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Rummaging for a cause

Second Hope pop-up consignment starts with a cause When Kristi Bauer’s good friend died three years ago, she wanted to find a way to honor the woman Bauer says would give anyone the shirt off her back. Bauer is doing that this weekend with the inaugural Second Hope Consignment Sale, which will also serve as […]

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BUZZ: Pop-up market in the country

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The Crooked Queen opens only four times per year. That, combined with charm, is how they pack in a crowd. Missy Cayley and Nina Skic run The Crooked Queen, which attracts shoppers from all over the state to their infrequent sales When Missy Cayley and Nina Skic opened their first makeshift shop in the fall

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THE BUZZ: Therapeutic expansion

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A new building for Health in Motion will open this year, as demand increases for physical therapy In its first three years, demand quickly grew for Physical Therapy Specialists, so much so that the business soon outgrew its current downtown location—and its name. As the business looks to relocate to a brand new 3,000-square-foot facility

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BUZZ: CRACKING the CODE

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages Cracked owners Andria and Paul Smith demonstrate the Date Night Disaster scenario, one of two puzzles currently available. Yes, you actually start off cuffed together. Paul and Andria Smith are reluctant to use the term “escape room” to describe their business. While Cracked essentially is modeled after the increasingly popular, clue-solving escape

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RED EYE owners to buy PATINA

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Patina Coffeehouse is being sold to the owners of Red Eye Brewing Co., the popular brewpub located next door to Patina on Washington Street, just east of downtown Wausau. Patina’s current owner Lisa Ocker says she is moving out of the area to pursue other opportunities. Patina will remain a coffee shop, but under different

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Go GETTER Wausau

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages Go Getter Graphics owners Brittany Tepp (right) and Austin Pflager, and illustrator Drew Bouche (left), with T-shirts they designed and printed for Malarkey’s Pub, including their shirt The ‘Sau. If you want to buy a T-shirt celebrating some of the cool things about the Wausau area, you’d be hard-pressed to find one.

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PERMANENT Urban Street Bistro SITE?

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Food truck and caterer Urban Street Bistro is considering the former West Side Battery building for a restaurant. Urban Street Bistro owner Clint Schultz announced at the local crowd-sourcing event Wausau SOUP on Feb. 2 that he had toured the building and that the next step for his business would be to build a restaurant

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EGG-ROLLING out a NEW LOCATION

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages New owners Phoua and Xao Xiong operate Hmong Egg Rolls at its new location on Third Avenue. A driver going past Hmong Eggrolls’ previous location on Thomas Street might see the empty building and fear the worst. But the restaurant isn’t closed; it relocated and expanded. Hmong Eggrolls opened its new location

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Buzz: Get READY to S T R E T C H !

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages Katie Trzebiatowski demonstrates how the machines are used in her new North River Pilates studio in Weston. Katie Trzebiatowski sought out Pilates as something that would provide her with both a physical activity and help her feel better after suffering a number of high school ski injuries. Her first Pilates class went

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INTERGALACTIC cool

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages Chris Janssen in the newly remodeled planetarium at Wausau West High School. The planetarium offers public shows every Friday at 6 pm. One minute you’re looking at the rotating planet Earth in its orbit around the sun. Then suddenly you fly out past Mars, Jupiter, then float in the asteroid belt, particles

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WOW is RIGHT!

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B.C. Kowalski/City Pages Wausau on the Water brings laser tag, arcade games and family dining overlooking the Wisconsin River. Walking into the newly completed Wausau on the Water Family Entertainment Center is like stepping back into the 1980s. Tabletop arcade games bleep out familiar sounds from old-school thrillers such as Pac-man; classic games like skee-ball

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The Buzz: HISTORIC comfort

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A few things are apparent when talking to Randy Bangs, who with his wife Sara recently purchased the historic Stewart home building near downtown Wausau and reopened it Friday as a bed and breakfast. Randy Bangs inside The Stewart Inn, his third foray into operating B&Bs at historic homes in Wisconsin. For one, Bangs loves

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County halfway to phosphorus reduction goal on Fenwood Creek

Copper box, new exhibits and more Wausau events this weekend

Central Wisconsin breweries medal at national brewing championship

Security measures improved library safety, director says

Booze and Botany, Wausau Night Market and more this weekend

Balloons, jazz, comical magic and more in Wausau this weekend

Former Weston clerk charged with fraud more than a year later

Fourth of July events and other things to check out this weekend

Concerts in the clouds, park movies and more this weekend

The new Dawg House Weston is making an art form out of hot dogs

Wausau’s New Big Weekend, The Wizard of Oz and more

Shrek Jr, Solstic Summit, Wings of Halcyon and more this weekend

Marathon County deputies make arrest following high-speed chase

Cultures Fest, Blippi, Man of Honor and more this weekend

Wausau Events moves first Concert on the Square to Rothschild Pavilion

Architectural ambles, Wausau pride and more events this weekend

Take our annual Best of the Wausau Area survey

Knowlton House Distillery is making award-winning spirits out of cheese by-products

Memorial Day Weekend, Paddygrass and other Wausau events

A message from City Pages Publisher and MMC owner Pat Wood about the impacts of new postage increases

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