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Advertising [email protected] | 563-690-2043 issue #131 • march 31-april 13, 2011 { charlie daoud } Director of Operations 4 community briefs 16 live music listings 29 pam kress-dunn [email protected] 7 architecture days 22 u.d. spring arts 30 bob’s book reviews 10 musical theatre 23 sustainability challenge 31 library events { brad parks } 11 dso opera 24 argosy’s food review 31 eating healthy Community, Incorporated, C.E.O 12 celebrate you 26 pet corner 32 puzzles [email protected] 13 greendale 26 entertainment briefs 33 mayor roy buol 14 movies 27 dancing with the stars 34 trixie kitsch { matt booth } 15 central run pub crawl 28 mattitude 35 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: Jon Schmitz, Ralph Kluseman, Kay Kluseman, Chris Wand, Neil Stockel, Marty Raymon, Jay Olson, Ron Kirchhoff, Fran Parks, Christy Monk, Julie Steffen, Ron & Jennifer Tigges, bacon, Mark Dierker, Julie Griffin, Dave Haas, Tim Brechlin, Jeff Stiles, Gen. Bob Felderman and all the 365 friends and advertisers. { dubuque365 / 365ink } Where’s Wando? 401 Locust Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can dubuque365.com | 563-588-4365 you find the master of movies buried within these pages? All contents © 2011, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2 { march 17-30 } 365ink www.Dubuque365.com { bryce’s inkubator } spring means hot girls jogging in lycra... and chubby girls standing still in lycra. As part of the Sustainability Challenge last week- diet on a food base (grains), that until recently hu- end, hell froze over and I was up on a Saturday in mans have never lived on before, all you have to time to hit the Farmer’s Market and the bank be- do is follow the money. The movie made so much fore going to a 10 a.m. showing of the documen- sense that immediately changed my diet. I didn’t tary, “Bag It” at Mindframe Theaters. Luckily I had a go on some strict plan. I just lived by this guys phi- big sugar-free carmel frappé to keep me company losophy. I have dropped 14 pounds in less than for the movie. two weeks. And I’m furious at the medical com- munity for selling me on lies supported by big I’m kind of a documentary junkie. I watch a lot of dollars. You should watch it. It’s free on Netflix on them. I’ve made a few in the past as well. I always demand or on Hulu.com. enjoy learning something new. Usually that en- tails me learning to completely despise a whole So, we go to see “Bag It,” where I know a bunch of new group of people. While each movie focuses hippies are going to tell me to eliminate all plas- on a specific topic, in the end they really all have tic from my life and start investing in burlap sacks the same theme. I believe that theme to be: those and pottery. You may recall recently that a local in power will sacrifice their mothers to remain in group tried to get the city council to consider a power. And by power, that generally means money. ban on single use plastic bags in Dubuque. I re- member thinking that sounded not just a little Three weeks ago I finally got around to watching crazy, but impossible to ever really accomplish. The Cove. It made me pretty mad at cruel fishem- And mind you, my wife and I have recycling con- en and the corrupt local government officials who tainers in multiple rooms of the house, we always don’t just look the other way, but actively partici- take our own big bags to the grocery store, and pate in horrible things for personal benefit. One all that good stuff. But I still thought it was a of the documentaries that got me really torqued crackpot notion. An hour and a half later I was was Who Killed the Electric Car?, when big oil and ready to go get signatures and go back to the city the the big car companies conspired to essentially council. I had no idea the massive, and I mean bury progress, despite very passionate people MASSIVE, impact that single use “disposable” plas- working very hard to achieve it. It wasn’t about tic bags are having on the world. It’s frightening. not supporting the progress, but once again tak- Whole nations are banning their use and cities ing an active roll in stifling strides that would bet- across America are as well. Cities as big as San ter humanity as a whole. Francisco. They got rid of them and did not regis- ter one complaint to city hall upon enacting the I’ve recently lost 50 pounds, but I’m finding that band. And though the city is famous for hippies losing 51 pounds has been a real bitch. The oth- and progressive gays, they are also the home of er night while working late on the last issue of the 49ers and Nash Bridges and Karl Malden. 365ink, I watched a documentary called Fat Head. Essentially a former food writer had watched Mor- You’re running out of column space Bryce, get to gan Spurlock’s Super Size Me and saw it riddled the damn point, would you? Okay, here it is. One, with holes. So he made a documentary where I think we should all watch a lot less Dancing With he would go on a diet of fast food and not just the Stars and a lot more documentaries. You might lose weight, but get healthier. The first 30 minutes learn something that will change your life for the seems like a lot of him poking fun at Spurlock, better. And second, when you learn that thing but then it got into real science, interviews with from the movie, you don’t just have to chat about renowned doctors and scientists, and archival it at work the next day. You can do something footage of Senate hearings where it was shown about it. I may not get this city to stop using plastic how the current food pyramid and modern phi- grocery store bags, but I can stop me from doing it. losophy of a low fat diet with a bazillion servings When me becomes me and you and then us, that’s of wheat and grains makes you healthy. Essentially a lot of “me’s”. That’s when change happens. these doctors said that all cholesterol is good. It’s the source of the cholesterol that matters. Ap- Last weekend I saw Lisa Ling speak at Clarke Col- parently vegetable oil is satan’s candy. Fat is also lege. Like me, she’s not a vary religious person. great for you. Your brain is made of fat. You need She told a story about someone who witnessed fat to survive and thrive so when you starve your- an atrocity and asked how there can be a God in self of fat you are hurting yourself. The movie said a world where that happens. Why didn’t God do it a lot better. Watch it yourself before you start something about it? And the reply was, he did do sending me letters. I had been eating low calorie something about it, he made you. I’m still not sure meals like “they” tell you you should eat and I’ve about God, but it’s a heck a good point. Try out been running almost daily; two months after I lost a couple socially relevant documentaries and see 50 pounds I was back up ten. This documentary how they make you feel in your gut. Then act ac- explained, once again, that if you want to know cordingly. You might end up changing the world. why the government told the nation to base their You might even lose 14 pounds in two weeks. www.Dubuque365.com 365ink { march 17 - 30 } 3 { community briefs } if the eastern iowa outlaws show up at your door, it’s the best or worst day of your life. The Grand River Center is located at 500 Bell Street, just across from the Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque. Admission to the show is $3, with anyone 10 and under free. Parking is always free. Show hours are 9 AM to 4 PM. Live Healthy Iowa Day For additional information, call 563-652-4529. Graber Center, Loras College The Loras College Division of Physical Education and 2 Sport Studies is partnering APRIL up with the Iowa Sports Foundation to host Live Healthy Iowa Day. This event is designed to provide Opening Doors eastern Iowa families with current health 6th Annual Run and Walk information, short educational seminars Opening Doors hosts its 6th on healthy living, and the opportunity to Annual fundraising Run and engage in some fun physical activities, 9 Walk Saturday, April 9. Registra- as offered by Loras College students and APRIL tion begins at 8 a.m.