OCTOBER 8–OCTOBER 21, 2015 ISSUE #249 22 2015 FALL MOVIE PREVIEW Settle in and get cozy—we’ve got a massive list of movies through the end of the year for your fall and winter entertainment needs! 18 TRI-STATE HALLOWEEN EVENTS 34 CAFE FRAICHE 33 DUBUQUE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL EVENTS ARTS NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS 4 16 28 34 365INK PRODUCTION STAFF Bryce Parks Publisher, Everything Else Kristina Nesteby Layout Ninja, Designer [email protected] [email protected] Mike Ironside Feature Writer, Photographer [email protected] 365INK ADVERTISING STAFF Kelli Kerrigan Lisa Stevenson [email protected] • 563-581-7014 [email protected] • 563-580-1691 365INK CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Rich Belmont Argosy’s Food For Thought Bob Gelms Bob’s Book Reviews [email protected] [email protected] Matt Booth Mattitude Pam Kress-Dunn Feature Writer [email protected] [email protected] Sara Carpenter Do It Yourself Advice [email protected] SPECIAL THANKS Christy Monk, Gina Siegert, Ryan Decker, Neil Stockel, Kay Kluseman, Ken Kline, Margie Blair, Fran Parks, Julie Steffen, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, Julie Griffin, Mark Dierker, bacon, Steven Schleuning, Tim Brechlin, Roy & Deb Buol, Jeff Lenhart, Gen. Bob Felderman, Dave Haas, Ivonne Simmonds Fals, Christopher Adams, all of our 365 friends and advertisers... and you for reading. Dubuque365/365ink Magazine WHERE’S WANDO 432 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 •Dubuque365.com • 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him? All contents © 2015, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. 2 TOC & INKWELl 365INK MAGAZINE OctoBER 8–OctoBER 21, 2015 ISSUE #249 DUBUQUE365.COM Well, it’s 75 degrees out and looks to tons of handy tools to help our readers maybe hit 80 on Sunday… October 11th. connect to their community through No complaints here. But it’s still not going 365—be it in print, online, through social to stop fall and then winter from coming. media on mobile devices. Work, if you And, as per usual, when fall comes, it’ll can call it that, is really fun again. probably last about a weekend, and then We’ve been having a crazy amount of we’ll skip right into winter. giveaways on Facebook the last couple A year ago today I was in pretty good of months. Saints hockey tickets are shape. I was running and healthy. Flash always a big draw, and we discovered ahead a year, I’ve been nursing a broken just how much people want to win Betty foot and a sprained ankle since July 1st, Jane caramel apples, too. But the crazy and the bad foot led to a bad back, and, one was just this week. We’re giving well, I’m basically a mess. When I try to away a lunch cruise for two on the Spirit get some exercise to start my rebound, of Dubuque, which is pretty sweet, but by body seems to rebel in very clear and you’d think we were giving away a trip determined ways. So that’s great. to Hawaii or something. More than 2,500 I’ve gotta start Toy For Tots season people shared the event and it was seen here pretty soon, and I can barely put my by 60,000 people in just a couple days. shoes on without hurting. So this is gonna Jeesh! That’s some serious traffic for be GREAT! If only it could start snowing our little Facebook page. If you’re on in early November and really screw Facebook and not a Dubuque365 fan yet, everything up. But we’re gonna put our get on it, my friend. You’re missing out on heads down and plow through it anyway. all the goodies. I can’t stay broken forever, so I guess my We also launched a new website a spirit just has to outlast my rebellious couple of weeks ago. I like it, and I think torso. Heat and ice… heat and ice… heat you will, too. It’s fast and a lot more info- and ice. All day breakfast at McDonald’s filled than the old one including many isn’t going to help things. more images and event details. We really I was able to provide books and toys wanted to narrow the focus to events; to some great events this week including what’s happening in Dubuque and the the Dubuque County Kids Expo through tri-states today and tomorrow. And that’s our friends at the Community Foundation what we got. It’s mobile-friendly and of Greater Dubuque as well as St. Mark’s super convenient. Check it out if you’ve Youth Enrichment who ran the kids’ not visited lately at Dubuque365.com. games at last weekend’s Chili Cook-Off. We have an app, too. You have Speaking of that, last Saturday we to nowadays, right? It’s even more made chili again for the Chili Cook-Off in streamlined for events and live music. Cable Car Square. It’s one thing I can sort No pictures or clutter here. It’s meant for of do with a bad back and bum foot. Plus, people who are already out and about since Dubuque365 was born at Chili Cook- and want to know what’s happening right Off on October 7, 2000, we feel like this now. That’s what it does. It features really event is kind of like coming home for us. fast, really simple lists of events and live And hey, we can make chili right in front music plus links to movie showtimes and of our office which is super convenient. more. All the stuff you need to continue Once again, we got rave reviews for having a good time without having to our 365 chipotle bacon cocoa chili. One sift through a website or even a copy of person from Chicago came over before 365ink. If you even find yourself wishing the craziness started to see that we were you had a concise text-only chronological there again and to ask if we were going to list of what’s happening right now, go get make the same chili as last year. So many our app. Just search for “365ink” in your people made their way to our little corner app store. (Not for iPad… you can just go of the world after hitting the main chili to the website.) n drag on 4th street as if to say that the best was saved for last. Apparently, chili judges don’t see things the same way. We didn’t win anything (I don’t think, I had to leave) but it’s still a good time. And I still make a mean pot of chili, even if it is the only time I make chili all year. Overall I’d have to say, despite being kicked in the butt by my own body, I’ve been very energized about 365 and what we’ve got cookin’ lately. Everything is really running great, and we’ve got DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #249 OctoBER 8–OctoBER 21, 2015 365INK MAGAZINE Inkubator 3 EVENTS DUBUQUE RIVER RIDES ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER CRUISES DAILY THROUGH OCTOBER 25 SPIRIT OF DUBUQUE, ICE HARBOR, DUBUQUE For the past 22 years Nancy and very special 4-hour Fall foliage cruises Captain Walt Webster have been from 10 AM–2 PM. Enjoy delicious home providing an entertaining experience style baked ham and boneless chicken to enjoy the beauty of the Mississippi breast with all the fixings. The gift show River on a nostalgic and authentic features 30–50% off everything in shop paddlewheel, the Spirit of Dubuque. in the final days of causing. But hurry, They invite you to board for one of the the last cruise of the season is October final cruises of the season, just as the 25. Tell Walt and Nancy 365ink sent ya! beautiful colors of fall spring to life. For more information They hose 2 Hour Historic Fall Lunch call 563-583-8093, email Cruises daily except for October 3, 7, [email protected] or book 10, 12, 14, 17 and 19, when they host online at DubuqueRiverRides.com. n AUTHOR AND SPEAKER LEON LOGOTHETIS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 @ 6:30 PM PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYMNASIUM (1151 WHITE ST) Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, Logothetis has visited more than 90 motivational speaker and philanthropist. countries and traveled to every continent. During his remarks, Logothetis will He is the host of the TV series “Amazing discuss kindness and the power of human Adventures of a Nobody,” which is connection. The author of “Amazing broadcast across the world by National Adventures of a Nobody” and his new Geographic International and, over the book “The Kindness Diaries,” this former course of three seasons, sees Leon cross broker in London chose a life on the America, the United Kingdom and Europe road in order to go from uninspired and on just 5 dollars, 5 pounds, and 5 euros a chronically depressed to finding inner joy. day, respectively. His new passion is “finding ways for your The event is open to the public and inner rebel (that voice that tells you, you admission is free. Doors open at 6 PM. are worth so much more than you think) For more information about the event, to come out and play.” contact Prescott Elementary School at 563-552-4200. n 4 EVENTs 365INK MAGAZINE OctoBER 8–OctoBER 21, 2015 ISSUE #249 DUBUQUE365.COM EVENTS ONGOING extensive room re-creations. titanic: the has been involved with bird conservation Artifact Exhibition, sponsored by Dubuque on the Upper Mississippi River for over 25 Monday Summer Farmers’ Market Bank & Trust, is accessible for just $5 on years and currently serves as the director of Mondays: Through Summer @ 3:30–6:30 PM top of a regular museum admission ($15 for Driftless Area Bird Conservation.