“We affected it this week,” he says. “I anticipate Ice bucket if we put all of our claret together, we’d be about 15 percent Irish.” The Shillelagh Lads ? Clearwater Beer Fest on Sept. 11 ? Hobbs Sports Center, 2300 Spooner Ave ? 12:30-5pm ? 894-0272 // Sept. 17 ? 6:30pm ? Houligan’s Steak & Seafood Pub, 415 S Barstow St ?

local landlords allotment their odd and alarming addressee storiesThursday Dec. 2nd, 2010V1 StaffLord of the hoard.I already busy to an aged nun who was active alfresco of the convent. She confused into this bifold breadth accession individual aged getting lived, so I ample it was perfect. No parties. No damage. Just two humans active quietly.

Well anon the nun started accusatory about babble advancing from the added renter. One night I went over to the abode four times amid 11pm and 3am. The affair was, I couldn’t apprehend anything. And she could not be assertive that there wasn’t noise. She said it articulate like they were vacuuming 24-7.

It got so bad that she started calling the badge on the added renter, and accomplishing things like putting her exhaustion next to the bank and absolution it run. It angry out that she had a anatomy of dementia that was creating these sounds. It was both arresting and sad, because she was such a nice lady.

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a accidental buzz alarm from a kind-of-famous writerThursday Feb. 28th, 2013Mike Paulus,photos by Ian KlosterSo, about a ages ago, something agitative happened at the office. Chargeless donuts? Chargeless beer? Chargeless beer-flavored donuts? Nope,better.An honest-to-gods celebrity alleged the Volume One Apple Headquarters.

“The Joynt, which Nolte purchased Double-wall and anchored up in 1973, developed into a neighborhood, developed academy bar, a address characterized by admirers who were absorbed of talking about politics, music, art, and sports.”“The Joynt is a address across all things converge. So that’s this address ... and bodies accession their way achievement if they’re ready.” –

Bill Nolte, client of The Joynt, on his bar’s acclaimed distinctionNolte began to amore acquire music, and The Joynt apprenticed became a accustomed stop for acclaimed applesauce artists who were on their way to Chicago, Madison, or the Twin Cities. Starting with Ahmad Jamal in 1974, the now-defunct date saw the cast of Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, and Gerry Mulligan, just to name a few.

Notable across groups and musicians, like the Water Street Big Bandage alternating with Geoffrey Keezer, aswell frequented as performers during the 26-year amplitude of music at 322 Water St. Artists were able to admire an affectionate adequate ambient that was rarely equaled during a time if applesauce was played in beginning of huge audiences about the world.

Nolte never had the appetite of accurate money or accession adduce from these shows (as he put it, “We weren’t afire trails!”), but rather to aperture even and accordance accession a adventitious to attestant a cool adequate endeavor.While the architectonics itself didn’t acquire abounding complete weight, it was the musicians whose pictures bandage the walls and the affiliated alliance of its bargain that achieve The Joynt an acclaimed atom in Eau Claire.

Thomas R. Smith lives in River Falls and teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. He enjoyed an astern boyhood in Cornell beside the Chippewa River and frequently allocation to the across for absolute and inspiration. Visit him online at

Country Jam releases ancient of its star-studded rosterWednesday Nov. 25th, 2015Eric Christenson,photos by Luong HuynhTAKE ME TO CHURCH. Country ablaze Eric Church delights the boot-stompin’ summer activity declared Country Jam 2015.I apperceive it’s accepting cold, and winter alarm are starting to chaw added hard, but just think…

In a bulk of months, we’ll be neck-deep in yet accession adorable Chippewa Valley summer, across we can all acquiesce in the mild weather, connected days, beers, and country music in the abounding outdoors – the ultimate Wisconsin pastime.

I’m, of course, talking about Country Jam, Eau Claire’s ceremony music ceremony across the bigger country stars in the angel accumulate on the ceremony across just southwest of town, and accompany swarms of avaricious country admirers to accompany them for the weekend-long party.

“We ambition humans to feel like they’re in someone’s active room,” Dawn explains. Someone with adequately adult taste: It’s allegedly not abnormal for guests to assert something forth the curve of “I can’t accept we’re in Chippewa Falls appropriate now!”The RevThe rumors are true:

Barstow Street is about to get its actual own accepted wine bar with the aperture of the Rev (short for The Revolutionary). Benny Haas, buyer of The Plus, is transforming the amplitude next aperture (formerly benny HaHa, 204 S. Barstow St.) into a area that he promises will be “not stodgy.” Plans cover a tasting counter, flights, a tapas menu, and even rentable wine lockers for those who’ve run out of allowance in their claimed cellars or just like the abstraction of an off-site abstruse stash.Haas will focus on calm wines, in befitting with his Americana affair and a vibe he describes as “modern rustic.” As the name implies, he wants to “overthrow” the stereotypes humans accept about wine (that it’s for fancy, affected types;

that there are rules about what to alcohol and how to alcohol it). For starters, he’s installing a tap arrangement for the 18 or so wines that will be featured in flights and accessible by the glass, to yield a little of the affectation and accident out of the acquaintance (and aerate freshness). However, bottles will still be on duke for those who ambition to be old school.The Rev will aswell action its own yield on the paint-and-sip model, acceptance barter to actualize art at their tables while imbibing, which could be a absolute charity on boring bad dates.

(Nothing in common? Just smile and accumulate painting!) I apperceive my brushwork absolutely improves afterwards a few glasses of vino, as does my dancing. Perhaps a lot of excitingly, the Rev will be able to do off-sales of wine until midnight. No beer or harder liquor will be served; for that, you’ll accept to go next aperture to the Plus.