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Zero is the worst zonk of puns, but here we go, as this $1.00 or free — but not frozen as in fixed-in-place — festivity figure is everywhere. Opening and bar-closing bartimes, for holidays included, end in double zeros, regarding the oh-so-cold poured from your 99-percent-reliability tap-hose. So now, zero in on some really bad wordplay zingers … And 99, one short, can be fine too, or at least play into the joke … Which continues on the zero tolerance theme, such as in use word-wise of the term of the day, Super Bowl.

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The best price is, of course, zero, as is zilch. Or as this is not zero tolerance, at least with […]

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You don’t need flowery language to flaunt this store, but it follows. The Hudson Flower Shop has been around since 1946, cutting flowers all the time. And they are the leaders in a nine-store list called Love On Locust Street, a promo going all through Valentine’s Day, so don’t irk Shelli Erck and her varied ilk by not showing up, as all their inventories are extensive.

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Locust Street well represents authentic historic Hudson, and the Hudson Flower Shop goes back enough decades to fit that decorated

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Warm up with a toddie or even cool off with a cold one? There is a drink for everyone and every temperature in Sippin’ With The Hotties, in the hot and hopping town this weekend, that also is aglow with three scheduled balloon launches and other such activities, as the 35th annual Hudson Hot Air Affair with its theme Rockin’ With The Coldies strums it up all this weekend, Feb. 2-4. —– For numerous New and improved Notations on this, The Affair that’s Hot, see updates in the Notes From The Beat department alongside this post. Several have been posted currently.)

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You know a chilly but smokin’ and scarfed penguin in this, the land and ice and snow and Coldies, will

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This year’s fine-tuned music lineup for the Hudson Hot Air Affair is just cold, and cool, and even red-hot. Ice, Ice Baby. Rockin’ With The Coldies has everything from country that’s classic and current, rock that’s hard and softer and southern, gospel and piano and party music, jazz and glitz and funk, and dueling DJs.

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With the theme being Rockin’ With The Coldies, there’s a lot to roll out at the Hudson Hot Air Affair,

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We sports fans have finally, officially lost another of our own for 2024. What could have driven him to depart the Gopher State? Factors are at work here with many Twin Cities lumenaries that involve arena and sports bar proximity and how it plays out in local geography and layout, hyper-drive fan support that approaches psychic-ness, and someone like that who could move more than pucks — with just her mind power, as stated at this post’s end! (Green Bay missing link now added where starred, like Bart.)

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We in the Twin Cities and neighboring Minnesconsin area have seen pro players and musicians who undoubtably have gotten tight

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“I want candy!” Add Chocolate. And we’d be nuts to forget about Nuts. All from Knoke’s, for 23 years running now, a stone’s throw or two from the St. Croix. Just ask Martha Stewart about what’s kept her coming back. As they do more than trifle with their truffles and much more; the result is a selection from Knoke’s Chocolates and Nuts that takes hundreds of bins to fill to their spacious store, beckoning to you.

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Around the time that the millennium turned, a local candy and chocolate, nut and ice cream and more store opted

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Consider this post Green Millipedia, as they have an expansive, special new menu for staying fit, to keep your new year’s yearnings in check, with great green goings-on and more. Complete with seasoning with substance, such as sausages, saucy but light, and garlic garnishing galore at Green Mill — but no gluten. (Low-priced prize pizza kept, and you can buy beer for often as little as three bucks.)

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Great pizza in numerous styles also, but Green Mill right now is indeed going green and beyond with a special

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ALERT: For more Hudson and area nightlife and music history, use our search function for a virtual treasure trove of Literally thousands of full-length articles going back well over a decade. —– Here’s a (precise and detailed) local breakdown of pro-football-special big beer in pitchers (Green Mill indeed has game and wins the day) vs. buckets of bottles, and how to get the best bang for your buck. —– All this might save you enough so you can tip really well! And on and off, I’ve been schooled on such (self-serving?) wisdom by fave servers.

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Bar math is fun, and the Green Mill football pitcher beer special wins the contest, as per this analysis. And

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Bungalow Idol re-introduces a karaoke contest that’s intruiging, encompassing ingenuity and even a bit of edge in its song selection. So on this and coming Fridays you could, conceivably, warm up your winter voice with classics of everything from Edgar Winter to alternative to Hazy Shade of Winter, as those are among the more varied than usual styles you’ll likely be up against. So be different and rock like an alto while alt? —– (And see more comments that are just cold, added to this post’s end just before the sun sets and brings more frost.)

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Or slide some soprano or salsa or swing into your song set, as you’ll want to do more than one,

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