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here’s a lot to love about America and its pat downs, and other indignities by the TSA. I religious studies at home, growing vegetables in people up for life for nonviolent crimes. There are people: their pioneering spirit, their entre- don’t like VIPR raids on so-called “soft” targets their yard, and collecting rainwater. I don’t like more than 3,000 people in America serving life Tpreneurship, their ability to think outside such as shopping malls and bus depots by the National Defense Authorization Act, which sentences for nonviolent crimes, including theft of the box, their passion for the arts, etc. Increasingly, black-clad Darth Vader lookalikes. I don’t like allows the president and the military to arrest and a jacket, siphoning gasoline from a truck, stealing however, I find things I don’t like about living fusion centers, which represent the combined detain American citizens indefinitely. I don’t like tools, and attempting to cash a stolen check. I don’t in a nation that has ceased to be a sanctuary for surveillance efforts of federal, state, and local law the PATRIOT Act, which opened the door to all like paying roughly $29,000 a year per inmate just freedom. enforcement. manner of government abuses and intrusions on to keep these nonviolent offenders in prison. Here’s what I don’t like about living in America. I don’t like being treated like an underling our privacy. I don’t like having my hard-earned taxpayer I don’t like being treated as if my only value to by government agents who are supposed to be I don’t like the Department of Homeland dollars used against me. the government is as a source of labor and funds. working for me. I don’t like being threatened, Security (DHS), which has become America’s I don’t like the partisan nature of politics I don’t like being viewed as a consumer and bits intimidated, bribed, beaten, and robbed by standing army in direct opposition to the dire today, which has so polarized Americans that of data. I don’t like being spied on and treated as individuals entrusted with safeguarding my warnings of those who founded our country. they are incapable of standing in unity against the if I have no right to privacy, especially in my own rights. I don’t like being silenced, censored, and I don’t like military weapons such as armored government’s abuses. I don’t like the entertainment home. marginalized. I don’t like my movements being vehicles, sound cannons, and the like being used drivel that passes for news coverage today. I don’t like government officials who lobby for tracked, my conversations being recorded, and my against American citizens. I don’t like government I don’t like the fact that those within a 25-mile my vote only to ignore me once elected. I don’t transactions being cataloged. agencies such as the DHS, the Postal Service, the range of the border are getting a front-row seat like having representatives unable and unwilling I don’t like how the presidency has developed Social Security Administration, and the Fish & to the American police state, as Border Patrol to represent me. I don’t like taxation without into a neo-monarchy replete with all the luxury Wildlife Service stocking up on hollow-point agents are now allowed to search people’s homes, representation. and lasciviousness of the feudal lords of old. bullets. And I definitely don’t like the implications intimately probe their bodies, and rifle through I don’t like being bullied by government I don’t like politicians who spend most of their of detention centers being built that could house their belongings – all without a warrant. bureaucrats, vigilantes masquerading as cops, or time running for office, fundraising, and enjoying American citizens. I don’t like public schools that treat students faceless technicians. I don’t like being railroaded being feted by lobbyists and corporations alike. I don’t like the fact that since President Barack as if they were prison inmates. I don’t like zero- into financing government programs whose only I don’t like being kept at a distance from my Obama took office, police departments across tolerance laws that criminalize childish behavior. purpose is to increase the power and wealth of elected representatives, including the president. 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Rauner wants to increase those taxes and rolling back the 2010 tax increase. revenues by almost 67 percent over just four It also implements a new tax on years. services, such as advertising, “Rauner’s plan would legal services, and mini-storage Rauner specified add more than a half-billion centers. We’d like to know $577 million in new dollars to state coffers but whether this type of plan would wouldn’t come close to MAKE IT A WEEKEND AT JUMER’S make you more likely or less annual revenues, replacing the $8 billion from likely to vote for him.” the taxes he would roll back,” Rauner had certainly tested nowhere near the polling respondents were told. his service-tax proposal $8 billion he wants “Do you think the state can backward and forward before afford the Rauner plan?” SATISFY YOUR WINNING APPETITE presenting it to the public last to give up from the Illinoisans were split, with week, so I figured it had to poll 41 percent of the respondents with the best food at the best prices. fairly well. It did. income tax. saying the state can afford it FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 11am-10pm and 43 percent saying it can’t. The poll found that 53 SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 10am-10pm percent said they’d be more likely to vote for “They want the benefits of overall lower Rauner, while just 32 percent said they’d be taxes but doubt the viability,” said pollster less likely to vote for him and 15 percent said Gregg Durham. The poll had a margin of $ 99 it made no difference. error of 3 percent. Twenty-eight percent of Surf ‘N’ Turf 9 As we’ve discussed before, Rauner has respondents were reached on mobile phones.. struggled a bit with women, but they actually That second set of numbers might’ve been SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 liked the idea more than men. Fifty-six far worse had more specifics been used. percent said the idea made them more likely “Too bad [Rauner’s plan] is entirely phony MADE-TO-ORDER Sunday Brunch to vote for Rauner, while just 28 percent said and false and paid for by massive cuts to 9am-3pm $ 99 they were less likely. The male split was 47 education,” texted Governor Pat Quinn’s Great Midwest 4pm-9pm 9 percent more likey, 39 percent less likely. campaign spokesperson, Brooke Anderson, The highest regional support for the plan last week. “Wonder how that polls.” came from the suburban collar counties, Anderson rightly pointed out that the state where Rauner did the best in the primary. budget includes around $16 billion in “non- FREE Sixty-six percent of collar-county voters said mandated” expenditures; the rest is pretty FIREWORKS the proposal made them more likely to vote much required and/or locked-in spending. at the conclusion for Rauner, while 25 percent said less. 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And among Democrats, 33 percent adds billions in deferred costs to next year’s were more likely while 53 percent less likely. budget. The only way to avoid that is to raise For all the details, go to jumerscasinohotel.com Why does this look so popular? Well, the income-tax rate back up to 5 percent after or visit the IMAGE Players Club. people hate that income-tax hike and they January 1, when it’s scheduled to go down to hate their property taxes. On its face, this 3.75 percent. could look like a magic bullet to folks. Rauner’s campaign refused to talk about There are no magic bullets, of course. If specific phase-out percentages and timelines there were, they would’ve already been used. last week. But the cold, hard reality is: That I and Hwy  • Exit -A, Rock Island, IL Rauner specified a mere $577 million tax hike isn’t going away very soon, no matter  •  Open am-am daily in new annual revenues via his service tax, what he says. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling which is nowhere near the $8 billion he GAMBLER  ­ €‚ƒ„. wants to give up from the income-tax hike. Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily FOR�YOUR�ENJOYMENT, ALWAYS�SMOKE�FREE! Rauner says he’d phase out that tax hike political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 5 ART by Sherry C. Maurer [email protected] Short on Legends, Loaded with Innovation Innovators & Legends: Generations in Textiles & Fiber, through September 7 at the Figge t is as if a Jimi Hendrix concert outfit collided and merged with great-grandma’s Idoily and potholder collection in the 2009 Soundsuit by Nick Cave, part of the exhibi- tion Innovators & Legends: Generations in Textiles & Fiber that runs through September 7 at the Figge Art Museum. Cave’s 97-inch-tall soundsuits enclose the head and are made to be danced in, akin to African practices where the body is completely covered with an outfit. When traditionally “danced,” an African ensemble Globalization III by Gyöngy Laky imbues the wearer with its particular spiritual power. For full effect, Cave’s suits need his performance energy and musical accompaniment. Yet his suits alone are still imposing in size and detail. On the front of this suit at the Figge is a colorful, kaleidoscopic array of salvaged homemade crocheted and knitted goods, the kind that lovingly protected modest American tabletops. The back of the suit presents an opulent spectacle of sequined and beaded floral designs in gold, silver, and jewel colors that visually spin and pop. All Soundsuits by Nick Cave of the components are unified by a common shimmering black-beaded and -sequined background. The Figge’s newsletter notes that the traveling exhibition, organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art, includes more than 50 artists who explore the technical possibilities in fabric, thread, fiber, and yarn. This Land by Sara Rockinger The exhibition title perhaps overreached the capacity of a single undertaking. To feature the “legendary” protagonists who, beginning in the mid-1950s, rapidly moved Sweaterman 7 by Mark Newport traditional fiber “craft” to “fine art” would require a linear tracing of their progress and profound change. The earliest pieces in this on a dark-brown background, all made of presentation date to the mid-1980s. soft, straight human hair. While in jest I’d say Nonetheless, the included works – it looks like a cross between a Wookiee and mostly dating from the past 10 years – are a lava lamp, it challenges our expectations accomplished and innovative in their and prejudices about hair color: pinkish technical mastery, surprising breadth of blonde versus brunette versus violet streaks. materials, and strength of statement. Cave has a sense of humor and a keen grasp Cave, for example, might ultimately of pushing traditional materials in new prove to be “legendary.” He comes from a directions. large African-American Missouri family of Many pioneering fine-art fiber artists are noted in the exhibition catalog, but their modest means, and the previously mentioned She Was Happiest Do You See What I See? by Gerhardt Knodel suit references both a humble home and actual work is not represented. Among the When Surrounded by an opulent gala, perhaps reflective of the missing big names are Annie Albers, Jack Art by Dawn Wolford Lenor Larsen, Ed Rossbach, and Lenore trajectory of his career. Westphal, who led the fine-art quilt Knodel lines up a kind of carnival Cave said in a 2012 PBS interview that Tawney. Tawney once told me that when she started in the mid-’50s at the Cranbrook movement; Ted Hallman, who explored shooting gallery of three tiers of stylized his soundsuits arose from a concern about plastics; and two artists who used emerging fringed heads, each of slightly different facial racial profiling and identity assumptions. The Academy of Art in Michigan, she wove technologies: Sherri Smith (Sloan telescope configuration. Tipped heads reveal a drawing doily/gala suit balances imagery of economic table runners as expected, but she graduated images of the cosmos) and Cynthia Schira design. Knodel states in the exhibition and social disparity – a prevalent, unresolved as something new: an experimental fiber (electronic Jacquard loom). Also represented catalog that the drawings are derived from issue of our era. sculptor. is Gerhardt Knodel, a pioneer of fiber Victorian-period stencils “used by children Cave’s other 2009 Soundsuit in the exhibit Earlier trailblazers included in Innovators & Legends are Katherine installations during the 1970s, with a 2011 has pink and violet arcs and circles bobbing entry titled Do You See What I See? Continued On Page 18 6 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com COVER STORY Hearts of Glass Artisans and Students Make Hot Glass in a New Davenport Studio hen you first walk in the doors of downtown Davenport’s Wrecently opened Hot Glass art studio, there are a few things you might notice right off the bat. Initially, your eye is drawn to the vibrant splashes of color on the shelving units to the left: multi-hued glass bowls, vases, and paperweights, all Joel Ryser located beneath a striking, meticulously dream.” assembled, golden glass chandelier But as Joel adds, the dream hasn’t been that wouldn’t look out of place in the fulfilled quite yet. “We still need help ballroom of Beauty & the Beast. from people in the community. I put To your right, you see much of the my hand out for months to do this, and studio’s equipment: a workbench and there’s a time and place for donations, containers of colored glass and a pair of but I’d rather earn what I want to do sizable furnaces, one of whose indicators now. It takes a lot to run this place, with reveals its interior temperature to be just the furnaces and oven and everything. over 2,300 degrees. I mean, if we don’t turn anything on, it’s On the opposite side of the studio, not gonna be very expensive ... .” through the windows facing River Drive, you’re treated to a view of Modern Artistic Juices Woodmen Park so picture-perfect that Many Quad Citians know Joel Ryser the ballpark should consider using it on from his years of coaching football at souvenir postcards. (Hot Glass is located Moline High School, serving as the at 104 Western Avenue, in the rear of the team’s head coach from 2001 to 2009. Davenport Printing Company facility.) Yet over his 25-year teaching career at But if you turn around and face the the school, Moline High’s chair of the direction you came in, you’ll find what Fine Arts Department has also been a is the most beautiful sight in the entire fierce proponent of visual-arts education, studio, at least for Hot Glass Executive particularly in the field of glass. Director Joel Ryser and his co-founder “I fell in love with it in college,” says the son Logan: a large sign on the wall Eastern Oregon University graduate of listing the names of local organizations, his fascination with glass. “I was a potter businesses, and individuals who provided and a glass artist. But the thing about clay the money, equipment, and experience is ... I can make whatever I want at the necessary to make their dream studio a wheel. But once you make it, you have to reality. let it dry before you do the other steps, “All those people donated everything and then you have to let it dry again, and we needed,” says Joel, pointing to the then you have to fire it, and then you sign during our recent interview. “Some have to glaze it, and then you have to fire gave us materials, some gave advice and it again ... . I like it, but it’s just too slow. helped me write grants, some of these And you just don’t get those colors. Photo by Meghan McLaughlin folks did all the labor along with myself “Also, with pottery, you’re by yourself,” and Logan ... . It’s been a real community Joel continues. “But in glass, you have to that were funded through a Moline High of town – a lot of drugs and crime and effort.” work as a team – at least on bigger pieces. “Lights on for Learning” grant. drop-outs. And if they enrolled in the And an effort that its founders hope And because of all my years as a coach, “My idea for that,” says Joel, “was to program and got their GED or got back will also greatly benefit the community. teamwork was always a big thing, so I felt bring in at-risk students, and bring their into school, they could come in and learn In addition to Hot Glass serving as a really comfortable with that.” parents with them, and to have them how to blow glass. Even if they were rival downtown art studio with fee-based Joel had implemented flame-working blow glass with each other so they could gangs or whatever, they could go there classes, the Rysers plan for their 501(c)3 and fusing into the art curriculum at develop a better relationship.” Yet while and work together and learn how to charitable organization to be a valuable Moline High, and – following his 2009 the program “fell through” after two communicate with other kids. resource for area students, with youths retirement from coaching – also spent years, Joel had long been considering an “I saw that,” Joel continues, “and it just able to enjoy tuition-free programs and two years honing his glass-blowing skills even bigger artistic venture. turned me on. I had taped it, and I would the opportunity to join the studio’s “Glass alongside Quad Cities glass artist Mark “It was probably about 15 years ago,” show it to the kids in my high-school Team” of working apprentices. Fowler. he says. “I was watching Sunday Morning class. ‘Someday, we’re gonna do this. “It’s been hours and hours and hours “That really got my artistic juices on CBS, and they had a segment about an We’re gonna bring kids in, and show you and hours of work,” says Logan, who, flowing again,” he says. “I didn’t really artist named Dale Chihuly, who started all how to blow glass, and everyone will like his father, teaches glass-blowing a program in Tacoma, Washington, do a lot of art when I was coaching and work together.’ techniques at the studio. “Starting this called Hilltop Artists. It was a program was missing it terribly. And that’s when “I mean, when I was coaching, it was business has been a journey and a for at-risk teens from a really bad area we started to do classes with at-risk kids” pretty intense. It was high-energy, and Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 7 by Mike Schulz [email protected] wqpt.org

was shock and awe. I love it .” SEASON TWO But beyond the art, he says, “I’ve been into entrepreneurship, and have always wanted to get into business to help change lives. So when I caught on Miss Fisher’s with my dad’s idea to start a glass shop, I thought, ‘Let’s do it on a large scale. Let’s reach as many people as we possibly can.’” Murder Joel says, “Logan had a friend who used to rent space here [in the Davenport Printing Company facility], so after they Mysteries told me about it, I said, ‘Let’s call the owner and tell him our idea.’ Originally, we were gonna look upstairs, where there’s a big storage area. But the owner, John Liljequist – a great guy – brought All new episodes us in here and said, ‘You want this space,’ Sundays 9:00pm because it had its own entrance and Tuesdays 9:00pm would be much more private.” Yet while the Western Avenue space was an appropriate size for a studio Photo by Meghan McLaughlin requiring several ovens and furnaces, “I I did a lot of character-development still needed a lot of convincing,” says Joel, stuff with the kids, and I thought I was “because once you start something like reaching them pretty well. So I wanted this, you have to maintain it and sustain to find another way to do it. And after it. And I still work full-time as a teacher. working with Mark Fowler, I knew I had I have five more years before I retire. So to blow glass. That was just it. I thought I on top of thinking. ‘How are we gonna was in heaven. sustain it?’, I thought, ‘How are we gonna “So this,” Joel says, with a smile, as do it?’ Because I didn’t have enough he looks around the Hot Glass studio, money to begin this myself.” “seemed like a way to combine everything Pointing to the sign by the Hot Glass I loved. What my passions were.” doorway, Joel says, “So I started talking to some of these folks. “The first ones I went to were GETT The Glass Bug Industries,” the Milan-based machining At first, says Joel of the studio’s origins, company. “A friend of mine named “I was about ready to do it out of my Timmy Edwards owns the business, and I house. I have a pretty-good-sized garage brought him some pictures of equipment where I have my potter’s wheel and a kiln and said, ‘Could you make me some of and everything where I would do my clay. this stuff?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I think But once I got the glass bug from Mark so,’ and got me together with one of and worked with him for a couple years, my old friends from high school, Tim I was moving everything out of my clay Miner, who’s the general manager there. I shop at home and was gonna make it a hadn’t seen him in 20 years, and Timmy glass place. [Edwards] says, ‘This guy’s gonna take “But really, that wasn’t a very good care of you. Just work with him.’ locale for it,” he adds. “So that’s where “And Tim took it by the horns,” Joel Logan came in.” continues. “They made this furnace – it’s Joel’s son, who will be entering Drake called a glory hole. They made two of University as a senior this fall, says his those, actually. They made two yokes. own interest in visual art “always came Two benches. Two marvers. The pipe- through my Dad. Back in the day, he warmer. And they donated everything. would make these huge fish out of Probably $80,000 to $90,000 worth of pottery, and my friends would see the stuff. work and be like, ‘Your Dad did this?!’ “So then I thought, ‘Okay, well, if “So I always knew about it and always they believe in the idea, maybe I can get respected it,” Logan continues, “and about somebody to do my electrical.’ So I went three or four years ago, I started doing a to an old friend of mine, Jeff Lanum, couple workshops with him. And once I actually started blowing glass, I just ... . It Continued On Page 16 8 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com

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EDITORIAL dark path as the titular character in Faustus’ fate is the thrust of the Managing Editor: Jeff Ignatius • [email protected] Walker’s and Catie Osborn’s adaptation, plot, but there are also side stories, Arts Editor, Calendar Editor: Mike Schulz • [email protected] and amalgamation, of Johann Wolfgang including that of a woman he von Goethe’s and Christopher Nathan Klaus and James Palagi impregnates – Stephanie Moeller’s Contributing Writers: Amy Alkon, Rob Brezsny, Rich Marlowe’s plays about the doctor who covered eyes, and, most significantly, Gretchen. While the role fits perfectly Miller, Frederick Morden, Bruce Walters, Thom White sells his soul to the devil, in exchange her stoic, slightly condescending, mildly with Moeller’s strongest character type, ADVERTISING for 24 years of having Mephistophilis angry demeanor. What’s even more that of the young innocent, the actor has Account Executives: at his beck and call. 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He speaks in a true, much more terrifying nature. welcome, and tremendously amusing, Advertising rates, publishing schedule, demographics, Among Faustus’ first demands is matter-of-fact nature before retiring comic relief as Robin, an animatedly and more are available at to his personal library to less clinically knowledge of the true nature of the crass, uneducated servant to Faustus bemoan the inadequacy of religious and universe, and to oblige, Mephistophilis who dabbles in magic to impress Palagi’s QCAdvertising.com scientific tomes. Yet his frustration soon calls forth demons to demonstrate the bumbling lothario Dick and lands them DESIGN/PRODUCTION turns into a breathtakingly passionate movements of our solar system. Actors a humorous punishment. Jessica White Art Director, Production Manager: Shawn Eldridge • awe and reverence for a book on the dark clad fully in black, and wearing masks earns a similar fate as Benvolio, a brash, [email protected] arts, ushering in Doctor Faustus’ first with red lights in the “eyes” atop their big-talking knight who belittles Faustus Graphic Artist: Nathan Klaus • [email protected] spooky element. heads (the performers walk with their publicly. Design/Production Interns: For his first magical practice, Faustus heads down but their masks facing While the depictions are commendable attempts to summon a demon by way of forward), enter holding glowing spheres across the board, it’s the visual and aural ADMINISTRATION a conjuring circle. On Friday, the ring of various sizes and colors above them, effects that really sell the Prenzie Players’ Business Manager: Kathleen McCarthy Sullivan drew was so perfect, with an and mimic the movements of the planets Doctor Faustus. I’m still marveling at the Office Administrator, Classifieds Manager, Circulation equally flawless bowed triangle inside around the sun. Accompanied by one of effectiveness of such simple actions to Manager: Rick Martin • [email protected] of it and symbols along the edges, that many effective bits of incidental music, create a disturbingly haunting atmosphere Distribution: William Cook, Ron Thompson, Cheri DeLay, I wondered if the actor would indeed and with the only light coming from the that’s perfect for the material. Greg FitzPatrick, Daniel Levsen, successfully call forth a demon from Hell. planets and the demons’ eyes, the scene is Jay Strickland, Doug Wilming And the hell-spawn he does arouse is mesmerizing, a true marvel to behold. Doctor Faustus runs at the QC Theatre Kitty Israel’s Mephistophilis – not a real While designer Kate Farence is Workshop (1730 Wilkes Avenue, hellion, but a suitable substitute given responsible for many notable costumes, Davenport) through July 26, and more her black clothing with red stockings none are as remarkable as her selections information and tickets are available and scarf, thick eyeliner drawn to a for the demons representing the deadly by calling (309)278-8426 or visiting point at the corner of her white-contact sins, which Molly Wilkinson’s truly PrenziePlayers.com. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 9 MUSIC by Jeff Ignatius Back in the Taverns [email protected] The Fat Babies, July 31 through August 3 at the Bix Fest eau Sample, said, the the bassist and group used Bbandleader of arrangements the Fat Babies, has they learned or said he doesn’t want developed on his Chicago-based the bandstand septet to present the or in the studio. jazz of the 1920s as But 18th & either a caricature or Racine, he said, museum piece. was a reflection By all accounts, of the group’s Sample and his development bandmates have succeeded wildly – since its founding in 2010. almost certainly a result of the Fat Babies “We definitely evolved, and started balancing its performance schedule doing more and more arrangements,” he between bars and festivals. said. Those, he added, come from cornetist The group has regular gigs at the Windy Andy Schumm (a student of Bix’s music City’s Green Mill lounge and Honky Tonk whose own band has played the Bix BBQ – places where the nuances are less festival) and pianist Paul Asaro (heavily important than the swing. “The people influenced by Jelly Roll Morton and Fats who come to see us are really there to Waller): “They sound a little more lush. dance and drink and have fun,” Sample ... Obviously, we try to do them so they said in a phone interview last week. “A lot sound spontaneous, but ... I would say of the bands playing this stuff [early jazz] it’s a little more uptown ... . A little more don’t have the opportunity to play for those sophisticated, I guess.” crowds. ... The dancers are a big influence Sample – who’s in his early 30s and on what we do.” also performs everything from rockabilly The Fat Babies, he noted, are “trying to to country blues (“I’ve played all kinds put it [old-time jazz] back in the taverns, of old American music”) – said that where it came from. ... Basically, we’re when it comes to recording, his jazz doing what people have always done – band tries to mimic the hi-fi sound of which is just playing in bars for people the 1950s and ’60s, using only two or drinking and having a good time.” three mics and recording to tape. “That But at festivals – such as the ensemble’s alone takes care of a lot of the things upcoming gigs at the Bix Beiderbecke that make [contemporary] recordings Memorial Jazz Festival – audiences are sound unnatural in my opinion,” he said. more likely to listen than dance. And (Although the Fat Babies recorded at Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich, Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio, the in reviewing a performance at Katerina’s, bandleader said its acoustics and vintage said the band thrives in that quieter equipment made it a perfect fit for the context, too: “Though there’s no denying classic-jazz outfit: “The room he uses the energy that couples dancing at the sounds almost like a theatre.”) Green Mill add to the Fat Babies’ sets there, At the Bix festival, you’ll likely hear from this time one could savor the details of the Fat Babies plenty of music by the man voicing, color, and phrase that distinguish who lends his name to the event – as well this band from lesser counterparts.” as tunes that don’t play well to bar crowds. The group’s two releases, 2012’s Chicago Jelly Roll Morton’s “Freakish,” Sample said, Hot and 2013’s 18th & Racine, both made is “a really crazy arrangement that drives the Tribune’s list of the best jazz albums dancers nuts. We don’t get to do that often of the year. Reich’s praise for the latter at the Honky Tonk BBQ.” album was concise and direct: “Few ensembles today play early-period jazz as The Fat Babies are scheduled to play six sets authentically and exuberantly as the Fat during the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Babies, who prove it once again.” Festival, running July 31 through August 3 Also discussing 18th & Racine, in downtown Davenport. Single-event tickets AllAboutJazz.com wrote: “The relative are $30, and all-day passes are $55. For obscurity of these delightful pieces and tickets, performance schedules, and more the deftness by which the dust of history information on the festival, visit BixSociety. is polished off them exposes their raw org. emotion and makes for a very intriguing listening experience.” For more information on the Fat Babies, For the Fat Babies’ first album, Sample visit TheFatBabies.com. 10 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com ExhibiTion oPEninG

Two Americans in Paris: Stuart Davis and Grant Wood Through November 2, 2014 Artists Grant Wood and Stuart Davis both studied in Paris during the1920s. While both depicted scenes of American life in their art, they adhered to vastly different styles. This exhibition features paintings and works on paper from the Figge’s Grant Wood Archive as well as a selection of Stuart Davis lithographs from a private collection.

Sponsored by Don and Connie Decker and Robert W. Baird

Grant Wood, Fertility, 1939, Lithograph, Museum Purchase: Friends of Art Acquisition Fund, 1965.31

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Movie Reviews byby MikeMike SchulzSchulz •• [email protected]@rcreader.com Mike and the Bearable, Horrible, Not-Good, Fairly Bad Day: Notes on Another Quadruple Feature riday, July 18, 10:30 a.m.-ish: My 3D page revealed etiquette side career as a thief, prone to stealing glasses in place, I prepare to watch the that Dean and hygiene. everything he appears in? Fanimated sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue Stockwell was I leave the 3:55 p.m.-ish: I’m at The Purge: with surprisingly vivid memories of its among its auditorium Anarchy, a sequel to the horror hit precursor, probably because it was released a cast, and in all feeling the about future America’s annual night of mere 11 months ago. I’m really hoping that, honesty, I was need to either legalized murder and mayhem, and my this time around, director Roberts Gan- sure the man immediately first thought when I see his (inevitably) naway’s tale of anthropomorphic vehicles died years shower or … victimized character on-screen is: poor with bulging eyes and recognizable celebrity ago. Blessedly, 1:55 p.m.- Zach Gilford. The Friday Night Lights voices won’t remind me of Pixar’s Cars he didn’t, ish: … catch star begins the movie year with his Devil’s every three minutes, and happily, it doesn’t. even though Planes: Fire & Rescue an R-rated, Due wife impregnated by Satan, and now Instead, I’m frequently reminded of the as- the great profanity- this? The rare case of a fright flick that’s tronaut epic The Right Stuff, which is a much character actor doesn’t look terribly well laden entertainment with almost no brutally effective without actually being cooler movie to pilfer from. here. But I don’t know how anyone could redeeming moral value whatsoever. Success! fun, writer/director James DeMonaco’s With Dane Cook’s crop-duster Dusty look good in this hopelessly, staggeringly Unfortunately, the film I’m at is director outing takes some unexpected narrative newly hampered by a broken gearbox, the feeble folly for the religious ultra-right – a Jake Kasdan’s Sex Tape, which turns out to detours, and sets up intriguing champion racer now takes up with a national thrill-less political thriller whose plotting be pretty lame. Cameron Diaz and Jason possibilities for future Purge installments. park’s team of emergency firefighters, is wholly absurd, whose characters make Segel play married parents whose recorded But this violent cat-and-mouse tale is too leading to all manner of visually beautiful, utterly no sense, and whose dialogue can attempt to spice up their love life results in grim to be a good time and photographed if dishearteningly dull, rescue sequences. In only be considered dialogue because its three hours of naked calisthenics hovering too darkly for us to see much of the bad truth, for this grown-up, the unfortunate unfathomable sentences boast nouns and in the cloud, and consequently viewable to time, and you can count the sincerely blankness of the characters’ expressions verbs. James Remar, who has played no end the couple’s iPad-toting acquaintances. As scary moments on the fingers of one – which seem vacant even in the midst of of screen psychopaths, portrays some sort of even the characters eventually conclude, this hand. Castmates Frank Grillo, Carmen danger – makes much of the entire movie heroic televangelist whose global popularity really isn’t that big a deal, and this slapstick’s Ejogo, and Justina Machado, though, are dishearteningly dull. But the numerous makes him a threat to the government’s attempts to make it one are generally forced, excellent, and John Beasley has a haunting Right Stuff references (A Yaeger-like free fall proposed “Faith & Fairness” bill, and I find protracted, repetitive, and unfunny. Still, presence as an old man who grumbles, from the heavens! A wall of deceased-flier myself suppressing laughs on a regular it’s easy enough to sit through. The leads “I’m going to try to sleep through this photos! Ed Harris!) help make the film more basis: at the casting of actor and former are friendly, if not as inspired as they were godforsaken holiday.” Just like me on New enjoyable than the first Planes, as do some Republican Senator Fred Dalton Thompson together in Kasdan’s 2011 comedy Bad Year’s Eve. ticklish bits of business and vocal performers as Remar’s cigar-chomping pastor father; at Teacher, and second bananas Rob Corddry, 6:15 p.m.-ish: Home with some (Hal Holbrook! Julie Bowen! Stiller & the hysterically hammy facial contortions of Ellie Kemper, Nancy Lenehan, and grade- dinner and a new book. A book of movie Meara!). Second-best bit: a ChiPs parody co-star Brad Stine; at absolutely everything schooler Giselle Eisenberg help enormously. essays. I really have to start expanding my featuring the voice of Erik Estrada. Best bit: a involving what are clearly the most dim and (Jack Black, unfortunately, not so much.) interests. broken-down car explaining his misery with ineffectual FBI agents ever. Lusko’s movie is Finest of all is Rob Lowe, whose coke- “She left me for a hybrid. I didn’t even hear like what you’d get if you mixed The Fugitive, snorting nebbish with the ear-to-ear grin For reviews of Dawn of the Planet of it coming.” The Firm, and Michael Clayton in a blender proves as riotous, and as essential to the the Apes and other current releases, visit 12:15 p.m.-ish: Even though I eventually and served it with a communion wafer, and proceedings, as the actor’s lacquered, barely RiverCitiesReader.com. pay dearly for my curiosity, I find myself it all ends with one of those patronizing ambulatory plastic surgeon in 2013’s Behind mildly anticipating writer/director Daniel “What would you do?” finales that used to the Candelabra. He’s been wonderful for Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/ Lusko’s Persecuted, because the film’s IMDb climax 1950s educational shorts on dating years, but when exactly did Lowe begin his MikeSchulzNow. 12 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com What’s Happenin’ gets the coral this three doors down from its time to complete, and this is a very important summer, NDI lands the former site, in the space that step toward that goal. People think we are Music silver. Theatre previously housed the Grape downgrading. We are not. We are making New Duncan Imperials Proudly proclaiming Monty Python’s Spamalot Life Wine Emporium. plans and making progress. It’s very exciting.” Rock Island Brewing Company themselves a District Theatre “To be honest, it’s a surprise For those familiar with the show, the Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m. combination of “the Friday, August 1, through Sunday, August 17 to us as well,” says the theatre’s artistic director company’s first production in its new locale explosive elements of – and Spamalot director – Tristan Tapscott. “At is pretty damned exciting, too. Adapted from ard as it is to believe, RIBCO is white-trash culture, he cheeky, ridiculous, hilarious musical least given the time frame. It has been a topic the film classic Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Hcelebrating its 35th anniversary Dada art, and Chuck Berry,” New Tcomedy Monty Python’s Spamalot runs at of discussion at several board meetings, but Spamalot is a supremely goofy and tuneful this summer. In honor of the Duncan Imperials have, since their Rock Island’s District Theatre from August 1 certainly not something we had planned on take on the legend of King Arthur. It’s also an milestone, the beloved District of 1989 album Hanky Panky Varley Voo, to 17, and as the venue has been the frequent happening this soon.” endlessly malleable slapstick that fits perfectly Rock Island venue is hosting an gone on to release more than a dozen home to similarly Tony-dominating smashes Yet as Tapscott adds, the former Grape Life with Tapscott’s plan for the new space’s own outdoor concert with the equally additional CDs, EPs, and tapes. And – Avenue Q, Chicago, Next to Normal – the venue is also “a temporary space while another malleability. beloved party rockers of New Duncan the group’s unique, hard-rocking, show’s eventual booking, while welcome, location is found and remodeled. It’s all part of “This venue takes us back to the diversity Imperials. The traditional 35th- totally unpretentious talents led wasn’t necessarily a surprise. a master plan. This move, and our partnership we once had in Davenport,” says Tapscott, anniversary gift is coral. So make Cosmik Debris magazine to rave about But what was a surprise, when recently with Rock Island Renaissance, is phase one referencing his company’s former identity sure you bring some when you arrive “their smörgåsbord of sounds and announced, was that the home itself was of a plan to rehab and design our own facility as the Harrison Hilltop Theatre. With every for the band’s July 26 engagement, styles that touch on power pop and moving, as the District Theatre is now located that fits our wildest expectations. The facility new show, “our goal is to create a different because you can’t spell “New Duncan punk to trash rock,” and Music Dish that we have in mind is going to take some environment for the audience the minute they magazine to call NDI’s songs “just Imperials at RIBCO” without “coral.” 1) “Intensely personal, deeply felt, and well-played.” – Dusted magazine plain cool/weird, rife with punk-rock Ha! And people say I strain in these 2) “Giddily communicative, celebratory, and wildly, rhythmically physical.” – Dusted magazine guitar riffs and rapid-fire percussion.” introductions! 3) “Impressive singing and songwriting.” – Aspen Sojourner Consequently, if you enjoy your Music But you also can’t spell “New 4) “Deeply, softly, enchantingly beautiful vocals.” – No Depression magazine rock dosed with a healthy blast of Jackson Emmer and Sam Moss Duncan Imperials at RIBCO” without 5) “A Dylan-esque ability to conjure poetry out of ostensibly mundane lyrics.” – Adequacy.net humor (which you should expect Rozz-Tox “a mad blast,” which is what you’ll 6) “Raw, intimate, occasionally lo-fi, and often brilliant.” – Adequacy.net surely have in this special event in the from a group whose song list Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m. includes “I Love You, Honey, but I Rock Island Brewing Company’s 35th- A) Jackson Emmer Hate Your Band”), you won’t want Anniversary Concert Series. s the late, great jazz trumpeter Louis B) Sam Moss Natives of Bucksnort, Tennessee, to miss the New Duncan Imperials’ AArmstrong once said, “All music is NDI’s original musicians eventually Saturday-night set in RIBCO’s 35th- folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing most prolific and gifted performers on Moss, meanwhile, is based in New England landed in Chicago, and found Anniversary Concert Series. Wow, 35. a song.” Be that as it may, Rock Island’s the American folk-music scene. An active and has eight well-received solo albums to his themselves rocking the 1980s’ club I remember my 35th birthday. Well ... Rozz-Tox venue, on July 26, will turn into a member of the old-timey band the Howling name. With his Appalachian and Americana scene as part of the popular Windy most of it. I spent it at RIBCO. folk-music paradise during its combined set Kettles, the Colorado-based Emmer has stylings also earning him a devoted fan base City group The Service. Yet after New Duncan Imperials perform with artists Jackson Emmer and Sam Moss – opened for the likes of David Lindley and through his frequent tour stops, Moss is a that group’s disbandment, guitarist locally with an opening set by 3 on gifted folk musicians with more in common the Devil Makes Three, and – with his modern finger-picking master, and his talents Pigtail, bassist Skipper, and drummer the Tree, RIBCO’s 35th-Anniversary than just, you know, not having four legs and gifts extending to the mandolin – he was even earned him a 2012 residency at New Goodtime decided to keep the music Concert Series continues with August a mane. memorably described by fellow folk artist Hampshire’s esteemed MacDowell Colony. going with their own ensemble, and 2 headliners Tripmaster Monkey, and With 21 self-released records under Will Stratton as “a cold, tall glass of water Yet beyond their statuses as acclaimed

more information is available by calling his belt, Jackson Emmer is one of the from a spigot out in the backyard.” folk musicians, more links Emmer and Moss launched New Duncan Imperials in stuff. good the not part, “adequacy” The me. to reference in said been frequently has same the two, last those On B. – 6 A, – 5 B, – 4 A, – 3 A, – 2 B, – 1 Answers: 1989 – meaning that while RIBCO (309)793-4060 or visiting RIBCO.com. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 13

by Mike Schulz What’s Happenin’ [email protected] time to complete, and this is a very important walk into the door.” And patrons can certainly taste of spectacular step toward that goal. People think we are expect something completely different from Billboard success came downgrading. We are not. We are making Spamalot, which boasts a cast including Music when the group’s What Else plans and making progress. It’s very exciting.” Bob Manasco as Arthur, Matt Holmes as Sir Gaelic Storm 2004 CD How Are For those familiar with the show, the Lancelot, Christopher Tracy as Sir Robin, The Redstone Room We Getting Home? hit Is Happenin’ company’s first production in its new locale Wendy Czekalski as Sir Galahad ... . Thursday, July 31, 7 p.m. number three on the is pretty damned exciting, too. Adapted from Wait. Wendy Czekalski as Sir Galahad? World Music Charts. That’s actually MUSIC the film classic Monty Python & the Holy Grail, And just what would the Python guys say of the lowest World Music Charts Thursday, July 24 – Sophistafunk. n July 31, the Redstone Room Funk, hip-hop, and soul musicians in Spamalot is a supremely goofy and tuneful this reverse-gender casting? Says Tapscott, “I will host a concert with Gaelic ranking for the band over the past take on the legend of King Arthur. It’s also an think they would say something like, ‘Women O decade, as 2006’s Bring Yer Wellies concert, with an opening set by The Storm, the acclaimed Celtic band Mainstays. The Redstone Room (129 endlessly malleable slapstick that fits perfectly have the perfect right to play a part in our that achieved international fame made it to Billboard’s number two, with Tapscott’s plan for the new space’s own movement, Mike.’” and Gaelic Storm’s four subsequent Main Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $7. For when its original musicians were cast tickets and information, call (563)326- malleability. The District Theatre (now at 1623 Second as the steerage performers who got albums all strode comfortably to “This venue takes us back to the diversity Avenue, Rock Island) will stage Monty Python’s number one. 1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet org. we once had in Davenport,” says Tapscott, Spamalot Thursdays through Saturdays at dancing in Titanic. So considering Time will tell if the same will referencing his company’s former identity 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., and more hold true for the musicians’ Full Friday, July 25 – Jake Owen. Chart- its familiarity with water, the group topping country musician in concert, as the Harrison Hilltop Theatre. With every information and tickets are available by calling should feel perfectly at home during Irish release. But there’s no question new show, “our goal is to create a different (309)235-1654 or visiting DistrictTheatre.com. that the group – composed of Ryan performing with guests Parmalee and its summertime set in downtown The Cadillac Tree. i wireless Center environment for the audience the minute they Davenport. (Hmm. Too soon?) Lacey, Patrick Murphy, Peter Purvis, Steve Twigger, and Kiana Weber – is (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m. 1) “Intensely personal, deeply felt, and well-played.” – Dusted magazine But Titanic was – pardon the presently at the top of its game, with $22.50-42. For tickets, call (800)745- 2) “Giddily communicative, celebratory, and wildly, rhythmically physical.” – Dusted magazine horrible pun – just the tip of the Denver’s Examiner.com praising 3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com. 3) “Impressive singing and songwriting.” – Aspen Sojourner iceberg for this noted traveling Gaelic Storm live sets for their Friday, July 25 – Ultraviolet 4) “Deeply, softly, enchantingly beautiful vocals.” – No Depression magazine ensemble that boasts a schedule of Hippopotamus. Rock and electronica “high energy, consistent interaction 5) “A Dylan-esque ability to conjure poetry out of ostensibly mundane lyrics.” – Adequacy.net more than 125 tour stops per year. musicians in concert, with an opening with the audience, and exceptional 6) “Raw, intimate, occasionally lo-fi, and often brilliant.” – Adequacy.net With 10 albums to its name since set by Half Naked. The Redstone musical performance.” the band’s self-titled 1998 debut, Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). than divides them. Both are accomplished The New York-based A) Jackson Emmer including July 29’s “best of” release 9 p.m. $8-10. For tickets and guitarists and banjo players. Both write their IrishCentral.com, meanwhile, B) Sam Moss Full Irish, Gaelic Storm is currently information, call (563)326-1333 or visit own material. Moss, too, recorded with the writes, “Gaelic Storm blends indie at the forefront of modern Celtic RiverMusicExperience.org. Moss, meanwhile, is based in New England Howling Kettles. And both have been the folk and world grooves with Celtic (and Celtic-rock) masters. And if Sunday, July 27 – Jessica and has eight well-received solo albums to his beneficiaries of ecstatic reviews ... as the tradition to serve up a ringside you won’t take my word for it, ask Hernandez & the Deltas. Detroit- adjoining quiz should prove. For each rave seat for 15 rounds of pugilistic, name. With his Appalachian and Americana some of the artists the group has based rockers in concert, with an about either the musician or his music, was it poultry-pounding sounds.” So enjoy stylings also earning him a devoted fan base opened for in recent years – if, that opening set by Lewis Knudsen. Rozz- Emmer or Moss who received the praise? the group’s special Redstone Room through his frequent tour stops, Moss is a is, you have access to the phone Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Admission to Jackson Emmer’s and Sam engagement. And maybe leave your modern finger-picking master, and his talents numbers for Lyle Lovett, Emmylou 8 p.m. $10. For information, call Moss’ Saturday-evening concert is $5 at the chicken at home. even earned him a 2012 residency at New Harris, the Zac Brown Band, and the (309)200-0978 or visit RozzTox.com. door, and more information on the night is For more information on Hampshire’s esteemed MacDowell Colony. Goo Goo Dolls. For a 2013 interview with Hernandez, available by calling (309)200-0978 or visiting Gaelic Storm’s July 31 concert, Yet beyond their statuses as acclaimed Best known for explosive visit RCReader.com/y/hernandez.

folk musicians, more links Emmer and Moss RozzTox.com. call (563)326-1333 or visit Answers: 1 – B, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – B, 5 – A, 6 – B. On those last two, the same has frequently been said in reference to me. The “adequacy” part, not the good stuff. good the not part, “adequacy” The me. to reference in said been frequently has same the two, last those On B. – 6 A, – 5 B, – 4 A, – 3 A, – 2 B, – 1 Answers: renditions of traditional Irish and Continued On Page 14 Scottish tunes, Gaelic Storm’s first RiverMusicExperience.org. 14 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com

Continued From Page 13 What Else Is Happenin’ Thursday, July 31, through Sunday, presentation of Aristophanes’ comedy, the top finishers, the Junior Bix for young August 3 – 2014 Bix Beiderbecke THEATRE adapted by Don Wooten. Lincoln Park racers, live music, and more. Downtown Thursday, July 24, through Memorial Jazz Festival. Annual (11th Avenue and 38th Street, Rock Davenport. $37-45 registration, For Saturday, September 6 – Love, Lies, celebration of jazz great Beiderbecke, Island). Saturdays and Sundays 8 p.m. information, call (563)383-2489 or visit & the Lottery. World-premiering featuring performances at numerous Donations encouraged. For information, Bix7.com. farcical comedy by author/director Jim downtown-Davenport venues, visit Genesius.org. Tuesday, July 29, through Sunday, Hesselman. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse workshops, children’s activities, and Thursday, July 31, through Sunday, August 3 – Mississippi Valley Fair. (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Fridays, more. $30 single-event tickets, $55 August 10 – Les Misérables. Broadway Annual event featuring carnival Saturdays, Wednesdays, and July 24: 6-7 all-day passes. For information, call musical based on Victor Hugo’s novel, attractions, vendors, a children’s petting p.m. buffet, 7:15 p.m. pre-show, 7:45 p.m. (563)324-7170 or visit BixSociety.org. directed by Matthew Teague Miller. zoo, games, 4-H competitions, and show. Sundays: 4-5 p.m. buffet, 5:15 p.m. Friday, August 1 – Jerry Garcia’s Timber Lake Playhouse (8215 Black Oak grandstand concerts with Eli Young pre-show, 5:45 p.m. show. Wednesdays: Birthday Celebration. Tribute concert Road, Mt. Carroll). Tuesdays through Band, Lady Antebellum, Craig Morgan, 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. plated lunch, 1 with performances by folk-rock and Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays and Cheap Trick, Alan Jackson, and Jerrod p.m. pre-show, 1:30 p.m. show. $29.26- psychedelic musicians Old Shoe and Sun Wednesdays 2 p.m. $17-23. For tickets Niemann. Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds 49.12. For tickets and information, Stereo. The Redstone Room (129 Main and information, call (815)244-2035 or (2815 West Locust Street, Davenport). call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $8-10. For visit TimberLakePlayhouse.org. $4-10 daily admission, $50 fun cards Circa21.com. tickets and information, call (563)326- for all six days and grandstand-show Thursday, July 24, through 1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org. admission. For information, call Saturday, August 2 – Wonderful EVENTS Saturday, August 2 – Tripmaster Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July (563)326-5338 or visit MVFair.com. Town. Composer Leonard Bernstein’s Monkey. Legendary rockers from the 26 – 2014 Street Fest. Annual event Saturday, August 2 – Broadway Tony Award-winning musical comedy. Quad Cities in an outdoor reunion featuring live music, vendors, arts-and- Historic District Wine Walk. Fourth- Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (311 concert for RIBCO’s 35th-Anniversary crafts vendors, children’s activities, and annual fundraiser with attendees Riverview Drive, Clinton). Thursdays Concert series, with opening sets by more. Downtown Davenport between visiting four premier homes and through Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sunday and Dylan Sires & Neighbors and The Last Brady and Ripley streets. Free admission. enjoying wine and gourmet appetizers. Wednesday 3 p.m. $16-23. For tickets Glimpse. Rock Island Brewing Company For information, call (563)823-2681 or Broadway Historic District (Fifth to and information, call (563)242-6760 or (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 8 visit DowntownDavenport.com. 16th avenues, 17th to 23rd streets, visit ClintonShowboat.org. p.m. For information, call (309)793-4060 Saturday, July 26 – Quad-City Times Rock Island). 6 p.m. $35. For tickets and Saturday, July 26, through Sunday, or visit RIBCO.com. Bix 7. Annual foot race through the information, call (309)786-2699 or visit August 3 – Plutus. Genesius Guild’s streets of Davenport, with cash prizes to BroadwayDistrict.org. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 15 16 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com COVER STORY Continued From Page 7 by Mike Schulz [email protected] Hearts of Glass who owns Electric Doctor” in Bettendorf. “I had his sons in football, and so I had developed a relationship with him, and he said, ‘Yeah, I’ll donate the electrical.’ He donated all the panels, the transformers, all the conduits – everything. “So then I went to East Moline Glass, where I talked to a friend of mine, Larry Anderson – I had his boys in football, too. He said, ‘Yeah, I’ll donate some new windows,’ and they put in new windows for me. “So then,” Joel continues, now laughing at the ever-growing examples of generosity, “I called Photo by Meghan McLaughlin Pyxis Refractory and said, ‘Here’s continues, “and Logan this project I’m doing ... .’ And they Never Pick Anything Up and Andrew and I work donated all the refractory. And then I Off the Floor as a team. Three people is called up Guardian Glass in DeWitt and best. There’s the gaffer – said, ‘Would you guys be interested in Since Hot Glass’ opening, the Rysers and fellow glass artist Andrew Lehn – the designer who makes backing this? It’s all about glass.’ ‘Oh yeah, all the decisions. And we’ll give you some materials.’ And they an art instructor and football coach at Davenport West High School – have then you have one person gave me boxes and boxes of materials.” giving air, and another However, Joel says that the process – led several free glass-blowing classes for youths, experiences that Logan describes, who’s either holding tools which took roughly 20 months from the or taking these wooden in the most positive way, as “absolutely Photo by Meghan McLaughlin Hot Glass studio’s inception to July 2’s paddles and shielding the nuts.” get some high-school kids that catch the opening-day celebration – wasn’t exactly heat ... . And everyone needs everyone. Says Logan, “In the first class we had, glass bug – that get hooked on it and say, that simple. “It took a lot of patience,” And we always say ‘please.’ there was this kid who was pretty quiet ‘I want to come back and help.’ And when he says. “When you’re the guy asking for “Then we split the kids into groups and at the beginning. But once he was on the that happens, we’re gonna put ’em on donations, you can’t pressure them, you let them switch roles, so they get each bench, and had the blowpipe in front of what’s called our ‘Glass Team.’ The Glass know. It was tough sitting here waiting experience, and that’s when they really him, he was totally engaged. And after Team is gonna be made up of students for all of the different phases to be done.” learn, ‘Okay, these kids you’re working he made his first piece, he came up to me who want to spend extra time here at the Plus, there was the waiting for money. with? They’re counting on you. You can’t and said, ‘When are we gonna be able to shop as apprentices, and will help us with “I probably wrote 15 different grants,” fall asleep on them. You have to be ready come back here?’” commissions, like if a hospital or a casino says Joel, “and didn’t get some.” But he to help.’ It’s all about being a team. Laughing at the memory, he continues, wants to commission us for one of those did receive them from, among other “One of my favorite sayings is by “They also get to pick from between three big chandeliers. It takes a team of people groups, the Community Foundation [motivational speaker] Zig Ziglar: ‘You or four different forms. There’s a straight to make that. of the Great River Bend and Quad can have everything in life that you want bowl, a fluted bowl, and a few different “But we also want to be able to let the City Arts, “and the Hubbell-Waterman if you would just help enough other types of vases. And they get to choose out students make their own things,” Joel Foundation came through with a $20,000 people get what they want.’ So we’ve their color schemes – which is sometimes continues. “And once they accumulate matching grant. And once people saw tried to use that message. ‘If you want the longest part of the day. ‘Wait, what if some art of their own, we want them to be their name, I had my $20,000 match in people to help you, you have to be able I want to change it to this color ... ?’ But able to go to the farmers’ market and have about two weeks. So we were able to buy to communicate with them properly, and it’s so great seeing these kids learning a booth, and be able to sell their stuff. We the tools, the color, the glass, a furnace, you have to be nice to them.’ We really vital skills, and being excited about it, and want to give them practical experience in the blowpipes ... . Some 40-grand worth work on that. And they realize that.” seeing what creativity young minds can business, as well. Because you can make of stuff we had to buy that really couldn’t Yet while the Rysers hope to continue come up with.” things that are attractive, but what are you their free courses for students, the be donated or made.” But Joel adds that, for glass-blowing going to do with it when you’re done? materials used, of course, do cost Shaking his head, Joel says, “It was very novices, appreciation for the art is taught “Even if the kids don’t end up being money. Funds for these programs will hard. And for a while, I was saying, ‘Man, with equal consideration for safety and professional artists, they’ll definitely end up consequently come not only through I feel like I’m not gonna get the money. with some skills here. I mean, you can come teamwork. grants, but through fee-based instruction We might have to just give up.’ But after I in and learn something cool, but as you “The first thing we go over is safety,” for the public – with Hot Glass currently had GETT involved, and Electric Doctor walk out, you’re gonna realize you learned he says. “We show them how hot offering two-hour private courses and involved, and all these other people, I everything is, and remind them never to about a little bit more than glass.” just thought, ‘I can’t give up now. Look classes for couples – and corporate team- pick anything up off the floor. Anything. building programs for area businesses. at what all these people have given. We Hot Glass will host an open house on Those furnaces run about 2,300 degrees, Plus, says Joel, commissioned artworks gotta keep going.’ And we did. And look Friday, July 25, beginning at 5:30 p.m., and even if there’s a really cool-looking will likely bring in added revenue. what we made together.” and more information on the company piece on the floor, you gotta assume that “Once we start having more classes,” is available by calling (309)236-9223 or everything’s hot. he says, “hopefully we’re gonna be able to “And then we demonstrate,” Joel visiting HotGlassArt.org. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 17 PHOTOGRAPHY Featured Image from the Quad Cities Photography Club

(Editor’s note: The River Cities’ Reader be more common in February than in De- Stan Bousson at the club’s annual seminar members discuss the images, help each other each month will feature an image or images cember. He felt lucky to get this pair flying in January. He did basic processing in to improve, and socialize. The club also from the Quad Cities Photography Club.) toward the camera side-by-side with both Lightroom and then used Photoshop to holds special learning workshops and small heads visible while the light happened to blur some distracting details on the far groups that meet on specific photography cott Nagel’s image of two eagles was be good. He said he’s amazed eagles can fly shore. topics, and occasionally offers interesting awarded the Image of the Year at like this without hitting wings. shooting opportunities. The club meets at Sthe recent annual awards banquet of Scott used a Canon 1D Mark 4 with The Quad Cities Photography Club 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of the month the Quad Cities Photography Club. Scott a Canon 500-millimeter f/4 lens on a welcomes visitors and new members. September through June at the Butterworth shot his image at Lock & Dam 14 on a late tripod with a gimbal mount. He shot it at The club sponsors numerous activities Center, 1105 Eighth Street in Moline. afternoon in early February. He said he 1/1600 of a second at f/11 and ISO 400. encompassing many types and aspects of shot a sequence of 14 images of the same He used the suggestions for setting up his photography. It holds digital and print For more information on the club, visit “fish fight,” and that these fights seem to camera that were given at a program by competitions most months. At its meetings, QCPhotoClub.com. GUEST COMMENTARY Continued From Page 3 by John W. Whitehead [email protected] What I Don’t Like About Life in America forfeiture laws, speed traps, or red-light cameras – cheap labor for corporate America. like Americans being assumed guilty until they So I’m not giving up, at least not anytime is making a profit at the expense of those they have I don’t like feeling as if we’ve come full circle prove their innocence. I don’t like the fact that soon. But I’m also not waiting around for the sworn to protect. I don’t like militarized police and back to a pre-Revolutionary era. 38 states require that a property owner prove his government to clean up its act. I plan to keep their onerous SWAT-team raids. I don’t like answering to an imperial president, innocence when police have laid claim to it in a fighting, writing, speaking up, speaking out, I don’t like Department of Defense and DHS who operates above the law. I don’t like the civil-forfeiture proceeding, whether or not that shouting if necessary, filing lawsuits, challenging the status quo, writing letters to the editor, programs that transfer surplus military hardware injustice that passes for justice in the courts. I individual has done anything wrong. holding my representatives accountable, thinking to local and state police. I don’t like government don’t like prosecutors so hell-bent on winning I don’t like technology being used as a double- edged sword against us. I don’t like agencies nationally but acting locally, and generally raising programs that reward cops for raiding homes and that they allow innocent people to suffer for such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects a ruckus anytime the government attempts to terrorizing homeowners. I don’t like local police crimes they didn’t commit. Agency developing weapons for the battlefield undermine the Constitution and ride roughshod dressing and acting as if they were the military I don’t like the double standards that allow that get used against Americans back home. I over the rights of the citizenry. while viewing me as an enemy combatant. government officials to break laws with don’t like the fact that drones will be deployed immunity, while average Americans get the book I don’t like being treated as if I have no rights. domestically in 2015, yet the government has yet Constitutional attorney and author John W. I don’t like cash-strapped states cutting deals thrown at them. I don’t like cops who shoot first to establish any civil-liberties protocols to prevent Whitehead is founder and president of the with private corporations to run the prisons in and ask questions later. I don’t like police dogs them from being used against the citizenry. Rutherford Institute (Rutherford.org) and editor of exchange for maintaining 90-percent occupancy being treated with more respect and afforded Most of all, I don’t like feeling as if there’s no GadflyOnline.com. His latest book, A Government rates for at least 20 years. I don’t like the fact that more rights than American citizens. hope for turning things around. of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, American prisons have become the source of I don’t like living in a suspect society. I don’t is available online at Amazon.com. 18 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com ART Continued From Page 5 by Sherry C. Maurer the [email protected] Advice Short on Legends, Loaded with Innovation as an aid in early image-making.” Behind How did Amy Clarke Moore have the GoddessBY AMY ALKON the tiers of heads, the design on a quilted patience to handle the thousands (?) of Ask boyfriend you’re feeling sensitive about Tales from the Cryptic backdrop swirls in cursive freedom. The Japanese seed beads stitched to create her your birthday, your future, or whatever artist seems to convey that it takes time and images? It is hard to believe the machine- My boyfriend of two years got an early else, and you’ll at least find out where you birthday present from his sister and her effort to notice these features; careful seeing embroidered scenes by Carol Shinn are not stand. Assuming you get the reassurance you is needed for much in life. He also may be paintings. The 96-by-96-inch Dome (2010), husband: a really expensive, second-row need, maybe you can do the loving thing warning that rote learning results when by Piper Shepard, presents a monumental ticket for a major sporting event next and put your partner’s interests up there creativity is “shot.” gray, filigreed circle with a small center year. The trouble is that it falls on my in importance with your own, perhaps by circle pierced with regular dots. The lacy 30th birthday (a Saturday). He knows I celebrating your birthday the weekend before There is much innovation to surface allows light to travel through and usually don’t care about my birthday, and the actual day. You might also try to get in the contemplate, beginning on the third floor bounce against the back wall, turning the I confess that I also judge people who care habit of using spoken-word communication where the viewer is greeted with a flowing about theirs. Still, I can’t help but feel – fun as it can be to surprise a man with a silk organza robe, This Land (2010), by centermost circle into a lens that focuses that my 30th is a bit of a milestone, and game of naked charades, a.k.a. “Guess what Sara Rockinger. A combination of photo a shadow below. From afar, the work has I wanted to spend my birthday weekend I’m thinking when I weep inconsolably silkscreen, freestyle machine embroidery, some weight, like a millstone. Up close, it is together somewhere with my boyfriend. I during sex!” line-drawing, and hand-stitching creates clarified that this cloth was cut by hand to understand that he doesn’t want to seem the delicate imagery on the tan, wide flare produce all of the delicate openings; it must ungrateful for his sister’s gift, and he’s of the garment – an echo of the decorated take Zen persistence to bring about such courteously told me about this conflict Clairol and Present tipi skins of the Plains Indians. The imagery a result. For sheer labor intensity, I’d guess well in advance. Do I need to just get over moves in historical overview, beginning this exhibition would win a record. myself? Or should I raise my concerns? Danger with ancient pictographs. Fluid dyed sky In addition to the traveling exhibit, the – Neglected After reading a magazine article about movie stars with “pixie cuts,” blues soak down the neck into the sleeves Figge invited participation by some area fiber artists for Local Threads, blending As a child, I was not one to turn down my girlfriend got her hair cut really where images of modern ships float. All is those into the fourth-floor display. birthday loot, but around age eight, I short, and I absolutely hate it. She’s very balanced with restraint similar to a Japanese The contributions from Astrid Hilger developed a sort of jadedness about birthdays pretty, and short hair doesn’t change ink-painting. The different techniques that continues to this day. The way I see it, if that, but I love how she looks with long unobtrusively work together for a beautiful Bennett, Carol Coohey, Tricia Coulson, you are over 12 and not a cancer patient, do hair. Is it controlling to ask her to grow effect. Mary Merkel-Hess, Amber O’Harrow, we really need to throw you a party and give it back? Several entries probe social issues, Rowen Schussheim-Anderson, and Dawn you prizes for surviving another year? – Worried including the spooky feral Chernobyl cats Wohlford could have been an entire It seems you communicated some similar by Sarah Wagner and Globalization III: Red separate exhibition, but it is nice to see thinking to your boyfriend. Bizarrely, he The good thing about bad haircuts is Ink (2005) by Gyöngy Laky. Globalization them hold their own alongside a nationally believed you. Yet apparently out of love and that they are fixable with time. (You can’t III comprises three 32-inch-high capital touring presentation. Schussheim- consideration (and perhaps the suspicion tell your girlfriend, “Hey, I’m not a big fan letters spelling “WAR.” The word is made Anderson’s works, also displayed in the men have that all women are at least a little of your personality. Can you grow it out up of collaged tree cuttings, banded across Figge gift shop, reflect the trend of fiber a little?”) nuts), he let you know a year in advance that the center with a horizontal red line artists drawing inspiration from global When you first saw her new ’do, you hockey or auto racing or whatever’s special of jostling painted commercial blocks. textile traditions. In her tapestry Thursday day coincides with your usually-not-so- probably squeezed out something positive Market (2012), she merges sensations of the like “Looks great!” – while thinking, Hundreds of screws attach the components special day. What more was he supposed to to a backing board, at a distance looking visual richness of a marketplace in Ghana, do – well, other than travel back in time and “Did your stylist go blind in the middle like bullets that have pierced the wood. Africa. In contrast to the dusty earth tone, ask your mom, “Hey, can you hold the baby of cutting your hair or pretty much right there is a wealth of vibrant shapes and when she started?” It’s good to be kind, Laky works with salvaged tree trimmings in one more week? There’ll be a scheduling patterns, from stacked baskets to richly but because staying happy with somebody as an environmental statement. She uses conflict in 30 years”? designed woven and dyed garments, all takes staying attracted to them, it’s best the visual power of concrete poetry; here Wait ... were you expecting him to turn suffused in golden sunshine. for your relationship to be kind in a the stark layout intensifies the presence of down the ticket? If so, what’s that really Wohlford’s She Was Happiest When about? Maybe a recent public-service verging-on-honest way. Wait a few weeks the word. The letters suggest a deforested Surrounded by Art (2014) has a great title, announcement from your ovaries? “Hi, we’re and say, “You know, you’d be beautiful landscape divided by a blood-soaked and the artwork lives up to it. The “dress” is also turning 30, as in, it won’t be long before even if you shaved your head, but I love trench. The bisection implies an impasse, composed of hundreds of slides of artworks, we retire, move to the countryside, and take your hair long. Would you grow your with no winners. The result is a succinct, up scrapbooking.” You may also be looking hair out for me?” (You aren’t asking her direct, and disturbing gestalt. wired together to form a chic summer for what evolutionary psychologists call a to bolt on a new set of boobs; you’re just At the fourth-floor entry are the hand- sheath. These slides – obsolete tools of the “costly signal” – some show of commitment requesting more of what’s already on her knit hero suits of Mark Newport. These art profession – have been recycled for a requiring such a big outlay of money, effort, head.) garments consider expectations for men new purpose. The clever dress is completed or forgone opportunity that it’s likely to be And yes, you do have to tell her what as well as the childhood fascination with with a matching necklace of a slide with a sincere. (In the absence of a proposal and a you need, because if you don’t, there’s a superheroes. The suits are reminiscent of purple mount. good chance you’ll get resentful and act diamond, maybe it seems the least he could awkward sweater fashions for boys and This exhibition might be light on legends, like a jerk about things that aren’t really do is light that ticket on fire.) include big gloves that have the parental- but it offers an amazing variety of works If you do want more from the relationship, the thing. It might even lead to a breakup. covering two galleries and well worth a visit. The bottom line: You’re all for her having requisite “room to grow.” The ensemble you may be able to get it, but expecting a of Sweaterman 7 (2011), in canary yellow So ... what if Nick Cave’s soundsuit took man to read your thoughts is like expecting movie-star hair – as long as the movie Dawn Wohlford’s dress out on a date ... ? striped with black and navy, is subtly your dog to understand algebra. Tell your star it’s modeled on isn’t Chuck Norris. accented with mismatched socks. We could Sherry C. Maurer holds an MFA in painting, imagine that, if a boy wore the outfit, he Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon. an MA in art history, and a BFA with a might feel he could accomplish more – but 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 printmaking concentration. She was the he would have to mature into the role. director of the Augustana College Art or e-mail [email protected] (AdviceGoddess.com) Among many worthy exhibition Museum from 1983 to 2013. ©2014, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. inclusions are those that prompt wonder. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 19

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A report was growing up. His future destiny was hidden electrifying guitarists who ever lived. Does that in the prestigious British medical from him. The wizard Merlin trained him but prospect have any appeal to you, Sagittarius? journal BMJ says that almost 1 percent made sure he never found out he was special. I don’t, of course, recommend that you keep of young pregnant women in the U.S. claim to be When the old King Uther Pendragon died, a running for the rest of your long life. After a virgins. They testify that they have conceived a tournament was staged to find a replacement. while, it will be wise to rest and ruminate. But fetus without the benefit of sex. That’s impossible, The winner would be whoever was able to I do think it might be illuminating to try this right? Technically, yes. But if there could ever withdraw the enchanted sword that was brazen approach for a week or two. If it feels be a loophole in natural law, it would happen embedded in a large stone. Quite by accident, right, you might also want to mix in some for you, Aries, sometime in the coming weeks. our hero got a chance to make an attempt. dancing and skipping and leaping with your You will be so exceptionally fertile, so prone to Success! I have reminded you of the broad running. hatching new life, that almost anything could outlines of this tale, Leo, because at least one of incite germination. A vivid dream or captivating its elements resembles your destiny in the next CAPRICORN (December idea or thrilling adventure or exotic encounter 11 months. 22-January 19): In the next 11 might be enough to do the trick. months, Capricorn, you will be given VIRGO (August 23-September 22): some choice riddles about the art of togetherness. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you When a crocodile slams its jaws shut, To solve them, you will have to learn much more weave your way through the next the energy it summons is powerful. about the arts of intimacy – or else! It’s up to you: chapter of your story, I suggest you take But when the beast opens its jaws, the force it Either work your ass off as you strengthen your inspiration from the turtle. You may even want exerts is weak. That’s because the muscles used important relationships, or else risk watching to imagine that the turtle is your animal ally, to close are much more robust than the muscles them unravel. But don’t take this as a grim, a guide that helps you access the gradual and used to open. I’m wondering if an analogous sobering assignment. On the contrary! Play deliberate kind of intelligence you will need. story might be told about you these days, Virgo. hard. Experiment freely. Be open to unexpected Moving quickly will not be appropriate for the Are you more prone to close down than to open inspiration. Have fun deepening your emotional leisurely lessons that are coming your way. The up? Is it easier for you to resist, avoid, and say no intelligence. That approach will work best. point is to be deep and thorough about a few than it is to be receptive, extend a welcome, and things rather than half-knowledgeable about a say yes? If so, please consider cultivating a better AQUARIUS (January 20-February lot of things. There’s one other turtle-like quality balance. You need both capacities running at full 18): Hypothesis: The exciting I hope you will cultivate, too: the ability to feel at strength in the coming days. qualities that attract you to someone in the home wherever you are. first place will probably drive you a bit crazy if LIBRA (September 23-October 22): you go on to develop a long-term relationship. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): America’s In the latter part of the 18th Century, That doesn’t mean you should avoid seeking biggest winery is E & J Gallo. It sells American rebels and rabble-rousers used to connections with intriguing people who more wine than any other company, gather regularly in the basement of the Green captivate your imagination. It does suggest you and has been named the planet’s “Most Powerful Dragon Tavern in Boston. There they plotted the should have no illusions about what you are Wine Brand” four different years. Ernest and Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride, and other getting yourself into. It also implies that you Julio Gallo launched the enterprise in 1933 after dissident adventures that opposed British rule. should cultivate a sense of humor about how studying the art of wine-making in pamphlets That’s why the Green Dragon became known the experiences that rouse your passion often they found in the basement of a public library in as the “Headquarters of the Revolution.” I think bring you the best tests and trials. And why am I Modesto, California. I foresee a less spectacular you and your cohorts need a place like that, discussing these eccentric truths with you right but metaphorically similar arc for you, Gemini. Libra. It’s high time for you to scheme and dream now? Because I suspect you will be living proof Sometime soon – maybe it has already happened about taking coordinated actions that will spur of them in the months to come. – information or inspiration you come across teamwork and foster liberation. in a modest setting will launch you on the path PISCES (February 19-March 20): to future success. There is one caveat: You must SCORPIO (October 23-November In 1961, Paul Cezanne’s painting take seriously the spark you encounter, and not 21): “When one has not had a good The Artist’s Sister was on display at a underestimate it because it appears in humble father, one must create one,” said museum in Aix-en-Provence, France. Then circumstances. philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. What does a lucky event occurred: It was stolen. When that mean? How might you go about “creating” it was finally recovered months later, it had CANCER (June 21-July 22): a good father? Well, you could develop a been ripped out of its frame. An art restorer Diamonds are not rare. They are so relationship with an admirable older man who is who was commissioned to repair it discovered numerous that if they were evenly an inspiring role model. You could read books by that there was a previously unknown Cezanne distributed, you and me and everyone else on men whose work stirs you to actualize your own painting on the back of the canvas. As a result, July 10 Crossword Answers the planet could each have a cupful of them. potentials. If you have a vigorous inner life, you the appraisal of the original piece rose $75,000. And if you are ever in your lifetime going to could build a fantasy dad in your imagination. Now both sides are on view at the St. Louis City get your personal cupful, it may happen in the Here’s another possibility: Cultivate in yourself Art Museum. I foresee a comparable progression next 11 months. That’s because your hard work the qualities you think a good father should have. in your life, Pisces. An apparent setback will and special talent are more likely than usual And even if you actually had a pretty decent ultimately increase your value. to be rewarded with tangible assets. Strokes of father, Scorpio, I’m sure he wasn’t perfect. So it luck will tend to manifest in the form of money still might be interesting to try out some of these Homework: Make up a secret identity for and treasure and valuable things you can really ideas. The coming weeks will be an excellent yourself. What is it? How do you use it? Testify at [email protected] and visit use. Be alert for the clues, Cancerian. One may time to get more of the fathering energy you FreeWillAstrology.com. appear momentarily. would thrive on. 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Mil. rank Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 21 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication Gary Allan -Riverside Casino and Golf Wylde Nept -The Mill, 120 E Burlington 2014/07/24 (Thu) - Night People (6pm) - Soul Storm 00 (8pm) - Dirt Road Rockers (10pm) Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Iowa City, IA THURSDAY 24 Hap Hazard -Milan American Legion, 515 ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W -Downtown Davenport, Davenport, IA W 1st Ave Milan, IL 2014/07/27 (Sun) Locust Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Jared Svoboda (4pm) -RME Community SUNDAY 27 Billy Peiffer & Collin Keemle Jam Night Davenport, IA Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA 2014 Iowa Solo/Duo Blues Challenge -On the Rock Grille & Bar, 4619 34th St ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Jim Ryan -Third St. Bar & Grill, 831 W. 3rd Preliminary Round: “Detroit” Larry Rock Island, IL 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA St. Davenport, IA Davison & Charlie Hayes - Dan C.J. the D.J. -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock ABC Karaoke -Moose Lodge - Davenport, Joe Tingle’s DJ Entertainment -Barrel Peart - SaJes - The Zach and Mike Island, IL 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA House Moline, 1321 5th Ave. Moline, IL Show (4pm) - Brent Johnson & the Double Dz Karaoke -Purgatory’s Pub, Battery: Master of Metallica -RIBCO, Karaoke Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 Call Up (6pm) -The Muddy Waters, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA Fablos Karaoke Night -RME Community Cody Road -Doc’s Inn Bar & Grill, 985 Avenue of the Cities Silvis, IL Kindred Karma -On the Rock Grille ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, 2108 Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA & Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL E 11th St Davenport, IA Furia - Bull Black Nova -The Mill, 120 E Conjunto Chappottín -CSPS/Legion Arts, New Duncan Imperials - 3 on the Tree ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Burlington Iowa City, IA 1103 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL Locust Davenport, IA Grant Wallace Band - Quince -CSPS/ Damn Good Summer 4 -Gabe’s, 330 E. Open Mic Night -Downtown Central Perk, Buddy Olson (3pm) -Ducky’s Lagoon, Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Cedar Washington St. Iowa City, IA Brent Johnson @ The Muddy Waters – July 27 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA 13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL Rapids, IA DollaMiiite Live Dance Mix -The Smok- Nick Sly Record-Release Party & Live DJ Zach Harris Band -The Muddy Waters, Pierced Productions Karaoke & DJ Chuck T. Murphy -Parkside Grill & Gray Wolf Band -Bass Street Landing ing Dog Pub, 1800 2nd Ave. Rock Show - Ryan Roberts - DJ Higgy -Ro- 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA featuring Leigh Timbrook -The Old Lounge, 2307 5th Ave Moline, IL Plaza, Moline, IL Island, IL zz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street Daniel & the Lion -River’s Edge Gallery, Karaoke Night -Applebee’s - Moline, Funktastic Five -On the Rock Grille Pierced Productions Karaoke & DJ 2014/07/2630 (Sat) Moline, IL 216 W 3rd St Muscatine, IA 3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL & Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL featuring Leigh Timbrook -The Old SATURDAY 26 Red Rock Hill -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Detroit Larry Davidson & Charlie Hayes Minus Six (6:30pm) -Bettendorf Public Jake Owen - Parmalee - The Cadillac Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street 2014 Street Fest: Dirty Water Boys House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa -On the Rock Grille & Bar, 4619 34th St Library, 2950 Learning Campus Bet- Tree -i wireless Center, 1201 River Moline, IL (10am) - River City 6 (11:30am) - Ma- City, IA Rock Island, IL tendorf, IA Dr Moline, IL Sin City -River House, 1510 River Dr. chine Gun Willie (1pm) - The Tailfins Saliva -Riverside Park, Muscatine, IA Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas - Lewis Open Mic Night -The Quarry, 2202 W. 3rd Jared Svoboda (6pm) -RME Community Moline, IL (3pm) - Cosmic (5pm) - Wheelhouse Sam Moss - Jackson Emmer -Rozz-Tox, Knudsen -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. St. Davenport, IA Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s (7:30pm) - Jason Carl & the Whole 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Rock Island, IL Open Stage Night -Theo’s Java Club, 213 Jazz After Five: Blake Shaw & Grace Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL Damn Band (10pm) -Downtown Smooth Groove -River House, 1510 River Jim Ryan (3pm) -Len Brown’s North 17th St. Rock Island, IL Leong (5pm) - OSG - Fire Sale (9pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA The Deutsche Polka Band -Bill Bowe Davenport, Davenport, IA Dr. Moline, IL Shore Inn, 700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL Sophistafunk - The Mainstays -The Keep Off the Grass (5pm) -The Captain’s Joe Seng -Joe’s Club, 1402 W. 7th St. Memorial Bandshell, Middle Park ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav- Table, 4801 River Dr. Moline, IL Davenport, IA Bettendorf, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL enport, IA Open Mic for Originals Only (noon) Jordan Danielsen (5pm) -Wide River The Funk Daddies (6:30pm) -Sheraton Cecali Castenada a.k.a. Silly C (2pm) Suzy Bogguss -CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 Soulshake - Mixology -Gabe’s, 330 E. -Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd Ave Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd. Iowa City Hotel, 210 S. Dubuque St. -Creekside Vineyards Winery & Inn, 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA Washington St. Iowa City, IA Rock Island, IL LeClaire, IA Iowa City, IA 7505 120th Ave. Coal Valley, IL The Main Squeeze - Surrounded by Gi- Stardust Talent Night -The Old Stardust Open Mic Night w/ Rob Dahms (5pm) Karaoke Night -Bowlmor Lanes, 2952 N. The Ukulele Connection (noon) -Moline Chris & Wes Show -The Muddy Waters, ants -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street Moline, IL -Rustic Ridge Golf Course Grille & Pub, Brady St. Davenport, IA Public Library, 3210 41st St. Moline, IL 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA St Iowa City, IA Viking Moses - Padraig Steadman -Ro- 1151 East Iowa St. Eldridge, IA Karaoke Night -Rooster’s Sports Bar & Ultraviolet Hippopotamus - Half Naked Cody Road -Me & Billy Kitchen & Bar, 200 The Ripplers (4pm) -Wide River Winery zz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Sunday Jazz Brunch (8:30 & 10:30am, Grill, 2130 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA - Clinton, 1776 East Deer Creek Rd. 12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Community Drum Circle (10:30am) Clinton, IA 2014/07/25 (Fri) Lost Country Dancers’ Dance -Walcott Davenport, IA 00 Vagabond Entertainment presents -RME (River Music Experience), 131 Wild Oatz -Riverside Casino and Golf FRIDAY 25 Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA Sunday Live Jazz (10:30am) -Brady Kooby’s Karaoke -Bier Stube LeClaire, W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA 2014 Street Fest: Morgan Williams & Moodie Black - AWTHNTKTS - Rusty Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza 1001 Canal Shore Dr. LeClaire, IA DollaMiiite Live Dance Mix -The Smok- Winterland -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington the Winter Blue Allstars (11am) - Buckets - Sotr Caf - DJ Johnny Sixx Hotel, 111 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Wild Oatz -Riverside Casino and Golf ing Dog Pub, 1800 2nd Ave. Rock St. Iowa City, IA Powell (1:45pm) - Whoozdads (4pm) -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Island, IL Continued On Page 22 22 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 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 Open Jam Session -Brady Street Pub, C.J. the D.J. -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock (3pm) - Peter & Will Anderson 217 Brady St. Davenport, IA Island, IL 2014/08/01 (Fri) 00 Twins Sextet (4pm) - Josh Duffee The Problems -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing- Open Mic Night (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz Cody Road -Wells Fargo Pavilion - Mis- FRIDAY 1 Orchestra (6pm) - Dave Bennett ton St. Iowa City, IA Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock sissippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. 3 on the Tree (6pm) - Dirt Road Rock- Quartet (7pm) - River City 6 (8pm) Island, IL Locust St. Davenport, IA - Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass 2014/07/28 (Mon) ers (7:45pm) -Clinton Riverview MONDAY Open Mic Nite w/ Alan Sweet -Van’s Cosmic -Bass Street Landing Plaza, Bandshell, Clinton, IA Band (9pm) - The Fat Babies (10pm) 28 Pizza, Pub, & Grill, 3333 Harrison St. Moline, IL -Davenport RiverCenter, 136 E. 3rd St ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust Davenport, IA Craig Morgan -Mississippi Valley Fair- Davenport, IA State St. Bettendorf, IA St. Davenport, IA Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace & Friends grounds, 2815 W. Locust St Dav- Bradford Lee Folk & the Bluegrass Freakabout - Surrounded by Giants ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St enport, IA Playboys -The Mill, 120 E Burlington - Milk Duct Tape - The Men from... 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Dogs in Ecstasy - (ORB) - Alex Body Iowa City, IA Beyond -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington ABC Karaoke -Moose Lodge - Daven- Residual Kid - Bummer - Ice Hockey -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa Brilliant Beast - The Post Mortems St. Iowa City, IA port, 2333 Rockingham Rd Dav- -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Is- City, IA -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Live Lunch w/ Lewis Knudsen (noon) enport, IA land, IL Double Dz Karaoke -Purgatory’s Pub, Caught in the Act (6pm) -Hey Bryan’s, -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd All Dogs Invited - Teen Daad - The 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA 1140 15th Ave. Moline, IL St. Davenport, IA Men from... Beyond -Gabe’s, 330 E. 2014/07/30 (Wed) Electric Rag Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, Cheap Trick -Mississippi Valley Fair- Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E 30 Washington St. Iowa City, IA WEDNESDAY Julie Byrne @ Rozz-Tox – July 31 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Bettendorf Park Band -Bill Bowe grounds, 2815 W. Locust St Dav- Burlington Iowa City, IA ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, Fablos Karaoke Night -RME Community Memorial Bandshell, Middle Park enport, IA 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA Wild Oatz -Wells Fargo Pavilion - Mis- Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Bettendorf, IA Cody Road -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W 2014/07/29 (Tue) ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust TUESDAY 29 sissippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Hal Reed & the Friends of the Blues Locust Davenport, IA St. Davenport, IA Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Locust St. Davenport, IA (6:30pm) -Bettendorf Public Library, tival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (noon) Dennis Florine -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve Mc- 2950 Learning Campus Bettendorf, IA St. Davenport, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Fate -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave - Jim Cullum Jazz Band (1pm) - Julie Byrne - Adam Lempel - Suna- Future of Rock Showcase: 1380 - ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Moline, IL 2014/07/31 (Thu) River City 6 (2pm) - Jim Valentine THURSDAY 31 tirene - Patrick Stolley - Aiden Shadow Stone - Escape Your Prism State St. Bettendorf, IA Bebop Jazz Night -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Quartet (3pm) - The Fat Babies Landman -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Ave. Rock Island, IL ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W (4pm) - Banu Gibson’s New Orleans Rock Island, IL Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash w/ El Dub Locust Davenport, IA Bike Night w/ The Marvels (6pm) Locust Davenport, IA Hot Jazz (6pm) - Jim Cullum Jazz Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) -RME -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bet- An Evening with Gaelic Storm -The Karaoke Night -Applebee’s - Moline, Band (7pm) - Josh Duffee & His & the Dirty Water Ramblers - Derek (River Music Experience), 131 W. 2nd tendorf, IA Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav- 3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL Graystone Monarchs (8pm) - Jim Perez -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St. Davenport, IA Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau -Iowa City enport, IA Lewis Knudsen Live Lunch (11am) Valentine Quintet w/ Dave Ben- St Iowa City, IA Adam Faucett - Eric Pettit Lion -The Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Billy Peiffer & Collin Keemle Jam Night -Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd Ave nett (9pm) - Peter & Will Anderson Jerry Garcia’s Birthday Celebration Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. -On the Rock Grille & Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Twins Sextet (10pm) -Adler Theatre, featuring Old Shoe - Sun Stereo Daniel Bonespur -Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash- Rock Island, IL Rock Island, IL North of 40 -Farmers Tent - Mississippi 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St ington St. Iowa City, IA Lady Antebellum -Mississippi Valley Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Davenport, IA Eli Young Band -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St tival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (6pm) - Davenport, IA tival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (6pm) Jessica Egli - Surf Zombies (6:30pm) Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St Dav- Davenport, IA River City 6 (7pm) - Dan Levinson’s Open Mic Night -The Quarry, 2202 W. - Basin Street Boys (7pm) - Tony -Sheraton Iowa City Hotel, 210 S. enport, IA Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty & Mike Roof Garden Jass Band (8pm) - Josh 3rd St. Davenport, IA Hamilton Orchestra (8pm) - Rock Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA Glenn Hickson (5pm) -Jake O’s Grille, Miller -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 Duffee Orchestra (9pm) - Jim Open Stage Night -Theo’s Java Club, 213 River Jazz Band (9pm) -LeClaire Joe Seng -Joe’s Club, 1402 W. 7th St. 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Cullum Jazz Band (10pm) -Dav- 17th St. Rock Island, IL Park, River Dr & Ripley St Daven- Davenport, IA Hap Hazard -Farmers Tent - Mississippi Rising Lion -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington enport RiverCenter, 136 E. 3rd St Soulshake - Mixology -Gabe’s, 330 E. port, IA Karaoke Night -Bowlmor Lanes, 2952 N. Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St St. Iowa City, IA Davenport, IA Washington St. Iowa City, IA Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Brady St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA The Chris & Wes Show -Ubriaco’s Trat- Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Stardust Talent Night -The Old Star- tival: Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Karaoke Night -Rooster’s Sports Bar & Live Lunch w/ David Smith (noon) toria, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA tival: Jim Cullum Jazz Band (4pm) dust Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street Jass Band (noon) - Banu Gibson’s Grill, 2130 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd The Harris Collection Open Jam Ses- -Putnam Museum, 1717 W 12th St Moline, IL New Orleans Hot Jazz (1pm) - Josh Live @ Five: The Mercury Brothers St. Davenport, IA sion -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St. Davenport, IA Duffee & His Graystone Monarchs (5pm) -RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd Davenport, IA (2pm) - Dave Bennett Quartet St. Davenport, IA Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 23 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication Mollie B w/ the Squeezebox Band Band (1pm) - Peter & Will Anderson Mitch Goudy & Diana Upton-Hill Open Jam Session -Brady Street Pub, -Walcott Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Twins Sextet (2pm) - Jim Valentine (2pm) -Creekside Vineyards Winery 217 Brady St. Davenport, IA Walcott, IA Quintet (3pm) - Jim Cullum Jazz & Inn, 7505 120th Ave. Coal Valley, IL Open Mic Night (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz Night People -On the Rock Grille & Band (4pm) - River City 6 (6pm) - Open Mic for Originals Only (noon) Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass -Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd Ave Island, IL Olivia Dvorak (5pm) -Wide River Winery Band (7pm) - The Fat Babies (8pm) - Rock Island, IL Open Mic Nite w/ Alan Sweet -Van’s - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd. LeClaire, IA Dave Bennett Quartet (9pm) - Josh Open Mic Night w/ Rob Dahms (5pm) Pizza, Pub, & Grill, 3333 Harrison St. Pierced Productions Karaoke & DJ Duffee & His Graystone Monarchs -Rustic Ridge Golf Course Grille & Davenport, IA featuring Leigh Timbrook -The (10pm) -Davenport RiverCenter, 136 Pub, 1151 East Iowa St. Eldridge, IA Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace & Friends Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th E. 3rd St Davenport, IA Sunday Jazz Brunch (8:30 & 10:30am, -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Street Moline, IL Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festi- 12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Shania Twin & Adam Tucker -Riverside val: Five Bridges Jazz Band (6pm) Davenport, IA Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 High- - Four Other Brothers (7pm) - Jim Sunday Live Jazz (10:30am) -Brady 2014/08/06 (Wed) way 22 Riverside, IA Buennig & Friends (8pm) - River Street Chop House, Radisson QC Pla- WEDNESDAY 6 Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s City 6 (9pm) -LeClaire Park, River Dr za Hotel, 111 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, 2108 Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL & Ripley St Davenport, IA E 11th St Davenport, IA Vagabond Entertainment presents Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Ultraviolet Hippopotamus @ The Redstone Room – 2014/08/04 (Mon) ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Kooby’s Karaoke -Bier Stube tival: Peter & Will Anderson Twins MONDAY 4 Davenport, IA Open Mic Night -Downtown Central LeClaire, 1001 Canal Shore Dr. Sextet (10am) -Oakdale Memo- ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve Mc- Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA LeClaire, IA rial Cemetery, 2501 Eastern Avenue Locust Davenport, IA State St. Bettendorf, IA Fate -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave Pierced Productions Karaoke & DJ featur- Davenport, IA BareFoot Becky (4pm) -Riverside Ca- Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- Moline, IL ing Leigh Timbrook -The Old Stardust 30 Caught in the Act -11th Street Precinct, sino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway tival: Jim Cullum Jazz Band (6pm) Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau -Iowa City 2014/08/02 (Sat) Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street Moline, IL SATURDAY 2 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA 22 Riverside, IA -Jim’s Knoxville Tap, 8716 Knoxville Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Cody Road -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W River Prairie Minstrels (6pm) -RME Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Rd. Milan, IL Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA tival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (10am) Kristin Ford (7:30pm) - Open Mic Night Rock Island, IL Cosmic -River House, 1510 River Dr. Davenport, IA - Banu Gibson’s New Orleans Hot Alan Jackson -Mississippi Valley Fair- RME Guitar Circle (2pm) -RME (River (9pm) -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty & Mike grounds, 2815 W. Locust St Dav- Moline, IL Jazz (11am) - Jim Cullum Jazz 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA Miller -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 W. Dave Moore -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Music Experience), 131 W. 2nd St. Band (noon) - The Fat Babies (1pm) enport, IA Davenport, IA Trapdoor Social -Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash- 3rd St. Davenport, IA Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festi- House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa -Davenport RiverCenter, 136 E. 3rd St ington St. Iowa City, IA Orquesta Son del Tumbao -Wiman City, IA Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s Davenport, IA val: Josh Duffee Orchestra (noon) Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL Park, south of Forest Rd at the end Dennis Florine -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- - Dave Bennett Quartet (1pm) - The The Killigans -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 2014/08/05 (Tue) of 6th St East Moline, IL St. Davenport, IA tival: Dave Bennett Quartet (8:30 Fat Babies (2pm) - Banu Gibson’s S Linn St Iowa City, IA TUESDAY 5 Shania Twin & Adam Tucker (4pm) New Orleans Hot Jazz (3pm) - Josh Hold On Band -Riverside Casino and & 10:30am) -First Presbyterian ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv- Tripmaster Monkey -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Duffee & His Graystone Monarchs Church of Davenport, 1702 Iowa St. 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA erside, IA Ave. Rock Island, IL (4pm) - Bix Youth Jazz Band (6pm) Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Stereocircus - Mystery Crash - Cody Joe Tingle’s DJ Entertainment -Bar- World Famous Polka Chips (noon & - Jim Valentine Quintet w/ Dave 2:30pm) - Barefoot Becky & the Ivan- Buddy Olson (3pm) -Ducky’s Lagoon, State St. Bettendorf, IA Tracy -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock rel House Moline, 1321 5th Ave. Bennett (7pm) - Peter & Will An- hoe Dutchmen (1:30, 4, & 7:30pm) 13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Island, IL Moline, IL derson Twins Sextet (8pm) - Banu - Karl & the Country Dutchmen (5:30 Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo (2pm) -Len Locust Davenport, IA The Chris & Wes Show -Ubriaco’s Trat- Karaoke Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 Gibson’s New Orleans Hot Jazz & 8:30pm) -Walcott Coliseum, 116 E Brown’s North Shore Inn, 700 N. Arkham - Motives - The Easy Mark - toria, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA (9pm) - Jim Cullum Jazz Band Bryant St Walcott, IA Shore Dr. Moline, IL Leviathans - Faces Turned Ashen The Harris Collection Open Jam Ses- Lojo Russo (4pm) -Wide River Winery (10pm) -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd Jerrod Niemann -Mississippi Valley (5:30pm) -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington sion -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St. - Clinton, 1776 East Deer Creek Rd. St. Davenport, IA 2014/08/03 (Sun) Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St Dav- St. Iowa City, IA Davenport, IA Clinton, IA Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Fes- SUNDAY 3 enport, IA Glenn Hickson (5pm) -Jake O’s Grille, Victory Heights (6pm) -Gabe’s, 330 E. Moonshine Run -On the Rock Grille tival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (noon) ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct, 2108 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL Washington St. Iowa City, IA - Den Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass & Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL E 11th St Davenport, IA 24 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 21 No. 861 • July 24 - August 6, 2014 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com