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DECEMBER 31, 2014–JANUARY 14, 2015 ISSUE #229 4 RETRO REWIND: CARS & GUITARS Enjoy a full day of “Kustom Kulture” and entertainment at the Five Flags Center 6 DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA/YWCA 26 PURA VIDA ADVENTURE & RETREAT 10 USHL/NHL TOP PROSPECTS GAME 28 EAST MILL FOOD REVIEW 24 NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENTS TRI-STATE EVENTS ARTS NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS 8 16 18 28 365INK PRODUCTION STAFF 365INK ADVERTISING STAFF Bryce Parks Publisher, Everything Else Kelli Kerrigan [email protected] [email protected] • 563-581-7014 Mike Ironside Feature Writer, Photographer Lisa Stevenson [email protected] [email protected] • 563-580-1691 Kristina Nesteby Layout Ninja, Designer [email protected] 365INK CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rich Belmont Argosy’s Food For Thought Bob Gelms Bob’s Book Reviews [email protected] [email protected] Matt Booth Mattitude Pam Kress-Dunn Feature Writer [email protected] [email protected] Sara Carpenter Do It Yourself Advice Ryan Werner Dr. McCracken [email protected] SPECIAL THANKS Christy Monk, Gina Siegert, Ryan Decker, Neil Stockel, Kay Kluseman, Ken Kline, Margie Blair, Fran Parks, Julie Steffen, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, Julie Griffin, bacon, Dave Haas, Steven Schleuning, Tim Brechlin, Roy & Deb Buol, Jeff Lenhart, Gen. Bob Felderman, all of our 365 friends and advertisers... and you for reading. Dubuque365/365ink Magazine WHERE’S WANDO 432 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 •Dubuque365.com • 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him? All contents © 2014, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. 2 TOC & INKWELl 365INK MAGAZINE DECEMBER 31, 2014–JANUARY 14, 2015 ISSUE #229 DUBUQUE365.COM HERE IS WHAT’S HAPPENING I’ve escaped for a week to the frozen have. Well this place’s fresh rolls are made tundra of Minneapolis to visit my in-laws from yucca flour and cheese and she CAN FOR FREE AT THE DIAMOND JO! and basically just eat for days on end. I eat them, a feat she happily demonstrated did try to get a run in on the first night. about 14 times over during the meal. I left the house on dry pavement but by So you see, basically everything about my third time around the neighborhood, this trip revolves around food. I need to there was a 1/4" of snow on the ground go home soon or I’m gonna gain back 20 and I was starting to slip and slide. I’m pounds by New Year’s Eve! sure I could probably have tried a few And somehow I also find myself more times since then but, well, there’s a reading five books at the same time lot food here that needs to be eaten! here, too. There’s the one I was reading Fortunately, Christy’s mom, Arlene, is before I came, another fantasy novel. a killer cook so every night is pretty much The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley. like the best meal of the year. And if that’s Book one of a long series I’m trying out. not enough there are enough cookies and So far it’s just okay. Mostly, I’m just killing :00pm-7:00pm | 4 brownies around to feed a small army. time until Brandon Sanderson’s next ays nesd And I’ve basically polished off most of a book comes out next week, a sequel to Wed jar of her homemade back raspberry jam Steelheart called Firefight. Read ‘em! all by myself this week. I am not ashamed. Everything he writes is great. And he’s Your first entry is free! Each session winner It’s fantastic. one prolific dude. receives $25 in Diamond Dollars. Other than some quick jaunts to Whole Then there’s the one we decided to Foods and Whole Foods again, we’ve listen to together while driving to and mostly hunkered in and slept in. Though from Minnesota, a historical mystery/ FRIDAYS | 5:00PM-8:00PM I have had some excuse. Apparently treasure/thriller that we seem to enjoy on there’s this newspapers the thing back in these trips. But we’ve burned through all Take a free spin on us Dubuque that insists on being published of the Dan Brown and Steve Berry books on a deadline every two weeks whether I so we had to take a crap shoot with a each Friday for your leave town or not. So I’m making 365ink’s new author, the Alexander Cipher by Will chance to win! on a leather couch in the den (with Adams. So far… eh, we’ll see. cookies) in Minnetonka, Minnesota. I’ve also been sort of rehashing the We did escape one night. We actually end of Winter of the World, book 2 of usually hit the Museum of Art of something Ken Follet’s Century Trilogy, because I each Christmas for whatever the current now have book three, Edge of Eternity, exhibit is. In the past it’s been Treasures of and want to remember where the hell the Vatical, Georgia O’Keefe, and last year book two left off. There are only like 100 was the Terra Cotta Warriors from China. characters to remember in his epic story This we’re we went a little low brow with arcs. But they’re all very good reads. He’s some local Minnesotan Theatre as we saw the Pillars of the Earth dude. the parody A Don’t Hug Me Christmas I cracked into the book I got for FREE EARLY BIRD Carol featuring such original holiday gems Christmas from my friend Katie called Eat SLOT TOURNAMENT as “Gramma Cut the Christmas Cheese,” Bacon, Don’t Jog. It’s actually a real book “Gunner Fell Into an Ice Hole,” “The Wheel about diet and exercise with a heavy is Turnin’ but the Hamster is Dead,” and “I dose of humor and realistic sarcasm… MONDAYS Love You More Than Football.” It’s bad by and bacon. And, of course, I decided that 7:00AM-10:00AM popular demand for the however many- I had to read the book that she gave my FREE COFFEE eth year in a row. I guess I need to be from wife for Christmas too, The Alchemist by & DONUTS Minnesota? Paulo Coelho. It’s her favorite book and $ OVER Then again, I might have been looking she reads it at the start of every summer, 500 IN DIAMOND DOLLARS AND forward to dinner too much. We hit Fogo in Spanish, because she’s just that much PRIZES EACH WEEK! De Chau after the show. If you’ve never cooler than I am. It’s a simple read, but I been there it’s a Brazilian Steakhouse find myself thinking about it a lot. I guess where you basically have a bunch of the simple things ARE the extraordinary To participate in any of these events, just swipe your goucho’s waking around the room with things? See Katie, I retained something! Diamond Club card at an offer kiosk. Not a Diamond Club member? a variety of meats on a skewer and they But the paper’s almost done, and I come over to your table and shave some need to run and use the Jacuzzi at the Become one today, it’s easy to join and it’s free! off onto your plate. Yeah, exactly. I didn’t Y and have a band practice or two to Must be a Diamond Club member, and 21 or older. If you or someone you know needs gambling treatment, call 1-800-BETS OFF. even dream it. Naturally, it’s not my first make some noise, so we’re buggin’ out time there. It even had a completely here soon. As soon as we polish off all amazing salad bar and I’m not just saying of these leftovers, or as they call them ® ® that because the salad bad includes a big here, Mustgo’s. Gotta get back to town bowl of bacon. But it sure doesn’t hurt. in time for New Year’s Eve. I’ve got some And my wife is gluten free and suffers hardcore board game playing to do that through restaurant after restaurant of night! And something tells me we’re Port of Dubuque | DiamondJo.com amazing smelling fresh bread she can’t going to be eating a lot of garlic. n DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #229 DE15091Fsg_DL_GamingCEMBER Slot31, 2014–JANUARYTourn_DBQ365_AD_Size 14, 2015 4.5”W x 365INK10.375”H_4C_Drop MAGAZINE Date INKUBA 1.1.15 tor 3 COVER STORY SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 @ FIVE FLAGS Just when you thought there would be nothing to do in the bleak period that follows the holidays, Retro Rewind comes racing into Five Flags with a full day of “Kustom Kulture” and entertainment. Now in its second year, the event which is subtitled “Cars & Guitars” returns Saturday, January 10 with an arena full of vintage hot rods and motorcycles, classic guitars, and live music from 9 AM–7 PM, followed by an evening concert in the Five Flags Theater starting at 7 PM. BY MIKE IRONSIDE Created by Vintage Torque Fest promoter John assures us. “They’re still cool hot rods and custom cars, Wells, Retro Rewind is sort of an early pre-party and choppers and bobbers as far as motorcycles go, but for that sprawling May weekend event and in they’re just going to be a little bit higher quality. We had a sense, a single day slice of the same. Being 700 cars at Torque Fest this year and thousands and limited by the available space, Retro Rewind thousands of spectators.