I’m a pretty bright guy most of the time, but • Why can’t young people today realize when there are a few things I just can’t figure out. a crappy song is a remake of a once great song So I figured maybe you can help. Here goes. or a junk movie was once a great movie. I’m (Bryce is grumpy.) not too old, but, still, I have a strong knowl- edge of the music, movies and cultural high- I don’t understand... lights of my parents era. Why can’t teenagers (Don’t get mad, my well-cultured teenage • Why is it that I can have three toppings on my friend, I’m not talking about you) pay enough pizza for a special price but I can’t have one attention to the culture of 20 years ago to un- topping on one side and four on the other? In derstand that and all the abominations of Jes- the end, I’m sacrificing 1 topping there, man! sica Simpson and every other pop wannabe One and four equals five, not six, but the rocket were once other people’s good ideas. And scientist at the pizza place couldn’t seem to see movies like Shrek are ten times funnier if you it that way. More than three toppings on one know the original cultural events all the jokes side of the pizza set something in his world are referencing. Those who ignore the past out of balance and he could not compute the are doomed to repeat it. (Did someone say math. There was no friggin’ way I was getting Pussycat Dolls?) Oh, and on that front... one more topping on that side of the pizza, but I was welcome to have two more on the other. • Why on earth would you ever remake a song That’s customer service excellence. Speaking if you have no intention of changing it in any of that... measurable way from the original. I know, I know, CASH! Worse yet, why does every pop- • Why do all customer service representative ular rock or R&B ballad that comes out get automatically assume you are a complete remade, not eventually but within the month idiot even if you tell them you’re practical- (before the body is even cold), as a country ly an expert in the subject you are calling version by some rising star hack? What, coun- about. Our editor Tim called Apple because try fans can’t cross-over? Bull! I think it’s a his laptop monitor was cracked, apparently case of people being spoon-fed whatever the by overheating. (That’s seriously what Apple entertainment execs hink they need and not told him.) The guy suggested first that Tim try realizing they’re eating dung. How else do to restart his computer. You should see all the you account for the existence of Urkel and the colors TIm can turn in his face when he’s, Olsen Twins? The whole late ‘90s TGIF line-up shall we say, off-put. Same goes for the pizza for that matter. I’m not saying you can never guy who can’t fathom four toppings. Here’s a remake something. But it better be unique and tip for him: If I give you specific directions to it better not be the song you get famous from. our office, it’s because your drivers can never find it. I’m doing this FOR YOU! So don’t • Why don’t all the rich rock stars who claim blow me off or I’m telling the driver (when to hate Tickemaster as much as I do pool their he calls from the car, completely lost) that resources to fund a competing service to put you were given detailed instructions and he those greedy jerks out of business and put the should call you back and ask. I don’t need hundreds of millions of dollars of profit into a the pizza that bad. cause? Oh, how they love their causes.
• Why is there Braille on drive up ATMs? • Why is Nickeback famous? Seriously. Shame on someone! • Why can people park in front of my house on without a residential parking permit every • Why does my editor Tim keep defending the Wednesday for six years and never get a tick- Bears’ Rex Grossman? He’s the worst quar- et, but a friend parks there for five minutes on terback since George Plimpton. I saw better a Tuesday night and gets a $7 ticket? You don’t football from Laura Ingalls in an episode of suppose it has anything to do with the fact Little House on the Prairie where they invent- that there’s mass going on across the street ed the forward pass by throwning a blind kid on Wednesdays? I guess it’s the work of God over the defense to score a touchdown. (Seri- and I shouldn’t question it. Perhaps I should ously... look it up.) Not that Griese’s any bet- find out where exactly in the city code it says ter. But the lesser of two turds is still a turd. that all parking restrictions are lifted for God. Or perhaps I should save their tickets and put I got more, but I’m out of space, so I’ll let them on other cars on Wednesday. I imagine them brew inside me until I can’t take it any- God will sort it out. more. Then you’ll get part 2. The 365ink crew... faces you already know!
Tim Brechlin Mike Ironside Tanya Graves Ellen Goodmann Kelli Kerrigan Ralph Kluseman Gary Olsen Matt Booth L.A. Hammer Chris Wand Pam Kress-Dunn Joey Wallis ISSUE # 40 In this Issue of 365ink... OCTOBER 4 - 17 Upstart Crow’s New Show: 4 Community Events: 5 - 6 Haunted Forest : 6
VOICES Closing Party: 7 Cover Story: Abdul & Rafic Sinno, River Panoramas: 8-9
Micheal Gulezian @ CFA: 10 Fly By Night Birthday: 11 Pepper Sprout...YUM!: 12-13
Festival Trio: 14-15 Live Music Listings: 16-17 Wando’s Movie Reviews: 18
ZZ Top: 19 Mayor Roy Buol: 20
Giving Voice: Pam Kress-Dunn: 21 Bob’s Book Reviews: 22 Mattitude: 23
4 Feature Events to Enjoy: 24 Eating Healthy: 25 The A Factor: 26
Crossword / Sudoku: 27 Trixie Kitsch: 28 Dr. Skrap’s Horoscopes: 28
20 Dirty Hands: 29 Comedy: 30 Art on the River II: 31
The Inkwell ) [email protected]) Publisher: Bryce [email protected] ( ) 563-451-9365 Tim Brechlin ( [email protected]) Editor: Kelli Kerrigan ( Advertising: [email protected] Tanya Graves ( Ad Design: : Mike Ironside, Joey Wallis, Ron TIgges, Bryce Parks Photography Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin, Ellen Goodmann, Writers & Content: Bryce Parks, L.A. Hammer, Chris Wand, Mayor Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Robert Gelms, Angela Koppes, Bryce Pam Parks, Kress-Dunn Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin Graphic Design & Layout: Jim Heckmann, Bob & Fran Parks, Kay Kluseman, Special thank you to: Dave Blake, Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Bob Johnson, Todd Locher, Castaneda, Tom Miller, Renae Gabrielson, Christy Monk, Katy Brechlin, Ron & Jennifer Tigges and all the 365 friends and advertisers for all ,your IA, support.52001 You are all 365. , Dubuque West 1st Street (563) 588-4365 Dubuque365 • 210 Office Phone or Music/Events/Movie Hotline 365 @ All contents (c) 2007, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved.
We’ve hidden 365’s WANDO somewhere in this issue of Dubuque365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? Hint: He’s tiny and could be anywhere ! Good Luck! Win- ners get a free warm fuzzy felling in your belly! Roy Buol Ron Tigges Robert Gelms Brad Parks Angela Koppes Bryce Parks DARKENSS THERE AND NOTHING MORE.... 4 OCTOBER 4-17
paintings. Inspired when he was in el- ementary school by his Uncle George, a Chicago Symphony violinist and amateur landscape painter, Anderson inherited his uncle’s paint box when he was twelve. A stint in the Air Force only delayed him from diving headlong into his true passion for painting. Now his original paintings and limited edition prints belong to collections throughout the US, Canada, and Norway.
Jim Ehlinger & Arthur Anderson Opening Reception Friday, October 19
Just in time for autumn, Upstart Crow Fine Art hosts a special exhibition featur- ing two Midwestern artists. Wisconsin painter Arthur Anderson will exhibit orig- inal wildlife paintings and prints, while Dubuque artist Jim Ehlinger will show a series of metal sculptures. An opening re- ception providing guests a chance to meet the artists is scheduled for Friday, October 19, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Upstart Crow Fine Art is located on the first floor of the Platinum Building at 137 Main Street.
Dubuque artist Jim Ehlinger has al- ways been a creative individual. He reports that during his thirty-seven year career as a maintenance welder at the John Deere factory in Dubuque, he created “many imaginative tools, vessels, carts and myriad other ac- coutrements for manufacturing,” but his creative impulses also manifested themselves in paintings, drawings, cartoons, and hand-lettered signs for friends and family over the years. His growing interest in art led him to class- es at Clarke and Loras College, where he received a BA in art in 1996. need to remember, imagine and record, Ford Smith and Nigerian by way of At- which gave rise to writing and numbers, lanta painter (Onyeka) Ibe. The gallery Being a welder, Ehlinger’s experience was first expressed through art,” he ex- also represents local artist Tom Metcalf seemed to lead him naturally to metal pressed in an artist statement for the li- whose original paintings sculpture. Crafted from thin sheets of brary show. “Prehistoric cave drawings and prints from his Zo- steel and copper, which he bends and existed before alphabets and ciphers diac series are avail- shapes by hand, his work includes both were invented. Art was no mere inven- able. For more representational and abstract forms. He tion, but the spontaneous expression information, A celebrated wildlife artist, Arthur An- sometimes uses an acetylene torch to flame of our need to remember and imagine. call 563- derson has won numerous awards for his colors into the metal, finishing the work Artists express and record emotion, 582-7778. work. Specializing in aviary work, espe- with a urethane or clear powder coat. A re- imagination and ideas; make visible cially waterfowl, Anderson’s work has been cent work, “Rio Corriente,” which was cho- that which is invisible.” featured on stamps and prints for a range sen for the City’s Art on the River program is of wildlife organizations, including Ducks finished with an etched wave pattern giving The Anderson / Ehlinger exhibit is rep- Unlimited and Pheasants Forever. One of the surface an iridescent, reflective sheen. resentative of Upstart Crow’s expanding his paintings was chosen for the Federal In addition to the Art on the River piece, focus on local and regional artists. Cre- Duck Stamp for the 1987/88 season. Ehlinger has shown work at the Dubuque ated by owner Tracey Briggs, the 2,700- Museum of Art and last month exhibited as square-foot fine art gallery and frame Working from sketches he makes along half of a two-person show at the Carnegie- shop opened last fall representing the bluffs and river marshes near his home Stout Public Library. work by nationally known artists of Onalaska, Wisconsin by the Mississip- previously unavailable in the pi River near La Crosse, Anderson crafts Ehlinger is a strong believer in the pow- area like glass artist Charles his detailed and highly accurate wildlife er and importance of art. “The human Lotton, Atlanta-based painter IF I’M A LAZY STORE OWNER, IS THAT NEUTRAL CAPITALISM? 5 OCTOBER 4-17
Art@Your Library October Exhibit: UPCOMING EVENT SUMMARY Donna Gibson and Alda Kaufman Art on the River Opening Reception, Friday, Oct. 5 Opening Oct. 4, Port of Dubuque (Details on page 31) was visiting this country, to O’Connor’s brand new The Carnegie-Stout Public Library wraps up the year-long “American Symphony,” based on his familiar “Appa- celebration of the arts known as “A year of Art@your li- And Flights of Angels lachia Waltz,” to O’Connor’s virtuosic playing, this brary” with the final exhibition in the series on display for October 4-6, Clarke College (Details on page 24) concert has something for everyone! Visit Dubuque- the month of October featuring Donna Gibson and Alda Symphony.com for more details and tickets. Kaufman. An opening reception, providing an opportu- Border to Border Mississippi Photo Exhibit nity to meet the artists will be held in the Library’s historic Now - October, 31, Clarke College (Detaails on page 8) Rotunda, Friday, October 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The opening reception is free Danny Glover & Felix Justice Art @ Your Library and open to the public. The 10th Annual Mackin-Mailander Lecture Series at Friday, October 5, Carnegie Stout (Details on this page) Clarke College will feature “A Conversation with Dan- ny Glover, Moderated by Felix Justice” on Tuesday, Oct. Tri-State’s Largest Chili Cook-Off 9, in the Robert and Ruth Kehl Center on the Clarke Saturday, October 6, Cable Car Square (Details on page 15) campus. In discussing the importance of arts in educa- Voices From the Warehouse District Closing Party tion, Glover and Justice examine the intersections of The Library’s gallery October 6, Voices Wartehouse (Details on page 7) area on the second art, culture and activ- floor will serve as the exhibition space. Guests are ism. Using examples Shullsburg Cheesefest encouraged to enter the library through the library’s from their lives and Saturday, October 6, Shullsburg WI (Details on page 14) historic front doors, though for the disabled is avail- some of the great works able through regular library doors. For more informa- of literature, both men Symphony Classics Concert 1 tion, call the Library at 589-4225, option 7. bring to life their devo- October 6-7, Five Flags Theater tion to the education of young people and the Galena Country Fair inspiration of the next October 6-7, Grant Park, Galena, Ill (Details, page 14) Classical generation of leaders in Madness the world. A Conversation with Danny Glover & Felix Justice Classical Madness is October 9, Clarke College (Details on this page) a year-long vote for Natural Capitalism the favorite classi- Natural capitalism ... what’s that? Tuesday, October 9, Loras College (Details on this page) cal music selections of Find out for yourselves on October 9, as the Dubuque Tri-State music lovers. League of Women Voters presents an informational Writers Guild A field of 64 nominees seminar on the concept of natural capitalism. William October 10, Isabella’s (Details on page 24) has been selected by a panel Stigliani, Ph.D., will be the featured speaker as he in- of musical experts, broken down into four brack- troduces business leaders, manufacturers and the gen- Who’s In Bed With The Butler ets: Overtures, symphonies, concertos and the wild eral public to these ideas. There will be two programs: Begins October 12, Grand Opera House (Details, p. 24) cards (miscellaneous). And beginning on October 6, A noon luncheon at the Loras College Alumni Center, through online voting, Beethoven will engage in mor- and a 7 p.m. presentation in the main theater of the Fly By Night Radio Live tal combat with Shotakovich, Brahms and more, as National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. To October 12, (Five Flags Bijou Room (Details on page 11) the field is whittled down a la March Madness. make a reservation for the noon luncheon, contact Judy Curtis by calling 563-582-1909. Reservations are 20 Dirty Hands Pottery Studion Tour The start of voting coincides with the Symphony’s not required for the evening event. October 12 -14 (Details on page 29) Classics Concerts 1, on October 6 and 7. The Field of 32 will be announced alongside Classics Concerts 2 Harvest Day on November 10 and 11, followed by the Sweet Six- October 13, Mathias Ham House (Details on page 6) teen / Classics 3 on February 2 and 3, 2008. Classics 4 Hope House.... Pizza? On Tuesday, October 9, 2007, Cafe Manna Java will on March 1 and 2, 2008, will bring out the Elite Eight, be hosting a fund raiser for the Hope House Catholic Michael Gulezian Live to be then pared down to the Final Four on March 19, Worker. From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. CMJ will be collecting October 17, UPW Center for the Arts (Details on page 10) 2008. The Tri-State area’s favorite classical music se- charitable donations for the organization at the cafe. lection will then be announced on April 16, 2008. 20% of all the pizza sales from that day will also be do- Jim Ehlinger, Arthur Anderson Exhibit Opening nated. For 11 years, Hope House has existed as a house October 19, Upstart Crow Gallery (Details on page 4) Later in the year, two free concerts will be held at the of hospitality in downtown Dubuque for the poor and Five Flags Theater will comprise the winning selec- homeless. Please mark your calendars to come out and “Anger Mgmnt. Like You Have Never Experienced” tions from each of the four brackets as part of the cel- share a pizza with friends. Your kindness and goodwill October 20, Shalom Retreat Center (Details on page 24) ebration of the beginning of the 50th anniversary sea- can make a difference in someones life today. son of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, 2008 - 09. ZZ Top in Concert To vote for Classical Madness, go to the Symphony’s October 23, Five Flags Center (Details on page 19) Web site at www.dubuquesymphony.org. Over the Hedge Dubuque Jayvees Haunted Forest On Saturday, October 27, the film October 18 - 30 (Details on page6) Over the Hedge will be played at two showings, 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. ... for Dvorak’s “New World” Over the Hedge only 92 cents per person! All admission Join Mark O’Connor, violinist extraordinaire, and the Saturday, October 27, Star Cinemas (Details on this page) DSO for an evening of music that celebrates America proceeds will go to fund Dubuque Com- munity Ice and Recreation, Inc. Doors on Saturday, October 6, 7:30 p.m., or Sunday, Oc- Broadway’s Peter Pan Musical! open at 8:30 a.m for the early show and tober 7, 2 p.m. at Five Flags Theater. From Dvorak’s Sunday, October 28, Five Flags Theater (Ad on page 11) “New World Symphony,” written while the composer 10 a.m. for the later edition. I HAVEN’T BEEN THAT SCARED SINCE BRITNEY SPEARS AT THE VMAS 6 OCTOBER 4-17
activities will include pumpkin painting, apple bobbing, gunny sack races, hoops, DUBUQUE JAYCEES graces and kids’ games outside. Hot dogs, apple cider and other scrumptious snacks will be available throughout the day. Live HAUNTED music will be on hand, as well. FOREST In conjunction with Harvest Day, the His- As sure as cool fall weather and the torical Society will be hosting a benefit changing of the leaves comes another walk, “A Walk Through History: Preserv- frightful journey into darkened woods This year’s Haunted Forest runs Oc- ing Yesterday’s History for Tomorrow’s of Union Park. That can mean only one tober 18,19, 20, 25, 26, and 27 with Children.” thing ... the Dubuque Jaycees Haunted HARVEST DAY a rain date set for October 29 if they Forest is back. Located at the YMCA The Ham House Harvest Day, the annual lose a night to weather. And look out Registration will begin at 7 a.m. at the Camp at 5000 JFK Road, the park is ac- fall festival hosted at the Mathias Ham for Super Freak Night on October 30. Ham House, and walkers will move from tually built in the hills aside the fateful House by the Dubuque County Histori- Stat tuned to Dubuque365.com and the Ham House to the Ryan House, the Union Park on Dubuque’s north end. cal Society, is right around the corner! the October 18th issue of 365ink for Visitors can experience how early Dubu- Old Jail, the River Museum and then back to the Ham House for a boxed lunch. Ear- The setting among the creaking trees, much much more on Super Freak Night quers prepared for winter on Saturday, and all things Haunted Forest. October 13, from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. ly registration is $35 or a minimum of $50 rustling leaves and long shadows is per- in donation pledges and must be turned frect for a good scare and the Jaycees Light Fright, a less scary experience The exhibit will feature costumed interpret- in by October 8; registration after that are certainly the experts in that field, for the little tykes opens up each night ers, who will illustrate how the Ham fam- date is $40 / $55 minimum in pledges. having done this job for decades in our from 6:30 - 7 p.m. Then the real haunt- ily prepared for harsh Iowa winters, and Walkers who raise $100 or more in dona- community. The forest is especially close ing goes until 10 p.m. nightly. Admis- visitors can experience living-history edu- tions will then be eligible for prize draw- to our hearts at 365. As Jaycees, 365’s sion for Light Fright is $7 and includes cational stations including candle-making, ings! Registration information is available Bryce Parks, Brad Parks and Chris Wand one parent and one child. Regular ad- corn grinding, spinning, rug hooking and at the River Museum’s box office and on chaired the event for about a decade all mission is $7 for everybody. Proceeds, a laundry setup. The “At the Lead Mines” the Web site at www.rivermuseum.com. put together. So we know just how much as always, benefit the many cultural living history exhibit will also be open work the Jaycees put into scaring the liv- and charitable projects of the Jaycees for visitors to see how an early Dubuque Admission to the Harvest Day at the Ham ing daylights out of you, and, of course, and the YMCA Camp. lead miner lived and worked. Visitors will House is by donation, and free to mem- we have years of experience seeing how meet a historic lead miner and learn how bers of the Historical Society. For more much joy, be it in laughs or tortured So get ready to get your freak on, and he made a living off of the mine. Other information, call 563-557-9545. screams, that you get out of it. leave the flashlight at home you sissy!
6. Which member of ZZ Top does not sport a beard? A. Billy Gibbons B. Frank Beard Answers on page 28 C. Dusty Hill 1. Which is not a panoramic 7. How many dirty hands are actually photography method? involved in this year’s 20 Dirty Hands pottery studio tour? Finish reading the A. Segmented B. Swivel paper and you’ll know! C. Full rotation D. Fixed Lens A. 10 B. 14 C. 20 D. 30 2. Truly panoramic images are thought to capture a field of view comparable 8. How many of the seven Art of the to, or greater than, that of the human River featured sculptures are actually eye. About what is that range? located at the river’s edge, that is, along the river walk? Take someone special A. 100° by 45° B. 130° by 60° for a walk and find out! C. 160° by 75° D. 190° by 100° A. 1 B. 2 C. 5 D. 7 3. What did Mathias Ham (You know, the Ham House guy) NOT do for a living? 9. Why did the scorpion kill the frog. Mattitude knoweth the answer? A. Shipping Tycoon B. Coal Baron C. Pork Plutocrat D. Mining Magnate A. That’s what scorpios do. B. The frog wasn’t swimming fast enough. 4. What distinction does the log cabin C. The frog criticized the size of his stinger. behind the Ham House hold? D. It was an accident. A. Treaty with Fox Indians signed inside. 10. What tragedy befell Union Park, the B. It is the oldest building in Iowa. site of the Jaycees Haunted Forest, on C. Mathias Ham was born in that cabin. July 9, 1919? D. Jerry Enzler was born in that cabin. A. A fire burned the park to the ground. B. A flash flood destroyed the park 5. What city is featured in the photo killing five people. spanning the top of pages 8 and 9? C. The park was sold to Wal-Mart. A. Bellevue B. Dubuque D. The roller coaster left the tracks, C. Guttenberg D. McGregor killing 4 passengers. PLEASE LORD, MAKE THE VOICES STOP... OH, THANK YOU! 7 OCTOBER 4-17
Well, if you have not yet been jazz and old time music when other kids request from would-be female vocalists a witness to any of these were into *NSYNC and other formulaic (as any performing musician knows). events, or if you made it to pop music. I still can’t sing that stuff if the opening but have not re- my life depended on it, but I can sing Roche waited as the band, dazed and turned to see the art (as many rock and roll and reggae.” bleary-eyed, slogged through umpteen ren- professed, the opening being ditions of the song with a range of vocalists quite the social event), you from fair to pretty good. When all other owe it to yourself to make at contenders had made their attempt up Jop- least one more trip down to lin mountain, Roche stepped up to the mic 10th and Jackson Streets to for the final performance of the evening take in the Voices exhibit. and although I had heard that song more While the gallery is open times than I needed to in one lifetime even on Saturday and Sunday before the contest started, her voice gave from 1 to 5 p.m. through me chills and made me cry (just a little) by Sunday, October 7, I suggest you make the time she was done. She confesses that plans to attend the Closing Party, Saturday, “Bobby McGee” is the first song she ever VOICES Closing Party October 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. sang onstage with a band – having been prompted by Denny Garcia years earlier at Saturday, October 6 In addition to being a celebration of the Confident in her singing abilities, Roche the Great River Road House in Balltown experimented with a variety of bands at – and after winning the Busted Lift contest by Mike Ironside month-long art exhibit, the closing party will feature a special performance by Iowa the University of Iowa, writing her own has not sung the song since. music to complement her voice. Her love What a month! Voices From The Ware- City reggae band The Broke Out Steppers. Shouldn’t be an issue as The Broke Out house 3, the popular off-site exhibition by The band features Dubuque native Katie of jazz and hip-hop led her to New York where she worked as a singer in a variety Steppers perform a mix of original and the Dubuque Museum of Art, proved to Roche fronting the band with a power- old school reggae. A six-piece band that be another smashing success for the arts, ful, smoky voice that apparently has not of capacities, from singing in a commer- cial for a bank to the dream-fulfilling mo- formed last summer out of the rich melt- the community, and guest curator Gene always received rave reviews. “Even as a ing pot of Iowa City music scenesters, Tully. The September 8 opening recep- little girl, I had a voice that sounded like ment of singing with The Violent Femmes, until she moved back to Iowa. The Broke Out Steppers will be bringing tion welcomed over 600 people to the I’d been drinking and smoking my whole the dance music to make the party. Even 10,000-square-foot warehouse gallery life,” Roche relates in a press release for Aside from listening to The Broke Out high school chorus directors are invited. space with a variety of arts and commu- the event. Despite being a lifelong lover Steppers online, my experience of hear- nity-related events occurring in the ware- of singing, through high school she could ing Roche’s rich and powerful voice In addition to the closing party, the Voices house throughout the month. While I was not seem to qualify for any voice-related came a few years back when she was warehouse gallery will be open for last- not able to make it to all of the events, I activities. Apparently her deep, raspy voice in town for the holidays and the Busted chance viewing free to the public from 1 particularly enjoyed the performance by did not suit the chorus director’s ideal as he Lift happened to be hosting a “Bobby to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, October 6 the Occidental Brothers, who made the asked Roche to stop auditioning by her ju- McGee-off,” a contest to sing the Kris and 7. Voices From the Warehouse Dis- trip from The Windy City with the Chi- nior year, explaining that she couldn’t sing. Kristofferson song made popular by Ja- trict 3 is presented by the Dubuque Muse- cago Short Film Brigade, and Dubuque’s nis Joplin. The competition was a way for um of Art and sponsored by Premier Bank, own Lucho Rey y Su Salsera, who pro- “I suppose I should have been devas- Wednesday night open mic stalwarts The The Iowa Arts Council, Wilmac Property vided their own stirring performance for tated, but I knew he was wrong,” Roche Dert Tones to put the song to rest, as “Me Company, Mission Creative and Francis the Dubuque Jaycees young profession- said. “I loved singing too much to let one and Bobby McGee” is a far-too-common Henkels Attorney. For more information, als social co-sponsored by 365. kind of music turn me from it. I loved visit www.voiceswarehousegallery.com. ABDUL SINNO’S GOT MORE GADGERTS THAN GARY OLSEN AND RON TIGGES COMBINED 8 OCTOBER 4-17
by Tim Brechlin and a photography project like this was at the Gulf of Mexico, where the river “Hannibal is Mark Twain’s hometown,” only natural. pours out into the ocean. explains Rafic. “And from looking at Here at 365, we love the Mississippi the water there, it’s no wonder he was River. One of the most popular issues “My family and I moved to the United The shoot down south was completed inspired.” in 365ink’s history was the one with the States from Lebanon in 1989, but long in November of 2006. After document- cover story about leisure boating on the before that I had been intrigued by the ing New Orleans, including a striking Heck, the entire collection here is Mississippi. Obviously, we’re not the Mississippi,” he says. “I heard so much day / night pair of images from nearly inspiring. only ones who are big fans of the river; about it before I was able to see it. In the same angle, the Sinnos then moved people boat on it, they fish on it, they grade school, I was the only one who on to Venice, Louisiana, the last spot “There are elements within these live on it ... many of them on the river reachable by car. pictures that resonate to the viewer,” photograph it. The community is beginning to says Abdul. “The best pictures are the rebuild itself after the devasta- ones that come from the photographer’s Abdul Sinno and his son Raf- tion of Hurricane Katrina, and heart and then communicate with the ic decided to take it one step the Sinnos’ photographs illus- reader. We believe that these are those further. Actually, they wound trate the spirit that still lives on kinds of images.” up taking several steps. Long- there. But they weren’t done. time panoramic photographers Of course, a collection of images of the Tri-State area already, the “I really, really wanted to make from the Mississippi wouldn’t be Sinnos decided to apply their it all the way to the Gulf,” says complete without a look at our home considerable talent to the entire Rafic. “But the mouth of the river here in Dubuque, and as you can see Mississippi, from start to finish. is at Pilottown, which is only ac- from these pages, the Masterpiece on cessible by water or air.” the Mississippi’s downtown district, “We’ve been taking panora- from 1st through 8th Streets has been mas of the Mississippi for quite Thankfully for them (and for us captured brilliantly by the lenses of some time,” says Abdul, Chair — we get to see the photos!), a Abdul and Rafic. When I first saw it, I of the Communication Depart- nearby couple heard the Sinnos actually gasped -- I was able to see 365 ment at Clarke College. “They discussing the Gulf, and then World Headquarters on it! are a great opportunity to get a called a boat captain friend of fresh perspective of something theirs who had just enough time “We’ve been seeing that a lot, actually,” that is in your backyard, but you in his schedule to ferry Abdul says Abdul. “People see a picture don’t really see it sometimes. and Rafic to the Gulf for some and they gasp, and they say, ‘Oh, my About five years ago, we began beautiful sunset imagery. And goodness, I’ve never seen it that way traveling.” the results, well, they’re on the before.’ This is the beauty of panoramas: wall at Clarke, along with im- They are how you actually see the river. The results of their travels are nothing could spell ‘Mississippi.’” ages of all points between Lake Itasca If the photographer gasps, the viewer short of breathtaking, and they are on and the Gulf of Mexico. will gasp, and it’s genuine.” display as Border to Border: A Journey The collection begins with a sunset of the Mississippi, in the Atrium Con- at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, where it’s “It was fitting that our collection began And just as the reactions are genuine, ference Room at Clarke College from amazing to see the humble beginnings with a sunset and it ended with a sun- so too are the pictures. Taken with now until October 31. of the mighty Mississippi. In some set,” says Abdul. digital cameras of many shapes, sizes spots, it seems no wider than a creek! and lenses, the images were imported, Abdul, who last year published the The Sinnos then take us through all 10 Notable images to this writer include a color corrected and printed. No crazy book Treasures of the Mississippi, a states touched by the old man river, summer / winter pairing of images from Photoshopshoppery here — as Abdul collection of panoramas of the Tri-State with some truly unique images that Trempealeau, Wisconsin, and a shot of says, “If the river was muddy, the area, has long been a man of the water, are at once unforgettable. It culminates Hannibal, Missouri. picture is muddy.” 9
All of the production on this collection All in all, an astounding amount of it alone. It’s much better if it’s shared. ing opportunity to see some of the most was done in-house by the Sinno family, work went into this collection, and These photographs are the same way. beautiful places in America. with giclées printed on canvas. Abdul is quick to thank the Clarke The collection here is just a small College Art Department for hosting the fraction of what we have, and they are “This has been a wonderful home for “Most exhibits like this would use a exhibit. He’s equally quick to show better photographs for having been me and for my family,” says Abdul. “It is glass frame, and I did not want to do endless enthusiasm for the work that he shared.” the least we can do for Dubuque.” that,” says Rafic. “We specifically and his son have done. chose to use canvas, because we feel it I cannot emphasize enough how At the end of the exhibition, the brings the viewer closer to the finished “At home, we love to cook,” he begins. breathtaking the panoramas are, and photos will go to the BRIO Gallery in product. With glass frames, there’s a “No matter how well you prepare a with a whole month, there’s no excuse Galena where they can be purchased barrier. That’s not what we wanted.” meal, it’s not as good if you’re enjoying to miss out on them. This is an outstand- ... by you! IN A PLATTEVILLE BATTLE BETWEEN UNO’S AND STEVE’S PIZZ A... WE ALL WIN! 10 OCTOBER 4-17
bum drew comparisons to the renowned events can be found at http://uwplatt. Leo Kottke, and it’s been clear skies ever edu/arts/cfa. If you’d like to preview since. He manages his own label and Gulezian’s music, visit his Web site tours almost non-stop, and in-be- at www.timbrelinemusic.com. Once tween he hosts guitar workshops and you do, you’re going to be running full master classes. And he’s a Cubs fan, speed to get a ticket for this show. He which means that when he rolls into sounds that good! In the next installment of its Performing town he should be in a good mood, as- Arts Series, the University of Wisconsin suming they’re still in the playoffs! - Platteville is welcoming acoustic guitar virtuoso Mi- Tickets for Gulezian’s concert chael Gulezian on October are $6 for general admission 17 at 7:30 p.m. and $2 for UW-P students (with current ID). A pre-show discus- Gulezian is a highly ac- sion is planned with Gulezian claimed solo instrumental- at 6:30 p.m. in the CFA. ist, firmly established as one of the most significant Tickets are available through artists in the solo acoustic the University Box Office in the instrumental guitar genre. With more Center for the Arts. The University Box than 25 years as a composer and per- Office is open Monday through Friday, former under his belt, he had carved 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and can be reached out a reputation for intensity, nuance, by calling 608-342-1298. The Univer- energy and emotion. Drawing musical sity Box Office is located in the lobby inspiration from Armenian folk songs of the Center for the Arts on University (his mother sang them), Ravi Shankar, of Wisconsin-Platteville campus on Gregorian chant, Zeppelin, the Stones, 700 West Main Street. Tickets are now Robert Johnson and many more, Gule- available online 24/7 at tickets.uwplatt. zian’s music carries a rock attitude with edu. More information on the Perform- a mystical, spiritual essence. His first al- ing Arts Series and other performance I WANT TO BE KING NOW NOT JUST ONE MORE PAWN - NEIL PEART 11 OCTOBER 4-17
Bad Religion • The Rave/Eagles Club, Milwaukee, WI • Sunday, October 7 Three Days Grace • MC Elroy Auditorium, Waterloo, IA • Tuesday, October 9 reeeeeeee screeching, “Hen- ! Hen- Peter Frampton • Potawatomi Bingo Casino, Milwaukee, WI • Thursday, October 11 Happy birthday, ry Al-drich!,” which introduced each episode. Henry Aldrich is your typical Elton John • i Wireless Center (The Mark), Moline, IL • Friday, October 12 FLY BY NIGHT! rambunctious youth, with crazy ideas, Rascal Flatts • Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Friday, October 12 a smart mouth and a propensity for Van Halen • Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Tuesday, October 16 Fly By Night Productions, Dubuque’s winding up in the principal’s office, Widesopread Panic • Stephens Auditorium, Ames, IA • Wednesday, October 17 own little off-Broadway theatre troupe, and he drives much of the amusement is celebrating its 25th birthday. 25 years in the show. The production of FBN- Blue Man Group • LaCrosse Center, LaCrosse, WI • Thursday, October 18 of theatre from these guys, can you Radio will feature the return of many Blue Man Group • i Wireless Center (The Mark), Moline, IL • Friday, October 19 believe it? long-time FBNP players bringing these Fall Out Boy • Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Friday, October 20 Formed in 1982 by Doug Donald and shows to life, so don’t miss it! Hanna Montana / Jonas Brothers • i Wireless Center, Moline, IL • Saturday, October 20 Lenore Howard (though back then it FBNRadio LIVE is a one-night-only Dierks Bentley • Mid America Center, Council Bluffs, IA • Saturday, October 20 was known as Fly By Night Theatrics), performance, beginning at 8 p.m. the group quickly became a purveyor Fall Out Boy • US Cellular Center, Cedar Rapids, IA • Saturday, October 21 in the Bijou Room of the Five Flags of unique theatrical experiences, stag- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band • United Center, Chicago, IL • Monday, October 22 Center. Tickets are $11, available at ing Jessie & the Bandit Queen at the the Five Flags box office or by calling ZZ Top • Five Flags Center, Dubuque, IA • Tuesday, October 23 Old Jail, using the Dubuque County 563-557-8497. For more information, Aerosmith • Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Monday, October 24 Hourthouse for In the Matter of Ralph, check out Fly By Night’s new Web site A Black Man, last year’s production of Sevendust • Orpheum Theater, Madison, WI • Wednesday, October 24 at www.flybynightdubuque.com. Cabaret at the Bijou Room, and more. Bob Dylan & Elvis Costello • Carver Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, IA • Wednesday, October 24 All in all, the group has staged 99 Fly By Night’s upcoming season will Sammy Hagar • i wireless (formerly the Mark), Moline, IL • Tuesday, October 30 shows (22 originals), 9 of which have also feature the comedy Lobster Alice Kelly Clarkson • The Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL • Thursday, November 1 gone on to tour, and has brought to- in January of 2008. The show will be The Wiggles • Hilton Coliseum, Iowa State Center, Ames, IA • Friday, November 2 gether more than 2000 Tri-State area directed by Lenore Howard and focus- John Melloncamp • Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI • Tuesday, November 6 volunteers. They’re one of the reasons es on coffee-bearing secretary Alice Dubuque has such a thriving fine arts Horowitz, who’s desperately seeking Modest Mouse • Orpheum Theater, Madison, WI • Saturday, November10 community, and now they’re inviting some excitement in her life. Salvador Carlos Mencia Live • Adler Theatre, Davenport, IA • Saturday, November 10 you to celebrate with them for the Dali himself arrives at Disney to begin Switchfoot & Reliant K • i Wireless Center (The mark), Moline, IL • Sunday, November 11 kick-off of the 2007-2008 season. working on a short animated film, and, Keith Urban• Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Friday, November 16 well, things definitely get mixed up a On Friday, October 12, Fly By Night Diamond Rio • Weill Center for the Performing Arts, Sheboygan, WI • Saturday, November 17 will host a production of FBNRadio bit! Auditions will be held on Monday, LIVE. Why radio? Why not! Let Fly October 15, and Tuesday, October 16, Fall Out Boy • US Cellular Center, Cedar Rapids, IA • Wednesday, November 21 By Night take you back to the 1940s, at 7 p.m. at the Julien Inn’s Crown Gal- as the FBN players stage two epi- lery. Roles are available for a female in sodes of two fantastic comedy radio her mid-20s / 30s, a male in his early shows, The Aldrich Family and The 20s and a male in his 30s / 40s. Great Gildersleeve. Also upcoming is the dark comedy Z The Great Gildersleeve was a popu- Bright Ideas in May and June. Bright ZTOP lar radio program that began in 1941, Ideas takes us to the lives of Genevra with Harold Peary portraying the title and Joshua Bradley, whose 3-year-old October 23, 7:30 PM TICKETS: $42.50 AND $48.50 character, Throckmorton P. Gilder- son is about to get into the Bright Ideas sleeve, who oversees his late sister’s Early Childhood Development Acade- Broadway’s Peter Pan Musical! estate and takes care of his orphaned my, which guarantees that life becomes October 28, 7:30p.m. Five Flags Theater niece and nephew while running a an easy ride from there. Only one thing girdle manufacturing company at the remains: A dinner party. Will it happen? Sesame Street LIVE! same time (later, he became the wa- Or will Josh and Gen fail to be success- “When Elmo Grows Up” ter commissioner of his town). The ful parents? Roles are available for 2 November 20 - 21 Aldrich Family was a popular teenage males of mixed ages and 3 females of On Sale Oct. 8, 10 a.m. sitcom that was on the airwaves from mixed ages. Auditions will be in March 1939 - 1953. You’ve probably heard of 2008, so stay tuned to 365ink for the show’s hallmark: Henry’s mother more as the time grows closer! FIGGY PIGGY! IS THAT LIKE FUNKY MONKEY? 12 OCTOBER 4-17
Fall (in love) Menu The Cornmeal Crusted Walleye, which is pan Tuesdays seared and served with a corn and shiitake ‘Round Midnight Jazz w/ Bill Encke - Isabella’s, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. by Mike Ironside Pub Quiz - The Busted Lift, 8 p.m. First 3 Tuesdays of the month. mushroom sauce on a fall rice blend, was Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. also very good, but my favorite was probably Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. (Note that we’re saving the sexy pictures of the Grilled Wild King Salmon, which is also DJ Music - Double J DJ’s, Rooster’s, Platteville, 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. food for the color page to the right!) served on the fall rice blend and topped with a green and black olive salsa that gives the Wednesdays If you are a devout reader of 365ink, well first Open Mic - Hosted by the Dert Tones, The Busted Lift, 9 p.m. - 1a.m. tender fatty fish (grilled nicely medium rare) Mississippi Band Duo - Galleria Lounge, Fountain Park, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. of all, bless you. But the point I was going to a salty, tangy kick. Live on Main Comedy - 2 great standups, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 11 p.m. make was that you might have noticed that 3100 Club Comedy - Midway Hotel, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 11 p.m. we don’t generally do restaurant reviews. As this was actually a photo shoot and not a Cigar Club, Bartinis, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. True, editor Tim Brechlin has written feature meal – at least in terms of its planning – we The Wundo Band - Pizzeria Uno Annex, Platteville, WI, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. stories on where to find some of his favorite WJOD Wild West Wed - (Country Dancing), Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. ended with an item from the appetizer menu Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Chicago-style hot dogs and pizzas, and we called Chef Kim’s Martini. It is a combination Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Denny’s Lux Club 8:30 p.m. -12:30 a.m. do generally keep you posted on new restau- of seafood – mussels, shrimp, and escargot, Karaoke - Borderline Karaoke, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. rant openings, but for the most part restau- served with the Chef’s choice of sauce in a Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. rant reviews are not my bag, baby. martini glass. Kim typically chooses between Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. three different options – pes- Thursdays And I’m not about to start to, curry, or a garlic-based Live Music - Robbie Bahr & Laura McDonald, Gobbies, Galena, 9 p.m. -1a.m. now, however … last week sauce. This one happened to Y-105 Party Zone - Dbq Co. Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. we stopped in at the Pep- be the latter and it was fabu- Open Mic - Grape Harbor, 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. per Sprout on Main Street to lous. Fans of the mussels Open Mic Showcase, Isabella’s 8 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. take some photos of a few Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. offered on previous menus Karaoke - Rocco - Riverboat Lounge, 8:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. items from Chef Kim Wolff’s should check this one out. Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Ground Round, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m. new Fall Menu for ads and For those afraid of escargot, Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Shannon’s Bar, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. whatnot. As is sometimes I say, “Fear not! For these Karaoke - Soundwave, Bulldog Billiards, 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. the case, we got to eat our snails are delicious,” and no Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. models (once we were sat- DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. shells to mess with. DJ Music - Double J DJ’s, Rooster’s, Platteville, 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. isfied we had photographed them appropriately), and let In fact, when my wife Julie Fridays me tell you, if you haven’t and I were discussing where Firewood Friday (3rd Friday’s) - Isabella’s Bar at the Ryan House, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. been to the Pepper Sprout in we might have dinner later Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. a while, it might be a good time to take your Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. that night, it was my description of Chef Kim’s Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. sweetie out for a romantic dinner. Martini that convinced her where we were Karaoke - Riverboat Lounge, 8:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. going. Though I was already in love with the Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Sublime, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. We chose food that would photograph well garlic sauce version, Kim convinced us to try Karaoke, Becky McMahon, 3rd Fridays, Kuepers - Dickeyville, WI, 9p.m but the side benefit was that everything tast- the curry style and it was equally good. Karaoke - C-N-T Entertainment, T.J’s Bent Prop, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. ed great. The Fall Vegetable Fettuccini, cho- Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Karaoke - Brian Leib’s Essential Entertainment, Aragon Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. sen for its confetti-like bright colors, was a We also tried the Fall Napoleon from the ap- DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. surprise. Roasted fall vegetables in a white petizer menu, which layers a flaky crust with DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. wine basil cream sauce and finished with pears, red onions, walnuts, and blue cheese, DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. parmesan was the perfect balance of rich DJ Music - Karaoke w/DJ 007, Riverboat Lounge, 9:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. and is served over a bed of greens with a and light. Devoted carnivore that he is, Tim balsamic vinegar reduction – sweet, savory, Saturdays noted that he usually insists on having some flaky, chunky, yummy goodness, but by now Live Comedy - Arthur House Restaurant, Platteville, 9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. kind of meat present in his food but admitted you could have guessed that. Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. this meatless dish was indeed delicious. Bluff Street Live Open Mic, Mississippi Mug, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Karaoke - Borderline Karaoke, Bricktown, 9p.m. - 1 a.m. While the menu of entrees offers a variety of Being carnivores ourselves (well omnivores Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. tempting options – the aforementioned lamb really, I mean, we’ll eat most anything), Karaoke - Riverboat Lounge, 8:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. chops, a grilled venison tenderloin with a Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Bryce (Parks, 365ink publisher), Tanya (our blackberry leek sauce, the “Figgy Piggy,” a Karaoke - Flyin Hawaiian, George & Dales, (East Dub.) 9p.m. - 1 a.m. design queen), Tim and I were salivating cinnamon honey marinated pork tenderloin Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. over the Grilled Lamb Chops – New Zealand Karaoke - Starburst Karaoke, w/Dave Winders, Instant Replay, 9 p.m.-1a.m. with a sweet spice port sauce and black mis- lamb chops grilled to perfection, served with DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. sion figs, not to mention the always perfect a grape and pinenut sauce over bourbon, DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. grilled bison or beef tenderloins – we were brown sugar smashed sweet potatoes. Alas, both captivated by the Elk Chops as neither Sundays it was not to be as Kim informed us that she of us had ever eaten elk before. Last year’s Open Mic with Sean Kramer (Mississippi Flat Miners), A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. grilled them so especially rare for the photo Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Knicker’s Saloon, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. variations on venison had convinced us that Karaoke - Phoenix Entertainment, The Hangout (East Dub.), 9 p.m. - 3 a.m. that they were all but raw inside. (What if we just gnaw on the outside?) Continued on the next page. ARE YOU GONNA EAT THAT LAST BITE YOU’RE ABOUT TO PUT IN YOUR MOUTH? 13 OCTOBER 4-17 game meats did not have to be “gamey,” especially in the hands of Chef Kim, but still we were curious. Served over bacon, cheddar, spinach smashed po- tatoes, the grilled elk chops (rare in our case) are served with a mushroom pep- percorn sauce. Reminiscent of lamb or venison but somehow a bit more robust, the elk was tender and juicy and perfect- ly paired with the sauce. We had ours with a couple glasses of hearty red wine (a cabernet and a shiraz, I think) which I highly recommend.
And we have but touched on a few of the highlight’s Chef Kim’s new Fall Menu at Pepper Sprout. I suggest you stop in soon and explore what the new season has to offer. I”VE BEEN EATING A LOT OF CHEESE... FEELING A LITTLE BOUND UP! 14
BIG OCTOBER 4-17 12:45 - 2 p.m., followed - 5 p.m.), and the gates will by the Rising Angels band close at 5 p.m. from 2 - 2:30 p.m. Then the Legends take over again, Add in farmers’ markets, rocking away from 2:30 - 5 fine arts, crafts, all that jazz p.m. The gates will close at ... plus a boatload of food of- 5 p.m., followed by a 5:30 ferings (funnel cakes!), and p.m church service. you can’t possibly go wrong in Jo Daviess County. 3FESTIVALSBIG On Sunday, the day will start off in much the same way as Saturday, with the Eu- But let’s say you’re more into the cheesy ropean breakfast from 8 - 10 a.m., gates side of life. Shullsburg will feel like home and live music at 10 a.m., so on and so to you on October 6, with its 10th An- 1 WEEKEND forth. On that day, Bryan Popp & the Riv- nual Cheesefest, taking place from 7 Whether you’re a little bit country, you’re er Divide, a new Tri-State country band, a.m. - 4 p.m. on Water Street. Beginning an avid aficionado of all things dairy or a will play from 10 a.m. - noon, and the with a breakfast from the fire depart- connoisseur of competitive chili action, Irish Dancers will once again do their ment and followed up by a 10K/5K run the weekend of October 6 has you to- thing from noon - 12:30 p.m. The Leg- / 1-mile walk, the grand opening of the tally covered. ends come back one more time, this Roelli Cheese Company’s new location, time for the a library book sale, cheese sculpting, a For the country-inclined in our reader- entire after- cheese baking contest, arts and crafts ship, head over to Galena on October noon (12:30 market, BB gun shoot, cheese curd eat- 6 & 7 for yet another annual Galena Country Fair, entertaining visitors for more than 25 years. The fair begins on Saturday, October 6, with the serving of a European breakfast at 8 a.m. The gates officially open at 10 a.m., and the blues stylings of Large Kat will be heard from then until noon, followed by a perfor- mance by the Claddagh Irish Dancers from noon - 12:30 p.m. After that, the Legends of Ol’ Time Rock & Roll will be- gin the first of two performances, offering their mix of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s from CHILI...FOOTBALL...BEER... WHAT DO YOU NEED, A FORMAL INVITATION? 15 OCTOBER 4-17
ing contest, Gravity p.m., and it will go until, from 11 a.m. to noon. Hill demonstrations, well, whenever the cooks Afterwards, the talented illusionist Cy Croth- run out of food! The Cable musicians of the Apple ers, Celtic band The Car Square association is Dumplin’ Gang will Stone Ring, and donating five pounds of perform their unique so much more ... beef for public tasting brand of rock and well, let’s just say to all cooks, with cooks soul for the assembled you couldn’t pos- encouraged to bring crowd, which promises sibly be bored if you were in Shulls- more. to be huge. burg on that Saturday. The Iowa Hawkeye foot- It’s Columbus Day Finally, October 6 is also the day of ball game will be shown Weekend. Three festi- the 14th Annual Tri-States’ Largest Chili on a big screen television vals. If you don’t make it Cook-Off, sponsored by the Diamond Jo during the afternoon, and to at least one of them, Casino. Running from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., the Dubuque Rhythm well ... that’s positively the cook-off allows anyone to join in the Cloggers will perform anti-Columbusian. festivities and show off their mad chili- cookin’ skills. There are a number of divi- for companies wishing to send a team, sions open for entry, ranging from the CASI and the Open division for any amateur (Chili Appreciation Society International) cooks wishing to put their favorite chili Division, with its strict regulations and out there for tasting. As always, a number near-religious dedication from its compet- of trophies and prizes will be out there itors, to the Business division, obviously for the taking. Entry fee is $20 for CASI, $15 for Open and Business. Also new this year is the Junior division, allowing kids 18 and under to throw their hats into the ring for only $10.
Bluff Street specialty food vendors will be on hand for the entire day, as will the reliable Dubuque Jaycees with their beer tent. KAT-FM will host a live remote from 10 a.m. to noon, as well. Oh, chili, you ask? The public tasting will begin at 1 Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6
Big Muddy Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM
Dave Richter & Friends Isabella’s, 8 PM - 12 AM Saturday, October 6
The Legends Galena Country Fair, 12:30 - 5 PM The Do-Overs Just Cuz Denny’s Lux Club, 9 PM - 1 AM Grand Harbor, 5:30 - 9:30 PM Sid V & the Human Resources Bill Encke & Pab Adams Softtails, 9 PM - 1 AM Captain Merry, 6 - 9 PM Massey Road Okham’s Razor Dino’s, 10:30 PM - 2:30 AM Eagle Ridge, 6 - 9 PM Sunday, October 7 Country Tradition Mooney Hollow Barn, 8 PM - 12 AM The River Divide 11 AM - 1 PM The Legends 12:30 - 5 PM Billy Leathem Galena Country Fair Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Thursday, Oct. 4 BadFish Roy Schroedl The Stellanovas New Diggings, 3:30 - 7:30 PM Isabella’s, 8 PM - 12 AM Saturday, Oct. 6 Billy Leathem Bill Encke & Ralph Kluseman Irish Cottage, 6 - 9 PM Pab Adams Grape Escape, 9 PM - 12 AM Open Mic @ A&B Tap Thursday, Oct. 18 with Sean Kramer & the Mississippi Radoslav Lorkovic Little Marsh Overflow / Grasshoppers Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Flat Miners, 8 PM -12 AM
Thursday, October 4 Friday, October 5 Julien’s Bluff The Dert Tones Pit Stop, 9 PM - 1 AM Sandy Hook, 8:30 PM - 12:30 PM Open Mic Night Billy Leathem Grape Harbor, 7:30 - 11:30 PM Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Mr. Obvious Tuesday, October 9 Red N Deb’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Nick Sticka The Derttones Jazz Jam with Bill & Pab Grand Harbor Resort, 7 PM - 9 PM Murph’s Supth End Tap, 9 PM - 1 AM The Rick Tittle Band Isabella’s, 8 PM - 11 PM Bronco Inn, 9 PM - 1 AM Roy Schroedl Superfly Samurai Wednesday, Oct. 10 Captain Merry, 6 - 9 PM Jumpers, 9 PM - 1:30 AM Ken Wheaton Grape Harbor, 9 PM - 12 AM Open Mic w/ the Dert Tones Billy Leathem John Statz Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Grape Harbor, 9 PM - 12 AM Tantrym Jumpers, 9 PM - 1 AM Live on Main Comedy Friday, October 5 Swing Crew Bricktown, 9 - 11 PM Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM LiviN’ Large Noonan’s North, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM Okham’s Razor The Wundo Band DRILL Perfect Pint, P-ville, 8 - 11 PM Pizzeria Uno, 8 PM - 12 AM Red N Deb’s, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM DRILL Doolittle’s, 10 PM - 2 AM Melanie Mausser Okham’s Razor Grape Escape, 8 - 11 PM UW-Platteville, 8 - 10:30 PM
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Open Mic Night Open Mic Night Grape Harbor, 7:30 - 11:30 PM Grape Harbor, 7:30 - 11:30 PM
Peter Yeates Nick Sticka Irish Cottage, 6 - 10 PM Grand Harbor Resort, 7 PM - 9 PM
Tony Walker Denny Garcia Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Da Vinci’s, 9 PM - 1 AM
BlackBloom Gerry O’Connell Da Vinci’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Pat McCurdy Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Casados & Jacob Tyler Wolfgang Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM The Dert Tones Friday, October 19 Gobbie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Friday, October 12 Artie & the Pink Catillacs 50-Pound Rooster DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM - 12 AM Andrew Calhoun Mooney Hollow Barn, 9 PM - 1 AM Gerry O’Connell Isabella’s, 9 - 11 PM James Kinds & the All-Night Riders Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Peter Yeates Da Vinci’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Okham’s Razor Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Jabberbox Grape Escape, 9 PM - 12 AM Horsin’ Around Band Ace’s Place, 9 PM - 1 AM Denny Garcia 3100 Club/Midway Hotel, 8 PM - 12 AM Horsin’ Around Band Copper Kettle, 9 PM - 1 AM Tribe of Two Jumpers, 9 PM - 1 AM John Moran Grape Escape, 9 PM - 12 AM Marty Kramer Grape Harbor, 9 PM - 12 AM Jabberbox Grape Harbor, 9 PM - 12 AM Jumpers, 9 PM - 1 AM Mixed Emotions Tantrym Softtails, 9 PM - 1 AM Nick Stika Doolittle’s, 10 PM - 2 AM Grape Harbor, 9 PM - 12 AM DRILL Sandy Hook, 10 PM - 2 AM Stoneheart Sunday, October 14 Murph’s South End Tap, 9 PM - 1 AM James Kinds & the All-Night Riders Strangers with Candy Murph’s, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM BadFish New Diggings, 3:30 - 7:30 PM Softtails Saloon, 9 PM - 1 AM Massey Road Gerry O’Connell Dino’s, 10:30 PM - 2:30 AM Mixed Emotions Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Red N Deb’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Run Side Down Open Mic @ A&B Tap Isabella’s, 9 - 11 PM Watermelon Slim with Sean Kramer & the Mississippi Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Flat Miners, 8 PM -12 AM Hometown Sweethearts Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Saturday, Oct. 13 Monday, October 15 Saturday, October 20 Corey Jenny Gerry O’Connell UW-Platteville, 11 AM - 1 PM Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Sounds of Nashville Albrecht Acres, 7 PM - 12 AM One Hat Band Isabella’s, 8 - 11 PM Tuesday, October 16 The Rocket Surgeons The Pit Stop, 9 PM - 1 AM Richter Scale Gerry O’Connell DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM - 12 AM Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Scott & Michelle Dalziel Grand Harbor Resort, 7 PM - 9 PM Peter Yeates Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Wednesday, Oct. 17 The Legends Henry’s Pub, 8 PM - 12 AM The Do-Overs Open Mic w/ the Dert Tones Rumors/Leisure Lake, 8 PM - 12 AM Busted Lift, 9 PM - 1 AM Gerry O’Connell Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM A Pirate Over 50 Live on Main Comedy Blue Willow Trackside, Peosta, 8 PM - 12 AM Bricktown, 9 - 11 PM Potter’s Mill, 8 PM - 12 AM TraVerse The Wundo Band Pizzeria Uno, 8 PM - 12 AM Betty & the Headlights Loras College, 8 PM - 1 AM Denny’s Lux Club, 9 PM - 1 AM Gerry O’Connell Fever River String Band Mighty Short Bus Irish Cottage, 8 - 11 PM Wigwam, Hazel Green, 8:30 - 11:30 PM The Busted LIft, 9 PM - 1 AM THE FAKE BUTTER ON THE POPCORN IS MADE BY VALVOLINE... SO YOU KNOW IT’S GOOD! 18 19 OCTOBER 4-17
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rating. If a movie gets 60% or higher positive reviews, it is FRESH! THE www.rottentomatoes.com BUZZ - It’s official: The end of the world is OPENING DURING THIS ISSUE here. Or something like that, because New Line Cinema is re-making Friday The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (10/5) the 13th. Unlike the original film se- The life of Will Stanton, a young man, is ries, which featured Jason’s mother as Good Luck Chuck - A Film by Mark Helfrich suddenly turned upside-down one day the psychotic killer in the original film (Feature Film Directorial Debut) when he learns that he is the last of a secret and didn’t see Jason get his iconic hockey mask un- Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) has had girlfriends come group of warriors who have dedicated their til the third film, this remake will focus on Jason’s and go but he’s never felt strongly enough about any lives to fighting the forces of evil. As the villainous Rider story, and he will be brandishing his mask and ma- of them to tell them he loves them. When it sud- stalks him, Will must travel through time to track down chete. Let’s hope they don’t do another “Abused kid denly dawns on him that all of his ex-girlfriends mar- the clues that will allow him to confront the Rider and becomes a psycho” story, like Halloween ‘07 did. ried the next guy they dated, he realizes that he has defeat evil. a gift. He is Good Luck Chuck. Overnight, women - Will Smith is dipping into the ‘80s, start stopping by his dental office, hoping to bed The Heartbreak Kid (10/5) Buzz: ROTTEN as he has announced plans to direct Chuck so they can move on to the next guy and find Pressured by his father and best friend, in- a remake of 1984’s The Karate Kid. true love. At the insistence of his best friend, Stu decisive Eddie (Ben Stiller) proposes to his Smith aims to cast his 9-year-old son (Dan Fogler), Chuck takes advantage of the situation girlfriend Lila after only a week, fearing that in the role made famous by Ralph and sleeps with as many of these women as possible. this may be his last shot at happiness. While Macchio. And in the running for Mr. Unfortunately, along the way he meets the women on honeymoon, Miranda turns into the wife from hell. Miyagi? Jackie Chan. We’re declaring kung foolery! of his dreams, Cam (Jessica Alba), who takes care of Now Eddie must keep his horrid wife at bay as he falls the penguins at a lo- in love with Miranda, the woman he realizes to be his - Reports are flying around the Inter- cal aquarium and is true soul mate. net that director J.J. Abrams has fi- extremely clumsy. nally found his Captain Kirk for Star Fearing that Cam We Own the Night (10/12) NO BUZZ YET Trek. According to Web site IESB.net, will fall in love with A new breed of narcotics has taken hold Mike Vogel (Poseidon, Texas Chainsaw someone else after in 1988 New York, and with the drugs has Massacre) has been tapped to play the he sleeps with her, come a massive crime wave that is putting legendary captain. Leaked story details suggest that Chuck tries to avoid the police on the ropes. Bobby Green is a the main plot will actually focus on the team-up of doing the act and nightclub manager, while his brother is on the other Old Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Young Spock. then, once it hap- side of the law, a police lieutenant under their father, the pens, tries every- deputy chief. When his brother is nearly assassinated, - The confusion regarding Justice thing to win Cam’s Bobby must choose sides and show that the NYPD truly League that we reported in this space heart. does own the night. in the previous issue has been cleared up ... mostly. George Miller is indeed Good Luck Chuck Elizabeth: The Golden Age (9/28) directing a live-action adaptation of was a let-down for England’s Queen strives to maintain her the long-running comic series. Tyrese this reviewer. Dane Cook has been receiving a lot of reign over the British Isles while Sir Fran- Gibson is reportedly in the running to play the attention lately (including being the on-air promoter cis Walsingham, her intelligence master, is Green Lantern, while Jessica Biel has turned down for Major League Baseball’s playoffs) but really did discovering more and more conspiracies to the role of Wonder Woman. not live up to the hype in this film. Jessica Alba ac- overthrow her. As the Spanish Armada sails on Britain at tually generated more amusement with her clutzy the behest of Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth begins to - While rumors still suggest that the penguin-loving Cam. Adding to the comedic timing explore a budding relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh. upcoming James Bond 22 (tentatively is Fogler as Stu, the completely breast-obsessed plas- Property of a Lady) will primarily use tic surgeon. Sophomoric to the extreme at times, Michael Clayton (10/12) BUZZ: FRESH a snow-based location for its plot, Good Luck Chuck just isn’t that funny. Additionally, Michael Clayton is a “fixer” at a top New producers are finalizing agreements the previews that we saw over the past few months York law firm, burned-out and exhausted with the government of Panama to were misleading as to what the plot of this film is. from a career of corporate espionage. He is shoot some material along the famous coastline. Perhaps the studio realized that the best parts of the presented the most intimidating challenge Filming begins December 10. film surrounded Alba and Fogler and focused less on of his career after a sabotaged case puts him at odds Cook’s character. Of course, for all those testoster- with a top litigator. one driven males out there, the film includes plenty Millennium Cinema of nudity, especially with Chuck bedding every fe- NOW PLAYING IN DUBUQUE 151 Millennium Drive male in town and Stu being a plastic surgeon. Good The Brave One ...... 46% Rotten Platteville, WI Luck Chuck is definitely a rental. Eastern Promises ...... 89% Fresh 1-877-280-0211 or Superbad ...... 88% Fresh 608-348-4296 The Game Plan ...... 30% Rotten 2835 NW Arterial, Avalon Cinema Resident Evil 3 ...... 26% Rotten Dubuque, 95 E Main St. Mr. Woodcock ...... 14% Rotten 563-582-7827 Platteville, WI The Bourne Ultimatum ...... 94% Fresh 608-348-5006 Carmike The Kingdom ...... 52% Rotten Cinema Center 8 Find great movie 3:10 to Yuma ...... 87% Fresh 75 JFK, Dubuque, IA resources online at Sydney White ...... 39% Rotten 563-588-3000 Dubuque365.com MY FEET ARE IN DUBUQUE BUT MY HEAD’S IN MISSISSIPPI. 19 OCTOBER 4-17
Unless you’ve been living under a Top hits for this issue, we were simply rock, you know that legendary rock shocked at how many massive hits band ZZ Top is coming to Dubuque and recognizable classics these Texas on October 23. And if you didn’t boys have amassed. La Grange, I’m know that because you were under Bad, I’m Nationwide, I Thank You, a rock, you now know that they’re Tube Steak Boogie, Pearl Necklace, coming. So why haven’t you gone out Got Me Under Pressure, Gimme All and bought a ticket yet?! Your Lovin’, Sleeping Bag, Velcro Fly, Rough Boy, My Head’s in Mississippi, After 38 years of rockin’, ZZ Top still Doubleback ... can I stop? has it going on, and it’s nice to see that Frank Beard, Dusty Hill and the Tickets are on sale now for $42.50 Reverend Billie G are still together. and $48.50, available at the Five Flags Not too many rock groups keep their box office or online @ Ticketmaster. entire original lineup together for com. (Though we prefer going to nearly four decades, you know. And Alyson and the nice people at the the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Five Flags Box office to get just the that gave us hits like “Legs,” “Sharp tickets we were looking for!) And Dressed Man,” “La Grange” and you’d better be there on October 23 “Cheap Sunglasses” will rock the to give ZZ Top all your lovin’, or 365 Five Flags Center at 7:30 p.m. on that is gonna come lookin’ for your tush. night. Want more songs? When we And if you don’t get that joke, you’re were looking into the catalog of ZZ a totally wussy ZZ Top fan. WASH ME! OR IS THAT WARSH? 20 OCTOBER 4-17
and cultural community! Companies “City Council Elections that have been and are being recruited Do Impact Life Quality” to Dubuque consider all these elements By Mayor Roy D. Buol in their decision-making, not the least of which is an educated workforce. Our community is facing a primary elec- Dubuque has finally become one of the tion next week on Tuesday, October 9! most vital, creative and attractive places Two individuals will then move forward to live and work in the area…and arts to the general election, after which one and culture are key ingredients. will fill the seat of 4th Ward Council member Pat Cline. After decades of minimal city support for the arts, the City Council finally stepped The mantra during my tenure as may- forward and made its first decent invest- or has been the belief that “the next ment in 2004 and created an Arts and five years will define the next fifty for Cultural Advisory Commission. As re- Dubuque.” As we consider the city’s di- ported in the first State of the Arts report, rection as defined by its vision statement the commission members bring a wealth to be “…a progressive, sustainable city of expertise and enthusiasm to this im- with a strong balanced economy and portant element in our educational and connections to the world…” the upcom- social infrastructure. Their goals are to ing City Council election looms large. utilize the arts to encourage a better un- derstanding of the cultural diversity of Our life quality has continued to improve the world, to safeguard the cultural and due to the collaboration and partnership, historic resources of the community, to investment and leadership from all sec- celebrate the arts as an opportunity to tors of our community and beyond. I be- enjoy and enrich community life, and to lieve most will agree our city is indeed promote affordable and accessible spec- positioning itself well for the next fifty tator and participatory arts experiences years. One of the significant factors in and cultural events for all ages. Dubuque Dubuque’s All America City selection is reaping a huge return on its minimal in- was best stated by Mercy Hospital Presi- vestment, economically and socially, and, dent and CEO Rusty Knight when he told in my opinion, we need to do more if we the judges in Anaheim, California, that want to continue to compete with other people in Dubuque “don’t care whose cities trying to recruit our local talent. idea something is; rather, we care about coming together around good ideas and making things happen for the good of the community.”
Our Dubuque citizens are fortunate to live in a River City that is bursting with rich history, elegant turn of the centu- ry homes, award winning restaurants, charming shops, and a thriving arts and cultural environment! Further, Dubuque is continuing its visibility as a leader in job growth having recently Therefore, for all the reasons stated, I made the prestigious Milliken Institute list invite all our citizens to take their civic of “Best Performing Cities” March 2006 – responsibility very seriously as we con- March 2007, ranking 11th nation-wide. sider the stated positions of the candi- dates vying for your vote during the pri- Good paying jobs and quality of life mary next week, and the general election amenities go hand in hand in a progres- in November. The national recognitions sive community. Keeping our young our city continues to receive and the vis- graduates and attracting the best and ibility which enhances our opportunities brightest talent depend on a strong econ- to be a progressive and sustainable com- omy, diverse educational opportunities, munity depend on it! safe neighborhoods, and a thriving arts BROKEN IN HALF YOU SAY ... HMMM ... HAVE YOU TRIED RESTARTING YOUR COMPUTER, MR. BRECHLIN? 21 OCTOBER 4-17
little, pulling those that needed more to watch the first installment of Ken gree, when I was taking a test at Lo- work apart and putting them back to- Burns’ “The War” on PBS with from 7 ras College from Dr. Donna Bauerly. SAVE ME! gether in better ways. to 10. Instead, I found myself slowly Because of my handwriting handicap, walking back upstairs. I sat down at she allowed me to go down the hall I love technology. I really do. Just in And I was saving. You bet I was. I kept the computer and opened that thirty and use a computer for the essay ques- the past six months I’ve acquired my hitting that little floppy disk icon over page document. I hit Save. Just for tions. Piece of cake – with a keyboard, first MP3 player, flash drive, and – yes! and over, every time I good measure, I hit Save As, too. I I could write about literature all day. I admit it! – cell phone. As a writer, would finish a poem stuck my flash drive in a USB port In this case, I had forty-five minutes. I I can’t imagine doing without a com- and sometimes and saved there, too. wrote and wrote for thirty minutes and puter. I’ve got major, chronic writer’s when I simply And I began was feeling very good. That’s when the DUNN cramp – the medical term is dystonia changed a line. I re-revising all Finger of Death hit the wrong key and - – and have been known to type my knew it would be those poems. caused everything to go away. Had I grocery list on a computer. next to impos- named and saved the document when sible to remem- In some cases, I sat down? No, I had not. If I had, it I say “a” computer because there are ber what I had I was able to re- would have been retrievable. That’s three computers in my life. One at done if I lost member some of the lesson I learned that day. work, where I write about fun things it. Finally, I the changes I had like angioplasties and colonosco- made. But for the But I also learned another one. I pies. One in my husband’s music most part, they are learned that when life gives you forty- room, at home. And one not the same poems five minutes and you screw up thirty upstairs in my home of- I had crafted earlier. of them, you can either fall apart, fice. This is the laptop, Who knows, maybe or take those remaining fifteen min- the new machine some of my new deci- utes and start over. Which I did, and on the block, sions were better than passed the test. the shiny HP the ones I’d made origi- with the new- nally. I’d love to have I still want to know what went wrong est operating those first revisions so I with my fancy schmancy new comput- system (Vista) and could compare them, but after er. If you have any ideas, by all means the newest version of feeling absolutely certain they send me an email. Until then, I’ll be Office (2007). had to be in that computer saving to the C drive, saving to the G somewhere, I’m no longer drive, and printing, printing, printing. so sure.
PAM KRESS PAM This laptop is also the source of my most recent Pam Kress-Dunn technology meltdown. Now, I was reminded of another [email protected] I’ve been using computers since time, working on another de- they were large and dorky look-
• ing, and I know my way around a word processor. I have lost entire documents because I forgot to name a was done enough to stop. I hit Save document when I started composing, again for good measure, went down- or because the power went off, or be- stairs and took a break. cause my fingers got out of whack and I hit the control key at the same time Not much later, I went back up to as, say, F1 or X. I’ve learned, and I’ve make a table of contents. I started a learned the hard way. new document, and began clicking through the Revised Poems to get the Yet it continues. Just last week, I was titles. It wasn’t until I got to page thirty working very hard on my final proj- that it dawned on me. Down on the ect for my MFA degree. To graduate, I lower menu bar it no longer said 1 of must put together a manuscript length 60. It said 1 of 30. That’s where I had document of around fifty poems. I had left off Saturday night. That’s where I already narrowed down the poems had resumed Sunday morning. from the hundred or so I had sent to my mentor, and now I was painstak- I looked for the missing pages. Be- ingly revising each one until it said ex- lieve me, I looked. My husband actly what I wanted it to say in precise- looked, too. My daughter, who is very ly the way I wanted to say it. I cut lines, good with computers, came over and replaced words, imposed couplets, looked. That longer document, those changed points of view. I revised those sixty pages, were nowhere to be poems until the cows came home. found. It was as if I had done nothing at all Sunday. Or rather, as if I had I finished thirty pages of poems on done an enormous amount, and it Saturday, and finally called it a day. had all been wiped clean. On Sunday, I booted up the computer, opened the document, and worked Somehow, I remained calm. I mean, another three hours until I was at the what else are you going to do? Start end – sixty pages. It felt really, really screaming? Bash the laptop with a good to have done this. I was in the mallet? Get Bill Gates on the phone? zone, making hard decisions about (I wish.) We had dinner. I made conversation. We’d been planning GIVING VOICE GIVING my work, tweaking some of them a MOST FOODS ARE JUST EXCUSES TO INGEST SALT! ... AND BUTTER ... WHICH IS SALTED. 22 OCTOBER 4-17 Bob’s Book Reviews Salt has caused wars and financed oth- ONE that you have read the whole thing? Bob’s Geek Book ers. It is in no small way responsible for I’ve moved mine to the basement. the overthrow of British rule in India. by Bob Gelms Imagine a steak without it or Oriental Having a Geek Book makes you more food without soy sauce and I can’t bear interesting. It gives you character, your I’m a geek, not by choice mind you, ap- to think about popcorn without salt. Life personality will take on an alluring qual- parently, by acclimation. just wouldn’t be worth living. In fact, ity and if, perhaps, your Geek Book is without salt, we wouldn’t be living. Vlad the Impaler, the Hero of Transylva- From time to time my entire family and nia, it would also spritz around your e-mail Bob: most of my friends think of me that way. head the mist of danger ... well, maybe Sir Humphrey Davy The evidence that is used for my citi- psychosis is a better word, but you get Abominated gravy. [email protected] zenship in the Kingdom of Geek is the the idea. He lived in odium Of having discovered sodium. fact that I’ve read, thoroughly enjoyed, and enthusiastically recommend a Why, pretty soon, people will be ask- This was the first of a verse type known book by Mark Kurlansky called Salt: ing you about Feng Shui, Esperanto, as the clerihew, which is a pseudo-bio- A World History. It’s my Geek Book. and Fermat’s last theorem. They will graphical verse of two rhymed couplets in Occasionally mentioned as support- want to know all about coelacanths, which the subject’s name makes one of ing evidence of my geekness is the geosynchronous orbits, and natron … the rhymes. It became a genre of humor- fact that I seem to remember most of natron! That’s a salt used by the an- ous poetry, although not many people can the six years of Latin I took when at cient Egyptians in the mummification recite another example of a clerihew.” school in the last century, I can cor- process. Which “brings us by a com- rectly pronounce the word FebRUary, modious vicus of recirculation back I can not conceive of how anything could I have mountains of disdain and an al- to” (that’s a phrase from James Joyce’s be more useless and at the same time as most complete disregard for the Chi- Finnegan’s Wake, possibly the greatest charming as that. I love this guy! Did I cago Cubs, and, if I’m drunk enough, Geek Book of all time) salt. mention that Salt: A World History is out I can still operate a slide rule … yes, I in paperback? own one. There is utterly useless and therefore, in my opinion, completely enchant- Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky I am absolutely certain that if you ing information on almost every page has been my Geek Book for some time. were to read a history of gold, no- of Salt: A World History. You know, it I think, however, I might have found an- where would it be mentioned that for is almost pathologically impossible for other book to replace it. Coincidentally an extended period of time in western me to not read a book with a chapter enough it is also by Mr. Kurlansky. It’s culture, salt was far more desired and titled “The Odium of Sodium.” called Cod: A Biography of the Fish That eminently more valuable than gold Changed the World. and was actually used as currency. This turns my fun-dial all the way up be- I am compelled to quote this from Salt: A cause, I guess, I’m a geek. Everyone is a World History: NEXT TIME: I hope you will take a few I am equally certain that in scanning a little bit geeky. How many of you have, moments and share with me your Geek comprehensive geological text, nowhere what everyone else believes, is a deco- “Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a British Book and how it came to be so. I would would you read that salt is the only rock rative set of the Harvard Classics promi- author of crime novels who lived from like to include some of them in the next regularly consumed by humans. nently displayed in your living room and 1875 to 1956, wrote these lines, it is issue. I promise, no names will be used you have neglected to mention TO ANY- said, while in a chemistry class: unless you request it.
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The Frog and the Scorpion “You fool!” croaked the frog. “You stung One day, a scorpion set out on a jour- me and now I’m going to drown. You ney through the forests and hills. He are also going to drown. Why? Why on climbed over rocks and under vines Earth did you sting me?” and kept going until he reached a river. The river was wide and swift and he The scorpion said, “I am a scorpion. couldn’t see any way to cross. So he ran Scorpions sting.” Then they both sank upriver and then checked downriver, all into the muddy waters of the swiftly the while thinking that he might have to flowing river. turn back. How many scorpions Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting by the do you know? I bet you bank of the river. He decided to ask know several. Scorpions the frog for help getting across. “Hel- attempt to pull you lo, Mr. Frog,” called the scorpion. down with nega- “Would you be so kind as to give tivity and opposi- me a ride on your back across tion. They can’t get the river?” over their own weak- nesses so they do what- “Oh, no, do you think ever they can to stop your I’m crazy?” said the frog. progress. They say things “We’ll get halfway across the r iv e r, like “we’ve always done you’ll sting me and I’ll drown. I’m not it that way,” or “that will interested in drowning.” never work,” and even “that’s a stupid idea.” Scorpions will inject And the scorpion said, “You know frog, pain into your new dreams, goals, and you’re not thinking with that little bitty ideas. frog brain of yours. If I sting you half- way across the river, it is true you will Some creatures and people just are what drown, but I would drown too. I’m not they are. It matters not how nicely you interested in drowning either.” treat them; their nature will cause them to sting you. You must be aware of scor- This seemed to make sense to the frog pions in your life and stop giving them so he agreed to take the scorpion across rides across the river. They are powerless the river. The scorpion crawled onto the until you decide to put them on your frog’s back, his sharp claws prickling back. Ultimately, it’s not the scorpion’s into the frog’s soft hide, and the frog slid fault you get swept away, but because into the river. The muddy water swirled you failed to recognize that scorpion’s around them as the frog began swim- sting. You knew what scorpions do and ming. Halfway across the river, the frog you chose to give them a ride across the suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back river. If you do decide to give them a and a deadening numbness began to ride across the river, don’t complain or creep into his body. be surprised when they sting you. 1% Mattitude Improvement Tip causes a drop in your performance. CrackBerries Consider slowing down the speed of Black (Crack) Berries have become technology and regaining control of the tech world’s new unofficial your life. Your overall happiness and mascot. 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Clarke College is ready to be- look at you crazy if you were plotting to the Butler? on October 12-20. gin its 2007 - 2008 season, and the first kill your uncle because your old man’s For more information, go to www.the- show sounds like a winner. ghost said that your uncle whacked him. The show centers upon Constance, who grandoperahouse.com, or call the box But Horatio’s going to make sure you learns that her billionaire California fa- office at 563-588-1305. understand the real Hamlet. What secret ther has bequeathed all of his assets to did Horatio know? What would he nev- her. However, his $22 million er repeat? What would he emphasize? yacht, his $25 million art collec- tion and his unspeakably valu- And how should the story be told? Since able antique auto armada have “the play’s the thing,” Horatio gathers a been left to others. Constance troupe of actors to “play the play.” Think shows up with a lawyer in tow, of it as Hamlet: The E! True Hollywood ready to throw down, when she Story (without the sex, drugs and rock learns from her father’s butler And Flights of Angels: The Hamlet Story and roll, of course). that the three recipients were her will be staged from Thursday, October 4, father’s lovers. The yacht, the art through Sunday, October 7. It’s a retell- Performances of And Flights of Angels and the cars have vanished, sold ing of the story of Hamlet, told from the will begin at 7:30 p.m. on October 4 - 6, to the Bimbo Corporation ... and perspective of Horatio, Hamlet’s close and at 2 p.m. on October 7, in Clarke’s it seems like the butler may be friend (Not the guy on C.S.I. Miami.) As Terence Donaghoe Hall. Tickets are $10 the instigator of these shenani- you’ll recall from the end of the play, for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for stu- gans. How does it all end? Well, you have to see the show! Horatio contemplated suicide as he saw dents. 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nal works. As a playwright, he has adapted numerous popular works for SHALOM performance, including a one-man adaptation of A Christmas Carol, an is the answer evening of Dylan Thomas including A Child’s Christmas in Wales, and more If you’re feeling like your life is getting than 30 of Edgar Allan Poe’s short just a little too out of hand, Shalom Re- stories. His full-length dark comedy treat Center has you covered. Class – Learning to Hate is Fun – was performed at Alley Stage in 2007.
Coleman is currently working on three projects: An adaptation of The Diary of William Stephens (the true account of a an emigrant from On Tuesday, October 23, Shalom will Cornwall to Mineral Point), R.I.P, host an evening for healthcare profes- E.A. Poe (a collection of original short sionals. With presentations from Dee modern plays of the macabre); and The Maahs, RN, MSN, CD at the Finley Hos- Writer’s Guild Kidnapping of Henry Kissinger (a fic- pital, Donna Schmidt, RN, BSN, CME-I Wednesday, Oct. 10, Isabella’s tional novel based on actual events). On Saturday, October 20, Shalom will from Mercy’s ER, Mary Beth Gold- Coleman is a member of the Drama- host “Beyond Anger: Anger Manage- smith, RN, from Stonehill, and Margaret Like a stray cat at your door that is too tists Guild of America, Playwrights Ink ment Like You Have Never Experienced” Jungers, Shalom’s director, the program cute to refuse, Writers Guild returns to of Madison, and a secret cabal of Wis- from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. This anger will help healthcare providers pay at- Isabella’s intimate stage for warm milk consin writers obliquely referred to as management workshop aims to help in- tention to their own healing and well- and a reading Wednesday, October 10 ‘The Drinking Club.’ And he feels com- dividuals focus and channel their emo- being. The presentations will zero in on at 8 p.m. Writers Guild Moderator Paula fortable at Isabella’s? Actually, skip the tions; understanding that anger is a part sources of stress and explore methods to Neuhaus is pleased to present Coleman warm milk and just give me a PBR. of everyone’s life, the workshop will en- achieve greater wholeness, balance and as October’s Guest Writer. Following courage participants to go beyond anger healing in the lives of healthcare pro- the presentation by Coleman, there will Writers Guild meets on Wednesday, Oc- to experience peace from knowing and fessionals. The cost is $22.50, including be an open reading. tober 10, at 8 p.m. at Isabella’s in the liking oneself. Attendees will learn about the social, dinner and program. basement of the Ryan House at 1375 not just the causes but also the effects Coleman is founder and producing ar- Locust Street. The reading is open to all of anger, exploring the impact it has on To register for either of these events, tistic director of Alley Stage at historic ages until 9 p.m. For more information, lives and relationships. The cost to at- call Shalom at 563-582-3592 by Octo- Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, an out- visit the Writers Guild website at www. tend is $30, which includes morning re- ber 18. Shalom is located at 1001 Davis door venue dedicated to presenting origi- myspace.com/wordcure. freshments, lunch and the program. Street in Dubuque. BUT DOES THAT HAPPY MEAL COME WITH A PLUSH TOY? 25 OCTOBER 4-17 onds or until cheese is melted. Cut conversation and plenty of laughter, fre- into wedges and serve with salsa. quent family dinners keep kids connected to you. Rainbow Apple Slices One pkg (3-ounce) Hy-Vee gelatin Studies show children and teens who eat (any flavor), 4 apples (any variety). dinner regularly with their families are less Pour dry gelatin into small bowl or likely to smoke cigarettes or abuse alco- plate. Cut apples into slices. Dip the hol and drugs. They tend to score higher cut sides of each apple slice into on tests and stay in school. gelatin. Colors will brighten as gela- tin combines with the apple’s juice. Whether you are fixing a homemade Effortless Apple Crisp chicken dinner or a fuss-free peanut but- One (4-ounce) Hy-Vee cinnamon ter and jelly sandwich, eating dinner as applesauce cup, 2 tbsp crushed cin- a family makes a difference. In fact, one namon crunchy granola bars, 1 dash of the single most important links to pre- of cinnamon, 1 tbsp chopped wal- venting substance abuse is the frequency nuts. Stir crushed granola bar and of family meals. cinnamon into applesauce cup. Let sit 2 to 3 minutes. Top with walnuts Studies show teens who eat fewer than three and a scoop of ice cream if desired. dinners a week with their families are:
Mouse In A House! • Three times more likely to try Fresh strawberries, string cheese marijuana sticks, shelled sunflower seeds.Wash • Two and one-half times more likely to Kitchen Fun for Kids berries and remove caps. Cut strawberries smoke cigarettes Stir up some fun while teaching your kids in half lengthwise. Cut cheese stick in half to read, practice math and conduct tasty and pull strings from cheese stick for tail. As- • More than one and one-half times more scientific experiments. Cooking is for kids semble “mice” on plate by tucking cheese likely to drink alcohol and the kitchen is a place kids can learn. strip under wide end of berry for tail. Stick Once children start creating meals, they 2 sunflower seed kernels at narrow end for Celebrate Family Day on September 24th, ears. 2007, a day to eat dinner with your chil- will want to spend more time in the kitchen and more time with you. Begin with simple dren. Learn more about how to prevent Layered Fruit Fun substance abuse by visiting www.casafa- fruit and veggie treats your kids will enjoy. In an ice cream cone, layer cut-up fruit such milyday.org. Need help planning menus? as strawberries, blueberries, peaches or ba- Go to hy-veehealth.com and download Six Fruit & Veggie nanas. Top with vanilla or fruit-flavored yo- our weekly suggested dinner menu, com- Snacks for Kids gurt. For extra crunch add a layer of granola plete with recipes and a shopping list.
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Kabobs – Pizza On-A-Stick Many of our Hy-Vee stores offer cooking Thread cubed French bread, grape toma- Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas classes for kids. Find your local Hy-Vee to, green pepper and cubed mozzarella A simple meal made with Hy-Vee ro- dietitian’s schedule and classes for kids at cheese onto a drink straw. Dip in warm RECIPE tisserie chicken. Hy-VeeHealth.com. marinara sauce. All you need: Crowded Canoes • 8 oz. pre-cooked cubed chicken, Celery, peanut butter or any nut butter. A Real Happy Meal divided
Passengers: nuts, dried fruits - raisins, cran- • 1 cup shredded chipotle cheddar Soccer, football, band, choir and home- berries, cherries, M & M candies. Spread • cheese, divided work galore! If your family finds it tough peanut butter into the groove of celery • 8 Hy-Vee flour tortilla shells to find time to eat dinner together, take a sticks. Board “passengers” of dried fruits, • Cooking spray “timeout” to focus on the benefits of fam- nuts or candies on top of peanut butter. • Salsa ily meals. Besides
good food, great Quesadilla Snowflakes All you do: Two tortilla shells, 1/2 cup shredded Spread chicken and cheese evenly over cheese, salsa. Microwave tortilla 4 tortillas. Top each tortilla with re- about 30 seconds or until soft. maining tortillas. Coat a large Fold warm tortilla in half, then in non-stick skillet with cooking half again. Use kitchen shears spray and brown quesadil- and cut out small pieces in tor- las over medium-high heat, tilla as you would to make flipping once. Cut into 4 a paper snowflake. Unfold. wedges. Serve with salsa. Place remaining tortilla Serves 4. on paper plate and sprinkle with shred- Nutrition facts: 430 ded cheese. Place calories, 27 g pro- the snowflake tor- tein, 21g fat, 30g tilla on the cheese- carb and 1060 mg topped tortilla. Mi- sodium. crowave on HIGH for 30 to 45 sec- 365INK, IT’S THE CHEEEEESIEST! 26 OCTOBER 4-17
plans with someone else, but planned to meet up with her at our previously planned time. Unrelenting, she demanded to know the identity of my dinner companion. Not wanting to disclose the real identity of my surprise guest, I resurrected a name from the past. This did not receive a warm reception, however, knowing the truth would be revealed shortly, I accepted Surprise! her disapproval.
It should come as no surprise that I After dinner we made our way to my love surprises. Rooted in spontaneity, girlfriend’s house. Standing outside the thought of someone going out of in the dark, there was no answer on their way to plan something exciting the other end of the phone or the is quite flattering; actually executing door bell. After several minutes, I the plan with success is, well, thought my surprise was going to be priceless. Yet not everyone shares a bust. Finally, dazed and bewildered an appreciation for being astonished she opened the door, gracefully beyond belief. Why, is beyond my handling being woken up from her comprehension. slumber and glad to have not slept through the evenings festivities. I From the monumental “surprise, revealed my surprise. Grabbing my I’m pregnant,” to the mundane arm out of fright as my companion “surprise, I’m not really a blonde,” was unrecognizable in the dark ... successful surprises are based I’m still not sure which was funnier, partly on keeping a secret and part how surprised she was to see my impulsivity. Spur-of-the-moment friend, or how relieved she was that decisions to surprise friends or I wasn’t with that name from the family with some little secret we’ve past. Either way, I would pay to see been storing is a great opportunity to that expression on her face again. see foreign expressions on our dear And I don’t think my friend minded ones’ faces. Often these moments receiving such a warm reception. are not easily forgotten. In the end she was surprised and I recently played a small surprise on forgave me for my indiscretion, but a dear and understanding girlfriend. surprises can be dangerous. We put As I was enjoying a surprise visit from ourselves in vulnerable territory. A another friend, the two of us conspired successful surprise requires keeping to surprise my girlfriend. In doing so a secret and often keeping secrets it required the misrepresentation of involves misrepresenting the facts. one crucial fact. Already committed Keeping track of one or many factual to meeting her later in the evening, misrepresentations is stressful. And she questioned why I couldn’t meet how will we know if the person on earlier, I was forced (for her own good) the receiving end will appreciate the to make an excuse. Un-accepting work involved in executing this bolt of my lame response she continued from the blue? Or will the joke be on her interrogation. Shamefully, I the executioner? I guess we’ll know admitted that I already had dinner by the expression on their face. PUZZLES? NO THANKS, MY BRAIN IS FULL. 27 OCTOBER 4-17 WELCOME TO OUR ALL NEW TIME-KILLING 365 PUZZLE PAGE
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Dear Trixie; HOROSCOPES I’m a 47-year-old woman who is still single. I have a good job as a nurse and while I’m at the hospital I feel ARIES You’re getting married and you-know-who has a guest smart and capable and needed. But when I come home I list from hell, killing your hopes for a modest wedding. Put all just cry and cry. I have never had a man ask me for a date your exes on your guest list and say you’ll remove one ex for or even try to pick me up when the bars are closing. I am every twenty of their frivolous invites. Note: It could get ugly. Cryptoquip afraid I’m doomed to be alone for the rest of my life--un- TAURUS Don’t waste all your money on poisons and traps to loved and unwanted. I just want a guy to say he loves me. weed out your newest rodent infestation. Simply make sure Is that impossible? you have liners in your trash cans, because the mice are go- --No Man Will Ever Love Me ing to flock right into them. Seriously. 365 nailed four of them that way because they listened to the Doctor. Crossword Dear No Man: Now, you know that’s not true. There are thousands of GEMINI If you don’t go over to Clarke College and check out good-looking incarcerated men throughout this country Border to Border, a team of gnomes is going to come find you, who would love to tell you everything you need to hear. beat you up, steal your Budweiser, break your dishes, and ninja-kick your dog. You don’t want to have a team of very, Dear Trixie: very angry gnomes after you, do you? Didn’t think so. I am having a fancy “black tie” dinner party. I’ve never en- tertained on this scale before, so I am unsure of certain eti- CANCER Your neighbors saw you playing your Nintendo Wii the quette. How long should I plan for cocktails before serving other day. That’s why every house on the block suddenly went up dinner? for sale. They’re afraid you’re going to invite them over to play --New Hostess with your Wii. And no one wants to touch that, much less see it. LEO As Chevy Chase said, a donut without holes is a danish. Dear Hostess: Don’t ever order a reuben without kraut. What do you think Even Exchange That all depends on your company. If your guests are alco- you’re doing? It’s not a reuben anymore! You wouldn’t order a holics-- two to ten hours. cheeseburger but hold the cheese, would you? Jeez! Dear Trixie: VIRGO As thoughts of marriage begin to bounce around in If guests do not move toward the dining room after dinner is your head, don’t forget the most important part of the plan- announced, what can a hostess do? ning. Yeah, it’s good to get a head start on the catering and Mega --Carol B. the music and everything else ... but don’t you dare sit and Maze twiddle your thumbs on that pre-nup. Dear Carol: She may ask two or three good friends to lead the way, or LIBRA Whenever you know that someone is going to be walk- she may approach one conversational group and start kick- ing into the room you’re currently in, wait until just before they ing and beating them until they move toward the dining enter, and then say, “And, you know, that’s the reason I just room. A good hostess need strike only one guest and the can’t stand the Dutch.” It’s a great conversation-starter ... unless rest will follow. there’s no one else in the room. Then you just look weird. SCORPIO The next time someone asks you what you do for Dear Trixie: a living, which will be this week as you continue your search I am cursed with bad skin. Each morning before school for a soul mate, tell them you’re a professional man. Espe- THE ANSWERS Questions on Page 6 I look in the mirror and am confronted with fresh raging cially if you’re a woman. pimples and thick acne scars. I want so much to belong to 1. Swivel is not a panoramic photo method. some group. What can you suggest? SAGITTARIUS Having satellite television after nearly a year 2. The human eye’s field of view is about -- Shy Girl without mass-media indulgence is a wonderful thing, but don’t 160° by 75°. Yeah, sorry, that one was kind let it get ahead of you. Don’t forget to actually go to work once of a crap shoot. Dear Shy Girl: in a while in-between marathons of Iron Chef and Pokemon. 3. Mathias was not a pork plutocrat. But I am. You could go Goth or you could go Mime, either way you’ll be able to use thick, heavy white make-up and cop a real CAPRICORN Try and make your way out to the 20 Dirty 4. The log cabin behind the Ham House is Hands exhibition. While you’re there, resist the urge, how- the oldest building in Iowa, though Jerry may attitude. Good luck, Dear. indeed have been born there. ever strong, to begin telling the potters that they’re White ‘n’ Dear Trixie: Dirty. Not funny. Mildly accurate, but not funny. And no con- 5. That lovely shot is of our neighbor to the south, Bellevue, IA. My friend, I’ll call her Jasmine, is always using her big boobs sideration trumps The Funny. and sexy body to get away with things. She flirted with her 6. Frank Beard does not have a beard. Weird! AQUARIUS Notice how many trends that get snapped up college math professor and got her grade changed from a D by the public are simply strange combinations? Hop on that 7. 20 Dirty Hands pottery studio tour is fea- to a B+. She always gets free drinks at bars and cab drivers turing 14 dirty hands, or 7 artists, in 2007. bandwagon, boy! Invent a camouflaged Lamborghini. Actu- take her anywhere she wants to go for free. Today, a cop let ally, go a little less pricey but even more useless: Take one 8. 2007 features 1 sculpture on the river her off for speeding with a warning. I’m attractive too, and of those silly Bluetooth headsets that makes you look like an walk, a marked increase from last year’s could probably get away with that kind of manipulation, zero. Six more to go! alien ... and give it a spinning steel rim. You’re edgy, yo. but I have some self-respect. Do you think it’s demeaning to 9. Because that’s what scorpions do. Don’t use your looks to get out of a ticket? PISCES During your next staff meeting, when you find your- you know your cliched old stories? --Smart Girl self tired, dozing off and not paying attention, catch yourself. 10. On July 9, 1919. a flash flood destroyed Then stand up in the middle of whatever your boss is babbling the park killing five people. The park was Dear Smart Girl: on about, and then bellow, “I AM SPARTACUS!” Just try it. rebuilt but never regained its former It’s only demeaning when it doesn’t work. You might like it. popularity. I wonder why? YOUR THINK THEIR HANDS ARE DIRTY, YOU SHOULD SEE THE FRONTS OF THEIR SHIRTS. 29 OCTOBER 4-17
Although there is no question that Twenty joy the tour regardless, you might con- Dirty Hands provides a great way to sider buying something from them. That take in some art and nature on a crisp is how they put gas in the car and food on fall day, what some might not realize the table. Not to mention, the gift-giving is that the tour features some of the area’s season is just around the corner and what most notable potters. Lovers of the ce- better to give than a one-of-a-kind, hand- By contrast, potter Kent Henderson’s stu- ramic arts should note that we truly are made piece of functional art? Pottery Studio Tour dio is a somewhat “rustic” space above blessed to have so many talented artists October 12 – 14 his Galena garage that is collected in one area and that they are For more information on Twenty Dirty heated with a wood stove inviting all of us into their studios. Some Hands, including a map with directions by Mike Ironside until the winter gets too even put out a little food or some wine! to individual artists’ studios, visit www. cold. On a previous Twenty My point being that these are talented, twentydirtyhands.com, or e-mail Bill Far- Every autumn a collective Dirty Hands Tour, Hender- working artists and while you should en- rell at [email protected]. of ceramic artists band to- son explained to me how gether to host a studio and he usually has to roust out kiln tour in and around the the squirrels in the spring Northwest Illinois town of who find the studio a com- Galena. Known as Twenty fortable nesting place for Dirty Hands, the tour is a winter. But make no mis- great way to meet the art- take, Henderson’s studio is ists, see some amazing pot- a working one and not short tery and ceramic work, and on character. go for a drive on an autumn weekend. This year’s tour, While some studios might the seventh annual, is sched- be more production-orient- uled for Friday through Sun- ed (Paul Eshelman’s in Eliz- day, the weekend of October abeth, IL), and some have 12-14. Studios will be open an exhibit gallery attached from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. all (Adrienne Seagrave’s, also three days. in Elizabeth), for many the location that best expresses A great excuse for a weekend the spirit of Twenty Dirty leaf-viewing drive through Hands is not a studio but a the beautiful scenery sur- kiln site. rounding the Galena area, the tour is also a way to gain The Menominee Wood some insight into the process Kiln, just off Highway 20 and personality of the art- on the way to Galena, ists. “Each artist is a potter,” serves as a communal fir- explains participating art- ing and exhibition space for ist and Twenty Dirty Hands potters Ron Hahlen, Doug promoter Bill Farrell mat- Reynolds, and Stephanie ter-of-factly. “But each has O’Shaughnessy. Located a different style, each has a along a small creek in a different lifestyle and that is verdant pasture the potters reflected in the studio.” share with the occasional cow or goat, the wood and Farrell shares a warm and in- salt kilns combine a setting viting but very organized and fit for camping with a rustic professional studio with ce- and rough-hewn but very ramic artist Delores Fortuna capable working kiln site. on Buckhill Road northeast Firing for a week to create of Galena. Both are working the signature ash glazed ap- artists and while Farrell is re- pearance of wood-fired pot- tired from teaching, Fortuna tery, the crew will stoke the travels to Chicago to teach hardwood-fired kiln to over two days a week at the Art 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. Institute. WHO WOULD NAME THEIR KID DOBIE? MAYBE A HOUSE ELF? 30 OCTOBER 4-17
DOBIE AXWELL There’s nothing quite like improv comedy; Saturday, October 6, 9 PM knowing that the show you’re watching is es- Arthur House, Platteville, WI sentially unique, being created there on the A pro since 1985, ‘Mr. Lucky” is one spot, one-of-a-kind in history is pretty cool. of the top touring comics in the U.S. The Bell Tower Theater has been promoting he’s been on the Bob & Tom show, and improv comedy in the Tri-States for quite some opened for Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff time now, and now another opportunity for Foxworthy & Drew Carey. fans of shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway? to attend an improv show has arisen.
PAUL & STORM On Saturday, November 3, the Bell Tower The- Wednesday, October 10, 9 PM ater will present the return of Comedy Sportz, Live on Main Comedy @ Bricktown the award-winning comedy troupe from the Millions are familiar with Paul and Storm Quad Cities. The group’s prior performances from the years they spent as one-half of at the Bell Tower over the last three years have the widely acclaimed a cappella band Da all been sell-outs, and the theater is bringing Vinci’s Notebook. No subject is sacred Comedy Sportz back by popular demand. to this energetic pair as they keep you laughing with satirical original songs. Comedy Sportz focuses its humor on all-age- friendly material, with the motto “No off-col- LIVE COMEDY or humor — don’t need it, don’t want it. You Wednesday, October 17, 9 PM can stand on the street and hear people cuss Live on Main Comedy @ Bricktown for free.” Can’t argue with that; after all, Bill Come early and enjoy great Budweisr Cosby is still funny after all these years! drink specials before tonight comedy. And, as always, free comedy the week of Tickets for Com- your birthday! edy Sportz are $17, and they GERRY GROSSMAN are available Saturday, October 29, 9 PM now at the Bell Arthur House, Platteville, WI Tower Theater “The Human Jukebox” presents a fabulous- box office, located at 2728 Asbury Road. Dis- ly entertaining Rock & roll comedy show as counts are available for groups of 20 or more. he plays guitar and sings from a repertoire For ticketing or additional information, call of thousands of hits from 1955 to 1970. 563-588-3377, or visit the Web site at www.
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Meandering Channel reminds us of the important role the Mis- Carl Rogers, Johnston, Iowa sissippi plays in the commerce, not only of 8’ x 7’ 6” x 4’ sandblasted coated steel Dubuque, but of the whole tri-state area. and native limestone. This piece of sculp- Price: $3,800 ture is to be built as a marker of fluvial systems and river hydrology. As rivers age and form, the flow of water sculpts the bank of meandering through the wel- coming earth. The bend in the stream de- Opening Celebration posits alluvium and cuts the outer bank Thursday, October 4 into a spiral-arching contour. Meander- ing Channel is constructed of welded Art on the River, the public art initiative steel and recalls the meandering narrative begun by the City of Dubuque last year and natural contour of a river oxbow. The at the Port of Dubuque, returns with a native limestone bed resonates the sur- whole new installation of sculptural work rounding geology of Dubuque and serves for 2007/08. An Opening Celebration to strives to evoke in the viewer reflections of Native American culture through the as the basin for the steel sculpture. commemorate this year’s project is set Price: $15,000 for Thursday, October 4, from 5 to 6 p.m. use of amorphous shapes to create in the Waking at the Alliant Amphitheater at the Port of viewer’s minds eye images stemming from Stephanie Sailer, Cedar Falls, Iowa Dubuque. Following a program at 5:15, Native American Culture. The theme to Waking represents a seedpod, recently an hors d’oeuvre reception will be held evoke these images is a balance between unfurled. Within a small, tough shell at Stone Cliff Winery in the Star Brewery, theme and the sculptural quality of move- lies the potential for expansive growth. which will also serve as a rain site for the ment and the dynamics of form, space and Though life is complex and intricate, it event. Weather permitting, guests will textural qualities of the material. always begins simply, similar to a hardy be able to view the seven new sculptures Price: $6,000 tree budding from a small seed. installed at various points along the Riv- Price: $2,000 erwalk and at the Port and meet many of the artists. The Opening Celebration and reception is free and open to the public.
The Art on the River project, modeled af- ter similar projects in other cities, was be- gun last year as one of the final features of America’s River Phase I. Sponsored by the City of Dubuque and the City’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, the Art on the River process begins by solicit- Escapade ing proposals from a large pool of artists. Bruce White, DeKalb, Illinois Submitted proposals are considered by a 13’ 6” aluminum sculpture. The look is jury who selects work to be commissioned its own unique statement and should be for construction. Selected artists receive a enjoyed for its own original image. Price: $18,000 stipend from the City of Dubuque. Once installed, the artwork remains on display throughout the year, but is for sale to private or corporate buyers. At the Hairball Viracocha John Anderson-Bricker, Dubuque, Iowa end of the display period, which will be Robert Thorpe, Cedar Rapids, IA This sculpture is 3’ wide x 11’ tall, made June of 2008 for this year’s installation, 7’2” sculpture of steel, stainless steel, of metal, concrete and mosaic. Hairball the artwork will be auctioned at a special aluminum and brass. Viracocha is part of features three free-formed mosaic-sur- event. The City will retain 25 percent of the artist’s “stellae” series. The series is a faced concrete ball shapes suspended the sale price, which will be reinvested relatively new one and offers an homage from an armature of mechanical and in funding and sustaining the Art on the to Native American art, especially the structural appearance. Each ball’s sur- River program. The remaining income high civilizations of Central and South face contains both relief and mosaic from the sale of work, or any unsold art- America. It is made of 4 different met- designs derived from the animal world. work will return to the artists. Each year, als for contrast. Both the front and back The surface designs contrast playful, un- a new series of proposals will be con- have imagery that is similar but unique. controlled and unpredictable character- sidered for display. Art on the River 07 Price: $8,000 features the following sculptures, each istics of the non-human world against described by the creating artist: the solid, heavy and static characteristics of concrete and steel. The City Arts and Cultural Affairs Advisory Price: $6,000 Commission, which administers the Art on Utica Rio Corriente the River program along with City staff, in- Donald Noon, Streator, Illinois Jim Ehlinger, Dubuque, Iowa cludes local artists and educators, repre- Utica 2005 belongs to a series of four sculp- Rio Corriente celebrates the power and sentatives from the Dubuque Museum of tures. The theme of this series comes from majesty of the Mississippi River. Bright Art, and City staff. The budget for the pro- the Native American legend of Starved stainless steel mimics the reflective quality gram, approved by the City Council last Rock and the large Native American vil- of water, bringing local color to enhance year is $300,000, over the next 10 years. lage that was established on the banks the piece. The undulating shapes of the For more information on Art on the River, of the Illinois River, which is now near steel call to mind the waves, currents and contact Neighborhood Development Spe- present day Utica, Illinois. The sculpture swirls of the water. Its vessel-like shape cialist Jerelyn O’Connor at 563-589-4110.