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Issue #209 Aug. 9, 2012

Armed Forces Mural Appears on Hastings

Several years ago Isabelle Bauer had a dream to expand her business, Northern Safari Army Navy (a store that sells military related items such as knives, clothes, etc.); that dream has now become reality. After moving into a larger commercial ...

Michael Perry's New Book to Get Neighborly

What can you learn from your neighbor? That’s the ultimate question Michael Perry sets out to answer in his soon-to-be-released book, Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace. The book follows a year of neighborly visits ...

The Factory

former Uniroyal employee completes eighth book on bygone tire plant

Voodoo's Dream

former local returns to town with new solo record, stage show

Issue #208 July 26, 2012

Field Report Reports Tour and Upcoming Album

Chris Porterfield, the former local many may know from the group Conrad Plymouth is embarking on a new musical path: Field Report. The group, while sharing members and even songs with Conrad Plymouth, has been taking off nationally ...

Issue #207 July 12, 2012

Steve Bateman's Fish Keeps on Swimming

A fish that takes its shape from a guitar, a Volkswagen fender, and some tornado-strewn corrugated metal has found a new home next to New York Pizza & Deli on Water Street in Eau Claire. Local found object sculptor Steve Bateman said he made ...

Reunion

three local artists unite for one final show

Story Time

David Tank's newest book reads like a campfire tale

Issue # 206 June 28, 2012

The Daydreamer's Journal

If there is such a thing as an average anthology, “Live Life: The Daydreamer’s Journal” is anything but. The recent and ambitious publication carries two world records – one for “the most authors [150] contributing to a published anthology of ...

Menomonie Launches Outdoor Concert Series

Community music is in abundance throughout the Chippewa Valley, and Menomonie is picking up the trend, offering FREE-4-ALL, a Menomonie Community Music Series. Held in the Ludington Guard Band Shell in Menomonie’s Wilson Park, the all-ages ...

Issue # 205 June 14, 2012

Cover Show

summer art exhibit features Volume One cover artists

Issue #204 May 31, 2012

Local Christian bands heading to the bar?

Recently in the Chippewa Valley area, and beyond, there has been an interesting trend taking place. Lately, there have been Christian based bands hosting after-service concerts in unconventional venues on Sundays after church services ...

Parkbeats: New summer concert series coming to Osseo

Summer is a time for family, friends, and enjoying the (hopefully) warm weather. This summer, you can do all three at ParkBeats, a free summer concert series in Osseo, Wis. Presented by The Pulse, a local news ...

Issue #203 May 17, 2012

Living Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery event allows you to interact with our past

Story Time

local author and educator Rob Reid is publishing three books in 2012

Taking Magical Journeys

A. Mitchell Bullard started working on his first novel in 2001, capitalizing on the idea that popped in his head from his tree stand. The Many Magical Journeys of Alexander Wright is a seven book series in similar vein to Harry Potter, The ...

UW-Eau Claire Professor Wins Nonfiction Award

UW-Eau Claire creative writing professor BJ Hollars has always admired Ray Bradbury and has worked with the Farenheit 451 author. But now, Hollars will join the likes of Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut as a winner of the Society of Midland Authors’ ...

Westbound

local folkster Kalispell releases first full length

Amateur Love Rereleases

When Justin Vernon’s Chigliak reissues Amateur Love’s “It’s All Aquatic” on May 22nd, fans will have a chance to hear, quite simply, a great album – one that many bands who play here today claim as an influence. On top of that, listeners can hear ...

Issue #202 May 3, 2012

Glue Man

short film by Found Footage founders winning awards

Shock 'n' Roll

a new festival in Menomonie will feature art, music for two days

Diary-Style Exhibition Adorns Library Walls

To take in the new art exhibition at LE Phillips Memorial Public Library, called Connect/Disconnect, is to have a glimpse into a fractured diary. Each piece has the consistent outline of two opened pages, but each is distinct in its content and ...

Eau Claire Student Art on Display Through May 15

The Eau Claire Area School District is full of artistically talented students of all ages that would love the chance to display their work for their friends, families, and the community. Now is the time of the year when they have that chance! The ...

Researcher Contributes to Book on Globalization

Whatever Happened to America? is a book addressing globalization and the control of the masses in the United States through the debt load and food sources. One of our own EC natives, Joe Haselwander, contributed to this text via substantial ...

Former Local Publishes First Novel for Kindle

Eau Claire native Grant Maierhofer recently self-published an ebook titled The Persistence of Crows. A student in the fiction writing program at Columbia College Chicago, Maierhofer set out to write a novel he would have hoped to discover on a ...

Shot-Town

local storyteller writes of growing up in Eau Claire

Tedd Wright

young composer remembered by music community

Local Indie Duo Scrimbo Heading to Europe

As a graduation celebration, the local duo Scrimbo is packing their bags and heading across the big pond. The self-described “catchy indie rock” band, comprised of Adam Thoms (More Amore, The Blue Room) and Alyssa Rieper (Feathe), is ready to ...

Issue #201 Apr. 19, 2012

Bubble Mania!

bubble artist comes to town by way of Cirque de Soleil

Stout Students Recreate Menomonie Drive-In

Starting April 20, Russell J. Rassbach Heritage Museum in Menomonie will host a new exhibit about the city’s former drive-in movie theater. Created by Stout design and construction students from testimonials and a Google maps image, the exhibit ...

Explore Fashion Without Fabric

Tasked with creating clothing without using fabric of any kind, UW-Stout design students have their work cut out for them. Every spring, the university’s Art and Design Department puts on its popular “Fashion Without Fabric” fashion show. “A lot ...

An Odd Take on the Odd Couple

Menomonie Theater Guild is putting on a rendition of The Odd Couple … with a female cast. “I think that there’s still this sort of mistaken idea and assumption out there that men are funnier or better at comedy,” said Blaine Halverson, executive ...

UWEC, Stout Showcasing Newest Crop of Artists

It’s Local. It’s Fresh. It’s a Smorgasbord of UW Student Art Shows. Around here, we make artists. Grab your plate and see what the newest of the new have been cooking up. Running now, UWEC’s Foster Gallery presents its show of current student art ...

Pale Kid Who Raps Fast Headed to UW-Eau Claire

The winner of the Brave New Voices award for the 2006 National Poetry Slam, George Watsky, will be spouting lyrics at super-human speed at UWEC on April 24. Watsky, “a versatile lyricist who switches between silly and serious, technically ...

Electrolyte Empire Releases Debut EP via Digital Download

It was about a year ago Electrolyte Empire wrapped up recording the seven-song Underfoot EP. The 90s-inspired hard rockers spent six grueling months with local sound engineer Jaime Hansen, but never got around to producing any sort of physical ...

Legit Music to Beat on Mount Simon

Techno beats and drops will shake Mt. Simon Park and avid local technophiles with “Legit Music.” The “Legit Music” event will shuffle various techno beat masters from the Eau Claire area. Those interested in what they hear can pick up the ...

How to Celebrate Record Store Day Around Here

Record Store Day is kind of like Black Friday, except for music lovers. And on a Saturday. It’s an international event where musicians put out exclusive vinyl for independent record stores only. Revival Records will be the only place in the ...

D&D Meets the Hodag in Medieval Fantasy Book

What happens when you mix Dungeons and Dragons and a Rhinelander lumberjack myth about a dragon called the Hodag? The answer involves a local Eau Claire man named Joseph Beaufeaux, and his book Eternal Knights, the first in a planned trilogy ...

Issue #200 Apr. 5, 2012

liveART3

real time art event returns to the State Theatre

Art Comes Springing from the Heyde Center

Spring is here, which means it’s time for the 47th Annual Spring Art Show at the Heyde Center for the Arts in Chippewa Falls. Running from April 15-26, this year’s show will feature more than 110 local artists, many of who will show their art for ...

Issue #199 Mar. 22, 2012

Like a Fox

Fanny Hill to debut new farce Fox on the Fairway

Mal Blum

emotive songstress to croon at Infinitea Teahouse

Progressive Film Fest Comes Back for More

For 10 days, the UWEC campus will be hosting its 6th Annual Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival from Friday, March 30 until Sunday, April 8. This year, they will feature 14 films all followed by a facilitated discussion to provoke thought ...

The Purpose

spiritual encounter spurs Jerome Wolcott’s debut

Help North High Jazz Students Get to New York

Essentially Ellington is one of the country’s most famous high school jazz competitions. Each year 15 high school jazz bands from all over the country are selected to participate in this prestigious event. This year, for the eighth time in ...

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