MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC....FOUR DAYS OF MUSIC!!  MARCH 1 - 4!!  Just when we should be thanking Ashley Lawrence for TEN incredible years of music and fun, he gives us a FOUR DAY WEEKEND OF.........M U S I C ! !  And in true Sandy Hook form, Ashely brings us an incredible variety of ROCK to celebrate!  Punk, Blues, Metal, Modern, Classic....covers and originals....an entire weekend of ROCK!  Thank you Ashley and Happy Anniversary!! 

Aries 3/21-4/19 
While it’s often said that you need to be yourself, if “yourself” means you’re a 35-year-old My Little Pony fan posting about it on the Internet, it may be time to re-examine your priorities. Especially if you’re a dude.

Taurus  4/20-5/20 
Yeah, you screwed up Valentine’s Day, and you got your special someone a bottle of Mad Dog 20 / 20 instead of a nice dinner, flowers and all that. Look on the bright side, though: Now that they’ve left you, the Mad Dog will get you nice and drunk for dirt-cheap.

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In three years of hosting the 365 Impact Awards, the event has really become quite the shindig. The overwhelming response to the first three 365 Impact Awards Shows was more than we at 365 had ever expected. In fact we still hear from our winners that receiving the Impact Award has helped them recruit members, grow their business, motivate their teams and for almost all of them that it just felt great to know that the community appreciates their hard work. First time attendees always comment that the can’t believe they have not been to the event before and can’t wait to do it again next year. Well friends, next year is here.

Downton Abbey is back on PBS for a second season! The popular British series explores the social and technological change during the period surrounding WWI from the perspective of country home's residents and staff. If you missed the first season (or want to be on the list for season two), you can place a hold in the Carnegie-Stout Public Library's catalog or watch online at PBS (including bonus features).
If you're one of the many caught up in the drama and romance of Downtown Abbey, the staff at Carnegie-Stout had put together a list of other books and programs that you may enjoy. Click the title for the suggested reading list!

Dear Trixie, 
I am a sad and single man in my mid twenties. I can’t seem to find the woman I am supposed to marry and be with the rest of my life.  I am in good health and have an interesting career and earn a nice living. I should be happy.  I just feel alone and unloved. I see these happy loving couples strolling hand in hand and it shoots a pain into my heart. Here it is Valentine’s Day and I have no one to send flowers to.  And I probably never will. Help!
--Profoundly Single

Dear Profoundly Single, 
Don’t let it make you feel alone and unloved and full of despair. You are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Whenever I see those happy couples holding hands in public and gazing  at each other with rapturous intensity I know that this represents only 1% of their relationship. The other 99% is spent being resentful, angry and generally disgusted with their beloved’s personal habits. They say horribly cruel things to each other and heap guilt and recriminations at every opportunity.  Then they lie next to each other in bed stiff with loathing while not having sex. Single is not so bad.

It's like a Christmas bomb blew up or something. Get the lowdown on all the remaining Holiday events in the area still to come. Take a tour inside both the new home of Uncle Ike's Music as well as the all new Marella Gift Shop in the Roshek Building. Argosy dines out in Galena at One Eleven Main, plus all of your favorite columns by Pam Kress-Dunn, Books with Bob Gelms, Trixie Kitsch's Bad Advice, good advice from the Hy-Vee Health Market ladies and Sara from Steve's Ace Home and Garden, Bryce's Inkubator, Mattitude and so much more. Find you free copy all over the tri-states or click here to download the whole issue (and every issue of 365ink ever, online right now!

When Chocolaterie Stam opened this summer in the Main Street storefront formerly occupied by Café Manna Java (269 Main Street) it created kind of a buzz downtown.  There were plenty of questions.  What kind of place is it?  What is gelato?  To what does that name refer and how do you pronounce it?  Click the title for the answers to these and many more decadent questions in the 365ink feature story and photos by Mike Ironside.

82 patron votes and $850 sent two winning Art Gumbo projects out the door with funding for their "what's next?" to impact the arts in Dubuque. Perhaps the most all-arts-encompassing funding round yet, the proposals covered music, exhibition, film, a community-based art club, and a literary zine. Hempstead High School and the Julien International Film Festival were the big winners of the evening, but it was probably the Dubuque community who really won on this night. Click here for more on the night on Art Gumbo's Blog. And click here for more photos from the event.

One of the great performers at this year’s Rock and Roll Rewind was so moved by the reunion event that he was to put his toughts to paper and share them with 365ink. We were going to save those thoughts (and we still will) to use next year as we try to explain to our readers just how cool this event is for the performers and the spectators. We are very sad to report just a month after sharing his story with us, writer John Walachy passed away on Sunday, leaving a legacy a great music and now, these words to sum-up the profound impact that this last gig with the boys had on him. We think it will strike a chord with you too…

A Voice from the Warehouse:
Photographer, Artist and Storyteller of Hope
Mike McCaskey of Chicago Illinois By Brad Parks
There are a dozen good reasons to be attendance at the open night of Voices this year but let me give you four more. Four stories of hope and endurance that transcend destiny itself, each made possible by one remarkable man’s choice to leave behind every advantage of wealth, education and status over 30 years ago to serve those who had nothing but their own courage and will to succeed. Click the title for the rest of the story...