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Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 3 GUEST COMMENTARY By Jean Regenwether WORDS FROM THE EDITOR by Kathleen McCarthy [email protected] [email protected] It’s Just a Dog … but … Educate Yourself on Four Need-to-Know ow many times have you heard the training and behavior work. Subjects While They Still Matter phrase “It’s just a dog”? But time Karen Pryor was a marine-mammal His certainly changing our opinions trainer who brought her operant skills fter 21 years of publishing, the ancestors, after all, sacrificed their lives. and treatment toward – and our lives with and positive, reward-based methods to depth and breadth of civic disen- First, we must reaffirm that we are – our furry companions. “A dog is a family the dog-training world. Pryor introduced Agagement continues to befuddle created with inherent rights that are ours member” is a good way to describe the dog trainers to clicker-training in the early me, confirming that people get the govern- whether government exists or not. The evolution taking place. 1990s, and showed how positive methods ment they deserve. Everyone senses the United States Constitution protects rights Focusing on “It’s just a dog” suggests of training are highly effective, and far undercurrent of serious trouble afoot in we already have by limiting government’s that dogs are creatures with no ability to more enjoyable, for both dog and owner. this country. But no amount of leaderships’ ability to interfere with those inherent think; they just follow humans around for These are just two individuals among disgraceful conduct, criminal enterprise, rights. That is a core principle that must food and shelter. Consequently, dogs must many who advanced the understanding or wholesale injustice – all of which cause be internalized before we can correct our have no feelings. No joy, no anger, no love, of dog behavior into the science of dog profound suffering for our families, friends, course as a nation. no loss. training. neighbors, co-workers, and community at Each individual has enormous, albeit We are lucky to live in a time in which We have learned that dogs do think. large – rises to a level that produces mean- mostly unused, power in our form of such viewpoints are changing, and huge (Sorry to disappoint those who think ingful activism. Why is that? bottom-up governance; a constitutional kudos must be given to early dog trainers they just love you for the food.) They can Mostly it is because of denial, lack Republic under the rule of law, including, and animal behaviorists for realizing that even think analytically – dogs are very of imagination, laziness, inertia, and but not limited to, the power of the vote, the “dogs have no feelings” argument is good at solving problems – and can be an absurd amount of self-absorption. the power of the purse, and the power of clearly wrong. quite independent in their thinking. Any Ignorance plays a part, but most people the jury. The Bill of Rights secures free Over the past several decades, studies observant person also knows they can are intelligent enough to grasp problems. speech and the press, worship, assembly, have been conducted to determine how count; just take out three treats, give the Instead, they choose to ignore such matters petitions for redress of grievances, due dogs think, learn, and feel, and their dog two treats, and try to get away with it. as a means to absolve themselves from process, and the right to bear arms, to results have been amazing. In the 1980s, Such knowledge has helped dog responsibility head-in-the-sand style. name a few. Read the Bill of Rights and you veterinarian and animal behaviorist Ian training evolve into a practice that Clearly, this is not the American way. Or at will find that it states very clearly, without Dunbar worked extensively with puppies employs more positive methods, with least it didn’t used to be. ambiguity, “Congress shall make no law” under the age of six months, and initiated methods that reward correct behavior No matter how much civic impotence that interferes with the above. off-leash training with great success. His now more commonplace. The days of we claim, there is still plenty we can Is anyone surprised when politicians and pioneering studies on the social lives physical force, punishment, and other individually affect if we are willing bureaucrats readily step in and usurp more and hierarchies of dogs are used today in Continued On Page 13 to sacrifice a bit of convenience. Our Continued On Page 13 4 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com ILLINOIS POLITICS by Rich Miller CapitolFax.com What We Have Here Is a Failure to Negotiate ast year, gubernatorial candidate Bruce about how the other side won’t cave? Rauner pledged to “crack down on And the Democrats, for their part, have Lwaste” in government in order to save got to get it into their heads that they have a taxpayers over $140 million. He also vowed to Republican governor. cut $500 million from the Illinois Department “I’ve stated all year that I will work with the of Central Management Services and find governor cooperatively and professionally, but another $250 million in Medicaid savings. we will not devastate Illinois’ middle class and Very little of that has happened to date, as struggling families by furthering an agenda the governor himself inadvertently admitted aimed at driving down their wages and during a speech last week in their standard of living,” said House Speaker the southern Cook County Michael Madigan shortly suburbs. How about finding after the governor’s speech Instead of saving last week. $500 million at CMS, for anything that could Okay, well, first example, Rauner touted of all, comparing just $15 million in savings, help grease a victory Governor Rauner to mainly from grounding Rod Blagojevich earlier the state’s fleet of airplanes instead of this unseemly this year was definitely – although that doesn’t whining about how the neither cooperative nor take into consideration professional on Madigan’s the cost of paying mileage other side won’t cave? part, and his press reimbursements for all secretary claimed the those folks who can no governor was acting like “a longer fly. scared second grader” when he skipped out The governor identified a grand total of of that south suburban speech without taking $107 million in what he said are savings reporters’ questions. he’s found this year, but most came from Apart from that, Madigan’s two pension- cuts at the Department of Healthcare and reform laws most definitely were designed Family Services, and people I’ve talked to to reduce the standard of living of retirees. Move over any secured consumer loan you have with aren’t buying those numbers because some And Governor Rauner was absolutely right another lender and receive up to... major state cost controls have been allowed last week to point out the various labor law to expire. He also failed to mention that he exemptions that Madigan has passed for vetoed a bill that the Democrats say would’ve Chicago. Even so, that doesn’t mean the resulted in $400 million in DHFS savings – Democrats would ever accede to Rauner’s far more than his own stated campaign goal demand that teachers and local government and lots more than the $70 million he claims employees should be stripped of their right to to have actually saved. bargain over wages, benefits, overtime, and Governor Rauner also bemoaned the lack working conditions. Ain’t gonna happen, man. of a budget and the myriad court orders Eventually, because the governor is so Receive up to 1%* less interest Free up additional cash for a home which are forcing state spending at last anti-union and won’t talk about a budget than you’re currently paying for project or a fall getaway by making fiscal year’s levels. “I can’t control” the court until he gets some wins on that front, Speaker orders, the governor said. That’s true, but Madigan and the Democrats are going to have the remaining term of any secured no payments on the loan(s) you the governor could try negotiating with the to do something that unions don’t love or this consumer loan(s) you Move Over to transfer for 60 days.** Lowering stakeholders and the courts to come up with impasse will never end. DuTrac. Plus, if DuTrac’s standard payment(s) and making cash more affordable orders. 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He has a right to complain, but he’s not a cuts in pension benefits for public employees, legislator and needs to eventually realize that believing it would free up money for other he can’t pass bills on his own. state spending (a position encouraged by Rauner also has to come to terms with Speaker Madigan, by the way). Now, thanks the fact that “giving” the Democrats some to Rauner, they’re all one big happy family. Republican votes on a tax-hike roll call in The Democrats are so frozen in position exchange for Democrats whacking unions that they can’t or won’t budge until things get isn’t exactly a Democratic “win.” To quite a so bad that they will have no other choice but Federally Insured few Democrats, that’s a most definite lose-lose to ding the unions at least a little bit, which by NCUA Apply online at dutrac.org proposition. may be the ultimate plan here. For crying out loud, man, what about It’s just a mess everywhere you look. an infrastructure projects plan? 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t was not really a comfortable situ- responsible for all the and I didn’t want that to happen. ... ation,” said Brooks Strause. “It was arrangements and “The idea of working with Pat seemed ... “Iokay. It worked well, and it was textures. equally exciting and less work.” worth it artistically.” “I initially wrote Initially, he said, he tried to describe to Such dull words suggest a mundane it envisioning a Stolley his aims for Chymical Wedding. But departure for a musician – an experimental ’50s-influenced “once he started talking to me about what song, the dipping of a toe into a new record – somewhere his ideas were, I realized that it was going stylistic stream. But Strause – the prolific between doo-wop and to be beyond what I had thought it was 34-year-old singer/songwriter from early rock-and-roll – going to be. I wasn’t even going to be able Muscatine now based in Iowa City – is not and that’s how I was to predict what each song was going to nearly so timid. planning on producing sound like, so I just let go.” He was, in fact, talking about having it,” Strause said. “And Stolley wrote in an e-mail: “I saw it as a bucket of actual lamb’s blood dumped I sat on it for a while a chance to have some real fun and twist on him for a photo shoot for his second and just became less Brooks’ material around. I basically just album. Differences in animal aside, Strause excited about putting listened to each song and imagined what I volunteered to be Carrie White – and it the time into producing wanted to hear. If I couldn’t do the part, I’d was his idea. it myself after having get someone to play.” In that photo, Strause is foregrounded a little bit of distance Strause said of the process: “Initially and exhaling smoke, with a couple from it and decided to I just gave him demos that I recorded in clutching each other in the background. give it to Pat Stolley to my bedroom ... and he listened to them The concept, he said, “represented love produce. Photo by Laura Heath for a while and started having me come in a way I haven’t seen it represented that “He said that as long myself as a human being.” to the Quad Cities for four-hour chunks much,” which made it a good match for the as I gave him full control production-wise, But there’s clearly also a restless spirit of time. And I would just record guitar, Strause-ian love songs that made up his he would record it. I’ve been a big fan of at work, somebody eager to bust through vocals – usually at the same time – to a album Dead Animals (whose first release his music for a really long time – since I constraints and connect wildly disparate click track or a drum machine, and then was housed, it should be said, in actual was 16, I’ve been obsessed with his music influences. Each album might have its own I would go. And then the next time that I animal fur). – so it seemed like the right time to give coherence and clear reference points, but would come, he’d give me a mix with all of In case you’re curious, Strause said up control ... which is something I haven’t Strause said his careening body of work has the things that he’d added. He brought in “there wasn’t really time” for second d on e .” a shape – in a hugely ambitious way. other musicians while I wasn’t there and thoughts at the shoot: “This photograph It helped that both men were familiar He gave the example of his in-the-works made the record like he would make his has to get done. Let’s do it.” And “it was with the centuries-old manifesto Chymical electronic album mining ’80s and ’90s own records. ... kind of surprising – the texture. I definitely Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, a sounds. “Being able to introduce that ... “The chords, the structure of the got some in my mouth very quickly. It touchstone work for people interested in gives more context to the things on my songs is all me. All of the layers, all of the wasn’t really as gross as I thought it was alchemy and an inspiration for the record previous records that were influenced by fleshed-out sound, that’s pretty much Pat.” going to be.” and (obviously) its title. The link is clear in ’20s ragtime,” he explained. “I feel like There were surprises, Strause said. So he’s human after all – although that’s the first words of “The Creeping Heart”: musically I just want to bridge all these “When I had written the songs, I really not necessarily apparent from the flood “Water and the air and the earth make a things. I want to find something that hasn’t didn’t hear any electronic sounds in them” of work he’s been producing. His seventh tree. / Magic and the mind and the fire been done in the whole context of modern – the synthesizers and drum machines that album, the richly rewarding The Chymical m a ke m e .” music history. ... Stolley added. “It wouldn’t have occurred Wedding of Brooks Strause, was released “Lyrically,” Strause said, “it’s a break-up “I realized that I have been exploring to me to put those sounds in those songs. this month, and he’ll be performing record, but also the break-up I was going classic styles – world styles – and the ... October 23 at Rozz-Tox. Dead Animals was through at the time tied into mystical further I push out, the more it makes sense. “That’s why the collaboration happened, reissued earlier this year by the Maximum studies, and getting into spiritual alchemy. It’s a bigger picture, which makes it a little and why it worked. I was willing to give up Ames label, and 2014 saw two new full- I was just noticing overlap in these clearer as I branch out ... .” that control. ... I knew it was going to be lengths, Acid Casual and Renaissance Beast. different concepts, how I was trying to get Last year’s Renaissance Beast, he said, something ... that I wouldn’t have made on Oh, but there’s more. He has a rock/folk through this relationship stuff while I was was “the record where I really took control my own.” opera, an album of electronic music, and also learning how to transform as a human of pushing out of those boundaries and Yet Strause added that even though a solo-acoustic record in various stages of being spiritually. Juxtapositions and tying deciding that the further I could go, the he and Stolley never discussed his completion, and he’s written all the songs those things together became kind of the more all-encompassing I can be stylistically overarching vision for his catalog, they for his next rock-and-roll outing with his goal in writing that album.” ... . If you create a context, then you can do ended up of like minds: “When I first band The Gory Details – with whom he’ll Handing it off, Strause said, was an anything you want. Creating a precedent heard the mixes that Pat had done and share the stage at Rozz-Tox. acknowledgment of how “involved” his for any sound to be present.” heard what he was doing with the record, Strause offered a simple reason for this original idea would have been to execute. there was overlap with the record I was burst of creativity: time. He works home- “I was realizing that if I wanted moments working on at the time.” health-care overnight shifts that give him to sound like The Platters, I was going to Ceding Control Much of Chymical Wedding is alluring plenty of time to sleep, leaving his days The irony of the new album, however, have to get a big string section together. and easily accessible, with Stolley’s free for music. And “I had been solidly is that Strause gave up the reins. Prior I just started realizing how it was a lot of arrangements and Strause’s warm voice in relationships for 10 years. I’ve spent a to now, Strause had produced five of his stuff I hadn’t done before, and I knew it drawing listeners in. Opener “Good lot of the last three years single, which is records and co-produced the other. was going to be a really big challenge. ... World” could have come from the 1960s, artistically fruitful, and spiritually. That But on Chymical Wedding, Quad Cities The biggest production job [on one of his with a synchronized rhythm in the just helps me focus on my own work and producer and musician Pat Stolley is albums] took 10 years to finish the record, drums, guitars, and chorus vocals. “Bridge Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 7

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Over Nothing” and “Hearts” have some of dark concepts, because I think they’re swinging country influence, while “Really” under-explored. I think people let fear is straight-ahead pop rock. dictate their actions – at least frequently. But “The Creeping Heart” announces If you explore something, it quells that the arrival of the bluntly foreign, with fear to some extent. So I guess I use a lot Strause singing over a throbbing, subdued of those dark concepts to inoculate myself low end and click-heavy percussion, with against them.” And he sometimes uses minimal echoing of the vocal melody horror and fantasy to dig around in those in ghostly keyboards. A break near the areas. end augments the core instrumentation More specifically, he said, Butch with guitar, and each element serves with Strange is intended to question whether purpose. people seen as monsters can rescue their “Time Slayer” has an undeniable groove, humanity – even a little bit. “If you think but it’s also coarse and kid-like, giving the about the shooting that just happened [in impression of a demented circus tune. Oregon], and the shootings that have been “Undead Ends” is a love song of happening – a very modern issue – it’s salvation until its final line, and Stolley something that’s hard to approach with foreshadows the closing turn with compassion [for the shooter] a lot of the downcast reverb guitar and quavering keys time, which is very compelling to me. ... I that give it an unsteady solemnity from wanted to explore that and see if I could the outset. The album might be as much depict the most horrifying, despicable Stolley’s as Strause’s, but the producer character that I could think of and see if I has clearly and thoughtfully digested the could give him any kind of redemption. ... material before putting his stamp on it. “It’s hard to say if I did. ... The result is an often bright treatment “When I’ve seen various people like of darkness. Iowa City’s Little Village that on the news, I think: What would magazine summarized the album well: make somebody do that? There have been “The tension between what is wished several times that I’ve thought: What for and what exists drives these songs. circumstances could have happened in Strause’s voice – a reedy baritone that my life where I would have turned into a wavers subtly, accented at times by a monster like this? Are there things that purring of vocal fry – is the perfect vehicle could have happened to me that would to express an uncertain vacillation between have brought me to that place? Usually, belief and disillusionment.” I can think of something where it’s like, ‘Maybe. Maybe that would have done it.’ That was really interesting for me Mining the Uncomfortable to explore. I don’t think there are a lot Just as Strause is trying to push of people who would admit that – that himself in his work, he’s also trying to be those people tend to be a creation of their confrontational with listeners. And it’s not circumstances. ... just the lamb blood and real fur. “Philosophically, I like the devil’s- “With my songs,” he said, “I don’t do advocate mentality. I want to talk about a lot of storytelling usually. I’m kind of things people are not comfortable talking describing aspects of life, or trying to about. ... Those are things ... I strive to draw pictures and perspectives that I have, write about, because so many songs are or can have. Just to widen other people’s just about the same things over and over perspectives. Just to start a conversation, again. You can write a nice love song, but to make people think about things.” there are thousands of nice love songs. [If] And that’s especially true of his folk/ you write some kind of weird, nasty love rock opera The Lamentable Tragedy of song, maybe you’re hitting on something Butch Strange, whose narrative thread original.” sounds true to the last word of the title. “It’s about a serial killer named Butch Brooks Strause & the Gory Details will Strange who loves to murder women,” perform on Friday, October 23, at Rozz-Tox Strause said. “He goes out into the night, (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island; RozzTox. he’s singing about how that’s what he lives com). Bedroom Shrine and US-MODE for. ... Then this bug starts speaking to him open, and admission to the 9 p.m. all-ages in an alley and offers him three gifts, and show is $10. it’s about the change that he goes through while receiving those three gifts.” For more information on Brooks Strause, If that sounds a bit silly, Strause has a visit BrooksStrause.Bandcamp.com. serious purpose. “I’m attracted to a lot 8 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com

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Movie Reviews byby MikeMike SchulzSchulz •• [email protected]@rcreader.com Ar-r-r-r-r You Kidding Me? PAN – filled me stuck in light a fiercely impassioned, moving figure with dread. By socket.” Minute who avows that her speeches and beliefs Not long into director Joe Wright’s the time Peter by minute are truly hers, and who also Google- origin fable Pan, the 12-year-old Peter was whisked here, you can’t searches sexy celebrities and barely (Levi Miller), newly captured by pirates to a Neverland believe what a passes her physics tests and giggles at descending from bungee cords, surveys work camp staggering mess the Minions just like any other teen. the World War II fighter planes striking straight out of a reported $150 For audiences close to Malala’s age, the his kidnappers’ airborne pirate ship and Mad Max: Fury million can movie’s ideal demographic, that’s bound shouts, “Oh, come on!” Roughly an hour Road, with the buy, especially to be enough. later, in the midst of another aerial attack, slaveholder considering it It’s enough for some of the rest of us, Captain Hook (Garrett Hedlund) – a masses evidently can’t too, because while I would’ve preferred heroic American boasting Indiana Jones’ Levi Miller and Hugh Jackman in Pan (honest to buy a coherent more exploration and insight, I can’t say wardrobe and two functional hands – God) crooning a mash-up of “Smells Like story, or a cohesive tone, or halfway- I didn’t wholly enjoy getting to know gazes at the melee involving enormous Teen Spirit” and “Blitzkrieg Bop,” I was decent green-screen effects, or even one Malala Yousafzai even in this worshipful CGI birds of prey and shouts, “Oh, come bemoaning dread’s absence, because the mildly engaging character. A pan isn’t light. The film itself is beautifully on!” What does it say about a movie when truth of what was happening was far, far punishment enough for Pan. This cynical, assembled, with lovely hand-animated even its leads can’t believe in the on-screen worse. ridiculous assault deserves to walk the sequences providing exposition and nonsense? A pirate ship hovers in outer space, plank. history, and visual and aural examples of Originally, I had another eight-letter where everyone can miraculously still Taliban cruelty providing the crushing word in place of “nonsense” (it starts with breathe, and where a chicken lays an egg “why” behind Malala’s human-rights “b” and ends in “t”), but I’m refraining HE NAMED ME MALALA just so the object can float toward us in efforts. Yet it’s the scenes of her out of from using it in the spirit of family It’s both intriguing and telling that 3D. (I’m guessing the format is also the warrior-orator mode – goofing with entertainment. A spirit, I should add, that Davis Guggenheim’s documentary on only reason a mid-film mano a mano her brothers, laughing with Jon Stewart, Wright and screenwriter Jason Fuchs don’t Pakistani female-education activist takes place on a trampoline.) Island teaching her dad how to tweet – that appear to give two hoots about in Pan – a Malala Yousafzai – shot in the head by natives, when shot, burst into puffs of are Guggenheim’s most endearing garish, charmless, obnoxious adventure the Taliban at age 15, a 2014 Nobel Peace colored smoke. Peter and Hook wander and transfixing; your jaw all but drops so stupefyingly bad that it might easily Prize recipient at 17 – is titled He Named through jungles of plastic flora suggesting knowing that such poise, selflessness, inspire cries of “Oh, come on!” among Me Malala, and not I Am Malala, the five figures spent at Pier 1 Imports. Hugh and purity of spirit are emanating children of all ages. Given Hollywood’s title of the autobiography that inspired Jackman, as the grotesque and scurrilous from someone not yet 20. He Named obsession with superheroes and rebooting the film. The name change would seem Blackbeard, enters the picture mid-song, Me Malala is the rare work that truly and superhero rebooting, it’s no shock that to suggest that Guggenheim was taking a as though he were again hosting the deserves the adjective “inspirational,” J.M. Barrie’s boy who could fly has been close look at Malala’s relationship with her Tonys. Hedlund, aiming for Harrison Ford even if it does make you feel awful for given his very own origin story, complete father Ziauddin Yousafzai, and whether, as and not even achieving Josh Holloway, how you may be wasting your own life … with parental abandonment in the prelude some critics have maintained, this lifelong speaks in a strangely flat sing-song like, by spending two hours of it at Pan. and the promise/threat of sequels at the educator forced his daughter into an indicating that the native Minnesotan had end. But it was still flabbergasting to see activist role, and consequently endangered learned his lines phonetically. Tinkerbell For reviews of The Martian, The Walk, just how thoroughly Wright and company her life, merely to promote his own and her fellow fairies are cast as laser Sicario, the Putnam Museum’s Tiny mucked this thing up. The opening agenda. Well, the film won’t provide much beams. Rooney Mara, perhaps the whitest Giants 3D, and other current releases, scenes in Peter’s orphanage – with a insight into that, nor does it dive terribly woman on Earth, is cast as Tiger Lily, visit RiverCitiesReader.com. piggy Mother Superior waddling around deeply into how Malala’s phenomenal and manages to lead throngs of fellow and grubby youths looking ready to sing international fame has personally affected tribespeople despite a vacant stare reading Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/ “Consider Yourself” at a moment’s notice her. What it will do is deliver a primer on “recently lobotomized,” or perhaps “finger MikeSchulzNow. 10 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com What’s Happenin’ Theatre Music Machinal Craig Finn Augustana College Rozz-Tox Friday, October 16, through Sunday, October 25 Monday, October 26, 8 p.m.

ast month, playwright Sophie Treadwell’s Urge Overkill Lexpressionistic drama Machinal – a work inspired Debo Balogun and Christine Broughton by a real-life 1927 murder – celebrated the 87th woman’s respective lover and husband, an ensemble Rock Island Brewing Company 1) “The Valiant” anniversary of its Broadway debut. But when Augustana boasting Sarah Baker, Andrew Gilson, Thomas Hand, Thursday, October 29, 8 p.m. 2) “Quiet Person” College stages this little-known classic October 16 Emily Johnson, Emily Mason, Joshua Price, and Jenna 3) “Jackson” through 25, it won’t exactly be the same show New York Stitt. And the show’s stream-of-consciousness style and ithin the next couple of 4) “Rented Room” audiences saw in 1928. For one thing, it won’t feature expressionistic bent allow for intense imagination and Wweeks, Dayrotter.com founder 5) “When No One’s Watching” Clark Gable in his Broadway debut. For another, I’m stage magic. (Not for nothing, I presume, did Machinal’s Sean Moeller will, through his 6) “End of Story” reasonably sure the original didn’t incorporate the 2014 Broadway revival earn Tony nominations for “Moeller Mondays Presents” label, talents of a beatboxer. scenic, costume, lighting, and sound design.) be treating music lovers to concerts of the Brokerdealer and Lifter Puller, Treadwell’s intense, thoughtful play tells of a young Which brings us to Augie’s beatboxer Caleb Ivey, by two equally gifted and acclaimed Finn has more recently embarked on stenographer who finds herself being driven slowly mad who will, according to director Jennifer Popple, “bring alternative-rock acts: Brooklyn- solo projects, bringing his indie- by the suffocating forces surrounding her: the daily the sounds of this ‘world’ to life in each performance.” based singer/songwriter Craig Finn, rock stylings and poetic sensibility pressures of a dehumanizing work grind; a dismissive Treadwell’s expressionism also means that the who will play Rozz-Tox on Monday, to 2012’s solo debut Clear Heart Full harridan of a mother; marriage to a man (her boss, no inhumanity of Machinal’s cityscape can be explored October 26, and Chicago’s Urge Eyes and this past January’s Faith in less) she loathes. By the time she gives birth to a child through performances unconfined by realism. “I Overkill, which will perform at the the Future. she has no feeling for, all seems hopeless for the young have never used choreography in a non-musical,” says Rock Island Brewing Company on ... Meanwhile, Urge Overkill is woman – until she meets a charismatic young man at a Popple, “but we have had a movement coach who has Thursday, October 29. perhaps best known for covering speakeasy and falls into a passionate affair. helped with the mechanized movements of the actors Hey, if Moeller wants a Thursday to Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a I probably don’t need to mention that things don’t go when they are inside the ‘machine.’ be a Monday, let it be a Monday. Woman Soon” for Pulp Fiction, and to at all well from there, and you’ll certainly have an idea of “Between that and the live sound production by our Familiar to many as the frontman either the band’s credit or detriment, just how badly they go if you’re familiar with Machinal’s student beatboxer, it has been my most challenging play for the indie rockers The Hold Steady, I can no longer hear that smooth, inspiration: Long Island housewife Ruth Snyder, a photo to date,” which is saying something given that Popple’s Finn is especially noted for his lyrical haunting melody without picturing of whose execution via electric chair was notoriously 2015 credits alone include the QC Theatre Workshop’s storytelling technique, with his Uma Thurman OD-ing. Founded published in the New York Daily News. hearing-loss drama Tribes and Augustana’s hippie- output described by Uncut Magazine in the mid-1980s,Urge Overkill has But while author Treadwell’s tale is grim, theatrical generation take on Shakespeare’s As You Like It. “But the as “narratives driven less by the gone on to release six studio albums, productions of her achievement have more frequently work is exciting and raw, and it will be amazing to see it wordy exposition of yore than acute a live album, and a 1993 compilation been called exhilarating, with the New York Post all come together.” observation, devastating detail, by CD, and their power-pop hooks deeming it “thrilling” and “a vivid, bracing portrait of Machinal will be performed in the Bergendoff turns exclamatory, epigrammatic, and and powerhouse vocals have wowed

a woman pushed to the edge.” Treadwell’s characters Hall of Fine Arts’ Potter Theatre on Fridays and grainily authentic.” A former member

are rich and complex, as can likely be attested by Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m., and Story”? of End – Watching One’s No When Room Rented Jackson Person Quiet Valiant “The titled song a on Augustana’s cast: Christine Broughton as our tormented more information and tickets are available by calling collaborate Overkill Urge and Finn Craig hear to pay you would much how But B. – 6 A, – 5 A, – 4 A, – 3 B, – 2 B, – 1 Answers: heroine, Debo Balogun and Keenan Odenkirk as the (309)794-7306 or visiting Augustana.edu/theatre. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 11

by Mike Schulz [email protected] What Else What’s Happenin’ Is Happenin’ also enjoys MUSIC occasional Thursday, October 15 – Dylan Sires Music residencies at The Thirteen Chamber Choir & Neighbors. Concert with the Iowa- colleges and based rock ensemble, featuring opening St. Ambrose University universities sets by Waking Robots and Chrash. Saturday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. nationwide, and The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, has released a Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $8.50-9. For tickets ccording to History.com, 10 percent trio of albums and information, call (563)326-1333 or of the U.S. population has a fear of the in which its baker’s-dozen talents bring visit RiverMusicExperience.org. A thrilling new life to infrequently recorded 1) “The Valiant” number 13. More than 80 percent of U.S. Friday, October 16 – Smoke n’ Guns. A) Craig Finn’s Clear Heart Full Eyes works by the likes of Benjamin Britten, G.P. 2) “Quiet Person” high-rise buildings don’t have a 13th floor. Nashville-based country-rock duo Alecia B) Urge Overkill’s Rock & Roll Submarine da Palestrina, and Thomas Tallis. 3) “Jackson” Financial losses in excess of $800 million Arnall and Lindsay Bowman in concert. During St. Ambrose’s October 24 4) “Rented Room” are reported due to Americans’ collective Rascals Live (1414 15th Street, Moline). 8 event, the ensemble will perform from its 5) “When No One’s Watching” paraskevidekatriaphobia – the fear of Friday p.m. For information, call (309)797-9457 or repertoire titled “Innovation & Brilliance: 6) “End of Story” the 13th that prevents many people from visit RascalsLive.com. marrying, traveling, or even working on that Sound-Sculptures from the Franco-Flemish Friday, October 16 – American School.” Boasting compositions from Heroes: Songs & Stories. Tales of of the Brokerdealer and Lifter Puller, crowds throughout the group’s particular, occasional day of the month. masters of the period including Josquin little-known Quad Cities heroes in Finn has more recently embarked on frequent tours in the United States, As someone who was born on June 13 des Prez, Orlande de Lassus, and Antoine a co-presentation by local historian solo projects, bringing his indie- Europe, and Australia. They’ve also (the year being none of your business), Brumel, the concert will not only fill the Roald Tweet and folk singer/songwriter rock stylings and poetic sensibility wowed critics, with PopMatters.com I’ve always found this particular phobia Galvin Fine Arts Center with harmonically Chris Dunn. Butterworth Center (1105 to 2012’s solo debut Clear Heart Full praising their “lean, muscular” sound rather silly. And I’m guessing that attitude complex yet gloriously supple arrangements, Eighth Street, Moline). 7 p.m. Free. For Eyes and this past January’s Faith in and “taut rhythm section.” also prevails for the latest St. Ambrose but will underline why the American Record information, call (309)743-2701 or visit the Future. Given the accolades and throngs of University guests in the Galvin Fine Arts Guide has lauded the group for its “tight and ButterworthCenter.com. Meanwhile, Urge Overkill is fans both Craig Finn and Urge Overill Center’s Visiting Artist Series, considering attractive vocal blend and excellent choral Friday, October 16 – Bucktown perhaps best known for covering have amassed, Sean Moeller certainly they’re the supremely gifted vocalists discipline.” Revue. A celebration of Mississippi Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a knows his talent. But how well do you of a nationally touring ensemble whose moniker is the Thirteen Chamber Choir. So be sure to check out the Thirteen River Valley culture through music, Woman Soon” for Pulp Fiction, and to know his talent? Try matching the Chamber Choir at St. Ambrose. You’ll no storytelling, poetry, and humor, with either the band’s credit or detriment, above songs with the album in which No tristaidekaphobes in that group! (Those are people with a fear of the number 13 as doubt be knocked out by the performers’ emcee Scott Tunnicliff and special guests. I can no longer hear that smooth, they’re found. exquisite solos and harmonies. You may Nighswander Theatre (2822 Eastern haunting melody without picturing opposed to a fear of Friday the 13th. This is quite the four-dollar-word article so far, even feel inspired to purchase one of the Avenue, Davenport). 7 p.m. $12 at the Uma Thurman OD-ing. Founded For more information on group’s three albums. And now that I’ve just door. For information, call (563)940-0508 in the mid-1980s,Urge Overkill has Craig Finn’s October 26 Rozz-Tox isn’t it?) 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QC United and anti-bullying mascot themed evening with the area burlesque call (309)373-0790 or visit visit RCReader.com/y/ Pete the Purple Bull host this day of artists and comedians. Circa ’21 Speakeasy RiverMusicExperience.org cello. entertainment, hip-hop dance by RusHour’s (1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $18- or Polyrhythms.Ning.com. Saturday, October Juan Valtierra and Curtis Bell, art activities, 20. For tickets and information, call (309)786- Thursday, October 24 – Mountain cookie decorating, demonstrations, 7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com. 22, and Friday, October Celtic Woman @ Adler Theatre - Sprout. Bluegrass inflatable games, and more. Quad-Cities Saturday, October 17 – Christian 23 – George Jones: The musicians in concert, Waterfront Convention Center (2021 State Care’s Walk the Walk. Sixth-annual walk October 17 Grand Tour. A musical with opening sets by Street, Bettendorf). 1 p.m. For information, to “de-feet” domestic violence featuring journey through country star Jones’ life Birdcloud and Blaine Cartwright. Rock Island visit QCUnited.org. guest speakers, door prizes, a raffle, light with musician Larry Tobias. Circa ’21 Dinner Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Sunday, October 25 – Tween Stars Live! refreshments and a walk around the Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Rock Island). 9 p.m. $12-15. For information, Interactive family entertainment featuring Augustana pond. Meet at the gazebo Thursday: 6 p.m. buffet, 7:15 p.m. show, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com. TV stars Calum Worthy, Trinitee Stokes, in front of Augustana College’s Thomas $50.16. Friday: noon plated lunch, 1 p.m. Sunday, October 25 – The Ballroom Spencer Boldman, Karan Brar, Paris Berelc, Tredway Library (3435 Ninth Avenue, show, $44.41. For tickets and information, Thieves. Folk-rock musicians in concert, with and Noah Munck. Adler Theatre (136 East Rock Island). 9 a.m. $10 registration. For call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit an opening set by PM Buys. The Redstone Third Street, Davenport). Noon. $18-59.95. information, call (309)786-5734 or visit Circa21.com. Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit ChristianCareQC.org. Thursday, October 22 – Margo Price & 7:30 p.m. $11.50-14. For tickets and AdlerTheatre.com. Tuesday, October 20 – Sunset the Price Tags. Concert with the Nashville- information, call (563)326-1333 or visit Celebration. Celebration of the Nahant based country artist and her ensemble. Rozz- RiverMusicExperience.org. EXHIBITS Marsh Education Center’s 15th anniversary Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 28 – Fruit Bats. Saturday, October 17, through featuring tours, food and beverages, door $7-12. For information, call (309)200-0978 or Chicago-based folk rockers in an all-ages Sunday, January 17 – Wendy Red Star. prizes, children’s activities, storytelling with visit RozzTox.com. concert. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Exhibit of multimedia works that explore Kenny Salwey, and live music by Kendra Friday, October 23 – Hairball. Concert Island). 8 p.m. $10. For information, call Native American identity and the distance Swanson and Ellis Kell. Nahant Marsh (4220 tribute to Van Halen, KISS, Mötley Crüe, (309)200-0978 or visit RozzTox.com. between romantic images of the Native Wapello Avenue, Davenport). 5 p.m. $5-10, Queen, Journey, Prince, and Aerosmith. American and their world today. Figge ages 14 and under free. For information, call Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center THEATRE Art Museum (225 West Second Street, (563)336-3374 or visit NahantMarsh.org. For (2021 State Street, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 17, through Sunday, Davenport). Tuesday through Saturday a recent cover story on Nahant Mash, visit $30. For information, call (800)843-4753 or October 25 – Hansel & Gretel. Student- 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., RCReader.com/y/nahant. visit QCWCC.com. performed adaptation of the classic fairytale, Sunday noon-5 p.m. Free with $4-7 museum Saturday, October 24 – Quad Cities Friday, October 23 – Great Sounds written by Vera Morris and directed by Aaron admission. For information, call (563)326- Tweed Bike Ride. Third-annual leisurely Promotions 20th-Anniversary Randolph III. Davenport Junior Theatre (2822 7804 or visit FiggeArtMuseum.org. bicycle ride along the waterfront, with Celebration. Nationally touring guitarist Eastern Avenue, Davenport). Saturday 1 Saturday, October 17, through tea and scones at Credit Island Park, a Nick Colionne and saxophonist Richard Elliot and 4 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $6-8 at the door. Sunday, February 7 – Wit & Whimsy: “Twick or Tweed” party in the Village of in concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main For information, call (563)326-7862 or visit The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson. East Davenport, and more. Freight House Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $45.50-52.50. For DavenportJuniorTheatre.org. Exhibition of works from the author’s (421 West River Drive, Davenport). 10 a.m. tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 Saturday, October 17 – Beauty Inside & early explorations of the potential of registration, noon departure. Free. For or visit RiverMusicExperience.org. Out. Theatrical ensemble piece examining photographic images. Figge Art Museum information, visit QCTweedRide.com. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 13 ART Continued From Page 5 Article and photos by Bruce Walters GUEST COMMENTARY Continued From Page 3 By Jean Regenwether [email protected] [email protected] Art in Plain Sight: Schwiebert Riverfront It’s Just a Dog … but … Park and the Davenport Skatepark harsh techniques of this sort are fading every Border Collie will herd, and we all away, and positive, pleasing, reward-based know that many of our Golden Retriever methods build a bond between you and friends love the sofa. (Retrieve what?) your dog. So that misguided statement “It’s The study of animal behavior has grown just a dog” simply does not fit these into an extensive field. Dogs can have magnificent animals. Dogs think, love, issues such as anxiety, fear, aggression, cry, mourn, play – all the fascinating et cetera, and the behavior-modification emotions we see our dogs display every techniques that have emerged from these day. They are loyal and interesting studies have, in many case, saved dogs’ friends that bring so much to our lives. lives. We humans should consider ourselves Dogs are also individual beings, lucky that so many thousands of years whether they’re Golden Retrievers, ago, dogs decided we were okay to hang Border Collies, or Teacup Poodles. Each with. dog is different and each dog within its breed will be different, exhibiting its own Jean Regenwether has worked with separate personality, likes, and dislikes. animals in shelters and rescues Plus, every breed has genetic tendencies. since 1970, specializes in basic and For example, the Golden Retriever is intermediate dog training, and offers bred to retrieve; the Border Collie to home-based training. She can be reached herd. But while genetics offers a base, not at [email protected]. Davenport Skatepark is matched by the Davenport Skatepark at in the educative process. The Playground WORDS FROM THE EDITOR Continued From Page 3 by Kathleen McCarthy 700 West River Drive. SkateboardPark.com Association of American was founded in 1906, [email protected] described the 33,000-square-foot park as “a electing Theodore Roosevelt as honorary good-sized beast with super-smooth transitions.” president. With his support, the number of The Web site proceeded to list a handful of municipalities with playgrounds in America Educate Yourself on Four Need-to-Know skating features including “shallow bowls,” “a grew from 90 in 1907 to more than 500 in 1910. small spine,” “street obstacles,” and “hubbas.” The Davenport Skatepark opened in 2006, Subjects While They Still Matter To a non-skateboarder such as me, it is and Schwiebert Riverfront Park followed and more governance with cumbersome modern expansion of The Theory of better described as a breathtaking environment in 2010, and they represent the continuing and deliberately vague legalese, especially Money & Credit by Ludwig Von Mises, of concrete rivers flowing through concrete evolution of playgrounds and parks. when the people are abdicating their because both of these economists give the canyons. The ramps and arcs are graceful – like New technologies and materials, as well responsibility and not doing their part, on instability of credit and debt the weight it an ocean’s wave that a surfer could ride, but the as evolving concepts about the purpose of such a massive scale, by not utilizing their richly deserves. bright stripes and checkerboard patterns are playgrounds, ensure that exciting changes are individual power? Leadership is giddy to 3) Understand the real purpose and the visual language of a speedway. Both give the still ahead. A new trend is to create multi- do so, in partnership with the largest global strength of the grand and petit jury park a sense of excitement. generational playgrounds. For example, corporations that control the infrastructure in our legal system. (Fully Informed The project manager for the Skatepark the Humana Foundation and KaBOOM needs of mankind. But don’t kid yourself. Jury Association, at FIJA.org, is a good was Brad Siedlecki, owner of Pillar Design have partnered to build more than 50 such The largest corporation on the planet is starting point.) Both have been severely Studios (based in Arizona and Chicago). His playgrounds in cities across America in the the United States of America Inc., with undermined, rendering courts into small co-designer, Colby Carter, is lead designer past few years; the closest to us are in Cedar countless sub-corporations in the form fiefdoms of control that abuse people with for California Skateparks. A professional Rapids, Des Moines, and Chicago. Mike Vietti, of agency departments in all 50 states the least resources to defend themselves. skateboarder for 10 years, Carter has designed a KaBOOM spokesperson, put it this way in contributing to this global behemoth. The There are many excellent books and and developed more than 250 skateparks and numerous articles: “Instead of adults just sitting actual head-count comprising leadership articles on America’s corrupted court events worldwide. on benches while their kids play, they can also in the government sector is one and the system and abuse of power worth exploring The park’s most distinguishing feature is be active and keep an eye on the kids.” same with those running the private sector. (among them Justice: An Impossible the shelter, concession-stand, and restroom As Paige Johnson wrote at Play-Scapes. The crossover, commonly referred to as the Dream), written by knowledgeable authors structure designed by Rock Island architect com: “This is an incredibly interesting time revolving door, is widespread and entirely who demonstrate rare courage in exposing Perry Gere. Its dynamic geometric concrete for playground design. The surge of interest toxic to economies, and also poses a dire ever-increasing injustice. forms are angled to spectacular effect – in public spaces and design for children, threat to republics under the rule of law – 4) Research alternative, trustworthy reflecting the visual daring of the park as a urban interventions, and a maker culture are such as America. media sources for accurate, relevant whole. Architecturally, the building suggests intersecting with the availability of new materials If you truly want to engage, then begin information beyond the largely a mid-century modern style (Googie more and advanced technology to create an explosion by educating yourself in one of these four propagandized mainstream media that specifically), yet it feels contemporary. of interesting play ideas and themes.” areas: many of us parrot in an effort to feign American playgrounds date from the late 1) How to effectively protect our being informed. It doesn’t matter what 19th Century, when suffragettes and other social Bruce Walters is a professor of art at Western vote. Explore BlackBoxVoting.org to your political affiliation is, DemoCRIT reformers attempted to improve the conditions Illinois University. understand the vulnerabilities prevalent or RepubliCON – the talking points are of the poor living in slums created by the in computerized voting. nearly identical, with the only difference industrial revolution. They can also be traced This is part of an occasional series on the history 2) Learn how money and debt really being who gets the blame. Alternative to German psychologists and educators such as of public art in the Quad Cities. If there’s a piece works, including mortgages, because news organizations will cite their sources, Friedrich Fröbel (who originated kindergarten of public art that you’d like to learn more about, debt is public enemy number one. I allowing you, the reader, to verify in Germany in 1837); they saw playgrounds as e-mail the location and a brief description to BD- suggest beginning with Murray N. information presented. Your process for fundamental for child development and essential [email protected]. Rothbard’s The Mystery of Banking, a determining merit: “Mistrust and verify.” 14 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com the Advice

GoddessBY AMY ALKON Ask two, get as far apart as you can.”) You could Photo-Bomb Scare ask him – and reveal that you’ve been going all I’m a 29-year-old woman, and I’ve been Secret Squirrel on social media. But you could dating a guy for two months. I was scrolling also ask yourself, simply by applying context. (okay, stalking him) on Instagram and saw a Look at the photo as one piece of information pic of him with this pretty girl with her arm in the whole of your experiences with him: Is he draped around his neck. Does monogamy just increasingly sweet and attentive? Increasingly happen, or should I initiate the “commitment eager to see you? Are you starting to meet his talk”? friends? Chances are, you already have the – Nervous information you need to figure out whether your relationship is going places – without Welcome to the place relationship dreams trying to conduct it at a speed that suggests your go to die, also known as social media. One ancestry is part French, part Italian, and part moment, you see your relationship heading cheetah. toward the town of OnlyYouville, and the next, it’s looking more like a 10 Commandments production still of the Israelites crossing the As Duck Would Have It Red Sea. My boyfriend just said, “Your lips Understand why men commit: because they get bigger and smaller. What’s going on?” I come to love a particular woman more than admitted that I’ve been getting them injected. they love their freedom – not because they’ve He hinted that I should stop, saying, “You’re decided it would be a bore to have sex with the too hot. You don’t need it.” Do I really need to Pilates-teaching twins. Getting to “only you” kick the habit? happens after a guy starts to feel attached to you, – Smoochy which comes out of a combination of sexual attraction, emotional compatibility, and the If your boyfriend wanted to kiss something sense that you have a package of qualities that inflated, he’d make out with his tires. he’s unlikely to get from anyone else. Feeling There’s a reason you feel compelled to join this way takes time – time spent together, and the reality-star-led parade of women duck-bill- sometimes, a little time spent comparison ing it up as opposed to going in for a nostril shopping. Trying to rush the process is like enlargement. Men evolved to prefer women planting a pea in the morning, yelling “Grow! with plump lips. As for why, it turns out that the Grow! Grow!” and expecting to be climbing a features men across cultures find beautiful are beanstalk by noon. those that give them the best shot of passing on exy Also, even for a guy who’s starting to care their genes. Biopsychologist Victor S. Johnston, o S about you, hearing “We need to have the who studies the biological basis of human facial S commitment talk” can be like hearing the attractiveness, finds that full lips on a woman starting gun at the Olympics. There are couples (along with small jaws and a small chin) are who get serious without ever having this icky associated with low androgens (male hormones) conversation. It just happens organically. But to and elevated levels of the female hormone avoid misunderstandings, right from the start, estrogen – a combination that translates to you should be indicating your interest in getting higher fertility. In other words, big pillowy lips into a relationship. No, not with strategically are basically a message from nature’s ad agency: H3ALLO0WEEN% COSTUM ESO & ACCFESSOFRIES strewn Brides magazines or messages magic- “Wanna have descendants? Pick me – not some markered across your breasts: “Marry me!!!” thin-lipped Lizzie.” You simply drop remarks about what you want However, there are full lips and lips full of and then ask questions to draw out what a guy’s stuff some plastic surgeon injected in them, and up for. This allows you to get out fast if your any plastic surgery that can be spotted as such is goals aren’t a match – as opposed to getting usually a turnoff to men. (You might as well get a to the four-month mark, holding him down tattoo that says, “Hi, I’m insecure!”) So tempting and screaming in his face: “So what’s it gonna as it is to keep up with the Kardashians, you’ll be, buddy? You looking to start a family, or a be more attractive to your boyfriend if you don’t harem?!” seem to need to. Best of all, to accomplish this, As for the woman in this photo, she could be all you have to do is avoid spending hundreds someone to your man – or someone standing of dollars to look like you just got out of a heavy near him when his friend was taking his picture. make-out session with the vacuum cleaner. (People shooting photos rarely say, “Okay, you Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon. 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or e-mail [email protected] (AdviceGoddess.com) 313 S. State St. • Exit 27 off I-80 • 309-936-7066 ©2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 15

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but actor Bill Murray’s advice about I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of its head looked more like a harmless gopher relationships: “If you have someone childhood, where you can encounter stimuli snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the that you think is The One, don’t just that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for say, ‘Okay, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Your upcoming schedule could include the duration, then slipped away after I finished. Take that person and travel around the world. jumping in mud puddles, attending parties What a great omen! The next day, I made a Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun tough but liberating decision to leave behind places that are hard to go to and hard to get with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from a good part of my life so as to focus more out of. And if, when you come back, you’re fountains of youth. fully on a great part. With or without a snake still in love with that person, get married at the sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest VIRGO (August 23-September breakthrough for you sometime soon. you make comparable moves to test and deepen 22): While still a young man, Virgo your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to author Leo Tolstoy wrote, “I have not CAPRICORN (December get more seriously and deliriously intimate. met one man who is morally as good as I am.” 22-January 19): Canadian author He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” Margaret Atwood has finished a TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk new manuscript. It’s called Scribbler Moon. firefighters use a wetter kind of water for an hour every day.” Others were equally But it won’t be published as a book until the than the rest of us. It contains a small stern: “Go to bed no later than 10 o’clock,” year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, amount of biodegradable foam that makes it “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow along with the texts of many other writers ten times more effective in dousing blazes. With flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did who are creating work for a “Future Library.” this as your cue, I suggest you work on making provide himself with wiggle room, however. The project’s director is conceptual artist your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to mean the following: When your feelings arise, during the day. Another specified that he could George Orwell’s question, “How could you give them your reverent attention. Marvel at visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to communicate with the future?” With this as how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: much life force they endow you with. Whether a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. Compose five messages you would you like to they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” As you refine and recommit yourself to these deliver to the person you will be in 2025. regard them as interesting revelations that fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself provide useful information and potential enough slack. AQUARIUS (January 20-February opportunities for growth. 18): Every hour of your life, millions LIBRA (September 23-October of new cells are born to replace old cells that GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Jonathan 22): Many astronomers believe are dying. That’s why many parts of your body Strange & Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV that our universe began with the Big Bang. are composed of an entirely different collection miniseries set in the early 19th An inconceivably condensed speck of matter of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, Century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, exploded, eventually expanding into thousands for example, you have replaced your skeleton Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy three times. Congratulations! Your creativity magic so as to accomplish practical works, event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate is spectacular, as is your ability to transform like helping the English navy in its war against that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 yourself. Normally these instinctual talents the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an decibels – less than the volume of a live rock aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge to recreate and transform your psyche, but they course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, are now. In the coming months, you will have that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested it unleashes. everything about yourself, not just your physical in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s organism. available. SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): For now, you are excused from PISCES (February 19-March 20): The CANCER (June 21-July 22): We further work on the impossible tasks coming weeks will not be a favorable humans have put buttons on clothing that have been grinding you down. You may time to seek out allies you don’t even for seven millennia. But for a long take a break from the unsolvable riddles and like that much or adventures that provide thrills time these small knobs and disks were purely cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would you have felt a thousand times before. But the ornamental – meant to add beauty but not also like to distance yourself from the farcical near future will be an excellent time to go on a serve any other function. That changed in the jokes the universe has been playing, go right quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, 13th Century, when our ancestors finally got ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, then serve an additional purpose, providing a frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that toward experiences that steep your heart with a possibility of a comparable evolution in your you have been as successful at weathering sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening these trials as you could possibly be, even if the degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you. to dream up further uses for elements that have concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible. previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm Homework: In what part of your life are about how you might expand the value of SAGITTARIUS (November you doing less than your best? Why? Visit familiar things. 22-December 21): One afternoon FreeWillAstrology.com. in September, I was hiking along Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny's LEO (July 23-August 22): You would a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES be wise to rediscover and revive your favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, six- & DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES primal innocence. If you can figure out foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 16 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com Crossword LADIES AND GENTLEMEN · October 15, 2014 September 17 Answers: Right

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ACROSS 81. Robin Williams role: 2 wds. 38. Bottom-line concern 1. Anthropoids 84. Provoke 39. Bypass 5. Messy mark 85. Town in Pennsylvania 40. Prehistoric tool 11. Newts 87. Plunders 41. Cousin to Constable Dogberry: 15. Ship with sails 88. A tonewood 2 wds. 19. Wife of Jacob 89. Assn. 42. Leaf 20. Antenna 90. Crisp cookie 44. Vocal piece for one 21. Insignificant, legally 91. Word in a cookbook 45. Harsh 22. Inter _ 93. Worshipful ones 46. Think 23. Jeremy Piven role: 2 wds. 97. Chapeau 48. River in France 25. Sherman’s guardian: 2 wds. 98. Overwhelm 50. Punctuation marks 27. Studios 102. Her cow allegedly caused a blaze: 55. Efforts 28. B-F link 2 wds. 56. Full of frost 57. Complain 30. Calls for 104. Role in “The Graduate”: 2 wds. 58. Composer _ Khachaturian 31. Super 107. Doilies 60. Hermetic 32. Dele’s undoing 108. Blackthorn 61. Poke 33. John _ 109. Full 62. Grow 34. Like a posse comitatus 110. School in England 64. Dwelling type 37. Kerchief 111. Pointed arch 65. Man of La Mancha 39. Splits 112. Diviner 66. Try 43. Feathered biped 113. Egyptian ruler 67. “M*A*S*H” setting 44. Classic toy: 3 wds. 114. Molders 68. Evans or Darnell 47. Greek letter 69. Fleur- _ - _ 49. Inquire DOWN 70. True-blue 50. Vulgar 1. _ mater 71. Rutabaga 51. Word on a door 2. Saucy 73. Petty officer 52. Sun. talk 3. Abate 74. Wilson’s predecessor 53. Wetland 4. Put on the back burner 77. Headway 54. Earliest stage 5. Less speculative 78. Pause 55. Clue of a kind 6. _ -andrew 81. Mushroom variety 57. Japanese noodle dish 7. “QB VII” author 82. Skeletal part 59. English novelist 8. Performed 83. Gondoliers 61. Swab 9. One-liner 84. Perry Mason’s creator 62. Beater anagram 10. Play by Sophocles 86. Bumpy, like a pea pod 11. Ant 63. “Toy Story” sheriff 88. Small 12. Because of 64. Wave type 90. More timid 13. Pith helmet 65. Floral leaf 91. Rattling noise 14. French writer 92. Fleshy root 66. The lowdown 15. Coddles 68. Nuts 93. Bullets 16. “Thanks _ _!” 94. Tedious task 69. Cousins to whole numbers 17. Midway attraction 95. Bone: Prefix 72. Lugs 18. Letters 96. Yard event 73. Ties 24. Bent the truth 98. Rainbow goddess 74. Projecting piece 26. Eschew 99. By: 2 wds. 75. Whammo! 29. Skillful 100. Drinking binge 76. Football’s Parseghian 32. Stuff 101. River in Austria 77. Swimming hole 34. Toward the stern 103. Caviar 78. Opera by Strauss 35. Upright pipe 105. Letters in genetics 79. Whiskey 36. Bullwinkle J. Moose role: 4 wds. 106. Rds. 80. _ esprit 37. Jag Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 17 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication 2015/10/15 (Thu) - 00 Chuck Murphy - Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd Saint Motel - On an On - Gabe’s, 330 E. 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Wash- Gangstagrass - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 Iowa City, IA Rock Island, IL ington St. Iowa City, IA S Linn St Iowa City, IA Hap Hazard - 11th Street Precinct, 1107 Jason Carl - 11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA 2015/10/18SUNDAY (Sun) - 18 2015/10/20 (Tue) - Mound St. Davenport, IA Jazz After Five w/ Blake Shaw Quintet TUESDAY 20 Mr. Nasti - Chalaxy - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd (5pm) - Jumbies - Rude Punch Buddy Olson (3pm) - Ducky’s Lagoon, An Evening with Lucero - Englert Ave. Rock Island, IL (9pm) - The Mill, 120 E. Burlington 13515 78th Ave W. Taylor Ridge, IL Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Steve McFate Acoustic - Racers Edge, St. Iowa City, IA Miranda Lambert @ i wireless Center - October 17 Edgar Winter Band - Englert Theatre, Iowa City, IA 936 15th Ave East Moline, IL Jerry Beauchamp - Walcott Coliseum, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA Chris Avey Live - My Place the Pub, 4405 The Sword - Kadavar - All Them 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA Celtic Woman - Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd Jake Shimabukuro - Englert Theatre, Jordan Danielsen & Jef Spradley State St. Bettendorf, IA Witches - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Justin Morrissey - Jumer’s Casino St. Davenport, IA 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA (2pm) - Fireside Winery, 1755 P Ave. Quad City Kix Band - RME Community St. Iowa City, IA Rock Island, 18th & Mississippi Rock Chuck Murphy - Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd Jason Wells Band - Flatted Fifth Blues Marengo, IA Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA University of Iowa Johnson County Island, IL St. Davenport, IA & BBQ, 300 Potter Dr. Bellevue, IA Knuckle Puck - Seaway - Sorority Landmark & Jazz Combos (6pm) Motorbiscuit - Jaiguru - Rock Kick Corporate Rock - 11th Street Precinct, Justin Morrissey - Governor’s Pub & Noise - Head North (5:30pm) - 2015/10/21 (Wed) - - The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Junkie - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA Grill, 3470 Middle Rd. Bettendorf, IA Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa WEDNESDAY 21 Iowa City, IA Island, IL Dee's Blues Bash: Serious Business Lewis Knudsen - Chris Bell (6pm) - City, IA Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show Portland Cello Project (11am) - But- - Mark Avey Band - Frankie Fon- Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd Ave Steve Grismore Jazz Trio (5pm) - Flat- - Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL 2015/10/16 (Fri) - 00 terworth Center, 1105 8th Street taine & the Ramblers (4pm) - Dee's Rock Island, IL ted Fifth Blues & BBQ, 300 Potter Dr. Glimpse Duo - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. FRIDAY 16 Moline, IL Catfish Cove, 4815 S. Concoird St., Michael Fracasso w/ Giulia Millanta Bellevue, IA Rock Island, IL Alyx Rush (5pm) - NorthPark Mall, 320 Ronin - Jack Lion - Subatlantic - Rozz- Davenport, IA - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Steve McFate Acoustic - Mr. Ed’s Liquor Hot Sardines - Englert Theatre, 221 East W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals (8pm) - Top- Cedar Rapids, IA Store and Tap, 127 4th St. W. Milan, IL Washington St. Iowa City, IA American Heroes: Songs and Stories - Smoke n’ Guns - Rascals Live, 1414 15th per (9:30pm) - Riverside Casino Midnite Riders - My Place the Pub, 4405 Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duf- Jeffrey Foucault CD Release Show Butterworth Center, 1105 8th Street St. Moline, IL and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 State St. Bettendorf, IA fee Jazz Quartet (9am) - Bix Bistro, - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Moline, IL Topper - Riverside Casino and Golf Re- Riverside, IA Miranda Lambert - RaeLynn & Clare 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Cedar Rapids, IA Amina Figarova Group - CSPS/Legion sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Fisherman’s Holler Family Bluegrass Dunn - Courtney Cole - i wireless The Ripplers (2pm) - Wide River Win- Karl Beatty - Mike Miller - The Third Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA Concert: Special Consensus - Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL ery - Clinton, 1776 East Deer Creek Street Villains, Pat’s Acoustic Dis- 302015/10/17 (Sat) - Brass Transit: The Legacy of Chicago - SATURDAY 17 Faris Family - Bluegrass Martins Mondo Generator - Peter Pan Speed- Rd. Clinton, IA co, members of The Candymakers John and Alice Butler Hall, University - Josie DeWitt & Fisherman’s Hol- rock - Killshakes - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Third Sunday Jazz: Cindy Scott & Brian and Jason Carl & the Whole Damn of Dubuque Heritage Center, 2255 Alyx Rush (5pm) - SouthPark Mall, 4500 ler (1 & 6pm) - Rock Island County Ave. Rock Island, IL Seeger (6pm) - The Redstone Room, Band - Boozie’s Bar & Grille, 114 1/2 Bennett St. Dubuque, IA 16th St Moline, IL Fairgrounds, 4200 Archer Dr. East Moonshine Run - Rascals Live, 1414 129 Main St Davenport, IA W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Bucktown Revue - Nighswander The- AZP - The Sapwoods - Iowa City Yacht Moline, IL 15th St. Moline, IL Undlin & Wolfe - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. The Passes - Leggy - Alosha - Other atre, 2822 Eastern Ave Davenport, IA Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar - The Rock Island, IL Band - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Chris & Jeni - My Place the Pub, 4405 Brentano String Quartet - Riverside Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar, St. Iowa City, IA State St. Bettendorf, IA Recital Hall, 405 N Riverside Dr. 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA Iowa City, IA Continued On Page 18 18 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication Continued From Page 17 Jazz After Five w/ James Dreier & The Funnies - Fargo Dance & Sports, Ritmocano (5pm) - Stone Cupid w/ 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL 2015/10/27 (Tue) - Julie Christensen (8pm) - The Mill, The Greens - River House, 1510 River TUESDAY 27 2015/10/22 (Thu) - 00 THURSDAY 22 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA Dr. Moline, IL Badi Assad - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd Just Chords - Riverside Grille, 1733 The Thirteen - Galvin Fine Arts Center, St SE Cedar Rapids, IA Chuck Murphy - The JBar - Holiday State St. Bettendorf, IA 2101 N. Gaines St. Davenport, IA Chris Avey Live - My Place the Pub, 4405 Inn & Suites, 4215 Elmore Ave. Keep Off the Grass - 11th Street Pre- The Whoozdads? - Flatted Fifth Blues State St. Bettendorf, IA Davenport, IA cinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA & BBQ, 300 Potter Dr. Bellevue, IA Monster Mash w/ Roger Carlson & iHearIC - The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Long Blue Willie - Rascals Live, 1414 Virgin Mary Pistol Grip - Tara Terra - Friends (6pm) - Mama Compton’s, Iowa City, IA 15th St. Moline, IL B-Star - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S 1725 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL Jordan Danielsen & Jef Spradley - 11th Lost Country Dancers - Walcott Coli- Linn St Iowa City, IA The Matchsellers (6pm) - RME Com- Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St. seum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA munity Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Dav- Davenport, IA Mary Chapin Carpenter - Englert 2015/10/25 (Sun) - enport, IA Margo Price & the Price Tags - Rozz- Theatre, 221 East Washington St. SUNDAY 25 Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Iowa City, IA Buddy Olson (3pm) - Ducky’s Lagoon, 2015/10/28 (Wed) - My Gold Mask - Sainthood - Live 28 Midnight - Sept of Memnon - Ange- Nick Colionne @ The Redstone Room - October 23 13515 78th Ave W. Taylor Ridge, IL WEDNESDAY Broadcast - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing- lust - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Lee Blackmon (3pm) - Creekside Vine- Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo (2pm) - Len Burlington Street Bluegrass Band - ton St. Iowa City, IA Cobalt Blue - 11th Street Precinct, 1107 Island, IL yards Winery & Inn, 7505 120th Ave. Brown’s North Shore Inn, 700 N. The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa The Grand Tour: A George Jones Mound St. Davenport, IA Sean Kistler - River House, 1510 River Coal Valley, IL Shore Dr. Moline, IL City, IA Tribute - Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse, Dave Ellis - Governor’s Pub & Grill, 3470 Dr. Moline, IL Lee Brice - Rick Monroe - Adler Theatre, Jeff Daniels & the Ben Daniels Band Celtic Music Jam Session w/ Joe Nobil- 1828 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Middle Rd. Bettendorf, IA Split Lip Rayfield 20th Anniversary Good Vibe Tribe - DJ Nxbel - Ness 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE ing (6pm) - Moline Public Library, Album Release - Fried Egg String- LKB Trio - Ubriaco’s Trattoria, 1029 Cedar Rapids, IA 3210 41st St. Moline, IL 2015/10/23 (Fri) - 00 Tripton - Dash Lee - MARS - Dillon FRIDAY 23 band - Ryne Doughty - Gabe’s, 330 Fuego (6pm) - Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash- Mound St. Davenport, IA Ronny Cox (4pm) - The Mill, 120 E. Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Mountain Sprout - Birdcloud - Blaine Burlington St. Iowa City, IA - Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL Alyx Rush (5pm) - RME Community ington St. Iowa City, IA The Blackstones - My Place the Pub, Cartwright - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duf- Fruit Bats - Joan Shelley - Rozz-Tox, Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Hammer & the Nailers - Harley Corin’s, 4405 State St. Bettendorf, IA Rock Island, IL fee Jazz Quartet (9am) - Bix Bistro, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Brooks Strause Record Release Party 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA The Funnies - Fargo Dance & Sports, Portland Cello Project - First Presbyte- 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Smashing Pumpkins Tribute - RIBCO, - Bedroom Shrine - Us-Mode - Rozz- Hot Rods Concert & Dance - Walcott 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL rian Church of Davenport, 1702 Iowa The Ballroom Thieves - PM Buys - 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA The Grand Tour: A George Jones Trib- St. Davenport, IA The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Cherry Gun - Riverside Casino and Igudesman and Joo: And Now Mozart ute (1pm) - Circa ‘21 Dinner Play- Powell - My Place the Pub, 4405 State Davenport, IA 2015/10/29 (Thu) - Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- - Englert Theatre, 221 East Washing- house, 1828 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL St. Bettendorf, IA THURSDAY 29 erside, IA ton St. Iowa City, IA Wild Oatz - Henry’s Double K, 834 S Ricky Warwick Acoustic Show - Kofi 2015/10/26 (Mon) - An Evening with That 1 Guy - The Dark Hollow Boys (6pm) - Mama Comp- Justin Morrissey - Riverside Grille, 1733 Jackson St. Mt. Carroll, IL Bakers Cream Experince - Rascals MONDAY 26 Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav- ton’s, 1725 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL State St. Bettendorf, IA Yamn - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL Moeller Mondays Presents: Craig Finn enport, IA Great Sounds Promotions 20th-Anni- Keith Soko - RME Community Stage, St Iowa City, IA RONIN as The Cure - Them Som’Bitches - Esme Patterson - Oh Pep! - Rozz- Bettendorf Park Band Fall Concert versary Celebration: Nick Colionne 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA as Weezer - Seth Knappen as Willie Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL - Bettendorf Public Library, 2950 & Richard Elliot - The Redstone Keith Walker - Central Performing Arts 302015/10/24 (Sat) - Nelson - Bier Stube Moline Black- The Matchsellers - Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash- Learning Campus Dr. Bettendorf, IA Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA Center, 519 E. 11th St. DeWitt, IA SATURDAY 24 hawk Room, 417 15th St. Moline, IL ington St. Iowa City, IA The Flood - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Hairball - Quad-Cities Waterfront Kinfolk (6pm) - Mama Compton’s, 1725 Cherry Gun - Riverside Casino and Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar - The St. Iowa City, IA Convention Center, 2021 State St. 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar, Urge Overkill - The Goddamn Gallows Bettendorf, IA Knubby - Well Aren’t You Precious - erside, IA 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL Hammer & the Nailers - Harley Corin’s, Speaking of Secrets - Dynoride Chuck Murphy - Bobbers Grill, 1850 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Scales Bend Rd. NE New Liberty, IA Jack Lion & MAIDS - CSPS/Legion Arts, Island, IL 1103 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 22 No. 893 • October 15 - 28, 2015 19 DJs/Karaoke/ Comedy Jams/Open Mics THURSDAYS Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W. Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) – River THURSDAY 15 Comedy Open Mic (7pm) – The Mill, 120 E. ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establishment, 220 THURSDAYS Third St., Davenport, IA. Music Experience, 129 N. Main St., THURSDAY 15 Burlington St., Iowa City, IA. 19th St., Rock Island, IL. Cobra Kai Karaoke – The Backroom Comedy Soulshake – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St., Davenport, IA. Genesius Guild Benefit w/ Guys in Ties Igudesman & Joo: And Now Mozart (8pm) Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St., Daven- Iowa City, IA. Open Mic Night (6:30pm) – Cool Beanz (7pm) – The Establishment, 220 19th St., MONDAY 19 – Englert Theatre, 221 E. Washington St., port, IA. Coffeehouse, 1325 330th St., Rock Rock Island, IL. MONDAY 19 Iowa City, IA. DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Pub, SATURDAYS Island, IL. The Only Comedy Show in Town (9pm) The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase (10pm) Jimmy Pardo (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Comedy 303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA. SATURDAYS Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace – 11th – Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 ½ W. 3rd St., – Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA. DJ Night w/ 90s Music – Thirsty’s on Third, DJ Dolla – The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800 Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Dav- Davenport, IA. City, IA. Louie Anderson & Rita Rudner (8pm) – Riv- 2202 W. Third St., Davenport, IA. Second Ave., Rock Island, IL. enport, IA. erside Casino Event Center, 3184 Highway Jam Night – My Place the Pub, 4405 State DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Underground Open Mic w/ Kate Kane FRIDAY 16 00 TUESDAY 20 22, Riverside, IA. St., Bettendorf, IA. Pub, 303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA. – Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., FRIDAY 16 TUESDAY 20 Studio Series: Establishment Stands Up Jazz Jam (Oct. 15) – Flatted Fifth Blues & Just Let Go DJs (Oct. 24) – Bier Stube Iowa City, IA. ComedySportz: Comedy for a Cause (7pm) Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) – Harley Corin’s, (9:30pm) – The Establishment, 220 19th BBQ, 300 Potter Dr., Bellevue, IA. Moline Blackhawk Room, 415 15th St., – The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA. St., Rock Island, IL. Karaoke Night – Bier Stube Moline, 415 Moline, IL. WEDNESDAYS Island, IL. The Blacklist: Blacklist Against Humanity 15th St., Moline, IL. Karaoke Night – The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st WEDNESDAYS Studio Series: Tubbs and Kelly Presents ... WEDNESDAY 21 (9pm) – The Backroom Comedy Theater, Open Jam Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708 State St., Long Grove, IA. Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate – (9:30pm) – The Establishment, 220 19th WEDNESDAY 21 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA. St., Bettendorf, IA. Karaoke Night – Miller Time Bowling, 2902 McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave., Moline, IL. St., Rock Island, IL. Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Come- Open Mic Night – Uptown Bill’s Coffee E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA. Boozie’s Open Mic Five-Year Anniversary Untamed Shrews (7:30pm) – Penguin’s dy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA. SUNDAY 25 House, 730 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA. Karaoke Night – Roadrunners Roadhouse, (Oct. 21) – Boozie’s Bar & Grille, 114 ½ Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar The Backroom Comedy Open Mic Night SUNDAY 25 The TuckerAfterTen Happy Fun Time 3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA. W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA. Rapids, IA. (7:30pm) – The Backroom Comedy Theater, The Circumstantial Comedy Show (9pm) – Music Explosion! – The Dark Horse Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W. Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau – Iowa City 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA. BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA. Hall, 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA. Third St., Davenport, IA. Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA. SATURDAY30 17 Williams & Ree (3pm) – Riverside Casino Event Thumpin’ Thursdays DJs - Rascals Live, Open Mic Night – Downtown Central Perk, Karaoke Night – 11th Street Precinct, 1107 SATURDAY 17 THURSDAY 22 Center, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA. 1414 15th St., Moline, IL. 226 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA. Mound St., Davenport, IA. Chris Thayer – Robert Flanagan – Clare Roth – THURSDAY 22 Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment – Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment – Karaoke Night – Circle Tap, 1345 West Ruben Lebron – Arash Singh (10:30pm) – The Only Comedy Show in Town (9pm) – Booz- MONDAY 26 Broken Saddle, 1417 5th Ave., Moline, IL. Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Ave., Locust St., Davenport, IA. The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City, IA. ie’s Bar & Grill, 114 ½ W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA. MONDAY 26 Moline, IL. Karaoke Night – My Place the Pub, 4405 ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establishment, 220 The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase (10pm) FRIDAYS State St., Bettendorf, IA. 19th St., Rock Island, IL. FRIDAY 23 – Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., FRIDAYS SUNDAYS Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave., Little Village Comedy Hour: Chris Thayer - FRIDAY 23 Iowa City, IA. Cross Creek Karaoke – Firehouse Bar & Grill, SUNDAYS Rock Island, IL. Robert Flanagan - Clare Roth - Ruben ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establishment, 220 2006 Hickory Grove Rd., Davenport, IA. Karaoke Night – 11th Street Precinct, 1107 Karaoke Night – Sharky’s Billiards, 2902 E. Lebron - 19th St., Rock Island, IL. TUESDAY 27 DJ Dolla – The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800 Mound St., Davenport, IA. Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA. Studio Series: Don’t Try This at Home Jim Breuer (8pm) – Riverside Casino Event Cen- TUESDAY 27 Second Ave., Rock Island, IL. Karaoke w/ JB Promotions – The Rusty Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W. (9:30pm) – The Establishment, 220 19th ter, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA. Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) – Harley Corin’s, DJ K Yung – Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Nail, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA. Third St., Davenport, IA. St., Rock Island, IL. Jimmy Pardo (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Comedy 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA. Ave., Moline, IL. Open Jam w/ Earth Ascending – Bent The Blacklist: As Seen on TV (9pm) – The Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA. DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Pub, MONDAYS River Brewing Company, 512 24th St. Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N. Har- Studio Series: Bandwagon (9:30pm) – The WEDNESDAY 28 303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA MONDAYS Rock Island, IL. rison St., Davenport, IA. Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL. WEDNESDAY 28 Karaoke Night – Circle Tap, 1345 West Open Mic w/ J. Knight – The Mill, 120 E. Open Mic Night (Oct. 28) – Boozie’s Bar & Untamed Shrews (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Locust St., Davenport, IA. Burlington St., Iowa City, IA. Grille, 114 ½ W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA. Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar 30SATURDAY 24 Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Karaoke Night – The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st Open Mic w/ Frankie Joe Willderman Rapids, IA. SATURDAY 24 Rapids, IA. St., Long Grove, IA. TUESDAYS (6pm) – Mama Compton’s, 1725 Second Comedians You’ve Never Heard of w/ Travis The Backroom Comedy Open Mic Night Karaoke Night – Miller Time Bowling, 2902 TUESDAYS Ave. Arts Alley, Rock Island, IL. SUNDAY 18 Bails: Andrew Cline – Bobby Ray Bunch (7:30pm) – The Backroom Comedy Theater, E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA. Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate – Mr. Rock’N the House Karaoke – Harley SUNDAY 18 – Kyle Scanlan – Ross Kelly (8pm) – Circa 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA. Karaoke Night – Roadrunners Roadhouse, Ed’s Liquor Store & Tap, 127 Fourth St. Corin’s, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA. The Circumstantial Comedy Show (9pm) – ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave., Rock Island, IL. 3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA. W., Milan, IL. BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA. FIGGE ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION OPENING

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