Dubuque City Council Sets Next Year's Goals
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In the last edition of the Inkubator, I told a story Moving on... about coming to the end of the supply of magi- cal apple wood my dad bequeathed to me when We have the fattest little mouse in 365 World he gave me his meat smoker. Since then I have Headquarters. It’s not the only one over the past been blessed with the gift of free apple wood few months, but it’s the first one Tim and Mike from a number of sources. Thank you to every- got a good look at. The first ones perished in one who gave me the mojo. So, I have enough the D-Con twirling disc of doom. Some kind of the lovely lumber to keep me smokin’ well of spring loaded device trips inside the round into ‘08. That being said, I’d like to take this mo- hockey puck shaped device and it spins, do- ment to point out that I am also very, very low ing unseen, but surely unspeakable, things to on my supply of magical beer. the creature inside. Once it snaps shut you can’t see anything inside. But if it’s heavier than We took our wood to the Throwdown on the when you put it down, bingo, tell ‘em what River BBQ Cook-Off at the Grand Harbor over they’ve won, Gene! Now I’ve got a liking for Labor Day Weekend. We were definitely the peanut M&Ms. It was when I didn’t finish them novices in the event. Some of the competitors and put the package, closed, mind you, into my had massive rigs made of diamond plate and rolling industrial tool chest / desk drawers, that the little bastards showed themselves. We soon dispatched them ... and the practice of leav- ing any chocolate until tomorrow. That is, until my girl gave me a bag of Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups to bring to the office. Poor thing. She got the bag to take to a movie (not that anyone would ever sneak candy into a movie theater) and, in horror at the first taste in the dark, discovered that she had acciden- tally bought the new Elvis Reese’s with the built into massive banana flavor in them. (You thought I was tricked-out mo- gonna say there was a mouse in the bag, tor homes. It was didn’t you?) No, this was apparently worse. crazy. Some of the top 10 competitive BBQ So she gave me the remnants to bring in and see cooks in the nation were there. As promised, if anyone wanted them. Needless to say, after we talked to some zen masters and picked up a week or two in the office and a few days in what knowledge we could. We took ridicule for the infamous drawer of rodent residence, they using Kingsford charcoal. Our rigs weren’t big still went uneaten ... until Labor Day weekend. enough to hold the loin we had to smoke for We have not purchased new traps yet. Now that the People’s Choice competition, and we didn’t Tim and Mike have taken to naming the little even have a clever name for our team like “Car- cass Cookers” or “The Porkcrastinators.” Oh, snap! We need to work on that. I thought we could be Team Limp Brisket next year. We left poor Chris Puetz to stoke the fires of our pa- thetic little smokers alone from 4 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. while we slept ... sort of. In the end, these smokin’ newbies did not finish last. In fact, two of our meats finished in the top half of the 28 entries. Our top finisher, the pulled pork, which we basted with Mike’s special BBQ sauce made guy, I’m torn about letting him slip from this from Stone Cliff’s Sweet Cherry Wine, was the mortal coil. Not that torn, really. He’s toast. But only kind of meat none of us had ever cooked Rosie Hightower is his / her name. Mike and before. Go figure. I guess we’re a bunch of Tim decided whatever fictitious name the next idiot savants. But without one of those mas- unwanted porn-spam e-mail came from would sive smoke rigs, which I think secretly run on be the beast’s name. So Rosie Hightower it is. nitrous oxide, I’m not sure we can play ball. We’re considering trapping it and making it the But what a fun weekend it was for manliness in office mascot. That\ sounds like a considerable general. I should mention that the two old sages amount of work, though. I think I need a smell- we talked to about how to cook smoked meat proof chocolate lock-box. Do they make those? better ... yeah, we beat them both in the overall I guess it’s called Tupperware. But I prefer lock- rankings. Who’s your smoke daddy? box. I’ll bet Al Gore has one. The 365ink crew... faces you already know! Tim Brechlin Mike Ironside Tanya Graves Ellen Goodmann Kelli Kerrigan Ralph Kluseman Gary Olsen Matt Booth L.A. Hammer Chris Wand Pam Kress-Dunn Joey Wallis In This Issue of 365ink ISSUE # 38 ... SEPTEMBER 6 - 19 Warehouse District: 4 Community Events: 5 - 7 Arts & Culture Voices III: 8 : 6 - 11 100 Years of Broadway: 11 Motown Greats @ UWP: 12 Riverfest: 13 Legends of New York City: 14 Live Music Listings: 16-17 Wando’s Movie Reviews: 18 Mayor Roy Buol: 20 Giving Voice: Pam Kress-Dunn: 21 Bob’s Book Reviews: 22 Mattitude: 23 Eating Healthy: 25 The A Factor: Crossword / 26Sudoku: 27 Trixie Kitch: 28 Dr. Skrap’s Horoscopes: 28 Comedy: 30 The Inkwell Publisher: Bryce Parks ([email protected]) Editor: Tim Brechlin ([email protected]) Advertising: Kelli Kerrigan ([email protected]) 563-451-9365 Ad Design: Tanya Graves ([email protected]) Photography: Mike Ironside, Joey Wallis, Ron TIgges, Bryce Parks Writers & Content: Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin, Ellen Goodmann, Bryce Parks, L.A. Hammer, Chris Wand, Mayor Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Robert Gelms, Angela Koppes, Pam Kress-Dunn Graphic Design & Layout: Bryce Parks, Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin Special thank you to: Jim Heckmann, Bob & Fran Parks, Kay Kluseman, Bob Johnson, Todd Locher,Dave Blake, Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Castaneda, Tom Miller, Renae Gabrielson, Christy Monk, Katy Brechlin, Ron & Jennifer Tigges and all the 365 friends and advertisers for all your support. You are all 365. Dubuque365 • 210 West 1st Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 Office Phone or Music/Events/Movie Hotline 365 @(563) 588-4365 All contents (c) 2007, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Roy Buol Ron Tigges Robert Gelms Brad Parks Angela Koppes Bryce Parks We’ve hidden 365’s WANDO somewhere in this issue of Dubuque365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? Hint: He’s tiny and could be anywhere ! Good Luck! Win ners get a free warm fuzzy felling in your belly! - THERE’S MORE THAN JUST DUST IN OUR WAREHOUSES! 4 SEPTEMBER 6 - 19 “For a lot of people, especially those who friends at the Tri-State Sports Look maga- are somewhat new to town, they discover zine, recently entered its new digs in the Warehouse District almost by acci- the warehouse with a 3,500-square-foot dent,” she says. “You know, you’re driv- build-out as part of the project. ing around downtown looking for Place A or Place B, and then you find yourself all Business already in the District is thriv- turned around and you’re lost ... and then ing, too. Restoration Warehouse, the en- you’re in this cool district that you didn’t terprise owned by Bob Johnson, Bethany even know existed, and then you forget Golombeski and David Blake, is getting about your original destination. The Ware- bigger seemingly every day under the house District is cool, once you’re actually guidance of Kyle Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and there ... that’s what we’re working on.” Golombeski, in fact, barely made it to the cover photo shoot for this issue, as they And they’re definitely working hard. The were so busy with work at the warehouse! Warehouse District Committee has met more than a dozen time, with countless “It’s good to be busy,” Golombeski said hours poured into the project from its with a smile as she arrived at the shoot. volunteers. Committee members and rep- “Then you realize that you have three resentatives from Dubuque Main Street days to do a week’s work and then you have traveled across the country to ware- don’t know where to start!” she quickly house districts in other locales, engaging added, laughing. by Tim Brechlin was targeted last year by Dubuque’s Envi- sion 2010 Commission, sponsored by the in fact-finding and research missions to best determine what works, what doesn’t Beyond the great shopping options at Res- There is a rumbling deep within our Dubuque Racing Association and spear- work, and what hasn’t been tried before. toration Warehouse (the desks at 365 are historic downtown Dubuque. It is the headed by the Dubuque Area Chamber of science lab tables from the University of rumbling of a district that, once thought Commerce and the Community Founda- The District is moving full speed ahead. Dubuque, dating back to the ‘60s -- no dormant, is now shouting to be seen tion of Greater Dubuque, which at the time The CRA / Caradco Building at 1000 joke!), there’s so much more down in and heard. It is Dubuque’s ever-historic said that it aimed to convert buildings into Jackson Street, also known as the Voices the Warehouse District: Marsha Scovel’s Warehouse District, a unique and in- multi-use structures for businesses, restau- Warehouse, received a huge boost in Hometiques, Phoenix Fitness, Mission stantly captivating part of our city that is rants, shops and residences, as well as de- March when Wilmac Properties, owned Creative, the oh-so-delicious burgers at quickly becoming one of the beacons of velop a registry, with information regarding by Tim McNamara, was awarded an Kalmes’ Breaktime ..