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JUNE 10–JUNE 23, 2021 ISSUE #384 THE INKWELL Bryce Parks Publisher & Everything Else [email protected] Kristina Nesteby Design & Layout [email protected] Mike Ironside Nightlife [email protected] Lisa Stevenson Advertising [email protected] 563-580-1691 Lori Menke Advertising COVER [email protected] 20 Q Casino Back Waters 319-450-5151 Stage Concerts Return Live music is back with eight big shows CONTRIBUTING WRITERS on Chaplain Schmitt Island this summer Gwen Beatty Good Advice FEATURES [email protected] 16 Be AWARE Pet Program Matt Booth 17 Pride in the Tri-States Mattitude 18 Upcoming Events at Five Flags [email protected] 23 Gary Dolphin’s Iron Bar Sara Carpenter Grand Opening DIY Advice 30 Bread and Vine Bakery [email protected] 35 Picture Yourself in the Tri-States Danny Fairchild Dining & Horoscopes SECTIONS [email protected] 4 Events Bob Gelms 15 Arts Bob’s Book Reviews [email protected] 24 Nightlife 30 Columnists Pam Kress-Dunn Columnist [email protected] WHERE’S WANDO? We’ve hidden Wando Sunil Malapati somewhere in this issue of Dining 365ink. Can you fi nd him? [email protected] Sara Eliot Steuer 365ink Magazine Feature Writer 432 Bluff St, Dubuque, IA 52001 [email protected] 563-588-4365 [email protected] SPECIAL THANKS Dubuque365.com Facebook: @Dubuque365 Christy Monk, Gina Siegert, Julien’s Journal, Fran Instagram: @365ink Parks, Tim Brechlin, Gen. Bob Felderman, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, Dave Haas, Rich Belmont & All contents © 2006–2021, Margie Blair, Mike Damaso, Paul Gilligan, Community Incorporated. All rights Paul & Sandy Meyer, Coco the offi ce dog, reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. Wesley Cat, Copper Kettle’s Seared Sesame Tuna Bowls, all of our 365ink friends and advertisers… and you for reading. 2 365INK MAGAZINE JUNE 10–JUNE 23, 2021 ISSUE #384 DUBUQUE365.COM Last week we moved our good friend Tim back to it was both a major relief and at the same time an Dubuque. Tim was the editor of 365ink for quite a energizing boost. 365ink is hitting on all cylinders while before moving to Madison, then Baltimore, once again, and we’re so thrilled that everyone who then back to Madison. In the last few years, his health supports our community efforts by advertising to took a severe hit. It seemed like life was knocking our brilliant and beautiful loyal readers (that’s you … him down, then kicking him while he was there. At take a bow) has come back into our pages. The fact least once, the doctors told him he should be dead. that their reinvestment in me happened as I decided This last year, Tim spent what seems like half of the to invest in my friend Tim will be taken as a sign. year in the hospital. (Tim’s note: After checking my The fact that I shot an eagle on the Lacoma Gold records, this is essentially accurate. 192 days.) course’s treacherously narrow and steep hole #3 I don’t think Tim will mind me saying that yesterday might be more of an issue of dumb damn being out of commission, out of work, and without luck, but you can have that one too, Tim. We also a support system in Madison left him in a pretty booked vacation plane tickets this week. I’d call that terrible predicament. I visited him last month to more good vibes, but not after I saw the bill to fly see what I could do to help. It was pretty clear to to Maine. We could literally fly to Spain for less. But me that staying there with no one to have his back vacation is vacation, and I have two coming up this was not going to be a solution. Between health, summer. Score another win for me. Oh, and I found money, and just the completely crappy idea of facing a stack of gift cards I forgot I had while washing and all of that alone, as difficult as I knew it would be, waxing my Jeep this weekend, so it looks like we’re I simply was not going to let my friend face that doing some extra dining out in June. People who are future. He’s about the smartest smartass around, my friends on Facebook are thinking to themselves, and we need to keep him around a lot longer. “Um, dude … don’t you dine out enough already?” So I told him we need to get him back to Dubuque, Hey, it’s my job. Can’t you see that eating that croque which was his home for about a decade, and a place monsieur and chocolate mousse at Bread and Vine where he knew people and could make a life. That in Galena is work for me!? Have some compassion! meant I, or whatever suckers I could wrangle up, I still have not won the $108 that the Otherside would have to do the heavy lifting (literally) of moving Bar gives away during the 7th inning stretch of every him. But we found him a great little place with a Cubs game, so come on karma, kick it in gear, man! grade-level entry on the first floor just a couple blocks And it finally warmed up. We skipped right from my own home; somewhere he can heal, find back to the beautiful high 70s and went right for his feet and get back to life. Hell, the guy’s not even the sticky 90s. Oh, goodie. But I won’t let it get 40 and has the writing, design, and programming me down. It’s great weather for sweating off a few skills to do just about any computer-skilled gig out pounds. The only thing that can frustrate me now there. We just need to get him healthy again. He is my ongoing battle with the garbage men. recently had surgery that was a huge help to his Yeah, OK, so they don’t know we’re in a battle well-being and a good chance for better days ahead. and surely they don’t care either, but I find myself I promise you, however, that halfway through in one of those catch-22 moments where there loading a second-floor apartment into a truck in is no winning the battle of trash mountain. Madison had me hating life there for a while. But we It all started back when they refused to empty loose got through it, thanks to my friends, who always just garbage from an oversize can. Apparently, outdoor say yes when I ask them to help me help someone cans have a 32-gallon size limit, as well as 40 pounds. else. Those are good friends to have around. We just I get it. There have to be guidelines. But my 50-gallon need a few younger ones in the mix if there’s going BRUTE was filled with stuff like styrofoam and plastic to be a lot more moving of furniture involved. from unwrapping an appliance or something. The full I know that the next months could go either way can was probably 15 pounds, tops, but they won’t pick for Tim. I’m crossing everything I have to cross that it up because it’s more than 32 gallons. They will only this is step one in his triumphant return to normalcy, take bags out of it that they can reach. So I got myself but we both know that health can be a bastard a 32-gallon can. I can follow the rules. This can, they sometimes. So I realize that I’ve signed myself up to will pick up, and they do. In the past, they pounded do what’s got to be done to help Tim on that path. the can so hard on the back ledge of the garbage truck The idea that it’s not my problem to solve was not that it shattered the plastic around the rim of the can. really a consideration for me. When there’s no one Fast forward to this month. Something at the else around to solve you, and you have the resources bottom of that can smells like death and hate are to do it, that is the test. I choose to do this. And having a graduation party. The problem now is that now if karma wants to pay me back, I’ll take it. they seem to only be pulling bags out of my 32-gallon Honestly, the last couple of weeks I think can like they did with the BRUTE, because the same karma has been paying me back. I’ve noticed small collection of trash (and whatever it is in there an awful lot of things that could go either way that could be used in chemical warfare) remains at the going my way. I’ll credit that to Tim karma. base of the can, week in and week out. So what do I Getting through the COVID shutdown for a wish for? That they go back to pounding that can on publication like ours that thrives on people getting the truck edge to get Chernobyl’s baby to finally fall out out and participating in cultural activities was of the can while they further trash the rim of the can, definitely an uphill battle. First, the places we help or do I want them to spare the life of the can and let to be successful need to come back, and only then the evil fester? I guess the answer should be for me to can we really come back.