Returning those small Xmas gifts in a small way, as its small potatoes (with one or two exceptions if you’re older)
It is time for not only new years resolutions but also regifting in a way that you are showing your […]
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Call River Falls by the name of Hudson South, basically, as the music offerings extend to the St. Croix County line
They have more instruments than you can shake a stick at, and who knows, shaking a stick might be a
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Traveling reporter Kuralt came for the frog legs, stayed for the tubing, then came back again … and again … and again, to see his new buddy Raleigh
When John Raleigh of Rivers Edge resort fame died the other day, it was a partial death of an era
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Whether it be the best stylings of country, the British Invasion, or Motown, you can find it under one roof this weekend
A new club continues its invasion of the downtown Hudson scene with a series of bands, including a Beatles-led swarming:
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It’s a new year and what’s new? New bands and a new way to ring in the new year, with a kiss (and some — new — well-placed fog machine ambiance)
What did you think of the NYE rock bands Ponzi Scheme and Heartless? Did it beat that new years kiss?
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Go Big or go home, no wait a minute, don’t go, just take in a different gig, as the music this weekend is explosive, although not to the point of pyrotechnics
Things are really BIG and dynamically explosive for music this weekend, to the point that Mr. Trump might have to
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Whether singing soft and slow, or hard and fast, Bungalow Idol with have you dancing in your seat — even if you are sitting put there and not taking the stage — as all are appreciated
(For more news on the new year, in particular what partying was done on The Eve, see this web site’s
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Christmas included not only fruitcake and cookies, but halved hot dogs and sloppy Joes as revelry comfort food, and also lots of holiday headgear from big and of course fuzzy antlers to a HUGE Cat In The Hat
Holy Rollers! Maybe if not for long holiday hours, you’d have the full staff to get fixes as readily made
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Rio Loco — THE cantina and tequila bar — will ‘build’ a new design that hopefully will be as cool as that raft of neon TVs that filled the wall behind the long bar
This is Plum Loco! Rio Loco that is. Black Gold, Texas Tea, swimming pools, movie stars. But no more margaritas,
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Zounds! A new venue called Ziggy’s has bands both for and aft on NYE, and they start upstairs by being Heartless. And there’s much more, music and munchies and otherwise, as we ring in 2019 at various fantastic venues
I zig and you zag, and we both get to see bands, as they can be found on both the