AUGUST 27–SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 ISSUE #246 PHOTO: RON TIGGES—DIGITAL DUBUQUE 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 EVENTS ARTS NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS 4 17 28 34 365INK PRODUCTION STAFF Bryce Parks Publisher, Everything Else Kristina Nesteby Layout Ninja, Designer [email protected] [email protected] Mike Ironside Feature Writer, Photographer [email protected] 365INK ADVERTISING STAFF Kelli Kerrigan Lisa Stevenson [email protected] • 563-581-7014 [email protected] • 563-580-1691 365INK CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rich Belmont Argosy’s Food For Thought Bob Gelms Bob’s Book Reviews [email protected] [email protected] Matt Booth Mattitude Pam Kress-Dunn Feature Writer [email protected] [email protected] Sara Carpenter Do It Yourself Advice [email protected] SPECIAL THANKS Christy Monk, Gina Siegert, Ryan Decker, Neil Stockel, Kay Kluseman, Ken Kline, Margie Blair, Fran Parks, Julie Steffen, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, Julie Griffin, Mark Dierker, bacon, Steven Schleuning, Tim Brechlin, Roy & Deb Buol, Jeff Lenhart, Gen. Bob Felderman, Dave Haas, Ivonne Simmonds Fals, Christopher Adams, all of our 365 friends and advertisers... and you for reading. Dubuque365/365ink Magazine WHERE’S WANDO 432 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 •Dubuque365.com • 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him? All contents © 2015, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. 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. DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #246 AUGUST 27–SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 365INK MAGAZINE Inkubator 3 EVENTS “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.