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- Wild and Wolves. But Bruins? Maybe because of nachos, so weigh in at 666, and I explain directly below. (Also, Both Jesus and via Jerry Garcia, 4-20 enter the coverage.) New posts run midpage are like a feed into the post, or zone, since it’s roundball or oval ice and NBa/NHL postseason rally time, as it rings around the rim or rink … March/April Madness meets Posts on Trump vs. the pope. (Recent dispatch.) The themes resonate, as we mix and match mad content in website revision.
We see the signs, and they are us and our sports teams. Do we resonate to resolve as one fan-dom? Frankly, ranking them is another thing. We, being just across the Minnesota and Wisconsin border, and far closer to the Twin Cities than Green Bay and Milwaukee, as in the numerical difference in miles that’s more than a basketball score, have a love that is complicated and conflicted and convaluted, pitting neighbor vs. neighbor, and you as your most important bar patron with the guy next to you — less so if she is a lovely lady. But on the...
- With school coming, youth is served, straight up and sure to stir your ears and palette, with music this weekend that’s accompanied by olive-oriented food; and shortly after the gig for Kamala Harris, there on Friday night are also Bon Iver vibes, (Elly Rowan, a student musician, plays too), in local shows.
The ilk of Bon Iver is hard to find in influence or in person, but can be seen locally on stage on Saturday, after the man of consistently high-register vocals and his band themselves played five songs for highest office hopeful Harris two days earlier, and there were even more speakers than musical numbers. (More coverage of that rally follows in a post soon, as HudsonWiNightlife was in the second row in front of Bon Iver over in Eau Claire.) This gig and another act, over at The Phipps Center for the Arts, caught the ear of a volunteer worker. So go register. Vote for music....
- It doesn’t get much more country than Maiden Dixie, a rural chick and three instrumentalists, and the four players in the Nathan Hansen Band. They raise the country in its midst at Hammond’s Heartland Days this weekend.
Hammond Heartland Days brings the best of country music in the region to their festival this weekend, triumphing over the scores of rank and file bar bands. Maiden Dixie begins the musical mastery on Friday night, Aug. 8, and then Nathan Hansen caps it off on Saturday night. It winds down when they bring country tunes for the second straight night. You can tell a band by their videos. The Nathan Hansen promos feature slickly made videos with close cropped editing, especially of the crowd shots. And the numbers out there cheering are large. The audio plays lots of instrumental breaks of...
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- At Hudson Hideaway, and their “high” percentage off specials, its 4-20 all over again. —– The leftovers were being laid down in the form of music, via speakers and rehearsals. And the lefse, possibly with hummus, has not gone the way of the Vikings.
Yes smokers, the Hideaway head and vape shop in Hudson, and elsewhere in the Twin Cities area, again on July 10 is offering its specials such as for 4-20 with high percentage off many products, and buy-one-get-more products. The offers typically and for the best deals include glassware. There are other, diverse reasons to shop the remodeled Hideaway. They have added a cigar humidor, and on Wednesday feature extra discounts than even their usual on cigars, and their staff has been called knowledgable in many areas by reviewers. They have, for example, a supply of dream catchers and a wide...
- We rue the day the Irish menus were squelched, but one forges on despite closures of such restaurants and pubs, thus Paddy Ryan’s still remains unique among affordable themed venues of this type in the eastern suburbs
The restaurants in the Twin Cities have largely opened up again, but the pub end from the isle as far as being open means that Irish eyes are not smiling, as bars still cannot serve inside seating, at least past 11 p.m. So the answer as often in the east end of the metro is Paddy Ryan’s in the town of Hudson, just about three miles over the St. Croix River. They are the only such game to be had that’s currently open, fully, as far as very affordable eating (with some prices under $10) and drinking in the Irish...
- When it comes to uncanny resemblance onstage that’s anything but canned, this weekend is what you want, and you also might wish to note the word play in their names, but not quite the same as in this post and my reference to Coldplay. They have done private events, but as is often said if you have to ask how much, you can’t afford them. Better to go to what follows and miss the cover. So Carry On and not Underwood (sorry).
The more things change the more they are the same, such as when band members and their names sound like each other, with bonus points if at the same venue on the same weekend? Shooters Pub in River Falls, as we have not plugged them for awhile because of the Pierce County 25 percent occupancy rule, so they say get there early, has bands on Friday and Saturday that sound much alike name-wise, but couldn’t be much more different as far as stage presence, if this is shown by sheer numbers. First there is the one-man-band of acoustic country, Travis...