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Vol. 20 · No. 826 March 21 - April 3, 2013 MUSIC by Jeff Ignatius [email protected] River Cities’ Reader 532 W. 3rd St. A Judiciously Expansive Palette Davenport IA 52801 The Kopecky Family Band, March 26 at the Redstone Room RiverCitiesReader.com (563)324-0049 (phone) he second track The Kopecky (563)323-3101 (fax) on the debut Family Band released [email protected] Talbum by the a pair of EPs in 2010, Kopecky Family Band toured heavily in Publishing since 1993 is the mid-tempo num- 2011, and began work The River Cities’ Reader is an independent ber “Heartbeat,” pleas- on its debut album newspaper published every other Thursday, and ant but unremarkable last year. Simon has available free throughout the Quad Cities and until the two-tiered compared EPs to surrounding areas. bridge, which ulti- scrimmages, and he mately explodes with said the band wasn’t © 2013 River Cities’ Reader what sounds like a quite ready for game theremin. action until then. AD DEADLINE: It’s actually co- “I think with EPs 5 p.m. Wednesday prior to publication founder Gabe Simon you can make broad whistling, multitracked jumps,” he said. PUBLISHER and treated with “Songs one through Todd McGreevy reverb, and those 15 five on an EP can just seconds demonstrate be totally different, EDITOR a maximalist tendency because you don’t Kathleen McCarthy – understandable for a have the space on six-person band with there to have those EDITORIAL members who play something great, ... memorable?’ That’s in-between songs – Managing Editor: Jeff Ignatius • [email protected] several instruments. The album starts what I think is cool about the record: It the songs that really allow for transitions Arts Editor, Calendar Editor: Mike Schulz • mike@rcreader. has both of those things. That’s what six com with horns and cello, for instance, before to be seen, the songs that allow you to the guitar rock kicks in, and the record people allows to happen.” continue telling a story. ... Contributing Writers: Amy Alkon, Rob Brezsny, Rich employs an expansive sonic palette. The band will perform on March 26 “We finally had a record where we Miller, Frederick Morden, Bruce Walters, Thom White But the key thing about that whistling at the Redstone Room, and Simon said thought we had the songs that were in is that it’s right, the perfect touch at the the group has had a family vibe since its between each track as well, so everything ADVERTISING founding six years ago. (Despite a name Account Executives: perfect moment. Beyond the typical transitioned the way we wanted it to.” Roseanne Terrill • [email protected] mix of loud and quiet songs, the suggesting an ensemble of bluegrass- One aim for the record, he said, was Advertising Coordinator: Nathan Klaus Kopecky Family Band on the vibrantly playing siblings, the members of the to make an album as expressive as the dynamic Kids Raising Kids (out April Kopecky Family Band aren’t related, and ensemble’s live show – which he admitted there’s little rootsy about the indie rock. Advertising rates, publishing schedule, demographics, 2 on ATO Records) has a judiciously was an unreachable if noble goal. “The and more are available at sharp sense of how much or little songs That doesn’t stop booking agents from thing you can do live that you can’t do on QCAdvertising.com require; adventurousness is tempered by pairing them with opening acts wielding record is show emotion,” he said. “People discipline. banjos.) can see your face. ... You see the actual DESIGN/PRODUCTION “Change” is acoustic guitar, So there’s a communal aspect to the drums being hit and the guitars being Art Director, Production Manager: Shawn Eldridge • some ethereal atmospherics, and band, one that allows it to arrange songs pounded and all that kind of stuff. You [email protected] vocals – anchored by the inherently without worrying about bruised egos. “It’s can’t do that on the record. You can only Graphic Artist: Nathan Klaus • [email protected] trust,” Simon said. “A big part of it is us Design/Production Interns: Kyle Arends, Cameo Losasso poignant singing of Kelsey Kopecky. hear it. So we wanted to make a record Straightforward opener “Wandering all realizing that we don’t all have to be that was emotionally as big as our live Eyes” has a swagger bordering on playing at the same exact time in order performance ... .” ADMINISTRATION stalker menace. “Are You Listening?” to shine, or have moments. ... It’s not six Business Manager: Kathleen McCarthy individuals on stage; it’s one complete Office Administrator, Classifieds Manager, Circulation finds Simon whistling again, but in a The Kopecky Family Band will perform Manager: Rick Martin • [email protected] conventionally tuneful way. s ou n d .” on Tuesday, March 26, at the Redstone Distribution: William Cook, Steve Cowan Cheri DeLay, “That’s the dynamic of the record: That closeness is reflected in the Room (129 Main Street, Davenport, Greg FitzPatrick, Daniel Levsen, to get that simple or to get as a big as a album’s title. “As we’ve been on the road, RiverMusicExperience.org). The show Jay Strickland, Doug Wilming song like ‘Hope’ – multiple layers, tons of it’s pretty much been us raising one starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $10. strings, tons of keyboards ... ,” Simon said. another,” Simon said. “We kind of fill in Evan P. Donohue opens. “There have to be those moments when a lot of each other’s blanks in regards to you say, ‘Does it need everything? ... Can what we’re supposed to be doing with our For more information on the Kopecky this song survive just by itself? Or does lives. ... It’s a story that we’ve made with Family Band, visit KopeckyFamilyBand. the song need these layers to build it into each other.” com. 6 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com COVER STORY Pivot and Progress The Putnam Museum Looks to Remake Itself with a STEM Learning Center his past weekend, in Chicago, they spent 18 months preparing we brought our for it.” Tdaughter to She said the initial appeal of the da Vinci Davenport’s Putnam exhibit was as a “blockbuster” show: Museum and did “One of the the full tour. We saw things we Flight of the Butterflies needed to do 3D on the Giant Screen, was put the walked through the new Putnam back Bodies Revealed show, and saw all on the map. the cultural-, regional-, and natural- And this da history displays that visitors have Vinci exhibit known for decades, from the seemed a mummies to the Asian wonderful artifacts to Bix’s cornet. way to do that, But what kept to get people Emily’s attention was interested in coming the Spark Learning Lab, a back over to the museum and modest career-themed room seeing what it has to offer.” with the goal of preventing But it also opened the door high-school drop-outs. to some lasting collaborations Our daughter is five and in no and programming. For that danger yet of dropping out of any exhibit, the Putnam worked school – or pursuing any career beyond with the Quad City Engineering princess-ing. And the Spark Learning Lab is & Science Council on a catapult geared toward fifth- and sixth-graders. But compressed- competition for high-school students, a she loved the lab’s drawing program with the air tennis- parachute workshop for younger children, dual touch screens (one on the computer and outcomes and a bridge-building competition for the ball launcher, The Putnam's planned STEM learning center one where the picture was being projected), and a bicycle wheel and economic public – the latter of which has become an the construction-plank set (which she’s and rotating platform development. annual event. playing with on this issue’s cover), and the demonstrating angular “STEM careers are growing “There were some successful programs feature that allows visitors to build tube momentum. at four times the rate of other types of that outlived that exhibition,” said Nichole structures and – with the help of a blower – Implicitly and explicitly, all of these draw careers,” Findlay said, “and the more we’re Myles, the Putnam’s vice president of either launch table-tennis balls or keep them a line from playful exploration to science to able to play a role in helping kids to see education. aloft. careers, and that’s what the STEM center will the fascinating side of science and math, The Putnam began hosting an One station in the room lets visitors do on a much grander level. It’s an attempt and want to learn about it, I think that’s a engineering camp for kids in 2009, and that connect batteries to simple electrical to transform the nearly-century-and-a-half- tremendous role that the museum can play. year it also hosted its first Lego robotics devices, and another shows how structures old Putnam from “nice to necessary,” to use The science-center aspect of the Putnam.” competition. they build with Lincoln Logs or those a phrase that’s common in the museum field She noted that the Putnam was founded Myles was hired in 2010, and she said aforementioned planks might fare in an these days. as the Davenport Academy of Science: that “when I came into the picture, the earthquake. The “concentration station” Findlay also said the center demonstrates “What we’re talking about is coming back conversation was: ‘Do you think we can do fosters communications skills, as one how the Putnam is able to “pivot and to the roots of the museum. We don’t have a this bigger? Do you think we can do this person describes a block structure and a progress. Pivot, progress. Pivot, progress. science center per se in this region.” more?’ ... partner tries to build its twin using verbal ... If you’re not changing, you’re going The Spark Learning Lab – first opened in “Everything we built like that, instructions alone. backward. You have to be relevant. I think early 2011 – is just one starting point for the particularly in the areas of STEM, grew and If you want to see where the Putnam that what we’re doing and how we’re using STEM learning center. grew and grew. It would sell out; we’d still is headed, you can look at the conceptual the resources of the Putnam is just making Findlay said the genesis can be traced have a waiting list.” drawings – posted in several locations – of this place continuously relevant. It’s done back to the traveling exhibit Leonardo da 2011 saw the opening of the Spark its planned STEM learning center. The that for 145 years. It’s not easy to do when Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius, which the Learning Lab – then focused on allied $1.5-million project is currently in the you don’t have an abundance of resources. Putnam hosted starting in late 2007. health careers – and the debut of the now- fundraising phase, and the museum expects But ‘resources’ means things in addition to “I was so new to the museum world ... annual “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” to open it in June 2014. Putnam President money.” that when I received an e-mail saying that day. In 2012, the Putnam hosted a Tech and CEO Kim Findlay said adding the STEM this exhibit was available if we could make Challenge regional qualifier. And earlier this center to the Putnam now is “the right time it happen in two months, I didn’t know year, the Putnam was one of six sites chosen and the right thing for the community and Roots and STEM enough to push ‘delete,’” said Findlay, who to receive a video call from the International the museum.” STEM is an acronym for “science, started at the Putnam in May 2007 after Space Station. But you’ll get a hands-on sense of the nine years as president of the United Way technology, engineering, and math,” and it’s “A couple things became clear and Putnam’s direction in the Spark Learning been an educational buzzword for the past of the Quad Cities Area. “I pushed ‘reply’ obvious,” Myles said of the Putnam’s Lab. Larger-scale hints are available half-decade. STEM education is seen as a way because the price was outstanding. ... I later expanding hands-on and interactive in the interactive components of the to prepare children for lucrative jobs, a way learned that when the da Vinci exhibit was science programs. “We’re successful with current Destination: Space exhibit, with its to tie education more directly to long-term shown at the Museum of Science & Industry these things. People keep coming back for Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 7 by Jeff Ignatius [email protected]

them. They want more of them, and they kinetic sculpture in the Grand Lobby that grow. ... But it also became clear that they Findlay hopes visitors can manipulate. A wanted more than we could ever offer from dinosaur dig outdoors, next to a generating A New Community at the Family Museum a programming standpoint. Therefore this station – a playground apparatus whose t a recent visit to the Family decided to focus the renovation on them. concept of something that permanently movement is used to power some device. A Museum’s new Fox Hollow, there “Kids learn best through things that existed became a little more solidified in our water feature. Awas a robber at the grocery store, they see and interact with every day,” she minds.” One attraction is labeled “Pull Yourself grabbing (fake) money and announcing said. “So we knew we wanted to have, for The Spark Learning Lab – a partnership Up.” A visitor is poised to throw a paper his deed. This probably wasn’t what lead- lack of a better word, a mini Quad Cities. with Achieve Quad Cities – was a “beta airplane. You can see gears, not far from a ers of the Bettendorf museum wanted to We wanted to have bridges and the river test,” Myles said. What had been a room robot. happen with their renovated facility, but represented.” devoted to snakes and toads and turtles The master-planning phase included the dictating any aspect of open-ended play One goal, for example, was to show how became a place where children could play in Putnam, the Ohio-based museum-design is antithetical to the enterprise. locks and dams work. The Family Museum ways that demonstrated aspects of good- firm Roto, the Quad City Engineering & So Museum Director Margaret Kuhl water feature allows visitors to control the paying jobs that don’t necessarily require Science Council, and teachers. Joseph Wisne, laughed when told about the Fox Hollow flow of water: “A two-year-old may not four-year degrees. (Deere & Company the president of Roto, said the first task was crime wave. understand that [lock-and-dam system], executives helped transform the focus from coming up with a short list of thematic areas, “We don’t have any police officers on but they can certainly understand how to allied health to engineering in September, each with three to seven interactive elements. duty,” she conceded. “Maybe somebody put a thing up so that the water rises ... ,” Findlay said.) The next challenge was finding a way to from the fire department could have Kidwell said. “You can kind of do it on their “There are many, many STEM careers make that work in the Putnam building so helped. ... We have that neighborhood l e v e l .” where you can have a very successful career the STEM center was concentrated instead concept of everybody looking out for each With early-childhood educators and – a very successful entry-level career at least of sprinkled throughout the museum. The ot h e r.” advisory panels, she said, they established – with getting a certificate ... or getting an configuration they came up with required Neighborhood and community are other attractions. Farmers and grocery- associate’s” degree, Myles said. “the least amount of change to the building central to the new Fox Hollow, part of store representatives, for example, were She added that the Spark lab “changed and its current contents for the most amount a $1.3-million renovation of the Family brought in. Kidwell said they were asked, how we began to look at the museum – the of benefit as far as new experiences,” Wisne Museum. There’s a post office, and children “Tell us the top five things you want kids museum as an opportunity for discovery said. can deliver mail to the veterinarian’s office to know about what you do.” And then the that led to a career path. Not just an One striking aspect of the STEM-center or the shoe shop. Phones connect different museum “took those things, and we tried to inspiration about an idea, but an inspiration plan is that it’s largely contiguous and stations, and the pizza shop was busy incorporate them exhibit-style.” about a future for the student.” won’t come at the expense of the Putnam’s taking and fulfilling phone orders when Connections were also important, she Through the new programming and the longstanding exhibits. “It is not about being we were there. Agricultural areas supply added, and Fox Hollow is designed to Spark lab, she said, “the STEM center sort of an either/or for us,” Myles said. Adding the grocery store with its produce. And emphasize the path from farm to table: “We finds its way out. It comes to life that way.” STEM to the museum’s current offerings the grocery-store scanners work. (I advise really wanted kids to understand [how] Myles added that the Putnam is in an reinforces the idea that “history is connected against scanning the code on an Illinois food gets in the grocery store. ... It comes unusual position as a museum with a largely to science,” she said. “Culture is connected to driver’s license, however. I was curious, from someplace.” regional reach. Most science centers, she innovation.” okay? And staff fixed them quickly.) The first phase of renovation – rivers and said, are tourist attractions: “Two-thirds “You’re re-purposing space that’s “We have really seen this to be a perfect bridges – opened last fall, and Fox Hollow of the people coming through those doors underutilized now,” Findlay said. example of where the children can see how opened in mid-February. Museum Business are people who are not from that region. ... So the underused Storytelling Garden a community interacts, from the farm to & Community Relations Manager Jeff The Putnam is a different situation. We are becomes the dino dig and generating station. the store to the different shops ... ,” Kuhl Reiter wrote that visitors last month were serving our community. And therefore, the The water feature is planned for an empty said. “The children can get experiences up nearly 46 percent compared to February career connection is very viable to us ... . We outdoor space. The STEM center will take with working with money, nutrition, and 2012, and almost 75 percent from March 1 have a slightly different outcome in mind. up 7,500 square feet, Findlay said, and the some math and science concepts on a very through 16 compared to the same period We have a different visitor set.” only major current Putnam feature that will young level, from preschool to primary last year. Findlay added: “So there’s this be displaced is the crocheted coral reef. (The grades.” The community aspect gives Kuhl said a concept for the final phase opportunity to fill a need in the community museum’s total exhibit space is 35,000 square children “the opportunity to explore many – to replace the welcome theatre – will be while also filling a need for the museum, feet.) different roles. ... announced this spring or summer, and it which is to present this hands-on STEM “It became clear that we could do this “It’s very much an interactive learning will likely open in early fall. (Because the and have our families maybe get to know without having to undertake a massive environment and hands-on for children rest of the project came in under budget, the Putnam in a new way or get to know the capital campaign to build a huge building we and their families, and I think it really offers the museum has been re-evaluating its Putnam for the first time ... .” would then have to maintain,” Myles said. a great experience to engage families in that initial concept.) The STEM center represents “a faster way, a play-to-learn concept.” Project funding included $630,000 better way, a smarter way. I think it’s one of Kim Kidwell, the museum’s manager from the City of Bettendorf – which runs Faster, Better, Smarter the real strengths of the Putnam as a whole. ... of learning experiences and environment, the museum – and $195,000 from the Planning for the STEM center was mostly It’s not ‘Can we do this?’ ... It’s ‘How will we do said the planning process started in 2009. Iowa Community Attraction & Tourism done in mid-2012. On the conceptual this? What’s the smartest way?’” The Family Museum studied how long kids program. The Roy J. Carver Charitable drawing, one can see distinct areas for Findlay said there are two reasons the were playing in different areas, how much Trust added $100,000, and the Scott exploration: “Magnets,” “How Things Work,” Putnam is doing the STEM center quickly they were interacting with them, and how County Regional Authority and Riverboat “Aerospace,” “Innovation.” and with available space: “The need is very much they were interacting with the adults Development Authority contributed a And while the drawing at this point immediate. ... The other reason is because who brought them. It identified its primary combined $145,000. articulates possibilities that might be refined audience as children age eight and under and – Jeff Ignatius or changed, they’re tantalizing. There’s a Continued On Page 14 8 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com MUSIC Photos by Matt Erickson MRE-Photography.com Photos from the Ana Popović Concert March 15 at Rascals Live Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 9 MUSIC by Frederick Morden Volkswagen [email protected] OF QUAD CITIES Straddling a Stylistic Gulf Working too many hours without enough pay? IT’S TIME TO JOIN VOLKSWAGEN The Quad City Symphony, March 9 at the Adler Theatre OF QUAD CITIES’ SALES TEAM ith one foot on the familiar, sturdy and provided a lively – though sudden – Volkswagen of Quad Cities is expanding its professional sales team and will be accepting dock of 19th Century Romanticism transition into the powerful brass chords of applications for a LIMITED TIME! 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Conductor Mark Russell Smith and the Quad While Mussorgsky’s music described real City Symphony showcased two iconic Russian artifacts – paintings – Stravinsky depicted an Send confidential resumes to [email protected] or call563-357-6557 pieces for virtuoso orchestra: Maurice Ravel’s imaginary world, an ancient civilization of VWOfQuadCities.com orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures pagan Russia whose rituals, dress, and dances at an Exhibition and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite were unknown. To make the music uniquely of Spring. Either piece by itself would have been new for his fantasy world, Stravinsky deviated considered a featured work, but together they from elegantly shaped Romantic melodies, were a grueling concerto for orchestra that complementary harmonic movements, and required the musicians to perform as though predictable beats and replaced them with small each was a soloist. melodic fragments only three or four notes Both compositions are musical depictions long, strange, unchanging dissonant harmonies, of works from other artistic disciplines: The and irregular rhythmic patterns. Stravinsky’s Rite (a piece of Modernism first performed in disruptive musical ideas required new playing 1913) accompanied an original story ballet, and skills and techniques for the orchestra that Pictures (first composed in the late Romantic produced extraordinary demonstrations style period in 1874) described the subjects of of musicianship but also revealed technical paintings by Viktor Hartmann. Both composers disparities. used variations in orchestration, tempo, tonality, Despite these challenges, Smith and the and melodic texture to differentiate the subject orchestra launched Stravinsky’s shattering, exotic matter or plot of each painting or dance. But the musical powerhouse like a Saturn V rocket. orchestra struggled with the radically different The Quad City Symphony made Stravinsky’s use of these elements, and as a result the contrast scoring breathtakingly explosive, threatening, between Romanticism and Modernism wasn’t and nimble – a caged animal tearing at its always clearly demonstrated in the performance. enclosure in one moment and 100 different The Quad City Symphony effectively kinds of drum sounds the next. The “Ritual of played the recognizable stylistic elements the Two Rival Tribes” featured snarling horns of Romanticism around which Pictures was and volcanic rushes of volume from the gong constructed: long melodic lines that ebb and and bass drum, as if you were standing in the flow with familiar harmonic changes and steady, middle of a lightning storm. The virtuosic predictable rhythms. timpani and tuba parts merged into an earthy, From the comfort zone of the dock, Pictures’ pulsating primitivism that was arresting. The unison string melodic lines of the “Gnome” and short melodic figures in the strings sang, and “Samuel & Schmuyle” were both low and rugged the trumpets were brilliant in the fanfare-ish in their musical dialogue. The addition of an statements. It was a sonic spectacle. alto saxophone to the standard instrumentation The orchestral colors were rapturous in in “The Old Castle” produced a soulful, new the “Procession of the Oldest & Wisest One,” plaintive tone and balanced melodic exchanges with many layers of cross rhythms juxtaposed with the bassoon. The energy in the euphonium over the same chords. They repeated and intensified, gathered volume and accelerated to solo in “Bydlo” – the ox cart – followed the the end of the dance. The mystical “Kiss of the slow rise and fall of its melodic path, as the Earth” dissonant harmonics in the strings were cellos and basses separated the slow, dirge-like bizarre and strangely enchanting as they were notes that gave it a steady, walking pace. The suspended in time for several seconds, bringing orchestra repeated the euphonium’s solo theme the music to a transformative pause that was as the accompaniment made one long, even otherworldly. crescendo and diminuendo, mimicking the In the “Dance of the Young Girls,” the movement of the ox cart as it approached and incessant rhythmic chugging of unchanging then disappeared in the distance. harmony in the strings and horns propelled In “The Market at Limoges,” the contrast between the edgy repeating notes in the Continued On Page 18 horns and the spiccato violins was fanciful 10 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com THEATRE By Thom White Midwestern Union A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement, at the Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse through June 1 illed as “the funniest and most tune- Mavis both likable and comical, and thankfully ful Church Basement Ladies yet,” A she’s only forced to do her generally overused, BMighty Fortress Is Our Basement had door-opening thrust shtick (“One, two, three, me laughing more than I expected to during uff da!”) three times, although in the span of Friday night’s performance. Having had a about five minutes. It still feels overplayed, but too-hearty helping of the first two Lutheran- at least it’s brief. themed kitchen musicals, I Kay Francis’ no-nonsense, couldn’t help but have low ultra-conservative, prudish expectations for the Circa battle-ax Vivian manages ’21 Dinner Playhouse’s to be more amusing than production of this fourth mean, and has the honor show in the series. Yet of performing the musical’s while this sequel still falls catchiest tune, “Vivian into some of the expected Snustad: Pickle Queen!” traps, it also had enough Boasting of her grand-prize humor – and one espe- Nikki Savitt, Kay Francis, win for her country-fair cially entertaining song – pickles, Vivian sings of her and Carrie SaLoutos to keep me amused. prowess, and with its high In this show with a book by Greta Grosch energy and clever melody and lyrics that aren’t and music and lyrics by Drew Jansen, awkward or muddled by too fast a tempo – as four Minnesota churchwomen prepare most of the other numbers are – the song feels for the youngest lady’s confirmation and like it’s from an entirely different show without the upcoming marriage of their pastor feeling disjointed from it. (It also left me (to – gasp! – a Catholic) in the midst of a wishing the rest of the musical matched the 1960 reformation. Directed here by Curt humor and cohesive theme of this one show- Wollan, the plot seems too thin for its nearly stopping number.) two-and-a-half-hour presentation, and the Carrie SaLoutos’ Karin is at her comedic narrative’s events are basically relegated to the best when mocking her mother-in-law in background while members of the Lutheran a frenetic, crazed depiction of the woman’s quartet (familiar to audiences of the series’ criticism of Karin’s cupboard-organization previous incarnations) learn to drive, talk skills and under-salted potatoes. As about boys and the maid of honor’s ample Karin’s daughter Beverly, Kimberly Steffen bosom, and argue whether a youth group trek endearingly matches the sweetness of her to Florida is worth making. As with previous character as written. And Tom Walljasper, CBLs, there’s just not a lot of substance in A returning to his Circa ’21 role as the pastor, Mighty Fortress; the show is a mostly bland delivers some of the show’s funniest lines “slice of life” look into these four ladies’ time (which are actually ad libs) while announcing in their church kitchen. However, this time the real audience’s birthdays and anniversaries, around, the installment does include a little which, on Friday, included his following the sexual humor, a laugh-worthy sight gag celebrant name “Margarita” with a “No thanks, involving one of the women’s undergarments, I’m driving.” (I was tickled both by the joke and a funny, if clichéd, bit in which another and Walljasper’s laugh at his joke.) lady encounters a bottle of blackberry liquor Circa ’21’s audience certainly seemed to she mistakes for syrup gone bad (but drinks enjoy A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement, with anyway). at least half of the patrons offering a standing Designer Scott Herbst’s set will be familiar ovation at the end. Personally, I was more to anyone who has seen Circa ’21’s productions amused by wondering why those people liked of the previous CBLs, with its vintage sink, the musical so much, cackling at moments that stove, and accordion-style counter window were mildly amusing at best. Yet although this that seems a must-have for every church I’ve latest CBL installment still doesn’t have the visited. Herbst’s design nails the look and feel makings of a great musical, the four women of a church kitchen, while costume designer central to the series still possess some charm. Gregory Hiatt’s 1960s creations fit the time While the issues they’re dealing with aren’t all period and personalities of each woman to a that interesting, and most of their songs aren’t T. Lighting designer Jonathan Allender-Zivic all that memorable, the ladies, by now, are at even pulls off an impressive sleight-of-hand least familiar and feel like friends, which might during a storm sequence, flickering the be the reason people return sequel after sequel table lights throughout the theatre to mimic after sequel after … . lightning – an effective surprise that made me jump in my seat a little. A Mighty Fortress Is Our Basement runs at Also familiar to CBL fans is Nikki Savitt, the Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third who returns to Circa ’21 as Mavis, the role Avenue, Rock Island) through June 1, and she played in the theatre’s productions of the more information and tickets are available by series’ first and second parts. Savitt still has calling (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visiting that slightly feisty charm that renders her Circa21.com. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 11

Movie Reviews by Mike Schulzby Mike • [email protected] Schulz • [email protected] Buddies Hack It THE INCREDIBLE BURT reserved, or maybe afterthoughts. (In at least two decades too old for this upstart too timid, to be one particularly figure. But when he’s as ferally funny as he WONDERSTONE convincing as this satisfying, is here, better to have a miscast Carrey than A mere week after the release of Oz film’s aggressively gratifyingly rude no Carrey at all; his glorious, unhinged the Great & Powerful, the garish, boring thoughtless throwaway, we’re clowning puts the too-rare “incredible” in box-office smash that’s neither great nor egomaniac. Of shown Marvelton’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and much powerful, Misnomer March continues with course, as Burt humanitarian of the “wonder,” too. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a comedy Wonderstone gives efforts in bringing about warring Las Vegas magicians that’s its protagonist a magic kits to Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, and Steve Carell in THE CALL awkwardly cast, overly sentimental, and lonely-childhood starving children The plotting is manipulative, the dialogue decidedly not incredible. Yet considering backstory that finds The Incredible Burt Wonderstone in Cambodia, who is perfunctory, the climax is a joke ... and how roundly disappointing the 2013 film the grade-school Burt forced to bake his promptly try to eat them.) In general, the director Brad Anderson’s thriller The Call year has been thus far, you can still have a own birthday cake, we know the character meaner (and more riotous) Burt Wonderstone is still a helluva good time. There’s no fair amount of fun at director Don Scardino’s isn’t a jerk at heart, and will eventually learn gets, the more the film tries to hide its nuance in this bluntly effective shocker that outing, despite this slapstick with heart being the errors of his blah blah blah and drop the meanness; I think it says something that the casts a strong, empathetic Halle Berry as a scattershot at best, and despite the movie imperious attitude and affected dialect. (The most hysterical and well-sustained scene in the seasoned 911 operator and a heartbreaking almost appearing apologetic about its most latter of which, strangely, gets dropped long whole movie, in which we learn the criminal Abigail Breslin as a potential victim with an unexpected and mordantly funny bits. before Wonderstone turns into a big softie.) secret behind Wonderstone’s most miraculous untraceable cell phone. Yet that’s actually Burt Wonderstone casts Steve Carell But with the movie’s title role assumed by bit of sleight-of-hand, takes place two minutes as it should be, as nuance would likely only as the titular prestidigitator – a formerly Carell, a performer whose on-screen niceness before the end credits roll. get in the way of the shameless, gut-level brilliant Bally’s headliner now stuck in a is beginning to feel as oppressive as that of Still, you’ll find a goodly number of random kick of watching Berry and Breslin attempt dead-end act with longtime pal Anton Tom Hanks, his d-bag routine emerges as just pleasures here even before its late-film surge: to outsmart one of the world’s stupidest Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) – and the movie a routine (if an occasionally amusing one), and Olivia Wilde, comically exasperated as serial killers in one of the most satisfying feels slightly off from the start, primarily Wonderstone’s transformation into a kind- Wonderstone’s incredulous assistant; terrific shout-back-at-the-screen entertainments because the role of Wonderstone appears hearted sweetie is less blandly unimaginative character turns by James Gandolfini and the we’ve been given in years. It’s all vaguely so tailor-fit for Will Ferrell that you can’t than sadly inevitable. much-missed Jay Mohr; the perfectly timed ridiculous, but during The Call’s 90 minutes believe Ferrell himself wasn’t given a crack Unfortunately, most of the movie appears demolition of one of Vegas’ cherished casinos. of “Look behind you!”s and “Pick up that at it. A clueless, vainglorious fool in the to be following Carell’s lead, continually And appearing in what amounts to an extended phone, you idiot!”s and “Aa-a-a-a-a!!!”s, I vein of Ron Burgundy and Ricky Bobby, favoring sentiment over madcap invention. cameo, Jim Carrey is feverishly in his element couldn’t imagine wanting to be anywhere Wonderstone addresses his partner, his There are times when the two actually dovetail as a Criss Angel-esque street performer famed else. stage crew, and his groupies with the same beautifully, as in the reconciliation between for his feats of unbridled masochism, sleeping dismissive air of condescending entitlement, the best-friend magicians that finds Carell’s on beds of hot coals and holding his urine for For reviews of Oz the Great & Powerful, and Carell adopts a comically haughty accent stone face a touching and hilarious contrast to a remarkable 12 days. It doesn’t make much Dead Man Down, and other current releases, to match – Siegfried as portrayed by Dame the anguished, unintelligible apology caught sense that this character is laughed at for his visit RiverCitiesReader.com Edith Evans. The stunt, however, doesn’t in his throat. More often, though, the film lays unique skill set – he’s constantly referred to take. Whereas Ferrell burrows so deeply on its maudlin elements with undue excess – as a bad magician when he appears to be a Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/ into his preening-lummox roles that you particularly in the sequences with Alan Arkin miraculous magician – and it makes less sense MikeSchulzNow.Follow Mike on Twitter at frequently can’t separate the star from the as Wonderstone’s childhood hero – while its that Carrey is playing him, as the comedian Twitter.com/MikeSchulzNow. dipsticks he plays, Carell is too naturally most inspired gags are delivered almost as (who, at 51, does look in spectacular shape) is Listen to Mike every Friday at 9am on ROCK 104-9 FM with Dave & Darren 12 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com WhatWhat’s’ sHappenin Happenin’ ’ and compassion through a concert in Sydney, Australia, suffered third-degree both the words being burns to his wrist as a result. Now I’d be surprised if Theatre spoken and the images Music he didn’t play slide with liquids nearby. Letters Home and video projections Eric Sardinas A 42-year-old Florida native who began playing Galvin Fine Arts Center that serve as background, The Redstone Room guitar at the ripe old age of six, Sardinas began his Saturday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. all taken directly from Saturday, March 23, 8 p.m. early musical immersion listening to his mother’s actual soldiers’ blogs and collections of gospel, soul, Motown, and early rock- and-roll albums, and was a member of numerous ccording to Greek mythology, MySpace and Facebook lues-rock slide bands throughout high school. But his professional the griffin is a creature of pages. guitarist and singer/ A B career began following his move to Los Angeles in legend boasting the body, tail, and What has resulted is a songwriter Eric Sardinas plays Davenport’s the early ’90s, where he assembled musicians for his back legs of a lion, and the head, theatrical experience that Redstone Room on March 23, and in outfit the Eric Sardinas Project and found himself front feet, and wings of an eagle. received a nomination researching the man’s live performances, I not only performing 300 nights a year for nearly It therefore makes perfect sense that by Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award was surprised to land on the information six years, but earning a touring gig alongside blues Chicago’s Griffin Theatre Company, organization for “Outstanding New that he’s been known to play slide with a full legend Johnny Winter. with its lauded Iraq and Afghanistan Play,” and one that has toured to dozens bottle of beer in hand, ending numbers with a It was in 1999 that Sardinas and his bandmates war drama Letters Home, has fashioned of cities nationwide since its 2007 debut, celebratory geyser of foam. recorded their CD debut Treat Me Right, and since its own kind of unique hybrid: one from California’s Cerritos Center for That seemed a bit excessive until I read further, then – as both an ensemble musician and a solo boasting the frame of a fascinating the Performing Arts to Connecticut’s and learned that Sardinas has also been known to set artist – the guitarist has enjoyed enormous popular lecture and the soul of engrossing Westport Country Playhouse. Those his guitar alight during performances, and once, at fearing a strident screed from Letters theatre. And if the production’s reviews of Barefoot in the Park would’ve Canfield, Andy Curtiss, Andy Koski, Jeb are to be trusted, it, too, has wings. Home, however, shouldn’t fear; according to the Daily Herald, “This thoughtfully killed ya? Makula, Aaron Sullivan, and Jake Walker Being staged at St. Ambrose Theatre Ah, but there’s no reason to performing alongside troupe newcomers University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center on conceived, quietly eloquent show avoids geo-politics and paints a compelling Antigone expect constant misery from Gini Atwell, William Scott Bray, and Abby March 23, Letters Home brings to life the QC Theatre Workshop the company’s presentation of VanGerpen. experiences of male and female troops, portrait of the men and women who carry out the country’s political will.” Friday, March 22, through Antigone, French playwright Jean To get yourself in the proper mood and the loved ones they left behind, Anouilh’s 1944 adaptation of Sophocles’ for the Prenzie’s latest, try your hand at through actual correspondence written And those expecting nonstop grimness Saturday, March 30 should also be pleasantly surprised, as ancient-Greek classic. Running March this quiz: Among the characters to the during the early years of the overseas 22 through 30, the story of Antigone right (some of them only referenced in Time Out Chicago praises the work’s t seems to have taken forever to get here, conflicts. Adapter William Massolia, is, of course, a tragic one, telling of its Anouilh’s adaptation), would any of them, prowess at “balancing the light with the but guess what, folks? Spring officially inspired by both the New York Times I heroine’s single-minded quest to give her by the end of the play, still be around for heavy,” citing Letters Home’s passage starts this week! The sun is shining! Birds article “The Things They Wrote” and the brother a decent burial in defiance of her an Antigone 2? about “the solider who runs from the are singing! And over at the QC Theatre HBO documentary Last Letters Home, unyielding father Creon. Yet there can, Antigone performances will be held at enemy, then discovers the enemy is Workshop, the season’s arrival is being explores military training, deployment, also of course, be exceptional catharsis 8 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays in fact a baby camel.” Which actually celebrated by our area’s classical-theatre occupation duties, battle, and separation and exhilaration – and even a few honest and 2 p.m. on Sunday – with the doors still sounds scary to me. Those freakin’ troupe the Prenzie Players with angry from family through a series of diverse laughs – in a well-told execution of opening a half-hour before all shows – things can spit. gods, family dishonor, rebellion, treachery, voices enacted by Letters Home’s cast of this tale, which director Catie Osborn and more information and tickets are For more information on, and tickets imprisonment, suicide ... ! 10. In the process, Massolia’s production will certainly strive for with her cast available by calling (309)278-8426 or to, Letters Home, call (563)333-6251 or Wow, Prenzies. Like a nice production

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by Mike Schulz What’s Happenin’ [email protected] a concert in Sydney, Australia, suffered third-degree success for his electrifying guitar skills and rich, burns to his wrist as a result. Now I’d be surprised if throaty vocals, releasing five additional albums and he didn’t play slide with liquids nearby. performing with the likes of noted bluesmen Hubert What Else A 42-year-old Florida native who began playing Sumlin and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Music guitar at the ripe old age of six, Sardinas began his Sardinas’ reviews, too, have been filled with Green Day Is Happenin’ early musical immersion listening to his mother’s effusive praise, with AllMusic.com calling him “a i wireless Center collections of gospel, soul, Motown, and early rock- rugged blues rocker with brains and brawn,” and Friday, March 29, 8 p MUSIC and-roll albums, and was a member of numerous saying “once Sardinas revs up his engine, there is no .m Thursday, March 21 – Brandon . Heath & Mandisa. Concert with the bands throughout high school. But his professional slowing down.” The United Kingdom’s AlterBridge. Ashley: career began following his move to Los Angeles in org.uk, meanwhile, states, “Sardinas’ unique mixture Dove Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated contemporary the early ’90s, where he assembled musicians for his weaves his heavy blues and rock threads into a I’m an American Idiot Christian artists. Adler Theatre (136 East outfit the Eric Sardinas Project and found himself flamethrower to the listener,” so prepare for an lobotomy A basket case before the brain stew of a . A reject having. a 21st Century breakdown while walking alone on Third Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $19-30. not only performing 300 nights a year for nearly incendiary night of entertainment at the Redstone a boulevard of broken dreams For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit six years, but earning a touring gig alongside blues Room. And maybe keep your own full bottle of beer Oh love, I was waiting for you at the Green Day concert, hoping you’d . AdlerTheatre.com. legend Johnny Winter. nearby. You know, just in case. let yourself go even if it meant hitchin’ a ride Friday, March 22 – March Madness It was in 1999 that Sardinas and his bandmates Eric Sardinas performs with an opening set by end, I was a chump to expect a nightlife homecoming when you were with Levee Town and Kelley Richey. recorded their CD debut Treat Me Right, and since Mississippi Misfits, and more information on the having a blast with whatsername – the judge’s .daughter I was there . But in the Americana quartet performs with then – as both an ensemble musician and a solo evening is available by calling (563)326-1333 or finish last . the Ohio-based blues-rock singer/ artist – the guitarist has enjoyed enormous popular visiting RiverMusicExperience.org. Remember when I fell for you at that holiday makeout. Iparty guess at nice the guys library in ’86? The one for the Razorbacks going to Pasalacqua that stuck songwriter. The Muddy Waters (1708 Canfield, Andy Curtiss, Andy Koski, Jeb with me all the time? Now that feels 2,000 light years away State Street, Bettendorf). 8 p.m. $10. Makula, Aaron Sullivan, and Jake Walker the best thing in town, and even though I was a wild one and a scattered For information, call (563)355-0655 or 1) Antigone performing alongside troupe newcomers burnout, you led me on the road to acceptance visit TheMuddyWaters.com. For a 2007 2) Creon . You were Gini Atwell, William Scott Bray, and Abby made this troublemaker feel like king for a day interview with Richey, visit RCReader. 3) Ismene I had no pride, and you VanGerpen. Well, I take back my love, you uptight, jaded .brat com/y/richey. 4) Eurydice Carpe Diem! To get yourself in the proper mood time, and you need to know your enemy . Friday, March 22 – Elvis Lives! 5) Haemon you tonight, and I don’t want to feel any loss of control when I come for the Prenzie’s latest, try your hand at . When it’s time, it’s Multimedia concert event featuring 6) Eteocles around, so I’m coming clean: Your dominated. It lovewas likeslave pulling needs teetha rest, to and see this quiz: Among the characters to the Presley’s classic songs, in a Broadway at 7) Messenger I’d resist your lazy bones and geek stink breath even if you were the last the Adler presentation. Adler Theatre right (some of them only referenced in of the American girls and this were the last night on Earth (136 East Third Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. Anouilh’s adaptation), would any of them, A) Yup. Still alive Good riddance, you android, from the forgotten disappearing boy, $32-52. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or by the end of the play, still be around for at the end. Jesus of suburbia visit AdlerTheatre.com. an Antigone 2? . B) Nope. Sleeping Friday, March 22 – Naha Antigone performances will be held at with the fishes. Green Day plays Moline’s i wireless Center on March 29 with opener Best Greenholtz. Award-winning Canadian 8 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays Coast, and for tickets and the chance to hear some of the rock legends’ 64 violinist in concert. Englert Theatre (221 and 2 p.m. on Sunday – with the doors aforementioned songs, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 opening a half-hour before all shows – p.m. $10-12. For tickets and information, and more information and tickets are com call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org. available by calling (309)278-8426 or . .

Friday, March 22 – Neal McCoy. visiting PrenziePlayers.com. Answers: 1 – B, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – B, 5 – B, 6 – B, 7 – A. You know that expression “Don’t kill the messenger?” They don’t. They messenger?” the kill “Don’t expression that know You A. – 7 B, – 6 B, – 5 B, – 4 A, – 3 A, – 2 B, – 1 Answers: Continued On Page 17 14 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com COVER STORY Continued From Page 7 by Jeff Ignatius [email protected] Pivot and Progress we’re not embarking on a capital campaign to But there’s more to that story than just but there are other examples. “People want those partnerships come in the form of build a wing, add a floor, build an addition – recapturing largely dead space for exhibits. to be involved in good stuff,” Findlay said. sponsor relationships, maybe marketing which could cost $15 [million] to $20 million. And on the cost front, you might as well “They’ll donate their time, they’ll help, relationships. But there are fewer models ... The price tag on this is ... about 10 percent start at the ground level – literally. So take a they’ll bring their expertise.” out there for exhibit partnerships, where of what you would expect it would cost if you look at the floor that the Destination: Space Tennant Trucking Lines (of Colona) the parties really are pooling resources were trying to put an addition on.” exhibit currently occupies. donated its trucks and labor to deliver and combining talents to achieve these As of last week, the museum had raised Roughly three and a half years ago, the da Vinci, Titanic, and Bodies Revealed extraordinary ends.” more than $950,000 for the $1.5-million Findlay said, the floor had asbestos tile – exhibits, along with components for the Specifically, he said, “we are providing STEM project – including $100,000 from the dating back to the 1960s – that was popping STEM center. Members of building and just the R&D, engineering, mechanical City of Davenport and $30,000 from Scott up and needed to be abated. Commercial- trades labor unions gave their time and guts of exhibits, and allowing the museum County. (Unlike most museums locally and grade carpet tile would have cost $40,000. sweat to set up the Titanic show. “It’s saving to figure out how they want to design the generally, the Putnam receives no government Staining the floor professionally would have a tremendous amount of money,” Findlay packages around those.” Typically, he said, money for operations.) The Putnam plans to also been expensive. “That’s not the place said, and it’s satisfying to the volunteers. Roto will provide everything – up to and submit an application in July for a $300,000 that we were going to put the resources “What the Putnam has done is find including signage. Community Attraction & Tourism grant that we have,” Findlay said. So she told ways to decrease operating expenses while “Budget is a driver,” he said of the from the State of Iowa. Findlay said she hopes her facilities manager: “I think I saw some still providing a high-quality ... level of Putnam’s tack. “The other motivation, fundraising for the center will be finished in stuff at the hardware store that you can do programming ... ,” she added. The museum’s though, is capacity-building. ... They’ve October – although she noted that the state that yourself.” And “he and I came in on a full-time equivalents are down 40 percent taken on at least a part of the challenge of grant process typically takes six to 12 months Sunday and stained the floor.” since 2004, she said, and total expenses over design, or construction/fabrication, and after submission. That’s an extreme example of thriftiness the past decade have been cut 14.5 percent especially of interpretation – and by that I in an enterprise with an annual operating – or 33 percent when adjusted for inflation. mean what the museum’s own voice is to budget of roughly $3.3 million, but it seems While Roto hasn’t done its work for free, talk to visitors about what they’re learning.” the company’s president said the Putnam’s The Putnam seems eager to take that Elbow Grease and Duct Tape typical of the Putnam under Findlay. She’s approach to the STEM-center exhibits has challenge. As Myles said: “When it comes to The promise of the STEM center is itself built partnerships in her six years at the been unusual. needing to do them that way or not doing an interesting story. It’s also notable that museum that have brought in labor, ideas, “High-performing museums recognize them at all, where the community is to be it’s being done space-efficiently, which is and know-how for little or no cash. That’s the importance of partnerships of served, we will always put the elbow grease one component of how it’s being done on a evident with its collaborations with the all kinds,” Wisne said. “And most of in and break out the duct tape.” modest budget. Quad City Engineering & Science Council, Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 15 MUSIC by Jeff Ignatius Disposable Fun, and a Bit More [email protected] Them Som’Bitches, March 22 at Bier Stube he title of the background vocalist, happen. The banjo and guitar playfully trade second track and the howling. energetic licks on “D.G.A.F.,” and the lead guitar Ton the Asphalt These fanciful in the verses of “Alcoholiday” has a ringing, true Plains EP from the flourishes all over the tone over the song’s warm chug. (The narrator Quad Cities-based EP are a bit on-the- anticipates celebratory boozing and apparently garage-country band nose, but that’s part of has never heard of a hangover.) Them Som’Bitches their charm; we ain’t And on closing track “Yippee Ki-Yay,” the band is “D.G.A.F.,” with talking high art. largely sets aside the cheeky immaturity. It’s not the first three letters Even without the exactly serious, but its slow build shows greater standing for “Don’t sound effects, though, attention to instrumental textures and colors, and Give a.” You can the punks-doing- through vocal delivery and musical setting it casts figure out the rest, country songs suggest the title words in two different lights: somber and it’s about that subtle. For good measure, the a dual nature: the barren beauty of the American and frustrated at the outset but finding a defiant phrase turns up in the next song, too. Southwest invaded by loners with nothing better confidence in the accelerating final third. Despite that symptomatic coarseness, the to do than drink and shoot stuff. The song finishes the album on a note of six songs on Asphalt Plains represent a modest The lyrical content (with telling song titles possibility. Everything before it on Asphalt Plains achievement, despair and nihilism delivered such as“Cart Cowboy” and “Alcoholiday”) is is disposable fun, but “Yippee Ki-Yay” comes with a wink and elevated by consistently largely offered in a snide, whiny, guttural voice from a band I’d like to keep around. engaging performance. Over 20 minutes, the with a practiced apathy by singer/guitarist/ band’s shit-kicking aesthetic unerringly evokes banjoist/bassist Josh Jones – recalling O’Death. Them Som’Bitches will play a record-release show a very particular picture: for me, aimless folks Yet fundamentally, Them Som’Bitches – for Asphalt Plains on Friday, March 22, at the marking time in a trailer on the scrubland, with also featuring drummer Paul Blomquist and Bier Stube (415 15th Street, Moline). The show no other sign of human activity. guitarist/bassist Matt Carter on this record, and starts at 9 p.m. and also feature Seth Knappen That’s nearly explicit in “Buzzard Ridge,” bassist Nick Eyre since then – is a good-time and comedian Nick Mielke. Admission is free. with animal-call samples taking the roles of band, and while the basic elements of the music instruments – and doing it well. I particularly and songs could easily play as condescending, For more information on Them Som’Bitches, visit like the owl, which appears to think it’s a the self-evident joy of the band never lets that ThemSomBitches.com. get WiNNiNg! at isle® casiNo hotel BetteNdorf stayiN’ alive: triBute to the speNd $50 aNd get a $10 credit Mondays Bee gees For the love of crab dinner buffet april 19 Receive $10 to use on your next visit with your cash purchase of $50 or more. Tuesdays International night 2-for-$15** Kids eat free thursday Nights ricK * Wednesdays New kids menu! 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n the February compe- tition of the Quad Cities IPhotography Club, the highest-scoring image was in the creative category and was made by one of our newer members, Jackie Gerse. She said that after her dog Savanna was gone, she saw a technique using Photoshop CS5 and wanted to try it with a photo of her dog, so she looked for a good image of her. The original photo was taken quite a while ago with her first digital camera, a Panasonic Lumix using an The Quad Cities Photography Club 18-millimeter lens. It was taken at 1/60 of a welcomes visitors and new members. second, f/2.8, and ISO 100. The club sponsors numerous activities After some basic post-processing, encompassing many types and aspects of Jackie started working with the smudge photography. It holds digital and print tool, smudging the background, then competitions most months. At its meetings, working up to the main part of the image, members discuss the images, help each other until she had gone over the entire image, to improve, and socialize. The club also smoothing and blending different areas. holds special learning workshops and small She did a lot of experimenting with the groups that meet on specific photography different brushes and strengths as she topics, and occasionally offers interesting used the smudge tool. She then cleaned up shooting opportunities. The club meets at areas and added highlights and shadows 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of the month to create depth, then added brushes of September through June at the Butterworth color, smudging them in to blend. She calls Center, 1105 Eighth Street in Moline. this technique “painting with Photoshop,” commenting that it was really like painting, For more information on the club, visit working on each pixel. QCPhotoClub.com.

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Continued From Page 13 What Else Is Happenin’ Concert with the platinum-selling country Street, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $8-10. For Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Shane McCrae, with a panel discussion singer. Riverside Casino Event Center (3184 information, call (563)322-5837 or visit MVBS. in a Mission Creek Festival presentation. following. Midwest Writing Center (225 Highway 22, Riverside). 9 p.m. $22-35. For org. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington East Second Street, Suite 303, Davenport). tickets and information, call (877)677-3456 Wednesday, March 27 – An Evening Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $29-33. For tickets Workshops at 9 a.m., 10:50 a.m., and 1:30 or visit RiversideCasinoAndResort.com. with Todd Sucherman. Drum clinic and and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit p.m.; panel discussion at 3.20 p.m. $25-30/ Friday, March 22 – Franti Project: The meet-and-greet with the pop superstar of Englert.org. event, $75-90/all four events. For information Music of Michael Franti & Spearhead. A Styx. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, and to register, call (563)324-1410 or visit “Déjà Vu Rendezvous” concert with half Davenport). 5:30 p.m. $10. For tickets and THEATRE MidwestWritingCenter.org. the proceeds benefiting the United Way information, call (563)326-1333 or visit Thursday, March 21, through Sunday, of Western Connecticut’s Sandy Hook / RiverMusicExperience.org. March 24 – No Exit. Jean-Paul Sartre’s COMEDY Newtown fund. The Redstone Room (129 Thursday, March 28 – Justin Moore. existential drama, directed by SAU senior Thursday, March 21 – Etta May. Standup Main Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $5. For Country singer in his Outlaws Like Me Tour, Kristin Jett. St. Ambrose University’s Galvin comedy with “The Queen of Southern Sass.” tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 with special guest Dustin Lynch. Adler Fine Arts Center Studio Theatre (2101 Gaines Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third or visit RiverMusicExperience.org. Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). Street, Davenport). Thursday and Friday 7:30 Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $20-25. For Saturday, March 23 – The Chordbusters 7:30 p.m. $24.75-39.75. For tickets, call p.m., Saturday and Sunday 3 p.m. $6. For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733 Chorus. Concert with the men’s barbershop (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com. tickets and information, call (563)333-6251 or extension 2 or visit Circa21.com. ensemble. Central Performing Arts Center Thursday, March 28 – The Ragbirds. visit SAU.edu/theatre. Thursday, March 28 – Ralphie May. (519 East 11th Street, DeWitt). 7 p.m. $10. Folk, rock, and world musicians in concert, Friday, March 22, through Sunday, Standup comedian and Last Comic Standing For tickets and information, call (563)249- with an opening set by the Eric Pettit Trio. March 24 – Talley’s Folly. Lanford Wilson’s contestant in his Too Big to Ignore Tour. 8591 or visit CentralPerformingArtsCenter. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, org. Davenport). 8 p.m. $8-10. For tickets and Old Creamery Studio Theatre (3023 220th Iowa City). 7:30 p.m. $34.50. For tickets and Saturday, March 23 – Chris Young. information, call (563)326-1333 or visit Trail, Amana). Friday and Saturday 7:30 information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Chart-topping country singer in concert. RiverMusicExperience.org. p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $18-27.50 For tickets Englert.org. Riverside Casino Event Center (3184 Thursday, March 28 – Shuffle. Play. and information, call (319)622-6194 or visit Highway 22, Riverside). 9 p.m. $39-59. For Listen. A blend of classical and pop music OldCreamery.com. MOVIE tickets and information, call (877)677-3456 with cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Saturday, March 30, through Saturday, Wednesday, April 3 – Two Who Dared. or visit RiversideCasinoAndResort.com. Christopher O’Riley, in a Hancher Auditorium April 13 – The Life & Times of the Three The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities Saturday, March 23 – Morris Day & Visiting Artists presentation. Coralville Center Little Pigs. Comedic fairytale musical for co-presents the documentary on Waitstill the Time. Concert with the rockers of for the Performing Arts (1301 Fifth Street, family audiences. Old Creamery Theatre and Martha Sharp, who aided Jewish and “Jungle Love” and “The Bird.” Quad-Cities Coralville). 7:30 p.m. $10-37. For tickets and (39 38th Avenue, Amana). Saturdays at 1 German refugees during World War II. Waterfront Convention Center (1777 Isle information, call (319)335-1160 or visit http:// p.m. $8.50. For tickets and information, call Putnam Museum (1717 West 12th Street, Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $20-30. www.Hancher.UIowa.edu. (319)622-6194 or visit OldCreamery.com. Davenport). 7 p.m. $6-7. For tickets and For information, call (800)724-5825 or visit Friday, March 29 – The Return: A information, call (563)324-0049 or visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com. Tribute to the Beatles. Concert with the LITERATURE Putnam.org. Tuesday, March 26 – Kopecky Family touring Fab Four impersonators. Quad- Friday, March 22 – A Memory, a Band. Folk-rock musicians in concert, Cities Waterfront Convention Center (1777 Monologue, a Rant, & a Prayer. Annual EVENT with an opening set by Evan P. Donohue. Isle Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $10-15. readings on the theme of violence against Friday, March 22 – Gilda’s Club QC The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, For information, call (800)724-5825 or visit women, with proceeds benefiting the Fundraiser with Cesar Millan. Meet- Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $10. For tickets and Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com. One Billion Rising Campaign. St. Ambrose and-greet fundraiser with the star of information, call (563)326-1333 or visit Wednesday, April 3 – MarchFourth University’s Rogalski Center (518 West The Dog Whisperer, in a luncheon event RiverMusicExperience.org. Marching Band. Jazz, funk, and big-band Locust Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $5-8. For co-sponsored by the Genesis Cancer Care Wednesday, March 27 – J.P. Soars & musicians in concert. The Redstone Room information, call (563)333-6113 or visit SAU. Institute. Davenport RiverCenter (136 the Red Hots. Concert with the winners (129 Main Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $15. For edu. East Third Street, Davenport). Noon. $50 of the 2009 International Blues Challenge, tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or Saturday, March 23 – Pen-in-Hand luncheon, $50 meet-and-greet. For tickets sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Blues visit RiverMusicExperience.org. Writing Conference. Poetry workshops and information, call (563)326-7504 or visit Society. Martini’s on the Rock (4619 34th Wednesday, April 3 – Iris DeMent. The led by Ryan Collins, Erin M. Bertram, and GildasClubQC.org. 18 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com MUSIC Continued From Page 9 by Frederick Morden the [email protected] Advice Straddling a Stylistic Gulf Goddess BY AMY ALKON the music forward while the woodwinds worst possible moment, marring the conclusion Ask commitment heebies or decide that she ornamented them with swirls of sound. The of an otherwise stunning musical experience. The Math to True Love doesn’t feel the same way. If you’re more of You need to tell men to never be the first a man’s man than a worm’s worm, this won’t orchestra carefully demarcated sudden dynamic In Stravinsky’s Rite, where the complexity of to say those “three little words.” A woman be a statement on your worth. It’s just a sign changes that segmented the dance and, despite rhythm is the unit of structure, performance will tell you she’s ready to hear them by that you need to look for a woman who the complexity of the orchestration, produced solidarity is critically dependent upon absolute telling you first. It seems the dating gurus wants you as much as you want her. If you’re discrete colors of alternating unison and rhythmic discipline, a skill that cannot always agree: When a man says “I love you” first, secure, chances are you’ll eventually find a dissonant sound. be taught. he throws the attraction physics all off partner who won’t want to leave you – and But with Stravinsky’s innovations and In reaching for The Rite, the orchestra because he lowers his value in the woman’s not just because you always open the door convulsive musical gestures in the “Ritual of exceeded its grasp in the Saturday night subconscious. for her when she gets that look in her eye Abduction,” about a quarter of the way into performance in the Adler. The orchestra – Concerned Guy that says, “I can’t wait one more moment to the piece, the rhythmic glue that had held the fought – sometimes unsuccessfully – to hold pee on the neighbors’ rosebushes.” performance together began to loosen, and the intricate music together, but it still produced When you’re looking into a woman’s eyes the melodic fragments that were intended such compelling moments in its performance and there’s that awkward moment of silence, to be played in unison were no longer that at times it seemed unimaginable that a there are plenty of things you can say besides together. And in “The Sacrificial Dance” – the Overthinking of You human being could conceive of and perform “I love you” – such as “I was going to say My fiancé and I split up three months climatic moment of The Rite, with Stravinsky such music. something, but now I’m not,” or “Have I told ago. Our relationship was serious and intentionally changing meters more frequently you I’ve started drinking the blood of freshly lovely, but we just weren’t feeling it to elevate the dramatic, spasmodic effect of the killed unicorns?” anymore. We are friendly and communicate death dance – the orchestra lost control of the The Quad City Symphony Orchestra will perform It is wise to avoid spewing mush all frequently but avoid awkward topics – such complex, counterintuitive rhythms. Imprecise the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Beethoven, and over a woman on, say, the third date. The as dating other people. We’re in the same entrances and rhythmic instability broke the Tchaikovsky at its April 13 and 14 concerts, with premature “I love you” tends to translate as industry, and I would hate for someone music’s cohesion, and Stravinsky’s carefully piano soloist Tom Sauer. For more information, “I really don’t know you beyond how you to snap a picture of me and a date and planned undulations became chaotic. To their visit QCSymphony.com. like your steak, but I love any woman who put it on Facebook for him to stumble credit, most of the orchestra members played doesn’t block my calls or spot me coming on. Wouldn’t it be better if he learned I’m the complicated time signatures with accuracy Frederick Morden is a retired orchestra-music down the sidewalk and duck into a real- seeing somebody else from me, and vice and intensity, but too many players didn’t director, conductor, composer, arranger, educator, estate office and beg them to hide her.” Of versa? and buried the intended abnormal rhythmic and writer who has served on the executive board course, what really lowers a man’s “value in – Tiptoeing Forward structure with unintended irregularity at the of the Conductors Guild. the woman’s subconscious” is being someone who needs a “dating guru” to help him be Can’t you just let him get his information Continued From Page 3 calculating; he can’t just be. Women value about you the old-fashioned way, by sneaking GUEST COMMENTARY by Kevin Carson men who don’t seem to be living by others’ over with a tall ladder and peering through dictates – men who are spontaneous and fun your blinds? Dating other people after ending and don’t have a faraway look in their eyes an engagement is an awkward topic – which Seventeen Benefits of the War on Drugs because they’re trying to recall something seems the perfect reason to continue to South America, it enables the CIA – the After the U.S. installed the Northern they heard on some dating Webinar. avoid discussing it with your now ex-fiancé. world’s largest narcotrafficking gang – to Alliance as government in Afghanistan in Now, a lot of men have childhoods that But say somebody does snap a picture of obtain enormous revenues for funding black don’t exactly lead them to walk the planet you and a date and toss it up on Facebook. late 2001, Afghanistan quickly became the ops and death squads around the world. This feeling like they own the place. So it’s Unless your ex has only 12 Facebook friends world’s center of opium production once network of clandestine intelligence agencies, understandable if you began your dating life or he’s monitoring Facebook like a bald again. narcotraffickers, and death squads, by the as a wimpy, approval-seeking suck-up, but if eagle hovering over a prairie rat, he might The Drug War would indeed be a failure way, is the other major real constituency of you continue along those lines, you’re a lazy, miss the photo. And even if he does see it, if its real function was to reduce drug wimpy, approval-seeking suck-up. Having the American government. assuming it doesn’t involve tongue, who’s to consumption or drug-related violence. But value in a woman’s eyes takes having value 16) Revenues from Drug War-created say whether it’s you and your next candidate the success or failure of state policies is in your own, which takes doing the work to black markets come in handy when for fiancé or you and some guy who dropped rightly judged by the extent to which they develop self-respect instead of just fencing by your office? Although you two “weren’t Congress refuses to appropriate funds for promote the interests served by the state. off that huge sinkhole in your self so no feeling it anymore” and it’s natural that morally abhorrent operations. According squirrels or neighborhood dogs fall in. you’d both be looking to feel it with other to journalist Gary Webb, whose carefully The Drug War is a roaring success when Once you have self-respect, it’ll seem people, once you’ve loved somebody, you documented accounts were suppressed or empowering the state and conditioning the ridiculous to pull out some dating calculus probably can’t help but feel a little pang at marginalized by the corporate media, the public to unquestioning obedience. book to figure out what to say to a woman the thought of them blithely falling into the American domestic traffic in crack cocaine and when. The right words will just flow arms of somebody else. So maybe consider was used to clandestinely fund the Contras. Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center at the right time out of genuine feeling ambiguity a gift – one that lets you believe 17) The drug-producing and -trafficking for a Stateless Society (C4SS.org) and holds that’s developed between you. Sure, there’s interests created by the Drug War make the deadening silence between you is the the center’s Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. always that chance that some woman who useful allies when the U.S. wants to sound of him in his garage building a drone He is a mutualist and individualist anarchist seemed into you will have an attack of the camera to spy on your every move. overthrow and install governments. The whose written work includes Studies in Taliban regime in Afghanistan was serious about stamping out opium production, and Mutualist Political Economy, Organization Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon. Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, and The 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 alienated the large share of the population that supplemented its income by cultivating Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low- or e-mail [email protected] (AdviceGoddess.com) poppies. The Northern Alliance protected Overhead Manifesto, all of which are freely ©2013, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. opium production within its territories. available online. Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 19

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Patricia: I don’t do product placement or other creative ideas. More time is available to them “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish forms of secret advertising in my horoscopes. because their children have moved out of the beginnings,” says poet Muriel To allow it would violate the sacred trust I have house or don’t require as much care. They Rukeyser in her poem “Elegy in Joy.” “Not all with my readers, who rely on me to translate the can begin new careers, focus on their own things are blest,” she continues, “but the seeds meaning of the cosmic signs without injecting development, and devote more attention to their of all things are blest. The blessing is in the any hidden agendas. It is true that Leos might personal needs. So in one way their fertility dries seed.” I urge you to adopt this perspective in be prone to imbibing great quantities of beer in up; in another way it may awaken and expand. I the coming weeks, Aries. Be extra sweet and the coming week, simply because they’d benefit suspect that whether or not you are menopausal, tender and reverent toward anything that is just from lowering their inhibitions, getting in you are on the cusp of a comparable shift in sprouting, toward anything that is awakening, touch with their buried feelings, and expanding your fecundity: one door closing, another door toward anything that invokes the sacredness of their consciousness. But to be frank, I’d rather swinging open. right now. “This moment,” sings Rukeyser, “this see them do that without the aid of drugs and seed, this wave of the sea, this look, this instant alcohol. CAPRICORN (December 22-January of love.” 19): The TV reality show Freaky VIRGO (August 23-September 22): Eaters profiled a woman named Kelly TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you Hoping to stir up some fun trouble, who had eaten nothing but cheesy potatoes for seek more insight on your current I posted the following message on 30 years. Her average intake: eight pounds of situation, consider the possibility that my Facebook page: “Don’t judge someone potatoes and four cups of cheese per day. “I love the bad guys may not be as bad as they seem. just because they sin differently than you.” A cheesy potatoes,” she testified. “They’re stewy, They might simply be so deeply under the spell torrent of readers left comments in response. gooey, and just yum-yum-yummy. They’re like of their own pain that they can’t see straight. My favorite was from Sue Sims, who said, “Yeah, crack to me.” I’m a bit concerned that you’re And as for the good guys: I wonder if they are as they might be better at your kind of sin and you flirting with behavior comparable to hers. Not in purely good as they would like you to imagine. It might learn something!” That advice is just the regards to cheesy potatoes, of course, but to some might be the case that they are at least partially kind of healing mischief you need right now, other fetish. I will ask you to make sure that you’re serving their own self-interest, while pretending Virgo. It’s a bit ironic, true, but still: Take it and not starting to over-specialize. It would be wise to to be utterly altruistic. If there’s any truth to run with it. Study the people who have mad skills avoid obsessing on a single type of anything. these speculations, Taurus, you’d be wise to stay at pulling off the rousing adventures and daring uncommitted and undecided for now. Don’t pleasures and interesting “sins” that you’d like to AQUARIUS (January 20-February get emotionally riled up, don’t get embroiled in call your own. 18): In the 17th Century, polite conflict, and don’t burn any bridges. people referred to mountains as LIBRA (September 23-October 22): “warts” and “boils on the earth’s complexion.” So GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s The French verb renverser can be says Robert Macfarlane in his book Mountains your mantra: “I get fresher under translated as “to turn upside-down” or “to reverse of the Mind. Annie Dillard describes the peculiar pressure.” Say it 10 times right now, and the flow.” The adjectival form is renversant, behavior of educated European tourists in the then repeat it in 10-repetition bursts whenever which means “stunning” or “astonishing.” I think 18th Century. When they visited the Alps, you need a tune-up. What it means is that you you may soon have experiences that could be she writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, “they stay cool when the contradictions mount and described by those words. There’s a good chance deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield the ambiguities multiply. And more than that: that a dry, impoverished part of your life will themselves from the evidence of the earth’s You actually thrive on the commotion. You get a juicy, fertile infusion. A deficiency you horrid irregularity.” Don’t be anything like those get smarter amidst the agitation. You become have worried about might get at least half-filled. dumb sophisticates, Aquarius. When you spy more perceptive and more creative as the shifts An inadequacy that makes you feel sad may be irregularities in the coming weeks, consider the swirl faster and harder. Tattoo these words of bolstered by reinforcements. Alas, there could possibility that they are natural and healthy. This power on your imagination: “I get fresher under also be a slight reversal that’s not so gratifying. will allow you to perceive their useful beauty. pressure.” One of your assets may temporarily become irrelevant. But the trade-off is worth it, Libra. PISCES (February 19-March 20): CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Stories Your gains will outstrip your loss. You are not for sale. Remember? Your happen to those who tell them,” scruples and ideals and talents cannot be said the ancient Greek historian SCORPIO (October 23-November bought off for any amount of money. You will not Thucydides. Modern radio journalist Ira Glass 21): Professor Martyn Poliakoff be cheated out of your birthright and you will not goes even further. “Great stories happen to those creates short YouTube videos to help allow your dreams to be stolen. Although it’s true who can tell them,” he has said. Let’s make this teach the public about chemistry. In one video, that you may have to temporarily rent your soul strategy a centerpiece of your life plan in the he explains why an explanation he gave in a from time to time, you will never auction it off for weeks ahead, Cancerian. I have a suspicion that previous video was completely mistaken. “It’s good. I’m sure you know these things, Pisces, but I you will need firsthand experience of novel, always good for a scientist to be proved wrong,” suspect it’s time to renew your fiery commitment interesting stories. They will provide the precise he confesses cheerfully. Then he moves on to to them. nourishment necessary to inspire the blooming speculate about what the right answer might be. of your most soulful ambitions. One way to help I love humility like that! It’s admirable. It’s also Homework: Describe what you’d be like ensure that the best stories will flow your way is the best way to find out the truth about reality. I if you were the opposite of yourself. Write to regale receptive people with transformative hope you will summon a similar attitude in the FreeWillAstrology.com. tales from your past. coming weeks, Scorpio: a generous curiosity that makes you eager to learn something new about LEO (July 23-August 22): “Dear Rob: stuff you thought you had all figured out. I’m spreading the word about Beer Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny's Week in your town, and I’d love to see SAGITTARIUS (November EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES you and your beer-loving readers at some of 22-December 21): On the one hand, & DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES the events. Any chance you can include some menopausal women are no longer The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at coverage of Beer Week celebrations in your able to bear children. On the other hand, they upcoming column? 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Ragged Records Vinyl Dance Party 2013/03/21 (Thu) 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA 11th St. Davenport, IA -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL THURSDAY 21 Back Home Boys (7:30 & 10:30pm) Cobalt Blue -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Rob Dahms & Detroit Larry (6pm) Avey Brothers Blues Jam -Rascals Live, -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, State St. Bettendorf, IA -Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street 1418 15th St. Moline, IL 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Crossroads -Krusteez Pizza/Harry’s Milan, IL Black Hawk College Jazz Combo Big Joe’s DJ & Karaoke Show -V.F.W. Backroom, 411 2nd St. Matherville, IL Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar (5:30pm) - Bebop Group (8pm) Post 9128, 2814 State Street DJ Night -Walcott Coliseum, 116 E (7pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL Bettendorf, IA Bryant St Walcott, IA Davenport, IA Brandon Heath - Mandisa -Adler Chuck Murphy -P.K. Dugan’s Sports Bar Eric Sardinas - Mississippi Misfits Saturday Jazz Brunch w/ the Brett Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA & Grill, 1443 1st St Silvis, IL -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Wahlberg Trio -Mama Compton’s, Cross Creek Karaoke -Stickman’s, 1510 Cross Creek Karaoke -Stickman’s, 1510 Davenport, IA 1725 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA Gentle Edward Records Showcase: Small Houses - Dana T. - Crystal City Harper & the Midwest Kind -The Deja vu Rendezvous featuring Franti The Post Mortems - PermaSmile -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Project: The Music of Michael Franti - Boomstick -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. City, IA Bettendorf, IA & Spearhead -The Redstone Room, Rock Island, IL Smooth Groove -Martini’s on the Rock, Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W 129 Main St Davenport, IA Hardball -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Locust Davenport, IA Dennis McMurrin -The Mill, 120 E Davenport, IA Switchback -CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 Karaoke Night -Zero to Sixty, 811 East Burlington Iowa City, IA Hip-Hop Night w/ DJ Pat -Gabe’s, 330 E. 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA 2nd St. Davenport, IA Elvis Lives! -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Quasar Wut-Wut @ Rozz-Tox – March 28 Washington St. Iowa City, IA The Chordbuster Chorus -Central Keep The Beat featuring C.J. the D.J. Davenport, IA March Madness with Levee Town and Them Som’Bitches Record Release Iron Orchard - Lewis Knudsen & the Performing Arts Center, 519 E. 11th -Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East Emanations Series: Kali Yuga -Rozz- Kelly Richey -The Muddy Waters, Show - Seth Knappen - Nick Mielke Bandits -RME Community Stage, 131 St. DeWitt, IA Moline, IL Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA -Bier Stube Moline, 417 15th St W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Live Lunch w/ Randy Leasman (noon) Fran & the Country Gentlemen Matt Nanke -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Moline, IL Jeff & Marcia Duo -Studio Pub, 1465 2013/03/24 (Sun) -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd (6:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Davenport, IA The Sneaking Suspicions -Brady Street 19th St. East Moline, IL SUNDAY 24 St. Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA Modern Mythology -Barrel House 211, Pub, 217 Brady St. Davenport, IA Karaoke King -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. 6th Anthony Catalfano Quartet (10:30am) Mixology - Garage Rock Night -Gabe’s, Histo - Douglas Kramer Nye - Suns - 211 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA What Made Milwaukee Famous -RME St. Davenport, IA -Brady Street Chop House, Radisson QC 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Samuel Locke Ward & the Garbage Naha Greenholtz -Englert Theatre, 221 (River Music Experience), 131 W. 2nd Keep Off the Grass -The Rusty Nail, Plaza Hotel, 111 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Boys -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. East Washington St. Iowa City, IA St. Davenport, IA 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA Cross Creek Karaoke -Bootleggers House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA Iowa City, IA Neal McCoy -Riverside Casino Event Wild Oatz -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 Ken Paulsen Orchestra -Walcott Sports Bar, 2228 E. 11th St. Open Mic Night w/ Chuck Murphy -The Jesse White Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, Center, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, 34th St Rock Island, IL Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA Davenport, IA Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA IA Kooby’s Karaoke Sing-Off -Headquarters Doc Anderson’s “Back In The (Sun) St McCausland, IA Karaoke King -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. 6th Night Light -Bleyart’s Tap, 2210 E. 11th 2013/03/23 (Sat) Bar & Grill, 119 E. 22nd Ave. Coal Day” Party (6pm) -The Muddy Open Mic Night w/ Karl -Kilkenny’s, 300 St. Davenport, IA St. Davenport, IA SATURDAY 23 Valley, IL Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Kooby’s Karaoke Sing-Off -Wide Open Rob Dahms (6pm) -Skinny Legs BBQ, ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Matt Nanke -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Open Mic w/ Jeff Smallwood -Studio Bar & Grill, 425 15th St. Moline, IL 2020 1st Street Milan, IL 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL Lee Blackmon -Rustic Ridge Golf Ron Johnson One-Man Band -Studio Allan & Ashcraft (7:30 & 10:30pm) Morris Day & the Time -Quad-Cities Mason’s Case - Item 9 & the Mad Slip Silo -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Course Grille & Pub, 1151 East Iowa Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, Waterfront Convention Center, 1777 Hatters - Raw Mojo -Gabe’s, 330 E. Iowa City, IA St. Eldridge, IA Southern Thunder Karaoke and DJ 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IA Washington St. Iowa City, IA Tronicity -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Live Lunch w/ Mo Carter (noon) - Julie -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Castle Ridge -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Open Mic Night -Downtown Central Small Houses - Subatlantic - American Island, IL Jurgens & Rob Reid (7pm) -RME Moline, IL House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Dust -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. The Last Glimpse - As Big as a Mouse - City, IA Pride Fest Fundraiser -Iowa City Yacht Island, IL 2013/03/22FRIDAY (Fri) 22 Davenport, IA 9th Street Memory -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Chris Young -Riverside Casino Event Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Songwriters Night -Studio Pub, 1465 Ave. Rock Island, IL Center, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, Propaganda -Generations Bar & Grill, 19th St. East Moline, IL ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust IA 4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL St. Davenport, IA Continued On Page 22 22 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 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 Mic w/ Jeff Smallwood -Studio ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Luminox - Electrocity - KiNFoLK - DJ Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA M@GIK - Way of Dusty Death - My Sunday Jazz Brunch (10:30am & Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -11th 12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St. American Honey - Techno Lincoln & the Dad - Pisces at the Animal Fair - The Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Technicolor Union -Iowa City Yacht Dead God’s Concussion -Gabe’s, 330 Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Tailfins (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ Big Joe’s DJ & Karaoke Show -V.F.W. Lynn Allen -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave Moline, Riverside, IA Post 9128, 2814 State Street 34th St Rock Island, IL IL Bettendorf, IA Night People -Headquarters Bar & Grill, 2013/03/25 (Mon) Bryce Janey Group -The Muddy Waters, 119 E. 22nd Ave. Coal Valley, IL MONDAY 25 2013/03/27WEDNESDAY (Wed) 27 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA Passion -Riverside Casino and Golf ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Charley Hayes (6pm) -Skinny Legs BBQ, Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA Burlington Street Bluegrass Band -The 2020 1st Street Milan, IL Propaganda -Fargo Dance & Sports, State St. Bettendorf, IA Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Musical Morning (7am) -Brewed Chuck Murphy -Rustic Ridge Golf 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL Fifth of Country (6pm) - Karaoke King Course Grille & Pub, 1151 East Iowa QC Slim -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St. Awakenings, 221 Brady St. (9:30pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Davenport, IA St. Eldridge, IA Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA Cross Creek Karaoke -Stickman’s, 1510 Ron Johnson One-Man Band -Studio Open Mic at the Paddlehweel hosted J.P. Soars & the Red Hots -Martini’s on by Silly C & Slack Man -Paddlewheel N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL Gypsy Lumberjacks @ RME Community Stage – March 29 Eric Lambert & Friends -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Smooth Groove -Edje Nightclub at Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau -Iowa City Bettendorf, IA Karaoke Night -Zero to Sixty, 811 East Ave. Rock Island, IL Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA 2013/03/28 (Thu) 2nd St. Davenport, IA Green Day - Best Coast -i wireless 92 Rock Island, IL Jason Carl & Friends -Creekside Bar and THURSDAY 28 2013/03/26 (Tue) Kilborn Alley Blues Band -Brady Street Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL Southern Thunder Karaoke and DJ TUESDAY 26 Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Avey Brothers Blues Jam -Rascals Live, Pub, 217 Brady St. Davenport, IA Jason Carl & the Whole Damn Band CD -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, 1418 15th St. Moline, IL Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee Release Show - The Candymakers Moline, IL Rock Island, IL Black Hawk College Jazz Band (6pm) House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa - -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St The Return: A Tribute to the Beatles 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -RME ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd City, IA Davenport, IA -Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. St. Davenport, IA Open Mic Night w/ Karl -Kilkenny’s, 300 Jazz After Five: The SEXtet (5pm) - Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IA State St. Bettendorf, IA Davenport, IA Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) - Candy Hearts - Pentimento - Allison W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA David Zollo & the Body Electric Unknown Component -Blueport Open Mic Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, Weiss - Occult Detective Club Open Mic w/ Jeff Smallwood -Studio (9pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Junction, 6605 W River Dr Mandolin Junction (7pm) -RME 114 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. - Lipstick Homicide (6pm) - Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL Iowa City, IA Davenport, IA Open Mic Night -Rustic Ridge Golf Mixology - Super Soul Session Quasar Wut-Wut - Tambourine - Break Johnny Don’t -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Course Grille & Pub, 1151 East Iowa 30 Damn Juhl - Radcon -RIBCO, 1815 2nd (10pm) -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington Up Art -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Davenport, IA 2013/03/30 (Sat) St. Eldridge, IA St. Iowa City, IA Island, IL Justin Morrissey & Drunken Angels SATURDAY 30 Ave. Rock Island, IL Ren Edstrand Blues Jam -Studio Pub, Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W CJ the DJ -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock The Main Squeeze -Iowa City Yacht -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL Island, IL Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Davenport, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA Shiloh Terry -Zero to Sixty, 811 East 2nd Kopecky Family Band - Evan P. Donohue Cross Creek Karaoke -Stickman’s, 1510 The Ragbirds - The Eric Pettit Trio Karaoke King -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. 6th Andrew Epstein’s Fried Egg String St. Davenport, IA N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St St. Davenport, IA Band -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St The Chris & Wes Show -Mound Street Davenport, IA Jam Sessions with John O’Meara & Davenport, IA Kooby’s Karaoke Sing-Off -Wide Open 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA Landing, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, Friends -The Muddy Waters, 1708 University of Iowa Jazz: Z Emlio Bar & Grill, 425 15th St. Moline, IL Battle of the Bands: Durant Polka Open Jam w/ the Harris Collection IA -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St. State St. Bettendorf, IA Gobbo Quartet (6pm) -The Mill, 120 Live Lunch w/ David G. Smith (noon) - Chips - Barefoot Becky - The Wasted Wednesday: DJ Pat - Darius Jim Ryan -Greenbriar Restaurant and E Burlington Iowa City, IA Gypsy Lumberjacks - The Young Funk Ivanhoe Dutchmen (2pm) -Walcott Davenport, IA Bowie - DJ Sweets - DJ Phatswagg Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL (7:30pm) -RME Community Stage, 131 Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa Justin Moore - Dustin Lynch -Adler 2013/03/29 (Fri) 00 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA Chance in Hell - Acoustic Guillotine - Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock City, IA FRIDAY 29 Island, IL Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Electric Coma - Body Rock III: Rich Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust Rok - Wolf Mixer - DJ Omatic -Gabe’s, Locust Davenport, IA St. Davenport, IA 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 23 Live Music Live Music Live Music Email all listings to [email protected] • Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication Chris Avery & Detroit Larry (6pm) Rootless Experience (6:30pm) -RME -Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Cafe, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA 2013/04/03 (Wed) 2013/04/04 (Thu) Milan, IL Rude Punch -Barrel House 211, 211 E. WEDNESDAY 3 THURSDAY 4 Chuck Murphy -Doc’s Inn Bar & Grill, 2nd St. Davenport, IA Iris DeMent - Dave Moore -Englert Avey Brothers Blues Jam -Rascals Live, 985 Avenue of the Cities Silvis, IL Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar Theatre, 221 East Washington St. 1418 15th St. Moline, IL Community Drum Circle (10:30am) (7pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. Iowa City, IA Cross Creek Karaoke -Stickman’s, 1510 - Live Lunch w/ Erin Ebnet (noon) - Davenport, IA Jason Carl & Friends -Creekside Bar and N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA Rootless Experience (6:30pm) -RME Saturday Jazz Brunch w/ the Brett Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Grizzly Bear - Owen Pallett -Englert Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Wahlberg Trio -Mama Compton’s, Karaoke King -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Davenport, IA 1725 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL Locust Davenport, IA Iowa City, IA Crossroads -Greenbriar Restaurant and Shawn Pittman -The Muddy Waters, Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Karaoke Night -Zero to Sixty, 811 East Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA Rock Island, IL 2nd St. Davenport, IA Eleven Fifty Two - Heavyweight - Life Smooth Groove -Edje Nightclub at Keller Karaoke -Martini’s on the Rock, Live Lunch w/ Lojo Russo (noon) in Cycle -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL - Davenport North & Wood Inter- Island, IL 92 Rock Island, IL Live Lunch w/ Chris Dunn (noon) -RME mediate Jazz Band (7pm) -RME Jeff & Marcia Duo -Studio Pub, 1465 Tim Stop -The Redstone Room, 129 Main Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. 19th St. East Moline, IL St Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Johnny Don’t -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. MarchFourth Marching Band -The Mission Creek Music Festival: JEFF Davenport, IA 2013/03/31SUNDAY (Sun) 31 Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav- the Brotherhood - PUJOL - The Justin Morrissey -Bleyart’s Tap, 2210 E. Julianna Barwick @ Gabe’s – April 2 enport, IA Olympics - Wolves in the Attic -The 11th St. Davenport, IA Cross Creek Karaoke -Bootleggers Kendrick Lamar - Chance the Rapper Bernie Worrell Orchestra -Iowa City Mission Creek Music Festival: Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Karaoke King -Chuck’s Tap, 1731 W. 6th Sports Bar, 2228 E. 11th St. -Iowa Memorial Union, 125 N. Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA Detective - The Multiple Cat - Mission Creek Music Festival: Mister St. Davenport, IA Davenport, IA Madison St. Iowa City, IA Mission Creek Music Festival: Thao & Gloom Balloon - Mirror Coat -Iowa Lies - Ex-Action Model -Iowa City Kooby’s Karaoke Sing-Off Jason Carl Unplugged (6pm) -The Mission Creek Music Festival: the Get Down Stay Down - Sallie City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA -Headquarters Bar & Grill, 119 E. Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Ducktails - Monopoly Child Star Ford & the Sound Outside - Har- City, IA Mission Creek Music Festival: 22nd Ave. Coal Valley, IL Bettendorf, IA Searchers - Gem Jones -The Mill, di-Har -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Mission Creek Music Festival: Pallbearer - Blizzard at Sea - Big Larry Bo Boyd (6pm) -Cool Beanz Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Iowa City, IA Michael Zapruder’s Pink Thunder Box - Sweet Chariot -Gabe’s, 330 E. Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Locust Davenport, IA Musical Morning (7am) -Brewed Mission Creek Music Festival: William - Christopher the Conquered -The Washington St. Iowa City, IA Island, IL Kathy Ogden (2pm) -Riverside Casino Awakenings, 221 Brady St. Basinski - Julianna Barwick -Gabe’s, Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee North of 40 -Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310 and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Davenport, IA 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Mission Creek Music Festival: White House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa W 1st Ave Coal Valley, IL Riverside, IA Open Mic at the Paddlehweel hosted Open Jam w/ the Harris Collection Lung - Slut River - Nerv - gluestick City, IA Open Mic Night -Downtown Central Planetrawk - Machine Daydream - The by Silly C & Slack Man -Paddlewheel -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St. -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa Open Mic Night w/ Karl -Kilkenny’s, 300 Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Savage Hacks - Nebula Was -Gabe’s, Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Davenport, IA City, IA W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA OSG White Party: Miles Kean Epictet 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA Bettendorf, IA Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Open Mic Night -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 Open Mic w/ Jeff Smallwood -Studio - Lady Espina -Iowa City Yacht Club, Songwriters Night -Studio Pub, 1465 Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA 19th St. East Moline, IL 2013/04/02 (Tue) Island, IL Open Mic Night -Rustic Ridge Golf Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band - Passion -Riverside Casino and Golf Sunday Jazz Brunch (10:30am & TUESDAY 2 Open Mic w/ Jeff Smallwood -Studio Course Grille & Pub, 1151 East Iowa Moreland & Arbuckle - Jimbo Mathus Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA 12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St. ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill, Pub, 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL St. Eldridge, IA -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Past Masters -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Davenport, IA 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -11th Ren Edstrand Blues Jam -Studio Pub, Davenport, IA Locust Davenport, IA ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St 1465 19th St. East Moline, IL Robert Jon & the Wreck -RIBCO, 1815 Propaganda -Fargo Dance & Sports, 2013/04/01 (Mon) 1 State St. Bettendorf, IA Davenport, IA Shiloh Terry -Zero to Sixty, 811 East 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL MONDAY Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) - Blues Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ 2nd St. Davenport, IA You, Me, & Apollo -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Red Rock-it -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708 Cafe (6:30pm) -RME Community -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave Moline, The Chris & Wes Show -Mound Street Ave. Rock Island, IL 34th St Rock Island, IL State St. Bettendorf, IA Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA IL Landing, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA 24 River Cities’ Reader • Vol. 20 No. 826 • March 21 - April 3, 2013 Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com T:9.25"

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