INSIDE... The publically funded charter school charade VOLUME 11, NO. 14 | APRIL 21, 2011
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Life Lessons from Brewmaster Joe Live your dream. Build your business. Drink good beer.
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COMMUNITY NAME AND AGE: Sarah K.B. Jackson, 20 WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Orange County, California CURRENT JOB: Photo lab worker DREAM JOB: I would love to perform with an a capella group someday. LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: Summerfest, to look up the Summerfest line-up IF YOU COULD LIVE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD IT BE? I would want to live in Germany. I take the language and I have been there, a welcoming place!
WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE: I want to open up a bakery.
WHAT IS YOUR PET PEEVE? Little noises that distract me, like tapping, pen clicking, etc. WHAT IS YOUR BEVERAGE OF CHOICE? Juice CELEBRITY CRUSH: Matthew McConaughey
WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein…scandalous
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WHAT IS YOUR GUILTIEST PLEASURE? '80s POP MUSIC..really bad pop music TELL US A JOKE: How do you tell the difference between a violinist and a dog? The dog knows when to stop scratching. WHAT'S THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? Stuff to make cupcakes! WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW?: I currently do not have pant pockets, but in my coat resides my school ID, room key, phone, and a to do list. IF A GENIE GRANTED YOU ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD YOU ASK FOR? Well, because I am disappointed with Mother Nature today, I would ask a genie to dry up the ground and give us some sun and warmth in La Crosse, and maybe just maybe the rest of Wisconsin. WHAT PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH? Eleanor Roosevelt! She inspires me. Go look up some of her quotes! FIRST CONCERT YOU WENT TO: Sheryl Crow at Summerfest. I think I was 12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF SECOND SUPPER? The mazes, because they are artistic. HOW DO YOU KNOW TYLER (LAST WEEK'S INTERVIEW)? Tyler and I met through some band kids. Even if we wouldn’t have been introduced formally, I think we would still have become friends because he is a great, genuine outgoing, guy.
Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Marcel Dunn for his incredibly fair review [of the Cheese Corner, March 17]. As this is our first "less-than-positive" review, I really appreciate how honest yet nice it was. I'm so sorry that he wasn't happy with his sandwiches. We pride ourselves on our food, as most restaurants do, but of course different menu items spark the interest of different people. (We have people that absolutely adore the ridiculously messy Hot Ham and Cheese on Pretzel. And the Chicken Bacon Boom Boom is actually a customer submission.) But Marcel noticed so many of the other things we pride ourselves on. Our diverse crowd, our hometown feel, our regulars, our atmosphere, our culture and our large menu of options coupled with friendly customer service are equally important to us and it was wonderful that he noted those positive things as well. It was lovely of him to keep his mind and his stomach open to us even with a lessthan-stellar first impression and if it didn't seem so much like a bribe, I'd offer him a different selection on us! We're happy to keep him as an "awkward facebook friend!"
— Tina Tryggestad "The Big Cheese"
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The Top Pearl Street Brewery beers 1. Smokin' Hemp Porter 2. Rubber Mills Pils 3. Evil Doppleganger Maibock 4. D.T.B. 5. That’s What I’m Talkin’ ’bout Organic Rolled Oat Stout 6. Bedwetter Barleywine 7. Pale Ale La Crosse Drinking Events 1. Oktoberfest 2. Between the Bluffs Beer, Wine and Cheese Festival 3. PSB Winter Ball 4. Kül Duel 5. Wienerfest 6. Riverfest 7. Breakfast
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FIRST THINGS FIRST So, you have a hard time remembering where you put your car keys or can of soda. You walk around your flat lost as a puppy with a blindfold on. Furthermore, you don’t have a tremendous sense of smell. But, think if you did have a great big snout! What would you smell? Chicken!! OK, so those last few sentences don’t really make sense, but are there to make a point. There are people throughout the area battling Alzheimer’s disease every day, and there is a Chicken Q being held on Tuesday to support the Alzheimer’s Association. So write the following information down lest ye forget! Tuesday, April 26 from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., stop by the Best Western Riverfront Hotel parking lot. (Free delivery for 10 or more meals.) Bring your friends, family, office staff or favorite mail delivery person. For more information, call 784-5011.
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Remember your Kies
Thursday nights used to mean a couple of things — wristbands were going to be bought, you would make 6 new friends and lose 4, you may or may not remember all the details of exactly why the officer gave you a ride home, your eyes would closely resemble caves on your cheeks throughout most of Friday. But, now that you're a little older; a little more sophisticated — you know how to read. And, because you're reading this, you know that Kies & Kompanie will be up at the Starlite Lounge — i.e. their usual Thursday happy hour haunt. Come and check out this swooning jazz group whilst sipping a mellifluous cocktail from La Crosse's elite martini bar. The wire-brush sticks start caressing the drum skins at 5 p.m.
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Find eggs
Take the kiddies out for some Easter fun at the Easter EGGStravaganza at the Children’s Museum, this Friday April 22 from 9:30 to11:30 a.m. Play games, make crafts and hunt for eggs filled with “Bunny Money” to exchange for treats and prizes. This program is for children ages 2-7 accompanied by an adult. The cost is $5 per child for museum members and $7 per child for non-members. Adults are admitted free. Pre-registration and prepayment is required, so call 784-2652 or register online. Note: the Museum will be closed on Easter Sunday.
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Have a healthy breakfast
Join the La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce for their Business over Breakfast presentation on how businesses can be more bicycle friendly and encourage healthy lifestyles. The breakfast will be held on April 27 from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. at the La Crosse Chamber of Commerce, 712 Main St. The cost is $5 per person and includes continental breakfast. Contact the Chamber of Commerce at 784-4880 to purchase your ticket.
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Bike, critically
Celebrate the beauty of Mother Nature on Friday and kick off Earth Day right at the Earth Day Mass Bike Ride, sponsored by the UW-La Crosse Environmental Council and UW-L Progressives. Pedal on down to the clock tower on the UW-L campus at 1 p.m., and ride for roughly 45 minutes to the river, while taking a circuitous route. If you without a bike, snag one from a friend. Rentals from the REC on campus are also available. Don’t forget the essentials, that being a helmet for safety's sake. With the route being on mostly lowtraffic streets you will look even cooler.
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Our publically educated reporter takes the governor's charter plan to school By Bob Treu Special to Second Supper
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I’m a public school brat, so that accounts for my bias. In my hometown, a middle-sized place in north central Wisconsin, almost everybody except Catholic kids went to public school. People from different backgrounds learned together, played ball on the same teams and dated the same girls. During our school years, class didn’t exist. Not even in high school. Nobody would have dreamed of starting a private school in competition with Wausau High, and most of us did OK. For me school made all the difference. I grew up in a setting where several languages were heard and English was bludgeoned into a form that required subtitles. Nonetheless, I had some terrific English teachers and I was in my third year of college before I had a history class that measured up to what I had experienced in high school. After that I went on to the state university. For $180 a semester I was able to roam around in one of the country’s great intellectual environments, which I did, like a coyote mistakenly allowed to hang out with the classier dogs. Eventually I taught at Northeastern University, a private school that had begun as a project for Boston’s Irish immigrants. For most Bostonians, Harvard and Boston University could have been located on the moon. They weren’t going there. However, if their parents saved enough, they might get into Northeastern, which was much more expensive than the University of Wisconsin. A couple of afternoons a week, after finishing my university classes, I would walk a few blocks into Roxbury, Boston’s ghetto, where I would help kids from the neighborhood school with reading and writing. I still have some of their poems. At the same time Jonathan Kozol’s Death At An Early Age, a book about Boston’s school system, was coming out in the Globe in segments and shocking everyone. In Boston, Kozol argued, people of even modest means didn’t support public education because they sent their kids to private schools. Kozol has been making this point for forty years and I’ll refer to him
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again. When I came home to teach at a state university, I did so with great pride and a belief that public education in Wisconsin was superior. I was innocent beyond ordinary means of calculation. For one thing, I was not very well informed about how badly things were going in inner city schools in the Midwest. Also, public education was coming under an organized, well-funded attack by the new Right. While charter schools are not solely a product of this attack, they eventually became the favorites of conservatives. On the other hand, I know some very bright, idealistic teachers who organized charter schools in Milwaukee as a way of finding alternatives to the troubled public system. They believed experimentation outside the restrictions of school boards would produce results that could be used by the public schools. Instead charter schools have given ammunition to the primitive philosophy that sees anything public as bad. Ultimately they have provided an excuse for defunding public education and creating a situation that leaves many students behind. So it was hardly an accident that Waiting for Superman came to town about the time Scott Walker began his own attack on public schools. The film was made with a $2 million grant from the Gates Foundation, and is so patently biased the Academy wouldn’t consider it for an Oscar. It purports to be a documentary but is filled with lies (the specifics can be easily found online). It is, in my opinion, one of the most immoral films I have ever seen. For one thing it blames teachers and their unions for the problems of inner city schools and never cites the studies that show states with unionized teachers, like Wisconsin and Minnesota, do better than non-unionized states. Even worse, a film that pretends concern for inner city children never mentions the enormous inequities in school funding that keep inner schools from improving much. Still, there are some good arguments for the limited system of charter schools that is being tried in Wisconsin. After all, somebody might just come up with something that will improve the chances of success for inner city kids. At least that was true until Walker and his gang got wind of the project. Senate Bill 22, which is a sequel to the budget bills, changes education in Wisconsin dramatically. It will authorize voucher payments for charter schools throughout the state, and will eliminate income limits for enrollment. It will change teacher licensing requirements to allow people with little training to teach in charter schools. These schools will be overseen by a board appointed by the governor, rather than by local boards, and there will be no limit on how much general school aid can be reduced to fund them. Finally, it sweetens the
pot for charter school employees by giving them access to state health and retirement programs. In short, under SB 22, ordinary people will pay to send rich kids to private schools. Let’s be clear. This is not a movement instigated by popular demand or by school boards. As Jonathan Kozol points out in “The Big Enchilada,” (Harper’s, August, 2007), most communities are quite satisfied with their public schools. It’s the inner cities that provide the wedge for charter schools. Other communities will follow suit only when their public schools are downgraded by bills like SB22. Kozol also points out that investment companies like Montgomery Securities see charter schools as “the big enchilada,” a prospect nearly as bright as privatized health care. The opposition to SB22 is predictably growing. Howard Fuller, who represents Milwaukee’s African American community and who has been an advocate of school choice for years, attended the hearings on the bill. Afterward he said he was against removing the income limitations. “This is where I get off the train,” he added. The Wisconsin Association of School Boards opposes the bill because members are against investing in a program that yields questionable results. That’s right, In spite of all the hype and money behind them, and in spite of the advantage they have in picking the students they admit, charter schools don’t do so well. A study released last week found public schools do better than charter schools in Wisconsin. Within a day a different study claimed they were doing about the same, but not better. Our own Senator Kapanke, who was one of the sponsors of SB-22, has removed his name from it. That happened just before the news leaked that the petition to recall him had more than enough signatures. But the Right’s dislike of public education isn’t just about taxes and breaking unions. As Kozol points out, charter schools will open an enormous market for speculators. More than that, it potentially gives them control over what gets taught. There are already history textbooks being issued in which Jefferson is unmentioned and the Civil War treated solely as a states’ rights issue. And I’m even more alarmed when I think about how science will be taught. If climate change offends corporations, it won’t be presented. Schools are supposed to teach young people how to investigate and think for themselves, and I believe public schools is where that is most likely to happen. My bias in favor of public education is, I hope, actually a bias in favor of democracy. SB22 makes our school system more elitist by privatizing it. It also removes the traditional control communities have over their schools and gives it to the governor, and that’s far from democratic.
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Hazy By Jason Crider jason.crider@secondsupper.com It seems like drug legality is becoming a more and more prominent issue in America. While countries like Canada and Jamaica are getting incredibly close to legalizing marijuana (pot’s technically illegal in Jamaica; this shocked me too), it seems like Americans couldn’t be more torn on the issue. Some states like California are getting closer to legalizing it, while others are pulling back. The American government can agree on one thing though, and that is its opposition to every single other drug known to man. They seem to think that they can make our life decisions for us, which is another issue entirely (I’ll spare you my Libertarian political idealisms). Anyways, we’re all pretty well informed on most drugs, or at least we can easily choose to be with help from the Internet, so why aren’t we allowed to make up our own mind about what enters our bodies and what doesn’t? I know tons of people who use drugs on an incredibly frequent basis, and they still manage to be very functional members of society. To be fair, I know some people on the opposite end of this spectrum as well, but the fact that their actions are illegal has never been able to deter them. If anything it’s just made their situations worse due to tickets, police reports and job losses. And then I have a handful of friends and acquaintances that fall into a third category as well, one marked by a recent trend of experimentation with legal drugs. These drugs vary from synthesized “designer drugs,” substances that are manufactured in such a way to circumvent existing drug laws, to substances that seemed to just kind of fall off of the government’s radar somehow. The problem with some of these drugs in the former category is that they have a tendency to be far more dangerous than their legal counterparts. For example, marijuana is pretty much safer than candy, but K2, its laboratory-born brother, has been linked with a hefty plethora of health issues. Plus I’ve heard it’s not a good high. Other chemicals, such as the phenethylamines 2C-E and 2C-I, are legal psychedelics that you can get mailed to your house as “research chemicals.” The problem with these is the same problem with most drugs; they’re dangerous if used incorrectly. A further problem is that because they are in fact legal, people tend to think they’re safe, and due to their relatively recent introduction into the world of human consumption, there still isn’t a whole lot of research out on them. It was only about a month ago in the Twin Cities that 11 teenagers and young adults overdosed on 2C-E, resulting in one unfortunate death. Could this have been avoided by government legislation? It’s possible, but I doubt it.
I know for a fact that, at least in La Crosse, psychedelics and hallucinogens like mushrooms or acid are far more convenient and easy to come across than something as obscure as 2C-E, and are considered by most to be much safer. That’s not to say that 2C-E is necessarily dangerous, but the information on it is still limited, so even if it is safe what constitutes a proper dose is still speculative. On the other side of the legal drug spectrum are substances like salvia divinorum, a short-lasting psychedelic, and methylone or “M1,” a substance similar to MDMA. Both of these “drugs” are considered perfectly safe if used correctly, but are on their way out the door, so to speak, in terms of legality. Salvia has been outlawed in numerous states including, less than two years ago, Wisconsin. But I can still remember at least half a dozen stores that used to carry it before this unnecessary change in legislation took place. I say unfortunate because this “drug” is, if anything, an anti-gateway drug. The majority of people that take it either hate it, enjoyed it but don’t want to try it again, or wait a substantial period of time before pursuing it a second time. And it’s perfectly safe! Isn’t this the kind of thing the government would want people trying if they want us to not take drugs? Or do they really just like bossing us around? I’m going with the latter. To be fair though, go on YouTube and search for videos of people trying it. What you’ll find is a series of idiots making this relatively mild herbal substance look like a full-on acid trip, which is exactly the type of red flag raising “evidence” that legislators and the media used (and are still using) to try and get salvia classified as a controlled substance. M1 seems to be headed toward a similar fate unfortunately, but at the moment is only banned in two states. The beauty of this drug is that it can act as a close substitute for MDMA. While pure MDMA is safe if used correctly, ecstasy has been becoming more and more notorious for it’s tendency to be cut with other drugs, like methamphetamine or ephedrine, some of which are dangerous alone or in conjunction with other ingredients. But this isn’t a problem when you can just get some M1 in the mail and know for a fact that it is 100 percent pure. Well, take what you want from this rant, but I guess my point is whether or not you’re for drug legalization doesn’t really matter; our country’s still handling it completely wrong. Happy 4/20!
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Pearl Street Brewery's Joe Katchever shares the secrets to his life of beer By Adam Bissen adan.bissen@secondsupper.com On the first time he ever tried good beer I went to college in Milwaukee. I remember going to this bar, the Up and Under Pub, down on Brady Street, because they had live blues on Fridays and I think Saturdays, too. They also had Sprecher’s Black Bavarian. I was always getting those. That was back in the day when there wasn’t much craft beer available. It was pretty much domestic, regular American beers or imports. So once craft beers came around, I was definitely diving into them. On his brewing roots I was a homebrewer in college — and even before college in high school a little bit, making beer and wine. And then I ended up in Colorado, got a job in a brewery, and I got back into homebrewing again. On the power of Colorado Colorado was great. I went to Colorado just to snowboard, trying to lose myself in the mountains for a few years, and I ended up finding brewing all over again. I never thought of it as a job, because there wasn’t any craft breweries around where I was from. There was only a couple in Milwaukee. So I got a job at one brewery and another brewery, and then I ended up going to school out there for brewing. I learned how to brew at a commercial, professional level, and I brought that back with me to La Crosse. On the origins of Pearl Street Pearl Street Brewery was a 6-and-a-halfbarrel system, which means every batch was around 12 kegs, maybe 13 kegs of beer. It was a lot of work, but from a business perspective I would sell those kegs before I was even done brewing them. It was a lot of good learning experience. At one point I think I had 12 beers on tap simultaneously down there [at the Bodega]. It was fun to experiment. Then I started selling beers outside of the Bodega as well, what I could, what I had left. Yesterdays was the first bar to take Pearl Street beer, and it just kind of radiated out from there.
On La Crosse’s initial response When I first came here in ’98, I basically went around telling people what I was doing. I moved here. I moved downtown and I lived there for 10 years, and I was basically telling people what I was doing. They were obviously curious as to who I was. “Oh, I’m going to start a brewery here.” And everyone pretty much went “Yeah, OK. Good luck with that.” On the need to leave the Bodega There’s not a lot of money in what I was doing down there because it was small quantities and a lot of work. So my father and I spent a couple years visiting different buildings all over La Crosse. I’ve been in almost every vacant building, and a lot of them that aren’t. We crawled all the way up in the attic and down in cellars and looked all the way through these buildings. It became like a hobby of ours. We looked at the creamery in Coon Valley, another creamery building in Galesville. But I really wanted to stay in La Crosse. On their brew equipment This equipment was originally purchased by New Belgium Brewery in Ft. Collins [Colorado] a long time ago when they first opened up. The people in Port Washington [Wisconsin] bought it from them, set it up and ran their brewery for around 10 years. They were kind of loosely related to the New Belgium people — they were brothers or cousins of one of the founders of New Belgium — so this equipment was in great shape. On seizing opportunities 2009 is when we started really busting down. Everything was running smoothly, so I could focus on the business more instead of just day-to-day operations. That’s pretty much when the economy was tanking, so that was when we started working harder. That’s when I hired more people and said "We’re going to get a bigger piece of the market." On Pearl Street’s reach We self-distribute our beer in Madison
and in the Fox River Valley area. Appleton, Oshkosh, DePere, Green Bay, all the way up there and Manitowoc. That and Madison. We’ve been tackling Madison pretty hard. Madison is a lot of fun. And they’re very open and accepting of new beers. In fact they’re starving for new beers in Madison all the time. On self-distributing We’ve always self-distributed. It basically means we brew beer. We package it up — whether it’s in kegs or bottles — we throw it in the van, and we deliver it right to our accounts: bars, restaurants, liquor stores, grocery stores. I don’t know of any other breweries in Wisconsin that self-distribute in this point. On the next step We’ve had growth every year since day one. Production has increased steadily, and once we moved into this facility obviously it went way up. But in the last 5 years or so it increased steadily every year, and I don’t see that changing at all. I like to nurture the business and just see where it grows. Kind of grow it at it’s own pace. We’re not trying to force anything. On the sale of Goose Island I would hope that their beer stays as good as it has been. Goose Island is known for their great beers, and I hope that doesn’t change. I’d hate to see a good brewery go bad because they got gobbled up by a corporate giant. On keeping it indy I like to be completely independent of other breweries and other outside influences. I think the independence is what leads to the creativity, which leads to better, more exciting beers. On the next Pearl Street beers The [Rubber Mills] Pils is great. We’ve brewed it probably four times now. It’s great. I love it. It’s fun to brew. I think a lot of people like it, so it will be the next beer that goes in bottles.The Java Lava is a really popular beer too. We talked to our coffee supplier, and they are willing to up their production of roasted coffee beans so that we can up the production of our beer. That could be another one that goes in bottles this year, or early next year. On the secret to winning Betwen The Bluffs annual People's Choice Award It doesn’t hurt to be local. As with all beer fests that we attend, we try to do it up and have a great time. Not just throw our beers in front of people to try, but also our attitude and our good time spirit that we have here at the brewery — we bring that to our events as well. I think beer and good times go hand in hand. On what makes Between the Bluffs unique It has cheese.
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At A Glance WHAT: 9th Annual Between the Bluffs Beer, Wine & Cheese Festival WHERE: La Crosse Oktoberfest Grounds, 300 Front St. WHEN: Saturday April 14, 2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; VIP access begins at 12:30 p.m. WHO: 37 breweries, 17 wineries, 5 cheesemakers TICKETS: $30; $35 at the gate MUSIC: Guitar Logic, Mighty Short Bus PRE-PARTY: Brewers reception Friday, April 22 at the Pearl Street Brewery, 1401 St. Andrews St.; music by Moon Boot Posse,; open to the public ONLINE: betweenthebluffsbeerfest.com
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The Majak Mixtape By Jonathan Majak jonathan.majak@secondsupper.com We were going to start this Mixtape with saying “Oh Jesus, how are you doing” but we thought starting a Mixtape in his honor by taking his name in vain would be considered just a wee bit tacky. Maybe? Anyway, it’s that magical time of year when women, against all sound fashion advice, don some Easter bonnets; scores of men who routinely frown at the mere notion of wearing anything close to the pink family gamely wear pastel ties and dress shirts; and Christians celebrate Jesus being crucified and being brought back to life to deliver Reese’s Peanut Butter cups in the shape of eggs. Right? Maybe? We’re Sunday school dropouts here so our biblical knowledge is fuzzy at best. In honor of Jesus dying for our sins, coming back from the dead and pretty much setting the comeback template for the second half of Cher’s career, we’re honoring Him and the Easter holiday in what we’re calling “And on the Third Day, He Mixtaped Again.” First up on our Mixtape is Lady GaGa’s new single “Judas” from her upcoming album “Born This Way.” The dancey tune is essentially “Bad Romance 2: Electric Boogaloo,”
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ARTS and you know, we’re fine with this because it at least doesn’t have the crippling amount of smugness that permeated through “Born This Way,” a song that was so infinitely better when it was TLC’s “Waterfalls” and Madonna’s “Express Yourself.” We can only imagine what the music video we’ll be like, and we’re pretty sure the Catholic League has already written letters in preparation for it. Our next song is a throwback and is “We Used to Be Friends” from The Dandy Warhols because nothing puts a damper on a friendship quite like having your friend sell you out for 30 pieces of silver. They haven’t created the muffin basket or the Hallmark card that quite takes the sting out of that. There are a lot of theories but all we know is that a Judas vs. Jesus conversation would pretty much make the best Oprah episode ever. Lastly, we end the Mixtape with Mary Mary’s hit song “God In Me.” Leave it to a gospel group to somehow manage to basically steal Jamie Foxx’s ode to date rape (come on, it totally is) “Blame It on the Alcohol” and turn it into a tune about the preciousness of God’s love. We suppose if Jesus could turn water into wine, it’s not that impossible to turn drunk sex into spiritual love. Amen and halleloo.
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stereotypical gloom found in most modern metal. The group mostly revolves around the chunky, ‘80s guitar riffage of singer/ lead guitarist Brad Van, which maintains a pretty consistent (or monotonous, dependBy Jason Crider ing on how you look at it) feel throughout jason.crider@secondsupper.com the entirety of the album. They make up Madison-based stoner-metal trio Droids for this, for me at least, by replacing the heAttack are packing their bags for what they’re man, overly macho and cliché attitude that this sort of metal tends to be so calling their stoner holidayunfortunately afflicted by with a themed “4/20 Weekend” minimore lighthearted, humorous tour, featuring a Friday perapproach. This includes a numformance at JB’s Speakeasy in ber of song titles rife with stoner downtown La Crosse. The band humor, including “Astroglider,” has recently received quite a “Koko Beware” and the eye-rollbit of national recognition and inducing “Great Wall of Gina,” success, and is currently workwhich the band actually made ing on a new record, a followa pretty humorous (or disgustup to their critically acclaimed depending on how you 2010 release Must Destroy. Droids Attack ing, look at it) music video for. That album opens up with Must Destroy But that isn’t to say the the distant sound of machine group has sacrificed technical gun fire, explosions and radio ability and heaviness for cheap laughs and feedback — I suppose to symbolize the warlike intensity of the album, before easing a lighthearted demeanor. This album has all into a doom metal chord progression that is of the guitar solos, gritty choruses and overeasily the weakest moment on the disc. What all unrelenting heaviness that will provide follows though, are eight tracks of classic any fan of classic metal or heavy progressive metal, stoner-rock intensity strewn with some rock with more than enough opportunities to head-bang their brains out.. pretty remarkable and catchy guitar work. The thing I like most about this album is that the band doesn’t try to be anything Droids Attack will be playing at JB’s Speakeasy they know they’re not, yet they still some- this Friday, April 22 alongside Romero and Snow how find a way to make their Black Sabbath Demon. The show is 18-plus with a $4 cover influenced metal stand out from the dull, charge. Doors open at 10 p.m.
LA CROSSE’S NEWEST & TRUEST PUB & EATERY WITHOUT THE FRANCHISE!
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MUSIC
music directory // April 22 to April 28 FRIDAY,
just a roadie away
April 22
Madison
BOOT HILL PUB // 1501 St. Andrew St. Jerry Anderson (lounge) • 5:30 p.m.
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FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE // MAY 1 Majestic Theatre • $20-$45
FOX HOLLOW // N3287 HIGHWAY OA. King Friday (acoustic rock) • 9 p.m.
A-TRACK, GASLAMP KILLER // MAY 6 Majestic Theatre • $20
JB'SSPEAKEASY // 717 Rose St. Droids Attack, Snow Demon, Romero (stoner metal) • 10 p.m.
CAKE // MAY 13 Orpheum Theatre • $33.50
NEUIE'S VARSITY CLUB // 1920 Ward Ave. Three Beers til Dubuque (funk, show band) • 9 p.m. PEARL STREET BREWERY // 1401 St. Andrew St.
Moon Boot Posse (Between the Bluffs brewers reception) • 5 p.m. PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. Costello and Hipps (blues, pop) • 8 p.m. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. The Adam Palm Band (rock) • 10 p.m.
SMOKIN’ BANDITS // MAY 13 The Frequency • $7 It's going to be a hardcore Easter weekend at the Warehouse, as a massive double bill will rock the iconic punk club on Friday and Saturday night. Eight bands with names like Release the Hounds and A Final Departure will perform at what's sure to be a sternum-rattling rager of a weekend. But we've got our eyes on the Monday night headliner, Psychostick (pictured). Self-described "humorcore," the 'Stick hails from Phoenix, Arizona and has been donning silly costumes and writing amusing hard rock songs for over a decade. Last summer they attained what must have been a career highlight by performing at the The Gathering of the Juggalos. Monday night's show will begin at 7 p.m. There is a $10 cover.
PIGGY'S BLUES LOUNGE // 501 Front St. S. MONDAY, Costello and Hipps (blues, pop) • 8 p.m. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Kin Pickin’ (jamgrass) • 10 p.m.
THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Martin Devaney & Colin Marshall RED PINES BAR & GRILL // W7305 Hwy Z (songwriters) • 8:30 p.m. Don Harvey (songwriter) • 7:30 p.m.
April 25
April 23
THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Daniel and the Lion (folk pop) • 8:30 p.m.
Doug Spears (folk troubadour) • 7:30 p.m.
THE WAREHOUSE // 324 Pearl St. Release the Hounds, Controller, One Can Only Hope (hardcore) • 7 p.m.
JB'SSPEAKEASY // 717 Rose St. Porcupine, All the way Rider (rock, with comedy interludes) • 10 p.m.
THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. Jim Bee Three (lounge) • 8 p.m.
BLUFF VIEW CONCERTS // N7916 Bluff View Ct.
LEO & LEONA'S // W1436 Hwy. 33 (Bangor) Muddy Flats and the Hepcats (classic R&B) • 8 p.m. NEUIE'S VARSITY CLUB // 1920 Ward Ave. Moon Boot Posse (jam rock) • 9 p.m.
SUNDAY,
April 24
POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. The Sunday Blend (rock) • 10 p.m.
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS // MAY 16 Capitol Theatre • $27.50 THE SEA AND CAKE // MAY 18 The Frequency • $12
DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Rich Wooten (rock) • 10 p.m.
DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Deece's Open Jam (10-year ann.) • 10 p.m
MY SECOND HOME // 2104 George St. North Side Jam • 6 p.m.
LA CROSSE PUBLIC LIBRARY // 800 Main St. Steven Marking (opera) • 7:30 p.m.
POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Paule (one-man band) • 10 p.m.
THE WAREHOUSE // 324 Pearl St. POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Blank Image, Cain & Abel, Beyond the RIVER JACK'S //1835 Rose St. Shawn's Open jam • 10 p.m. Ocean Floor, A Breed Unknown, The Double Take (classic rock) • 8 p.m. End Result (hardcore) • 7 p.m. THE WAREHOUSE // 324 Pearl St. THE JOINT // 324 Jay St. Psychostick, Blue Felix, Tiger Clutch THE WATERFRONT TAVERN // 328 Front St. Howard Luedtke and the Blue Max (hardcore, humorcore) • 8 p.m. (and Cheech) • 10 p.m. Jim Bee Three (lounge) • 8 p.m.
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April 26
RECOVERY ROOM // 901 7th St. S. Kin Pickin' (jam grass) • 10 p.m.
THURSDAY,
April 28
BOOT HILL PUB // 1501 St. Andrew St. Paul Leithold, Gary Urness (jazz) • 5:30 p.m.
POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Dave Orr (open jam) • 10 p.m.
CAVALIER LOUNGE // 114 5th Ave. N. Hipster DJ night (indie rock) • 5 p.m.
THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. 3rd Relation Jazz Trio (jazz) • 7 p.m.
DEL’S BAR // 229 Third St. Kin Pickin (jam grass) • 10 p.m
THE JOINT // 324 Jay St. Adam Palm (acoustic hits) • 6 p.m.
POPCORN TAVERN // 308 S. Fourth St. Henry & Friends (jam) • 10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY,
April 27
CAVALIER LOUNGE // 114 5th Ave. N. DJ Carlos Vargas (rare vinyl) • 10 p.m.
THE ROOT NOTE // 114 4th St. S. Open Mic Night • 8:30 p.m. THE STARLITE LOUNGE // 222 Pearl St. Kies and Kompanie (jazz) • 5 p.m.
Second Supper
The Beer Review Colonial Uprising Red Rye Ale Ro Sham Brew, LTD La Crosse, Wisconsin There’s nothing like writing a newspaper beer column to let you feel appreciated. Concerned readers may recall last week’s Heineken review that came prefaced with a sob story of me spraining my ankle and self-medicating with crappy Dutch lager. By Friday I’d almost forgot I had written that review, so when people came up to me and commented on my walking I just figured they were accusing me of being drunk. Only later did I realize they had read my column and were actually concerned about my wellbeing.
But the ultimate reader of the week award has to go to my friend Sam, who had previously earned Asshole of the Week honors for throwing me the ill-fated Frisbee. But he did respond to my printed plea for a beer run and brought a couple of bottles to my house on Sunday, one of which is this week’s selection. This Colonial Uprising Red Rye Ale is actually a homebrewed beer, which I’ve never formally reviewed before, but this one seems ripe for starters. First, it’s a rye ale, which is one of my favorite styles of beer. Second, it’s an award-winner. It took first place in the Wheat division at the recent Between the Bluffs homebrew contest. Although Sam won’t be pouring any Colonial Uprising at this year’s festival, you can sample other award-winning brews if you stop by the LAGERS booth (La Crosse Area Grain Enthusi-
asts and Related Specialties). Purchase: One bottle of Colonial Uprising Red Rye; gift from a friend Style: American Rye Ale Strength: 4.7 percent ABV Packaging: A dull silver cap handmarked RR is pressed on a plain brown bottle with no label. Appearance: The beer pours a reddish caramel color with a creamy brown head that sticks nicely to the inside of the glass. A murky brown body obscures racing carbonation. Aroma: There’s a sweet aroma of cherries, banana-y wheat and candy sugar, but the sharp crack of rye balances a yeasty finish. Taste: Sam tried to explain the byzantine categorization that placed his “Roggenbier” in the Wheat beer category, but to me it had the body of an IPA. Citrusy hops, possibly
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2-Fers, Buy any regularly priced food item and get one of equal or lesser value for free
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$3 Bacardi mixers; $3 Three Olives vocka mixers (8 flavors); $2 domestic pints and $2 rail mixers
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
Bar Menu
La Crosse's Best Tacos: Beef $2, Chicken $2.50
La Crosse's Best Tacos: Beef $2, Chicken $2.50 Dog in a Diaper, $5
Fish’s Fish Taco $3.50
La Crosse's Best Tacos: Beef $2, Chicken $2.50 Chimis and Burritos, $5
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.
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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.
All specials 9 to close.
Free Beer: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free Wings: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free Bowling: After 9 p.m.
Bar Menu
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
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 CLOSED
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Fish Tacos: 1 / $2.50, 2 / $5.00, 3 / $6.50.
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 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
400 Lang Drive 784-2242
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$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.
1452 Caledonia St. 782-6446
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Continental, flavored the top of the mouth while the tongue gets notes of orange marmalade and grenadine. Rye crackers dry near the finish, but it has that distinctly homebrewed aftertaste common in single fermented beers. Mouthfeel: A full-bodied brew that turns slimy at the finish. Drinkability: This is a rather drinkable beer, especially for a homebrew. I’m not sure how many of these I could drink in one setting — but I bet I’ll find out at Sam’s next party. Ratings: This is the highest-rated wheat beer I’ve drank in 2011, so clearly it’s a winner. I’d recommend trying the Colonial Uprising if you get the chance. I also recommend having lots of homebrewers in your circle of friends.
MONDAY
122 4th St. 782-0677
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$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
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 $1.89 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.
Wristband night, $2 cherry bombs, $3 Bacardi mixers & $4 wristbands 50¢ shots (3 flavors); $2.50 Tuaca, after midnight Jack Daniel's & SoCo Mixers
$3 Three Olives Mixers & $4 wristbands after midnight
$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.)
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.)
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
$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
$1.50 taps PBR, $1.50 rails
$2 domestic bottles, $3 call doubles
$2 taps, $3 Jack and Captain doubles
$2 Miller products, $8.50 fish bowls
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THE LIBRARY 123 3rd St. 784-8020
TOP SHOTS 137 4th St. 782-6622 308 4th St. S. 782-9069
126 3rd St. N. 782-9467
$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 ; $6 wristbands starting at 7pm.
14-inch pizza, $2 off; Wings Happy Hour 2 to 6 p.m.
Breakfast 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; lunch buffet 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., $6.99
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ACROSS 1 One of Barack's daughters 6 Glazier's piece 10 Cake time, for short 14 In base 8 15 Month on the Hebrew calendar 16 Wine-lover's prefix 17 Get on the ground and move 18 Reads 20 Fish co-owned by pianist Myra and exJets owner Leon? 22 Suffix meaning "inclined to" 23 Longtime Pink Floyd label 24 Beatnik's assent 25 Glove compartment item
26 Barely ___ on the radar 30 Doubly-demonic rapper/actor? 35 Leave off 37 It's not designed to be a lint trap 38 Tattoo parlor supplies 39 Gathering where everyone's all, "What up, everybody?" 42 Sandbar 43 Homeopathic diet drops in 2011 health news 44 ___ Jr. (Sprout competitor) 47 Golfer Michelle 48 Get some grub 51 Poet who elicits a lot of giggles?
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55 "ER" actress Julianna 56 King of the gods, in Hindu mythology 57 Opera song, or a Vegas Strip hotel 58 Office corr., sometimes 59 "Today" co-anchor Matt 60 Lions' homes 61 Horse-drawn carriage 62 Joints for pleading? DOWN 1 Russian host of the 2014 Olympics 2 Farmer's expanse 3 Narc's find 4 Hems and ___ 5 Herbal remedy whose name suggests it does a lot 6 Drink with a Max variety 7 Pub options 8 Finnish runner Paavo 9 Spanish hero played by Charlton Heston 10 Humorous news website whose logo is a girl with a jackhammer 11 "Whip It" band 12 From the top 13 Attention-getting shouts 19 Historic name in supercomputers
21 Put on the payroll 25 Biofuel from cows 27 Like some odds 28 Variety 29 Slumber party garb 30 "___ Silver, away!" 31 U2 album "Rattle and ___" 32 Summer, in St. Tropez 33 Polygraph detection 34 "___ Fly" (Dixie Chicks song) 35 "Exes & ___" (series on Logo) 36 "Whatever" grunt 40 American statesman Root 41 Frozen dessert 45 Biological building blocks 46 Urban in country 47 Weak-willed 48 Provide (with) 49 See eye to eye 50 Former Russian rulers 51 March ___ 52 Scott Baio co-star Moran 53 Michael of "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" 54 ___ instant 55 ___ Hatter Š2011 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords. com)
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THE LAST WORD
The Advice Goddess By Amy Alkon amy.alkon@secondsupper.com Will you still shove me tomorrow?
I’m in a relationship that feels like it could last, but I’m afraid of ending up like my parents: constantly bickering over minutiae, snarling at each other from other rooms, and slamming doors. The thing is, my boyfriend and I are already starting to fight over the stupidest stuff! — Worried Before you know it, you’re thinking, “What was it, a year ago, he was promising me the moon, and now he can’t even bring home the right freaking pepper?!” Being annoying is the human condition. But, the partner who will be most annoying is one you only find halfway hot — somebody you have the hots for physically but whose character flaws and incompatibilities you ignore. You basically need to have a crush on a partner as a human being (have deep respect and even admiration for who he is and how he goes
about life). Being human, he’ll do things that would annoy a Buddhist monk who could relax for an afternoon in a tank of fire ants. If you have the hots for him all around, it’s far less likely that the things you dream of doing to him in bed will involve strangling or blunt force trauma. You should also make sure your partner isn’t your second greatest love, after your love of being right. Approaching problems as “ours” rather than “mine vs. yours” takes what researcher John Gottman calls “deep friendship,” where overwhelming positive feelings about each other and the relationship really suck the life out of any negative ones. The more relationship research I read, the more essential an overall positive sentiment seems. For example, researcher Shelly Gable found that the happiest relationships involve partners who make sacrifices for each other — because they love and want to support their partner, and not as some sort of investment to avoid conflict or keep from losing them. So, in a good relationship, a guy goes to his girlfriend’s poetry reading because it means a lot to her to have him there, and not because it means a lot to him to keep her from running off with some spoken-word slacker who doesn’t wash between his toes. Each time you snap at each other, you hack a little chunk out of your relationship. Before long, snapping becomes the culture of your relationship, and you become your snarly parents. It helps to make a pact that you won’t act like you’ve forgotten you love each other. Of course, there will probably
be times you slip and get nasty. What’s important is not letting yourselves stay nasty. Not for a minute. Not even for 30 seconds. If you do have “deep friendship,” there’s a good chance you’ll vault yourselves out of the feel-bad situation with what Gottman calls “the secret weapon of emotionally intelligent couples” — “the repair attempt.” This is something you say or do, maybe even something silly like making a face you know will crack your partner up, that defuses the tension and keeps the argument from getting out of hand. This is essential, since Gottman has found that a couple’s success in preventing negativity from escalating when they argue is one of the primary factors in whether a marriage lasts - and not in the sense that your parents’ has: “Please help us celebrate our 30 years — of nonstop screaming, door slamming, and vicious putdowns. Dinner and character assassination, followed by dancing.”
old man’s pickup line: “Something tells me you aren’t wearing any Depends.” The last person who should be pontificating about “mature love” is a guy who thinks he can lecture somebody into providing it. Even better, your student is a woman who treats your relationship like the revenge phase of her last one. (Her narcissistic psycho ex is gone, but you’ll do.) If you want a project, buy macaroni and glue. If you’re really after “mature love,” you need a woman who’s capable of sharing it with you. This starts with recognizing that “mature love” doesn’t only involve “putting out what you wish to receive” but putting out what you don’t and then running inside and bolting the door so it can’t get back in.
Regression toward the meanie
My girlfriend of three months seems to relish treating me like her narcissistic psycho ex-boyfriend treated her — constantly pulling away and basically putting her on an emotional rollercoaster. She brings up her ex in almost every conversation, although I’ve asked her not to. I keep telling her mature love is about putting out what you wish to receive, and she agrees. Should I stay with her while she struggles to overcome her past? — Mistreated “Mature love”? At best, that sounds like a porn mag put out by the AARP or some
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