August 27–September 9, 2015 Issue #246

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21 voices 11: Streets You won’t want to miss this annual art event in the Voices Gallery located in the historic Millwork District on Saturday, September 12!

25 team of Dreams 33 dubuque Oktoberfest 26 driftless Farm & Food Weekend and Bier Tasting 34 woodstone Restaurant

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2 TOC & Inkwell 365ink Magazine August 27–September 9, 2015 Issue #246 Dubuque365.com I sit down tying to think of something I said, “Yes, team hip fully bunnies and funny to write about, but all that comes rainbow farts.” She asked, “Why would to mind are things that grind my gears. I tell him that?” I said “Because in seven So, I’ll just moan about the inequities of years, not a single driver has ever read life for a while and see how many can the special instructions on the manifest stay awake through it all. before arriving, so why try.” She said, First off, as I wrote about earlier, I “Well, we should anyway,” So I said, sprained my ankle and broke my foot on “Okay, tell them to call my cell phone 30 July 1st. Healing is very slow, and at this minutes prior to arrival because no one point, the real pain in the ass is my pain is at the warehouse, and I need to come in the ass… on the good side. Walking out at meet the truck to unload.” So crooked on the gimp-boot thingy has yesterday the driver calls. He said “Hey thrown my posture all outta whack, and I’m here at this warehouse and there’s I’m doing all the work with my left leg. nobody here.” I smiled to myself before So now as my foot is almost healed, beating my head against the wall. my “good” leg has so many aches and Summer is over… and I never got out pains that I would tell any doctor that it’s on the river once. I never got to Codfish worse than my “bad” leg. And don’t get Hollow once. I only had sweet corn, like, me started on my knees. Additionally, three times. I really hope you did a little you never know how much you take for extra to cover for my pathetic excuse for granted the simple act of walking and a lazy summer. I blame the foot… which carrying something in your hand at the has also meant I have not been able to same time. Crutches suck, period. ride the motorcycle since June. I got a new lawn mower. A four-wheel- I should say something nice, I guess, drive, this-sucker-can-go-anywhere before I go back under the bridge and model. I got to use it once before I broke await the next weary traveller. Irish my foot. I don’t think I’ll get to use it at all Hooley was excellent this year. I believe they year. How is that fair? that night it was up against Dubuque… I’d grumble about politics, but no one And All That Jaz!@, whose band 10 would listen anyway. Mostly I’d grumble of Soul was also super. Both events about people who grumble about politics, had great crowds and were each huge but… well, I’ve decided that when you successes. That’s a great relief and a tip argue with people who say things like of the hat to Dubuque for supporting live “This guy is an idiot. The 14th amendment music like that. In both cases, charities does not state that if you are born here will be the recipients of much love thanks you are a citizen. This is a falsehood.” to your support. Apparently quoting the very first line My band finally has a couple of shows of the Amendment to them is not proof in the calendar now that I can walk again. enough that they are wrong because they Check out the listing in the music pages start talking about who it was intended for of this issue. When all else fails and you’re at the time. I thought maybe it was best in a crap mood, rockin’ peoples faces off not to bring up the Bible at that point. always makes you feel better. n There are two Wingfests this year… on the same day… on opposite sides of Dubuque (not even in Dubuque)… and I’m going to miss both. How is that justice? I’m just going to have to double down on Baconfest, I guess. It looks like my Raiders are going to suck as much this year as they have the last 15 years, so I can stop worrying about them right now and focus on crushing my wife and her workmates in their office pick-em league football pool. Hopefully the Hawkeyes bring something to get excited about. I got a big load of plush Spongebob dolls into the Toys For Tots Warehouse this week. 900 of them to be precise. They’re pretty big. When the logistics company we work with at the Marine Toys For Tots Foundation called to arrange the seven pallet delivery, they asked if I had any special instructions for the driver.

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“9/11 Never Forget” Mobile Exhibit Now through August 30 @ Noon–8 PM Diamond Jo Casino South Parking Lot The moving memorial “9/11 Never tour by FDNY firefighters. Visitors will Forget” mobile exhibit is now at the learn what took place and the ultimate Diamond Jo Casino. Entrance into the sacrifice that so many people made on exhibit is free of charge and open to September 11, 2001. all ages. The Stephen Siller Tunnel to “The Diamond Jo and TH Media Towers Foundation, which honors New welcome the 9/11 Never Forget Exhibit York firefighter Stephen Siller, dedicated to Dubuque as a way to honor those the 9/11 Never Forget mobile exhibit in whose lives were lost,” said Wendy September 2013. The exhibit has been Runde, General Manager of the Diamond welcomed around the country from Jo Casino. “We hope this exhibit will Arizona to Florida. educate and serve as a reminder of that The exhibit is a high-tech, 53-foot tragic day; and serve as a tribute to all tractor-trailer, which unfolds to a of the Emergency Services personnel 1,100 square-foot exhibition space. It who so bravely protect and serve our features a presentation of artifacts, community each day. Everyone is invited including steel beams from the Twin to view this memorial dedicated to the Towers; a documentary video about people and first responders whose lives 9/11; recordings from first-responder were sacrificed on 9/11.” n radio transmissions; as well as a guided

Summer’s Last Blast 16 August 28–29 @ 5 PM–Midnight Town Clock Plaza With school on the horizon, it’s time by Zero-2-Sixty, Menace and Johnny for the annual end of season celebration Trash, heating up the Town Clock stage known as Summer’s Last Blast. for those ‘80s “nerds that rock” the Scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Spazmatics. Anyone who has caught one August 28–29 from 5 PM each day. Last of the Spazmatics former shows in town Blast is two days of live music, food, knows they play an expansive list of and cold beverages (it IS still summer songs from the decade of skinny ties, big after all). Hosted by Buzz Entertainment hair, and spandex—as they say, all the Group and presented by the Diamond Jo songs you hate to admit you love. Casino, Summer’s Last Blast 16 will again And just in case the weather goes be held under the Town Clock. south, they’ve got your back covered— Kicking things off on Friday evening and your head! There will be a tent big is a fun and eclectic mix of killer tunes enough to cover the entire plaza in case including Pop-Rocks, a female-fronted there’s rain! band that’s built a strong following from Collectively, that’s a lot of music for many appearances at the Mississippi free, so grab your friends and get out Moon Bar—now available for all ages. Plus there and celebrate summer while you AC/DC fans will be thrilled to see Electric can. There will plenty of food available Shock back in town again. And the night too! Not only does Summer’s Last Blast would be full without a little country promise to be a whole lot of fun, but music right? Dubuque’s own BackRoads a portion of the proceeds from the Band will bring all you can eat! event benefit Camp Albrecht Acres, The celebration continues on Project Concern, Sertoma Club, FFA and Saturday, starting off with back to back Dubuque Main Street. n to back sets of hard rock and metal

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Ongoing Dubuque Farmers’ Market Bank & Trust, is accessible for just $5 on Summer’s Last Blast Saturdays: Through October @ 7 AM–Noon top of a regular museum admission ($15 for 5 PM–Midnight @ Town Clock Plaza Monday Summer Farmers’ Market Near Iowa & 12th St. adults/ $10 for kids / $13 for seniors over 64). See page 4 for more information. Mondays: Through Summer @ 3:30–6:30 PM Everything that shoppers love about the Museum hours are 9 AM–6 PM daily. Visit East Mill Bakeshop & Catering Dubuque Farmers’ Market is back and better RiverMuseum.com for more information. Sandy Hook Nights: East Mill on the corner of Bryant St. and than ever. Produce, hanging baskets, freshly Six Shots ‘Til Midnight Grandview Ave. in Dubuque will whip up warm baked goods, locally bottled wines, a great Thursday, August 27 5 PM–Midnight @ Sandy Hook Tavern meals while you browse great local vendors selection of arts and crafts, and more are now (Hazel Green, WI) like Fincel’s, Dobie’s Produce, Rock Ridge Farm, available. SNAP customers are able to receive $1 Church Basement Ladies 2: Sandy Hook Tavern offers a biker-styled Annie’s Acres, Tree of Life Farm, and more. For SNAP tokens to purchase eligible food items at A Second Helping alternative on select Friday evenings through more information, call 563-580-1175. the Dubuque Farmers’ Market, and any customer 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater September with a mix of live music, steak will be able to purchase $5 Debit/Credit tokens It’s 1969. The world is changing, and the feeds, games and raffles, and each night Master Gardener Call Center to purchase anything at market through the new ladies are preparing for some changes of their benefitting a different charitable organization. Mondays & Thursdays: Through September Market Money program. For more information, own—below the House of God. These ladies Designed as an “after work” social event. The Dubuque County Master Gardeners are ready contact Dubuque Main Street at 563-588-4400 will keep you on the edge of your seat, you to help with gardening challenges of all kinds. or visit dubuquefarmersmarket.org. won’t know what to expect next! As always, Dubuque Area Writers Guild Meeting The call center runs Mondays: 6–8 PM; Thursdays: you will laugh until your side-dish hurts with 6 PM @ Monk’s Kaffee Pub 1–4 PM. In October there are Master Gardeners “9/11 Never Forget” Mobile Exhibit their hilarious antics and down-to-earth on duty on Thursdays only from 1–4 PM. Call Through August 30 @ Noon–8 PM charm. Tickets are $20. Thursdays are Girls’ Bike Nights: Renegade 563-583-6496 to reach the call center. Diamond Jo Casino South Parking Lot Night Out; all audience members get a free 6–9 PM @ Dubuque Harley Davidson See page 4 for more information. glass of wine. For information and to purchase Bike nights are held at the Dubuque Harley 365ink Lunchtime Jam tickets call 563-588-3377 or visit us online at Davidson dealership at 145 N. Crescent Ridge Rd. Fridays: Through September 4 @ Noon–1 PM Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition BellTowerTheater.net. on Dubuque on the last Friday of every month Town Clock Plaza Through October 11 through August. The outdoor parties features Hosted by the 365ink crew and sponsored National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium Friday, August 28 grilled grub from the Mighty Mississippi H.O.G. by Prudential Financial and Carlos O’Kelly’s, Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition takes you on a Chapter for an at will donation to Bikers In Need Lunchtime Jams feature free laid-back journey back in time to experience the legend Social Connections for Singles and there plenty of cold beer. lunchtime performances by great local acoustic of Titanic like never before. The Exhibition has 5–7:30 PM @ Shot Tower musicians in Town Clock Plaza Fridays around been designed with a focus on the legendary Join us for an evening with food and cards. Meet Church Basement Ladies 2: lunchtime (weather permitting). Lunchtime RMS Titanic’s compelling human stories as other singles in the area and have a fun time! For A Second Helping Jams also features great food from Carlos best told through over 150 authentic artifacts more information, call Joann at 563-581-3451 or 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater O’Kelly’s with many other fantastic dining and extensive room re-creations. Titanic: the email Maureen at [email protected]. options in the immediate area. Artifact Exhibition, sponsored by Dubuque

Dubuque365.com Issue #246 August 27–September 9, 2015 365ink Magazine Events 5 Events “Food Chains” Environmental Film Series Saturday, August 29 Thursday, September 3 @ 7 PM Artists Take Over the Porch: Clarke University Jansen Music Hall Nancy Lindsay (Oil Painting) “Food Chains” will be the first in a Upcoming Films 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery DBQ series of movies presented by Clarke Thursday, October 8 @ 7 PM Artists from around the region will be University as part of its Environmental “Chasing Ice” demonstrating how they make their art on Film Series during the 2015–16 academic Presented by Green Dubuque the grand front porch of Outside the Lines Art year. Clarke has partnered with Gallery at 409 Bluff Street in Dubuque, Iowa. A several area agencies to present the Thursday, November 12 @ 6:30 PM different artist will demonstrate each Saturday Environmental Film Series. The Dubuque “The Clean Bin Project” throughout the summer. It is free and open Food Co-op is Clarke’s partner for this Presented by Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid to everyone. This is a relaxed and easygoing first film. Each film will be followed with Waste Association approach to learn firsthand how artists create a call to action. For “Food Chains” the everything from paintings to jewelry, sculpture Dubuque Food Co-op asks attendees to Thursday, January 14 @ 6:30 PM and pottery. Children and their questions are consider the sources of their food. “The Lorax” welcome! Some artists will offer additional “Food Chains” focuses on a group of Presented by the Dubuque County artwork for sale above and beyond artwork tomato pickers from southern Florida— Conservation Board shown in the gallery. the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW—who are revolutionizing farm Thursday, February 25 @ 7 PM Adopt-a-Palooza labor. Their story is one of hope and “Last Call at the Oasis” 11 AM–4 PM @ Dubuque Regional Humane promise for the triumph of morality over Presented by the National Mississippi River Society Kinsey’s Campus corporate greed to ensure a dignified life Museum & Aquarium Adopt-A-Palooka promotes more adoptions for farm workers and a more humane, and empties the shelter by finding forever transparent food chain. Thursday, April 7 @ 7 PM homes for lost, abandoned, and unwanted Clarke University received a grant The last film session in April will be unique pets. Through the generosity of William R. funded by the Resource Enhancement in that students, families and community Klauer, adoption fees will be discounted the and Protection Conservation Education members can create their own environmental entire weekend. Enjoy food, a kids’ activity Program (REAP CEP) to present the film film. Winners of this film contest will be able center, prizes, activities and demos. Vendors series. The Iowa Department of Natural to present their video and ideas to others and include Theisen’s, PETCO, Fido Fit, Adventure Resources REAP CEP grant will also help make their own call to action. The top video will Bound Canines, Tailored Pooch, Sam’s Club, Clarke introduce its new Environmental receive a $200 prize. The Environmental Film and more! Kinsey’s Campus is located at 4242 Studies major. n Series is open to the public. Chavenelle Rd.

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Monarch Tagging Apple Jacks take the field at 6 PM Saturday for Sunday, August 30 “Cambodia” by Paco Rosic Reception 1 PM @ Hurstville Interpretive Center a vintage game, and Chicago teams in vintage 5:30–8:30 PM @ Gallery C (Maquoketa, IA) uniforms play a traditional game at 8 AM Sunday. Turn Back the Clock Weekend See page 17 for more information. Learn about the monarch butterfly’s journey Stay for Ghost Sunday at 1 PM. Bring your lawn 8 AM @ Field of Dreams Movie Site (Dyersville, IA) south for the winter. Be a part of the research chairs and sunscreen. The gift shop will be open Music in the Gardens: by catching and tagging this year’s migrants. All as well as a concession stand serving your favorite Buying a Canoe or Kayak 101 Ralph Kluseman and Beatles Tribute are ages welcome and participation is free. For ballpark treats. Admission is free. For more 1 PM @ E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum more information, call 563-652-3783 or visit information, visit FODMovieSite.com. Pat Prevenas and Earl Brimeyer will provide Music in the Gardens, a free summer concert jacksonccb.com. Hurstville Interpretive Center is expert advice on choosing the perfect canoe series, offers a wide variety of music. Bring located at 18670 63th St. in Maquoketa, IA. Così fan tutte by Mozart or kayak. Join us for this free, family-friendly lawn chairs or blankets and your own picnic! 7 PM @ Maquoketa Art Experience informative event. For more information, call the Summer’s Last Blast (Maquoketa, IA) interpretive center at 563-556-0620. Additional Monday, August 31 5 PM–Midnight @ Town Clock Plaza Iowa City Concert Opera presents a concert program schedules can be found at the park’s version Così fan tutte (So Do They All). Two website at MinesOfSpain.org. Dubuque Community String Orchestra Matter 21+ Social Evenings officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, are sure Open Rehearsal 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center that their fiancées will be true to them no 6th Annual Heart of Dubuque 6:30 PM @ Emmmaus Bible College Have fun enjoying all of our creativity building matter what. At the urging of Don Alfonso, Ice Cream Social Adult string players of all skill levels are invited adventures in a grown-up atmosphere. All a philosopher, and Despina, maid to the two 1–3 PM @ Comiskey Park to join the the Dubuque Community String 21+ social evenings are for adults 21 or older ladies, they play a trick on the women to test This event is sponsored by the neighborhood Orchestra for a free open rehearsal. The and allow you to bring snacks and your own their loyalty. Will the ladies remain faithful, or churches and the North-End Neighborhood Dubuque Community String Orchestra is a beverages, including beer or wine (hard are all women fickle, as Don Alfonso claims? Association. There will be FREE ice cream, non-auditioned ensemble of adult musicians. alcohol). Enjoy all of our anytime adventures, Performed in Italian with English synopsis, games, prizes, fellowship, the Americana New members are always welcome! Upon plus our add-on options like pottery painting this production is presented in partnership Band will perform, face painting, Firetruck/ joining, there is a $25 tuition fee per semester. items, guided painting sessions, mosaic with University of Iowa ArtsShare. This Ambulance Display and the LARP Group. The orchestra rehearses Monday evenings at design items, and glass painting. Matter is production is appropriate for all ages and 6:30PM at Emmaus Bible College. To receive located at 140 E 9th St. in Dubuque. For more admission is free. For more information, visit Church Basement Ladies 2: more information or to join, please call information, visit MatterAdventures.com or Facebook.com/iowacityconcertopera or call A Second Helping the NISOM office at563-690-0151 or visit call 563-556-0117. MAE at 563-652-9925. 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater NISOM.com to learn more.

Turn Back the Clock Weekend Church Basement Ladies 2: Clarke Art + Design Faculty Reception Meet Michael Till, Author of 6 PM @ Field of Dreams Movie Site (Dyersville, IA) A Second Helping 3–4:30 PM @ Clarke Quigley Gallery Along Iowa’s Historic Highway 20 Join for vintage and traditional baseball games 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater See page 17 for more information. 6:30–8 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library with players in vintage uniforms. The L.A. Crescent See page 38 for more information.

Dubuque365.com Issue #246 August 27–September 9, 2015 365ink Magazine Events 7 Events Ignite Dubuque Music Festival 2015 Sunday, September 6 @ 2–8 PM Agape Amphitheater (16555 Rolling Hills Estates) The second annual Ignite stick in your head for days on end. Dubuque Music Festival has And finally, national recording arrived and it’s going to be even artist and GRAMMY-nominee, better than last year, attracting an Tricia Brock will take the stage estimated 3000+ people from the at 6:00pm. Tricia, former lead of tri-state area! This year’s festival Superchick, has two albums under takes place on Sunday, September her belt, The Road and Radiate. 6, the gates open at 2 PM and the Grab a blanket or lawn chair headliner takes the stage at 6 PM. and enjoy a free, family-friendly Ignite Dubuque’s mission is event! Enjoy a day filled with to unite people and spark a hope activities and entertainment that that will encourage them to live will attract people of all ages! a life of passion and purpose for Food, beverages and Dilly Bars Jesus Christ. will be for sale from Dairy Queen This event is free, family- as well as a Kid Zone area! friendly and open to the public! Ignite Dubuque Music festival is Pam Mumm will emcee the show sponsored by many local businesses with best speaker Chad Norris. with the Platinum Sponsors; The entertainment will begin Warthan Brothers Maquoketa Ford, with the local group, Cross Hope. Dubuque Auto Plaza, Dairy Queen, Next, Loftland, a nationally Kwik Stop and Fazolis. recognized, Wisconsin based Get more information online band will take the stage and fuse at ignitedubuque.com and like honest and uplifting lyrics with Ignite Dubuque on Facebook. n infectious hooks that are sure to

Fashion Soirée & Sangria Picnic Thursday, September 10 @ 5 PM Four Mounds Estate The Four Mounds Women’s about their lines of clothing and Fellowship invites you to an accessories. After the show, there elegant evening event to help is an opportunity for guests to raise funds for Four Mounds speak directly with the boutique Foundation. The evening consists owners. The picnic follows with of the fashion show under a individual picnic baskets for each tent on the lawn overlooking guest. Guests can try their chance the river, followed with a picnic at exciting door prizes from the on the grounds. Accompanying boutiques. beverages include homemade The event is co-sponsored sangria and cucumber/mint water by the Four Mounds Women’s from our garden. Reservations are Fellowship, Inside Décor Rentals, required because space is limited. Neises Design, and the East Mill Enjoy fall and winter fashions Bake Shop. Tickets cost $30 per from DBQ Fashions, Gotta Have person. Guests may reserve their It, Graham’s Gal & HJ’s Fashion spot by visiting FourMounds.org, Emporium, Rhomberg Fur & emailing [email protected], Leather Gallery and Fig Leaf. or calling 563-556-1908. n The boutique owners will talk

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Tuesday, September 1 Sherry, Yates, Do Recital 7:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall Toddler Tuesday Enjoy an evening of chamber works for 10–11 AM @ National Mississippi River trumpet, trombone, and piano. Husband Museum & Aquarium and wife team James Sherry and Bang The Museum & Aquarium offers a program Lang Do have given performances in a wide for toddlers on a Tuesday of each month. The range of musical styles locally, nationally Toddler Tuesday Program is for children ages and internationally. They are joined by 2 to 4 years old. Each month features a new Benjamin Yates, an instructor of low brass theme and fun activities, including a story and and ensemble director at Luther College. craft project too! The theme for September Admission is free. For more information, visit 1st is “Q is for Quail”. October 6th is “R is for Clarke.edu/ArtsAtClarke. Rattlesnake!” Cost is just $5 per child and FREE for the one accompanying adult or guardian Wednesday, September 2 (cost is for program only, regular admission not included). Advance sign-up is required. Women’s Leadership Conference: Please call 563-557-9545 ext. 212. For more “Lead Yourself First…With Intention!” information, visit RiverMuseum.com. 8 AM–4 PM @ Grand River Center The Women’s Leadership Network’s 13th annual Encore Chorale Open Rehearsal conference is designed to promote professional 1–2 PM @ Oak Park Place Grand Oaks Room and personal development for women. Open to adults age 55 and older, the Chorale Elizabeth McCormick will be this year’s keynote rehearses weekly in the Grand Oaks Room at speaker. Registration is $75 for WLN members, Oak Park Place in Dubuque from 1–2 PM every $125 for non-members, and includes breakfast Tuesday. Anyone who enjoys singing and and lunch. For more information or to register, making new friends is welcome to join this visit DubuqueWLN.org. non-auditioned group. To join, submit an Encore registration form and semester “Lunch n’ Learn”: Extending the growing payment to NISOM. Each semester is only $25 season and increasing productivity to participate. Contact NISOM at 563-690-0151 12:15–12:45 PM @ Multicultural Family Center or [email protected] with questions. Techniques such as fall plantings, succession planting, row covers, hoop houses, and cold frames will be discussed. Participants are welcome to bring their own suggestions and experiences with season extension to share with the group. Lunch ‘n Learns are FREE to attend, no registration required. Walk-ins are welcome! For more information, contact Laura at 563-583-6496 or visit Extension.IAState.edu/Dubuque. NAMI Care and Share Meeting 7 PM @ Caradco Building, Millwork Collective Green Drinks NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) 6:30 PM @ Inspire Cafe Dubuque invites you to participate in our Care Green Dubuque is launching a new Green and Share Meetings the first Tuesday of every Drinks in 2015. Come meet new like-minded month at 7 PM. This is group is open to anyone friends and discuss local green issues while with lived experience, their family members, enjoying a beverage. loved ones and anyone wanting to provide support. All meetings are held in the lower level Millwork Collective area at 900 Jackson Street. This event is free and open to the public.

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Thursday, September 3 The Fever River Puppeteers: “Jack and the Beanstalk” Clarke University Environmental Film 11 AM & 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House Series: “Food Chains” (Hazel Green, WI) 7 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall The classic tale is a family-friendly comedy See page 6 for more information. performed with marionettes. Tickets, at $5 for adults and $4 for children, are available Friday, September 4 only at the door, beginning a half hour before each performance. For more information, visit hazelgreenoperahouse.blogspot.com.

Grape Stomp Festival Noon–8 PM @ Park Farm Winery Grape Stomping throughout the day. Wine available for purchase by the glass or bottle. Build your own Wood-fired Pizzas available for purchase. Live Music from 5-8 PM. Saturday is Andrew Houy and Sunday is Mississippi Band. For more information, visit parkfarmwinery.com. Mentored Dove Hunt 5–8 PM @ Swiss Valley Nature Center Boss Grant (Johnny Cash Tribute Show) Any and all ages are welcome to attend 7 PM @ Ohnward Fine Arts Center this free mentored dove hunt sponsored by (Maquoketa, IA) multiple conservation agencies (Dubuque With a repeatedly sensational depiction of County Conservation Board, Iowa DNR, the Man in Black, Boss Grant and the Johnny National Wild Turkey Federation, Dubuque Cash Revue, a four piece band from St. Paul, County Conservation Society, and Pheasants Minnesota, continue to turn heads in the span Forever.) Friday, September 4 participants of the Midwest and beyond. The Johnny Cash will learn hunter education basics, hear from Revue is proving to thousands of individuals the agencies about public and private lands that they are a most accurate copy of Johnny and conservation/hunting importance, and Cash’s originality, not over or under doing enjoy a game feed featuring dove meat. it! They have simply found and followed the Saturday, September 5 participants will meet fine line. Tickets are $22 in advance or $25 at at 6 AM to begin the hunt. Space is limited for the door. Students $13/$15, respectively. Visit this program; be sure to call 563-556-6745 OhnwardFineArtsCenter.com. to reserve your spot. Registration closes on Monday, August 31. The Salon Exhibition Reception 7–11 PM @ Dubuque Area Arts Collective Saturday, September 5 See page 18 for more information.

Mentored Dove Hunt Mississippi Valley BOLD (Bike Over 6 AM @ Swiss Valley Nature Center Labor Day) Tour Dubuque Co Fairgrounds This is a “Mini RAGBRAI” for people not quite ready to conquer all of Iowa. This year the ride will start and end at the Dubuque Co. Fairgrounds and pass through Wisconsin and Illinois. The ride is fully supported with sag for people who don’t want to finish a day’s ride and logistics for camping gear from the start to the end of each day. Registration: $30 per day or $75 for the whole weekend. Proceeds will benefit 20th Anniversary Mighty Morphin Power local charities. Learn more at MVBOLD.com. Ranger’s Movie Screening 10 AM–12:30 PM @ Mindframe Theaters Sunday, September 6 After the movie screening stick around for a live Q and A with Steve Cardenas, the Red Power Grape Stomp Festival Ranger. Tickets are $20 for general admission Noon–8 PM @ Park Farm Winery and $50 for VIP. VIPs arrive at 9 AM. Movie starts at 10 AM. Steve Cardenas will also be The Fever River Puppeteers: present after the Q and A to sign autographs. “Jack and the Beanstalk” Tickets are available at Mindframe Theaters 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House or at ppe.ticketleap.com/mmpr. For more (Hazel Green, WI) information, call Dan at 563-213-3158. Ignite Dubuque Music Festival University of Iowa Mobile Museum 2–8 PM @ Agape Amphitheater 10 AM–4 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library See page 8 for more information. See page 38 for more information.

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Ghost Sunday A special festival cafe menu will be served, Wednesday, September 9 Arts & Alchemy: It’s Arthur Miller Time! 7:30–9 PM @ Field of Dreams Movie Site and hometown brewer, Aran Madden of 8–10 PM @ The Smokestack (Dyersville, IA) Furthermore Beer, will be serving his fine micro Open House at Toastmasters Join Fly-By-Night Productions (FBNP) to The Ghost Players once more emerge from the brewed beer. Local celebrity and Beatle expert Speakeasy 3588 celebrate the 100th birthday of great American magical corn field for this special nighttime Bruce Bradley will be Emcee. This is a free, 5:30–7:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library playwright Arthur Miller. Read aloud and discuss event. Bring your lawn chairs and sunscreen. family-friendly festival. For more information, Looking to develop speaking and leadership two of Arthur Miller’s best plays, Death of a The gift shop will be open as well as a call Karin at 608-588-7070 or email skills? Ace a job interview? Ignite your Salesman and A View from the Bridge. Scripts concession stand serving your favorite ballpark [email protected]. career? Come be our guest to learn what are provided. Also sign up to win free tickets to treats. Admission is free. For more information, we do, and how we can help you with FBNP’s production of A View from the Bridge. visit FODMovieSite.com. Mississippi Valley BOLD (Bike Over your communication and leadership skills. The Smokestack is located at 7th and White St. For Labor Day) Tour Toastmasters International is a world more information, visit FlyByNightDubuque.com. Mississippi Valley BOLD Dubuque Co Fairgrounds leader in communication and leadership (Bike Over Labor Day) Tour development. For more information, Friday, September 11 Dubuque Co Fairgrounds Tuesday, September 8 visit 3588.toastmastersclubs.org or facebook.com/ToastmastersSpeakeasyClub. Juntos: Together for a Better Monday, September 7 City Life Program Registration Deadline Education Program The City of Dubuque welcomes registrations Thursday, September 10 5–8 PM @ Multicultural Family Center for the next session of City Life, a free “citizen Juntos is a 5-week series of workshops academy” program designed to provide Fashion Soirée & Sangria Picnic designed for Latino families with 6–8th grade residents a hands-on connection with 5 PM @ Four Mounds Estate students that runs through October 9. The their local government. The Human Rights See page 8 for more information. goal is to have families work together to help Department will strive to make accommodations youth succeed in school and to discover paths around transportation, childcare, language Page & Palette: to higher education. The program will be held and other needs. Program runs Tuesdays, A Book Group for Art Lovers! at the Multicultural Family Center—1157 Central September 15–October 20 at 6–9 PM. For 6–7:30 PM @ River Lights Bookstore Avenue. The program is free but registration is more information and to register for City Join us every other month where we will required by September 11. Register at the ISU Life, visit CityOfDubuque.org/CityLife, be discussing either a fiction or non-fiction Dubuque Extension office at 14858 West Ridge contact Community Engagement Coordinator book about all things arts! This month we are Lane, Suite 2, in Dubuque. For a brochure, visit 7th Annual BeatleFest Nikola Pavelic at 563-589-4182 or discussing “The Women” by T. Coraghessan Extension.IAState.edu/Dubuque or contact 11 AM–6 PM @ Spring Green General Store [email protected], or stop by the Boyle. Receive 15% off this title when Dora Serna at the Multicultural Family Center at (Spring Green, WI) Human Rights Department office at 1300 Main purchasing through River Lights. For more 563-582-3681 or [email protected]. Celebrate the music of the Beatles with St. in Dubuque. information, visit RiverLights.com or call Dinner is provided for program participants local bands performing all Beatles’ music. 563-556-4391. and child care is available.

Dubuque365.com Issue #246 August 27–September 9, 2015 365ink Magazine Events 11 Events The Medicine Band: It Was a Beautiful Country September 11 and 12 @ 7 PM E.B. Lyons Interpretive Center The two night event on September 11 and 12 features stories of Native America, along with an environmental message that relates to all people today. As one spectator described a past performance of this show: “I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful performance of the Blackhawk rock opera. I was moved beyond words- happy, sad, disgusted, proud, and yes hopeful. You brought our history alive. The music was beautiful and it transcended a basic concert, I felt like I was part of this essential story. You have a gift for writing and performing as well as connecting with people in a thoughtful manner.” Bring a blanket or lawnchair and enjoy a musical concert transcending history. Andrew Houy will be opening the show at 7 PM each night. Sorry, no carry-ins. This year’s show is made possible through an arts and cultural grant from Mediacom and Loras College. n

Discover the Dinosaurs Saturday, September 12 @ 10 AM–8 PM Sunday, September 13 @ 10 AM–7 PM Five Flags Center Discover the Dinosaurs is for the Scavenger Hunt. (Individual ride tickets entire family, and especially kids, to may be purchased for $5-$6) explore the mystery of pre-historic life CHILD/EXHIBIT PLUS includes: in an environment of learning, discovery, Dinosaur Exhibit, Dino Dig, Dino Den, and fun. Discover the Dinosaurs is a Dino Theater, Dino Coloring Station, unique hands on exhibit that consists of Scavenger Hunt, Unlimited Dinosaurs up to 40 moving and replica museum Rides, Mini Golf, and Inflatables. quality dinosaurs that gives you the Ticket prices are as follows (plus opportunity to actually get close and fees): Adult (13–64 Years) $19; Child touch the dinosaurs! Beyond the exhibit, Exhibit (2–12 Years) $17; Child Plus additional fun activities are available for Exhibit (2–12 Years) $23; Senior kids of all ages, which make spending (65+ Years) $17; 0–24 Months—Free the day with the dinosaurs a great Admission. Tickets are available at experience for the entire family. the Five Flags Center Box office, CHILD/EXHIBIT ONLY includes: online at Ticketmaster.com or call Dinosaur Exhibit, Dino Dig, Dino Den, 1-800-745-3000. For more information, Dino Theater, Dino Coloring Station and visit FiveFlagsCenter.com. n

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Friday, September 11 Saturday, September 12

Sandy Hook Nights: Jackson Taylor & The Sinners 5:30 PM–Midnight @ Sandy Hook Tavern (Hazel Green, WI)

Dubuque Area Writers Guild Meeting 6 PM @ Monk’s Kaffee Pub The Dubuque Area Writers Guild (DAWG) Alzheimer’s Association is for writers who want to share their Walk to End Alzheimer’s® work with other writers and lovers of the 8 AM @ Bergfeld Recreation Area written word. For more information, email The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End [email protected]. Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, Family Overnight on the William M. Black support and research. The route will be 2.5 miles 7 PM @ National Mississippi River or a 1 mile shortcut. Start or join a team today at Museum & Aquarium act.alz.org/dubuquewalk or call 563-589-0030. Come aboard the William M Black for an awesome overnight experience! We will explore the historic The French Café vessel and learn how the crew of this 1934 dredge 10–11 AM @ Multicultural Family Center boat lived. You and your family will be involved Join others fluent (or becoming fluent) in in activities around the harbor and museum speaking French for coffee and conversation. grounds after hours while learning about the Participation is free, registration required. Sign Mississippi River and the animals that call this up at cityofdubuque.org/recreation. For more magnificent body of water home. One adult per information, call 563-582-3681. family/group required and children over age five preferred. Breakfast provided the morning Discover the Dinosaurs of September 12. Registration and advance 10 AM–8 PM @ Five Flags Center payment required. Deadline is September 4. See page 12 for more information. Space is limited. Cost is $45 per person. Contact [email protected] or call Paying it Forward Charity Event 563-557-9545 ext. 213 for questions. For more 11 AM @ Dubuque County Fairgrounds information, visit RiverMuseum.com. All proceeds from this eighth annual horse show go to the Dubuque Rescue Mission and The Medicine Band— The Veteran’s Freedom Center. There will be a It Was a Beautiful Country food stand, silent auction items, fish bowl 7–8:30 PM @ Mines of Spain State Recreation raffles, and 50/50 raffles. Admission is free for Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center spectators and $3 for each horse and rider See page 12 for more information. class. For more information, email [email protected] or visit Ace Frehley Sites.Google.com/site/tsscdbq. 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar See page 32 for more information.

Western Dubuque HS Wingfest Dubuque Dragon Boat Festival 11 AM @ Farley Park (Farley, IA) Miller Riverview Park & Campground Apparently for wings this day you have to go The Dubuque Dragon Boat Association will host either east or, in this case, west of town to satiate teams from around the world for the 28th annual your cravings. The WDHS Fine Arts Booster Club dragon boat races on the mighty Mississippi River. invites you to their wing cooking competition Camp set-up, a welcome dinner, and skits will with wing sampling and judging starting at 11 AM take place Friday. On Saturday, the “Awakening sponsored by Buffalo Wild Wings. There will also of the Dragon” will be followed by a full day of be a classic car show at the event and you can racing that continues through Sunday. Sunday watch the Hawks and Cyclones play on multiple evening’s breast cancer ceremony and award big screen TVs. Yes there is a beer garden, don’t be presentations conclude the weekend. For more silly! Plus other concessions for the entire family information, visit DubuqueDragonBoat.org. to enjoy. There will be kids gams and WD Band performances from current and past members, Driftless Farm & Food Weekend too. The event is free to attend. We assume wing National Mississppi River Museum & Aquarium tasting will have some kind of ticket you’ll have to See page 26 for more information. buy and hey, it’s all for the arts, so eat up!

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Saturday, September 12 Voices from the Warehouse District XI Opening Night The Fever River Puppeteers: 7 PM @ Voices Gallery “Jack and the Beanstalk” See page 21 for more information. 11 AM & 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House (Hazel Green, WI) The Medicine Band— It Was a Beautiful Country 7–8:30 PM @ Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center

The Great Draw Street Art Competition Cable Car Square See page 19 for more information.

Paint & Pour Dubuque Dragon Boat Festival 11 AM–2 PM @ Galena Cellars (Galena, IL) Miller Riverview Park & Campground Enjoy an afternoon of painting with artist Sandra Principe at Galena Cellars Vineyard & Winery, 4746 Driftless Farm & Food Weekend N. Ford Rd., Galena, IL. No experience is required. National Mississppi River Museum & Aquarium The cost is $35 per person which includes lunch and Neil Berg’s a glass of wine. There is an optional $15 materials Sunday, September 13 fee. To RSVP, call Sandra at 815-541-0068. For 100 Years of Broadway more information, visit galenacellars.com. DBQ Airport Open House/EAA Fly-in Saturday, September 19 @ 7:30 PM Drive-in Breakfast University of Dubuque Heritage Center, John and Alice Butler Hall Empower Birth Dubuque Expo 8 AM–Noon @ Dubuque Regional Airport Heritage Center opens its 3rd annual The performance will be preceded Noon–4 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library Multiple aircraft and equipment will be on display Live at Heritage Center Performing Arts by a free pre-show concert on the Cyber See page 38 for more information. on the airport ramp along with aircraft in the Series with Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Café Knapp Stage from 6–7 PM featuring Dubuque Jet Center Hangar. Breakfast will be Broadway. Neil Berg’s widely acclaimed Dr. Charles Barland, UD professor of East Dubuque Wingfest served in the Blue Skies Over Dubuque Hangar, musical revue of Broadway’s most music, on the piano performing a variety Noon–10 PM @ Sinsinawa Ave, East Dubuque, IL 11000 Airport Road. $7 for adults, $4 children celebrated shows features a dazzling of classic Broadway hits. The new John This event features delicious chicken wings in ages 5–12 and children under 5 free. Funds raised cast of five Broadway stars accompanied August Swanson: Passion of Color nearly every variety imaginable, plus cold beer, live by the breakfast go to support aviation promotion by an all-star New York band. exhibit will also be on display in the music, kids games, inflatables, and more. A public activities. For more information, visit flydbq.com. 100 Years of Broadway recreates the Bisignano Art Gallery. tasting is held from 2–4 PM. There will be live music greatest moments from the finest shows Tickets for 100 Years of Broadway from 1–9 PM with Taste Like Chicken playing in the Paying it Forward Charity Event of the century featuring the actual stars are $31–$36 for adults, $26–$31 for afternoon and Sam Wooden performing that night. 10 AM @ Dubuque County Fairgrounds of shows such as The Phantom of the UD Alumni, and $19 for children and Admission is free and punch cards will be available Opera, Les Misérables, CATS, Jersey Boys, students and can be purchased now to purchase for wing tasting. Discover the Dinosaurs and Wicked. These amazing performers at the Farber Box Office Monday 10 AM–7 PM @ Five Flags Center light up the stage with songs from the hit through Friday from 10 AM to Cruise-In for Hospice of Dubuque shows in which they starred. Rita Harvey, 5 PM at Heritage Center, University 1–6 PM @ Gooch’s Greenhouse (Kieler, WI) A Bridal Affair Fall Show 2015 Dubuque native, Hempstead High School of Dubuque, 2255 Bennett Street; by This event is held to support the mission of the 12:30–3:30 PM @ Grand River Center alum, and wife of Neil Berg, is part of the phone at 563-585-SHOW; or online at tri-state area nonprofit hospice, Hospice of Enjoy this public bridal show featuring the cast of performers. Harvey portrayed dbq.edu/heritagecenter. n Dubuque. Enjoy music by Gary from “Gary’s Graffiti latest wedding trends. Tickts are free, but Christine on Broadway in Phantom. Nights.” Food, drink and prizes will be available. registration is required. Sign up today at Registration with donation. For more information, THOnline.com/bridalaffaire. For more visit HospiceOfDubuque.org information, contact Jodi at 563-588-5743 or [email protected]

Sweet Dreams & Honky Tonks 2 PM @ Five Flags Theater It may be impossible to crown any one performer as country music’s biggest star, but few would argue that Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash would all be near the top of any list. Sweet Dreams & Honky Tonks is a new revue that presents the best loved hits of these classic artists along with Dubuque Bomb Squad Rollery Derby stories of their colorful lives. Tickets are on sale 5 PM @ Courtside Sports Bar & Grill at Five Flags Box Office, All Ticketmaster Outlets, Dubuque Bomb Squad Roller Derby season 1-800-745-3000, or Ticketmaster.com. Tickets is underway with another exciting bout at are $22–$28 and do not include possible fees. Courtside Sports Bar & Grill. Doors open at For more information, contact Kelly Spreitzer 5 PM, Bout starts at 6 PM. Get advance tickets at Five Flags Center: 563-589-4353 or at Courtside or from any of the skaters for just [email protected]. $5, or just $8 at the door the day of the event. For more information, follow Dubuque Bomb Squad Roller Derby on Facebook.

14 Events 365ink Magazine August 27–September 9, 2015 Issue #246 Dubuque365.com Events 3rd Annual Dubuque Ink and Art Expo September 25–27 Grand River Center The Dubuque Ink and Art Expo returns for again with cool new highlights celebrating the art of tattooing and the fine art, music and personalities of the increasingly popular subculture. As the event approaches, organizers are still actively seeking participation fro artists of all kinds and more. See details about being part of the expo and a number if ways below. The Dubuque Ink and Art Expo was established with the goal of opening the community to modern tattooing and its close relation to fine art. You will observe artists plying their craft and have the opportunity to participate in being tattooed. There will be guest artists, a fine art exhibit, contests, competitions each day, and a silent auction to benefit D-B-Q Con 2015 Greater Dubuque Area Charities. contact organizers soon as possible to Five Flags Civic Center Well-known tattoo personality, Halo, guarantee space in the exhibit. September 26–27 from Season 4 of Ink Master will be the The expo will also be having their The first annual (and LONG overdue) wrap party. Various cosplay groups and Expo’s special guest this year and will be first annual pin-up contest. If you are D-B-Q Con 2015 is coming to the individuals will be participating, too. To tattooing at the Expo alongside local and interested in entering the contest, please Five Flags Center September 26th and make sure everyone is entertained you visiting tattoo artists. He’s also bringing follow the rules for submissions to 27th! This Con will feature area artists can enjoy some of your favorite video his piercer from his shop, Black Lotus. To Facebook.com/DBQIAPinup. Register and vendors displaying and selling all games at the Rich & Junnie’s Arcade get tattooed by any Artists at the Expo for free by August 30th, with a chance to things related to comic books and both or kick back in the Runde Auto Group please visit DBQInkAndArtExpo.com win cash prizes at the Expo! tabletop and video gaming. Theater and watch some of your favorite and click the ‘Exhibitors’ tab. Each Artist Expo hours are 4–10 PM on Friday, D-B-Q Con is also welcoming many comic related movies and TV shows. will have a hyperlink directing you to their September 25, 11 AM–10 PM on Saturday, special guests including Christopher Various tabletop gaming tournaments will Website or preferred method of contact. September 26, and 11 AM–6 PM on Gauthier aka “Toyman” and Crystal be going on as well. All ages are welcome. This list will continue to be updated. Sunday, September 27. Admission is $10 Lowe aka “Vala” both from the hit show For more information, to become The expo will feature a variety for Friday and $15 for Saturday or Sunday. Smallville. Rock band and comic book a vendor or join the table top gaming of vendors, as well as tattoo artists A three day event pass is available for enthusiasts Psychostick will be there events, visit DBQCon.com and watch for and live glass blowing throughout $30. Children 12 and under are free and on Sunday as well as performing live additional details in the September 10 the weekend. Anyone interested in must be accompanied by an adult. n at Eronel Sunday night the 27th for the issue of 365ink Magazine. n becoming a Vendor or Sponsor can email [email protected]. Space is limited. Each day we will have a performance by 7 Sins Sideshow as well as tattoo contests (for healed and fresh tattoos). This year will also feature silent auctions, benefiting DAAC, (Dubuque Area Arts Collective). If you’d like to donate items to the auction please bring works of art, of any medium to the Expo, September 25. All proceeds will go to the DAAC. The silent auctions will take place all 3 days of the Expo. DAAC will also have space by the Art Gallery for interactive, all ages activities. For more information on DAAC please visit DAartscollective.com. The Art Gallery will display local and visiting artist’s work. To be part of this Art Exhibition, please email [email protected] by September 18. Include your contact information and attach digital images of each piece (images must be of good resolution). For each piece submitted include title, price, and size. Artists are encouraged to

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Now Showing @ Mindframe Theaters Friday, August 28–Thursday, September 3

No Escape (R) The Gift (R) Fri–Thu: (11:45 AM), (2:00), (4:30), Fri–Thu: (11:30 AM), (2:15), (4:50), 7:10, 9:25 7:35, 9:55 American Ultra (R) Jurassic World (PG-13) Fri–Thu: (12:15), (2:30), (4:45), 7:15, Fri–Mon: (12:30), (3:45), 6:50 Coming to Theaters 9:40 Tue: (12:30), (3:45) Wed & Thu: (12:30), (3:45), 6:50 We Are Your Friends (R) The Transporter Refueled (PG-13) Hitman: Agent 47 (R) 555 JFK Road Fri–Thu: (11:15 AM), (1:45), (4:15), Hotel for Dogs (PG) FREE Friday, August 28 Friday, September 4 Behind Kennedy Mall 7:00, 9:20 SUMMER KIDS MOVIE Set in the world of electronic music and Frank Martin, a former special-ops mercenary, Fri: 10:00 AM mindframetheaters.com Straight Outta Compton (R) Hollywood nightlife, an aspiring 23-year-old DJ is now living a less perilous life—or so he Hotline: 563-582-4971 Fri–Thu: (12:00), (3:30), 7:30, 9:30 meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named thinks—transporting classified packages for James and starts falling for James’ much younger questionable people. Enter fast cars, a femme girlfriend, Sophie. Sounds like I’m just getting old. fatale and bad guys… stuff blows up.

Turbo Kid (NR) Break Point (R) Friday, August 28 Friday, September 4 Set in a post apocalyptic year of 1997, this When a falling pro tennis player realizes he retro-futuristic and nostalgic tribute to 80’s burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. action-adventure films follows an orphaned He reaching outside of the tennis world to his teenager who goes on an adventure to save his estranged brother, an apathetic substitute female-robot companion from the hands of an teacher—to team up with him for doubles evil warlord who controls the only water supply. glory… we assume.

7 Chinese Brothers (NR) Dragon Blade (R) Friday, August 28 Friday, September 4 A man unaccustomed to telling the truth learns Han Dynasty commander of the Protection Squad to at least describe it. Jason Schwartzman of the Western Regions (Jackie Chan) joins forces is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated with Roman general (John Cusack) to protect prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the China’s sovereignty as power-crazed (Adrien glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick- Brody) seeks to defeat Lucius once and for all. Lube… and has to win the girl, etc. Perhaps the biggest budget Chinese film ever.

MOVIE BUZZ Jon Schnepp, who directed the Fantastic Four’s Toby Kebbell has recent documentary The Death of reportedly been offered a part alongside “Superman Lives”: What Happened?, Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson in just told Popcorn Talk (via), “George the new King Kong movie, Kong: Skull Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) is doing Island. And for some reason, we’re Man of Steel 2. Yeah, I don’t feel weird getting another Fantastic Four. about breaking it.” We’ll see if that’s Hugh Jackman is reportedly in talks true, I guess. to star in Lion’s Gate’s The Odyssey, an Variety reports that ABC has given adaptation of Homer’s immortal epic a pilot order to Marvel’s Most Wanted, poem about a super ripped dude who’s a series that will focus on Adrianne also a bit of a song and dance man. Palicki’s Mockingbird (She was also Warner Bros. has reportedly started almost Wonder Woman). Nick Blood development on a Carl Sagan biopic to is attached to co-star as Lance Hunter. be produced by his widow Ann Druyan Though both character have already and Lynda Obst, The duo also produced been featured on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Contact in 1997. it’s said this is “not a spinoff, per se, Sony has hired on a new writer to take but rather an entirely new project on the Masters of the Universe remake solely focused on the two characters to they still insist on doing. Thor series continue their story.” contributor Christopher Yost alertly has Michael Mann’s long-developing Enzo a thing for telling a story of a muscular Ferrari biopic, Ferrari, reportedly has its star blonde man and unwieldy weapons. n in Christian Bale. So more cool cars for him.

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clarKe uniVerSitY art + DeSign facultY exhibition noW through SePtember 25 reCeptIon: Sunday, auGuSt 30 @ 3–4:30 pm free @ Clarke unIVerSIty quIGley Gallery

Clarke University’s Quigley Gallery that address mortality and refl ections opens the academic year with on impermanence, as well as an exhibition to showcase the celebrate the beauty of life. Jessica creative talent of the Art + Design Teckemeyer presents a selection of Department faculty members. The sculptures from an on-going body exhibit features recent work by of work from three diff erent series. Louise Kames, Jessie Rebik, Jessica Eric Wold will exhibit paintings and Teckemeyer and Eric Wold. digital prints of various depictions of Mother Earth; abstract organisms and Louise Kames is exhibiting a suite augmented landscapes littered with Powered By: of 12 screen prints of architectural synthetics, pollutants and other wildly imagery from Dubuque's Historic unnatural—while colorful—toxic drifts. Millwork District. Jessie Rebik is showing drawing studies, which Clarke.edu/ArtsAtClarke companion a new series of paintings

camboDia an exhibition of WorK bY Paco roSic auguSt 30 through SePtember 27 reCeptIon: Sunday, auGuSt 30 @ 5:30–8:30 pm free @ Gallery C

Paco Rosic creations combine Through his dramatic and colorful artistic elements of both movement dance, a blank canvas morphs into a and fi ne art, blending kinetic and Rosic creation. Similar to a musical street art styles to recreate an performance or a theatrical act, each existential experience; a ‘graffi ti composition is unique and ever- kinetic movement piece’ captured changing, specifi c to the experience. on canvas. Upon viewing Rosic’s However, unlike performance art, work, you fi nd yourself challenged which will forever vanish once to travel back with him to relive a concluded, Rosic’s work leaves behind previous experience. The artist uses a painted replicated moment in time. cans of spray paint led by a series Each moment is captured and held by of movements to defi ne a moment a canvas, challenging the viewer to conveying mood, tone, sound, and relive the experience again and again. vision. Essentially, Rosic performs a Paco Rosic has managed to develop a dance of color, evoking all senses as technique to study and capture times, he matches his speed and rhythm to created so we may forever gaze upon, the pulse of the experience he has and be transported back to the very chosen to recreate. He moves quickly; experiences that may have otherwise poised and concentrated, to the been lost. Simply stated…Paco pieces beat of the sounds from the cans. As are timeless experiences. quick as the movements are created from within, so is the expression. GalleryCM.com

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the Salon exhibition SePtember 5 through october 2 reCeptIon: Saturday, September 5 @ 7–11 pm $10 SuGGeSted donatIon @ Gallery C

Rejection is not the end, as Edouard of Dubuque’s up-and-coming art Manet and James Whistler found scene. The Salon was initiated in through a show featuring rejected 2012 to promote and empower both paintings, The Salon des Refuses. That emerging and experienced artists, and tradition continues today with the create new opportunities and wider Dubuque Area Art Collective’s own exposure for participating artists. “The Salon Exhibit”. During the Opening reception, Jay The DAAC’s 4th annual Salon Exhibition Schleidt, Multimedia Artist from Iowa, provides a chance for redemption for will provide an interactive video artists anonymous and notorious alike projection installation. Salon reception whose works were rejected by such attendees will be able to collaborate local and regional shows as Voices and with Jay to create their own digital the DUMA Biannual. This year, we are video self-portraits, available online featuring works of new regional and afterward. Jay has worked with local rejected artists, as well as the most the DAAC on multiple occasions: recent work from artists of previous displaying art and video, performing Salon Exhibits. For the fi rst time, we are in his band, I/OWAR, and doing a live including artists that did not make the painting at last year’s Salon. cut in our past juried exhibitions at the Dubuque Area Arts Collective. Live music by Midwestern Indie artist Dave Zollo will set the mood during Over the past three years, the Salon the reception. has given artists a second chance to present their work to the community, DAArtsCollective.com and has highlighted the vast growth

in charge SePtember 5 through october 4 reCeptIon: Sunday, oCtober 4 @ 1–3 pm free @ rountree Gallery (platteVIlle, wI)

Art work from the past and present Fuschino, Michael Hadfi eld, Dave Directors of Rountree Gallery, past Meinhardt, Rock Riedle, Nicole Felder, and present Board members, and Cindy Schave will have works from Gallery Attendants makes up the photography, pottery, painting, and new exhibit entitled IN CHARGE. mixed media. Local artists; Lois Mueller, Marie Whisenant, Dianne Fox, Jennifer Platteville.org Arts “Do You See What eYe See” exhibition anD Performance Sunday, September 13 @ 7 pm @ Galena Center for the artS (Galena, Il)

frIday, September 18 @ 7 pm @ the SmokeStaCk

“Do You See What Eye See" is a manipulated and images combined montage of photos of freight car to reflect multi-layered messaging. graffiti, five panels accompanied by Nuances emphasized within each a sound track and music featuring panel powerfully emerge and combine two live musicians, virtuoso tuba to produce an organic commentary and percussion. Sometimes tuba that reflects upon individual/ (baritone sax) and percussion parts community effort to make oneself the great DraW are replaced by a live poet/rapper heard, express a public voice. Street art comPetition whose vocal gestures compliment the SaturDaY, SePtember 12 soundtrack and contextual clues/sub- These events compliment the @ Cable Car Square texts contained in the images. schedule of Voices from the Warehouse District. The Great Draw is a street art pastel painting throughout the day. Visual material contained in each competition that benefits The Great A free area will be set aside for small of the panels have been creatively GalenaCenterfortheArts.com Draw Visual Arts Scholarships. This children so they can take part in the event is open to all ages and skill levels, creative process as well. with over $2,000.00 in cash and prizes awarded. The public is cordially invited In keeping with Outside the Lines Art to observe the competition and watch Gallery’s goal of supporting aspiring KiDS taKe the Stage as the artists develop their paintings artists, Shawn McCann will work with fall Youth theater claSSeS throughout the day. Dubuque high school students on @ bell tower theater the Town Clock Plaza pedestrian mall Forms and instructions are available during the day on Friday, September The Bell Tower Theater is pleased grades (Wednesdays 4–5 PM or online: TheGreatDraw.com, 11. Together they will create a three- to announce the continuation of 5:15–6:15 PM, October 14 to November OTLAG.com, on Facebook, and at dimensional pastel painting and our award-winning Kids Take the 18), “Musical Theater 101” for 3–5 Outside the Lines Art Gallery, 409 Bluff receive one on one instruction from Stage Youth Theater classes this fall. grades (Fridays 4–5:30 PM, October Street in Dubuque. Entry deadline for McCann. While this is a public friendly Kids from kindergarten through 8th 16 to November 20), “Acting” for 4–6 the competition is September 10. Pre- viewing opportunity, the painting will grade can get into the act with all grades (Thursdays 4:30–5:30 PM, registration is highly recommended as be limited to this group. new activities. Artistic Director Sue October 15 to November 19) and spaces are limited. Riedel will be joined by music teacher “Musical Theater 201” for 6–8 grades The winning bidder of the original and director Sue Flogel to teach (Tuesdays 3:30–5 PM, October 13 to There are five categories: youth to age watercolor painting by the late five different six-week-long classes. November 17). Classes are limited 12, ages 13–18, adult, artist, and teams. JoAnne Hauser Warren will be Aspiring actors and actresses (or to about 20 students each and are Entry fees are $10 for students ages 18 announced during the awards kids who just want to have fun) are taught by Sue Reidel, Sue Floegel and and under, $15 for adults and $25 for ceremony at the end of the event. invited to enter the magical world of Eval Heil. The cost for each session teams of two or more. theater. This program is supported ranges from $60–$80. The Great Draw Street Art Competition in part by the City of Dubuque, An independent judge will determine is sponsored by Premier Bank, L. May Black Hills Energy, Kiwanis Club of Classes are held in the classroom and first, second and third place winners in Eatery, The Fenelon Place Elevator and Dubuque, Wal-Mart Foundation and on the stage at the Bell Tower Theater, each category. Votes for the People’s Holiday Inn, Downtown Dubuque, with the Dubuque Area Retired School 2728 Asbury Road in Dubuque. Choice Awards will be available for additional support by Dubuque Senior, Professionals Association. Financial assistance scholarships purchase, and professional street Hempstead, and Wahlert High Schools. are available for qualified families. artist, Shawn McCann will create a Class series include: “Let’s Pretend” Deadline for enrollment is October 1. large, custom three-dimensional TheGreatDraw.com for K–1 grade (Mondays 4–5 PM or 5:15–6:15 PM, October 12 to November BellTowerTheater.net 16), “Creative Theatrics” for 2–3 Arts

brew house mystery Dinner theater michael mao Dance co. 5–7 PM @ Stone Cliff Winery 7–9 PM @ UW-P CFA thurSDaY, auguSt 27 thurSDaY, SePtember 10 Doubt, a Parable church basement ladies 2 Page & Palette: a book group for art lovers! WeDneSDaY, SePtember 23 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater 6–7:30 PM @ River Lights Bookstore mackin-mailander featured lecture: arts & alchemy: it’s arthur miller time! aaron thomas SaturDaY, SePtember 26 friDaY, auguSt 28 8–10 PM @ The Smokestack 7 PM @ Clarke Robert and Ruth Kehl Center Pre-owned book Sale church basement ladies 2 9 AM–1 PM @ Galena Convention Center 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater friDaY, SePtember 11 thurSDaY, SePtember 24 (Galena, IL) matter 21+ Social evenings mid-autumn festival Dubuque ink and art expo SaturDaY, auguSt 29 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center 4:30–6:30 PM @ UW-P 11 AM–10 PM Grand River Center artists take over the Porch: Dubuque area Writers guild meeting arts & alchemy: it’s arthur miller time! matter 21+ Social evenings nancy lindsay (oil painting) 6 PM @ Monk’s Kaffee Pub 8–10 PM @ The Smokestack 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery Doubt, a Parable iowa city concert opera Presents: SaturDaY, SePtember 12 friDaY, SePtember 25 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House così fan tutte by mozart the fever river Puppeteers: Pre-owned book Sale Songfest 7 PM @ Maquoketa Art Experience “Jack and the beanstalk” 9 AM–7 PM @ Galena Convention Center 7:30 PM @ UD Heritage Center (Maquoketa, IA) 11 AM & 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House (Galena, IL) church basement ladies 2 (Hazel Green, WI) Dubuque ink and art expo SunDaY, SePtember 27 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater Paint & Pour 4–10 PM @ Grand River Center Dubuque ink and art expo 11 AM–2 PM @ Galena Cellars Vineyard Dubuque area Writers guild meeting 11 AM–6 PM Grand River Center SunDaY, auguSt 30 (Galena, IL) 6 PM @ Monk’s Kaffee Pub Doubt, a Parable church basement ladies 2 Voices from the Warehouse District xi 2 PM @ Grand Opera House 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater opening night “cambodia” by Paco rosic reception 7 PM @ Voices Gallery 5:30–8:30 PM @ Gallery C the great Draw Street art competition Cable Car Square monDaY, auguSt 31 Dubuque community String orchestra SunDaY, SePtember 13 open rehearsal Sweet Dreams & honky tonks through auguSt 30 through october 11 6:30 PM @ Emmaus Bible College 2 PM @ Five Flags Theater “WooD” exhibit a city for all Seasons: meet michael till, author of “along iowa’s “Do You See What eye See” exhibit Rountree Gallery (Platteville, WI) DbQ camera club 3rd annual exhibition historic highway 20” 7 PM @ Galena CFA (Galena, IL) through auguSt 31 Dubuque Museum of Art 6:30–8 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library earth exhibition the iowa State fair by Kurt ullrich thurSDaY, SePtember 17 Dubuque Area Arts Collective Dubuque Museum of Art tueSDaY, SePtember 1 arts & alchemy: it’s arthur miller time! tim olson and ron hahlen exhbit auguSt 30–SePtember 27 encore chorale open rehearsal 8–10 PM @ The Smokestack Outside the Lines Art Gallery DBQ “cambodia” by Paco rosic reception 1–2 PM @ Oak Park Place through SePtember 23 gallery c Sherry, Yates, Do recital friDaY, SePtember 18 art @ your library®: Sue Prochaska-Kiefer SePtember 5–october 2 7:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall “Do You See What eye See” exhibit and Jeanelle Westerfield the Salon exhibition 7 PM @ The Smokestack Carnegie-Stout Public Library Dubuque Area Arts Collective SaturDaY, SePtember 5 Dubuque ink and art expo noW through SePtember 25 SePtember 5-october 4 the fever river Puppeteers: Submission Deadline clarke art + Design faculty exhibition “in charge” exhibit “Jack and the beanstalk” Clarke Quigley Art Gallery Rountree Gallery (Platteville, WI) 11 AM & 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House SaturDaY, SePtember 19 through SePtember 27 SePtember 26–october 17 (Hazel Green, WI) fall harvest & art festival “change, a Showing of hal martin’s “Pencil & ink” exhibition the Salon exhibition reception Noon–6 PM @ Galena Cellars Vineyard Paintings” exhibit Clarke Quigley Art Gallery 7–11 PM Dubuque Area Arts Collective (Galena, IL) Galena Center for the Arts (Galena, IL) live at heritage center: noW through SePtember 30 finD more eVentS: SunDaY, SePtember 6 neil berg’s 100 Years of broadway “birds and branches” exhibit the fever river Puppeteers: 7:30 PM @ UD Heritage Center Sinsinawa Mound Center Art Gallery for the comPlete art eVentS “Jack and the beanstalk” (Sinsinawa, WI) calenDar anD more, ViSit 2 PM @ Hazel Green Opera House SunDaY, SePtember 20 through october 4 (Hazel Green, WI) Dr. amy Dunker, composition & trumpet Words We Know the Songs to faculty recital by Jaclyn garlock 2 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall Dubuque Museum of Art

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September 12–October 2 presenting some really fine work, high quality work, shipping from all Opening Reception Saturday, September 12 @ 7 PM over the country and it looked splendid in here—but we were still just Voices Gallery (10th and Jackson St) a little bit anxious that we’re not using the size and scale of the space. Voices, arguably Dubuque’s largest annual art event of the year both A lot of the stuff that we’ve shown in the past few years, may or may in scale and impact, returns to the raw 15,000 square foot warehouse not have been suitable for a smaller gallery space. But you know, when space in the rapidly evolving Millwork District with Streets, a large- you start stacking up cars and making huge Xs, (as Tully created for last scale exhibit and series of special events. Voices 11 begins the annual year’s Voices X) it was kind of like, ‘Hey people, we need to think big.’” exhibit’s second decade with an Opening Reception, Saturday, While the Millwork District itself has undergone major changes in the September 12, with a series of special events to follow. decade since the Voices exhibit called attention to the area, one thing has remained consistent: The scale of the buildings themselves. Like the Story By Mike Ironside other former factory and warehouse buildings of the area, the Voices Photos by Ron TIgges (Digital Dubuque) Gallery is a massive space, a space that inspires work on larger scale. “Looking at the whole gentrification of the district, seeing its We caught up with a very busy Gene Tully, founder of Voices, in the refinement as it comes around us, it kind of called our team to sprawling warehouse gallery space to learn a bit more about this year’s accountability to a conversation about change and what would that exhibit and events. As it turned out, Voices team member Sam Mulgrew change be?” offers Tully. “Just presenting art for other people, artists popped in later in the interview, as well. that were sending their work here, is all well and good. Those shows “Voices 11 is subtitled ‘Streets,’” begins Tully by way of explanation. “After putting on numbered shows in the last few years—we were  Continued on page 23

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—Gene Tully, Voices from the Warehouse District Director and Founder

 Continued From page 21 staples—that thankfully, I’ve got a pneumatic stapler or painted over. One wonders if bringing that talent into now. So banging that up was no small task. We’ve got a gallery setting, albeit one that offers the scale of the were awesome. But we just wanted to get back to just a 40-foot piece that’s 6-foot wide, free hanging, a streets, inspired artists to bring forth their best work, a little bit more of a nitty-gritty, raw, grassroots style of couple of 12 by 12s, 12 by 10s—so there’s some variety of knowing that this time, it won’t be painted over. show. With the increase in awareness of street writers, different sizes but it was quite a labor.” “Some of the work is just fabulous,” states Tully. muralists, (graffiti) writers, we thought, ‘Well, let’s just One gets the sense that for all the work, it was a “It’s strong. We curated the show so there’re a variety cover the whole gallery with great big murals and we’ll labor of love, once Tully could see the reaction from the of styles and I’m quite happy with the styles that we call it ‘Streets.’” invited artists. “When artists came in here,” he says, have available here and some of the work, I think, is Embracing the rough nature of the warehouse gallery recalling that initial impression, “so we had six artists, just really stunning. It shows so well in the vastness of space and the industrial history of the District, the Voices six writers that came in here and did that work. Some of the warehouse and I’m working now on creating some team sought artists that would be inspired by the space them worked for a couple of days. Some worked for like, environmental pieces that complement and create a and utilize the scale as part of their artistic expression. eight days in this place. All the work was made on sight feeling of streets in the warehouse and that’s what I Rather than invite artists to send completed work, they and that was really energizing for me and the crew to be really, really like to do. Stretching canvas is just a lot of invited artists to come create in the space itself. “We able to have people in here working and really enjoying work and I’ve been doing it for weeks and weeks. So it’s paid the artists to come in and we put a sizeable sum the work. They were just taking it back. They were set nice to do some environmental work now.” of money together to do that,” notes Tully. “I (should) back on their heels when they came in here and they The Voices team was able to find a range of artists mention the appreciation of our sponsors and supporters saw primed canvas and work that could be taken off the from art school professionals to underground, self- that have allowed us to do that.” walls and reused or sold or any other use but it wasn’t trained artists. Though the Voices Gallery space is the second in the just going to get covered, as they say in the street world. “We put it up on Craigslist and made the call for Wilmac Warehouse to host the exhibit over the last ten ‘They covered my work?’ That means that somebody writers and we’ve got quite a volume of people who years, it had collected its own set of various gallery walls painted over your work. We’re not going to cover were interested in coming to Dubuque to do their and dividers, carving up the space into smaller exhibition anything. We’re going to save it.” work,” explained Tully. “So we were able to select some areas. While these functioned well for the various two- Working on a large scale isn’t necessarily a unique of the finer work. We have, for instance, Didi, who is and three-dimensional exhibits and video installations, thing for a graffiti artist—walls, buildings, train cars—but from Miami. She did a 40-foot building down in the the Voices team envisioned a more open plan, exploiting they do it with the knowledge that the work is ephemeral. the vast space of the 15,000 square foot room. Unless it’s commissioned, it probably will be removed  Continued On page 24 “Rather than just going on old gallery walls that were getting a little bit ratty with nail holes and cracks and seams and trying to make those look like new walls, we covered all the walls in here with canvas, with stretched canvas,” explains Tully. “We had, initially, enough 25-yards-long by 12-foot-high canvas to cover a football field—100 yards. We had four rolls. I think I’m down to just about the 85-yardline on canvas. So there’re enormous pieces of stretched canvas. One piece, for instance is 45-foot by 12-foot and it took 8 gallons of paint to prime that one piece of canvas. I think I’ve got 30 gallons of paint all together in here just priming canvas, which was a laborious job from just hanging it, to trimming it out, and I’ve probably got 10,000

Dubuque365.com Issue #246 August 27–September 9, 2015 365ink Magazine Cover Story 23  Continued From page 23 an orator, Frank McClain from the Grand Opera House. Tully adds that the Driftless Sisters will perform that Morning in Iowa is a script that was written in 1945 and night and the event will feature a couple of food trucks Winwood District of Miami, which is world-renowned for Corey (Mackey), the principal clarinetist from the DSO serving on the street. its graffiti art. She was commissioned to do that piece will set this whole thing in motion. John Donovan is really Mulgrew is also looking forward to an event in but she’s well regarded. She came up in a conventional kind of producing the whole show. It will be one of those partnership with the Julien Dubuque International art background, was trained in art and then moved into cultural, a little more cerebral aspects of the show, kind Film Festival. “There are two or three iconic films that street art because she wanted to get big. It was really a of contrasted against the grassroots rawness of the have been made about street art and we’re going to great experience to watch these people and how they environment that we’ve created here.” showcase one of those,” he said. “We’re going to have develop a piece. Starting off with a roller and making Tully is also excited about a Burning Man exhibit and skateboarders performing. That will be followed up with these splotches, I’m like, ‘Wow, what’s that going to be?’ event organized by Voices team member Mike Muench, live music as well.” By the time they’ve layered and layered again and they who has attended the massive art event in the Southwest “And then again, we’ll have Michele Chillook coming do some writing on it, and then they come back with a five times. Both Tully and Mulgrew have multiple visits to back with the Emergence of Spirit for another one of roller and have drips coming down, and finally, these the event as well. her extravaganzas,” adds Tully. “They, in the past, have pieces developed. Wow, that’s just stunning. Like so “Burning Man (is) the largest art festival on the planet,” been one of our top draws and it’s so worthy of it too many other times when you’re watching an artist do their explains Tully. “For one week, it’s the third largest city in because her team of people put in so much wonderful work, don’t judge the work until it’s done.” Nevada in the Black Rock Desert. Mike will be focusing imagination and effort into producing that show. And In addition to being able to provide a canvas on the ten principles of Burning Man, some of which it certainly isn’t because of the money. Again, it’s the (literally!) for their art, Tully enjoys the opportunity to are radical self-reliance, radical free expression, radical utilization of resources and the collection of creative and provide a unique experience for visiting artists. inclusion, no commodification, no commodity work, there’s doers that make this thing happen.” “We’ve been able to generate a vibe here,” he says. no money changed. So it will be really comprehensive But of all the events, there’s nothing like Opening “When these artists come in and they experience the education. We’re going to have a Burning Man night where Night. For the opening, Mulgrew explains that Midwestern hospitality, the utilization of resources we’re inviting our fellow burner friends from the Twin Hirschbach Motor Lines, who will be moving from East and the willingness to support them in any way we Cities, Des Moines, Chicago, Madison to come down. We’re Dubuque to the Millwork District will provide the use of can, including accommodations and meals, boat rides, actually going to have an effigy that we’re going to burn a 53-foot trailer, which will be used as a backdrop across excellent substrates on which to work, materials—of the that Mike has made and some house music and a DJ and the closed street. “We’re going to have two artists tag six artists, at least four, perhaps five who said, ‘That’s my the place will just rock. It will be very expressive. These that,” notes Mulgrew. best work, ever. I’m so proud of it. This is what I want to people that will come will be extremely expressive.” Graffiti artists will also be tagging the area inside the say to the world. And I will come back for the opening.’ That expressive nature and artistic approach to life is great archway outside the Wilmac Warehouse building. Didi, was here one day and she had not planned on one that clearly has left an impression on Tully. “Going to “So there will be a lot of live performances,” continues coming back for the opening. She was here one day and Burning Man was just a remarkable expansion for me in Mulgrew. “There will be a writer inside here doing the experienced the vibration that we’ve got going on here what people are doing with their talent, what people are elevator shaft. In addition to that, we have dancers that and said, ‘I am definitely coming back for the opening.” doing when groups of people together with a common night and live music so it should be pretty cool.” Up-and- “So not only is this show an opportunity for them dream to manifest 80-foot high free standing sculptures coming L.A. band Almost Classy will perform. to show their work, it’s an opportunity for us to show or temples so exquisite that it looks like you could be in “Opening Night will be a great celebration,” states Dubuque and Midwestern hospitality to the people that Thailand,” he explains. “Some of the art out there is so Tully. “For opening night and the theme of ‘Streets’ and are coming in from all over the country and really see wildly expressive, it just called me into accountability, for any night here, it’s great to see people that will step what we’re doing here,” Tully continues. “Right down the ‘What are you doing? How strong is your statement?’ We up and dress out. Regardless, whether it’s cosplay, street line, each of them will say, ‘You know, this isn’t happening live in our own little world sometimes and we build a little wear, or just dressed to the tens (that’s one up from where I live.’ Whether it’s Miami, Chicago, the Twin Cities, bit of a sculpture and say, ‘Oh, that looks pretty big,’ but dressed to the nines!). Yeah, people! Come down and be you know they don’t have the availability of resources or when you go out in the bigger world and look around, you a part of the show—your presence, your personality, your a 15,000 square foot warehouse, or a group of dedicated see that perhaps, we’re not thinking that large at all. So interaction, your ideas. That’s why this team works so volunteers who build some absolutely fabulous 12 by 12 Burning Man has been really expansive for me.” diligently. That’s our gratification.” stretched canvas frames for them to work on. So it’s been Voices team member Sam Mulgrew is also excited Voices 11: Streets will host an Opening Reception super from that angle—working with the artists in here.” about some of the special events. “We’re doing the Art Saturday, September 12, from 7 PM to midnight in In addition to the world-class exhibit, Voices also offers Slam again this year,” he notes. “We change that up a the Voices Gallery in the Wilmac Warehouse building a series of special events. “The team’s been working really little bit every year. We’ve increased the award amount, on 10th Street between Jackson and Elm. Admission hard to put together a calendar of special events that which, theoretically, should spike competition. We’re just is $10. A cash bar will be available in the Speakeasy we’re going to be putting on here,” shares Tully. “Some of dealing with graduate students or professionals this year. corner of the Voices Gallery. For more information, visit the standouts that I’m really excited about are Morning So we don’t know what type of crowd that will bring but VoicesGallery.org. n in Iowa with a five-piece orchestral ensemble backing up it will be a little bit different than focusing on students.”

24 Cover Story 365ink Magazine August 27–September 9, 2015 Issue #246 Dubuque365.com Feature Story Team of Dreams Field of Dreams (Dyersville, IA) and Mystique Casino September 18 and 19 Mystique Casino is bringing back the amazing Team “We are proud to partner with Mystique Casino to of Dreams event for 2015, presented by American Trust present Team of Dreams 2015,” added Nick Schrup, & Savings Bank. The baseball themed weekend features President & CEO of American Trust. “It’s truly an honor to such returning legendary players as Pete Rose, Reggie play a part in enabling the visually impaired to enjoy the Jackson, Johnny Bench, Wade Boggs, and Doc Gooden. quality of life they deserve.” Additional legends added to the roster this year include Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the Tri- Robin Yount, Andre Dawson, Carlton Fisk, Steve Carlton, State Independent Blind Society, whose mission is to Mike Boddicker, Jose Canseco, and more, all to benefit help the visually impaired improve their independence the Tri-State Independent Blind Society. and quality of life. The organization is currently in need “The response to the first event was overwhelming,” of major funding to repair deteriorating building and said Jesus Aviles, President & CEO at Mystique. “Seeing retaining structures on its property. generations of families share in the joy of that day was In addition to the Celebrity Benefit Game, autograph just a wonderful experience,” he added. “We could not and photo opportunities at the Field of Dreams Movie be more excited and honored to be able to bring these Site on Saturday, the weekend’s events include a baseball heroes together again.” Celebrity Dinner event (Friday night in Cabaret), a The weekend features a packed line-up of events Bounty Poker Tournament, Blackjack Invitational, and and appearances by the legendary players. Fans of all Slot Invitational (Saturday night on gaming floor). ages will have a unique opportunity to relive their glory Each of these tournaments will include participation years, hear their stories, enjoy a special weekend with by the legendary players. For more information, visit loved ones, and provide important opportunities for the TeamOfDreamsDBQ.com. n visually impaired.

SPECIAL EVENTS Team of Dreams Celebrity Dinner Autograph Show Friday, September 18 @ 7 PM Saturday, September 19 @ Noon–3 PM Mystique Casino Field of Dreams Movie Site Join the team of Major League Baseball’s most accomplished and celebrated stars of After the game, attend the Team of Dreams Autograph & Collectible Show at the all-time at the Team of Dreams Celebrity Dinner on Friday evening. An All Access Pass field. Players will be available for autographs and photos on a rotating schedule. includes one Home Plate Grandstand ticket and one ticket to the Celebrity Dinner. Autographs and photo reservations can be made directly with MAB Celebrity Services Must be 21 to attend Celebrity Dinner at Mystique Casino. The website says individual at http://mab-celebrity.com/team-of-dreams-2015 or can be made at the game. tickets for the dinner are sold out, but dinner tickets as part of the All Access Pass ($130) appear to be available. Special Gaming Events at Mystique Casino Celebrity Benefit Game Team of Dreams Poker Classic Saturday, September 19 @ 9:30 AM Saturday, September 19 @ 8 PM Field of Dreams Movie Site Mystique Casino Enjoy Saturday morning at the ballpark as the Team of Dreams takes the field to play Take out one of the Team of Dreams heroes in this Texas Hold ’em Poker tournament a game at the Field of Dreams Movie Site. Tickets range from $25–$40 Children are and earn the game-worn jersey from the Team of Dreams event right off their back— just $5. Other than a very limited capacity for VIP parking at the Field of Dreams, personally autographed on the spot! Expected prize pool of $25,000! $550 buy in. ticketholders will be directed to nearby satellite parking areas and shuttled to/from the Field of Dreams Movie Site. Other than a very limited capacity for VIP parking at the Field of Dreams, ticketholders will be directed to nearby satellite parking areas and shuttled to/from the Field of Dreams Movie Site. Parking at Mystique will be free Team of Dreams Blackjack Classic for the weekend. Shuttle service will start at 6:30 AM Saturday morning. Tickets for Saturday, September 19 @ 3 PM all events open to the public are now on sale. Tickets can be purchased at Mystique or Mystique Casino online at TeamOfDreamsDBQ.com/tickets. More than 125 qualifiers will compete Saturday for a $10,000 prize pool in Mystique’s Fall Classic Blackjack Tournament. In addition to the prize money awarded, the winner will receive the hosting legend’s Team of Dreams game-worn jersey—personally autographed on the spot! Ghost Players / Live Entertainment Saturday, September 19 @ 11:30 AM Field of Dreams Movie Site After the game, the famous Ghost Players will entertain the audience with their Team of Dreams Slot Invitational on-field comedy routines, and invite kids onto the field to play catch, run the bases, Saturday, September 19 @ 4 PM and participate in some additional fun activities. Live music and other attractions will Mystique Casino also be available. More than 125 qualifiers will compete Saturday for a $10,000 prize pool in Mystique’s Slot Invitational Tournament. In addition to the $5,000 first place prize, the winner will earn the game-worn jersey from the Team of Dreams event right off the hosting legend’s back—personally autographed on the spot!

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Photo: Ron Tigges—Digital Dubuque

Driftless Farm & Food Weekend September 11–13 Celebrate and explore the benefits of local food on The Dubuque Rescue Mission, Four Mounds Foundation, the Driftless Farm & Food Weekend September 11–13. and Dubuque County ISU Extension. Get outside, enjoy DRIFTLESS Three days of food, farms, and community! local food and wine, and learn more about getting involved Open to everyone in the Dubuque area, the weekend in the region’s food economy and culture! FARM & FOOD will kick off Friday, September 11 at the National Mississippi Farm to Table Dinner tickets are limited. Reserve River Museum with a free screening of Inhabit: A yours online at DriftlesssFarmCrawl.com or through Permaculture Perspective. It continues Saturday with the the Dubuque County ISU Extension Office at WEEKEND Third Annual Driftless Farm Crawl, and culminates Sunday 563-583-6496. All other events and activities are free with a four-course Farm to Table Dinner overlooking the and open to everyone. Volunteer and sponsorship Mississippi River at the historic Four Mounds. opportunities are available. Please contact Local All funds raised through the dinner will benefit local Foods Coordinator Carolyn Scherf at 563-583-6596 or foods programing through hosting organizations including [email protected]. n

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective Friday, September 11 @ 6:30 PM National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium Inhabit explores new solutions to environmental issues offered through the lenses of “permaculture”, a design process based on observing and mimicking natural ecosystems. For those familiar, it will be a glimpse into exciting projects and solutions already underway in the Midwest. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces. A panel discussion will follow featuring local people working on resilient solutions to issues of food, water, and community development in the greater Dubuque area.

26 Feature Story 365ink Magazine August 27–September 9, 2015 Issue #246 Dubuque365.com Feature Story Driftless Farm Crawl Saturday, September 12 @ 1– 5 PM Grab a field guide and go! The Driftless Farm Crawl is a free, self-guided farm tour which will feature five community food projects and farms in the Dubuque area. The tour will include Four Mounds Community Garden; Sageville School Garden; Park Farm Winery; Hideaway Gardens, an organic vegetable farm; and the Hellert Family Farm, a heritage farm home to a variety of farm animals. Each site will feature kids activities, local food samples, demos, tours and more. Whether you travel by car or bike along the Heritage Trail, stop by one site or visit them all for a full afternoon of family-friendly fun. At Four Mounds Community Garden, visitors can learn about a Hillcrest gardening program for at-risk youth that teaches youth about healthy food culture and provides fresh vegetables for Hillcrest food services. Or they can and organic fertilizers as well as more modern learn how to get involved in growing their own food to equipment like a high tunnel and irrigation to grow Michael Glenn eat or sell in one of Dubuque’s six community gardens. some of the best food around. The Sageville School Garden will show visitors how At the Hellert Family Farm, visitors will rediscover Breitbach: experience in the garden can become part of kids’ traditional values and methods that embody education, tying into school curriculum while teaching contemporary concepts of sustainability—old ways Driftless Farm to kids about the true source of their food. Food scraps are and heirloom varieties that have worked to provide for used in a composting program, enriching the garden soil generations. Visitors can also see a variety of animals Table CD Release toward a healthier, more resilient model. including sheep, cattle, horses, lamas, chickens and a Saturday, August 29 @ 7 AM–Noon At Park Farm Winery, visitors can see how a family mule that also live at the farm, as well as the original 11th and Iowa Streets farm was transformed into a successful family business, 19th Century cabin, now part of a house still in use by Approaching this year’s Driftless Farm & taking hardy Midwest grapes from vineyard through the family. Food Weekend, Breitbach will host a CD release wine production, barrel-aging, and bottling to bring a Field guide maps for the Driftless Farm Crawl performance in front of The Food Store during popular product to market. will be available during the week of the Crawl at The Farmers’ Market, the morning of Saturday, August 29. Hideaway Gardens will provide visitors with a great Food Store, Dubuque Food Co-op, and The Iowa Breitbach and friends will be performing songs from example of a local, organic vegetable growing, using Welcome Center (Travel Dubuque) or find it online at the CD. Copies of the CD will be available for purchase. both tried-and-true traditional methods like composting DriftlessFarmCrawl.com. At last year’s Driftless Farm to Table Dinner at Four Mounds, Breitbach and his Broken Rubber Band performed for the event. As is his habit, Michael recorded the performance, along with some of the comments made by various people who spoke about Driftless Farm To the value of local food during the event. After a few Potosi beers that evening (true story), Table Dinner Breitbach decided it might be a good idea to put Sunday, September 13 @ 4–7 pm together a CD of the best-recorded parts of the Four Mounds Estate (4900 Peru Rd) evening. He went home to listen and sure enough In conjunction with the The Driftless Farm Crawl there were both songs and spoken comments that which invites community members to tour local farms deserved to be included in a record of the experience and meet the entrepreneurs working to meet Dubuque’s that could be shared with those who attended and growing demand for locally produced food, The Farm- others curious about the local food movement and To-Table Dinner is a celebration of the best that those more specifically, the Farm to Table Dinner. farms and others can bring to our community. The Farm With cover art using a collage of photos from Ron To Table Dinner is a family-style meal prepared by local and Jennifer Tigges designed by Monica at Scott chefs at the beautiful and historic Four Mounds Inn and Printing, Michael had a neatly packaged record of the Conference Center at 4900 Peru Road in Dubuque. experience he could share with organizers, cooks, Organized by a coalition of community organizations and partners of the Driftless Farm Crawl and Farm to including the Four Mounds, The Iowa State University Table Dinner. Dubuque County Extension Office, Sustainable “For me it’s worth the promotional message about Dubuque, The Dubuque Food Co-Op and a host of this whole deal,” said Breitbach, a longtime advocate chefs and local food advocates, these Farm to Table Photo: Ron Tigges—Digital Dubuque for local and organic food. “Anything I can do to drag Dinner is a delicious way for area residents who love more people into eating right and taking the money and appreciate natural foods to indulge in local food River & bluffs. Limited vegetarian dinner tickets are away (from big ag and processed food). You can talk and wine and support the ideas, practices, and people also available. The experience is truly magical - not all you want but it’s where you spend your money, so cultivating our community’s food economy and culture. only for the exceptional food and drinks, but because we’ve got to build the market (for local, organic food). Indulge in a four-course meal prepared by talented all funds raised go toward supporting community It takes a lot of elements to turn a community around. local chefs featuring the season’s best locally-produced food projects at The Dubuque Rescue Mission, Four And that’s the project: Turn the community around, ingredients, local beer by Jubeck Brewing, and wine Mounds, and ISU Extension and Outreach. Tickets for get everybody buying local food as much as they can by Park Farm Winery. Each dish is served family-style the event are limited, and can be reserved online at and get the money circulating here. It’s a good event outdoors at Four Mounds overlooking the Mississippi DriftlessFarmCrawl.com for $80 each plus fees. and I’m glad to be part of it.” n

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TRI-STATE LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, August 27 Friday, August 28 Ron Lubbers Summer’s Last Blast Massey Road Broken Strings Randy Droessler & Steve Scott Guthrie 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. Zero 2 Sixty @ 5:30 PM 9 PM @ Jimi B’s 4 PM @ Stone Cliff Cavanaugh Noon @ Lunchtime Jam Menace @ 7 PM 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s Brianna Lyn Hardyman Duo Johnny Trash @ 8:30 PM DJ SaladSpinner Dance Party The Lonely Goats Summer’s Last Blast 8 PM @ Grape Escape Spazmatics @ 10 PM 10 PM @ The Smokestack 5 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Open Mic w/ Gladdy & Friends BackRoads @ 5:30 PM Town Clock Plaza 6:30 PM @ The Blu Room, Electric Shock @ 7:30 PM John Moran Sunday, August 30 Steve Grismore Jazz Trio Breezer’s Pub Pop Rocks @ 9:30 PM 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Roy Schroedl Scott’s Sunday Sesssion Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Town Clock Plaza 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Noon @ The Smokestack 5 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue Driftless Sisters Schaffer the Darklord, Coolzey, 7 PM @ 1st & Main Renegade Casethejoint, Young Fantom Garrett Hillary Open Mic w/ Scott Rische The Accidentals 6 PM @ Dubuque 9 PM @ The Lift 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Noon @ Grape Escape Charity Concert for Literacy Statue of Liberty Harley-Davidson 6 PM @ St. Mark Youth 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Neil Hewitt David Minnihan Americana Band Enrichment Sandy Hook Nights 9 PM @ Spirits 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Ice Cream Social 4onthefloor, Josiah, Jane Decker, Steak Fry @ 5 PM 1 PM @ Comisky Park A Celebration of The Beatles Liza Anne, Samuel Proffitt Six Shots ‘til Midnight @ 8 PM DJ Mr. Zills Dance Party Half-Fast 6:30 PM @ DBQ Arboretum 7 PM @ Codfish Hollow Barn Sandy Hook Tavern 10 PM @ The Smokestack 8 PM @ The Yardarm Emergence of Spirit: Burlesque Fundraiser Miss Kitty Quiz Show Denny Garcia Steve McIntyre Saturday, August 29 Blues Rock-it Betty & the Bluelights, 8 PM @ Grape Escape Songwriter’s Showcase 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Sam & The Others Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Sarajac Road, Steve 7 PM @ Galena CFA 8 AM @ DBQ Farmers’ Market 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue Cavanaugh Tight Phantomz, Dutch Roy Schroedl 1 PM @ The Smokestack Masters, Low Forms Andrew Houy 7 PM @ The Perfect Pint 7 Bridges Road Broom Street Drifters 9 PM @ The Lift 7 PM @ Grape Escape 2 PM @ Massey Marina 8 PM @ The Cornerstone Stock Brothers Garrett Hillary 2 PM @ PromiseLand Winery Tuesday, September 1 Dueling Pianos 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Jordan Danielsen Duo Percival Troy, Hoffman, & Marceau 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 2 PM @ Grape Escape 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. Open Mic w/ Pearl Breitbach 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s CampfireK ings 2:30 PM @ The Cornerstone Open Mic w/ Jeff & Jimmy 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Johnnie Walker Bottom Shelf Whiskey Vu JàDé 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 2 PM @ Galena Cellars 8 PM @ Grape Escape Boots Hefel Band 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Johnnie Walker 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery Arc Numbers (Kristina 8 PM @ The Yardarm R&B Barn Dance Ben Dunnegan Wednesday, September 2 Castaneda & Bob Bucko) 3 PM @ Council Hill Station 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge R&B Barn Dance Armadillokid Dance Party @ 9 PM Dan Peart 3 PM @ Council Hill Station (All-ages) TBT Dress Yourself Dance Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Fever River String Band Taste Like Chicken 6:30 PM @ The Smokestack Party w/ Dr. K @ 11 PM 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue 3:30 PM @ Guler’s Corner, 9 PM @ Spirits Wheelhouse The Smokestack Cuba City 3:30 PM @ New Diggings Acoustic Jam w/ Scott Guthrie Ben Dunegan Gypsy Pistols General Store 6:30 PM @ The Cornerstone 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 9 PM @ Northside Bar

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Matt Valenti Andy Wilberding Saturday, September 5 Lenny Wayne The Family Business Thursday, September 10 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 7 PM @ Timmerman’s CampfireK ings 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 3:30 PM @ New Diggings Nate Jenkins 2 PM @ Grape Escape General Store 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Denise Ramsden Ian Gould Afrodisiacs 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Tony Walker 9 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Steve McIntyre Lenny Wayne 4 PM @ The Palace, Dyersville 4 PM @ Stone Cliff 7 PM @ Grape Escape Open Mic w/ Mississippi Trio The Neverly Brothers Divas After Dark Drag Show 9 PM @ The Lift 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Beau Timmerman & Dance Party Round Midnight Jazz Peas & Garretts 5 PM @ PromiseLand Winery 9 PM @ The Smokestack Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ 8 PM @ The Cornerstone Thursday, September 3 2 Guys 1 Cup 5 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue Johnnie Walker & Kevin Beck 8 PM @ The Yardarm Garrett Hillary Mississippi Trio Friday, September 11 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s 6 PM @ Elizabeth Music in 9 PM @ Spirits Johnny Rockers Tony Walker Brother K Band the Park 5 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Noon @ Lunchtime Jam Open Mic w/ Gladdy & Friends Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Dirty Laundry 6:30 PM @ The Blu Room, 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue Vu JàDé 9 PM @ Jimi B’s Buzz Berries Aquatic Hitchhikers Breezer’s Pub 7 PM @ Inspire Café 6 PM @ Offshore 5 PM @ Platteville Dairy Days Invisible Map Ignighter Statue of Liberty 8 PM @ The Cornerstone Adam Beck 9:30 PM @ Dirty Ernie’s Ian Gould Dave Minnehan 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 7 PM @ Stone Cliff 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub 7 PM @ Inspire Café Calvin Coohey Moonshine Sorrow Young At Heart Dance 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. Country Tradition 10 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Labor Day Ron Lubbers 7 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 7 PM @ Mooney Hollow Barn Monday, September 7 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Lojo Russo Sunday, September 6 Boys Night Out The Deep Light (Lisa Acosta 8 PM @ Grape Escape Ian Gould Scott’s Sunday Sesssion 2 PM @ Massey Marina The Medicine Band & Shawn Healy) 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Noon @ The Smokestack It Was a Beautiful Country 8 PM @ The Smokestack Tete de Mort Brews Brothers 7 PM @ E.B. Lyons, Mines 9 PM @ 1st & Main Gerry Joe Weise Open Mic w/ Scott Rische 4 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern of Spain The Long & Short of It 8 PM @ The Blu Room, Noon @ Grape Escape 8 PM @ The Cornerstone Steve McIntyre Breezer’s Pub Tuesday, September 8 Corey Jenny 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Tricia Brock, Loftland, John Moran 7 pM @ Perfect Pint Friday, September 4 Zero 2 Sixty Cross Hope 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Broom Street Drifters Zach Pohl, Ben Dunegan 8 PM @ The Yardarm Ignite Dubuque Music Festival Just Cuz Noon @ Lunchtime Jam 9 PM @ The Lift 2 PM @ Agape Amphitheater Wednesday, September 9 7:30 PM @ DBQ Driving Range The Tornadoes Acoustic Jam w/ Andy The Lonely Goats w/ the Feast of Mutton Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Bill Stock Wilberding Katie Sullivan Navy Band 9 PM @ The Smokestack 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Bellevue 2 PM @ PromiseLand Winery 6:30 PM @ The Cornerstone 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Dubuque … and All That Jazz 5 PM @ Town Clock Plaza Massey Road Boys Night Out Open Mic w/ Jay Vonn Open Mic w/ Gladdy & Friends Ace Frehley 9 PM @ Spirits 8 PM @ The Bronco Inn 2:30 PM @ The Cornerstone 6:30 PM @ The Blu Room, 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 7 Bridges Road Breezer’s Pub 6 PM @ Offshore Mississippi Band Steve Grismore Jazz Trio Mick Staebell Sandy Hook Nights 9 PM @ Northside Bar 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery Denny Garcia Jackson Taylor & The Sinners, Garrett Hillary 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Brandon & Lane Stoney 6 PM @ Woodbine Bend Mascot Theory Swingin’ Doors Chuck Bregman 8 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern 10 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. 3 PM @ Anton’s Saloon Mike Mercury Broken Strings 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Stevie Tombstone, Ralph 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Enemies of Confusion The Wundos White and CCRIDER 8 PM @ Grape Escape 3 PM @ Council Hill Station 8 PM @ The Cornerstone

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Thursday, August 27 influences range from Beastie Boys to Slayer. been playing locally for many years with performs songs that originate from his love Schaffer the Darklord boasts an incredible Margaritaville-style classics. Also enjoy a 50/50 of the Midwest. An Iowa native and Dubuque command of stages wherever he performs. drawing; silent auction; an EoS photo booth resident, Dunegan finds inspiration the city he When not rapping, Schaffer hosts and performs featuring head pieces from past years and calls now calls home. Zach Pohl is an Austin- in nerdy burlesque shows all over New York photography by our official photographer, Lis Sto based roots music artist. Having lived most City. He will be making his return to Dubuque Photography; an original craft cocktail 6SEX6; of his life in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Screaming For Silence w/ Krashkarma Iowa and the Lift for the first time in over five and more! Advance tickets are available at The Zach Pohl now resides in Austin, Texas “The 9 PM @ Eronel years. Joining Schaffer will be fellow tour-mate Smokestack during regular business hours. Live Music Capital of the World”. From his early Cover: $5 and Iowa City native, Coolzey. Easily the beginnings in DFW, he identified and perfected Screaming For Silence...a band that uses hardest working act in Iowa hip-hop, Coolzey his musical talents, not only as a gifted singer, hard-hitting rock, heavy breakdowns, and an has made his living upon touring with his crazy but also as a talented song writer and musician. energetic live performance that never stops diverse, and multi-layered talents, pushing entertaining the crowd. They have continually the boundaries of rap music to new extremes. Thursday, September 10 captivated audiences across the nation, gaining He will be promoting his newest effort, fans with every stop. They’ve been nationally Stalactites, available on CD, and tape (yes, touring for over three years, and have played cassette tape). Arrive on time for local support Tight Phantomz, Low Forms, over four hundred live shows from coast to from Dubuque’s own father of the rhyme Dutch Masters coast. KrashKarma is a hard rock band based in Casethejoint, and Platteville’s Young Fantom. 9 PM @ The Lift Hollywood, California. The band was formerly Full on guitar assault this Sunday August 30 known as Suicide Holiday. KrashKarma’s Sunday, August 30 at The Lift. Tight Phantomz are equal parts current lineup includes Ralf Dietel as lead boogie, glam, and punk, and are probably singer and guitar and Niki Skistimas on drums looking for a ride to the liquor store. Low Forms Bobaflex, w/ Full Devil Jacket ,Bridge and vocals. Both bands have live performances out of Duluth hit with fuzzy pop punk noise. To Grace, VIA, Saturday Giant that cannot be missed! Presented by 97.3 THE Dutch Masters will flail at their instruments, 6 PM @ Eronel ROCK & Top Billing Entertainment. hoping for a song. Sundays are great. Show up early and support all the acts and see all five bands! Dubuque favorites Bobaflex Friday, August 28 Saturday, September 5 are on the road supporting their 7th album Emergence of Spirit Fundraiser with ANYTHING THAT MOVES. They will be sure to Betty and the Bluelights, Sarajac Road, play their most recent hit Mama (Don’t Take and Steve Cavanaugh My Drugs Away) and all your other favorites 1–5 PM @ The Smokestack including Bury Me With My Guns On. With Tickets: $5 adv/$8 door supporting acts Full Devil Jacket, Bridge To Schaffer the Darklord, Coolzey, After four years away from the Dubuque area, Grace, Via and Saturday Giant this is one show Casethejoint, Young Fantom Betty is back with an R&B review! Betty and the Zach Pohl, Ben Dunegan people will be talking about for a long time. 9 PM @ The Lift Bluelights will be dishing up rocking Blues. 9 PM @ The Lift Tickets on sale at CDs-4-Change, Eronel and Schaffer the Darklord (STD) is a nerdcore Sarajac Road is an acoustic duo consisting of Liz Singer songwriters Zach Pohl and Ben Dunegan onEtix.com. Only $15 up until 8 PM the day of hip-hop artist from New York City. He combines Smith and Doug Langston that plays The Beatles, take over The Lift stage to share their songs. the show! Show starts at 6 PM sharp with drink dark metal themes with hip-hop to create a Dixie Chicks, Alicia Keys, Blind Melon and Culling influence from heroes Neil Young, Ryan specials from 6 to 8 PM! Presented by 97.3 THE unique and often comedic style of music. His everything in between. Steve Cavanaugh has Adams, and Wilco, Ben Dunegan writes and ROCK and 7G Distributing.

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Friday, September 11 Saturday, September 12 and hip-hop. They have opened for such acts to weave them into a cohesive style that is as Andy Grammer, Hello Goodbye, ZZ Ward, all their own. This originality, combined with Thick As Thieves, Wilson Phillips, played all a fantastic live energy, is what most excites over L.A. and were named the Los Angeles audiences about them. The band has an RAW Artists of the Year in 2012. They released invigoratingly fresh, and undeniably catchy their debut EP in the Fall of 2013 while touring sound that has broken the mold of what mixed and selling out shows from LA to NYC. While genre bands can accomplish. They are refined, the band demonstrates a blend of genres and well thought, and truly Almost Classy. Visit Group Therapy Black Oak Arkansas w/ Missbehavin’ sounds, they also exhibit the unique ability almostclassymusic.com. 10 PM @ The Lift 8 PM @ Eronel Group Therapy is a five piece party band right Eagle 102, Top Billing Entertainment & Eronel here in Dubuque. They are not ashamed to are proud to announce that national recording say they play covers, but they will say that artists Black Oak Arkansas and local favorites they don’t play a lot of the covers you see Missbehavin’ will be taking the Eronel stage! everyone else doing. In fact, that was a main Show starts at 8 PM at it is going to be a “Jim reason for this group of friends to get together; Dandy”! Black Oak Arkansas produced their to play stuff they’ve never done in bands first album under the name of Black Oak before, which is hard because they’ve been in Arkansas in ‘71, The southern rockers have a a lot of bands including Boomtangle, Rocket sound that is unique and all their own. Bands Surgeons, Payback, Madhouse, Wheeler and such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special, The Allman more. If you love 80’s pop and new wave, 90’s Brothers and Molly Hatchet copied Black Oak’s emo, keytar and ukulele, you’ll want to clear style to make a sound that is easily identifiable your calendar. Fronted by Keisha Hackbarth as southern rock. It’s easy to say Black Oak on vocals, Tom Glab on bass, Neil Stockel on Arkansas founded today’s Southern Rock N Roll drums, and the 2/3 of the heart and soul of and they are playing right here in Dubuque, 365ink Magazine rounding out the band as Iowa. Make sure to come hear Jim Dandy...to Bryce Parks covers guitars and vocals and the rescue live! Tickets are $20 in advance and Kristina Nesteby wields a mighty keytar when available at Dubuque Harley-Davidson she’s not whipping out her uke or melodica. Motorcycles, Eronel & Etix.com. Prepare to dance and sing along. Just because you don’t hear these mainly 80’s classic very often in town doesn’t meant their not your favorites. Group Therapy is just braver/stupider than everyone else. Follow Group Therapy at Facebook.com/GetTherapy. Voices from the Warehouse District Opening Night w/ Almost Classy 10 PM–Midnight @ Voices Gallery Almost Classy’s Aaron Bernbach (vocals, guitar), Rob Cunliffe (vocals, guitar), Devin McNichol (vocals, bass) and Ian Lowe (drums) hail from all over the country, bringing with them a wide range of musical backgrounds. Together they craft an upbeat Rock-Pop sound with tight melodic harmonies and hints of multiple genres, including rock, pop, folk,

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Afrodisiacs Kansas Saturday, September 5 @ 9 PM Saturday, October 24 @ 8 PM The “Afros” are far from the typical dance band. Their Kansas has been a fixture on classic rock radio for decades with electrifying show propels you into the groove, complete with “Carry On Wayward Son,” becoming the second most-played the style, costumes and dance moves of the 70’s. song in 1995 and #1 in 1997. Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s, Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks total. Kansas is comprised of band members Billy Greer, David Manion, Ronnie Platt, David Ragsdale, original drummer Phil Ehart and original guitarist Richard Williams. Ace Frehley Friday, September 11 @ 8 PM Frehley co-founded KISS in 1973 and took on the persona “Spaceman” or “Space Ace.” With his six-string axe work, Frehley Freddy Jones Band is a legendary guitar player and musician with a career spanning Saturday, November 7 @ 8 PM four decades. He has had solo success with his hit song “New York Freddy Jones Band, fondly known as the “Darlings of Triple-A Groove” and his solo album, Space Invader, which hit the Billboard Radio,” features Chicago roots and sounds that mix breezy melodic 200. Frehley, along with the other original members of KISS, were lyrics with acoustic guitar. The band has two #1 hits and several Top inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. 10 hits, including “In a Daydream,” “Waitress” and “Mystic Buzz.”

The Temptations The Hit Men September 25 & 26 @ 8 PM Saturday, November 21 @ 4 and 7 PM R&B and soul music group The Temptations are known for their The Hit Men are an amazing look back through rock and roll distinct harmony, flashy wardrobe and choreography. their hits history, featuring former members of these mega-star acts. The include “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” and Hit Men will regale you with lots of great stories about what more. Current lineup includes Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Terry Weeks, Joe Herndon it was like on the road and in recording sessions with Frankie, and Bruce Williamson. Tommy, Carly, Cat, Jim and Elton. Relive the glory days of rock and roll and leave saying, “Oh, what a night!”

James Otto Saturday, October 17 @ 8 PM Sawyer Brown Christmas Show Hitting the Nashville country scene with his breakthrough hit Saturday, December 5 @ 4 and 7 PM “Just Got Started Lovin’ You,” Otto topped the country chart and Sawyer Brown has released 20 studio albums, including two was declared the #1 country song of the year in 2008 by Billboard holiday albums. The band has had three #1 singles and was magazine. He followed it up with “Somewhere Tonight,” “Groovy named Vocal Band of the Year by TNN Music City News Country Little Summer Song,” “Are Ya With Me” and “Soldiers & Jesus,” Awards multiple years in a row. The show will include a mixture which earned him Song of the Year at the CMA and ACM Awards of Christmas songs, along with some of Sawyer Brown’s best- along with a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song. known hits.

additional upcoming events

Dueling Pianos Laughing Moon Comedy: Mike Mercury Audiodrive ZZ-3: Tribute to ZZ Top Thursday, August 27 @ 7 PM Wednesday, September 9 @ 8 PM Friday, September 18 @ 8 PM Friday, October 2 @ 8 PM

Campfire Kings Dueling Pianos Club 84: Birthday Bash Project Pink: Tribute to Pink Floyd Friday, August 28 @ 8 PM Thursday, September 10 @ 7 PM Saturday, September 19 @ 7 PM Saturday, October 3 @ 8 PM

David Minnihan Coalition Laughing Moon Comedy: Mikey Mason One: Tribute to Metallica Saturday, August 29 @ 8 PM Saturday, September 12 @ 8 PM Wednesday, September 23 @ 8 PM Friday, October 9 @ 8 PM

Laughing Moon Comedy: Joie Wails Band Dueling Pianos Brews Brothers: Denise Ramsden Saturday, September 12 @ 10:30 PM Thursday, September 24 @ 7 PM Tribute to the Blues Brothers Wednesday, September 2 @ 8 PM Saturday, October 10 @ 8 PM Laughing Moon Comedy: Travis Howze Laughing Moon Comedy: Kevin Bozeman Young at Heart Dance Wednesday, September 16 @ 8 PM Wednesday, September 30 @ 8 PM Motley Inc. & Atomic Punks Thursday, September 3 @ 7 PM Friday, October 23 @ 8 PM WJOD Country Dance Young at Heart Dance Neverly Brothers Thursday, September 17 @ 7 PM Thursday, October 1 @ 7 PM Blizzard of Ozzy Friday, September 4 @ 8 PM Friday, October 30 @ 8 PM

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Dubuque Oktoberfest and Bier Tasting Saturday, September 19 @ 10 AM–8 PM A.Y. McDonald Park, Volunteer Dr After many years at the Port of present 25+ breweries offering samples Dubuque, Oktoberfest has outgrown it’s of their finest. lederhosen and moved to A.Y. McDonald Dubuque Oktoberfest is a family Park on Dubuque far north End (Think friendly celebration of German heritage, Fireworks). The event takes place rain with all proceeds benefiting Camp or shine under the Tri-State’s largest Albrecht Acres. The event runs entirely festival tent. on volunteer labor and business “We needed room to expand the donations. For more information festival and add some new events,” said about Camp Albrecht Acres, visit Terry Mozena, organizing committee AlbrechtAcres.org. member. “This year we will be adding Advance tickets are available at a Tug-of-War competition, keg rolling all Premier Bank locations. General obstacle course, life-size beer pong, as admissions is $5.00, Children 10 and under well as Weiner Dog Races”. The traditional are free. Bier Tasting is $25 in advance, games of Hammerschlagen and $30 at the gate, and includes a beer Masskrugstemmen (stein holding contest) tasting glass (guaranteed for first 600 will also take place throughout the day. guests) along with admission into the The festival is slated for Saturday, festival. Admission is free to those wearing September 19 and kicks off at 10:00 a.m. Lederhosen or Dirndl Dress. Advance Bier with a Color Vibe 5K run/walk along Tasting tickets can also be purchased the Mississippi River, which already has online at Hub-Monkey.com/tickets. more than 2,000 participants registered. Tickets will also be available at the gate Participation gets you free admission the day of the event. into Oktoberfest. For more information This event would not be possible or to register for the Color Vibe 5K without countless hours of work by please visit TheColorVibe.com. our volunteers and generous business The remainder of the day includes donations. Special thanks to our main music, food, beverages and games in sponsors: Premier Bank, Sedgwick, the park. LT Amusements will be on-site McGrath Auto, Gronen Restoration, with bounce houses and inflatables Weber Paper Company, and Bender’s for family entertainment. “We want to Foods. For more information please visit make this a full family event—mirrored DBQOktoberfest.org. n after Oktoberfest in Germany” said Mozena. “The way to do that is to have something for everyone, games for the Schedule of Events kids and adults.” 10 AM–2 PM Color Vibe 5K Music will be provided by the A.Y. McDonald Park, Volunteer Dr Guttenberg German Band, Americana Band and the Loras College German 11 AM–8 PM Live German music, games, Band. The University of Northern Iowa family fun, food and beverage International Dance Theatre will also throughout the entire day perform traditional German and Slavic Dances. The popular Bier Tasting will 3:30–6:30 PM Beer Tasting with 25+ breweries

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WOODSTONE RESTAURANT by Rich Belmont

If you play golf you know The General Golf Course is one region of Belgium. It is produced by spontaneous The dressing is made in-house: first the stems are of four courses at Eagle Ridge Resort and Spa. You are fermentation in a process that gives the beer a removed from dried figs then they are mixed with red probably also aware The General, which opened in 1997 to distinctive cidery flavor with a slight sour aftertaste. wine vinegar, sugar, canola oil, lemon zest and fresh rave reviews, is Eagle Ridge’s crowning achievement and • Not Your Father’s Root Beer—produced at City lemon juice. consistently ranks among Golf Digest’s top 100 courses. Brewery in La Crosse, WI under contract with Small Town Brewery. This is my favorite root beer of all The sandwiches are However, you might not time! It is the real thing as it contains 5.9% alcohol. distinctly upscale. The Philly know the clubhouse at This is what root beer tasted like before breweries Beef is seasoned shredded The General is called took out the alcohol during the prohibition era. beef piled into a sourdough Woodstone. It is open to hoagie bun along with the public and is quickly There is also a nicely stocked wine cellar with several roasted peppers, onions gaining a reputation as enticing selections available by the glass as well as the and provolone cheese. Fun one of Galena’s finest bottle. Fact: in Philadelphia the restaurants. The recent official Philly Cheese Steak rise in prominence can Woodstone excels in charbroiled meats, thin crust pizzas is made with cheese whiz be largely attributed to the introduction of a young, and entrées baked in ovens filled with the smoke of but provolone is the very talented Restaurant Manager, Brielle Schneider and hickory wood chips. Only fresh ingredients are used and popular and optional the addition of a young creative and skilled Executive the sauces and dressings are made in-house. second choice. Chef, Chad Schissel. Brielle and Chad have only been at Woodstone for 3 months and I predict that by the end of next season, largely through their talent and hard work, Woodstone will be as critically acclaimed by us foodies as The General Golf course is by golfers.

Brielle Schneider holds a degree in Hospitality Management from Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA. She has experience in fine dining from For starters I recommend the Spicy Fire Grilled Wings. working in the college’s restaurants and is certified in They are flash fried and finished in the wood fired oven liquor, wine and beverage management. with a house sweet and spicy sauce mixed with Sriracha. My favorite appetizer is the Laugenbrezel. It is a giant Chad Schissel has been in the culinary field for thirteen traditional soft German pretzel. It is made from scratch, The burger is an excellent choice. It is a half-pound ground years and has worked in ten restaurants. He started as a folded into a pretzel loop, brushed with garlic oil and Black Angus hand pressed patty on a Brioche bun. It is dishwasher then cooked at the Midtown Marina in East sprinkled with sea salt. It is very tasty just as it is but it is served with lettuce, tomato, red onion and pickle slices. Dubuque, IL. Prior to being appointed Executive Chef at accompanied by beer mustard and cheesy ale sauce. Woodstone he was in charge of the Kitchen Buffet in the Diamond Jo Casino and the Mercy Medical Center Dining The Black and White Soup Room in Dubuque. is most interesting. Two different delicious soups: Woodstone has 5 beers on tap but it specializes in craft Spicy Black Bean and beers. The current list has 13 unusual and exceptionally Potato Leek are poured flavorful selections. Here are four of them that I have into the same bowl. You particularly enjoyed: can eat them separately because somehow they do • Hop Rise Central Ale—Central Waters Brewing Co., not mix together. Amherst, WI. An explosively hoppy yet sessionable IPA. The Native American Chili lives up to its name. Ground • Oak Barrel Aged Scottish Ale—Traquair House bison from the Iowa Bison Company is simmered with Brewing Company, Scotland. Scottish brown ale aged peppers, onions, tomatoes and jalapeños then mixed The pastas are very good and what you would expect to in oak barrels. with ground Fritos and topped with cheddar cheese. be served in an Italian Restaurant. For example: the Fire • Framboise Lamic—Lindemans Brewing Company, Cracker Shrimp is a bowl of farfalle (bowties) pasta mixed Belgium. Naturally fermented with raspberries. Goes The Silo Salad (a clever name since there is an actual with blackened shrimp, olive oil and garlic. The Chicken great with chocolate desserts, fresh raspberries stone silo attached to the restaurant) is the most popular Penne Alfredo is a bowl of penne (Italian for quills) covered and ice cream. By the way, Framboise is the French salad. It is a mix of baby greens, sundried tomatoes, in home-made Alfredo sauce. The Alfredo is prepared word for raspberry and Lambic is a type of beer dried cranberries, goat cheese, toasted almonds, from heavy cream, grated parmesan, nutmeg, garlic and traditionally brewed in Brussels and the Pajottenland avocado and pear. It is served with Lemon Fig Dressing. onion powder, fresh chopped garlic and white wine.

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Margie’s favorite dinner Tuesday nights are a good time to visit. That’s because it is the Walleye Meunière is $2.00 Wine Night. Friday is another good time. Every (muhn-YAIR). Fun Fact: Friday is Chef Carved Beef Brisket Night. And there are this literally means miller’s special Chef’s Choice features every Friday and Saturday wife in French. It describes night as well. a style of cooking in which meat, typically fish, is seasoned and lightly dusted with flour and sautéed in butter. The pizzas are a specialty of the house. They have an excellent thin crust and a smoky flavor. I like the Meat On September 1st Chef Chad is introducing a new menu. Amore loaded with Italian sausage, pepperoni, ground Most of the items I have heretofore described will be on beef, bacon and fresh mozzarella. Of course, like always this new menu. So here I am listing a few of the exciting my favorite is the Margarita simply made with the additions the Chef is planning for our pleasure: symbols of the three colors of the Italian flag: tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. • Fresh tomato Basil Bruschetta (broo-SKEH-tah) on Crostini.—Fresh tomatoes and mozzarella on French bread toasts. If you are like me you will be sad to see your fantastic • Smoked Salmon Croquettes (kroh-ketts).—whole Woodstone dinner come to its inevitable yet satisfying fresh Atlantic salmon flown in once a week, house- conclusion. So cheer yourself up with one of their smoked and rolled with cream cheese and herbs, luscious desserts! Ask your server to show you the breaded and deep fried. dessert tray. On our last visit our waitress enticed us with • Chicken Season Caesar Wrap—fresh romaine with Chocolate Banana Cake, Chocolate Flourless Cake, Red parmesan cheese, sliced tomatoes, croutons and Velvet Cake and three Cheesecakes: Chocolate Peanut Caesar dressing rolled inside an herb flour tortilla. Butter, Raspberry Swirl and Key Lime. • Shenandoah Burger—hand pressed, half pound Black Angus on a pretzel bun topped with cheddar cheese, My favorite dessert was bacon, BBQ sauce and haystack onions. not on the tray since it is The Entrées enhance Woodstone’s status from typical the house specialty and golf course clubhouse to fine dining establishment. The I expect Chef Chad’s new Woodstone Specialties are it is baked to order. It’s BBQ Ribs are splendid considering this restaurant is not destined to make this restaurant famous. Here is just a called the Dark Chocolate a smokehouse. The tender Baby Back Ribs are oven sampling of some of the dinners he has planned for us: S’Mores Skillet. Its menu roasted for two hours then braised with a BBQ sauce. • Grilled Salmon with Dill Cream Reduction—fresh description says it all: The flavor is enhanced through the Chef’s expert hand-cut grilled Atlantic salmon served with lemon Rich Molten Lava Brownie application of beer and Montreal Steak seasoning. This dill cream sauce, roasted vegetable risotto cake and with Chocolate Cream, seasoning, also known as Canadian Steak Spice, is a seasonal vegetable. Jumbo Marshmallows and spice mix based on the pickling dry-rub used in • Pina Colada Chicken—rotisserie style chicken topped Graham Cracker Crumbs preparing Montreal smoked meat. with pineapple coconut glaze. Cooked to a Golden Brown • Zander Filet Meunière—pan seared in the meunière style in our Wood Fired Oven! Great Lakes Zander-Pike topped with brown butter. Interesting facts: the Zander-Pike fish is also known as a Do you have a favorite restaurant you would like to see Pike-Perch. It is closely related to a perch but resembles reviewed? Please send your requests, suggestions and a pike. Zander and Walleye are almost indistinguishable comments to Argosy at [email protected]. n in taste. Zander is prized for its light, firm but tender meat with few bones and a delicate flavor. • Grilled Ribeye—topped with Feta cheese and homemade Béarnaise sauce. Woodstone Restaurant • Hickory Bacon Wrapped Filet Mignon—center cut 109 Eagle Ridge Drive, Galena, IL 61036 Black Angus tenderloin wrapped in hickory bacon 815-776-5252 • EagleRidge.com and topped with homemade Béarnaise sauce. The Beer Battered Cod is coated with a batter containing Hours: Sun–Thu: 11 AM–9 PM; Fri–Sat: 11 AM–10 PM Woodstone’s signature Screaming Eagle Ale. This ale is Béarnaise sauce originated in the province of Béarn, Closed for Winter Season November through April brewed exclusively for Eagle Ridge Resorts restaurants by France. It is made from clarified butter emulsified in egg Dining Style: Casual Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls, WI. yolk and white wine vinegar. Noise Level: Conversational Recommendations: Spicy Fire Grilled Wings, Laugenbrezel, Black and White Soup, Black Angus Burger, Wood Fired Pizza, BBQ Ribs, Walleye Meunière, Beer Battered Cod, S’mores Liquor Service: Full Bar, Melon Liqueur Hole in One Prices: Lunch: $5–$12; Dinner: $5–$30 Pay Options: Cash, Debit, All Credit Cards, No Checks; ATM on premises Accessibility: Front Door & Rest Rooms Kids Policy: Menu; High Chairs; Boosters Reservations: Yes • Catering: Yes • Take Out: Yes Delivery: No • Parking: Large Private Lot

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history, Till started collecting vintage postcards several years ago. His collection now exceeds 3,000 postcards that illustrate the 3,365 miles length of the historic road from Boston, Massachusetts to Newport, Oregon. He hopes 1,000 Books Before this book will bring back pleasant memories for Kindergarten Program those who traveled Route 20 in its early years The 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten and provide the opportunity for younger encourages families to read at least people to relive a journey that might have been 1,000 books to their child, birth to age made by their parents or grandparents. Mr. Till 5, before they enter school. Families can will discuss his book Along Iowa’s Historic sign up at the Carnegie-Stout Public Highway 20 and answer questions from the Library. Each child will receive a reading audience. Books will be available for sale. log and folder to organize materials, which includes reading lists, an early literacy calendar, a finger-play rhyming book, and suggested activities. When the goal of reading 100 books is met, children can bring their folder back to the library and receive a prize as well as a reading log for their next 100 books. n University of Iowa Mobile Museum Saturday, September 5 @ 10 AM–4 PM Explore exhibits including: Water Underground: The Science of Iowa’s Most Essential Resource; Hawkeyes in Space: Space Exploration at the University of Iowa; and Over Here from Over There Iowans in World War II. The Mobile Museum will be parked in front of Carnegie- Stout Public Library at the corner of Bluff and 11th Streets. This event is free and open to Art @ your library® people of all ages. Now through September 23 Sue Prochaska-Kiefer is best known for her Empower Birth Dubuque Expo Country Art and Scenes of Dubuque. Born in Saturday, September 12 @ Noon–4 PM Dubuque, she uses her familiarity with the The First Annual Empower Birth Dubuque tri-state area to recreate barns, fences, and Expo will be held at the Carnegie Stout Public landscapes of the country and also various Library. Birthworkers in the area have invited landmarks of Dubuqueland. Her works include local businesses and organizations to educate pen and ink drawings and she uses rich earth participants about holistic lifestyles. The mission tones that bring a complex depth to her pieces. of the expo is to strengthen the birth community by empowering women and families in making Jeanelle Westerfield is a Wisconsin born artist, healthy choices for themselves and for the future who moved to Dubuque when she was a young of their children. Empower Birth Dubuque’s lady. Westerfield’s artistic philosophy vision is to create a more supportive birth and expresses the necessity to be creative and have mothering community through access to these a sense of accomplishment. Her goal is to resources and educators. reflect this in all of her artworks so that all who see them, enjoy them. Representatives at the expo include: massage therapists, doulas, yoga instructors, nutritional counselors, lactation consultants, midwives, and an assortment of other birthworkers as well as natural/organic baby products. Speakers at the event will cover topics such as fertility awareness, nutrition, and alternative medicines. Service providers, representatives, Meet Historian and Author Michael Till and demonstrations (including baby-wearing of Along Iowa’s Historic Highway 20 and cloth diapering) will be held on the third Monday, August 31 @ 6:30–8 PM floor inside of the Angler Auditorium. The Michael Till grew up in Independence, Iowa, a first floor children’s reading room will host a rural community in which Highway 20 went continuation of speakers for the day. The event directly down Main Street. Long a fan of US 20 is free and open to the public.

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COMMUNITY EQUITY PROFILE: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FAR HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING UP TO DATE WITH THE RESULTS FROM ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IN DUBUQUE? THE EQUITY PROFILE?

In July, Inclusive Dubuque’s community equity According to data from the Housing and Transportation Each month Inclusive Dubuque creates a profile focused on transportation. Nearly 60 community Affordability Index, housing and transportation costs are snapshot to provide a preview of what has members attended seven community dialogues held considered affordable when they comprise less than 45% been learned so far. The snapshots are not a throughout Dubuque to provide their input on various of a household’s income. In Dubuque, the average cost of complete representation of all the data and topics including public transportation. In addition housing and transportation is 47% of a household’s income. information gathered; the final equity profile will to these dialogues, 170 community members also The average annual transportation cost for a household be completed this fall and will include additional participated in an online survey. in Dubuque is approximately $12,310. Because Dubuque’s information. Check out the snapshots from According to survey results, those who have lived in population is dispersed throughout a large area, people economic wellbeing, housing, education, health, Dubuque for less than five years are less likely to believe need to own more vehicles and rely upon driving them safe neighborhoods and transportation online at Dubuque offers quality public transportation (36.59%), farther distances which also drives up the cost of living. www.inclusivedbq.org! compared to those who have been here more than 10 years (66.36%). Location Efficiency Metrics

Percentage of Respondents Who Use Public Transportation as Their 0% Most Frequent Method of Travel Percent of location (by household income) efficient neighborhoods

Less than $24,999 Source: Housing and Transportation Affordability Index, 17.1% Center for Neighborhood Technology

$25,000 - $49,999 6.5% A location-efficient place is compact, meaning residents are close to jobs and services and have a variety of $50,000 - $99,999 0% transportation choices. This allows people to spend less time, energy and money on transportation. According $100,000 or more 0% to the index, Dubuque has 0% of location-efficient neighborhoods. This could cause a problem for those Percentage of Respondents Who who may rely on public transportation as their only means of travel, especially since public transportation Agree that Dubuque Offers Quality hours and routes are limited in Dubuque. Public Transportation During the community dialogues, attendees discussed (by household income) that there are some important destinations that are not accessible from the bus route, such as the social security Less than $24,999 44.4% office, which is on the West End. Attendees also discussed that those who depend on the bus for transportation $25,000 - $49,999 48.5% are limited because of the hours of operation. For those HAVE YOU TAKEN ALL OF THE $50,000 - $99,999 55.9% who work second or third shifts, public transportation is not an option because it does not run during these times. EQUITY PROFILE SURVEYS YET? $100,000 or more 74.2% In addition to public transportation, dialogue Are you just now learning attendees discussed whether Dubuque is a bicycle-friendly about the equity profile? community. Bicyclists do not feel safe as there are limited You can still share your bike lanes around the community. perspective on all seven focus The data discussed here represent just a small areas. Survey links are available percentage of the information that was gathered and at www.inclusivedbq.org. discussed for the transportation portion of the equity profile. Please visit www.inclusivebdq.org in the upcoming weeks for more information on this focus area and others.

ABOUT INCLUSIVE DUBUQUE TO LEARN MORE: Inclusive Dubuque is a local network of leaders from faith, Network partners gather monthly to share their labor, education, nonprofit and government dedicated perspectives on diversity, equity and inclusion in our visit www.inclusiveDBQ.org to advancing justice and social equity in our community. community. They support and learn from each other, The growing network list includes 43 organizations and working together to discover best practices to help call 563.588.2700 businesses all committed to a common cause: a community their employees, customers, supporters and volunteers where all people feel respected, valued and engaged. feel welcome in Dubuque. follow /InclusiveDBQ

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Consider Death by Matt Booth

You’ve heard over and over again that, I can hear you now, come on Matt—I life is short, time is limited and you should don’t read this stuff to get depressed— live like today is your last. Logically— it is supposed to positive. I’m being death is a fact of life. Most people tend to positive…I’m 100% positive that you will avoid thinking about their own death. For die. The fact of the matter is that there is healthy young people, death seems so not a single person on this earth who is remote. The concept of death is easy to getting out alive. Don’t wait until you’re not think about. We live in a finite world 40 or 50 or 80 or have a heart attack or and considering your own death leads to battle cancer to consider death. Don’t a fuller life. assume that you have enough time to do Are you halfway through your life everything you want. You don’t. It might or near the end? There are only so not be easy to come with terms that you many tomorrows. Do you have 1 or 10 will die, but embracing death gives you tomorrows? Do you have 10 or 40 years the power to live. of tomorrows? Don’t wait until you look Death is inevitable. It will happen to all death in the eye to think about it. We’ve of us. Try to live with the end in mind. It all seen others face death and have felt is because of death that life has meaning. the value they put on living. Take that If you could simply do this or that for a feeling and use it to live. By considering century and then do something else for your own death, you’ll stop wasting another century, life would lose its luster. precious moments. Considering death leads to responsibility We should all be told at the start of for current and future actions. Don’t life that we are dying. As the rest of life passively endure your life. You only really can be unpredictable, death will surely live when you fight, battle, and sacrifice. come. Death does not care whether you You will die, but will you really live? n have finished all the plans you had in mind. It does not matter whether you are a kind person or a jerk, a success or Mattitude Quote a failure. Death doesn’t care what color “Be willing to risk the possibility of your skin is or your social status. Death failure as a fair price for chasing takes indiscriminately. your dreams.” —Matt Booth When I think and talk about death, I do things I might not otherwise do. For Matt Booth, the attitude expert, example, the thought of my own death is an engaging speaker. He has me calling my mother more often and demonstrates and delivers a crawling on the floor with my boys. It has common sense approach to a me telling my wife I love her and grabbing positive attitude. To find out some flowers. The thought of death gets how Matt can help you or your me to church and thinking about the organization, connect with him purpose of my life. today at mattbooth.com.

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Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich

Makes 4 servings

All you need: • 2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil • 1 tbsp all-purpose flour • 1 pound sirloin steak, • ¼ tsp salt trimmed and thinly sliced • ½ cup sliced hot banana (see Tip) peppers, optional • 1 medium onion, sliced • ¼ cup reduced-sodium • 8 oz mushrooms, sliced chicken broth • 1 red or green bell pepper, • 3 slices reduced-fat sliced provolone cheese • 2 tbsp minced fresh (about 3 oz) oregano, or 2 tsp dried • 4 whole-wheat buns, split • ½ tsp freshly ground pepper and toasted

All you do: 1. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced meat, onion, mushrooms, bell pepper and cook, stirring often, until soft and beginning to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Slow-cook Your Way to Good Nutrition! 2. Remove and put into slow cooker. Add the oregano, pepper, by Hy-Vee nutritionists Megan Horstman (Asbury), Amy Cordingley (Locust), flour and salt. Stir. Add banana peppers (if using), and broth. and Tricia Rau (Dodge) Start slow cooker on HIGH for 15 minutes, then turn to LOW to cook 6 to 8 hours. Want to solve the how-to-get-dinner-on-the-table Maximize Flavor 3. To serve, divide into 4 portions and scoop a portion on each dilemma as you start back to the routine of school? Brown the meat and/or vegetables in a skillet before bun. Lay cheese slices on top of the vegetables and meat, let Dust off that slow cooker. It can be your trusty adding to the cooker. Then deglaze the pan with any stand until melted, 1 to 2 minutes. assistant to making sure dinner is ready in the midst of liquid called for in the recipe to get all the brown, homework and sports schedules. caramelized bits from the sauté pan into the cooker. Tips and Notes: Slow-cooked dishes are ideal for making ahead and You’ll end up with a richer flavor that can’t be achieved It is easiest to cut meat into thin slices if it is partially frozen. If you reheating, and leftovers can be enjoyed for several days. by slow-cooking alone. have time, freeze it for 20 minutes before slicing. And a slow cooker provides advantages for healthy cooking by stretching small amounts of meat with Keep Temperature in Mind Per Serving: 430 calories, 15g fat, 6g saturated fat, 74mg flavorful sauces and a generous portion of vegetables. A slow cooker is certainly convenient, but if not used cholesterol, 646mg sodium, 31g carbohydrate, 5g fiber, 45g While you might use your slow cooker more often in the correctly there is the potential for food-safety hazards. protein. Daily values: 22% vitamin A, 72% vitamin C, 25% winter, you can keep your kitchen cool by using your Temperatures between 40° and 135°F fall into the calcium, 22% iron. slow cooker in the summer and fall, too. so-called “Danger Zone,” since bacteria thrive in these Like anything else, there are some tips and tricks temperatures. When using a slow cooker, be sure to take Source: Adapted from Eating Well to making tastier, healthier meals from your slow precautions that keep food from being in the Danger cooker. For example, flavors tend to meld together Zone for too long. To avoid the Danger Zone, never The information is not intended as medical advice. Please consult with long cooking times—a sprinkle of fresh herbs just add frozen ingredients to your cooker, refrigerate any a medical professional for individual advice. before serving can brighten a dish. Also, it’s best to ingredients you’ve prepped ahead in separate storage add noodles the last half hour of cooking, rather than containers and bring liquids to a simmer if you’re putting them in to cook all day. cooking on Low before adding them to your cooker to give the heating process a jump-start. n Here are some other tips: Keep a Lid on It Resist the urge to take off the lid and peek at your meal. Opening the slow cooker lets heat escape and slows cooking. Only open it 30 to 45 minutes before the end of the cooking time to check doneness.

Plan Your Meals Ahead If you want to turn your slow cooker on first thing in the morning, a little planning goes a long way. The night before: Cut and trim any meat, chop any vegetables, measure out dry ingredients and prepare any sauce; refrigerate the components in separate containers. (Do not refrigerate components in the slow-cooker insert; a cold insert takes too long to heat up and affects cooking time and food safety.) Then, in the morning: Add ingredients to the cooker according to the recipe. It’s best to reheat any sauce to a simmer before adding. If you won’t be home close to the end of the cooking time, make sure you have a slow cooker that can switch to the Warm setting when cooking is done. Sudoku answers on page 43

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I’m not being very objective but I will be honest about Karin Slaughter’s new novel, Pretty Girls. It’s a major work from a major writer currently working in the thriller/cop genre. If I can use a three- dollar word, it was mesmeric. She makes James Patterson look like a hack. But wait a minute, James Patterson is a hack. Her first stand-alone novel,Cop Town, came out last year and was the first book of Ms. Slaughter’s that I read. She has two series running, one about Grant County and another featuring one of her characters, Will Trent. Pretty Girls is another stand-alone. It is not for you if you are a little squeamish or are scared of the dark. This is a psychological thriller of the first order. She writes as well or better than anyone else on the scene. Sometimes her prose slides across the page like a placid brook on a to put their relationship back together hot summer day and sometimes like a and salve the massive wound that Julia’s raging pit bull. She can be very aggressive disappearance caused. Revenge is sweet and I find that extremely entertaining. and a dish best served cold (at least the Pretty Girls is about two sisters, Claire French think so as the phrase comes and Lydia, who haven’t spoken to each from French author Pierre Laclos’s novel other in 20 years since their teenage sister, Dangerous Liaisons.) When it is enacted Julia, vanished without a trace and it tore upon the villain I jumped off the sofa, the family apart. Clair and Lydia are at “I don’t believe Slaughter just did that. the opposite ends of every spectrum you SWEET!” Totally unexpected. can imagine, social, economic, physical Any other writer would have copped appearance, emotional, and psychological. out on the ending but not Karin Slaughter. Claire is the country club trophy wife and It’s just huge. I have become a big fan. The Lydia the struggling homemaker who book comes out next month. Look for it. dates an ex-con. Then Claire’s husband is killed. These two violent crimes in More Slaughter one family bring the estranged sisters Karin Slaughter has written a prequel together, first in a very strained union and of sorts to Pretty Girls called Blond Hair then as full-blown partners. The plot works Blue Eyes, the story of how Julia gets in the capable hands of Karin Slaughter abducted. It stops where Pretty Girls who makes it believable whereas in the starts and could have easily been the grip of a lesser writer it could turn out first chapter. Ms. Slaughter’s prequel is morbidly laughable. only available as an E-book and is about The plot moves along like a stealth the length of a moderately long short fighter, smooth and fast. The situation story. You don’t need to read it to enjoy Claire and Lydia find themselves in gets and understand Pretty Girls. thorny early on in the book. The twists In Blond Hair Blue Eyes we are and turns are deliciously sinister and I witness to Julia’s last day of freedom. had a hard time predicting any of the plot We discover she is a journalism major movements. Almost every development at the University of Georgia at Athens; surprised the heck out of me even though writes for the University newspaper; every advance in the plot came out of is obsessed with the supposed attack logical elements that precede them. The and disappearance of a number of Crossword answers on page 43 villain turns out to be a great bolt from women in the area; is assigned to write the blue, a foul person with a streak of a front-page story on the subject; goes serial killing, sexual perversion (real nasty to a bar with a friend; becomes slightly too), an exceedingly twisted view of the inebriated and decides to walk home world, but incredibly believable. The alone. That was a big mistake. villain is not a cookie cutter character or You do get all of this info from sympathetic. You hate the character and Pretty Girls as hearsay from the other want to see the them get what is clearly characters but it is interesting to get it most deserving. from the source. The writing is luminous There are elements of redemption and and I would recommend this to anyone revenge in the book. Claire and Lydia try who plans to read Pretty Girls. n

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Bob and I returned home late, one warm August night. thing, seeing the body of someone you love with all the As usual, our cat, Leo, greeted us, flopping down on the animation gone. I don’t know if he had a soul, but he had living room floor, ready for his nighttime routine. First, get a spirit, and it had vanished. I had said “Goodnight.” Now brushed, rolling over on cue. Next, wait for the fistful of I had to say “Farewell.” treats that come as the basement door closes. Finally, race It was a good death. He was at home. He was neither downstairs to where Bob is catching the baseball scores old nor visibly sick. No scary trip to the vet. or watching a late show. Every night, Leo would knead Bob buried him the next morning under the and circle, finally settling onto Bob’s lap. That cat could mulberry bush. He did it early, before the neighborhood be hell on wheels at other times of the day, but as the kids were out. evening drew to a close, he would let down his guard. It’s been weeks now, yet I still look for him, still think Every night, as I began closing the door behind him, he’s nearby. I hadn’t realized how much I talked to him, I took the base of his tail in my hand and stroked it calling out, “Hey kitty!” any time I arrived home; asking upward. I loved the meow-purr he uttered in response how he felt about that chipmunk he was watching to my “Goodnight, kitty.” No matter that he voiced it through the window; confessing to him, “I am sick of this only at mealtimes, and never for our various cat-sitters. snow. You’re so lucky to be an indoor cat.” They were greeted with hisses even as they doled out his Leo’s departure was even more sad because my son kibble. Leo knew what and whom he loved, and his circle and his wife had lost their beloved dog, Bianca, much allowed only two. (Spotting another cat outside sent him the same way just a few weeks earlier. A stocky bulldog- into an absolute fury. How DARE there be other cats?) boxer mix, Bianca loved everyone she met, her tail going Though it was a work night, I stayed up, sorting constantly, her teeth bared in a big smile. They were papers and making a list for the next day. Everything expecting twins, and we all looked forward to the way was normal; everything was fine. she would greet and protect them.  Leo Fifteen minutes later, Bob came up and opened the My friend in California, who has lived her whole life with door. I thought he must be retiring early after the late dogs and cats, sent me this beautiful note: “Of all the losses losing loft. It may be that we eventually learn to live without drive home. But he just stood there, an unreadable look on that accumulate over the course of a lifetime, losing a them, but all the aspects of our days shaped by and around his face. Now, my husband often stands in various rooms member of the family—human, canine, or feline—is always their presence no longer have a home.” of the house looking at me, sometimes saying “Huh,” or the worst. I can remember what I was doing for every one Rest in peace, Leo. Good boy. n “Well,” and I’ll respond, expectantly, “What?” This time, of those losses, feeling at that moment like a hot-air balloon —[email protected] something prompted me to ask instead, “Are you all right?” I feared the television had broadcast some terrible news, a new 9/11, and he was deciding how to tell me. But no. The news he had to convey was awful, but it won’t make national headlines. He said, “Leo had a seizure.” I gasped, picturing a rush to the emergency vet, but then he said, “He’s gone.” Gone? Our fierce 18-pound companion, gone? Leo had bounded down the steps as usual, jumping onto the sofa to get ready to lie down. Then came the seizure, and as Bob talked to him, he could see the life go out of Leo’s handsome, grey and white body. Now, if you’ve never had a cat or dog or other pet for whom you had a soft spot, you may find it ridiculous that I burst into tears. No need to read further. Go back to your book, your DVD. I hope it’s Dewey, the Library Cat, or that episode of “Downton Abbey” where Isis, Robert’s Labrador retriever—well, never mind. (My daughter and I joke darkly about never reading books about pets because they always—always—die in the end.) We sat in the living room for a while, talking about all the goofy and annoying and mystifying things Leo had done in the twelve years he’d lived with us. When he was new, he would pick up toys and randomly deposit them in our shoes. When we spoke to him, he answered. But he was no sweet greeting-card cat. He had no patience for humans who walked too many times past him, giving us a good whap when he’d had it. This habit, no doubt, was key to his championship-level mousing. He had a presence. I felt it the moment he locked eyes with me at the Humane Society, as if to say, “Stop looking. I’m the one you want.” He might not have been welcome in another family, once his moodiness became apparent. I was glad we had chosen each other. That night, as we walked down the stairs to see him one last time, I began to sob again. It’s such a shocking

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Dear Erma, My girlfriend of two years recently Dear Jenny, complained about the relationship I’ve pissed off plenty of people in my life. becoming stale. It’s true, we don’t do You know what I’ve learned? People hold grand gestures for each other as much grudges and there’s not a whole lot you anymore, but I’m in grad school, she’s can do to fix it. You could try sneaking in working two jobs, and we’re both a little Timmy’s house and placing cheese under overworked to say the least. Do you have his bed (I hear it’s a great way to disgust any date night suggestions? those who rarely clean) or be bold and —Sleepy Sam leave your pup’s poo bag on the hood of his car. Or maybe get better friends who Dear Sam, aren’t big ol’ wimps. Adults aren’t worth Mr. Gerd and I have date night every winning over if they act like children. night! We recently purchased Netflix and —Erma neither of us really know how it works. But the neighbor kids say it’s hip to Dear Erma, “Netflix and chill”. I think that just means My sister-in-law’s birthday is next month, putting on a pair of modest slippers and and I’m expected to give her a gift. Last watching TV. Sounds like a relaxing date year she gave me a handwritten note night to me. expressing how she’d like to see me —Erma lose weight so I’d “fit in” with the rest of their family. And this year, she gave me Dear Erma, a banana. What kind of gift do you think A few years ago, “Timmy” and I kinda she deserves? had a thing (we weren’t dating but kind —Fanny on Fengler of were). I decided I just liked Timmy as a friend, but he didn’t like that. Instead, Dear Fanny, many mutual friends of ours took his side This oh-so-sane granny would gift your and decided to box me out for (seemling) oh-so-wonderful sister-in-law a box with forever. They tell my acquantiances three jars. Take your time and bedazzle how I’m a horrible person, and Timmy the crap out of those jars. Show you put has even gone as far as forbidding my some effort into it. And then fill one up presence from friends’ homes. What can I with bleach, one with vinegar, and leave do to get back into the game and win my your in-law instructions to combine the friends back? two in the third jar and inhale. Deeply. —Jelly Jenny —Erma

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Aries Libra (March 21–April 19) (September 23–October 22) I guess I should apologize for not You take great solace in the fact foreseeing that Dubuque would become the that any notable families in the Dubuque area epicenter of the political news sphere, if only aren’t mired in sex scandals like the rest of the for five minutes this week. nation seems to be.

Taurus Scorpio (April 20–May 20) (October 23–November 21) It’s back to school time and you You’ll find yourself waking up in a know what that means! Only 9 more months until cold sweat wondering what horrors could cross stores tout amazing sales for dads and grads! our eastern, western, and northern borders. We gotta wall off the seas, people! Gemini (May 21–June 20) Sagittarius Try as you might, buying a new (November 22–December 21) pack of Bic pens and a stack of Mead notebooks You and I are guilty of the same will not be the easy way to flood your system thing: waiting for a top tier WWE wrestler to with nostalgia for times long gone when you throw his hat into the ring and run for just did homework for a living and paid no bills. President. That person, whoever he or she may be, will be the one to finally save us from all the Cancer insanity of the current rat race. (June 21–July 22) You will become The Next Great Capricorn American Folk Hero by restoring old TV shows (December 22–January 19) to their full glory thanks to the magic of You’ll discover that positive just extending rights and licensing to songs isn’t trending these days when you try and currently missing from their reruns and make your cat into an Internet sensation that’s streaming versions. designed to be the opposite of Grumpy Cat.

Leo Aquarius (July 23–August 22) (January 20–February 18) PUZZLE ANSWERS Don’t worry, Dubuque. Just Never bring a plastic knife to a because the rest of the world is concerned Nerf fight. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong doesn’t mean you need to know a damn thing with you. about who or what The Fat Jewish is. Trust me. Pisces Virgo (February 19–March 20) (August 23–September 22) Just because you’re not hired Beware - the next time you buy by ESPN doesn’t mean you should post that umpteenth replacement charging cable questionable memes on the Internet with for you phone on Amazon means someone reckless abandon. Think before you post, people! will have to stay and work overnight at their corporate offices for the 3rd consecutive day.

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