A NEW EL GRITO * RECALLING 9/11 * HIGH HOLY DAYS * BILL'S COFFEESHOP NEWSLETTER * Vol. 11 * Sept. 10, 2010
SEPT. 16 IS MEXICAN
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Thursday, Sept. 16 is the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence. The day marks the beginning of the Mexican struggle for independence from Spain. It was on Sept. 16 in 1810 that Miguel Hidalgo, a parish priest in the town of Dolores, called on citizens to rise up against the Spanish. His speech, called "El Grito" -- the cry -- is reenacted each year in celebrations throughout Mexico and in communities all over the US. For more background on Mexican Independence Day, check this website: www.mexonline.com.
LISTENING TO A
NEW 'EL GRITO'
July 4 and Sept. 16. These are the independence days of two United States -- United States of America and the United States of Mexico. These are the days we profess our faith in human freedom. We recall our founding fathers and mothers saying that all are entitled to independence -- to free speech, free press and more.
Yet too often our professed belief in freedom seems not to apply to young people. For example, we talk about the importance of free speech. But too often we caution young people not to speak their minds too freely or too loudly.
We talk about freedom of assembly. But we tell young people not to linger too long at street corners or shopping malls. And if they gather in their cars, we try to disperse them quickly.
We talk about freedom of the press. But too often we try to control the newspapers, magazines and websites young people have created so they can be heard.
We talk about justice and independence for all, but we too often ignore young people when they point out injustice around them.
So then they ask us: What good is freedom if you won't give it to us? And if we have no voice, why should we care about anything.
WHAT WE are hearing is a new "El Grito" -- a cry to be heard, to be respected. A cry for freedom. If we listen closely, we can hear familiar themes.
Young people ask us for hope when they see the despair of poverty and homelessness around us. They ask us for peace when they see the violence and fear which plagues too many of our neighborhoods.
They ask us for some passion, some indignance when they tell us stories of intolerance and injustice.
Can we hear them? Can we listen to their dreams? Can we tell them that these have been our dreams, too.
Can we respond with strength when that's needed; can we respond with tears when that's best.
These young voices are calling us to a new revolution. It is a "Grito de Los Ninos." Isn't it wonderful to know that these voices are the voices of our children.
Can we answer these voices? Can we say to every young person -- you do matter and we care, too. And there are things we can do together to make this world a better place.
Each time we do that, I think we are teaching more about independence than any celebration on July 4 or Sept. 16. In fact, I think each time we do that we have more impact than an entire year of US history.
How will we know what to say? That's easy. We just recall what was said to us when we were asking those same questions and justice and peace just a short time ago.
-- Tom Gilsenan
SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERTS
RETURN THIS WEEKEND
Guitarist Jeff Leonard is the performer for the Saturday, Sept. 11 concert at Uptown Bill's, 730 S. Dubuque. 7 to 9 pm. This the first in the series of Saturday Night Concerts at Uptown Bill's. Coming Sept. 18: Iowa Friends of Old Time Music.present a Fiddlers Showcase.
RAMADAN ENDS
WITH FESTIVAL
Ramadan, a month of prayer and fasting, ends this weekend. The Eid festival marks the end of Ramadan. For more background on this Muslim Festival of Peace, click on this link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spirituality/speaking-tree/Eid-festival-of-peace-/articleshow/6524788.cms
FIRST ROSH HASHANAH,
THEN YOM KIPPUR
We're right in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days. This is the week of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Next is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins at sundown on Friday, Sept. 17. For lots of information about these and other Jewish holidays, plus recipes and discussions, check out "The Jew and the Carrot" web page: http://jcarrot.org
POETRY MARATHON RUNS
THROUGH HALLOWEEN
Sackter House Media, one of the enterprises hosted by Uptown Bill's, is sponsoring the Iowa City Poetry Marathon. The project, which continues through Oct. 31, has a goal of creating 10,000 pages of poetry in 100 days. For more details, check this website: www.iowacitypoetrymarathon.com. You can check out Sackter House Media at: www.sackterhousemedia.org.
BILL/BILL ON HIS OWN
ARE OUT OF PRINT
DVD Copies of "Bill" and "Bill On His Own" aren't available at this time. That's the word from Navarre Corp., the Minneapolis company which has distributed both films. The firm which was manufacturing the DVDs went out of business last year. Videotape versions of the two movies have not been available for years. You may find a copy on Amazon or Ebay, but those are likely to be very expensive.
ART & MUSIC NIGHTS
START ON THURSDAY
A series of Art & Music Nights starts this Thursday, Sept. 16 at Uptown Bill's. These evenings are designed to include people from all parts of the community in evenings of art and music. Each evening has a theme; this Thursday the theme is: Edible Art. Participants will be able to make and eat art, including cookie decorating and other projects. Some materials will be provided; you are welcome to bring your own. There will be stations for "edible art" and stations for more conventional art projects, including coloring and painting.
Music will be provided by Scotty Hayward, the Kalimbaman. You are welcome to bring instruments along and play with him, particularly string and percussion instruments.
For more information, check the Facebook page for Uptown Bill's or call (319) 339-0401. Remember Bill's has moved to a new location at 730 S. Dubuque.
AN INVITATION FROM
EXTEND THE DREAM
Uptown Bill's is a project of the Extend the Dream Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Iowa City and governed by a volunteer board of directors. The board is currently recruiting new members and is looking particularly for someone who is interested in Uptown Bill's and would be willing to be a board member and secretary. As a board member you would attend monthly meetings of the executive committee and quarterly meetings of the entire board. As secretary you would be responsible for taking minutes at meetings and distributing these to board members. Interested? Send an email to Mercedes Bern-Klug: mercedes-bern-klug@uiowa.edu. Thank you.
REMEMBERING 9/11 AT
BILL'S COFFEESHOP
ONE AMAZING part of Bill's Coffeeshop is the role it plays at moments of great triumph and great despair. That was certainly evident on Sept. 11, 2001 when the coffeeshop filled up with people who wanted to be with each other at that terrible moment. The issue of the Newsletter published shortly after captured some of the conversations from that day:
REFLECTIONS ON THE TERROR AND
TRAGEDY OF THIS PAST WEEK
Words do not come easily when we are faced with horror as large as that of
this past week. It is a tragedy far too big for our words.
Yet there is an urge to speak. Perhaps it is a way to try to make
sense of what seems senseless. Each day and each night we have heard people
near and far try to do this. Here is a sampling of the voices we have heard
since last Tuesday, Sept. 11.
+From the Bill's Coffeeshop project in Italy...
Carissimi Amici, 11 Settembre ha lasciato un mondo diverso. Non ho parole.
Sono vicino a voi tutti. Che la speranza non ci abbandoni.
-- Giovanni Ardissone
(Sept. 11 has shaken the whole world. I do not have words. We are with
you. Do not give up hope. Giovanni.)
+From Maria Kummer, coordinator of the local Million Mom March chapter...
We did have a Million Mom March table on the Ped Mall on Friday. We put up a
large poster that said: "Alternatives to violence/Compassion for victims and
families." ...We wanted to be a peaceful presence and give people an
opportunity to talk.
+From young people who organized a memorial downtown on the Ped Mall....
The way to have peace is to be peaceful
+From Craig Mosher, who teaches social work at Iowa State..
[Craig forwarded a petition on responses to terrorism. This is an excerpt]
We implore the powers that be to use, wherever possible, international
judicial institutions and international human rights law to bring to
justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than instruments of war
violence or destruction.
+From Michael Lerner, Jewish rabbi and editor of Tikkun magazine...
We should pray for the victims and the families of those who have been
hurt or murdered in these crazy acts. We should also pray that America
does not return to "business as usual," but rather turns to a period of
reflection, coming back into touch with our common humanity, asking
ourselves how our institutions can best embody our highest values.
+From Bob Vander Beek in the school of social work...
I think Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is especially important this
year. We have immediate reason to celebrate the dead while celebrating
living. The task of building respect and love between communities seems to
me to have become all the more important.
+From Lynn Mennenga, an MSW student...
[Lynn forwarded a letter from the Dalai Lama to President Bush. This is an
excerpt.]
I personally believe we need to think seriously whether a violent action
is the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and
people in the long run. I believe violence will only increase the cycle of
violence. But how do we deal with hatred and anger, which are often the
root causes of such senseless violence? This is a very difficult question.
+From Elizabeth Salinas Newby, head of Iowa's Division of Latino Affairs..
It was a very difficult day and many, many lives and events have been
affected beyond our understanding. Our lives will never be the same
again...It is out of respect, support and reverence that... [we] postpone
the Latino Heritage Festival that was to be held Sept. 13 and 15.
+From Julie Dreschler, a friend in Australia...
I can't describe the horror that came over me; the country I love was
being attacked. Luke and I stayed up watching in horror most of the night.
The kids found me in the morning watching TV on the couch. They wanted to
know what was happening. I tried to explain it in the best way I could to
a six and eight year old. The thing they couldn't get over was that they
did it on "purpose."
+From Carolyn Lieberg at the UI Center for Teaching...
[Carolyn forwarded messages from teachers. This is an excerpt from one.]
I had class at 11 am today. I didn't know what to do, but I knew I could
not go into that room and teach as if nothing had happened. I asked if
anyone wanted to talk, and was met with a deafening silence. I
acknowledged that we don't really know each other yet, and it might be
hard to talk in a room full of 40 strangers.
Then someone asked, in a small voice, what it all meant. And I realized
that my students were looking to me for answers that I don't have. I said:
"I don't know." And then they started to talk. And talk. They told stories
of people they know whose lives have changed forever.
+From Stephanie Salter, writer for the San Francisco Chronicle...
As you watch first one and then another 110 story building crumble and
dissolve into apocalyptic clouds of dust, you keep hoping the words
"computer simulation" will flash across the screen. Instead, it just says,
"live."
You try, for a few seconds, to imagine what it feels like to harbor the
magnitude of hate that the human beings -- oh, yes, they are made of flesh
and blood just like all the rest of us -- must hold to dream and executive
this nightmare. You can't imagine. You never want to imagine.
You remember Gandhi's absolute: "There are many causes for which I would
die, but none for which I would kill."
You wonder if George W. Bush, with his initial vow to "hunt down...the
folks" who are responsible, has ever heard the Gandhi quote. For the first
time since he assumed leadership of the United States, you deliberately
short-circuit your customary anger and malice toward him. Instead, you
start to pray.
Through the ether, you beg him to believe in the God he says he believes
in, to ask himself -- before he decides anything -- the question he swears
he often asks: "What would Jesus do?"
SO NOW WHAT DO WE DO?
WORDS OF JANE ADDAMS
Social work's founding mother said the true test of a democracy comes at
times like these. She responded to fears
about terrorism and prejudice against immigrants with an 1899 speech
titled "Democracy or Militarism." This is an excerpt...
None of us who has been reared and nurtured in America can be wholly
without the democratic instinct. It is not a question with any of us
having it or not having it; it is merely a question of trusting it or not
trusting it. For good or ill we suddenly find ourselves bound to an
international situation. The question practically reduces itself to this:
Do we mean to democratize the situation? Are we going to trust our
democracy, or are we weakly going to imitate the policy of other
governments, which have never claimed a democratic basis.
OPEN MIC ON
FRIDAY NIGHT
Uptown Bill's hosts an Open Mic each Friday evening from 7 to 9 pm. Sign up start at 6:30 pm. Coming soon: A second Open Mic -- on Wednesday nights. Watch for details.
________________________________________________
Bill's Coffeeshop Newsletter is a virtual extension of the legacy and spirit of Bill Sackter. Published since 2000, the Newsletter is distributed via email to more than 500 subscribers each week. The Newsletter is written by Tom Gilsenan, a former manager of the original coffeeshop and now director of Uptown Bill's. For a selection of back issues, check out the Coffee and Community weblog at: http://coffeeandcommunity.blogspot.com and the "Friends of Bill's Coffeeshop" page on Facebook.
Wild Bill's Coffeeshop is a project of the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa. Located in North Hall, t has been a part of campus life in Iowa City for more than 35 years. The coffeeshop is open weekdays from 8 am. For more information, call (319) 335-1281.
Uptown Bill's is a crosstown cousin of the original coffeeshop. Now located at 730 S. Dubuque, Uptown Bill's includes a coffeeshop, bookstore, performance venue and other businesses. It's open every day from 8 am. For more information, call (319) 339-0401. You can also check out the website at www.uptownbills.org and the "Uptown Bill's Small Mall" page on Facebook.
Thursday, Sept. 16 is the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence. The day marks the beginning of the Mexican struggle for independence from Spain. It was on Sept. 16 in 1810 that Miguel Hidalgo, a parish priest in the town of Dolores, called on citizens to rise up against the Spanish. His speech, called "El Grito" -- the cry -- is reenacted each year in celebrations throughout Mexico and in communities all over the US. For more background on Mexican Independence Day, check this website: www.mexonline.com.
LISTENING TO A
NEW 'EL GRITO'
July 4 and Sept. 16. These are the independence days of two United States -- United States of America and the United States of Mexico. These are the days we profess our faith in human freedom. We recall our founding fathers and mothers saying that all are entitled to independence -- to free speech, free press and more.
Yet too often our professed belief in freedom seems not to apply to young people. For example, we talk about the importance of free speech. But too often we caution young people not to speak their minds too freely or too loudly.
We talk about freedom of assembly. But we tell young people not to linger too long at street corners or shopping malls. And if they gather in their cars, we try to disperse them quickly.
We talk about freedom of the press. But too often we try to control the newspapers, magazines and websites young people have created so they can be heard.
We talk about justice and independence for all, but we too often ignore young people when they point out injustice around them.
So then they ask us: What good is freedom if you won't give it to us? And if we have no voice, why should we care about anything.
WHAT WE are hearing is a new "El Grito" -- a cry to be heard, to be respected. A cry for freedom. If we listen closely, we can hear familiar themes.
Young people ask us for hope when they see the despair of poverty and homelessness around us. They ask us for peace when they see the violence and fear which plagues too many of our neighborhoods.
They ask us for some passion, some indignance when they tell us stories of intolerance and injustice.
Can we hear them? Can we listen to their dreams? Can we tell them that these have been our dreams, too.
Can we respond with strength when that's needed; can we respond with tears when that's best.
These young voices are calling us to a new revolution. It is a "Grito de Los Ninos." Isn't it wonderful to know that these voices are the voices of our children.
Can we answer these voices? Can we say to every young person -- you do matter and we care, too. And there are things we can do together to make this world a better place.
Each time we do that, I think we are teaching more about independence than any celebration on July 4 or Sept. 16. In fact, I think each time we do that we have more impact than an entire year of US history.
How will we know what to say? That's easy. We just recall what was said to us when we were asking those same questions and justice and peace just a short time ago.
-- Tom Gilsenan
SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERTS
RETURN THIS WEEKEND
Guitarist Jeff Leonard is the performer for the Saturday, Sept. 11 concert at Uptown Bill's, 730 S. Dubuque. 7 to 9 pm. This the first in the series of Saturday Night Concerts at Uptown Bill's. Coming Sept. 18: Iowa Friends of Old Time Music.present a Fiddlers Showcase.
RAMADAN ENDS
WITH FESTIVAL
Ramadan, a month of prayer and fasting, ends this weekend. The Eid festival marks the end of Ramadan. For more background on this Muslim Festival of Peace, click on this link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spirituality/speaking-tree/Eid-festival-of-peace-/articleshow/6524788.cms
FIRST ROSH HASHANAH,
THEN YOM KIPPUR
We're right in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days. This is the week of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Next is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which begins at sundown on Friday, Sept. 17. For lots of information about these and other Jewish holidays, plus recipes and discussions, check out "The Jew and the Carrot" web page: http://jcarrot.org
POETRY MARATHON RUNS
THROUGH HALLOWEEN
Sackter House Media, one of the enterprises hosted by Uptown Bill's, is sponsoring the Iowa City Poetry Marathon. The project, which continues through Oct. 31, has a goal of creating 10,000 pages of poetry in 100 days. For more details, check this website: www.iowacitypoetrymarathon.com. You can check out Sackter House Media at: www.sackterhousemedia.org.
BILL/BILL ON HIS OWN
ARE OUT OF PRINT
DVD Copies of "Bill" and "Bill On His Own" aren't available at this time. That's the word from Navarre Corp., the Minneapolis company which has distributed both films. The firm which was manufacturing the DVDs went out of business last year. Videotape versions of the two movies have not been available for years. You may find a copy on Amazon or Ebay, but those are likely to be very expensive.
ART & MUSIC NIGHTS
START ON THURSDAY
A series of Art & Music Nights starts this Thursday, Sept. 16 at Uptown Bill's. These evenings are designed to include people from all parts of the community in evenings of art and music. Each evening has a theme; this Thursday the theme is: Edible Art. Participants will be able to make and eat art, including cookie decorating and other projects. Some materials will be provided; you are welcome to bring your own. There will be stations for "edible art" and stations for more conventional art projects, including coloring and painting.
Music will be provided by Scotty Hayward, the Kalimbaman. You are welcome to bring instruments along and play with him, particularly string and percussion instruments.
For more information, check the Facebook page for Uptown Bill's or call (319) 339-0401. Remember Bill's has moved to a new location at 730 S. Dubuque.
AN INVITATION FROM
EXTEND THE DREAM
Uptown Bill's is a project of the Extend the Dream Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Iowa City and governed by a volunteer board of directors. The board is currently recruiting new members and is looking particularly for someone who is interested in Uptown Bill's and would be willing to be a board member and secretary. As a board member you would attend monthly meetings of the executive committee and quarterly meetings of the entire board. As secretary you would be responsible for taking minutes at meetings and distributing these to board members. Interested? Send an email to Mercedes Bern-Klug: mercedes-bern-klug@uiowa.edu. Thank you.
REMEMBERING 9/11 AT
BILL'S COFFEESHOP
ONE AMAZING part of Bill's Coffeeshop is the role it plays at moments of great triumph and great despair. That was certainly evident on Sept. 11, 2001 when the coffeeshop filled up with people who wanted to be with each other at that terrible moment. The issue of the Newsletter published shortly after captured some of the conversations from that day:
REFLECTIONS ON THE TERROR AND
TRAGEDY OF THIS PAST WEEK
Words do not come easily when we are faced with horror as large as that of
this past week. It is a tragedy far too big for our words.
Yet there is an urge to speak. Perhaps it is a way to try to make
sense of what seems senseless. Each day and each night we have heard people
near and far try to do this. Here is a sampling of the voices we have heard
since last Tuesday, Sept. 11.
+From the Bill's Coffeeshop project in Italy...
Carissimi Amici, 11 Settembre ha lasciato un mondo diverso. Non ho parole.
Sono vicino a voi tutti. Che la speranza non ci abbandoni.
-- Giovanni Ardissone
(Sept. 11 has shaken the whole world. I do not have words. We are with
you. Do not give up hope. Giovanni.)
+From Maria Kummer, coordinator of the local Million Mom March chapter...
We did have a Million Mom March table on the Ped Mall on Friday. We put up a
large poster that said: "Alternatives to violence/Compassion for victims and
families." ...We wanted to be a peaceful presence and give people an
opportunity to talk.
+From young people who organized a memorial downtown on the Ped Mall....
The way to have peace is to be peaceful
+From Craig Mosher, who teaches social work at Iowa State..
[Craig forwarded a petition on responses to terrorism. This is an excerpt]
We implore the powers that be to use, wherever possible, international
judicial institutions and international human rights law to bring to
justice those responsible for the attacks, rather than instruments of war
violence or destruction.
+From Michael Lerner, Jewish rabbi and editor of Tikkun magazine...
We should pray for the victims and the families of those who have been
hurt or murdered in these crazy acts. We should also pray that America
does not return to "business as usual," but rather turns to a period of
reflection, coming back into touch with our common humanity, asking
ourselves how our institutions can best embody our highest values.
+From Bob Vander Beek in the school of social work...
I think Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is especially important this
year. We have immediate reason to celebrate the dead while celebrating
living. The task of building respect and love between communities seems to
me to have become all the more important.
+From Lynn Mennenga, an MSW student...
[Lynn forwarded a letter from the Dalai Lama to President Bush. This is an
excerpt.]
I personally believe we need to think seriously whether a violent action
is the right thing to do and in the greater interest of the nation and
people in the long run. I believe violence will only increase the cycle of
violence. But how do we deal with hatred and anger, which are often the
root causes of such senseless violence? This is a very difficult question.
+From Elizabeth Salinas Newby, head of Iowa's Division of Latino Affairs..
It was a very difficult day and many, many lives and events have been
affected beyond our understanding. Our lives will never be the same
again...It is out of respect, support and reverence that... [we] postpone
the Latino Heritage Festival that was to be held Sept. 13 and 15.
+From Julie Dreschler, a friend in Australia...
I can't describe the horror that came over me; the country I love was
being attacked. Luke and I stayed up watching in horror most of the night.
The kids found me in the morning watching TV on the couch. They wanted to
know what was happening. I tried to explain it in the best way I could to
a six and eight year old. The thing they couldn't get over was that they
did it on "purpose."
+From Carolyn Lieberg at the UI Center for Teaching...
[Carolyn forwarded messages from teachers. This is an excerpt from one.]
I had class at 11 am today. I didn't know what to do, but I knew I could
not go into that room and teach as if nothing had happened. I asked if
anyone wanted to talk, and was met with a deafening silence. I
acknowledged that we don't really know each other yet, and it might be
hard to talk in a room full of 40 strangers.
Then someone asked, in a small voice, what it all meant. And I realized
that my students were looking to me for answers that I don't have. I said:
"I don't know." And then they started to talk. And talk. They told stories
of people they know whose lives have changed forever.
+From Stephanie Salter, writer for the San Francisco Chronicle...
As you watch first one and then another 110 story building crumble and
dissolve into apocalyptic clouds of dust, you keep hoping the words
"computer simulation" will flash across the screen. Instead, it just says,
"live."
You try, for a few seconds, to imagine what it feels like to harbor the
magnitude of hate that the human beings -- oh, yes, they are made of flesh
and blood just like all the rest of us -- must hold to dream and executive
this nightmare. You can't imagine. You never want to imagine.
You remember Gandhi's absolute: "There are many causes for which I would
die, but none for which I would kill."
You wonder if George W. Bush, with his initial vow to "hunt down...the
folks" who are responsible, has ever heard the Gandhi quote. For the first
time since he assumed leadership of the United States, you deliberately
short-circuit your customary anger and malice toward him. Instead, you
start to pray.
Through the ether, you beg him to believe in the God he says he believes
in, to ask himself -- before he decides anything -- the question he swears
he often asks: "What would Jesus do?"
SO NOW WHAT DO WE DO?
WORDS OF JANE ADDAMS
Social work's founding mother said the true test of a democracy comes at
times like these. She responded to fears
about terrorism and prejudice against immigrants with an 1899 speech
titled "Democracy or Militarism." This is an excerpt...
None of us who has been reared and nurtured in America can be wholly
without the democratic instinct. It is not a question with any of us
having it or not having it; it is merely a question of trusting it or not
trusting it. For good or ill we suddenly find ourselves bound to an
international situation. The question practically reduces itself to this:
Do we mean to democratize the situation? Are we going to trust our
democracy, or are we weakly going to imitate the policy of other
governments, which have never claimed a democratic basis.
OPEN MIC ON
FRIDAY NIGHT
Uptown Bill's hosts an Open Mic each Friday evening from 7 to 9 pm. Sign up start at 6:30 pm. Coming soon: A second Open Mic -- on Wednesday nights. Watch for details.
________________________________________________
Bill's Coffeeshop Newsletter is a virtual extension of the legacy and spirit of Bill Sackter. Published since 2000, the Newsletter is distributed via email to more than 500 subscribers each week. The Newsletter is written by Tom Gilsenan, a former manager of the original coffeeshop and now director of Uptown Bill's. For a selection of back issues, check out the Coffee and Community weblog at: http://coffeeandcommunity.blogspot.com and the "Friends of Bill's Coffeeshop" page on Facebook.
Wild Bill's Coffeeshop is a project of the School of Social Work at the University of Iowa. Located in North Hall, t has been a part of campus life in Iowa City for more than 35 years. The coffeeshop is open weekdays from 8 am. For more information, call (319) 335-1281.
Uptown Bill's is a crosstown cousin of the original coffeeshop. Now located at 730 S. Dubuque, Uptown Bill's includes a coffeeshop, bookstore, performance venue and other businesses. It's open every day from 8 am. For more information, call (319) 339-0401. You can also check out the website at www.uptownbills.org and the "Uptown Bill's Small Mall" page on Facebook.
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