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APRIL 9–APRIL 22, 2015 ISSUE #236 Photo: Ronald Tigges - DigitalDubuque.com 20 A CONVERSATION WITH KATE MULGREW 30 JULIEN DUBUQUE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Immerse yourself in all things film with Dubuque native Kate Mulgrew and the 2015 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival. 6 DUBUQUE DIAMOND DASH 29 DUBUQUE YOGA FESTIVAL 15 VINTAGE TORQUE FEST 34 BRAZEN OPEN KITCHEN | BAR EVENTS ARTS NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS 4 16 22 34 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 [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 © 2015, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. 2 TOC & INKWELl 365INK MAGAZINE APRIL 9–APRIL 22, 2015 ISSUE #236 DUBUQUE365.COM My awesome wife is a wee bit of a plumbers, though one of us is technically worry wart… in much the same way that an architect. Finally, I (or the wife, as she the pope is a wee bit religious. recalls) think to check the basement. Mostly I find her fretting humorous and What a novel idea! Really not good! Is I think she appreciates that I roll with it, there water? Yes. Is it from the water line? but occasionally it gets to me. But that’s No. It’s the sewer, and it’s backed up into usually just because she’s locked me out the basement. And it smells fantastic! of the house while I was out mowing the Aside from instantly realizing what lawn. But I mean, who breaks into the the issue upstairs was, the other thing house in the middle of the day, right? that popped into my head was, “the one One of her little givings-in to day we don’t check the basement!!!” We paranoia is that she asks me to check would have known about this problem a the basement every night before we day earlier. But no. I gotta go cut corners go to bed. Or, because she often goes and be lazy. You see what happens? to bed earlier, before she goes to bed. There’s a moral in this story guys and I For a while she could pass this off as think it’s that you’re always supposed to conventional concern that there could listen to and do whatever your wife asks be water getting in the basement or you to do because, a) she’s probably that it needs a follow-up check on a bug right and b) eventually, much like a problem she saw earlier in the week. But broken watch being correct twice a day, eventually she had to admit that there’s eventually one day there’s going to be a larger overriding reason to check the something wrong in the basement. basement every night. Basically, if we The next thing I learned is that there don’t give the basement a quick daily is no right answer when picking a rooter sweep, the odds that this is the night that guy. We called #1 and left a message. After there’s a burglar/axe murderer who’s a half hour we don’t get a call back, and been patiently hanging out down there in were getting a little worried. So we called total silence waiting for us to go to bed #2. They answered right away and said are about 137%. So we check. Every night, they’d be there within the hour. Super! we check. Sometimes there is actually a Unfortunately, they didn’t specify within little water. Sometimes there are some which hour they’d be there. Then the first bugs. So the checks are semi-legitimized. guy calls back. Too late. Or is it? I had to be Tuesdays are band practice… in the at work (or a concert) two hours later. So basement. So we’re covered there! after all of our nightly axe murder safety In all fairness, the truth is she checks sweeps, I leave my wife at home alone two the basement at least as often as I do. hours later with rooter man #2. Luckily, he She knows I just do it to appease her, so was nice and not a murderer, except for she tries to just not have to ask, unless murdering the prediction on his arrival time. she’s tired and really doesn’t want to go She lived. It was a tree root in our sewer down. The real number missing from the line, which happens so often it’s a check equation is how often I would check the box on the rooter form. And I came home basement before bed if she didn’t ask as soon as I could to start cleaning up the, me to, which is a big fat zero. Even if it’s uh, foul nastiness, and what do I find? My pouring rain. Maybe even if I heard the wife has already done it. All of it. All by murderer guy clear his throat once or herself. How bad do I feel now? As much twice. Just kidding, honey. as she is worried about home security, it Is there ever a time when we don’t pales in comparison to her general health have to check the basement? Why yes, if concerns. So it was practically a super-hero we never leave the house for the whole move on her part to put on, what I can day, we’re good to go. That accounts for only image to be the biggest set of rubber about one day every two years. It was gloves ever made, and go to it because, just such a day recently when two lumps well, it kinda smelled like sh*t down there. of laziness sat around the house for a Today, I don’t complain. I don’t even whole day one weekend and did a whole ask. I just check the basement. Because lot of nothing. And when time came to go that’s what you do. And it doesn’t help to bed, she was happy to announce that I that shortly after all of this took place, didn’t have the check. A glorious reprieve! someone broke into our home… in the The next day, we had a problem right middle of the day… which basically away in the morning. No, not a murder touches on all of her hot-button fear to report. But the plumbing was leaking idiosyncrasies. So thanks a lot for that, from the 2nd floor bathroom through jerk. Looks like my days of getting locked the floor and dripping from the dining out of the house when I’m just out in the room ceiling. Not good. We did a lot garage are not over. In other words, she of checking this and that. We’re not was right again. Naturally. n DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #236 APRIL 9–APRIL 22, 2015 365INK MAGAZINE INKUbator 3 EVENTS ONGOING and providing other educational opportunities, such as workshops, seminars, and community gardens. The call center runs from April through September: Mondays: 6–8 PM; thursdays: 1–4 PM. In October there are Master Gardeners on duty on Thursdays only from 1–4 PM. Call 563-583-6496 to reach the call center volunteers. Winter Farmers Market Saturdays: Now through Saturday, April 25 THURSDAY, APRIL 9 9 AM–Noon @ Colts Center (1101 Main St.) Entering its 8th year, the all-volunteer driven ARCHITECTURE DAYS market (under the banner of Four Mounds) APRIL 13–18 returns to the Colts Center focusing on Dubuque Main Street’s Architecture Days, now in its 9th year, is inspired by supporting our regional food system, eating National Architecture Week. The mission of Architecture Days is to heighten the from our food shed year-round and providing recognition of architecture as an art form and to explore the rich architectural annual funding to farmers through our grant landscape of Dubuque through programming for all ages. program. Winter Farmers Market is truly a grass The Be Our Guest theme intends to increase appreciation of the history roots labor of love with little or no funding and surrounding hotels and guest houses in Dubuque’s downtown. Some of the structures no staff. We do it because we want our food French Market to be highlighted are no longer utilized as guest houses, and others have been system and farmers to be viable & sustainable. 9:30 AM–4:30 PM @ Discovery Shop restored to their original purpose after a period of vacancy or alternative use. Read more at wintermarketdbq.com. If you can’t get to Paris to shop at the “Marche Contact Dubuque Main Street at 563-588-4400 for more information.