Something new: Jess Deppe at the helm of Sage + Strands Extension Studio and Beck | The Collective in Dubuque
Something new: Jess Deppe at the helm of Sage + Strands Extension Studio and Beck | The Collective in Dubuque

Beck | The Collective Beck | The Collective Location: 2613 University Ave. Contact: 563-213-8909 Online: beckthecollective.com It’s a weekday morning as Jess Deppe begins readying for the day — flipping on lights, cueing up music, scrolling through her calendar and steadying a swivel chair facing an oversized mirror in her intimate salon. For Deppe, who […]

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W inter is upon us — and not just in a “Game of Thrones” meme that circulated the internet circa 2015. It’s easy to imagine that the book’s author, George R. R. Martin, who taught at Clarke University in the late 1970s, drew from the Dubuque’s winters while penning his series. While we might now...
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Beets are divisive. To some, their earthy depth and sly sweetness are irresistible; to others, the root vegetable tastes like dirt. “The beet is the most intense of vegetables,” Tom Robbins writes in “Jitterbug Perfume.” “The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent,...
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