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on the cover: 12 • life begins at 65 18 • julien film festival 28 • galena wine lovers’ weekend 30 • st. patty’s day events’ issue #182 • march 14 -27, 2013 4 community briefs 28 galena wine lovers’ weekend 8 what women want 30 st. patty’s weekend events 10 arts 33 mattitude 11 easter brunches 34 bob’s book reviews 12 life begins at 65 35 do-it-yourself w/ sara 17 elisha darlin arts award 36 leisure services events 18 julien film festival 36 public ibrary events 19 movies 37 pam kress-dunn 20 mark dierker / tim rushlow 38 wellness 21 budweiser nightlife 40 puzzles 22 local live music 41 eating healthy with hy-vee 25 moon bar entertainment 42 trixie kitsch 26 argosy’s food for thought 43 dr. skraps 365ink production staff 365ink contributing writers { matt booth } { bryce parks } Mattitude [email protected] [email protected] Publisher, Everything Else { pam kress-dunn } { mike ironside } Feature Writer [email protected] [email protected] Feature Writer, Photography { bob gelms } { kristina nesteby } Bob’s Book Reviews [email protected] [email protected] Ad Designer { rich belmont } 365ink advertising staff Argosy’s Food For Thought [email protected] { lisa stevenson } 563-580-1691 { l.a. hammer } [email protected] Trixie Kitsch: Bad Advice For The Stupid { kelli kerrigan } 563-581-7014 { sara carpenter } [email protected] Do it Yourself Advice [email protected] { nick moler } 563-513-7874 { aaron hefel } Live Music Features [email protected] [email protected] special thanks to: Brad Parks, Margie Blair, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Kay Kluseman, Ralph Kluseman, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Steven Schleuning , Mark Dierker, Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Julien’s Journal, Roy & Deb Buol, Gen. Bob Felderman and all of our 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } 432 Bluff Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 Where’s Wando dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando some- All contents © 2013, Community, Incorporated. where in this issue of 365ink. All rights reserved. Can you find him? 2 { march 14 - 27, 2013 } 365ink Magazine | issue #182 www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } i’ll show you an impact! Our cover story is on living it up after 65. I’m to flee from the king’s army, you know the only 40, so at this point, I still look at 65 as a gay brother king.” That’s my best description. lofty goal to simply achieve. I wonder if it’ll be Then she says, “Renley Baratheon,” and rattles my body or mind mind to slip first. off all of the names and plot points I can’t even remember and knows where they are in Based on resent evidence, and against what the story better than me, and she didn’t even my sizable belly would tell you, I think it could read the book. I apparently have forgotten be my mind. I keep forgetting the stupidest half of it. little things. To test my theory that there’s a hole in my I’ll go upstairs to get my wallet or my phone brain where non-critical data passes right and come back down without it and try to through me, I’ve started re-reading the Eye remember what I even did when I was up of the World by Robert Jordan. It’s book one there. Or I’ll drive across town and either of a zillion book Wheel of Time series which forget where I’m going or just drive right by Brandon Sanderson had to finish because as though the force was telling me it had Jordan died. It’s that long. Sanderson’s another plan for me. Do you ever pick up Mistborn trilogy is awesome by the way. I the phone to call someone and then have no just read it and now Christy is… so I guess idea who you were going to call? Or do you I’ll find out everything I missed when I read completely blank on the name of someone it. I’ve read Eye of the World before and you know extremely well if only for a moment. got through most of book two before I got distracted elsewhere. It’s been a few months Unlike me, I think my wife has a steel trap for so I thought I’d start over so it would be fresh. a mind. It’s most notable when we discuss Man, it’s like I never read it the first time. I books we’ve both read. My retention seems must have listened to half of it while going to to be absolute crap. She’s a speed reader, sleep and missed parts I didn’t know I missed sometimes polishing off whole books in a or something, because it sure makes a lot night, the old fashioned way. I basically read more sense (and is better) this time around. at the pace of the narrator reading me the book to me while I’m working on the paper. Maybe I just need some ginseng. Now, I know I’m distracted by work, but the names of characters and major plot points We got mom an iPad for Christmas a couple should stick, don’t you think? of years ago. I think it might be better than all other Christmas presents of Christmas’ past I was watching Game of Thrones last week, all put together. She loves that thing. Aside the only show i think I’ve ever purchased on from replacing her little Nook, it also does, DVD. I’ve read all of the books as well. Being well, you know… everything. One of her Christy, she watched a bit of the show but favorite things is those mind puzzles. She says hated all of the gory stuff, so she opted not it keeps her sharp. I see other people posting to watch with me. But she was often in and puzzles like she plays on Facebook all the out of the room, so she’d get sucked into it for time when they get stumped on one. They’re spans at a time. Unbeknownst to me, she went rather addicting. I was thinking I should start on Wikipedia and read the long synopses of playing them, but I can just imagine the hours all of the books and the characters because, of time sucked into that vortex. I already have though she doesn’t want to watch or read it, a vortex sucking away all the hours of my like she does need to know what happens. This is and you’re reading it right now. my wife. I’ve gotta do something to focus my brain. So I’m watching the end of season 2 and Maybe there’s just too much on my plate. she asks me a question about the story I know Christy would say “duh” to that. But and how it matches with the book and I’m someone’s gotta do it. So I need a new trying to remember back to book two. I’ve solution. I don’t have that yet, but if I set gone through five books now, and about something down by the front door while I 20 similar-type sword and kingdom based put on my coat then walk out right past the fantasy fiction novels since. So it’s all fuzzy, so thing I set down and go to work without it I’m saying stuff like “What’s her face just had one more time, I’m gonna freak out! www.Dubuque365.com 365ink Magazine | issue #182 { march 14 - 27, 2013 } 3 { community events } come to the kids expo and take home the most cutting-edge kids! Alumni Basketball Tournament with a unique blend of comedy, magic, Tri-State Living Tournament, March 15-17 & 22-24 and cutting-edge illusion. Crist creates Green Expo The annual Alumni Basketball Tournament an incredible theatrical performance for March 16, 9 a.m. - is open to Hempstead, Senior, Wahlert and the entire family audience. Reserved seats 3:30 p.m. East Dubuque High School alumni. Modern/ are $15 and $10 for under 21 attendees 4H Building - Women’s Divisions play the first weekend, and available at the Grand Opera House FREE ADMISSION Dubuque Winter Farmers’ Market Classic/Masters Divisions play the next. For Box office (563)-588-1305, or online at Hosted by Organic Valley & Dubuque Con- Every Saturday - 9 a.m. – noon registration materials, call (563) 589-4263, www.thegrandoperahouse.com. servation Society, this farm & home show November – April email [email protected], or visit will offer more than 25 local and sustain- The Colts Center, 1101 Central Ave. www.cityofdubuque.org/adultathletics. able vendors. To learn more click here or Winter Market is open every Saturday contact Ray Weigel (563)557-2346 or Joe morning from 9 a.m. to noon, through Klein (608)778-8811 or email Joe at joe. April. 30 vendors provide a wide variety [email protected] Admission is of produce, meats, eggs, cheese and Free and there will be lots of door prizes! baked goods throughout the winter. The Dubuque Winter Farmers’ Market is a volunteer-run project sponsored Taste of the World by The Four Mounds Foundation, Saturday, March 16, 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Colts Drum & Bugle Corps, and Five Flags Arena Premier Bank. Visit facebook.com/ Experience and celebrate Dubuque’s diverse DBQ County Kids Expo DubuqueWinterFarmersMarket. culture at the Multicultural Family Center’s Saturday, March 16, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.