LITTLE GEMS

Streaming toward a very large waterfall.
What’s up ahead, when it comes to the viewership experience, and result, of television, becoming a streaming venue.  Goodbye networks, free television, and even cable.  Whereas all television was run from advertisement revenue for so many years, the incursion of cable, and a set monthly charge for it (in order to ‘temporarily’ have shows without the annoying intrusion of advertisements), changed everything.  Now, free television broadcasts are all but a faded memory.  Cable skyrocketed prices and then started adding advertisements on top of programming.  Then came streaming.  Now, to have the ‘streamers’ everyone has to pay the particular owner a monthly charge to see material owned by that streamer.

So, here we have Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, Peacock, IMDb, HBO Max and so many more.  It is very easy to end up paying hundreds of dollars a month for all these different services, plus be caught in the trap of regular monthly withdrawals from your checking account, or credit card that you cannot stop without canceling the account or card.  Only the streamers can stop withdrawing from your account, not the bank and not you, and yes that is by law (however rotten, awful, and unfair).  And no, you cannot simply download the material as some people think.  Those ‘holes’ in the system are being totally and quite legally blocked.  This explosive transition to ‘pay as you go’ streaming is going to have tremendously negative effects on the watching public, but this seems in keeping with the times today.

There’s a great new restaurant that opened on Valentine’s Day in Williams Bay called the Bay Cooks.
With breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, there’s sure to be a tasty new dish or two there to make any customer happy. Guests can choose from a variety of food; from authentic Mexican, burgers, wings, to breakfast and fish fries. This new Mexican American restaurant is located in the previous location of the La Fiesta Mexican Restaurant on Walworth Avenue. The cooks (owners) are excited to share specialty breakfast items, including Swedish pancakes. The chefs learned how to make them while they were working at Scuttlebutts in Lake Geneva, which is now Oak Fire.

Once the restaurant has been established, and more employees come aboard the owners; Juan and Antonia Basurto of Lake Geneva, would like to venture into catering and sharing their homemade dishes with more people. Juan and Antonia have worked as cooks in area restaurants for the past seven years and know what the local communities and visitors alike are looking for in a good home-cooked meal. Their dishes will not disappoint.