the 365 inkwell { bryce parks } President, Publisher, Writer, Designer, Layout On the Cover: [email protected] { mike ironside } Writer, Designer, Photography [email protected] { pamela brandt } Writer [email protected] 8 • cover: gaelic storm { kristina nesteby } 10 • valentine’s event Ad Designer [email protected] 18 • elisha darlin arts awards { shelley till } 20 • star restaurant Director of Sales & Community Partnerships [email protected] | 563-542-3801 issue #153 • february 2 - 15, 2012 { kelli kerrigan } Advertising 4 community briefs 15 local film 24 bob’s book reviews [email protected] | 563-581-7014 6 fly by night: crowns 16 budweiser nightlife 25 pam kress-dunn 7 symphony events 18 elisha darlin awards 26 library events / mattitude { lisa stevenson } 8 gaelic storm 19 tri-state arts 27 eating healthy with hy-vee Advertising 10 valentine’s events 20 argosys food reviews 28 puzzles [email protected] | 563-580-1691 12 moon bar concerts 22 string fever / margi gras 29 nakoa moonhawk benefit 13 going organic 23 sara from steve’s ace 30 trixie kitsch { matt booth } 14 movies 23 return of the pop quiz 31 dr. skraps Mattitude [email protected] { pam kress-dunn } [email protected] { bob gelms } Bob’s Book Reviews { mayor roy buol } Buol on Dubuque { rich belmont } Argosy’s Food For Thought [email protected] { l.a. hammer } Trixie Kitsch: Bad Advice For The Stupid special thanks to: Brad Parks, Ric Woods, Dick Landis, Margie Blair, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Kay Kluseman, Ralph Kluseman, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Steven Schleuning , Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Gen. Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 All contents © 2011, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Where’s Wando We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him? 2 { february 2 - 15, 2012 } 365ink Magazine | issue #153 www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } there once was a duck named marlene.... February is for lovers. For the rest of you, brings you a concise and tidy gift-wrapped February is pretty much a big turd burger recap of all of the great stuff there is to you have to endure until St. Patrick’s Day. do this weekend. Arts, concerts, festivals, But not anymore. 365’s going to do our educational events, sports, nightlife, and small part to put some fun into this most area live music. You don’t have to drag desolate of winter months, and we’ve around this big copy of 365ink everywhere recruited some help to get the job done. you go. 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Plus Mindframe people who actually opened the Livewire movies tickets, comedy tickets, and real that weekend. (P.S. - You must display the tangible stuff, like beauty items, clothing and e-mail’s images in order to be counted the list goes on…. Trust us, it’s all cool, fun for the contest.) That’s it. Don’t even do stuff. Come on, it’s from 365 and the Diamond anything special. Just actually READ the Jo. You know it’s going to be good! Livewire. Heck, just open it. Get some sweet down-lo on Saturday night and WIN! Let the What’s the catch? There’s isn’t one. Well, games begin! In fact, they already have... that’s a total lie. There’s always a catch. But it’s really much, more of an ulterior motive, - - - or as I like to think of it, a silver lining for us. You know, the payoff for us giving you all of For all the scouts that heaven claimed too our worldly possessions. In fact, I really think soon, there is now the finest of leaders to that our payoff for all of this is, in the end, guide your path to the next adventure and actually a benefit to you. We’re growing our see that their fires always stay lit, just as the social media reach as well as our Livewire fire of his life will always warm the hearts subscriber list. We do that so we can tell of those he leaves on Earth. Good night more people each and every week about all to my uncle and friend, Dan Holloway. “A of the great stuff going on in the tri-states. hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of Think about it. The crappy e-mail newsletters house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. you get from all of those companies and But the world may be different, because I you don’t know how they got your name? was important in the life of a boy.” Imagine an e-mail every Friday morning that - Forest E. Witcraft, Scout Leader. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink Magazine | issue #153 { february 2 - 15, 2012 } 3 { community events } luau party? comeoniwannalaya! the Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium. Jazz ensembles from Loras College, Clarke University, the University of Dubuque and UW-Platteville will perform from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $10 per person. Food and beverages will be available for pur- chase, plus games and great music. Lancaster Winterfest Sat. Feb. 11 Grant County Fairgrounds The Tale of Bunny Cotton-Tail per team) in advance, and $15 at the door. The Lancaster Area Chamber of Commerce Sat. Feb. 4, 1:00 p.m. Register in advance online at www.open- will sponsor a new Winterfest event at the Dubuque Museum of Art ingdoorsdbq.org, or call Maria House at Grant County Fairgrounds on Saturday, A free, family-friendly program will be 563-582-7480. Registration will also take February 11. Activities will include Human presented at the Dubuque Museum place at the door the night of the event. Dog Sled Races, a Soup Bowl Competition, of art on Saturday, February 4 at 1 and more. It promises to be an afternoon p.m. Bunny Cotton-Tail is a hand and Humane Society Garage Sale and evening full of fun! They are currently Championship Bull Riding rod puppet show based on a story by Tickets on sale Feb. 10 seeking food vendors and Winterfest vol- Feb. 11 & 12, 7:30 p.m. Laura Rountree Smith, a Platteville chil- Start clearing out your attics and closets unteers. If you are interested, call or email Five Flags Arena dren’s author and schoolteacher who to support our furry friends, because the the chamber at (608) 723-2820 or cham- See the bulls up close and talk to real wrote Beatrix Potter-like stories. Bun- Dubuque Regional Humane Society’s 12th [email protected]. cowboys when Championship Bull Rid- ny’s adventures with his friend, Susan Annual Garage Sale is almost here! The ing comes to Five Flags Arena on Feb- Rabbit, take him to a cabbage patch garage sale will be held at the Dubuque ruary 11-12. The most dangerous sport and the inside of a farmer’s gunny National Guard Armory on Friday, March 9 in the world, it’s a cowboy matched up sack. He listens to a wise old owl, saves from 3-7 p.m. and Saturday, March 10 from with a ton of beef on the hoof. More than Susan from a little girl’s doll bed, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tickets will go on sale start- thirty bull riders will nod their heads and outsmarts the dreaded fox. ing February 10 at the Humane Society’s try for the eight second buzzer.