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the 365 inkwell { bryce parks } Publisher, Writer, Designer, Layout [email protected] { mike ironside } Writer, Designer, Photography [email protected] { kristina nesteby } Designer [email protected] On The Cover: { kelli kerrigan } Advertising 6 • five flags theater turns 100 [email protected] | 563-451-9365 10 • eastern iowa outlaws roller derby { kate lydon } 12 • 365 turns ten! Advertising [email protected] | 515-441-6754 26 • special issue: tri-state weddings { patricia reisen–ottavi, j.d. } issue #118 • September 30 - October 13 Director of Operations [email protected] 4 community briefs 20 bud music listings 32 bob’s book reviews 10 arts briefs 22 death by murder 33 pam kress-dunn { brad parks } 13 mattitude 23 20 dirty hands 34 puzzles Community, Incorporated, C.E.O 14 five flags events 24 argosy’s food review 35 mayor buol/ riverview [email protected] 17 fall into art 26 special issue 36 trixie / dr. skraps 18 movies 30 ten questions 38 pet corner { matt booth } 19 nightlife 31 eating healthy 39 dock dogs Mattitude [email protected] { pam kress-dunn } [email protected] { bob gelms } Bob’s Book Reviews { mayor roy buol } Buol on Dubuque { rich belmont } Argosy’s Food For Thought [email protected] { l.a. hammer } Trixie Kitsch: Bad Advice For The Stupid special thanks to: Lisa Stevenson, Ron Vaassen, Nolan Reisen Tim Brechlin, Jon Schmitz, Ralph Kluseman, Kay Kluseman, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Marty Raymon, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Mark Dierker, and all the 365 friends and advertisers for a decade of support! { dubuque365 / 365ink } Where’s Wando? 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 you find the master of movies buried within these pages? All contents © 2010, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2 { september 30 - october 13 } 365ink www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } for our 20th birthday, we’re getting clickers made. no one can compete with clickers. 365 has been around for ten years. It seems like great business model, but true to our mission. two weeks and at the same time ten lifetimes. Who else would start as a website first, THEN I look back at photos galleries on Dubuque365. start a newspaper just as the world was sound- com and I’ll see a photo from seven years ago ing the death knell of printed press. We’re clearly that I would swear was two or three years ago, not right in the head. tops. Then again, there are some that I can’t even remember taking. And I’m relatively certain Eventually we grew up a bit. We still do things for I wasn’t drunk at the time. Then again, if it was a many people very cost-effectively and our crew Dubuque Night in Des Moines, all bets are off. I knows the meaning of giving back. It was, is and also see myself looking much younger in those always will be at the heart of what we do at 365, old photos and thinner (but not much). whatever it is that we do here. It’s definitely not something that easily fits into a mission state- I can remember way back wondering if we’d be ment on the back of a business card. But we’ve here ten years later and, if so, what we might do touched a lot of lives and a lot of projects in to mark the occasion. Surely, if you survive ten Dubuque in the past decade, even more. As years you must have thrived and can probably Mayor Buol says, Dubuque has been a real trans- drop some scratch on a big shindig. Reality, how- forming community the past decade. Awards ever, is not always what you dream. On the one and recognition are pouring on the community. hand, if you would have told me ten years ago Prosperity and economic growth have contin- what 365’s gross annual income is today, I’d have ued despite some pretty terrible conditions fainted and hit the floor. On the other hand, I had nation wide. Arts and culture are stronger than little understanding at the time what an office ever and the live music scene in Dubuque is building, a dozen employees, insurance, printing probably the healthiest in the state. Is it a coin- bills, server bills and the lot can add up to. Well cidence that this has all happened during our I’ll tell you. There are a good number of people tenure.? Probably. : ) But seriously, I think that the employed and enjoying their work because of consistent dedication that 365 has shown to the our growth, but in the end, the gross annual net cultural climate in Dubuque has indeed made a revenue is just about the same as it was the first significant impact. Not just because I can walk year. The big difference now is that we have a lot out onto any street corner in Dubuque and see more potential, friends, and power to get things some way that we were involved in transform- accomplished in our community. ing that corner, but because you keep telling us that we’re doing it right. Almost since day one, people and organiza- tions have been coming to 365 to help them Oh, I know we’re not perfect. But we try damn get things done. Event organization, graphic hard and pound for pound, I think 365 cranks out design, web design, video production, photog- more impact for the dollar that anyone else in raphy, copyediting, you name it. And of course, town. And that doesn’t happen because you’re for many years, these were people who either paid well to do it. That only happens when you didn’t have the resources to pay for it, or had just really care about want you do. I always thought spent all their money with someone who didn’t that if you could find a way to do what you love get them what they needed and now they were and make a living doing it, you were in good broke and desperate. And naturally, because shape. So I guess I’m in pretty good shape. These we saw them as vital and important members days, 365ink and Dubuque365.com are actually of the cultural and civic fabric of this city, we only a part of what we do at 365. They’re like the did things for free, for trade and for favors to be tip of the iceberg you see in public and wonder named later. We’ve got a lot of favors saved up, what were doing in that building at 4th & Locust let me tell you. that I promise WILL soon have a sign again. The answer... it’s a secret! Before long we were seeing evidence of 365 popping up all over. Not just in the stuff we put Thanks for reading and contributing for the last out, but in the stuff that people we helped put ten years. I wonder where we’ll be ten years out. Today I see hundreds of logos, photos, lay- from now. I hear this internet thingy is taking off. out designs, video clips and more in publications After all, newspapers are dead right? Maybe we’ll and on billboards; pretty much everywhere. We bring back the 8-track. Jon in our office is already always just kind of let people who were doing hard at work bringing back the mustache. Slow things for the right reason have our stuff. Not a going on that front. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink { september 30 - october 13 } 3 { community briefs } first i chili, then i trot. Family Beer & Liquor’s Annual Fall Wine Tasting At Family Beer & Liquor in East Dubuque Thursday, October 21, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Sample over 100 wines plus several spirits and beers with terrific hors d’oeuvres at the popular annual tasting event hosted by Family Beer & Liquor. Tickets are just $20 in Advance and $25 at the door. All proceeds at 1 p.m. with a second show at 3:30 p.m.). Dubuque Jaycees Chili Trot benefit the Rotary Club of Dubuque. If you have not yet heard of or seen these 5K Run & 2K Run/Walk rightfully named amazing cats, by all means Tri-States’ Largest Chili Cook-Off Saturday, October 2 Money Ahead Video Contest look them up on the interwebs and watch Saturday, October 2 The Dubuque Jaycees Chili Trot 5k fun run Dupaco Community Credit Union and them jump through hoops, ride skate- Cable Car Square and 2K run/walk will be held the morning Mediacom have partnered on the first-ever boards, walk the high-wire and rock out in The Tri-State’s Largest Chili Cook-Off is here! of Chili Cook-Off, Saturday, October 2. The Money Ahead Video Contest challenging a band. If watching video of the Acrocats The 17th installment of the fest/feast/compe- run will start at 9 a.m. at A.Y. McDonald Park area residents to create a 30-second video performance does not make you think that tition is Saturday, October 2 from 10 a.m. to 5 and proceed along the riverwalk. Both runs sharing their tips on saving more and spend- they are adorable and inspire you to go see p.m. on Bluff Street at 4th Street, right in the end at A.Y. McDonald Park as well. Water will ing less. Contest entries are being accepted them live, well, you must be a dog person.