time. Here are the details: The AMP Tour trucks will descend on the Center on March 4 and 5. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., but the doors open 6:30 p.m. for the general public. General 300 level tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for kids ages 3 to 12. Other ticket options are available, and prices increase day of show.

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Wish Vitamin Studio a happy birthday

Join the Vitamin Studio crew (and art lovers everywhere) at their Grand Reopening Three Year celebration this Saturday starting at 7 p.m. at their new, larger home at 129 S. 6th St. Since moving from their original studio on Green Bay Street, Vitamin Studios’ mission is still the same: “To supplement arts education and nurture arts appreciation in the region with exhibition opportunities, community critiques, a weekly figure drawing session and, if nothing else, a warm couch.” Stop by Saturday for some for art, beverages and great food.

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The Select Committee on Internationalization at UW-La Crosse will present the Third United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival on March 4 and 5 from noon to 9:45 p.m. in the Cleary Alumni & Friends Center.

Film topics range from sustainability, human rights, globalization and health issues. Admission is free, and for more information head to www.uwlax.edu/international.

Shop downtown, for a good cause

Join around 30 local businesses this weekend in a new promotional effort that spurs downtown commerce while giving back to the community. During Downtown La Crosse Cares, which lasts from March 3 to 5, anyone who has purchased a $20 red wristband will receive discounts at participating businesses with the proceeds of wristband sales going to the Salvation Army. To get your wristband head to the Downtown Mainstreet Inc. office at 712 Main St, The People’s Food Co-op, Scott Joseph Menswear or Festival Foods in both La Crosse and Onalaska.

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Round Three: A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Our intrepid reporter returns to Madison but feels cuts beyond the capitol

By Bob Treu Special to Second Supper

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When we came back to the Capitol this weekend, the scene had changed. Scott Walker would give his budget address Tuesday, and he wanted the place presentable.

Instead of the amiable free-for-all we encountered a week earlier, a long line had formed to enter, and as the days wore on, fewer and fewer were allowed. Outside, the protest march continued more energetically than ever. 70,000 people marched, and they were an impressively diverse group.

At first it seemed remarkable that so many of them were young. Cuts in education and bargaining rights are not their natural issues. To see college students showing this level of commitment to the cause of firefighters and nurses was refreshing. They seemed like the young people of the Kennedy era, with their wit, their idealism and their musical inclinations. The Capitol was their Peace Corps assignment.

When the order came down to clear out the building for a cleaning most people left, but around 200 refused to go. The police might have dragged them out, but it didn’t happen. Maybe their insurance doesn’t cover sprained backs, which can be difficult to diagnose, but in any case, the police declined to carry the protesters out.

The cleaning went on around them. Walker wanted them out, but there was a constitutional issue. Citizens are guaranteed access to the building, and the courts told Walker he must permit access. By Monday only one door was open, and even some Democratic legislators were temporarily barred. So we have another standoff, with the protesters as

a very large chorus and the 14 missing Democratic senators as soloists in a very long and convoluted concerto.

All this was, of course, mere prelude to Walker’s solo performance, his budget address, which he used to threaten the14 Democratic senators with the threat of mass layoffs of state employees if they did not return. The event was well enough orchestrated, with the protesters pretty well kept out and the galleries stuffed with supporters, but it was an inconclusive performance at best. Unions and collective bargaining were not once mentioned, even though the possibility of compromise rests upon those issues. The unions had already agreed to the financial part of the bill and Walker could have rounded up the desperado legislators immediately by agreeing to leave collective bargaining rights as they are. Once again, no dice.

Walker also explained that while his budget contains deep cuts to education, he has included in the bill the tools for communities to offset those cuts and avoid layoffs.

Only the miscreant missing senators were preventing this happy ending. Apparently the governor has a credibility problem, since none of the commentators who analyzed the speech on public radio or elsewhere could find any such magic tools. The communities had been given only a sledgehammer, the end of collective bargaining, which would make it possible for them, rather than Walker, to do the laying off. In fact his bill makes it impossible for communities to save schools by raising property taxes. And our senators in exile are having none of it.

So, in spite of the rousing cheers from the Republican side of the chamber, Walker is in trouble politically. As everyone in the state knows by now, he bit at the fishiest line in the lake, the blogger who pretended to be David Koch, one of the brothers who funded Walker’s campaign and many other right wing adventures. Remember Walker won’t talk to anyone outside his inner circle, but in the midst of a very busy schedule he took the call and made it abundantly clear

whom he represents. It isn’t the people of Wisconsin. By yesterday about half of us were in favor of recalling Walker, and, according to another poll, Tom Barrett would win the election were it held today. Almost two-thirds of Wisconsin voters oppose ending collective bargaining for state workers.

This would be bad news, if Walker cared much about Wisconsin or its politics.

He has clearly set his eyes on a national presence. If he can destroy unions and wreck our schools, he will be a favorite of the extreme right, and he can get along with a recall.

Which leaves the question: how did this happen? Scott Walker did not stage a coup supported by right wing generals; we elected him. Nonetheless, he is the most dictatorial governor most of us can remember. His tools have been fear, resentment and deep pockets, but they have not always been efficient.

Which leads us to the second question: how did he lose so much support so quickly? Part of the answer is that he didn’t campaign on breaking unions and seriously harming education. That’s why much of the defection has come from Republican voters who thought they were getting some intelligent frugality and oversight.

Due to a lucky accident, I can report on another source of reaction. Sunday, I went to drink coffee and write a rough draft at the bookstore in the mall. I noticed an older man at the next table reading a book on how to build a cabin in the woods and wearing a “hook ‘em horns” cap, the dull orange symbol of the University of Texas. Since I’ve worked in Texas a couple of times, I asked him about the cap. He explained that he was a carpenter and had worked there.

In the ensuing conversation he spoke softly, through clenched teeth, and his steely gray eyes never glanced away. He had once belonged to a union that had been destroyed by “right to work” laws. After that he worked many places, sometimes in the south, where the pay for his skilled labor was just above minimum. His wife died and soon after he contracted cancer. By the time our health system was finished with him, he lost everything. He had voted for Walker but now regretted it. “Is he even from Wisconsin?” he asked.

I explained that Walker was born in Colorado and came here as a pre-teen.

“That explains it,” he said. “He doesn’t know anything about us. We don’t do things that way here.”

It was cheering to hear him. The man remembered our state was built by immigrants who believed in taking care of one another, who believed in education so strongly they built one of the best systems in the nation and are proud of it. Thirty years of brutal Reagan economics haven’t drowned out that voice. In fact it is the same song the young people locked out of the Capitol are singing. They have been changed, as Yeats said about the Irish rebels of his time: “Transformed utterly:/ A terrible beauty is born.”

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What the bleep?

Local noise scene twist knobs and turns heads, while bluring the boundaries of music and theatre

By Emily Faeth emily.faeth@secondsupper.com

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Circuit-benders rewire classic toys and other electronics, creating new instruments at a recent noise show at the Cavalier Lounge.

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The red carpeted floor of the Cavalier Lounge is strewn with various cables, wires, knobs, dismembered toys. Dim light bounces off beer bottles and cocktail glasses onto faces reflecting fear, amusement, confusion: Zobin kneels in the middle of the room facing a mirror. “More pretty,” he says, as he rubs Cheez-Whiz onto his face, scalp and neck. Cameras flash blindingly and electronic alien sounds scream out of an amp on the floor. “More pretty.” I look across the room toward my boyfriend, my giddiness increasing with each sip I take. I can see Robert making mental notes in preparation for his upcoming set, preparing to search for sounds where most wouldn't think to look.

Robert is a musician, but he's never taken a piano lesson and can't read sheet music.

But as performing artist Igloo Martian, he is part of a growing number of innovators who are stretching the very definition of music, artists who are rethinking the boundaries between audience and performer, artist and media.

Perhaps, though, musician isn't a broad enough term. Area noise acts have, in recent weeks, included elements of sketch comedy and avant garde dramatic performance, sculpture, costuming, circuit bending, performance art, audience participation, speech and all manner of artistic representation. And it's this absence of boundary that artist Chris Zobin, who performs under his surname, finds not intimidating or confounding, but liberating.

“Say I was performing Shakespeare... yes, there are multiple layers of interpretation, but for the most part, we're all hearing the same words. You can say, I don't believe grass is green. I believe it's orange, and you can make a compelling argument. But at the end of the day, grass is green, the sky is blue,” says Zobin. “Noise shows are liberating not only as a performer, but as an audience, because you don't feel that burden of having a monolithic interpretation of what you're intending. [A performer] can create a little world that's filled with blips and bleeps that don't flow out the way we are collectively conditioned to accept and to process. And I think that's good.”

Zobin counts among his earliest influences John Boyle, another local artist/musician who also performs under his surname.

Like Zobin, Boyle has been a fixture in La Crosse's music and art scene since the late 1980s or early '90s. But he's seen an uptick recently in the scene, at least as far as noise is concerned. And he says the attention noise artists focus on each other has a cumulative effect. Says Boyle, “This 'genre', if you will, is just so diverse that you couldn't possibly compete. If anything, you're trying to do something cooler than your friends. [There

is] very good internal cheerleading going on.

And it's just a matter of the outside world lacking knowledge of [the La Crosse noise scene] which is what differentiates a Seattle, Washington, from a La Crosse, Wisconsin.”

La Crosse's size may, in fact, be of benefit to local noise performers: Boyle spent some time in San Francisco's art and music world a couple of Februarys ago and says he was envious of the collaborative networks of artists in the Bay Area. Recently, though, he employed one of the techniques he garnered from them. “With this last experiment that Rob [Igloo Martian], Ben [Koch, of Sweat Boys and the Beat Up Lunch] and I did, I sent out a blast email, or Facebook post, rather, 'We're playing at the ramp.' And it worked. And it was great.”

The three played a brief, semi-impromptu noise set underneath the Market Square Ramp on Fourth Street to a bemused crowd of passersby — one of whom appeared to be notifying authorities. And such public displays of misappropriated art — for how else might a movement which has no boundaries be appropriated? — are precisely what provide noise with its punk rock sensibility and appeal.

So...wait. Punk rock? Avant garde? Performance, music, sculpture, comedy, drama, noise...what is this we're talking about, anyway? Just like Igloo Martian's displaced noise toys, noise music comprises cultural and artistic conventions displaced in space and time, turned backwards and upside down, melted in a microwave, amplified or pixelated, making the movement decidedly postmodern. But what these artists all require is a paradigm shift in the collective mind of the audience — a move from passive observers to active interpreters. And they’ll have another chance to do just that again soon: another free noise show is happening Monday, March 7, at 8 p.m. at the Root Note, and again at the newly reopened Cavalier Lounge on Tuesday, March 15.

“It's all new. And that's why [noise] might lack a traditional fan base. Fans want to hear their favorite songs, but most people in the noise community realize that when you go to see an artist, you see something new; every time you pick up a CD it could be completely different than the one before,” says Igloo Martian. But all the same, that's the beauty of it. “Just do. Be the artist, be the noisemaker, be the crazy guy that everyone laughs at. Be the outsider. Just be something.”

And what these artists are being, at least lately, is optimistic. “I'm very, very excited about what's happening now, here, and it's just a matter of keeping the momentum going. And if an ear to the outside world is there, great,” says Boyle. “In all the correspondence I do with people [in online noise communities], I always sign off with 'From Noise City, USA.'”

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The Majak Mixtape

By Jonathan Majak jonathan.majak@secondsupper.com

Oh Charlie Sheen, you are officially gold medaling in the Hot Mess Olympics.

Anybody who follows the Majak Mixtape online knows we are absolutely obsessed with Sheen and his Sheen-nanigans that have gone from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” to new heights of crazy that is simultaneously cringe-inducing and Must Watch TV. The television networks are of the same belief as Sheen has pretty much been everywhere, doing interviews with the Today Show and TMZ and Good Morning America. Apparently, the only place he won’t be on is the network he has a contract with, which we will admit

is quite the feat. So in honor of the recent Sheen media blitz, we’re devoting this week to him and crazy antics in what we’re dubbing, “Mixtape, Interrupted.”

First up is “Rich Kid Blues” off of the amazing new Lykke Li album “Wounded Rhymes.” Charlie Sheen has been complaining all over the place about how he should be paid more for episodes of “Two and a Half Men,” wanting to increase his fee from the measly $1.5 million to something around $3 million per episode of the show, which seems like an exorbitant amount of money for somebody to play a sane version of themselves. But hey, what do we know? We can’t even get anybody to admit to even watching the opening credits of “Two and a Half Men,” let alone a full episode.

Our next song is “Can’t Find Entrance” from Those Dancing Days’ new album “Daydreams and Nightmares.” Charlie Sheen has apparently been banned from coming to the Warner Bros. lot where “Two and a Half Men” is filmed. According to reports, the entire security department was put on high alert and told not to let Sheen come onto the property. It’s been a very fast fall for Charlie Sheen from CBS golden boy to persona non

grata. He’s like a falling star from the sky. A falling star that likes to spend a large amount of his free time with porn stars in Las Vegas.

And lastly, our final song on this mixtape is “The Messenger” from Papercuts’ new album “Fading Parade.” Now that Charlie Sheen’s publicist has quit, because he was doing such an exceptional job prior to that, Charlie Sheen has done what any delusional celeb would do in his situation: Twitter. Yep, that’s right. Charlie Sheen has officially joined Twitter so he’ll able to continue to torpedo his career, 140 characters at a time.

And you know what the truly hilarious thing is? No matter what Charlie Sheen does, his career will always still be more than Lindsay Lohan.

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driven along by the guitars, made just upbeat enough by the patient rhythm section while a delicate piano progression drifts in and out of the foreground.

By Jason Crider

Lyrically, the group draws from the exjason.crider@secondsupper.com periences that members Danny Flaherty and Ryan Hartkopf had growing up in La Crosse.

What can I say? I’ve spent a lot of time The songs are all written with a genuine researching and discovering all kinds of honesty and peace of mind, yet there is still amazing and talented La Crosse-area bands this sense of longing and nostalgia hidden during my time here at the Supper, but as of right below the surface that makes the lyrics instantly relateable with a right now Elliot Arms is my kind of soulful warmth you’d favorite. Hands down. When expect to find while sitting I want to listen to the pop inside a log cabin next to a equivalent of Fleet Foxes, I fireplace. Just like with their just put in their new release. instrumentation, the group This debut, self-titled EP never tries to show off, meanconsists of only five tracks, ing that thematically speakbut they’re five tracks that ing, the songs are simple you won’t have any problem and sweet, never crippled by listening to over and over the overdramatic tendencies again (which is exactly what many guitar-driven music I’m doing right now). suffers from.

Elliot Arms is a Elliot Arms At this point I realize that 12-string guitar driven acousI’m running the risk of overtic folk act comprised of five Self-titled hyping this band, but rather La Crosse area college students who play pop-infused folk music with than ending on a low note, I’m going to close a maturity way beyond what their young age with one last bold statement: What Bon Iver would suggest. Their songs are very simple, became for Eau Claire and winter-inspired but extremely catchy and uplifting. You folk music, I think Elliot Arms could easily won’t find any senseless showboating or cli- become for La Crosse and spring. ché writing in their music; their beauty lies in their quiet subtlety. “Gold Rush,” prob- Elliot Arms will be playing at the Root Note on Friably their strongest piece on the EP, is the day, March 11 alongside Anna Vogelzang and La perfect example of this: the song is quietly Poema. The show begins at 8:30 p.m.

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music directory // February 25 to March 3 FRIDAY,

March 4

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FISH'S BAR // 612 Caledonia St. Joe Cody & Jim 'Fish' Ward (acoustic open jam) • 8 p.m.

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BRIGHT EYES // APRIL 3 Riverside Theatre • $25

NEUIE'S NORTH STAR // 1732 George St. King Friday (acoustic rock) • 8 p.m.

TIESTO // APRIL 8 Eagle’s Ballroom • $45-$55

NEUIE'S VARSITY CLUB // 1920 Ward Ave. Monkey Wrench, Menace (hard rock, metal) • 8 p.m.

SALT N’ PEPA // APRIL 9 Milwaukee Theatre • $39.50-$49.50

NORTH SIDE OASIS // 620 Gillette St. The Grilled Cheese Experience (rock) Spring is just calendar page away, and love will soon be in the air, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more romantic concert this year than Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade. Tess, a Brooklyn-based songwriter, takes her inspiration from • 9:30 p.m. gypsy folk and early vocal jazz, an enchanting blend she refers to as "modern vintage." Together with her traveling band, PEARL STREET BREWERY // 1401 St. Andrew St.

PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. Mississippi Driftwood (folk) • 8 p.m.

the accomplished Bon Ton Parade, Tess puts on an intoxicating show that wafts like cigarette smoke at a French cafe.

The group will return to the Pump House Saturday night for a 7:30 p.m. performance. Tickets are between $18 and $25.

JB'SSPEAKEASY // 717 Rose St. The Eugene Smiles Project (southern rock, soul) • 9 p.m.

JOHN'S BAR // 109 Third St. S. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Shoeless Revolution w/ Nicholas “The Sounds of The City (hip-hop) • 10 p.m.

Feelin” Mrozinski (Minnesota jamNORTH SIDE OASIS // 620 Gillette St. stravaganza) • 10 p.m.

Shawn Olson and Eric (acoustic) • 9 p.m.

RECOVERY ROOM // 901 7th St. S. Kin Pickin, Honey, Summer, and Fall PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. Mississippi Driftwood (folk) • 8 p.m.

(6th annual Snow Day) • 3 p.m.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. John Petty and All Good Things (folk Down Lo (jamband) • 10 p.m. rock, Americana) • 8:30 p.m.

PUMP HOUSE // 119 King St. THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade (dreamy, jazzy lounge) • 7:30 p.m.

Jim Bee Three (lounge) • 8 p.m.

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THE ENGLISH BEAT // APRIL 1 Turner Hall • $25

FREIGHT HOUSE // 107 Vine St. Dan Sebranek (songwriter) • 8 p.m.

Adam Palm (pop star) • 5 p.m.

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March 6

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Som’n Jazz (som’n) • 10 p.m.

MONDAY,

March 7

JB'SSPEAKEASY // 717 Rose St. Hip-hop open mic • 9 p.m.

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Shawn's Open jam • 10 p.m.

THE BUDOS BAND // APRIL 20 Turner Hall • $12 THE PIXIES // APRIL 23 Eagle’s Ballroom • $33-$43

WEDNESDAY,

March 9

BOOT HILL PUB // 1501 St. Andrew St. Jerry Anderson, Neil Duresky (lounge) • 6:30 p.m.

DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Erock (rock) • 10 p.m.

FLIPSIDE PUB AND GRILL // 400 Lang Drive Dan Bergers Songwriter's Corner • 6 p.m.

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

THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Boyle, B.R.U.N.C.H., The Voodoo Sunshine, Igloo Martian, Magical Star Trav- RECOVERY ROOM // 901 7th St. S. eling Repertory Theater (noise) • 8:30 Kin Pickin' (jam grass) • 10 p.m.

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THURSDAY,

March 10

THE FIELD HOUSE // W5450 Keil Coulee Rd. Fayme Rochelle & The Waxwings (oldtime, bluegrass) • 9 p.m.

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

DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Cheech (blues, rock) • 10 p.m.

Dana & Susan Robinson (contemporary, Appalachian) • 7:30 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Ryan Traster (Americana) • 8:30 p.m.

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

POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Jazz Liver (jazz liver) • 10 p.m.

FREIGHT HOUSE // 107 Vine St. Dan Sebranek (songwriter) • 8 p.m.

THE STARLITE LOUNGE // 222 Pearl St. Jim Piela Quartet (jazz) • 8 p.m.

THE JOINT // 324 Jay St. Adam Palm (acoustic hits) • 6 p.m.

THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Open Mic Night • 8:30 p.m.

FLIPSIDE PUB AND GRILL // 400 Lang Drive

THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. Jim Bee Three (lounge) • 8 p.m.

THE WAREHOUSE // 324 Pearl St. The Material (alternative, punk) • 7 p.m.

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

SATURDAY,

BLUFF VIEW CONCERTS // N7916 Bluff View Ct.

Sellout (‘80s and ‘90s hits) • 8:30 p.m.

Second Supper

March 3, 2011 // 9

YOUR GUIDE TO CONSUMPTION

The Beer Review Sweet Stout Great Dane Pub and Brewery Madison, Wisconsin

If there’s one thing I like about Wisconsinites, it’s their passion for standing up for what they believe in. This spirit overflowed the Capitol Square in Madison on Saturday as nearly 100,000 people amassed on a snowy afternoon to voice their opposition to Gov. Scott Walker’s budget plan. The mood was oddly jolly, though passions ran high, and it reminded me of the final minutes of a deadlocked basketball game. Of course the protesters were up against a resolved opposition, so while they could chant themselves hoarse, it still didn’t guarantee they would

win.

Clearly this was leaving a bitter taste in some people’s mouths, which brings me to the second thing I love about Wisconsinites: they always make room for beer. As I made my afternoon laps around the Capitol, I could hear many protesters making plans to recharge their batteries. Every nearby watering hole was crammed to the gills, their poor bartenders looking more world-weary than a snowplow driver facing cuts to his pension.

The award-winning Great Dane brewpub was one of the more popular destinations for out-of-towners, and it took all our efforts just to find a seat at the downstairs bar and enjoy this sweet, sweet taste of democracy.

Purchase: One pint of Sweet Stout from the Great Dane Brewpub in Madison, $4.50

Style: Sweet stout

Strength: Unknown ABV, but it couldn’t have been much more than 5 percent and seemed pretty comparable to Guinness.

Packaging: Unfortunately the Great Dane doesn’t bottle any of its beers, but its tap handles feature golden heads of the eponymous dog breed, and the Sweet Stout flowed from a nitrogen-infusing tap.

Appearance: The beer poured an opaque purple-black color with a creamy grey head that left excellent lacing.

Aroma: Sweet but earthy, like chocolate milk infused with peat, mixed with large amounts of cold-press coffee.

Taste: The Sweet Stout is a beer that lives up to its name, with a honey bun taste at the front of the tongue and a finish like the milk at the bottom of a bowl of Golden Grahams.

The nitro tap added a nice cappuccino effect,

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which went a long way in elevating what could have been a watery porter into one of the tastiest stouts I’ve ever sampled.

Mouthfeel: Very thin-bodied for a stout, yet a tiny infusion of noble hops leaves a dry and slightly puckering finish.

Drinkability: The beer is rather watery and not too strong, which normally leads to high drinkability, but I’m not sure how many pints I could handle of something this sweet.

Ratings: There are no reviews on RateBeer.com, but BeerAdvocate features three 2007 reviews of a Great Dane “Century Sweet Stout” that averaged a B+. I’m not sure if this is the same beer, but I’d recommend one if you ever need to wash out the taste of political disgust. Now if only we could get a few Republicans and Democrats to share some pints.

— 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

$1 Wells, $5 Domestic pitchers All specials 9 p.m. to close

$3 Bacardi mixers, $3.50 Bacardi Hurricanes

15-cent wings, $1.50 Keystone Lights, $1.50 rail mixers; $2.50 call drinks. 2 For 1 Captains All specials 9 p.m. to close.

Wristband Night: AUC2D, Domestic $3 Bacardi mixers, taps, rail mixers and Long Islands. $3.50 Bacardi Hurricanes $2.50 SoCo & Jack.

All specials 9 to close.

$3 Bacardi mixers, $3.50 Bacardi Hurricanes

5 domestic taps for $1; $2 domestic pitchers

$2 domestic pints and $2 rail mixers; $1 shots of Doctor (3 flavors);

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

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BODEGA BREW PUB 122 4th St. 782-0677

BROTHERS 306 Pearl St. 784-0522

CARLIE'S ON THIRD 115 3rd St. S 782-7550

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

$3 Long Islands; $2 domestic pints; $1 shots of Tequila

$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.

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

FEATURES

Free Beer: 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free Wings: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Free Bowling: After 9 p.m.

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

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

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

FLIPSIDE PUB & GRILL

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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HOWIE’S 1125 La Crosse St. 784-7400

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JB’S SPEAKEASY 717 Rose St. 796-1161

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$1.75 domestic bottles, $1.75 Dom Monday Madness: $1.75 domestics bottles and rails, $2.50 Bombs and rails, $2.50 Bombs, $1 off all top shelf and specialty beers $1.79 burger (after 8 p.m.)

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

$5 AUC2D wristbands: domestic taps, rail mixers, Long Islands, 9 p.m. to close; ($7 after 11p.m.): karaoke 10 p.m. to close

$5 AUC2D wristbands: domestic taps, rail mixers, Long Islands, 9 p.m. to close; ($7 after 11p.m.): karaoke 10 p.m. to close

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: $1.25 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans

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

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

Free Wing Night (while supplies last); $5 AUC2D wristbands: domestic taps, rail mixers, Long Islands, 9 p.m. to close ($7 after 11p.m.):; live DJ

$5 AUC2D Wristbands 9 p.m. to close ($10 after 11p.m.): Domestic Taps, Rail Mixers, Long Islands; Live DJ, Dancing 9 p.m. to close

$5 AUC2D Wristbands 9 p.m. to close ($10 after 11p.m.): Domestic Taps, Rail Mixers, Long Islands; Live DJ, Dancing 9 p.m. to close

Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m.

Happy Hour 5 to 7 p.m.

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

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 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

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.

$1.50 Tacos, $4.99 nachos; $11 buckets during pro and college football games.

$1 Taps & Rails during the game ; $6 wristbands starting at 7pm.

K$2 Double rails and all bottles; $3 Double call drinks

Wristband night, $2 cherry bombs, $3 Bacardi mixers, 50¢ shots (3 flavors); $2.50 Tuaca, $3.50 Bacardi Hurricanes Jack Daniel's & SoCo Mixers

$3 Bacardi mixers, $3.50 Bacardi Hurricanes

$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.)

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5 Domestic Bottles for $10, $5 $2 Captain Mixers, $2. Long Island Micro/Import Bottles $11.50, $7 Mixers, $3 Effen Vodka Mixers (7-1 Micro/Craft Pitchers (7-1 a.m.) a.m.)

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

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

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$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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Happy Hour until 10 p.m. $1.50 domestic taps, $2 rails from 10 to close

$1 taps of PBR, $1 rails

$3 call doubles, $2 Bud products

Ladies' Night: $2 top shelf, $1 Pink $8.50 Fish Bowls, $2 Miller products $1 off Three Olives, $2 domestic taps Tacos; Everyone: $2.50 bombs, $2 taps, $3 Jack/Captain doubles

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DIVERSIONS "Sign of the Times" But I repeat myself

By Erich Boldt

By Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 "That doesn't look good" 5 They're tipped in pranks, supposedly 9 Bear whose porridge was deemed too hot 13 Suffix for cities 15 Novelist Waugh 16 Corporate honcho 17 Follow the law 18 Goneril's father 19 Jonathan Larson musical 20 Song from The Doors' "Strange Days" album, literally?

23 Getting by, with "out" 24 "Dallas" family members 27 Diamond stat

28 Little bite 30 Strip mall components 32 French cocktail 33 "Uncle Miltie" 35 Fox News correspondent ___ Ninan 36 Commodores hit, literally?

39 Get more mags 40 Do a five-finger discount 41 Member of the fam 42 Stretchy materials 44 "Toddlers & Tiaras" network 45 Capitol Hill figure: abbr.

46 Soft drink originally bottled in California 48 "___ the Frequency, Kenneth?"

Answers to Feb. 24 puzzle "Mix Masters" — They'll get the party going

50 2010 Italian Cannes entry, literally?

54 Morally right 57 Italian wine region 58 Actor Delon 59 "Understood!"

60 Tug McGraw's first MLB team 61 Like justice, as it's personified 62 Western lake 63 Goes on and on 64 Raid target DOWN 1 Fall birthstone 2 Bindle carrier 3 Peace symbol 4 Former Yankee pitcher Irabu 5 People like the one with which Eliot Spitzer got in trouble 6 Margarine 7 Patch of fake hair, maybe 8 "Some assembly required" extras 9 Santa Claus's French counterpart 10 Double-bladed weapon 11 What brave people use to fill in crosswords 12 It's divided into scenes 14 18-wheeler 21 Prefix meaning

"nine" that can precede -gon 22 Type of heart valve 25 Tough spot for a mechanic?

26 Submit, as a letter 27 Poet James Whitcomb and singer Jeannie, for two 29 Actor Oliver of "The Big C" 31 "Survey ___...." ("Family Feud" phrase) 32 Stylish Lagerfeld 33 Dam outlet 34 Flower sung about in "The Sound of Music" 37 Removed vermin from 38 America's Cup entrant 43 Torrid 45 ___ Artois 47 Befuddled 49 Moby Dick's chaser 51 Letters before "://" 52 It may be printed upside-down 53 Grinds to a halt 54 Tony Hillerman detective Chee 55 Point 56 Dead or Red Š2011 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords. com)

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March 3, 2011 // 11

THE LAST WORD

The Advice Goddess

By Amy Alkon amy.alkon@secondsupper.com Managed frisk

A recent column of yours really ticked me off.

You stated, “While men can have sex without an emotional connection, women generally need to feel emotionally close to their partner first.” You could not be more WRONG. I’m a very goodlooking and fit man, and I would never have sex with someone I didn't have feelings for. To further prove my point, I know just as many high-class women who have sex with men they do not have feelings for! So women are just as guilty as men.

There is no “generally” about it.

— A Real Man

When a heterosexual man has a onenight stand, which three words best describe how he’s likely to feel afterward: “used, degraded, dirty” or “lucky, lucky, lucky!”?

Many women say they can hook up and walk away like men do, and they probably believe that. It seems kind of uncool to be

all emotional when you want to be tough and all “no big deal” about casual sex. But we all get our marching orders from our genes.

Some of these are unisex, like, “Yoohoo, sharp teeth to your left. Better run!” But there are also separate sets of directives for men and women, corresponding to our physiological differences. In “What Women Want — What Men Want,” anthropologist John Townsend explains, “Because women can be impregnated and abandoned and men cannot, women’s emotions evolved to evaluate the quality and reliability of male investment. These emotions act as an alarm system that urges women to test and evaluate investment and remedy deficiencies even when they try to be indifferent to investment.”

Yes, this “Dad or Cad?” detector women have seems to be missing the all-important on-off switch. In one of Townsend’s studies, he found that even when women just wanted to hump and dump a guy, sex “made them feel vulnerable, and thoughts crossed their minds like ‘Does he care about me, is sex all he was after, will he dump me in the morning?’ These thoughts were difficult to suppress.” They’re also especially disheartening to young women who’ve been taught that “gender is a social construct” and who conflate being equal under the law with being the same. Sure, girls can do lots of things boys can do … but should they? Hooking up with some random himbo seems like a bad idea if your “I am woman, hear me roar” typically gives way to “I am woman’s genes, hear me whimper that we

hope he’ll call us in the morning.”

Don’t mistake this as a call for prudery.

I’m not suggesting that women who want nostrings sex trade their NuvaRings for chastity rings. And, regarding your contention that there’s no “generally” about men, women, and casual sex — sure, there are exceptions: men who get all emo afterward and women who wish that the guy would evaporate already. Studies don’t explain every person; they paint a picture of the average person.

There are women who can’t have casual sex (they can’t help but get attached), but the research suggests to me that some women might just need to differentiate between casual sex and too-casual sex. When a woman isn’t up for a boyfriend (or spending a year with her knees crossed), maybe a “friends with benefits” thing could work for her — if it’s a friend she’s known and trusted for more than the 26 minutes he spent chatting her up after “last call.”

your boyfriend, who’s turned the Android into his Porndroid. He may or may not have a porn problem. It’s a problem for you if you feel you aren’t getting enough time, sex and attention. But what’s definitely a problem is the hostility and passive-aggressiveness of a boyfriend who can’t just watch on the sly; he has to stick it in his girlfriend’s face. Is this really somebody you want to spend a lot more time with? If not, the next time he shoves his phone across the dinner table and asks, “Seen the position of the day?” you might show him one of your own — one you like to call doggie bag-style: woman, from behind, carrying the rest of her dinner out the restaurant door to go find a guy who’s nice to her.

Spanking the junkie

We all have our indulgences, but how much porn is too much? My boyfriend has hundreds of porn bookmarks in his smart phone. He showed them off to me at dinner and said there were 300.

Is having so many a sign that it’s less about amusement than it is about compulsive behavior?

By the way, he’s generally a collector of things.

— The Girlfriend

A guy can show his girlfriend his Hot Wheels collection and she’s unlikely to start fretting that he’ll be having sex with her but picturing Bobby Unser. And then there’s

top shots joke of the week Why didn't the lifeguard save the drowning hippie?

He was too far out.

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TUESDAY

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THURSDAY

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

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