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Mix 97.3 Goes Back In Time!

If you tuned into Mix 97.3 last weekend, it was all Huey Lewis for hours and hours and hours on end. Sure, we like The News as much as anybody, but what gives?

Looks like they decided to bring back a staple of the Siouxland 80s FM dial: KKRC 97.3. They’re now playing the greatest hits of the 80s, with a few of those 70s and 90s songs that sat on the cusp of the decade thrown in for good measure.

How will this shake out? Time will tell. Local radio will always deliver something you can’t find on a satellite mix, let a lone Spotify, so we’re glad to see them keeping the local vibes alive.

But as anyone who live through the 80s knows, it was half awesome and half awful. Will they be playing the fun stuff, or the drek? Will it be more Karma Chameleon or more Kokomo?

We’ll be spinning the dial to find out!

Boss’s Comedy Club Returns!

Local comedy finally found its footing a few years ago when Nathan Hults brought the laughs to Boss’s Pizza on Minnesota Ave. They turned the side-room into Boss’s Comedy Club, featuring regular open mics, local favorites, and hosting touring comedians from all over.

We were sad to see them go, but it turns out that the show ain’t over!

Boss’s Comedy Club now has a new location as part of the expanding operations of Boss’s Sports Bar at the Ramada across from the Denny Premier Center.

Perfect timing, if you ask us. With the election coming up, we need ’em now more than ever!

Get out and have a laugh. You’re gonna need it!

Hey Catholic Kids! Time To Get Back To Mass!

Dakota News Now brings the infallible revelation.

Time to stop living like Lionel Ritchie and taking it easy on Sunday morning.

For all of you who got a nice white dress and party for your confirmation, you know you’re supposed to show up to mass on Sundays. However, Covid’s given you all a nice free pass for the last few months.

With an official dispensation from the Bishops to skip the sacraments for safety’s sake, you’ve gotten used to sleeping in and nursing your own spiritual needs, whatever they may be.

Time’s up! South Dakota is the first diocese in the nation to “lift the dispensation,” meaning it’s time to dust off the Sunday best and catch up on the Our Fathers you’ve might have missed.

Or not. You could stay home. But be prepared to feel pretty darn guilty about it if you do.

Then again, isn’t that what confession is for?

Get Outta Bed Kids! It’s Record Store Day!

What? Record Store Day in August? WTF!!

Oh yeah, that’s right, RSD got Corona’d back in April, pushed out to August with the expectation that we’d all be safe and sound by then. And we are, right? Right? Well, maybe not, but we’re learning to live with it. And music helps. It’s just the medicine your soul needs most right about now.

Two spots in Sioux Falls have got the hook-up: Last Stop (10th St. location) and Total Drag.

Get there early. And if you need a little wake-up, be sure to grab a coffee from the brand-new joint next door to Total Drag: The Breaks Coffee.

More details on what might (might!) be available are here. But if you don’t go…you’ll never know! Mask-up, make some new friends and raid the crates before your fellow geeks beat you to it!

PSA: Guys! Learn How to Zipper Merge!

Have you seen this sign around town?

If you have a driver’s license, the answer had better be “Yes!” But do you know what it means? Well, do ya, punk?

It means there’s a Zipper Merge coming up – an indication that you should keep driving in your lane until you hit the construction zone, and then confidently take turns when the road narrows.

What it doesn’t mean is that you should all try to squeeze into one lane a mile back and then give the stink-eye to folks that end up alongside you when the orange cones force the lane change.

We know, you’re all extra-polite mid-westerners out there, tooling around town in your sensible not-too-spendy domestic automobiles. And it seems like the nice thing to do is to get over as soon as you can.

But when traffic is heavy, it’s really not. Getting over early just means you’re extending the inevitable back-up another notch or two down the road, pushing congestion into other intersections and blocking traffic that would otherwise be able to self-negotiate its way through the still-available lanes.

Don’t believe us? Check out this video.

So re-frame! Put those neighborly instincts to work and embrace The Zipper Merge! Just ’cause it’s new to you doesn’t make it wrong. Like sushi?