June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240

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22 aMerica’s River Festival Enjoy two big nights of concerts as well as a new event, Brewfest, at the 11th Annual America’s River Festival on June 12–13 in the Port of Dubuque.

10 great Galena Balloon Race, 32 Meet Me @ Jazz! Ale Fest, and Wine Flights 34 fiesta Cancun Food Review

Events Arts Nightlife Columnists 4 17 24 34

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2 TOC & Inkwell 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Either my wife is really interested made sense that there was something in where she comes from or else she other than European in my bloodline. secretly is wondering who the heck she Well, you know what? Bologna! married and wants to do research to I’m about as white as it gets. 100% explain, uh… me. European. That was my result. Some A couple of years ago so got hooked surprise that it was as much British and on that TV show where Phoebe from Irish as it was French and German, since I Friends roots around in famous people’s assumed there would be a heavy dose of heritage to see who their ancestors were. German based on the rest of my known I admit it was pretty interesting. Each lineage. So I guess the DNA from that episode generally had a lot of tears and unknown element must have been pretty some wow moments. I wonder how many heavily British and Irish, because, well, boring people they checked into and you know how well the Irish are known edited out of the show? for developing a deep and lustrous tan. Anyway, following that experience she Someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. decided to do the Ancestry.com thing. So I’m a very European white guy. But I Honestly, I don’t remember what ever guess I can wear green on St. Patrick’s came of that. Maybe we didn’t dig very Day now and not just because I need an deep in our own families to give it enough excuse to get drunk. However, I have to info to figure it out. And then, of course, start taking it easy on Cinco de Mayo. I’ve got a big question mark on my side of Christy didn’t get her results back the family. More on that later. yet. But when she does, apparently she’s The new thing is DNA testing. It used got another website we can go to and to be expensive, but now you can send input our results to find out information off your DNA using a spit collector kit on genetic health markers and such that provided by the company that does it, can tell you things about disease and in our case 23andme.com. So we did what you might be predisposed to (like just that. I had to spit into a vile. Kind of Livewello.com or GeneticGenie.com). I a lot of spit actually. And then we put it can’t say I’m all that jazzed about finding in the fancy little box and shipped it off. that out, but she seems pretty stoked Then we went on the website and took about it. I suppose that kind of info is like a couple surveys. Actually, they have catnip to a hypochondriac. Can’t wait! endless surveys and if you have the free And in the end, I’m 2.8% Neanderthal, time, I think you could answer questions registering in the 61st percentile about your family, your life, and your among all those who have tested with health for a day or two and never get 23andme.com. Apparently they’ve never through them all. I just took a few about seen me eat BBQ ribs? But still, that is surgery and got bored and had enough. I 0.1 percent more Neanderthal than the think maybe Christy revisited it later and average person, so perhaps that explains filled out more. Among the fun things to my extreme aversion to shaving. n get to find out is how much Neanderthal DNA you have in you. I’m glad that one’s not a survey question for my wife to guess about me. Today, while working on the next issue of the paper, my results were emailed to me. They were both very interesting and at the same time, pretty boring. I’ll explain. My father’s father was adopted. On top of that, he was divorced from my grandmother and I don’t think my dad even met him until the 70’s. Even after that, I never knew him very well. He moved to Dubuque in the 80’s and I mowed his yard for a while when I was a teenager. He paid well, I’ll give him that! From what I gathered from Mel (that’s his name) and my dad, there was assumed to be some Hispanic ancestry in there somewhere. Certainly based on Mel’s skin tone as well as that of my dad, who never tanned but always got a good bronze on in the summer (probably doesn’t hurt that he never wore a shirt back then), it

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Ongoing Everything that shoppers love about the Dubuque Farmers’ Market is back and better Master Gardener Call Center than ever. Produce, hanging baskets, freshly Mondays & Thursdays: Through September baked goods, locally bottled wines, a great The Dubuque County Master Gardeners are ready selection of arts and crafts, and more are now to help with gardening challenges of all kinds. available. SNAP customers are able to receive $1 The call center runs Mondays: 6–8 PM; Thursdays: SNAP tokens to purchase eligible food items at 1–4 PM. In October there are Master Gardeners the Dubuque Farmers’ Market, and any customer on duty on Thursdays only from 1–4 PM. Call will be able to purchase $5 Debit/Credit tokens 563-583-6496 to reach the call center. to purchase anything at market through the new Market Money program. For more information, 365ink Lunchtime Jam contact Dubuque Main Street at 563-588-4400 Fridays: Through September 4 @ Noon–1 PM or visit dubuquefarmersmarket.org. Town Clock Plaza Hosted by the 365ink crew and sponsored Thursday, June 4 by Prudential Financial and Carlos O’Kelly’s, Lunchtime Jams feature free laid-back Tri-State Wind Symphony Concerts: lunchtime performances by great local acoustic Dubuque Fiddlers musicians in Town Clock Plaza Fridays around 7:30 PM @ Eagle Point Park Band Shell lunchtime (weather permitting). Lunchtime Pack up a picnic and your lawn chairs and Jams also features great food from Carlos bring the family to the Eagle Point Park Band O’Kelly’s with many other fantastic dining Shell for the 21st season of Tri-State Wind Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit options in the immediate area. Symphony Concerts! For more information, Daily: Now Through September 7 @ 9 am–6 PM visit TSWS.org. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition poignant look at this iconic Ship and its Through September 7 Friday, June 5 takes you on a journey back in time passengers. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium to experience the legend of Titanic The Exhibition has been designed See article on left for more information. Summer Farm Toy Show like never before. The galleries in this with a focus on the legendary RMS Noon-6 PM @ National Farm Toy Museum fascinating Exhibition feature real Titanic’s compelling human stories Dubuque Farmers’ Market (Dyersville IA) artifacts recovered from the ocean as best told through over 150 Saturdays: Through October @ 7 AM–Noon This year the Summer Farm Toy Show is floor along with room re-creations and authentic artifacts and extensive room Near Iowa & 12th St. celebrating their 30th anniversary! The two day personal stories. Engineering, physics re-creations. Receive a replica boarding event will have of a Diorama Display Contest and social studies are all addressed as pass of an actual passenger aboard you explore the science of Titanic. Titanic, then begin a chronological On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world’s journey through Titanic‘s life, moving largest Ship, sank after colliding with an through the Ship’s construction, to life iceberg claiming more than 1,500 lives on board, to the ill-fated sinking and and subsequently altering the world’s amazing artifact rescue efforts. confidence in modern technology. 103 Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition, years later, the National Mississippi River sponsored by Dubuque Bank & Trust, Museum & Aquarium pays tribute to the is on display through September 7 tragedy which continues to resonate and accessible for just $5 on top of a through Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, regular museum admission ($15 for where more than 150 legendary artifacts adults/ $10 for kids / $13 for seniors conserved from the Ship’s debris over 64). Museum hours are 9 AM–6 PM field are showcased offering visitors a daily. Visit RiverMuseum.com for more information. n

4000 Miles June 5 and 6 @ 7:30 PM Five Flags Bijou Room After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village, NYC apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 MILES looks at how two outsiders find their way in today’s world. By Amy Herzog; Directed by Kay Kluseman. For more information, visit flybynightdubuque.com. n

4 Events 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Events where contestants are eligible to win awards Social Connections for Singles Canoeing campus and national awards for teaching. For for People’s Choice and Best in Show. New this 5–7:30 PM @ Shot Tower 9 AM‑Noon @ Mines of Spain more information, visit galenalibrary.org. summer is the Summer Farm Toy Show Model Join us for an evening with food and cards. Meet Join us on Catfish Creek for a free morning of Contest. Registration for the contest starts at other singles in the area and have a fun time! For canoeing for all ages. Meet at the Canoe launch 9:30am on the 6th with judging beginning at more information, call Joann at 563-581-3451 Paring Area. This program is first come, first 10:30am. Head over to the National Farm Toy or email Maureen at [email protected]. served, no reservations will be taken. To register Museum for all the farm toy fun! or for more information, visit minesofspain.org Art @ your library Reception or call the park office at563-556-0620 . 5:30-7:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library See page 17 for more information. Summer Farm Toy Show 9 AM-4 PM @ National Farm Toy Museum Ski Bellevue Waterski Show Team Personal Spaces Reception (Dyersville IA) 4 PM @ Bellevue South Riverbank (Bellevue, IA) 5:30-8:30 PM @ Gallery C The Ski Bellevue Waterski Show Team is one See page 17 for more information. Jammin’ for Jay of only four waterski show teams in Iowa, and “Door County: A Photographic Journey Noon– 1 AM @ Maquoketa Fairgrounds the only one performing on the Mississippi. by Land, Water and Air” Book Release Mick Foley (Maquoketa, IA) All shows are free! Great family entertainment 5–7:30 PM @ River Lights Bookstore 7 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar See page 6 for more information. with glittery costumes, great music, and Retired Dubuque Professor, Abdul Sinno and See page 29 for more information. powerful towboats. his sons Rafic and Omar will read from and sign Professor Beth K. Dougherty, PhD Lecture copies of their new book. Abdul states, “Door 4000 Miles 2 PM @ Galena Public Library (Galena, IL) “The Wonder of Wood” Reception County is blessed with beauty, tranquility, and 7:30 PM @ Five Flags Bijou Room The lecture will describe the motivations and the 5–8 PM @ Galena CFA (Galena, IL) inspiration. Whether your are a visitor, resident, See page 4 for more information. rise of ISIS, its goals, and its impact in Syria, Iraq, Wood is so much a part of our lives, from or photographer you will find that Door County and the implications for the Middle East, the the scenic views in the hills of Galena to the is truly captivating. We, Rafic, Omar and I, Saturday, June 6 United States, and the world. Beth K. Dougherty raw material for making paper, to the sturdy journeyed through the Door County peninsula is Manger Professor of International Relations. beams that support our houses. The Galena for over a decade. The photographs and Free Kids Fishing Clinic She received her MA and PhD in Foreign Affairs Center for the Arts will focus on this amazing impressions we captured are presented in our 9–11 AM @ Hurstville Pond (Maquoketa, IA) from the University of Virginia and did her material in their next special exhibit, THE latest book which celebrates Door County and This is a free event, no experience needed. Bait undergraduate work at Chatham College WONDER OF WOOD. An opening reception its communities through a pictorial narrative, and fishing poles available, we do have a limited (Pittsburgh, PA) where she majored in political will be held from 5 to 8 PM on Saturday 120 pages of lush images, featuring scenes supply! Door prizes all morning, and prizes for science. She joined the Beloit College faculty in June 6, after which the exhibit will be open from land, water, and air across four seasons.” first and largest caught fish! Come out and have 1996 and teaches a broad range of international Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 7 PM until Presentation begins at 6 PM. For more some fun with your family and friends. politics courses, including Middle East politics the end of July. This eclectic mix of artwork information, visit RiverLights.com. and human rights. Dougherty has received both centers on images of wood and trees, and

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artworks that have been created from wood, (East Central Intergovernmental Association), and will include paintings, photography, Bob Smith (Stone Cliff Winery), and Sarah musical instruments and sculpture from over Warthan (Dubuque Auto Plaza). twenty regional artists. Greenco Inc. will be a corporate sponsor for The Wonder of 9th Annual Memorial Park Event Wood exhibit. The Galena Center for the Arts 6–11 PM @ Hazel Green Main Street is located at 219 Summit Street in Galena. The Brews Brothers will be preforming on There is no admission fee for the exhibit. For Main Street in front of the bars. Raffle tickets further information, call 815-777-0410 or visit are being sold for $5/ticket for 5 for $20. The GalenaCenterForTheArts.com. drawing will be held at 8 PM. The cost is $5/ person to enter the dance. All proceeds of the Relay For Life event will go towards the improvements of the 6 PM @ Port of Dubuque Hazel Green Veteran’s Memorial Park. See page 6 for more information. 4000 Miles Dancing with the Stars Dubuque 7:30 PM @ Five Flags Bijou Room Relay For Life 6 PM @ Five Flags Theater Saturday, June 6 @ 6 PM Come out to watch 10 business celebrities Sunday, June 7 Port of Dubuque dance for their favorite cause! A reception Dubuque is celebrating their 30th The Luminaria Ceremony is at dusk before hand starts at 6 PM in the Five Flags annual Relay For Life this summer. With and is a time to remember people we Arena Promenade with the performance in more than 50 teams and more than have lost to cancer, to support people the Five Flags Center Theater at 7 PM. This is 350 participants, this year’s event will who currently have cancer, and to honor the Chamber’s 6th year putting on the event no doubt celebrate survivorship while people who have fought cancer in the with over a million dollars raised throughout simultaneously raising money for the past. The power of this ceremony lies in the year. Proceeds go directly back into the Fisheree American Cancer Society. This year’s providing an opportunity for people to local community. 2015 Stars include: Laura 10 AM–2 PM @ Worthington Sportsmen’s Club goal is to raise a total of $219,700. work through grief and find hope. Chandlee (Kendall Hunt Publishing, Candice (Hopkinton, IA) The Opening Ceremony begins at The Closing Ceremony at 11:30 PM is Heinkel (Manor Care), Stacey Hines (American Free Admission and open to the public. Prizes noon and brings everyone together for a time to remember the lives of those Trust and Savings Bank), Dr. Bobby Koneru for Children. Bring your own fishing pole and a high-energy event kickoff to celebrate lost and to celebrate that each of us has (Wendt Cancer Center), Andre Lessears (City bait. The concession stand will have several the lives of those who have battled committed, through our participation in of Dubuque), Dr. Jeff Manternach (Key City yummy food selections to choose from. cancer, to inspire hope by sharing recent a Relay event, to fight back against this Vision), Trish McDonald (Julien Dubuque Contact us at [email protected] or accomplishments and progress, and disease over the next year. International Film Festival), Marla Quinn 563-744-9110 with any questions. to remind everyone that while we are The American Cancer Society Relay winning this battle, fighting cancer is a For Life movement symbolizes hope and year-round priority. our shared goal to end a disease that During the Caregivers Lap at 6 PM, threatens the lives of so many people anyone who ever cared for someone we love. If cancer has touched your life, with cancer walks a lap so they can be participating in a Relay For Life event is honored for their support. Caregivers a way to take action and help finish the walk this lap with the people they helped fight. This is your opportunity to honor if they are also present at the event. cancer survivors, remember those you During the Survivors Lap at have lost, and raise funds and awareness 6:30 PM, upbeat music plays as all to fight back and help end cancer forever. cancer survivors at the event take the To register or for more information, first lap around the track cheered on by visit RelayForLife.org/DubuqueIA. n the other participants who line the track, celebrating their victory over cancer.

Jammin’ for Jay Saturday, June 6 @ Noon–1 AM Maquoketa Fairgrounds (Maquoketa, IA) As a local musician with The Big House Band as well as The Cosmobilly Band, Jay Olsen is well known for entertaining the Maquoketa community. place from 12–8 PM as well as a Live Now battling head and neck cancer, the Auction starting at 6 PM. Other events Jammin’ for Jay benefit is raising money include a bounce house, Celebrity Dunk to help support him through treatments. Tank, 50/50 raffle, and a $200 door Come out to show your support while prize. There will also be $10 raffle tickets enjoying a day full of music! available for a chance to win a Gun Food will be served from 12–3 PM and and Kayak. Free will donations are also again from 5–8 PM with meals running welcome. For more information, visit $10 per plate. A Silent Auction will take facebook.com/jayolsonbenefit. n

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Dubuque Fine Arts Players Tuesday, June 9 One Act Auditions 7:30–9:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall The Dubuque Fine Arts Players are performing winning plays from the 38th Annual National One-Act Playwriting Contest: “The Other Half” by Gary Michael Kluger, “No Koch, Pepski” is by Ed Grossm, and “Love in a Minor Key” by Growing Season Webinar: Dubuque Regional Hosta Society Plant Sale David Finney. Full scripts are available at the Design from Yard to Trough Noon @ Dubuque Arboretum Packard Pavilion Carnegie-Stout Public Library Reference Desk 4–6 PM @ Dubuque County Extension There will also be a hosta leaf show held at (not available for check-out). If you wish to This June webinar, Design from Yard to Trough, this free event. Plants are donated by local audition but are unavailable at the scheduled with Iowa State University Department of members of the Dubuque Regional Hosta dates or for more information, contact Art Roche Horticulture lecturer Lisa Orgler and Fayette Introduction to Modern Haiku Society. Most of the plants to be sold will be at 563-581-6521 or [email protected]. Visit County Master Gardener Gary Whittenbaugh, 6:30 PM @ Galena Public Library (Galena, IL) hostas, but on occasion there are are other DBQOneActs.org for more information. will be offered at Dubuque County Extension, Award winning Haiku poet Bill Pauly will perennials or garden beauties available. For 14858 West Ridge Lane. Participants will present the form and function of modern more information, call 815-747-6912. Monday, June 8 learn how to add spark to landscape designs Haiku with samples and host a discussion. and dive into trough planters filled with Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. The form ChamberFest Showcase Preschool Hour conifers and their companions. To register, has evolved over the centuries and the rules 3 PM @ Westminster Presbyterian Church 10–10:45 AM @ Mines of Spain contact Laura Klavitter at 563-583-6496 are routinely broken. However, Modern Haiku See page 18 for more information. Bring your little one out to E.B. Lyons nature or [email protected]. Master gardeners still embodies the philosophy that Haiku Center for a fun, Educational program. Each attending will earn two continuing education traditionalists hold dear—simplicity, intensity, Music in the Gardens: Jim Busta Band session will feature a different theme and will hours for each webinar. To learn how to and a directness of expression. This event 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum focus on a variety of topics dealing with nature. become an Iowa Master Gardener, visit has been organized by the Galena Women’s Music in the Gardens, a free summer concert Ages 2–4 with adult. To register please call extension.iastate.edu/dubuque. Cost: $5. Poetry Guild and is hosted by the Galena Public series, offers a wide variety of family-friendly our park office at563-556-0620 . For more Library. For more information please contact music in the beautiful surroundings of information, visit minesofspain.org or all the Dubuque Fine Arts Players the Galena Public Library at 815-777-0200 Dubuque’s Arboretum. The free concert series park office at563-556-0620 . One Act Auditions or email the adult services librarian at begins at 6:30 PM and is sponsored by a variety 7:30–9:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music [email protected]. of area businesses and organizations including the Dubuque Arts Council who hosts the June 14–July 26 performances. Bring lawn chairs or blankets and your own picnic!

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Wednesday, June 10 Thursday, June 11

Bridges out of Poverty Workshop 8 AM–4 PM @ Holiday Inn Dubuque/Galena See article on left for more information.

Dubuquers Play Euchre 6:30–8:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library See page 38 for more information.

Kids Yoga 9:45-10:45 AM @ Asbury Hy-Vee Bridges out of Poverty 2–3 PM @ Dodge Hy-Vee 3:15–4:15 PM @ Locust Hy-Vee Workshop While you shop at your local Hy-Vee store, your Thursday, June 11 @ 8 AM-4 PM kids can attend a yoga class! Each class is $5 Holiday Inn Dubuque/Galena per child. For more information, contact Lora at Inspiring People Series: Jim Jelinske This workshop is a comprehensive will receive specific strategies for [email protected]. 7 PM @ Inspire Café approach to understanding the improving outcomes for people living in A professional clown (Jelly) for over 26 years, dynamics that cause and maintain poverty, but the focus of the workshop is Open House at Toastmasters Jim Jelinske found inspiration from an unlikely poverty from the individual to the to provide a broad overview of concepts. Speakeasy 3588 source. Jim will take us on his journey of finding systemic level. Bridges Out of Poverty Learn about proven concepts, strategies 5:30–7:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library joy and laughter and challenge us to seek out uses the lens of economic class and and approaches. This training assists Looking to develop speaking and leadership the fun things that connect us all together. Live, provides concrete tools and strategies employers, community organizations, skills? Ace a job interview? Ignite your love, laugh is so much more than just a plaque for a community to prevent, reduce, and social service agencies, and individuals career? Come be our guest to learn what on the wall. Come share Jim’s vision of a world alleviate poverty. gain insight and strategies. we do, and how we can help you with that is filled with love and laughter. Participants will review poverty Workshop fee of $60 includes: your communication and leadership skills. research, examine a theory of change, breakfast, lunch and the book, Bridges Toastmasters International is a world The series is a monthly event in which inspiring and analyze poverty through the prism out of Poverty Presented by Certified leader in communication and leadership people speak from their hearts about what of the hidden rules of class, resources, Trainers: Jim Ott and Ermina Soler. To development. For more information, inspires and motivates them to share their family structure, and language. register: cityofdubuque.org/ visit 3588.toastmastersclubs.org or gifts and contribute positively to the world. Throughout the workshop, participants bridgesoutofpoverty. n facebook.com/ToastmastersSpeakeasyClub. The Inspiring People sessions are offered as

8 Events 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Events informal and intimate exchanges for the open- hearted and curious. Each presenter will speak for approximately 20-30 minutes and then will respond to audience questions and comments. The sessions are free. Visit inspire-cafe.com for more information.

Avenue Q Matter 21+ Social Evenings 7 PM @ Eronel Art + Music Venue 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center See page 18 for more information. Matter Creative Center’s 21+ social evenings allow you to have fun enjoying all of our The Addams Family Musical creativity building adventures in a grown-up 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater atmosphere. All 21+ social evenings are for See page 19 for more information. adults 21 or older (no exceptions) and allow you to bring light snacks and your own beverages, Tri-State Wind Symphony Concerts: including beer or wine if you’d like (please TSWS concert no hard alcohol). Enjoy all of our anytime 7:30 PM @ Eagle Point Park Band Shell adventures, plus our add-on options like pottery painting items, guided painting sessions, mosaic Friday, June 12 design items, and glass painting. For more information, please visit MatterCreative.center. Meet the Author: David LaRochelle 10 AM & 2 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library America’s River Festival See page 38 for more information. 5:30 PM–12:30 AM @ Port of Dubuque See page 22 for more information.

Cascade Rockin’ on the River Music Fest 6–11 PM @ Cascade Riverview Amphitheater (Cascade, IA) Sandy Hook Nights: Lonely Goats All musical events will have food vendors 5 PM–Midnight @ Sandy Hook Tavern available. Bring your own coolers and lawn (Hazel Green, WI) chairs! Admission is $7, and children 12 and Sandy Hook Tavern offers a biker-styled under are free. Enjoy Cosmobilly Band and alternative on select Friday evenings through Creepin’ Charlies. the September with a mix of live music, steak feeds, games and raffles, and each night Downtown Friday Night benefitting a different charitable organization. 6:30–10 PM @ 1st Avenue, Dyersville, IA Designed as an “after work” social event. Come to Downtown Dyersville on 1st Ave for food, fun and music! Entertainment, food, The second installment will be the first of four beverages, and games for the kids and adults Bike Olympics. Sponsored by Dubuque Harley- are part of the evenings’ highlights. Music Davidson, Bike Olympics. Beneficiary is Dubuque from Hard Salami and a car and truck show Humane Society. For more information on sponsored by Auto Tech. Bring your family and individual Friday Hook Night events, follow the friends and have a great time! Call the Chamber Sandy Hook Tavern on Facebook. for more information, 563-875-2311.

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Great Galena Balloon Race June 19–21 Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa, North Course Practice Range (444 Eagle Ridge Dr, Galena, IL)

Shake out your blankets, grab the kids, and head Foot Golf Tournament over to Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa in the Galena Territory Saturday June 20, 10 a.m. for the 14th Annual Great Galena Balloon Race. Prepare New this year, the GGBR features a foot golf yourself for three days of family (and adult) fun including tournament with a shotgun start at 10 AM on Saturday. tethered balloon rides, Ale Fest, Wine Flights, Night Think golf with soccer balls. You get the idea. Golf is Glow, classic car show, a foot golf tournament and of $30 per person or $100 for a team of four. To sign-up, course, the balloon race! This year they are requesting a call or e-mail Dan Schreiber at 815-776-5228 or simple $5 donation at the gate. [email protected]. The Great Galena Balloon Race’s mission is to raise funds and awareness for juvenile diabetes. The proceeds Wine Flights from all purchases including but not limited to food Saturday, June 20 @ 5:30-8:30 p.m. and beverage purchases, ticketed events, and kids Sponsored by Family Beer & Liquor activities go to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Discover nearly 100 varieties of wine during Wine Foundation (JDRF) and scholarships for kids to attend Flights on Saturday night from 5:30–8:30 PM under Camp Hertko Hollow, a camp for children with diabetes the big tent. Keep your tasting glass and guide while located in Boone, Iowa. More than $100,000 has been you sample wines and watch dozens of hot air balloons raised for JDRF from the support of the Great Galena during the Balloon Race. Tickets are available for $25 at Balloon Race. The money has gone to finding a cure for Family Beer & Liquor, Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa or you juvenile diabetes, a disease that directly affects over can email [email protected]. You must 12,500 people in the tri-state area. be 21 years of age to attend. Please sample responsibly. Saturday’s live entertainment features the legendary Balloon Races Wundo Band from 5–10 PM as well as a classic car show Friday and Saturday from 6–8 PM, plus all the goodies from Friday night The first race begins Friday night at 6 PM and the return including tethered balloon rides from 7–9 PM. evening wraps up with the famous Night Glow of balloons on the ground at 8:30 PM. Races begin again on Galena On The Fly Balloon Rides Saturday morning at the “Crack of Dawn,” when the hot Every Day air balloon pilots will launch at 5:30 AM and try to find Get ready to lift off in one of the largest hot air balloons a mark that’s hidden somewhere on the 6,800 acres of in the country. Drift above the rolling landscapes of Jo the Galena Territory. When it’s found, the pilot drops a Daviess county and the historic Galena, Illinois countryside weight as close to the target as possible to win the grand while taking in views of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin from prize and bragging rights. Balloons will continue to find your 3,000-foot-high perch. Bring your camera and the their target at 6 PM on Saturday during the Wine Flights entire family (one balloon holds up to 14 people!). Sunrise as part of the Galena on the Fly Race. and sunset flights available. You can schedule your ride at BuyABalloonRide.com or call 815-777-2747. Ale Fest Friday, June 19 @ 6:30-9 p.m. Directions Sponsored by Family Beer & Liquor To get to the Great Galena Balloon Race, head Ale Fest will take place on Friday night from down Highway 20 to Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa. Follow 6:30–9 PM and features over 100 of the finest craft Eagle Ridge Drive to Thunder Bay Road. Turn left on beers for you to sample. You will receive a tasting Thunder Bay Road to the parking area. Then hang glass and guide to help you find your way under out and wait for the complimentary shuttle that will the big tent. Tickets are available for $25 at Family take you to the event site. For more information, visit Beer & Liquor, Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa or online at GreatGalenaBalloonRace.com or call the Eagle Ridge greatgalenaballoonrace.com. You must be 21 years of Resort & Spa at 800-898-2269. n age to attend. Please sample responsibly. Also on Friday night is great live music by The Swinging’ Doors, plus food and beverages available for sale, inflatable rides for the kids and tethered balloon rides from 7–9 PM.

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Social Connections for Singles Park on Friday, June 12 from 4–8 PM. Visit is $35 per person which includes lunch and a minutes between the hours of 2 and 4:30 PM. 5–7:30 PM @ Shot Tower grandviewgallop.com or call Greg Hermiston glass of wine. There is an optional $15 materials A seated, indoor performance will be held at 563-599-5198 for more information. fee. To RSVP, call Sandra at 815-541-0068. For Grace Episcopal Church in Galena, on June 20 Avenue Q more information, visit galenacellars.com. at 8 PM. Tickets will be available at the 7 PM @ Eronel Art + Music Venue The French Café performances for $15. 10–11 AM @ Multicultural Family Center Artists Take Over the Porch: Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Join other Dubuque community members Stormy Mochal (Painting) 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA fluent (or becoming fluent) in speaking French 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery DBQ See page 19 for more information. for coffee and conversation. Participation Artists from around the region will be is free, registration required. Sign up at demonstrating how they make their art on The Addams Family Musical cityofdubuque.org/recreation. Registration the grand front porch of Outside the Lines Art 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater forms can also be found at the MFC and the Gallery at 409 Bluff Street in Dubuque, Iowa. A MFC website. For more information, call different artist will demonstrate each Saturday Saturday, June 13 563-582-3681 or visit mfcdbq.org. throughout the summer. It is free and open to everyone. This is a relaxed and easygoing Reading with Rover approach to learn firsthand how artists create 10–11:15 AM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library everything from paintings to jewelry, sculpture See page 38 for more information. and pottery. Children and their questions are Dubuque Bomb Squad Roller Derby welcome! Some artists will offer additional 5 PM @ Courtside Sports Bar & Grill artwork for sale above and beyond artwork Dubuque Bomb Squad Roller Derby season shown in the gallery. is underway with another exciting bout at 10th Annual Grandview Gallop Courtside Sports Bar & Grill. Doors Open at 8 AM @ Murphy Park America’s River Festival 5 PM, Bout starts at 6 PM. This month, the The Grandview Gallop is a 4 mile and 1 mile Noon–12:30 AM @ Port of Dubuque ladies take on the Midwest Derby Divas. A kids run/walk that takes place on Grandview 22nd Annual Cemetery Walk portion of ticket sales will be donated to the Avenue. All pre-registered entrants receive a 2–4:30 PM @ Greenwood Cemetery (Galena, IL) Dubuque Boys and Girls Club. Get advance dri-fit New Balance shirt and commemorative Every June, the Galena-Jo Daviess County tickets at Courtside or from any of the skaters backpack. Awards are given to the top 3 in Paint & Pour Historical Society remembers the lives and for just $5, or just $8 at the door the day of the each age group along with a random drawing 11 AM–2 PM @ Galena Cellars (Galena, IL) contributions of past Galenians with its annual event. For more information, follow the team at for 12 pairs of running shoes. Each race is Enjoy an afternoon of painting at Galena Cellars Cemetery Walk. Local performers portray facebook.com/DubuqueBombSquadRollerDerby. chip timed for better accuracy and faster with Galena artist Sandra Principe at Galena select individuals buried in Galena’s results. There is no race day registration. The Cellars Vineyard & Winery, 4746 N. Ford Rd., Greenwood Cemetery and recount their lives Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years last day for registration will be at Murphy Galena, IL. No experience is required. The cost in front of live audiences. Tours start every 20 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA

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The Addams Family Musical late 1970’s. In March of 1978, he released “Rose 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater Colored Glasses,” a song Conlee wrote, which became a huge hit as well as his signature Sunday, June 14 song. In January of 1979, he released “Back Side Of Thirty” which went on to become a No. Dodgeville Lion’s Club 1 record, and the hits continued to roll. Overall, Flea Market/Antique Sale there have been 29 single releases throughout 8:30 AM–3:30 PM @ Harris Park Ley Pavilion the years with 26 of them charting in the top 20 (Dodgeville, WI) or better. Eight of those 26 have reached the This event will happen rain or shine. Up to 65 coveted No. 1 spot on the national country dealer spaces are filled with great items for charts. All of Conlee’s hits have that sale. Quality antique and collectible items are unmistakable common thread—that unique readily available. We do not allow craft dealers, voice. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the T-shirt sellers or liquidators. We have a great door. For more information, visit food stand which includes the very popular ohnwardfineartscenter.com home made pies baked by the Dodgeville Lioness Club. This event is a very relaxing way to spend a fun filled day browsing and shopping for unexpected treasures. Quality and affordable items is the theme and our dealers Veteran’s Benefit Ride never let us down. A $3.00 admission fee is Saturday, June 27 @ Noon required. For information call 608-935-3926 Shenanigan’s Pub (3203 Jackson St.) or email [email protected]. Each year, Jerry and Gail Brimeyer those who what to join the ride but don’t along with the family, staff and patrons have a bike, or simply can’t ride. You’re Bubble Bash 5K Fun Run/Walk of their business Shenanigan’s Pub all still very welcome. 2 PM @ Westside Park (Dyersville, IA) organize a fund raiser ride benefiting the Stepping’ Up DJ will keep the party Dyersville Relay For Life/American Cancer Veterans Freedom Center’s operational fires lit at Shenanigan’s form Noon–6 PM Society will have three colorful stations full expenses and “Operation We Care”, a with Lipstick Slick performing live from of bubbles through out the route, you can branch of the Veterans Freedom Center. 9 PM–1 AM after the ride. There will be Kayaking walk run or even crawl through. Half of all And let us tell you, it’s no small thing. food, a raffle and silent auction with a 1–3 PM @ Mines of Spain registrations benefit Dyersville Relay For Life. 2014’s benefit made over $15,000.00 live auction starting at 6 PM. Want to learn to kayak? Come out to Catfish Costs for individuals are $40, Team Member which was used for area “in need” Operation We Care supports Creek and Join a Naturalist on the water. $35, Family of 3 $85 +$15 for each addl .up to 6. veterans and their families. This year, area veterans and their families that Ages 12 & up, parent supervision required. All 5 and under FREE! Register at cd5k.com. they are trying to top that amount. have needs whereby all other means kayaking programs are first come, first served, This year’s benefit will take place on of assistance is not available or has and will be instructional. To register please call The Addams Family Musical Saturday, June 27th. The event centers been exhausted. Some examples our park office at563-556-0620 . For more 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater around a motorcycle ride in partnership of such support has been assisting information, visit minesofspain.org or all the with the Midnight Riders Motorcycle homeless veterans, rent or mortgage park office at563-556-0620 . 22nd Annual Cemetery Walk Club. $10 registration begins at 10:30 AM assistance, transportation assistance, 2–4:30 PM @ Greenwood Cemetery (Galena, IL) and the group rolls out at noon with utilities assistance, food and clothing. John Conlee destinations including the Bent Rim, It also provides refurbished lift chairs, 2 PM @ Ohnward Fine Arts Center Music in Jackson Park Bootleggers, Noonan’s, the Durango wheelchairs and walkers to the veterans (Maquoketa, IA) 6–8 PM @ Jackson Park Depot and, of course, ending up back at and their families in need. It’s a great ride John Conlee has been a member of the Grand The free evening concerts in Jackson Park are Shenanigan’s Pub. A bus is available to for a great cause. Mark your calendars! n Ole Opry since 1981. His success began in the held from 6–8 PM, celebrating the diversity of

12 Events 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Events one of downtown Dubuque’s neighborhoods. tips, pick up a Team Captain packet and Walk The Addams Family Musical Friday, June 19 The family-friendly events, sponsored by yard signs, and check out our new incentive 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater the Downtown Neighborhood Association, gifts! Door prizes, appetizers and soft drinks Great Galena Balloon Race the Multicultural Family Center, and City of provided. Program will start at 5:30 PM. Thursday, June 18 Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa Dubuque feature a different style of music for Questions? Contact Alex at 563-589-0030 or See page 10 for more information. each concert and free food! [email protected]. No RSVP required. History of Comic Book Superheroes 6:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library A Bee’s Needs Music in the Gardens: Wednesday, June 17 See page 38 for more information. 1–2 PM @ Mines of Spain Denny Diamond & The Family Jewels Learn how bees are a necessary part of our 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum Kids Yoga ChamberFest Gala Performance environment and what you can do to help. 9:45-10:45 AM @ Asbury Hy-Vee 7 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall Ages 6–9. To register or for more information, Monday, June 15 2–3 PM @ Dodge Hy-Vee See page 18 for more information. visit minesofspain.org or all the park office at 3:15–4:15 PM @ Locust Hy-Vee 563-556-0620. ChamberFest Orchestra Concert 7 PM @ UD Heritage Center Lunch & Learn: Walking Yoga Social Connections for Singles See page 18 for more information. 11:45 AM–1 PM @ Shalom Spirituality Center 5–7:30 PM @ Shot Tower Certified yoga instructor Deb May will lead Tuesday, June 16 “Lunch & Learn: Walking Yoga.” We’ll do a few Dubuque... and All That Jazz! yoga poses to center ourselves and stretch, 5–9:30 PM @ Town Clock Plaza Canoeing then a short walk during which we will apply See page 32 for more information. 2–4 PM @ Mines of Spain yoga techniques to help us become more aware, more grateful, and stronger. After the Jackson County Pro Rodeo Monty Python’s Spamalot walk, a nutritious lunch will be served in the 7:30 PM @ Bellevue Horsemen’s Club 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House Shalom dining room. The offering to attend Horse and bull riding, barrel racing, plus kids “Bring out your dead!” This hysterical Tony is $13 and includes lunch. To register, call games, food, music, mechanical bull and more! Award winning musical based on the film Shalom at 563-582-3592 by noon, Monday, For more information, visit BellevueRodeo.com. “Monty Python & the Holy Grail” is jam June 15. Deb May is a well-known Dubuque packed with silly songs to match the equally area yoga instructor with over 14 years Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years humorous action. A large cast, great costumes Dubuque Walk to End Alzheimer’s teaching experience. 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA and sets, delightful choreography and live Kick-Off Party orchestra bring to life the tale of King Arthur 5–7 PM @ Champps Americana ChamberFest Workshop Tri-State Wind Symphony Concerts: and his band of Knights as you’ve never Join us to register your team, network with 5:30-7 PM @ Loras College Timber City Band seen it before. For more information, visit other teams, get fundraising and recruitment See page 18 for more information. 7:30 PM @ Eagle Point Park Band Shell TheGrandOperaHouse.com.

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Jackson County Pro Rodeo Sugar Ray’s BBQ. For more information, contact Corkless in Galena 7:30 PM @ Bellevue Horsemen’s Club the Multicultural Family Center at 563-582-3681. Wine Festival Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Artists Take Over the Porch: Saturday, June 27 @ Noon–7 PM 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA Bridget Donahue (Pottery) Depot Park (Galena, IL) 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery DBQ Elegant wines, made from American pottery/ceramics exhibit, flavorful food The Addams Family Musical hybrid grapes, grown in exhaustively selected to pair well with wine, along 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater manicured vineyards, are showcased with performances by various musical during the afternoon and early evening ensembles, jazz included. Saturday, June 20 of June 27. Selections represent unique Also featured is “Wine Diamonds: styles artistically produced by family Uncorking America’s Heartland”, a Great Galena Balloon Race owned Northern Illinois Wineries. Other feature-length documentary film about Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa available options include wines made the challenges, opportunities and from fruit and grapes grown in California, struggles of developing a new wine Kayaking Oregon, and Washington State. region, showcasing the economic and 9 AM–Noon @ Mines of Spain An Introduction to Homebrewing Tickets are priced at $5 to enter agricultural diversity brought about by 2–4 PM @ Jubeck New World Brewing the festival, and discounted tickets are the wine industry, and how families are 6th Annual Juneteenth Carnegie-Stout Public Library, in partnership available on the Corkless in Galena Wine returning to and reuniting to grow wine 11 AM–2 PM @ Comiskey Park with Jubeck New World Brewing, will present a Festival Facebook page. Promotional grapes and build a new wine region in Juneteeth is the oldest nationally celebrated class on the basics of homebrewing. Hobbyists tickets distributed generously at various the Midwest. The producers, Bradley J. commemoration of the end of slavery in the across the country have been experimenting local events. Tasting tickets are $10. Johnson and Kirk Monson, and director US. On June 19, 1865, the last African American with the art and science of brewing and Adults interested in sampling wine are of photography, Monson, will discuss the slaves in Texas were told that slavery had ended bottling their own small-batch beers at home required to purchase a Festival Wine background for choosing the Midwest and that they were free. This was almost three and we want to show you how to get started. Glass and five tasting tickets. Proceeds wine industry as the subject of the years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The event is free and open to anyone 21 and support on-going work at the NIWG documentary. The producers will share Today, it is a celebration of freedom and older, but space is limited. Please register by Research Vineyard and additionally the new trailer for the film, images, raw achievement of African Americans. calling the library at 563-589-4225 or by are directed to local non-for-profit footage and outtakes, as well as the visiting dubuque.lib.ia.us/homebrewing. organizations, one being the JoDaviess six minute fundraising pitch piece. The DJ Malicious will perform while guests enjoy Conservation Foundation. presentation will be interactive with dancing, 3 on 3 basketball tournament, resource Monty Python’s Spamalot Located in Galena’s picturesque opportunities for questions throughout. booths, bounce house, face painting, water 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House Depot Park, the Corkless in Galena For more information, visit balloon toss, local vendors, and free food from Wine Festival will be complimented by a corklessgalena.com. n

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Jackson County Pro Rodeo Thursday, June 25 7:30 PM @ Bellevue Horsemen’s Club Dubuquers Play Euchre Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 6:30–8:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA Monty Python’s Spamalot The Addams Family Musical 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 22nd Annual Cemetery Walk 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA 8 PM @ Grace Episcopal Church (Galena, IL) Tri-State Wind Symphony Concerts: Sunday, June 21 Star Spangled Spectacular with Legion Post #6 Great Galena Balloon Race 7:30 PM @ Eagle Point Park Band Shell Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa Friday, June 26 Monty Python’s Spamalot 2 PM @ Grand Opera House Social Connections for Singles 5–7:30 PM @ Shot Tower The Addams Family Musical 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater Sandy Hook Nights: Joie Wails Band 5 PM–Midnight @ Sandy Hook Tavern Music in the Gardens: Hunter Fuerste’s (Hazel Green, WI) American Vintage Orchestra 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum Bike Nights 6–9 PM @ Dubuque Harley Davidson Wednesday, June 24 Bike nights are held at the Dubuque Harley Davidson dealership at 145 N. Crescent Kids Yoga Ridge Rd. on Dubuque on the last Friday of 9:45-10:45 AM @ Asbury Hy-Vee every month through August. The outdoor 2–3 PM @ Dodge Hy-Vee parties features grilled grub from the Mighty 3:15–4:15 PM @ Locust Hy-Vee Mississippi H.O.G. Chapter for an at will donation to Bikers In Need and there plenty of Open House at Toastmasters cold beer. June 26 is Project X, July 31 brings Speakeasy 3588 Six Shots ’Til Midnight and August 28th wraps 5:30–7:30 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library up with Renegade.

King Explosion Family Dusk Hikes 7 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 7–9 PM @ Mines of Spain See page 29 for more information. Meet at the E.B. Lyons Nature Center to get a Peek into the night time world of the park! We Monty Python’s Spamalot will be Hiking the nature center loop. All ages 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House Welcome. To register or for more information, visit minesofspain.org or all the park office at Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 563-556-0620. 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA

Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA

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Saturday, June 27 Independence Bluegrass King Explosion with Finders and Youngberg 7 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Thursday, July 2, 6:30–9:30 PM Monty Python’s Spamalot Schmid Innovation Center Courtyard (Caradco Warehouse) 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House DuPaco Community Credit Union music also features the Driftless Sisters once again presents renown bluegrass beginning at 6:30 PM and, of course, Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years masters Finders & Youngberg from a great wine tasting by the most 7:30 PM @ UW-P CFA Colorado, featuring former tri-state decorated wine makers in the area, Tour of Gardens music favorite Mike Finders, to the Dubuque Heritage Winery. Also look for 9 AM–4 PM @ Various gardens in Dubuque East Dubuque friendly confines of the courtyard at goodies from the Dubuque Food Co-op The Dubuque County Master Gardeners will Independence Day Celebration the Schmid Innovation Center at the and Inspire Café. be showcasing some of the region’s best Sinsinawa Ave. (East Dubuque) Caradco Warehouse just in time for the Tickets are just $10 and include gardens on the Tour of Gardens. Tour-takers Bring your family and enjoy an evening full of Independence Holiday. the tasting. $8 advance tickets can be will discover new types of plants and get ideas music, inflatables, food and children’s games Hosted by your friends at 365ink purchased at 365ink (432 Bluff St.), call about how they can be more adventurous with along with a fireworks display. Magazine as a fundraiser supporting 563-588-4365. Rain site will be inside their own landscaping. Mini-workshops about Marine Toys For Tots, the evening of Inspire Café. n various gardening topics will be conducted at 36th Annual J&P Cycles Open House Rally the gardens throughout the day. Tickets for the Jones County Fairgrounds (Monticello, IA) Tour of Gardens are $10 per person and can be J&P Cycles is hosting a free concert at the purchased on the day of the tour at any of the Jones County Fairgrounds on Saturday, garden locations. For more information, visit featuring Cinderella’s Tom Keifer, The Voice extension.iastate.edu/dubuque. of Ratt Stephen Pearcy, and former Warrant guitarist Billy Morris playing tribute to Jani Dubuque Tour Of Coops Lane. Don Jamieson, co-host of VH1’s Classic 10 AM–2 PM @ Various Coops in Dubuque “That Metal Show,” will serve as emcee. The Chickens are now legal in the city of Dubuque. free Sunday afternoon concert will feature Chicken owners will show off their coops and Great White. In addition to concerts, visitors chickens. This provides an opportunity for can see Cowboy Kenny’s Steel Rodeo, an people to get ideas for their own coop. Learn action packed freestyle motorcycle exhibition. how urban chicken coops are sustainable and Cowboy Kenny’s Steel Rodeo will perform fit into today’s society. For a list of addresses at various times throughout both Saturday check out the Facebook page “Dubuque Tour and Sunday. For more information, visit Of Coops” or call Marty at 563-513-1250. jpcycles.com/events/open-house-rally. Cost: Free. Sunday, June 28 Artists Take Over the Porch: Elizabeth Eagle (Painting) King Explosion 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery DBQ 2 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar

Veteran’s Benefit Ride Monty Python’s Spamalot Noon @ Shenanigan’s Pub 2 PM @ Grand Opera House See page 12 for more information. Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Corkless in Galena Wine Festival 2 PM @ UW-P CFA Noon–7 PM @ Depot Park (Galena, IL) See page 14 for more information. Music in the Gardens: Dubuque Symphony Orchestra Matter 21+ Social Evenings 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center

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PersonalAn exhibition of works by artists Spaces Paul and Lindsay Mccormick, with guest artist Gary David JUNE 5 THROUGH JULY 5 RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 5:30 - 8:30 PM

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We pass through a multitude of spaces Kipperton String Quartet, some of throughout our lifetime, while many the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra’s hold little signifi cance others rightfully fi nest musicians! This is a unique stand out. Personal Space investigates performance featuring an eclectic the designation of these more intimate repertoire built to complement the spaces through series of photographs art and is a perfect chance to enjoy presented by Paul and Lindsay classical music up close and broaden McCormick. The exhibit expands into the art experience! All are invited and three dimensions with the functional art welcome to attend this exhibition, pieces presented by artist Gary David. and to participate in the expanding The Opening Reception of Personal art scene in the Millwork District. Space provides the ideal opportunity There is no charge and refreshments to kick back and relax with the will be served.

ArtFeaturing local@ artists YourFran Kennedy Library and Alan Schoer. JUNE 5 THROUGH JULY 28 RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 5:30 - 7:30 PM Acrobatic performance AT 7:00 pm by Aerialist Laura Ernst

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Fran Kennedy is the author of two picture books, The Pickle Patch Bath Tub and The Just-Right Perfect Present. Kennedy’s artistic skills are A t complimented by art study in drawing, rts painting, mixed media, printmaking and calligraphy. Kennedy’s creative mixed media artworks refl ect many of her personal experiences for you to enjoy.

Alan Schoer, a long time artist and traveler, creates images that use scenes from the present to imply stories from Powered By: the past. He draws heavily from his background in traditional drawing, painting and mixed media collage as he envisions his pieces. In each of his works he strives to use color, line and light to capture some essential aspect of the location depicted.

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Chamberfest Dubuque Events The Northeast Iowa School of Music’s (NISOM) summer audience- Workshop favorite Juilliard in June has grown WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 5:30 - 7 PM into the multi-event ChamberFest @ LORAS COLLEGE Dubuque featuring two concerts with Free Admission ChamberFest Artistic Director Michael Gilbertson and six guest musicians. Orchestra Concert MONDAY, JUNE 15, 7 PM @ UD HERITAGE CENTER Gala Performance $20 for adults and free for students. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 7 PM Tickets are available through the UD @ CLARKE JANSEN MUSIC HALL SUNDAY,Showcase JUNE 7, 3 PM Farber Box O˜ ce (563-585-7469) Tickets $50 for adults and $25 for @ WESTMINSTER students, and can be purchased PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Nicholas Palmer will return to conduct through NISOM at 563-690-0151. Free Admission the ChamberFest Orchestra Concert in Butler Hall in the University of Gilbertson and friends will perform The ChamberFest Showcase kicks o• Dubuque’s Heritage Center. The again for NISOM’s ChamberFest Gala ChamberFest Dubuque and features concert will include a full orchestra Concert (formerly Juilliard in June). NISOM members of the faculty and comprised of local musicians The program includes solos and small adult ensembles. performing repertoire that highlights ensembles showcasing the artists with the visiting artists as featured soloists. a champagne reception to follow. MORE INFO: NIOSM.com

AvenueThe Rated R Puppet Musical Q THURSDAY, JUNE 11 & FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 7:00 P.M Tickets are $10 in advance from Eronel (available beginning in June) and $15 at the door. @ ERONEL ART + MUSIC VENUE Trainwreck Productions (TWP), The laugh-out-loud musical tells the THIS SHOW IS Dubuque’s found-space theatre timeless story of a recent college grad NOT FOR CHILDREN. company, presents Avenue Q. named Princeton who moves into a shabby The production contains adult content, New York apartment all the way out on language, racism, sexual explicitness, The puppet-fi lled comedy follows a group Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although and full-frontal puppet nudity. of 20-somethings seeking their purpose the residents seem nice, it’s clear that in big-city life. Winner of the TONY “Triple this is not your ordinary neighborhood. MORE INFO: Crown” for Best Musical, Best Score and Together, Princeton and his new-found www.TrainwreckProductions.org Best Book, Avenue Q is part fl esh, part friends struggle to fi nd jobs, dates, and felt, and packed with heart. their ever-elusive purpose in life. Arts

WordsPaintings by Jaclyn WeGarlock Know The Songs To: JUNE 12 THROUGH OCTOBER 4 Daily Admission: $6 Adults, $5 Seniors, $3 Students, free for kids every day, and free to all on Thursdays @ DUBUQUE MUSEUM OF ART

Words We Know the Songs To is a Jaclyn Garlock was born in Storm Lake, special exhibition of 11 paintings by Iowa in 1950. She received a B.A. in Art Clear Lake, Iowa artist Jaclyn Garlock, and Secondary Education in 1973 from including 9 recently completed Adams State University in Colorado. paintings from her series Hang 10, In 1975 she started a screenprinting recalling Moondoggie surfer lingo business creating complex photorealistic of the 50s and 60s, which depicts serigraphs, all hand drawn and hand people in and about the historical pulled. Jaclyn progressed into painting in Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. Garlock’s 2000, building a body of fi gurative works larger than life paintings are and showing them regionally at art fairs dedicated to the many performers and in galleries. In 2008, she was able to who played and people who attended commit to painting full-time. shows at the Surf, making it the icon that it is today. MORE INFO: www.dbqart.com

TheThird-annual Addams Free Summer Musical Program:Family High School Edition JUNE 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20 AT 7:30 PM HeartlandThe Last Five Years Festival: & JUNE 14, 21 AT 2 PM JUNE 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 AT 7:30 PM Tickets for all performances are $12. For information and to purchase tickets call & JUNE 28 AT 2:00 PM 563-588-3377 or visit us online at belltowertheater.net. Adult $25, UW-P Student $18, Under 18 $15

@ BELL TOWER THEATER @ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The Bell Tower Theater, your hometown respectable family—a man her parents The story explores a fi ve-year theater, is pleased to announce the have never met. And if that weren’t relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, This summer some of the areas most upsetting enough, Wednesday confi des a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a talented high school aged performers in her father and begs him not to tell struggling actress. The show uses a will present The Addams Family, her mother. Now, Gomez Addams form of storytelling in which Cathy’s directed by Sue Flogel. must do something he’s never done story is told in reverse chronological before: keep a secret from his beloved order (beginning the show at the end Based on the classic TV series, this Morticia. Everything changes on the of the marriage) and Jamie’s is told brand new musical features an fateful night when they host a dinner for in chronological order (starting just original story—and it’s every father’s Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and after the couple have fi rst met). The nightmare. Wednesday Addams, his parents. The show features high characters do not directly interact the ultimate princess of darkness, school performers and technicians from except for a wedding song in the middle has grown up and fallen in love with throughout the area. as their timelines intersect. Written and a sweet, smart young man from a Composed by Jason Robert Brown. Arts

CallRuix Zine for writers: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 29

The Dubuque Area Arts Collective is accepting submissions for its music and literature publication, Ruix Zine. This issue will emphasize music, with a focus on area events and emerging artists. Writers of all ages are encouraged to submit. Content accepted includes, but is not limited to, reviews of shows and recordings, essays, and short fi ction.

Email your work to: [email protected]

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CallEarth Exhibit For Artists:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 5

The Dubuque Area Arts Collective is looking for artists to submit to it’s newest exhibit “EARTH.” Works should focus on topics related to environmental issues and/or consist of salvaged or found objects. The purpose of this exhibit is to showcase unique and contemporary perspectives on environmental topics as well as unexpected and sophisticated use of recycled and found materials. Both upcoming and established artists are encouraged to submit. All media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, multimedia, photography, digital, performance, installation art, video, etc. are eligible, as well as recycled art and works created with found objects or trash.

Grain Magazine Cover Contest: Best in Show will be featured on the cover of Grain Magazine, the Dubuque Area Arts Collective biannual arts publication, along with an artist feature in a two page spread. Outstanding artists submitting to the exhibit will also be featured in the magazine.

TO SUBMIT / MORE INFO: www.DAartscollective.com/exhibitions Arts

Arts Calendar

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Matter 21+ Social Evenings SATURDAY, JUNE 20 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Chow Bella: A Book Group for Foodies! 5:30–8 PM @ Matter Creative Center Great Galena Balloon Race and Wine Flights Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 6-7:30 PM @ River Lights Bookstore Trainwreck Productions: Avenue Q 5:30 AM @ Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA 7 PM @ Eronel Artists Take Over the Porch: Bridget Donahue FRIDAY, JUNE 5 The Addams Family 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery THURSDAY, JUNE 25 “Personal Spaces” 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater The Addams Family Life Drawing Class (Semi-Nude Model) Reception with Kick Back Concert Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater 6–8 PM @ Dubuque Area Arts Collective 5:30-8:30 PM @ Gallery C 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Art @ your library® Reception: Fran 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA Kennedy and Alan Schoer SATURDAY, JUNE 13 Monty Python’s Spamalot Monty Python’s Spamalot 7 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library French Café 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House 4000 Miles 10–11 AM @ Multicultural Family Center 7:30 PM @ Five Flags Bijou Room Paint & Pour SUNDAY, JUNE 21 FRIDAY, JUNE 26 11 AM–2 PM @ Galena Cellars (Galena, IL) The Addams Family Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Artists Take Over the Porch: Stormy Mochal 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA Lecture by Professor Beth K. Dougherty, PhD 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery Monty Python’s Spamalot Monty Python’s Spamalot 2 PM @ Galena Public Library (Galena, IL) The Addams Family 2 PM @ Grand Opera House 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House Dancing with the Stars Dubuque 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater Music in the Gardens 6 PM @ Five Flags Theater Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum SATURDAY, JUNE 27 4000 Miles 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA Great Galena Balloon Race Artists Take Over the Porch: Elizabeth Eagle 7:30 PM @ Five Flags Bijou Room Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa 11 AM–3 PM @ Outside the Lines Art Gallery SUNDAY, JUNE 14 SUNDAY, JUNE 7 The Addams Family “The Pinhole Thing” Reception 2 PM @ Bell Tower Theater 1-3 PM @ Rountree Gallery (Platteville, WI) Music in the Gardens ChamberFest Showcase 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum 3 PM @ Westminster Presbyterian Church Ongoing Arts Events Music in the Gardens MONDAY, JUNE 15 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum ChamberFest Orchestra Dubuque Fine Arts Players One Act Auditions 7 PM @ UD Heritage Center THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 14 JUNE 19–JULY 26 7:30–9:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall 2015 Biennial Juried Exhibition Pastels by John Preston WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 Dubuque Museum of Art Dubuque Museum of Art MONDAY, JUNE 8 ChamberFest Workshop High School Art Exhibit JUNE 27–OCTOBER 11 Dubuque Fine Arts Players One Act Auditions 5:30 PM @ Loras College Dubuque Area Arts Collective The Iowa State Fair by Kurt Ullrich 7:30–9:30 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall The Addams Family THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 28 Dubuque Museum of Art 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater The Pinhole Thing TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Rountree Gallery (Platteville, WI) Introduction to Modern Haiku THURSDAY, JUNE 18 THROUGH TUESDAY, JUNE 30 6:30 PM @ Galena Public Library (Galena, IL) ChamberFest Gala Performance Mochal & Donahue Exhibit Find More 7 PM @ Clarke Jansen Music Hall Outside the Lines Art Gallery : THURSDAY, JUNE 11 Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years JUNE 5–JULY 5 FOREvents THE COMPLETE ART Life Drawing Class (Nude Model) 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA Personal Spaces EVENTS CALENDAR AND 6–8 PM @ Dubuque Area Arts Collective Gallery C MORE, VISIT Trainwreck Productions: Avenue Q FRIDAY, JUNE 19 JUNE 5–JULY 28 7 PM @ Eronel Great Galena Balloon Race and Ale Fest Art @ your library: dubuque365.com/artscalendar. Inspiring People Series: Jim Jelinske 5 PM @ Eagle Ridge Resort & Spa Fran Kennedy and Alan Schoer 7 PM @ Inspire Café Dubuque… and All That Jazz! Carnegie-Stout Public Library The Addams Family 5-9:30 PM @ Town Clock Plaza JUNE 12–OCTOBER 4 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater The Addams Family Words We Know the Songs To 7:30 PM @ Bell Tower Theater by Jaclyn Garlock FRIDAY, JUNE 12 Heartland Festival: The Last Five Years Dubuque Museum of Art Meet the Author: David LaRochelle 7:30 PM @ UWP CFA 10 AM & 2 PM @ Carnegie-Stout Public Library Monty Python’s Spamalot 7:30 PM @ Grand Opera House Cover Story

America’s River Festival June 12–13 Port of Dubuque By Mike Ironside

Always one of Dubuque’s biggest summer events, years back. Previous installments of America’s River written songs for Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Dierks America’s River Festival 2015 does not disappoint. Festival included a free family day on Sunday, something Bentley, Chris Young, that have all been number one hits. With two big nights of concerts and a new Saturday organizers couldn’t afford to continue. And so they kind of combined to make their own band. afternoon Brewfest, America’s River Festival offers “Yeah, we used to have activities on Sunday but They’ve done extremely well and they are starting to a weekend of great entertainment, Friday and it was so up in the air as far as how many people we climb those ranks—someone who might be Sam Hunt Saturday, June 12–13. This is the eleventh year for the would get and there’s big expense with that,” explained next year at this time.” annual event. Daugherty. “That was free for the public and we don’t Sam Hunt, who will follow Old Dominion on the get a return as far as people coming down. We just had main stage, being another up-and-coming songwriter, We sat down with Tyler Daugherty, sports & events a lot of man-hours, a lot of staff hours so we just tried to turned performer who is now beginning to achieve more manager for the Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) as take a different approach. You know, when we took Dock mainstream success. well as assistant director for America’s River Festival to Dogs out of there, I think that persuaded people maybe “He was nominated for ACM (Academy of Country find out what is new and exciting about this year’s event. not to come down, just because that was a big draw, but Music) New Artist of the Year, had a number one song “Brand new would be the Brewfest component on we also moved Dock Dogs for the world championships “Take Your Time” here a little bit during the course of the Saturday from 12 to 4 (PM),” began Daugherty. “I think to Five Flags and that was partly why we did it. Will we year, and we’ve seen a great interest with him and people we have a great representation of craft breweries in Iowa. ever go back to that method? I don’t know but I guess wanting to see him,” Daugherty notes. “He’s not (playing) We worked with 7G (Distributing) a little bit to try and we’ll just see how the Brewfest goes and I think it will go in this area. He was on tour and originally, we were not secure some. And then we’ve got great local support over extremely well.” going to be able to get him then this date opened up. from Jubeck and Potosi and Blaum Brothers in Galena, Daugherty speculates that at some point, the fest So I think what we’re seeing is that people can’t see Paradise Distilling here in Dubuque. I’m really excited for might consider adding another day, possibly a Thursday him anywhere in the Midwest so we are seeing a great it. I think it’s just a matter now of getting the word out to or a Sunday, maybe expanding the regional stage. “As of collection of people coming to the area to see Sam Hunt.” get people on site. It will take place under two 40 by 100 now, I think we’re happy with what we’ve done here the Hunt will be followed on the main stage by Dan + foot tents so rain or shine it will happen. You’ll have some past few years and how it’s going,” he said. Shay, also newcomers in their own right who are taking shade if you need it or some cover if the rain would come. Slight program shifts aside, the main America’s River country music by storm. “They were also ACM nominees We’ll have some adult tricycles down there for people to Festival strategy of working to secure up-and-coming for Vocal Duo of the Year and they’ve done extremely ride around on while they’re sampling the beers and we’ll country music acts and well-established classic rock acts well. So I think we’ve got a great lineup for our three also do some (bean) bags and live music on the regional is firmly intact. bands there on Friday night.” stage. So it should be a good atmosphere.” “Our approach has always been to try to get the Iowa’s own Cody Hicks Band will both open and Regardless of weather or other variables, there’s up-and-coming country—besides the outlier year in 2012 close Friday’s festivities, performing on the US Cellular nothing like about 30 brewers, distillers, and distributors when we tried to get Dierks Bentley—but otherwise, we’re Regional Stage at 5:30 PM, before the main stage offering samples of their products to better your trying to secure those up-and-coming country artists and concert begins and again at 11:30 PM after the main atmosphere. “I think we’ve always kind of tried to try to hit it as far as timing when they start to explode,” stage concert ends. search for what we can bring down on site on Saturday,” explains Daugherty. “I think we’ve really done that this year. Asked how America’s River Festival is able to find continued Daugherty, “and this gives us an opportunity We did it last year. We did it in 2011 right before Dierks and those up-and-coming country acts that are on the to highlight some great breweries and distilleries, locally, I think that’s why we kind of took the next step with him. verge of becoming more widely known, Daugherty and then the craft beer market at a state level, which And then Saturday night has always been rock and roll. explains that they work with agents in Nashville to I think is starting to take off, just with the recent state American Trust has always been our presenting sponsor identify younger artists who might be the next big thing. changes as far as the laws. We’ve been seeing a lot of and they have a big say in who we bring in for that.” “They’ve been right I think 100 percent of the time,” he packages with brewfests and then the entertainment Indeed, Friday night’s concert is packed with said. The festival did especially well in that regard in that night and I think that’s exactly what we’re looking breakout country music artists that we will undoubtedly 2008 featuring Kellie Pickler, Lady Antebellum, and Little for. We’re giving those people an experience to come be hearing more from in years to come. The concert Big Town before they blew up nationwide. down for the entire day, plus it’s just a lot of fun.” promises to be one country music fans will remember. The strategy for Saturday is a little bit different, Brewfest serves as a good addition to the weekend “Friday night we’ll have Old Dominion and they’ll take generally featuring classic rock acts performing hit songs of concerts, though could be considered a slight the stage first,” notes Daugherty. “They are a collection that everyone knows. “The Upper Main Street Jazz Band will departure from the festival’s approach going a few of artists who have been songwriters in the past. They’ve come on the regional stage at 5:30,” said Daugherty. “We’ve

22 Cover Story 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Cover Story got Grand Funk (Railroad) who will open on Light VIP Zone tickets for Friday’s concert the main stage at 7, America at 8:30, and are sold out. In fact, “Preferred Viewing” Tommy James and the Shondells at 10:30. A tickets for Saturday’s concert are still lot of number one hits with that group.” available ($30, in advance, first come, Each night promises a great lineup first served seating nearer the stage). in their respective genres and ticket Nevertheless, tickets are selling quickly so sales seem to reflect fans’ interest with you might want to buy advanced tickets advanced ticket purchases representing at the AmericasRiverFestival.com. Plus 350 communities in 18 different states. they’re less expensive if purchased in Daugherty further explains that 52 advance—just $15 for General Admission percent of ticket holders are coming from to the festival and either Friday or outside a 50-mile radius—a definite boon Saturday’s concert. An advanced Weekend for tourism and a win for the CVB. People General Admission ticket is also available are coming from as far away as Honolulu, for $25. Hawaii and Reno, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Camping is also available (though Wyoming, and Colorado. filling up) for the weekend for both RV “I want to be careful how I word and tent camping in the campground this,” cautions Daugherty. “Our VIP area immediately adjacent to the festival is sold out but NOT tickets for Friday grounds. Reservations for either can or Saturday. You can still purchase a be made via the web site, at $70 for general admission ticket. They are going an RV space or $25 for a tent space. extremely well.” For more information or to purchase To reiterate, general admission tickets tickets or reserve camping, visit are still available for both Friday and AmericasRiverFestival.com. n Saturday night concerts. Only the Bud

America’s River Festival Brewfest Saturday, June 13 @ Noon America’s River Festival Brewfest is Under the cover of two 40×100 tents, a celebration of premier craft beers with America’s River Festival BrewFest will brewmasters from around the State of take place rain or shine on the grounds Iowa and the Tri-State area. Take in a day of America’s River Festival. Brewfest VIP of live music with the Matt McPherson tickets, which includes entry at 12 p.m. Band on the US Cellular Regional Stage, and a special commemorative Brewfest and terrific beer vendors such as Jubeck glass are $40 in advance, $45 at the Brewery, Potosi Brewery, Galena Brewing gate. Brewfest General Admission tickets, Company, Franklin Street Brewing which includes entry at 1 PM and a special Company, Confluence Brewing, and many commemorative Brewfest glass are $30 more. Located in the Port of Dubuque in advance, $35 at the gate. Festival/ and on the banks of the Mississippi Brewfest packages are available. For River, Brewfest serves as the kickoff party more information, including a full list of for Saturday night’s activities at America’s participating breweries and other vendors, River Festival, from noon to 4 PM. visit americasriverfestival.com. n

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Intelescope Black Actress + Legal Fingers 9 PM @ The Lift 9 PM @ The Lift Nestled between the dueling guitar riffs of a rock Cover: Free DJ JEVITY and MR. WHISKERZ show and the pounding rhythms of a rave lies a Formed in the spring of 2008, Black Actress 9 PM @ The Lift soundscape where Intelescope finds itself most Blue n Evol delivers an authentic, high energy rock ‘n roll DJ Jevity is one of the Midwest’s hottest at home. Playing all original music, this Madison, 9 PM @ The Lift insemination: bringing an action packed live up-and-coming DJ’s. His style has mass appeal, Wisconsin-based band balances the craft of Blue n Evol is a power blues extravaganza show and bombastic recordings to new friends incorporating dramatic scratching techniques composition with the power of improvisation by with a rocking edge!! Charles Nealy lead guitar and fans all over the country. Having shared with continuous mixes to keep the crowd interweaving concise, melodic passages inside player has played with some of the greats stages with the likes of Electric Frankenstein, mesmerized. One thing is for certain—DJ Jevity and out of aggressive, soaring jams. result is an including Junior Wells and Buddy Guy! Eddie The Bronx, DiamondHead, New Bomb has staying power, both behind the turntables instrumental post-rock sound that serves as Fuentes on bass played the streets of Austin Turks, Red Fang, Wednesday 13, The Adicts, at a show and in the ever-expanding house sweaty dance party mix-tape. Rhythm guitarist for years before settling back in the Midwest. Airbourne, Michael Graves, Faster Pussycat, music scene. and co-founder Dan Plourde explains, “our Brian Shippert is our amazing drummer, always Nashville Pussy, LA Guns, Black Actress starts vision from the beginning was to let the music reminding you of that versatile guy who can likes a locomotive and doesn’t quit til it’s off the Mr. Whiskerz is a true renaissance man. He lets dictate the pace of the band, and things just play jazz one minute thrash metal the next. rails. Opening will be hometown heroes Legal his ability to seamlessly flow music together, started falling into place.” Word is local weirdo Throw Laura McDonald and her powerful vocals Fingers. It’s been a while since they graced with take the masses to peaks not thought possible, Jimmy Trees will join the band for a few. and you have the driving force that is Blue n their unique glam sleaze. and then smashs them on their faces in ways Evol! This is show you won’t want to miss!! they could never imagine would feel so good! Thursday, June 11 Sunday, June 7 Sunday, June 14

Straight Line Stitch and Motograter Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo 9 PM @ Eronel Mick Staebell 10 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Straight Line Stitch vocalist Alexis Brown is a 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery Aaron Williams and the Hoodoo is an American blazing persona that demands the attention Cover: Free blues/rock power trio, based in Madison, WI. Led of a room. Throughout their songs, Alexis “Iowa’s Favorite Piano Man” has been by Aaron Williams on guitar, the band’s sound Mississippi Band navigates a seamless shift from harrowing entertaining audiences for the past 40+ years is likely best described by “Ole Harv” of WVPE 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery screams to heartfelt melody that adds depth and was recently nominated into the Iowa Rock 88.1 (NPR) as “blues and roll for the masses.” Cover: Free and sincerity to their music. ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame! He plays all your favorites Aaron is joined in the band by Eric Shackelford Mississippi Band features Dave Hummel and Bill from Frank Sinatra to Elvis, from the Beatles on drums and Z on bass. Compared to early “Cricket” Davis. They are members of the Iowa Motograter is an American nu metal band best to Coldplay, and everything in between. Sing George Thorogood, Williams & The Hoodoo have Pack Hall of Fame and have been playing the tri- known for their homemade instrument, the along with your favorite songs from Elton John, all the fire and swagger of the slide guitarist in state area and regionally for over 40 years. “Motograter”, designed with industrial cable and James Taylor, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and his younger days, but with more finesse and way guitar pieces that creates a unique bass sound. more. Mick is sure to engage any audience so more versatility. The band is also known for painting themselves make it a point to check out Mick’s talent when in a tribal style body paint for live concerts. he appears at our winery this summer.

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Music in the Gardens: Nostromo, Telekinetic Yeti, Sludgeburner Denny Diamond and the Jewels 10 PM @ The Lift 6:30 PM @ Dubuque Arboretum Botanical Cover: Free Gardens Packard Pavilion Three big slabs of distorted scuzzed out Cover: Free noise coming at your face, partner. Nostromo Denny Diamond and his sons, Lucas and hails from Des Moines, employing the guitar Spencer, perform songs made famous by Neil wizardry of one Kaylee Rae Lewis to great Diamond while mixing in the hits of Johnny effect. You may remember her from her local Cash, Glenn Campbell, Buddy Holly, Ricky band Skamp. Now the guitars are heavier Nelson, and Elvis – sometimes using a clever and more focused, the beats pummeling. device called “Six Degrees of Neil Diamond.” Telekinetic Yeti is the new Dreyer/Baumann collaboration. Both have been working on and Wednesday, June 17 promoting this project for the last few months. I can only imagine a mix of doom, prog, and full on metal. Sludgeburner, the veteran on the bill, is full of local music celebrities. Riff Worm is drumming, Big Dave is yelling, and your favorite Hilltop area bartender is shredding bass and Splinter is melting your face.

Another Lost Year w/Elisium Friday, June 19 9 PM @ Eronel Cover: $8 With two #1 songs straight off of ClearChannel/ iHeartRadio and exponential growth have helped launch the Charlotte, NC quintet known as Another Lost Year into one of the next big names in Active Rock. Logging over 22 months on a grueling tour schedule that has had ALY sharing the stage with Candlebox, Sevendust, Yojimbo Sick Puppies, Trapt, Nonpoint, Hinder, Saving 10 PM @ The Lift Abel, Dope, Saliva, Devour The Day, and a list of Based out of New Orleans Yojimbo’s sound others. ALY has made a ton of noise and turned is pure punk rock energy with poppy driven many heads from deep within the beast known melodies. You’ll be powerless to do anything as the music industry. except dance uncontrollably with a huge grin. Carly Meyers leads the pack down a ELISIUM is a 3-piece band from central musical rabbit hole, wielding her trombone (Fredericksburg) Virginia. Their sound is a like “a mystical samurai sword”. While Doc unique blend of dark rock, and modern metal. Sharp hammers the keyboards in cataclysmic Most often compared to Tool and Chevelle. pleasure and Adam Gertner beats his drums to Elisium sounds huge for only being 3 guys. a bloody pulp with a deliberate smile.

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TRI-STATE LIVE MUSIC

Thursday, June 4 Ian Gould Garcia, Raldo Schneider, Cranes/Vultures Mississippi Band 7 Bridges Road Ralph Kluseman 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Muddy Rutts, John Waite, 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery 7 PM @ 1st & Main 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s Plum Creek, Broom Street Mick Foley @ 7 PM Drifters, Moonshine Sorrow, The Wundos Chuck Bregman John Moran Melanie Devaney Dueling Pianos @ 9 PM The Enablers, Swany 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. 3 PM @ Anton’s Saloon 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 7 PM @ 1st & Main Mississippi Moon Bar Connection, Stoneheart Noon–1 AM @ Jackson Ten Gallon Hat Mighty Wheelhouse Melanie Devaney Statue of Liberty Denny Garcia County Fairgrounds 8 PM @ Grape Escape 3:30 PM @ New Diggings 8 PM @ Grape Escape 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 8 PM @ The Cornerstone General Store CampfireK ings Scott Kerry Guthrie WJOD Country Dance Scott Guthrie CampfireK ings 2 PM @ Grape Escape 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Becky McMahon 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. 4 PM @ Stone Cliff John Moran Blue N Evol Peas & Garrett Jay Vonn Dirty Water Boys 2 PM @ Galena Cellars 9 PM @ The Lift Americana Band 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 7 PM @ Grape Escape 8 PM @ Grape Escape 5 PM @ Rivers Edge Plaza Zero 2 Sixty Marty Koppes Straight Line Stitch and Julien’s Bluff Steve McIntyre Customer Appreciation 9 PM @ Spirits Peas & Garrett Motograter 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 3 PM @ Northside Bar 5 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern 9 PM @ Eronel Johnnie Walker Friday, June 5 Intelescope, Trees Stillhouse 9 PM @ Doghouse Lounge Jim Busta Band Friday, June 12 JJ Schmitz 9 PM @ The Lift 6 PM @ Inspire Café Music in the Gardens Derty Blonde Noon @ Lunchtime Jam Taste Like Chicken 6:30 PM @ DBQ Arboretum Noon @ Lunchtime Jam Massey Road The Brews Brothers 9 PM @ Northside Bar John Moran 9 PM @ Spirits 6 PM @ Hazel Green Street Miss Kitty’s Quiz Show Sandy Hook Nights 7 PM @ Inspire Café Dance Strangled Darlings, 8 PM @ Grape Escape Bike Olympics @ 5 PM Aaron Williams & The Hoodoo Alma Sub Rosa Lonely Goats @ 8 PM Garrett Hillary 10 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Garrett Hillary 9:30 PM @ Monk’s Kaffe Pub Black Actress, Legal Fingers Sandy Hook Tavern 7 PM @ Stone Cliff 6 PM @ Woodbine Bend 9 PM @ The Lift Saturday, June 6 Sunday, June 7 America’s River Festival Andy Wilberding Jay Olson Benefit Roy Schroedl Open Mic with Scott Rische Tuesday, June 9 Dan + Shay, Sam Hunt, Old 7 PM @ Timmerman’s Cosmobilly Band, Denny 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Noon @ Grape Escape Brown Bottle Bandits Dominion, Cody Hicks 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s 5:30 PM @ Port of Dubuque Ian Gould Larry Michael 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub 2 PM @ Offshore Scott Kerry Guthrie Cosmobilly Band, 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Creepin’ Charlies Free Fallin’: Johnnie Walker Rockin’ on the River Tribute to Tom Petty 2 PM @ PromiseLand Winery Wednesday, June 10 6 PM @ Cascade Riverview 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Acoustic Jam with Jay Vonn Amphitheater Open Mic w/ Steve McIntyre 6:30 PM @ The Cornerstone The Mark Avey Band 2:30 PM @ The Cornerstone Johnnie Walker 8 PM @ The Blu Room, Ben Dunegan 7 PM @ Inspire Café Breezers Pub Broken Strings 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 3 PM @ Northside Bar Adam Beck Jason Stuart’s Cobalt Blue Scott Novotny 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ David Zollo 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, 3 PM @ Tabor Home Jon Conover Bellevue Vineyards & Winery Thursday, June 11 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Adam Beck 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s Hoffman, Troy, & Marceau 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar

Tony Walker 8 PM @ The Yardarm

Lenny Wayne 8 PM @ The Cornerstone

Rick Mucino 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co.

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Lojo Russo America’s River Festival DJ Jevity Americana Band Statue of Liberty Crude But Effective 8 PM @ Grape Escape Tommy James & The 9 PM @ The Lift 5 PM @ Rivers Edge Plaza 7 PM @ 1st & Main 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. Shondells, America, Grand Roy Schroedl Funk Railroad, Upper Main Mississippi Trio Round Midnight Jazz Steve McIntyre Justin Morrisey 8 PM @ Woodlands Lounge, street Jazz Band 9 PM @ Spirits Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 8 PM @ Grape Escape Eagle Ridge 5 PM @ Port of Dubuque 5 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Ignighter Bellevue John Moran Marty Raymon Statue of Liberty Gregory James 9 PM @ Northside Bar 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Alec White Crude But Effective 5 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Nostromo, Telekinetic Yeti, Yojimbo Steve Cavanaugh & Country Tradition 9 PM @ Pexactly’s Sludgeburner 9 PM @ The Lift Randy Droessler 7 PM @ Mooney Hollow Bar Denny Diamond & 9 PM @ The Lift 9 PM @ Spirits Massey Road The Family Jewels Vu Jade Corey Jenny 9 PM @ Jimi B’s Music in the Gardens Friday, June 19 9 PM @ Fife’s Ignighter 7 PM @ Potosi Brewery 6:30 PM @ DBQ Arboretum John Moran 9 PM @ Northside Bar The Drama Kings Noon @ Lunchtime Jam Matt McPherson Band Classical Blast 9 PM @ Dirty Ernie’s Miss Kitty’s Quiz Show Jackson county Pro Rodeo Renegade 7 PM @ Iron Horse Social Club 8 PM @ Grape Escape The Business 9:30 PM @ Bellevue 9 PM @ Eichman’s Black Water Gin Dubuque … and All That Jazz Horsemen’s Club Jon Conover 10 PM @ Sandy Hook Tavern Tuesday, June 16 5 PM @ Town Clock Plaza Saturday, June 13 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Massey Road Saturday, June 20 America’s River Festival Sunday, June 14 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s Kristina Castaneda & Paul Doffing Matt McPherson Band, David Minnihan Open Mic with Scott Rische Shawn Healy Freedom From Fuel Tour Brewfest 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Noon @ Grape Escape Mark Zalaznik 7 PM @ Stone Cliff 1 PM @ Dubuque Food Noon @ Port of Dubuque 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Co-op Courtyard Nathan Miller & Fever River String Band Statue of Liberty Fever River String Band Unstoppable Co. @ Noon Wednesday, June 17 7 PM @ Timmerman’s Mississippi Duo @ Noon Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ Gourd Festival Conor Oberst, Felice Brothers 2 PM @ Galena Cellars Gladdy & The Tramps 8 PM @ Potter’s Mill, Council Hill Station 6 PM @ Codfish Hollow Barn Corey Jenny @ 5:30 PM Bellevue 7 PM @ Perfect Pint 7 Bridges Road Gourd Festival Bill Stock Acoustic Jam w/ Garrett Hillary 7 PM @ Inspire Café Council Hill Station Jack Lion 2 PM @ PromiseLand Winery 6:30 PM @ The Cornerstone Andreas Transo 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub Johnnie Walker The Lonely Goats Open Mic with Cal Coohey Ben Dunegan 7 PM @ Stone Cliff Charlie’s 50th Birthday LakeSide City 2:30 PM @ The Cornerstone 7 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Shot Thru The Heart: 1 PM @ Trackside 8 PM @ Galena Brewing Co. Tribute to Bon Jovi Buzz Berries Mick Staebell Kent Rader 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 7 PM @ Maquoketa Fire Classical Blast The Lonely Goats 3 PM @ Sunset Ridge Winery 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar Dept. Street Dance 1 PM @ Iron Horse Social Club 8 PM @ Grape Escape Massey Road Percival Open Mic w/ Mississippi Trio 8 PM @ Grand Tap Andreas Transo CampfireK ings Roy Schroedl 3:30 PM @ New Diggings 9 PM @ The Lift 7:30 PM @ Frank O’Dowd’s Pub 2 PM @ Grape Escape 8 PM @ Woodlands Lounge, General Store Tony Walker Eagle Ridge Another Lost Year, Elisium 8 PM @ The Palace, Dyersville Club 84: British Banger Johnnie Walker Broken Strings 9 PM @ Eronel 8 PM @ Mississippi Moon Bar 2 PM @ Galena Cellars Vu JàDé 4 PM @ Stone Cliff Roy Schroedl & 9 PM @ Riverboat Lounge Thursday, June 18 Brandon Golden Bryan Popp & Corey Jenny Tony Walker Classical Blast Broken Strings 8 PM @ The Cornerstone 8 PM @ Mystique Casino 4 PM @ The Palace, Dyersville 4 PM @ Iron Horse Social Club 6 PM @ Tony Roma’s

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Now Showing @ Mindframe Theaters Friday, June 5–Thursday, June 11

Jurassic World (PG-13) San Andreas (PG-13) Thu: 7:00, 9:30 Fri–Thu: (11:45 AM), (2:15), (4:45), 7:20, 9:55 Spy (R) Fri–Thu: (11:20 AM), (1:55), (4:30), Tomorrowland (PG) 7:10, 9:50 Fri–Thu: (10:45 AM), (1:30), (4:15), Coming to Theaters 7:00, 9:45 Entourage (R) Fri–Thu: (12:10), (2:30), (5:00), 7:35, Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13) Spy (R) Wild Horses (R) 555 JFK Road 10:00 Fri–Wed: (11:10 AM), (1:40), (4:10), Friday, June 5 Friday, June 5 Behind Kennedy Mall 6:50, 9:20 Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a Aloha (PG-13) Thu: (11:10 AM), (1:40), (4:10) mindframetheaters.com Fri–Thu: (11:30 AM), (1:50), (4:10), unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and 15-year-old Missing Persons case, uncovering Hotline: 563-582-4971 7:30, 9:50 the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most clues linking a local boy’s death to wealthy dangerous missions. But when her partner family man, Scott Briggs. Starring Robert (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top Duvall and James Franco. agent (Jason Statham) is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate Jurassic World (PG-13) the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent Friday, June 12 a global disaster. Dinos reign again in this fourth entry of the Jurassic Park series from Spielberg and starring Insideous Chapter 3 (PG-13) Chris Pratt. Friday, June 5 This chilling prequel, set before the haunting of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (PG-13) the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Friday, June 12 Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury use her ability to contact the dead in order to Prize and the Audience Award. The story of an help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a awkward high school senior whose mom forces dangerous supernatural entity. him to spend time with a girl in his class who was just diagnosed with cancer. Mindframe Theaters Free Summer Kids Movies Monday–Friday: June 8–August 28 @ 10 AM Mindframe Theaters Whether you’re looking to get June 8–12: Paul Blart Mall Cop 1 out of the heat or simply love great June 15–19: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 family movies, you’re not going to June 20: (Sensory Friendly Showing) Inside Out find a better deal than this! Mindframe (Regular Ticket Price) Theaters invites you to join them for June 22–26: Smurfs 1 MOVIE BUZZ FREE MOVIES ALL SUMMER! No, we’re June 29–July 3: Open Season 1 not even kidding. Every weekday July 6–10: Surf’s Up Following a terrible film and an Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 film morning at 10 AM, Mindframe Theaters July 11: (Sensory Friendly Showing) Minions aborted series attempt, Alan Moore’s that itself was a remake of The Seven is presenting a great family movie at (Regular Ticket Price) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Samurai. Sarsgaard will play the outlaw no charge. Each title will play for the July 13–17: Matilda will once again probably be a complete leader that goes up against benevolent week so you can choose your day! July 20–24: Planet 51 failure on screens. gunslingers that include Denzel Additionally, they will be hosting July 27–30: Hotel Transylvania Once the frontrunner to play Hal Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, sensory friendly screenings every August 1: (Sensory Friendly Showing) Pan Jordan in 2011’s Green Lantern, Chris Matt Bomer and more. Saturday morning at 10 AM of the same (Regular Ticket Price) Pine is now ready to settle for joining the Will Ferrell has been hired on to film that played during the week (except August 3–7: Spongebob Movie (the first one) DC universe in Wonder Woman as Steve replace Patrick Dempsey as a struggling as noted below). Some new releases will August 10–14: Mousehunt Trevor, the Army officer whose plane nightclub performer of 1960s Nevada be shown this way at regular ticket price. August 17–21–Barnyard crashes on Paradise Island, where he in Tom’s Dad, a film from Chocolat These specific Saturday morning shows August 24–28–Hotel for Dogs meets this lady that is a bit of a “wonder and Cider House Rules director Lasse are for patrons with sensory sensitivities. woman,” if you will. Hallström. Lights are up, volume is down, guests Robert Rodriguez is making a live Showing just how committed Marvel are welcome to enjoy the experience action Jonny Quest movie for Warner is to making Doctor Strange look with movement or vocalizations. What Bros. It’s said he’ll also re-write the strange, the studio has started talks a great way to make summer movie fun screenplay with Aladdin and Lone to have Tilda Swinton join Benedict accessible to everyone! Ranger writer Terry Rossio. Rodriguez Cumberbatch in this increasingly- Here’s a schedule for this summer’s also previously worked with George otherworldly superhero film to play screenings. Mark your calendars and Clooney on several films, so if Cloon isn’t the Ancient One, which would be a big we’ll see you at the movies! All movies “Race” Bannon, there’s really no excuse. character change from the comic. The play at 10 AM. And remember the extra Peter Sarsgaard has been cast as the film begins shooting in November. n sensory friendly screening. n antagonist in The Magnificent Seven,

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Mick Foley Tony Orlando in concert Friday, June 5 @ 7 PM Saturday, July 25 @ 4 and 7 PM Former WWE champion, best-known to the professional Tony Orlando is one of America’s most beloved stars and is best wrestling world as “The Hardcore Legend,” Mick Foley has known for his song “Knock Three Times.” Orlando’s follow-up exchanged the world of headlocks, steel chairs and punches for hit “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” became the stories, banter and punch lines. Universally acclaimed as one of #1 song in 1972. He has won three American Music Awards, a the most entertaining speakers in professional wrestling, Foley People’s Choice Award and received a star on the Hollywood is unleashing his verbal talents on the world of comedy. Walk of Fame. n

Foley has appeared on many television shows, including 30 Rock, Warren the Ape and Boy Meets World. He has also done voice work for Squidbillies, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Celebrity Death Match. He has made numerous guest appearances on Ace Frehley shows such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Late Show with Jay Leno, Late Friday, September 11 @ 8 PM Night with Conan O’Brien and more. Foley is also an accomplished author with his Frehley co-founded KISS in 1973 and took on the persona memoir, Have a Nice Day, hitting number one on The New York Times best-sellers list “Spaceman” or “Space Ace.” With his six-string axe work, Frehley for twenty-six weeks. n is a legendary guitar player and musician with a career spanning four decades. He has had solo success with his hit song “New York Groove” and his solo album, Space Invader, which hit the Billboard 200. Frehley, along with the other original members of KISS, were King Explosion: A Tribute to Elvis inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. n June 26–27 @ 7 PM Sunday, June 28 @ 2 PM Watch 20 Elvis tribute artists, including five world champions, compete in the King Explosion contest accompanied by the The Temptations Change of Habit Tribute Band and hosted by Ronny Craig! King September 25 & 26 @ 8 PM Explosion is an international showcase and competition. The R&B and soul music group The Temptations are known for their winner will return to the Moon Bar stage in January 2016. n distinct harmony, flashy wardrobe and choreography. their hits include “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “My Girl,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” and more. Current lineup includes Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Terry Weeks, Joe Herndon and Bruce Williamson. n Royal Bliss Friday, July 24 @ 8 PM Royal Bliss formed in 1997 in Salt Lake City and like to call themselves the “unluckiest band in rock” due to the mishaps their James Otto members have, including members falling from balconies, totaling Saturday, October 17 @ 8 PM cars on tour and more. They put the emotion into their versatile Hitting the Nashville country scene with his breakthrough hit rock sound, sometimes channeling reggae and heavy metal. Their “Just Got Started Lovin’ You,” Otto topped the country chart and latest single, “Cry Sister,” is currently climbing the active rock was declared the #1 country song of the year in 2008 by Billboard charts and impacting radio with requests. Since their debut, they magazine. He followed it up with “Somewhere Tonight,” “Groovy have played concerts across the country and toured with acts Little Summer Song,” “Are Ya With Me” and “Soldiers & Jesus,” such as Buckcherry, Candlebox, Kid Rock and Papa Roach. n which earned him Song of the Year at the CMA and ACM Awards along with a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song. n

additional upcoming events

Julien’s Bluff David Minnihan Laughing Moon Comedy: Charlie Weiner One: Tribute to Metallica Thursday, June 4 @ 7 PM Saturday, June 13 @ 8 PM Wednesday, June 24 @ 8 PM Friday, October 9 @ 8 PM

Dueling Pianos Laughing Moon Comedy: Kent Rader Country on the River Singing Challenge Brews Brothers: Friday, June 5 @ 9 PM Wednesday, June 17 @ 8 PM Thursday, June 25 @ 6 PM Tribute to The Blues Brothers Saturday, October 10 @ 8 PM Free Fallin’: Tribute to Tom Petty Dueling Pianos Country on the River Singing Challenge Saturday, June 6 @ 8 PM Thursday, June 18 @ 7 PM Thursday, July 9 @ 7 PM Motley Inc. & Atomic Punks Friday, October 23 @ 8 PM Laughing Moon Comedy: Scott Novotny Shot Thru the Heart: Tribute to Bon Jovi ZZ-3: Tribute to ZZ Top Wednesday, June 10 @ 8 PM Friday, June 19 @ 8 PM Friday, October 2 @ 8 PM Kansas Saturday, October 24 @ 8 PM WJOD Country Dance Club 84: British Banger Project Pink: Tribute to Pink Floyd Thursday, June 11 @ 7 PM Saturday, June 20 @ 7 PM Saturday, October 3 @ 8 PM Blizzard of Ozzy Friday, October 30 @ 8 PM

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Continued From page 23 America’s River FestivaL 2015 Lineup: Friday, June 12 Cody Hicks Band rock instrumentation, fused with pop and hip-hop sensibilities. One of the few bands US Cellular Regional Stage in country music to write, record, and perform all of its own music, Old Dominion has @ 5:30 and 11:30 PM taken their sound into the studio. Cody Hicks has been playing live music for nearly decade. With lead guitarist Matt Fans are already picking up on Old Dominion songs like “Dirt On A Road” and “Shut Vavroch, Hicks put together a band that Me Up.” “There’s nothing like playing a song you’ve written and watching the crowd began performing across the Midwest, sing the words back to you,” says Ramsey. “We’ve experienced it a bit when we play eventually recorded the album “Getting ‘Wake Up Lovin’ You’ or ‘Better Dig Two’ and that’s great, but it’s that much sweeter Our Feet Wet” in Nashville the summer of when we are the artist releasing the song.” 2014 with producer, Patric Johnson. Single “Aw Girl” generated regular play on Sam Hunt Nashville’s The Ice Man’s Cavern Radio Main Stage @ 8:30 PM Show #14 with rave reviews. Another up-and-coming country music performer, Sam Hunt first became known Old Dominion in Nashville for his songwriting, penning Main Stage @ 7 PM tunes for the likes of Kenny Chesney, Old Dominion may not yet be a household Keith Urban and Billy Currington. Hunt name, but its members are behind many of developed a passion for music that the songs you hear in country music today. eventually took him to Nashville and During the past 10 years of writing and landed him a publishing deal, allowing him honing their sound as a band, a number to write songs full-time. of their songs have been recorded and released by an impressive list that includes Hunt’s recent four-song album preview, X2C, led by the Top Five, gold-selling track The Band Perry, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, and Blake Shelton. And while it has been nice to “Leave the Night On” proved to be a worthy introduction for his full debut album, experience radio success as songwriters, the band has their scope unwaveringly aimed at Montevallo, named for a small Alabama town where Hunt would sometimes retreat to delivering their music personally to the people. escape the pressures of Nashville. Taking cues from outside traditional country music, Hunt released a free mixtape of acoustic versions of the songs, Between The Pines in Now out on the road themselves, opening for acts like Trace Adkins, Brett Eldredge 2013, before the release of Montevallo, which generated over 300,000 streams per day and Jake Owen, their sound has tightened into a cohesive blend of country lyric and on Spotify and winning the latest cycle of Spotify’s “Emerge” program for new artists.

The results of Hunt’s unique approach to country music are a bracing mix of sounds and styles, from the aggressive dance beats of the opening “Take Your Time” to the more melodic “Make You Miss Me.” On “Break Up in a Small Town,” Hunt talk-sings the verses, an accident he and producer Zach Crowell stumbled on in the studio, before unleashing an explosive chorus. With “Raised On It,” he wanted to write about his small-town upbringing with images that expanded upon the now-predictable trucks and dirt roads of countless other country songs; the results are both more specific and more universal than the standard fare. Dan + Shay Main Stage @ 10 PM Since coming together a little over a year ago, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney— known collectively as Dan + Shay—have established themselves as one of country music’s most promising duos. With pristine vocals and a knack for writing clever yet relatable songs about looking for, finding and losing love, Dan + Shay bring a youthful sense of energy to country music. Their debut album, Where It All Began, harnesses that energy with 12 radio-ready tracks.

Already Academy of Country Music Award nominees for Vocal Duo of the Year, Dan + Shay are following in the footsteps of their perennially lauded influences Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban and Tim McGraw. And the sing-along songs that make up Where It All Began evoke the sound of those artists, along with a healthy dose of ‘90s rock and R&B.

Following a tour with Hunter, the guys will be joining Blake Shelton on his Ten Times Crazier Tour this summer. Earning an RIAA Gold certification for a hit single, going on tour with Blake, being nominated for an ACM – they’re all milestones that have become a part of the Dan + Shay story. And with the release of the hotly anticipated Where It All Began, the most exciting chapter is about to be written.

30 Cover Story 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Cover Story America’s River FestivaL 2015 Lineup: Saturday, June 13 Matt McPherson Band America US Cellular Regional Stage @ Noon Main Stage @ 8:30 PM Matt McPherson, known for his work as The year 2015 marks the 45th Anniversary lead guitarist for 50 Pound Rooster, leads of perennial classic-rock favorite, America. the band that bears his name along with Founding members, Gerry Beckley and Mark Theisen, BJ Kilburg and Steve Dewey Bunnell (along with former band Haferbier, original members of the band mate Dan Peek) met in high school in Stoneheart. Formed in 2012, the Matt London in the late 1960s and quickly McPherson Band plays covers of country, harmonized their way to the top of the southern rock and classic rock music with charts on the strength of their signature song “A Horse With No Name.” America songs by Johnny Cash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, AC/DC, became a global household name and paved the way with an impressive string of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Garth Brooks, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson, just to name a few. hits. Forty plus years later, these friends are still making music together, touring the The band will perform Saturday afternoon during America’s River Festival’s Brewfest. world and thrilling audiences with their timeless sound.

Upper Main Street Jazz Band America’s journey has found them exploring a wide variety of musical terrain. Their US Cellular Regional Stage @ 5 PM best-known tunes, which also include “I Need You,” “Ventura Highway,” “Don’t Cross Formed in 1987 by the late Dick Zimmer, a The River,” “Tin Man,” “Lonely People,” and “Sister Golden Hair” were cornerstones of well-known area musician and music 1970s Top 40 and FM rock radio. Yet beyond their impressive catalog of hits, listeners educator, along with Ric Jones, a less would discover there was always much more to America than surface perceptions. well-known Paramedic-Firefighter and drummer maybe better known now as a From their formative years, America has been a band capable of transcending borders member of Dubuque’s City Council, the with its uplifting music and positive message, drawing first, second and third Upper Main Street Jazz Band has been a generation fans. “I think that the ingredients of the America sound are the basic fixture in Dubuque live music for years. fundamentals that translate internationally,” explains Beckley. “The Italians are huge The band has been featured in two documentary movies shot in Dubuque for the fans of dance music, but they also love a ballad – they’re romantic at heart. It’s the History Channel and recently had the honor of opening for the Preservation Hall Jazz same in the Far East. A lot of times in these countries, we see people singing along, and Band of New Orleans at their concert for the 2013 America’s River Festival. Drawing they don’t really know what the words mean. Music is truly the international language.” from a pool of some of Dubuque’s best musical talent, the Upper Main Street Jazz Band performs a range of some of the 20th Century’s greatest music, including big Tommy James & The Shondells band, swing, Dixieland, and even an occasional polka. Main Stage @ 10:30 PM The music of Tommy James is heard Grand Funk Railroad continuously, everyday, in every country Main Stage @ 7 PM in the world: on radio, television or a film Originating from Flint, Michigan in 1969, soundtrack. To date, he’s sold over 100 this top selling American rock group of million records and has been awarded 23 the ’70s is “COMIN’ TO YOUR TOWN TO gold singles plus nine gold and platinum HELP YOU PARTY IT DOWN.” Grand Funk albums. Railroad is extremely excited to be touring this year marking a 45-year milestone. Tommy formed his first rock band, The Tornadoes, in 1959. In 1964 a local DJ Known as “The American Band,” the recorded “Hanky Panky.” The group changed their name to “The Shondells” and current lineup of Grand Funk Railroad includes original founding members Don released it as a single. Although it was a local hit, it didn’t break nationally until two Brewer (vocals and drums, writer and singer of the multi-million selling hit, “We’re An years later when a copy of “Hanky Panky” was discovered by a Pittsburgh nightclub American Band”) and bassist Mel Schacher, “The God Of Thunder.” Joining Don and DJ who played it at his weekend dances. Radio DJs started spinning it and an Mel are true “All Stars.” Singer Max Carl is a rock veteran from 38 Special. Max penned enterprising record distributor bootlegged it, selling 80,000 copies in ten days. By and sang 38’s hit “Second Chance” and was co-founder of California’s legendary May of 1966 “Hanky Panky” was the number one record in Pittsburgh. Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. Lead guitarist Bruce Kulick is best known for his 12 years with KISS and also has credits with Michael Bolton, Meatloaf and Billy Squier. The Shondells followed “Hanky Panky” with “Say I Am (What I Am)” and “It’s Only Keyboardist Tim Cashion, affectionately called “Dr. Tim,” has worked with Bob Seger Love”. With three hits under his belt, Tommy brought in producers Bo Gentry and and the Silver Bullet Band and English soul man Robert Palmer. Ritchie Cordell who, over the next two years, produced seven more back-to-back smash singles: “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Mirage,” “I Like The Way,” “Gettin’ The fact that Grand Funk’s legacy still reigns over the Classic Rock landscape forty Together,” “Out Of The Blue,” “Get Out Now,” and the party rock rave-up “Mony years after its 1969 birth in Flint, Michigan is a testament to the group’s influence and Mony.” The Gentry/Cordell/James team also produced three platinum albums. staying power. Mega-hits “We’re An American Band,” “I’m Your Captain/Closer To Home,” “Locomotion,” and “Some Kind Of Wonderful” still receive continuous airplay In 2008, Tommy marked the start of his fifth decade as a recording artist with on Classic Rock radio. “We’re An American Band” has received notoriety in recent the release of the I Love Christmas album and a fan-pleasing, career-spanning years being used in movie sound tracks and in television/radio advertising. retrospective 40 Years: The Complete Singles Collection (1966-2006), which included all 48 of his singles. Grand Funk has toured the world, selling out in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and South America. Over their career, Grand Funk has had 19 charted singles, 8 Top 40 His recent autobiography—Me, The Mob and The Music—became a bestseller for hits and two Number One singles (“We’re An American Band” and “Locomotion,” Simon & Schuster, garnered rave reviews from critics and industry insiders, and was both selling more than one million each). The group has now accumulated 13 gold and chosen by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 25 greatest rock ‘n’ roll memoirs of 10 platinum records with record sales in excess of 25 million copies sold worldwide. all time (#12). The book is currently in development as a major motion picture. In April 2006, EMI/Capitol released a new Grand Funk Greatest Hits package that includes a bonus DVD of rare concert footage. The band looks forward to the current tour as a way to connect with fans both old and new.

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Dubuque... And All That Jazz! 2015 Lineup

Friday, June 19: The Business An All That Jazz fan favorite, The Business has been entertaining festival crowds under the Town Clock for years with their mix of rhythm & blues, soul, funk, Latin, big band, swing, Motown, and even top 40 hits. Featuring multiple vocalists, Latin percussion, and a full horn section, the 13-piece band has the talent and range to perform material most bands can’t even touch—Earth, Wind, & Fire, James Brown, Tower of Power, Chicago, Santana, Gloria Estefan, and Stevie Wonder, in addition to their original tunes. Sponsored by: Prudential, US Bank, Tricor Insurance, and Andersen Windows & Doors. Meet Me @ Jazz! Featuring The Business Friday, June 19 @ 6 pm By Mike Ironside Friday, July 17: The Jimmys This seven-piece award winning blues and R&B band is Meet me at Jazz. Whether planned or not, Dubuque Main Street’s annual series of free summertime festivals brand new to Dubuque, and to Jazz! The Jimmys have held under the Town Clock have become the prime place for friends to meet. And meet they do, by the proven their combination of blues, R&B, and funk is a real thousands. Friends, neighbors, relatives, and acquaintances will all have that opportunity Friday, June 19 at show stopper at festivals from St. Paul, Minnesota, to the first Dubuque… and All That Jazz of the 2015 season with a performance by Chicago-based funk and R&B Kalamzoo, Michigan. Put this show on your calendar today, band, The Business. The Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School Jazz Band will open from 5 to 5:30 PM. and join The Jimmys for their first performance under the Town Clock! Sponsored by: American Trust & Savings Bank Performing at the first All That Jazz of the summer, The and the Diamond Jo Casino. Business is sure to bring fans out in force. The June event promises to be a big one, the kind of event that inspired All That Jazz committee member John Donovan to come up with this year’s marketing tagline, “Meet Me @ Jazz!” “We always hear from people, ‘Well, I meet people I haven’t seen in 20 years down at Jazz,’” explains Main Street’s program specialist Christie Rang, who manages the sprawling event, “and it’s this great community Friday, August 21: 10 of Soul networking event and how can we build on that and This high-energy 10(ish)-piece band brings to the stage a create a social scene down at Jazz? So that’s the idea.” dynamic range of classic tunes from the soul, funk, and It was a similar idea that inspired the creation of All blues genres, as well as a few funky arrangements of their That Jazz two-dozen years ago. Following the recession  Dubuque Jaycees President Beth McGorry and own! Featuring FIVE versatile vocalists, a tight rhythm of the 1980s, Dubuque Main Street faced major challenges Dubuque Main Street Program Specialist Christie Rang section, and a four-piece horn section, this band has made it in revitalizing an aging and largely abandoned downtown. their sole (or SOUL) mission to entertain audiences to the Though Main Street was making strides in the effort, “It was a lot different crowd but here we are back in fullest. Sponsored by: Cottingham & Butler, Dubuque Bank & vacant storefront space in downtown Dubuque remained 2015, 24 years later and it’s still going strong,” continues Trust, and McGladrey LLP. at around 50 percent into the ‘90s. The nonprofit Rang. “Jazz has seen so many other festivals pop up organization needed a way to get people to come back around it and we think that’s fantastic. I know it’s downtown, to provide a bit of culture and remind them of competition for Jazz but it’s bringing people downtown the city’s rich architectural stock. and supporting all of the arts organizations in the area. “Originally, it was a way to get people down after But ultimately, Jazz is a fundraiser for Main Street. We work, keep them from going straight home,” recalls use it to fund our economic development programs, Rang. “It was a pedestrian mall then.” support the Farmers’ Market, support some of our free Dubuque Main Street hosted the first All That Jazz events like Fall Into Art and Architecture Days that also Friday, September 4: The Lonely Goats in July of 1992, featuring Orquesta Alto Maiz, commonly support community art and architecture downtown.” The final Jazz! of the summer presents a local fan favorite known locally as The Salsa Band. While that first festival Partnering in that fundraising effort for Main Street is that wowed the crowd last year: The Lonely Goats! Their event under the Town Clock may not have drawn the the Dubuque Jaycees, who have been pouring beer for All zydeco-inspired sounds will get festivalgoers out of their thousands we see in attendance today, the turnout was That Jazz for years. “I love our partnership with Main Street seats and dancing in the streets! Sponsored by: Dittmer enough to continue, expanding the series in subsequent because we’re dual partners in this and we both make it or Recycling, Riley Subaru, and Miracle Car Wash. years to one of the most beloved of Dubuque’s we break it,” said current Jaycees president Beth McGorry. summertime festivals. “I think that that’s important. We both have each other’s

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“There will be premium beers at more Jaycee T-shirt and everyone is so happy than just one tent this year, which we’re to see you because they’ve been having excited about. And we’ve decided that 312 such a great time already. You walk isn’t a premium beer anymore so there into a bar that’s full and that’s really will be a lot more options. Premium beer important to our downtown that those has become such a mainstay for those businesses are thriving.” who like to go out and have a couple of So not only are people meeting at Jazz beers that it’s such an important part for under the Town Clock but as designed, the beer connoisseur. And we want the they’re also meeting at nightspots all beer connoisseur to come down and feel along Main Street after the events. As like we’re a respectable festival to be at appropriate as the “Meet Me @ Jazz” and that we’re an upscale festival and I slogan is, it’s not the only promotional think that they’re really going to enjoy it. tool Main Street uses for All That Jazz. best interest at heart when it all comes And we have some non-beer options. The Award winning graphic designer Michael down to making our decisions. I really love Lemon-Ade-Rita is the best lemonade I’ve Schmalz, Jr. of Refinery Design Company our partnership. For my 12 years of being a ever tasted with a little kick so there are has been creating unique custom artwork Jaycee and partnering with Main Street, it’s options for the non-beer drinker as well.” for Jazz posters, limited edition prints and been always great and really, really good In addition to expanded craft beer T-shirts for years. opportunities to connect.” offerings, McGorry notes that they will “I believe he started in 1994 so this will A major fundraiser for the Jaycees also be adding Busch Light to the lineup, be his 22nd design for Jazz,” notes Rang. as well, All That Jazz is one of the a very popular beer in the Dubuque “We have a collection of most of them primary ways the Jaycees raise money area. “When it comes down to having framed in our office but a lot of them are for community efforts, especially the opportunities to have more folks there, sold out now. We have the last 8 to 10 community fireworks hosted annually by we’re really good at selling beer to lots years of back prints that we sell at the the Jaycees and Radio Dubuque stations of different people and a diverse crowd,” Jazz festivals and in June we are actually on July 3. she said. “We can take care of that, we going to do a flash sale and blow some “With the Jaycees, first and foremost, can take care of a diverse crowd.” of those out, in addition to selling some we believe in taking care of our community The Jaycees will also be adding credit/ of this year’s print. We’ll also have the and so one of the largest community debit card capabilities to one of their T-shirts with this year’s print available.” projects in the city is our community beverage ticket sales stands (by US Bank) So there you have it: Music, food, fireworks on the 3rd of July,” explained giving festival goers greater flexibility in beverages, and a few thousand of your McGorry. “That’s where our first dollar is purchasing beverage tickets. “So we’re best friends under the Town Clock. Come going to go. Any extra dollars are going really excited about that and hopefully on down. Meet me at Jazz. n to go back to our community, whether that is a huge success and (we can) it’s through leadership development expand on it to all three ticket tables by of our members or even giving back the end of the summer. It really comes to community projects, whether we’re down to convenience and making our working with other nonprofits, partnering festival goers happy.” with them or giving them opportunities to In addition to the Jaycees, Dubuque be successful, giving them sustainability. Main Street works with local food vendors That’s the goal when we’re working with to give festivalgoers a variety of tasty other nonprofits, is giving them sustainable food options at All That Jazz. This year’s growth and trying make sure that their selection of food vendors includes Beauty projects are impactful and making & The Beef, Carlos O’Kelly’s, Freddie’s sure that we’re making an impactful Popcorn, Manna Java World Café, The contribution to the community.” Chocolate Hog, The Corner Taverna, The With such a long history, one might Morning Weenie, and West Dubuque Tap. think that All That Jazz has nothing new While All That Jazz was designed to in store but both Dubuque Main Street support downtown businesses, not all and the Jaycees have some updates to the festival vendors represent downtown the tried and true formula. restaurants. Rang explains that unlike “Well, we’re really trying to switch up some other downtown festivals, All the entertainment this year,” notes Rang. That Jazz has always ended at 9 or in “You’ll notice there’s no Salsa Band and recent years, at 9:30 PM in support of we’re bringing in a couple newer acts to downtown restaurants and nightspots Jazz which are 10 of Soul and the Jimmys. along Main Street. The Jimmys are out of New Glarus, “Now, actually, when we go to look at Wisconsin. They’re fantastic. They’ve food vendors to recruit for the Jazz nights, played everywhere from Kalamazoo, we’ve gotten responses from a couple Michigan to the Ontario Blues Festival so restaurants, ‘We’d love to vend at Jazz but they’re going to be a really good highlight we’re just so busy on Jazz nights. We just of the summer. The Business always don’t have the staff to manage it,’” she brings in a great crowd so we’re kicking it explains. “So that’s why you’ll see a couple off with them.” different food vendors from the West End The Jaycees have some changes in and other areas at Jazz.” store as well, making it easier for All That “It’s always been the fun part,” adds Jazz fans to enjoy the festival. “We do McGorry, “after you clean up at Jazz, have some fun stuff,” explains McGorry. you go down to one of the bars in your

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Fiesta Cancun by Rich Belmont

This restaurant is locally owned but you might think it is part of a chain of Mexican Restaurants because the same The cuisine in this establishment is authentic Mexican Pollo Popeye: Grilled chicken breast topped with sautéed partners are invested in four of them. There is Fiesta and is just what the people of Dubuque have come to spinach and melted cheese. Cancun in Dubuque, IA, Fiesta En Cancun in Freeport, IL, expect. There is no doubt there is something for everyone. Las Palmas in Dixon, IL and Las Palmas in Platteville, WI. Vincente told me there are 130 items on the menu but I Fajitas Rancheras: The There is also a Fiesta Cancun in Platteville but that one is counted over 180 not counting the 29 side orders! most ordered fajitas not associated with these other four restaurants. dinner. It has copious There are 5 lunch specials and 33 lunch plates served amounts of bacon, only 11 am to 3 pm Monday through Saturday. The chicken, steak and shrimp dinners can be ordered any time. (with this dish and some of the bacon wrapped When you visit Fiesta Cancun I recommend you take shrimp stolen from Mike some time to look over the entire menu. You will find Ironside,365ink’s feature there are some truly exceptional Mexican delights buried writer’s dinner Bryce amongst all those entrées. Parks, publisher of 365ink was in heaven overdosing Here are some of them in no particular order: on his favorite pig part: Fiesta Cancun has been operating in Dubuque for six bacon, bacon, bacon!) years. It is owned by Alfredo Luna and Vincente Cazares. Chile Poblano (chi-lee poh-BLAH-noh): This is also called They both grew up in Guanajuato the capitol city of the a Chile Relleno (chi-lee reh-YEH-noh). It consists of a House Fajitas: The second most ordered fajitas dinner. Mexican State of Guanajuato. Although they lived only mild poblano pepper stuffed with scrambled eggs and This one is also loaded with four meats but contains about a 45 minutes drive from each other they did not queso blanco (here white American cheese is used). It is sliced pork instead of bacon. meet until fate brought them together in Dubuque. coated in an egg batter and carefully fried.

Alfredo came to the US in 1968 and worked in Chicago for many years. He moved to Dubuque when he had the opportunity to open Fiesta Cancun. Vincente came to this country 18 years ago and went to work in Los Angeles. Ten years ago he found himself working at Fiesta Cancun in Platteville. Four years later he was offered a partnership with the restaurant of the same name in Dubuque.

This restaurant became so popular right after it opened Alfredo and Vincente decided they needed to take out the large bar and install more tables. Now there is a small bar with only 5 seats but that’s ok because mostly Steak Jalisco: Ribeye steak cooked with mushrooms and Margaritas, Daiquiris, beer and wine are served. Camarones Guanajuato (kah-mah-ROHN-ehs gwana-wat- grilled shrimp. It is one of the most popular meats in the oh): Twelve bacon wrapped shrimp served with rice and City of Guadalajara in the State of Jalisco. There is still a Mexican feel to the place since all of the walls guacamole salad. The dish is so named because these are adorned with sombreros and ponchos. The booths are shrimp are very popular in Guanajuato and besides, most made from decorative wood and a couple of them even of the employees at this restaurant are from there. have brightly colored depictions of Mexican scenery.

Margarita Specials available all day Monday through Thursday is one of the reasons Fiesta Cancun is so popular. The Regular 14 oz. Margarita is specially priced at $1.99 instead of the standard $4.25. The Jumbo 27 oz. Chile Verde: Chunks of pork mixed with a green is $2.95 instead of $8.25 (verde) sauce. and the Monster 46 oz. is just $5.99 rather than the Pollo Loco (POY-oh low-co): It means “crazy chicken” normal $11.99 price. and consists of two grilled chicken breasts with raw onions topped with a “crazy” special sauce.

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 Chicken Fajitas  Burrito Bandera  Carne Asada

ingredients except one has green peppers and the other Do you have a favorite restaurant you would like to see has red. They both contain acetic acid which is vinegar. reviewed? Please send your requests, suggestions and They both are about 9,000 Scoville units so they are comments to Argosy at [email protected]. n equally hot. You can draw your own conclusions. El Yucateco refers to a native of Yucatan.

I believe a fresh hot sauce always trumps a commercial bottled one. So I recommend you spice up your dinner by ordering the homemade Tomatillo Salsa Picante. It has a great flavor and a very pleasant after- burn. Here it is made from chile de arbol peppers, tomatillos, onions, cilantro, garlic and salt. Chicken Chimichanga: Flour tortillas filled with white chicken baked in chicken soup with bell peppers, You probably expect Mexican food to include a lot of tomatoes, onions and black pepper. red tomato salsa. But don’t let that stop you from trying anything on the menu that includes the word Verde One of the ways I measure a Mexican restaurant is to (green) like Chile Verde or Enchiladas Verdes. That’s try their Carnitas. This can be shredded or pulled pork because the Tomatillo Salsa Verde made in this kitchen but like here are usually pork tips. In a good restaurant is excellent. It is made from tomatillos, onions, peeled the pork is slow roasted and seasoned with a delicious jalapeños and tomatillo juice. It’s not spicy hot but it homemade spice blend and served when it can be spikes up the flavor of anything topped with it. pulled apart by a fork. I must tell you at Fiesta Cancun the Carnitas is one of the best versions of this Mexican The Tomatillo (tohm-ah-TEE-oh) is the fruit of a plant specialty I have ever had. If you like Puerco (pork) as native to Mexico. It resembles a small tomato but has a much as I do you must try this dinner! papery tarnish-green husk. It usually has a bright green skin but can also be yellow or purple. It has a pale yellow Fiesta Cancun Many Americans believe Mexican cuisine is mostly about flesh with a tart, lemony herb flavor. 2515-1 N.W. Arterial, Dubuque, IA 52002 spicy, burning hot foods. Of course this is not true and 563-588-1350 • FiestaCancunDubuque.com in fact the cooks at Fiesta Cancun purposely prepare A couple of other things you should know: all the sauces, mostly mild specialties. If you like spicy you can request batters and fillings are made from scratch. The rice and Hours: Mon–Thu: 11 AM–10 PM; Fri–Sat: 11 AM–11 PM; more heat or you can add one or more salsas. The ones beans are prepared fresh daily and are never held over Sun: 11 AM–9 PM on your table are: from one day to the next. There is a semi-sort of private Dining Style: Come as you are area where you can hold a private party for up to 56 Noise Level: Conversational Tapatío (tah-pah-TEE-o) Salsa Picante (pee-CON-tay) (hot people. During the summer you can enjoy your lunch or Recommendations: Enchilada, Burrito, Chile sauce). It is made in Vernon, CA and its ingredients are dinner al fresco on the outdoor patio. Relleno (chile poblano), Fajitas Rancheras, House red peppers, salt, spices and garlic. It has a smoky flavor Fajitas, Camarones Guanajuato, Grande Burrito and is really not that hot; about 3,000 Scoville units. The And one more thing: no matter what you order you get Bandera, Carne Asada, Steak Jalisco, Carnitas, name, by the way, indicates a person from Guadalajara. a lot of food. So you must be careful to save room for Chile Verde, Acapulco Chimichanga, Pollo Popeye, dessert! Every really good Mexican restaurant will tempt Pollo Loco, Flan, Fried Ice Cream El Yucateco (you-ka-tec-o) Salsa Picante de Chile Habanero you with Flan. Here this traditional Mexico City style cream Liquor Service: Limited Bar, Margaritas, Beer, Wine Verde (green hot sauce) made from green Habanero caramel custard is baked fresh daily from eggs, Kahlúa, Prices: Lunch: $6.25–$9.50; Dinner: $9.25–$18.99 peppers, acetic acid, salt, spices and preservatives. condensed, evaporated, and whole milk. It is so good! Pay Options: Cash, Debit, MasterCard, Visa, Or you can choose an apple or banana burrito, Sopapilla Discover, AMEX, NO checks El Yucateco Salsa Picante de Chile Habanero Roja (red with ice cream or the scrumptious Fried Vanilla Ice Cream Accessibility: Front door and restrooms hot sauce). Made from red Habanero peppers, acetic coated with corn flakes and delicately fried. There is also a Kids Policy: Menu: Yes; Boosters: Yes; acid, salt, spices and preservatives. dessert I have not seen before called Xango (pronounced High Chairs: Yes Chan-go). It is a flour tortilla stuffed with cheesecake. Reservations: No—call ahead for 6 or more Many people engage in friendly arguments regarding Catering: Yes • Take Out: Yes • Delivery: No whether the red or green sauce tastes better and So visit Fiesta Cancun soon and ¡Buen Provecho! Parking: Strip Mall Lot which one is hotter. Actually they both have the same (Enjoy your meal!).

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Throughout the Midwest we have • When supplementing Mother Nature’s recently received a healthy dose of rainfall, be sure to water early in the consistent rainfall. And while the local day and try to not get the foliage landscapers are behind due to the weather, wet. Droplets of water are the main plants everywhere are in full force. I don’t transportation of various diseases know about you but I have had to mow two throughout a plant. times per week just to keep ahead of our lawn! Along with the tremendous growth, A few other garden many plants that are prone to mildews and related notes: blights are also seeing an increase in these Again, for some reason, this past frustrating ailments. winter has proven to be difficult on Here are a few things you can do to particular plants. I have noticed many prevent and or treat common issues in the of the newer cultivars of Weigela, warm garden during periods of regular rainfall… season grasses, butterfly bush and even ornamental pear trees have really had a tough time recovering from winter. If you see some growth, even a tiny bit, I would suggest not giving up on that plant. However, if you are like me and have some Maiden grasses, for instance, that are not showing signs of growth yet, I would suggest replacing them. If you fertilized your lawn in April, we • Thin out perennials that are are quickly approaching time to reapply. overcrowded. An obvious sign that a Rains have helped turf use the fertilizer plant needs dividing is when it flops more quickly this season and it is going to open, exposing the middle of the be important to replenish the nutrients lost. crown of the plant. Don’t forget to fertilize those annuals • On plants that are particularly prone either. Regular watering washes many to disease, be proactive and spray nutrients through the plants and most a preventative fungicide like Dr. annuals are extremely hungry. I recommend Earth’s Final Stop Garden fungicide or a low dose of a fertilizer like bloom booster Bonide’s Copper Fungicide on these be added with each watering. plants now, if you haven’t already Prune your lilacs, weigela, done so. Some plants to particularly mockorange, forsythia and other early look out for include Lilacs, Ninebark, bloomers now to ensure fullness and Roses, Tomatoes, Crabapples, Tall great blooms next year. n Phlox and Coreopsis. • Keep an eye out for blight on tomatoes. Side dressing with a fertilizer containing calcium and magnesium along with the usual nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium can help prevent blight. Also mulching the base can prevent fungus from splashing up onto leaves of young tomato plants.

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Dubuque365.com Issue #240 June 4–June 17, 2015 365ink Magazine Columnists 37 Columnists Carnegie-Stout Public Library Events Dubuquers Play Euchre younger children and/or children who want to Thursdays: June 11, June 25, July 9, and July 23 listen to stories while reading to the pets. @ 6:30–8:30 PM Please do not bring your own dog; we will Are you new to Dubuque? Have you lived here a provide kid-friendly dogs each month. No while and never learned to play Euchre? The registration is required. library will be opening its auditorium for Euchre for players of all skill level. Learn to play, hone your skills, or teach a new player the game. This program is for adults 18 and over. Please register prior to the event by calling the Reference Desk or going online at dubuque.lib.ia.us. Snacks and drinks will be provided. The public is cordially invited to Join the Summer Reading Program for attend. For more information, please call the Adults and Escape the Ordinary! Carnegie-Stout Public Library at Sign up at the Reference Desk or online. Read 563-589-4225, or visit dubuque.lib.ia.us. or listen to five books of your choice. Record the titles on your Reading Log. Turn in your reading log when it is complete. You may continue to complete additional logs: each completed log (5 books) earns you 2 entries for the prize basket of your choice and 1 entry for the Grand Prize at the end of the Summer Reading Program.

Meet the Author: David LaRochelle Friday, June 12 @ 10 AM & 2 PM Former elementary school teacher David LaRochelle has either written or illustrated 25 books. His titles include Moo!, How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans, and The Best Pet of All. He is especially proud of It’s a Tiger, winner of the 2014 Bridge To Reading Picture Book Award for the state of Iowa. David lives in White Bear Lake, MN where he writes, History of Comic Book Superheroes draws and carves creative pumpkins when he is Thursday, June 18 @ 6:30 PM not at schools and libraries. The presentations Author Terry Fisk will talk about the artists are for all ages. Please register no more than one and writers who created such well-known week in advance by calling 563-589-4225 x2228. superheroes as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, etc., and reveal the influences and inspiration for these powerful characters in the third floor Aigler Auditorium. He will also examine the history of comic books, and the impact they’ve had on our culture. Beginning at age 13, Fisk drew a weekly comic strip for his local newspaper and later studied to be a comic book artist at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (the alma mater of Superman artist Dan Jurgens). As a comic book aficionado, Reading with Rover he owns a huge collection of comics, has met Saturday, June 13 @ 10–11:15 AM many of the artists and writers, and possesses Dogs love stories but can’t read to themselves! an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject. Children in grades K–3 are welcome to read a The public is cordially invited to attend. For short book to a dog in the 1st floor program more information, please call the Carnegie- room. A Dubuque Regional Humane Society Stout Public Library at 563-589-4225, or visit volunteer will also be available to read aloud to dubuque.lib.ia.us.

38 Columnists 365ink Magazine June 4–June 17, 2015 Issue #240 Dubuque365.com Columnists A Rhino’s Attitude by Matt Booth

I bet you’ve never thought about a rhino’s attitude ahead of you and you can’t see very far—charge forward. before, have you? I have. It is kind of my job to think Blindly charging forward can be a great strategy during about things like this. Rhinos are amazing animals that confusing times. Living with a certain amount of confusion burying yourself in the safety of routine. Charge forward get what they want from life by charging forward. A is an integral part of life but if you sit around waiting for and create more, live more, and feel more. Resolve to live rhino is all about attitude! it to clear up before moving forward, you’ll never get like the unstoppable rhino. Don’t let fear and self doubt A black rhino can run almost 30 miles per hour but anywhere. I’ve heard my dad put it this way thousands take over. Don’t wait for clear vision or make excuses to they can only see 30 feet in front of them. Because of of times, “Right or wrong, do something”! That is his cover up your inactivity—charge forward today. n their poor eyesight, they rely on their excellent sense version of charge forward. Progress and success is feeling of smell to alert them. If something comes too close or confused and uncertain, but charging forward anyway. threatens them, they charge forward with great speed Couldn’t we all use some of that rhino attitude? and determination. The rhino lowers its head, snorts, Wouldn’t it be great if we had the confidence to charge Mattitude Quote breaks into a gallop and gores or strikes powerful blows forward especially when the road is unclear? I know, we “If what you’re working on is important to you, with its horns at the threat. A think skinned 6,000 pound don’t weight 6,000 pounds or have 2 inch thick skin and you’ll do whatever you can to make it succeed.” rhino is practically unstoppable. horns, but the rhino’s attitude is amazing. Charge forward! —Matt Booth If you are feeling overwhelmed and life seems a little If it doesn’t work out, charge forward again! That attitude confusing—charge forward. If you’re not sure what is of success, despite the obstacles is essential. Matt Booth, the attitude expert, is an engaging This week, commit to speaker. He demonstrates and delivers a common charging forward in one sense approach to a positive attitude. To find out area of your life. Your how Matt can help you or your company, connect purpose is not to avoid with him today at mattbooth.com. what you can’t see by

Magnificent Magnesium: A Top Nutrient for 2015 by Hy-Vee nutritionists Megan Horstman (Asbury), Amy Cordingley (Locust), and Tricia Rau (Dodge)

In the world of human health, magnesium is a key antibiotics. Additional prescription medications known for nutrient for many vital functions in the body. Deficiency depleting magnesium include those for blood pressure, of this mineral is thought to be linked to more than diabetes and lowering cholesterol. If you are taking any 20 disease conditions. Despite this importance, it’s of these medications, you may want to check with your estimated that more than 80% of Americans do not get pharmacist or healthcare provider for guidance. enough in their daily diet. How can a person get more magnesium into their Why is magnesium such a big deal? First, magnesium diet? Food sources rich in magnesium include greens is used by every organ in the body, specifically the heart, (particularly Swiss chard and spinach), green beans, muscles and kidneys. It’s instrumental in the transmission seeds (pumpkin, squash, sunflower, flax, sesame- of nerve signals and is a key player in muscle relaxation. including tahini), unsweetened cocoa powder, almond Building proteins for muscle requires magnesium. The butter, seaweed and Brazil nuts. Edamame and black action of more than 300 enzymes relies on magnesium beans as well as buckwheat, millet, wheat germ and to initiate the process. This important mineral regulates molasses are good food sources, too. blood pressure and blood sugar levels and can be found Because magnesium works in a balance with vitamin in every cell in the body. Magnesium is a component of D, vitamin K2 and calcium, it’s important to eat a varied almost every chemical reaction that takes place in the diet every day that provides these essential nutrients. A body, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That’s varied diet includes plenty of vegetables, whole grains, why magnesium is such a big deal! beans and legumes, fruits, animal or vegetable protein How much magnesium does a person need? The and dairy foods or a comparable source of calcium. recommended daily intake (RDI) for male adults 19 years Need some ideas for getting magnesium on the of age and older is 400 to 420 milligrams of magnesium table? Try making a salad with your favorite lettuce, daily. Adult females, including women who are pregnant adding Swiss chard and spinach, then topping with or lactating need 310 to 320 milligrams daily. Mild to pumpkin seeds and edamame plus your favorite moderate stress increases the need for magnesium vinaigrette. Another idea is making a spinach salad as do physical injury, routine exertion in athletics and with black beans, sunflower seeds and cooked millet. chronic illness. Be aware that many medications decrease Sprinkling wheat germ, sunflower seeds and your magnesium absorption so additional supplementation favorite fruit on yogurt or hot cereal is a great way to may be needed. Common medications that deplete start the day with a magnesium boost while snacking on magnesium are acid blockers/antacids/anti-ulcer, whole grain crackers and almond butter is another great diuretics, analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs and some way to work in some magnesium later in the day. n

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Raymond Chandler Meets William Burroughs By Bob Gelms

Richard Thomas’ new book, comes to visit through an open window Disintegration, is mind-bogglingly in the kitchen. He also has a very twisted good. There is a word that is used, relationship with a woman named Holly. most of the time misused, to describe That’s when Vlad strikes. Our Man in particularly superior books. That word Chicago becomes a hired killer for is masterpiece. When reading a book Vlad. At first there is a Dexter Morgan for the first time, there have been only a thing happening here. He receives his handful of times that I had the feeling I assignments in a yellow envelope slipped was reading something very, very special. under his door. His targets seem to be Disintegration is one of those books. people who deserve the ultimate justice It is written in the first person but the but somehow have escaped the law. narrator is not identified. I came to think He says, “A hollow blackness of him as Our Man in Chicago and he is so spreads across my chest. Everything vividly drawn that you can’t help but to I touch disintegrates before my eyes. know him inside out. He has undergone I am a curse upon the land I tread, an a personal tragedy that breaks him abomination, a scourge. There’s nothing apart psychologically, emotionally and left, and so I embrace it, the emptiness, physically. We find out about this horrific I fall into the abyss, and become one life-changing event as it is spoon fed to with its void, the last bit of my humanity us by the author in the form of a message spilling out onto the floor.” left on a phone machine. Our Man in This is a noir novel of compelling Chicago has all of the regular coping darkness. The very bottom of his mechanisms and they have all failed him. soul is inspected as if under a micron He’s tail spinning into the ocean like that microscope. Lest I forget to stress that film of a Japanese Zero, smoke trailing this is a crime novel, he kills many people behind as it crashes at high speed into the along the mean streets of Chicago water. In the haze of his fall from grace getting a tattoo to commemorate each he says of himself, “I reek of violence of his kills. He has a lot of tattoos. and remorse.” In a moment of startling He has no coping mechanisms left; self-awareness he says, “What have I his emotions are all jumbled up. He has become…this monster. I’m covered in the wrong emotional response to even tattoos, missing a finger, an insane drug conventional situations and his body addict, a drunk and a killer.” takes on physical characteristics of Some people look for love in all the disintegration. He cuts himself and his wrong places but Our Man in Chicago body is covered with tattoos and wounds looks for redemption in all the wrong that were self inflicted or allowed to be places. He is literally picked up by a inflicted upon him. He is a certifiable, 100% mysterious Russian he calls Vlad in a bullgoose looney, all the while seeking package liquor store. Our Man’s diet some solution to his horrific personal of choice consists of Budweiser and tragedy and continuing to kill for Vlad. Crossword answers on page 43 Jim Beam. Vlad seems to be offering a The prose in Disintegration is helping hand. Vlad is willing to pay for luminous. It’s surreal and at times little errands, a package pick up here, psychedelic. It reminded me of passages a delivery there. Vlad sets him up in a from Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. It’s dingy apartment and slowly reels him in almost as if you are watching a Salvador like some evil fisher of men’s souls. I’m Dali painting become animated. not going to describe the transition. You Disintegration is a major work by a have to read it. It’s outstanding. master storyteller. It’s a must read for Finally Our Man in Chicago is fans of crime fiction. I can’t recommend completely fractured. His only friend is it highly enough. n the neighborhood cat, Luscious, who

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Children’s books have been very much on my mind lately. My son and his wife are expecting twins, and the invitation to her baby shower urged everyone to give a book instead of a Hallmark card. What a great idea. As a librarian, a two-story English major (B.A. and M.A.), and a lifelong reader, I had already decided to shower them with books. My daughter, also a librarian/reader, was gift-wrapping books, too. Between us and the other shower guests, it’s clear the new parents are going to need a room-size bookcase before the girls arrive. As a child, I wore out the sidewalks to the neighborhood bookmobile, and when I grew older, waited impatiently for the bus to beam me downtown to the mother ship, the Davenport Public Library. I still remember my friend Leslie being annoyed because I turned my pages so fast. From The Blueberry Pie Elf to The Black Stallion, I was insatiable; I could not get enough of the secret information in books. I didn’t encounter The Cat in the Hat Comes Back until I had kids of my own. Years later, I find myself still heartened by its wisdom. It’s all about mayhem. The Cat creates the mess of all messes, the Pink Spot Mess, when he eats a piece of cake with pink frosting in the bathtub. (Things like this happen a lot in Seuss Land.) It just gets worse, despoiling the house and everything in it, until the bilious pinkness is sprayed with a fan out onto the snow, which the kids have been instructed to shovel neatly while Mother sashays into town again. You’d think she would learn not to leave her children unattended, but what fun would that be? with? One ugly big spot. But maybe, Seuss suggests, it’s Mr. Cat is untroubled when his cheerful efforts to erase supposed to happen this way. the spot only make it worse. When he ruins Mother’s best Somehow, with his mad rhymes and galloping dress by using it to rub off the pink tub ring, he fixes that rhythms, he sweeps us up into both the folly and the crisis by whacking it onto the wall, which then becomes joy of this great cleanup gone awry, and even as we’re pink, but wait! It travels to Dad’s shoes, which are then covering our eyes, fearing what Mother will say when wiped clean on the hall rug, which is tidied by smacking it she sees this colossal pink disaster, we’re caught up in against the bed. At this point, things are so bad, the kids the crazy glee of giving up and giving in, saying, What are beside themselves. All seems lost. the hell! If life is so bad, let’s make it REALLY bad. But the oversized feline delinquent isn’t worried a At this point the cat, ever confident, says, “This is bit. After a momentary lapse when he looks sadly at good. This is what they should do and I knew that they the bed (for it’s “NOT the right kind of bed”), he regains would. With a little help, all the work will be done.” his pluck and reveals his secret weapons—a series of It’s a moment loaded with import. Of course he has progressively smaller cats who emerge from under his a solution, a magical something called “Voom” that hat, and then the next cat’s hat, and so on. He doesn’t eradicates the pinkness and leaves the house and the mention that with their help, things are going to be snow looking better than ever. elevated from crisis to all-out catastrophe. Do they rid If I could, I would wrap a big box of Voom for my the bed of the bed spot? Why yes, they do, but in doing son’s new family. With two babies in the house, they so they transfer it to the broom, to the TV, to some milk might have some Pink Spot messes. But what I want in a pan, and from there out the window with the fan. to give them isn’t magic. What they need is something And voila! The house is now clean. they already know. The real gift of The Cat in the Hat However, the snow outside has now been dyed Comes Back is its revolutionary idea that, sometimes, completely pink, and we get the impression that things are supposed to get really bad. The trick is Mother is the kind of woman who not only wants her to refuse to despair, and if all else fails, gather your snow neatly off the sidewalks, but uniformly clean and children and read them a good book. white. Sally and her brother are definitely going to be So here’s my own addendum to the book, just for them: grounded for, I’d say, 27 years. You know what to do. But never fear! More cats are released, until we have It’s in your good hearts. Cats A through Z, although, as the kids note, “All this It’s there in your brains. Sudoku answers on page 43 does is make MORE spots! Your cats are no good. Put You’ve got all the parts. them back in your hat!” Just relax and review. It is at this point that I begin to think, Isn’t life just like Listen up, take a look. that? We try so hard, we call in our friends and family a And if all else should fail, nd coworkers—all of our peeps—we get very energetic Read your children a book! n and think up great schemes, and what do we end up —[email protected]

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Dear Erma, Dear Erma, Every time I go out with friends, I lose Do you even read these things? I bet you something. Last week I lost my purse, just make things up and write back to and the week before that, I lost my yourself. How stupid. I could write better phone. Oh, Erma, what should I do? advice than you. Why do they even have —Loopy Lizzy an old lady giving advice anyway? It’s not like you really get what’s going on in the Dear Lizzy, world outside of Bingo and church. Prove I, too, tend to lose things but have found to me you’re a real person who actually the perfect fix. As I was going through responds to real letters. I bet I’ll never see my kids’ storage, I found this contraption this published. that snaps around my waist. I haven’t a —Nameless Asshat clue what it’s called, but I like to call it the bum bag. I can store my dentures, Dear Nameless, hearing aids (and extra batteries!), wallet, What in the world makes you think you and, of course, my travel bottle of rum! can talk to a person like that? And you Find yourself a bum bag, dear! didn’t even include your name (or an —Erma alias!) OR some way for me to respond to you besides here. So, here you go. Dear Erma, Hi, Asshat. My name is Erma Gerd, and My girlfriend and I have been dating I am responding to your incredibly rude for nearly a year, and I’m feeling very message. As you can see, I do not make pressured to throw an extravagant up these letters. The kids have this old anniversary party. Cindy gave me a bat writing for them because the late waterproof bluetooth speaker for my and great Trixie could no longer do so Christmas and followed it up with a brand (though I’m sure she would whoop you new iPhone 6 for my birthday. How am I for this!) and I had some spare time supposed to show her how much I love her to dole out advice to the fine folks of when I feel I can’t compete with her gifts? Dubuque. So, Asshat, I am a real person. I —Benjaminless Benjamin respond to real letters. And guess what? Your stupid letter is published, right here. Dear Benjamin, Congratulations. You will learn with time that actions —Erma can mean more than physical gifts. Though, Mr. Gerd came through on our Dear Erma, first wedding anniversary with quite the I have a terrible time talking to guys. I get physical gift, if you catch my drift. I’m choked up and just flee on my first dates. not some kind of hussy; I made him wait Can you help a girl out? for the goods! Then again, kids these —Choked Up Chelsea days don’t seem to want to wait for these things. Oh, heck, just go for it. And maybe Dear Chelsea, make her breakfast in bed. Alcohol. Mary Jane. And more alcohol. If —Erma that combination doesn’t work for you, try going for girls. At least they won’t choke you on a first date. —Erma

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Aries Libra (March 21–April 19) (September 23–October 22) While not really caring if Bruce If it doesn’t have a bone in it, it’s Jenner is man or woman these days, you can’t not a chicken wing. If it doesn’t have fish and seem to forgive him… er… her, for generally rice in it, it’s not sushi. If it doesn’t have meat in looking hotter than you do. it, it’s a snack. Remember that.

Taurus Scorpio (April 20–May 20) (October 23–November 21) Go out the Field of Dreams and While very effective, Round-up is walk around asking everyone where Robert really terrible for the environment and a Redford sat and see how that goes. solution for lazy people who don’t care about future generations. Therefore, you’re only Gemini going to want to use it when your spouse is (May 21–June 20) away and nobody can see you spraying. It’s not You will realize that you should not your fault you can’t bend over anymore to pull have let her choose the restaurant when instead those weeds. Well, maybe it is. of having a vegetarian section of the menu, there’s a small section titled “non-vegetarian.” Sagittarius Looks like you’ll want to a save a little cash for a (November 22–December 21) Taco Bell run at the end of the night. You find that the announcement that the “dad bod” is now the in thing for guys Cancer was a hell of a lot easier than dieting. Being the (June 21–July 22) trendsetter you are, work next on bringing back Once he thinks you’re beautiful, he the acceptability of dorm room decor. will only see you as beautiful even when you’re sick, just woke up, have a zit or are wearing an Capricorn asexual smock of some kind. So just stop (December 22–January 19) checking yourself every five minutes and just Your neighbor’s super sweet new smile at him. You’re all good. Mustang GT has you feeling pretty jealous, especially after hearing them gloat about it for Leo an hour. You’ll want to revisit this conversation (July 23–August 22) in January. One day soon, you will not be sure if you’re more disturbed at the fact that you’re Aquarius shopping for a bikini at Wal-Mart or that the (January 20–February 18) giant mix and match bikini bins are completely Movie theater popcorn does not full of choices except for the XXL bins which count as a meal (because there’s no meat). So, have been completely wiped out. As long as be sure to take some beef jerky, too. Dinner is you weren’t looking for XXL, assume whatever served. PUZZLE ANSWERS you choose, you’re going to look pretty good next to anyone you encounter on the beach Pisces wearing a matching suit. (February 19–March 20) That friend you warned about the Virgo person they’re dating is once again, not going (August 23–September 22) to believe you when you tell them later that Choosing a full two week vacation you told them so. So, you’re going to want to all at once sounds like a dream come true write it down now, seal it, mail it to yourself until you’re four days in and start to twitch with a postal date stamp and prepare to make because you aren’t quite sure if the world is them eat it in front of you when their stupidity coming apart at the seams without you there eventually gets the best of them. And make to overlook it. This is where I’m supposed to tell them give you back 40 cents. you everything is fine, but in truth, it really is totally screwed. You’re gonna want to just stick to three day weekends and spread ‘em out.

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