First, let me thank everyone for reading the heck and women here. We are a river town built on out of our last issue. We ran out of papers and millworking, meatpacking and building tractors. were robbing from Peter to pay Paul (and usu- Yes, we write software now and manage retire- ally Peter was out of papers too). It looks like the ment benefits, but just as we hold on to our ar- largest-circulation cultural publication in the Tri- chitectural past, I think we are all proud of our States needs to up the print order. Thank you! industial past as well. What I really wanted to ramble on about this I miss Diamond Jack’s. I remember a few years issue is Dubuque Night in Des Moines. What back, someone asking the 365 guys if we’d intro- is that? Well, each year a huge delegation of duce a guy around the room. We’ve been going Dubuque business people, from government rep- to Dubuque Night for a decade, I figure. Nobody resentatives and labor unions, to restauranteurs knew who he was, but he was apparently a gov- and civic organizations, descend upon the State ernor from the east coast and he was running Capital to ... well, to throw a party. It’s hosted for president. He was wearing a brown suit and by the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce. had not yet been “groomed” for TV, but Howard There’s always great food and music. Dubuque Dean soon proved much more than anyone ex- businesses display the pride of our community pected. That’s the kind of low-key power moves and celebrate the success of Dubuque. So who that happen under the wagon wheel lights with is the party for? Legislators. You know, senators, the Main Street Jazz band whipping out Dixie- state house representatives, governors and state land tunes from the balcony. Do you think there government personnel. Politicos from across the are any guys running for president in 2008 that entire state are invited to party with Dubuque. are interested in wooing a room full of legisla- Do they? Yeah! Wouldn’t you? tors and power brokers? Like I said, I miss Diamond Jack’s. Dubuque was the first city to do And based on the continuously this in Iowa and many have cop- dwindling number of legisla- ied the practice, but Dubuque’s tors at Dubuque Night in recent has long been the legendary years, so do they. granddaddy of them all. The one legislators look forward to Chamber of Commerce attending. It’s the fun one. 365 Guys with Asst. City Manager Cindy Steinhauser & Iowa Lt. Gover- to the rescue. nor Sally Pederson in 2003. For what seems like the history It has been announced that the of time, the party was held at Diamond Jack’s, event is moving back to Diamond Jack’s this year, an Old West saloon style structure on the Iowa on March 14, 6 p.m. (Yes, you are invited. Group State Fairgrounds campus. It was the perfect set- transportation available, call 563.557.9200) If ting for a relaxing, no-pressure mixer. A place this was Brendan Houlihan, the new Chamber where people could network and dialogue Gov. Affairs Dir.’s first official policy decision, without feeling like they were being lobbied. then they’ve picked the right man for the job. Because, for the most part, they weren’t. I can’t wait for the old energy to return and I think A bout three or four years ago, Dubuque de- it will. Senators loosening their neckties. House cided we were growing up and abandoned the pages and college interns loading up on free hot- Fairgrounds for much fancier fare at the Hilton dogs and talking politics. And the great people of ballroom. The food got upgraded. People were Dubuque being unabashed Dubuquers. drinking wine and the beer was actually in a glass made of glass. There were more profes- This party is not for us. It is for the decision-mak- sional display booths and everyone dressed up. ers across the rest of the state. It for them to meet A lot of work went into it and we looked top- us. And going home to Diamond Jack’s is the notch. The Chamber really did do a stellar job of smartest thing we can do to make them feel wel- making us look classy. But for me, it just didn’t come. I know some people disagree and think work. It was a bad idea. I’ve always said so. we’ve worked too hard to shed our old skin. But I’m pretty sure the state of Iowa has discovered We are Dubuque. We have incredible art and from Dubuque, as we continue to lead and theater and the best live music scene in the amaze other towns with our progress, that you whole state. But even with our beautiful wine can’t judge a book by its affinity for tap beer. bars and Starbucks coffee, I think we (mostly) all feel that we’re still a brats and beer town. Oh, yeah, and remember the code of the road: Er, should I say turkey and dressing and Busch What happens at Dubuque Night stays at Light. There’s a lot of blue-collar working men Dubuque Night. The 365ink crew... faces you already know! Tim Brechlin Mike Ironside Tanya Graves Ellen Goodmann Megan Gloss Ralph Kluseman Jim Heckmann Matt Booth Megan Dalsing Nick Klenske L.A. Hammer Chris Wand In This Issue of 365ink... February 22 - MarchISSUE 7, #2007 24 Joe Sent Me: 4 Community Events: 5 - 6 Arts & Culture: Defending the Caveman:7 D.A.W.G.: 9 Salsa’s Re-Opens: 10 Entertainment: 12-15 Budweiser Nightlife: 16& 17 18: Wando’s Movie Reviews Mayor Roy Buol: 20 Classifieds 365 Classifieds: 22 Cookin’ Something Up: 22 Mattitude: 23 Two By Two Animal Campus: 24 Dear Trixie: Dr. Skrap’s: 25 The A Factor: 26 Crossword / 365 Books: 27 Nick Klenske / Forbidden: 28 OTLAG Gallery Opening: 29 Comedy: 30 Life @ 365: 31 The Inkwell Publisher: Bryce Parks ([email protected]) Editor: Tim Brechlin ([email protected]) Advertising: Kelli Kerrigan ([email protected]) 563-451-9365 Poppy Comlon ([email protected]) 563-451-8365 Ad Design: Tanya Graves ([email protected]) Photography: Mike Ironside, Joey Wallis, Ron TIgges, Bryce Parks Writers & Content: Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin, Ellen Goodmann, Bryce Parks, L.A. Hammer, Chris Wand, Gary Olsen, Mayor Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Robert Gelms, Angela Koppes,, Megan Gloss, Nick Klenske Graphic Design & Layout: Bryce Parks, Mike Ironside, Tim Brechlin Special thank you to: Bob & Fran Parks, Kay Kluseman, Bob Johnson, Todd Locher, Dave Blake, Everett Buckardt, Julie Steffen, Sheila Castaneda, Tom Miller, Renae Gabrielson, Christy Monk, Katy Rosko, Ron & Jennifer Tigges and all the 365 friends and advertisers for all your support. You are all 365. Dubuque365 • 210 West 1st Street, Dubuque, IA, 52001 Office Phone or Music/Events/Movie Hotline 365 @(563) 588-4365 All contents (c) 2007, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. Roy Buol Gary Olsen Robert Gelms Brad Parks Angela Koppes Joey Wallis We’ve hidden 365’s WANDO somewhere in this issue of Dubuque365ink. Can you find the master of movies buried within these pages? Hint: He’s tiny and could be anywhere ! Good Luck! Win ners get a free warm fuzzy felling in your belly! - DON’T MAKE ME PUMP YOU FULL OF LEAD YELLOWBELLY! 4 FEB 22 - MARCH 7 Joe Sent Me ... Again here for the new one.” by Tim Brechlin The musical has a healthy blend of styles, with a lot of color and a lot of humor. “For the price of a ticket What else would you expect from a musi- if you’re in the know, cal with songs like “A Broad and a Fraud” you just knock three times and “Mr. C,” the story of Al Capone? and ask for Joe.” “C’s sentimental, that’s for sure. Just ask Bugs Moran. Believe it or not, there was a time, many C sent a message on Valentine’s Day moons ago, when even Dubuque was free that’s known throughout the land. of alcoholic concoctions, and it occurred even a few years before federal Prohibi- Bugs didn’t take delivery. Seven other tion began. Dubuque without booze ... fellas did. who’d have thunk it? Well, I guess no one Line up and reach your hands to the really did thunk it, since there were of ceiling: C sends his greetings!” course speakeasies and the like for peo- ple to consume that sinful liquid. It was “I believe that in a musical, the songs are a pretty interesting time, actually, with there to either drive the plot or further gangsters, outlaws, bootleggers and the develop the characters,” says Hemmer, like. So interesting, in fact, that back in espousing a belief that this writer agrees 1978, Paul Hemmer and Don and Lauret- with. (You hear that, Andrew Lloyd Web- ta Stribling got together and wrote a mu- ber?) “And as a result, with a show like sical about it, called Joe Sent Me. What’s this, you’re going to have a wide variety of the deal, you ask? It’s coming back. styles of songs.” These include such spec- tacles as the Gin Mill Jamboree, a Charles- “Wayne Norman had been doing a lot Hemmer, usually means umpteen differ- Joe Sent Me, an original musical comedy, ton-style number with costumes designed of research into the Prohibition era of ent things at once).