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the 365 inkwell { bryce parks } President, Publisher, Writer, Designer, Layout On The Cover: [email protected] { mike ironside } Writer, Designer, Photography [email protected] { kristina nesteby } Ad Designer [email protected] 3 • eric powers & great white { kelli kerrigan } Advertising 9 • taste of dubuque [email protected] | 563-581-7014 12 • cover story: bogie nights { lisa stevenson } 24 • odobos mexican grill Advertising [email protected] | 563-580-1691 issue #140 • august 4 - 17, 2011 { brad parks } 4 community briefs 20 bud nightlife listings 33 home & health features Community, Incorporated, Principal 8 365’’s business after hours 22 mantastic guyathalon 34 bob’s book reviews [email protected] 9 taste of dubuque 23 moon bar concerts 35 library events 10 rock-n-roll rewind 24 argosy’s food review 36 puzzles { matt booth } 11 mud lake bliegrass 27 new diggs music festival 37 mayor roy buol Mattitude 16 movies 28 galena magic 38 trixie kitsch [email protected] 17 wingfest 30 music in the gardens/ jazz 39 dr. skraps 18 blt day 31 pam kress-dunn { pam kress-dunn } 19 summerfest 32 mattitude [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: Jon Schmitz, Ralph Kluseman, Kay Kluseman, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Paula Neuhaus, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Mark Dierker, Steven Schleuning , Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Jeff Stiles, Gen. Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 All contents © 2011, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Where’s Wando? We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? 2 { august 4 - 17 } 365ink Magazine | issue #140 www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } two bowls of split-plea soup to go, eh! The coming visit of 80’s/90’s rock stars, remember, I was into Rush and Yes, and I Great White, who had big hits with songs remember seeing Great White with like like “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” Winger and Slaughter or something at Five to the Diamond Jo makes me think not of Flags, but it wasn’t really my thing. But I the band, but of a friend of mine named played the audition and I got it. It was my Eric Powers. So I called Eric to catch up and first really big gig.” see where his life is taking him these days. In a minute you’ll understand why. I was a good mullet-sporting closet rock star of the 80’s and I got to know Eric at Hempstead High school when I heard someone playing Rush’s YYZ on the drum in the theater and freaked out a little. (Rush is one of few bands whos songs you can usually name b the drum pat alone). It was Eric and there was no denying he had the chops. Through high school and after I watched him go through a few bands and while most of us sidelined out rock and roll dreams for college, drums were just about all Eric cared about, save for his girlfriend Regina, who is also now his wife and mother of his two kids. And his parents always seemed like his biggest fans, too, and he chased his dream. I saw Eric shortly after that when he was visit home, at the Ground Round of all One day he would be raving about a band places, and he was telling me quite excit- called Big Bang Theory and a few months edly about the tour he was going to be later I find he’s playing in the band. But the doing with Jack Russell to support his solo band eventually moved to LA and Eric knew album. I was probably more intersted in he wasn’t ready for that yet. I think it was Eric’s clothes. I can’t define it, but he was in this time that i remember him playing clearly now from L.A. with Electric Ladyland with guys like Mark Luffelholtz and Mike Finders (band when Skip ahead, a year maybe, and I’m up very he still used to rock and roll). But he eventu- late working, as I ten to do, and CNN had ally went to school after all. Drum school. a breaking news story. There was a fire Yes, they exist. And that time in Minneapo- at a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode lis was very instrumental in his growth as a Island where Great White was playing and musician, giving him the confidence to take it looked as though there were fatalities. I on the LA music scene. watched interested for maybe 20 minutes before it hit me like a hammer. ERIC! He has Among many other opportunities in LA, it said was was going to be touring with Jack, was a simple listing with Musician’s Contact but this was Great White. Was he there? Service that took him down a fateful road I was on the web searching for anything I which would bring him some of his great- could find with updates on the tragedy. est highs and memorable moment, and most definately the lowest lows. Now, of course, we know what happened, one of the deadliest nightclub fires in “I walked in the audition,” say Eric, “and the American history and it replaced The Roll- didn’t tell me who it was for other than ing Stones Altamont show as the worst “a multi-platinum selling artist” I had no rock and roll tragedy of all time. And yes, idea. Then I see him and I’m like, it’s that unfortunately, Eric was there... singer from Great White, uh, Jack Russell (not the dog). In high school and after, you ...continued on page 26 www.Dubuque365.com 365ink Magazine | issue #140 { august 4 -17 } 3 { community briefs } i once had a greasy pizza and giant bag of powdered donuts with santa, but that was after a bender. alike, and help build a network of regional clien- tele. Art Market will offer various activities from food and beverage vendors, live music, and theater performances, to live pottery demon- strations and more. For more information, visit www.dbqartcenter.org. Music on the March 2 Friends of the DBQ County Consrv. Board Saturday, August 6 Pancake Breakfast Senior High School, Dalzell Field Nunset Boulevard Saturday, August 6 The Colts Cadets host Music on the 6 August 5-28 Catfish Charlie’s Outside the Lines Art Gallery AUG March 2, Saturday, August 6 at Senior Bell Tower Theater Catfish Charlie’s hosts a benefit pan- Artists on the Porch High School’s Dalzell Field from 7 p.m. The Bell Tower Theater presents Nunset 6 cake breakfast for the Friends of the Nancy Lindsay, August 6 Colts Cadets annual open class drum corps 5-28 AUG AUG Boulevard, August 5-28. The ever- Dubuque County Conservation Board, Sat- Amber Ruden, August 13 competition will feature seven groups, includ- popular Little Sisters of Hoboken have been urday, August 6 from 9 a.m. to noon. Charlie Celebrating summer on Bluff ing groups from California, New Jersey, Ore- 6 13 invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. They will be serving up generous portions of pan- AUG AUG Street, OTLAG hosts a series of gon. This event serves as a national seeding are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive cakes, sausage, coffee, orange juice, pop, tea demonstrations by a variety of artists every event for the Drum Corps International Finals and realize that they are booked into the and lemonade. Cost is just $6 a plate and Saturday on the broad front porch of the the following week in Indiana. The show Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama, a bowling alley- the proceeds will benefit the Friends of Cable Car Square gallery. A different artist will begins at 7 p.m. and concludes by 9:30 p.m. not the famed “Bowl” they were planning on. the Dubuque County Conservation Board. be featured each Saturday through August, All general admission seats offer exceptional But, the show must go on so “California, here The Friends group provides opportunities (from approximately 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.) giv- views of the performances. Tickets on sale we come.” For more information, including for the public to share their talents, meet ing guests an opportunity to meet the artist at all area financial institutions plus Kephart’s admission, visit belltowertheater.net. people with similar interests and do some- and learn more about their technique and Music and the Colts Center. More information thing positive for the environment and the process. Some will exhibit additional artwork is available at www.colts.org. community. to that carried by the gallery. Painter Nancy Lindsay will be featured on Saturday, August Mammals of the Hy-Vee IronKids 6 with jeweler Amber Ruden on Saturday, Upper Mississippi River Midwest Triathlon August 13. The final artist in the Saturday Tuesday, August 9 Saturday, August 6 series will be pastel artist Jane Chukas on Sat- Multicultural Family Center Sutton Pool urday, August 27. For more information, call The Multicultural Family Center (1157 9 Sponsored by Hy-Vee and the Leisure (563) 583-9343, or visit: www.otlag.com. AUG Central Avenue) hosts a special program, 6 AUG Services Department, the IronKids Mammals of the Upper Mississippi River, Tues- Midwest Triathlon is for children ages 6-15 day, August 9, from 2-3 p.m.