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ISSUE # 1 In This Issue of 365ink... April 6-20, 2006 New Life on Old Main: 3 Bryce’s Take On Things: 4 Featured Events: 5 & 6 The Arts: 7 & 8 Live Music Focus: 9 - 11 Budweiser True Music Live Music Calendar: 12 & 13 Wando’s Movies: 14 Art on the River: 15 Your City / Mayor Buol: 16 Dear Trixie’s Bad Advice: 17 We’ve hidden 365’s WANDO some- Dr. Skrap’s Horoscopes: 17 where in this issue of Dubuque365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? Good Luck! Winners get a free warm fuzzy! Mattitude: 18 Family: 20 Tri-States Ink: 21 - 23 Covering Galena, East Dubuque, Platteville, Peosta & More. The Ink Well: Publisher: Bryce Parks, Dubuque365 ([email protected]) Editor: Ellen Goodmann ([email protected]) Copy Editor: Tim Brechlin ([email protected]) Writers & Content: Ellen Goodmann, Mike Ironside, Bryce Parks, L.A. Hammer, Chris Wand, Ralph Kluseman, Tim Brechlin, Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Brad Parks, Justin Kuhle, & everyone who posts content to our website, Dubuque365.com. Graphic Design & Layout: Bryce Parks, Gary Olsen, Tanya Graves, Mike Ironside, JoAnna Castaneda, Tim Brechlin. Distribution Coordinator: Robert Parks Special thank you to: National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Ron Kirchhoff, Bob Johnson, Todd Locher, Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Castaneda, Tom Miller, Renae Gabrielson, Christy Monk and all the wonderful friends of 365 and, of course, our advertisers, for all your support, advice and input. You are 365! Dubuque365 • 210 West 1st Street • Dubuque, IA 52001 * 563•588•4365 We welcome all submission of articles, photos and pleasant vibes. DUBUQUE365ink Like the internet... on paper! 3 By Ellen Goodmann Something is moving under the covers of a once-corpsed downtown Dubuque. Block by block, we’re awakening and reaching deeply into our- selves to pull out what we all knew was still inside – a beating heart. And in the heart of the city, a block of 100-year old buildings on the 1000 block of Main Street is being unveiled this spring and summer, animating yet another limb of this promising, growing city. Some community members who see Dubuque’s potential: Everett Buckardt, a retired Sears senior executive who moved to Dubuque from Lake Forest, Ill., in October of 2005 and calls the city “the best kept se- cret in the Midwest.” Bob Johnson, a former partner with consulting firm Accenture and co-owner of The Captain Merry in East Dubuque who recognizes potential in a new generation of entrepreneurs – budding professionals who can bring vibrancy to a growing downtown. John Gronen, of Gronen Restoration, Inc., is passionate about a “downtown fabric” that is uniquely equivalent, he says, to the abundance of history in Dubuque. “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol Rehabilitation began on the 1000 block of Main Street began in April, 2004. The inspiration? “I talked to a lot of people who said that they would like to...” (continued on page 4) 4 DUBUQUE365ink • Use it to insulate your historic rehab project. • More Info 24/7/365 @ DUBUQUE365.COM Bryce’s Version of World Events. Notes from Bryce Parks, Publisher, Dubuque365ink & Dubuque365.com There’s a lot of buzz in the air as spring hits our not-so-sleepy little river town. People are excited about new opportunities like the opening of the downtown Hy-Vee, the ad- dition of the Sedgwick jobs and, of course, more Mexican restaurants. At the same time, people are up- set about the proposed construc- tion of a major book publisher’s of- fice space in the tourism-visioned Port of Dubuque... not to mention A.J. Spiegel building condos on the bluffs overlooking downtown which will, according to one of the not-so-happy- about-the-condos contingent at a city council meeting, “blot out the sun!” Really? I guess the general consensus is that we all want new stuff, we just don’t want it to be built. I suppose if I rant on with my view of things I’m sure to hear about it from both sides but I do have all this green space to fill. I think somewhere there has to be a middle ground. If we are, as a community, going to overwhelmingly vote down a baseball stadium then we can’t get upset when something we didn’t expect five years ago now fills the Port. If we want to pay our firefighters and fix our streets, we do actually need your perusal. We are incredibly excited to continue to grow this publication tax dollars. The first bluff project at Eagle Point caused a lot of stir, almost and make it be something you look forward to with great anticipation every as much as the turmoil over the 10 new firefighters the city couldn’t afford two weeks. In addition to promoting events and the cultural and arts world at the time even though the taxes on the Eagle Point Project would have of Dubuque we also hope that it serves as a collection of ideas that spark done the trick. Now the newest upscale condo project by Mercy again actual civic debate. What a concept. I am already waiting for my cell to offers to bring in substantial new revenue to the city. You can also hardly ring about the last paragraph. blame a developer for having the vision to think big and put grand housing in a place with a grand view. We often celebrate the architecture of the Before I close I do want to thank all of the contributors, friends and offers past that dots our downtown bluff lines but I wonder if those painted ladies of support that flood in every day. 365 is built to serve the community and that now define Dubuque’s bluffs met such strong resistance in 1850? Is it because of that, YOU ARE 365. Over the last five years helping people just not possible that we may one day see AJ’s bold structures as landmarks as like you connect to greater opportunity in our community has been our well? I know there are no clear answers and everyone thinks that they are greatest success. You know, when you suddenly throw publishing a news- right from their point of view. I do care about the history, beauty and natu- paper on top of your “things to do” pile, you start getting up a lot earlier in ral environment of our city. It’s incredibly important to me as the condos the morning. Unfortunately, due to things like writing, editing and designing in question will be directly above my own home on the 100 block of Bluff everything, you don’t get to go to sleep earlier to accommodate. So I’m Street. I also recognize that we are, in the end, living in the heart of a city now looking into this whole power-nap theory that some people I know put and development must be expected. Now that it seems it WILL happen, a lot of stock in. However, when I tried to catch some afternoon Zs, I found how can we contribute to make it be the best it can be? the sun was beating right in my eyes from the west through the shutters of my Bluff Street row house. There appeared to be a flaw in my master plan. On another note, things are a flurry at 365 World Headquarters (1st & Main, But that’s okay, because pretty soon the sun will be conveniently blotted downtown Dubuque). I really hope you’re enjoying your first-ever read of out by those new condos and I should sleep great. Dubuque365ink. A lot of energy and collective passion from the most in- e-mail me: [email protected] credible individuals you could ever want to know are compiled here for New Life on Old Main that all will be set for occupancy this color the area and serve the needs summer. Four buildings are already of Dubuque, with a focus on realiz- (coltinued from page 3) complete with 18 apartments rented ing a newly vibrant area, according “...live downtown, but quality residen- out. The energy efficient buildings are to Johnson. But the spaces won’t be tial units were very limited. This was meant to attract young professionals filled until the group solidifies its notions a great property, and although we who want to live downtown. Rent in with three surveys that can be found knew it would take a long time to re- the one- and two-bedroom apart- at Dubuque365.com. The surveys aim model, we also knew that it had to be ments ranges from $400 to $525. to address the needs of downtown a good product in order to succeed,” residents, people who work down- Gronen said. Timeline: Next up? Creat- town and people who visit the down- The buildings, all of Survey results and finalized ing a collection town area. which were built be- plans for storefronts will of businesses tween 1850 and 1890, Fill out a survey at wrap-up in April, accord- that generates a were blighted, and destination. Dubuque365.com many had been left ing to Johnson. May brings untouched for years. estimations, build-outs and Johnson will use Buckardt, Johnson and Gronen look “We wanted to cre- finalized business plans. his own business forward to encouraging a growing ate apartments that expertise and downtown community. “We know have character, that international consulting experience there are entrepreneurs that fit our vi- are unique, that are original repro- to actualize the collaborative vision.