The big Halloween costume party weekend is past, but wait, there is one more such shindig to go to! After all, Wednesday is Halloween officially, and the Beach Bar just on the Minnesota side of the St. Croix River is having its costume party then, to give the adults an option other than just trick or treating, with prizes in cash or its equivalent, not just candy. And the costume contests aren’t the only chance to show off your skills, you just might get the chance to take the stage in song, too. So don’t put away that Halloween get-up just yet and see you there! — Another quality trio is set to take the stage at Urban Olive and Vine on Friday evening. Known for her ability to take over the stage live and capture her audience, it is said, Barbara Meyer engulfs the listener in spirals of deep and soulful lyrics, with her own songs having undertones of playful humor and intrinsic spirituality. Her extensive background in theater, (as theatrics befit the holiday), coupled with a Master’s degree in opera, has honed her vocals known for their genre-jumping ability, encompassing not only jazz, but roots rock, reggae, Broadway, gospel, folk and cabaret. It that weren’t enough, if you’re lucky, you’ll catch her hula-hooping shtick. — Youth is served, musically at least, so this is not your grandpa’s music. High school students from Hudson and beyond will be playing in various forms at Urban Olive and Vine from 6-7:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. — This is dead-on the drink of this season that starts with Halloween. Featuring Espolon tequila, you can figuratively of course party with the walking dead, with the dead fiesta drink at Dick’s Bar and Grill. And if you’re really lucky, you just might get one of their over the top T-shirts boasting a skeleton riding a mule. Perfect. — This is a six-pack with more than usual financial punch. At Village Liquor in North Hudson, they have a fall special of a whopping $2 off six cans of of Sam Adams Oktoberfest brew. All you have to do is also buy some authentic village ravioli, in the style still made by the local old-school Italians. And wouldn’t that go well with a beer anyway? Also in the same vein at Village Liquor, is a going past Halloween — of course as supplies allow — their holiday special of buying a red or white sauce and getting free Italian breadsticks from the same local maker in the village. — And this as LATE BREAKING NEWS. Go on Halloween night, and you have all night, to Kozy Korner in the village and the kids get free candy, but even moreso is the adult equivalent of candy, a free jello shot. Yummy for the people over age 21.
The Beach Bar keeps the Halloween season going days past the weekend parties, with a costume party of their own on the actual night of the dead, on a coming-soon evening
Related Posts
- ‘Urban Table’ reopens after five months, minus the olive and vine name, but keeping the same old ambiance. It adds a coffee and wine bar, $3 premium drinks prepared under the eye of a barista and the advanced eatery knowledge that comes from the new owner, Ben Jung, a face you’ll recognize from nearby Hudco To Go, who says music is on the way, too, back to this staple Hudson venue.
They’ve added a coffee bar, so you can have a foray of seating for four on stools in front of it, a wine bar and a petite table for two directly in front of the southwest window, and plenty of inexpensive drinks, but other than that The Urban Table as it is known is much like the former Urban Olive and Vine before it. The man who is the brains behind Hudco To Go has brought those $3 premium drinks and more to the restaurant that is kitty-corner to the, again, southwest when you take Locust Street and venture onto...
- What will Bruce, the top dogg, and Maiden mew about concerning the world when they make a stop in Shakopee? Plenty of tramau to pick from, even if they do not get irate about Iran, or emulate. But closer to home, others of my ilk have been to Italy and more lately, or just out in the garden tending to flowers and kitties.
So many problems in our world, US and UK. How and when to bitch? Waiting for them to be named by a sizeable band, if they shed light on politics and ethical behavior in general, can make you numb. Has anyone else noticed, as we get older and grayer, the similarity in facial look between two who are on vocals, first a rapper and second a metal singer, knotted-side-hair Snoop Dogg and long and straight-to-collar Bruce Dickinson, one who spews island drinks as opposed to the other homemade beer, as Iron Maiden continues on in their latest with a gigantic gaggle of groups with requisite...
- Deaths and memorials. They do not stop with that given by Miley Cyrus for Dolly Parton. In what follows, I recount the recent musical remembrances of a local musician, as his father lay passing, and that by me in song for my own dad. And the resemblances therein. And a dream reflecting it all. (And newly added, we’ll Curry favor and Frank, and more on Dolly and the God she is close to.)
Just over two years ago, I sang solo an Iron Maiden song, Blood Brothers, slowly strummed via my cell phone to provide the instrumental, as the exact moment my dad was laid to his final rest under clay. A few weeks ago, one-man-band professional Jeff Loven, one of the best musicians I have ever heard and one with whom I have sung for 25 years, strummed the favorite Johnny Cash songs his father loved in the background for the last hour his dad had on this earth, the troubles of which Cash so frequently sang. Certainly, one of them was Hurt,...
- Elsewhere on these pages: Bark at the cheese on the moon puns, and Brewers win 22-0 to reply while Twins sweep a contender. REplay to replenish.
- For a post that has some of the cheesiest trivia-type references this side of the moon partway through, search elsewhere on this site to see it now displayed
A hodgepodge listing of everything that’s truly different but maybe baked porage follows, and we’re not talking about a connect-the-dots or puzzle-pieces contest or one on Trump’s foreign policy, haha, rather what I saw and what will be seen around town in recent times. Mostly, one of each. Think you have the world’s, or more likely local church’s, best grilled cheese sandwich, (coming from the land of, specifically, well curded and curdled milk and honey?) Fry it to the test on Saturday. No this is not an autumn chili cookoff, or char the best burger, or even a poker run...