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Warning: If you’re sitting at, say, at Cafe Manna
Java reading this, finish your pizza before you
read this article. It’s not really lunch reading material.
I was in Minneapolis two weeks ago, visiting
the in-laws and taking in the Vatican Splendors
Exhibit at the Minnesota History Center. I think
maybe it was some kind of divine intervention
... nay, a divine smiting of me that started this
whole thing rolling. Someone holy must have
known that a heathen such as myself was roaming the halls looking at blessed relics and pope
stuff and they cursed me, or whatever it is that
the Catholic Church does. When I got back in
the car, I saw that my eye looked a little funny.
Little did I know that it was nothing compared to
what was coming.
Nothing changed for about five days, then on
Friday, it started to ache a bit. I started hot compresses and got some OTC-stye medicine, as I
self-diagnosed the problem. When I woke up
on Saturday morning, it looked like someone
punched me in the face with a big salty fist. Not
good. I had a gig that night with the band. So,
I go to acute care and a very cool doctor concurred with my diagnosis, though no stye had
reared its ugly head (literally) yet. He gave me a
prescription and I was on my way. I had trouble
getting my prescription filled with my new insurance card. I guess I didn’t exist in the system
yet. We’ve all been there. Eventually I asked if I
could just pay for it. It was $4. (Information that
would have been useful when I walked in the
door.) Anyway, I went home to begin the healing.
But the healing would not come until I first went
through three more days of getting worse.
I did play the gig. I felt completely fine but I did
not look it. A lot of people, including Aaron with
the bar, 180 Main, said, “Man, are you sure you’re
okay?” Needless to say, I got a lot of odd looks
all night from people who know me. I could see
them look at the stage and wave and smile, they
they got that look on their face like they were
seeing a Picasso for the first time and they make
tracks for other friends to ask, “Who hit Bryce
in the face?” So I just took to reacting to those
looks with “You should see the other guy.” Also,
Aaron, while running the sound, did talk to me
through the on-stage monitors with a pirate voice
all night. It’s amazing how completely plaguelike it can look on the outside and still not really
cause you that much pain.
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thing in the basement causes an allergic reaction
in me and I start rubbing my eyes. I must have
rubbed with dirty hands. But Jon at the office
contends that someone farted on my pillow. They
say to just keep warm compresses on it and it will
eventually go away on its own. Don’t pop them.
Yes, I know, gross! It gets worse. No one said
what to do if they start to drain on their own. I
can’t really explain how completely foul in looks
when you essentially have zit goo oozing into
your eye. So screw WebMD, this thing is getting
squeezed. But already, I see that I am in trouble,
because this thing is on the bottom lid and the
top lid is just as puffy. It was quite disturbing
exactly how much stuff came out of that thing.
Not to mention, it is in no way easy or pleasant to squeeze such a thing when it is IN YOUR
EYE! Then next morning, there were clearly five,
count them five, independent styes in that eye.
ARE you kidding me? I, as the church would say,
“excommunicated” them all and flushed it out.
I repeated this every few hours while the truly
nasty condition continued. Thankfully, the other
eye was always good to go.
While this was happening, I still had to live my
life. I went to the store, I had a dinner with clients, I shoveled snow. People who didn’t know
me and saw me walk by probably wondered who
let Quasimodo out of the tower. Those who did
know me were very nice to be concerned but not
act too queasy in my presence. I especially thank
the good people of Keokuk, who put up with it for
a couple hours in close quarters. My eye looked
like Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, but, unfortunately, did not also come with the ability to
shoot lightning from my fingertips. Mike Ironside
thought we should sell admission to look at it.
And, of course, I’m a graphic designer when not
a one-eyed pirated rock and roller. So having an
eye completely swollen shut and the size of a
tennis ball didn’t make that any easier. But deadlines are deadlines, and a few clients got some
fine one-eyed magic. I also learned not to ask Tim
to throw me a bottle of Ibuprofen from across the
room. Aside from him throwing a fastball, I forgot
that one eye means no depth perception. Oops.
So I could still design stuff, but I was not going
to be shooting free throws or threading needles
anytime soon.
I don’t wear glasses or contacts so I’ve never really had a need to be able to stick my finger in
my eye. But between rubbing the gooey medicine in my eye, and doing the unspeakable pus
control, I’ve become an old hand at this thing.
Not that I wanted it to last forever. I’m very happy
to report that just a week after it started, I am almost completely back to normal. Quasimodo is
back in the belfry and I’m doing my best to stop
from rubbing my eyes when the basement spews
its toxic air.
The moral of this story is don’t wait for your eye
But by Sunday, my eye was starting to become
to explode before starting to treat it. Or else,
less than comfortable. A stye, in layman’s terms,
make sure no one farts on your pillow.
is pretty much a zit inside your eyelid. Something
gets in your eye and causes an infection. In my
I told you not to read this over lunch!
case, I think it was my office. Sometimes some-
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Issue #74
JAN. 22 - FEB. 4
Publisher: Bryce Parks
([email protected])
In this Issue:
Sustainability Dubuque:
Editor: Tim Brechlin
([email protected])
Meet Sheila Samuelson
4
Community Shorts
5
Ice Fest
Japanese Temari Balls
Great River Film Initiative
Harlem Globetrotters
Bowling for Hospice
Thunderbirds Hockey
365 Pop Quiz
6
Rock of Love Bus Tour
6
Alliant Sustainability
180 Main Live Music
6
7
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra Gala 8
180 Main Music Continued
9
Sustaining Rivers & Streams
10
Pam Kress-Dunn
11
Wando’s Movies
12
The Impact Awards
13
Mindframe Movie Listings
13
Five
14
Flags
Events
Galore
Sustainability through Re-Use 15
Budweiser Live Music
Isabella’s Live Music
16
18
Silver Dollar Live Music
19
Mayor Roy Buol
20
Four Guyz in Dinner Jackets
20
Silver Dollar Music Continued
21
Midwest Concerts
21
Tri-State Recurring Nightlife
21
Bob’s Book Reviews
22
Mattitude
23
LifeStiles
24
Eating Healthy w/ Hy-Vee
25
Crosswords & Puzzles
27
Trixie Kitsch
28
Dr. Skrap’s Horoscopes
28
Puzzle / Pop Quiz Answers
28
Sheila Samuelson Continued
29
Tri-State Comedy / Funnies
30
180 Main Music Continued
31
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Writers & Content:
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Tim Brechlin, Bryce Parks, L.A.
Hammer, Chris Wand, Mayor
Roy Buol, Matt Booth, Robert
Gelms, Angela Koppes,
Pam Kress-Dunn, Jeff Stiles,
Megan Dalsing and Pat Fisher.
Designers:
Tanya Tjarks
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Kristina Nesteby
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Bryce, Tim & Mike
Photography:
Mike Ironside, Ron Tigges,
Bryce Parks
Layout:
Tim Brechlin, Bryce Parks
Director of Operations:
Dan Chapman
Community, Incorporated
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Special thank you to:
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
Being the progressive city that it is,
Dubuque recently announced the appointment of Sheila Samuelson (pictured
on our cover) to the new position of Sustainable Community Coordinator. In the
new role, Samuelson will be responsible
for “developing, implementing and maintaining the City’s sustainability plan and
programs.” Her first day on the job was
Monday, January 19, so 365 sat down
with Samuelson and Dubuque City Manager Michael Van Milligen on her second
day on the job, to learn more about her
and the new position.
“Well, I’ve learned how to use a PC!”
Samuelson joked when asked what she’s
learned so far. “I’m definitely a Mac user,”
she reported, immediately endearing her
to 365’s Mac-centric office. “I’m learning
a lot about different technologies right
now.”
All kidding aside, with the understanding that the Sustainable Community Coordinator will have to serve as a liaison
between various departments of the City,
neighborhood groups, businesses and
agencies, we asked how she might approach the task of defining the new role.
“There’s been a lot of work done already,
by the City and the Sustainability Task
Force,” she answered. “The City is already
doing a lot of stuff so I think I’ll take my
guidance in a lot of ways from what has
already been done. I’ll have to go with
the flow and obviously push things along
and research new technologies, but as far
as defining the position, I think that will
kind of happen over time.”
Van Milligen agrees. “I think her response
is very good. We’ve had this Task Force
doing their work and they’ve submitted
information to the Council, which the
Council has received very favorably, helping create the mission and the definition
– the elements of our sustainability initiative. So now it’s going to become more
of the implementation (phase), which
Sheila will help with, but of course that’s
really a community activity. There’re different elements of the community, like
residential, commercial, and developers,
and business people, and just all different
kinds of places where sustainability can
have an impact and Sheila’s job will be to
help identify those, and be a resource and
sometimes be somebody who is making
it happen, and sometimes somebody that
is just helping it happen.”
When asked if there are any particular areas he might identify that could use more
work in making our city “greener,” the
City Manager’s reply served to expand
the definition of sustainability beyond the
more obvious environmental issues.
“Well, you have to remember our (idea
of) ‘sustainability’ goes beyond the concept of ‘green,’” Van Milligen explained.
“It’s the three-legged stool – the economic prosperity, the environmental and ecological integrity, and social and cultural
vibrancy. So she’s going to have to have a
touch in each one of them.”
Originally from Oelwein, Iowa, Samuelson earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the University of
Iowa and attended the Presidio School
of Management in San Francisco where
she earned an MBA in sustainable management, but her interest in sustainability
has much deeper roots.
“I’ve been very passionate about specifically the environment for as long as I can
remember, since I was a very little girl,”
explained Samuelson. “That passion followed me through my high school years,
my college years – my undergraduate
years. It was after I graduated from the
University of Iowa with a degree in biology that it really dawned on me that this
love of the environment can be translated through other areas and business
was the area that really spoke to me. I
looked around the community of Iowa
City and saw many opportunities for
making the community’s environment a
better place to live, or a better place in
general through business opportunities.
But because my education was strictly
in the sciences, I felt I didn’t really have
the background, I didn’t have the understanding of business, I couldn’t speak the
language of business or economics.”
Continued on Page 29.
THAT TEMARI BALL LOOKS LIKE A HACKY SACK
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
NOW
Dubuque
Thunderbirds
ketball, Cross Country Skiing, Dodgeball,
Fitness Walk, Youth Ice Hockey, Indoor
Soccer, 5K Road Race, Swimming, Table
Tennis, and Volleyball. Visit iowagames.
org for more information.
JAN
25
FEB
3
Japanese Temari Balls:
An Ancient Craft
making your own ball. The requested offering is $40, which includes class, materials and lunch. Register/prepay by Thursday, Jan. 29. For more information, call
Shalom at 563-582-3592.
FEB
7
Cumulus / Milroy’s
Tuxedo Bridal Show
Great River Film Initiative General Meeting
Another Bridal Show is on the way, this
one set for Sunday at the Dubuque County Fairgrounds ballroom. Sponsored by
Cumulus Broadcasting and Milroy’s Tuxedo’s. Doors open at 10 a.m. with shows
at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Just a reminder that the Dubuque Thunderbirds, the 2008 Hurster Cup CSHL Champions, are back in action on home ice in
JAN
the Five Flags Arena! After a long road trip,
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4-25
upcoming home games are on the schedule! Tickets are available at the Five Flags
Box Office, at all Ticketmaster outlets and
online at www.ticketmaster.com. Rembember, admission is only $7.50 for reserved
seating, and $6.50 for bleachers! For more
information, visit www.dubuquethunderbirds.com. And don’t forget that the CSHL
Hurster Cup playoffs are going to be coming up soon, and the Thunderbirds will
be thick in the mix. Stay tuned to 365ink
for more Thunderbirds information! Also,
don’t forget about all of the great discounts
available for students. No better time to get
into hockey like right now!
JAN
24
Knicker’s Bowling for
Hospice of Dubuque
Don’t forget January 24 for the annual
Bowling for Hospice of Dubuque! Knicker’s Bowling for Hospice will be held
Saturday, January 24, at the Diamond
Jo’s new Cherry Lanes. Check-in starts
at 12 p.m. and bowling will begin at 1
p.m. The cost is $20 per couple. Sign up
at Courtside, Knicker’s, P.J.’s or Hammerheads to join in the fun! An after bowling
party will be held at Knicker’s along with
food provided by Houlihan’s and music
by Mobile Moosic. Admission charged.
For more information, call 563.582.1220
or visit www.hospiceofdubuque.org
JAN
23-25
The Final Weekend of
Ice Fest at NMRM&A
The Annual Iowa Winter Games
In 2008, the Winter Iowa Games broke a
participation record with 3,805 athletes,
including 232 teams. This year will be
even bigger! Events include Youth Bas-
Since a three-week festival like IceFest
needs to be closed out in style (otherwise, it just wouldn’t be Dubuque!), the
final weekend, January 24 - 25, will be
packed with fun. Saturday, January 24,
will feature the CASI-sanctioned Chill
Out Chili Cook-Off, with professional
chili masters beginning to craft their masterpieces at noon, with a public tasting
at 4 p.m. Beer, wine and cheese will also
be served at the tasting, which ensures
that all of the necessary ingredients for
warming up in the winter weather will be
present. The Dubuque Fire & Rescue Department will be on hand as well, demonstrating open-water rescue techniques
-- plus much more winter fun!
It all draws to a close on Sunday, January
25, with KWWL meteorologist Jeff Kennedy presenting a winter weather workshop,
the final day of professional snow sculpting and arctic bowling, as well as public
snow sculpting, painting and sliding.
All in all, IceFest represents some of the
best family-friendly activities you can find
during the winter months. As always, the
festivities run from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily,
and admission to IceFest includes an allday admission to the National Mississippi
River Museum & Aquarium.
On February 3, visit Shalom Retreat Center on 1001 Davis St. in Dubuque for a
great day of craft-making! From 9 a.m.
– 2 p.m., under the tutelate of instructor Geri Eitter, come to learn a beautiful
new craft of making temari balls! The art
of temari began as a simple needlework
craft, making a mari ball for play. Today
the lovely thread-wrapped, Japanese embroidered temari balls are given as tokens
of good luck. A stitched temari ball on a
stand is displayed and enjoyed as a striking example of Japanese embroidery. The
creating of this unique Oriental folk art is
spreading all over the world. By the end
of the day you will have a good start at
Hey, you! Yeah, you aspiring filmmaker /
actor / producer! Tired of looking for local ways to get involved in the wild, crazy
and mystical field of filmmaking? We’ve
got just the event for you on Saturday,
February 7: The next general membership
meeting of the newly formed Great River
Film Initiative! The meeting, which is free
and open to the public, is aimed at bringing together those who are already making films with those who are interested
in getting involved with just that sort of
thing! This is a great networking opportunity for all involved. The meeting will be
held at 10 a.m. at Mindframe Theaters,
behind Kennedy Mall. For more information, call 563-451-7914.
365INK: WE’RE TOTALLY HOTTER THAN BRET MICHAELS, MAN
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
FEB
6
Bret Michaels’ Rock of Love Tour
Sunday nights will never be the same
again as Bret Michaels and the Rock of
Love Bus make history one city at a time,
by taking his hit reality series on the road
-- starting in Dubuque!
Voted by US Magazine as the numberone guilty pleasure show, Michaels beats
the third season curse that has claimed
other reality dating shows by keeping it
unpredictable and fresh and taking his
series out of the tiresome “McMansion”
formula and on the road.
The “Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels”
rolls into homes across America with a
hot new cast and never before seen challenges from truck stop Olympics, rock
and roll daddy daycare, baby Bret ice
hockey and if you thought Mud Bowl
1 and 2 were out of control, wait till
you see Mud Bowl 3!
There is also, of course, the sexy
dance off, the backstage labor of love
and the girls getting down and dirty as
each one strives to stand out among
the rest. Michaels will tour for the majority of 2009 with dates kicking off
Friday, February 6, at the Diamond Jo
Casino’s Mississippi Moon Bar. Tickets are $30, $40 and $75 each and
are on sale now at www.diamondjo.
com, and at the Diamond Jo’s Players
Club. For more information on this
and other great Diamond Jo Casino
entertainment, visit www.diamondjo.
com! Who knows -- maybe you’ll find
love with Bret Michaels! Nah ... probably not.
NOW
Alliant Energy Sustainability News
We couldn’t run a cover about sustainability in the Tri-States without talking
about ways to promote sustainability at
home, could we? Surely not!
As it turns out, Alliant Energy offers a free
do-it-yourself energy auditing service,
aimed at eliminating energy wasters in
your home. Given that we’re still in the
throes of winter, that can never be a bad
thing, right? Visit www.alliantenergy.com
for more information on how to do the
check-up in your home.
For those in Wisconsin, Alliant has also
announced the Focus on Energy Business
Programs, which help Wisconsin businesses, industries, farms, schools and local governments identify and install energy and cost-saving efficiency measures.
Focus on Energy teams up with trade
allies around the state to offer energyefficient equipment and services to Alliant customers. In the agricultural sector,
farmers and agricultural processors work
with energy experts to reduce energy, increase profits and maintain animal comfort and productivity.
In the commercial sector, small and large
commercial business owners can learn to
improve the energy efficiency of their facilities. Focus on Energy also works with
retail stores to provide instant incentives
on ENERGY STAR lighting and appliances.
Businesses may also qualify for a free
Hometown Energy Audit. Alliant also offers incentives on a wide range of different types of energy-efficient equipment.
Owners and managers of industrial manufacturing facilities of all sizes work with
experts to reduce energy use, increase
profitability and enhance productivity and cost effectiveness. We work with
manufacturers to improve both existing
facilities and construct more efficient
new ones.
Focus on Energy also offers incentives to
reduce the cost of efficient new lights,
motors and other types of equipment.
With rising energy costs seemingly
around every corner, it’s important to do
what you can to save!
Answers on page 28
1. Who was the only bachelor to lead
our nation?
A. Woodrow Wilson B. Andrew Jackson
C. James Buchanan D. Bill Clinton
2. How many president were assassinated in office?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3 D. 4
3. How many presidents were born as
British Subjects?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
4. The most common religious affiliation among presidents is?
A. Episcopalian B. Presbyterian
C. Catholic
D. Secret Muslim
5. Who is the only president NOT born
in the continental United States?
A. George Washington
B. John Adams
C. James Madison
D. Barack Obama
6. Obama is the 44th President, but
only 43 men have served. Who served
two non-consecutive terms?
A. Grover Cleveland
B. Rutherford B. Hayes
C. William Howard Taft
D. James K. Polk
7. For two years, America was run by
both a President and Vice President
who were not elected by the people.
Who was that vice president?
A. Andrew Johnson
B. Spiro Agnew
C. Nelson Rockefeller
D. Walter Mondale
8. What president had 15 children?
A. Bill Clinton
B. Chester Arthur
C. Rutherford B. Hayes
D. John Tyler
9. How many Presidents died on the
4th of July?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
10. How many presidents died in office?
JUKE JOINT DUO? SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING ON URBAN DICTIONARY
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
– bands his earlier work undoubtedly
influenced. This 180 Main show will
provide a rare opportunity to see a performance by this legendary artist.
by Mike Ironside
Hopefully, you’re reading this in time to
get to either the PW Long show, the Juke
Joint Duo or both. If you’re too late, you
probably missed some good shows but
don’t sweat it. There’s more good stuff
on tap for the rest of January and into
February and then some. Just get out
there and soak up some of that real live
music. It’s good for you.
PW Long
Thursday, January 22
This just in: 180 Main has scored a performance date with legendary singer/
songwriter PW Long – Thursday, January
22. Usually, we try to give our readers
advanced warning for a performer of
this magnitude, but this date has been
a moving target and 180 Main just recently nailed it down. Known for his
work in bands like Wig, Mule, and PW
Long’s Reelfoot as much as his solo writing and recording of recent years, Long
has created a back catalog and legacy
that has had a major influence on musicians from his indie peers to alternative acts that have crossed over to mainstream success. Mining the traditions of
American roots music, Long has crafted
his own style that incorporates elements
of blues, country, and roots rock with a
raw edge that stomped and howled on
his earlier ensemble work and has settled into a more acoustic groove in his
recent solo work that ranges from tender
ballads to rowdy rockers. Now based in
Texas, Long released his fourth solo record God Bless The Drunkard’s Dog last
year, drawing comparisons to the Black
Keys and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Juke Joint Duo
(Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm)
Friday, January 23
The raw roots/blues continues into Friday with a performance by the Juke Joint
Duo. Juke Joint Duo is the pairing of
drummer Cedric Burnside, grandson
of the legendary R.L. Burnside and son
of drummer Calvin Jackson, and guitar player Lightnin’ Malcolm. Cedric
grew up around Holly Springs, Mississippi, listening to and jamming with his
famous grandfather who he refers to as
“Big Daddy.” He began touring when
he was just 13, playing drums for R.L.
and later, notable performers like Junior
Kimbrough, Kenny Brown, North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside Exploration,
Bobby Rush and Widespread Panic.
Some might remember Burnside from
his appearance in the 2006 film Black
Snake Moan, playing drums alongside
Samuel L. Jackson.
Lightnin’ Malcolm grew up in rural Missouri not far from the railroad line that
runs between Kansas City and New Orleans. First hearing Muddy Waters when
he was seven or eight, he vowed to try
to learn the raw, country-turned-electric
style of the blues master. Not only a
great guitar player, but a talented drummer and bass player as well, Malcolm
has played and recorded with a variety
of blues greats including Hubert Sumlin,
Jessie Mae Hemphill, T Model Ford, Jr.
Kimbrough, Big Jack Johnson, and R.L.
Burnside, himself. Together as Juke
Joint Duo, Cedric and Malcolm not only
channel the traditional North Mississippi hill-country style, but infuse it with a
more modern groove, drawing influence
from funk and hip-hop to create an
GREAT FOOD, GREAT MUSIC, DONATE TO THE SYMPHONY -- A GREAT COMBO!
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
JAN
30
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra Gala
Make your reservations now for the
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra’s annual
gala celebration! Scheduled for Friday,
January 30, at Dubuque’s Grand River
Center, the Gala serves as not only one
of the Symphony’s biggest fundraising
events of the year ... but also as a great
opportunity to sample some delicious
food and hear some great music, too! In
addition to a menu that is set to feature
filet mignon and saltimbocca en croute,
this year’s Gala will feature the music of
featured guest artist Oleta Adams.
Since the runaway success of her 1990
debut album Circle of One (which went
platinum), and the impassioned hit single
“Get Here” (the Brenda Russell composition that became an unofficial anthem of
the 1991 Gulf War),Adams has inspired
a growing legion of fans in the U.S. and
Europe with songs that draw deeply from
her roots in gospel, while crossing into
the realms of soul, R&B, urban, and
popular music. Her success, nurtured
by worldwide tours with Tears for Fears,
Phil Collins, Michael Bolton and Luther
Vandross, has been solidified by three
Grammy nominations and a seemingly
bottomless well of creative energy.
A long-time resident of Kansas City, Kansas, Adams first demonstrated her budding vocal gifts in the Pilgrim Rest Baptist
Church where her father served as minister. By the time Oleta was eleven, she
was directing and accompanying four
choirs, having already established herself
as a piano prodigy.
Turning down the chance to pursue an
operatic career as a lyric soprano, along
with a scholarship to Pacific Lutheran
University, Oleta instead spent a summer
in Europe before heading to Los Angeles in the early 1970s. One demo tape
and $5,000 later, she discovered that the
disco movement had deafened music executives. Oleta’s gospel-flavored voice
was not “in.” With the help of her coach,
she wound up in Kansas City, where she
launched her career playing piano bars,
hotel lounges and showrooms. Now, she
is a rising beacon in the business.
Admission to the Dubuque Symphony
Orchestra Gala is $110, which includes a
$55 tax-deductible donation to the Symphony. The event is black-tie optional. For
more information, call 563-557-1677, or
visit dubuquesymphony.org.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ASHAMED TO SEE THE SHAME TRAIN. THEY ROCK.
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
180 Main Live Music
Continued from Page 7.
authentic foot-stomping sound as raw and
real as it gets.
Shame Train
Saturday, January 24
Shame Train, the Iowa City band featuring
singer/songwriter Sam Knutson, returns to
180 Main Saturday, January 24 to make up
a December date that was cancelled due
to a crazy amount of snow that fell that
day. In a city with more than its fair share
of great songwriters and players, the work
of Shame Train’s Knutson is perhaps one
of Iowa City’s best-kept secrets – at least
in the alt.country universe where acts like
Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Son Volt
and Wilco reign. One listen to Knutson’s
strong songwriting and signature baritone
– not to mention the always spot-on performances by the revolving cast of Shame
Train players might leave listeners wondering why Sam and the band have not
yet been signed to an indie label. Better yet, buy his CDs and he won’t need
a label.
BlackBloom, Daylight Savings Account
Friday, January 30
180 Main has long been a supporter of
local indie bands that write and perform
original music. The Friday, January 30
show is yet another great example of that
with performances by BlackBloom and
Daylight Savings Account. The possible
addition of Milwaukee band Jambox was
unconfirmed as of press time. But we do
know that Nick, Scott, Bobby, Brandon,
and Kurt will be bringing BlackBloom’s
signature mix that melds influences both
classic and modern into their psychedelic-tinged indie rock. Daylight Savings
Account’s original rock also draws on a
variety of influences from classic hard
rock, prog-rock, and psychedelia to more
modern strains of indie rock. Like BlackBloom, DSA avoids channeling any one
genre as young bands sometimes do, instead integrating their various influences
into a layered, complex sound that is their
own. These are two young local bands
unafraid to pour their passion into a sound
that is their own.
Lucho Rey Y Su Salsera
A fitting finish to the long, cold month of
January, Lucho Rey Y Su Salsera return to
180 Main to heat up the dance floor. After some time off, Columbian saxophone
virtuoso and band leader Eduardo (Lucho
Rey) and the band are back together and
ready to hit the high notes on the their signature style of salsa, merengue, and cumbia. While the dance floor at 180 might
not be the biggest, this performance provides a great opportunity for Latin dance
fans or those who’ve been taking dance
lesson to cut loose to a truly great dance
band. While a shot of tequila or a bottle of
Corona is not required for the full experience ... hey, it could never hurt, right?
MS4 SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT NAME FOR A BAND
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
and parking areas which carry stormwater
and other pollutants. So the water tends to
runoff rather than infiltrate and renew our
ground water. When the water runs along
the ground and builds velocity, you get
sediment -- which is the number-one cause
of water pollution -- coming into the water.
Eventually that gets into our streams, rivers and eventually out into the ocean. This
leads to fish kills and poor habitats for wildlife. That’s what this sort of work is about.”
Sustainability comes in many different
shapes, sizes and forms. One such form is
the work being done by the City of Dubuque
with regards to low-impact development,
construction-site practices of that nature
and an overall effort towards environmental stewardship. 365 talked to Dean Mattoon, with the City Engineering Office, to
talk about just that sort of thing.
“It all goes back to the EPA’s Clean Water
Act of 1972,” says Mattoon. “The drive
began then to look at pollution and what
could be done and in the ‘90s began to
address the problem with stormwater quality. From there, it seems that it has evolved
somewhat into ‘going green’ and ‘sustainability’.”
In Dubuque, that has to do with the City’s
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System
permit ... or, as it’s known in the business,
an MS4 permit. Dubuque, which is in the
last year of its current five-year permit cycle, requires such a permit from the Iowa
Department of Natural Resources for the
management of its stormwater. The permit
allows the city to discharge it’s stormwater
into local streams and rivers.
Now, while we all hear quite a bit about
concepts such as “going green,” “adaptive
re-use” and the like, we don’t seem to hear
a whole lot about stormwater management
as part of sustainability. As it turns out, it’s a
huge part of it.
“Let me put it this way -- in the summer,
when there’s even a small rain, you see
all the streams rise by three or four feet,”
says Mattoon. “It hasn’t always been like
that. But it happens now because all of the
ground that is compacted from development, along with impervious streets, roofs,
As one such example of work being done
in Dubuque, Mattoon points out, is work
being done with the North Fork Trails Subdivision.
“What the developer is working on there
is, essentially, to erase the stormwater,” he
explains. “By using strategies like porous
pavement, rain gardens, or other practices,
they can improve water quality by reducing the amount of pollutants getting into the
North Fork of Catfish Creek.”
Mattoon also notes that other work being
done around the city includes water quality
testing in local streams. The city is also working through a watershed assessment, which
includes physical, biological, and chemical
testing. Trash, fallen trees and obstructions,
bank stability and many other things are
gathered in the assessment. The city is also
beginning programs with Dubuque-area
schools, as part of the MS4 permit, in hopes
of educating students about the importance
of water preservation.”
As part of all of this, the City is co-sponsoring the 2nd annual “Put a ‘LID’ on It” conference with the Dubuque County SWCD,
ECIA, Durrant, Sustainable Land Development International, and the IDNR. The
two-day workshop is aimed at providing
information regarding low-impact development (hence the “LID”). Low-impact development is the culmination of the concepts
discussed earlier, with the ultimate goal of
managing rainfall. Rather than disposing of
stormwater run-off, the idea is to address it
and manage it, and do so in a cost-effective
fashion.
The workshop, scheduled for March 3 - 4 at
the Grand River Center, will analyze a number of different topics, including preventing
stormwater pollution, Dubuque’s stormwater policies, bio-retention systems (like rain
gardens), the aforementioned stream water
quality assessments and much more. While
you might think that we’re telling you about
this a little early, registration is due by February 20, and is $30 for 1 day and $50 for 2
days. The cost includes a continental breakfast, lunch, several keynote speakers, and a
vendor display area. For a full schedule of
events and for registration info, visit www.
dubuqueswcd.org, or call 563-876-3418,
extension 3. You can also register online at
www.ldbreakthroughs.com
TIM TRACKS HIS SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM VANILLA COKE
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GIVING VOICE •PAM KRESS-DUNN
Six Degrees from Someone Famous
Do you remember the game called Six
Degrees of Separation? Wikipedia defines it as “the idea that, if a person is
one step away from each person they
know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people
they know, then everyone is no more
than six ‘steps’ away from each person
on Earth.”
It started out as a fun way of connecting celebrities. “Six Degrees of Kevin
Bacon” says that every actor is linked to
each other through his or her film roles.
(Bacon, to his credit, started a charity
based on the idea.) The whole point is
that it’s a small world, and we’re all connected.
While this is fun on paper, it doesn’t
necessarily work in any useful way. If
I’m lucky enough to spy Robert Redford,
one of my early crushes, on the street
and shout to him, “Hey, we’re closer
than you think!” he is likely to a) ignore
me, b), sprint away, or 3) call the cops. (I
did actually speak to Redford once, but
that’s a story for another time, and not all
that interesting.)
Still, it’s a nice thought. You never know
when a famous person is going to come
into your life. This happened to me once
in a very unexpected way. But first I have
to tell you a little bit about my first husband’s family.
I came from a small family, but this man
had two brothers and a sister. They all
lived so far away from each other, we
rarely saw them. It seemed like the opposite of the small world theory, as these
people appeared to be trying to put as
much distance as they could between
each other.
Sometimes there are innocent reasons
for such dispersals in families. Jobs
beckon, opportunity knocks, and it isn’t
always next door. Other times, it’s a sign
of something darker. In their case, I lay it
at the feet of my mother-in-law, an alcoholic extraordinaire whom no one could
bear to be around for long. (My fatherin-law was no cupcake, either.)
That’s my reasoning, anyway. I think
that’s why the older brother, who is not
an alcoholic, moved to Canada. I think
that’s why the younger brother, who is
not an alcoholic, moved to California.
And I think that’s why the daughter, who
is not an alcoholic, moved to Puerto
Rico.
As for me and my husband, we moved
to Colorado. He had gone there already to take a job near his only aunt
and uncle. His father was an only child,
and his mother had just one sister. Nothing wrong with that, but this aunt was
an alcoholic, too. For the longest time,
I didn’t know that. All I knew was that
we had some relatives nearby, complete
with three nieces, and it was a comfort,
since we were so far from my own family.
After things got bad and we divorced and
I started my life over again in Iowa, I figured I would never see any of those people again. My kids, I thought, would be
lucky to get even a birthday or Christmas
card, and those were indeed few and far
between. Blood is thicker than water, I
guess, though the way I saw it, they were
that family’s grandchildren and cousins
just as much as the others. But they had
the taint of me, the awful woman who
ruined their middle son’s life.
Sixteen years after the divorce was final,
I got a phone call that would force us
back to that family, at least momentarily.
My kids’ father had died. Like his mother, he was an alcoholic. He died in his
sleep, at the home of his aunt and uncle,
who had moved back to Iowa. A funeral was planned in Iowa City, and even
though my kids were over 18, there was
no way I was letting them go alone.
So we went, and it was about as bad
as you can imagine. We sat around a
room at the funeral home, where a priest
may or may not have said some words;
I honestly can’t remember. Then some
of them got up and spoke. The moment
that blew me away was when Jennifer,
the oldest cousin, talked about how
much she loved C. and how vividly she
remembered the day we showed up on
his motorcycle, fresh from our first ride
together in the mountains.
Jennifer and I got to know each other a
little that afternoon, talking and eating
after the funeral. Her mother said we
looked alike, and we agreed. It turned
out we both wrote poetry, too. Not long
after, we started corresponding by email,
making plans to get together if I ever
came back to Colorado for a visit.
Then she told me who her father-in-law
was: Hunter S. Thompson, the “gonzo”
journalist who chronicled the Hell’s Angels and Las Vegas and the insanity of
American politics. He was big-time famous. Johnny Depp played him in the
movie “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,”
after all.
I never met Juan, Jennifer’s husband and
Hunter’s only child. Jennifer’s emails
dropped off after awhile and then
stopped altogether. Maybe Hunter’s famous paranoia rubbed off on her; I’ll
never know. When he killed himself in
February 2005, I sent a note to Jennifer’s mother, who said she would pass it
along. Jen’s own father died soon after,
and her mom moved to Colorado and
we lost touch, too.
I watched “Gonzo,” the documentary
about Hunter’s life, the other day. In the
film, this is what Juan has to say about
the day his father put a gun to his own
head: “It was a sunny afternoon in winter; it was just a very peaceful time. His
family was there and he decided, okay,
this was a good time to go out. It sounds
kind of sappy, but it was a warm family
moment.”
Sounds weird, but not for the son of
somebody like Hunter S. Thompson.
Still, I wish I could talk to Juan and Jennifer about all they’ve been through. Juan
was only on screen for a few moments,
but it was good to see him at last. We
remain two degrees apart. Close enough
for me to care about him, but not, I’m
afraid, close enough to be family.
Pam Kress-Dunn
[email protected]
SERIOUSLY, WHEN WILL THEY STOP MAKING SEQUELS TO UNDERWORLD
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OPENING DURING THIS ISSUE
Gran Torino - A Film by Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven)
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) has just lost his wife and
now spends his days avoiding his two sons and their families, and taking care of his house and his prize possession,
a 1972 Gran Torino. Walt lives in an old neighborhood
that has transitioned from a predominantly Caucasian
neighborhood to one of a mix of minority families, many
of whose traditions seem idiotic and strange to the former Ford plant assembly line worker. As Walt struggles
to get on with his life alone, the teenage boy next door
(Bee Vang as Thao) is being harassed by a local gang lead
by his cousin to join them
in a life of crime and intimidation. After Walt
unwittingly saves Thao
from being dragged off by
the gang, Thao’s sister Sue
(Ahney Her) befriends
Walt and his attitude toward his new neighbors
begins to change. All the
while, Father Janovich
(Christopher Carley) attempts repeatedly to get
Walt to go to confession
as a last request of Walt’s
deceased wife. With his tough, ex-military personality,
Walt makes it his mission to protect Thao and Sue and get
these gang members out of their lives.
Gran Torino is a movie that has, at its heart, a great story.
It is a solid tale of a man’s struggle to get past his own
bigotry to see those different than himself as human beings but several things hold it back from being a great
film. It is hindered by an inexperienced cast in several
leading roles and a script that has some weak and overdone dialogue. Eastwood plays the bigot effectively but
at times lays on his character’s intolerance a bit thick and
reverts to using his “Eastwood voice.” Is it his acting or
delivery of the lines or the lines themselves? That is for
you to decide. As for the remainder of the cast, the only
other true actor seemed to be Carley as the young priest.
Vang and Her deliver their lines as if they are reading
them from the script and perhaps for the first time. This
shortcoming is not consistent all the way through the film
but it is prevalent. Conversely, the members of the cast
who always speak in foreign languages are actually more
believable in the delivery of their lines. Still, the story
carries a lot of weight and in spite of the flaws, Gran
Torino is an interesting, well-directed and paced movie.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (1/23)
The prequel will trace the origins of the
centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves,
the Lycans (werewolves). In the Dark Ages,
a young Lycan named Lucian (Michael Sheen) emerges
as a powerful leader who rallies the werewolves to rise
up against Viktor (Bill Nighy), the cruel vampire king
who has enslaved them. Lucian is joined by his secret
lover, Viktor’s daughter Sonja (Rhona Mitra), in his battle
against the Death Dealer army and his struggle for Lycan
freedom.
Inkheart (January 23)
Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his daughter, Meggie (Eliza Bennett), share a passion
for books. What they also share is a gift for
bringing characters from books to life. But
there is a danger: when a character is brought to life, a
real person disappears into its pages.
Killshot (January 23)
When a husband and wife (Thomas Jane
and Diane Lane) witness a shakedown,
they discover that the Witness Protection
Program is no match for a pair of ruthless
killers (Mickey Rourke and Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who
want them dead following the botched scam. Based on
the Elmore Leonard novel of the same name. The film
has long been in development hell, having once been
scheduled for release all the way back in 2006.
The Uninvited (January 30)
After her mother’s death and her subsequent
hospital stay, Anna Rydell returns home to
be with her sister and her father, who has
become engaged to Rachel, her mother’s
former nurse. During her first night back, Anna is visited
by her mother’s ghost, who reveals that the new woman
in her father’s life is not who she pretends to be, leading to a fateful confrontation between the women of the
house.
Taken (January 30)
A former spy (Liam Neeson) relies on his old
skills to save his daughter (Maggie Grace),
who was kidnapped and then sold to slave
traders during her vacation in Paris -- and he
will stop at nothing to get her back.
NOW PLAYING:
Benjamin Button . . . 94% Fresh
Marley & Me . . . 52% Rotten
Yes Man . . . . . . 54% Rotten
Valkyrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65% Fresh
Seven Pounds . . . 34% Rotten
Despereaux . . . . 54% Rotten
Twilight . . . . . . . 44% Rotten
4 Christmases . . 24% Rotten
Bedtime Stories . 24% Rotten
BUZZ
THE
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across the country and averages their scores into a fresh or rotten
rating. If a movie gets 60% or higher positive reviews, it is FRESH!
Trouble in paradise? May’s X-Men Origins:
Wolverine has recently begun a multipleweek-long series of extensive reshoots, reportedly focusing on the movie’s third act,
which has been described in test screenings
as a “disaster.” While star Hugh Jackman
says the reshoots had been planned as far back as October,
given director Gavin Hood’s frosty relationship with FOX,
we’ll see how the finished product turns up.
Terry Gilliam just doesn’t know when to
quit ... and bless him for it. Now that he’s
wrapped up The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnassus (Heath Ledger’s final role), Gilliam has set his sights on finally crafting
an adaptation of The Man Who Killed Don
Quixote, which he’s been trying to get off the ground for
more than a decade. Maybe this time it’ll work.
Sony Pictures has landed screen rights to
Isaac Asimov’s ground breaking science
fiction trilogy Foundation and will develop
it for Roland Emmerich to direct. Originally published as a series of eight short
stories, Foundation is a complex saga about humans who
are scattered on planets throughout the galaxy, living under the rule of the Galactic Empire. This marks the fourth
studio attempt to bring Foundation to the big screen.
Proving yet again that you just can’t keep
a money-making slasher flick down, My
Bloody Valentine 3D director Patrick Lussier has confirmed that he and writer Todd
Farmer have already planned multiple sequels to the flick and, based on box-office already, the first
one is moving full speed ahead. Yay?
Watchmen is still on track! FOX and Warner Bros. announced last week a settlement
in the long-gestating copyright infringement case. In exchange for not blocking
the movie’s release, FOX will get a large
cash payment up-front, as well as a 5 - 7 percent cut of the
gross revenue. At least we get to see the movie.
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THEATERS
THE IMPACT AWARDS HAVE BEEN MOVED! NOTE THE CHANGE!
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Hotline: 563.582.4971
555 John F Kennedy Rd - Behind Kennedy Mall
IMPACT AWARDS DATE
HAS BEEN CHANGED!
SHOWTIMES JAN 9 - 15
Inkheart
(PG)
11:30, 1:45, 4:05, 6:45, 9:00
Gran Torino
(R)
11:35, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25
Bride Wars
(PG)
12:20, 9:30
Rachel Getting
Married
The 365 Impact Award Show will be
held live on February 23, 2009, at the
Mississippi Moon Bar in the new Diamond Jo Casino. Now is your LAST
CHANCE to submit nominations!
Nominations for the Impact Awards
open on December 26 (the release
date of this issue of 365ink), and
they’re due by midnight on FEBRUARY 1. Nominations should include
the nominee’s name, address, organization, entry category, a 500-word
essay about the nominee’s Impact, the
nominator’s name, address, phone
number and e-mail address.
Impact Award nominations will be
taken exclusively online at www.
dubuque365.com. In addition to the
ceremony on February 23, Impact
Award winners will be announced in
the February 19 issue of 365ink.
So what are you waiting for? Take a
look at these categories, start thinking about who’s made an Impact, and
make a nomination!
365 Impact Award Categories
Community Spirit/Promotion
Historical Preservation
Education
Accessibility
Inclusion
Sustainability /Going Green
Government
Non-Profit Excellence
Volunteerism
Youth
Health
Sports & Recreation
Social Space (Best idea that worked)
Business
Arts & Entertainment
Music, Theater, Painting, Craftsmanship, Poetry, Film/Video, Photo
Hospitality, Dining
Best on the Web
Best Idea that Worked
Best Idea that Should Have Worked
Overall Community
Dubuque
- Organization
- Business
- Individual
Impact
(R)
2:20, 4:40, 7:05
Hotel for Dogs
(PG)
12:05, 2:10, 4:20, 6:35, 8:50
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
(PG)
12::45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:30, 9:45
The Reader
(R)
12:30, 3:30, 7:15, 9:50
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two homemade tacos with your choice of shells and meat
(beef or chicken)
tuesday lunch marinated and grilled pork tenderloin sandwich
$5.95 (11am-2pm) includes your choice of side
tuesday 5pm-9pm burger baskets $4.25
hand-pattied angus burger and home-cut fries with cheese $.50, extras $.25 each
choose ground turkey, ground bison or soy for $1.00 more
wednesday philly basket $5.95 (11am-2pm)
sirloin or chicken with sautéed onions, green peppers, and provolone
thursday carmichael basket $5.95 (11am-2pm)
1/2-pound seasoned patty on a toasty hoagie with cheese
All shows $6 matinees, $8 evenings
friday philly basket $5.95 (11am-2pm)
sirloin or chicken with sautéed onions, green peppers, and provolone
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WARNING: BULL RIDING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR ABILITY TO HAVE KIDS
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
NOW Five Flags Events Galore!
One of the great things about the turn of
the new year and the passing of the winter months is that a ton of great events
start coming to town yet again, and 2009
is proving to be no exception. Dubuque’s
Five Flags Civic Center has a number of
great entertainment options lined up in all
of its venues -- and here’s the hook-up on
‘em!
Fly-By-Night Productions’ next show, Almost, Maine, a romantic comedy by John
Cariani, is set for January 23 - February 1 in
the Bijou Room at Five Flags!
In a series of 10-minute vignettes, couples
fall in and out of love in rapid tumbles of
unlikely pairings. They kiss, they fight, they
reunite. And then boom, there it is, the other shoe, plopped unexpectedly between a
man and a woman who have been wondering, like the audience, where it’s all going
to lead.
Admission is charged. For more information, visit flybynightdubuque.com, or call
563-582-6572.
Finally, get set for two great concerts coming to Five Flags! February 28 brings two
hard-rocking acts, Buckcherry and Papa
Roach to the Five Flags Arena. Dubbed the
“Next Great American Rock Band,” Buckchery has evolved from playing in front of
200 people to sold-out crowds of tens of
thousands in just two years. Buckcherry
will be touring in support of their latest album, Black Butterfly, which was recently
named iTunes Rock Album of the Year. The
album produced iTunes choices for the
#2 Rock Song of the Year, “Too Drunk…”
and the #8 Rock Song of the Year, “Rescue
Me,” as well as critically acclaimed songs
such as “A Child Called It” and “Don’t Go
Away.”
Papa Roach pierced the record industry in
2000 with their triple-platinum major label
Grammy-nominated debut album, Infest.
Two years later Lovehatetragedy debuted
at #2 on the Billboard Top 200. In 2004,
the band released the hook-heavy album,
Getting Away With Murder, once again affirming the band’s platinum status around
the globe. Their fourth major label album
was the next step in their evolution with
The Paramour Sessions (2006) receiving
five out of five stars from Rolling Stone establishing Papa Roach as a consistent alternative rock force. Tickets for the show are
$36, plus fees.
588-4365
LIVE INFO LISTINGS BY PHONE
IceFest, January 24 - 25
Another weekend full of icerelated fun! Read Page 5 for
more details.
izzaner Stallions. Closely associated with
the Spanish Riding School of Vienna (and
also considered a national symbol of Slovenia), the Lipizzaner Stallions are among the
most majestic and beautiful horses you’ll
ever see in your lifetime. When it comes
to animal showmanship, this is not a show
to miss. Tickets are on sale for $24.50 and
$20.50, and child, senior and group discounts are available.
Also coming up soon is the return of championship bull riding on February 6 - 7, presented by Anderson - Weber. It’s a pastime
that many of us at the 365 offices find absolutely insane ... but, then again, there are
those of us who jump out of perfectly good
airplanes (with parachutes, of course), so I
guess we can’t talk when it comes to guys
attempting to stay atop a wildly bucking
bronco for eight seconds. They don’t call
it “the most dangerous eight seconds in
sports” for nothing, after all. Tickets are on
sale now for $30.50, $22.50 and $16.50,
and kids 12 and under get in for halfprice.
On Thursday, February 19, mark your calendars for the return of the world-famous Lip-
And on Tuesday, March 10, Celtic rockers Gaelic Storm return to town at the Five
Flags Theater! Since their appearance in the
film Titanic 10 years ago (not to mention
some awesome performances at the Irish
Hooley), Gaelic Storm’s fan base continues
to multiply with each new album, turning
the one-time pub band into one of the premier touring acts in the Celtic/World music
genre. Gaelic Storm’s compelling originals
and fresh arrangements steeped in Celtic
traditional melody continue to broaden the
musical horizons of the Celtic music genre.
Tickets are $30, $23.50 and $20.
Tickets for all shows are available at the
Five Flags box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com or by phone at 800-745-3000.
For more information, visit www.fiveflagscenter.com. And stay tuned for more great
events!
YOU COULD MAKE A CONNECT FOUR TABLE WITH ALL THAT CONDUIT
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
365 caught up with FitzGerald
as he and a crew were in the
midst of some aggressive work
being done on the Dubuque
Building in preparation for its
new tenant, IBM. And while
he’s a busy man (we swear
he must have taken 42 phone
calls during out meeting), he
was happy to explain the philosophy behind adaptive reuse and recycling.
The title of this article says it all -- why buy
a bunch of stuff new when there’s plenty
of perfectly good material right in front
of you, waiting to be used before it gets
shipped off to the landfill? That’s a question that Kyle FitzGerald and many others
across the country are asking nowadays.
“It all goes in several different directions,” FitzGerald
explains. “For example, on
the third floor of this building,
we’re setting up a stockpile of
things like conduit, pieces of
pipe, junctions, fixtures, what
have you. So then when the
build-out is being done, you
know, if IBM needs 500 feet of
conduit, and we’ve already got
200 feet sitting here waiting to
be used, then you only need to
buy 300 feet new, as opposed
to 300. So not only are you using what
you’ve got, but you’re saving money, as
well.”
It’s a practice that FitzGerald is no stranger to, having grown up doing similar work
in Lansing, Iowa, with his parents, who
did deconstruction of historic houses in
the area, re-using and recycling wherever
possible (he notes that he “really learned
the value of a piece of wood”). He carried that training with him to Iowa City,
where he again worked in construction.
“I was doing work cleaning out new construction,” he says, “and on a site, there’d
be pieces of wood here, sheet rock there,
stuff that could be re-used in other ways.
The boss would yell at me, ‘Throw it in
the dumpster!’ But I started saving the
scraps, and soon enough I had a garage
full of them. But from there, I just tried to
make the best of it. Not to make a profit
so much as to just keep it in circulation
and being used.”
“In a building like this, there is a lot of
metal to be recycled -- aluminum, copper wire, data wire,” he says. “Ordinarily,
you’d just get a metal dumpster, all of that
would be dumped in there at once, and
then the metal guys would have to peel it
apart before you could even think of recycling it. Here, we’re sending a team of
metal guys in with the demolition guys,
and everything’s being separated on the
spot, data from copper -- not unlike separating your recyclables at home. It saves
a ton of time for everyone, it totally recycles the metal, and proceeds from selling that metal helps finance the recycling
project.”
When it comes to the Dubuque Building (soon to be known once again as
the Roshek Building), there’s definitely a
lot of stuff waiting to be kept in circulation and re-used. We met FitzGerald in
an office space on the mezzanine of the
building, where carpet was being ripped
up, tile was being collected, and preparations were being made for its new occupant. In fact, during our meeting, a deal
was struck with a buyer for some gigantic, floor-to-ceiling panes of glass.
“It’s about keeping things in use and out
of the landfill,” FitzGerald sums up, and
we can’t argue with that. “There are times,
like on this project for example, where doing what we do to salvage material will
probably exceed the cost of just dumping
it all in the landfill. But not by much at all
-- and you have the added bonus of doing
the right thing.”
“That’s exactly what this kind of work is
about,” FitzGerald says about those glass
panes. “And the Dubuque Building has
been a huge eye-opener. I only started
working on this project about a month
ago when John Gronen brought me in,
and I’ve learned so much. There’s a lot of
struggle, but a lot of education, Jeff Morton and Jim Urell have been great, and
things are being done differently around
here, which is cool.”
As an example of things being done differently, FitzGerald points out T & T Iron
& Metals, of East Dubuque.
If this is the kind of work that interests
you, you’ll probably also be interested in
the second annual Growing Sustainable
Communities Conference, scheduled for
Thursday, February 19, at the Grand River
Center. With a theme of “Promoting Historic Preservation as Part of the Climate
Solution,” the conference is inexpensive
to attend and will offer insight on creating
local and regional policies to promote sustainability through historic preservation.
The cost is $20, and registration can be
done online at www.cityofdubuque.org,
or by calling 563-589-4110. Registration
is required by February 11, so act quickly.
Dert Tones
New Diggings, 9 PM - 1 AM
Tony Walker
Spirits, 9 PM - 1 AM
Comfortably One
The Hub, 9 PM - 1 AM
Shame Train
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
Mayflies / Johnson Co.
Silver Dollar, 9 PM - 1 AM
Friday, January 23
Dueling Pianos
Diamond Jo, 8 - 10 PM
Just Cuz
Ground Round, 8 PM - 12 AM
Denny, Rick & Brian
Sundown, 2 - 6 PM
Sun., Jan. 25
Deuce Gravel
New Diggings, 3:30 7:30 PM
Tues., Jan. 27
Horsin’ Around
Chestnut Mtn., 9 PM - 1 AM
Open Jazz Jam
Isabella’s, 8 PM - 12 AM
Weds., Jan. 28
The Wundo Band
Steve’s Pizza, 7 - 11 PM
Laughing Moon Comedy
Mighty Short Bus
Murph’s, 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM
PW Long
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
Friday, January 23
Rosalie Morgan
TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM
Chuck Bregman
Stone Cliff, 7 - 11 PM
Jeff Ward
Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12 AM
Dert Tones
Coe’s, 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Taste Like Chicken
Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM
Juke Joint Duo
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
Corey Jenny
Gasoline Alley, 9 PM - 1 AM
John Moran
Grape Escape, 9 PM - 1 AM
Ethan Keller
James Kinds/All-Night Riders
Sandy Hook, 10 PM - 2 AM
Denny Garcia
River Museum, 5 - 8 PM
Jill Duggan
Jeff Ward
Garry Wesley (Elvis tribute)
Dueling Pianos
Rocket Surgeons
Eichman’s, 9 PM - 1 AM
Falling Within
The Detour, 9 PM - 1 AM
Menace
Courtside, 9 PM - 1 AM
Okham’s Razor
Cornerstone, 8 - 11 PM
Mixed Emotions
Rumors, 9 PM - 1 AM
Fizgig
Lux Club, 9 PM - 1 AM
BadFish
Jumpers, 9 PM - 1 AM
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COMEDY
NIGHTLIFE
MOVIES
Friday, January 30
DSO Gala
Grand River Center, 6 - 10
PM
Okham’s Razor
Laura & Longhairs
DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM 12 AM
Friday, January 30
Saturday, Jan. 31
Tuesday, February 3
Saturday, February 7
Ian Gould
HALF-FAST
Lux Club, 9 PM - 1 AM
Open Jazz Jam
Rosalie Morgan
TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM
Denny Garcia
Cornerstone, 8 PM - 12 AM
Hard Salami
Diamond Jo, 9 PM
- 1 AM
Noah Earle
BlackBloom
Wednesday, Feb. 4
The Wundo Band
Steve’s Pizza, 7 - 11 PM
Okham’s Razor
UW-Platteville, 8 - 10 PM
BlackBloom
180 Main, 9 PM 1 AM
Cracker
Mississippi Band
Murph’s, 9:30 PM 1:30 AM
Thursday, February 5
Dueling Pianos
Stumble Bros.
Lucho Rey y su Salsera
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
Saturday, Jan. 31
Rosalie Morgan
TAIKO, 7 - 11 PM
Sunday, February 1
Stealin’ Strings
Casethejoint Birthday Bash
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
Chuck Bregman
Kevin Beck/Johnnie Walker
Spirits, 8 PM - 12 AM
Chuck Bregman
Friday, February 6
Jim Wand
Take 2
Asbury Eagles Club, 6:30 - 10:30 PM
Artie & the Pink Catillacs
Eagles Club, 8 PM - 12 AM
Mary Mabusth
Nothin’ but Dylan
DBQ Driving Range, 8 PM - 12
AM
Paul McHugh
HALF-FAST
Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1 AM
Taste Like Chicken
Left of Center
Rocket Surgeons (Bandaoke)
Taste Like Chicken
Ace’s Place, 9 PM - 1 AM
Strange Arrangement
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
James Kinds/All-Night Riders
180 Main, 9 PM - 1 AM
GB Leighton
The Jumbies
Ian Gould
Irish Cottage, 8 PM - 12
AM
Horsin’ Around
Menace
Dirty Ernie’s, 9 PM - 1
AM
BuzzBerries
Softtails, 9 PM - 1 AM
A Wu Li Conspiracy
THE FUN
NEVER STOPS
AT
THE HUB!
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LIVE MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT
VENUE FINDER
180 Main Restaurant & Pub
180 Main Street, Dubuque • 563-584-1702
180main.com
Ace’s Place
107 Main St W. Epworth, IA • 563-876-9068
Anton’s Saloon
New Diggings, Wisconsin • 608-965-4881
Bricktown
299 Main Street, Dubuque •563-582-0608
bricktowndubuque.com
Captain Merry
399 Sinsinwa Ave., East Dbq, IL • 815-747-3644
captainmerry.com
Catfish Charlies
1630 E. 16th St, Dubuque • 563-582-8600
catfishcharliesonline.com
Courtside
2095 Holiday Drive, Dubuque • 563-583-0574
Dagwood’s
231 First Ave. W. Cascade, IA • (563) 852-3378
Denny’s Lux Club
3050 Asbury, Rd. •(563) 557-0880
Diamond Jo Casino
Port of Dubuque • 563-690-2100
diamondjo.com
Dino’s Backside (Other Side)
68 Sinsinawa East Dubuque •(815) 747-9049
Dirty Ernie’s
201 1st St NE, Farley, IA • 563-744-4653
Dog House Lounge
1646 Asbury, Dubuque • (563) 556-7611
Doolittle’s Cuba City
112 S. Main. Cuba City, WI • 608-744-2404
Doolittle’s Lancaster
135 S. Jefferson St., Lancaster, WI • 608-723-7676
Dubuque Driving Range
John Deere Road, Dubuque • 563-556-5420
Dubuque Greyhound Park & Casino
1855 Greyhound park Road • 563-582-3647
dgpc.com
Eagles Club
1175 Century Drive, Dubuque • (563) 582-6498
Eichman’s Grenada Tap
11941 Route 52 North, Dubuque • 563-552-2494
Five Flags Civic Center
405 Main Street • 563-589-4254 Tix: 563-557-8497
Gin Rickey’s
1447 Central Ave, Dubuque •563-583-0063
myspace.com/ginrickeys
Gobbie’s
219 N Main St, Galena IL• 815-777-0243
Grand Harbor Resort
350 Bell Street, Dubuque • 563-690-4000
grandharborresort.com
Grape Escape
233 S. Main St., Galena, IL • 815.776.WINE
grapeescapegalena.com
The Hub
253 Main St., Dubuque •563-556-5782
myspace.com/thehubdbq
Irish Cottage
9853 US Hwy 20, Galena, Illinois • 815.776.0707
theirishcottageboutiquehotel.com
Isabella’s @ the Ryan House
1375 Locust Street, Dubuque • 563-585-2049
isabellasbar.com
Jumpers Bar & Grill
2600 Dodge St, Dubuque • 563-556-6100
myspace.com/jumpersdbq
Knicker’s Saloon
2186 Central Ave., Dubuque • 563-583-5044
Leo’s Pub / DaVinci’s
395 W. 9th St., Dubuque • 563-582-7057
davincisdubuque.com
M-Studios
223 Diagonal Street, Galena, IL • 815-777-6463
m-studios.org
Mississippi Moon Bar
Port of Dubuque • 563-690-2100
diamondjo.com
Monk’s Coffee Shop
373 Bluff St, Dubuque • 563.585-0919
Mooney Hollow Barn
12471 Highway 52 S. Green Island, IA
(563) 682-7927 / (563) 580-9494
Murph’s South End
55 Locust St. Dubuque • Phone 563-556-9896
New Diggings
2944 County Road W, Benton, WI • 608-965-3231
newdiggs.com
Noonan’s North
917 Main St. Holy Cross, IA • 563-870-2235
Perfect Pint /Steve’s Pizza
15 E. Main St., Platteville, WI • 608-348-3136
Pit Stop
17522 S John Deere Rd, Dubuque • 563-582-0221
Sandy Hook Tavern
3868 Badger Rd. Hazel Green, WI
608-748-4728
Silver Dollar Cantina
342 Main Street, Dubuque, 563-556-4558
Softtails
10638 Key West Drive, Key West, IA • 563-582-0069
Star Restaurant and Ultra Lounge (2nd Floor)
600 Star Brewery Drive, Pot of Dubuque •
563.556.4800 www.dbqstar.com
Stone Cliff Winery
600 Star Brewery Dr., Port of Dubuque •
563.583.6100
stonecliffwinery.com
Sublime
3203 Jackson St., Dubuque • 563-582-4776
Thums Up Pub & Grill
3670 County Road HHH, Kieler, WI •608-568-3118
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BOO BRADLEY IS NOT PLAYED BY ROBERT DUVALL. SORRY
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
Isabella’s Entertainment
older, and you didn’t make the cut on the
new season of American Idol … it doesn’t
mean you can’t be a rock star at least for
one night. One final note for math lovers:
Rocket Surgeons guitar god Rockin’ Jon +
crotch pump = AWESOME!
Bringing a variety of entertainment to
downtown’s North End neighborhood,
Isabella’s continues to satisfy. Here’s a bit
of what is around the corner.
Noah Earle
Singer/songwriter and winner of the 2005
Kansas City Blues Challenge Noah Earle
brings his original blend of folk, blues,
and jazz to Dubuque with a performance
at Isabella’s, Saturday, January 31. A third
generation songwriter, Earle grew up in
Topeka, Kansas listening to the traditional
country and gospel music of his family.
Beginning on guitar at age six, Earle also
studied classical piano, voice and fiddle.
At age ten he began songwriting in a gospel style, later absorbing blues and jazz
influence from the bands his father and
uncle played in.
With his brother Nathan, Earle’s junior
high and high school years were spent
singing rhythm & blues and later alternative rock. After graduating in 1996, the
brothers moved to Hollywood to work
with Disney subsidiary, Mr. L Entertainment, but became dissatisfied with the
pop production of their songs and focus
on creating a single. The two moved back
to the Midwest, playing in a variety of
bands around the Kansas City area including the Great Plains Weathermen. Now
based in Missouri and performing solo or
with backing from Aaron Harms on guitar,
bass, or pedal steel, Earle plays a range of
material that shows his various influences,
from blues and country roots to Spanish
music. His versatility has led him to perform sets with blues and bluegrass artists,
singer/songwriters, and Latin jazz groups.
A Wu Li Conspiracy
Sunday, February 1
Chicago musical collective A Wu Li Conspiracy make a stop at Isabella’s on their
Midwest tour Sunday, February 1. Exploring a self-described “intelligent, touching
blend of folk and rock,” A Wu Li Conspiracy make “folk” music in a similar sense to
the “country” music purveyed by a band
like Wilco, in that the mostly acoustic instrumentation might suggest music akin
to folk, but it’s really all just a jumping off
point for introspective, heartfelt songwriting and experimental arrangements. The
most pared-down songs might be compared to Bright Eyes if produced by Jeff
Tweedy before he got straight. Recordings
of more complex arrangements add layers of muted organ, distant electric guitar
feedback, and burbling electronic weirdness (in a good way). Formed around the
core of guitarist/vocalist Jeff Breakey and
guitarist/harmonica player/vocalist John
Elstad, the band also includes vocalist
Andrea Restivo, who adds some sweet
vocal harmonies to the proceedings, and
percussionist Stephanie Levi, though
drummer Chris Rooney will be joining
the group on this particular tour. A Wu Li
Conspiracy makes music both accessible
– in a human sort of way – and oddly experimental enough to surprise.
Bandeoke with the Rocket Surgeons
Friday, February 6
You might have heard about karaoke with
a live band and yes, it is pretty fun. But the
Rocket Surgeons were rocking the pure
genius of that particular idea two years
ago! The fact that “Bandeoke” is back is a
testament to the fun quotient of either: 1.
Watching drunk people try to front a real
live rock band or 2. Being a drunk person
trying to front a real live rock band. It also
means (3, if you’re still counting) that it
must be Isabella’s owner Chad Witthoeft’s
birthday again. So Chad’s another year
Boo Bradley
Friday, February 20
While Boo Bradley might sound like the
name of a single performer, it is in fact the
Comprising Texas-born and Louisianaeducated guitarist Scott “Boo” Kiker and
washboard/percussionist Brad Selz, Boo
Bradley cover country blues and juke
joint classics by the likes of Son House,
Charley Patton and early Muddy Waters,
the rolling Piedmont style of Blind Boy
Fuller, and the Chicago ragtime guitar of
Blind Blake and Big Bill Broonzy. Boo
has mastered the various pre-war styles of
acoustic guitar blues and Bradley keeps
the joint jumpin’ with washboard or brush
work on a high-hat and snare with that
kick drum stomp driving the beat. I’d suggest getting yourself a glass of Old Crow
straight up, a seat down front, and as that
whiskey starts to warm your insides, close
your eyes and imagine the last time this
country witnessed a great depression.
Yeah, we don’t have it so bad.
The Lonely Goats
I’ve heard that goats will eat anything, but
both Jimmy Goat and Leo Goat refused
the half-melted Halloween candy bar
someone had left under my windshield.
I don’t know if it was because it was of
questionable origin or that it laid around
in my van for a couple weeks. Oh well,
there is always an exception to the rule.
Actually, The Lonely Goats are all about
the exceptions, leaving the rules to someone else. Sure they play some songs you
know, but they just might change it to reggae, or hillbilly, or zydeco just to make it
more fun. They might also throw in some
blues, some Latin rock, surf, ska, and the
occasional unexpected pop song. It’s all
about having fun and maybe getting some
people to dance. Did I even offer that
candy bar to Bobby Goat?
_________________
The Dertones
9 PM - 1 AM
__________
Sunday, January 24
Deuce Gravel
3:30 - 7:30 PM
__________
Sunday, February 8
Fever River String Band
3:30 - 7:30 PM
__________
Outta Control
9 PM - 1 AM
__________
Sunday, February 15
Laura & the
Long Hairs
3:30 - 7:30 PM
_________________
name of a Madison acoustic blues duo.
From Dubuque - Hwy 11 E. to Hazel Green
WI. Go straight across Hwy 80- Hwy 11
turns into County W. Take it to the DIGGS!
DON’T STEAL STRINGS! THAT MAKES A STRINGMAN VERY UNHAPPY
19
JAN 22 - FEB 4
Silver Dollar Cantina
Upcoming Entertainment
nize their peers have probably already
heard of Stealin’ Strings. If that is your
kind of music, this is one of those shows
not to be missed.
By Mike Ironside
Funk to bluegrass, punk to newgrass,
and rock to reggae with multiple stops
in between – the Silver Dollar music calendar is jam-packed with good stuff so
make plans to check it out. Here’s what
is coming up:
Ethan Keller
Friday, January 23
Milwaukee jazz funk prodigy and
leader of the Ethan Keller Group (EKG)
Ethan Keller makes a solo appearance
at the Dollar Friday, January 13. Keller
describes the show on one of the Web
sites that list his gig dates as a “sololoop beatbox bass guitar one man
band funky fiasco.” So I think we can
assume he will be distilling the jazzy
modern funk of EKG down to a loopbased groove that still allows him room
for his expressive singing and playing.
As for the “fiasco” part, I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Undoubtedly
a bit of self-deprecating humor, Keller
isn’t likely to steer things too far out of
the groove on stage. He’s been writing
songs from the age of nine and formed
his first band as a high school freshman
at the tender age of 13 after his dad
gave him a bass guitar. Switching to
guitar he started the band Greenscene,
a funky jam band that not only made a
splash in the Milwaukee area but won
the 2001 Jim Beam Band Search, beating out 1500 other competitors to earn
the title “best unsigned modern rock
act in America.” Between that band
and his Ethan Keller Group, formed
in 2004, Keller has logged thousands
of miles over dozens of states, playing
thousands of gigs and selling thousands more CDs. So he should be just
fine on stage.
The Mayflies (of Johnson County)
In case no one has noticed, roots music
has been making a relatively quiet but
steady comeback with as many permutations as there are bands performing
under that banner. Hailing from Johnson
County, The Mayflies definitely qualify
as roots music but not necessarily as a
band that neatly fits into any subcategory. While bluegrass is surely a strong element at the core of The Mayflies’ sound,
roots rock is a fair expression of the music’s delivery method. After all they do
have a drummer (James Robinson) in the
band and lead singer Stacy Webster plays
an electric guitar. Round out the lineup
with Jon Eric’s electric banjo and Dave
Lumberg’s bass and you can see where
the genre-confusion might pop up. Are
the Mayflies a rock band with bluegrass
roots or a bluegrass band that rocks? In
the end it doesn’t really matter because
they do it very well and if it sounds like
something you might like, I’m pretty sure
you will.
BlackBloom
Local indie rockers BlackBloom return to
the Silver Dollar on Saturday, January 31.
Offering gutsy vocals, good rhythm, keys
and searing guitars in a new perspective
on the indie rock scene, BlackBloom is
hard at work on its debut album. Definitely a rising local act.
Stealin’ Strings
Wisconsin-based Stealin’ Strings, an upand-coming roots-meets-jam band that is
making waves on the national stage displaces the usual Thursday Open Mic for a
special performance February 5. Begun
as a collaboration between mandolin/
guitar player and vocalist Ryan Ogburn
and guitarist and vocalist Rob Shively in
2002, the duo began performing in an
acoustic vein, drawing from the Milwaukee area bluegrass scene and filtering the
style through their rock influences. With
the addition of Rob Buehler on drums
and Matt Turner on bass, the new foursome ventured into broader musical territory, using their roots influence as one
shade in an ever-evolving tone painting
that incorporates a range of ethnic colors
and styles. I could list the bands Stealin’
Strings has shared the stage with, but the
same jam band fans that would recog-
GB Leighton
Friday, February 6
Little by little, the Silver Dollar is seeking out and booking dates for some of
the nightspot’s most popular acts from
“back in the day.” GB Leighton is one of
those acts. It’s not always an easy thing to
accomplish. Some of the then up-andcoming performers have gone on to bigger and better things and are now in high
demand. Again, GB Leighton is one of
those acts. Known by some as Minnesota’s “best-kept secret,” GB Leighton,
the six-piece band fronted by singer/
songwriter Brian Leighton, is one of the
Midwest’s most successful club and festival acts, playing more than 200 shows a
year and having sold more than 70,000
CDs over a 10-year career.
Leighton recently released his tenth album to date, Shake Them Ghosts, recorded at Minneapolis’ Winterland studio with noted producer Don Dixon,
known for his work with R.E.M. and
the Smithereens. Leighton also worked
with session drummer Kenny Aronoff on
Ghosts who has worked with a variety
of notable recording artists and performers including John Mellencamp, Jon Bob
Jovi, Rod Stewart, Avril Lavigne, Meat
Loaf, Melissa Etheridge, The Smashing
Pumpkins, Willie Nelson and Michelle
Branch. The spot-on playing and production match Leighton’s top-notch
songwriting resulting in a recording that
displays the best of his talents.
Leighton’s growing cult of followers has
earned him some uncommon recognition. Not unlike a slightly shorter and ar-
WELCOME TO DUBUQUE, IBM!
20
JAN 22 - FEB 4
talent pool was crucial to their decision!
IBM will work with ALL Dubuque area
institutions to enhance their curricula to
better prepare students for opportunities
in the IT industry, and for IBM positions!
“Dubuque’s New Sustainability Partner…IBM!”
“The next five years will define the next 50
years for Dubuque!” In 2005, my mayoral campaign platform
was based on this belief. Now, we find
ourselves beginning year four of those five
years, deep in a national recession on one
hand, and with a thrilling announcement
on the other! IBM selected Dubuque for its first stateside project investment in 20 years! Different than IBM’s 400 data centers that
house company machines, the Dubuque
IBM Operation will be a technology service delivery center providing high value
information technology services to IBM
customers! Competing for this honor with
five other cities around the nation (Laramie, WY; Columbia, MO; Morgantown,
W.VA; Greenville, SC; and Bloomington,
IN), Dubuque’s community leadership,
and its state and regional partners stepped
up to the plate and hit ‘a home run!’ As
many IBM executives said to me personally, “At every step of the way, Dubuque
was head and shoulders above the competition in responding in a timely, professional and welcoming fashion!” And, if
citizens listened to the television interview
with IBM Executive MikeDaniels, they
heard him say, with his hand on my shoulder, that “IBM’s and the City of Dubuque’s
approach to sustainability support one
another!” In fact, IBM’s Dubuque location will be in the historic Roshek building
which will be further upgraded to make it
a “green building” using industry leading,
energy efficient technology!
As I said during my remarks during the
press conference on January 15th, this accomplishment for Dubuque, and recognition by a global giant such as IBM, is truly
a “defining moment;” an amazing vote of
confidence and clearly a tangible result of
our City’s fiscal responsibility, community
leadership and citizen involvement. It is
an endorsement of how our local, state
and regional partnerships are working
together to create a sustainable future for
Dubuque and the State of Iowa!
Deserving of special mention is the leadership of GDDC, Dubuque Initiatives, City
Manager Mike Van Milligen, City Attorney
Barry Lindahl, City Economic Development Director David Heiar, an unequaled
City Staff; my colleagues on the Dubuque
City Council, (At Large) Ric Jones, David
Resnick; (1st Ward) Kevin Lynch, (2nd
Ward) Karla Braig, (3rd Ward) Joyce Connors and (4th Ward) Dirk Voetberg; Governor Chet Culver and our many state and
federal partners!
The caliber of the economic opportunity
IBM represents is far reaching as we consider the number of people, particularly
college graduates, who will realize additional significant, high paying career opportunities, right here in Dubuque. Kudos
to our higher education partners: University of Dubuque President Jeffrey Bullock,
Clarke College President Joanne Burrows,
Loras College President Jim Collins, Northeast Iowa Community
College President Penny Wills,
University of Wisconsin/Platteville Chancellor David Markee,
Southwest Wisconsin Technical
College President Karen Knox,
and Kirkwood Community College President Mick Starcevich
for their important contributions
during the “interview” process
that demonstrated to IBM the
wealth of talent available in the
fields of computer science and
information systems! The 1300
career opportunities are “big
thinking positions” as IBM Senior
VP Mike Daniels described, and
the abundance and access to our
The ongoing transformation of Iowa’s oldest city to a progressive, sustainable community with a diversified economy and
expanding global connections is representative of a collective and positive attitude
that spurred the vision and preparation
necessary to be in a position to welcome
this amazing opportunity! This project
joins our major investments throughout
Dubuque and in the downtown area will
spur efforts already underway to revitalize
the historic Warehouse District, “marrying”
the concepts of historic preservation to
the concepts of sustainability, particularly
smart energy use and conservation.
Yes this IS a transformative investment
by IBM in Dubuque, most notably during a time of national economic recession. It will stem the brain-drain of our
young college graduates and young professionals; it will help to recruit the best
and brightest to our midst; and it will be
a catalyst to turning our Warehouse District, an Envision 2010 top ten project,
into a sustainable Mecca of business, retail, entertainment and housing!
Yes, IBM believes in Dubuque...IBM
represents economic prosperity, e.g.
jobs, jobs, jobs!...and IBM is Dubuque’s
new partner in achieving a sustainable
future! Indeed, “the fourth of the next
five years has joined with the prior three
years to well-define the next 50 years for
Dubuque!”
OCHOSOL ROCKS THE BODY THAT ROCKS THE PARTY
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
Silver Dollar Entertainment
Mondays
Wii Bowling - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 8 p.m. Martini Madness 8 p.m. - Close.
Tuesdays
‘Round Midnight Jazz w/ Bill Encke - Isabella’s, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Pub Quiz - The Busted Lift, 8 p.m. First 3 Tuesdays of the month.
Sports Movie Night - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 8 p.m.
Karaoke - Rainbow Lounge, Canfield Hotel, 7:30 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Karaoke - Dave Lorenz, Player’s Sports Bar, 9 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Wednesdays
Live Music - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 7-10 p.m. (Happy Hour 4-6 p.m.)
Live on Main Comedy - 2 great standups, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 11 p.m.
WJOD Wild West Wed - (Country Dancing), Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Karaoke - C-Sharp, A&B Tap, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Denny’s Lux Club 8:30 p.m. -12:30 a.m.
Karaoke - Bubblz Karaoke, Bricktown, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Karaoke - Bubblz Karaoke, Bourbon Street Grill, 10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
guably more famous Minneapolis musician,
Leighton has been honored with the opening of a Twin Cities nightclub, named “Pickle
Park” after a song on his first album. And like
“His Purpleness,” Leighton is likely to be seen
at the club jamming with his band or just
hanging out watching a game on TV. Leighton sees it as just another way to connect with
his fans, more than 120 of which traveled
with the band to Acapulco for the first of his
now annual weeklong January trips. It’s pretty evident that Leighton loves what he does
but he seems to take it all in stride, commenting in his online bio, “At the end of the day,
I’m just a common guy, a working class kid
from a Twin Cities suburb who loves to put on
a good show and hopefully write some good
songs in between.” Mission accomplished.
Thursdays
Live Music - Robbie Bahr & Laura McDonald, Gobbies, Galena, 9 p.m. -1 a.m.
Champplympics - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 8 - 10 p.m.
Y-105 Party Zone - Dbq Co. Fairgrounds, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Open Mic Showcase, Isabella’s 8 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Karaoke - Becky McMahon, Ground Round, 9 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Shannon’s Bar, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Karaoke - Soundwave, Bulldog Billiards, 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Jumbies
Who could use a little of the tropics right now?
Iowa City band Jumbies bring the feel and
groove of the Caribbean to the Silver Dollar
Cantina Saturday, February 7. With influences from Marley to Ozomatli, Harry Belafonte
to Buffet, Jumbies combine traditional soca,
calypso, and reggae with American funk and
Latin rock, to create a fun, laid-back island
vibe right here in the middle of the Midwestern winter. Jumbies might be the only band
you’ll see this year with a steel drum. With a
Silver Dollar Cantina margarita in hand, you
just might forget it’s freezing outside.
Mark your calendars…
Anyone who has been a regular reader of
the “Mark your calendars” section knows
I’ve been plugging a number of upcoming
shows at the Dollar – and rightfully so. February is jam-packed with great shows and
March looks to be just as good. That’s why
we have this little “heads-up” at the end each
time. So looking forward, we have the return of the Melismatics on February 13, the
Goodyear Pimps on February 14, ochOsol
for the Winter Jazz & Blues Fest on Friday,
February 20, followed by Quad Cities piano/
sax based rock band The Minus Six rocking
Saturday, February 21. Dubuque’s own partyrockin’ Dingle Berries return Friday, February
27. For now, we’ll just tease you with one
March date – Saturday, March 7, the one-year
anniversary of the return of the Silver Dollar
Cantina! Now that should be a party!
Don’t miss the Silver Dollar’s exclusive food
coupon on Page 26! Bring it in for a special
“kids eat free” deal with the purchase of a
regular-priced entrée -- and don’t forget to tell
‘em that 365 sent you!
Fridays
Firewood Friday (3rd Friday’s) - Isabella’s Bar at the Ryan House, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Wii Battle of the Sexes - Champps, 9 p.m. (Beer Sampling 7 - 9 p.m.)
Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Sublime, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Karaoke, Becky McMahon, 3rd Fridays, Kuepers - Dickeyville, WI, 9p.m
Karaoke - Brian Leib’s Essential Entertainment, Aragon Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m.
DJ Music - DJ Brian Imbus, Jumpers, 8:30 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Saturdays
Live Comedy - Arthur House Restaurant, Platteville, 9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Live Music - Leonardo Roldan/Romeo Bautista, Los Aztecas, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Bluff Street Live Open Mic, Mississippi Mug, 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Karaoke - Bubblz Karaoke, Bourbon Street Grill, 10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Karaoke - Flyin Hawaiian, George & Dales, (East Dub.) 9p.m. - 1 a.m.
Karaoke - Starburst Karaoke, w/Dave Winders, Instant Replay, 9 p.m.-1a.m.
DJ Music - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 9 p.m. - Close
DJ Music - Main Event DJ, Gin Rickeys, 8:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
DJ Music - Sound Ideas DJ, Timmerman’s Supper Club, 8 p.m.-12 a.m.
Sundays
Open Mic with Sean Kramer (Mississippi Flat Miners), A&B Tap, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
X-Box Rock Band - Champps Sports Bar & Grill, 8 p.m.
Karaoke - Flyin’ Hawaiian, Knicker’s Saloon, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
Karaoke - Phoenix Entertainment, The Hangout (East Dub.), 9 p.m. - 3 a.m.
If you have updates, additions or corrections to the recurring nightlife calendar, please contact 365 with the new information @ [email protected]!
Metallica
Rosemont Theatre, Chicago • January 26-27
Joan Baez
Barrymore Theater, Madison • March 14
Brad Paisley & Dierks Bentley
i Wireless Center, Moline • January 30
Nickelback
i Wireless Center, Moline • March 15
Motley Crüe
i Wireless Center, Moline • February 11
Katy Perry
House of Blues, Chicago • March 24
George Thorogood
Barrymore Theater, Madison • February 27
David Cassidy
Rosemont Theatre, Chicago • March 28
Gaelic Storm
House of Blues, Chicago • March 13
Styx
Wisconsin Dells •April 24
I’VE NEVER RECOVERED FROM READING ULYSSES IN HIGH SCHOOL
22
Bobs Book Reviews
Short & Sweet
JAN 22 - FEB 4
’
the Moon be Still as Bright, The Naming of
Names, The Old Ones, and the incomparable There Will Come Soft Rains. It is not
necessary, but in all likelihood it is better,
to read them in order, and read them you
should.
by Bob Gelms
Most people have circumstances, when
reading a long form of entertainment like a
novel or non-fiction book is rendered problematic for lack of time. You are so busy
that you only get to read in bed right before
you fall asleep, managing about ten pages
a night. A 400-page book takes about six
weeks to read and when you come to the
end you have forgotten how the darn thing
started.
Why not try short stories? Nearly all of the
stories in the following collections can be
read in under an hour. You used to be able
to get a short story fix by picking up any
number of magazines because an abundance of national magazines published
short stories in every issue. I’m afraid those
days are gone. Consequently, I have four
suggestions of short story collections guaranteed to amuse your every mood.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is known as a novelist, but
early in his career he wrote a large number of short stories to finance the writing
of the novels. Now, anytime Mr. Vonnegut
wrote something down, it was an occasion
for celebration and his collection of short
stories, Welcome to the Monkey House,
is no exception. A college professor once
told Mr. Vonnegut that a writer of slick fiction like science fiction was doing no more
than “buggering the truth for money.” It is
quite conceivable that Vonnegut took that
as a compliment. Every story is a gem but
one stands out in my mind and it isn’t even
fiction. It is called New Dictionary. The
New York Times assigned Vonnegut the task
of reviewing a new dictionary published by
Random House. The only thing more boring than reading a review of a dictionary
would be to write one. Not in the hands
of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- it is a testament to
his power as a writer that New Dictionary
is nothing short of spellbinding, and that’s
the truth in addition to being a pretty good
pun.
Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Two of the eleven stand out. One is my all time favorite
by Mr. Fitzgerald and the other was just
made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. A
Diamond as Big as the Ritz was classified by Fitzgerald as a fantasy. I have
written in these pages before about this
story. He writes about the same kinds of
things regarding America and American
culture as he does in his masterpiece
The Great Gatsby but in ways that
will make you laugh from the belly.
It is phantasmagorical and thoroughly
entertaining. The other story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was
well known back in the day but was
all but forgotten until the Brad Pitt
movie was released a short time ago.
Mark Twain once remarked that is was
a shame that all the good things in a
person’s life happened at the beginning and all the bad things at the end.
Fitzgerald took that idea and turned it
on its head. You wind up with one the
best stories he ever wrote. Don’t ignore the other nine stories in this collection. They are evidence of a writer
at the very top of his game.
Ray Bradbury has described his book
The Martian Chronicles as “a book of
stories pretending to be a novel.” This
is because the stories are not connected, but they are all related. It would
be hard to overstate the influence of
The Martian Chronicles. If Mr. Bradbury hadn’t written Fahrenheit 451,
The Martian Chronicles would have a
strong claim to being his masterwork.
These stories are among the first in the
genre to treat aliens as if they were
just Earthlings who happen to be living on another planet. They tell the
story of the 27-year colonization of
Mars by the people of Earth and the
story is thrilling. Standouts are -and
I have saved the best for last: James Joyce’s
short story collection, Dubliners. These stories are not hard to read and they concern
themselves with ordinary people dealing
with ordinary facets of life. They are among
some of the finest and most interesting short
stories written in the English language.
In Dubliners you can read as perfect a short
story as has ever been written in The Dead.
My favorite is Araby. It never fails to engage
me. All of these stories are about people
who live in Dublin and in that sense this
collection is much
like The Martian
Chronicles. All of
the stories are related but not connected as if chapters
in a novel. There is
an interesting and
true story about the last story in the collection. As it has always been published,
the last story is The Dead but Joyce had another one planned as the last “chapter.” It
was to be called Ulysses and featured the
wanderings through Dublin of a character
named Leopold Bloom. Joyce decided to
set it aside and work on it at a later date.
He thought it was too long to call a short
story and, it turns out, he was right. Dubliners is a tour de force.
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Speaking It Into Existence
and Friday or is he speaking it into existence?
There is an old theory that goes, “How
You Speak Becomes Your Reality.” Are
you living this theory right now? Listen
to the content of what you say. Do the
words you speak match the life you live?
There is a very close relationship between the words you speak and the life
you live. How you speak becomes your
reality.
I’ll bet your Mondays and your Fridays
reflect exactly what you say about them.
The world listens and people listen to
what you say. If you tell people over and
over that Mondays stink, you are simply
planting the Mondays stink seed. Choose
your words carefully. How you speak becomes your reality.
I know a guy, for example, that hates
Mondays. He thinks Mondays “stink.”
Thinking it isn’t enough, he has to tell the
whole world how bad Mondays “stink”.
Nothing ever goes right for him on Mondays and he wishes they didn’t even exist. Week in and week out his Mondays
are horrendous. Conversely, the same
guy loves Fridays. It is his favorite day of
the week and he tells everyone. Is there
that big of difference between Monday
If the content of your words stink, chances are your life stinks. If the content of
your words are bright, there is a good
chance that your life is bright. Recognize
the relationship between the words you
speak and the life you live. If you want
to change your life, you’ll have to make
a conscious effort to change how you
speak. Try screaming at the top of your
lungs how much you love Mondays and
see if you can speak that into existence.
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HOLY GOD, JEFF, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING
24
Life Stiles
Back in the Palm of My Hand
Ever had one of those days when everything just seemed to go wrong? Well, I had
the unfortunate experience of having one
of those days recently.
The weekend before that particular Monday seemed ideal enough. After attending
a fun-loving house party at the home of
Ron and Jennifer Tigges (where I learned
to play Guitar Hero and scored 100%
on a couple songs I’d never before even
heard), my wife and I headed to Galena
Sunday evening for more fun at a late-inthe-season work-sponsored holiday event
at an upscale B&B.
After yet another high-spirited evening of
music, refreshments and games, Mindy
and I headed upstairs to a plush guest suite
at Merry on Main Guesthouse. The room
temperature was perfect, the mattress was
posh, and the comforter was identical to
the one Mindy enjoyed so much at Clarke
Manor two months ago.
Right away I began recalling the times
my Palm had come in handy in just the
past 24 hours. It rang (whoops!) during
church to remind me of a phone call I
had to make. I looked up a memo on it
during lunch to recall the Spanish pronunciation of the jalapeño appetizer I
order every time I visit Salsa’s. We used
it to locate 303 N. Main Street in Galena
when we drove to our party location the
night before. And I had even shown
a few people at the party—to
my wife’s chagrin—my
senior college photo
that shows yours
truly sporting a
mullet.
It was only when we ventured outside to
place our belongings in our Pathfinder the
following day that events began to head
south. And the $15 parking ticket on our
windshield that morning wasn’t the only
reason. As I opened the rear door to put
my suitcase into the back, my PalmPilot
went THUNK as it landed hard on the icecovered pavement.
“That wasn’t good,” I calmly stated as I
quickly retrieved my PDA and began wiping off the snow and ice. The memory card
had popped out, so before reinserting it
into the Palm I wiped the guck on my coat
and blew the ice out of the slot.
“Yuck,” I said a little less calmly as I began
spitting salty guck out of my mouth. “That
wasn’t too bright.”
When I turned my Palm back on, it was
obvious things weren’t right. The touchscreen was not working at all. Mindy
began experimenting with it as we drove
back to Dubuque. My wife—who is normally good at fixing things I screw up—
eventually handed the instrument back to
me without any success. And I naturally
began fearing the worst.
Of course, the $400 I paid for the device
three years ago wasn’t my worst worry.
No, the loss of the three years of my life
that were loaded onto it—including photos, music, videos, GPS routes, schedules
and memos—would be quite devastating.
Once I arrived at my office later that day,
I performed Google searches for local repair centers. No luck. I fiddled with the
device myself. No luck. The only hopeful moment of the morning was when I
called a local pawnshop and asked my
friend Stanley if he knew what I should
do.
“Bring it in later today and I’ll take a look
at it,” Stanley said. It was several hours
later before I had a chance to drive over
to American Pawn, and large snowflakes
were already beginning to fall down
from the sky on that Monday afternoon.
But once I arrived in the shop—and Stanley arrived 20 minutes later—he took
one look at my device and asked, “You
dropped it into a puddle of salt, didn’t
you?”
Yes, Stanley showed how corrosion was
already starting to form on the metal
contacts of the memory card and the
JAN 22 - FEB 4
cable input of the device. A few wipes
of Windex and he suddenly handed my
“repaired” Palm back to me.
“Wow, that’s all it took?” I asked with a
look of surprise and a huge smile of appreciation. “No problem,” Stanley responded. “Just bring me a present someday.”
I was walking nearly four inches above
the freshly fallen snow as I strolled back
to my car—although my demeanor
changed a bit when I suddenly realized
my VW Jetta
had blown some fuses, and I wouldn’t
have the use of my CD player or windshield wipers for the duration of the day.
Oh well, at least my car’s heat and headlights—the most important functions of a
Midwest vehicle in January—weren’t affected by this electrical mishap. And best
of all, my life was now back in the Palm
of my hand.
(Ed. note: That picture of Jeff Stiles is indeed legitimate and authentic. Do not
reproduce that photo from these pages,
or else Jeff will come after us, make us
know pain, make us know fear, and then
... well, you don’t want to know!)
LEMONHEADS AND SWEET-TARTS OR BUST, BABY!
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
Oranges Heart “Apeel”
Your Hy-Vee dietitians want to help you
find a healthy new you. They have developed a program that helps you begin
a new way of living. It will give you
new insights and ways to understand
your current lifestyle choices and begin
to improve them. It helps you gain control over the multitude of temptations we
face every day.
We want to help you end the days of
sleeping through your planned morning
workout; end the days of wondering who
used to wear those size 10 jeans in your
closet; end the days of loosening your
belt yet another notch. It’s time. Your
time…to begin!
Begin helps you learn what to eat and
when to eat. Begin shows you new ways
to move your body through exercise,
your mind through health education and
your spirit through accomplishments.
Begin is a ten-week lifestyle management program with an emphasis on
weight management, fitness and eating
for good health. Every session is led by a
Hy-Vee registered dietitian - a true expert
in healthy living. You will initially meet
privately with the dietitian to set personal
goals. After that, you meet weekly in a
group to learn about healthy lifestyles
and encourage each other to begin to
improve their choices.
The ten weeks are chock-full of information, like Simple Secrets to Staying Slim,
Focus on Fitness, Regulating Food Intake,
Managing a Plateau, Healthy Cooking,
Food and Mood, and more.
Call your local Hy-Vee and ask about
class schedules and registration. If your
Hy-Vee does not have its own registered
dietitian, go to www.hy-veehealth.com
and click on the Find a Hy-Vee Dietitian
Near You icon.
Begin is a new way to a healthier, happier you! It’s your time…to begin!
RECIPE
Be healthy. Be fit.
Be happy.
Begin!
Beef & Veggie Skillet Stir-Fry
All you need:
1 1/4 pound boneless beef top sirloin steak
2 tsp dark sesame oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 medium red bell pepper, cut into thin
strips
3 tbsp reduced-sodium soy sauce, divided
2 tbsp water
3 c. coarsely chopped fresh spinach
1/2 c. sliced green onions
2 tbsp ketchup
2 c. hot cooked instant brown rice
All you do:
Cut beef steak lengthwise in half and
then crosswise into 1/4-inch strips.
During the cold winter months, oranges
and other citrus fruits are a favorite fresh
fruit for many people. Oranges now
come in many different colors and flavors and are at their peak for flavor during the winter. And if you’re looking for a
budget-friendly food that is also healthy,
oranges top the list this time of year.
Oranges have a lot of health “apeel” for
the heart. Just one orange has only 60
calories and will meet an entire day’s
worth of vitamin C requirements. Some
research has shown people with high
vitamin C blood levels also have higher
HDL (good) cholesterol levels. Oranges
are also rich in folate and potassium,
both nutrients found to have a role in
heart health. The three grams of fiber
from each orange includes soluble fiber, which may help lower
cholesterol.
But the health benefits aren’t
just for the heart. Oranges
also contain flavonoids
and
terpenes,
which
have shown to help protect against cancer. And
some recent studies have
found when people eat an
orange, they report feeling
full longer and end up eating fewer calories.
Oranges are picked ripe and
ready-to-eat. Choose firm orang-
es that are heavy for their size, as heavier
oranges will have more juice. Oranges
can be stored on the counter for 10 days
to two weeks, or in the fridge for up to
three weeks.
Enjoy a fresh Waldorf salad using oranges:
RECIPE
Toss with sesame oil and garlic.
Heat large nonstick skillet over mediumhigh heat until hot.
Add beef, half at a time, and stir-fry 1 to
2 minutes or until outside surface is no
longer pink. Remove from skillet.
In same skillet, add bell pepper, 2 tablespoons soy sauce and water. Cook 2 to 3
minutes or until pepper is crisp-tender.
Add spinach and green onion and cook
until spinach is just wilted.
Stir in ketchup, remaining 1 tablespoon
soy sauce and beef. Heat through.
Serve over rice.
Orange Waldorf Salad
Serves 6
All you need:
1 cup pineapple tidbits, drained
1 apple, cored and cut into bite-size
chunks
1 stalk celery, sliced
3 oranges, peeled and segments cut into
bite-size chunks
1 container (6 oz) fat-free orange yogurt
1 tbsp honey
½ cup walnut pieces
All you do:
In a medium bowl, combine pineapple,
apple, celery and oranges.
In a separate bowl, stir together yogurt
and honey.
Pour yogurt over fruit mixture; stir gently
to coat. Top with walnuts.
Serve immediately.
THIS COLUMN PUT THAT DARNED SONG IN MY HEAD. ARGH!
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
share with you during a recent adventure is ‘R’ Place in downtown Masonville, Iowa, population 104. Masonville
is the hometown of former University
of Iowa football and current NFL star
Robert Gallery. For those of you GPS
dependents, forget it, Masonville never
registered on our Garmin (and it’s a new
one). Masonville is 53 miles due west
of Dubuque, between Manchester and
Independence, 1 mile north of old highway 20. ‘R’ Place is located on Barrett
Street directly across from the Post Office.
‘R’Place in Masonville, IA
Not even the Garmin could find it, but the
onion rings were worth the trip!
In the instinctive human quest for nutrition, we all find ourselves satisfied with
different personal standards of culinary
excellence, or lack thereof. To that end,
we naturally gravitate to places where we
are most comfortable, and over time, we
compile our own lists of favorite foods. If
someone should ever ask me for directions
to some place in the Tri-State Area, I tend
to rely on landmarks where I had a great
hamburger, wonderful fish, or, in this case,
excellent onion rings. My favorite places
to eat never seem to be fancy places or
places not many folks (outside of the locals) have heard about. I particularly enjoy
exploring unincorporated municipalities.
Get me into the hinterlands where there’s
a little ‘mom-and-pop’ establishment supported by loyal local patrons that seem to
know plain and simple good food when
they taste it, and I’m in my element. Good
word of mouth gets me in the door, and
often this is substantiated by a line waiting for tables. Somehow I know I have arrived.
A quaint little restaurant that I’d like to
We arrived early as the “first seating”
was beginning to assemble, however
when we left about 90 minutes later, every table was occupied and there was
a sizable line waiting for tables even
though outside temperatures were in the
mid-teens. Quite a compliment to Barb
and Chuck Rettinger, who have owned
‘R’ Place for over 25 years. I’m guessing
that Chuck is the collector of toy trucks because they are used to decorate the joint
everywhere you look.
‘R’ Place has been recommended for years
by a friend who lives in Independence.
She’s always praised their fried fish; however, she has also admitted an addiction to
their sweet vinegar-based cole slaw. Upon
initial entry and recovery from the savory
aroma of the deep fryer, I noticed tall stacks
of homemade, hand-dipped onion rings
on practically every table. At first I thought
they were floral arrangements. My first
response was WOW! For the record, the
onion rings alone are worth the trip.
Even though we came for the Friday night
fish fry, we were not averse to any other
menu discoveries like the popular “Broasted Chicken.” Meals come with that fantastic cole slaw and either French fries or
homemade potato salad. Oh, and the potato salad is a winner.
Let ‘R Place be your place. You can go for
the delicious fish, or you can go for the
solidly good chicken, but oooohhhh, those
onion rings!
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Dr. Skrap’s completely useless
Warning: Taking Trixie’s advice seriously is a sure
sign that you need some actual counseling. Find a real
doctor for that. This is an entertainment magazine, folks.
Dear Trixie:
Ever since I was 10 I wanted to go to Hollywood and be
famous. I’ll be 18 next month and when I told my parents
I was moving to California they just laughed. I know I can
do it! My problem is I don’t know how to dance or act and
I can’t play any instrument. I just have this gut feeling that
someday everyone will know who I am. Trixie, do you believe in me?
--L.A. Is My Lady
Dear L.A.:
Of course I do! You don’t need to act or sing or dance to
make the big time -- just kill somebody famous. Ask Mark
David Chapman or Charlie Manson. If you do it in a horrifyingly gruesome way they’ll make movies and write books
about you! Everyone will know your name! Pamela Anderson lives in Malibu. 19940 Pacific Coast Highway. Good
luck, dear.
Dear Trixie:
I hate my job. Every morning I wake up depressed and wish
I had died in my sleep. Then I have to drive my piece-ofcrap Neon to my stupid job and take all kinds of abuse from
my clients. What can I do to feel better about my life?
--Heidi on Hale Street
Dear Heidi:
Start your day by humiliating a co-worker who is weaker
than you. Then start drinking.
Dear Trixie:
I keep having the same type of dream. I don’t feel like I’m
getting the rest I need. Someone told me that all dreams
have some sort of hidden meaning. If that is true maybe you
could interpret it for me. Okay, here goes-- I’m on a train
eating a cucumber salad and the steward brings me a bottle
of Miller Lite. All of a sudden we go through a tunnel and
my beer explodes. Do you think it’s sexual?
--Dick On Main
Dear Richard:
Of course it’s not sexual. I have train dreams all the time
and there’s nothing wrong with me. I often dream that I
am a train and I’ve jumped the tracks and about to slam
into a preschool. Your dream is about your love of vegetables and your fear of rail travel and the wasting of perfectly good beer.
Dear Trixie:
I have just gotten back into the dating scene after 25 years of
marriage. I am about the oldest woman at the clubs. Everything seems to be geared around the celebration of youth. I
don’t feel old but I feel too old to wear low rider jeans and
pierce some new part of my anatomy. I am fifty and hate
telling anyone I am that old. I wish I were forty.
--Marion in Marion
Dear Marion:
Don’t sweat it, Sweetie. You still are forty. You’re just forty
and 120 months.
HOROSCOPES
ARIES You have long been a productive and reliable employee,
but with the lack of new work for your firm this month due to
the economic slowdown, since you are the first to get your work
done, you will be the first to get fired. Congratulations! Welcome
to business 101 for the 21st century.
TAURUS That soda pop froze and exploded in your cold garage
weeks ago. That you didn’t clean it up while it was still frozen
solid is your own fault, so shut up.
PUZZLE ANSWERS from page 27
Sudoku
Tri-Doku
Cryptoquip
Crossword
GEMINI Barack Obama has been president for about five seconds and your Rush Limbaugh / Bill O’Reilly-loving friends have
already started writing you moronic e-mails informing you that
everything wrong with the economy since Jan. 20th is all the
Democrats’ fault. Don’t argue. It’s not that you can’t win, it’s that
they can’t realize they’ve lost.
CANCER Your Democrat friend has just given you condolences
on your crushing defeat. Take solace. There will soon be a glut
of conservative humor-based news shows on the air to keep you
company now that John Stewart no longer has an endless stream
of Bush/Cheney fodder to feed from. Besides, you’ve got Nancy
Pelosi and Harry Reid in control of the house.
LEO You are sick and tired of shoveling snow. A solution presents itself. Start having babies five years apart. It won’t be of a
lot of use for the next decade. But after that, you should have a
built-in snow/lawnmowing workforce for at least 15 years. Until
then, exchange students!
Even Exchange
Mega
Maze
VIRGO Punt.
LIBRA It’s true that those pants didn’t make you look fat, but
that’s before you were pushin’ maximum density inside of them.
Obama brought change, my friend, but not all change is good.
The answer you are looking for is celery.
SCORPIO Back up. You are completely deadlocked between
choosing the Hawaiian flair bowling team uniforms and jazzinspired shirts of the Miami retirement community scene. The big
problem is that you are wearing a bowling uniform.
SAGITTARIUS You wouldn’t put an orangutan in charge of a
community of chimpanzees just because they are all pretty much
monkeys and assume that orangutans know what chimps do,
would you? Think about it and tell the big dumb ape to stuff that
banana, unless that ape is you.
CAPRICORN Due to the state of the economy, before you ask
the new special girl out for Valentine’s Day, get something in
writing guaranteeing something in return for your investment. If
she slaps you, she’s not the one. If she looks at you sternly but
gives the guarantee, she is frugal and realistic but also just a little
bit loose. She’s a keeper! Ladies, it’s a tough year. If you want to
find love in 2009, bring a pen.
AQUARIUS Memorize a painfully complex paragraph of technical jargon and keep it handy. When they come to tell you you’re
laid-off, tell them you understand then dump that paragraph on
them and tell them to make sure it’s handled properly or it could
bring down the whole company. Smile and walk out the door.
PISCES Put all your money on the Cardinals because the Steelers are just too easy and you’re no sissy--ARE YOU?
THE ANSWERS Questions on Page 6
1. C) James Buchanan was a bachelor.
Clinton just lived like one.
2. D) 4 Presidents were assassinated:
Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.
3. D) 8 presidents were born British
subjects.
4. A) Those darned Episcopalians!
5. D) Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
6. A) Grover Cleveland served before
and after Benjamin Harrison.
7. C) Nelson Rockefeller was appointed
by v.p. by Gerald Ford who was himself appointed upon the exit of Spiro
Agnew.
8. Frisky old John Adams had 15 kids.
9. C) Adams and Jefferson actually died
on the same day. Monroe was the other.
Coolidge was born on the 4th.
10. Eight died in office. W. Harrison,
Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley,
Harding, F. Roosevelt and Kennedy.
NEED TO MOVE? JUST LOOK IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER!
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JAN 22 - FEB 4
for Humanity program. In
Berkeley, California, she
helped local and regional
governments adopt and
implement green procurement policies and programs as part of the Green
Purchasing Institute. She
also researched and wrote
a book on biomass as a local source of renewable
fuel for heating homes and
businesses while working
for Century Farm Harvest
Heat in Iowa City.
Samuelson found the Presidio MBA program and saw a natural fit.
“One of the founding faculty of the program is one of my heroes, Hunter Lovins,
who co-wrote Natural Capitalism,” she
said. “So I felt like that would be a great
opportunity for me. I did it and it was
really in that program that this idea of
what Mike mentioned, the definition of
sustainability for the community here –
which is a fantastic definition – includes
the environment, the social, and the economic factors – all three together. I always knew that in learning about
sustainability, but I really started to
understand how important it was
to have each of those three things
in place while I was in school at
this MBA program. … And that’s
when I really started to understand
the importance of the environmental, the economic, and the social
components of sustainability. Now
helping communities be fantastic
places to live, where people can
really thrive has been a passion of
mine for a long time.”
Even before taking the position
in Dubuque, Samuelson has put
her expertise to work providing sustainability consulting for
the San Francisco Department of
the Environment Green Business
Certification Program as well as
for San Francisco’s Architecture
She says she’s proud of the
progressive work Dubuque
is doing as a good example
for Iowa and thinks that
many businesses and corporations are coming around
to more sustainable ways
of thinking and doing business. “Making a sustainable
decision is often the smart
decision financially, or the
smart decision in general,”
she relates. “A lot of times
you have to look at not the
short-term economic impacts of a purchasing decision, or a program decision, but if you take a long view
and look at the lifetime value of that decision. A lot of times the sustainable choice
is actually the one that makes the most
sense. And that is what businesses and the
corporate world is really starting to understand. It makes good business sense.”
It certainly does. As members of the broader Dubuque community, 365 is proud of
the commitment to sustainability by our
city government and business partners and
happy to have such a dedicated person In
Sheila Samuelson working to help make
sustainability work.
WEEKLY COMEDY IS BACK, BABY! WOOOO!
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January 23rd: Pass the Gavel. Cost is
$15, includes buffet meal. Come join us
as the 2008 Board of Directors passes
responsibilities off to the 2009 Board.
This semi-formal event will be at the
National Mississippi River Museum this
year and it is rumored we will have access to the whole museum - including
the otters!
Jan 29th:-General membership meeting
@ Clubroom.
Chris “Boom Boom” Johnson
Wednesday, January 28, 8p.m.
Mississippi Moon Bar (Diamond Jo)
Big Wheels, Twister, Clue and Lawn
Darts ... Welcome to Chris Johnson’s
world. These are some of the experiences (real and imagined) that have helped
shape Chris Johnson into the offbeat, high-energy electric
comic he is today.
Michael Winslow
Wednesday, February 4, 8 p.m.
The Man of 1,000 Voices returns to
Dubuque! Tri-State audiences will remember Winslow from his roles in the
Police Academy series, a cameo in
Spaceballs, and his unparalleled ability to recreate seemingly any sound effect in existence. Do not miss this show!
Tim Cavanagh
Wednesday, February 11, 8 p.m.
So, did you hear the one about the high
school teacher who walked into a comedy club--and they hired him? That’s
where the Tim Cavanagh comedy story
begins. Known for his humorous songs!
GARY OLSEN’S
HIGHER EDUCATION
January 31st: Year end All State in
Marshalltown. Come down and support Mark Welbes as he becomes our
‘09 Iowa Jaycees State President! Cost:
$60.00 full registration, $30.00 Sat. night
dinner only. RSVP to Amanda Brewer
[email protected].
Jaycees wishing to be involved with
the Toys For Tots project in Dubuque,
contact Bryce Parks (563-590-3840) or
Christy Monk (563-580-1115). This is
not Jaycees Toys For Kids, this is the actual Marines Toys For Tots effort.
www.DubuqueJaycees.org
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COMEDY
NIGHTLIFE
MOVIES
Funnyness we found on the Interweb
WHAT IF YOU PREFER TO BE AN ALL-NIGHT ROLLER?
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180 Main Entertainment
Casethejoint’s Birthday Bash
With Shaffer The Darklord, Coolzey, Imperfekt, and Old Panther
Our buddy casethejoint kicks off the Midwest “Minotaur Mini-tour” with Schaffer
the Darklord, Coolzey, and Imperfekt
with a show at 180 Main on February
5 that also happens to be a celebration
of his birthday. In addition to Case and
his rhyming cohorts, the “Birthday Bash”
will also include “the rock” in the form of
Old Panther, recently back from a Midwest tour of their own. Casethejoint is
of course Dubuque’s busiest word artist
and hip-hop promoter, having performed
many times on the 180 Main stage, from
Readings Under the Influence to a variety
of hip-hop showcase events. Case has
also traveled a bit, competing in poetry
slams and giving audiences a taste of his
literate and witty rhymes in Milwaukee,
Phoenix, and Denver, where he was runner-up in the 2003 Elemental Flavors MC
Battle.
Case will be joined by Shaffer the Darklord (a.k.a. STD), a New York City-based
rapper and comedian. A former drummer in a San Francisco noise metal band,
Shaffer writes and recites awesomely ridiculous raps about cat people, nerd lust,
Jesus zombies, and “post-apocalyptic
clone sex.” Articulate and intelligent,
he is just geeky enough to rap about
the importance of enunciation, spelling, and punctuation and actually mean
it. His online bio asks us to imagine “a
Frankenstein-esque monster assembled
from equal parts Prince, Ozzy Osbourne,
Bill Hicks, Eminem and Darth Vader.” To
say he has a dark sense of humor would
be putting it mildly. Rounding out the
lineup will be Iowa City MC, beat-master,
turntable wizard, and multi-instrumentalist Coolzey and Cedar Rapids-based MC,
producer, and Mic Hand Recordings label
chief Imperfekt. From Case’s B-day show,
the Minotaur Mini-tour rolls down to the
Iowa City/Cedar Rapids corridor for shows
at the Picador and Pub Mitchell, respectively. But why drive? Catch the tour right
here.
Strange Arrangement
Friday, February 6
While a four-piece band featuring drums,
bass, guitar and keys might not seem to
be all that strange of an arrangement, the
Chicago band earns its name when they
begin playing the above listed instruments.
Self-described as progressive-indie-psychedelic, Strange Arrangement might take
the occasional cue from prog-rockers like
King Crimson and maybe even Pink Floyd
at times, but with a much lighter approach
(you don’t have to be a disaffected paranoid loner or music major to get it). Their
catchy original songs meld a few pop
hooks and some groovy funk fusion giving
the mix a little more bounce. While their
playing hints at jazz-worthy chops, Strange
Arrangement is way too focused to be just
a jam band. It is indeed a strange arrangement.
James Kinds & the All Night Riders
If you’re into old school blues, soul, and
rock-n-roll, you need to see and hear James
Kinds & The All Night Riders. From Mississippi to Chicago, Kansas City to California,
Kinds has worked with Howlin’ Wolf, Junior
Wells, Ike Turner, Bobby Rush, and Willie
Dixon. Seriously. Finally recognized for
his contributions to the form, Kinds was
inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame
this fall. Still he delivers the straight up real
and raw blues with the band laying down a
groove perfect not only for Kinds’ amazing
voice, but also drinking, dancing, or just
stomping your foot along with the beat.
You should probably pick up a copy the
latest CD Don’t Get It Twisted, as well.
Mark your calendars…
For Friday, February 13, for the funky hiphop of The Uniphonics, and Saturday, February 14, for the return of JC Brooks and
The Uptown Sound. Check back with us
‘cause there’s even more on the way (another Burnside y’all!), but I’ve already used
up more room than I’m probably allowed.
(Ed. Tim: You did, Mike. You horrible jerk.)

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