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{ pamela brandt } Writer [email protected] { kristina nesteby } 8 • elvis in maquoketa Ad Designer [email protected] 12 • oscars & 2011 movies 20 • hockey night in america { shelley till } Director of Sales & Community Partnerships 24 • shot tower inn [email protected] | 563-542-3801 issue #154 • february 16 - 29, 2012 { kelli kerrigan } Advertising 4 community briefs 16 local film 27 return of the pop quiz [email protected] | 563-581-7014 7 brewfest 18 budweiser nightlife 28 bob’s book reviews 8 elisha darlin awards 20 hockey weekend 29 pam kress-dunn { lisa stevenson } 9 music and theater 21 stache night / roller derby 30 library events / mattitude Advertising 10 moon bar entertainment 22 tri-state arts 31 eating healthy with hy-vee [email protected] | 563-580-1691 11 little river band 24 argosys @ shot tower 32 puzzles 12 oscars 26 youth sympony / margi gras 33 mayor roy buol { matt booth } 16 movies 27 sara from steve’s ace 34 trixie kitsch 35 dr. skraps Mattitude [email protected]

{ pam kress-dunn } [email protected]

{ bob gelms } Bob’s Book Reviews

{ mayor roy buol } Buol on Dubuque

{ rich belmont } Argosy’s Food For Thought [email protected]

{ l.a. hammer } Trixie Kitsch: Bad Advice For The Stupid special thanks to: Brad Parks, Ric Woods, Dick Landis, Margie Blair, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Kay Kluseman, Ralph Kluseman, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Steven Schleuning , Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Gen. Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers.

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Where’s Wando We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him?

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incredible things in Dubuque that will remain under our radar unless you come forward and shine a light on them.

Here are some suggested nomination categories. We’re not sure what categories we will have awards for this year. Maybe we’ll find we need to invent a category In three years of hosting the 365 Impact we’ve never had before. It all comes down Awards, the event has really become quite to the nominees presented to us. the shindig. The overwhelming response to the first three 365 Impact Awards Shows Art • Econ. Development • Education • was more than we at 365 had ever expected. Community Pride • Dining • Family • Health In fact we still hear from our winners that • Historic Preservation • Inclusion • Media receiving the Impact Award has helped • Music • Nightlife • Non-Profit Excellence • them recruit members, grow their business, Shopping • Sports/Recreation • Sustainability • motivate their teams and for almost all of Volunteerism • Youth Advocacy. And The Final them that it just felt great to know that the Four: Overall Business • Overall Organization • community appreciates their hard work. Overall Individual • Overall Idea First time attendees always comment that the can’t believe they have not been to the Our crack team of 365 staff, civic leaders and event before and can’t wait to do it again community thugs will fight it out over the next year. Well friends, next year is here. nominees and select this year’s winners.

The 365 Impact Award is more about trying The next thing to do is mark your calendar than winning. Heck, Dubuque365 is more for Tuesday evening March 6th for the 2012 about trying than winning... we mean edition of the 365 Impact Awards show at the well. : ) It’s for those who choose to make Mississippi Moon Bar. It’s a crazy fun night of an everyday effort to Impact the world celebrating ourselves and our community. around them 365 days a year. Its meant for those who believe in our community There is also a good chance you will and are willing to do something to make it occasionaly cheer, often laugh, and even better for everyone. Sound like anyone, any perhaps cry a bit. Great people, live music, business or any organization you know? Our and probably some last minute chaos just to mission at 365 is to help connect people keep everyone guessing. to relationships, opportunity and the best possible living experience in our community.

Who do you think is best helping us make that happen? Who made a real Impact on your life in 2011?

Send your nomination to me at bryce@ dubuque365.com. Plus, a few people will get, by far, the coolest Please include the name of Impact Award award statue on earth - the 365 Impact nominee, what Award you think they best Award, designed by one of favorite local fit, as well as your reasons for nomination artists, metal sculptor, Gene Tully (above). “I in 500 words or less. Also include your used this medium for the 365 Impact Award name and phone number and the best because it takes a great amount of power time or method to contact you. Don’t just and energy to make an impression on steel think about doing it. DO IT! We know a LOT just as it takes a great amount of power and of people. But we don’t know everyone, energy to make an impression on society.” despite all of our efforts. We know that you And a secret squirrel tells us we may have know some pretty amazing people doing a newly re-imagined award fresh for 2012.

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customers, and employees can brighten their days, desks, or dinner tables, and the proceeds help fund the American Cancer Society’s mission to eliminate cancer as a major health problem.

Make a minimum $10 donation to the American Cancer Society to receive a proves to be one of the best-attended bunch of 10 daffodils. For a $25 donation, and most fun events on the Chamber the Gift of Hope bouquet is delivered calendar, due in part to the wacky booth anonymously to local cancer patients who decorations and costumes inspired by a are receiving treatment at medical centers Winter Jazz & Blues Festival new theme each year, with Game Shows and facilities in the community. Orders are to have every baby be born full-term, Feb. 10 & 18 being this year’s theme. Prizes, free food now being taken by contacting the Ameri- healthy & strong. There will be a small The Winter Jazz and Blues Festival, spon- and beverages add to the fun, including can Cancer Society at (563) 583-8249. Daf- raffle with some great prizes at $1 for sored by the Dubuque Arts Council, will prize packages for “Best Dressed” Female, fodils will be distributed March 13, 2012. 1 chance or $5 for 6 chances. Proceeds present one more concert in February. The Male and Booth. Booth sponsors will be from the night and tips earned will all final Winter Jazz and Blues Concert on Sat- giving away door prizes as well so don’t profit the March of Dimes. Come on out, urday, February 18 will spotlight the talent forget your business cards! enjoy a great meal and help raise funds of local college and university musicians at for a special cause. the Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. Jazz ensembles from Loras College, Clarke University, the University of Dubuque and UW-Platteville will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $10 per person. Food and beverages will be available for pur- chase, plus games and great music. Lance Andre… Adventurer Extraordinaire! Sun. Feb. 19, 1 p.m. Swiss Valley Nature Center Join your friends a family for a fun program sponsored by the Dubuque County Conservation Board, featuring the adventures of Dubuque cyclist Lance American Cancer Society Andre. Lance has entered an elite group Owl Prowl Dubuque Main Street Daffodil Days of ultra-endurance cyclists by finishing Feb. 24, 6 p.m. Downtown Business PM Order by Feb. 20 the coveted human powered Iditarod E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center, Tuesday, February 21 Give daffodils. Give hope. Spring is coming Ultramarathon in Alaska. He will share Mines of Spain Dubuque Main Street invites everyone to early this year – and so are the American his photos, trials and triumphs with the Everyone is welcome to enjoy an “Owl “Come On Down” to the 2012 Downtown Cancer Society Daffodil Days. Dubuque audience. Be prepared to be inspired! Prowl” at the Mines of Spain on Friday, Business PM, this year with a game show County residents have until February 20 to February 24. Jerrett McGovern will pro- theme. The annual downtown business place their orders for daffodils. HuHot Night vide information on owls, including how and organization tradeshow co-hosted by with Team Pape Sisters they hear, see and fly silently. He will Dubuque Main Street and Dubuque Area “With Daffodil Days, the hope goes beyond Mon. Feb. 20, 5-8 p.m. go into the wonders and spookiness of Chamber of Commerce will be held Tuesday, the symbol of the flowers – you know that HuHot Dubuque, 555 JFK Rd. being in the dark. After the indoor pro- February 21 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Hotel with every bouquet you order, you’re Team Pape Sisters will be hosting and gram, attendees will venture outdoors Julien Dubuque. Main Street is now accept- making an actual difference in the lives cooking the night away at HuHot in sup- to call in owls – Barred Owls, Screech ing registration from participating vendors. of real people fighting cancer,” according port of the March for Dimes campaign Owls and Great Horned Owls. This free to Jodi Federspiel, of the American Can- March for Babies. The March of Dimes program is a perfect family experience. The Downtown Business PM always cer Society. Ordering daffodils for friends, mission is to fund research & equipment Dress for the weather.

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while learning at displays from local conservation groups. the same time. Preregister by calling (563) 556-6745. Admission is $9.00 per person without coupon. Children 1 and under are Free. Box office opens at 9:00AM on show days. Socks are required to enter any inflatable rideFor more information visit www.bixbylive.com.

Forest Gliders : Flying Squirrels audiences. River Lights will use the win- Sun. Feb. 26, 1 p.m ning film for social media and online E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center, marketing. $50 cash prize. The video Mines of Spain Dubuque Food Co-op must be formatted to be played with Take a glimpse into the world of Flying Squir- public meeting Quicktime and uploaded to a video host- rels, the most unique members of the squir- Fri. Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. ing site, such as Youtube or Vimeo. Email rel family, in a presentation by Dr. Gerald Roshek Building your entry to [email protected] Zuercher of the University of Dubuque. The The Dubuque Food Co-op board is hold- by Saturday, February 25 at noon. Learn Mines of Spain has a population of South- ing a public information meeting on Fri- more at www.rlb2e.com. ern Flying Squirrels, the smallest member of day, February 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby the flying squirrel group in North America. of the Roshek building. Dubuque’s first Zuercher will present basic facts about fly- food cooperative will open this fall in ing squirrels and what his UD team has the Caradco building of the Historic Mill- Black Tie Bowling learned through trapping, telemetry, and work District. It will be a 100% member- Sat. Feb. 25, 5 p.m. habitat studies. He is an Associate Professor owned grocery store specializing in local, Cherry Lanes, Diamond Jo Casino of Biology and Environmental Science and organic, and natural foods and products. The Dubuque, Delaware, & Jackson has been studying the Flying Squirrels with For more info or to buy a membership, County Regional Transit Authority (RTA) students for over 4 years. In a Children’s Pro- visit dubuquefoodcoop.com. is hosting its 3rd annual Black Tie Bowling gram, during the main presentation, there event on Saturday February 25th from will be activities for children in the lower 5 to 8 p.m. at Cherry Lanes in the Dia- level of the nature center to explore the mond Jo. For $10, participants can bowl, traits of Flying Squirrels and how they live. enjoy delicious appetizers, and enter for a chance to win wonderful prizes. All Becoming an Outdoor Woman proceeds will benefit the RTA and the Sat. Feb. 25, 8 a.m.-noon transportation services it provides in Swiss Valley Nature Center Dubuque, Delaware, and Jackson Coun- Improve your outdoorswoman skills dur- ties for medical, social, or work needs. ing the Becoming an Outdoor Woman Bixby’s Inflatable Rainforest (BOW) Winter Experience. This Iowa February 25, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Promotional Film Contest DNR program, sponsored by Dubuque February 26, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Deadline: Sat. Feb. 25 County Conservation Board and Pheas- Five Flags Civic Center River Lights Bookstore, 1098 Main St. ants Forever, is for any woman who wants Enjoy a whole day of inflatable slides, Aspiring filmmakers are invited to com- to learn more about the great outdoors Philmont Breakfast Fundraiser bounces, mazes, obstacle courses, activi- pete in creating a promotional film for or is just getting started in the addictive Feb. 26, 7-11:30 a.m. ties and live exotic animal displays! Sing River Lights Bookstore, based on the hobby of outdoor recreation. Volunteers St. Paul Lutheran Ch., 20th & Jackson along with Bixby and all his friends dur- motto: Culture, Community, Connected- will provide hands on interaction for par- You can help local boy scouts achieve their ing Bixby’s Rainforest Rescue stage show ness. Your creativity is encouraged in the ticipants with tree stands, gun cleaning dream of adventuring to Philmont Scout and Bixby’s Dream Train Parade. You and 60-90 second video that must focus on and gun safety, snowshoeing, first aid Ranch in the rugged northern New Mexico your family have never had so much fun the bookstore and be appropriate for all and outdoor cooking, along with indoor wilderness. On Sunday, February 26, from 7 to

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11:30 a.m., the Northeast Iowa Council Philm- Main St. in Dubuque. Registration is $20 in ont Contingent will host a breakfast fund- advance, with a February 28 deadline; or $25 raiser for the 2012 summer trek. The breakfast the day of the event, space permitting. For fundraiser will be held at St. Paul Lutheran more information, call the Dubuque County Church, 20th and Jackson. The menu will Extension Office at (563) 583-6496, or visit include eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, hash www.extension.iastate.edu/dubuque. browns, fruit cup, toast, coffee, juice, and milk. Philmont is a large financial commitment for any family, so please come enjoy a great breakfast and support a once in a lifetime trip for our local Scouts! Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Children under 5 eat free. To learn more, visit www.scoutsiowa.com.

Dubuque County Master Gardener Spring Seminar Sat. March 3, 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. NICC Town Clock Center The annual Dubuque County Master Gar- dener Spring Seminar will provide all the info you need to get your garden started right this spring. Local experts along with faculty from Iowa State Extension will be Girl Scout Cookies! on hand to give you research-based infor- Get ready for yummy Girl Scout cookies! mation that will have your yard and garden Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western growing better in no time. Dubuque County Illinois (GSEIWI) will be selling their mouth- Master Gardeners will also be there to help watering boxes of sweet temptation until answer questions and provide information March 18. This year, a direct sale format about resources in Dubuque county. Fea- will be used to sell cookies. This means the tured speakers: Dr. Jen Bousselot, the state Girl Scouts will have packages of cookies in coordinator for the Iowa Master Gardener hand to sell door-to-door and at commu- Program and lecturer at Iowa State; Sara nity locations. No more taking orders, no Hankemeier, a lifelong gardener and part more waiting for cookie delivery. Pay for of the Extension family for nearly 20 years; your cookies and receive them on the same Dennis Hermsen, owner of Hermsen Nurs- day! All proceeds from our local council’s ery in Farley; and Eric Schmechel, an urban cookie activities remains in this area, and conservationist with the Dubuque Soil and the revenue is used to benefit the girls in Conservation District. The seminar will be our community. For more information, go held at the Town Clock Center of Northeast to www.girlscoutcookies.org, or visit the Iowa Community College, located at 680 GSEIWI website at www.gseiwi.org.

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Inspired by his older brother Brad, bass- Samuel Adams, Schell’s, Sierra Nevada, and ist and co-founder of platinum rock Summit, just to name a few. band Three Days Grace, singer Matt Walst founded My Darkest Days in More than a half dozen area wineries will also 2005. The band’s first break occurred offer samples of their latest wines. Missis- when My Darkest Days won a new sippi River Distillery and Cedar Ridge Winery band search conducted by a radio sta- & Distilleries will offer samples of their Iowa tion in their native Ontario. The win made liquors. Specialty meats will be offered afforded them a chance to record their by Haubers Lock Plant, Blue Sky Meats, and music which caught the ear of Nick- Dubuque on Ice Brewfest Catfish Charlie’s. Shullsburg Cheese and Carr leback frontman Chad Kroeger who Saturday, February 18 Valley will provide a selection of cheeses. A signed the band immediately to his 604 Mystique Ice Center variety of fine chocolates will be presented Records production company. Kroeger The Potosi Foundation together with The by Betty Jane Candy and Stam Chocolaterie. proceeded to co-write and co-pro- Dubuque Community Ice & Recreation Live music will be performed by Andy Wil- duce My Darkest Days 2010 self-titled Center present the inaugural Dubuque on berding and Shawn Cavanaugh. debut which captured the attention Ice Brewfest, Saturday, February 18 from of modern rock radio with the single 12:30 to 5 p.m. at the Mystique Ice Center. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet “Porn Star Dancing.” The event will feature a beer and wine tast- the brew masters and wine makers in spe- My Darkest Days ing and live music with an opportunity for cial breakout sessions. Special ticket holders With The Veer Union My Darkest Days are kicking off a guests to sample specialty cheeses, sausage will also be able to attend a wine and cheese Saturday, April 7 2012 tour to promote their new single and chocolates. pairing event from 1 p.m. or a beer and Courtside Sports Bar “Casual Sex” the first release from their chocolate sampling event a 2 p.m. A compli- new album Sick & Twisted Affair, set to Central to the event is the beer tasting, fea- mentary shuttle service will be available to “Dubuque’s Hit Music Station” Y105 pres- be released in March before joining turing a wide variety of beers from 20 of the various locations so imbibing guests need ents a special concert by Canadian hard Nickelback on tour this spring in a sup- best regional and national specialty brewer- not drive. Tickets are $35 (special tickets rock quintet My Darkest Days with special porting slot along with hard rockers ies including Big Sky, Boulevard, Brecken- for one or both pairing events are $50 and guests The Veer Union Saturday, April 7 at Seether and Bush. Tickets for the Court- ridge, Capital Brewing, Galena Brewing Co., $60, respectively) and are available online at Courtside Bar, 2095 Holliday Drive. Doors side show are available at Ticketnoble. Goose Island, Great River Brewery, Hub City, dubuquebrewfest.com or at the Mystique for the show open at 5 p.m. com or at Courtside. Millstream, New Belgium Brewing, Point Community Ice Center & the Potosi Brewery Brewery, Potosi Brewing Company, Rogue, or by calling 608-763-4002 ext.

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those involved in the promotion of arts and culture. This year, Fine Arts Society presents the Elisha Darlin Arts Award to Connie Twin- ing and Stormy Mochal, co-owners of Out- side the Lines Art Gallery at 409 Bluff Street in Dubuque. Connie and Stormy have been an integral part of the Dubuque arts commu- nity since first working together at the Rocco Buda Gallery. 2011 saw the pair celebrate the 1215 E. Plate Street, inaugural year of their Great Draw sidewalk in Maquoketa, Iowa art competition and Scholarship fund. Joseph Hall’s Elvis on Saturday, Feb- Sat. Feb. 25, 7 p.m. ruary 25th at 7 The event will begin with Ohnward Fine Arts Center, p.m. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 DCFAS Presents a cocktail reception from Maquoketa, Iowa at the door. Students (18 & under) are $10 Elisha Darlin Arts Award: 6:30 to 7:30, followed Joseph Hall has come a long way from sing- in advance or $13 at the door. Tickets are Connie Twining & Stormy Mochal by a dinner of salmon ing karaoke just a few years back, after a available by phone at 563-652-9815 and Award Celebration, Friday, February 24 and beef tenderloin and childhood that found him living in 17 differ- you can find out more information on Hotel Julien the awards program will ent cities since his birth in Abilene, Texas. It the facility and its events online at www. The Dubuque County Fine Arts Society will include live music from was his performances before judges Piers ohnwardfineartscenter.com. present the Elisha Darlin Arts Award to Con- The Fast Clydes and slides from Outside the Morgan, David Hasselhoff and Sharon nie Twining and Stormy Mochal Friday, Feb- Lines and The Great Draw. Tickets are $30 Osbourne on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, If you have not yet discovered this live ruary 24 from 6:30 p.m. at The Hotel Julien. and may be purchased at the event, though where he shot to national notoriety. The entertainment jewel just a few miles south Fine Arts Society organizers ask guests to crowds went wild as did the four million of Dubuque, let this show be your intro- Each year, the Dubuque County Fine Arts RSVP to [email protected] by February people watching at home. But the judges duction. 2012 features a full slate of great Society (DCFAS) presents the Elisha Darlin 17 in order to reserve a seat and meal, or to loved him too, as evidenced by Sharon live shows, many following on the tribute Arts Award in recognition of the contribu- make any specific dietary requests. Osbourne’s infamous comment, “I have theme, paying homage and celebrating tions of an individual or group to the arts and shoes older than you, but I’d like to try you some of our all time most love musical acts. cultural landscape of the community. Past For more information, visit DCFAS.org, a new on”. They sent him to Vegas for the finals of Upcoming shows at the center include The recipients include artists in a variety of media, Fine Arts Society web site paid for in part by a the competitions. Magic Flute, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, arts organizers, advocates, patrons, and grant from the Dubuque Racing Association. Peter Oprisko, Always... Patsy Cline, Heart- With America’s Got Talent on break, Joseph ache Tonight, A Tribute to the Eagles, Boss joined “Legends in Concert”, the world Grant, a Johnny Cash Revue and as well as famous live tribute show, performing 60 Close to You, a tribute to the Carpenters. shows in 6 weeks, loving every moment of it. Then he was off to Memphis for the 2008 Ultimate Elvis Competition. Taking 3rd place among the top 22 Elvis tribute performers in the world, Joseph was off to L.A. to continue with “America’s Got Talent” where he eventually finished in the top 10.

Branson came calling and Joseph answered that call. It didn’t take him long at all to cement his place and one of trhe city’s premier performers. He was the 2010 Branson Male Performer of the Year. Joseph Hall is hot, baby! There’s no two ways about it.

Audiences agree, Joseph does such an incredible job recreating the moves, the look, and the sound of Elvis Presley, that you will think you are watching the King himself.

And soon, you can do just that, and you don’t have to go to Branson to make it happen. Joseph Hall’s Elvis brings the King of Rock and Roll back to life at the wonderful Ohnward Fine Arts Center,

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accepting new members, and all inter- ested students and families are invited to attend an informational meeting from 1 to 2 p.m. followed by an open rehearsal.

Membership to the Colt Cadets is open to any young person in middle or high school. No prior experience is required. There is no charge to attend, and all instru- ments and instruction will be provided. The rehearsal is run as a free clinic for inter- ested students. A second open rehearsal Switchback will be held on Sun. Feb. 26. For more The Magic Flute Songwriters Weekend Stringfever Comes to Dubuque information, find the Colts Drum & Bugle Sat. March 10, 7 p.m. April 20-22 Thursday, February 16, 7 p.m. Corps on Facebook, or visit colts.org. Ohnward Fine Arts Center, Maquoketa Four Mounds Grand Opera House Opera Iowa will present “The Magic Flute” If you love writing songs, here’s an oppor- The Northeast Iowa School of Music is at Ohnward Fine Arts Center on March 10th. tunity to visit one of the most beautiful bringing the international performance Mozart’s commentary on love, forgiveness, spots along the Mississippi in a carefully group, Stringfever, to Dubuque for a con- tolerance and the brotherhood of man- restored mansion on an elegant estate cert on February 16 at 7:00 p.m. at the kind has become one of the most beloved for a weekend of creativity, camaraderie, Grand Opera House, sponsored in part by operas in all the repertory. Filled with star- relaxation and music. Anyone who loves Premier Bank. Stringfever is a family affair studded ladies, bird-catchers, a brave hero to write songs or is a fan of songwriting, with these four world class musicians and heroine, a noble priest and trials of young or old, pro or amateur, is invited to who come from a long line of amazing the spirit, “The Magic Flute” is a two-act attend the Switchback Songwriters Week- musical talent and have put together a potpourri of worldly ideals and heavenly end on April 20-22 at Four Mounds Inn. truly original show featuring five and six delights all set to some of Mozart’s greatest Non-lodging cost is $259 including meals. stringed electric violins, called violectras, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof music. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at For information, click on “Tours & Events” a viola, and a cello. Some of the unique March 2, 3, 9 , 10, 7:30 p.m. the door. Students (18 & under) are $10 in at waygoodmusic.com or email waygood- features of the show include Stringfever’s March 4, 11, 2 p.m. advance or $13 at the door. [email protected]. acclaimed version of “Bolero,” with all four The Grand Opera House members of the group playing one cello The Tennessee Williams’ classic comes to at the same time. At one point, the audi- life on stage at the Grand Opera house for ence is challenged to a rousing game of two big weekends. See the ad in this page name that tune, trying to guess 20 of the for all the details on this sultry production. most popular film theme songs, includ- Find tickets and more information online ing a rousing rendition of a “007, James at thegrandoperahouse.com. Bond medley.” The fantastic culmination of the show is the group’s signature finale, “The History of Music . . . in 5 minutes.” Tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for stu- dents and are available at the Grand Opera House Box Office. Call (563) 588-1305 to charge tickets by phone or visit www.the- grandoperahouse.com to order online.

NISOM Recitals Sat. March 3 Emmaus Bible College The Northeast Iowa School of Music will present student recitals on Satur- day, March 3 in the Marble Chapel of Emmaus Bible College, located next door to NISOM at 2570 Asbury Rd. An 11 a.m. Colts Kickoff Rehearsals recital will include guitar, bass, and vocal Sun. Feb. 19 & 26, 1-5 p.m. selections; a piano and voice recital will Thomas Jefferson Middle School be held at 1 p.m.; and a 2:30 p.m. recital The Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps will feature woodwind instruments. All will begin their 2012 season on Sunday, student recitals are free and open to February 19 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Thomas the public. For complete information Jefferson Middle School. The Colts are visit www.nisom.com.

www.Dubuque365.com 365ink Magazine | issue #154 { february 16 - 29, 2012 } 9 LoveMonkeys By his fifth win, other people started to brother Chris’ Satur- Saturday, February 25, 9 p.m. also believe he had a winning method. day Night Live cast- So he printed it out and sold it to people. mates, such as David Dave Testroet Spade and Adam Mississippi Moon Bar Saturday, February 25th, 7 p.m. After his sixth win, he wrote his book. Sandler, appearing Live Entertainment Born in Iowa, Testroet “Learn How to Increase Your Chances in The Waterboy and All show at the incredible Mississippi has an easy Mid- of Winning the Lottery” started sell- Dirty Work. Moon Bar are 21+ only and tickets for all West delivery. With ing like crazy… his book is available performances are available at the Dia- a quick laugh and a through his website – www.winnin- mond Club inside the Diamond Jo Casino shift of an eyebrow glotterymethod.com. or online at DiamondJo.com. and soon you’re in David’s world. Tes- Then things really took off. Richard won troet has performed all over the world; his seventh lottery game grand prize. As from comedy clubs and theaters across a result, he has been on – The Rachael the United States and Canada to travel- Ray Show, The Learning Channel, Good ing overseas for five different tours to Morning America, Fox and Friends, entertain the U.S. Military. Testroet puts Canadian T.V., German T.V., The Today on a fast and funny show anyone can Show in Australia and many more. Most enjoy. A well-established harmonica recently, Richard has now been recog- player, David has incorporated this into nized by Ripley’s “Believe It or Not.” his act along with his sharp improvisa- Mardi Gras Party! tional skills that he has perfected over Now Richard has taken things a step February 17, 2012 8 p.m. his seventeen years in the business. further –he has made and continues Mississippi Moon Bar to make several appearances as a Beads! Hurricanes! Get your crew Mike Armstrong speaker. Talking about how he went Bret Michaels together and party southern style at Laughing Moon Comedy from playing the lottery and losing, to with speical guest Kip Winger the tri-states only 70’s and 80’s themed Wednesday, February 29, 8 p.m. having won several hundred thousand Thursday, March 15th, 8 p.m. dance club. Admission FREE before 9pm. dollars in smaller prizes, to seven lot- V.I.P Seating in the Red Velvet Room $5 after 9pm. VIP seating available call tery game grand prizes. and pre-show open bar from 7 - 8pm 563-845-6026. with a chance to win autographed items and more... Misbehavin Saturday, February 18, 8 p.m. Bret Michaels makes his 3rd visit to the MMB! on his “Get Your Kathleen Dunbar Rock On” Tour. Don’t miss Laughing Moon Comedy the POISON front man Wednesday, February 22, 8 p.m. and star of Rock Of Love as he plays all Steve Moris of POISON’S great- Saturday, est hits plus his solo March 10th, 7 p.m. material including It’s the Music, wit the hit “Nothing and comedy of to Lose” featuring Steve Moris. Since Miley Cyrus. Richard Lustig 1980 over a million 7pm, Thursday, March 1st, 2012 people have seen Little River Band When the Florida lottery started, Rich- the comedy of Steve Thursday Feb. 23, 8 p.m. ) ard started playing, just like everybody Moris. He was credited See the feature on page 11. else, in the hopes of winning big money. for having one of the 50 fun- But, just like everybody else, he was los- niest lines of all time, but you’ll Boogie Nights: Girls Just ing more than he was winning. have to come to the show to hear it. Wanna Have Fun Friday! Spazmatics @ February 24, 2012 8 p.m. This is when Richard started working on Kevin Farley Boogie Nights Show your true colors at Boogie Nights his winning lottery method. Through Wednesday, March 14th, 8 p.m. Saturday,March 17, 8:30 p.m. with “our Cyndi Lauper and Madonna!” trial and error, he started to win regu- Farley is best known for portray- A very special Boogie Nights Must be 21 or older. Admission FREE larly. Soon he won his first lottery game ing “Doug Linus” in the fictional Saturday night featuring the before 9pm. $5 after 9pm. VIP seating grand prize. Then his second, third and boy band 2ge+her. The Farley amazing Spazmatics. Last available. fourth…now he knew he had devel- brothers do routines together and time they were here, it was oped a method that really worked. receive roles from many of late sheer madness!

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Little River Band Thursday, February 23, 8 p.m. Mississippi Moon Bar, Diamond Jo Casino It appears that there may be a subversive plot by the Australians to take over the Mississippi Moon Bar. With Air Supply just finishing another great show at the venue and Rick Springfield rocking the joint more than once, Little River Band is queued up for their second performance in Dubuque premier live music venue. Like the other two, they also hail from down under.

Little River Band was, in fact, the first Australian band to successfully conquer for- eign markets from an Australian base. They immediately claimed their place as one of the great vocal bands of the ‘70s and the ‘80s. Within eight months of their birth, LRB had already scored three Australian Top 20 singles and two Top Ten albums.

By 1982 they became the only act, from anywhere, to have a top ten US single for six consecutive years. LRB had 16 hit singles by 1985, as well as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum album sales awards. Between 1976 and 1983, chart success in America included the singles: “It’s a Long Way There,” “Help is on its Way,” “Happy Anniversary,” “Reminiscing,” “Lady,” “Cool Change,” “Lonesome Loser,” “The Night Owls,” “Take it Easy on Me,” “Man on Your Mind,” “We Two,” and “The Other Guy.”

It’s the kind of music that just makes you feel good. Some of the 365 crew were able to catch these guys the last time they came to town and the show was fan- tastic. If you’re looking for a “Cool Change” of pace to your frozen over February doldrums. Get your tickets while they last! All Diamond Jo Shows Are 21 Plus. This show is rescheduled from it’s original December 8th date. Tickets range $35 for General Admission to - $55/$54 for great table and booth seats. Get yours online at diamondjo.com or visit the diamond club at the Diamond Jo Casino.

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“There’s just a certain excitement about The Artist because of its unique quality and its energy,” said Grudzina. “The French director Michel Hazanavicius studied the silent films and some of the great directors of the heyday of the twenties and with the kind of courage and vision it took just to decide to make a silent film today … thankfully, it proves Best Director that if someone has that vision and sees it Nominees: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist; through with the artistic quality that this Alexander Payne, The Descendants; Martin movie has that there are enough people Scorsese, Hugo; Woody Allen, Midnight in out there, there is a big enough audience Paris; and Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life. that appreciates that, that it could also be a commercial success. So it’s one of As this year’s Best Director nominees are 84th Academy Awards those rare films a subset of the Best Picture nominees, Sunday, February 26 where a work discussion of the films naturally spills over of exceptional into discussion of the directors (as evidenced by Mike Ironside quality, not just above.) And naturally as a favorite for good but great, Best Picture, The Artist’s director Michel From the Golden Globes in January to the meets up with Hazanavicius (pictured top, left) is also recent Grammys, which witnessed Adele a real energized favored by many to win, followed closely by snatching up a half-dozen trophies, awards cultural response The Descendents’ director Alexander Payne. season is in full swing. Closer to home, Fine and I hope it’s Others are not counting Hugo’s Martin Arts Society will host the Elisha Darlin Award the kind of thing Scorsese (top, right) out of the running, Celebration, Dupaco’s Best Fest winners that inspires other among the other nominees. have just been announced, and 365’s own filmmakers to take IMPACT Awards are accepting nominations chances.” “There was a great response to Hugo,” said (see Bryce’s Inkubator for details). Grudzina. “Scorsese made a beautiful film. That’s all you would expect because he’s But nationally, internationally, and even Best Motion Picture locally, probably no other awards show Nominees: The Artist, The Help, captures more attention or creates more The Descendants, Extremely Loud & speculation than the Oscars. Anticipation for Incredibly Close, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, the Academy Awards began last fall, as movie Moneyball, The Tree of Life, and War Horse. fans and critics alike began to speculate on possible Oscar contenders. The excitement This year it was announced that the spiked with the announcement of nominees number of nominees in the Best Picture in January and continues to build to a fevered category could range anywhere from pitch leading up to Oscar night. five to ten films, but that each must earn a minimum percentage of number one This year’s award ceremony, the 84th Best Picture votes. Films that don’t meet Academy Awards, will be held in Hollywood the criteria don’t make the cut. “I was on Sunday, February 26, 6 p.m. (Central surprised that they wound up with nine Time) and aired on ABC television. If you nominees for best picture,” expressed did not receive an invitation to arrive on Grudzina. “They’re all worth it though. the red carpet in Hollywood, have no fear. They all definitely deserve it. We did play Mindframe Theaters will be hosting an Oscar all the nominees for Best Picture this year party of their own with a real red carpet and so we were really pleased to have them the live Academy Award broadcast on the all.” theater screen (see the sidebar for details). While Mindframe hosted all nine Best In anticipation of the big night, 365 sat down Picture nominees, Thompson noted that a with Grant and Marcya Grudzina and Steve few films played especially well with local Thompson, self-confessed film fanatics and audiences. “Descendants has probably Mindframe co-owners to talk about the done the best, certainly recently,” he said. year in film, some of the nominees, and “The Help when it came out was huge.” who the favorites might be to take home Grudzina agreed, adding that War Horse those coveted Oscar trophies. From the was also popular locally. Nevertheless, it big categories on down, here are some seems many of the critics are predicting highlights. The Artist to win Best Picture.

12 { february 16 - 29, 2012 } 365ink Magazine | issue #154 www.Dubuque365.com { cover story: oscars } where’s the best performance by nicholas cage category? so gifted and obviously one of our great of the great American directors. That one’s American directors. He made something not as accessible in its themes to a lot of different than anything we’ve ever known people – the way he crafted the film – and Scorsese to make. And in this case it was that’s been a project that he’s been working actually because of a challenge from within on for practically twenty years.” “The original his own family. His daughters said, ‘Hey, I cut was eight hours long,” added Thompson. can’t take your grandkids to see any of your movies. Why don’t you make a movie that “Personally, and it’s nominated for several we can go to as a family.’ things, but really without question one of my favorite films of the year was Midnight in Paris,” declares Grudzina. “That was just one of the most delightful films and a real fun literary adventure. Because the film is with Owen Wilson as a writer who gets magically carried back to the time of the Mindframe Oscar Party excited about the response that we get.” literary renaissance of American expatriates Sunday, February 26 in Paris and then basically gets to spend time Get dressed and ready to hit the red car- While the Academy Awards ceremony with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the artists pet. Mindframe hosts the locally-owned and broadcast starts at 7:30 p.m. (Cen- of the time. Woody Allen has kind of used theater’s annual Oscar Party concurrent tral Time), local film fans and fashionis- the magical mechanism in his films before with the actual Academy Awards in Hol- tas will begin to show up as much as an and knows how to do it really well. Paris is lywood, Sunday, February 26. In addition hour or more earlier to watch the live red beautiful. It succeeds on so many levels. I to showing ABC’s 84th Academy Award carpet coverage as Hollywood’s bright- think it’s a little outgunned in the big broadcast on the theater big screen, est stars arrive. “Over the last couple of “Also, the Tree of Life is one of those category, but I think it’s so well-made and Mindframe will roll out an actual red car- years we’ve had more and more people remarkable achievements in film,” said clever that it’s got a shot in a smaller award.” pet and offer a spread of catered hors coming and getting really into the spirit Grudzina, “Terrence Malick again, being one . . . continued on the next page. d’oeuvres and champagne – appropriate of the event, showing up in tuxedos and to an Oscar Party! gowns,” reports Grudzina “We literally roll out the red carpet and last year we had a nice partnership with a limousine service so we can take pictures.” (Just like real movie stars!)

Of course the main attraction is watching the excitement of the Academy Awards cer- emony itself unfold live on the big screen in the camarade- “Of course, we’re all big movie fans and rie of other movie fans. Guests can also that’s why we do this,” said Mindframe join in the “pick-the-winner contest” and co-owner Grant Grudzina. “Every year see if they can anticipate the Academy’s that we’ve been open we’ve held an Oscar choices for a chance to win prizes like Party. And this year is no different and Mindframe movie passes. Now that you what we’ve found is that they just keep have the details, you just have to decide getting bigger and bigger. We’re very what to wear.

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When it comes to Best Actress and Best of course Meryl Streep who although she’s Actor, as well as the awards in the Supporting been nominated so many times has only Role categories, the possible winners are not won twice,” notes Grudzina. “She’s been always so easy to pick. “There’s two ways, nominated 17 times but only won twice. Her really, to look at it,” explained Grudzina, “but only wins are Supporting Actress for Kramer there are your performances that are your vs. Kramer and Best Actress for Sophie’s favorites and you think are deserving of choice and you think about how long ago recognition and award, and then there are both of those films were … so almost 30 the performances that you think will win. years. But then you have Viola Davis and the Because everybody knows that the Oscars popularity of The Help and her strength.” that nomination, to recognize her ability … Best Actress and Actor have a lot of elements to them, political, “People just loved The Help, that’s the Kristen Wiig and her writing partner Annie Best Actress nominees: Meryl Streep, The commercial. Academy voters are heavily thing,” adds Thompson. “The whole movie Mumolo were nominated for Best Original Iron Lady; Viola Davis, The Help; Glenn courted for their votes. So when you’re is about the performances. Screenplay. Though comedy I don’t think Close, Albert Nobbs; Rooney Mara, Girl With doing your own contest at home it’s hard to will walk away with the statuette, I think the Dragon Tattoo; and Michelle Williams, weave your way through that maze to try to it’s a fantastic step forward. “I think that My Week with Marilyn. figure out who’s going to come home with Octavia Spencer’s the inside track for her that statue.” performance in The Help.

“It’s a bit open in the acting this year,” adds Thompson. “Usually there’s at least one category you can point to that you can say, ‘We all know it. Everybody knows it.’ I don’t know that that’s really the case (this year). I mean there are leaders, but I don’t know if Grudzina also notes that as in any year there that’s really the case.” are sometimes deserving actors, films or performances that some fans might feel were wrongly neglected. “Certainly, one of Best Actor nominees: Damien Bichir, A Better the principal people in that category would Regarding Best Supporting Actor, Grudzina Life; George Clooney, The Descendants; Jean be Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia (above),” sees another two-way race with one Dujardin, The Artist; Brad Pitt, Moneyball; he said. “I believe she won the Cannes leading as the favorite. “I think the leader and Gary Oldman, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, award for Best Actress. Great supporting in the general sense, and a really fine Spy. performances are so important and performance in a film that we had the unfortunately, some people got left out.” privilege to actually carry for a while is Best Actress In A Supporting Role nominees: Christopher Plummer in The Beginners,” he Bérénice Bejo, The Artist; Melissa McCarthy, “I would say that the closest thing this Nevertheless, Grudzina sees other nominees relates. “It is actually based on the director’s The Bridesmaids; Octavia Spencer, The year so far is George Clooney in the on the list as a good sign. “The other life experience, in which his father came Help; Jessica Chastain, The Help; and Janet Descendants,” predicts Grudzina. “But Jean really intriguing inclusion this year, one of out as gay in his 70s, and that’s the part that McTeer, Albert Nobbs. Dujardin has gotten a number of awards,” the most enjoyable, is that the Academy Christopher Plummer plays.” notes Thompson. finally at least in some way recognized Best Actor In A Supporting Role nominees: comedy as valuable film and Bridesmaids The other contender is Max von Sydow in Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn; Regarding Best Actress, Grudzina and really broke through a barrier that has Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. “It was Nick Nolte, Warriors; Christopher Plummer, Thompson agree with the critics who are always existed in the Academy Awards,” good for Max von Sydow to have been Beginners; Max von Sydow, Extremely suggesting the award is a race between he observed. “Melissa McCarthy is the big nominated for playing a character who is Loud & Incredibly Close; and Jonah Hill, two contenders: Viola Davis and Meryl underdog and she’s way outmatched in the mute, who doesn’t say a single word, and he Moneyball. Streep. “There are very strong camps for Supporting Actress category but to have has a great performance,” notes Grudzina.

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really brought it to life, which is not easy when it comes to some of those older novels,” noted Grudzina. “So those have good opportunities but who knows? In Costume Design, even W.E., which was Madonna’s film, has a chance because the movie is actually what she excels at – visual composition of the details. The movie itself might not be “But here you have two classic, iconic actors exceptional in its story structure but to see it, in the twilight of their careers, having really “I think that Midnight in Paris has a very good Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin from the story by to watch it, it’s really something.” strong performances … I just feel like things chance in that category,” said Grudzina. “If Stan Chervin has a chance. are going to tilt Plummers way. A possible it wins anything, it will win in that,” added dark horse would be Kenneth Branagh’s Thompson. “In a bigger category it’s hard, Other categories performance in My Week with Marilyn. politically, for Woody Allen to compete, As our time with Grant and Steve was limited He had the very daunting task, as a British “notes Grudzina, “because he’s made clear (as is our print space) here are a few other actor, of playing (Lawrence) Olivier. Nobody his disdain for the Oscars in general so observations regarding some of the other wants that job.” they’re not going to award somebody who’s award categories. (We might not get to Best not going appreciate it.” Sound Mixing.) “And Michelle Williams is unfortunately up against some pretty daunting competition,” Best Adapted Screenplay “War Horse, which was a very successful adds Grudzina “because she did just a mind- Nominees: The Descendants, Hugo, Ides film,” notes Grudzina, “and was of course an blowing job of capturing the spirit and the of March, Moneyball, Tinker, and Tailor, adaptation of a play but a great movie for Best Shorts reality of Marilyn. Soldier, Spy. Art Direction.” We’re not talking about the short pants you pull out of the closet for summer wear, but Best Original Screenplay Critics are leaning toward The Descendants, “In Costume, The Artist will probably suffer short films in the categories of Live Action, Nominees:The Artist, Bridesmaids, Margin the screenplay of which was written byby for being in black and white. But the latest Documentary, and Animation. Again in Call, Midnight in Paris, and A Separation. Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, adaptation of Jane Eyre was an exceptional though some believe Moneyball, by Steven film. … just a stirring adaptation and they Concluded on page 23.

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555 JFK Road, Behind Kennedy Mall coming to theaters : www.mindframetheaters.com Movie Hotline: 563-582-4971 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) No Passes Now Showing @ MINDFRAME Fri - Thu: (11:0 AM), (12:55), (2:55), (4:55), 6:55, 8:55 Friday, Feb. 3 - Thursday, Feb. 9 The Vow (PG-13) No Passes Allowed Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG-13) No Passes Fri - Thu: (11 AM), (1:05), (3:20), (5:25), 7:35, 9:45 Fri - Thu: (11:35 AM), (1:30), (3:30), (5:30), 7:30, 9:30 The Woman in Black (PG-13) Wed: (1:15), (3:15) This Means War (PG-13) No Passes Fri - Tue, Thur: (1:15), (3:15), (5:15), 7:15, 9:15 Fri - Thu: (11:30 AM), (2:00), (4:35), 7:05, 9:40 The Descendants (R) Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Wanderlust (R), 1 hr. 38 min. Feb. 17 Academy Award Nominated Animated Shorts Fri - Mon, Wed & Thu: (11:20 AM), (1:45), (4:05), 6:40, PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min. Feb. 17 Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are a Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny stressed out Manhattan couple who find Sat: (11:05 AM), Tue: (11:05 AM) Wed: 6:00 PM 9:05, Tue: (11:20 AM), (1:45), (4:05), 9:40 Academy Award Nominated Documentary Shorts Blaze in Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance themselves in an new idyllic community Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts teaming up with the leader of a group full of colorful characters who embrace a () Tri-States Exclusive Fri: (11:05 AM) Mon: (11:05 AM) Tri-States Exclusive of rebel monks to save a young boy different way of looking at things. Sun: (11:05 AM), Wed: (11:05 AM), 7:35 Wed: 9:35 PM, Thu: (11:05 AM) from the devil... and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. (Did I mention that Act of Valor (R), 1 hr. 41 min. Feb 24 February is the month where studios An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism dump their crap?). and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs in a Thin Ice (R), 1 hr. 54 min. Feb. 17 film like no other in Hollywood’s history. Greg Kinnear is a small-time insurance agent looking to escape the frigid Gone (PG-13), 1 hr. 25 min. Feb. 24 Wisconsin weather. This self-proclaimed Amanda Seyfried comes home from a master of spin’s plan to con an old man night shift to discover her sister Molly has (Alan Arkin) spins out of control when a been abducted and convinced that it’s locksmith (Billy Crudup) with a temper the same serial killer that once abducted dramatically ups the stakes. her. Uh, okay.

THE BUZZ... will be written by “Eastern Promises” scribe Frankie Muniz, Shelley Long, Diamond Steven Knight, who will go back to the Dallas Page, Corbin Bernsen, Family original book by Daphne DuMaurier. Story Ties dad from Tremors, Rowdy Roddy follows a naive young woman who marries Piper, yes, Adam West, and, sure, Stan a rich widower and settles in his gigantic Lee, have all come together to make the mansion, only to find that the memory only kind of movie that cast is capable of of the first wife maintains a grip on her making: Pizza Man, a film about Frankie husband and the servants. Muniz being a pizza man, and then later becoming an invulnerable superhero Lorene Scafaria’s follow-up to Nick & Norah’s named Pizza Man, because of a special Infinite Playlist is Seeking a Friend at the End tomato that’s been scienced. of the World using the Mayan calendar’s predestined pairing of Steve Carell and Russell Crowe is reportedly in talks with Keira Knightley as strangers-turned-unlikely Warner Bros. to join, Harker, a film that travel companions trying to find their loved re-imagines Bram Stoker’s Dracula from the ones before the imminent apocalypse. perspective of lawyer Jonathan Harker-- except, as part of the deeper re-imagination Haley Joel Osment has signed to star in process, Harker also isn’t a lawyer anymore. I’ll Follow You Down, a sci-fi mystery from Now he’s the Scotland Yard investigator Amal writer-director Richie Mehta. The charged with investigating vampire unnervingly doughy thespian will play the murders, because that sounds way cooler. son of a scientist who went missing several DreamWorks and Working Title Films are years prior, prompting Osment’s character embarking on a feature remake of Alfred to investigate and eventually make some Hitchcock’s classic mystery “Rebecca,” that “eerie” discoveries.

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there, and ultimately, themselves. The film reminded me why I care so much about film, and why you should care about this cause. CineCause that is. But let’s get back to being happy…

‘Happiness’ was a 3-day CineCause Spotlight showcase Com’n Get Happy? that featured 3 remarkable, award-winning films on We’ve Found the Cause That Refreshes the exploration of happiness - what it is, why we need by Christopher Kulovitz it and how to achieve it. Turns out Happiness is within reach - and it has nothing to do with shoes or cars - for I just got back from Los Angeles where I spent 4 days those who choose to search beyond their own needs exploring how I can be “Happy.” No, It wasn’t a yoga and share a strategy of compassion, mindfulness and position, a magic potion or a polarizing plunge into collective giving through collaborative efforts. I have the Pacific from some cult philosophy with promises of been preoccupied with this philosophy after experi- instant peace, well-being, and hippy happiness. That encing this event, even irritated that it could actually be would be medical marijuana. that simple, and available to us, this whole time. Damn that sneaky happiness! Instead, the journey I was on was about a bigger idea — a never-ending perception shift — from which I CineCause will become the go-to filter of quality film could glean some of its giddiness and return home programming and will curate showcases of such films to Dubuque to share and disseminate with the great based on theme, subject or topic, pairing these films The Welcome - Free Screening folks of the tri-states. Just getting on a plane to warmer with relevant causes. Audiences will learn more about Tuesday, February 21, 7 p.m. weather made me happy – but as I came to find out, the the cause, have an opportunity to make a donation and Mindframe Theaters Happiness Factor has a much larger and longer-lasting take action, giving them the ability to participate in our Veterans and Military Families for Progress (www.vmfp. shelf life. collective efforts to affect positive change. org), a leading progressive advocacy organization made up of and serving veterans, those currently serv- ing (including national guard and reservists), and their families, announces its free first screening of the coming home documentary film, “The Welcome”, Tuesday, Feb- I first met Jon Fitzgerald in Austin back in December at ruary 21st, 7:00 p.m., at Mindframe Theater, 555 John F. the IFFS – The International Film Festival Summit. Jon Kennedy Road, in Dubuque, Iowa. Admission is free. Vol- is a genuine, generous gent and Founder and CEO of untary donations to cover costs will be welcome. CineCause, an amazing communication arts concept that uses great cinema to affect positive change in the “VMFP’s mission includes efforts to close the tremendous world. The motion picture business is the prominent gap in understanding between those who serve (and their medium of mass communication. As an industry, enter- families who sacrifice along with them), with much of the tainment has become America’s number one export rest of the American public,” Matt Cary, Executive Direc- and therefore has tremendous power and ability to tor of Veterans and Military Families for Progress said. “ share meaningful stories. CineCause recognizes and The JIFFD guys, Christopher Kulovitz, Brad Parks and Michael ‘The Welcome’ invites all Americans to open their minds fosters this as a great opportunity to connect the dots Coty at the CineCause evnet in Los Angeles in February. and hearts, and to view, listen to, and learn about less well between the films, related causes, participating celebri- known and understood costs of war in the lives of those ties and their audiences for the greater good. We joined CineCause and its concept are worth exploring, and we who serve. It is not a film for veterans. It is a film for all him and Actor Mathew Modine for a special CineCause plan to make it easy for you to access. The Julien Dubuque Americans. Eli Painted Crow, an Iraq War veteran from Cali- Screening event of Moving On, a film I knew nothing International Film Festival in April will hold a CineCause fornia, a member of the film’s cast, and local veterans, will about that turned out to be a film everyone should event on Friday April 20th at the Hotel Julien. Join us on be present to interact with, and to answer questions from know about. The documentary journeys with a young, the journey where only film like this can take you. This the audience before and after the screening.” somewhat naive couple from Colorado as they head to ‘don’t miss’ event will move you, motivate you and maybe Africa to adopt a baby, and become so entrenched with even make you happier than we all know you already are. “Everyone, including veterans and military family mem- what they experience, they decide to stay and make a bers, will come away from the film with new insights,” penetrating change to the village, the women who live Learn more ar JIFFD.com said Tom Howe, Media/Public Relations Chair, who helped arrange the screening in Dubuque. “Hopefully, viewers will want to take action to be connected to the necessary national movement to support solutions to the problems faced by our veterans and their families. What the Veterans Administration does and can do to support veterans and their families never has been, and never will be, enough. Military families carry most of the burden. It is up to local communities to provide the balance of the needed response. That required response in not on the radar screen of most Americans.”

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Face for Radio Kevin “B.F.” Burt Tony Leonard Cue Masters, 9 PM Northside Bar, 4 PM Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM

Taste Like Chicken Scott Waterhouse Boogie Nights – Jumpers, 9 PM The Cornerstone, 8 PM Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Magnetos Enemies of Confusion Grape Escape, 9 PM Sandy Hook Tavern, 8 PM Bonkerz Comedy: Ben Creed, 8 PM Johnnie Walker Fat Tuesday, February 21 Finger Lickin’ Good, 9:30 PM Monticello Eagles Club, 9 PM Mystique Casino TRI-STATE LIVE MUSIC Derty Rice Mardi Gras Party Bryce Reeg Jumpers, 6 PM The Gambler Thursday, February 16 Acoustic Cowboy The Lonely Goats, Mardi Gras Party Keil’s Tavern, 9 PM Dubuque Driving Range, 8 PM Anna Vogelsang, Weather Duo, Steve’s Pizza, 8 PM Dubuque Golf & C. C., 7 PM Johnnie Walker Logan Ford, 7 PM Mixed Emotions Riverboat Lounge, 7 PM Denny Garcia & Piano Bob Marvin & The Wall (of Poverty Roy Schroedl Denny Garcia Leisure Lake, 9 PM The Cornerstone, 8 PM Hash), 9 PM The Cornerstone, 8:30 PM Lulu’s Seldom Scene, 7 PM Open Mic with Cal Monk’s Kaffee Pub Half-Fast Sandy Hook Tavern, 9 PM Okham’s Razor Bluebird, River Glen, Nate Jenkins John Conover Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM Steve’s Pizza, 8 PM Dueling Pianos The Lift, 9 PM Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM Wednesday, February 22 Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Jabberbox Ben Castenada Jabberbox Misbehavin’ Denny’s Lux Club, 9:30 PM Acoustic Jam The Lift, 9 PM Proud Feet Mystique Cabaret, 9 PM Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Cornerstone, 6:30 PM The Cornerstone, 9 PM ’57 Taxi The Horde, Dredge, Outta Control Null & Void Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM Ken Killian Jazz Trio, Mud n Gutz Open Mic with Cal Northside Bar, 9 PM Mystique Casino, 8 PM 2-for-1, 430 - 6:30 PM Off Minor, 9 PM Sandy Hook Tavern, 9 PM Sunday, February 19 FFEE APPS 4:30 - 5:30 PM Five & Dimers Free 4 the Haulin’ Steve Cavanaugh & Randy Matt Kunau Keil’s Tavern, 9 PM Dubuque Driving Range, 8 PM Fever River String Band Kathleen Dunbar Comedy Droessler Lot 1, 10 PM Council Hill Station, 1 PM Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Spirits, Days Inn, 9 PM Marbin Andrew Houy Friday, February 17 Murph’s South End, 9:30 PM The Cornerstone, 8 PM Doug & Lisa Frey “Controlled Chaos” Open Mic Misbehavin’ Sundown, 2 PM Monk’s Kaffee Pub, 9 PM Northside Bar, 9 PM Frankie Lee, Richard Wiegel, & Zero 2 Sixty Charles Walker Band Tom McCarty Dirty Ernie’s, 9:30 PM Galena Brewing Co., 8 PM Country Tradition Thursay, February 23 Randy Rogers Galena Brewing Co., 7:30 PM Mooney Hollow Barn, 2 PM Keil’s Tavern, 9 PM Taste Like Chicken Laura & The Longhairs Little River Band John Conover Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM Elizabeth Firemen’s Dance, 8 PM Open Mic Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Justin Morissey & Friends Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM The Cornerstone, 2:30 PM Grape Escape, 9 PM Saturday, February 18 Boys Night Out, Potosi Inn, 8 PM Open Mic with Jeff & Jimmy Boogie Nights – Mardi Gras Party Broken Rubber Band The Cornerstone, 8:30 PM Pretty Good Dance Moves Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Kevin Beck & Johnnie Walker Mississippi Band New Diggings General Store, Rated R, 10 PM Sundown Mountain, 2 PM Dagwood’s in Cascade, 9 PM 3:30 PM Friday, February 24 Josey Wails Apple Dumplin’s Spirits, Days Inn, 8 PM Roy Schroedl Bryan Popp & Corey Jenny Larry Michael Boots Hefel Band Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM Stone Cliff Wine Bar, 7 PM Spirits, Days Inn, 9 PM Wheel Inn, 3:30 PM Courtside, 7 PM

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Saturday, February 25 Open Mic Overman Band Overman, The Water Liars, The Cornerstone, 2:30 PM Galena Brewing Co., 8 PM oe Bless, The Lift, 9 PM Marbin Marty Koppes Friday, February 17, Murph’s South End Tap Sundown, 2 PM Open Jam with Denny Garcia Josey Wails Legal Fingers (CD Release) When Chicago-based jazz rock instrumental group Marbin per- & Piano Bob Mystique Cabaret, 8 PM Lords of the Trident, Lines, Back- formed in Dubuque last July, 365 didn’t make the show and we Jake Bender New Diggings Gen. Store, 3:30 PM woods Payback, very quickly learned that was a huge mistake. Everyone we spoke Crust Italian Kitchen, 7 PM Boogie Nights – Off Minor, 9 PM Dubuque Symphony Orchestra Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM with said it was one of the most amazing displays of musical inven- Laughing Moon Comedy Youth Ensemble Winter Concert Face for Radio tiveness and virtuosity they had ever seen. So if like us you missed Dave Testroet, 7 PM Five Flags Theater, 7 PM Michael Breitbach Denny’s Lux Club, 9 PM it last time, your chance comes once again as Marbin will play Love Monkeys, 9 PM The Cornerstone, 8:30 PM Murph’s South End Tap Friday, February 17 from about 9:30 p.m. Mississippi Moon Bar The Lonely Goats Renegade Sandy Hook Tavern, 8 PM Mississippi Band Northside Bar, 9 PM Blue Willow Northside Bar, 9 PM Stone Cliff Wine Bar, 7 PM Tuesay, February 28 Jabberbox Nick Stika Doolittle’s, Cuba City, 9 PM Jason Brown “The One Man Band” Positively 4th Street Grape Escape, 9 PM Galena Brewing Co., 7:30 PM Riverboat Lounge, 6 PM Buzz Berries Sandy Hook 10 Year Anniversary Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM Tony Leonard New Voices: Open Mic Weekend Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM Rendezvous Coffee & Tea, 6:30 PM Playground of Sound Brown Bottle Bandits Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM The Bronco Inn, 9 PM Bonkerz Comedy: Ben Creed, 8 PM Open Mic with Cal Finger Lickin’ Good, 9:30 PM Sandy Hook Tavern, 9 PM Saturday, March 3 12 Car Pile Up Mystique Casino Jumpers, 9:30 PM Wedneday, February 29 Blue Willow Mixed Emotions Stone Cliff Wine Bar, 7 PM Sandy Hook 10 Year Anniversary So what is it that they do? The band’s bio describes it like this: “Marbin Georgie’s Skyline, 8 PM Ken Killian Jazz Trio, Weekend , Six Shots ‘til Midnight is the epitome of what jazz is capable of. With it’s unique blend of rock, 2-for-1, 430 - 6:30 PM Country Tradition Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM jazz and blues, even a hint of bittersweet, melodic Eastern European Slip Silo FFEE APPS 4:30 - 5:30 PM Mooney Hollow Barn, 7 PM folk, Marbin changes everything you might think of when you hear the The Cornerstone, 8 PM Sunday, March 4 Acoustic Jam Ralph Kluseman word “jazz.” Touring across the country the majority of the year, from Bright Giant, American Dust Cornerstone, 6:30 PM Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM Fever River String Band small Mid-westerntowns to major cities on every coast, the all-original The Lift, 9 PM Council Hill Station, 1 PM and all-instrumental band strikes a chord with every audience.” The Laughing Moon Comedy Chainsaw Dupont & the Blue band’s lineup focuses on Dani Rabin on guitar and Danny Markovitch Boys Night Out Mike Armstrong Warriors Open Mic on saxophone, with Justyn Lawernce on drums and Ian Stewart on bass. Spirits, Days Inn, 9 PM Mississippi Moon Bar, 8 PM Galena Brewing Co., 7:30 PM The Cornerstone, 2:30 PM

Mississippi Band “Controlled Chaos” Open Mic Josey Wails Crude But Effective In 2010, CD Baby chose Marbin as one of ten artists to look out for (from Leisure Lake, 9 PM Monk’s Kaffee Pub, 9 PM Mystique Cabaret, 8 PM New Diggings General Store, over 300,000 bands!). Downbeat magazine also named Impressions of 3:30 PM a City, Marbin’s collaboration with seven-time Grammy Award–winner Awesome Sauce Open Mic with Dave, Cricket, & Tim Boots Hefel Band (and Pat Metheny drummer) Paul Wertico, one of the best thirty albums Northside Bar, 9 PM The Lift, 9 PM Dubuque Driving Range, 8 PM Sandy Hook 10 Year Anniversary Weekend of 2010. Marbin has also collaborated or performed with a number of Hard Salami Thursday, March 1 Broom Street Drifters Tony Walker & Johnny Sendt notable jazz and fusion artists (check their web site for more accolades.) Denny’s Lux Club, 9 PM The Cornerstone, 8 PM Sandy Hook Tavern, 8 PM Richard Lustig: As if all of the former was not enough to draw your interest, you might Brown Bottle Bandits Winning the Lottery Massey Road, Perxactly, 8 PM note that the show is also free. Jumpers, 9 PM Mississippi Moon Bar, 7 PM Ace’s Place Dirty Ernie’s Handle Bar Noonan’s North The Lonely Goats Johnny Rocker Duo 107 Main St W • Epworth, IA • 563-876-9068 201 1st St NE • Farley, IA • 563-744-4653 736 Burtons Furnace Rd., Durango, IA • 563- 552-2291 917 Main St • Holy Cross, IA • 563-870-2235 Grape Escape, 9 PM The Cornerstone, 9 PM Asbury Eagles Club Doolittle’s Cuba City The Hub Northside Bar 5900 Saratoga • Asbury, IA • 563-588-4458 112 S Main • Cuba City, WI • 608-744-2404 253 Main • 563-556-5782 2776 Jackson • 563-583-3039 JJ Schmitz Sandy Hook 10 Year The Bank Bar & Grille Doolittle’s Lancaster Irish Cottage (Frank O’Dowd’s Pub) Perfect Pint /Steve’s Pizza 342 Main • 563-584-1729 • bankdbq.com 135 S Jefferson St • Lancaster, WI • 608-723-7676 9853 Hwy 20 • Galena, IL • 815-776-0707 • 15 E Main St • Platteville, WI • 608-348-3136 Keil’s Tavern, 9 PM Anniversary Weekend theirishcottageboutiquehotel.com Civil Soldier, 8 PM Budde’s Dubuque County Fairgrounds Pit Stop 10638 Key West Dr • Key West, IA • 563-582-0069 Jumpers Bar & Grill Bucket House Hooligans, 9 PM 14569 Old Highway Road, 563-588-1406 17522 S John Deere Rd • 563-582-0221 Bad Habits Champps Americana 2600 Dodge • 563-556-6100 Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM Dead Town Revival, 10:30 PM 3100 Dodge St. 563-690-2040 Dubuque Driving Range (Highway 52) Knicker’s Saloon Sandy Hook Tavern John Deere Road • 563-556-5420 2186 Central Ave • 563-583-5044 3868 Badger Rd • Hazel Green, WI • 608-748-4728 Sandy Hook Tavern Club Rondezvous 98 in the Shade 1850 Central Eagles Club The Lift Spirits Bar &Grill (inside Days Inn)

VENUE VENUE FINDER 1175 Century Drive • 563-582-6498 180 Main • 563-584-1702 1111 Dodge • 563-583-3297 The Bent Rim, 9 PM Matt Kunau, Lot 1, 10 PM Cornerstone 125 N. Main • Galena • 815-776-0700 Eichman’s Grenada Tap Mississippi Moon Bar ( Diamond Jo Casino) Stone Cliff Winery 11941 Route 52 N • 563-552-2494 Port of Dubuque • 563-690-2100 • diamondjo.com Port of Dubuque • 563-583-6100 Jabberbox Friday, March 2 Catfish Charlie’s River Club stonecliffwinery.com 1630 East 16th Street 563-582-8600 Embe Eatery & Lounge Monk’s Kaffee Pub Budde’s, 9:30 PM 233 S. Main St. • Galena, IL • embegalena.com 373 Bluff St • 563-585-0919 Thums Up Pub & Grill Mixed Emotions Courtside 3670 County Road HHH • Kieler, WI • 608-568-3118 2095 Holliday Dr • 563-583-0574 Five Flags Civic Center Mooney Hollow Barn Crystal Leather Courtside, 7 PM 405 Main • 563-589-4254 • Tix: 563-557-8497 12471 Hwy 52 • Green Island, IA • 563-580-9494 Tony Roma’s (inside Grand Harbor Resort) Dagwood’s Port of Dubuque • 563-690-4000 • Sandy Hook Tavern, 10 PM 231 First Ave. W • Cascade, IA • 563-852-3378 Galena Brewing Co. Murph’s South End grandharborresort.com Ralph Kluseman 227 N. Main Street, Galena 815-776-9917 55 Locust • 563-556-9896 Denny’s Lux Club The Yardarm Sunday, February 26 Frank O’Dowd’s Pub, 7:30 PM 3050 Asbury Rd • 563-557-0880 Gobbie’s Mystique Casino Dubuque Marina • Near Hawthorne • 563-582-3653 219 N Main St • Galena, IL • 815-777-0243 1855 Greyhound Park Rd • 563-582-3647 Diamond Jo Casino mystiquedbq.com If you have live entertainment and would Fever River String Band Laura McDonald & Jeff Weydert 400 E. 3rd St. 563-690-2100 Grape Escape like to be included in our listing, contact us: 233 S Main • Galena, IL • 815-776-WINE • New Diggings General Store Council Hill Station, 1 PM Spirits, 8 PM Dino’s Backside (The Other Side) grapeescapegalena.com 2944 County Rd W • New Diggings, WI [email protected] or 563-588-4365.

MENT MENT ENTERTAIN 68 Sinsinawa • East Dubuque • 815-747-9049 608-965-3231 • newdiggs.com

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“It helps young men develop, and it helps is necessary, and equipment (including Hockey Weekend Across America round them out,” Montgomery said. “It helps protective gear) will be provided for the February 17-19, Mystique Ice Arena our entire team understand the culture of session at no charge. For more informa- California and Florida, and not only places tion or to sign up, those interested should After bursting back onto the scene with a from all corners of the United States map. where they have winter for nine months.” email [email protected], or v thrilling Clark Cup Championship run last isit dubuquehockey.org. year, the Dubuque Fighting Saints stormed “I think after that trade we got people from In support of Hockey Weekend Across Amer- into their second season with larger crowds, non-traditional areas playing the game,” ica, the Fighting Saints are encouraging The Fighting Saints will be doing their part increased promotions and entertainment, Montgomery said. “You have kids from Flor- those who come to the game on Friday night to continue to grow the sport in the Tri-State and the same winning mentality. ida, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, and St. Louis – to wear their favorite hockey jersey. People Area. At Friday’s game, memorabilia from hockey players are coming from everywhere new to the game will have great opportuni- former USHL players who now play in the When the team takes to the ice on Friday, now. Former hockey players who played ties to get involved as well. In addition to NHL will be auctioned off during and after February 17, they will be joining in a nation- professionally in NHL cities have stayed, built checking out the action this weekend at the the game, with proceeds benefiting the Try wide hockey celebration. USA Hockey, the families, and have really increased the knowl- Mystique Community Ice Center, a pair of Hockey For Free sessions. Autographed jer- game’s governing body in the United States, edge of the coaching.” opportunities to “Try Hockey For Free” are on seys, pucks, and photos will all be available, presents Hockey Weekend Across America the horizon. including a Nate Prosser autographed jer- February 17-19. The fifth annual event sey (Minnesota Wild/Sioux Falls Stampede), aims to celebrate the game at all levels, Thanks to the efforts of the Dubuque Teddy Purcell autographed jersey (Tampa and give those who have not had a chance Youth Hockey Association, kids can Bay Lightning/Cedar Rapids RoughRid- to play the game the opportunity to try it. come to the Mystique Community Ice ers), and Patrick Sharp framed autographed Center to lace up skates and grip a stick photo (Chicago Blackhawks/Omaha Lancers). The Fighting Saints will host the Muskegon for the first time on Saturday, March 24, Lumberjacks at 7:05 on Friday night for and Sunday, May 6. On both dates, ses- For tickets to the February 17 game, and all their version of “Hockey Weekend Across sions for kids born in 2003 to 2006 run Fighting Saints home games, visit Dubuque- America” presented by Truck Country. As from 11:15 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and sessions FightingSaints.com, call the Fighting Saints the USHL playoff races heat up, Fighting for kids born in 2002 and earlier run from at (563) 583-6880, or visit the Fighting Saints Saints Head Coach Jim Montgomery truly 12:15 p.m. through 2:15 p.m. offices at the Mystique Community Ice Cen- draws from “Across America” when he fills Fighting Saints forward and alternate captain ter. Box Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. out his lineup card every night. In addition to Shane Sooth is one of those players who was Sessions will be organized with the assis- Watch Dubuque365.com for you chance to the four international players on the Fighting exposed to the influence of the Great One’s tance of an instructor. No experience win Saints tickets this season too! Saints roster (one each from Canada, Latvia, stint with the Kings. A native of Canyon Slovakia, and Sweden) the team has 19 players Country, California, in the greater Los Ange- from the United States who hail from 12 dif- les area, Sooth got his start by playing roller ferent states. hockey, but ultimately decided that he was at home on the ice. While some of the more common states are not unusual in hockey circles – a team-leading “When I was growing up in California, it was four players from Minnesota, two from Michi- all about, football, basketball, and soccer,” gan, and a pair from Massachusetts, the inclu- Sooth said. “I had a roller rink right by my sion of three Californians on the roster has house, and that’s how I got into it, just play- the potential to surprise some. Montgomery ing at the YMCA.” knows exactly why the young crop of talent from the Golden State is coming of age. Sooth got his start on asphalt by age five, and a few years after that, he exchanged his “I think that all the credit goes to Wayne wheels for blades on his skates. By the time Gretzky,” he said. “When Gretzky went to Cali- he was ten, he had decided that hockey was fornia, the sport of hockey took off there. It was his sport of choice. no longer a northern and Canadian game only.” “You could definitely see how hockey in Cali- Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oil- fornia got more popular,” he said. “From the ers to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, just a time that I was 10 to 14, there were two more few years before most of the players on the rinks in my area, and you could see more peo- Fighting Saints roster were born. The Ameri- ple getting into the hockey scene each year.” can hockey landscape that this generation of players would grow up in would be vastly dif- Montgomery says that the increased geo- ferent from that of a generation prior. graphic diversity of players within the United States has been a major positive, both in terms In addition to the three Californians on the of the talent pool that junior, collegiate, and roster, the Fighting Saints boast players from professional teams can draw from, but also in Florida, Texas, and Washington, drawing the personal development of the players.

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Saturday, February 18 The Outlaws will be back at Five Flags Sat- Five Flags Arena urday, March 10 with a double header fea- Yeah baby, yeah! The Eastern Iowa Out- turing the Outlaws versus the Mid Iowa laws Roller Derby team are back like a Rollers-Alpha and the Key City Krushers sixties flashback, rocking an Austin Pow- versus the Mid State Sisters of Skate. ers theme for their next home bout. It’s Derby Baby! will be a derby double- header featuring the Outlaws and the Key City Krushers, Saturday, February 18 on the team’s home track at Dubuque’s Five Flags Arena.

Easy Street Presents: If you don’t currently wear a mous- Doors for the double-header bout open at 5th Annual Moustache Night tache, but possess the manly capacity 5 p.m. with the Eastern Iowa Outlaws all- Saturday, March 3 to grow one, you just might have just star squad taking on the Sioux City Derby Whether it’s the tailored “Charlie Chap- enough time to walk with all the pride Dames at 6 p.m. The second bout will fol- lin,” the bushy “Gene Shalit,” or the and dignity a moustache provides by low, pitting the Key City Krushers against In the meantime, any derby fans who classic “Tom Selleck,” nothing declares the date of the event. But you’d better the Midwest Derby Divas. Roller Derby might have considered trying out for the wearer’s individuality and in some start now. Or you could buy one. fans are encouraged to dig deep into their the team will have two chances in early cases, masculinity quite like a mous- closets and dress in their favorite sixties/ March. The Outlaws will host open try- tache. Easy Street celebrates that As noted earlier, certain moustaches seventies Austin Powers-inspired attire to outs for skaters, referees, and volunteers fashionable facial hair specific to the embody a particular personality or qualify for a chance to win movie tickets Saturday, March 3 from 1-3 p.m. at Skate upper lip and all its awesome glory at style that can transform the wearer. All to Mindframe Theaters or a groovy gift Country, 5630 Saratoga Road in Asbury. the South Main Street bar’s 5th Annual mustachioed men are there- certificate to Mystic Tattoo. Note that regular skate admission and Moustache Night, Saturday, March 3 fore invited and encouraged rental will apply. from 8 to close. to “dress the part” and wear The Outlaws will host a second open tryout, Mon- day, March 5 from 6-8 p.m. in Monticello at the team’s practice space in the Berndes Center at 766 North Maple Street. Though it is suggested that you wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothing, the team will provide skates and all necessary safety gear at the Monticello tryouts. Note that potential skaters must be 18 and older to tryout. Questions Always one of Easy Street’s favorite clothing that com- can be answered by emailing parties, Moustache Night provides pletes the look, to [email protected]. an opportunity for dudes who wear “become one with the moustaches to meet in a relaxed, ‘stache.” Moustache Tickets for the It’s Derby Baby! moustache-friendly atmosphere, trade Night will feature bout are $10 in advance and are moustache grooming tips and high- drink specials for all available at the Five Flags box office fives, and celebrate their general awe- facial hair aficiona- (or from your favorite roller girl), someness. Of course, Moustache Night dos, and one lucky and $13 the day of the event with also provides those ladies who love the dude will walk away kids five and under free. For more look an opportunity to meet the hand- with the coveted info about the Eastern Iowa Outlaws, some devils that so wisely decided to and beloved tro- including the bout schedule, bios and stop shaving that part of their face. phy for the best photos of the team, visit www.easter- Clean-shaven men are welcome to in show at Easy niowaoutlaws.com. Follow the team attend as well and admire their more Street Moustache on Facebook to keep up with other hirsute brethren. Night 2012. roller derby news like local Outlaws appearances.

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Galena Business Expo Wine Lovers’ Weekend in Galena Sat. March 3, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 23-25 Galena Convention Center Tickets are now available now for the extremely popu- Over 50 Galena Area Chamber of Commerce members lar Grand Tastings during Galena’s Wine Lovers’ Week- will be featured in the Business Expo on Saturday, March Chili Cookoff, Cinnamon Roll Contest and Salsa Contest, end. This year’s event is slated for March 23-25, with 3, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Galena Convention Center. featured activities will include the Amazing Race at 1 p.m. Grand Tastings being offered on Friday, March 23 from This year’s Expo theme is “Caffeine & Carbs: Spotlighting and “Are You Smarter than the Mayor?” at 3 p.m. For $6, 5:30 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 24 from 3:30 to 6 the best in Coffees, Sweets & Treats.” Browse the booths buy a ticket to taste the chili cookoff entries, cinnamon p.m. at the Galena Convention Center. For full details or and experience the local bakeries and coffee shops, taste- rolls and salsa, and vote for your favorites from 2:30 to 4 to buy tickets, visitwww.wineloversweekend.com. test their goods, and spoil that sweet tooth. Participat- p.m. Chililympics is hosted by the Dyersville Area Cham- ing featured vendors include Sinsinawa Mound Bakery, ber of Commerce, so come out to enjoy some great food The event is the second of a four part Winter Program Ramona Sunny Bakery & Delicatessen, Happy Joe’s Pizza, and entertainment and make some friends along the way. Series. The March 24 program at Galena Middle School and Tammy’s Piggly Wiggly. JoJo the Clown will perform will be given by local historian Steve Repp. April’s pro- and create balloon animals for the kids. Prizes will be gram, which is also the Society’s annual membership given away throughout the event and a grand prize will meeting, will be presented by archaeologist Phil Mill- be raffled off at the end of the Expo. Admission is free. house at the DeSoto House Hotel at 7 p.m. on Satur- day, April 14. Millhouse will discuss Native American Foraging for Food: Prehistoric to Present mining in the Driftless Region. The presentations are Sat. Feb. 18, 7 p.m. free and open to the public, and coffee and refresh- Galena Middle School ments will be available. For more information, visit “Local food” is a buzzword we hear quite often these days. www.galenahistorymuseum.org. How much more local can you get than plants growing wild in the backyard? Chris Kirkpatrick will present on food Art on the River 2012 that can be foraged in this area on Saturday, February 18 Call for Artists at 7 p.m. at Galena Middle School as part of the Galena-Jo Applications due February 27 Daviess County Historical Society’s lecture series. Art on the River, the public sculpture program at the Port of Dubuque is seeking sculptors for the 2012-13 From the earliest human inhabitants of the region — installment. The City of Dubuque is soliciting propos- Native Americans — to the people living here today, Kirk- als from qualified artists to participate in the Art on the patrick will discuss how native plants have shaped life in River 2012, the seventh year for the public art program. Jo Daviess County. Native Americans used certain plants Up to ten sculptures are chosen each year for public as medicine and others for food. By studying historical exhibition at locations along the Riverwalk and across uses of plants by these peoples, we can understand a the Port of Dubuque. great deal about their lives and lifestyles. While some of the plants Native Americans used are now too rare for us Applications for Art on the River are now available online to harvest, Kirkpatrick will also touch on what plants can Historic Fashion Show: at www.cityofdubuque. be foraged today. Kirkpatrick is Director of Land Protec- The Retro Runway org/artontheriver, or may tion for the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation and has Sun. Feb. 26, shows at 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. be obtained by calling a degree in Environmental Science and Biology with a Turner Hall, Galena the City Manager’s office minor in Chemistry from the University of Dubuque. The Galena Art Theatre will present a walk through history at 563-589-4110. Applica- with an original historic fashion show on Sunday, February tions are due by 5:00 p.m. Dyersville Chililympics 26 at Turner Hall, 115 S. Bench Street, in Galena. The show CST on Tuesday, February Sat. Feb. 25, 1 p.m.? will feature vintage clothes and hats, as well as period 27, 2012. Works selected Dyersville Golf & Country Club reproductions from the 1830s to the present, in addition for the program will be Chililympics, a fun and entertaining winter event that to theatre costumes from former productions. Proceeds installed for a display earned rave reviews last year, is slated for Saturday, Feb- will support the Galena Art Theatre. The evening will at the Port of Dubuque ruary 25 in Dyersville, Iowa. Perfect for those who want include door prizes, and refreshments will be available. which will begin July to compete and for those who don’t, for those who love Tickets are $15, or $10 for groups of 8 or more, and will be 2012 and extend through to cook and for those who love to eat! In addition to a available at the door. For details, call (815) 858-2081. June 2013.

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find 4 different meat vendors and several egg vendors. Shop local for baked goods galore, cheese, dried noodles, and more. For the latest details, find the Dubuque Winter Farmers’ Market on Facebook.

Downtown Winter Farmer’s Market Saturdays, 9 a.m.-noon Colts Center, 1101 Central Ave. What’s new at the Downtown Winter Fairgrounds Farmer’s Market? Greens! Mr. Hydro Winter Farmer’s Market offers hydroponic lettuce and Kristi’s Per- Wednesdays, 2-5 p.m. fect Produce has spinach. Plus, there are Dubuque County Fairgrounds lots of winter vegetables such as squash, Midweek, on Wednesday afternoons potatoes, onions, cabbage, rutabaga, through the end of March, the 4-H build- parsnips, carrots, and garlic. Get those ing at the Fairgrounds is the spot for cookbooks out, because watercress Dubuque’s 2nd Winter Farmers Market. should make an appearance in February. Over a dozen different local vendors New vendors include Sweet Nuthins Can- sell baked goods, locally grown fruits dies, with yummy candies and cakes. Be and vegetables, crafts, herbs, jewelry, sure to ask them about their bars with a soaps, and more. Learn more at www. “secret ingredient.” Barb’s Garden Pantry dbqfairwintermarket.com or look for the is back with 50 different jams, apple cider Dubuque Fairgrounds Winter Farmer’s donuts and flax seed granola. You can also Market on Facebook.

each of the three categories, “and it’s good “It’s a really big event for us,” to catch. “This is what we’ve because the way they do it is this: If you admits Grudzina. “We like to think dreamed about being when we vote for them in the Academy you have to of it as our opportunity to thank envisioned opening this place,” actually go see them at specified screenings. our customers, to come out and he said. “To literally have your The whole Academy isn’t voting on them, so enjoy themselves and take part dream materialize … it makes it you just don’t know what those people are in this. We’re just so thankful. so great to come to work and to going to like.” This year, Oscar time at the end continue to contribute something of February marks our fourth of value to the Dubuque Cotinued from page 15. anniversary of being open. And community. We love what we do. this is four years during a very Now we’ve gotten to the point, the interest of brevity we’ll not examine difficult economy. Our opening which is very exciting, that we’re individual nominees, but here’s the cool coincided very close with the recognized in the community part: leading up to the Oscars, Mindframe downturn of the economy. To when we attend other cultural will be screening all the nominated short have a locally-owned business and events. To have achieved that films in all three categories. be able to continue to succeed, we presence, to be recognized thank God for that and we thank not just personally but to have “Now is the time to come out and see the everybody in the community of Dubuque Mindframe recognized as a valuable part of short films,” announced Grudzina. “So look who has come out and supported us, who the cultural community is everything that we for those showtimes and special showings appreciates us as a local business – which had hoped to try to become. It’s great.” throughout the next several weeks as has been invaluable to us – who appreciate we go to and through the Oscar period. that we try to make movie-going a different Read a greatly expanded version of this (See the Mindframe web site – www. Roll the Credits experience – to make it very personal, to cover story wil links to trailers, additional fil mindframetheaters.com – for screen times.) Having an opportunity to view all the make it very community-oriented. We know imformation as well as a downloadable Oscar “From what we’ve already been able to Oscar-nominated short films or attending our regular customers by name.” Party voting form on preview, as there is every year, there is some Mindframe’s Oscar party are just more Dubuque365.com. wonderful, wonderful stuff,” said Grudzina. reasons to appreciate the artful mix of Grudzina is proud to be able to offer movie Visit dubuque365. “I have to admit, they’re very hard to pick.” entertainment the locally-owned theater lovers a range of entertainment, from com or use the hany provides. The Oscars are really just an summer blockbusters from the major studios qr code link to the “It’s always a crapshoot with the shorts,” said excuse for movie lovers to celebrate film and to independent release that might otherwise right on your smart Thompson regarding predicting a winner in the Oscar Party takes it just a step further. require traveling to a larger metro area phone.

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for 13 years. Some of the servers go way back too! For example, Josie Eigenberger and Janet Knepper know everything there is to know about the menu because they have been there 28 and 21 years respectively.

Shot Tower Inn Wheeler with one large and one small wheel. The name by Rich Belmont was inspired by the image of a British Penny coin being trailed by a Farthing (or quarter penny) coin.

Over the years Jim has added a few things to his menu. However, he wisely understood when something is not Shot Tower Inn is a fun place to visit. You can say it is really broken you don’t fix it. His customers keep coming back two restaurants in one. The family side is self service and week after week and year after year because his original has many large tables for party size groups. This side has “core items” as he calls them have been prepared the same the pizza counter and six video games for the kids to play in way from the beginning. The restaurant built its reputation between pizza slices and sandwiches. The sports fan side has on Italian Grinders, Meatball Sandwiches and Pizza. Only the full service bar and nine HDTV’s to watch all the games. fresh ingredients are used. Mild and hot sausage, meatballs Dubuque’s Historical Shot Tower was built in 1856. It You can see the TV’s from all of the tables and cozy booths. and pizza sauce are all made right on the premises. The produced three tons of shot a day during the Civil War The Roof Garden for open air dining will reopen sometime in pizza dough is made in the kitchen every day. and was only used for four years. Now its namesake, the May and is a great place to meet friends. During the summer Shot Tower Inn has been around almost as long and is the Margarita Bar up there is very popular. still going strong. Well, OK, I’m kidding about how long it has been at the corner of Fourth Street and Locust in Shot Tower Inn Dubuque. Actually it’s been in the same location since it 290 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA • 563-556-1061 was established in 1967. It’s still serving the same delicious HOURS: Mon – Thu, 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. food from the same time tested recipes it started with 45 Fri – Sat, 11a.m. – Midnight, Sun, 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. years ago. Jim and Cori Kunnert took over the restaurant DINING STYLE: Casual NOISE LEVEL: Conversational from Jim’s Dad in 1999. They did some remodeling but RECOMMENDATIONS: Nachos Supreme, Garlic made sure they kept the same atmosphere, the same Bread with Bruschetta, Pizza, Italian Grinder, Italian Meatball, Philly Steak, French Dip, Wings, BBQ Ribs, Fried Chicken, Hot Beef and Mashed Potatoes. LIQUOR SERVICE: Full Bar, Happy Hour 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Mon – Fri, Gold Margaritas PRICES: Lunch: $4.95 to $7.00, Dinner: $8.50 to $22.85 The Italian Grinder and the Italian Meatball Sandwiches RESERVATIONS: No are the biggest sellers. The Grinder is ground spicy PAYMENT OPTIONS: Cash, Debit, Visa, MasterCard, sausage topped with melted mozzarella and likewise the Discover, Amex Meatball is ground up spicy beef with Italian seasonings ACCESSIBILITY: 4TH Street entrance and Restroom and covered with mozzarella cheese. KIDS POLICY: Welcome! Menu on Board, famous sandwiches and pizza and even most of the same High Chairs and Boosters staff. As a case in point the managers are all long term CATERING: Yes TAKE OUT: Yes employees. Steve Schramm has been at Shot Tower Inn for DELIVERY: Yes PARKING: Private lot approximately 30 years, Tania Wiese has been a manager for 15 years and Mike Jannette has been with the Kunnert’s The Shot Tower Inn is also a museum. So it is a good idea for 13 years. Head Cook Roger Neumann ensures the food to walk around and check out the early 20th century toys is consistently excellent and has been running the kitchen and games on display. There are really big wooden cars, a toy train set, models of NASCAR cars and a giant Mr. Peanut. (You young people won’t know who Mr. Peanut is but you will get the idea when you see him). The burgers are juicy half pounders of Choice Black Angus There is even a really old beef. Many regulars order a half pounder with cheese and Penny-Farthing bicycle bacon. One of the tastiest burgers is the one topped with that probably dates back Swiss cheese and sautéed mushrooms. The build your to the 1870’s or 1880’s. A own burger is fun to do because you can have it with Penny-Farthing is a bike your choice of any of the usual pizza toppings plus bacon, also known as a High ham and even corned beef.

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When you don’t feel like pizza and burgers there are ten Or how about munching on a Nachos Supreme for a other scrumptious sandwiches. There is a chicken club while? A huge pile of nachos are covered with tomatoes, with bacon and Swiss cheese on a ciabatta bun, a really jalapeño peppers, black olives and nacho cheese. A thick Pork Tenderloin and a Philly Steak with onions rather large helping of beef or chicken is mixed in just to and peppers over sirloin steak and topped with melted keep it interesting. I especially like the Garlic Bread. You cheddar and mozzarella. Seriously though, in my opinion can order it with cheese or my favorite, with Bruschetta: the best sandwiches are either the Big Shot Roast Beef tomatoes and onions seasoned with fresh basil, garlic and (above) with homemade gravy or the French Dip with parmesan cheese. the truly great entrees are the Hot Beef, Fried Chicken mozzarella and roasted onions and au jus on the side. and BBQ Ribs. The Hot Beef because of those slices of In either case, Angus Bottom Round is basted in a slow specially seasoned bottom round, the Fresh (never frozen) roaster with an awesome secret seasoning blend that is Chicken because of the hand breading and frying in the so good I am always tempted to order a second sandwich. pressurized Henny Penny. And the BBQ Ribs: these Saint Louis Cut Ribs are naturally tender and have very little fat Pizzas are the heart of this landmark restaurant. They are after they are baked for over seven hours and topped with all made from fresh ingredients and are available in 9, 12 Special House BBQ sauce. and 14 inch sizes and in deep dish or thin crust versions. To begin with there is the Monday through Friday 7 inch thin crust pizza lunch special for only $4.95. Add a dollar and you can make it a gourmet special and this, people, is a really good deal!

The Gourmet Pizza Specials are as interesting as they are The Chicken Wings are a real treat too! Large wings are delicious. The House Special has spinach, tomatoes and fried in a Henny Penny fryer so they are cooked at low cheese. My favorite is the Bianco (above) with olive oil, temperature under controlled low pressure. You get Please don’t forget the dessert either. There is Chocolate garlic, marinated tomatoes, oregano and mozzarella. If to choose from 9 flavors including BBQ, Hot, Bourbon, Cake, Sopapillas, Turtle Cheesecake and the number one you want to try something different order the American Caribbean, Chipotle, Sesame, Teriyaki, Zesty Orange or all time favorite: The Shot Tower Fried Ice Cream. If you Cheeseburger Pizza. It comes with ground beef, onions, Sweet Chile. Every one of them is so good you might find pass this one up you will be sorry because it’s a rather large pickles and cheddar cheese. Of course, there is a long list you don’t even need the ranch or bleu cheese dip that ball of vanilla ice cream covered with granola and doused of standard pizzas to choose from for those of us who are comes with them. with honey. Truly a fitting end to a great lunch or dinner! less adventuresome. The dinner and pasta entrees are a pleasant surprise in If you have a great dining experience to There is also a whole assortment of snacks to enjoy while what you might think is just a burger, wings and pizza share with Rich, e-mail argomark@mchsi. you are talking with friends or watching TV. There are place. The Burrito with homemade sauce is so good com. Use the QR codeto the right to see all Cheese Puffs, Chicken Fingers and Mini Tacos just to name and eating the Baked Lasagna makes you think you are of Argosy’s Food For Thought Reviews at a few. You can order a Combo Basket of your favorites. in an exclusive Italian restaurant. In my opinion, though, www.restaurantmarketingdbq.com

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Derty Rice Mardi Gras Party Fat Tuesday, February 21, 6 p.m. Jumpers Some places celebrate Mardi Gras con- veniently on the weekend before, but Jumpers knows the only way to do it right is to celebrate on Fat Tuesday. That happens to fall on Tuesday, February 21 this year and as in years past, Jumpers is gonna make it a party.

Co-owner Hobie and the Jumpers crew has established a Mardi Gras tradition of epic proportions in years past with jam- balaya and beads and adult beverages “Derty” spelling comes), along with the Dubuque Youth Symphony: Dickey they will perform selections from worthy of the celebration. Returning addition of the Lonely Goats featur- Winter Concert Selections some of the most beloved operas and oper- to kick it up a notch, zydeco party band ing Leo Roldan, Bob Ressler, and 365’s from Beloved Operas ettas of all time including the overture to Derty Rice will provide the dancing music. own Mike Ironside. Derty Rice will be Sunday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m. The Pirates of Penzance, “Grand March” from playing a mix of Mardi Gras themed Five Flags Theater Tannhäuser and “Make Our Garden Grow” For the uninitiated, Derty Rice is a music appropriate to the celebration, The Dubuque Youth from Candide. piquant concoction which includes but you’ve got to get there early as the Ensembles Winter ingredients from the popular zydeco party starts right after happy hour at Concert marks their “The DYSO will band We’re Late & Smell Like Beer 6 p.m. After all it is a school night and second performance thrill and delight including drummer Jimmy Berg, trum- theoretically, you’re supposed to repent of the 2011-2012 sea- everyone as pet and washboard player Rob Martin, the next day. But until then, laissez les son. It will be held on they journey and Jeff Weydert (from whence the bon temps rouler! Sunday, February 26 at through some of opera’s 7:00 p.m. in the Dubuque most exciting moments,” Five Flags Theater. Con- said Dr. Thomas Taylor ductor Michelle Mentz Dickey. “You certainly will lead the Dubuque will not want to miss this Youth String Ensemble in fun-filled, energy-packed arrangements of pieces concert!” by Handel and Dvorak, fol- lowed by an arrangement Tickets are available at of Mozart’s Symphony the door starting one No. 12 by the Chamber hour before the concert. Players. Cost is $6 for adults and $4 for children 12 and The theme of the under. For more informa- Dubuque Youth Sym- tion about the Dubuque phony Orchestra portion Youth Ensembles, visit of the concert is “Stage the Dubuque Symphony Galena Mardi Gras Pub Crawl Paradise, Fried Green Tomatoes, Gobbies, Struck!” Under the direc- Orchestra website: www. Friday, February 17 The Galena Brewery, The Gold Room, and tion of Dr. Thomas Taylor DubuqueSymphony.org. Join the party! Miss Kitty from Galena’s The Grape Escape where the winners will Grape Escape will lead a band of merry be announced after 10:30 p.m. revelers down Main Street for the Galena Downtown Business Association Mardi Gras Pub Crawl & Contest, Friday, February 17 beginning at 6 p.m. The night promises to be one of fun, friends, and traditional Mardi Gras spirit.

Mardi Gras Pub Crawl participants can win one of three “Made in Galena” gift baskets or a grand prize drawing of $100 in Cham- ber Bucks. Simply follow the pub crawlers (or make your own way) and get a stamp For more information stop by The Grape at each of the participating businesses Escape at 242 N. Main St., Galena after which include The Green Street Tavern, 5 p.m. daily or email Wine@GrapeEs- The VFW, The Elks, The Cornerstone, capeGalena.Com.

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ingredients to attract insect eating birds. Suet is a quick source of heat and energy for birds, who’s metabolisms are set on fast forward. It traditionally has been used as a good substitute for the insects that birds usually feed upon but are not plentiful in cold weather.

Plant shrubs and trees in your yard that will attract birds and other wildlife naturally to your yard. Some of my favorites This weather is for the birds! include Serviceberry, Crabapple, Winterberries, Oak, Sumac, The 365 Pop Quiz reuturns, powered by Fun-Games- With the recent addition of my son Hayden combined with Viburnum and Roses. Company trivia. No more multiple choice. Good luck! the lovely cold weather that is an Iowa winter, I have found myself consumed by the latest phenomenon Don’t forget to provide natural protection 1. According to Wisc. Gov. com what is the official on the web, Pinterest. As a person who is for wildlife. These can even be brush piles! state dance of Wisconsin? always looking for a project, I stumbled upon Also, evergreens such as spruce offer birds a great idea for both kids and birds alike. It much needed winter protection. 2. In what Iowa town was John Wayne born, suggested hanging a bird house on a win- Waterloo,Winterset or Winthrop? dow in your home and replace the back wood Did you know? Pinecones and the cones of panel with a clear plexiglass one, allowing spruce, fir, hemlock, and other conifers are 3. With 28 wins, name the female artist with most everyone inside to observe the nest making packed with nutritious seeds that draw gros- all time Grammy wins? process. How much fun is that? I began doing beaks, crossbills, titmice, and pine siskins. some research and discovered February is The petite, seed-filled cones of hemlocks 4. Who is the late whitney Houston’s famous national bird month. attract small seed eaters like chickadees, Godmother? juncos, and goldfinches. Different types of Did you know? Winter is the only time you will seed attract different types of birds. 5. Where does Dubuque rank in the top ten most see two or more male cardinals together. During the summer populated Iowa cities? they are most interested in finding a mate, and therefore they Niger Thistle: This is one of the favorite seeds of gold- fight too much to get near one another. finches. Other related birds who like it are House Finches, 6. The buildings and structures at Dubuque’s Purple Finches, Pine Siskins, and redpolls. Eagle Point Park were inspired by which legend- Here are some things to consider when trying to attract birds ary US Architect? to your yard… Nuts: These include woodpeckers, mockingbirds, wood- peckers along with chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, gold- 7. Name the former Michigan & Iowa State mens Clean your feeder regularly to prevent the spread of disease. finches, house finches, cardinals, grosbeaks, and jays. basketball coach who coached at Dubuque Senior High in the 1950s? Humans spend more than 70% of their lives indoors. Be sure Cracked Corn: Pheasants, quail, doves, sparrows, towhees, to hang your feeders in prominent locations easily viewable blackbirds, grackles, and jays. 8. On Feb. 15, 1989 the Soviet Union announced from indoors. that all of it’s troops had left what country? Black Oil Sunflower Seed: It attracts a lot of species of Suet is a high energy formulation of animal fat and other birds including chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, goldfinches, 9. On average how many wedding lisc. are issued house finches, cardinals, grosbeaks, and each year in Las Vegas, 30, 60,90 or 120 thousand? jays. 10. What is the nickname of the Loras College Safflower: It attracts many of the same sports teams? birds as black oil sunflower seed but not Answers on Page 35 quite as readily. The birds include chicka- ______dees, titmice, nuthatches, goldfinches, house finches, grosbeaks, and jays. Cardi- Get a team and play Trivia Night... FREE... nals are particularly fond of this seed. • Every Wednesday 8 - 10 P.M.(Thru April) Millet: Millet is liked by doves, sparrows @ Courtside Sports Bar, Dubuque and juncos, cardinals, bobwhites, quail, and buntings. •Steve’s Pizza in Platteville: February 16, March 1, March 15, April 5 & April 19 Not only do birds benefit the landscape by reducing the amount of weeds, improv- ing flower pollination, and control pests, but they can also lead to hours of enjoy- ment for all ages. Hopefully your family can enjoy bird watching as much as mine has over the past month. Have any ques- tions about birding? Email me at sara. [email protected].

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Men Are From Mars It is only now, in the history of film, that the elements exist to and So Are These Women produce a movie like this and not have to resort to a cartoon by Bob Gelms love and the rest is, as they say, to draw on the alien characters Barsoom history. in the novel or, in fact, to put March 9th is the day that the movie actors in some kind of zany John Carter premiers. I have been It is a romp of high adventure, costume to complete an illu- waiting for this for a very long time indeed, with swashbuckling sion that would have ultimately – most of my life in point of fact. The escapades that test the con- failed. I have not seen the movie movie is based on what I believe to siderable skills of John Carter. but I’ll be there on opening day. be the greatest science fiction novel That fact that Mars has one I can only hope that the combi- ever written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, sixth on the gravity of Earth nation of live action and anima- A princess of Mars the first book in his puts Carter at an advantage tion will work as well as it did in Martian Series. He would later go on to when fighting beasts or foes Who Framed Roger Rabbit but, fame and fortune by writing the Tarzan since his muscles are tuned to of course, look like the great ani- series but A Princess of Mars holds the Earth’s gravity. He can jump mation effects in the Star Wars distinction of being the first novel Bur- prodigious distances and his and Star Trek movies. I hope. roughs wrote and a pretty good start sword play contains enormous it was. power because, on Mars, he is The book is almost always incredibly strong. All of these included on lists cataloging It features John Carter of Earth; a Con- talents have been put to the great sci-fi fantasy novels. There federate soldier who, while prospect- test because of his undeni- are ten books in the series but A ing for gold in Arizona is mysteriously able love for the incomparable Princess of Mars is the only one teleported to the planet Mars or, as Dejah Thoris. that keeps getting mentioned. the Martians call it, Barsoom. There Burroughs tried to strike fire he encounters all kinds of strange and The book was published 100 years it as a boy. Many attempts have been twice by doing the same thing with exotic life forms including the incom- ago but is still as captivating as it was made to turn it into a movie and have the planet Venus but fell far short of parable Dejah Thoris, the afore men- when it was published, to be sure, failed, until now. John Carter will be the high water mark set by the Martian tioned Princess of Barsoom. They fall in still as captivating as when I first read produced by Disney and directed by Series. The book is a little dated as in Andrew Stanton, combining live action the device he uses to get the book pub- and animation. Taylor Kitsch and Lynn lished and all the books in the series as Collins, who appeared together in the well. In other words you might have to 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolver- suspend just a little more of your dis- ine, play John Carter and Dejah Thoris. belief than you would normally have to Willem Dafoe voices Tars Tarkas, Polly in a modern sci-fi novel. Walker voices Sarkoja, and James Pure- foy plays Kantos Kan. It looks to be as The novel is very short, only about 175 ripping a tale as the book. pages in most editions I have seen. It was first published as a serial in the maga- zine All-Story Magazine in 1911 and Bur- roughs got $400 for his efforts except he did something he would never again do. He sold ALL the rights to his book to the magazine for $400. Six years later A. C. McClurg and Company bought the novelization rights from All-Story Magazine and brought the book out for the fist time as a novel. It has proved to be one of the most lasting and endear- ing titles in the Burroughs Catalogue. In April of this year The Library of America will be publishing a hard cover edition to commemorate the 100 anniversary of its publication.

If I can make a suggestion try to read the book before seeing the movie; it will be fun to see if the characters on the screen match the ones in your head. Happy watching and reading.

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Strange Weather by pam kress-dunn

I’ve been thinking about a children’s book But would they be so lovely if that me, I think they were disappointed. I bought and read aloud to my kids a long was all we had? I realize, of course, I find it endearing, the way people time ago. Called “The Stranger,” it is written that there are many places around gossip about the weather – “I heard and illustrated by the award-winning the globe where the weather is it’s going to be six inches! Maybe even author-illustrator Chris Van Allsburg. You’ve one long summer afternoon, every eight!” – and rush to the grocery stores probably heard of him, if not from books month of the year. I love visiting to overbuy, just in case a real snow day then from the movies inspired by them: those places – please fly me to Maui is called. “Jumanji” and “The Polar Express.” His right now! – but I wouldn’t want to artwork is glorious, his writing very fine, but live there. I love the crispness and When I lived on the eastern plains of it is his creativity – the kernel of each story dramatic beauty of autumn, even Colorado, twenty-five miles from the he tells – that is most remarkable. though it’s tinged by melancholy, nearest town, a prediction of heavy as plants die and hands get cold snow really was something to prepare If you have read “The Stranger,” you already even indoors. I also love the way for. “Milk and toilet paper!” became a know why I’ve been thinking about it so the world wakes up in spring. Daffodils and must be going; there’s so much to catch up family joke, any time a forecast looked dire. I much. If not, here’s why. A farmer, driving peonies herald the arrival of warmth by on!” remember losing power one time, but feeling slowly in his truck down a country lane, runs sending green and red shoots up through snug with our wood stove providing not only into something. To his horror, it’s a man, the newly thawed soil, as if to say, “We’re Finally, the farmer’s favorite time of year warmth but a hot cooking surface. Little someone he doesn’t recognize. To his relief, coming! Don’t despair!” proceeds as it ought to. His trees turn colors house on the prairie, that was us, cooking and ours, the man seems all right. He jumps overnight. I love fall, when we all go back tacos in the living room on a 20-below to his feet, as if he has an important task to And, okay, I even (grudgingly) appreciate to school, whether in reality or memory. evening. complete. winter, because without it, there would be no Soup sounds good for dinner, followed by a spring. I love watching a good snowfall, even freshly baked pie. All those things that held But now I’m worried about drought, and He does, in fact, but it’s not until mid-story from the windows at work, and wrapping up no appeal during the heat and humidity of perennials shooting up too soon. Last year, that we begin to guess what that task might for the first time in my coat and gloves and summer are now just the right thing. May was so chilled, my normally glorious crab be. The stranger has evidently lost not only boots. I even relish the first few rounds of apple tree had a nervous breakdown and his ability to speak, but also his memory. He shoveling our steep front yard steps. As I write this, we are having an uncommonly refused to produce even one pink bud. This may look like a hermit from the woods, but cold February day and night. But it’s year, my neighbors’ daffodils are already six he is a truly Very Important Person. But in this book, summer is strangely uncommon only because this year, winter has inches high. This isn’t right, folks. Call it global stubborn. Gradually, the stranger seems to not shown up the way it normally does. We’ve warming, call it climate change; something (Were this a reality show, the stranger would wake up. He sees geese flying south, staring had just one snowfall of any consequence. is awry. Only with our help can the stranger sue for attempted vehicular manslaughter, in fascination. Picking a leaf from a tree, he The people at work managed to get excited wake up, do his job, and move on. not to mention pain and suffering and blows on it forcefully, and it turns from green about the forecast one day not long ago, identity theft. Thankfully, this is fiction – to gold. Although he never utters a word, it’s but that storm only grazed northwest Iowa, Pam Kress-Dunn a much gentler, simple place, at least in as if he is thinking, “Oh! That’s what I do! I bypassing us altogether. Between you and [email protected] children’s books.)

So the story continues, and the stranger’s truth slowly dawns. It is late summer, and although Farmer Bailey is readying his farm for the fallow season, the weather is unchanging. Crops remain robust, and the supple leaves on the trees are deeply green. The book opens by telling us this is the farmer’s favorite time of year, when summer turns to fall, but nothing is turning. Summer seems stuck, as if autumn will never arrive.

Now, some people might find this a wonderful thing, especially those of us living in Iowa. The pools could remain open, the tables outside of restaurants would never have to come inside, and our wool sweaters and heavy sweatpants – not to mention the snow blower – could remain in storage. After all, Henry James pronounced “summer afternoon” as “the two most beautiful afternoons in the English language.”

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Improve Your Relationships by matt booth If you desire to improve your life, it is to offer. If the downward cycle of less essential to improve your relationships. value continues, the relationship will There are many people who can enrich become nonexistent. However, if one Life Upon These Shores: Looking at Afri- Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet your experience on earth. If you want to party realizes what is happening and then can American History, 1513-2008 Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero improve your relationships - add value. takes deliberate steps to add value again, By Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. By Larson, Kate Clifford Successful relationships work because then the other party will soon notice the Tracing African-American Bound for the Promised there is value for both parties. If you change and begin doing the same in their history from the arrival of Land: Harriet Tubman, haven’t previously thought about your own way. the conquistadors to the Portrait of an American relationships in terms of exchanging election of Barack Obama, Heroine presents the first value, you should. When both sides How can you add more value to your focusing on defining biography of this legend in receive value, both will be happy and reap relationships? Identify ways in which events, debates, and con- more than half a century. the benefits. you can make each relationship troversies, as well as achievements. more beneficial for the other Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, person and start adding those African American Almanac: 400 Years of an American Slave, By Frederick Douglass values! Not only will your Triumph, Courage and Excellence Douglass, who went on to deliberate addition of values By Bracks, Lean’tin become a famous orator, to the relationship improve the The most complete and U.S. minister, and a leader relationship itself, it will also affordable single-volume of his people, wrote one of improve your own self-esteem. reference of African the most eloquent indict- When you have the intention of American culture avail- ments of slavery ever. adding value to a relationship able today. and you make consistent Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. efforts to add value, you have Children of Fire: A History of African By King, Martin Luther, Jr. a strategy for improving your Americans, By Holt, Thomas C. A powerful and inspira- relationships. In this groundbreaking tional autobiography of new book, renowned America’s greatest civil Mattitude Improvement Tip historian Holt tells the rights leader calls upon Listen and Repeat story of how generations Stanford University’s Some benefits of improving relationships: of African Americans voluminous collection of Real communication occurs when we • Increase sense of purpose fashioned a culture and archival material, including Dr. King’s pre- listen to understand. Seek out the other • Boost happiness identity amid the turmoil of four centuries viously unpublished writings, interviews, person’s point of view. Understand how of American history. recordings, and correspondence. • Reduce stress it feels to him in regard to the subject • Improve self-worth he is talking about. It’s very easy to get Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race • Help cope with traumas distracted during a conversation even Pioneers of Aviation, By Samuel L. Broadnax and Inheritance, By Obama, Barack when you think you’re listening. Make A history of African Amer- In this lyrical, unsentimen- To improve a relationship, first and sure that your attention is focused on the other person and that you’re truly icans in aviation from the tal, and compelling mem- foremost, don’t bring problems to it. If you trying to understand what he or she beginnings through the oir, Illinois U.S. Senator continually gossip, whine, or complain, has to say. Repeat what you’ve heard in Tuskegee Airmen and Barack Obama, the son of you are not adding any value. Conflict in a relationship is virtually inevitable. order to confirm that you understood their Double V struggle a black African father and the message. It is EASY to listen and In itself, conflict isn’t a problem; how it’s against discrimination, a white American mother, repeat what you’ve heard to increase handled, however, can improve your based on oral histories. recounts his search for a workable mean- understanding. Unfortunately, things ing to his life as a black American. relationship or tear it apart. Keep in mind that are EASY to do are also EASY not to Roots: The Saga of an American Family that the more value you add to your do. Listen and Repeat! By Haley, Alex Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir relationships, the more it will improve. In One of the most impor- of Family, By Condoleezza Rice almost every relationship, the very action There are hundreds of thousands of simple tant books and television Former Secretary of State of deliberately adding value will result in ways to improve. What improvement tips do you have? Is there something you’ve series ever to appear, Rice reveals for the first the other party reciprocating. done that has made a difference in the “Roots” opened up the time her childhood grow- way you live? Send your improvement tip minds of Americans to ing up in Birmingham, Relationships often take a back seat to other priorities and get taken for to [email protected]. If I use it to help one of the darkest and Alabama. others, I’ll send you a copy of my new book granted. Without even recognizing it, most painful parts of its past. – Be Yourself, Improve Yourself. they gradually have less and less value

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• Use psyllium, found in some fiber supplements such as Metamucil, as an easy way to boost the soluble fiber in your diet.

Try this delicious, heart-healthy smoothie Focus on Fiber for breakfast or snack using the new to Lower Cholesterol flavored flaxseed blends from Linwood. with nutritionists Pat Fisher Megan Horstman & Amber Jaeger Recently, fiber has gained attention because of its role in helping to control cholesterol. Soluble fiber binds cholesterol and removes it from the body before it is absorbed into the blood stream. Health professionals recommend 10 to 25 grams of soluble fiber daily, though research has shown eating just 5 to10 grams/day may decrease LDL cholesterol by 5%. Tips to increase soluble fiber:

• Eat three or more servings of foods rich in soluble fiber daily: oatmeal, oat bran, Energy Boosting Strawberry Smoothie barley, beans (kidney, black, navy), flax seed, Serves 4 chia seed, apples, pears, bananas, oranges, All you need: strawberries, blackberries, prunes, carrots, 4 tbsp Linwood ground flax, sunflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli, green pumpkin & sesame seeds & goji berries beans and edamame. 1 banana 1 cup low-fat milk • Increase consumption of whole-grain 1 cup ice foods – whole wheat pasta, brown rice, 1/2 cup nonfat yogurt whole-grain breads. 5-7 strawberries

• Eat high-fiber cereal for breakfast. Choose a All you do: whole-grain cereal with at least 3 to 5 grams Place all of the ingredients into a blender Marketing, Merchandising, of soluble fiber. Kashi Go-Lean Crunch and and blend for 45 seconds, or until desired. & Food Safety for Kashi Go-Lean Crisp are great choices for Farmers’ Market Vendors soluble fiber. Adapted from www.linwoodshealthfoods. Sat. Feb 25, 12:30-4 p.m. com. For more information on ways to lower River Room, Hotel Julien • Sprinkle ground flax seed or chia seed on cholesterol, ask your Hy-Vee dietitian or go Dubuque Main Street, in conjunction with oatmeal, yogurt or salads. to hy-vee.com. the Iowa State University Extension Office, The information is not intended as medical advice. Please will host the second annual Dubuque • Try new flaxseed flavored blends from consult a medical professional for individual advice. Area Farmers’ Market Vendor Conference Linwood in cereal, yogurt, salads, on Saturday, February 25, from 12:30 to smoothies. Flavors include 4:00 p.m. at the Hotel Julien Dubuque in flaxseed, cocoa,strawberries and the River Room. Vendors from any local blueberries; flaxseed, almonds, farmers’ markets are invited to attend, as Brazil nuts, walnuts and Q10; well as anyone interested in becoming a flaxseed and goji berries; and vendor. This conference is free of charge flaxseed, pumpkin, sunflower, and open to the public. sesame seed and goji berries. Andy Larson, an Iowa State University from growers to producers. From Pre- • Blend Hy-Vee yogurt fortified Extension Specialist, will offer some excel- Harvest and Post-Harvest Food Safety with plant sterols, chia seed, lent opportunities to maximize sales, Training, to packaging jelly at home, this Minute Maid Heart Wise orange including: Signage & Appearance, Cus- is a must attend session for anyone selling juice, banana and frozen tomer Service Tips, Differentiating Your food to the public. strawberries for a delicious heart- Product Display, Eye-Popping Packaging, healthy smoothie. Pricing, and more. For more information, contact Dubuque Main Street board member and Farmers’ • Eat soluble fiber-filled foods at Dr. Angela M. Laury, Assistant Professor of Market committee chair, Tom Thompson, breakfast or before bed, to help Food Safety at Iowa State University, will at [email protected] or by call- remove the cholesterol your body present a practical understanding of food ing (563) 543-4850, or visit the website: produces while you sleep. safety practices that will benefit everyone www.dubuquemainstreet.org/fm.html.

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Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine. Answer on page 31.

Spot the Difference Can you spot 10 differences between the two versions of this photo from a previous Oscar Party at Mindframe Theaters, taken by Ron Tigges at DigitalDubuque.com. - Answers on page 35.

Answer on page 35

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The Global Smart City Summit: Part One... Upon arrival in Chicago, O’Hare, we witness to the fact that it was not morning from Dubuqur to Tainan City, Taiwan found our way to the shuttle that would at all – the lights of Hong Kong in the night take us to the international terminal! sky were brilliant as we touched down on by mayor roy d. buol Once there, we went to our gate in Thursday, December 13th, at 8:20 p.m. Imagine my surprise anticipation of the craft that would be when, on August 17, First stop, the Dubuque County taking us half way around the world, The first thing we noticed upon leaving 2011, at 4:34 a.m., a letter of invitation Courthouse where we filled out forms almost 8,000 miles non-stop! Designed the jet bridge were the beautiful arrived by email from Dr. Chin-Teng Lin, to apply for our first ever Passports! As as a Boeing 777-300, it was sort of like Christmas Carols being played, in Dean of Academic Affairs of the National no Visa would be necessary, our next a hotel with wings! When we boarded English, throughout the state of Chiao Tung University, in Tainan City, stop was to our physician’s office to at 2 p.m., we were shown to our “seats” the art, impeccably clean airport! host of the Global Smart City Summit in inquire about what innoculations would by smiling, impeccably dressed and Simultaneously, the beautiful tonal Taiwan! be advisable. Given we were not going coiffed Asian flight attendants. While qualities of the Chinese language to be spending time in a rural area we were truly grateful to be in business were all around us! Fortunately, all “Given that Dubuque is the first (where the Bird Flu might be evident), class seating, I noted that the economy announcements were made in both “smarter’ sustainable city in the U.S…. we were scheduled for Hepatitis A class seating featured very nice recliners! Chinese and English! Not long now… we would like to invite you to share your and Tetanus shots. That proved to be Our seating areas were equipped with we boarded our last flight for this part experience. The purpose of the summit quite an experience for Deb when she a small tv, ample storage above and of the journey at 11 p.m., arriving in is to introduce ways to make our cities experienced an anaphylaxic reaction within, and a table between our seats Taipei around 1 a.m. on December 14th! smarter and more intelligent. And, this to the Tetanus shot. (Word of caution where we toasted “a safe and uneventful We were met by a young man holding is the first time in Asia for mayors from if you have asthma) We went shopping journey” with a complimentary glass of a card with “Mayor Buol” written on smart cities all over the world to meet for passport holders to wear around champagne! The craft was equipped it. He spoke not a word of English, so and share their successful experiences our necks as we were advised to keep with cameras under the belly of the it was a rather quiet ride for the next with each other. To reward your them with us at all times. Deb prepared plane, so you could literally watch four hours to Tainan City! We arrived at kindness, we will take care of your round- a notebook so that we carried copies the take-off from that angle! Quite our destination, the Tayih Landis Hotel trip air ticket, meals, transportation and of our passports, pertinent contact/ remarkable! The TV also had a channel around 5 a.m. – it had been about 37 accommodations (for both you and your summit information, along with a pocket that showed the route (and would show hours since we awoke in Dubuque to spouse) during the meeting. We are converter to determine the exchange our progress en route) from Chicago, prepare for this journey! confident that your attendance will make rates between US dollars and Taiwan over Canada, Alaska, near the North Pole, the conference fruitful and splendid!” New Dollars, Hong Kong Dollars and alongside Russia and China, into Hong After checking into our room, we fell (Note that when they translate their China Yuan Dollars. We spent weeks Kong! (see photo below) into our bed, awaking seven hours later language into English, they use very reading and learning about the culture complimentary terms as we learned from others such as Dubuque’s own Dick throughout our visit!) This was an Landis, who also provided us with a “cheat amazing opportunity to raise Dubuque’s sheet” on the language. Importantly, we profile on the international front, and to learned that as a precaution, we should learn, and I was honored to accept their refrain from drinking water, using ice, invitation! eating fresh vegetables and or fruits you can’t peel because they are washed in Over the next several months, details the water which our internal plumbing were arranged by email with the systems do not take well too. We would Tainan government contact, Cathy. be brushing our teeth with bottled water Due to the language and time zone and taking pepto bismol tablets a half difference, it could take up to three or hour before eating, and on our doctor’s four days between communications, advice, we carried along meds we might and sometimes…well things got lost need for any bacterial illness. We were in translation, so we had to start over approaching our first international again. We worked locally with Travel journey by the old adage, “an ounce of Headquarters to arrange our flights. prevention is worth a pound of cure!” Cathy in Tainan City advised that due We were on our way! Not long after to get ready for the first of two tours to the length of the trip (one hour from With preparations completed, and a copy enjoying a wonderful dinner, the scheduled for that same afternoon. That Dubuque to Chicago; layover; 16+ hours of my summit presentation, “Sustainable attendants lowered the cabin lights as if night would be the Opening Reception non-stop from Chicago to Hong Kong; Dubuque: Smart Technology and to signal it was time to begin changing for the Global Smart City Summit! We are layover; an hour and a half flight to Community Engagement,” in print as our internal “clocks” in preparation for the here!! Taipei; then a 4 hour car ride to Tainan well as backed up on a flash drive (and time zone difference. A movie and a snack City because we would be arriving at 1 which earlier had been sent to the later, and with our seats adjusted into Part II – Tainan City - The Hosts! a.m. and the high speed rail wouldn’t be summit organizers to translate into sleeping position, we both were surprised available), that we would be traveling on Chinese), Deb and I left Dubuque at 10 that before we knew it…the cabin lights Cathay Pacific Airlines from Chicago in a.m. on Monday, December 12th! were being brought up and we were Business Class! As we learned, that meant being offered warm washcloths prior to we could actually lay down to sleep! breakfast! Not long afterward, we were

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Dear Trixie, Once he held his breath for a whole I am a sad and single man in my mid minute and his face turned bright red. twenties. I can’t seem to find the woman I don’t know what to do. Yesterday he I am supposed to marry and be with the told his dad to give him 5 cookies or he rest of my life. I am in good health and would cut himself with a steak knife. have an interesting career and earn a --Concerned Mother nice living. I should be happy. I just feel alone and unloved. I see these happy Dear Concerned Mother, loving couples strolling hand in hand and It’s a bluff. Give him the knife. it shoots a pain into my heart. Here it is Valentine’s Day and I have no one to send Dear Trixie, flowers to. And I probably never will. Help! My boyfriend is really cheap. He shows --Profoundly Single up on a Friday night with a handful of day lilies he got from the side of the road Dear Profoundly Single, and says. “What’s for dinner?” He seems Don’t let it make you feel alone and unloved to think I am going to cook and serve and full of despair. You are only seeing the him and because we are monogamous tip of the iceberg. Whenever I see those that that means he never has to take me happy couples holding hands in public out to a decent restaurant. I am a good and gazing at each other with rapturous cook and it pleases me that he is proud intensity I know that this represents of my culinary skills but I want to go OUT only 1% of their relationship. The other sometimes. I need romance and roses! I 99% is spent being resentful, angry and am a passive person by nature and I have generally disgusted with their beloved’s trouble saying anything and being tough personal habits. They say horribly cruel on this issue. What can you recommend? things to each other and heap guilt and --Betty Crocker recriminations at every opportunity. Then they lie next to each other in bed stiff with Dear Betty Crocker, loathing while not having sex. Your first mistake was bringing him home and feeding him. Once you feed them they Single is not so bad. never want to leave. You need to retrain him to despise your cooking. Here is a recipe for Dear Trixie, an edible but perfectly disgusting dinner. Please explain something to me. Exactly how long does it take to give a woman I call it Casserole Gavage: an orgasm? Is that true that it takes 1 can creamed corn at least two hours of foreplay? 1 can corned beef --Not Exactly A Novice 1 can fruit cocktail 4 cups oatmeal Dear Not Exactly, Less if you give jewelry. Stir ingredients until mixture resembles vomit, then bake. Dear Trixie, My six year old son has been saying some Continue serving this meal until he offers strange things lately. If he doesn’t get to take you out to a nice place or until his way he threatens to harm himself. breaks up with you.

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Aries 3/21-4/19 inspirational messages might inspire some- While it’s often said that you one. It’s also possible that the “listen to your need to be yourself, if “yourself” heart” and “love yourself no matter what” mes- means you’re a 35-year-old My Little Pony sages might inspire a serial killer’s next murder. fan posting about it on the Internet, it may be time to re-examine your priorities. Espe- Libra 9/23-10/22 cially if you’re a dude. While making gumbo for Mardi Gras seems like a good excuse to Taurus 4/20-5/20 clean out the fridge, that does not mean you Yeah, you screwed up Valen- can just throw anything in there. Like that tine’s Day, and you got your spe- blue fuzzy thing in that jar there … yeah, cial someone a bottle of Mad Dog 20 / 20 that should just get thrown out. instead of a nice dinner, flowers and all that. Look on the bright side, though: Now that Scorpio 10/23-11/21 they’ve left you, the Mad Dog will get you You realize that when you ask nice and drunk for dirt-cheap. “how can this get any worse” PUZZLE ANSWERS (From page 32) you are basically begging for a kick in the Spot the Difference Gemini 5/21-6/21 crotch, right? This unseasonably warm winter does not give you an excuse to Sagittarius 11/22-12/21 walk around outside wearing socks with Clearly, the “annual” order of girl sandals. It does, however, give you the scout cookies were not tech- excuse to break out the grill early and start nically intended to fill an “annual” need. rocking some steaks. Maybe they should sell thighmasters too?

Cancer 6/22-7/22 Capricorn 12/22-1/19 A refrigerator full of store-brand You like to take things slow, but if yogurt and a pantry full of store- you’re still working up to imple- brand macaroni and cheese doesn’t mean menting that new year’s resolution, you can you’re thrifty and smart with your money. It just start working on something else, per- means your standards have fallen so impos- haps your 2009 taxes. sibly low that you need to take a long, hard look at where you went wrong. Aquarius 1/20-2/18 I’m not saying you’ll desever the Leo 7/23-8/22 beating you’ve got coming this Pop Quiz Sudoku Crossword Boasting to your spouse that week, but when some drunk idiot screams, from Page 27 1. POLKA you’ve finally remembered to “hey you, with the face”, and you look up, 2. WINTERSET water the plants on a regular basis is not a you’ve sealed your own fate. 3. ALLISON KRAUSE qualification for being a parent. At best, you 4. ARETHA FRANKLIN may be able to handle caring for a gerbil. Pisces 2/19-3/20 5. NINTH Start small, my friend. Your Facebook friends are 6. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT beginning to ignore you since 7. JOHNNY ORR Virgo 8/23-9/22 the arrival of your new kitten (or puppy) and 8. AFGHANISTAN It’s possible that your Facebook your subsequent new position as publicist 9. 90,000 posts of inspirational photos with for your pet. We get it. It’s cute. 10. DUHAWKS

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