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The new Crooked Pint Ale House in Onalaska is off to a great start since opening in late August.  To keep the grand opening celebration going, the restaurant will give out Free Lucys for a Year booklets on Thursday, September 26 to the first 75 guests through the door that day. Crooked Pint is famous…

UW-La Crosse and the wider La Crosse community will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15. From an evening of classic Latin American music to an exploration of the Hispanic world at the Children’s Museum of La Crosse, the month provides something for everyone. All events are free and open to the public. Event schedule…

La Crosse Community Theatre will hold auditions for the holiday musical, Elf The Musical, on October 7 and 8, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. at Weber Center for the Performing Arts, 428 Front Street South, La Crosse, WI. Buddy, a young orphan, mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag and is transported to the North Pole. Raised as…

La Crosse-based Freedom Honor Flight, which serves veterans in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota and northern Iowa, continues its goal to fly veterans to Washington D.C. to visit the memorials that rise in their honor. Over 11 years of operation, Freedom Honor Flight has flown just shy of 3,000 area veterans. The next flight is scheduled…

An exhibition highlighting work from Wisconsin artists who are also art educators will open the University Gallery season at UW-La Crosse. The seven artists will exhibit various mediums, including printmaking, metalsmithing, encaustic painting, acrylic painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography. “Equilibrium” runs in the University Art Gallery from Thursday, Sept. 6, to Thursday, Sept. 26,  on the…

Mid West Music Fest (MWMF) has announced its early-bird ticket special for both of its 2020 festival events.  The 11th anniversary of the music festival will be held in Winona, MN on May 1 & 2 and in La Crosse, WI on September 11 & 12, 2020. Performing across both historic downtowns will be over…

Downtown Mainstreet, Inc. is pleased to reveal a new alley of murals behind 444 Main Street. The project is a collaboration with over eight local artists and Downtown Mainstreet, with support from La Crosse SOUP, and Sherwin-Williams of La Crosse. There will be an Artist’s Reception in the alley behind 444 Main Street, enter off…

Fannin Counseling & Art Therapy (129 6th St S, La Crosse, across from the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman) announces a new exhibition: Life Is Art: Works by Connie Minowa, opening Friday, October 11, and running through November 8, 2019. Life Is Art is a body of work that represents Connie Minowa as an…

We invite you to celebrate the grand opening of the newly renovated Fred Funk boat landing, located in the heart of Brice Prairie, on Saturday September 7, 2019 at 10am. The landing provides access to the Mississippi River backwaters, including Lake Onalaska.  At 10:00am we will gather in front of the 2 panel kiosk, where…

As daylight turns to darkness, the evening hours offer new ways to experience wildlife! On Friday, September 6, 2019 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, come join experts from Viterbo University, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Fisheries Center and the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge to take an informal walk on the…