365 is getting a little big for our britches, and goes from casino to Great Rivers Center mu- by britches, I mean offices. Who’da thunk it? seum. And our construction is working around It was not long ago that we started this whole the stacks of materials and free furniture that crazy notion in the third floor “office” of an old we moved into the space ahead of time. When Victorian row house on Bluff Street, fueled by McKesson left its downtown offices a couple Paul’s Big Game Tap burgers and White Rus- months ago, making room for IBM, we were sians. It was not uncommon to see the light on the lucky recipients of some nice office furni- up there at 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Man, where did ture that only had to make a short trip down my youth go? Now we have a new brood of the street (even if it is one way in the other di- all-nighter-pullers burning the midnight oil for rection). And thanks to Todd for the new white us. The only difference is, no one paid me to do couch his wife didn’t like. I guess I should it. We were just dumb, though some would call thank his wife. I wonder how long it will stay it chasing a dream or building a business. Who white around all these yahoos. We even hired knew they’d be right? the nice crew who took the lights from the old Diamond Jo down there to come and put them Now we’re at capacity in our world headquar- all back up in our new office. And a great crew ters at 1st and Main. What a conundrum. It’s from Conlon has nearly completed building such a nice place in a perfect spot. There’s just out all the walls and parts of the office that I’m less and less room to stretch your legs and have positive we’d have severely screwed up had we a quiet conversation every day. So, out we go, tried to do it ourselves. looking for a new nest and we have one. So begins the next big headache: MOVING! I just After three marathon days of salvaging and did this exactly one year ago, only that time it hauling ceiling tiles, I was surprisingly suffering was my home. Now it’s a company. from some kind of chronic back pain such that chiropractic and the hot tub were not helping. The building we’re taking over is at 4th & Lo- It would seem to be the perfect excuse not to cust. At one time it was a firehouse, the kind do more manual labor, but I sucked it up and that housed horse-drawn fire engines. I guess forged ahead. Last Friday a couple of us tore the they weren’t engines back then, though. It sheet rock off a long stretch of brick and lime- also once housed Al Capone’s cars when he stone wall. It was a crappy job and, at the end, visited Dubuque. So that’s some cool history. I could barely grip a wunderbar in my left hand Since then it’s been a lot of things. I believe due to hours of prying; to my surprise, my back Dick Gregory started the Floor Show in that lo- pain went away in the process and has not come cation. That’s a good omen. More recently it’s back. So I guess drywall deconstruction is the been a print shop and copy center. That sign cure for lower back pain. I haven’t checked the still hangs outside the building. Not for long. massive dumpster we have behind the building in a couple of days. It’s funny how a dumpster Naturally, the building was, of course, in noth- in the middle of downtown can magically fill up ing close to “move-in” condition.” Oh, joy! overnight with stuff you don’t even remember That usually means work for me and indeed throwing away. Then again, one man’s trash is it has been. Once we had a plan for what we another man’s treasure (and don’t I know that were going to do with the space (and doesn’t it for sure!) Maybe someone found some uses for really pay off on occasion to have an architect some of what we couldn’t save. for a wife?), we started collecting the materi- als we’d need to do the work. In most cases, Now all we need to do is install those ceiling this means dropping a bundle at the hardware tiles ... carpet, paint, ceramic tile, decorate and, store, but forget not that we are 365. So that oh yeah, move everything we own four blocks means we are not only sustainable and envi- to a new home. And clean out that basement. ronmentally conscious, but also poor cheap Ugh! I do not look forward to that. The creepy bastards. Time to beg for deals and free stuff. basement of the 365 compound has amassed a And wouldn’t you know it, we found some. lot of, well, crap in the past few years. There are probably a couple of bodies down there. Sounds We salvaged just over three tons, yes, THREE like a great job for the new kids in the office. As TONS of building materials from the old Dia- we are only about a third of the way through this mond Jo Casino Portside Building. Ceiling tiles process, I’m positive there will be many more of a few varieties and lighting galore, includ- nightmarish stories along to way to share with ing very cool, but fragile, white ceramic (Ed. you before you can drive by Five Flags and say Tim: They were plaster! They just look ceram- “Hey, they made it there alive.” But we’re not ic!) tiles from above what was once Jo’s Cafe there yet. I’m seeing a great job for Jack’s Truck- turned out to be extremely valuable: Ten times ing coming up very soon. I don’t think I’m going as costly as what we might have budgeted for. to have the fortitude to lift those desks once that Many thanks to our friends at Durrant, Conlon day finally comes. If it ever comes. We’ve got and J.P. Cullen who helped make that happen. some serious noise-making to do first. And all By diverting that 3 tons of what would other- in the middle of the busiest and most successful wise have been junk from the landfill, we have month we’ve ever had. Go figure. You wonder saved ourselves literally thousands of dollars how you can ever possibly fit more hours into and also helped the new River Museum expan- a month and every month we find a way. Well, The 365ink crew... faces you already know! sion achieve credits toward the LEED-certified back to the mess ... anyone got a Sawzall I can construction they are doing on the facility as it borrow?

Tim Mike Kristina Jeff Kelli Ralph Oliver Matt Lisa Chris Pam Jon Ben Ron Bob Roy Brad Bryce Issue #90 ______The Inkwell Publisher: Bryce Parks ([email protected])

SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 Editor: Tim Brechlin ([email protected])

Advertising: Kelli Kerrigan In this Issue: ([email protected]) 563-451-9365 Voices from the Warehouse Writers & Content: Momentum 4 Mike Ironside ([email protected]) Tim Brechlin, Bryce Parks, L.A. Community Shorts 5 Hammer, Chris Wand, Mayor Roy Lizards on the Loose Buol, Matt Booth, Bob Gelms, Pam Kress-Dunn, Jeff Stiles, Me- Karaoke Contest gan Dalsing and Pat Fisher. Benton Labor Day Open Horse Show Designers: Kristina Nesteby The Cove ([email protected]) Signature Chef’s Dinner Bryce, Tim & Mike

365 Pop Quiz 6 Photography: Mike Ironside, Ron Tigges, Area Briefs 6 Bryce Parks

Meet The McDermott Family 7 Layout: Andrew Bird Returns 8 Tim Brechlin, Bryce Parks Director of Operations: The Last All That Jazz 9 Patricia Reisen-Ottavi, J.D.

Autumn DMA Exhibits 10 Community, Incorporated Pam Kress-Dunn 11 Brad Parks, C.E.O. Ralph Kluseman Wando’s Movies 12 Special thank you to: RiverFest 13 Brad Parks, Bob & Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Katy Brechlin, Kay Kluseman, Mindframe Movies 13 Todd Locher, Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Castaneda, Ron & Jen- nifer Tigges, bacon, the crew of Ra- Andrew Bird Cont’d 14 dio Dubuque and all the 365 friends and advertisers for all your support. Andrew Bird Cont’d 15 You are all 365. Budweiser Nightlife 16-17 Dubuque365 / 365ink Dragon Boat Festival 18 210 West 1st Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 Warehouse Art Gallery 19 dubuque365.com Bob’s Book Reviews 22 (563) 588-4365 Mattitude 23 All contents (c) 2008, Community, Incor- porated. All rights reserved. LifeStiles 24 Like our stuff? Eating Healthy w/ Hy-Vee 25 We can make yours too! Silver Dollar Music 26 Crosswords & Puzzles 27 365 • Web Site Development • Trixie Kitsch 28 • Graphic Design • Dr. Skrap’s Horoscopes 28 • Photography • • Video Production • Puzzle / Pop Quiz Answers 28 • Marketing / Consulting •

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! ARE THOSE VOICES I HEAR IN MY HEAD? I THINK SOOOOOO! 4 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

located in the Voices Warehouse Gallery 19, author, performance artist, political in the building on the Northeast corner and cultural provocateur, and “escapee of 10th and Jackson Streets. of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene,” Penny Arcade will perform a solo version of her In addition to the second-floor exhibit performance art piece New York Values. space, the opening night will feature Told “in the fragmented, disjointed vo- two outdoor installation pieces located cabulary of today’s culture,” New York in the courtyard area adjacent to the Values uses music, movement, and Voices Warehouse. The area between “crackling observations that reveal the the buildings will be closed to traffic, current commoditization of rebellion creating an extended exhibition space and explores the nobility of failure in and overflow public space for guests. a society obsessed with youth and suc- cess.” The performance piece is sched- “I think that Rich (Rossignol, Voices co- uled for 8 p.m. director and gallery manager) curating the show has gone edgy this year and gone, if it’s safe to say, ‘outsider art,’” said Voices co-director Paula Neuhaus. “A lot of installation, video, audio, some poster art that people haven’t seen, and again, like last year tethering this kind of marginalized, outsider art with fine art and established artists who are regularly showing in established galleries.”

Rossignol agrees, “Outsider art is defi- nitely a key this time. It’s art that kind of borders the line of what people con- sider ‘art.’ Some people come in and go, ‘how is this art?’ you know really, it pro- vokes thought. But we also have tradi- tional painters, we’ll have video artists, we have one artist who has 2-D pieces that include actual audio work. You place the headphones on and the audio piece matches the 2-D piece.” “Dubuque, Iowa, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, and New York City are the only “We definitely have a diverse group three cities in the United States to have (of artists), different mediums. I think (Penny Arcade’s) shows,” said Neuhaus. it’s good,” said Aaron Hefel, the third “Europe eats it up. But Dubuque, Iowa Voices co-director. “We have scrappy … that’s amazing to me. And she chose upstarts and professional artists. Hefel us because she thought our city was so also sees the role of the organizers in a incredible.” similar light to that of the artists them- selves. “The statement has to be made,” Again this year, Voices will open the The word “momentum” conjures images lars in needed infrastructure in an effort he said of the overall exhibit and event warehouse exhibit to the Glimmer of of forward motion, of a force moving in a to revitalize the district. Arguably, the series. “Just like every artist has to make Hope Fashion Show, a fundraiser for the particular direction that will not be eas- fact that the warehouse district became their statement, we have to make ours Riverview Center. Scheduled for Friday, ily stopped. For organizers of this year’s a top ten Envision 2010 initiative was or things aren’t going to have the mo- September 25, the runway fashion show Voices From The Warehouse art exhibit, because the initial Voices exhibit five mentum and we aren’t going to press will start at 7 p.m. momentum seemed to be a theme ap- years ago raised public awareness of forward.” propriate not only to the exhibit itself the potential of existing building stock Voices also welcomes the return of the and the series of events scheduled for in the neighborhood. So it’s only fitting The three co-directors, with the help of Chicago Short Film Brigade, Saturday, the weeks following the September 12 the theme of this year’s exhibit recognize a dedicated group of volunteers, Voices September 26 from 7 p.m. Currently opening, but for the warehouse district the gathering momentum of the district creator Gene Tully, the participating on hiatus from regular program events, itself. revitalization effort. artists, and property owner Tim McNa- Short Film Brigade put together a special mara, are using the momentum the past program for the Voices event. In addi- Now officially known as the Historic Likewise, the Voices exhibit itself, now in events have created to move the event tion to a new selection of short films se- Millwork District, the neighborhood its fifth year, continues to move forward and the surrounding culture forward. lected by Short Film Brigade, the event of warehouse buildings is the focus of with a fresh new exhibit and a series of Following the opening reception, sched- will feature a screening by Brigade part- a City of Dubuque economic redevel- groundbreaking events. The heart of the uled for Saturday, September 12 from ner, the Chicago Cinema Forum, docu- opment plan in partnership with area event, sponsored again this year by the 7 p.m., Hefel, Neuhaus, and Rossignol menting historical shorts, some with mu- property owners and non-profit partner Dubuque County Fine Arts Society, is of have booked a series of special events sic composed to accompany the silent organizations. With a new master plan course the art exhibit itself, featuring the on subsequent weekends that raise the films. Original indie-pop artists Alma arrived at with the help of consultants, work of eleven artists in a variety of me- bar on some of the past events held in Sub Rosa will also perform. property owners, and public input, the dia ranging from more traditional paint- the Voices Warehouse Gallery space. City is poised to invest millions of dol- ing to video installation. The exhibit is Continued on Page 31. On the following Saturday, September CHECKED OUT THE NEW RIVERBOAT LOUNGE YET? IT ROCKS! 5 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 The Museum & Aquarium will hold spe- cess”. This original puppet production is national park in Japan. Filmed in 2007, NOW Lizards on the Loose cial promotions and events in conjunc- based on a fairy tale from Swaiziland in the production utilized special cameras Now Open tion with the lizard exhibit and the pub- Africa. A magical feather turns a hare designed to look like rocks (built by The National Mississippi River Muse- lic art display. The sculptures will be on into a young man who sets off for a fabu- ILM offshoot KernerFX) to get around um & Aquarium’s new “Lizards on the public display throughout the summer. lous adventure in the clouds. Tickets are tight filming restrictions. The Cove is Loose!” exhibit is NOW OPEN! The The “Lizards on the Loose!” exhibit will just $8 and can be purchased by phone rated PG-13. Stay tuned to the pages of exhibit will be displayed in the Norman run through March 2010. at 563-588-3377. 365ink for more information about this Changing Gallery on the second floor of exciting film event. SEP Benton Annual Labor SEP Tri-State Saddle Club the Woodward River Discovery Center. 5-7 12-13 Open Horse Show SEP Kirchhoff/Northside Museum & Aquarium. Day Celebration NOW Karaoke Contest

“Lizards on the Loose!” features 25 dif- Benton’s 113th Annual Labor Day Cel- The Tri-State Saddle Club 3rd Annual ferent types of lizards and focuses on the ebration is September 5-7th. Activities Benefit Open Horse Show is Satur- Karaaaaoooke! Kirchhoff Distributing, amazing diversity and the unique adap- on Saturday & Sunday include the Fever day & Sunday September 12-13 at the in conjunction with Northside Bar (2776 tations lizards have developed to survive River Puppeteers performing in the Ha- Dubuque County Fairgrounds. Satur- Jackson St., Dubuque), present a weekly in their varied environments. Lizards are zel Green Opera House. The Swindler’s day’s show at 1pm benefits The Dubuque karaoke contest with huge prizes! Qual- a large and widespread group of squa- Ridge Museum and the 1851 Village Food Pantry. The Sunday 11am show ify on Thursdays in September from 8 to mate reptiles of nearly 5,000 species that School House Museum will be open. benefits The Dubuque Human Society. midnight, and see if you have what it range across all continents, exceptAnt- Street dance from 8-12midnight Satur- Donations accepted. takes to make it to the finals! Only ten day features Mr. Obvious and Sunshine contenders will qualify, with prizes of arctica. This interactive exhibit teaches SEP The parade begins at 9:30 Monday and Mindframe Theaters $500 for first place and $100 for second visitors how lizards see each other; con- 18 Presents “The Cove” trol their body temperature; what they there will be entertainment in the village place! For more information, contact eat; and how they use color for defense, park throughout the day. For more infor- Mark Steuer at 590-3657. mation check the website: benthonwi. Just a heads-up ... Mindframe Theaters mating and communication. SEP March of Dimes us. will be hosting a special Tri-States ex- 17 clusive screening of The Cove, the criti- Signature Chef Auction A public display of lizard sculptures art SEP The Cloud Princess at cally acclaimed documentary directed campaign accompanies the “Lizards on 12 Bell Tower Theater the Loose!” exhibit. Large fiberglass liz- by Dubuque native Louie Psiyohos, be- The March of Dimes Signature Chefs ard sculptures are available for “adop- ginning Friday, September 18. Winer of Auction is Sept. 17th at the Grand River tion” by local businesses and groups in At the Bell Tower Theater Saturday, Sep- multitudes of awards from a wide variety Center - 6-9pm. $50 per person. Enjoy the Tri-state Area to decorate and dis- tember 12, 2009 at 2 pm Fever River of festivals, The Cove focuses upon the great food, plus Live and Silent Auction play. Puppeteers will present “The Cloud Prin- annual slaughter of 2,500 dolphins at a items, too. Call 583-7707 for tickets. MY IDEA OF A DAIRY DAY IS A FEAST OF CHEESE CURDS 6 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 SEP New Diggings ers (both 5k and 2k) are encouraged to teville’s Annual Historic Encampment is 12 Cruisin’ for Hospice sign up at www.active.com. With the held in Platteville’s Moundview Park. $15.00 registration each race will re- ceive a long sleeve performance t-shirt and refreshments following the race. 1. Hootie and the Blowfish, Kip Winger, Jackyl, Vixen, Puddle of Mudd and The SEP Huge Weekend of Fun Edgar Winter Group have all played Sum- 11-13 in Platteville! mer’s Last Blast in Dubuque. Who has NOT? A. Tone Loc B. Eddie Money The General Store in New Diggings C. Jackyl D. The Bellamy Brothers sponsors Cruisin’ For Hospice, a Sat- urday afternoon cruise scheduled for 3. This Dubuque artist was one of ten fi- September 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. nalists in the Vietnam Veteran’s National Whatever your ride, motorcycle, car, Memorial Design Competition. He also truck, you’re welcome to join the fun. did the sculptures in front of Hempstead Riders will meet at the New Diggings High School. General Store and head across and up A. Tom Gibbs B. Cyril Ferring C. John Bissell D. Alexander Simplot the river to the Black Horse Inn in Sher- rill, Iowa for lunch. Afterwards, the tour Platteville, Wisconsin, is going to have 4. What Dubuque building features a will cross the Mississippi back to Wis- itself one busy weekend coming up The Historic Encampment is known mural condemned in the 1970s because consin on the Cassville Ferry with a stop soon! The annual Dairy Days Celebra- across the Tri-States for offering a quality of its portrayal of women as submissive, at Potosi Brewery on the way back to tion is just around the corner, scheduled educational experience to Tri-State area African Americans as slaves, white males the Diggs. There will be drawings for for September 11 - 13 in Platteville’s schools and communities. Featured liv- as dominating and Native Americans as door prizes at each stop, with the raffle Legion Park. The event is packed full of ing history groups will include Fort La social and cultural outcasts? for the grand prize, a handmade quilt, events for the whole family. On Friday, Jonquiere - A French Marine Company, A. the Federal Building B. Dubuque County Court House to be drawn back at the Diggs at 7 p.m. September 11, the amusement midway The Old Lead Region Historical Society, C. The Masonic Temple The $20 entry fee includes lunch at the will open, a Fantasy Truck Pull will be 1771 Colonial Alliance and 1812 Prairie D. Senior High School Black Horse Inn (roast beef, mashed po- held, and live music will be on the stage. du Chien Militia. Throughout individual tatoes, veggies and homemade pie!) and Saturday is blown wide open, with a pa- and group camps, visitors will enjoy pre- 5. What is iowa’s oldest known club? the fee for the Cassville Ferry, with all rade on Main Streed, 4-H exhibits, plen- sentations on military and domestic life, A. Dubuque Jaycees proceeds going to Hospice. If you don’t ty of bands (including 365’s very own Indian lifeways, clothing of the times, B. Dubuque Shooting Society want to drive, you can ride the bus! For Ralph Kluseman), a cattle show, home- and more, while learning how people C. Dubuque YMCA more info call (608) 965-3231. town talent showcases, a hypnotist, sau- from diverse cultures co-existed on the D. Dubuque Masonic Temple sage races, open tractor pull, a Dilly Bar frontier. Artisans will demonstrate nu- NOW- 6. In what year did the Town Clock move DBQ Jaycees eating contest and more. Sunday is filled merous skills, including flintknapping, OCT to the Pedestal in the middle Chili Trot Registration with even more events, as well. Admis- silversmithing, candlemaking, spinning of Main Street? sion to Dairy Days is free, and there and dyeing, fingerweaving, blacksmith- A. 1961 B. 1966 The Dubuque Jaycees are excited to will be ride bracelet specials at different ing, white metalwork, woodworking, C. 1971 D. 1976 bring back the Chili Trot in 2009. This times each day. For more information, cooperage and more. Old-time music, year the event will be held on October visit www.plattevilledairydays.com. food kettle korn, and merchants’ wares 7. Which name is not locally synonymous 3 with a 9 a.m. race time. The 5K/2K are available throughout the Encamp- with baseball? A. Red Faber B. Charles Comiskey race will be held on the riverwalk in But that’s not all! The Platteville Historic ment. The Encampment will be open to C. Don Lawson D. Johnny Petrakis Dubuque with registration beginning Re-Encampment will also be held the the public -- so don’t hesitate to check at 7:30 at the AY McDonald Park. Rac- same weekend, September 11 - 13! Plat- it out! IF THIS STORY DOESN’T TOUCH YOU ... WELL, LOOK AT HOW WRONG YOU ARE 7 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

As a break from the usual arts, culture They’re the children of Mike and Jill and entertainment that you’ll gener- McDermott; Mike owns a concrete- ally come across in these pages, we working company and Jill works as at 365ink want to take an opportunity a guidance counselor for Maquoketa to tell all of our readers about one of Family. To better their children’s quality the most touching stories we’ve come of life, they work with a research team across in a long time, the story of two in Minneapolis for treatment. remarkable children. “Jill tells people that they (the McDer- We’re betting that you’re not familiar motts) will think with their brains and with Mucopolysaccharidosis III, oth- hope with their hearts,” says Heather erwise known as MPS-III or Sanfillipo Cook, a friend of the family. “They will Syndrome. It’s an extremely rare dis- never give up and will fight as long as ease, occurring in a little over 1 per- they can. When you meet Jill and Mike, cent of every 100,000 live births, and it you would never know that they live manifests itself as the human body’s in- knowing their children will never play ability to break down a particularly es- ball, get married, or experience things sential family of carbohydrates, instead other children will. What you see are storing them. The result, unfortunately, two people who laugh and play and is a progressive -- and ultimately fatal love their children.” -- disease, destroying the circulatory, skeletal, respiratory and central nervous systems. The average life expectancy for sufferers of MPS-III is roughly 15 years, and sufferers’ bodies essentially regress over time. There is no cure for this con- dition; the only treatment is supportive.

As part of hoping with heart, a benefit for the McDermott family has been orga- nized and set for Saturday, September 12, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Cascade Le- gion Hall. Mike and Jill McDermott will cook food for the event, including burg- ers, brats, hot dogs and more, and there will be both live and silent auctions, a bake sale, a raffle, kid’s games and more. Even more unfortunate than the exis- All proceeds will go towards raising tence of this horrible disease, however, money to enhance the McDermott chil- is the story of Morgan, 4, and Blake, dren’s quality of life. And we think that’s 2, McDermott, of Cascade, Iowa, two a cause everyone can get behind. little children who are battling MPS-3. Morgan was diagnosed with the disease To donate or purchase raffle tickets in the beginning of 2009, with Blake’s ,email mcdermotts@morganandblake. diagnosis following up in April of this com, or call Dan McDermott at (563) year. 852-3634, or Tina McDonough at (319) 480-2022. DON’T MSIS THE LAST JAM! ADAM BECK ROCKS! 8 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

By Mike Ironside Elizabeth, Illinois was finally getting some wider recognition for his unique It might be kind of hard for local fans to songwriting talent and seemingly effort- believe, but it has actually been three less instrumental skills. years since the amazing multi-instru- mentalist, singer, and songwriter Andrew And recognition he did receive. Since Bird has performed in Dubuque. That that September 2006 show, Bird released situation is about to be rectified with a two critically acclaimed CDs – the first, solo performance in the beautifully re- Armchair Apocrypha, showing up on stored Grand Opera House on Thursday, many critics best of 2007 lists and since September 17. selling over 100,000 copies, and the second, Noble Beast, released this Janu- Bird’s last local performance was at the ary and already gathering considerable 2006 Voices From The Warehouse art praise in print and online. exhibit on the evening of the Chicago Short Film Brigade screening and was Continuing the relentless tour sched- something of a revelation. Not only to ule he began to promote his 2005 CD those who experienced for the first time The Mysterious Production of Eggs, Bird Bird’s live creation of intricately layered toured America and Europe promot- arrangements of looping violin, guitar, ing the two new albums, performing glockenspiel, and whistling (finally nod- between 150 and 200 shows a year in ding in amazement to those friends who exotic places like Amsterdam and Bar- insisted they had to see this guy perform). celona, legendary venues like Carnegie But also to those who had seen him pre- Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the viously play to 50 or 100 people at the Hollywood Bowl, major music festivals Busted Lift or the Dubuque Museum of like Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, Coachel- Art and that night witnessed legions of la, Lollapalooza, and Austin’s South By fans who had driven in from other states Southwest conference, not to mention to see the Voices Warehouse show. appearances on a couple of little TV talk shows you might have heard of – the It was maybe the first realization among Late Show with David Letterman and his local fans that the quiet, affable Mid- Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Return- western guy who occasionally resides in ing to his hometown of Chicago last Sep- the reconverted barn at his family farm out in the country between Galena and Continued on Page 14. JAYCEES NEED A GOOD JAZZ! GET THEE DOWN THERE! 9 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

After a cool summer that just didn’t met famed harmonica player Charlie seem to last that long and let’s be honest Musselwhite. Musselwhite convinced here, did not present the best weather Jones to join his band inviting him to for the All That Jazz summer festival se- tour with the blues master as well as ries at the Town Clock, the weatherman playing guitar on three of his albums. has one more chance to redeem him- self. The fourth and final installment In the mid-‘90s, Jones returned to Dal- of the free concert series is scheduled las, backing up singers like R.L. Griffin for Friday, September 4 and will fea- and Hal Harris and the Lowlifers until he ture the blues of Andrew “Junior Boy” stepped up to the mic himself in 2005 Jones from 6 to 9:30 p.m. This summer’s for his fourth CD, Jr. Boy Live. Release All That Jazz is the 18th season for the by 43rd Idea Records, the live album is Dubuque Main Street sponsored series. said to capture “the true essence of An- drew’s sound, enthusiasm and the spirit Dallas, Texas-based Andrew “Junior that led to Jr Boy’s previous WC Handy Boy” Jones will bring the blues back to nomination and will no doubt catapult the Town Clock stage in his All That Jazz him back into the blues limelight as one debut performance. An accomplished of this countries living blues legends.” guitarist, songwriter, and singer, Jones has been a professional musician since While the free concert at the Town the age of 16 when he joined the Thun- Clock always draws in thousands, there derbirds, Freddie King’s backing band. are thousands more who show up just for the party … well, when it’s not raining, anyway. Hosted by Dubuque Main Street with the help of a num- ber of downtown sponsors, the festival is a series of free concerts at the Town Clock on the third Fridays of June, July, and August, and the first Friday of Sep- tember, each with a different style of jazz-inflected music. The event starts promptly at 5 p.m. (with the thirstiest Jazz-lovers often lining up for beer tick- ets beforehand), with the band taking the stage at 6 p.m.

In addition to great live music and those cold beverages served up by the Dubuque Jaycees, All That Jazz always offers a range of tasty festival foods from local restaurants. Dubuque Main Street will be selling T-shirts and lim- ited edition prints featuring the artwork of award-winning designer Michael Since then Jones has worked with a va- Schmalz of Refinery Design Company, riety of well-known blues artists includ- as well as the Dubuque … and All That ing Bobby Patterson and the Mustangs, Jazz! compilation CD featuring Or- Johnnie Taylor, and Charlie Robertson. questa Alto Maiz and a variety of past In the late 1980s, Jones traveled to Cali- performers. For more information, visit fornia for studio session work where he www.dubuquemainstreet.org. IF YOU HAVEN’T TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF FREE DMA ADMISSION ... WHY NOT? 10 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

Dubuque Museum of Art in art, though his wife Susan Adams- Autumn Exhibits Bissell (1906-1999) embraced her tal- Opening Reception, September 11 ent. Though she had little formal train- KRESS-DUNN PAM ing, she studied under Iowa Regionalist The Dubuque Museum of Art cele- artists Grant Wood and Marvin Cone at • brates the changing of the seasons with the Stone City art colony, and further three new exhibits for autumn: Bissells: developed her skills painting scenes A Family of Artists, an exhibition of art- from her travels, copying images from work from the Frederick Bissell Jr. fam- the masters and hosting classes in the ily; Oops, the hand-colored etchings of family home on Alpine Street. Arthur Geisert; and the photography of John Vachon and the Great Depression in Dubuque. The three exhibits join an- other already on display, A Passion for Color: American Women Printmakers, 1895-1965, an exhibition by the Loras College Arts and Culture Series in con- junction with the Dubuque Museum of Art. An opening reception for all four exhibits is scheduled for Friday, Sep- tember 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Bissells: A Family of Artists September 8 – November 8, 2009 Considered to be “one of Dubuque’s Frederick and Susan’s son John Bissell first families of artists,” the family of worked in graphic design for 16 years Frederick Bissell Jr. was one with talent after earning degrees from the Kansas that spanned the generations. Collect- City Art Institute and the University of ed and exhibited for the first time, the Iowa. Living in Dubuque as a full-time show is a mix of contemporary art and artist since 1984, John hosts an annual earlier work by Frederick, his wife Su- invitation-only sale of his paintings. san Adams-Bissell, sons John and Fred, John’s younger brother Fred, owner and daughter Susie Bissell-Mansfield. of Alpine Tennis and Fitness will also exhibit work. Daughter Susie Bissell- Frederick Bissell (1910-1983) who Mansfield is a full time artist working in taught history at his alma mater Har- Norwood, Colorado. vard from 1933-1937 and was later employed at Caradco for 30 years, Continued on Page 30. might have been considered a dabbler GIVINGVOICE KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE HEAD ... WAIT, WHAT? 11 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

be out fishing, or hiking through a and decided to pick them all up – state park on our way to a picnic probably enlisting my kids in this Rocks in My Head with Grandma and Grandpa, when fun, tedious project – and deposit one of us would suddenly stop, them in the alley, which was, af- bend down, and pick one up to ter all, covered in gravel. A little A few weeks ago, my husband and inside this ordinary rock? inspect more closely. If you want- more wouldn’t hurt, even if it was a I made a pilgrimage to Spillville, ed to see what it would look like markedly different color. a tiny town near Decorah. I’d just Agates weren’t the only kind we polished, and there was no water finished reading Patricia Hampl’s collected. In fact, just the other around, what would you do? You Later that week, my daughter wonderful book by the same name, day, my husband told me that he’d licked it, of course. Worked like a was in the back yard when she about the summer when the Czech found a big basket full of rocks charm. overhead two little boys in the al- composer Anton Dvorák and his in the garage, and did I have any ley. One was saying to the other, family visited and lived in the up- plans for them? Instantly defensive, Years later, my kids and I moved “These are SECRET rocks.” Oh, my. stairs rooms of the house that is I replied that they were to stay right to Dubuque and, instead of a rock We’d made some magic. So don’t now the Bily Brothers Museum. there until I figured out a place for garden, we heaped mounds of tell me they’re just rocks. They are The museum is a hoot – downstairs them. They came from my par- marble chips around the bushes the very stuff of the earth, after all, crammed with wooden clocks ents’ house, where they were just on the side of the house. They kept the thing we all stand upon. carved by two bachelor brothers, part of what we called the rock the weeds down, and lasted a lot upstairs housing Dvorák’s pump garden. If I’d had the time and the longer than mulch. It worked fine, Pam Kress-Dunn organs, books, and all kinds of wherewithal, I could have started until one day I got tired of them [email protected] unrelated knickknacks the towns- my own Dickeyville Grotto with people must have found important. all the rocks from that place. But I was selective, and took only the One display that drew me was a best geodes, and other specimens collection of rocks, labeled with imprinted with fossils. their origin and names. My par- ents taught me early how to tell an When I was ten, my father came ordinary piece of granite from the home with two gigantic rocks holy grail – a beautiful banded ag- which he installed in the front yard, ate. We hunted them on countless one on either side of the driveway. lakeshores, and even though I pre- I have no idea where they came

PAM KRESS-DUNN PAM ferred sand beaches where I could from, or whether he consulted my bake in the sun, I grew to appreci- mother about this addition to our ate those rocky shores for the trea- landscape. Or why on earth a man

• sures they might yield. The day I would choose to plant something

found my first agate was something like that in the yard, seeing as how special; I felt like I’d hit the jackpot he would have to mow around panning for gold. them. My mother’s response was to ring them with marigolds. Here’s the thing about agates: their beauty is hidden inside. Un- I didn’t try to pass on this quirky less they’re broken or polished, it’s habit to my own kids, though I’m hard to tell what lies within. But I sure I picked up a few rocks in learned the telltale signs. My par- our walks through the country- ents invested in a rock tumbler, a side. My son was overly fond of noisy, busy thing that worked away heaving rocks, the bigger the bet- in the basement, wearing down ter, into bodies of water, but then, the dull edges to reveal perfectly who isn’t? (That same boy is about smooth, gleaming gems. Mom dis- to transfer to Iowa State to major played them in a candy dish, which in geology.) My dad could skip a she was careful to put up when stone like nobody’s business, and little kids came to visit; she was to this day, I find myself wanting to afraid they would mistake them keep any rock I spy with nice flat for treats and break their teeth on sides because I know how well it them, or worse. will skip over water. It’s a great way to impress your children. My dad even made some of them into jewelry. I just checked my old This all may sound overly precious, jewelry box, and I’m happy to re- a family who collected rocks, who port I still have some of the necklac- had a sign in their cabin in Minne- es he fashioned. He found a huge sota that read, “Old Rock Hounds agate once, a good one-pounder, Never Die, They Just Slowly Pet- one end of which he sliced off and rify.” How corny can you get? But polished. It sits on my living room what did other families do with end table today. My kids used to their time? What it gave us was a love to take it apart and put it back purpose, something to keep our together. How in the world, they eyes out for even when we didn’t wondered, did he know what was realize we were looking. We could GIVINGVOICE THAT WOLVER-MICKIE IS DOWNRIGHT TERRIFYING, MAN 12 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

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MINDFRAMETHEATERS.COM Hotline: 563.582.4971 555 John F Kennedy Rd - Behind Kennedy Mall Riverfest, the annual festival that tar mix, Stranded In Iowa performs a bookends the conclusion of the range of ‘70s and ‘80s material most summer festival season at the Town bands would not even dare to at- Clock, turns 30 this year. The big tempt, including songs by Bon Jovi, “three-o.” Can you believe it? Tra- Journey, Loverboy, Night Ranger, ditionally, the event was billed as and Styx. “The last bash before the snow flies,” but as cool as this summer has been Saturday, being the first full day of and with some recent cold nights the festival offers a wide variety of in August, snow could fly any day family-friendly activities. The Flea now. Nevertheless, Riverfest arrives Market and commercial exhibit September 11-13 with plenty of live tent on Main Street open at 10 a.m. The Flea Market and commercial music, festival food and family fun. along with a variety of food ven- exhibits continue on Sunday along SHOWTIMES SEPT 4-10 This year the craft fair in Washing- dors, and a fishpond, face painting, with the kids’ games. Sunday’s en- ton Park returns along with new fea- and games for the kids. The Craft tertainment includes performances Inglourious Basterds tures like music in the Gazebo and Fair in Washington Park begins at by the Dubuque Dance Studio and (R) a pet adoption area sponsored by noon, with music at the Gazebo Gymnastics Club at the Town Clock 11:45, 3:00, 6:40, 9:45 the Dubuque Humane Society. performed by Dennis Gravas and and the Colts Drum & Bugle Corps Maureen Kilgore. The Dubuque in Washington Park, both beginning As usual, Riverfest kicks off the Humane Society will also be in the at 10 a.m. The Dubuque Humane Food Inc. festivities on a Friday afternoon park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 Society will again be in the park on (PG) (September 11) with entertainment p.m. with a variety of pets available Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. with 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 under the Town Clock, a variety of for adoption. more pets in need of a good home. food vendors and beverages. The (500) Days Lonely Goats get things started on Saturday entertainment at the Town The Breitbach family’s One Hat the Town Clock stage at 4 p.m. with Clock stage also begins at noon Band performs at the Town Clock of Summer from noon, with the new and classic (PG13) their eclectic mix of blues, rock, with a martial arts demonstration country of Richter Scale closing out 11:25, 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:35, 9:40 reggae, ska, Latin, funk, surf, and by Karate Dubuque. Stine Max Ka- zydeco. Headlining Friday night’s raoke will be “Getting’ Into It” at the weekend from 3 until 6:30 p.m. concert will be Cedar Rapids classic 12:30 p.m. From 3:30 p.m. Catch As always, Riverfest is a fundraiser Julie & Julia rock band Stranded In Iowa, taking 3 will perform their upbeat mix of for Chairperson Donna Ginter’s (PG) the stage at 8:30 p.m. With multi- ‘70s pop and singer/songwriter clas- Thanksgiving dinner. For more in- 11:25, 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:30, 9:30 ple vocalists and a keyboard player sics, followed by a ballroom dance formation, call Ginter at (563) 583- added to the usual bass/drums/gui- demonstration by Ballroom By Jen- 8535. The Hurt Locker (R) 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30

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tember, Bird played to an overflowing York Times web site last year, “I’ve spent 15,000 fans at Millennium Park. most of the last year inside a tour bus. I’ve spoken more words to journalists than I So while it might seem like a show back in have to my friends and family.” I asked Dubuque, which is really not that far from him if he’s had some time to rest. the farm in Illinois, is somewhat overdue, I think it’s fair to say the Andrew Bird has “It’s kinda hard to come back to Chicago,” been busy. he admits, “I really don’t feel like I can get some proper rest until I get out to the farm. Nevertheless, local fans will no doubt be It’s been more challenging to come home excited by his return and the Grand Opera and not feel like a ghost in your hometown. House promises to be an excellent venue I’ve maybe spent three weeks in that time for his solo show. We caught up with Bird (the last couple years) in my hometown. recently back in Chicago after returning And when 8 or 9 o’clock comes around from New Orleans where he was in the and you don’t have a show, your adrena- studio recording with the Reservation Hall line starts screaming, and with no outlet it’s Jazz Band for the soundtrack of an upcom- hard to relax, so the barn is a good place to ing film. unwind and escape all that. The city sort of begs for more.” “It seems wrong to play this many shows in a year and not play in Dubuque,” Bird said Being a solo show, Bird’s show at the when I noted it has been three years since Grand will in the eyes of some be a return the Voices show. “I haven’t been in the to form. After three CDs with his band Lizards on the Loose, Open Grand Opera House yet but I’m pretty sure Bowl Of Fire, Bird withdrew from the col- Museum & Aquarium it’s going to be a good venue for a show.” laborative process for the most part to cre- ate the signature style for which he is now While it seems clear that Bird loves what known. He performed most of the parts he does, the near-constant touring has to on his breakthrough CD 2003’s Weather be somewhat grueling. Bird noted in one Systems and follow-up The Mysterious in a series of blogs he wrote for the New Concluded on facing page. IF BUD IS A FAMILY, WHICH ONE IS MOM? 15 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 Production of Eggs, employing his loop- dreamy but when we translate that to the based solo performance technique to rec- stage, we have to come up with what reate the intricate arrangements live. sounds valid. When you perform on a festival stage, you’re going to have a lot of But as he began playing bigger stages and nervous energy and you have to transmit venues, Bird began performing with per- that. I always want to be honest to how I cussionist Martin Dosh, eventually add- feel when I’m on stage. The audience can ing other players to form a touring band tell when you’re just phoning it in.” with which he recorded Noble Beast. I asked him about the difference between Bird revels in the kind of spontaneity and being a solo artist and being part of a risk the stage provides, but as an artist re- band. alizes that studio recordings are a differ- ent medium than live performance. “The “The reason I disbanded my band before records are just a totally different thing,” (Bowl Of Fire) is that once you start work- he states, “and after eight records I still ing on arrangements for a song, the form don’t feel like I’ve nailed it, especially vo- gets set, so you kind of get locked into it,” cally. It’s hard to recreate in the studio Bird explained. “When you’re solo, you what you can achieve in front of an au- have to love your songs, but you have the dience so I feel like I still have room to freedom to play around with them. But work on it.” I also missed playing music as a social thing. Plus we stated playing festivals which are much bigger shows. I started playing with (Martin) Dosh like four years ago and when we played these festivals, you have the hip-hop tent just meters away and you have to compete and that can be difficult if you don’t have some- one dedicated to covering the low end. So we got a bass player Jeremy Ylvisaker who’s a great guitar player and eventually switched Jeremy over to guitar and got Michael Lewis on bass, who’s actually a great tenor sax player. It’s a really great band.”

“But I still do all the moves that I do in Again the topic returns to the near-con- the solo show,” Bird continues, describ- stant touring, the opportunities it’s pro- ing the full band performance. “I still put vided, and how he’s adapted to life on down the violin and pick up the guitar the road. “It’s been really great,” he said. even though I have a guitar player. Some- “Just in the last year its gotten to the point times I just like to play guitar. It some- to almost be too much and I’ve gotten to times might appear that I’m working too the point where I needed to take a break. hard on stage but that’s how I like it to I’ve just kept my head down and kept be. The contrast is kind of stimulating,” working.” he added, noting that he has continued to play solo shows on tour. Constructing his day around prepara- tions for the time he spends on stage each In addition to switching between solo and night is something Bird has become used band shows, Bird is famous for not only to, but he admits that interviews with the varying set lists from night to night, but press are still an unusual part of the busi- also constantly reinventing the arrange- ness. “It’s kind of weird because I’ve kind ments of individual songs. Conversely, he of had to explain myself in the middle of is reportedly meticulous in creating the the process, and then go and do a show arrangements and recording of his studio that takes a lot of emotional energy and albums, having re-recorded The Mysteri- then the get up the next day and explain ous Production of Eggs twice before re- myself again.” Despite endless interviews leasing it. I asked him if those impulses and performing in different cities night were at all at odds. after night, Andrew Bird is still up to the task, adding, “I wouldn’t trade my job for “I come from more of a jazz sensibility anything.” … but we’re trying to create great songs,” he says of the writing/arranging/recording Dubuque fans should note that while process. “Playing live I want to include tickets are available online through Bird’s something unique, so I might throw a web site (AndrewBird.net) there are a lim- little curve ball to keep the audience en- ited number of tickets available through gaged. This record, the new one, might the Grand Opera House box office. For sound to some a little more acoustic or more information, call (563) 588-1305. Saturday, September 5 Tuesday, September 8

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Cascade, IA • (563) 852-3378 Mystique, 6 PM - 9 PM Courtside, 6 PM - 10 PM Denny’s Lux Club Denny Garcia Richter Scale 5.0 3050 Asbury, Rd. •(563) 557-0880 Cornerstone, 8 PM - 12 AM Diamond Jo Casino Rosalie Morgan Riverfest, Town Clock 3:30 Rosalie Morgan Port of Dubuque • 563-690-2100 • diamondjo.com TAIKO, 7 PM - 11 PM PM - 6:30 PM TAIKO, 7 PM - 11 PM Dino’s Backside (The Other Side) Stoneheart 68 Sinsinawa East Dubuque •(815) 747-9049 Dirty Ernie’s 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 PM Laura and the Long Hairs Denny Troy 201 1st St NE, Farley, IA • 563-744-4653 Dog House Lounge Sandy Hook, 7 PM - 11 PM & Rick Hoffman 1646 Asbury, Dubuque • (563) 556-7611 Joe and Vicki Price Asbury Eagles Club, 7 PM Doolittle’s Cuba City Murph’s, 9 PM - 1 AM - 11 PM 112 S. Main. Cuba City, WI • 608-744-2404 Tuesday, Sept. 15 Doolittle’s Lancaster 135 S. Jefferson St., Lancaster, WI • 608-723-7676 Rocket Surgeons American English (Beatles Dubuque Driving Range (Highway 52) Bulldogs, 9 PM - 1 AM Ralph Kluseman John Deere Road, Dubuque • 563-556-5420 Grand Harbor, 5 - 9 PM Tribute Band) Eagles Club Grand Opera House, 7:30 1175 Century Drive, Dubuque • (563) 582-6498 Lately Grey Eichman’s Grenada Tap PM - 10 PM 11941 Route 52 North, Dubuque • 563-552-2494 Mooney Hollow, 9 PM - 1 Wednesday, Sept. 16 Five Flags Civic Center AM Jeff Ward 405 Main Street • 563-589-4254 Tix: 563-557-8497 Gin Rickeys Laughing Moon Comedy Irish Cottage, 8 PM 1447 Central Ave, Dubuque •563-583-0063 • myspace.com/ginrickeys Jabberbox Diamond Jo, 8 PM Gobbie’s Jumpers, 9 PM - 1 AM 219 N Main St, Galena IL• 815-777-0243 Scott Waterhouse Grand Harbor Resort Thursday, Sept. 17 & Brandon Golden 350 Bell Street, Dubuque • 563-690-4000 • grandharborresort.com Zero 2 Sixty Grape Escape Cornerstone, 8:00 - 12 AM 233 S. Main St., Galena, IL • 815.776.WINE Courtside, 9 PM - 1 AM Neverly Brothers grapeescapegalena.com The Hub Irish Cottage, 7:30 PM The Uniphonics 253 Main St., Dubuque •563-556-5782 Laura McDonald 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 PM myspace.com/thehubdbq Irish Cottage Denny’s Lux Club, 9 PM - 1 Dueling Pianos 9853 US Hwy 20, Galena, Illinois • 815.776.0707 AM Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Ken Wheaton theirishcottageboutiquehotel.com Jumpers Bar & Grill Grape Escape, 9 PM-12 AM 2600 Dodge, Dubuque • 563-556-6100 • myspace.com/jumpersdbq Renegade Band The Good Stuff Knicker’s Saloon Pit Stop, 9 PM - 1 AM Cornerstone, 9 PM-12:30 AM 2186 Central Ave., Dubuque • 563-583-5044 Melismatics M-Studios Silver Dollar, 9 PM - 1 AM 223 Diagonal Street, Galena, IL • 815-777-6463 •m-studios.org Horsin’ Around Steddy P, CASETHEJOINT, Mississippi Moon Bar Port of Dubuque • 563-690-2100 • diamondjo.com Budde’s, 9 PM - 1 AM Imperfekt Taste Like Chicken Monk’s Coffee Shop 180 Main, 9 PM - 1 PM 373 Bluff St, Dubuque • 563.585-0919 Sandy Hook, 10 PM - 2 AM Mooney Hollow Barn 12471 Highway 52 S. Green Island, IA (563) 682-7927 / (563) 580-9494 Murph’s South End 55 Locust St. Dubuque • Phone 563-556-9896 STAND-UP COMEDY! Mystique Casino 1855 Greyhound park Road • 563-582-3647 www.mystiquedbq.com New Diggings 2944 County Road W, New Diggings, WI Gabriel Rutledge 608-965-3231 • newdiggs.com Diamond Jo Casino, Wednesday, September 9, 8 p.m. Noonan’s North Since performing at his first open mic in 2000, he has gone on to perform 917 Main St. Holy Cross, IA • 563-870-2235 Perfect Pint /Steve’s Pizza all over the United States and Canada. 15 E. Main St., Platteville, WI • 608-348-3136 Pit Stop 17522 S John Deere Rd, Dubuque • 563-582-0221 Tom Mabe Sandy Hook Tavern Diamond Jo Casino, Wednesday, September 16, 8 p.m. 3868 Badger Rd. Hazel Green, WI • 608-748-4728 Silver Dollar Cantina He has been dubbed the troubleshooter-troublemaker and comic with a 342 Main Street, Dubuque, 563-556-4558 cause by several national magazines and TV shows. Softtails 10638 Key West Drive, Key West, IA • 563-582-0069 Star Restaurant and Ultra Lounge (2nd Floor) 600 Star Brewery Drive, Port of Dubuque • Mike Mercury 563.556.4800 www.dbqstar.com Diamond Jo Casino, Wednesday, September 23, 8 p.m. Stone Cliff Winery 600 Star Brewery Dr., Port of Dubuque • 563.583.6100 if you like your comedy clean, quick and clever, or are just a big fan of • stonecliffwinery.com stand-up comedians, Mike Mercury is your man. Sublime 3203 Jackson St., Dubuque • 563-582-4776 Thums Up Pub & Grill 3670 County Road HHH, Kieler, WI • 608-568-3118 Cool & Cruel (Midnight Swinger/Marge from Untamed Shrews) The Yardarm Diamond Jo Casino, Wednesday, September 30, 8 p.m. Dubuque Marina, Near Hawthorne • 563-582-3653

The Midnight Swinger (Cool) and Marge Tackes (Cruel) are veteran come- If you feature live entertainment and would like to be dians who have toured the country individually for more than 15 years. included in our Venue Finder, please drop us a line... [email protected] or 563-588-4365. I’LL ONLY RIDE ON A DRAGON BOAT IF IT ACTUALLY BREATHES FIRE 18 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

Get ready for some fast-paced, high-oc- His desolation and misery grew until one tane action on the Mississippi River! The day he threw himself into the Mi Lo River. Dubuque Dragon Boat Association will be His devoted followers, learning of his death, hosting the 22nd Annual Dubuque Dragon rushed to search for his body. Fearing the Boat Races on September 11 - 13 at Miller- fish might devour the body; they beat their Riverview Park. paddles on the water and banged drums and gongs to frighten the fish. Hence, the This event typically draws teams from as far genesis of dragon boat racing. away as Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, that join the Dubuque Dragon Boat Asso- ciation on a regular basis for its local races. These teams return time and time again be- cause of the competition, the area, and the hospitality of Dubuque. It’s also a not-insig- nificant tourism generator for the city, given that 25-35 teams with each team consist- ing of a minimum of 20 people come to the area, thus bringing 500-700 team par- ticipants to the races plus additional family members and spectators.

The dragon boat festival provides the Dubuque Dragon Boat Association an op- portunity to bring to Dubuque visitors from all over the world. Through dragon boating the DDBA promotes cultural exchanges be- tween foreign and local teams and the edu- While Friday’s Dragon Boat Festival con- cation of the public on the Asian culture sists solely of setup and welcome activi- associated with the dragon boat festival. ties, Saturday and Sunday are packed with Another goal of this festival, according to action and are open to the public. Satur- organizers, “is to give our guests a chance day will open with the “Awakening of the to learn about Dubuque and give the peo- Dragon,” with all-day reacing on the Mis- ple of Dubuque a chance to be exposed to sissippi. Sunday will also have all-day rac- a diverse group of people and cultures.” ing, followed by award presentations.

The sport of dragon boating itself is over The Dubuque Dragon Boat Association 2000 years old, with its origins steeped (DDBA) was formed by a group of pad- in tradition. The pageantry, the colors and dling enthusiasts in 1988 and incorporat- the mechanics of dragon boating are edu- ed in 1992 and reorganized in 1998 as a cational and present a view into the past. non-profit organization dedicated to the According to legend, Chu Yuan, a poet, promotion of paddle sports and dragon warrior and loyal aide to the emperor, fell boating in the tri-states. In its nineteen- victim to plots and deception and found year history it has provided the oppor- himself out of favor at the Imperial court. tunity for thousands of people from all When the old emperor died, Chu Yuan was over the world the chance to enjoy the unjustly banished and wandered the coun- paddling sports on the Mississippi River tryside composing poems he hoped would in Dubuque. For more information, visit be heard and heeded by the new emperor. www.dubuquedragonboat.org. THAT FROG LOOKS LIKE HE’S PERCEIVING ONE MIGHTY CRICKET. OR HE’S GASSY 19 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 Schwenker characterizes his next 13 Midwest Photographers at the Ebert show Revision, hosted my Sinsinawa Gallery in Davenport,Iowa, Light Travel Mound, as a continuation of the earlier at the Graphic Line Gallery in Moline, exhibit. “While Transition dealt with Illinois, Rivers Connect at the 2006 In- changing from film to digital, moving ternational Conference On Rivers and to a new city and starting a new po- Civilization in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, sition in a new facility, Revision deals and Natural Wonders at Stonehouse with processing the original image to Pottery and Gallery in Galena, Illinois. be what I envisioned when taking the photograph,” he wrote in an artist’s statement. “Visualizing how an object will appear as a printed photograph is similar to my previous experiences with film and darkroom work. Manipu- lation of images is now accomplished with a computer instead of chemistry.”

The Warehouse Art Gallery hosts a Schwenker, an exhibit designer at the Schwenker’s Warhouse Art Gallery new exhibit for September, Perception, National Mississippi river Museum and exhibit, Perception, will offer the next an exhibit of digital photography by Aquarium, studied art at St. Ambrose step in the evolution of the artist and Mike Schwenker. While the show will University in Davenport earning a BA his work in exploring the possibilities The Warehouse Art Gallery is open be on display from September 1-30, with a specialization in illustration. It of digital photography. Perception will Monday through Saturday from10 a.m. the gallery will host an opening recep- was in recording scenes to paint that be on display through the month of to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 12 to 4 tion, Friday, September 11 from 6 to 10 he first developed an interest in pho- September. Additional sponsors for the p.m., or by appointment. The gallery is p.m. Free and open to the public, the tography. Initially working with film exhibit include Big River Sign Com- located at 1079 Elm Street, at the east reception will include live music by and darkroom printing techniques, pany, Resa James Home, Restoration end of the warehouse building. Guests the artist’s daughters, hors d’oeuvres, Schwenker made the switch to digital Trust, Transitions Media Group, Dig- can enter through the Resa James wine samples from Park Farm Winery, photography, documenting the process italDubuque.com, and 365ink. Home entrance. For more information, home-brewed beer samples from the in Transition, an previous exhibition of visit http://warehouseartgallery.com/, Bluff Street Brew Haus, and bottled photos at Miguel’s Coffee Bar. Previous Schwenker exhibits include or call 553-590-1367. water from The Gym. TASTE OF PHILLY HAS VIENNA BEEF HOT DOGS! THEY SO WIN! 20 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

City Council Completes Annual - Improved connectivity - transportation Goal-Setting Sessions and telecommunications By Mayor Roy D. Buol POLICY AGENDA 2009–2011: The Dubuque City Council completed Top Priority its annual goal-setting sessions last - Sustainability Plan week. Over the course of two eve- - Historic Millwork District nings, Council members developed a - Sanitary Sewer/Water Pollution Con- 2009-2011 policy agenda, along with a trol Plant management agenda. - Neighborhood Crime and Gangs: Comprehensive Evaluation and Strategy The goal-setting process was facilitat- - Carnegie-Stout Public Library Staffing ed by Lyle Sumek, of Lyle Sumek As- sociates, Heathrow, Florida who has High Priority worked with the City of Dubuque for - Smarter City over 20 years. Following are the results: - Market-Rate Housing - Arts and Cultural Affairs Funding DUBUQUE VISION 2024~ - Public Transportation Model - The city of Dubuque is a progressive, - Every Child | Every Promise sustainable city with a strong diversified economy and expanding global con- The 2009-2011 Management Agenda nections; was also established. These issues rep- resent short-term projects for the City - The Dubuque community is an inclu- Manager and City of Dubuque staff. sive community celebrating culture and Included in the Management Agenda heritage and has actively preserved our are items that are considered major Masterpiece on the Mississippi; projects that involve significant city re- sources and may span more than one - Dubuque citizens experience healthy year for completion: living and active retirement through quality, livable neighborhoods and an MANAGEMENT AGENDA 2009-2011: abundance of fun things to do, and they Top Priority: are engaged in the community, achiev- - DubuqueWorks ing goals through partnerships; and - Community Conversation on Sustain- ability - Dubuque City government is finan- - Washington Neighborhood cially sound and providing services - Southwest Arterial with citizens getting value for their tax dollars. High Priority: - Disaster Preparedness Plan MISSION STATEMENT~ - Downtown Parking Ramps “The City’s mission is to deliver excel- - Annual Street Program lent municipal services that support - Airport Master Plan urban living, and contribute to a sus- - Partnering with Community Founda- tainable city. The City plans for the com- tion of Greater Dubuque munity’s future, and facilitates access to critical human services. The result is a I applaud the process and the results financially sound city government and achieved by a group of very committed, citizens getting services and value for educated and visionary individuals who their tax dollar.” serve our citizens not just during their “term,” but rather…for the “long term!” FIVE-YEAR GOALS: - Diverse, strong Dubuque economy “When you tug on a single thing in na- - Sustainable city ture, you will find it connected to every- - Planned and managed growth thing else!” John Muir - Partnering for a better Dubuque A’YAR, MATEY, WE BE CRUISIN’ FER VANILLA COKE 21 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

Tuesdays Pub Quiz - 180 Main, 8 p.m. - First 3 Tuesdays of the month Open Jazz Jam - 180 Main (Upper Level), 8 p.m. Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.

Wednesdays Be warned matey. Thar be pirates on that 1,000 “Gold” Sacagawea coins! This year, Laughing Moon Comedy - Diamond Jo Casino, 8 p.m. WJOD Wild West Wed - (Country Dancing), Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. rivaaar. At least over Labor Day weekend registration for the Treasure Hunt opens on Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. that is. September 5-6 marks the dates of Saturday, but key portions of the treasure Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Denny’s Lux Club, 8:30 p.m. -12:30 a.m. Captain Jack’s annual Pirate Party and Trea- map will not be given out until 2 p.m. on Karaoke - Bubblz Karaoke, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. sure Hunt, or “Swashbucklin’ for the Booty” Sunday. There will also be cash prizes for Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. contest hosted by Mid-town Marina with Best Costumes (100 coins), Best Ship (200 Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. the participation of a few other ports along coins), and Best Gunnery Crew (75 coins), the backwaters of the river. plus a bottle of rum for each winner. The Thursdays party is open to everyone, even if you don’t Live Music - Robbie Bahr & Laura McDonald, Gobbies, Galena, 9 p.m. -1a.m. Part scavenger hunt, part poker run, the trea- dress in costume. Mid-Town Marina is lo- Y-105 Party Zone - Dbq Co. Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. sure hunt not only sounds like a lot of fun, cated at 285 5th Street in East Dubuque, Dueling Pianos - Diamond Jo Casino, 8 p.m. but if you actually find the treasure chest, IL (at the end of 6th Street off Highway 20) Open Mic Showcase, Silver Dollar Cantina, 9 p.m. you and your pirate crew get split the booty, or by river at Mile 579 (the entrance is past Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. which includes a stash of coins, a bottle of the second red buoy south of the Julien Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Shannon’s Bar, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Soundwave, Bulldog Billiards, 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. rum, and a limited edition flag. Last year’s Dubuque Bridge, but any good river pirate Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. treasure was never found so the booty will would already know that). For more infor- DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m. be added to this year’s stash – a total of mation, call 563-599-8183.

Fridays Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Sublime, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Jumpers, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. (Every Other Friday) Karaoke - Brian Leib’s Essential Entertainment, Aragon Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.

Saturdays Live Comedy - Arthur House Restaurant, Platteville, 9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Pet Shop Boys They Might Be Giants Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Chicago Theatre, Chicago • September 14 Barrymore Theatre, Madison • October 11 Karaoke - Bubblz Karaoke, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Flyin Hawaiian, George & Dales, (East Dub.) 9p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. Bruce Springsteen Ingrid Michaelson Karaoke - Starburst Karaoke, w/Dave Winders, Instant Replay, 9 p.m.-1a.m. United Center, Chicago • September 20 Barrymore Theatre, Madison • October 24 DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m. DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. P!nk Leonard Cohen Sundays Rosemont Theatre, Chicago • September 26 Rosemont Theatre, Chicago • October 29 Open Mic with Sean Kramer (Mississippi Flat Miners), A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Knicker’s Saloon, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Karaoke - Phoenix Entertainment, The Hangout (East Dub.), 9 p.m. - 3 a.m. Van Morrison Roger Daltrey Chicago Theatre, Chicago • September 29 House of Blues, Chicago • November 2 If you have updates, additions or corrections to the recurring nightlife calendar, please contact 365 with the new information @ [email protected]! AC/DC Dane Cook Wells-Fargo Center, Des Moines • October 9 i Wireless Center, Moline • November 14 SPEAKING OF TRAVEL, GO WATCH THE MOVIE TIME AFTER TIME 22 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 Bob’s Book Reviews A Matter of Time by Bob Gelms

The great H. G. Wells published The science-challenged. The totally unex- meet my father if I was never born in Time Machine in 1895. I read it when pected bolt from the blue is that YOU the first place? This paradox also vio- I was about 10 or 11 years old and it have already done it. Yes, dear reader, lates one of the known rules of the uni- jump-started a fascination with time you have already traveled in time. verse written in granite. It deals with travel stories I’ve had ever since. Some- cause and effect. The cause of some- slowly in his machine than outside it. times I’d stare out the window and thing has to precede the outcome of Randles seems to have settled on elec- daydream of traveling through time. that same thing. You can’t have a fly tromagnetic energy and gravity acting Interestingly enough, probably only in- out of the park before the batter hits on one another to produce an environ- teresting to me, I never traveled to the the ball. Well, Ms. Randles comes up ment conducive for time travel in ei- past. It was always to the future. With with some extraordinarily creative ex- ther direction. a little diligent research, my thinking planations as to how that paradox can went, you could find out almost any- be satisfied and exactly how far back in We know that time travel is possible; thing you wanted about the past be- time we will be able to go. all that is left to do is to construct a ma- cause the past has already happened. chine to do it. It will be a complex ma- I didn’t want to travel back 2,000 years We also find out about Nicola Tesla’s chine, needing astronomical amounts to meet Jesus. I wanted to travel 2,000 experiment with massive amounts of of energy to make it work, and it will years into the future and meet Jesus magnetic energy on May 13, 1895, be the most expensive project ever on another planet. I wanted the future when he just might have become the undertaken by the people of Earth. It’s because no one knew what the future first time traveler. She also recounts the not in the realm of science fiction any held. All of it would be brand new and experiments of a Russian named Cher- more. All that is required is the will to happening for the very first time. It was nobrov, who turned his time machine do it -- and that’s just a matter of time. a kind of boyish reverie, I know, but on for the first time on April 8, 1988. logically, I knew that time travel could He has shown that time moves more never happen. Boy, was I wrong.

As I got older and learned about the peculiarities of Einstein’s Relativity Theory and the strange effect it has on time itself I began to think time travel could be possible but, surely, not in my lifetime. Then I learned about the Einstein-Rosen Bridge. It’s more com- Ms. Randles explains that, in point of monly referred to as a wormhole. Then fact, traveling into the future isn’t all came Star Trek in all of its incarnations that hard. It’s just really, really, expen- and the incomparable Doctor Who sive. The closer you get to the speed of and his TARDIS. That’s The Doctor’s light, 186,282 miles per second, the spacecraft and time machine and if my slower time moves. At the speed of memory serves it stands for “Time And light time stops. So anyone who flies in Relative Dimensions In Space,” and I a plane or a jet or a spacecraft has trav- wanted one. Little did I know that time eled into the future. The effect is very travel might possibly have already tak- small but it’s there none-the-less. Some en place in the real world. Cosmonauts who have spent months flying around the world at 17,000 MPH That’s where Jenny Randles enters the are younger that you and me by about story. a half a second. In other words they are experiencing the world around them a Jenny Randles wrote the book Break- half a second into their future. ing the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine. It’s out in pa- Oh, I forgot to mention that Ms. Ran- perback and I can almost guarantee dles also informs us that once you go that you will be left slack-jawed and into the future it’s pretty much a one- wide-eyed with your socks going up way trip. You have no way of getting and down of their own free will. It back because traveling back in time will entertain and utterly amaze you. just might be impossible or, at least, It turns out that there are number of very difficult. You also have that nasty ways to go time traveling. Ms. Randles paradox to contend with. If I go back will show you how and all of it is in in time and kill my father before I’m plain language for those of us who are born, how can I go back in time to WHO YOU CALLIN’ AN SOB? 23 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

That SOB just watch TV for a little bit and do it later. Sound familiar? Your SOB can Inside of you, there is an SOB. This be very influential. You must shut him SOB wants you to be completely up. lazy. He is the enemy of self disci- pline. Self discipline is the ability to You can shut up your SOB by using get yourself to take action and follow self discipline. Everyone has access through on your intentions. If you to self discipline; many people chose want to get a degree, start a business, not to use it. Use self discipline pro- earn more money, or get in shape, it gressively to shut us your SOB. For takes self discipline. The more self example, if you have a goal to get discipline you use, the easier life up earlier in the morning and exer- gets. Imagine what you could do with cise, do it gradually. If you wake up your life if you could follow through two hours earlier tomorrow and try on your intentions. to run 10 miles, you’re just setting yourself up for failure (and a heart attack). What would your SOB say about that? Instead, get up 10 min- utes earlier and go for a short walk, the following week, try 15 minutes. When you successfully shut up your SOB and succeed in one area of your life, it makes it easier to move on to other areas.

Your SOB doesn’t want you to have self-discipline. He would much rath- er sit on the sofa and watch TV. Shut him up by using self discipline. If you can understand that self discipline is When you try to follow through on a tool you use, then you can use it to your intentions and do something accomplish almost any goal you set. worth while, that SOB will try ev- Self discipline enables you to follow erything possible to get you to not your decisions, thoughts and behav- do it. That SOB will say things to you ior which leads to improvement and like: What’s the point of this anyway? success. Don’t let that lazy SOB run Nobody cares. Why bother? Do you your life. The more you use self dis- remember what happened the last cipline, the easier it gets to follow time we tried something like this? It’ll through on your intentions. never work. You’ll never finish. Let’s 1% Mattitude Improvement Tip

Visualization that can help, whether it’s landing that great job, losing weight, Visualization is creating a mental dropping a bad habit, or finding a picture of something. Visualization front row parking spot. If you can is important because it makes see it, you can achieve it. the future become clear. Seeing yourself already achieving Don’t forget to CYA - Check something allows your brain Your Attitude! Like it or not, believe it is possible. People use your ATTITUDE determines your visualization all of the time because success (or lack thereof). To it works. Have you ever tried to inquire about Matt’s hit keynote visualize a front row parking spot speech titled “What’s the value of at the grocery store or mall? Try it your attitude?” call 563-773-6288 sometime. Visualization is a tool or email [email protected]. YOU OWE YOURSELF A SLAB OF TONY ROMA’S RIBS. REALLY 24 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

after working in the garden, has decided Produce harvested in Hillcrest’s garden to pursue the job corps in Denison, Iowa, is not only sold at the market but is also with an emphasis in culinary arts. used as a food source in the homes on the campus, while an end-of-summer picnic Life Stiles “We have youth who are responsible for was held recently that featured sweet corn the mowing, tilling, weed-whipping and from the garden. maintenance of all the equipment used Keeping Things Green in the project. We have other youth who “Don’t give up on our young people and are responsible for the planting, weed- do not be afraid to introduce them to at Hillcrest ing and harvesting of the produce in the things that might seem out of the ordinary, garden, and then we have youth who are such as a garden project,” says John. “Hill- says the response of Hillcrest youth to this responsible for the marketing and sales of crest Family Services benefits the commu- by Jeff Stiles program has been overwhelmingly favor- the produce at the Dubuque Farmers’ Mar- nity by giving our young people the skills able. ket—which teaches our youth how to tax needed to become productive members of When John Bellini began looking for a non-produce items and how to ledger and our community, and we continue to pro- new job ten years ago, it was a desire to “People would be surprised to know that account for the sales of the produce sold vide opportunities for disadvantaged youth work with at-risk youth that brought him all of our clients have responded well to at the market.” who might not get that opportunity if they to Dubuque to work at Hillcrest Family instructions given to them by staff at the weren’t with us.” Services. “I believe these youth have the garden,” he says. “They’re very eager to capacity and desire to change, but were learn the new skills, and take pride in the just guided down the wrong path through accomplishments that can be easily be their early years,” he says. seen in a garden project. At first, they may have been a little hesitant in believing that According to John—today the director we’d have all of the produce that we said of residential education at Hillcrest— we’d have, as it’s hard for young people to “Residential education (RE) is an umbrella visualize into the future. But once that pro- term for community-like settings where duce started popping up out of the ground, at-risk children live and learn together, our residents quickly became believers.” outside of their homes, within stable sup- portive environments. Whether called a Although earlier in the growing season prep program, children’s home, boarding only five or six youth were interested in house or residential charter program, RE helping with the garden, within months is a viable and important option for thou- John says interest among residents grew sands of children nationwide, and particu- exponentially. larly teenagers who are often difficult to place in stable and nurturing foster care settings.”

As a result of the programs at Hillcrest Family Services, 100% attend school full- time, 90% voluntarily participate in the numerous spiritual activities available for residents, 100% participate in volunteer- ing opportunities in the community, and 57% are united with their families at dis- charge. “By the middle of the summer we had got- ten such an interest on our campus from John says Hillcrest is continually searching the youth that we were taking 15-20 down for activities that improve their residents’ at a time,” he says. “We’ve had clients ask all-around development and well-being, what it takes to get to work at the garden, and new in 2009 to the activities at the and now they are well aware that they agency is a program wherein clients grow need to keep their behaviors and attitudes vegetables in a garden on their residential in check to get an opportunity to partici- campus and sell the resulting produce at pate in the project.” the Dubuque Farmer’s Market. In particular, John says the Hillcrest Gar- “The Residential Education Garden project den project has impacted several individu- began in April of this year,” John explains. als who have been academically behind “I initially wanted to start a project that in school, by giving them much-needed promoted a healthy and active lifestyle for vocational skills that will assist them in our youth, and the project then grew into gaining employment in the future. a desire to teach our youth vocational and business skills at the same time.” “It has taught our clients that with about $100 worth of seed you can get about Residential treatment adolescents with a $2,000 worth of produce, and so this effort history of delinquency might be the last is worth it financially,” he explains. “It has ones we’d expect to respond favorably to allowed our clients to gain the confidence a request to hoe and till a garden, but John and social skills needed to gain employ- ment in the community. In fact, one client, FRUIT ROLL-UPS ARE AN ESSENTIAL BACK-TO-SCHOOL SNACK 25 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 might be a “cool” Mom or Dad and let Look for waters that have added antioxi- your kids decorate their own lunch box. dants, vitamins and minerals. Tailgate Touchdown

2. Green is the New Brown. Ask yourself 7. Make it Healthy. Your children are prob- Park the truck and let the tailgate down. if the lunch you’re packing is recyclable, ably more nutrition-savvy than you were at It is football season and time to cheer biodegradable and compostable. These their age. Why not impress them with an- for your favorite team. Whether you are hot topics are sure to be discussed in tioxidant-rich foods, whole-grain breads, grilling on your backyard patio or at the school so give your child a lesson on how organic wraps and foods with higher Nu- stadium parking lot, tailgating brings big her or his lunch supports the environment. Val scores! Include a small hand sanitizer appetites. Pre-season planning starts first Buy reusable snack bags. to avoid fall germs. with food safety: • Clean. Clean the food thermometer after 3. Let Them Choose. Let the kids have a 8. Be the Mom with a Heart. There will use, and use clean serving plates, utensils, say-so in what’s in their lunch box. Create be plenty of fundraising activities brought etc. Bring antibacterial gels and wipes for a list from which to choose. If they are with home from school this year so do what you cleaning hands and food surfaces. you in the store, have them use the NuVal can to support them. Think about volun- • Separate. Separate raw meat and poultry nutrition scores at Hy-Vee to pick the high- teering to help out at school. from cooked foods to avoid cross-contam- est scoring food they’ll eat. ination. 9. Think Social. Want to know how to • Cook. Raw meat and poultry need to be 4. Think Fresh. Fresh and local are two reach your kids these days? Learn what so- cooked thoroughly. more words to keep in mind to provide a cial marketing is - like Facebook, Twitter • Chill. Store leftovers in the cooler within healthy, sustainable lunch. This is another and My Space. If cell phones are allowed two hours of taking food off of the grill. lesson you can teach your child about in the lunchroom, send them an encourag- When the temperature is above 90 °F, store their lunch and how it is environmentally ing note. It may just replace the surprise Back-to-School Top Trends food in a cooler within one hour. If eating friendly. notes your mom left for you. hot take-out food, eat within two hours. Want to know the latest trends for back-to- 5. Push for Portability. Buying stackable, 10. The New Home Ec. These days, home school nutrition? Following Is a summary Plan to score big points with a winning reusable containers for lunch foods will is wherever you are. If that means more of some research conducted by The Food tailgate menu. Kick off the event with make life easier and more convenient. school activities, sporting events or youth Channel and the International Food Futur- ice buckets filled with your favorite sport They are easier to fit into the lunch box groups, you probably need to consider ists. Read on and see if you’re keeping up. drinks, flavored or sparkling waters or bot- and the kids will have fun filling them, sav- what is available for snacks. Eating out of tles of iced tea. Dips are a fan favorite with ing them and stacking them. vending machines may be acceptable but 1. It’s in the bag. When you’re packing pretzels, bagels, cubed bread, veggies or then again, it may leave something to be your child’s sack lunch this year, think of fruit. They’re a tasty way to enjoy fruits 6. Carry Your Own Water. There are many desired. Check it out and if you need to food safety and practicality. You need to or vegetables that are often missing from new water-based drinks in the market that send along healthy snacks, see all the oth- keep cold foods cold using ice packs. You tailgate parties. provide more nutrition than just hydration. er top ten trends! THAT GUY IN THE KRANK DADDIES LOOKS LIKE ARTIE MENTZ GONE MAD 26 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 bluegrass is surely a strong element at the core of The Mayflies’ sound, roots rock is a fair expression of the music’s delivery method. With a drummer and electric guitar balancing the electric banjo and bass you can see where the genre-confusion might pop up. In the end it doesn’t really matter because they do it very well and if it sounds like something you might like, we’re pretty sure you will.

The Melismatics Friday, September 18 The Melismatics are back! The Min- neapolis power pop quartet bring their high-energy indie-pop back to the Silver Dollar Friday, September 18. Fronted by male/female duo Ryan Smith and the lovely Pony (come on, a girl on guitar and I’m in), the Melismatics create polished, original indie-rock with plenty of pop hooks. They also do some choice Hickory Hill Project covers that will probably surprise you. I Thursday, September 3 was lucky enough to catch part of their Considering these bluegrass guys are last set back in May and not only do playing the same evening this issue hits these guys (and a girl) rock, but they do the streets, it might be too late by the it with charisma and style and have a time you read this but if not, get your helluva lotta fun doing it. bluegrass lovin’ butt down to the Dollar for a big slice of the real deal.

Surprise Guest (After All That Jazz) Friday, September 4 Last time the Dollar had a post-festival “Surprise Guest” we could pretty much figure out who it was. I didn’t reveal it here, but I think most people had a pretty good idea. This time, I really don’t know. You’ll have to go check it out yourself. But I bet it’s gonna be good.

Minus Six Friday, September 11 With an actual count of just four mem- bers – playing piano, saxophone, bass, The Krank Daddies and drums, somewhat in the manner Saturday, September 19 of Ben Folds Five (who were actually What do hotrods, sideburns, hollow- three, if you recall), The Minus Six are body guitars, and rock-n-roll have in so named because there is no guitar (or common? Well they’re all pretty cool, six-string, if you will) in the band. Not but the answer was supposed to be The just about the numbers, the band does Krank Daddies. The Chicago trio have in fact rock their originals having re- stolen the rockabilly songbook that cently released their third album. They happened to be lying in the backseat of come from the Quad Cities, but just the baddest roadster at the drive-in and tak- Illinois towns so they could just as well en it to their own garage where they’ve be named The Two of Four. added a few modifications of their own to goose the horsepower. With guts to The Mayflies spare, The Krank Daddies bring it loud Saturday, September 12 and fast to the Dollar to drag race you Are the Mayflies a rock band with for a date with your girlfriend. You got a bluegrass roots or a bluegrass band that problem with that? rocks? We’ve pondered this question before but the answer still eludes us. Mark your calendars… The Mayflies definitely qualify as roots For September 26, for After the Chrash, music but not necessarily as a band that and November 14 for singer/songwriter neatly fits into any subcategory. While phenom Keri Noble. BECAUSE YOU ASKED NICELY -- BIGGER CROSSWORD! 27 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16

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PUZZLE ANSWERS from page 27 Dr. Skrap’s completely useless Sudoku 1 Sudoku 2 Warning: Do not take Trixie HOROSCOPES seriously. We mean it. ARIES No matter the recipe, you cannot get the gluten-free bread you Dear Trixie: baked to look like, taste like or con- I am worried about being a victim of form to the physical standards of normal bread. That’s because identity theft. I just bought an electric shred- bread has wheat in it. Don’t taunt nature. Some things are not der-- the Black and Decker P38 Docu- Gobbler. Is that suf- meant to be eaten. ficient for my sensitive documents? I’ve heard that people on methamphetamine will spend days putting the strips back TAURUS I really hope your power was out and you dressed in Cryptoquip together. - the dark after you woke up extra-early this morning to come to -Concerned Man On Miller Road work, otherwise I’m not sure what your excuse is for that outfit combination. Did you lose a bet? Dear Concerned Man: GEMINI I don’t care what you’re eating or how organic it is, if It’s true. Criminals on speed will stop at almost nothing to it’s covered in butter, salt, sugar or breading, it’s not helping ... Crossword get your identity. That’s why I’ve developed a special for- unless the thing you are trying to improve is not your body so mula to repel criminals. Mix 3 quarts spoiled milk, 12 rotten much as your sanity. catfish heads and a pint of human vomit. Pour liberally onto shreddings. CANCER It’s not that he’s not attracted to you because you won’t let go of the chocolate bar that was supposed to be for Dear Trixie: the two of you, it’s that your butt hasn’t let go of any chocolate I’ve been reading your column for a long time and I enjoy bar you’ve ever met. Yes, he’s shallow. But you could still share. it a lot, but I’m sure you must make up the letters. Nobody could be as idiotic as the people who write to you. I’m not LEO If you have not seen your significant other in weeks and complaining, it’s great entertainment. I just wanted to let you upon your reunion the first thing they do or say is not physical or emotional in nature, realize that you could have been mak- know I am one person who doesn’t buy it. There couldn’t be ing more headway in your personal life by sitting naked on the that many stupid people in all of Dubuque. futon joining a dozen online fantasy football leagues and look- --Skeptic ing at porn on the internet. Get out, NOW!

Dear Skeptic: VIRGO So long as you understand that the day you install You didn’t make up your letter. those industrial hooks in the apartment to hang up your moun- Letter Box tain bike, that bike will permanently become art, go ahead and Dear Trixie: do it. And just like that, your biking days were over. My husband wants me to be pregnant so badly he’s making me crazy. For the last 4 weeks all I’ve heard out of him is, LIBRA Those who cannot remember last weekend’s drunken “Can we do it? Can we do it? Can we do it? Let’s do it!” He antics are bound to repeat them. But if you don’t remember it is constantly on my back. What should I do? --Irritated Wife this time either, did it really even happen? Yes it did SCORPIO You find a spare pair of underwear, a box of band- Mega Dear Wife: aids and a Chuck Mangione 8-track tape in a new friend’s glove Maze Change positions. It’s easier to conceive if you are on YOUR box. It will worry you at first, but then you figure it could have back. been a rubber glove full of vasoline, a set of nunchucks and an egg beater. Go with it. Dear Trixie: Every time I turn around my 5 year old son is into the cookie SAGITTARIUS If we all agree and point and laugh hysterically jar. I’ve tried explaining that treats are for dessert only and every time a kid pulls up in a ten-year-old Honda Civic with are not to be eaten before meals but it’s as if he can’t hear low profile tires, a whale tail and a stereo worth more than the me anymore. I’ve moved the cookie jar out of his reach but rest of the car, maybe a couple of them will decide to save for the little rascal stood on a chair and was able to finish 5 of college instead. Probably not. But at least you’ve made one them before I caught him. I’ve told him over and over to leave very very mad for having completely mocked his lifestyle in a the cookies alone but he doesn’t want to listen to me. What single gesture. This would be even best if you happen to be a THE ANSWERS Questions on Page 6 very hot girl. should I do next? --Desperate Mom 1. B) Eddie Money played at the Diamond CAPRICORN An inebriated person threatens your life with a Jo Casino a few years back, but never the Dear Desperate Mom: butter knife late night at Perkins and you wonder if they are Blast. You could try putting him on a stool in the corner for a five serious or just drunk. It depends on which way they are hold- minute ‘Time Out’ but most likely it will do no good. Will- ing the knife. 2. C) Voices will be five this year. ful children usually don’t respond to that sort of behavior 3. A) Tom Gibbs modification. He needs a serious jolt. I recommend Negative AQUARIUS If “girls’ night out” is the only night you ever get 4. D) Cyril Ferring’s 1930s auditorium Reinforcement Therapy. Put a cookie on the table and turn out and you seem to be the one always planning the event, mural in Senior High School. you need better friends, honey. Unless, of course, you’re a away. Wait for him to take the first bite and shout, “Drop 5. B) The Shooting Society was founded in that snickerdoodle!” Shoot him in the chest with a low volt- guy. Then you are every married man’s hero and have proven 1856 as the Schuetzen Gesellschaft. age stun gun. The charge disrupts the signal from the brain yourself the alpha-male. They will sings songs about you in 6. C) The clock was moved on February to the muscles in the hand causing the child to release the Valhalla. treat. 65 kilovolts ought to be sufficient. It might seem cruel 12, 1971. PISCES You cannot wait for Halloween to get here. Just another at first but this type of aversion therapy can be utilized suc- 7. C) Don Lawson is known for coaching clue as to why you are sad and alone. cessfully for even the most recalcitrant of children. Track and Football at Senior. I WON’T ASK WHERE SOME OF THESE BANDS GET THEIR NAMES 29 SEPTEMBER 3 - 16 times compared to reggae rock bands like energy and sophistication. The band is Stoneheart Pepper and 311 the Minneapolis trio has currently on tour promoting their latest Saturday, September 12 reportedly been joined onstage on occa- CD, Easier to Lose. Paper Mache will be Sabula-based Stoneheart returns to 180 sion by members of Sublime and Slightly joined by Minnesota/North Dakota doom/ Main to play their comfortable mix of Stoopid. Rocking their own original ma- sludge/post metal five-piece Battlefields. original songs, rock, blues, and “hippy terial, fans of the above-mentioned bands Note that this is an all-ages show and will country.” Covering classic acts like The should check ‘em out. begin at 5 p.m. Band, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Neil Young, Stoneheart is sure to entertain Athens The Machete Archive fans of those songs that have proven to be Saturday, September 5 Wednesday, September 9 timeless. Chicago foursome Athens rocks the 180 Lincoln, Nebraska, instrumental trio The Main basement Friday, September 5. Re- Machete Archive bring their progressive Style Like Mind Tour: cording in a church they converted into a post rock music to 180 Main for a special Steddy P, Casethejoint, Imperfekt home studio, the band created their most Wednesday night show, September 9. Be- Thursday, September 17 recent CD What Would We Wear Were We gun just a couple years ago, bass player Dubuque’s own resident MC and hip-hop Werewolves? At different times odd, com- Saber Blazek, guitarist Ryan Thomas, and true-believer Casethejoint joins forces with ic, creepy, and raucous, the music covers drummer Ian Francis put out a five-track Counterproductions to bring Steddy P’s a lot of ground sonically, and touches on EP, Terra Incognita in December 2007. Style Like Mind tour to 180 Main for a spe- a range of influences so wide it would be The band is touring in support of their full- cial Thursday night show, September 17. pointless to list them. The unifying theme length Tempus Omnia Vorat. Celebrating the release of his fourth and Just in time for back to school, 180 Main’s seems to be that rock music should also be latest album Style Like Mind on the Indy- got all the reggae, indie rock, progressive entertaining. The Lonely Goats ground record label, Columbia, Missouri- instrumental, jam-band, hip-hop, funk, Friday, September 11 based Steddy P will be joined by DJ Mahf, and party rock you need, at savings that Paper Mache, Battlefields Look out, the Lonely Goats are doing a and Dallas. The tour will cover 15 cities in make mom and dad happy too! I think All-Ages show double. That doesn’t mean a double shot 7 different states. The date brings Steddy P I need a new backpack. Plus someone Sunday, September 6 of whiskey, although that has been known back to town almost a year to the day since keeps stealing my pens. Spokane Washington’s Paper Mache re- to happen. With a bunch of new tunes his last 180 Main performance. Also per- turns to perform at 180 Main just one day mixed into their set of originals and cov- forming and joining the tour for three Iowa Jon Wayne & The Pain short of a year since their show last Sep- ers that range from blues, rock, reggae, dates will be The Mic Hand Records Crew Friday, September 4 tember. Compared to bands as diverse as and ska, to Latin, funk, surf, hillbilly, and of Casethejoint, Imperfekt, and Colorless. A late addition to the music calendar, Bright Eyes and The Replacements, Paper zydeco, the Goats have plenty of party mix Gather your own crew and get out to sup- Jon Wayne and The Pain make their 180 Mache delivers singer Seth Woodward’s to satisfy. port live local hip-hop. Main debut, Friday, September 4. Some- honest, heartfelt songs with a mix of raw

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New Dubuque Museum of Art Through the illustrations, the book tells and screen prints. “Innovations by Exhibits for September a story of cause and effect in a family of women printmakers contributed sig- Continued from Page 10 pigs. A regular contributor of cartoons nificantly to all phases of the develop- to the New Yorker magazine, Geisert ment of color printmaking techniques recently moved to Bernard, Iowa after in America during the first half of the Arthur Geisert’s Oops! living in Galena for years. 20th century,” stated a press release on September 10 – November 8, 2009 the exhibit. “From Mary Cassatt’s early John Vachon and the Great Depres- experiments in color intaglio to June sion in Dubuque Wayne’s lasting legacy in lithography, September 10 – November 8, 2009 women fueled much of the develop- ment in the field.” The 60 prints that This exhibit of photographs documents comprise the exhibit are from the col- the people and places of Dubuque Vachon’s Dubuque photos were do- lection of Belverd and Marian Needles in 1940 as photographed by John Va- nated by Bill and Barbara Kruse. of Winnetka, Illinois. chon. Vachon worked as photography file clerk for the Farm Security Admin- A Passion for Color: American Women The Dubuque Museum of Art is open istration and was greatly affected by Printmakers, 1895-1965 Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. the photographers hired by the gov- August 18 – November 8, 2009 to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from ernment to document the lives of rural 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Regular admission is Americans during the Great Depres- Already on display, A Passion for Color: free through the year of 2009, thanks sion. On assignemtn, Vachon visited American Women Printmakers, 1895- to a generous sponsorship by the local Another in a series of exhibits of Dubuque in April of 1940, photograph- 1965 is an exhibit of artwork by 20th office of Prudential Financial. The Mu- Geisert’s original hand-colored etch- ing the real people he encountered in century female artists. A showcase of seum is located at 701 Locust Street in ings, the Dubuque Museum of Art pres- his time in the city. Vachon later went work by 20th century women print- Dubuque. For more information, visit ents Oops! illustrations from Geisert’s on to become a staff photographer for makers, the exhibition consists of color www.dbqart.com, or call the Museum children’s book of the same name pub- both Life and Look magazines. Part of prints in a range of print media includ- of Art at (563) 557-1851. lished by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. the Museum’s permanent collection, ing intaglios, woodblocks, lithographs

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Friday, September 4th Dubuque and all That Jazz. The last Jazz is upon us and we are going to need everyone we can. The event runs from 5-10:30 with pizza at the end of the night.

Saturday, September 5 We will be at the fair at 8:30am on Sat- urday and will go until late afternoon. Then return on Sunday at 11:00am and go till we are done with the walls. It’s not hard work , if you can hold up a wall, then some one screws it in place itwould help. You can e-mail Bubba (Ro- ert Beebe) at [email protected]. Things youcan bring if you have them, gloves, drill, ladder. Let me know if you can make either day, the more the better, and the faster we get done.

Thursday, September 17 General Membership meeting, 7:30 pm at the clubhouse

Thursday, September 24 Black Hills Energy Presentation. Black Hills will be giving a presentation about the programs that are available to help customers about using energy wisely. including energy audits, rebate. Jaycee Clubroom 515 W. 8th Street at 7:30pm.

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Voices From The Warehouse District Special Events

Saturday, September 12 ARTIST RECEPTION & OPENING, 7 p.m.

Sunday, September 13 Gallery Hours 1-5 p.m.

Friday, September 18 TBA

Saturday, September 19 Gallery Hours 1-5 p.m. PENNY ARCADE, 8 p.m.

Sunday, September 20 “I think we’re really lucky to have own organization (Fine Arts Society) terms of hosting a contemporary art Gallery Hours 1-5 p.m. Film Brigade, back again this year,” being grassroots and an independent exhibit or the hundreds of guests who Fever River Puppet Theatre Show said Neuhaus. “Voices has become non-profit, but the events that we have have come to see it each September. & Workshop, 2 p.m. a home to Film Brigade. Checking collaboratively booked too. These are “It’s not a traditional gallery,” states their web site, they have put their the people that are doing exactly what Rossignol matter-of-factly. “It doesn’t Friday, September 25 tour on hiatus. They are scaling we are doing in a similar way at dif- have the infrastructure that a tradition- GLIMMER OF HOPE FASHION SHOW back but they were willing to come ferent times – subculture artists that al gallery would. Sometimes the artist Benefit for the Riverview Center, to Dubuque to do one more show are producing independently. ‘Indie’ has to tailor their work to the ware- 7 p.m. because Dubuque is so cool to them being key, the Film Brigade is a small house, sometimes the warehouse has and Voices is such a killer project.” project that tries to reach out across the to tailor itself to the work.” country, Penny Arcade living in a seedy Saturday, September 26 Friday, October 2, the Voices exhibit subculture of Brooklyn and doing the Still, the warehouse space, the build- Gallery Hours 1-5 p.m. will be part of Dubuque Main Street’s same kind of thing, and I’m sure Tor- ing, the exhibit and events, all seem CHICAGO SHORT FILM BRIGADE, Fall Into Art Gallery Tour, which is toise at some time was practicing in a to embody an energy signified by the 7 p.m. scheduled from 5 to 10 p.m. The eve- warehouse in the beginning and doing “momentum” theme. “What’s cool With Chicago Cinema Forum ning will feature a performance of the really avant garde, experimental noise about the diversity of this show, the original Gypsy jazz influenced folk of jazz, breaking out from any sort of tra- draw, is the stories …,” said Neuhaus. Feast of Mutton. dition of jazz. I think that’s what is re- “Last year, all these interesting blue ally cohesive about this whole show.” collar dudes that had worked in that Arguably the biggest event to follow the building or in this district, shared sto- opening reception will be the closing ries with us. So why does Voices be- night’s concert by Chicago avant garde come this great party? It’s the fact that musical artists Tortoise. On tour pro- it’s accessible to pretty much every- moting their first CD of new material one. They can connect with art, or the in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship, building, or the district, or the stories released just this summer, Tortoise will they have to tell on a variety of levels.” perform their groundbreaking instru- mental music incorporating elements Already rich with history, the ware- Musical Guest: Alma Sub Rosa of dub, dance, jazz, techno, rock, and house buildings of the Historic Mill- classical minimalism Saturday, Octo- work District have the potential and ber 3 from 8 p.m. Also performing will the momentum of those working to Sunday, September 27 be Tortoise Thrill Jockey label mates, Pit The warehouse space itself seems to revitalize them, to be the stage for new Gallery Hours 1-5 p.m. er Pat. lend itself to a more experimental, edg- chapter in the history of the neighbor- Children’s Art & Gallery Talk ier approach to expression. “I think it hood, with even more stories to tell. Featuring Elizabeth Roberts, 2 p.m. Not unlike Penny Arcade’s perfor- does,” agrees Rossignol. “It’s artists that mance, hosting Tortoise at the Voices are creating works that aren’t necessar- The Voices co-directors Aaron Hefel, Friday, October 2 exhibit is a major coup for organizers. ily sellable. There’s not a huge market Paula Neuhaus, and Rich Rossignol DUBUQUE MAIN STREET’S “The (Tortoise) U.S tour is really only to buy installation art. You know a lot would like to thank the sponsors and FALL INTO ART GALLERY TOUR, about fifteen dates,” explains Hefel, of these artists, they put a lot of work all the volunteers who contribute to “and they’re doing these three (in the and a lot of their own money into (in- maintain the “Momentum” of the 5-10 p.m. Midwest) – Omaha, Minneapolis, and stallation pieces) for people to see, but Voices exhibit, especially event bev- Musical Guest: Feast of Mutton Dubuque – and that’s about it.” it doesn’t make them any money. It erage manager Ali Levasseur. provokes thought.” Saturday, October 3 “In terms of special events, I think that For more information, visit http:// TORTOISE ‘independent’ is the key word for us this An older, raw warehouse space, how- www.voiceswarehousegallery.com/ with Pit er Pat year,” observes Neuhaus, “not only our ever is not without its challenges in Events.html. 8 p.m.