The Acoustic Cafe

A sandwich shop with a caffeine problem. Espresso. Art. Hand rolled bread. Soup. Serving downtown Menomonie since 1994.

[WQOW 18 News @WQOW]

US craft beers — brewed in steel, canned in aluminum — could get crushed by tariffs. https://t.co/sNySa6WfhG

[Dragon Tale Books @DragonTaleBooks]

February 4 is National Homemade Soup Day. Celebrate with one of these 11 savory books about soup.

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[Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick]

Doechii is a star.

[Tom Colicchio @tomcolicchio]

Just checking , have the price of eggs come down yet.

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This students 👇

[Andrew Kolb @KolbAndrew]

#ivoted concerts use data to identify artists who can bring out low-propensity voters—@emwizzle explaining strategy for using fan communities to drive voter engagement #USEP24

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It’s roasted red pepper & smoked gouda soup day! Did you get yours?

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Noooooooooo.... This one hurts.

Rest easy, Bob Uecker

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Amazing espresso machine at Hacienda Lealtad in Lares, Puerto Rico

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Truth!

[Kurt Benkert @KurtBenkert]

You shouldn’t be able to call offensive pass interference when the receiver runs in a straight line.

Wipes seven off the board for the Packers, if Christian Watson was running a slant, it would’ve looked identical.

So many teams around the league don’t get called for that.

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#SoupSeason

[Grant Bilse @WiscoGrant]

The Pub, Menomonie WI

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@WiscoGrant Marsha is the best!

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Stop in and see us for a delicious homemade meal if you’re out in #Menomonie today! #SmallBusinessSaturday

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Get your caffeine fix here! Lots of new drinks to try….

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@chelsho Yesss! They are so good

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@rudydeandamusic well done!

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Stop by from 3-6 tonight…Downtown trick or treat!

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power. (After all, if you’re hellbent on staying in power but aren’t likely to win the next election, you can’t have your political opponents running around free.)

To keep fascism out of our lives, vote for democracy!

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@DivesOfWI The Pub in Menomonie, WI

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

Today we lost a brother. Our hearts and love go out to Jill Lesh, Brian and Grahame. Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an explorer of inner and outer space who just happened to play bass. He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more.

We can count on the fingers of one hand the people we can say had as profound an influence on our development - in every sense. And there have been even less people who did so continuously over the decades and will continue to for as long as we live. What a gift he was for us. We won’t say he will be missed, as in any given moment, nothing we do will be without the lessons he taught us - and the lessons that are yet to come, as the conversations will go on.

Phil loved the Dead Heads and always kept them in his heart and mind. The thing is… Phil was so much more than a virtuoso bass player, a composer, a family man, a cultural icon...

There will be a lot of tributes, and they will all say important things. But for us, we’ve spent a lifetime making music with Phil Lesh and the music has a way of saying it all. So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.

For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago….

- Mickey, Billy and Bobby

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