Monday, December 29, 2008

New Year's Eve - Special Events

Coming up this Wednesday!


Happy New Year Eau Claire!

New Year's Eve Party Plans - Eau Claire, Wisconsin


We are thinking about starting with the House of Rock at 9pm for some KICK-ASS music (Jaggernauts, SF Inc., & Orestus), then moving on to Whiskey Dicks where we hope to Win a Trip to Las Vegas (wish us luck!), and then it's a toss-up between the breakfast buffet at The Stones Throw or breakfast at the Happy Hollow Tavern... we'll probably do both just so we can enjoy the mix of music from DJ Smiles and then the 2nd Countdown at the Hollow at 6am!

Chippewa Falls

Dewey's Roadhouse
2008-2009 Foiles Style
the Usual Debauchery along with a few surprises!

Starts Wednesday at 3pm
Ends Thursday at 4am

Eau Claire

Double Days
New Year's Eve
not many details
(couldn't find any on the Web and not much to be found in the bar, we'll try to find out more before Wednesday)

Starts Wednesday
Ends Thursday

Happy Hollow Tavern
New Year's Eve
Midnight Countdown
Free Champagne & Party Favors

New Year's Eve RE-LOADED
the Party Starts ALL OVER AGAIN at 4am
Drink Specials: Bloody Mary's $2.50, $1 Domestics, $3 Wisconsin's own Parallel Vodka
Breakfast from 5am until 11am
Another Countdown at 6am complete with Free Champagne & Party Favors (again!)

Starts Wednesday at 9am
Ends Friday at 2am (WOW!)

House of Rock
New Year's Eve Bash!!
featuring:

The Jaggernauts
SF Inc. Reunion Show
Orestus
Jim Pullman Band
The Holy Rifles
Kaptivating Kate
Sign of the Times
Matt Florence and the Annihilators
Free Admission!

Show starts Wednesday at 9pm
Ends Thursday at Bar Close

The Stones Throw
Dueling Decades Dance Party
DJ Smiles spins a New Decade every hour
70's Disco/Funk
80's Dance Party
90's Dance Party
Modern, Top 40, Club Music, Hip Hop, + Crowd requests

"Dress the Decade of Your Choice" Costume Contest beginning at 12:30am

At Midnight - Giant Balloon Drop with Over $2009 in Cash & Prizes!!

And for those that want to keep on going, a Breakfast Buffet will be available starting at 3:30am for just $2.09.

Whiskey Dicks
the BIGGEST New Year's Party the Chippewa Valley has ever seen!
Black & White Masquerade Party
over 100 Bottles of Champagne to be opened at midnight!
Balloon Drop + free party favors and noisemakers

6 FREE TRIPS TO LAS VEGAS given away every hour from 10pm until 3am!!

Starts Wednesday at 10am
Ends Thursday at 6am

Menomonie

Pioneer Grill & Saloon
Handcut Aged New York Strip, Prime Rib, Charbroiled Shrimp, and Broiled Salmon - Reservations Accepted

DJ John, Champagne, and Lunch all happen at Midnight

Starts Wednesday at 9am
Ends Thursday at Bar Close (but starts up again at 9am New Year's Day with a PJ's Breakfast Buffet - come as you are!)

Silver Dollar Saloon & Brick Company AKA "The Buck"
Free Champagne & Party Favors

Starts Wednesday at 11am
Ends Thursday at Bar Close

Monday, December 8, 2008

New Year's Eve 2008/2009

Are you ready to ring in the 2009 New Year?!

Eau Claire New Years Eve Parties

Wow, time continues to fly by. It's that time of the year again and we want to hear about your New Year's Eve party plans. If you're a bar in the Eau Claire and Chippewa Valley area we'd like to hear what you have in mind. Give us an email and we'll include your party with the Eau Claire Bars - New Year's Eve - Party Post before Christmas comes.

Email us at bars@eauclairenetwork.com and we'll get your New Year's Eve festivities up for everyone to see!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Halloween with Eau Claire Bars - the Blog

So things have been extremely busy here at Eau Claire Bars - the Blog. We've been getting questions from readers about plans for New Year's Eve already! So we're going to start tabulating some data from Eau Claire Bars for their plans for 2009. Look for that information to come sometime late this month or early December. Right now we're getting ready for next week's Thanksgiving celebration and want to quickly throw out the Halloween pics before we go any further.



























































Some recent casual nights out involved barber-chair shots at Whiskey Dicks:





Plus: On the horizon - Eau Claire Bands social network and a revamp to the Eau Claire Bars website.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Costume Contests in the Chippewa Valley

We're not sure where we're going or what we are going to be dressing up as for our theme for Halloween, but we're definitely going to spend time drinking and checking out the many costumes everyone else will be wearing. Last year we accepted pictures from readers of themselves in their Halloween Costumes. Our winner was "Dirk Damage" with his version of Ash.

2007 Costume Contest Winner

So let's do it up again. Last year we put up $20, but this year we're going to increase that mark. So email us your pics for a $50 bar tab from Eau Claire Bars - the Blog at the bar of your choice! Send us your best Halloween Costume Pics after the Halloween Weekend. Our team of party-goers will vote on the best pic from those entered and we'll post the winning pic by November 15.

For those of you looking for a costume contest we've decided to throw a list together for the blog. Information about these contests comes from news sources throughout the Chippewa Valley including the Leader Telegram, Various Websites, & VolumeOne.

Altoona
Whiskey Dicks
9pm-2:30am
Costume Contest
Registration at 9pm
Contest at 12:30am
Cash Prizes

Bloomer
Badger Hole
9pm-2am
Costume Contest

Chippewa Falls
Deweys Roadhouse
99.9 The Carp & Miller Lite
1130pm
Costume Contest?
Cash & Prizes

T&C Roundabout
9pm-1am
Costume Contest

Bresina's Hometown Bar & Grill
9pm-2am
Costume Contest at 11pm
Cash Prizes

Eau Claire
The Stones Throw
80's Hauntoween
6pm-close
Costume Contest at Midnight
Over $250 in Prizes!

Scooters
10:30pm-2am
Costume Contest
Cash Prizes

Hallie
Hobbsy & Me
Costume Contest
Cash Prizes

Menomonie
BaDa Bingz
3-day Halloween Party
Oct. 30 - Nov. 1
Noon-2am
$15 wristband gets you free beer all 3 days!
Costume Contest

Seymour
Fox Run Tavern
11:30pm-2am
Costume Contest
$100 in Prizes

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Eau Claire Bars - the Website & Omnibus Edition

So we've been active for over a year now and we've had over 10,000 unique visitors to the site looking for information about the bars and night life of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. This has been a really great time and fun experience for us.

We are currently in the process of passing along some more information and details about bars in the Chippewa Valley. Our blog posts are great, but we want to start giving our visitors other bits and pieces of information on the bar scene in Eau Claire. We want to start allowing our visitors to add to the reviews and add to the content of the website. So watch for some changes soon, some small and some big! Look for Eau Claire Bars - the Website to be introduced alongside Eau Claire Bars - the Blog. It's been a very intoxicating year and we look forward to the next!

That being said, we've been very busy and haven't thrown up everything we've wanted to as far as pictures and video go. So... we're going to start tossing up pictures and video from the past few months to this post. A sort of Eau Claire Bars - the Blog Omnibus edition!

Recent Bar Quotes

"What people say about you when you die. Is a remark that is spoke 2 late." - Kimberly

"You really shouldn't leave your shit unattended in the Tiki bar or drunk chicks will write on it. =)" - random drunk chick who didn't leave her name

"I lost a cruise because a man let me go first. Never again will I test fate." - Sandie

"Chivalry is dead!" - a bystander (in response to the above comment)

"I guess we can't really complain about sweaty hotties on an improvised stage." - Anonymous @ the T&C Roundabout

Shots, Drinks, & Mixers

Vodka, Rum, Gin, Triple Sec, Blackberry Brandy, Blue Curacao, Scotch, Sweet & Sour, OJ, & finally... a little Sprite - "The Kater" aka Kater Coolaid

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Fights Under the Lights at Whiskey Dicks

Last weekend we were able to head out to the second annual Fights Under the Lights at Whiskey Dicks in Altoona, Wisconsin. Here's a quick clip of one of the Mixed Martial Arts matches from the evening.



We'll be adding some more clips later to include some of the Iron-Man Kick-boxing matches from the evening. If you want to get a copy of all of the footage we were able to take from the evening you can email us using the email link in the right sidebar, otherwise enjoy the footage here on the blog.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

2009 Carp Calendar Cutie Contest - Week 12

I'm not sure about those of you out there reading up on the Carp Calendar and staying tuned to the blog, but we definitely had a few weeks of bliss and just plain great summer fun and are finally piecing together Week 12's pics and video footage for the Carp Calendar Cutie Contest at Whiskey Dicks in Altoona, Wisconsin. Great looking girls, ice cold drinks, and foam... lots and lots of foam.


Teaser pics and info incoming soon. Look for the full write-up to hit the blog sometime this week. New Presidential candidates, Russians invading Georgia, another hurricane disrupting sacred Mardi Gras territory yet again... WOW! what a summer right?



Eau Claire Bars

Carp Calendar Cutie

Eau Claire Bars



Thursday, August 7, 2008

2009 Carp Calendar Cutie Contest - Week 11

Last week we were out at the 11th Carp Calendar Cutie Contest of the year at Moke's Grill & Bar just north of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. We were really surprised by the setup they had thrown together. We've stopped by Moke's before and had a good time with the resident DJ but we hadn't seen anything like they put together this past Spring in the backyard - the new Tiki Bar looks great. Two thumbs up to the folks out at Moke's for their new Tiki Bar, and another two thumbs up for serving Guinness!

Tonight we head out to Whiskey Dicks for the final Carp Calendar Cutie Contest of the year. It's hard to believe that it's already been 12 weeks of hot girls and cold drinks, but I guess time does have to pass by somehow. Whiskey Dicks is located in Altoona, Wisconsin (though it's really hard to tell since they're so freakin' close to Eau Claire) right behind the TV13 Tower off Hastings Way.

For those of you that might have missed this year's host of Carp Calendar Cutie Contests, we're happy to announce that there are plans in place to put together a "Carp Calendar Year in Review" at http://www.carpcalendar.com/ - you can stay tuned here or just head over to the Carp Calendar Year in Review website for more information.

Girls interested in becoming a Carp Cutie can follow this link for the Official Rules if they're interested in competing tonight. There is only one last opportunity left to become a Carp Calendar Cutie this year.


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Information and a picture for each of the four contestants in no particular order:


Name: Erica
Location: Eau Claire
turnons: older men (over 30)
turnoffs: a man that can't party
one word to describe her: cock block (to her friends that is)
bonus material: she says her best features are her nipples and that her worst feature is her indecision




Name: Brianna (Winner)
Location: Eau Claire
turnons: a guy with a muscle car
turnoffs: a man with a small dick and a big head (guys don't try and compensate for something you don't have!)
one word to describe her: Innocent
bonus material: she says her best feature is her smile and her worse feature is well... she can't think of one




Name: Nathalie
Location: Ladysmith, now living in Eau Claire
turnons: a guy who can keep up with her!
turnoffs: laziness
one word to describe her: PARTYGIRL!
bonus material: she says that her best feature is her ass and her worst feature is that she spends too much money on shots




Name: Sarah Lomprey
Location: Duluth, MN, now living in Eau Claire
turnons: her husband naked!! (errr what?!)
turnoffs: country music
one word to describe her: fun-loving!!
bonus material: she says that her best features are her eyes and her worst feature is her tramp stamp?




Name: Char Anderson
Location: Eau Claire, now living in Hallie
turnons: her boyfriend
turnoffs: assholes
one word to describe her: fire
bonus material: she says that her best feature is her ass and her worst features are her breasts




Name: Blue
Location: Dallas, now living in Chetek
turnons: herself
turnoffs: people that litter
one word to describe her: super-freak
bonus material: she says that her best features are her eyes and the dimples on her butt and her worst feature is her attitude




Name: Lindsie Gillett
Location: St. Louis Park, MN, now living in Chippewa
turnons: anal
turnoffs: bad teeth
one word to describe her: spontaneous-orgies
bonus material: she says that her best features are her t!ts and her worst feature is her hair




Name: Synful Cynder
Location: Maryland, now living in Altoona
turnons: Pain and bad boyz
turnoffs: people without an open mind
one word to describe her: devious
bonus material: she says that her best features are her eyes - so alluring - and her worst feature is her wickedness




Name: Maggie
Location: St. Paul, now living in Chippewa
turnons: confidence
turnoffs: drama
one word to describe her: Carp-girl
bonus material: she says that her best feature is her Tattoo (it's a phoenix if you can't see it clearly) and her worst feature is her anger




Name: Valerie
Location: Chippewa Falls
turnons: men, sometimes women (J.Kidd)
turnoffs: gossip
one word to describe her: Sassy and... her last name is Miller
bonus material: she says that her best feature is her hair and her worst feature is her ass




Round 2 Swimsuit Competition

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Some of the video is going to be pretty hard to follow (kind of reminiscent of Cloverfield haha) - we've already spoken with the camera man and it shouldn't happen again! There would be 3 finalists this evening, but the judges appeared to have an easy time picking a winner from the group as Brianna is announced as the latest Carp Calendar Cutie! Congratulations from all of us at Eau Claire Bars - the Blog to Brianna - Miss November for the 2009 Carp Calendar!

Speaking of Carp Calendar Cuties, Miss February dropped by the contest to show off some of her pics for 2009 - Monica + an exclusive preview of what her Calendar pic might include:


Other random pictures from the evening:


Tonight's the night ladies, so grab your hottest swimsuit and head out to Whiskey Dicks for the last Carp Calendar Cutie Contest of the year!

Here you go guys, have another look at Miss November 2009 - Brianna:


This year's Carp Calendar Cutie Contest is sponsored by 99.9 The Carp, Miller Light, and Fall Creek Portrait Design. The Carp DJs, Al Shannon, Cooper & Sleaze, were again on hand to take care of the contest's logistics.

Note: We've decided to take out the normal rating system for contests such as this one since all of the information is pretty much skewed because of the nature of the contest. As usual, video footage and pics courtesy of Eau Claire Bars - the Blog.