So Mother Nature can't make up it's mind about the weather? No big. Neither sleet nor snow nor rain nor hail will stop V1 from telling you about Sunday's awesome events.
Saturday's a pretty heavy day, with barstool races, big bands, science, chocolate and midget bowling all competing for your love. We think you can handle it though.
Not surprisingly, the Eau Claire school board has officially announced that there will be a referendum on the April 5 ballot. A referendum has been rumored since before last fall, but on Feb. 7 the board officially set the date.
From nine in the morning until after midnight – a constant stream of in-your-face events occurring on Saturday. Wanna know what they are? Of course you do.
The scent of a Superbowl Champion is in the air and Packer fans will be flocking to local restaurants to watch the game of the year. The "who's got what when and where" is here – look for the Packer logo.
Bad timing and lack of funding are to blame for the Eau Claire Area School District board’s rejection of a proposal to develop ENGAGE Public Creative Arts & Culture Charter School.
No amount of TV watching, chip eating, soda drinking, or pajama lounging can complement the events that are going on Sunday. See for yourself: Meat Raffle, Learn to Skate, Live & Kicking with featured guest Howard "Guitar" Luedtke ...
Whether you like to read, snowshoe, watch a theater performance, or just sit and listen to some relaxing music, Saturday has something for everyone. Just look at these events: Cabaret XXXIII ...
We're rearranging some roles and souping up our staff – creating an eclectic new full-time position to work on everything from events to promotions to retail.
The upcoming referendum weighed heavy at last night’s lengthy Eau Claire Area School District board meeting. First up: the ENGAGE chart school contract. Generally supporting the concept – but citing bad timing and a lack of funds ...
Sunday offers the best entertainment for your dollar and your minute – here's a brief overview of why: While a Lumber Baron tangles himself into an unfortunate series ...
Don't doubt the entertainment value of Saturday. Beware the following events are bodacious: Robotics Tournament, Tristan Crist, Billy Krause + Chuck Roll & Jeff White Community Table Benefit Show ...
Today is the day that you make it to the Eau Claire Ragtime Festival, Live & Kicking - Classic Rock and Rhythm & Blues, Come Slide with Us, and Brian Bethke and Leiah Webb because ...
Try saying this five times really fast: Eau Claire Ragtime Festival, Menomonie Winter Farmers Market, I Am Daniel + Misgenre Mixtape + Make History, Blues Clues Lives: Blue's Birthday Party ...
“Company is done in gouache (opaque water color). The three figures in the background are anonymous, while the face in the foreground is a friend. The hat he is wearing is my design. I’ll bet it would sell like hotcakes were somebody ... "
Alright, so it’s not a bed and breakfast or a cultural center, but the city is still considerably pumped that 2 S. Barstow may finally rejoin the tax roll.
Bob Lesniewski has been ingrained in the Chippewa Valley through his 36-year directorship of Special Olympics. He has also officiated basketball and football games for high school and college teams regularly for the past 30 years.
Last Thursday the board members and planning committee for ENGAGE, Eau Claire's public creative arts and culture charter school, gave a presentation to teachers and administrators on the prospect of opening the project-based school in September 2011
"My medium of choice today is pen and ink. The pen I use is called a sharpie. I’ve always felt the arrangement and designs in this medium differ from other ink drawings, and therefore may have more value in a fine art sense. I want to give ..."
Well, you can add Grammy nominee to local Native American flute god Peter Phippen’s already hefty resume. The 53rd Grammy Awards have nominated Phippen in their Best Native American Music Album (vocal or instrumental) category.
“Mischievous Heart is part of a series of woodcuts that refer to inner stories of the heart. As with other works in this series, a figure is shown opened up and on display, referencing the vintage medical diagrams I collect ..."
"When they were moving out we went to the basement and when we opened the furnace it was filled with empty beer bottles and plastic cups filled with urine."
“Not getting along, and being petty about what the neighbors are doing. In a duplex, say if they’re running down the hallway too fast … don’t call the landlord.”
Wednesday’s High Speed Rail open house in Eau Claire is absolutely crucial to future of train travel in Wisconsin. I’m not sure how else to say it. Wisconsin DOT officials will actually be there ...
Here’s an idea: why not pepper this year’s “gifts to buy” list with a number of fine items crafted right here in the good ol’ Chippewa Valley? It’s fun, thoughtful, and it helps contribute to the place you call home.
I had an aunt who used to give my sister and I her used lingerie for Christmas. “For dress-up!” she’d say, but it was hardly the sort of clothing young girls should be wearing!
Instead of throwing in a totally familiar Andy Williams album at your holiday party this year, consider adding some extra vigor with live (and local) musicians.
If you are looking to share some holiday magic, consider warming others’ hearts in the cold winter weather. For the second year, Hidden Treasures invites you to sing Christmas carols around the Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, or Foster area.
Investigators are at it again. November 19 will mark the second time the local group of occult sleuths have been featured on Animal Planet’s The Haunted (Frank Smoot appeared in the first episode).
We won’t suggest that something so huge could happen here in the Chippewa Valley, but maybe some parts of The Cans Festival could be ripped off and repurposed for something local.
Leah Remini of King of Queens recently spent some quality air-time on the talk show The Talk highlighting personalize-able pans that are made right here in the Chippewa Valley.
Enjoy FREE hotdogs and soda if you are sporting a costume. Judging by local celebrities will start at 7:30 with great prizes for the winning child, family, and adult.
To start things off, you’ll need a location. This bit can be tricky. Fortunately, a big venue isn’t always needed – the focus here should be on quality, not quantity.
The most popular haunted house in western Wisconsin expects to attract about 10,000 people to the town of Roberts, roughly an hour from Eau Claire, for this zombie-infested abode complete with a Kids Zone.
UW-Eau Claire administrators are taking action against a professor who recently wrote an e-mail asking the organizers of Eau Queer Film Festival to reconsider holding the LGBTQ event.
1st Annual Eau Claire Big Rig Truck Show - this event features about 75 gorgeous semi-trucks from across the country, including award-winning show trucks.
As if the Ultimate Frisbee dude wasn’t enough, here comes Dan Johnson, proving that the Chippewa Valley is well represented in the world’s arena of ... throwing stuff.
Does your organization have a concrete, common understanding of its vision, mission, and strategic goals – along with an understanding of the talent required to fulfill those goals?
"I was so scared before I hosted a debate at UWEC between the four candidates for governor in 2002 that we would lose control of the crowd if they cheered or booed."
In the past five years, riding the city bus has turned from a passive method of transportation to an active way to participate in local art thanks to Paula Gorski.
If you threw a playground in a blender with Lollapalooza, you’d be close to the kind of unique theatrics being presented by Volume One and Leinenkugel’s this Memorial Day weekend.
With seven successful years already notched, the green event that started as a local grassroots movement has officially mounted an annual following and the eighth annual version of the local celebration looks to the biggest yet.
Humming along since 2002, Volume One is a magazine, a website, an event production company, and a retail store based in Eau Claire, WI