What you want fool? Good music, in three different places:
— Take in not Mr. T, but the Mr. B’s duo, (Mister Mister?), at Urban Olive and Vine on Saturday evening.
— The Dick’s Bar and Grill beach party will feature on Saturday night not only a pile of sand to play in but in early form the music of Jawsy. This invokes 1970s fun-scary-kitschy memories of beaches invaded by Great White Sharks, and the movie not necessarily the band on duty that night, although …
— Then there is Hannah Rose, playing acoustic country and Irish music, which is an interesting combination by this beautiful leggy woman, as shown on her flyer. She is on early, from 5-7 p.m. at Johnnie’s Bar in River Falls, on Sunday, April 28.
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What’s better than a beach party weekend, with the sharks that swim on the land. There’s more fool!
Saturday, April 27th, 2019Godsmack you up-side the head if you’re Chainsmoking with groups with those names, from a guy who helped put it all together
Thursday, April 18th, 2019Chainsmoking with Alice in Chains is probably not something mom would approve of on her special day, which also might be Easter:
— As it is an April for Alice, (her prospects are finally looking up), a young Hudsonite who helped rehab The Armory venue and make it into a concert site, gave a great buildup for their Alice in Chains show on April 19, and would also recommend Godsmack, (who reportedly got their name from an AIC song), on April 22, in addition to the just announced Prince tribute. The guy helped the concert hall to be remade, from an engineering standpoint, and get it ship-shape for hosting such parties in conjunction with the Super Bowl in 2018. However, he now has gotten a day job, although he also moonlights as a bouncer at Dick’s Bar and Grill. These days, his main engineering foray is to get his timing together for a smoke break, something I’m guessing you wouldn’t dare do at The Armory. Even though one of the main groups to play The Armory during the recent Final Four hosting was, indeed, The Chainsmokers.
— Its that time of year again for The Flood Run set for Saturday, and with rising water levels on the St. Croix, its an apt name. As is the band playing at the Beach Bar, called Overload, a fitting moniker for playing in front of a bunch of bikers getting sick of being cooped up indoors, and stir crazy to finally go riding again. The Beach Bar is the semi-official venue for the all-day run, as it starts there and ends there. And what happens in-between stays at the Beach Bar.
— Its also time for that annual Easter, and to follow mother’s day, brunch and every restaurant to trying to come up with something different, which just might be more of the same. Green Mill specializes in award-winning pizza, and that’s one of the listed options for their brunch, and its much better than morning-after cold pizza. They also have their signature pastas available, and the option of a dish with, count ’em, four different cheeses, which is sure to play big in Badgerland. But with so many items you can try, it taxes my brain to recall exactly which one is the one with all those cheeses. Another venue — outside of the standard pizzarias and fast food pie providers — with a selection of pizza slices, although not as prominently listed in their menu, is the Postmark Grill. They also feature more than two dozen other items in their brunch.
— Two words follow. On two different bands with names that are essentially two words. For a rock band of a different stripe, go see Tiger Pants at Ziggy’s on Friday, April 19. And also on Friday night, you might take in Shirts & Skins at the Smilin’ Moose, as the time has come — aided by the warming weather — for people to shed their sweatshirts and play some roundball. Especially since the melting ice has gone away, and belting out a song just might be Puddles the Clown, of America’s Got Talent fame.
Rock out with the rabbit? Roger that. Especially when you get Minosas and bloody Mary’s involved
Friday, April 12th, 2019We hear the rabbit really rocks, especially when there is Whiskey Stone playing just up the street:
— We hear its really fun to party with the Easter bunny when he’s a bit tipsy. On Saturday, April 13, at Dick’s Bar and Grill you can not only say hello to that bunny and have breakfast and dye eggs with kids, but the adults can indulge in Minosas and bloody Mary’s on special, and they are so inexpensive that you shouldn’t forget to buy one for the bunny, because he’s busting his buns in bringing Easter bounty. And he still can keep it Rock Steady when handling those eggs.
While at Dick’s you might stay for their most noteworthy Lenten special, and its all in the seasonings, salmon teriyaki ginger, with all the sides too.
— There is the promise of plenty of surprises along the way, which is really no surprise, when the band Whiskey Stone plays at The Smilin’ Moose on Friday night, April 12. That’s because there are five different genres cited as part of their repetoire.
New Richmond bans ‘THAT’ oil derivative, but what else is on the chopping block, as things like the Health Police take over
Friday, April 12th, 2019If you are a reader of HudsonWiNighlife, you know that we love a good pun, but sometimes extend it too far. With that said …
It is (or was) April Fools Day. But beyond that, the third time (or day) is the charm. Or the fourth. OK, I plead the Fifth. And the Sixth. Can this pun be in Seventh Heaven? OK, Eight is Enough. Or is it …Call it an even dozen.
The city of New Richmond a few months back outlawed the so-called miracle cure from oil derived from marijuana. Seriously (for maybe the first time in this piece), don’t they have better things to do? Especially since shortly afterward, all 50 states legalized it. Forget the debate about federal vs. state, what about city vs. the entire country!
With that said, what are some other measures (vices and standard — sort of — practices?) that we understand the city is considering outlawing. To wit (can I use that term?):
I am calling some of this unjust enrichment, via price gouging. Hence the United States of Incompetent Services (USIS).
— Ban that old 80/20 hamburger, and metal ties can’t be used to sway the weight factor.
— Require eye doctor insurance, with compensation for lost wages if you can’t find what you’ve been looking at all along.
— Prohibit serving merely Iceberg lettuce, not romaine, with riders for kale and spinach.
— When serving spicy food, require a pad with therapeutic gel to protect the stomach lining.
— Disallow selling potato and carrot peels, if more then twice a month, with a one pound limit.
— And don’t forget about some stem parts of BIG tomatoes, which are allegedly toxic.
— Make places offer both sugar and the tons of the other alternatives that are generics.
— Cap the hourly fees of lawyers and doctors at $200, unless they show ability to recite their professional oath.
— Most telemarketers are paid by the word, so give them a 1000 word limit per call.
— License televangelists by having them provide matching funds of $1 million, since they have it, with no need to pray.
— Utilities can only have rate hikes every 2.5 days, or there will be a rebate in the form of free AC for an hour.
— Likewise, the cable bill is limited to a rate increase only every three weeks, as this is more entertaining.
— If your credit score is a negative number, President Trump’s approval is needed for a loan, since he is the King of Bankruptcy.
— Concerning the spare change that falls between car seats, your sofa has to absorb a “quarter” of the loss, unless it is covered by supplemental insurance.
— Lastly, some soups at the grocery store are listed as having “natural” smoke flavor. Is there such a thing?
And now with the final foray of the Final Four, music and other entertainment has come to the fore, even on Sunday Funday, (Chapter two)
Monday, April 8th, 2019Here is a wrap up of what is on tap, musically or for other entertainment, the rest of this weekend, no matter where you hail from, as it is indeed Sunday Funday:
(For a complete, earlier, listing of what has been going on, see the article below this one).
— Whether a Final Four fan or just a regular, you can still catch the ultimate one-man-bander, guitar wiz Jeff Loven who hails from Minnesota but is well-known in these parts, on Sunday night at Dick’s Bar and Grill.
— If you are an NCAA basketball visitor, or even a local, make note of the taste of Wisconsin that Milwaukee Burger has to offer. They in true Cheesehead form have all the beers that you might expect, plus hamburgers and other such food that are to die for, based on the crowds of people they have been drawing since opening a few months back. However, the staffing levels at Milwaukee Burger make it possible to still serve you fast. So think of old County Stadium or more recently Miller Park (and its brats) and check out Milwaukee Burger at their Hudson location on The Hill, that’s smack dab in the center of where local motels are, especially if you are a visitor, just off off Carmichael Road.
And, other sporting options for watching the finals game — on Monday or anytime before — also are available in the immediate vicinity, in the form of Buffalo Wild Wings and Green Mill.
— Another venue relatively new to the scene, Ziggy’s, has officially unveiled its five nights a week music lineup, at least for this moment on its latter end, so there is more to be seen. On Sunday, on stage for the latter part of the afternoon is Tom Wavra and his acoustic guitar stylings, as he will be every Sunday, so come take in his act soon in April. He follows the old and new, Blue Dream and the HeBeGeBs from earlier this weekend, and there was more yet prior to all the Final Four folks arriving.
–The dance music is pumping seven nights a week, and if you are a group of young guys especially, you might want to check out the new and improved and redesigned Cajun Club exotic dancing venue in Houlton, as only Wisconsin can do it, right across from Stillwater, Minn.
— A little off the beaten path is the Beach Bar in Lakeland, which offered earlier on Saturday a local favorite group that produces a different musical twist, as they are brash with their brass, The Band Habit band. Check them regularly at any number of River Falls locations.
— And let us not forget The Smilin’ Moose, which on Friday night switched up and went with the band Smokescreen — and their talent and availability is certainly no smokescreen — after hosting a regular country act, Tim Sigler, the Friday before. Sigler also is on every Thursday for country night at Ziggy’s, so go see him with your boots on.
— And another ode to the tried and true, despite their name, The Strangers were on stage on Friday at the Willow River Saloon in Burkhardt, followed by Blue Moon on Saturday. They play often at The Willow, not just once in a blue moon, so you can catch them again soon.
— Meanwhile close to Houlton, Big Guys BBQ Roadhouse, which has been host to multiple bands most weekends, opted out this time, at least according to their sign, which only touted a new menu to visitors.
The foray into the Final Four has brought music to the fore, finally, on Friday (Chapter One).
Saturday, April 6th, 2019Karaoke might as well be king this weekend as locals and people coming over from the Twin Cities as they celebrate the Final Four weekend show how its done:
— The top karaoke pick we have is an old favorite, at the Bungalow Inn in Lakeland. What you will find there on Friday night, again, is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. But mostly new country, although rock, some of it hard, occasionally takes over. Their annual Bungalow Idol contest in the dead of winter is just done, but every Friday night karaoke lives on.
— You can also go to the Beach Bar in Lakeland on Friday night and do the karaoke thing there. Life can be a beach, we know, and some of the country music you might find there bears that out. Just take the exit right before the state line (and they play to the border battle), and go a few miles south on The Trail, (that being the name given for the St. Croix Trail.
— Then there is both the Hudson Bowling Center on The Hill and Dick’s Bar and Grill, which every weekend have not one but two nights of karaoke, in the first mentioned, and DJ music, the second venue listed.
— The new Pudge’s. now named Ziggy’s, which has always each week had more than one night of music, is officially rolling out its five full nights of tunes starting this weekend and a day or two before, with a variety of starting times, steering more to the classic rock end of things with new and not overplayed cover bands brought in — that are unlike anything you’ve ever seen before on the Hudson scene. Take for example, Blue Dream on Friday night and also the HeBeGeBs on Saturday. And on the other end of the downtown, at Urban Olive and Vine, there will be plenty of acoustic guitar-driven folk and jazz all weekend long, with an earlier start.
–Another new one, The Hudson Tap, will also have a night of karaoke — but only one — on tap for this weekend and going forward.
— Lastly, The Next Stop in Houlton got things going right off the bat on Friday, starting at 5 p.m., with a folkish guitar trio that was described by workers and patrons alike as “a mix” of players.
And we just had to ask in the past, what with all the holidays that have come since then, who is the April Fool? One who has partied enough to believe a River Falls park could have enough airborne kites to levitate. (Although mom on her special day could maybe have pulled it off, and now with Mother’s Day followed by Memorial Day, anything is possible)
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019Rise Against what? Bad jokes on April Fools Day (In The City). Or how ’bout kicking out the cool weather of spring for good, and welcoming summer via the Memorial Day weekend (see for examples our community calendar)
(And to backtrack, other April Fools Day jokes can be found under this web site’s Notes From The Beat department. And while we’re at it, discover some very last minute — fabulous, sort of? — Mother’s Day finds under the Picks of the Week section, for all you guys who dropped the ball, and now have a chance to pick it up again doin’ some grillin’ out over the Memorial Day weekend):
Got all that?
— Anyway, proceeding with earlier bad humor, the deadline for a kite contest in the city of River Falls was a past Sunday, and the level of participation was so great that the park in which it was held actually rose off the ground by a few inches! The ground resettled when it was discovered that the winning entry would be paid not in 50 US dollars, but in pesos. The National Weather Service, and in a jointly released statement The National Park Service, through their Bureaus of Levitation, could neither conform or deny the report. OK we’re teasing as it is April Fools Day. The only bits that are true are the kite contest and its deadline and the winning amount.
— A pair of unrelated business ventures, posted on bathroom walls at local nightspots, have to do with how to celebrate the beginning and the end of a relationship. The first one, a company that hosts private fireworks displays, touts that their services could be used for “divorce parties.” (OK, that should not be plural). Another advertises that they can have paintball outings, indoors so they could conceivably be held in winter, for bachelor parties (and we’re assuming for bachlorettes, too). However, since most marriages occur in the summer, a moratorium until at least June 1 has been issued by the West Wisconsin Dis-unification Committee. OK, again, the last part of that last sentence is not true.
— A placard outside Broz in River Falls, listing their many cool food and drink specials, was laid flat on the sidewalk by accident. Not to be outdone by the Final Four, the people from Monty Python were in town to get passers-by to “hop” on over it to continue on their way, and at a same time film their newest episope of The Ninny Contest. Just kidding.
And now for items that are not “fake” news:
— Opening Day for baseball and the living is easy at the Village Inn in North Hudson. If not somewhat subdued. There were a handful of people at the bar to witness the home run hit by the Brew Crew (like Harvey’s Wallbangers in the ’80s) to give them a lead — so they were toasting The Crew not crying in their beer — but the applause was scattered and only then by a few of them.
— Hudson Tap is now open, with some of the same cool amenities as its predecessor(s), as described by a cool new bartender I (officially) met at the latest reincarnation. I referenced the entire wall of neon TVs behind the long bar rail that are still there from the relatively short-lived Rio Loco cantina and Mexican grill, but she took it back one more notch to mention when it was the differently designed Ellie’s sports bar a number of years back, and added that she had worked at the Smilin’ Moose and other places before — from which she recognized my face — but hey, now I’m here. And here’s the rub. Her name is, you guessed it, Ellie. (And she looks just like an older version of one of Roseann’s daughters in that landmark sitcom).
— A man entered the Freedom Value Center late one night during the end of the football season, coming from the Village Inn and/or Kozy Korner, to make a purchase I thought might be related. He looked like he was sporting really long dreadlocks. However, further review revealed that it was actually the design down his back of his Starter jacket for the Carolina Panthers. (Its true!) It also looked like Packer pattern, but by that point they were out of the playoffs. Also wearing totally mid-March green and totally there also, in the form of a sweatshirt bearing a slogan in front, was another man whom it turns out was not Irish anyways. Here’s one other slogan, and our take on it. “Nothing beautiful is perfect,” and that includes that bit of toughness you find in corned beef and cabbage.
— Two signs in the windows of downtown businesses. One was for the newly opened Old(e) Coin Shop, named before there was paper money printed, we assume. The other is more sad. J.R. Haubrich’s jewelers is closing after many years of saving dumb blokes butts if they’d forget something like Valentine’s Day, and prices are 70 percent off or more. (Those are not J.R. Ewing type prices). A connection with nightlife can be seen on ads on two different drink coasters elsewhere in the downtown. One shows an ugly bulldog, quoted as saying “I just have to look pretty sometimes.” The other, more famously says, Years of Getting Guys Out of (Last Minute) Trouble.