Joe – Page 23 – Hudson Wisconsin Nightlife

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Has the Mother’s Day brunch gone the way of the salad bar? Multiple commitments, responsibilities, and yes even gardening and lawn work. But painting on mom’s day? (And not art on an easel.) Welcome Wendy’s wonders and other take-out for dine-in, often done earlier. But no decked-out waffles.

Joe / May 14, 2024

This is a hunch that Mother’s Day brunch was out to lunch, not to be munched in a bunch. Maybe […]

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This local greenery also turns into an eatery, offering a BBQ treats truck on-site just for starters. With many drink samples too — as more than flowers will be thirsty — and larger sizes to purchase if you wish, and even wine and beer and more sold. So Bo Jon’s flower and more shop has everything mom could wish for, petting zoo too, offered in their Saturday special event, and you won’t have to try her patience by making her wait until Sunday. So thanks mom!

Joe / May 10, 2024

Come out and cherish mom with Bo Jon’s flower shop, which boasts one of the most widely themed celebrations for

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A big BBQ for the whole crew. Who knew about this debut? They did at Old Southern BBQ, and when all their stuff that included dry rub on meats was added to the mix, along with my takes on tang, they fawned over both our creative food choices. Maybe mom would too, on her day?

Joe / May 8, 2024

When a backyard party is based on BBQ, you need the whole crew to enjoy the who do. So when

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Chef Ben has taken the best of where he’s been, and made it into a place that’s being different than that bevy of others where you’ve been. His newest eatery is a one-stop-shop, Hudco To Go, that’s so quick, it won’t stop you from finding time for the other spots you need to be, and just be. The grand opening is Saturday. So be there. And also, resort to dancing your way to another resort.

Joe / May 4, 2024

One look, or two at max, at the options inside the newest store to hit Hudson and feed it, and

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How, and who, do you celebrate on May Day and all it stands for, in an (increasingly) concrete jungle? Just take a walk around, and look around you. Takeaways: Use and view new small spaces of beauty. Take it where you find it. And make it all “fertile,” in many forms, like a May Queen and the goddesses who you all are.

Joe / May 3, 2024

With May Day on a Wednesday, not a weekend, a crowning of a May Queen in church was not going

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Welcome to spring in Wisconsin, where the waters run free, and often from the sky … but you still, mind you, might not have a pot to piss in. Weather effects where and how you can go, literally, as I plant a seed. Read down for how (nightclub) doors open, but you might have two sets of them to negotiate to go, fully.

Joe / April 30, 2024

As we now have spring, or are near it, certain doors open, and others close, as even as we’ve seen

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Shake, shake, skake. Shake with Davey, even though he’s (mostly) behind the booth. Yes, both of you can strut. But I bet your hat doesn’t grab as much attention as that on this karaoke deejay, especially when he’s out in the crowd. So Shakin’ Dave does his take on Buffett, Jimmy not Warren, and you too can do your outrageous take on songs. Host venue Bobcat’s doesn’t mind.

Joe / April 28, 2024

(Note: This is the first of an occasional series on super-cool-but-still-smokin’ area deejays, karaoke and otherwise, and charismatic bartenders.) The

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Are you all-in with going all-out with all the laws, that vary greatly by two states separated by a river and not one flowing with CBD seltzer? They do, from a consumer standpoint, make it tough to know what you can buy and where and when, concerning THC and CBD, and Delta 8 and 9, and kratom. What’s legit in one place may not be in another just a Stone’s throw away, and vise versa. Too legit, its been for a bit. Tit for tat, as market conditions connect all the products.

Joe / April 26, 2024

The border battle that has framed Minnesconsin started with booze but has hit with hemp another stage, and not one

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In case you need a reminder, Saturday is 4-20 and all it brings. So if hightailing it for Hudson, hit up The Hideaway for boatloads of discounted stuff like 50 percent off select glassware to get the best vibe possible for a great day, as it and the next day are days off, so enjoy! And if elsewhere in the metro and a bit abound, they have a full dozen stores around, so it’s not exactly like they’re hiding away.

Joe / April 18, 2024

Heading toward Wisconsin and need a quick fix, so to speak, eloquently or not? And especially so, if its 4-20

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Toby’s tales were told via tune by a not-so-tiny Tim, and would he do the same for Bruce Willis, as he also tributes another Bruce as in Springsteen, with Phil Collins on drums? They are (soon) gone, but not by smothering, that would be Tommy’s tome, but wait he’s now still there! Filling orders was again the order of the day, and filling you in on how there’s a kinda local connection to certain deaths gives you some sense of order, oh celeb watcher. (And catch more of the story, now added on the end.)

Joe / April 13, 2024

(To preview two more of this blog’s stories, check out the back pages of the current issue of the Hudson