If I’ve managed to not mention it yet, I am in- I amend the immediate buffet rule. There will deed getting married this fall. Despite my habit also be munchies on all the tables. Salty stuff of continually dragging my poor fiancée’s per- for the guys, dark chocolate for the girls. And sonal life into my columns, she hasn’t kicked let the Budweiser run freely my friends. me to the curb and now we’re in full wedding planning frenzy. So, we’ll call this column Now, I’m kind of known for being fairly well-con- “Part 1 of the Bryce is Getting Married Saga.” nected. In other words, I’ve done a lot of favors There’s no way this will fit into one column, so for a lot of people and now ... well, now it’s time get ready for a mini-series event. to call in the chips. So far that is going well. The best part is, you really know who your friends are Now, about the wedding plans. Luckily, we when you don’t even have to call in chips. They pretty much agree on everything regarding the just offer to do things and give you things beyond big day. And what we don’t totally agree on, what you were even hoping to ask for. Early on we just essentially allow the other person to we were doing great right out of the gate. We had have anyway. It’s our day, we’ll do whatever our date picked out, our location reserved, Chris- the heck we want. And so we are. ty got a dress almost immediately (which makes her light up with joy) from Soiree for about 1/10 For me there were three key components to of what I was expecting it would cost. My friend my perfect wedding, or as I call it, avoiding Ben Graham (Style Store for Men) is having a suit the pain and suffering of nearly every wedding hand made for me. How cool is that? And I knew I’ve ever been to. who I was going to get to do the meat. (I’ll get to

that later.) And thanks to Soiree, I can now afford First and foremost, my wedding is about me a whole lot more meat! We had Mike and Julie and my girl and my vows will reflect that. God on board, we knew what kind of cake we’d have, is a great guy (and/or gal) but I’m not okay with and where the music was coming from. Heck, our love coming in second place to my love we’re almost done already right? for God. I guess I haven’t had my epiphany yet, but that’s the way it’s gonna be. I’ve been Uhh, you wish. to so many weddings where the religion was so heavy-handed that it made even my pious Part of being well connected, of course, is being friends squirm a bit. If someone wants to up- well connected to a LOT of people. So early on stage our show by asking for top billing, then we knew either this was going to be a 20-person I at least want help picking out table runners affair or a million-man march. Now, because and writing thank you cards afterwards. That’s I have all those chips to cash in and because why we’re being married by Mike Ironside and we have some pretty generous parents who are Julie Steffen. You know Mike, he’s one of our probably relieved that we found someone to put writers and like myself, he is an ordained min- up with our idiosyncrasies, we found that we ister. See there, saving money already. have some budgetary breathing room. That and we’re thrifty. So... million-man march it is. Second, there will not be a two-hour and 20 mile break between the wedding and the re- ception. I know this day is about us, but how freakin’ selfish is that? Hundreds of people gather to celebrate you and you ditch them for two hours to bar hop? I’ve had 35 years to bar hop (well 15 or so). So these poor people, especially those from out of town, have to sit on their hands in some stuffy reception hall LIVE ENTERTAINMENT forever waiting for you to show up.

Friday, June 13 Which brings me to all important component David Zollo/ Body Electric, 9 PM number three. Saturday, June 14 Mr. Gnome, Kittens of Rhythm The food will be waiting for people when they Someone, that meaning not me, started show- Friday, June 20 get to the reception. In our case, a 200 yard ing up with books and magazines about how John Moran/Bluescasters, 9 PM walk from the wedding. We’re getting married this is all supposed to work. That’s probably a Saturday, June 21 in a park, you see. So the guests can shake my good thing, because I was pretty sure that as Coupe DeVille, 9 PM hand and head straight for the buffet. Now long as I had a place and time, a guy to marry Friday, June 22 that’s a reception! How many times have you us, and a good source for quality prime rib, Black Diamond Heavies, been waiting at a reception STARVING and this baby was ready to rock. Apparently there Vietnam Werewolf, Last Call, 9 PM when they finally decide to show up, they do are 1438 more steps to the process. Yikes!

Saturday, June 25 45 minutes of poorly planned speeches and We’ve got about three more months. We can Readings Under the Influence, 9 PM then start releasing tables to eat, this of course do this! Sunday, June 28 after they are served at the head table while we Jim the Mule, 9 PM watch salivating. No matter where you have Coming up in future episodes: The great parts of Sunday, July 4 decided to sit, inevitably your table will be John Nemeth Blues Band, 9 PM wedding planning... cheesecake tasting and reg- dead last to be released. If you are lucky there istering for things you want but don’t need. And were dinner rolls on the table in advance, but the darker side wedding planning... quality time those were gone before you ever got one be- at the fabric store on Saturday night and seeing cause the greedy bastards at your table, also people in public who you forgot to put on the known as your old college roommates, don’t guest list. And we’ll talk more about meat! The 365ink crew... faces you already know! understand the rule of one man-one muffin. So

Tim Mike Tanya Jeff Kelli Ralph Gary Matt Lisa Chris Pam Joey Angela Ron Bob Roy Brad Bryce ISSUE # 58 In this Issue... JUNE 12 - 25 June is Festival Season: 4 Community Shorts: 5 - 6 West End Sports and Music: 7

Arts Shorts: 8 DSO Independence Pops: 9 Entertainment Shorts: 10

Pam Kress-Dunn: 11 Wando’s Movies Reviews: 12-13

Dubuque... And That Jazz: 14 Tri-State Entertainment Briefs: 15 Live Music Listings: 16-17

Catfish Festival: 18 Rafters Reborn: 19 Mayor Roy Buol: 20

Jimmy Buffett Fans Unite: 21 Recurring Events and Concerts: 21 Bob’s Book Reviews: 22

Mattitude: 23 Life Stiles - by Jeff Stiles: 24 Eating Healthy with Hy-Vee: 25

America’s River Festival: 26 Go Green Challenge: 26 Crossword / Sudoku: 27

Trixie / Horoscopes: 28 Tabor Home Winery: 29 Comedy / Galena: 30

The Inkwell ) [email protected]) Publisher: Bryce [email protected] ( ) 563-451-9365 Tim Brechlin ( [email protected]) Editor: Kelli Kerrigan ( Advertising: [email protected] Tanya Tjarks ( Ad Design: : Mike Ironside, Ron TIgges, Bryce Parks, Abdul Sinno Photography Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin, Ellen Goodmann, Writers & Content: Bryce Parks, L.A. Hammer, Chris Wand, Mayor Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Robert Gelms, Angela Koppes, Bryce Pam Parks, Kress-Dunn, Mike Dan Ironside, Chapman and JeffTim Stiles Brechlin Kay Graphic Design & Layout: Christy Monk, Katy Brechlin, Director of Operations / BobAccounts & Fran Avoidable: Parks, Special thank you to: , Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Castaneda, , Jim Kluseman, Todd Locher Heckmann, Gaile Schwickrath, Ron & Jennifer Tigges and all, the IA 365, 52001 friends and advertisers for all your support. You are all 365., Dubuque West 1st Street (563) 588-4365 Dubuque365 • 210 Office Phone or Music/Events/Movie Hotline 365 @ All contents (c) 2008, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved.

We’ve hidden 365’s WANDO somewhere in this issue of Dubuque365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? Hint: He’s tiny and could be anywhere, In a story? In an ad? On the cover? Good Luck! FIVE BUCKS SAYS BRYCE PLAYS A MEANER GUITAR THAN THAT CATFISH DOWN THERE 4 JUNE 12 - 25

There’s one of the real granddaddies of Tri- eighth year of its Heartland Festival, a two- Holy Moly! Festivals! State festivals, Dubuque ... And All That month-plus-long arts festival celebrating JUNE FESTIVALS by Tim Brechlin Jazz, which is heading straight into its various areas of theater. Musicals, kids, seventeenth season. It’s one of the peren- comedies ... oh, and they’re doing Joseph Like it says on the cover, we’ve Yeah, that’s what we said when we were nial favorite events under the Town Clock, and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, got festivals and special events looking for ideas of what to put on this cov- with food vendors in all directions, the too, for all you Andrew Lloyd Webber fa- coming out our ears in the com- er of 365ink. Only we didn’t say “moly.” Jaycees pouring beer and great live music. natics out there. ing couple of weeks. Throughout We were thinking, and brainstorming, and This month it’s Orquesta Alto Maiz, also this issue we’ve featured each debating, until we actually In Dubuque’s West End, a group of of these opportunities more in- took a look at a calendar and guys have put together a sports and mu- depth. Below is a recap of the darn near soiled ourselves. sic festival. They’re bringing out three events and their dates as well as bands, a hundred volleyball teams a giude to find more information Catfish. Jazz. Heartland. Pops. ... and a $100,000 raffle. That’s not a about them in these pages. A new sports festival on the typo: A hundred grand. Seriously. America’s River Festival West End. All of those to go along with all the other events And then there’s the Dubuque Sym- June 13-15 (Page 26) happening in the area. That’s phony Orchestra, which is kicking Music in the Gardens like asking us to choose be- off the Tri-State area’s Indepen- Sunday, June 15 (Page 5) tween Lot One burgers, Silver dence Day celebrations just a tad Dollar burritos and 180 Main early with its 22nd annual Indepen- Catfish Festival pizzas for lunch. That’s not fair. dence Pops Concert, Carnival and June 19-21 (Page 18) That might violate the Geneva Fireworks on June 28. More than Conventions. Heck, that might simply a symphony performance, Great Galena Balloon Race violate the eighth amendment. the event includes performances June 20-22 (Page 30) known as “The Salsa Band.” And it’s also by the Dubuque Colts and the Symphony Dubuque... And All That Jazz All of what I’m saying is that there was known as a great way to start off Jazz. ... followed by a joint performance under Friday, June (Page 14) no way for us to just choose one. No, sir. Also turning seventeen this year is Catfish fireworks. Pretty awesome, huh? That’s how we wound up with the col- Festival, which has the bonus of running Independence Pops lage-tacular image you see on the cover. across four days ... plus, you know, cat- And, again, that’s not all. Jammin’ Below Saturday, June 28 (Page 9) fish. Music from a bunch of great local the Dam, a Jimmy Buffett party, a rodeo, So let’s take a look at some of them. Else- bands, plus two acts coming in from Mil- Music in the Gardens, the opening of Raf- Westend Sports & Music Festival where in the magazine you’ll find detailed waukee and Madison. Kids’ amusements, ters and much, much more. We’ve got Saturday, June 28 (Page 7) and expanded features on several of these a craft fair, a raffle, carnival rides ... yeah, enough events in these pages to shake a One Particular Harbour events and festivals, but it never hurts to it’s kind of a big deal. stick at ... so stop reading this and get to Saturday, June 28 (Page 21) start with a breakdown of the basics. Looking up north to Platteville, there’s the the rest of the magazine! I MADE MUSIC IN THE GARDENS ONCE. HAD TOO MUCH CHILI 5 JUNE 12 - 25

JUNE Colts Drum & JUNE Music in the JUNE Dubuque River 12 Bugle Corps Debut 15 Gardens 15&20 Rides Events UPCOMING EVENT SUMMARY The Colts are premiering! On Thurs- The Dubuque Arts Council begins Father’s Day Lunch Cruise Heartland Festival Performances its 16th season of the free music day, June 12, the Dubuque Colts Dubuque River Rides is offering a Now - August 3 UWP-CFA (See page 17) series with a great opening act: Drum & Bugle Corps, as well as the Father’s Day Lunch Cruise aboard The Four Freshmen, on Sunday, always-acclaimed Colt Cadets, will the Spirit of Dubuque on June 15. Colts Season Premiere June 15, beginning at 6:30 p.m. present their full field competition The cruise will be two hours long June 12, U.W. Platteville Stadium (See this page) at the Dubuque Arboretum & Bo- shows for the very first time this and feature a summer deli-style tanical Gardens. summer! The show will be held in lunch. You’ll have a phenomenal Remember Me the University of Wisconsin - Plat- view of the river, onboard enter- June 13-28, Bell Tower Theater (See page 14) teville Stadium (in Platteville, duh), tainment will be provided, and you and will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admis- get a great lunch with dear old Dad. America’s River Festival sion is free, and the performance is Tickets for the Father’s Day Lunch June 13 - 15, Port of Dubuque (See Page 29) open to the public. For more infor- Cruise are $27.24 for adults and mation, call 563-582-4872, or learn $19.25 for youths (12 and under). Potosi Brewfest more online at www.colts.org. Advance reservations are necessary, June 14, Potosi WI Brewery (See Page 10) and can be secured with a credit The Four Freshmen are one of the card or advance payment. To make OTLAG’s Saturday’s on the Porch most revolutionary vocal groups reservations, call 563-583-8093. June 14, Outside the Lines Gallery (See page 6) in history, inspiring acts such as the Beach Boys and pioneering Four Freshmen @ Music In the Gardens the “close-harmony” vocal style. June 15, Dubuque Arboretum (See page 14) Hit singles include “It’s a Blue World,” “Mood Indigo,” “Day by Catfish Festival Day” and “Graduation Day.” The June 19, 20, 21, A.Y. McDonald Park (see page 18) JUNE The Night of the group, active since 1948, no lon- 19 Iguana Screening ger has any of the original mem- The Night of the Iguana bers in active performance roles, June 19, Carnegie-Stout Public Library (See this page) Romance and Prime Rib As part of its ongoing film series, but original member Bob Flanigan Jackson County Pro Rodeo the Carnegie-Stout Public Library now manages the group and en- On Friday, June 20, the paddle- June 19-21, Bellevue Horseman’s Club (See page 15) will show the movie The Night of sures that all the current members wheeler is also offering a Vow Re- newal Dinner Cruise aboard the the Iguana on Thursday, June 19, at are qualified to carry on the name Rose Festival Spirit of Dubuque. What’s that? Well, 6 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Auditorium. of this legendary act. June 20, Dubuque Arboretum (See this page) it’s exactly what the name suggests. Directed by John Huston and star- Attending couples will renew their Jammin’ Below the Dam ring Richard Burton and Ava Gard- marital vows as a group, officiated by June 20-21, Bellevue, IA (See page 15) ner, The Night of the Iguana is based a minister. Got an anniversary com- upon Tennessee Williams’ play about ing up? Need to apologize for screw- Great Galena Baloon Race a defrocked alcoholic priest who be- ing up too many times? Just looking June 20 - 22, Eagle Ridge Resort (See page 10) comes involved with three women for a nice night out with that special at a run-down hotel near Puerto someone? Here’s your chance. In Dubuque... And All That Jazz Vallarta, Mexico. The 1964 drama, Also coming up in the Music in addition, the cruise will feature the June 20, Town Clock Plaza (See page 14) which netted an Academy Award for the series is the Rod Pierson Big Spirit of Dubuque’s famous cut-to- best costume design alongside nomi- Band on Sunday, June 22 fea- order prime rib and baked chicken Platteville Garden Walk nations for art direction, cinematog- tuirng the sounds of the legendary breast. Yum. Tickets for the dinner June 21, Platteville Chamber (Katie’s Garden) (See page 10) raphy and Best Supporting Actress Rat Pack era of music, and clas- cruise are $54.30 for adults and (Grayson Hall), is black and white, is sic instrumental favorites -- Frank $25.51 for youths. Advance reserva- Champps Kickoff to Summer Party 117 minutes long and is not rated. Sinatra, Dean Martin and much, tions are necessary, and can be se- June 26, Champps Sports Bar (See page 18) much more. Bring your picnic cured with a credit card or advance supper, lawn chairs, blankets, payment. Call 563-583-8093. Beauty and the Beast etc., and enjoy! June 26 - July 25, Grand Opera House (See page 8) JUNE Rose Festival @ More “Gardens” dates... 20-22 the Arboretum Music on the March Sunday, June 15 6:30 pm June 26, Senior High School (See page 15) The Four Freshmen Ah, a rose ... so sweet, Friday, June 20, 21, 22 so delectable, so ... red NISOM Chamber Music Concert Rose Festival ... well, some of them June 27, Emmaus Bible College (See page 8) Friday, June 20 10 am are red, anyway. Others Bob Stecher, Accordion are white. It don’t mat- West End Sports and Music Festival Friday, June 20 6:30 pm ter if you’re red or white, June 28, Rite Hite soccer fields (See page 7) Ken Killian Swingtet though, at the Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens’ annual Saturday, June 21 6:30 pm One Particular Harbor with the Dubuque Phlockers Admission and snacks are free, and Rose Festival, set for June 20 - 22. ‘Moonlight and Roses’ June 28, Grand River Center (See page 21) open discussion will be encour- The Festival features a public flower Sunday, June 22 2 pm aged after the show. For more infor- show, and entries from people just DSO Independence Pops Dixieland All Stars mation, call the Library Information like you are warmly invited. Clinics June 28, Dubuque County Fairgrounds (See page 9) Desk at 563-589-4225 option 4, Sunday, June 22 6:30 pm on gardening and live entertainment or visit the Library’s Adult Services The Rod Pierson Orchestra will also be featured at the festival. DBQ Jaycees / Radio Dubuque Fireworks on the River Programs page online at www. Sunday, June 29 6:30 pm For more information, contact the July 3, Hawthorne Street dubuque.lib.ia.us/adult/programs/. Coupe DeVille Arboretum at 563-556-2100. SEVEN YEARS OF JAM, BABY! 6 JUNE 12 - 25

JUNE 14 OTLAG’s Saturdays on the Porch Outside the Lines Art Gallery launches Stormy Mochal and Connie Twining in- a new program Saturday, June 14. Satur- vite everyone to stop down after Farmers’ days on the Porch is an ongoing series of Market for the event. Don’t forget to stop demonstrations by local and area artists inside to see the current exhibit featuring on the front porch of the gallery at the the porcelain ceramic work by Delores corner of Bluff and 4th Streets. Art- Fortuna and paintings by Thomas ists will set up on the porch and Jewell-Vitale. The next install- demonstrate technique, an- ment of the porch series will be swer questions and more. stained glass artist Mark Stevens on Saturday, June 21. Outside the Kicking off the Saturdays on the Lines Art Gallery is located at the Porch series will be Nancy Lind- corner of 4th and Bluff Streets, say Saturday, demonstrating her in historic Cable Car Square. For oil painting technique June 14 from more information, call 563-583-9343, 11 a.m. to around 3 p.m. Gallery owners or visit www.otlag.com.

6. Which of these shows came first? A) Aspects of Love B) The Phantom of the Opera Answers on page 28 C) Jesus Christ Superstar 1. True or false: Catfish do not, in fact, D) Joseph & the A.T. Dreamcoat have any taste buds. 7. Out of the festivals on our cover, 2. What is the most common type of which is the oldest? catfish in North America? A) All That Jazz June 13 - Maureen Kilgore A) Channel B) Catfish June 20 - Jeremy & Keisha B) Striped Eel C) Independence Pops D) Westend Sports & Music June 27 - Denny Garcia C) Armored D) Electric Friday lunchtime is about to get fun 8. What is the only animated film to be again. Hosted by your own 365 crew 3. When did the Julien Dubuque Bridge nominated for Best Picture? and sponsored by Cottingham & Butler become toll-free? A) Toy Story and Prudential Financial with contrib- A) 1991 B) 1969 B) Beauty & the Beast uting support from Carlos O’Kelly’s, C) 1954 D) It never had tolls, duh! C) Shrek the 365 Lunchtime Jam returns to the D) Snow White Town Clock Plaza for its seventh year. 4. What is the name of the bridge that connects Dubuque with Grant County, 9. If a barge hits the Julien Dubuque Featuring performances by local musi- Wisconsin? Bridge and no one’s around, does it cians over the lunch hour, the Lunch- A) Mazzuchelli Bridge make a sound? val in the middle of your Friday workday time Jam provides an opportunity for B) Governor Dodge Bridge – a great primer for the weekend. downtown workers to slip outside for C) Eagle Point Bridge 10. Originally, what was the Fountain some fresh air, lunch, and live Weather has not been kind D) McDonald Bridge Park land area used for? music under the Town Clock. to us thus far, but we have A) A school Carlos O’Kelly’s will be on our fingers crossed. Jams 5. When was the worst flood in B) A home hand to vend food, making will be cancelled in the case Dubuque’s history? C) Offices Lunchtime Jam a mini-festi- of inclement conditions. D) Chapels THAT DUDE WITH THE BOW MIGHT BE A MENACE. THROW A VOLLEYBALL AT HIM 7 JUNE 12 - 25

provided by Coke and Budweiser. Late in the day, the raffle will be held as well.

The volleyball fun will start in the morning and continue through the afternoon. DJs will supply music until 1:30 p.m., when the Swing Crew takes the stage, followed by the acoustic rock of Kevin Beck & Johnnie Walker and the ‘80s party rock of Menace.

Entry into the event’s volleyball tourna- ment is $35 per person, and registration for the corporate tournament is $200 per team. Registration is now open, and by going to www.westendfestdbq.com, you ”It’s a good cause and an organization can register. The event is sponsored by Another new festival! people can rally around,” says organizer Courtside Sports Bar & Grill, Quad City Luke David. Good lord, the festivals in this area, they’re just popping up like ... uh ... The festival looks to draw a hun- Volleyball, Y105, Eagle 102, Pru- something that pops up frequently! Mark dred three-member volleyball dential Financial, Wilwerts, Fountain your calendars for the First Annual West- teams from four states to compete Chiropractic and Hy-Vee. For more end Sports and Music Fest, scheduled for in the main event. Also nearby information, call Luke David at 563- Saturday, June 28, on the Rite Hite soccer will be a separate tournament for 580-7440. or visit the above website. fields off Chavenelle Road. six-on-six, co-ed corporate teams to compete. LT Amusements will The festival will boast 20 courts full of set up its inflatable carnival rides volleyball action, three live bands, and and games. And, of course, to a $100,000 raffle during the day-long make the festival complete, there event with a portion of the proceeds to will be food and all your favorite benefit Maria House. adult and non-adult beverages WE HAVE A LASER DOWN HERE. WE USE IT TO BLIND THE METER MAIDS 8 JUNE 12 - 25

JUNE 27 NISOM Chamber Music Concert The Northeast Iowa School of Music in- based in Cedar Rapids. Students will re- vites you to its second-annual Chamber hearse during the day, and it culminates Music Concert on June 27, a free event in a concert wherein they can show off that is the culmination of the Chamber what they’ve learned! Music Festival! Registration The festival itself is still open is yet another of for students NISOM’s ongoing who con- efforts to provide tact NISOM innovative music ASAP by call- education to resi- ing 563-590- dents of the Tri-States. String players 0151. The concert will be held in the and voice students will spend five days Emmaus Bible College chapel, and is at the school, working with NISOM’s free and open to the public. For more in- multi-talented staff as well as coaches formation, call the listed number, or visit from the Five Seasons Chamber Players, www.nisom.com.

JUNE 26- JULY 25 Beauty and the Beast

If you’re anything like this 365ink editor, who has been turned into, well, a beast and I know I am, you have fond memo- through the spell of a sorceress. The only ries of the Disney animated classic Beau- way for him to break the spell is to learn ty and the Beast. (And with that, I hand how to love -- and be loved. Belle is his in my Man Card.) Masculinity issues one great chance, but time is running out aside, think about making time to catch for him, and unless he learns his les- a performance of the Grand Opera son quickly, he will be doomed House’s production of Disney’s to live as a hideous creature for Beauty and the Beast. the rest of his life.

With music by Alan Menk- Beauty and the Beast will be en and lyrics by Tim Rice and shown at 7:30 p.m. on June the late Howard Ashman, 26 - 27, July 2, 5, 9 - 12, 16 this cherished musical - 19 and 23 - 25, as well as 2 has a classic story that p.m. on June 28, 29, July 13, everyone knows: The 20 and 26. Tickets are only love story of Belle, the $17, and are available at kind-hearted young the Grand’s box office woman, and the or by calling 563-588- Beast, a pompous, 1305. For more informa- arrogant prince tion, call 563-588-4356. WHEN TIM GOT MARRIED HE GAVE HIS WIFE AN ONION RING -- THEN HE ATE IT 9 JUNE 12 - 25

lute, the American Salute, the Washington Post March and more.

The night’s programming will also include a segment as part of the City of Dubuque’s 175th Anniversary. That segment will include pieces of music either inspired by the city or written by natives of Dubuque, includ- ing City Council member David Resnick’s “Here’s to Dubuque!,” the Dubuque Reel, Independence Pops Debussy in Dubuque, two Dubuque Pack jingles, a Betty Jane jingle, and an entirely turns 22! new work for orchestra and narrator that will depict various points in Dubuque’s 175 years And while the number 22 doesn’t mean as a masterpiece on the Mississippi, written a terribly whole heck of a lot in terms of by Symphony Pops arranger Paul Hemmer. significance, look at it this way: Indepen- Hemmer will also narrate the piece. dence Pops is old enough to legally con- sume alcohol. Okay, that makes no sense, so let’s drop the silliness and focus on the important part -- you’ve got yet another festival to put on your calendar and plan for on Saturday, June 28!

Independence Pops (full name -- Inde- pendence Pops Concert, Carnival and Fireworks) is presented annually by the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra League on And, after all is said and done, the Colts the Saturday before July 4 as part of the and the Symphony will begin a joint perfor- League’s ongoing support of the Symphony mance as the skies above them are illumi- -- and as a great way to kick off Fourth of nated by a brilliant fireworks display. Music, July activities. And as the name suggests, food and fireworks ... yep, I think that hits this isn’t any ordinary old Symphony per- all the checkboxes for a festival, all right. formance, but rather an all-night event! Independence Pops will be held at the First off, the activities. For Dubuque County Fair- the kids, there will be in- grounds; in the event of in- flatable rides, temporary clement weather (no, that tattoos, face-painting, bean wouldn’t happen this sum- bag tossing, a march with mer, not at all), the event will kindly old Uncle Sam and be held at Dubuque Senior games with prizes. In ad- High School. Tickets for In- dition to all that, you can’t dependence Pops are on sale have a festival without food, now for $8 ($12 at the gate) right? You’re darn skippy at all Dubuque Bank and you can’t. That means you’ll Trust locations as well as the have your choice among Dubuque Symphony Orches- brats, hot dogs, pizza, bar- tra office, located in Fountain becued items and more, as Park, 2728 Asbury Road. For well as beverages. Now we’re starting to more information, call 563-557-1677, or sound more like a festival, right? visit www.dubuquesymphony.org.

Well, let’s cap everything off with a night full of musical performances. The Dubuque Colts Drum and Bugle Corps will begin the musical part of the festival with a 7:15 p.m. performance, followed by the full Dubuque Symphony Orchestra around 8 p.m. The Symphony’s program will comprise a number of classic Inde- pendence Day-styled pieces, including the 1812 Overture, the Armed Forces Sa- DON’T WORRY, THE BRIDGE IS FIXED, YOU CAN GO TO KALMES 10 JUNE 12 - 25

JUNE 21 Platteville Garden Walk

Gardens! Art! Walking! advance and $10 at the door, available at ______the Platteville Chamber. For more details, Saturday, June 14 If those three words don’t scare the beje- call 608-348-8888. Mighty Short Bus ezus out of you, then you’re totally ready in the Beer Garden to attend the Platteville Garden wth a Hog Roast! 4 PM - 8 AM Walk and Art Tour on Saturday, ______Sunday, June 15 June 21, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Stoneheart 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM ______The event will begin at Katie’s Saturday, June 21 Garden at the Platteville Cham- J.B. Ritchie ber of Commerce, located at Chicago Blues Band 9 PM - 1 AM 275 W. Business Highway 151 ______in Platteville. The event will fea- Sunday, June 22 Stoneheart ture area gardens and local ar- 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM tisans selling their work. Admis- ______sion is charged; tickets are $8 in Sunday, June 28 Outta Control 3:30______PM - 7:30 PM JUNE Sunday, June 29 Broken Thomas 14 Potosi Brewfest 2008 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM ______selected by the American Breweriana As- From Dubuque - Hwy 11 E. to Hazel Green WI. Go straight across Hwy 80- Hwy 11 sociation to be the home to its national turns into County W. Take it to the DIGGS! museum ... a location selected over such beer capitals as Milwaukee and St. Louis! Go Southwest Wisconsin!

Tickets for Brewery Fest 2008 are $50, which includes the meal and the concert. You may purchase tickets by sending a check for the appropriate amount to Potosi Brewing Mark your calendar for the Potosi Brew- Company, 209 South Main, PO Box 177, ing Company’s Brewery Fest 2008! Potosi, WI 53820. Tickets will be mailed to you. Seating is limited, so get on that now! Held June 14 at the historic Potosi Brewery For more information, call 608-763-4002, (established in 1852), Brewery Fest will in- or e-mail [email protected]. clude a walking tour of the brewery, out- door afternoon music, a social hour, a buf- fet dinner (including Swiss steak, chicken and trimmings), a silent and live auction, a concert by Nashville country music star Tom Wurth, a raffle drawing and more!

This is a great opportunity to explore the Potosi Brewery which, after more than a hundred years, closed its doors in 1972. Restoration of the brewery began in 1995, and efforts began in earnest in 2000 with the founding of the Potosi Brewery Foun- dation. The Potosi Brewery has now been

Thirsty Thursday: Nightly Specials • $2 Drafts, $5 Long Island Iced Tea 5pm—9pm • $1.00 Off Appetizers Sunday Hospitality Industry Night: It’s Finally Friday: • $2 Drafts, $2.50 Rail Drinks • $2.00 Blue Moon Drafts • 25¢ Hot Wings • Complimentary Maniac Monday: Homemade potato chips • $1 Drafts, $2 Capt. Morgan drinks. Super Saturday’s: • Individual pizzas, 8 inch with • $2 Drafts, $5 Margaritas two toppings 4.99 /.50 for add. toppings • 25¢ Hot Wings Terrific Tuesday: LIVE MUSIC CALENDAR • $2 Tanqueray & tonics. • $3 Mixed Basket June 14 Just Cuz (6-10 PM) (Onion rings, cheese curds and chicken bites) June 18 Denny Troy, Rick Hoffman & Brian Marceau (6-10 PM) Half-Off Wednesday: June 21 Boys Night Out (6-10 PM) The week’s half-over so we’re half-off... half off appetizers, June 25 Ralph, Mike & Johnny (6-10 PM) domestic bottles of beer, June 28 Richter Scale (6-10 PM) and rail drinks! TIM HAS FAMILY IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN. HE HAS A HEALTHY FEAR OF THEM 11 JUNE 12 - 25

smell like actual garbage.) most of this stuff goes. I’ve heard that enclosed in a plastic bag. Then again, Recycling Deprivation paper and magazines are turned into I brought my big old Hy-Vee bag into Syndrome Then it’s on to the bin, which requires some kind of bedding for farm animals, the store for one jar of jam, and when a look at the day’s mail (for any junk, bringing to mind the amusing picture the cashier didn’t notice and bagged My husband and I spent six days in or the inserts in magazines, especial- of pigs settling onto my old Vogues for it, I asked her nicely to take it out so I northern Wisconsin a few weeks ago, ly those perfume samples that smell the night. I know that plastic bottles could carry it home properly. and it was beautiful. We stay at the like a Parisian you-know-what), a can be turned into carpeting, and same cottage every May – not ours, sweep of the living room (for last that Target, for one, creates reusable I suppose I could have brought those but pretty much exactly the way I Sunday’s New York Times and vari- plastic totes out of its own used plas- bags on vacation and saved the earth would design it if I could afford a ous other papers strewn like, well, tic bags. (Oh, the irony.) But is glass a little bit. It was hard enough, throw- DUNN high-end second home in the woods. yesterday’s news), and all the other broken up, melted down, and used to ing all that stuff away. It made me re- - It’s got almost everything: fireplace, paper we’ve been saving in a paper make new glass? What happens to old member the bad old days, when my full kitchen, screened porch, lace sack all week. Some of it ought to be cardboard? Does it become new card- trash can was filled to overflowing curtains, and a library of board? Fine by me. with gallon milk jugs, egg cartons, good books, videos, and even newspapers. These days, I feel CDs. The best thing, I know, is to much better on Trash Day. use less in the first place. I’m The only thing it doesn’t trying to remember to Just Want to learn more? Attend a Brown have is recycling. And that Say No to plastic bags, if I Bag Lunch on the 4 R’s of Resource bothers me, a lot. Every can carry the stuff I purchase Management (reduce, reuse, recycle, time we emptied a pop can, in my purse, pockets, or rethink) at the Carnegie Stout Public Li- a milk jug, or a yogurt cup, hands. I felt really stupid the brary on Wednesday, June 25, at noon. into the trash it had to go. other night when I purchased Bring your own lunch; dessert and bev- Well, not the pop cans. We a tube of lipstick at the mall erages will be provided. And I’ll bet saved them and brought and walked away with this they won’t be served in Styrofoam. them home. Not for the lip paint enclosed in an un- nickel, but the principle recyclable metal tube en- Pam Kress-Dunn of the thing. But it’s the closed in a flowery little box [email protected] principle of the thing that motivates me to wash out the fruit cans, baked bean tubs, and shredded, I know. I tear it into bite margarine containers back home. I size pieces and hope nobody is all PAM KRESS even peel the labels off of green bean that interested in assuming my iden- cans to recycle with the other paper. tity. If it’s really filled with damning When it comes to recycling, I’m as evidence (my SS number, my DOB, thorough as can be. my shoe size), I give it to my daugh- • ter, who has a shredder and no desire I was thrilled when I found out Dubu- to assume my identity or my student quers can now recycle more than #1 loans. and #2 plastic. (I just want to know, what’s wrong with #6?) So now even But even here at home, there are the weird microwave trays can go in things that can’t be recycled. Take the bin, along with the paper towel Styrofoam – or rather, please don’t tubes and the aluminum pie tins and take it. I love restaurants that use the carefully washed out natural pea- cardboard boxes or foil (especially nut butter jars. when twisted into swans, as at the Pepper Sprout ) for doggy bags. Same By now you’ve probably figured out for coffee or pop in cardboard or, that I love this not only because I’m better yet, your own mug. I feel so trying to be green but also because civilized when I sit down with a cof- I’m a little fanatical. My husband feehouse latte in a real china cup in- calls me a trash Nazi, and it’s true, stead of industrialized foam that will you do not want to get in my way on never, ever degrade in any landfill. Wednesday night, aka Trash Night, at our house. As soon as I walk in the Even though we use those wonderful door, even before I change out of my canvas bags for our groceries, we still work clothes, you’ll find me method- end up with plastic ones from here ically getting it all ready to go. and there. Our newspaper comes in a tight plastic bag, which would be First upstairs, emptying the three great if it were lying outside in the (count ‘em!) wastebaskets. Then the weather. But as the smug owners of basement, grabbing the ones in the a mail slot that allows the delivery of laundry room and the bathroom and our mail and papers right onto our scooping the last of the cat litter. Fi- dry, protected front porch, we don’t nally, the main floor, where anything need a bag. It goes straight back to past its prime gets tossed from the the grocery store, where they’re col- fridge, as well as the chicken bones lected and, I’m assuming, recycled stored in the freezer to keep them somehow. from stinking up the garbage can. That’s the thing. I have no idea where

GIVINGVOICE (God forbid my garbage can should WE DO NOT RECOMMEND CHALLENGING RANDOM PASSERS BY IN KUNG-FU 12 19 JUNE 12 - 25

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rating. If a movie gets 60% or higher positive reviews, it is FRESH! THE www.rottentomatoes.com BUZZ - The buzz is quickly building over the OPENING DURING THIS ISSUE upcoming Transformers 2. Rainn Wil- son (from NBC’s The Office) has joined The Incredible Hulk (6/13) the cast, and shooting began two weeks Kung Fu Panda Scientist Bruce Banner is a fugitive in South ago. Co-writer Roberto Orci posted on A Film by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne America trying to cure the condition that the movie’s official bulletin board that turns him into the Hulk. He is being pur- fans can expect to see as many as 20 Transformers Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po (Jack Black) sued by the U.S. Army, led by General Thad- duking it out, and Hasbro recently announced the is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around ... which doesn’t deus “Thunderbolt” Ross, who wants to use his power. film’s official title -- Transformers 2: Revenge of the exactly come in handy while working every day in his Emil Blonsky is a soldier on the special forces team and Fallen. Sounds like Megatron’s angry. family’s noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill after a one-on-one confrontation with the Hulk, he vol- an ancient prophecy, Po’s dreams become reality when unteers to be a test subject. He uses his new monstrous - Hayden Christensen, no stranger to he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside form to attack the city and draw out Banner. sequels after his work on Star Wars, his idols, the legendary Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, has suggested that a sequel to the Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- under the leadership of The Happening (6/13) spring action film Jumper may be in the their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the The results of the horrific release of a neuro- works. Director Doug Liman has previ- vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is toxin by plants are seen. When this toxin is ously said the movie was envisioned to headed their way, and it’s up to Po to defend everyone inhaled, the victim will attempt suicide by launch a trilogy; progress will likely depend on DVD from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of very violent means. The protagonist, a sci- and Blu-ray sales. becoming a Kung ence teacher named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), runs Fu master into re- for his life together with his estranged wife, Alma Moore - While actor Terrence Howard re- ality? Po puts his (Zooey Deschanel), in order to survive while the world cently said that shooting on Iron Man heart - and his goes into a violent whirlwind of self destruction. 2 has already been scheduled to begin girth - into the next March, director Jon Favreau has task, and the un- Get Smart (6/20) said “not so fast.” Favreau is concerned likely hero ulti- Maxwell Smart is on a mission to thwart the over Marvel announcing an April 10 release for the mately finds that latest plot for world domination by the evil sequel, given that he’s not even signed for the picture, his greatest weak- crime syndicate known as KAOS. Smart is nor are there any solid story concepts, script drafts nesses turn out to partnered instead with the only other agent or even writers. Favreau says he wants to follow the be his greatest whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely- Batman Begins model of using three years between strengths. but-lethal veteran Agent 99. As Smart and 99 get closer sequels. to unraveling KAOS’ master plan--and each other--they The trailers for discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried and his side- the movie were - Smurftacular! Columbia Pictures kick Shtarker are scheming to cash in with their network not stellar. We and Sony Pictures Animation have an- of terror. were not sure nounced plans of bringing a combina- what to exepct tion live-action / animated Smurfs proj- The Love Guru (6/20) going in, but the reviews were strong. And, of course ect to the big screen. David Stem and Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was we’re big fans of Jack Black. We please to say that we David Weiss, who wrote the second and left at the gates of an ashram in India as a were very pleasantly surprised. Kung Fu Panda was third installments in the Shrek franchise, are in nego- child and raised by gurus. He moves back enjoyable all th way through. Panda is a character you tiations to pen the screenplay. to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the quickly come to like and root for and the premise of world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox meth- the film is pretty basic. So the kung foolery is clear to - Actress Keira Knightley is in negotia- ods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between start up early and does. A great cast of voices compli- tions to star in a new remake of the Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke ment Black including Ian McShane a favorite for us. classic Lerner & Loewe musical My Fair (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife, all while guid- Lady. The movie will keep the original The lessons taught in the film and clear for kids and ing the team towards breaking a 40-year-old curse and score and 1912 setting. My Fair Lady, you can see those lessons as well as the path of the leading it to the Stanley Cup Championship. of course, was a 1964 Academy Award- plot pretty clearly way ahead of time, but we didn’t go winning picture starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex into the movie hoping for a whodunnit. we wanted to ALSO COMING SOON Harrison, based upon the play Pygmalion. laugh and smile and see a panda bear acting liek Jack Black and that is waht we got. This movie is enjoyable June 27 — WALL-E, Wanted by a wide audience and adults will find humor lost July 4 — Hancock Kerasotes Star 14 Millennium Cinema on kids while kids will, as witnesses in our theater, July 11 — Hellboy 2, Journey to the Center of the Earth 2835 NW Arterial 151 Millennium Drive will laugh at pretty much anything. And the popcorn 563-582-7827 Platteville, WI and Mindframe is the best around which make every NOW PLAYING IN DUBUQUE www.kerasotes.com 1-877-280-0211 movie a little better! 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JUNE 13-28 Remember Me

That was just pillow talk, baby!

The Bell Tower Theater has announced the premiere of its next show, and this one’s a comedy! Titled Remember Me?, the show asks you a very simple question: What do you do when you’ re on the other side of 40 and your husband Performances are Thursday evenings at still loves you ... except in the same way 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday evenings he loves his favorite pair of slippers? El- at 8 p.m., and Sunday afternoons at 3 ementary, dear Watson: You invent an p.m. through June 28. Tickets are $17 for imaginary boyfriend to make your hus- all performances. Call 563-588-3377 or band jealous. visit online at www.belltowertheater.net.

Salsa Band specializes in a unique blend of salsa and Latin jazz, performing inter- nationally since 1986 and playing not only Latin jazz standards by people like Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri and more, but a wide variety of original compositions as well. The band has re- leased seven albums thus far, plus a ca- reer-spanning compilation disc. The Sal- sa Band is always guaranteed to put on a stellar show. There’s a reason they keep getting invited back -- they’re the perfect band to kick off a season of Jazz.

And what would a festival be like without food and beverages? This year, Jazz will feature culinary offerings from the Athe- nian Grill, A Little Taste of Philly, Carlos O’Kelly’s, Cold Stone, Fat Tuesday’s, Sug- Jazz Time ar Ray’s Barbecue and many more -- 14 Man, summers in Dubuque just rock. in all! And the Dubuque Jaycees will be Where else would you have festivals com- pouring delicious Budweiser and Pepsi ing out your ying-yang almost every week, products. Taste that Beechwood aging. showcasing some supremely entertaining This first installment of Jazz is sponsored live music, terrific food offerings and thou- by U.S. Bank, Prudential Retirement and sands of your friends? (Every- W.S. Live. one at a festival is your friend. Even if you don’t like them.) Upcoming Jazz dates include And one of the best summer newcomers Blue Number festivals is about to kick off yet Nine, an eight-piece soul/funk again. That’s right, it’s time for group hailing from New Jersey, yet another season of Dubuque on July 18; the always-enter- ... And All That Jazz on Friday, taining C.J. Chenier & the Red June 20th, 5 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.! Hot Louisiana Band on August 15, and traditional blues band Now in its seventeenth season, Mississippi Heat closing out Jazz is presented by Dubuque Main Street the Jazz season on September 5. Admis- on the third Fridays of June, July and Au- sion to Dubuque ... And All That Jazz! is gust, and the first Friday in September. free, has always been free and will always This year, Jazz kicks off with a concert be free. Music begins around 5 p.m. under from perennial favorites Orquesta Alto the town clock, and it’ll go until around Maiz, better known as “The Salsa Band.” 9:30 p.m. For more information, contact As you might expect from the name, The Dubuque Main Street at 563-588-4400. WE APOLOGIZE FOR EVERY LAME JOKE IN THESE PAGES REALLY 15 JUNE 12 - 25 Jammin’ Below the Dam Oh-We-Oh, Rodeo Music on the March

You know, there’s something to be said for stepping Yeehaw, dude! The 21st annual Jackson County Pro How does a Drum Corps International-sanctioned outside of your comfort zone. (We’ve got MATTI- Rodeo is on its way to Bellevue from June 19 - 21 competition with more than 800 performers sound TUDE!) How long has it been since you’ve trav- at the Bellevue Horsemen’s Club Grounds! to you? If it sounds like fun, and it should, that means you need to carve out some time for Music eled down the road to scenic Bellevue and taken The rodeo is going to feature all the events and com- on the March, the Dubuque Colts’ annual compe- in some of the culture down there? We’re betting petitions that you would expect from such an event tition, set for Thursday, June 26, at 6:30 p.m. it’s been too long. Don’t worry, you’re forgiven ... -- bareback riding, team roping, tie-down roping, as long as you head out there for the next install- bull riding, barrel racing, saddle bronc riding, and This year’s show will feature the Racine Scouts (Ra- ment of Jammin’ Below the Dam on June 20 - 21. ... steer wrestling. That’s the one where you drop cine, WI), Revolution (San Antonio, Texas), the Colt from a horse, grab a steer by the horns and bring it Cadets, Blue Stars (La Crosse, WI), the Blue Knights straight down to the ground. If you can. (We’ll see (Denver), Carolina Crown (Fort Mill, South Caro- if Bryce can drop Tim to the ground, and then we’ll lina), the Phantom Regiment (Rockford, IL) and, have a better idea of the steers in the 365 office.) of course, Dubuque’s very own Colts. In addition, there will be a special appearance by the Panrhyth- miX Steel Drum Ensemble, as well as an intermission program designed to recognize outstanding Tri-State area musicians. (No, Guitar Hero does not count.)

This regular summer concert series, held from May through August, is a free event that showcas- es bands from throughout the Tri-States. Ordinar- The rodeo will also feature two specialty acts: The Johnson Overland Stagecoach, a crowd-pleasing ily it’s a one-day thing, but for the third weekend Tickets are on sale now for $20 ($22 at gate), $15 in June, it’s held on Friday and Saturday. hitch that’s traveled across the country and beyond; and John Harrison of Soper, Oklahoma, whose show ($17) and $10 ($12). In addition, advance VIP tickets are available for $35, and they include the best seats Friday’s concert will feature the music of BadFish, a features roman riding, trick roping and trick riding. in the stadium, a VIP badge, VIP parking, a coupon great area 5-piece band blending rock, reggae, indie Advance tickets are available through June 16, with for Colts souvenirs, a sandwich and a soft drink. VIP rock, country, and just about anything else. They’re group / family tickets available for $40 (which cov- tickets are not available at the gate, so if you want the spitting image of a band that’s going to get you ers up to 4 adults in a car with up to 4 children un- that kind of package, you’d best get on it now. up, dancing and having fun. As they say, “we won’t der age 12), single adult tickets for $10 and tickets pollute the river, but we will pollute your liver.” for children 5 - 12 for $5. Children ages 4 and un- Tickets are available at all Dupaco Credit Union, der are free. Gate prices are $15 for adults and $5 DuTrac Community Credit Union and East Dubuque Saturday’s show will be headlined by 12 Penny, a for children. Gates will open at 5 p.m., and the ro- Savings Bank locations, as well as Kephart’s Mu- four-piece country / Southern rock band that proud- deo will be held rain or shine. Bringing lawn chairs sic Center on Highway 20 and the Colts Center at ly boasts, “My Les Paul can beat up your Les Paul.” is recommended, as bleacher seating is limited. 1101 Central Avenue. You can also call 563-582- 4872, or purchase online at www.colts.org. Jammin’ Below the Dam takes place in the munici- Advance tickets are available at Longhorn Saddlery, pal parking lot below Lock and Dam #12. The Friday Theisen’s and Dupaco outlets in Dubuque and Du- Music on the March will be held at Dubuque Se- event is sponsored by Bellevue State Bank and Till’s paco in Platteville. The Bellevue Horsemen’s Club nior High School’s Dalzell Field. While the show Chevrolet-Pontiac Buick Garage, while Saturday’s is at 25125 297th Avenue in Bellevue. For more begins at 6:30 p.m., the gates open at 2 p.m., and festivities are sponsored by Aquila and Star Build- information, call 563-872-3799, or visit the event with visitors from several states attending, get ers. For more information, call 563-872-5830. Web site at www.bellevuerodeo.com. there early for good seats. Friday, June 20 Saturday, June 21

Nikki Lunden Trio JB Ritchie TRI-STATE LIVE MUSIC Isabella’s, 9 PM - 1 AM New Diggings, 9 PM - 1 AM Horsin’ Around Richter Scale Thursday, June 12 Saturday, June 14 Tuesday, June 17 Catfish Charlie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Thums Up, 9 PM - 1 AM 98 in the Shade Chuck Bregman Lost in Harbor John Moran & the Bluescasters Mixed Emotions The Hub, 9 PM - 1 AM 180 Main, 5 - 9 PM Irish Cottage, 6 - 10 PM 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM Red N Deb’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Taste LIke Chicken Just Cuz Open Jazz Jam James Kinds & the All-Night Riders Patchwork Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Grand Harbor, 6 - 10 PM Isabella’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Murph’s, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM Isabella’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Friday, June 13 Jill Duggan Wednesday, June 18 Stone Cliff, 7 - 11 PM Apple Dumplin’s Liam Ford Band America’s River Festival Chuck Bregman Sandy Hook, 10 PM - 2 AM Silver Dollar, 10 PM - 2 AM Schedule on Page 26 Rosalie Morgan Pizzeria Uno, 6 - 9 PM TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM Saturday, June 21 Sunday, June 22 Chuck Bregman Lost in Harbor BuzzBerries 180 Main, 5 - 9 PM Irish Cottage, 6 - 10 PM Catfish Festival Catfish Festival Yardarm, 8 PM - 12 AM McDonald Park, 12:30 - 11 PM McDonald Park, 12 - 5 PM Massey Road Denny, Brian & Rick Paul McHugh Happy’s Place, 6 - 9:30 PM Grand Harbor, 6 - 10 PM Menace Chuck Bregman Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM Ace’s Place, 5 - 8 PM Anton’s, 3 - 8 PM Dan & Cindy Caraway Wundo Band Artie & the Pink Catillacs Stone Cliff, 8 - 11 PM Steve’s Pizza, 7 - 11 PM Chuck Bregman Music in the Gardens Dagwood’s, 9 PM - 1 AM 180 Main, 5 - 9 PM DBQ Arboretum, 6 - 9 PM Artie & the Pink Catillacs Live on Main Comedy Betty & the Headlights DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM - 12 AM Bricktown, 9 - 11 PM Boys’ Night Out Taste Like Chicken The Hub, 9 PM - 1 AM Grand Harbor, 6 - 10 PM Sandy Hook, 9 PM - 1 AM Paul McHugh Thursday, June 19 Nothin’ but Dylan The Legends Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM Da Vinci’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Catfish Festival Lombardi’s, 6:30 - 11:30 PM Half-Fast McDonald Park, 4 - 11 PM Massey Road Rosalie Morgan YardArm, 8 PM - 12 AM Kalmes Hilltop, 9 PM - 1 AM Searson TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM Okham’s Razor Irish Cottage, 6 - 10 PM Mr Gnome/Kittens of Rhythm Comfortably One Grape Escape, 9 PM - 12 AM 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM Friday, June 20 Kalmes Breaktime, 7 - 11 PM Dave Zollo Rocket Surgeons Ian Gould 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM The Pit Stop, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM Catfish Festival McDonald Park, 4 - 11 PM Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM Nothin’ But Dylan Gobbie’s, 9:30 PM - 12:30 AM Dubuque...And All That Jazz! Baby Rocket feat. The Salsa Band YardArm, 8 PM - 12 AM Boys’ Night Out Town Clock, 5-9 PM Softtails, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM Mighty Short Bus Chuck Bregman Cuba City Street Dance, 8 PM 180 Main, 5 - 9 PM -12:30 AM

Nothin’ but Dylan BlackWaterGin Softtails, 9 PM - 1 AM Hard Salami Cafe Manna Java, 6 - 9 PM Dirty Ernie’s, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM Rosalie Morgan Sunday, June 15 TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM America’s River Festival Ian Gould Schedule on Page 26 Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM

Chuck Bregman Nine Lives The Wild Animals Anton’s Saloon, 3 - 8 PM YardArm, 8 PM - 12 AM Isabella’s, 10 PM - 2 AM Stoneheart 50 Pound Rooster Coupe DeVille Saturday, June 14 New Diggings, 3:30-7:30 PM Jackson Co. Rodeo, 8PM - 12AM 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM

America’s River Festival 98 in the Shade Massey Road 98 in the Shade Schedule on Page 26 Airline Inn, 5 - 9 PM Grand Tap, 8 PM - 12 AM Desperados, 9 PM - 1 AM

Mighty Short Bus Music in the Gardens Stumble Bros. BlackBloom New Diggings, 4 - 8 PM DBQ Arboretum, 6 - 9 PM Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Da Vinci’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Tuesday, June 24 Friday, June 27 UWP Heartland Festival Fiona Molloy Readings Under the Influence Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the second act delves into in-laws, Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM 180 Main, 8 - 11 PM children of all ages ... it’s time, once newborns, family road trips and ... gasp Thursday, June 12th more, for one of the largest theatrical ... aging. Heartland notes that this par- Wednesday, June 25 Mixed Emotions Eagle Point Park...... 3:00-6:00 festivals in the entire Tri-State area. ticular show is rated PG-13. DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM - 12 AM Friday, June 13th Heck, it might actually be the largest. It’s the University of Wisconsin - Plat- The Heartland Festival’s third produc- Chuck Bregman Dyersville, Iowa...... 3:00-6:00 Pizzeria Uno, 6 - 9 PM Boys’ Night Out teville’s annual summer arts festival, tion is one that will definitely have Red N Deb’s, 8 PM - 12 AM Saturday, June 14th the Heartland Festival. Through its now some appeal to the younger crowd -- A Ice Harbor/Main Street... 2:00-5:00 eight years of existence, the Heartland Year with Frog & Toad, based on the be- Ralph, Mike & Johnnie loved children’s books by Arnold Lobel. Grand Harbor, 6 - 10 PM Shot in the Dark Sunday, June 15th Festival has become one of the largest Ice Harbor (Festival) ...12:00-3:00 combined arts efforts in the area. The iconic figures of cheerful Frog and Pit Stop, 8 PM - 12 AM grumpy Toad will go through four fun- Wundo Band The Heartland Festival comprises a se- filled seasons of adventures together. Steve’s Pizza, 7 - 11 PM Petty Thief ries of theatrical stage production, all YardArm, 8 PM - 12 AM of which explore different topics and “If you loved Seussical, you will love Live on Main Comedy avenues, including comedies, myster- Frog & Toad,” says Hassig. ies, musicals and kids-oriented produc- Bricktown, 9 - 11 PM Nothin’ but Dylan Also coming up during the Heartland tions. The Festival draws performers and Grape Escape, 9 PM - 12 AM Festival’s season is one of the most stagehands from all across the region. popular musicals of all time: Andrew Thursday, June 26 Last year’s installment featured such 98 in the Shade Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amaz- beloved shows as Seussical the Musi- Softtails, 9 PM - 1 AM ing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musi- 98 in the Shade cal and The Sound of Music, and it was cal parable takes us through the years The Hub, 9 PM - 1 AM a smashing success, selling a record with Joseph, a boy who has prophetic Taste Like Chicken number of tickets and uniting nearly dreams and also has the label of being Friday, June 27 Sandy Hook, 9 PM - 1 AM *Clydesdales are available for 200 people as performers and workers. his father’s favorite son. After his jealous viewing during non-show hours The festival, which technically begins The Dertones in the Ice Harbor near McGraw brothers sell him into Egyptian slavery, Chuck Bregman Joseph finds himself in the service of a 180 Main, 5 - 9 PM Murph’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Hill June 10th – 15th between the hours of 9:00AM – 7:00PM. strangely Elvis-inspired Pharaoh. Even- tually, Joseph and his brothers are re- Rosalie Morgan Joe Caploe w/ Neck & Neck *In case of inclement weather united and the twelve sons of Israel are Da Vinci’s, 6 - 9 PM Isabella’s, 9 PM - 1 AM scheduled shows may be together once more. The show blends cancelled. a number of musical styles, from tradi- tional country to ‘50s rock and calypso, and all points in-between. as soon as this issue of 365ink is in your Good Times paws, opens with Wake Me When I’m The Heartland Festival will have one Good Friends Dead, an Irish wake murder mystery more show, though it will be a limited Great Prices which, like all the Heartland shows, two-evening engagement. The Missoula will be performed throughout the dura- Children’s Theatre will be presenting a tion of the Festival -- which begins on production of The Amazing Adventures Friday, June 12, and continues all the of Robinson Crusoe, loosely based upon way into early August ... which means the classic novel by Daniel Defoe. The you have no excuse to miss out on show looks at Robinson’s island several some of these shows. years after his boat shipwrecked, and he’s turned it into a ... tourist destination? Wake Me When I’m Dead revolves Yep. Seriously. The Amazing Adventures around the O’Malley family, which has of Robinson Crusoe will be shown on gathered for the wake of the recently Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26. passed Uncle Sean. With the family in shock due to the elder statesman’s un- timely demise, the O’Malleys decide that they’re going to send him off with Live Music true Irish panache ... until family mem- June 12 98 In The Shade bers begin hearing rumors that there may have been some foul play, that June 14 Betty and The Headlights Sean’s will has mysteriously changed, and that the old boy was making strange June 26 98 In The Shade Whew! That’s quite a rundown! Tickets claims about the end of the rainbow. for the 2008 Heartland Festival are on What happens after that ... well, it’s the sale now, and they can be purchased Irish and it’s a murder mystery, what online at the UW-P online box office, Welcome to the Hub can you possibly expect? by visiting the UW-P box office -lo cated in Ullsvik Hall on the university Tuesday / Wednesday Special “This will be a truly unique and inter- campus, or by calling 608-342-1298. active dinner theater experience,” notes $ 1.25 Pints of Bud, Bud Light & Miller Lite Group discounts are available. Heartland Festival Executive Director 253 Main Street • Dubuque, IA John Hassig. Oh, you’d like to know the schedule? I guess we can do that for you, too. 563-583-3480 • myspace.com/thehubdbq The production of Wake Me When I’m Dead has another unique wrinkle to it Wake Me When I’m Dead - June 13, 14, -- all shows include dinner, served dur- 22, 29, July 6, 19, 27 and August 2. ing the performance. The menu will in- clude Irish cream of carrot soup, mixed I Love You, You’re Perfect...Now Change greens salads, chicken breasts, potatoes - June 20, 21, 28, 29, July 5, 6, 12, 16, (naturally) and more. A cash bar, featur- 18, 26, 30, and August 1. ing Guinness beer, will also be available for all evening performances. Slainte! A Year With Frog & Toad - June 27, 28, July 5, 13, 15, 20, 23, 26, 29, and August 2. The next show up on the Heartland 2008 card is the musical I Love You, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor You’re Perfect ...Now Change. This Dreamcoat - July 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, “celebration of the mating game” de- 22, 24, 27, 31, and August 3. constructs modern-day relationships, as Act I takes a look at dating, courtship The Amazing Adventures of Robinson and eventual love and marriage, while Crusoe - July 25 & 26. I CAUGHT A CATFISH ONCE. IT MEOWED. WHAT’S THAT MEAN? 18 JUNE 12 - 25

17th Annual powered dance band playing classic rock, 8:30 p.m. on Friday, and from 11:30 a.m. to parking spaces. Other festival guests can new country and more.” Milwaukee-based 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 park for free on Hawthorne Street and in the Catfish Festival Kleen Slatt will headline on Saturday night p.m. Sunday, a catfish dinner is only $8.50. If Klauer and Barnstead (Thermolyne) parking June 19-22, A.Y. McDonald Park with a mixture of blues, rock and country. catfish is not what you are hungry for, a wide lots. There will be a free shuttle from free variety of food vendors will be on hand offer- parking spots to the festival grounds. In addition to live entertainment, Catfish offers ing all of your festival favorites. The Dubuque Celebrating all things “catfish,” Catfish Festival One note not to be overlooked – especially is now in its 17th year of offering a wide vari- a variety of attractions for the whole family County Democrats host a breakfast Saturday through the weekend. Carnival rides by D& and Sunday morning from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. in light of recent trends in weather – is that ety of activities for the whole family. Featuring except for the carnival, nearly all entertain- an array of entertainment and attractions, the B Shows provide kids with four days of fun. We’re not sure if they’ll be checking your Thursday, June 19 and Sunday, June 22 will voter registration for party affiliation but re- ment and attractions are held under tents so festival offers live music throughout the week- Catfish Festival continues – rain or shine. end, a catfish tournament, craft fair, raffle, car- be “kids’ days” offering special prices on ride gardless, scrambled eggs, pancakes, ham and bracelets with a discount coupon. Coupons applesauce with juice or coffee seems like a Catfish Festival is a non-profit, tax-exempt nival rides, concessions, a pancake breakfast, organization. For more information, look and of course the ever-popular catfish dinner are available at several locations around town pretty good deal for 6 bucks. including West Dubuque Tap, Town Clock for Catfish Festival fliers available at- loca under the big tent. Admission to the festival tions around the Tri-State area, or call Don- grounds is just $3, with kids under 12 free. Inn, and the Dubuque365 office. An arts & craft fair, a commercial tent, and a flea mar- na Ginter at 563-583-8535. Admission also includes a chance ket offers visitors an assortment at daily door prizes and a vari- of merchandize to browse. Fish Entertainment Schedule ety of free coupons for food, car pond and face painting are avail- Thursday, June 19 washes and more. On Friday, the able to entertain the little ones. 4:00 p.m. Mixed Emotions festival will be giving away a cash 8:00 p.m. The Legends prize every half hour! Always part of the Catfish Fes- tival weekend, the annual “Cat Friday, June 20 The tent is home to a variety of Tracker” Catfish Tournament is Traditionally held next to the Mississippi 4:00 p.m. Betty & the Headlights live music that begins on Thurs- scheduled for Saturday, June 21. River, Catfish Festival is located on what was 8:30 p.m. Nite Fire day afternoon and runs through Sponsored by the Bait Shack, previously known as the Hawthorne Street the weekend. Local favorites the tournament challenges an- Extension, remodeled two years ago into the Saturday, June 21 like Mixed Emotions, The Leg- glers to fish the mighty Miss, beautiful A.Y. McDonald Park. The new park 12:30 p.m. Massey Road ends, Betty & the Headlights, Massey Road, competing to catch the biggest cat. For more added a new public restroom building, a 4:00 p.m. The Stumble Brothers the Stumble Brothers, James Kinds & the All information call 563-582-9395. hiking/biking path, a fishing pier, playground 8:30 p.m. Kleen Slatt Night Riders, and the Mississippi Band will equipment, new landscaping and lighting play along with featured performers Nite Fire Those who don’t want to spend hours in a and more, making it even more conducive to Sunday, June 22 and Kleen Slatt. Headlining Friday night, Mad- boat fishing, can land their own catfish din- hosting the festival. Because of the remodel, 12:00 p.m. James Kinds/All Night Riders ison-based Nite Fire is described as “a high ner in the Catfish Tent. Available from 4 to parking is limited to the available handicap 3:00 p.m. Mississippi Band I BET YOU COULD DO TRAPEZE TRICKS IN THOISE RAFTERS 19 JUNE 12 - 25

the restaurant with a long career of The restaurant is also home to the new experience in country club and res- Nash Gallery, a joint venture with the taurant management, says that his Dubuque County Fine Arts Society in vision for the restaurant is a bit dif- promoting the arts in Dubuque. Gansen ferent from old perceptions. notes that there have already been good turnouts for art receptions. “We’re in the “People look at this place as a place center of the art world,” he says. to come for an anniversary dinner,” he says. “But I want it to be a fun place.”

To that end, effort has been made to ensure that the new Rafters has a ca- sual atmosphere, creating a restau- a house soup. The 365ink team sampled rant that “makes people comfortable that borscht when we visited the restau- ... and is well worth the value.” rant, and it was pretty darned good.

Which isn’t to say that there are some Of course, for those not necessarily want- absurdly high prices on the menu or ing to jump too far into the wild, the menu anything of the like -- rather, far from also features traditional offerings, such as it. The menu of Rafters hits a very, hot sandwiches, burgers, salads, steaks very good price point, with average and more. All in all, the best way to de- lunch entrees around $9, sandwiches scribe it is “something for everyone.” around $7, and dinners not much There are a few other wrinkles to Rafters more expensive than that. And you that makes it stand out as a new mem- remember us mentioning value? All ber of Dubuque’s dining community. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, for dinners include a cup of soup, a house All of it comes together in creating what salad, fresh steamed vegetables, and dinner parties of 10 people or more, the restaurant will send a trolley from Trol- Gansen emphasizes is a casual and a choice of starch (potato variations, friendly establishment. or a vegetable rice blend). Rafters Reborn: “People on the outside often look A new take on the classic restaurant The menu, crafted by Rus- at this as a place with strictly an by Tim Brechlin sian-born Chef Inna, blends older crowd,” he says. “That’s European and American sen- not true; that’s not the kind of at- Over yonder down on Asbury Road, in-be- sibilities, as mentioned ear- mosphere this restaurant has. It’s tween the Dubuque Community School Dis- lier. Many sandwiches are affordable, it’s welcoming, and trict’s Forum headquarters on Chaney Road served open-face (Gansen the food is good. So far, people and Denny’s Lux Club on Asbury, resides laughs and notes that oc- have responded very positively, an immediately recognizable establishment casionally guests ask for the we’ve been busy, and we’re -- The Fountain Park Performing Arts & Busi- other half of the sandwich), looking forward to trying more ness Center. Home to a number of businesses and the menu includes Eu- new things in the future.” and organizations, including the Dubuque ropean-influenced recipes Symphony Orchestra, the Dubuque Arts such as beef stroganoff, meat So far, it’s working out pretty Council, Body & Soul, One Mean Bean and cakes (exactly what the name well for Rafters, and many, many more, the location now has a suggests -- and delicious), having a new place for new -- well, old -- well, new resident: The and chicken Kiev. Of course, lunch or dinner in the newly opened Rafters Restaurant. there are daily specials, as well. In ad- Tri-State area is never, leys of Dubuque to pick dition to a fresh-daily soup of the day, ever a bad thing. The restaurant, which opened just this Rafters features a Ukrainian borscht as a group up, and after din- spring, replaces the former Galleria ner, the trolley will drop Rafters Restaurant is lo- Lounge, which in turn replaced ... the orig- the group back off at any cated at 2728 Asbury inal Rafters. However, to suggest that this single destination within Road. For reservations, is a retread of the past, or a half-hearted the city limits of Dubuque call 563-556-2293, or attempt at nostalgia, would be the furthest and Asbury. visit the Web site at one could possibly be from the truth. For those looking to try www.raftersdubuque. Under the direction of general manager something truly unique, com, which also features Paul Gansen, Rafters features a mix of the restaurant also offers the restaurant’s menu. American and European influences, from -- weather permitting -- the op- its decor to the menu selections to the ac- tion of dinner for two or four tual cuisine itself. Gansen, who comes to in the actual Bell Tower, with a four-directional view offering a lookout over the entire area. Rafters is also continuing the old establishment’s partnership with the Bell Tower Theater, and dinner theater offerings will be provided for Bell Tow- er shows, making the theater once again Dubuque’s only dinner theater. BRING ME THE WOODBINE! SNAP SNAP! 20 JUNE 12 - 25

“City Focuses on a LEAST expensive option: --The digestion process will use less energy Sustainable Dubuque” for operation that leads to a more stable and by Mayor Roy D. Buol predictable rate structure for future years. Sustainability is defined by a community’s --The process produces biogas with con- ability to meet the economic, social and en- tains 60 to 65 percent methane that can be HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS vironmental equity needs of today without collected and burned to provide heat for Sunday Industry Night Karaoke and Happy Hour ALL NIGHT LONG! reducing the ability of future generations to boilers or fuel for electricity and heat co- meet their needs. generation which will further reduce the Monday Madness City’s carbon footprint. Double Bubble 4-6 p.m. Long before this holistic vision of “sustain- --The process would produce biosolids that Tuesday Tex-Mex ability” became a topic for the best of minds $2 Margaritas 2.50 Strawberry 2.75 Mexican across the country, author and business would be usable in a compost operation or Beers 4-6p.m. LIVE MUSIC management consultant Peter Drucker had as a soil conditioner for parks and forests. June 20th - Diplomats of Wednesday Martini Night Solid Sound published a book about the impact of “long- Overall, anaerobic digestion is the more Double Bubble 9-11 p.m. Your choice Martinis for $5.50 4-6 p.m. range planning” on our culture. As he inter- “green” alternative that promotes the ba- June 21st - The Liam Ford Band preted, “Long-range planning does not deal (Former Big Bang Theory Singer) sic concept of reduce, reuse, and recycle Thursday Open Mic Night June 28th - North of Grand with future decisions, but with the future of Late night happy hour 9-11 p.m. as compared to incineration which is only w/ Surf Report present decisions.” As the City Council and $2 domestic beers a disposal option. It is the best long term Open Mic Night! - Every Thursday staff considered how our decisions would economic solution – higher initial costs, but 50¢ off all beverages daily 4-6 p.m.! impact the Dubuque of the future, we envi- lower over the life of the system. The lower sioned “Sustainable Dubuque.” energy costs will lead to greater rate stability Our “Sustainable Dubuque” model in- which means less vulnerability to increasing volves a three-part approach that integrates costs of energy. The lower carbon footprint environmental and ecological integrity, will lessen Dubuque’s impact on the global economic prosperity, social and cultural vi- climate. It fits more closely with the City’s brancy. The goal of “Sustainable Dubuque” commitment to being a Green and Sustain- is to create polices and programs that ad- able community. And finally, the decision dress all three pieces to create a community recently reached by your City Council will that is viable, livable and equitable. The impact favorably Dubuque citizens for the individual “building blocks” of this strat- next forty years! egy relate to energy, water, mobility, air, Of note, following my State of the City resources, nature, green economy, eco-lit- Address late March, Country Home maga- eracy, food, and shelter. zine ranked Dubuque 53rd among its 379 In this article, I will highlight the City’s strat- “Best Green Cities in America” for 2008! egy in relation to water, more specifically Dubuque climbed a noteworthy 109 spots water pollution control. The question to be after being ranked 162nd on last year’s list. addressed was not whether the City should In issuing its report, Country Home reported, do something about incineration facilities “Across the nation, people are looking for NEW EXHIBIT FOR 2008...NOW OPEN! that are almost 40 years old, but rather, what ways to shrink their proverbial footprint. And would the City decide to do. With the Water along with that push to live a little closer July 4th Ham House Ice Cream Social Pollution Control Plant identified as a high to the ‘Three-R’ mantra (reduce, reuse and 44th Annual event features live music, tours, priority of the City Council in 2007, Strand recycle), Americans are asking their com- historical demonstrations and of course cake and ice Associates was contracted to proceed with munities to think green, too. That prompted cream! 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. the planning…including options, public in- the second annual Best Green Places report, put and information sessions. In April of this which analyzed hundreds of cities on key year, the City Council reviewed nine options. points, such as official energy policies, green The final options for further analysis included power, green buildings, and the availability incineration of biosolids versus anaerobic of fresh, locally grown food.” Of eight Iowa digestion which has been used to stabilize communities named to the list, Dubuque sludge prior to land application. Anaerobic was the third-highest ranked. Among 92 cit- Making 365ink look as good digestion has the highest initial capital cost at ies in 12 mid-western states, Dubuque was as it reads from issue #1... $26M (vs. $18M), but the lowest annual op- the twelfth-highest ranked community! erating and maintenance costs. As we refer to Peter Drucker’s definition of long range plan- Your City Council and Staff are focused on ning, we come face to face with the long term decisions that continue to move Dubuque value of the City Council’s present decision. along the path to achieving its vision as a pro- gressive, sustainable community. It’s a trans- If you look over the 30-year-life of the an- formation, and one that reconciles today’s aerobic digestion option, it proves to be the environmental decisions with the future! woodwardprinting.com • 1-800-348-5515 CHRIS CORNELL -- GOOD. LINKIN PARK -- LAME. SUMMERFEST -- AWESOME BABY! 21 JUNE 12 - 25

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Resa James Home and (seriously -- a hog), Restoration Warehouse, wine, beer and soft two landmark tenants drinks, grand prizes, of the Warehouse Dis- and a presentation from trict, have announced representatives of Jay plans for a joint grand Strongwater. opening on Saturday, June 21, from 9 a.m. Coupons and special Corn Cob Nationals until 6 p.m. Further- discounts will be avail- Wrestling Tournament more, they invite you to able all day at both lo- June 14 . 9:00 AM Daily, Five Flags Arena attend A Taste of Kind- cations. Head for 1079 ness, from 2 - 6 p.m. Elm Street in Dubuque, that same day, featuring and call 563-556-0814 live music, a hog roast for further information! American Breweriana Convention and Swap Meet June 21 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM, Five Flags Arena TAP Tool Sale Thursday July 24 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Browse a huge selection of tools at clearance prices. JUNE Free Admission! 28 One Particular Harbor 2008 Let’s see ... what do you get when you the goal of granting a wish to a child combine the music of Jimmy Buffett, in our community. And that’s where a great fundraising event, an all-day One Particular Harbour comes in. party and live music? It’s One Particu- lar Harbour, the Dubuque Phlockers’ The event will feature two musical acts: (or Parrotheads, if you will) annual Dubuque’s own Pirate Over 50, known Make-a-Wish fundraiser, held on Sat- for performing everyone’s favorite Jim- urday, June 28, at the Grand River my Buffett songs across the Tri-States, as Center beginning at 6 p.m. well as the Cedar Island Band, a Mid- west band playing Buffett, tropical mu- sic, some country and old-fashioned rock n’ roll. In addition to the mu- sic, the event will feature silent auctions, door and raffle priz- es, food, drinks and more. For those wishing to get the party started a little earlier, a pool-side pre-party will be held at the Days Inn Dubuque, 1111 Dodge Street, beginning at 2 p.m., and round trip Little Big Town, Kellie Pickler Seether, Drowning Pool, Sick Puppies The Dubuque Phlockers are a transportation between the Days America’s River Festival, Dubuque, IA • June 13-15 Dubuque County Fair • Saturday, July 26 group of individuals with one thing Inn and the Grand River Center will in common -- and we’re thinking that be provided. In addition, for those still Kenny Chesney & LeAnn Rimes Lifehouse it’s pretty obvious by now what that standing after everything is said and i Wireless Center, Moline, IL • Thursday, June 19 Eagles Club, Milwaukee, WI • Saturday, July 5 is: They’re all Jimmy Buffett fanatics! done, there may even be a pool-side Formed in 2006, the group is dedicat- post party. Sounds like a full day! Summerfest American Idols Live ed to performing charity fundraising Milwaukee, WI •11 Days, 11 Stages, 700 Bands Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL • Saturday, July 19 and community service work around Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at June 26 - Stevie Wonder, They Might Be Giants, June 27 - Rush, Rusted Root Jimmy Buffett the Tri-State area and to have fun while the door, and they can be purchased Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI • Sat. July 19 doing so ... or, as they put it, “party by calling 563-590-8260, or at the June 28 - John Mellenkamp, Trrace Adkins with a purpose, in an effort to make Dubuque Phlockers’ Web site at June 29 - Steve Miller Band / Joe Cocker Dave Matthews Band our community just a little better than www.dbqphlockers.org. Reserved ta- June 30 - Rascal Flatts / Taylor Swift, Matisyahu Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI • Sat. August 9 we found it.” Hard to argue with that. bles, including 8 tickets, are available July 1 - Alicia Keys / Steven Marley, Filter, O.A.R. for $125. For more information about July 2 - John Mayer, Coheed and Cambria Def Leppard In 2007, the Phlockers donated the Cedar Island Band, visit their July 3 - Tim McGraw, Lucinda Williams Iowa State Fair, Des Moines • Saturday, August 16 $3,000 to the Make-a-Wish Founda- MySpace page at www.myspace.com/ July 4 - Stone Temple Pilots, The Roots, Seether July 5 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, the Bravery tion of Iowa, and this year, they’re cib. For more information about the Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI • Sat. July 19 aiming higher. To grant a wish costs Dubuque Phlockers, visit the earlier w/ Stefe Winwood, Cracker in the neighborhood of $8,000, and Web site or check out their MySpace July 6 - Jonas Brothers, 311, The Bravery, Derek Trucks Susan Tedeschi Ron White the group is committed to achieving at www.myspace.com/dbqph. Paramount Theater, Cedar Rapids, IA • Fri., Sept. 26 DID THE SCORPION GET STUNG? OH WE CRACK OURSELVES UP 22 JUNE 12 - 25 Bob’s Book Reviews The Russians Are Coming! you want. The ship the North Koreans you do? plorer Bob Ballard capture is the USS Pueblo. from the Woods The Russians Are Coming! Your investigation leads you to the con- Hole Oceano- Less than a month later one of your state- clusion that the sinking was deliberate graphic Institute by Bob Gelms of-the-art attack subs, the K-129, sinks in but you have no definitive proof. What locates HMS Ti- the area of Hawaii. It could be an acci- do you tell the friends and relatives of the tanic in the North All Hands Down by Kenneth Sewell and dent but you think the Americans sunk crew? The answer is nothing. You try to Atlantic. What the Jerome Preisler is the story of the sink- the K-129 because she got too close to get them to believe it was a training ac- American Public ing of the American nuclear submarine Pearl Harbor or was deliberately sunk in a cident. doesn’t know is that Ballard was a Na- Scorpion in June of 1968. Many books collision with the U.S. submarine Sword- val Intelligence operative for 30 years have been written about this incident, fish. Some of John Walker’s dispatches, You are now President Johnson. What and, at the Navy’s request, used the but none are as compelling and as thor- while vague, convince you that K-129 would you do? search for Titanic as a cover to investi- oughly researched as this one. was sunk on purpose. You also have spy gate the wreck of Scorpion. The results pictures of the damaged USS Swordfish You are mired in Viet Nam. Martin Lu- of Ballard’s findings remain classified to It turns out that the collective Ameri- steaming back to port for repairs. ther King Jr. had been assassinated just this day. can nightmare about the Cold War with eight weeks previously. Bobby Kennedy Russia is very real and bloodcurdling. was assassinated the day after Scorpion In 2005 a retired Navy Admiral, with While that nightmare played out in full was lost, one of only two subs ever lost reason to know, confirmed that Scorpion view during the Bay of Pigs fiasco, those by the U.S. Navy. The entire country was was sunk by a Russian torpedo. This fact phantasms were also taking real shape up in arms. If the Russians sunk Scor- was also confirmed by at least four Rus- under the oceans of the world where pion on purpose it was a deliberate act sian officers or submarine commanders. submarines of the USSR and the USA, of war. What would you do? The answer Soviet Vice Admiral B. M. Kamarov has loaded with WMD, were playing the is nothing. As it was so succinctly put acknowledged a secret agreement be- equivalent of chicken and not without by a member of one of your intelligent tween the USA and the Soviet Union to deadly results. services, “Ninety-nine men aren’t worth let both the K-129 and the Scorpion in- the destruction of civilization. Other cident pass in order to preserve the rela- Let’s play a little game. It’s called “What reasons had to be found for the loss.” tions between the two countries. Would You Do.” Seventeen years later the underwater ex- What would you have done? You are the head of the Russian Navy. You are a virulent anti-American. You have a spy placed at the highest levels of U.S. Naval Intelligence. His name is John Walker and he is providing you with the most secret, most sensitive com- munications the U.S. government has. One of your underlings has said that if there were a war with the USA, Russia would win it because John Walker was providing you with all of the top secret documents the Navy was producing. What would you do? Russia was reading every one of them and the USA didn’t have a clue. Some of You set in motion a plan to sink one of the information was hard or impossible the USA’s subs in retaliation. You send a to decode because you didn’t have one group of Russian ships into the Atlantic of the Navy’s latest code machines. with instructions to act in a suspicious manner. You know the U.S. Navy will The North Koreans aren’t too smart, so send a sub to spy on your activities. you convince them to keep their eyes John Walker provides you with Navy peeled for a lightly armed US “spy ship.” dispatches. You know where and when They spot one, surround it with heav- the Navy sub will arrive. You know its ily armed warships and trump up some course and even its name, USS Scor- fairy tale about the ship invading North pion. When it arrives on the scene you Korean territorial waters. They capture send a sub-killer attack helicopter from the ship and the crew before the crew one of your destroyers. It finds Scorpion can destroy all of their intelligence-gath- immediately and drops a torpedo that ering equipment. You get the latest code locks on the sub. Scorpion has about 30 machine from this operation. The US seconds to assess the situation. The tor- immediately changes all the codes and pedo hits the ship and in fewer than 90 sends instructions to all their ships to re- seconds it’s headed for the ocean abyss configure various parts on the machine. three miles down. All 99 crew members The USA thinks it’s safe. John Walker pro- are lost. You start dreaming about The vides you with all the communiqués. You Order of Lenin. retool the machine you have and, presto, you can now read everything, anytime You are now the US Navy. What would HOLY CRAP MATT’S A PIRATE. IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING 23 JUNE 12 - 25

and even cancer. Study after study Harmful if Swallowed shows that one of the keys to happi- ness is to develop a habit of letting go Forgiveness is giving up resentment of past hurts. and bitterness against another. One of the most important, yet thorniest Some people get so angry they are un- things you will ever do in life is forgiv- able or unwilling to consider forgive- ing someone who has wounded you. ness as an option. Want proof, just lis- Refusing to forgive is toxic to your life. ten or watch the news. Forgiveness is a Nelson Mandela put it this way “Hat- choice. When you say, “I can’t forgive ing someone is drinking poison and that person,” what you’re really saying expecting the other person to die from is, “I’m choosing not to forgive that it.” By forgiving, you rid your body of person.” Forgiveness does not mean that poison. Forgive others who have that you condone, forget, ignore or hurt you, not because they deserve it, accept what occurred; you are simply but because you deserve it. forgiving them and choosing to move on. You may not think you are ready to forgive, but do it anyway. That anger, bitterness, and stress is lethal.

Hatred towards others is harmful if swal- lowed. Forgiveness frees you from con- tamination. It is a virtue that the world has too little of. When you finally -de cide to let go of past hurts you empower yourself. By deciding to forgive others you find peace. Think of one person right now who has wounded you. Can you see that person? Now, forgive them. They may not deserve it, but you do!

The greatest benefit of forgiveness goes to the person giving it, not the one re- ceiving it. When you forgive, you liter- ally clense your body from contamina- tion. You are freeing yourself from the hatred you’ve been swallowing.

The cost of refusing to forgive is high. It affects your attitude, how you treat people and even your health. When you refuse to forgive, you get angry, bitter, and stressed. You become more prone to numerous ailments such as ulcers, heart problems, anxiety attacks

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by Jeff Stiles Each time, in response, Art would typi- cally chuckle, say something along the Once 16 million strong, U.S. veterans lines of “Hello Jeff,” and continue con- of World War II—the first war after “The centrating on the project at hand. War To End All Wars”—are dying at a ••• rate of more than 1,000 a day and today number only 2.5 million, according to The wake for Art was held on Memorial the Department of Veterans Affairs. Day 2008, a fitting day for a brave military veteran to be memorialized. Hoffmann “Judging by the passing of the World War I Schneider Funeral Home was literally veterans,” remarks a historian for the World filled with friends and family steadily ar- War II Museum in New Orleans, “we’re riving to pay last respects to this 85-year- predicting they will all be gone by 2020.” old gentleman. Words such as “kind,” “the force,” “quiet” and “unassuming” were Last month Dubuque native and World terms heard throughout the room that af- War II Army medic Arthur Nagel joined ternoon as I met brothers, sisters, cousins, the ranks of those leaving this world for the grandchildren, nieces, nephews and close Great Beyond. A regular and longtime fix- friends of a man who has been a stalwart ture in my north-end community, Mr. Na- of our community for many decades. gel had served as landlord of his historic 6-plex at 3087 Central Avenue long before “He was my favorite uncle and my god- I moved into the neighborhood in 1989. father,” stated one lady I overheard. After graduating from Senior High School in 1942, Art was city “Hello, my name is housing inspector for Jeff and this is my Dubuque for several wife Mindy,” I would years before eventu- state to each fam- ally working for and ily member we met later retiring from The that afternoon. “We Fischer Companies in live across the street 1985. He was a mem- from Art’s house on ber of Holy Ghost Central, and I would Parish, Knights of Co- scold Art whenever I lumbus 510 and the saw him perched high Veterans of Foreign on a ladder working Wars. on his porch.” A smile would automatically Art’s brick residence— come across the face across Central and of whomever we ap- two houses south of proached, as they mine—was originally knew exactly what I a gigantic single-fam- was talking about. ily home that boasted servant’s quarters, with “Yes, that house was stained glass windows along its northern his life,” they would respond. “We always staircase from first floor to second that figured we’d someday find him laying at even today awe passersby. the bottom of his ladder, having died doing what he loved the most.” Many times I had spotted this 60-some- thing-year-old man—who only after read- In reality, Arthur Nagel’s last act before ing his obituary I learned was actually an taking his last breath was to kiss Eileen, 80-something-year-old man—standing his wife of 60 years. I guess he did in fact atop a tall ladder, completing home-im- die doing what he loved the most. provement projects on the exterior of his owner-occupied building. These were re- Besides Eileen, two brothers (Oliver and pairs that really should have been assigned John), a sister (Dorothy), a son (Greg), to someone much younger, but Art knew four daughters (Catherine, Carla, Cyn- what he was doing like no one else. thia and Sheila), 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, Art leaves be- “Hey Art, climb down off that ladder and hind many neighbors who will miss his let me do that for you!” I’d often shout to presence—along with a historic house in my neighbor as he completed repairs to Dubuque’s north-end that will always be his front porch, roof or windows. in need of some more TLC. 365 SAYS DOUBLE THE MEAT... AND WORK SOME OVERTIME! 25 JUNE 12 - 25 •Provide nutrients necessary for clear skin, shiny hair, bright eyes, a trim body and good health.

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Southwest Taco Toss Dinner’s done with this fast and fla- vorful meal RECIPE All You Need 1 Dole™ Taco Toss™ salad kit 2 Roma tomatoes, chopped 2/3 cup chopped jicama 1/2 cup black beans, drained, rinsed 1 chicken breast, cooked, chopped Food Safety Clean. Wash your hands before han- All You Do dling any food. You should use warm Combine ingredients in salad kit, tomatoes, and Older Adults soapy water for at least 20 seconds. Ad- jicama, black beans and chicken in a large Food safety is important to all of us but ditionally, clean every surface that the bowl. Toss gently to coat. Serves 4 to 6. in some ways, it’s even more important food touches. Nutrition Facts: 40 calories, 8 g carbs, 2 g for those of us over 65 years old. As we protein, 150 mg sodium. age, our body’s ability to fight infection Separate. Avoid cross-contamination and harmful bacteria decreases. Older by keeping uncooked foods away from people may be more susceptible to food the ready-to-eat version. Use one cutting poisoning too. Let’s look at some of the board for raw meat and another one for reasons this happens. fresh produce.

Body Changes. With age, most of our Cook. Raw or undercooked meat and major organs don’t work quite as well as poultry are at high risk for contamination. they did when we were younger. They Always cook these items to the proper may not rid the body of harmful bacteria temperature and use a food thermometer and other toxins. to check it. Cook seafood, steaks and Fruits and Veggies - roasts to 145 degrees F. Cook ground More Matters Ceasar Asparagus Salad Weakened Immune System. After beef, pork and egg dishes to 160 degrees Eating more veggies is easy with the age of 75 years, your immune system F. Cook poultry, processed meats and

RECIPE salad for dinner becomes weaker and you might succumb leftovers to 165 degrees F. Eat your broccoli; finish your green beans. to a food-borne illness that you could As it turns out, mom and dad were right. All you need It is important to eat more broccoli, peas, have fought off when you were younger. Chill. Refrigerate your leftovers quickly. 1 bunch asparagus, trimmed and cut into You should divide large amounts into oranges and yes, more green beans and 1-inch pieces Medications. Many people in this smaller batches. Keep your refrigerator other fruits and veggies. 1 (10 oz) bag Dole™ Caesar Salad Kit age group are on some medication for at 40 degrees F or below and your freez- 2 tbsp chopped red onion You may have heard the motto ”eat five a chronic disease and with medications er at 0 degrees F or below. to nine servings” of fruits and vegetables All you do come side-effects. You may have an al- a day. Or was it “nine to eleven” servings Steam asparagus 4-6 minutes or until crisp- tered ability to taste and smell which By following these relatively simple a day? Tired of counting? Now the new tender. Drain and rinse with cool water. Toss might lead you to eat something that’s precautions, you can avoid many po- motto is not about counting; it is simply salad with onion, asparagus, salad dressing past its prime. tential food-borne illnesses. If you have encouraging everyone to eat more fruits and cheese included in kit. Top with crou- any food safety questions, your Hy-Vee So what’s the good news? You can and vegetables every day. tons included in kit before serving. meat service, produce or kitchen man- avoid food-borne illness by practicing ager can help. For these and any other Nutrition Facts: 140 calories, 11 g fat, 9 g carbs, some simple food safety behaviors when Eating more fruits and veggies is good 4 g protein, 3 g fiber and 310 mg sodium. nutrition questions, contact your local for you! In fact, eating more fruits and handling food. Hy-Vee dietitian. vegetables will reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, cataracts and obesity, and improve overall health. Consider the following facts.

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• Reduce the risk of strokes by up to 25% • Help maintain a healthier blood pressure. • Cut the risk of cancer in half. • Reduce the risk of heart disease by 20% to 40%. • Reduce neural tube birth defects • Reduce the risk of cataracts AMERICA’S RIVER AND GREAT MUSIC. MAKES SENSE, DOESN’T IT? 26 JUNE 12 - 25

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3) We have raised the awareness of en- & the Belly Swirls, Jammer and the Upper vironmental concerns in many different America’s River Festival: Main Street Jazz Band. ways within our organization. We include Right Around the Corner! monthly articles within our company Main Stage concert tickets are available newsletter, our Social Responsibility Com- The America’s River Festival, June 13-15 at now, priced at $25 for reserved seating mittee made up of employees supports and and $15 for general admission. Tickets are participates in the Adopt-A-Highway pro- the Port of Dubuque, is set to be packed gram and we also as a company have do- full of family-friendly events. Check out the available at www.ticketmaster.com, by nated funds to Bunker Hill in order to have sidebar for the full schedule. phone at 866-448-7849, at the Five Flags a tree planted on their course by Trees for Center box office, or on the days of the WS Live Dubuque. We also turn off lights when of- Making their triumphant return to Dubuque festival. Tickets are non-refundable. WS Live (Formerly Advanced Data- fices, restrooms, etc are not in use or em- will be the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses Comm) has taken on the “Go Green” ployees will be away from their offices for (See the centerfold). Monster truck rides will Due to ongoing development in the Port of Challenge by encouraging our team to: an extended period of time. Dubuque, festival organizers recommend be on hand, as will the Dock Dogs, who We at WS Live know there are countless have splish-splashed their way into audi- parking in the downtown area and then tak- 1) Reduce paper waste and usage. We have instituted a company wide initia- ways to make a difference and to Go Green. ences’ hearts since last year’s River Festival. ing a free shuttle (which will be ongoing tive to reduce paper waste by coordinat- These are our few ways we have adopted Also on hand will be freestyle motocross throughout the festivities) into the Port area. ing a paper reduction contest between and accepted the “Go Green” Challenge. competitions, KWWL News broadcasting our sites in Dubuque, IA, Oelwein, live from the festival site, a Nintendo Wii Admission to the America’s River Festival IA and Superior, WI. (note the email tag Can you make the pledge? tournament, arm wrestling competitions, is free for all three days. For more informa- line used.) We have discouraged the tion, contact the Dubuque Area Chamber practice of printing emails unnecessari- Visit Dubuque365.com and look for the kids’ rides and inflatables, and the first-ever “Go Green” link. Tell us your organiza- of Commerce at 563-557-9200. ly, automated ‘paper’ reports and moved Dubuque Idol Kids Vocal Talent Show! to a more paperless environment. tion’s top three “Go Green” action steps. Take the challenge to your team! 365 Don’t forget about the vast array of deli- 2) Recycle, Recycle, Recycle. We as a and the Diamond Jo casino will high- cious food offerings from area vendors, company used light one local “Go Green” organization to only recycle every issue including Hy-Vee, Carlos O’Kelly’s, Cold in 2008. Stone Creamery, Falbo Bros. Pizza, Kalm- aluminum cans and pop bottles. es, Pizza Hut, Star Restaurant, Sugar Ray’s Now we recycle and much, much more! 365

EVENTS SCHEDULE Friday, June 13: 5 p.m. - Midnight 5 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Bud Clydesdales America’s River Festival, June 13-15. 5 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Monster Trucks We need at least 70 or more people to help out that 5 - 8 p.m. - Dock Dogs weekend. Please contact ARF Chair Tammy Welbes And what is the America’s River Festival with- 5 & 6 p.m. - KWWL Live Broadcast at [email protected] or at 563.495.5953. Babysitting out great music? Country music star Kellie 6 - 7:30 p.m. - 98 in the Shade available. The times we need help is Friday the 13th Pickler, who first shot to fame in 2006 asa 8 - 9:30 p.m. - Lady Antebellum at 4 pm until 12 am, Saturday 12 pm until 12 am, and 9:45 - 11 p.m. - Kellie Pickler Sunday 11 am until 5 pm. You do not have to be a finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, Jaycee to serve you only must be at least 21 years old. 11 p.m. - 12 a.m. - 98 in the Shade has been announced as the headlining act for Join us for some fun! Friday, June 13. The singer most recently won three Country Music Television awards (two Saturday, June 14: Noon - Midnight Fireworks on the River, July 3 12 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Bud Clydesdales Plan ahead to join us at the Dubuque Jaycees/Radio for her video “I Wonder,” and one for her per- Dubuque Fireworks on the River!! This is our biggest 12p.m. - 6 p.m. - Nintendo Wii Tourney formance of the same song at the Country Mu- event of the year and Dubuque’s as well. Come down sic Association awards), and her debut album, 12 - 7 p.m. - Dock Dogs and help us park cars for a couple hours, then join us Small Town Girl, has been certified gold while 2 - 6 p.m. - Arm Wrestling on the corner for a great time under the stars! Help is 12:30 - 2 p.m. - Catch III producing three singles on the Billboard Hot appreciated as early as 8 a.m. but any time before 2 2:30 - 4 p.m. - ochOsol p.m. would be great. Bring lawn chairs, and possibly 100. Opening for Pickler on the Main Stage 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Wicked Liz beverages and food if you like. Think of it as a big pic- will be country group Lady Antebellum. 5 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Monster Trucks nic after some very rewarding volunteer work.

7 - 8:30 p.m. - LoveMonkeys Trap Shooting, June 26th Saturday’s Main Stage entertainment will 9 - 10:30 p.m. - Little Big Town be headlined by country group Little Big 6:00 p.m. Izaak Walton 11101 Thunder Hills Road 10:30 p.m. - 12 a.m. - Jammer Peosta, Iowa. Kevin “Snuffy” Smith will teach partici- Town, which became widely known to pants about the sport of shooting clays. Cost is just audiences with its 2005 album The Road Sunday, June 15: Noon - 6:30 p.m. $4.00and includes 10 shells/targets. Spectators are to Here, which achieved platinum sales 12 - 5 p.m. - Dock Dogs welcome to watch for free (no children please). A gift card drawing will also be available for those partici- status. Opening for Little Big Town will be 12 - 6:30 p.m. - Bud Clydesdales area favorites The Love Monkeys, who just pate. Please RSVP no later than June 19, 2008 with 12 - 6:30 p.m. - Monster Trucks [email protected] or call (563) 583-8758. finishing rocking the party that rocks the 12 - 2:30 p.m. - Dubuque Idol Kids body at the True Music Kickoff to Summer. 3 - 5 p.m. - Upper Main Street Jazz Band Visit our new website... Eagle WIndow & Door Tent music at the America’s River Festival will include 98 in Freestyle Motocross competitions will take DubuqueJaycees.org the Shade, Catch III, ochOsol, Wicked Liz place throughout all three days. I GOT YOUR SUDOKU RIGHT HERE PAL! 27 JUNE 12 - 25 WELCOME TO OUR ALL NEW TIME-KILLING 365 PUZZLE PAGE

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Dear Trixie: HOROSCOPES I’m a college senior who has a major prob- lem with my roommate. We go fifty/fifty on ARIES The great savings you got on that groceries for our apartment but the trouble new set of sheets will come back to bite you when it is fol- is I think she must be a bulimic. That first day lowed by a matching quilt, a new coat of paint and new car- after shopping she will have consumed all her food on the up- pet. Get neutral colors and spend the extra money on some- per shelves and by midnight the next night all my stuff will be gone thing else. Guys: Gas grill with all the amenities. Ladies: Dark from the lower shelves. I’ve had two or three talks with her about Cryptoquip this and she’s always contrite and promises to replace it all. But she chocolate, lots of dark chocolate. never does. Then she spends her money on clothes from expensive department stores. It also burns me up that she eats twice what I do TAURUS Repeatedly pumping your crotch forward in a sugges- and weighs virtually nothing. Don’t tell me to leave the food laced tive motion may well be a time-honored mating ritual among with laxatives. She already does laxatives. And I can’t move out, I certain animal species, but all it’s going to do is get you kicked Crossword have 8 months more on the lease. - Mid Size out of karaoke at the Canfield. Cool it down, Maverick. Dear Mid Size: GEMINI You got one of those “not an iPhone” thingys that I had a roommate like her once. I started secretly paying her dry cleaner to take in her pants a 1/2-inch a week. She was so con- looks like an iPhone but is decidedly not. You flash back to vinced she had gained massive amounts of weight she stopped Jr. High when your friends all had Chuck Taylor Converse All- eating entirely. Next time, get to know someone a little better be- Stars and your mom got you Payless knock-offs. You’ve be- fore committing to a year-long lease. come your mother and are unfortunately destined to be un- cool forever. Sorry. Dear Trixie: What is up with socks? I put an even number into the washer and CANCER If you don’t actually eat the vegetables that are grow- by the time they come out of the dryer I’ve lost like three! I went ing in your garden because you are too busy to cook at home, so far as buying 40 pairs of identical socks so they’d ALL match, where the heck did you find the time to plant the garden? and here I am down to like 17 socks. Do they escape during the Nice try, fatty. Put down the pizza and go pick a salad. spin cycle? - Almost Crazy Even Exchange Dear Almost Crazy: LEO Your love life will find itself newly inspired and rejuve- You know how you’ll be driving down the street and there’s that nated by the alignment of the stars and the full moon. But one shoe sitting off on the shoulder? Or how you’ll buy ink pens make sure that you’ve done your best to remove the excess and disposable lighters and the next day they’re gone? And you body hair. You never know when someone might see the full know how sometimes real late at night before you fall asleep and moon, look at you, and see a werewolf. Woof. you think you might be insane? Well, you are. The aliens only take the socks and pens and lighters from the crazy ones. Mega VIRGO You will find yourself in financial crisis, but the re- Maze Dear Trixie: peated nature of your problems suggests that it may be time I keep seeing the same cute guy at the park when I walk my dog. to decide upon a new course of action for restoring your with- He’s sexy in a rugged sort of way and looks great in faded blue ered bank account to health. Trafficking human organs is not jeans and boots. Today I chatted a bit with him and he said he’s a good idea, however. the outdoor type. He says he loves to camp and fish and thinks anyone who works indoors is missing out on real life. I’ve had a LIBRA Now that your plans for the big summer slim-down have few bad dates in the past so I’m a little leery. Trixie, what does that come and gone with massive failure, it’s time to look forward mean, “outdoor type?” - Indoor Gal with great anticipation to the great fall slim-down. Good luck. Dear Indoor Gal: It means he’s homeless. SCORPIO After a 10-week financial planning course, you’ve THE ANSWERS Questions on Page 6 taken on a 20-year mortgage for a massive speedboat that Dear Trixie: is regularly filled with scantily clad women. That seems like 1. False -- in fact, catfish have taste buds all over Is two or three times a week a normal amount of sex for a married their body. couple? - Hitched In ‘92 sound financial sense to me. Of course, if you are a scantily clad woman, you can have the same fun and avoid the 20- 2. A, the channel catfish is the most common in Dear Hitched: year mortgage. Invest in pilates. North America. It is if they are both dating other people. 3. C, the Julien Dubuque Bridge went toll-free in SAGITTARIUS Never trust a urologist who has all kinds of 1954. saws and knives on the walls. We’re in the Midwest, so he 4. FOOL YOU! It’s really called the Dubuque-Wis- could well be a lumberjack on the weekends ... but he might consin Bridge. not. Are you willing to take that chance? 5. It is believed that the floods of 1965 were the worst in Dubuque’s history. CAPRICORN You can buy Old Yeller-branded dog food now. You can buy food named for a dog that catches rabies and gets shot. 6. D, Joseph and his dreamcoat marked Andrew What have you done with your life that’s as awesome as this? Lloyd Webber’s first huge hit. 7. C, Independence Pops is the oldest festival on AQUARIUS If you’re looking for new ways to relieve stress, our cover -- but they’re all great! think about starting up the sure-to-be-classic sport of ham- 8. B, Beauty and the Beast is the only animated ster baseball. You’ll be sued by PETA, but you’ll be rich from film to ever be nominated for Best Picture. It lost video game royalties. to Silence of the Lambs.

9. It not only makes a sound, but it shuts the bridge PISCES Rethink your idea of putting a hit out on your cheat- down, holy cow! ing ex-girlfriend. Instead go to poopsenders.com. You can ship a huge pile of noxious gorilla crap for the low-low price of $16.95. 10. Originally, the land at Fountain Park was the Robert Bonson mansion and estate. Who could you continue to torture if she were actually dead? TABOR’S GOT ENOUGH MEDALS TO MAKE AN OLYMPIAN JEALOUS 29 JUNE 12 - 25

In fact, Tabor’s own family history at the farm mirrors some of the larger trends in farming through the generations. The first generation of Tabors raised a variety of crops – chickens, nuts, fruit, and hogs. Paul’s grandfather was the first to convert the farm to a more commodity-based, beef and corn operation. “Every generation had to break with tradition,” he explains.

Take a ride with us to the heart of Jackson the state. Before Prohibition, Iowa was the County, to a place that could be considered tenth-largest wine producing state, and sixth Medals, medals and more medals. the birthplace of the Iowa wine industry, to largest grape growing state in the nation. a farm that one family calls home. Maquo- Prohibition eliminated the winemaking and Still, grape growing and winemaking are a keta, Iowa, lies south of Dubuque along through the years that spanned the Great tradition that can be traced back through Highway 61. West of Maquoketa and 61 Depression, farming techniques changed. the family history. The first grape vines on lies the tiny town of Baldwin, Iowa, and Mechanization prompted conversion to the farm were planted more than 100 years just a couple of miles north of Baldwin lies commodities-based row crops like corn and ago by Paul’s great grandmother when she a family farm that has been home to the beans, and other farms began to specialize was first married. They still survive, though Tabor family for nearly 150 years. in beef or pork production. Farmers moved instead of making wine from them, the away from more diversified and labor-in- family eats them as table grapes. Paul Tabor is the fifth generation of the Ta- tensive crops like fruit and vegetables. The bor family to make his livelihood from the Armistice Day Freeze of 1940 that all but “My dad was a very good amateur wine farm. He is winemaker and manager of wiped out the Iowa apple industry was also maker,” explains Paul of his own entry into Tabor Home, a family vineyard and win- devastating to grape growers. Of the vines the world of winemaking. He grew up with ery that has been making wine from Iowa that survived, many were accidentally killed his father Jack’s homemade wine. “Even in grapes for twelve years. Paul might take is- by the widespread use of the broadleaf her- high school we made wine together.” When sue with the concept of calling Tabor Home bicide 2,4-D, introduced in the late 1940s. he would return from college for holidays the birthplace of the Iowa wine industry, or other family functions, they would al- not just because he’s fairly modest about ways make some sort of escape to the base- the influence he’s had in Iowa winemak- ment to check on his dad’s latest effort. ing, but because he sees the recent surge in viticulture as part of a broader history in the In the mid-1980s Paul was doing some region. “I always talk about it as a rebirth of post-graduate work at Indiana State Uni- the grape growing industry,” he said during versity when he began working with a our recent interview at the family farm. friend who was growing grapes and mak- ing wine. When his friend temporarily lost Tabor knows a great deal about grow- his vision, Paul tended the vineyard for ing grapes in Iowa and took some time to him, harvested the Marechal Foch grapes explain a bit about the history of wine in Paul Tabor taking 365 on a tour. and made them into wine. Everyone who tasted the wine was impressed, so he brought Foch cuttings back to Iowa.

It was about 1993-‘94 when Paul and his wife Martha came back to Iowa. He was teaching biology at Clarke and Loras when the Iowa Department of Economic Development had a grant program for “value-added products” – non-commod- ity-based products that included local production of raw materials and a local sales component. Grape and wine pro- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TIM WRITES THESE? BAD JOKES IN HEADERS! 30 JUNE 12 - 25

Ralphie Roberts Wednesday, June 18, 9 p.m. Bricktown Entertainment Complex An event known in these parts as the Great Galena Bal- Ralphie is not just a funny character with an loon Race is coming up pretty soon -- June 20 - 22 at unforgettable style; he has great jokes and Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa! stories. A seemingly endless set of clever and original jokes, audiences agree. He is a crowd-pleasing, The three-day event will feature a veritable ton of activi- critically acclaimed, one-of-a-kind showman. He’s a regular on ties. It kicks off around 6 p.m. on Friday, June 20, with the B.E.T. and Comedy Central! balloon launch by Galena On The Fly at 6 p.m., and bal- loon rides will be available. Also on Friday night will be Don Reese Ale Fest, sponsored by Family Beer and Liquor, in the big Wednesday, June 25, 9 p.m. tent on site from 6:30 - 9 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be Bricktown Entertainment Complex purchased at Family Beer & Liquor as well as Eagle Ridge. Looking like the illegitimate son of Uncle Fester and G. Gordon Liddy, Don Reese Other activities on Friday will include food / beverage combines what the CLEVELAND PLAIN service, dog agility demos by “That’s My Dog,” kids’ en- DEALER calls “friendly ghoulishness” mixed with “sparks-flying tertainment like face painting, an obstacle course and a timing” to create comedy that is uniquely and utterly his. Don’s bounce house, and live music by Zero 2 Sixty. hilariously bizarre outlook takes him from Batman to the Amish, bikers to bus rides – all while hanging on the fine line between re- On Saturday will be the Crack of Dawn balloon race at 6 ality and the Twilight Zone. He is fast, funny and one-of-a-kind. a.m., which will launch all the event’s balloons. From 5 - 10 p.m., the same event activities as Friday will be featured, as Greg Althoffs well as a Collectors’ Car Show featuring more than 40 vehi- Wednesday, July 2, 9 p.m. cles and live music by the Wundo Band. The Great Galena Bricktown Entertainment Complex Balloon Race itself will take place that night at 6:30 p.m. Get ready for a night of Red White and Blue comedy fresh of the Corn Star com- And finally, on Sunday, at 6 a.m., there will be one last Crack edy tour -- it’s Greg Althoffs and Chris of Dawn balloon race, allowing eventgoers one last chance Cardani. If you’re looking for fresh new to see all the balloons in their natural airborne habitat. faces of comedy, Wednesday, July 2, is your night. After playing The Great Galena Balloon Race has raised more than and performing all over the Midwest, it’s a nice treat to have them $40,000 over the years for JDRF, and also works to raise performing at Bricktown for a holiday show. funds for kids to attend Camp Hertko Hollow, a Boones, LOOKING AHEAD... Iowa, camp for children with diabetes. Admission to the event is $1. Volunteers are still needed for assisting with running the event activities, as well as assisting pilots in launching their balloons. If you are interested in vol- unteering, contact Milissa at 815-776-5065 or mbehrens@ JAMIE eagleridge.com. emailing [email protected]. KENNEDY Jamie Kennedy Wednesday, August 20, 9 p.m., Bricktown Entertainment Complex Jamie has was seen in 58 movies including all three Scream mov- ies, Son of the Mask, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Kickin’ It Old School and his own TV show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Tickets are on sale now for this must-see show at ETIX.com Moondog Music and Bricktown. Stay tunes to LiveOnMainComedy.com and 365! 365INK: BURDENING THE COMMUNITY WITH MORE EVENTS 31 JUNE 12 - 25

at national and international wine compe- mercial wine making in Iowa and another titions. Now offering 16 different varieties 10 heritage varieties that were historically from sweet to dry red and white wines, important in Iowa 100 years ago. along with a selection of fruit wines, pro- duction has increased annually to around While some might wonder why Tabor 11,000 gallons. Unlike most area wineries, would share his knowledge with other Tabor Home not only sells retail, but also area wine makers, especially after having wholesale through wine distributors as well works so long and hard to arrive at it, he as through Hy-Vee Grocery Stores. feels it is important to promote Iowa and Mississippi Valley wines as a region. “If Tabor Home wines are also sold through you’re going to have wineries, they had nearly 80 boutiques and gift shops across better be good ones,” he jokes. the state. Internet sales account for 9 percent of total sales. While the top two Any joking aside, Tabor is serious about Continued from page 29 states for Internet sales are no surprise – creating a regional designation for a style Iowa and Illinois, respectively – the third and area of winemaking. He is currently duction fit the specifications of the pro- might come as a surprise: California. Paul working toward having the Upper Missis- gram perfectly so the Tabors applied for believes Californians drink more wine in sippi Valley designated as an appellation and received a grant, which they used to general and are interested in new or dif- by the Federal Tax and Trade Bureau. It build the first winery building. The family ferent wines, especially those created would encompass a growing region that and neighbors that live in the area always addition to a stage for live music, the deck from locally grown grapes and embody- roughly corresponds to Land Use Area referred to the farm as the “Home Place” is also used for weddings and other events. ing a style that embraces a spirit of place. 105, an area slightly larger than the “drift- so the name “Tabor Home” was chosen A 20x40 foot tent can be set up adjacent to Of course winning awards in internation- less” geographic area encompasses the for the vineyard and winery. the deck to accommodate more people. al competitions doesn’t hurt either. hilly limestone bluffs along the Northern Mississippi River Valley that the glaciers It might have seemed crazy to some Despite the fact that the success of Ta- missed. While the area would include in the area at that time – a vineyard bor Home is largely due to the Tabor part of Southern Minnesota, Southwest and winery in Iowa? But Paul is a family’s hard work and dedication, Wisconsin, and Northwest Illinois, it scientist. He has a PhD in microbi- Paul has never been reluctant to share would be the first appellation designa- ology. The family conducted mar- his knowledge and enthusiasm with tion in Iowa. The Mississippi Valley Grape keting research in advance of taking anyone interested in grape growing or Growers Association has sent a petition to the plunge. “We knew that there winemaking. He started the Mississip- the Federal Tax and Trade Bureau and the was interest in wine,” he said. pi Valley Grape Growers Association about ten years ago and has offered designation could come within a year. Tabor brought an equally measured numerous seminars and classes to new and scientific approach to the art of growers. The MVGGA shares problems But it’s not just residents of California that winemaking. It was three years between the and resources and uses their collective to are discovering Tabor Home. The vineyard first planting of grape vines and the begin- buy bulk supplies at a discount. The Iowa and winery now has over 10,000 visitors a ning of wine production. He used the time Wine Trail, which like the Mississippi or year. Some wander down the gravel road to develop wine styles that utilized the best the Great River Road that follow it winds that leads to the family estate for a relaxing characteristics of the Iowa-grown hybrid its way from north to south, from Decorah drive and a chance to taste some wine, but varietals. to West Branch, and is a program of the many come out for the various events Ta- MVGGA. bor Home hosts, including the Music in the Tabor Home Winery opened to the public Vineyard summer concert series. Held on in July of 1997 with six varieties. The first In addition to working with area growers the second and fourth Sundays of the sum- Enjoying Music in the Vineyards year the winery produced between 3,500 and winemakers, Tabor works with Mid- mer months, the events often draw as many - 3,800 gallons. At the time there were west universities that are creating the next as 200 people. We were lucky enough to It’s an exciting prospect. Like Napa Valley, seven or eight wineries in the Amana Col- generation of hybrid grapes designed to sur- catch Maquoketa residents Scott and Mi- the Upper Mississippi Valley appellation onies, but Tabor Home was the first winery vive the cold Midwestern winters and flour- chelle Dalziel for the June 8 installment of would be a marketable asset to all grow- in Iowa with its own vineyard. Fewer than ish in the short but hot and humid grow- the series. (See the accompanying schedule ers and winemakers in the region – many 30 acres were dedicated to grape produc- ing season. He’s planted vines for some for dates and performers.) Despite scattered of whom have followed the lead of Paul tion across the entire state of Iowa. experimental grapes developed by Iowa thunderstorms throughout Eastern Iowa, State University. It’s a process that takes Tabor and his family working to grow the the Dalziels drew a solid and appreciative best grapes and create the best wine they Fast-forward to the present. The Tabor time. Vinification evaluation – the process crowd. Many brought along picnic snacks can in a place they call home. Home vineyard is now 18 years old. There of planting and growing vines, harvesting to go along with the wine they sipped as are nearly 1,000 acres of grape vines grow- grapes and developing appropriate they stayed for the whole set. The Dalziels ing in 400 Iowa vineyards. Iowa now has wine styles and the best practices to performed for Tabor Home’s first Nouveau 40 native wineries. Call it birth or rebirth, produce them can take 20 years or Festival and have been playing the summer Music in the Vineyards but either way it’s pretty clear that Paul Ta- more. Paul has worked with experi- concert series or various events ever since. bor is the father of the modern Iowa wine mental vines for five years before de- 2nd & 4th Sundays, 3-6 p.m. industry and Tabor Home is more than just ciding they were not all that great and While the inclement weather might have a home to the extended Tabor family. It’s ripping them out. June 8 - Scott & Michelle Dalziel forced us inside on this particular Sunday, home to a belief in locally produced wine Music in the Vineyards typically occurs, June 22 - Bryce Janey that has spread across the state and up The current vineyard includes grapes well, out in the vineyards. At the edge of July 13 - Lojo Russo and down the Mississippi Valley. that have become standard in Iowa the vineyard is the oldest building on the winemaking – LaCrosse, Catawba, St. July 27 - Joe & Vickie Price estate, a barn built in 1863. At one end of Paul’s early faith in growing Iowa grapes and Croix, and Marechal Foch – but also the barn, a structure which once served as August 10 - Scott & Michelle Dalziel his ability to make wine from them is clearly new and heritage varieties as well. a corncrib now serves as a covered deck not unfounded. Over the years, Tabor Home In all, Tabor maintains about 20 va- August 24 - Bryce Janey and stage that looks out over the vineyard wines have won literally dozens of medals rieties of vines appropriate for com- and the rolling hills of Jackson County. In September 7 - Craig Erickson