River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 WORDS FROM THE EDITOR by Kathleen McCarthy FREE RECLINER [email protected] ACCESSORY Start Thinking Solutions or with Stressless® recliner Stop Thinking You Matter t is a deeply painful thing to finally admit to give up, to grant on a permanent basis. and ottoman purchase. that the government you thought was your The implications of switching these words (Like the attached computer table!) Iprotector and friend is anything but. Or are staggering. By replacing critical words in that the politicians charged with upholding the court rulings, the laws’ meanings are subverted U.S. Constitution – as their oaths dictate by law through language alone, and not by consent – not only ignore this nonnegotiable man- of the governed. It is a critical distinction, and date but actually diminish it with conflicting Americans must look to correct these subtle legislation that is largely illegal according to the manipulations using peaceful legal tools, such constructs of America’s republic under the rule as nullification and interposition. of common law. I urge you to watch the video on YouTube The common law I refer to is informed by of a lecture titled Untangling Jurisdiction on the Magna Carta, which developed around two Federal Land by Stephen Pratt (RCReader.com/ core principles that provide the litmus test for y/pratt). He gives an entertaining and thorough all legislation: (1) Do all you have agreed to do recap of the U.S. Constitution’s structure and (contract law), and (2) Do no harm to another delegation of powers. The video is Pratt’s or his property (criminal law). presentation to the Western States Sheriffs' All kinds of statutes, administrative Association convention in March. In addition procedure, and highly arbitrary regulations to more than a hundred county sheriffs, there have been passed via hidden legislation among were federal-government attorneys from hundreds of thousands of pages of bills, various agencies in the audience, keen on approved but not even read by our lawmakers, hearing firsthand Pratt’s analysis of the history that do not remotely conform to the above two of nullification and interposition against principles. How many statutes and regulations unlawful federal-government intrusion. are adjudicated in criminal and/or civil court History, conveniently left out of most of without harm to another or another’s property? academia’s curricula today, proves that the Most adjudication today is nothing more obscene amount of power the current federal than a means for government and attorneys government wields is largely usurped from the to generate revenue in the form of penalties states. 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Thru July 8. food, energy, labor, and credit – the list is long). authority to interpose and protect citizens See store In Mockingjay, the sequel to The Hunger whose rights are being violated. There is much for details. Games, the character Plutarch cites an ancient to be said for elected officials who actually Latin writer in comparing the population in understand their oath of office and follow it. the Capitol to Romans as “Panem et Circenses,” Sadly, too few challenge the status quo in fear explaining that it “translates into ‘Bread and of losing their pension or gold-plated benefits. Circuses’ ... that in return for full bellies and Most Americans know things are going terribly entertainment, his people had given up their wrong, but far too few are active in fixing it. political responsibilities, and therefore their Introduce yourself to your sheriff and power.” ask about his or her oath of office. Ask: If Sound familiar? Have Americans not done the state or the feds violate your rights, will this precise thing? The U.S. Constitution he or she protect you? Attend your county- “delegates” specific and limited powers to board and city-council meetings (much more Your Life.Your Style. the government, while the states and people goes on than you are told by the media); retain the authority. 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40029 Version:01 04-20-12 jv Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 ILLINOIS POLITICS by Rich Miller CapitolFax.com Smith’s Initial Defense Suggests a Blagojevich-Like Circus all it “Blagojevich Lite,” or whatever admitting that he took the money? And if else you want, but it became pretty he did take the cash, isn’t that enough right Cdarned clear last week that the attor- there to expel him from office? The House neys for state Representative Derrick Smith doesn’t have to consider whether Smith are planning the same sort of mockery of is guilty under state or federal criminal the system that Rod Blagojevich’s legal team statutes. This is not about criminality. 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In our April Consequently, Wehrli believed 25 phone interview, he tells me that a Titanic tale featuring he has, and that it was even the Ismay as its central figure had inspiration for his play. considerable potential. That’s not exactly the “It’s not that I wanted a compliment it might seem, story that implied everything though, considering he calls was solely his fault,” says the Cameron’s Titanic “visually playwright. “But as a figurehead stunning and incredibly, of this company, I thought that maddeningly frustrating because in a dramatic form, he could of the fictional characters. kind of answer for many people “I mean, they took up half who were responsible. And his the story,” says Wehrli of story is so interesting, because the young lovers played by his father started the White Star Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Line, and then Ismay was forced Winslet, “and it was the actual Bryan Woods, Angela Rathman, Stephanie Moeller, Randy Pribyl, Molly Schmelzer, Faith Hardacre, out in 1913, and then he spent survivors’ stories, to me, that and Mike Kelly in Playcrafters’ Titanic Aftermath about 25 years in seclusion ... . were ... interesting. That, and the discovery that infants on the Titanic’s by “going into research mode, and “So I thought, ‘Well, here’s a the corporate-negligence side to the lifeboats had to be hauled aboard rescue shutting myself in my room for about perfect character. What would it be like tragedy, which is hardly ever addressed in ships in nets and gunny sacks. three months. to live with 25 years of guilt?’ Because dramatic form. Yet while the tales told are fascinating “I delved into all the Titanic books,” as much as I was unhappy with Ismay’s “So I thought, ‘All right, well, I’m just and frequently wrenching, Titanic he continues, “and a lot of information choices, I also wanted his side to be heard. going to write a play about all this.’” Aftermath is far more than a mere history came from Walter Lord’s The Night Lives He was a human being, you know? He Wehrli laughs. “‘How the hell do I do lesson delivered by a series of talking on, which was his follow-up to A Night to was just as traumatized as anybody else by that?’” heads. It’s also a supremely theatrical Remember,” the 1955 Titanic novel that that evening.” The answer, in both the play’s scope exploration of the Titanic’s sinking and inspired the equally famed 1958 film. Titanic Aftermath finds the entirety and effectiveness (certainly on paper), is its legacy, boasting representational “But amazingly, even back in 2000, of the stage action taking place, as “grandly.” re-creations of the lifeboat rescues and some obsessive person also typed out Wehrli says, “in Ismay’s head,” with the Written in 2000 and then slightly carnage, scenes of the dead communing everything from the 1912 Senate hearings anguished, long-retired man (played, in revised by Wehrli for its 2010 publication, with the living, and a cast of 24 portraying and British inquiry. So I was able to Playcrafters’ production, by Pat Flaherty) Titanic Aftermath goes straight to more than 110 characters among them. download, into a Word document, all imagining himself again forced to stand the sources for its narrative, offering Plus, there are the play’s technical 2,200 pages of that, which made it trial for his part in the disaster. It also recollections from the luxury liner’s aspects. “Would you believe we have incredibly easy to just cut and paste all the features three dreamlike characters survivors – and those considered 279 light cues?” says Titanic Aftermath information that I found interesting into who interact with Ismay and represent responsible for the ship’s 1912 sinking director Paul Workman, who adds that separate documents. I would have one different groups of passengers who – taken directly from transcripts of the Playcrafters’ production also employs document that was just lifeboat stories, perished, referred to in the script as First disaster’s U.S. Senate hearings and British voice-overs recorded by the cast and and one with stories of people shooting Class (Pamela Crouch), Third Class inquiry. dozens of sound effects. “We’re hoping it’s people, and so on.” (Anastasiya Newkirk), and Officer (Josh Consequently, if you feel overly going to be pretty epic.” Yet while Wehrli eventually amassed Kahn). familiar with the Titanic story through Still, for all of Titanic Aftermath’s more than enough technical information, “I wanted to find a dramatic form Cameron’s 1997 movie – or the numerous thematic and presentational grandeur, testimony, and anecdotes to justify a full- where I could have people who could TV programs, exhibits, and events Wehrli says that ultimately, “what I really length play, he didn’t have a presentational reasonably take Ismay to task,” says (including Titanic’s 3D re-release) wanted was for the people who died to concept for Titanic Aftermath until Wehrli, “and it just seemed to me that scheduled in this centennial year of the finally have a voice.” continued reading and re-reading made people who did not survive the ship disaster – there will no doubt be details him realize “it all kept coming back to would have a sort of omnipotent-narrator here to newly capture your attention. Ismay.” knowledge. It’s a device to be able to tell Such as the fact that more adult, male, 25 Years of Guilt J. Bruce Ismay, the Englishman who the story, but it allowed me, through their first-class passengers were rescued than Wehrli, who has served as artistic and served as chair and managing director voices, to reveal information and express third-class-passenger children. Or the education director for Portland’s New of the White Star Line of steamships, things that they wouldn’t necessarily fact that even in the reported 31-degree Moon Productions Theatre Company became instantly notorious after know.” temperatures of the Atlantic Ocean, it since 1994 and has written or adapted 18 surviving the Titanic’s doomed maiden Wehrli’s employment of these was possible to be boiled alive from the professionally produced plays, says that voyage, vilified for abandoning ship while representative figures also fit with the heat emanating from the downed ship. Or he began his work on Titanic Aftermath women and children were still aboard, Continued On Page 17 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com
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Vol. 19 · No. 804 May 10 - 23, 2012 MUSIC by Jeff Ignatius [email protected] River Cities’ Reader 532 W. 3rd St. Crayon Art, Kitchen Sink Included Davenport IA 52801 RiverCitiesReader.com Konrad, Shadow Boxing; Performing May 11 at Rozz-Tox (563)324-0049 (phone) (563)323-3101 (fax) effrey Konrad’s Shadow to action that’s at once optimistic [email protected] Boxing, his second and dystopian, with its futuristic “official” release under the sonic textures drawn deeply Publishing since 1993 J name Konrad, is all over a pop from the past; on a musical level, The River Cities’ Reader is an independent newspaper map written mostly in crayon, it’s everywhere but the present. published every other Thursday, and available free with keyboard cheese and drum Konrad’s words seem ironically, throughout the Quad Cities and surrounding areas. machines aplenty. If the album bitterly bleak: “Our parents did a weren’t so layered and carefully pretty good job / Teachers did a © 2012 River Cities’ Reader constructed, it would be an easy mighty fine job / Politicians did a mistake to dismiss many songs swell job / Of ruining our planet.” AD DEADLINE : as amateurish outsider art pro- But it’s fundamentally positive, 5 p.m. Wednesday prior to publication duced largely on a synthesizer. with its opening – “I can see the The wrongheadedness of future / The planet’s okay / Never PUBLISHER that should be evident solely mind what they say on TV” Todd McGreevy from “Hang-Ups,” which – confident in a revolution. foregos electronics entirely for Somewhere between the EDITOR a poignant, country-tinged straightforward, conventional Kathleen McCarthy ballad that recalls Neil Young in “Hang-Ups” and the aggressively its instrumentation and sleepy processed tracks are a few songs EDITORIAL vibe. The two-line chorus is that seek a middle ground. Managing Editor: Jeff Ignatius • [email protected] plainspoken but clear, with “Sticks & Stones” and “Time Is Arts Editor, Calendar Editor: Mike Schulz • [email protected] understated vocals that capture After,” for example, try to have Contributing Writers: Amy Alkon, Rob Brezsny, Lynn Campbell, a character both self-aware and have the melody.” That process, he said, is it both ways, and they never Michelle Garrison, Rich Miller, Frederick Morden, Bruce Walters, lost: “Getting over you has been difficult drawn from jazz improv – using chords quite reconcile their equally weighted dual Thom White, Grant Williams / ’Cause I’m faking it through my future.” and harmonies as the ground from which natures. The verses are loaded with phrases both The Beatles cover “I’m Only Sleeping” ADVERTISING melodies spring. Account Executive: cryptic and evocative – “Open season on He said he then builds on top of that works better, with thick snakes of chunky, Jason Farrell • [email protected] the polygraph,” “Shadow-boxing with the – usually exhausting Pro Tools’ 32 available synthesized melodies nearly devouring Advertising Coordinator: Nathan Klaus angel of death.” tracks – before scaling things back. the source material. “Silence Inside Us” “Hang-Ups” is exceptional in two senses: As you might expect, the album is employs a similar approach in a more Advertising rates, publishing schedule, demographics, outstanding and an outlier. Closing track exceedingly dense. Konrad isn’t blending aggressive rock context, with the electronic and more are available at “Luxury of Wishful Peace” follows its like things as often as he’s combining elements freaking out and steamrolling an QCAdvertising.com lead down a lovely chamber-pop hallway, wildly different components. Lead track otherwise perfectly serviceable song. while “Puppet Strings” – dominated by a “All You Thought” manages to make Shadow Boxing is, in other words, hardly DESIGN/PRODUCTION sitar guitar, fiddle, and tabla – is another even its organic elements (trumpet a unified whole – and that often applies to Art Director, Production Manager: Shawn Eldridge • aberration, a stew blending Indian and and trombone) sound synthetic, while its individual songs as well as the entirety. [email protected] Celtic flavors. But there’s a distinct, strong artistic voice Graphic Artist: Nathan Klaus • [email protected] the lyrics – sung with a stiff but eager These songs help contextualize the earnestness – seem like a socially inept throughout, one that for worse but usually remainder of Shadow Boxing, dominated mating call, as if generated by a robot with better has no self-censorship mechanism. ADMINISTRATION by exercises in plasticized pop. I no grasp of figurative speech: “Then we Konrad typically employs an everything- Business Manager: Kathleen McCarthy don’t intend that term as derogatory: can go home and get in your neck.” The including-the-kitchen-sink approach, but Office Administrator, Classifieds Manager, Circulation Manager: Rick Martin • [email protected] Konrad’s heavy, willfully excessive use of song has a winning awkwardness, both he’s got the conviction and the ear to make Distribution: William Cook, Cheri DeLay, Greg FitzPatrick, synthesized sounds is not a crutch but a musically and lyrically: “Are you all torn it work. Tyler Gibson, Daniel Levsen, J.K. Martin, Jay Strickland largely successful artistic choice. out of shape? ’Cause if you are, I’ve got In a recent phone interview, the Quad tape.” Konrad will perform on Friday, May 11, Cities musician said he crafted the songs That’s followed by the innocently horny at Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue in Rock “freestyle,” composing them in the studio. “So Who Are You?”, and its narrator Island). Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show He said he starts with a few parts, and seems only slightly more adept at human also includes Cowboy Indian Bear and “after a few layers get down, a melody interaction. But again the musical setting Centaur Noir. Admission is $5. will pretty much just pop into my head. and words are charmingly vivid: “I’m going And I’ll record the melody with mock oo-oo crazy as a break-dancing ghost.” For more information on Konrad, visit lyrics right then and there, so then I’ll “Klairvoyance” is an environmental call KonradMusic.net. 10 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com THEATRE by Mike Schulz [email protected] Torture Chamber Play The Pillowman, at the District Theatre through May 12
n April 26, the District Theatre debuted terrific telling of The Pillowman, with Fairchild a most admirable, impressive production handling McDonagh’s eloquent, punchy script Oof Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, a with exceptional sensitivity and faithfulness, and play boasting numerous surprises both major and the performers clearly relishing the chance to play minor. Yet if the reactions of a few of the evening’s figures of such richly drawn, sometimes shocking audience members are to be trusted, it might be complexity. necessary to spoil a few right As Tapuski, the (usually) off the bat. soft-spoken interrogator To begin with, while this whose role as the professed dramatic thriller could also “good cop” is convincing be accurately described for all of 15 seconds, as the darkest of dark Matt Mercer is fabulously comedies, it’s not so much reptilian, tossing off his “ha ha” funny as “heh heh insinuations and threats heh heh heh ... ” funny. There with a comically blasé are punchlines (and they’re Ed Villarreal and Dexter Brigham nonchalance that hints at beauties) in McDonagh’s tale the reservoirs of disgust of a writer being interrogated for the murders of and sadism lurking beneath. (When those two local youths – horrific killings that mirror reservoirs spill over, though, watch out: So the stories told in a pair of the author’s gruesome often cast as friendly and genial types, Mercer children’s fables. But those punchlines are delivers an incensed outburst here to shake the incidental to the sick-joke narrative twists and ceiling.) Playing Tupolski’s opposite number – the the escalating sense that as bad as things get for hotheaded bad-ass Ariel, whose exterior ferocity The Pillowman’s tortured lead, they’re gonna get masks a levelheaded and fundamentally decent worse; generally speaking, your laughter here is soul – Jason Platt demonstrates his trademark nervous laughter ... a point that would’ve perhaps nuance and emotional accessibility, and his been useful to April 26’s front-row patrons who inspiring ability to express reams of character occasionally cackled at inappropriate times and detail sometimes through a mere sentence, or left during the show’s first intermission. even a mere look. (My one caveat regarding Platt’s Which brings us to the fact that there is superb work here – one that only comes from my a first intermission, with another landing familiarity with the script – lies in his tendency roughly an hour later. Running two hours to break up Ariel’s lines with added vocal and 45 minutes in director James Fairchild’s pauses such as “um” and “uh,” which effectively presentation, McDonagh’s outstanding four- demonstrates thought and makes his deliveries man play actually requires that length, given sound naturalistic, but also significantly alters its constant, chilling reversals of character and McDonagh’s text and rhythms.) expectation and lengthy, beautifully written Portraying the damaged, childlike Michal recitations. But considering the understandable with lovely simplicity, Ed Villarreal has a faraway paucity of movement and the intentionally (and sadness about him, yet manages to suggest a deep, persuasively) grim, oppressive set design and and deeply troubling, inner peace during his more lighting by scenic artists Susan Holgersson and nightmarish confessions. (Michal also delivers Charles T. Knudsen, nearly three hours can be much of The Pillowman’s less discomforting a long haul. Especially if patrons are put off by humor, though Fairchild’s staging of Villarreal’s grotesque descriptions and/or on-stage acts of “itchy ass” routines feels like an attempt to violence and/or spiky language ... as, apparently, insert broad laughs into a production that really were the Pillowman attendees who left during the shouldn’t have any.) And he develops a touching show’s second intermission. rapport with Dexter Brigham, who gives an Add to that Thursday’s gradually diminished intensely intelligent, forceful performance as audience a couple of coughing fits during quietly Katurian – empathetic, pitiful, resourceful, cagey intense monologues and a patron (not, to my – and whose wickedly macabre fables, delivered knowledge, a reviewer) who flipped and tore directly to the audience with the hypnotic pieces of notebook paper with unbecoming grace of a master orator, are the highlights of aggression, and Fairchild’s cast deserved major the show. The District Theatre’s The Pillowman props for pulling through, and emerging is a more-than-respectable take on supremely victorious, under less-than-ideal circumstances. challenging material. During Brigham’s fiendishly My guess is that the evening’s annoyances, in entertaining asides, it’s the stage equivalent of all likelihood, did take their toll; despite giving sitting around a campfire as a little kid, and strong performances, the actors stumbled over listening to ghost stories that creep the bejeezus too many lines for it to be ignored, and a few out of you. important moments – primarily the kicker to abused author Katurian’s rendezvous with The Pillowman runs at the District Theatre (1611 his brother Michal – felt unduly rushed, and Second Avenue, Rock Island) through May 12, and as a result were less gut-wrenching than they more information and tickets are available by calling should’ve been. Yet this remained a rather (309)235-1654 or visiting DistrictTheatre.com. 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Movie Reviews by Mike Schulzby Mike • [email protected] Schulz • [email protected] Power Surge THE AVENGERS the world. (It’s a of his fish-out- of hysterically quick, retaliatory smack- comic-book movie, of-water humor downs get such a rise out of us; they’re Prior to its national release, the so banality and and much of his practically the only moments in Whedon’s scuttlebutt on The Avengers seemed to vagueness pretty raging narcissism, film in which, like the hapless recipients be that the Hulk totally stole the show. much come with the Chris Hemsworth’s of those blows, you actually can’t predict Having now seen director Joss Whedon’s territory.) But I had Thor isn’t allowed what’s about to hit you. long-awaited, cinematic commingling of hoped that Whedon, to be the bold, Marvel superheroes, I’m inclined to agree, who shares a “story brash, winning because the angry green giant has been BULLY by” credit with Zak comedian he was a granted two fantastically unexpected, Penn, would at year ago. Acting as I couldn’t be more grateful to area legitimately great moments in the film, least tinker with his his motley crew’s bookers for finally securing the release and that’s at least one more than anyone Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth in The Avengers genre’s traditional resident straight of Bully, director Lee Hirsch’s deeply else has been given. beats and rhythms in playful, unusual ways man, Chris Evans’ Captain America – who, troubling, deeply touching anti-bullying Odin knows there are random pleasures – that the assembling of Iron Man, Thor, in last summer’s solo hit, was already pretty documentary that was infamously to be found in this hugely scaled comic- Captain America, the Hulk, and the rest one-note – is little more than a blandly given an R rating by the Motion Picture book adventure: Tom Hiddleston’s for one magnum opus wouldn’t feel like patriotic cipher, slightly less interesting than Association of America for a few grinning malevolence as the Avengers’ an overstuffed version of every superhero his titanium-plated shield. (The accessory utterances of the “F” word. (Thanks to chief adversary; the enormous wormhole spectacle you’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, proves even more powerful than Thor’s continued appeals, public outcry, and that unleashes destructive, metallic, though, the movie’s arc plays out with hammer, a discovery that, for me, was one a slight trimming of material, the film’s neighborhood-sized worms; Iron Man dispiriting familiarity – there’s nothing about of the film’s only true surprises.) And while rating was overturned to a PG-13.) But alter ego Tony Stark casually insulting The Avengers’ storyline that wasn’t effectively I loved the casting of Mark Ruffalo as the while I urge audiences of all ages to catch the Norse god Thor by calling him “Point skewered by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in Hulk’s mild-mannered-by-necessity alter this empathetic, occasionally harrowing Break.” Yet in general, and aside from 2004’s Team America: World Police – and for ego Bruce Banner – Ruffalo’s feather-light look at the perils of its subject matter, I the climax’s two lightning-fast “Hulk all the minor amusement generated by the deliveries suggest, ironically, a man without do question the logic of opening Bully on smash!” encounters that elicited deserved Avengers’ internal squabbles, the characters a mean bone in his body – there’s only so the same weekend as The Avengers. In our cackles and applause at my screening, prove less entertaining as a unit than they’ve much a performer can bring to a film when current culture, aren’t the kids who attend I found Whedon’s action extravaganza been in solo vehicles. (As for the characters all of his character’s best scenes are played by Hirsch’s movie instead of that box-office so depressingly by-the-numbers that who haven’t yet had solo vehicles, I’m kind of pixels. phenomenon – the movie that, you know, it caused me to briefly nod off halfway hoping that neither Scarlett Johansson’s Black The action is generically loud and only a loser wouldn’t see – destined to be through ... which is actually easy to do Widow nor Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye have chaotic; the effects are overwhelming unfairly singled out for ridicule? I have a when a movie gives you almost nothing film franchises on the horizon, as the actors yet fundamentally meaningless. But the word for this situation, but I’m thinking but exactly what you expect from it. – both uncharacteristically dull – really don’t biggest bummer about The Avengers is the MPAA wouldn’t like it much. To be fair, even with that master do anything in The Avengers that they don’t that is displays so little personality – even of cleverness Whedon also serving do on the film’s poster.) the returning figures played by Samuel L. For reviews of The Five-Year Engagement, as screenwriter, I wasn’t anticipating By now, of course, the Iron Man and Jackson, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Raven, much novelty from his narrative, which Tony Stark roles fit Robert Downey Jr. as and the wonderfully crisp Clark Gregg get Safe, and other current releases, visit concerns our costumed heroes’ efforts snugly as spandex, but his endless quips and lost in the blockbuster-minded melee of RCReader.com. to prevent Hiddleston’s demigod Loki put-downs here have a rote, been-there/ it all – and so little willingness to deviate from possessing a gleaming cube of self- blithely-disregarded-that quality, and robbed from formula. No wonder the Hulk’s pair Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/ sustaining energy and using it to destroy MikeSchulzNow. Listen to Mike every Friday at 9am on ROCK 104-9 FM with Dave & Darren 12 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com What’s Happenin’ Dance Music The Sleeping Beauty Clutch Adler Theatre Rock Island Brewing Company Saturday, May 19, 1 & 7 p.m. Thursday, May 10, 8 p.m.
allet Quad Cities will present a brand- he hard-rock and funk-metal musicians of Clutch take the stage at the Rock Island Composed of lead vocalist Neil Fallon, of admirers for their propulsive energy and Bnew take on Tchaikovsky’s legendary T guitarist Tim Sult, bassist Dan Maines, and innovative riffs, with a Clutch concert described fairy-tale ballet The Sleeping Beauty at Brewing Company on May 10, and the band’s many hit songs over its history include “The percussionist Jean-Paul Gaster, Clutch has by Fallon as “a party atmosphere.” the Adler Theatre on May 19, and for actually been wowing fans for more than 20 So, quiz fans, let’s party! Try completing fellow admirers of the organization, here’s Regulator,” which was played over the closing credits of a recent Walking Dead episode, and years. Having released nine studio albums, five the Clutch song titles above by inserting the the bittersweet news: The production live happily ever after. I don’t think we the tongue-in-cheek “Release the Kraken,” live albums, and two compilation albums since appropriate word. will mark the last performance for the have to see that scene.” which features a heroic figure called Useless the 1990 – and continuing to appear as hugely Clutch performs on May 10 with special guests phenomenally gifted Jacob Lyon as a Courtney says that other differences Younger. These guys dig zombies and goof on popular headliners for music festivals ranging Kyng and Monstro, and more information on the full-time company member, as the man between Tchaikovsky’s 1890 work and Clash of the Titans? No wonder they’ve got so from Bonnaroo to the United Kingdom’s concert is available by calling (309)793-4060 or graduates from St. Ambrose University Ballet Quad Cities’ interpretation include
many fans. Download festival – the group has scored legions visiting RIBCO.com. with a BA in chemistry this month and the removal of a quartet of dancing fairies too. them, into “elephant” insert you if funnier lot a get titles other the Though F. – 6 C, – 5 A, – 4 B, – 3 D, – 2 E, – 1 Answers: will pursue his master’s degree at the in the christening sequence, slight tweaks University of Iowa this fall. to the narrative, and the changing of the So for area ballet fans, that’s the “bitter” evil-fairy character Carabosse from a man and growth, and nostalgia and was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning portion. The “sweet” is that Jacob and in drag to a man sans drag, portrayed here progress. biographical documentary titled David Plowden: his wife – Ballet Quad Cities Artistic by Jason Gomez. Exhibit Plowden is a 1955 graduate Light, Shadow, & Form. Director Courtney Lyon – will continue But with leading roles also being danced David Plowden’s Iowa of Yale University and has held And samples of his work are on permanent to reside in the Quad Cities, meaning that by company members Emily Kate Long (as Figge Art Museum teaching positions at the University display in the Art Institute of Chicago, the one day, we’ll likely be treated to a return Sleeping Beauty) and Margaret Huling (as Saturday, May 12, through Sunday, August 26 of Iowa, the University of Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of performance by one of the world’s few en the Good Fairy of the Forest), Courtney Baltimore, and the Illinois Institute Congress. pointe chemists. says that her Sleeping Beauty still “honors rom May 12 through August 26, of Technology’s Institute of Design. So I’ll admit it: When I first learned that the In the meantime, Jacob is lending his the integrity of the original ballet and the Fthe Figge Art Museum will host the He has served on the New Figge’s latest exhibit was titled David Plowden’s talents to the role of the prince in The gorgeous music and the fairy tale itself.” exhibition David Plowden’s Iowa, a collection of York State Council on the Arts, has had works Iowa, I thought it sounded a little ... overly Sleeping Beauty, which boasts original And adding that the story’s appeal lies photographs of Iowans and their communities commissioned by Columbia University, and possessive, like David Plowden owned the entire choreography by Courtney but is roughly in it being “a classic story of good versus taken during a 20-year period. in 1968 was the recipient of the John Simon state of Iowa. Now I’m thinking that Plowden half the running length of Tchaikovsky’s evil,” she states, “I kind of hope I keep Over the course of a career that has thus Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. deserves to own anything he wants. original three- to four-hour ballet. “What you on the edge of your seat while you’re far lasted half a century, Plowden has devoted He has produced 20 books of photographic An artist’s reception for David Plowden’s Iowa you traditionally see,” says Courtney of wondering which way it’s gonna go.” himself to photographing scenes of small-town artwork, and has been the subject of articles in – featuring a discussion and book-signing with the the ballet’s now-excised Act III, “is a huge, Performances of May 19’s The Sleeping and rural America, with his beautiful, evocative Modern Photography, Popular Photography, and photographer – will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, grand wedding scene. But once the prince Beauty will take place at 1 and 7 p.m., and black-and-white images – such as 2004’s Grain Time magazine. May 17, and more information on the exhibition goes through all he goes through to find tickets are available by calling (800)745- Elevators, Manson, Iowa (pictured) – offering He’s included among the entries in Who’s Who is available by calling (563)326-7804 or visiting Sleeping Beauty, and kisses her, and wakes 3000 or visiting AdlerTheatre.com or fascinating contrasts in darkness and light, decline in America and Who’s Who in the World, and FiggeArt.org. her up, it’s pretty much implied that they BalletQuadCities.com. River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 13 by Mike Schulz [email protected]
1) “Burning ______” A) Rock Kronos Quartet, and the Canadian Music 2) “______Blues” B) Worry Brass. Currently based in Illinois, What Else Clutch 3) “Electric ______” C) Mic Music where he’s on the music faculty at 4) “Pure ______Fury” D) Pigtown Rhythm Unleashed: the University of Illinois-Chicago, Rock Island Brewing Company Is Happenin’ 5) “Careful with That ______...” E) Beard The Music of Mark Mellits Mellits received the prestigious Thursday, May 10, 8 p.m. 6) “The ______Riders” F) Elephant Foundation for Contemporary MUSIC The Redstone Room Arts Award in 2004, and is also the Thursday, May 10 – Trace Adkins. he hard-rock and funk-metal musicians Saturday, May 19, 8 p.m. artistic director and keyboard player Chart-topping country-music star Composed of lead vocalist Neil Fallon, of admirers for their propulsive energy and of Clutch take the stage at the Rock Island for the Mellits Consort ensemble, in his “Songs & Stories” tour. Adler T guitarist Tim Sult, bassist Dan Maines, and innovative riffs, with a Clutch concert described Brewing Company on May 10, and the band’s he latest presentation in a group whose Web site (at Theatre (136 East Third Street, percussionist Jean-Paul Gaster, Clutch has by Fallon as “a party atmosphere.” many hit songs over its history include “The the Quad City Symphony’s MellitsConcort.com) describes its Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $35-52. For actually been wowing fans for more than 20 So, quiz fans, let’s party! Try completing T Regulator,” which was played over the closing Signature Series finds output as “hard-edged and rhythmic tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit years. Having released nine studio albums, five the Clutch song titles above by inserting the credits of a recent Walking Dead episode, and four of the orchestra’s as well as lyrical and sultry.” AdlerTheatre.com. live albums, and two compilation albums since appropriate word. the tongue-in-cheek “Release the Kraken,” members performing Those disparate qualities are sure Friday, May 11 – The Kris Lager 1990 – and continuing to appear as hugely Clutch performs on May 10 with special guests which features a heroic figure called Useless the Rhythm Unleashed: to be on display during May 19’s Band. Blues, soul, and rock musicians popular headliners for music festivals ranging Kyng and Monstro, and more information on the Younger. These guys dig zombies and goof on The Music of Mark Mellits celebration, when principal in concert, with an opening set by from Bonnaroo to the United Kingdom’s concert is available by calling (309)793-4060 or Clash of the Titans? No wonder they’ve got so Mellits, taking place cellist Hannah Holman, pianist The Candymakers. The Redstone
many fans. Download festival – the group has scored legions visiting RIBCO.com. Answers: 1 – E, 2 – D, 3 – B, 4 – A, 5 – C, 6 – F. Though the other titles get a lot funnier if you insert “elephant” into them, too. them, into “elephant” insert you if funnier lot a get titles other the Though F. – 6 C, – 5 A, – 4 B, – 3 D, – 2 E, – 1 Answers: on May 19 at Davenport’s Redstone Mary Neil, and percussionists Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 9 Room. And if that seems like an Tony Oliver and Aaron Williams p.m. $10. For tickets and information, ill-fitting venue for a symphony present selections from an oeuvre call (563)326-1333 or visit and growth, and nostalgia and was the subject of an Emmy Award-winning offering, you should know that praised for its “viscerally propulsive RiverMusicExperience.org. progress. biographical documentary titled David Plowden: according to the New York Press, rhythms” by SanDiego.com and Friday, May 11 – Konrad. Exhibit Plowden is a 1955 graduate Light, Shadow, & Form. Mellits’ compositions suggest “what its “indelible sonic pictures” Independent singer/songwriter and David Plowden’s Iowa of Yale University and has held And samples of his work are on permanent classical music has in common with by the Washington Post. The electronic musician in his record- Figge Art Museum teaching positions at the University display in the Art Institute of Chicago, the rock and pop.” individual works being presented release show, with openers Cowboy You should also know that Indian Bear and Centaur Noir. Rozz- Saturday, May 12, through Sunday, August 26 of Iowa, the University of Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of at the Redstone Room, meanwhile, Baltimore, and the Illinois Institute Congress. according to the All Music include a quartet titled “Disciplines Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Guide, “Mellits apparently draws for Gouda” and a duo for cello and 8 p.m. $5. For information, e-mail rom May 12 through August 26, of Technology’s Institute of Design. So I’ll admit it: When I first learned that the considerable inspiration from food” marimba called “Paranoid Cheese,” [email protected] or visit RozzTox. the Figge Art Museum will host the He has served on the New Figge’s latest exhibit was titled David Plowden’s F ... but then again, who doesn’t? so you should definitely expect the com. exhibition David Plowden’s Iowa, a collection of York State Council on the Arts, has had works Iowa, I thought it sounded a little ... overly A Maryland native who studied unexpected. And hopefully some Friday, May 11 – Jason Aldean. photographs of Iowans and their communities commissioned by Columbia University, and possessive, like David Plowden owned the entire at the Eastman School of Music, wine and crackers. Country-music superstar in concert, taken during a 20-year period. in 1968 was the recipient of the John Simon state of Iowa. Now I’m thinking that Plowden Yale School of Music, and Cornell Tickets to the Quad City with an opening set by Luke Bryan. Over the course of a career that has thus Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. deserves to own anything he wants. University, Mellits (pictured) Symphony Orchestra’s Rhythm i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, far lasted half a century, Plowden has devoted He has produced 20 books of photographic An artist’s reception for David Plowden’s Iowa has emerged as one of the most Unleashed: The Music of Mark Moline). 7:30 p.m. $28-52.75. For himself to photographing scenes of small-town artwork, and has been the subject of articles in – featuring a discussion and book-signing with the accomplished composers of Mellits concert are $18 for adults tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit and rural America, with his beautiful, evocative Modern Photography, Popular Photography, and photographer – will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, his generation, with his recent and $7 for students, and more iwirelessCenter.com. black-and-white images – such as 2004’s Grain Time magazine. May 17, and more information on the exhibition commissions including works for information on the night is available Friday, May 11 – Eddie Shaw Elevators, Manson, Iowa (pictured) – offering He’s included among the entries in Who’s Who is available by calling (563)326-7804 or visiting such acclaimed musicians as the by calling (563)322-7276 or visiting & the Wolf Gang. Concert with fascinating contrasts in darkness and light, decline in America and Who’s Who in the World, and FiggeArt.org. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the QCSymphony.com. Continued On Page 16 14 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 MUSIC by Jeff Ignatius [email protected] A New Soundtrack for the Old West Spindrift, May 19 at Rozz-Tox he Los Angeles-based quintet Spin- Man with the Harmonica,” from Once Upon drift has developed a reputation for a Time in the West, opens with a ghostly, Tits cinematic sound – something that mournful harmonica whose spell is broken started with a score for a film that was then by majestic distorted guitar. only an idea in the head of bandleader Kir- In other words, the fusion of spaghetti- patrick Thomas: The Legend of God’s Gun, Western soundscapes and psychedelic rock is which later became borderline natural. a 2007 feature writ- Like Morricone, ten and directed by Spindrift on Mike Bruce. One Classic Soundtracks track for that film Volume 1 shows was used in 2008’s a keen ear for Hell Ride – odd but right executive-produced instrumentation by Quentin Taran- and arrangement. tino – and Thomas “Space Vixens now has three ad- Theme” plays ditional film-score- as a Morricone composer credits homage, with its with Spindrift. disparate elements But this tack for – flute, electronics, the band – playing ethereal singing, at Rozz-Tox on May an Eastern passage 19 – is a relatively – held together recent development. beautifully by Spindrift was driving, jagged formed in the early rock. “Hellbound” 1990s in Delaware, – complete with and was at that train whistle – point an experimental psychedelic-rock gallops and chugs infectiously. “Theme from band. It was only in 2001, when Thomas Drifter’s Pass” also has a Western vibe, but it’s heard Ennio Morricone’s music for the a straight song, too – albeit one that stretches Sergio Leone classic Once Upon a Time in the its legs, building tension to a thunderous, West, that his band changed course. primal riff and screaming at the six-minute Thomas explained in a recent phone mark and then a howling freak-out. interview that the score, and other works Thomas explained that the album is by Morricone, served as the soundtrack “basically a musical résumé for film work” to his 2002 relocation to Los Angeles, and said future volumes are planned. But and coincided with his “experiencing the even though it includes two tracks of short, landscape for the first time ... and then incidental music, it mostly features fully becoming completely enamored with the fleshed-out tunes that stand well on their myth of the West.” own. That’s a function of Spindrift being Listening to Spindrift’s cheekily titled both a film-scoring outfit and a touring Classic Soundtracks Volume 1 from last year, band; the music has to work for the both the the psychedelic elements of the band are still movies and a live audience. evident – the group played Austin Psych Fest That, Thomas said, hints at one of the last month – but Morricone lords over it all. benefits of hiring his band to write and The album has 14 tracks evoking a variety perform a soundtrack. Most composers use of cinematic styles – Westerns, yes, and also session players for scores – “He doesn’t get to other disreputable genres – but they carry experiment; he doesn’t know his musicians the Italian composer’s best-known motifs that well” – while Spindrift has the intuitive into a rock context. bonds that come with familiarity. Morricone, of course, has long been a major influence on many rock bands. In his Spindrift will perform on Saturday, May 19, at Western work with Leone, he crafted dusty Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue in Rock Island). expanses through unusual instrumentation The show starts at 9 p.m. and also features and sound effects. The famous theme for Strangers Family Band and Mondo Drag. The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly is notable for Admission to the all-ages show is $8. its exchanges of flute, whistling, trumpets, percussion, and wordless vocals, with the For more information on Spindrift, visit melody carried by an electric guitar. “The SpindriftWest.com. River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 15 ART Article and photo by Bruce Walters Art in Plain Sight: Lloyd’s Trek large abstract This relationship sculpture, Lloyd’s is expressed in Lloyd’s ATrek , greets visi- Trek through the tors to Schwiebert River- use of industrial front Park in the District materials – weathered of Rock Island. Standing metal sheets and some 20 feet tall at the concrete – and the park’s southwest corner, aqua-colored waves the sculpture seems that circumscribe the to watch protectively sculpture’s middle over the many areas of section. The waves activities: a fountain are patterned with meant to be run through; reflective rectangular a playground that forms that enliven combines digital game the surface but also elements with contem- feel like spikes or porary slides, swings, large rivet heads. A and climbing structures; small welded patch a checkerboard concrete that cuts through the beach; walkways; and a continuous waves performance stage. seems to further The artwork feels speak of the impact fresh and intuitive. of industry on the Though the artist, Stuart river. Yet, this shape Morris, said it is an – inaccessibly placed abstraction of a walking far over our heads figure, its playful balance – also suggests a and irregular shapes sealed door, hinting also suggest a precarious that something is stack of blocks or a hidden within. doorway to the park. Morris successfully The sculpture uses contradictions – dedicated on August – playful and 8, 2010 – memorializes readily viewed from the Quad City Arts sophisticated, Lloyd Schoeneman, an artist and arts Center through the gallery’s large north industrial and whimsical, weathered and administrator who served as Quad City windows.) The piece’s blend of whimsy and new – to create a dignified memorial that is Arts’ community liaison and director of sophistication also seems to capture the imaginative and welcoming. public visual arts for 22 years, until his spirit of Schoeneman’s own artwork. death in 2001. Although it was originally Morris, an associate professor at Bruce Walters is a professor of art at Western intended to be placed on Second Street the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Illinois University. near the entrance to Quad City Arts Point, worked with Schoeneman on along with trail markers and planted several RiverWay artworks, including the This is part of an occasional series on the trees, the sculpture’s location in an active navigation steps in Bettendorf’s Leach Park. history of public art in the Quad Cities. If public space better reflects ’s commitment These works explored past and present there’s a piece of public art that you’d like to a partnership between the arts and relationships between industry and the to learn more about, e-mail the location and the community. (The sculpture can be Mississippi River. a brief description to [email protected]. April 26 Crossword Answers 16 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012
Continued From Page 13 What Else Is Happenin’ the blues tenor saxophonist and his Workshop and concert with the two- and Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m. Island’s Broadway district will include ensemble. The Muddy Waters (1708 time Grammy winner and former lead $10. For tickets and information, call three furnished homes, the Word of Life State Street, Bettendorf). 9 p.m. $5. For guitarist for Paul McCartney’s band (309)762-0330 or visit Playcrafters.com. Church/Buford Mansion, and the new information, call (563)355-0655 or visit Wings. The Redstone Room (129 Main Saturday, May 12 – 2012 Quad Bent River Brewery, offering tours of its TheMuddyWaters.com. Street, Davenport). 6 p.m. workshop, $7 City Playwrights Festival. Staged second location and discussions about Friday, May 11 – Khaira Arby. A or free for the evening’s concertgoers; readings of short scripts submitted by the history of beer-making. 11 a.m.-4 soul, blues, and world-music fusion with 9 p.m. concert, $18-22. For information area authors, with a reception following. p.m. $10. For information and tickets, call the artist from Northern Mali, featuring and tickets, call (563)326-1333 or visit Augustana College’s Black Box Theatre (309)786-1307 or visit BroadwayDistrict. an opener by Bermuda Report. Englert RiverMusicExperience.org. (Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts, 3701 org. Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Friday, May 18 – Truth & Salvage Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 13 – Mother’s Day Iowa City). 8 p.m. $16. For tickets and Co. Los Angeles-based roots rockers in Free admission. For information, call Celebration Honoring Laura’s Legacy. information, call (319)688-2653 or visit concert, with openers Ghost Town Choir (309)794-7306 or visit Augustana.edu. Community celebration benefiting the Englert.org. and The Jason Carl Band. Rock Island Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, May ALS division of the Muscular Dystrophy Saturday, May 12 – The Misery Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, 13 – Going Back Naked. One-woman Association of Eastern Iowa & Western Jackals. Concert with the rock, Rock Island). 9 p.m. $5. For information, memory play written by and starring Illinois, featuring concerts with Three bluegrass, blues, country, and roots call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com. Melissa McBain. District Theatre (1611 Years Hollow (3 p.m.), Lissie (4:30 p.m.), musicians, featuring an opening set Friday, May 18 – Jared Blake. Second Avenue, Rock Island). 2 p.m. and Truth & Salvage Co. (6 p.m.), food by As You Were. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Country musician in concert, with an $15. For tickets and information, call vendors, a beer garden, and more. Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $5. For opening set by Dirt Road Rockers. (309)235-1654 or visit DistrictTheatre. Schwiebert Riverfront Park (between information, e-mail [email protected] or Rascals Live (1418 15th Street, Moline). 9 com. 17th and 20th streets in the District visit RozzTox.com. p.m. $10. For information, call (309)797- Friday, May 18, through Saturday, of Rock Island). 1-9 p.m. $10, ages 12 Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, May 9457 or visit Facebook.com/RascalsLive. May 26 – Chronicles of Lincoln & Grant. and under free with paid adult. For 13 – Shawn Thomas. Christian-music Saturday, May 19 – Bill Gaither Historical drama co-authored and information, call (309)732-7275 or visit artist performs in conjunction with his Homecoming Tour. Concert with the performed by Dan Haughey and Tom Lissie.com/lauraslegacy. “Covered & Created” tour. Metropolitan contemporary Christian and gospel Swenson. District Theatre (1611 Second Wednesday, May 16 – Echoes from Community Church (3019 North Harrison musician and friends. i wireless Center Avenue, Rock Island). Fridays 8 p.m., the Civil War Era. Riverside Cemetery Street, Davenport). Saturday 7 p.m., (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7 p.m. $22.50- Saturdays 2 p.m. $15. For tickets and “residents” who lived during the Sunday 11 a.m. Donations encouraged. 37.50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or information, call (309)235-1654 or visit American Civil War speak about their For information, call (563)324-8281 or visit iwirelessCenter.com. DistrictTheatre.com. lives and wartime experiences, in a visit MCCQC.com. Sunday, May 20 – Sam Salomone. Saturday, May 19 – How to Survive program enacted by Bob and Dorothy Sunday, May 13 – Brian Nelson Iowa Jazz Hall of Fame musician Your Adult Relationship with Your White, Kathleen Seusy, Dennis Harker, Memorial Concert . Quad City Choral performs and educates in Polyrhythms’ Family. One-woman comedy written and Ann Boaden. Moline Public Library Arts, under the direction of Jon Third Sunday Matinée & Workshop Series, by and starring New York City-based (3210 41st Street, Moline). 7 p.m. Free Hurty, performs Fauré’s Requiem and appearing alongside Steve Grismore humorist Polly Frost. Englert Theatre (221 admission. For information, call (309)524- Bach’s Cantata #106 – Gottes Zeit ist and John Kazilarmut. The Redstone East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. 2440 or visit MolineLibrary.org. die allerbeste Zeit in memory of the Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 3 $20-22. For tickets and information, call Saturday, May 19 – St. Ambrose area performer who passed away on p.m. all-ages jazz workshop – $5/adults, (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org. University Wine Festival. Annual March 17. St. Paul Lutheran Church children free; 6 p.m. concert – $10- scholarship fundraiser featuring 120 (2136 Brady Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. 15. For tickets and information, call VISUAL ARTS wines to sample, appetizers, live music, $10-12 at the door, students free. For (309)373-0790 or visit Polyrhythms.org or Friday, May 11 – Spring 2012 Gallery and more. St. Ambrose University lawn information, call (309)736-9147 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org. Hop! Art exhibitions, demonstrations, (518 West Locust Street, Davenport). 3-6 QuadCityChoralArts.org. performing-arts events, and more held p.m. $45-50. For tickets and information, Wednesday, May 16 – Igor & Red THEATRE in numerous venues throughout the call (563)333-6290 or visit SAU.edu. Elvises. Russian-American rockers in Thursday, May 10, through Sunday, District of Rock Island. 5-9 p.m. For Saturday, May 19 – Start! Heart concert, with an opening set by The One May 20 – The Guardian. The Internet information, call (309)788-6311 or visit Walk. A bi-state walk to raise awareness Night Standards. Rock Island Brewing Players present Kevin Straus’ debuting RIDistrict.com. and funds for the American Heart Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock play about a “green revolution,” told in Saturday, May 12, and Sunday, Association, featuring health and Island). 9 p.m. $10-12. For information, dialogue, song, dance, and puppetry. May 13 – 2012 Spring Beaux Arts Fair. wellness activities, free refreshments, call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com. Village Theatre (2113 East 11th Street, Annual fine-art and crafts fair featuring a kids’ zone, and more. District of Rock Thursday, May 17 – Mike Mangini Village of East Davenport). Thursdays- musical entertainment, a children’s Island. 9 a.m. opening ceremony, 9:30 Drum Clinic. Percussion instruction Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. art-project area, a food court, and more. a.m. walk. For information, call (563)323- and discussion with the Grammy $5-10, with half-price tickets on May 10 Figge Art Museum Plaza (225 West 4321 or visit QuadCitiesHeartWalk.org. Award-nominated drummer for the and free admission for mothers on May Second Street, Davenport). Saturday Sunday, May 20 – The Gizmo Guys. progressive-metal band Dream Theater, 13. For information, call (563)940-4785 or 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Two-man touring show featuring presented by West Music Quad Cities. visit TheInternetPlayers.com. Free admission. For information, e-mail juggling, comedy, and circus acts, in a The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Friday, May 11, through Sunday, [email protected] or visit Hancher Auditorium presentation. Iowa Davenport). 7 p.m. $10. For information, May 20 – Titanic Aftermath. Michael BeauxArtsFair.com. City High School’s Opstad Auditorium contact Leif Rehnberg at (309)704-9300 Wehrli’s historical drama about the (1900 Morningside Drive, Iowa City). 2 or [email protected], or visit luxury liner’s sinking, directed by Paul EVENTS p.m. $10-28. For tickets and information, WestMusic.com. Workman. Playcrafters Barn Theatre Sunday, May 13 – Mother’s Day call (319)335-1160 or visit http://www. Friday, May 18 – Laurence Juber. (4950 35th Avenue, Moline). Fridays Tour of Tomes. Tour through Rock Hancher.UIowa.edu. River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 17
COVER STORY Continued From Page 7 by Mike Schulz [email protected] One Story, Many Voices author’s plan to make his play as evocative amazingly rich character.” rich gentleman and his family. She was and theatrical an experience as possible, Workman, meanwhile, says that he was unstable, and had actually killed her own one that could suggest the scope of the particularly astonished by “the group of child a couple years before. But she lied Titanic story on a reasonable theatrical gentlemen who banded together onto an her way into the job, and while the ship budget. overturned lifeboat, and who had to keep was sinking, she panicked, and took the “I knew it would be impossible for any themselves afloat by standing up for the young boy she was nannying for, and got theatre company to re-create anything in entire night. I mean, there are some pretty into a lifeboat. The mother had two other a totally realistic way,” says Wehrli, “so I harrowing stories.” children, but she wasn’t going to leave the really wanted to go the complete opposite Like that recollection, among the ship without her two-year-old, who she of that and make it more ... I don’t know most harrowing are the tales of what couldn’t find. So they ended up dying as a if ‘ceremonial’ is the right word, but happened to the survivors, and to those result of that. certainly more ethereal. Ethereal and less fortunate, in the hours after the “There were dozens of stories I would ghostly and theatrical-ensemble-based. ship’s sinking. Through the passengers’ have loved to have packed in there,” says So instead of trying to re-create people testimony, the script goes into great, Wehrli of his script, “and I just didn’t have literally in a lifeboat, you just have a horrifying detail about the panic in the room for them all. So one of the things suggestion of a lifeboat, and when the water, and the constant screaming, and I would love for people to take from ‘lifeboat’ is lowered, people ceremoniously the people who froze to death within the experience is wanting to learn more get up and move. minutes. (“What a dreadful thought that – what happened to these people, and “I come from a strong directing is,” says Wehrli. “What happens when how they either did or did not manage to background,” he continues, “so when you freeze to death is that you asphyxiate, function after this event.” I was writing, that was kind of my because your body becomes so cold that Workman, whose previous area approach. Thinking about how I would you literally can’t breathe any longer.”) directing experience came from the do this so that people didn’t leave feeling And somewhat incredibly, as the script District Theatre’s 2011 production disappointed because ‘That doesn’t look reveals, the survivors’ travails weren’t of A Tuna Christmas, admits that the like the movie at all!’” completely over even after the Carpathia orchestration of so many characters and and other rescue ships neared the stories and technical considerations in lifeboats; Titanic passengers had to climb Titanic Aftermath has been an occasional Harrowing Stories ropes to get aboard them, with those too challenge. (“I have 24 actors here,” he says After Ismay’s initial encounter with young or frail to climb raised from the with a laugh. “Tuna had two.”) the three ghostly figures at the play’s lifeboats through other means. Yet he stresses that he’s grateful for the start, Titanic Aftermath further accents “That’s one of those things where you opportunity, with this play, to remind its theatricality with the introduction of look back and think, ‘Didn’t anybody audiences “that people, as individuals, are its full cast: an ensemble of 20 additional foresee this?’” says Wehrli. “If you’re going more important than profit. And I think performers, in Playcrafters’ production, to rescue somebody at sea, shouldn’t you in today’s political climate, it’s especially who collectively play the ship’s survivors have some sort of real device other than important to keep that in mind. If you and public-hearing inquisitors, and putting a kid in a sack and throwing him look at history, what happened with recite dialogue taken directly, if not in a net?” the Titanic really is a repeating theme: always verbatim, from the post-disaster Titanic Aftermath, however, also Profit seems to come before people, until hearings. (Director Workman says that features incredible testimony regarding something drastic happens.” his ensemble, outfitted completely in the survivors’ perseverance and courage “It’s such a familiar story,” says Wehrli. black, “will be using different accents and and heroism, and the emotional variety in “Human error being covered up, and the will have different costume-accent pieces the tales being told – terrifying, heart- people who made the bad decisions not to set them apart, so hopefully it won’t be wrenching, inspiring – allows the play having to deal with the ramifications. So I confusing for the audience.”) to suggest the vastness of the Titanic want people to leave thinking about that. Among these many characters are experience without any pretense of being “But more than anything,” he adds, crewman Frederick Fleet – the lookout comprehensive. “I want people to be interested in the who famously shouted the warning Consider the figure of Michel Navratil, survivor stories. That’s what it’s really “Iceberg, right ahead!” – and the whose journey Workman calls “one of all about to me – the amazing survivor “unsinkable” socialite Margaret “Molly” my favorite survivor stories in the script.” stories that are infinitely more interesting Brown. But Wehrli and Workman both Near the end of Titanic Aftermath, says than Jack and Rose.” state that there’s practically no end to the director, “he talks about how his the number of Titanic figures who prove father used to sing him a lullaby. But Titanic Aftermath runs at the Playcrafters fascinating. the story behind him, that doesn’t get Barn Theatre (4950 35th Avenue, Moline) Wehrli says that second officer Charles delved into that much, is that his father May 11 through 20, with Friday and Lightoller, for instance, “is really a kidnapped him and his brother – he was Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m., and dichotomy. He did many heroic things, taking them away from their mother, Sunday performances at 3 p.m. Tickets but he was very much a company man, to New York [on the Titanic], under an are $10, and can be reserved by calling and blatantly lied on the stand because he assumed name.” (309)762-0330 or visiting Playcrafters.com. wanted to command a ship one day. And Or consider Allison Cleaver, a Titanic what’s not in the play is that he actually survivor whose story doesn’t appear For more information on Titanic Aftermath survived seven wrecks; after one, he was in Titanic Aftermath at all. As Wehrli and its author, visit TitanicAftermath.com actually beached on an island. He’s an says, Carter “was the nanny to this and MichaelWehrli.com. 18 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com the Advice Ask Goddess BY AMY ALKON Mused and Abused your netbook. But, wait: If you and your girlfriend have a After my girlfriend and I split up, I fight and nobody comments on it on Facebook, wrote a creative-nonfiction piece about our how do you know your lives are worth living? breakup (changing some identifying details). The answer is: Decide which you want more, I published it on a popular blog and linked this girlfriend or an audience. This isn’t to say to it on Facebook. We’re back together, and you have to stop writing about her; you just things are great; however, she saw the story don’t get to hit “publish.” Try to see this as an and was humiliated. I explained that what opportunity to expand your writerly horizons. I wrote was beautiful and vulnerable and Go do things you can write about. Climb true, and many people were moved by it. She something. Fish for marlin. Drop in on the really wasn’t down with that and told me to Spanish Civil War. And remember: Everybody’s consider her off-limits in my writing. This got a story, and lots of people are just dying to seems unfair. I write nonfiction. What will I have theirs told. Seek them out, look deep into write about if I can’t write about my life? their eyes, and say, “So, tell me the horrors you – Expressive experienced as a prisoner of war. And would you mind not leaving any participles dangling?” As lame as some creative-writing exercises sound – “Write a haiku about what you had for lunch!” – a thinly veiled portrait of your chicken Meek Him Halfway salad will cause way less relationship stress than I’m a writer, and I went to a book party “Turn your fight with your girlfriend into a blog where there were many interesting writers, post!” (And no, you can’t just change her name including a very cute, witty man. Problem from Molly to Holly so nobody but your 546 is, I’m afraid to go talk to new people, Facebook friends will know it’s her.) especially cute, witty men, so I hung back and Yes, I’ve heard: Privacy is reportedly dead. It eventually left. Now I’m ruing yet another was pronounced dead in 2006 at an Internet- missed opportunity. security conference. This doesn’t mean that it – Regretsville is actually dead or should be – just that lots of people are finding their dirty laundry uploaded You apparently learned your social skills to Instagram and their private conversations from a park ranger. Playing dead is a successful turned into content. Chances are, those strategy when you’re being chased by certain nonchalantly ripping away others’ privacy types of bears. When you’re hoping to be online would be spraining their tongues tsk- chased by a man, you need to go over and say tsk-ing if somebody did it the non-virtual way, hello. But, you whimper, you’re scared. Yeah, like by hijacking the mic at an outdoor concert okay. But, why would that be reason to avoid series: “My girlfriend, Molly … second row, doing it? By making yourself do something that blonde in the red … forgot to tell me she you’re afraid of, you shrink your fears and was weapons-grade slutty in college. She’d have probably feel better afterward, unless it’s a tat of that McDonald’s ‘x million served’ sign, something like walking off the ledge of a tall except that there’s no room on her disturbingly building. small breasts.” Don’t worry if you aren’t a genius Like Web sites, relationships these days conversationalist. Just ask questions. “Are you seem to require a privacy policy – one agreed a friend of the author’s?” “Is that soup on your upon in advance (before anybody becomes shirt?” If somebody likes you, he’ll talk to you. relationship-o-tainment) and maintained in If not, it’s a big world; go talk to somebody the event of a breakup. Clearly, your preferred else. And don’t see every interaction as some policy would be: “By sharing your life with statement about your worth. Some people will me, you agree to share it with anyone with like you; some won’t. Unless you’re running for an Internet connection.” Sorry, but the more office, who cares? The more people you talk private person gets to set the standards, and to, the bigger your life will be, and the less each sadly, this woman only wants to be your interaction will matter in the grand scheme girlfriend, not your cure for writer’s block. of you. Until then, remember, 90 percent of Yeah, I know, you’d think it’d be any woman’s success is just showing up – and then not dream, sitting with you in some out-of-the-way running back out to your car, power-locking Paris cafe as you chronicle her shortcomings on your doors, and speeding home. Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon. 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or e-mail [email protected] (AdviceGoddess.com) ©2012, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. 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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one fury, rising toward a climax, while the bittersweet scarring event that occurred there in 1978, when of your past lives, I think you must yearning in your heart sends warm chills down cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones led a mass suicide have periodically done something your spine. You part your lips and open your eyes of his devotees. Last year, after travel writer like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at wide, searching for the words that could change Jeff Greenwald announced his trip to Guyana, pretentious tyrants – and gotten away with it. At everything. And then suddenly you remember his friends responded with a predictable joke: least that’s one explanation for how confident you you have to contact the plumber tomorrow, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!” – a reference to the often are about speaking up when everyone else and find the right little white lie to appease you- beverage Jones spiked with cyanide before telling seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is know-who, and run out to the store to get that his followers to drink up. But Greenwald was in fact wearing no clothes. This quality should gadget you saw advertised. Cut! Cut! Let’s do this glad he went. The lush, tangled magnificence of come in handy during the coming week. It may scene again. Take five. It’s possible, my dear, that Guyana was tough to navigate but a blessing to be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an your tendency to over-dramatize is causing you the senses and a first-class adventure. Be like him, obvious secret or collective delusion. Can you to lose focus. Let’s trim the 90 violins down to ten Sagittarius. Consider engaging with a situation figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say and see if maybe that helps. that offers challenging gifts. Overcome your what supposedly can’t or shouldn’t be said? biases about a potentially rewarding experience. VIRGO (August 23-September 22): TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus “We all need a little more courage CAPRICORN (December 22- actor Daniel Day Lewis will star as now and then,” said poet Marvin Bell. January 19): “You have more freedom American president Abraham Lincoln “That’s what I need. If you have some to share, than you are using,” says artist Dan in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood I want to know you.” I advise you to adopt his Attoe. Allow that taunt to get under your skin insiders report that Lewis basically became approach in the coming days, Virgo. Proceed on and rile you up in the coming days, Capricorn. Lincoln months before the film was shot and the assumption that what you need most right Let it motivate you to lay claim to all the potential throughout the entire process. Physically, he was now is to be braver and bolder. And consider spaciousness and independence and leeway that a dead ringer for the man he was pretending to the possibility that a good way to accomplish are just lying around going to waste. According be. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, he this goal is by hanging around people who are so to my understanding of the astrological omens, you have a sacred duty to cultivate more slack as spoke in the cadences and accent of his character intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub if your dreams depended on it. (They do!) rather than in his own natural voice. It might be off on you.
fun for you to try a similar experiment in the AQUARIUS (January 20-February coming weeks, Taurus. Fantasize in detail about LIBRA (September 23-October 18): If you’ve been tuning in to my the person you would ultimately like to become, 22): In the Byrds’ 1968 song “Fifth horoscopes during the past months, and then imitate that future version of you. Dimension,” the singer makes a curious you’re aware that I have been encouraging you statement. He says that during a particularly lucid to refine and deepen the meaning of home. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The idea state, when he was simply relaxed and paying You know that I have been urging you to get of a housewarming party comes from attention, he saw the great blunder his teachers really serious about identifying what kind of an old British tradition. People who had made. I encourage you to follow that lead, environment you need in order to thrive; I’ve were moving would carry away embers from Libra. According to my analysis of the astrological been asking you to integrate yourself into a the fireplace of the home they were leaving and omens, now would be an excellent time for you to community that brings out the best in you; I’ve bring them to the fireplace of the new home. I thoroughly question the lessons you’ve absorbed been nudging you to create a foundation that recommend that you borrow this idea and apply from your important teachers – even the ones will make you strong and sturdy for a long time. it to the transition you’re making. As you migrate who taught you the best and helped you the most. Now it’s time to finish up your intensive work on toward the future, bring along a symbolic spark You will earn a healthy jolt as you decide what these projects. You’ve got about four more weeks of the vitality that has animated the situation to keep and what to discard from the gifts that before a new phase of your life’s work will begin. you’re transitioning out of. beloved authorities have given you. PISCES (February 19-March 20): Is CANCER (June 21-July 22): My SCORPIO (October 23-November your BS detector in good condition? friend Irene has a complicated system 21): What are the most beautiful and I hope so, because it’s about to get a for handling her cats’ food needs. evocative songs you know? What are workout. Rumors will be swirling and gossip The calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for the songs that activate your dormant wisdom will be flourishing, and you will need to be on breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it and unleash waves of insight about your purpose high alert in order to distinguish the laughable absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the here on earth and awaken surges of gratitude delusions that have no redeeming value from dining room table. Caligula insists on fish stew for the labyrinthine path you have traveled to the entertaining stories that have more than a early and tuna later. He wants it on a black plate become the person you are today? Whatever few grains of truth. If you pass those tests, Pisces, placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses those tunes are, I urge you to gather them all into your reward will be handsome: You’ll become a everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and one playlist, and listen to them with full attention magnet for inside information, valuable secrets, beef liver for the evening repast. If it’s not on the while at rest in a comfortable place where you and unusual but useful clues that come from basement stairs, she won’t touch it. I’m bringing feel perfectly safe. According to my reading of unexpected sources. your attention to this, Cancerian, because I the astrological omens, you need a concentrated think you could draw inspiration from it. It’s in dose of the deepest, richest, most healing Homework: What were the circumstances in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your emotions you can tap into. which you were most amazingly, outrageously loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated alive? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com. exactitude that rivals Irene’s. SAGITTARIUS (November 22- Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny's December 21): Tourists rarely go EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES LEO (July 23-August 22): The moon’s to the South American nation of & DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES pale glow shimmers on your face as you Guyana. That’s mostly because much of it is The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at run your fingers through your hair. In virgin rain forest and there are few amenities for your imagination, 90 violins play with sublime travelers. In part it’s also due to the reputation- 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700 20 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com
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ACROSS 88. Shape 37. Skating maneuver: 2 wds. 1. Food fish 89. Loamy deposit 38. Sacked 5. Orzo, e.g. 90. The sierra, a fish 40. Part of NPR: Abbr. 10. Mexican painter _ Kahlo 91. Mise- _ - _ 41. All-terrain vehicle: Hyph. 15. Peel 93. Mantilla 42. Chute 19. Port city in Yemen 95. Young fish 44. _ _ drop of a hat 20. Hoard 96. Kind of lettuce 45. 1980’s sitcom 21. Bulldoze 97. Downpour 46. Drills 22. Genus of maples 99. Junket 48. Started golfing (with “off”) 23. Siesta: 2 wds. 101. Weather phenomena 51. A water sign 25. Bluffer at cards: Hyph. 104. Ski jump 52. Bugles 27. Captivate 105. Certain contract 53. Incentive to buy 28. Footless 109. Kind of hat for cowboys: Hyph. 56. Lug 30. Covered a certain way 111. Really happy: 3 wds. 59. Outlay 31. Domed recess 113. Gobble 61. Swash letters: Abbr. 32. Surrounded by 114. Like a towelette 62. Exploits 34. “Norma _” 115. Crumb of a guy 63. Parts of kites 35. Muslim mystics 116. Angered 66. Let go 38. Scrams 117. _ of March 68. Discloses 39. Overwhelms 118. Seeger and Sampras 69. Paleontologist’s find 43. Wild indigo 119. James and Kett 70. Soap plant 44. Lab compounds 120. Browns 72. Biked 46. _ B’rith DOWN 73. Kingpin 47. Fine sand 1. Yegg’s target 74. Fashionably out of style 49. Cutting remarks 2. Ruler of Asgard 75. Hair net 50. Handgun: Hyph. 3. Remaining 77. Relative of a postmark 54. Eau-de- _ 4. Viscera 79. Stertorous sound 55. Promise of a kind 5. Game pieces 83. Age 56. Bullock 6. Priest’s vestment 84. Support for a Union Jack 57. Pure schmaltz 7. Healthy upstairs 85. Authorize 58. Break away 8. Tut-tut 87. Goes with 60. Made affluent 9. Indic language 92. Part of AFL-CIO: Abbr. 62. Softer anagram 10. Natural catastrophes 93. Biases 64. Bent 11. Splits 94. Magna _ laude 65. The heavens of old 12. “_ Told Every Little Star” 95. “Star Trek” captain 66. Decorative plants 13. Skillful 98. Notched 67. Rattle 14. Hay fever, rose fever, etc. 99. Arkansas river city 69. Fundamental 15. Some drawings 100. Woodwinds 71. Leftovers 16. Yearn 101. Feed 73. Makes a jangling noise 17. Kind of organ 102. Hold sway 76. Brunch choice 18. Misjudge 103. Flavoring for gin 78. Legendary creature 24. Yelps 105. Short tail 79. Strand 26. Two-toed sloth 106. Razor name 80. Poetic time of day 29. Cap-a- _ 107. Witnessed 81. One of twelve: Abbr. 32. Furniture wood 108. Remnants 82. Old Spanish money: 3 wds. 33. Projecting pieces for mortises 109. Hoover’s org. 85. Kind of saxophone 35. _ Hawkins Day 110. Kindled 86. “Waiting for the Robert _ _” 36. Marriage 112. Why _? Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 21 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication Caterwaulla CD Release Party - Item North of 40 -Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310 2012/05/10 (Thu) 10 2012/05/11 (Fri) 11 9 & the Mad Matters - Velcro W 1st Ave Coal Valley, IL THURSDAY FRIDAY Moxie -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Open Mic Night -Downtown Central ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Iowa City, IA Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA St. Davenport, IA Caught in the Act -Generations Bar & Orangadang -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. BHC Jazz Combo (6pm) -Rozz-Tox, ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Grill, 4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL Rock Island, IL 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Chase Garrett -Orange Street Theatre, Patio -Bent River Brewing Company, Clutch - Kyng - Monstro -RIBCO, 1815 ABC Members-Only Karaoke -Moose 701 Orange St Muscatine, IA 1413 5th Ave. Moline, IL 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rocking- DJ KOW -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. Russ Reyman, Pianist (7pm) -Phoenix, DJ Scott & Karaoke -Greenbriar Res- ham Rd Davenport, IA Davenport, IA 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA taurant and Lounge, 4506 27th St Arch Allies -The Hub, 402 Main St DJ Scott & Karaoke -Greenbriar Res- Shawn Thomas -Metropolitan Com- Moline, IL Cedar Falls, IA taurant and Lounge, 4506 27th St munity Church, 3019 N Harrison St. Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Brokeass Sellouts -Mound Street Moline, IL Davenport, IA -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL Landing, 1029 Mound St. Daven- Dueling Pianos at The Establishment Songwriters in the Round (2:30pm) Hellwater -RME Community Stage, 131 port, IA -The Establishment Theatre, 220 -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Dirt Road Rockers -Rascals Live, 1418 19th St. Rock Island, IL St. Davenport, IA Jason Carl -Creekside Bar and Grill, 15th St. Moline, IL Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Tapped Out -Blueport Junction, 6605 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Dueling Pianos at The Establishment -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL W River Dr Davenport, IA Johnny O’ Jam Sessions -The Muddy -The Establishment Theatre, 220 Just Chords -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. The Chris & Wes Show -Shenanigan’s, Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, 19th St. Rock Island, IL The Kris Lager Band @ The Redstone Room – May 11 Davenport, IA 303 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA IA Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang -The Konrad - Cowboy Indian Bear - Cen- Squid’s Beard -Headquarters Bar & Karaoke Night -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. The Workshy - Zeta June -Iowa City Karaoke by Pieler Productions -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet- taur Noir -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Grill, 119 E. 22nd Ave. Coal Val- 6th St. Davenport, IA Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. Daven- tendorf, IA Rock Island, IL ley, IL Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, IA port, IA Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Kooby’s Karaoke -Wide Open Bar & Tapped Out -Martini’s on the Rock, 4050 27th St Moline, IL Tyrone Wells - Joe Brooks -The Mill, Kerry Christensen -Iowa Theatre -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL Grill, 425 15th St. Moline, IL 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Karaoke Night -Roadrunner’s Road- 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Artists Company, 4709 220th Trail Jason Aldean - Luke Bryan -i wireless Kris Lager Band - The Candymakers The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) house, 3803 Rockingham Rd. Dav- Vocal Expressionz (5pm) - Night Amana, IA Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St -The Circa ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd enport, IA People (8:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, Live Lunch w/ Alan Sweet (noon) -RME Jason D. Williams -Riverside Casino Davenport, IA Ave. Rock Island, IL Kooby’s Karaoke -Headquarters Bar 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner (noon) The Music of Dr. Joe Seng -Joe’s Club, & Grill, 119 E. 22nd Ave. Coal Val- Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Davenport, IA Riverside, IA -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd 1402 W. 7th St. Davenport, IA ley, IL American Heritage Center, 712 W. Mixology -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Just Chords -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. St. Davenport, IA The Roe Family Singers -RME Com- Lovedogs -Hawkeye Tap, 4646 Chey- 2nd St. Davenport, IA Linn St Iowa City, IA Davenport, IA Night People -Generations Bar & Grill, munity Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Dav- enne Ave. Davenport, IA Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Karaoke Night -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. 4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL enport, IA Lynn Allen -Rascals Live, 1418 15th 2012/05/13 (Sun) House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa 6th St. Davenport, IA Old Shoe -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Wild Oatz -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. St. Moline, IL SUNDAY 13 City, IA Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, Island, IL Davenport, IA Misery Jackals - As You Were -Rozz- ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, Schoolboy Q - Ab-Soul - Shakes 4050 27th St Moline, IL Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Karaoke Night -Roadrunner’s Road- Church - Rock Island, 1600 20th St. 2012/05/12 (Sat) Mississippi Misfits -The Muddy Waters, ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Iowa City, IA house, 3803 Rockingham Rd. Dav- Rock Island, IL SATURDAY 12 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA Locust Davenport, IA The Avey Brothers -Rascals Live, 1418 enport, IA OSG - Uniphonics -Iowa City Yacht ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Mississippi Valley Blues Society Funday Sunday with Dave Ellis (6pm) 15th St. Moline, IL Khaira Arby - Bermuda Report -En- Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Fundraiser: The Steady Rollin’ -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Thumping Thursday w/ DJ Hypnotic glert Theatre, 221 East Washington Russ Reyman Trio (5:30pm) - Tailfins Arch Allies -Riverside Casino and Blues Band - The Candymakers Bettendorf, IA and Patrick Rifley -McManus Pub, St. Iowa City, IA (9pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- - The Mercury Brothers -Martini’s 1401 7th Ave Moline, IL Locust Davenport, IA erside, IA on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Trace Adkins -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd Bonne Finken -RME Community Stage, Island, IL Continued On Page 22 St. Davenport, IA 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA 22 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 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 21 Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) -RME Jason Carl -Creekside Bar and Grill, Ashley Raines -RME Community Stage, Horace Mann Fundraiser: Mike Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Haverkamp - Nic Arp & the Two- Davenport, IA Jazz Jam w/ the North Scott Jazz Combo Bucktown Revue -Nighswander The- Dollar Melon Ballers - Black Satur- Chasing Shade - Zeta June - Elliot -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. atre, 2822 Eastern Ave Davenport, day - Dave Moore (4pm) -The Mill, Street Lunatic - Cutthroat Drift- Davenport, IA IA 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA ers -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Johnny O’ Jam Sessions -The Muddy Caught in the Act -11th Street Precinct, Karaoke for Kids (3-5pm) -Hollar’s Bar Iowa City, IA Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL Dear Rabbit - Brooks Strause -Rozz- IA Chris Avey Band -The Muddy Waters, Laura’s Legacy Concert: Three Years Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Karaoke by Pieler Productions -The 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA Hollow (3pm) - Lissie (4:30pm) - Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. Daven- Dueling Pianos at The Establishment Truth & Salvage (6pm) -Schwiebert Supper Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. port, IA -The Establishment Theatre, 220 Riverfront Park, between 17th & Rock Island, IL Ketamines (6:30pm) -Gabe’s, 330 E. 19th St. Rock Island, IL 20th Streets Rock Island, IL Jam Night w/ Jordan Danielsen - Washington St. Iowa City, IA Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Live Lunch w/ Chad Elliott (noon) -RME 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Live Lunch w/ Moonlight Bride (noon) -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd Gray Wolf Band -Edje Nightclub at Davenport, IA Joe Pug - Bailiff - Grand Tetons -The St. Davenport, IA Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Mondo Drag - Aseethe - Brutus & 92 Rock Island, IL brunch) -The Lodge Hotel, 900 Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Coffee- the Psychedelic Explosions -Iowa Heatbox - More Than Lights -Gabe’s, Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA house, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Rusty Davis (2 & 4pm) -Riverside Ca- Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, Truth & Salvage Co. @ RIBCO – May 18 City, IA Jared Blake - Dirt Road Rockers -Ras- sino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 410 2nd St Davenport, IA Jam Session -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 The Pub Unplugged: Live Acoustic Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee cals Live, 1418 15th St. Moline, IL 22 Riverside, IA Quad City Kix Band -RME Com- S Linn St Iowa City, IA Acts -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa Karaoke Night -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. Shawn Thomas (11am) -Metropolitan munity Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, Davenport, IA City, IA 6th St. Davenport, IA Community Church, 3019 N Har- Davenport, IA 4050 27th St Moline, IL Troy Harris, Pianist (10pm) -Red Crow Rob Dahms Blues Band -The Lucky Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, rison St. Davenport, IA Southern Thunder DJ Service (5pm) Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St 4050 27th St Moline, IL Sunday Jazz Brunch at Bix Bistro & Karaoke (9pm) -McManus Pub, Rock Island, IL McCausland, IA Karaoke Night -Roadrunner’s Road- (10:30am & 12:30pm) -Hotel Black- 1401 7th Ave Moline, IL Keller Karaoke -Martini’s on the Rock, 2012/05/17 (Thu) The Avey Brothers -Rascals Live, 1418 house, 3803 Rockingham Rd. Dav- hawk, 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Tuesday Night Dance Party w/ Rad- 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL THURSDAY 17 15th St. Moline, IL enport, IA con -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Night People (6pm) -The Rusty Nail, ABC Karaoke -Greenbriar Restau- Thumping Thursday w/ DJ Hypnotic Kooby’s Karaoke -Wide Open Bar & 2012/05/14 (Mon) Island, IL 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA rant and Lounge, 4506 27th St and Patrick Rifley -McManus Pub, Grill, 425 15th St. Moline, IL MONDAY 14 Open Mic Hosted by Randy Ketelsen Moline, IL 1401 7th Ave Moline, IL Laurence Juber -The Redstone Room, One Night Stand Open Mic -Iowa 2012/05/16WEDNESDAY (Wed) 16 and Corey Wallace -The Rusty Nail, ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W 129 Main St Davenport, IA City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA 2012/05/18 (Fri) 18 Lectric Leroy (5:30pm) - Corporate City, IA A Party to Go Karaoke Night -Stacks Open Mic Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, Andy Frasco -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock FRIDAY Rock (9:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, Rock Island High School Orchestra Bar, 525 14th St. Moline, IL 114 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Island, IL ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA (6pm) -RME Community Stage, 131 ABC Karaoke -Abblebee’s Neighbor- Open Mic Night -RME Community Stage, Daphne Willis - The Right Now -RME St. Davenport, IA Live Lunch w/ Ellis Kell (noon) -RME W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA hood Grill - Elmore Ave., 3838 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA (River Music Experience), 131 W. 2nd ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Elmore Ave. Davenport, IA Rocktastic 4 -Rascals Live, 1418 15th St. Davenport, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA 2012/05/15 (Tue) ABC Karaoke -Barrel House 211, 211 E. St. Moline, IL Dave Tamkin -The Redstone Room, 129 ABC Karaoke -Greenbriar Restau- Mad Monks - The Maw - Acoustic TUESDAY 15 2nd St. Davenport, IA The Chris & Wes Show -Mound Street Main St Davenport, IA rant and Lounge, 4506 27th St Guillotine -Iowa City Yacht Club, ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Igor & Red Elvises - One Night Landing, 1029 Mound St. Daven- Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Moline, IL 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Standards -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. port, IA -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL ABC Members-Only Karaoke -Moose North of 40 -Hero’s Pub, 3811 N. Har- ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Rock Island, IL Ida Jo & the Show -The Mill, 120 E Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rocking- rison St. Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA Burlington Iowa City, IA ham Rd Davenport, IA Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 23 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication R-Style Band -Riverside Casino and Gaither Homecoming Tour -i wireless ABC Karaoke -Barrel House 211, 211 E. Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL 2012/05/22 (Tue) 2nd St. Davenport, IA erside, IA Gray Wolf Band -Edje Nightclub at TUESDAY 22 ABC Karaoke -Ganzo’s, 3923 N. Mar- Russ Reyman Trio (6pm) -Phoenix, 111 Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, quette St. Davenport, IA West 2nd St. Davenport, IA 92 Rock Island, IL 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Burlington Street Bluegrass Band Smooth Groove -Martini’s on the Rock, Greg & Susan Dirks (6:30pm) -RME ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Locust Davenport, IA City, IA Spatterdash -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady Davenport, IA Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) -RME Daniel & the Lion -Englert Theatre, 221 St. Davenport, IA Half Naked - Chris Soppe - Radcon - XSV Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. East Washington St. Iowa City, IA The Grass-Fed Kids -Rozz-Tox, 2108 - DJ Matthew -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Davenport, IA Exposure: Open DJ Challenge w/ Pat- 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Rock Island, IL Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s rick Rifley & DJ Hypntik -RME (River The Music of Dr. Joe Seng -Joe’s Club, Harriet Woodford Benefit featuring Supper Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Music Experience), 131 W. 2nd St. 1402 W. 7th St. Davenport, IA Alejandro Escovedo -The Mill, 120 Rock Island, IL Davenport, IA Tony Hamilton Orchestra -Walcott E Burlington Iowa City, IA Jam Night w/ Jordan Danielsen - Hitman (6pm) - Open Mic Hosted by Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Wal- Jared Blake -Champs, 216 Locust St., 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Randy Ketelsen and Corey Wal- cott, IA Sterling, IL Davenport, IA lace (9:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606 Truth & Salvage Co. - Ghost Town Choir Karaoke Night -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. Keys N Krates -The Redstone Room, 129 W Locust Davenport, IA - The Jason Carl Band -RIBCO, 1815 6th St. Davenport, IA Main St Davenport, IA Jam Session -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, Mandolin Junction -RME Community S Linn St Iowa City, IA 4050 27th St Moline, IL Jared Blake @ Rascals – May 18 Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Karaoke Night -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 2012/05/19 (Sat) 19 Karaoke Night -Roadrunner’s Road- Smooth Groove -River House, 1510 Hip to Hip (2pm) -Riverside Casino Old Tire Swingers (6pm) -RME Com- 4050 27th St Moline, IL SATURDAY house, 3803 Rockingham Rd. Dav- River Dr. Moline, IL and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 munity Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Dav- Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. 3 Years Hollow - 1152 - The Hong enport, IA Spindrift - Strangers Family Band Riverside, IA enport, IA Rock Island, IL Kong Sleepover - Shallow Side Kent Burnside and New Generation - Mondo Drag -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Karaoke for Kids (3-5pm) -Hollar’s Bar Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Coffee- Keller Karaoke -Martini’s on the Rock, -Rascals Live, 1418 15th St. Mo- -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Ave. Rock Island, IL and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL house, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL line, IL Bettendorf, IA Steve Bobbitt (5:30pm) - Funktastic Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, Live Lunch w/ Strategic (noon) -RME A Party to Go Karaoke Night -Wooden Kooby’s Karaoke -Headquarters Bar Five (9:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606 brunch) -The Lodge Hotel, 900 410 2nd St Davenport, IA Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Nickel Saloon, 2042 W 3rd St Dav- & Grill, 119 E. 22nd Ave. Coal Val- W Locust Davenport, IA Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA Southern Thunder DJ Service (5pm) Davenport, IA enport, IA ley, IL The Funnies -Martini’s on the Rock, Sunday Jazz Brunch at Bix Bistro & Karaoke (9pm) -McManus Pub, Open Mic Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Lustalots -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL (10:30am & 12:30pm) -Hotel Black- 1401 7th Ave Moline, IL 114 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Zither Ensemble (10am) -German hawk, 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Tuesday Night Dance Party: Von, Ghost- Open Mic Night -RME Community Blackstones -Barrel House 211, 211 E. Night People -Len Brown’s North Shore American Heritage Center, 712 W. Third Sunday Jazz featuring Sam Salo- Science, & DarkGrey vs. Defender & Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, 2nd St. Davenport, IA Inn, 7th Street and the Rock River 2nd St. Davenport, IA mone (6pm) -The Redstone Room, 129 Radcon -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock IA Caught in the Act (5pm) -Rudy’s Tacos, Moline, IL Main St Davenport, IA Island, IL Rocktastic 4 -Rascals Live, 1418 15th 3944 Elmore Ave. Davenport, IA Open Mic Night -Downtown Central 2012/05/20 (Sun) 20 Whoozdads? (10:30am) -Brady Street St. Moline, IL Cosmic -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA SUNDAY Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza 2012/05/23 (Wed) The Chris & Wes Show -Mound Street 11th St Davenport, IA Rhythm Unleashed: The Music of Marc ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, Hotel Davenport, IA WEDNESDAY 23 Landing, 1029 Mound St. Daven- Dueling Pianos at The Establishment Mellits -The Redstone Room, 129 Main 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA A Party to Go Karaoke Night -Stacks port, IA -The Establishment Theatre, 220 St Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W 2012/05/21MONDAY (Mon) 21 Bar, 525 14th St. Moline, IL The Pub Unplugged: Live Acoustic 19th St. Rock Island, IL R-Style Band -Riverside Casino and Locust Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -Abblebee’s Neighbor- Acts -The Pub, 4320 N. Brady St. Evergreen Grass Band - Bitterroot Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- Dave Olson - The Feralings -The Mill, Gentlemen Jesse & His Men -Gabe’s, hood Grill - Elmore Ave., 3838 Davenport, IA Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S erside, IA 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Elmore Ave. Davenport, IA Troy Harris, Pianist (10pm) -Red Crow Linn St Iowa City, IA Russ Reyman, Pianist (7pm) -Phoenix, Funday Sunday with Dave Ellis (6pm) One Night Stand Open Mic -Iowa Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa -Parker’s, 635 15th St Moline, IL Bettendorf, IA City, IA 24 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 19 No. 804 • May 10 - 23, 2012 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com