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corridor, knocking on doors and compiling a head count of the human collateral dam-age caused by such an arbitrary construction project disguised as “urban renewal.”) Today, such highways are considered passé in planning circles and are no longer built.

Davenport has one of the most spectacu-lar open riverfronts in the nation. It did not come without a fight. When nine miles of that

On May 21, Nora DeJohn’s children will bring their mother back to Davenport for burial. Nora died in Pennsylvania

on January 10 after a five-year battle with breast cancer. This will be a funeral to remember with a mass at St. Ambrose Chapel, Celtic bagpip-

ers leading the way to the cem-etery, and live Celtic music at an afternoon luncheon/reunion at the German American Heritage Center.

Her early career as a

public-school teacher, community organizer for Eastside Development Corporation, and nutri-tional counselor for the Iowa State Extension service took her to all corners of the central city and familiarized her with many diverse public causes. Friends from a broad spectrum of com-munity groups will be attending her Davenport memorial to help celebrate the indelible mark she left upon our town.

In the mid-1970s, the Davenport school

board doggedly ignored three defeated public referendums in their quest to sell off Daven-port High School, threatening to denude the central city of an irreplaceable core community resource. Nora successfully led the public’s fight to save their iconic school – by proving that the historic building was both structurally sound and economically feasible to renovate up to modern code standards. The courage of her convictions was never more apparent than the night that a school-board member unplugged her microphone – and had a police officer escort her out of the public meeting – for no more a show of civil disobedience than stand-ing at the mic, repeating over, and over, the passage out of the school board’s own operating procedures that would not allow it to deplete the school’s 10-year maintenance fund on a new construction project. Thanks to Nora’s suc-cessful effort to save venerable old Davenport High School, as many as four generations of Davenport families – including my own – have now graduated from that historic building.

In the early 1970s, the Cross-Town Ex-pressway threatened to destroy every historic district in Davenport, from the Village of East Davenport to downtown’s Washington Square/West Third Street old-town district to the Gold Coast. All to get truckers from Jersey Ridge to Marquette Street three minutes faster. Nora

stood up against a bevy of highway men/engi-neers at the local public hearings. She proved that out-of-date traffic counts had been used to justify the $33-million construction project – and that aldermen had never been notified of the federal mandate that would require the city to build new relocation housing for the 1,200-plus moderate-income residents displaced from their homes along the highway’s path. (Nora, and members of the Cross-Town Coali-tion, spent weeks walking miles of the highway

Nora DeJohn Memorial ServiceFuneral, Christian Burial, and Celebration of LifeWe are gathering to say goodbye to Nora Kelly DeJohn and to celebrate her life. She did not want this to be a somber occasion; she wanted a “party” and hoped for lots of music. To honor her life, we return to the places she deemed special. We invite all who knew Nora to join us as we say goodbye to a wonderful mother, friend, teacher, and advocate.

Saturday, May 21, 201110 a.m.: Funeral ServiceCatholic Mass at Christ the King Chapel, St. Ambrose University, Davenport.Music: Cantor and bagpiper for end-of-mass escort to gravesite.

11 a.m.: Christian BurialMt. Calvary Cemetery, 804 East 39th Street, Davenport.

Noon: Celebration of Nora’s LifeGerman American Heritage Center Banquet Room, 712 West Second Street, Davenport. (Nora helped save this building from demolition by the Cross-Town Expressway.)Music: The Barley House Band (Celtic musicians).Food/drink: Light lunch – sandwiches, platters, salads, coffee, tea, wine, and beer.

Memorial donations can be made to: Scott County Historic Preservation Society, P.O. Box 5017, Bettendorf IA 52722; Oaks of Mamre Catholic Worker House, P.O. Box 4618, Davenport IA 52802; hospice/visiting-nurses organizations; and cancer support/research groups.

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nent prosecution. And if he was unwilling to step down, Rock Island County Democrats should have forced his hand. On April 20, the Times did say that “Terronez should step aside until this investigation is complete,” but the revelations since that editorial suggest he should have resigned, period.

Terronez reportedly purchased alcohol for a minor on August 15, and the incident was reported to East Moline police four days later. In October, WQAD reported that the state’s attorney was under investigation.

Here we get to the crucial issue. Terronez pleaded guilty, and he told reporters on April 25 that “I delivered alcohol to a minor; it’s that simple.” He also said resigning was “the right thing to do.”

So he doesn’t deny the charge, and the law isn’t vague on providing booze to people un-der legal drinking age. By his own admission, resignation was the appropriate action. And yet ... it took him eight months to do it. (At least he had the decency to face the media for his public shaming.)

In other words, this cannot be a matter of waiting until the justice system had run its course. There’s no gray area in the law, and no protestation of innocence.

The subtext here is therefore that Terronez believed resigning was “the right thing to do” only when it was apparent that he was nailed. The key isn’t that he didn’t provide an “hon-est answer” to media inquiries in October; it’s that his actions say he believed that what he did only merited resignation once he couldn’t escape punishment.

I see four possible explanations for Terronez’s behavior, and none of them is flat-tering to the former prosecutor or the people who supported and elected him in 2004 and 2008.

First, perhaps he didn’t understand the law that he was elected to enforce. In this sce-nario, the Illinois attorney general needed to explain to him that what he did was a crime.

Second, maybe he thought the law didn’t apply to him.

Third, it’s possible he clung to office to stash away money. (“I’ll be an unemployed lawyer for a while,” he reportedly said. And if his license to practice law is suspended by the Illinois Attorney Registration & Dis-ciplinary Commission, he’ll just be unem-ployed.)

Fourth, perhaps he thought his stature in the Rock Island Democratic organization would protect him from prosecution.

Madigan’s direct involvement in the plea deal and an April 26 press confer-ence seemed designed to send a message to Democratic officials in the county. Terronez was, after all, a relatively small-fish target – a Rock Island County elected official – and his crime merited only two years’ probation and

by Jeff Ignatius [email protected]

Following Jeff Terronez’s resignation as Rock Island County state’s attorney and his guilty plea late last month,

I was waiting for the Quad Cities’ daily newspapers to forcefully and directly raise a simple question: Why didn’t he resign sooner?

More relevant at this point: Why didn’t the county’s Democratic leaders strongly en-courage his resignation long before he agreed to a plea deal?

Alas, the closest the newspapers got was the Quad-City Times’ April 27 editorial: “Terronez ... has decimated the credibility of his office, his former colleagues, and every Democrat who stood by silently as this crime was covered up for at least six months. That’s how long Terronez dodged specific questions from us and others about this crime. ... If, as Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan claimed, police found only enough to charge him with providing the alcohol [to a minor], Terronez could have cleared that up with an honest answer in October.”

But the “honest answer” the Times said Terronez should have provided is far differ-ent from his resignation. And both the Times and Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch seem more concerned with getting full details of the Illinois State Police investigation.

“Rumors abound about the secret cir-cumstances of Terronez’s crime,” the Times wrote. “That’s why we’re still pushing for full investigation disclosure.”

“On Tuesday [April 26], she [Madigan] provided sketchy details about what the extensive probe revealed,” the Argus/Dis-patch wrote in its editorial. “But they were far too few to satisfy the many questions that remain. Rumors continue to fly and, without proof, we will not repeat them here. Instead, we will focus on the unanswered questions.

“Chief among them is whether Mr. Ter-ronez provided alcohol more than once to the young woman who had been a witness in a case he prosecuted. What was the nature of the inappropriate relationship investiga-tors say he had with the victim, and is there evidence of additional wrongdoing?”

The Argus/Dispatch then listed other questions, but the most telling was a simple “What else don’t we know?” The newspapers don’t like that they had incomplete informa-tion, and that the available details were far less damning than the rumors they’d heard.

The Times said this episode taints prosecu-tions under Terronez’s watch, while the Argus/Dispatch wondered whether the state’s attorney received “special treatment at the hands of the tight-lipped state police who investigated the incident for at least eight months, or from the attorney general’s of-fice.”

But both lines of questioning miss the most obvious issue, namely that Terronez’s resignation shouldn’t have waited for immi-

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Republicans and the governor are moving further apart,” Gronstal said. “Changing the deal at the end of the game, and changing it downward when all of the indicators are that things are getting better in the state of Iowa, ... seems pretty ridiculous to me. It seems more a political game than a govern-ing game.”

In an interview with IowaPolitics.com, Branstad defended the new budget target as a move aimed at fiscal responsibility, which he said is why he was re-elected governor. He also acknowledged that the Iowa legisla-ture is still a ways from wrapping up.

“It’s just beginning,” he said. “There’s a lot of work to do. I think it’s going to take a lot of patience and perseverance. But I think it’s critically important that we not forget what we were elected to do: correct the financial mess, stop the political games, make sure that we have an open, transparent process, and [that] we make the best decisions. We need to make sure that the decisions we make are not short-term, but [that] we restore stability and predictability and make sure that what we’re doing is sustainable for the long term.”

Paulsen agreed with Senate Democrats that negotiations weren’t going well.

“This week, we probably took a step backwards, collectively, towards reaching agreement,” he said.

But the House Republican leader dis-agreed on who is to blame. He said with the new target of spending up to $6 billion, House Republicans did their share of com-promising by agreeing to spend up to $101 million more than they originally proposed.

“Senator Gronstal likes to talk about olive branches,” Paulsen said. “I think we brought the whole tree.”

House Republicans originally proposed a $5.90-billion budget, while the governor proposed $6.16 billion and Senate Demo-crats proposed $6.38 billion.

This article was produced by IowaPolitics.com. For an expanded version of this article, and more stories on Iowa politics, visit RCReader.com/y/iapolitics.

The 2011 session of the Iowa legis-lature will go on for weeks if not months, Senate Majority Leader Mike

Gronstal said May 5.“This is going to take a while,” said Gron-

stal (D-Council Bluffs).A budget agreement between Republican

Governor Terry Branstad, the Republican-controlled House, and the Democrat-led Senate is needed by June 30, the end of the fiscal year, to avert a government shutdown. House Speaker Kraig Paulsen predicted that an agreement would be reached by then.

“House Republicans are not going to let government shut down,” said Paulsen (R-Hiawatha). “I think that would be unac-ceptable.”

This year’s situation is similar to one in 1992, when Branstad, who also was gover-nor at that time, and the Democrat-con-trolled legislature were also deadlocked on the state budget and tax policy. A compro-mise was eventually reached on June 25, in a second special session.

Gronstal last week blasted the governor for waiting until the end of the legislative session to change the target amount that the state plans to spend next fiscal year from $6.16 billion to nearly $6.00 billion.

“Our governor comes back to the table on the 114th day of the session, and decided to change his budget, dramatically lowering the resources that he is going to agree to spend for next year’s education, health-care, and job-creation efforts in this state,” Gron-stal said. “We think this is a gut-punch to the middle class. We think it is wrong, and we are going to continue to fight for what is important out there.”

He was referring to an agreement last week week between Branstad and Republi-cans from both the Iowa House and Senate to spend just less than $6 billion in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Gronstal character-ized the GOP agreement as decreasing state spending by $161 million and changing the parameters of the deal that’s been worked on since the beginning of the session in January.

“Rather than moving closer together a week after we’re supposed to adjourn, the

Iowa Republican Leader Vows to Prevent Government Shutdown

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But Madigan is a one-of-a-kind character in politics. Madigan won’t ever lie to you,

but he also won’t come right out and say what he intends to do until he’s ready to do it.

“He’ll say, ‘You’re going to be fine,’ when you ask him if your bill’s gonna pass,” marveled one longtime Statehouse denizen. “You never know what that means. Am I going to be fine person-ally even if my bill

dies? Is my bill going to pass? You just don’t know.”

Madigan gave Daley a huge welcome-wagon present after Daley was first elected in 1989 by jamming through a tax hike solely for schools and local government. But Madigan’s latest tax hike gives not a penny more to schools and local govern-ments. In fact, cuts to both are likely. Ma-digan has often tried to test new leaders to see what they are made of. But he hasn’t yet clearly shown his hand one way or another when it comes to Emanuel.

Mayor Daley was always reluctant to lobby legislators one-on-one, even when invited to by Madigan. That refusal to get down into the trenches often meant his bills died, which frustrated his allies to no end.

Emanuel broke with that tradition even before he was elected, lobbying individual members on behalf of the civil-unions bill late last year. And then there is his ongoing involvement with the school-reform bill, which neatly dovetailed with his campaign promises to rein in the teachers’ union. He reportedly intends to use the same personal touch on major legislation important to his agenda, personally or municipally. But he will try not to overdo it, I’m told. Instead, he’ll keep that weapon “in reserve” and use it only when he has to.

I’ve covered state politics for 21 years, yet this is the first Chicago mayoral transi-tion I’ve ever seen up close. It should be fascinating.

Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.

by Rich Miller

Rahm Emanuel will be sworn in as Chicago’s new mayor on May 16, just 15 days before the end of the

state legislative session. So while Emanuel has more than enough on his plate dealing with the first Chicago mayoral transition in 22 years, he and his team appear well aware that they will have precious few days to get what they want out of the Statehouse after he’s inaugurated.

Emanuel’s transi-tion team hired a Statehouse emissary several weeks ago. They’re not calling him a “lobbyist,” however. He’s more of an “observer,” they say. And they decided not to call attention to themselves by choosing any of the well-known, Chicago-connected contract lobbyists in town. Instead, they hired Mike Ruem-mler, who ran Emanuel’s campaign advance team. Born and raised in southern Illinois’ Mt. Vernon, Ruemmler is not your typical city lobbyist. Ruemmler ran a campaign for state Senator Michael Frerichs, so he has some Statehouse connections.

Emanuel has tried hard not to step on Mayor Daley’s toes, using the “one mayor at a time” phrase over and over. While that philosophy has extended to Springfield, it doesn’t mean Emanuel is completely unin-volved. He sat down with House Speaker Michael Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton, and Senator Kimberly Light-ford before the final school-reform deal was made. His staff also worked on behalf of Lightford’s bill, and Emanuel has since pledged to make sure the House passes it.

As anyone who has tried it most surely knows, working with Madigan is not the easiest thing in the world. Madigan has not yet committed to approving the Senate’s school reforms as-is. Indeed, some of his people have all but declared that the bill will have to be changed. Too many anti-union tweaks could endanger the bill’s viability in the Senate, however, where the major-ity Democrats are always resistant to being pushed around by the House. Making sure the bill survives the usual House-versus-Senate back-and-forth will be a significant test of Emanuel’s abilities.

A source with close ties to Emanuel predicted last week that the mayor-elect and the speaker should be able to work together. Emanuel served time as a leader in Congress, so he understands how to

Emanuel Will Be Tested Early at the Statehouse

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as well as weather, for WOC and Channel 6.“Talk radio wasn’t being done full-time in

a market of this size,” explains Fisher. “So I hosted a talk show on Sunday evenings that was successful enough that the folks running things decided to try the same format during the week for three-plus hours a day.”

On January 22, 1980, Fisher launched his first daytime talk show, interviewing presiden-tial candidate Ronald Reagan. “I interviewed Reagan many times,” recalls Fisher. “You see, a call from WOC [to Reagan] was like a call from home.” Reagan got his start in broad-casting at WOC, and was on-hand for the dedication of its new headquarters in 1988.

Imagine doing talk radio for 31 years. Fisher has an unparal-leled perspective rela-tive to social dynamics because he has been in constant contact with his listenership. When asked how he views the dramatic social changes that have occurred while he’s been at the microphone, his response is unreservedly positive.

“Times are so much better now than in the ’60s,” he says. “I remember ‘Burn, baby, burn’ and watching Washington, DC, on fire in protest over the Vietnam War.

“We hid that we were veterans because the military was so reviled. We were told not to wear our uniforms while on campuses during the 1970s. Racial tensions were at an all-time high. I remember watching downtown Birmingham during the civil-rights march and seeing on the CBS evening news my country come unglued.”

He continues: “My grandmother was among the first women to ever vote. Not my great grandmother, mind you, but my grandmother. Now I have a young daughter entering college. When I was in college during the ’70s, it was about 80 [percent] to 20 males. Now, it’s about 55 to 45 female. Look at the opportunities for women in this culture that weren’t available back then. The world is a much, much better place.

Talk radio is one of the few places in American broadcast media that give voice to “regular people.” But because

local programs have largely been replaced by nationally syndicated hosts, the format rarely provides insights into the thoughts, concerns, and opinions of a local area.

Perhaps this is what makes Jim Fisher, talk-show host for WOC 1420AM for more than three decades, such a valued contributor to the genre. Whether you agree with him or not, he is one of us.

The Jim Fisher Show, heard Mondays through Fridays from 2 to 5:30 p.m., is a rarity. Not only has he maintained his program for 31 years and counting, but his show continues to be a com-mercial success. Clients get on waiting lists to be endorsed by Fisher, who has final say on which local advertisers he will pitch for. And his show consistently generates local advertising revenues that compete with nationally syndicated heavy-hitters such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Han-nity, who also air on WOC.

In an interview with this Quad Cities icon, Jim was charmingly frank in his assessment of his own success: “I have been blessed or cursed with a certain voice. I have never applied for a job. The Armed Forces Radio & Television Service asked me to work a volunteer shift while I was enlisted in the military in Asia. I ended up taking the licensing test here in the U.S. in the 1960s for commercial broadcasting.”

Fisher moved around working for various stations as a rock-and-roll disc jockey, happy as a clam in his chosen field and eventually landing at KCRG Channel 9 in Cedar Rapids to get his chops in television and radio.

It was in this role that Fisher enjoyed inter-views over the years with mega-stars such as Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Karen Carpenter, and Perry Como. Accomplishments such as these come with serious bragging rights, to say the least. Yet Fisher is fairly grounded about it all, claiming, “We all put our trousers on one leg at a time.

“Everyone looks at you like you’re special. That is the hardest thing to get over. Approach the microphone with the attitude that you are no brighter, wiser, or better than anyone else. People can then hear you and respond well.”

Jim eventually moved to the Quad Cities market, further honing his skills as a broadcaster by switching from rock and roll to adult music,

Goin’ Fishin’QC Audience Hooked on The Jim Fisher Show

by Kathleen [email protected]

When’s the last time we did a duck-and-cover for a 20-megaton nuclear weapon dropping on the Arsenal? Now we are worried we might get a dirty bomb that would kill 35 people in New York. You tell me: Is the world a better place?”

It is clear that Fisher considers his job a craft of sorts, and not for just anyone. It takes a certain thick skin to survive in talk radio, regardless of the talk. “I wouldn’t recommend anyone getting into talk radio unless you are really ready for

life to be difficult,” he observes. “Talk-show hosts are either loved or hated.

“Guys who do talk radio are chased up the mountain. We start down at the bottom, confused like everybody else. You hold conflicting viewpoints, you don’t have to be consistent, you can be a total idiot on Tuesday and no-body cares. Then you start doing talk radio. You’re fighting with people all day, every day, and they chase you up the mountain,

where you’re on this little pinnacle of ‘correct.’ You stand there on this little pinnacle of ‘correct’ all day. And you defend it. I got my butt handed to me the first couple of years doing talk radio. Some guy would call me with a viewpoint that differed from mine, and he would eat me for lunch. So I went home and studied.”

Anyone who listens to The Jim Fisher Show knows that Jim comes prepared with reams of information gleaned from hours of research. He is constantly “fishing” for information on all manner of subjects from magazines and books. He is unusually high-tech, utilizing the Internet expertly as another resource for data.

Jim preps two hours for every hour he is on the air. He is also blessed with a remarkable memory for places, dates, and times, lending credibility in large measure to his examination of issues and subjects long forgotten by most of us.

But best of all is Jim Fisher’s natural talent on live radio. He is a skillful technician behind the mic, as well as an empathetic listener. Thus, he is

able to engage all points of view, pro and con, as expressed by his listeners, who bravely call him to “share.”

Fisher has a knack for either dividing or uniting listeners, depending on whether you agree with his viewpoint. Some callers fume in opposition, while others chime in with their hearty agreement.

For my part, Jim makes me laugh. I don’t always agree with his positions, but I completely applaud his endeavor to voice his opinions, to give others the opportunity to voice theirs, and to engage his callers in aggressive banter-ing where Jim, at least, pulls no punches. He is brutally honest, making him a consummate entertainer, as well.

“How long have you been a slut?” he recently asked a listener on the air. Whether he actually thought his caller was a slut – because she held that the underage female in a child-abuse case was as much at fault as her adult abuser – is irrelevant. He superbly emphasized the absurdity of her position by referring to her in such an outrageous manner. His delivery is purposely inflammatory, more often than not thought-provoking, and many times totally amusing in its own absurdity.

Interestingly, Fisher is fairly known for his political switch from the Democrat’s camp to the Republicans’. He graduated from Coe Col-lege with a degree in political science, having interned on campaigns as part of his academic requirements.

But when asked what his reasoning was for the party-affiliation change, he clarified: “I was never a registered Democrat. If you are a young man who doesn’t understand John Stuart Mill on liberty, you are taking classes from professors at college who are teaching you the basic liberal ideas of Western civilization. It is important to understand how women must have felt in the 1890s, or African Americans during the 1960s, or how Hispanics feel today about how they are treated in America whether they are legal or not. But when you get older and start paying the bills, you start asking: ‘What are we doing?’ The [liberal] philosophy doesn’t hang together.”

One decidedly conservative position, perhaps better described as unapologetically chauvinis-tic, is his adamant opposition to women in the military.


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“I feel like when people write a biography of their band ... they tend to end up lying,” he explained. “They tend to create this coherent narrative.”

That’s also true in histories of musical movements, he said, with “backwards-look-ing narratives” that impose order on chaos and focus on winners at the exclusion of influential but relatively unknown bands. “Every single book you’ve read about the indie-rock scene is completely false,” he said. “A fiction about what was actually happen-ing.”

So 300 Songs is meant as a corrective, an intentionally messy and sometimes conflict-ing tale. “To tell the history of the band and the time that we came up in, it’s better to start with each song and remember what you knew about each song,” he said. “And even if your narrative can at times contradict itself – when you might come across the same event and tell it in a different way – overall, this is a better history.”

David Lowery and Johnny Hickman will per-form a semi-acoustic Cracker show at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, at the Redstone Room (129 Main Street in Davenport). Tickets are $15 and available from RedstoneRoom.com.

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“sometimes the demos I made were a little crazier than ... how the songs ended up sounding” with Cracker. The Palace Guards, then, was “my attempt to sort of flesh out the demos, knowing that they would become sightly different than how they are with the band.”

The result, he said, was “a little different style of song,” with more emphasis on the lyrics, and the music supporting his words. A couple of songs – “Big Life” and “Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing to Me” – had been tried with his other bands, but the remainder were written specifically for the solo record.

AllMusic.com noted that although “parts of it sound and feel quite a bit like his work with Cracker and occasionally it reveals shadows of Camper Van Beethoven’s eclectic gumbo of sounds, the mood of The Palace Guards is decidedly different than what Lowery has offered us in the past. The Palace Guards is a far cry from a serious statement on the world, but for a guy who

David Lowery saw no reason to make a solo album.

For more than 25 years, he’s been recording and releasing music with his bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker – a pair of “very diverse and flexible ensembles,” he said in a phone interview last week. “And so usually pretty much any piece of music I write, I can kind of put it with either one of the bands or the other.”

And both bands remain active, regularly touring together since 2002. “I know the Cracker and Camper audiences overlap like 90 percent,” he said. “And it’s just a little artificial sometimes to feel like, ‘Tonight the billboard says Cracker, and we’re only going to play Cracker songs.’”

But in February, at age 50, Lowery released under his own name The Palace Guards, a collection of nine songs that, he has said, gives “a sense of what it is that I’m kind of bringing to the bands.”

Lowery will be performing a duo Cracker show (with bandmate Johnny Hickman) at the Redstone Room on May 26 – which will include some Palace Guards songs – and he’ll also record a Daytrotter.com session while he’s in the Quad Cities.

Lowery said that Hickman inspired him to do the solo record when he observed that

The Crazier Side of Camper and CrackerDavid Lowery and Johnny Hickman, May 26 at the Redstone Room

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has built a career out of being a surreal smart aleck, this album embraces a worldview that’s decidedly somber and contemplative.”

That’s epitomized by the lovely “I Sold the Arabs the Moon,” which sways in waltz time but has a patient, literate urgency.

Despite his long history in the music business, Lowery said he was anxious about doing The Palace Guards. “I

didn’t know whether it was [that] people kind of liked what I did or if they liked what the guys that surround me do,” he said. “Re-ally simple.”

So he sat on the album. Most of it, he said, was finished prior to Cracker’s most-recent album, 2009’s Sunrise in the Land of Milk & Honey.

But now that it’s been released, The Palace Guards functions in part, as Lowery intend-ed, as a document for posterity. In a similar vein, last year he began the “300 Songs” blog (300Songs.com), a “song-by-song history of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven.”

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THORPrior to the film’s release, I wouldn’t have thought

any director a worse candidate for helming the hugely budgeted comic-book adaptation Thor than Kenneth Branagh, that frequent interpreter of Shake-speare whose one foray into Hollywood-block-buster(-wannabe) terrain was 1994’s monstrously terrible Frankenstein. In retrospect, I’m not sure any director would have proved a better choice. Two days after seeing Branagh’s grandly produced yet subtly frisky entertainment, I’m still a bit shocked at how strong the results are; against all logic, Thor’s director has successfully melded his movie’s wildly disparate ele-ments into an action-packed thrill ride (in 3D!) that, incredibly, also manages to be emotionally satisfying, and oftentimes funny as hell.

Christopher Reeve’s Superman and Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man make the competition tough, but has there ever been a piece of superhero casting as magically right as Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, that Nordic god of thunder with the flowing blond tresses and fearsome hammer? In this script devised by no less than five co-authors, Thor is introduced as a short-tempered Viking brute with devil-may-care insouciance, and the young Australian actor plays this vainglorious archetype with considerable brio. Yet when Thor – ousted from the heavenly kingdom of Asgard – finds himself exiled to the New Mexico desert, this deposed, newly powerless demigod becomes the ultimate big fish in a fish-out-of-water comedy, and Hemsworth’s already-witty performance begins yielding extraordinary benefits. Whether braying of his invincibility before being zapped unconscious by a taser, or striding into a small-town pet store demanding, “I need a horse!”, the intimidatingly brawny Hemsworth proves to be a magnificently inventive and confident light comedian in Thor. And with his stoically goofball demeanor and impossibly sweet smile, you wind up liking the actor so much that when Thor becomes anguished – grieving at the presumed death of his father (Anthony Hopkins), realizing the duplicity of his vengeful stepbrother (Tom Hiddleston), separat-ing from the helpful research scientist (Natalie Portman) he grows to love – damned if his torment doesn’t carry legitimate weight.

Hemsworth adds so many layers to his seem-ingly one-dimensional character that you barely mind, or notice, that none of his enjoyable co-stars is given a similar opportunity – including Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg, Idris Elba, Colm Feore, the too-long-absent Rene Russo, and (in cameos teasing Thor’s appearance in the forth-coming superhero spectacle The Avengers) Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. But Thor’s director stages the low-key comedy scenes, the Machiavel-

lian (and Shakespearean) intrigue, and the requisite apocalyptic showdowns with equally masterful finesse; an early, 15-minute mêlée on frozen tundra is the finest piece of large-scale choreography Branagh has pulled off since 1989’s Henry V.

Plus, just when you may have thought you’d lost all interest in visual-ef-fects “wonders” in com-ic-book extravaganzas, Branagh reminds you that when imaginatively and powerfully ren-dered – as when Thor’s hammer spins with such ferocious velocity that you fear for your auditorium’s ceiling – the timeworn miracle

of CGI can, on occasion, still suggest actual miracles. I had an absolute blast at Thor. Like its hero’s weapon, it’s a movie that soars, and swings, and has the capac-ity to knock you on your ass.

SOMETHING BORROWEDIn the deathly formulaic yet unexpectedly prickly

romantic comedy Something Borrowed, the longtime friends played by Ginnifer Goodwin and Colin Egglesfield discover they’re crazy about each other despite his being newly engaged to her BFF, and the pretty, blandly acceptable leads are easy enough to forget about. So what say we do? Despite her earnest-ness and friendliness, and despite his uncanny, distracting resemblance to Tom Cruise, Goodwin and Egglesfield do precious little for director Luke Greenfield’s adaptation of Emily Griffin’s novel. Co-stars Kate Hudson, Steve Howey, and John Krasinski, though, do so much that they perhaps inadvertently make this tired tale of unrequited love a good deal more interesting than it has any right to be.

As a noxious party girl with mischief and veiled distrust in her eyes, Hudson sinks deeply into her bride-to-be’s meanness and pettiness, and comes through with a vibrant, knockout caricature that’s riskier, and more successful, than anything the actress has attempted in years. Howey, with his consistently unpredictable line readings, is sensation-ally charming as a serial lothario who’s really just a harmless, wide-eyed doofus; of all of its characters, Howey’s Marcus is treated to the movie’s happiest ending, and, you feel, is the character most deserv-ing of it. And in the role of Goodwin’s male (and straight) confidant, Krasinski – with his peerless, put-upon deadpan – makes you feel the ache and anger of someone watching a dear friend make one disastrous life choice after another. In an amazingly rare moment of honesty for its genre, Krasinski rails against Goodwin for being a doormat to her bitchy pal and her on-the-fence beau, and urges her to be proactive with an incensed, “You’re all going to hell anyway, so you may as well do something for your-self!” Something Borrowed may be mostly standard stuff, but for all of its slapstick silliness and weepy acoustic montages, it has actual blood in its veins.

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protections.”Under the Radar

will be staged at the Village Theatre from May 19 through 29, and its genesis, says Jansen, began “about two years ago. I’d been doing an anti-bul-lying project with QCAD, and a few of us were sitting around talking one day about how it was for the Quad Cities’ gay commu-nity back in the day. And I said, ‘Wow, that sounds like a play.’ And they said, ‘Yeah. It does.’

“Our original idea was to focus on the ’50s and ’60s,” she continues, “when every-thing was underground and password-only ... . Really kind of a sad time. We quickly discovered, though, that our [research] sources for that time period were not plenti-ful. It was a bit too long ago.

“But then we had this idea that we could concentrate on the period right before the advent of AIDS, because someone said to me, ‘The Quad Cities really didn’t realize it had a gay community until AIDS hit.’

“So Under the Radar focuses on that time period, one that was very, very draconian by today’s standards, in that you could be fired for being gay – you’d actually be told, ‘You’re fired because you’re gay.’ When that was perfectly legal. And that was just, like, 30, 40 years ago. It’s horrifying, really.”

Jansen, a Davenport native who at-tended the University of Iowa in the 1970s (and who, for the record, is not gay), adds, “Having grown up here, I certainly don’t remember knowing anything about the gay community at that time.” And when it came to finding written information on the subject, she says, “It was really hard to re-

For the final production in her company’s

10th-anniversary season, New Ground Theatre Artistic Director Chris Jansen chose to direct a rather epic piece: the debuting period drama Under the Radar, which features numerous plotlines and changes of locale, and concerns our area’s gay scene in the late 1970s, with particular attention paid to the relationship of one long-term gay couple.

Based on that description, it sounds as though Jansen is tackling a Quad Cities-based, pre-AIDS version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Yet when, with a good-natured laugh, she says of the mammoth undertaking, “Some idiot wrote 11 char-acters into it,” know that Jansen isn’t being derogatory. At least, not toward anyone but herself.

“I’m against it, in theory,” says Jansen of directing a play that she also wrote. “I do think playwrights should hand their scripts to another director – to just let it go and let your child grow up. But practically speak-ing, it was easier to do this one myself,” especially because – at the time of our April 26 interview – Under the Radar was still in the process of being completed.

“There were so many stories that I wanted to tell that I had to ask myself the musical question, ‘How many stories, in a play, are too many stories?’” She laughs. “And we haven’t quite answered that yet. But I think it’s important to get the stories out there. I mean, the play’s about where we were on the road to where we are.”

Jansen’s sentiments are echoed by Joyce Wiley, interim executive director of Quad Citians Affirming Diversity (QCAD), the area not-for-profit that – through a grant by Rock Island’s Doris & Victor Day Founda-tion – is wholly funding New Ground’s latest presentation.

“It provides a picture for today’s youth,” says Wiley of Under the Radar, “to let them know what it was really like in the days before there was acceptance, or any kinds of

search, because I did want to make the play specific to the Quad Cities. I didn’t want to generalize.”

Happily, though, Jansen soon found herself privy to numerous first-person accounts of area gay life in the ’70s via QCAD’s Gay & Gray, a social support and advocacy group for Quad Cities seniors.

“Really, you won’t have a better time than with that group,” says Jansen, with a laugh, of her discussions with members of Gay & Gray. “It’s a riot. They told me great stories.”

Through Gay & Gray’s men, among them group

leader Clayton Peterson – “He’s an amaz-ing man, and has been so much help,” says Jansen – Under the Radar’s playwright was given insight into the area’s largely undis-cussed gay social scene.

“People sort of waxed eloquent and looked all nostalgic, talking about some people’s parties,” Jansen says. “There was quite a bit of activity at the Sunset Marina, from what I understand. Multi-boat parties. And there was the bar scene, of course, where you’d meet people, but also where you’d go be with people you could relax around. I heard that over and over from the Gay & Gray guys. It was just relaxing to be at a gay bar and know that nobody there was judging you.”

Not all of the stories shared, however, were happy ones. “Around the edges of the culture,” says Jansen, “there was all this physical threat – people being threatened down at the levee and things like that. There was a lot of social life, but still, at work, you didn’t really want to let anyone know you were gay. It was a cautious time where you needed to control the information. You needed to make sure that you knew who knew, and who didn’t, to keep your world stable.”

As a result of her research, the multi-nar-rative Under the Radar features subplots

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do some heavy lifting. On “Dead Man’s Hands,” with Anderson providing prettily sad singing, some subtle whistling harmo-nies leaven the mood.

And on “Jesusita,” the breathy harmonies on the lyrics “Heaven help us now” provide somber bookends that darken the song’s warm middle.

Roberts said the latter is an example of the band’s process of “mixing and match-ing” ideas. He provides lines and lyrical fragments, and he and Anderson will trade melody ideas they’ve recorded. “Those will kind of find their way into a 60- or 90-sec-ond demo,” Roberts explained. “You can compile 30 demos – just little 60-second ‘clippets’ – and then you can really find the common thread amongst them.” The four band members will then “hammer it out to where it becomes a full-fledged song.” The intro and outro to “Jesusita,” he said, started as “just one little moment on the original demo, and then it became the focal point.”

Roberts also credited co-producer and mixer The Ryantist with encouraging the band to embrace repetition within songs. “In the past, maybe we’ve been guilty of running away from the melody or the hook too quickly, because we don’t want the lis-tener to get bored with it,” Roberts said. But refrains and motifs help bond listeners to songs. The lesson: “Don’t run away from the hook. Don’t run away from the chorus.”

On “Westward Bound,” for example, the band went against its natural inclination and closed the song by repeating the chorus several times, elevating it into an anthem. “That made the song much, much stronger,” Roberts said.

Ha Ha Tonka will perform on Friday, May 13, at RIBCO (1815 Second Avenue in Rock Island). The show starts at 9 p.m., and the bill also includes Maylane and Satellite Heart. Cover is $6.

For more information on Ha Ha Tonka, visit HaHaTonkaMusic.com.

It’s little surprise that the members of Ha Ha Tonka, hailing

from the Ozarks, have a natural affinity for bluegrass.

“Anything we do, whether we’re trying to cover an R.E.M. song or what have you, comes out sounding Ozark-ian,” said frontman Bri-an Roberts in a phone interview last week. But on Death of a Decade, released in April, that influence on the band’s indie rock is front-and-center with Brett Anderson’s mandolin.

Roberts said the quartet, which will perform at RIBCO on Friday, aimed for “brighter, more hopeful sounds” on the album. And because Anderson had been playing lots of mandolin, “it just became the starting point for a lot songs. ... It’s such a colorful, I daresay happy-sounding, instru-ment. It definitely has a bright sound about it that I think ... helped capture the type of vibe or mood that we were wanting on the songs.”

That description misses the tonal and artistic expansiveness of the album. The mandolin drives opening track “Usual Sus-pects,” and it’s indeed an upbeat rocker. But elsewhere, the instrument brings shading or a counterpoint; on “Lonely Fortunes,” the mandolin adds balance, emotional com-plexity, and ambiguity simply through its pregnant tone.

AllMusic.com acknowledged that Ha Ha Tonka – named after a state park in Missouri – is mining “lighter territory for their third album for Bloodshot Records ... . But rest assured lighter doesn’t mean lightweight; if Ha Ha Tonka’s lyrical themes and musical frameworks are a bit less dark on this album, their Dixie-fried indie rock is still potent stuff ... . Ha Ha Tonka are emphasizing their Southern musical heri-tage while sounding smart and thoroughly contemporary.”

In its review of Death of a Decade, PopMatters.com called Roberts “a rapidly maturing songwriter unafraid to examine the darker side of life, while still delivering catchy songs.” And HearYa.com called the record “another stunner from a band that routinely pushes all the right sonic buttons. The new album finds the boys summon-ing all the floorboard-rattling power of a backwoods church to impart a sense of urgency to every track. And still the songs manage to have a familiar, timeless quality to them ... .”

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EventCirca: 61 Circus Acts in 60 MinutesEnglert TheatreSaturday, May 14, 2 p.m.

Appearing as the final guests in Hancher Auditorium’s 2010-11 Visiting Artists

series, the Australian troupe Circa brings its lauded 61 Circus Acts in 60 Minutes to Iowa City’s Englert Theatre on May 14, demonstrating such feats as knife-throwing, flying without a net, and what’s called “the unicycle of death.” That last one certainly sounds like something to see, as I wasn’t aware there were any other kinds of unicycles.

Of course, with the United Kingdom’s The Guardian

describing the show as “knee-tremblingly sexy, beautiful, and moving,” and Brisbane, Australia’s Courier-Mail calling it “fast and furious circus entertainment even for those with the shortest attention spans,” I’m guess-ing there’s very little about 61 Circus Acts in 60 Minutes that wouldn’t be something to see.

As the title indicates, this new touring pro-duction from the noted, Brisbane-based en-

tertainers finds its five-person team of acrobats, magicians, and contortionists pulling off 61 routines of spectacular agility and skill over the course of an hour. And if you’re wondering whether Circa’s performers fudge a little on their promise to wrap things up in exactly 3,600 seconds, 61 Circus Acts gives you the opportunity to call their bluffs; with an on-stage clock recording the hour-long count-

down, you and your fellow audience members are – in the show’s final seconds – invited to goad the performers on with cries of, “Oh, for the love of God ... faster!”

Scheduled as the featured entertainers for Hancher’s an-nual “Spot: The Hancher Family Arts Adventure” program, 61 Circus Acts promises exhilarating fun for the whole family. Yet with Circa advertising the production as a “cir-cus without the boring bits,” you don’t necessarily have to feel obliged to bring children along, especially with some of the acts finding performers juggling numerous things at once, jumping through hoops, and walking all over each other. Kids’ll have the chance to learn about the workplace soon enough.

For tickets and information to the 2 p.m. Circa produc-tion, call (319)335-1160 or visit http://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.

MusicThe Bill Frisell QuartetThe Redstone RoomFriday, May 13, 8 p.m.

In reading an online biography for acclaimed guitarist Bill Frisell – who performs at Davenport’s Redstone Room on

May 13 alongside Bill Frisell Quartet members Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wollesen – I learned that the man actually began his musical career with an entirely different instrument altogether, as he spent much of his youth playing the clarinet.

I also learned that that’s about the only thing he and I have in common. A 2005 Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and a Grammy

nominee in 2003 and 2008, Frisell has thus far enjoyed an illustrious and expansive career of mixing rock and country with jazz and blues. In doing so, he’s fashioned a uniquely earthy and soulful style that has led to collaborations with the likes of Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones, and Suzanne Vega; film-scoring work for directors Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders; and Jazz Times magazine lauding him for his “airbrushed attack, stunning timbral palette, and seemingly innate inability to produce a gratuitous note.”

As someone who refuses to include even a single gratuitous comment in his own works (and that sound you hear is my editor, Jeff, laughing his ass off), I’ll spend the

rest of my wordage here highlighting a few more of the musician’s many, many ac-colades. Among the following list of options, which isn’t a published rave awarded to Frisell?

1) “It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the com-positions of guitarist Bill Frisell.” – New York Times

2) “Frisell is a revered figure among musicians – like Miles Davis and a few oth-ers, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection, an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

3) “One of the most hopeful signs that contemporary jazz can evolve with dignity and charm.” – Chicago Tribune

4) “His guitar sound is unmistakable – billowing, breath-like, multi-hued, immense at times, almost palpable.” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune

5) “Strange meetings of the mysterious and the earthy, the melancholy and the giddy, make perfect sense by Frisell’s deliciously warped way of thinking.” – Rolling Stone

6) “Frisell has forged originals whose folky melodies and big-sky grooves make them seem like old friends in snazzy new clothes.” – Billboard.

Friday’s concert with the Bill Frisell Quartet begins at 8 p.m., and tickets and more information are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.

MusicConcerts at Rozz-Tox2108 Third Avenue, District of Rock IslandSaturday, May 21, and Monday, May 23

“I traveled through Vietnam one summer,” says Benjamin Fawks, proprietor of the

new art and music café Rozz-Tox, “and the coffee shops there really inspired me. There are outdoor coffee shops in the mountains there that just have little tables and hammocks. No chairs; just hammocks. And the coffee is amazing.”

Well, you won’t yet find any hammocks in the venue that, on April 1, opened at 2108 Third Avenue in the District of Rock Island. But based on the Vietnamese coffee that I enjoyed during a recent visit to Rozz-Tox, you’ll probably find that the coffee is amazing. And with its concert lineup including May 21’s Meth & Goats record-release show (also featur-ing Supersonic Pass and Slap N Tickle), May 23’s hardcore show with five national and inter-national bands, and July 23’s concert showcas-ing the indie musicians of Other Lives, you also might find that Rozz-Tox is quite unlike any other Quad Cities establishment of its type.

“I believe in keeping the venue an open space,” says Fawks, a Moline native who re-cently relocated to Rock Island after nine years spent in China. “Instead of labeling it as a punk club, or a jazz club, or an indie club, I’d like to cover all genres of music in here – it’s like, we’re all creative, why don’t we have a space where we can all do something?”

Its name inspired by artist Gary Panter’s 1980 “Rozz Tox Manifesto” (a writing that, as Fawks says, “encourages artists to embrace capitalism instead of staying underground”), Fawks says the two-story Rozz-Tox was

designed as “a platform for all artistic disci-plines,” among them music, visual arts, and literature, with a book shop scheduled to open in the building’s

second floor this summer. And yet another discipline is on display with the venue’s nightly screenings of silent movies. “We’ve got a lot of avant-garde and experimental cinema from 1890 to 1980,” says Fawks. “But we also have old Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies and things like that.”

Plus, of course, one shouldn’t underestimate the discipline required for making a perfect cup of joe, with each cup of Rozz-Tox java made fresh via the pour-over technique, and with the beans courtesy of Chicago’s famed Intelligentsia Coffee. (Says Fawks, “Quite a few people have come in and been wowed that we have Intelligentsia.”) With Rozz-Tox also serv-ing beer, wine, sandwiches, paninis, cupcakes, and even cereal – and with future musical bookings including such eclectic acts as Daniel Ate the Sandwich (June 2), the Submarines (June 3), and Maritime (June 5) – Fawks is hopeful that a venue as distinct as Rozz-Tox can both survive and thrive in the area.

“We’ve had amazing results with the shows so far,” he says, “and everybody that’s come in so far is basically telling me the same thing: ‘The Quad Cities needs something like this.’ And our area’s actually big enough that we could have more of them. We just need people to go out and do it.”

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MUSICThursday, May 12 – Marshall

Crenshaw & Freedy Johnston. Ac-calimed folk-rock musicians in concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $20. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com. For a 2010 article on Johnston, visit RCReader.com/y/freedy.

Friday, May 13 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven’s Last Night. Multimedia rock-theatre performance of classical works. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 8 p.m. $28.50-59.50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14 – The Magic Flute. Opera@Augus-tana presents an abridged, English-lan-guage version of one of Mozart’s most beloved works. Augustana College’s Denkmann Memorial Hall (3520 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. Free admis-sion. For information, call (309)203-9879 or visit Augustana.edu/academics/music/department.

Saturday, May 14 – August Zimbal. Farewell performance by the area alter-native rockers, with opening sets by Lost Allies and Big as a Mouse. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $5. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.


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EventCirca: 61 Circus Acts in 60 MinutesEnglert TheatreSaturday, May 14, 2 p.m.

Appearing as the final guests in Hancher Auditorium’s 2010-11 Visiting Artists

series, the Australian troupe Circa brings its lauded 61 Circus Acts in 60 Minutes to Iowa City’s Englert Theatre on May 14, demonstrating such feats as knife-throwing, flying without a net, and what’s called “the unicycle of death.” That last one certainly sounds like something to see, as I wasn’t aware there were any other kinds of unicycles.

Of course, with the United Kingdom’s The Guardian

describing the show as “knee-tremblingly sexy, beautiful, and moving,” and Brisbane, Australia’s Courier-Mail calling it “fast and furious circus entertainment even for those with the shortest attention spans,” I’m guess-ing there’s very little about 61 Circus Acts in 60 Minutes that wouldn’t be something to see.

As the title indicates, this new touring pro-duction from the noted, Brisbane-based en-

tertainers finds its five-person team of acrobats, magicians, and contortionists pulling off 61 routines of spectacular agility and skill over the course of an hour. And if you’re wondering whether Circa’s performers fudge a little on their promise to wrap things up in exactly 3,600 seconds, 61 Circus Acts gives you the opportunity to call their bluffs; with an on-stage clock recording the hour-long count-

down, you and your fellow audience members are – in the show’s final seconds – invited to goad the performers on with cries of, “Oh, for the love of God ... faster!”

Scheduled as the featured entertainers for Hancher’s an-nual “Spot: The Hancher Family Arts Adventure” program, 61 Circus Acts promises exhilarating fun for the whole family. Yet with Circa advertising the production as a “cir-cus without the boring bits,” you don’t necessarily have to feel obliged to bring children along, especially with some of the acts finding performers juggling numerous things at once, jumping through hoops, and walking all over each other. Kids’ll have the chance to learn about the workplace soon enough.

For tickets and information to the 2 p.m. Circa produc-tion, call (319)335-1160 or visit http://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.

Movies“Homefront Films of World War II” SeriesMarycrest Senior CampusSaturday, May 14, through Saturday, October 15

It should go without saying that some people handle movie tearjerkers better than others. I know folks who could sit through a triple-feature of

Love Story, Terms of Endearment, and Sophie’s Choice without so much as a sniffle, and others reduced to weepy wrecks at the end of The Muppets Take Manhattan, when the gang finally gets the chance to put on their big Broad-way show ... and Kermit and Miss Piggy finally tie the knot ... and ... Uh ... .

Sorry ... . Just need a moment here ... . O-o-o-okay ... .So if you’re among this latter group that loves a good sob with your cine-

matic entertainment, especially if you’re a fan of the great tearjerkers of old, you won’t want to miss the Classic Film Society’s 2011 season at Marycrest Senior Campus, which kicks off with a May 14 screening of the 1944 fam-ily drama Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (pictured). Themed “Homefront Films of World War II,” this series of six classic dramas explores American life through the eyes of those waiting for loved ones to return from overseas and those who’ve recently

come home, and the movies will be preceded by vintage shorts made in the Quad Cities, such as May 14’s 10-minute film on a War Bond rally held in downtown Davenport.

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier concerns a Florida family that invites a lonely military man into their home for his first home-cooked meal in ages, and similar lump-in-the-throat stories will be told in rest of the Classic Film Society’s screenings: 1942’s This Above All (June 18); 1943’s Claudia (July 16); 1944’s Winged Victory (August 13); 1943’s Happy Land (September 17); and 1949’s Come to the Stable (October 15). That last one, by the way, is about a group of nuns in New England who seek their community’s help in building a children’s health clinic, and find that ... . Uh ... . And find that ... .

Really, don’t worry about me ... . I’m gonna be fine ... . I think it’s just my allergies ... .

The six Classic Film Society screenings will be held at 7 p.m. in Marycrest’s Upham Hall Auditorium (located at 1607 West 12th Street in Davenport), and more information is available by calling (563)391-3502 or e-mailing [email protected].

MusicThe Bill Frisell QuartetThe Redstone RoomFriday, May 13, 8 p.m.

In reading an online biography for acclaimed guitarist Bill Frisell – who performs at Davenport’s Redstone Room on

May 13 alongside Bill Frisell Quartet members Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wollesen – I learned that the man actually began his musical career with an entirely different instrument altogether, as he spent much of his youth playing the clarinet.

I also learned that that’s about the only thing he and I have in common. A 2005 Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and a Grammy

nominee in 2003 and 2008, Frisell has thus far enjoyed an illustrious and expansive career of mixing rock and country with jazz and blues. In doing so, he’s fashioned a uniquely earthy and soulful style that has led to collaborations with the likes of Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones, and Suzanne Vega; film-scoring work for directors Gus Van Sant and Wim Wenders; and Jazz Times magazine lauding him for his “airbrushed attack, stunning timbral palette, and seemingly innate inability to produce a gratuitous note.”

As someone who refuses to include even a single gratuitous comment in his own works (and that sound you hear is my editor, Jeff, laughing his ass off), I’ll spend the

rest of my wordage here highlighting a few more of the musician’s many, many ac-colades. Among the following list of options, which isn’t a published rave awarded to Frisell?

1) “It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the com-positions of guitarist Bill Frisell.” – New York Times

2) “Frisell is a revered figure among musicians – like Miles Davis and a few oth-ers, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection, an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

3) “One of the most hopeful signs that contemporary jazz can evolve with dignity and charm.” – Chicago Tribune

4) “His guitar sound is unmistakable – billowing, breath-like, multi-hued, immense at times, almost palpable.” – Minneapolis Star-Tribune

5) “Strange meetings of the mysterious and the earthy, the melancholy and the giddy, make perfect sense by Frisell’s deliciously warped way of thinking.” – Rolling Stone

6) “Frisell has forged originals whose folky melodies and big-sky grooves make them seem like old friends in snazzy new clothes.” – Billboard.

Friday’s concert with the Bill Frisell Quartet begins at 8 p.m., and tickets and more information are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.

Answer: 3. That Tribune quote actually reads: “ ... can evolve with dignity, wit, and charm.” So Frisell’s even cooler than you thought he was.

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What Else Is Happenin’Sunday, May 15 – Pamela Reese

Smith. Jazz vocalist performs and educates alongside Manny Lopez III & Friends, as part of Polyrhythms’ Third Sunday Jazz Matinée & Workshop Series. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. all-ages jazz work-shop: $5 per adult, children free. 6 p.m. concert: $10-15. For tickets and informa-tion, call (309)373-0790 or visit Polyrhythms.org and RedstoneRoom.com.

Friday, May 20 – Ray Price. Famed country/Western musician in concert. Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Cen-ter. (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf ). 7:30 p.m. $15-25. For tickets and information, call (800)724-5825 or visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com

Friday, May 20 – Roger McGuinn. Concert with singer/songwriter and co-founder of The Byrds. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $20-30. For tickets and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.

THEATREFriday, May 13 – Dames of Denmark.

Shakespearean soliloquies performed by Prenzie Players Cait Bodenbender, Stephanie Burrough, Catie Osborn, Beth Woolley, Maggie Woolley, and Denise Yoder. Coffee Hound (4141 Seventh Street, East Moline). 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. For information, call (309)752-0019.

Friday, May 13, through Saturday, May 21 – Rent: The School Version. Student-performed production of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. The Center for Living Arts (2008 Fourth Avenue, Rock Island). Fridays and Saturdays: 7 p.m. $10. For tickets and information, call (309)788-5433 or visit Center4Living.com.

Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 22 – Once Upon a Mattress. Musi-cal-comedy re-telling of “The Princess & the Pea,” in the 18th-annual fundrais-ing production by the New Era Dinner Theatre. New Era Community Building (3455 New Era Road, Muscatine). Fridays and Saturdays: 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. performance. Sunday, May 22: 5 p.m. dinner, 6 p.m. performance. $10-20. For tickets and information, call (563)263-5255 or (563)263-0881.

Friday, May 13, through Sunday, May 22 – Rehearsal for Murder. Mystery thriller by D.D. Brooke, directed by Tom Swegle. Playcrafters Barn Theatre (4950 35th Avenue, Moline). Fridays and Satur-days: 7:30 p.m.. Sundays: 3 p.m. $10. For tickets and information, call (309)762-

0330 or visit Playcrafters.com.Saturday, May 14 – Quad City

Playwrights Festival. Staged readings of six 10-minute plays by area authors. Augustana College’s Bergendoff Hall, Black Box Theatre (3701 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). 7:30 p.m. Free admission. For information, call (309)794-7306.

Thursday, May 19, through Sunday, May 29 – Under the Radar. Debuting play about the Quad Cities’ gay and lesbian scene in the 1970s, presented by New Ground Theatre. Village The-atre (2113 East 11th Street, Davenport). Thurdays through Saturdays: 7:30 p.m. Sundays: 2 p.m. $12-15. For tickets and information, call (563)326-7529 or visit NewGroundTheatre.org.

DANCESunday, May 15 – Solos & Then

Some. Dancers ages 12 and 13 perform solos, duets, and group pieces choreo-graphed by the professional dancers in Midwest Modern Dance Co., with pro-ceeds benefiting the Midwest Academy of Dance Scholarship Fund. Nighswander Theatre (2822 Eastern Avenue, Daven-port). 3 p.m. $10 at the door. For informa-tion, call (563)326-7862.

COMEDYFriday, May 20, and Saturday, May

21 – Rodney Carrington. Stand-up comedy with the touring performer and sitcom star. Riverside Casino Event Center (3184 Highway 22, Riverside). 8 p.m. $45-55. For tickets and information, call (877)677-3456 or visit RiversideCasinoAndResort.com.

Saturday, May 21 – Brian Regan. Nationally renowned stand-up comedian in concert. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $40.50. For tickets and information, call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

EXHIBITSaturday, May 21, through Sunday,

September 4 – Adventures with Clifford the Big Red Dog. Traveling exhibit offer-ing numerous “paws-on” activities with the famed children’s book canine. Family Museum (2900 Learning Campus Drive, Bettendorf ). Free with $4-6 museum admission. For information, call (563)344-4106 or visit FamilyMuseum.org.

EVENTSaturday, May 21 – St. Ambrose Uni-

versity Wine Festival. Annual fundraiser for student scholarships, featuring hors d’oeuvres and samples of more than 120 wines. St. Ambrose University lawn (518 West Locust Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. $45-50. For information, call (563)333-6290 or visit SAU.edu/alumni/signature_events/wine_festival.html.

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about one gay man’s difficulties in the work-place, and a gay couple’s efforts to conceal their relationship through redecorating. (“There’s a scene in the play where one guy’s mother is coming over for dinner,” says Jansen, “and the men have to make sure their guest room doesn’t look like a guest room. It has to look like the guys sleep in dif-ferent rooms – like it’s a two-bedroom apartment.”)

Yet for all of Jansen’s success in speaking with Gay & Gray’s men, she says that she wasn’t, to her regret, able to get any first-person assistance for the Under the Radar subplot concerning a mar-ried woman embarking on a gay affair.

“I never got to talk to any women,” says Jan-sen “Never, never, never. I mean, I would make appointments to meet with people, and I left messages, and I never heard anything.” (With a laugh, Jansen says, “Somebody stood me up at Lagomarcino’s one day. Which I guess is a great place to be stood up, right?”)

“So that was a little bit frustrating,” she con-tinues. “But knowing what I did about the Quad Cities in the ’70s, and having some informa-tion from the guys, I kind of pieced the story together.”

Despite her play’s subject matter, though, Jansen makes assurances that little about Under the Radar would make even the most homopho-bic viewer wince.

“The emphasis here is not on anything controversial,” she states. “There’s really no sex talked about or even implied – one little kiss, that’s it. What we all wanted was to keep the

emphasis firmly on the humanity of the characters, and showing that long-term gay couples are like all long-term couples, and that living together brings problems for every kind of person.

“I wished I could have fit in, somehow, that Iowa was one of the first states to have gay marriage,” Jansen adds. “But I couldn’t do it without it being

awkward. Still, it’s fascinating to look back at this point when gay people were just starting to be able to express themselves. And to see how our history, since then, has just accelerated. I think we take for granted, sometimes, how short a time ago it was that things were very different.”

New Ground Theatre’s Under the Radar runs Thursdays through Sundays, May 19 through 29, at the Village Theatre (2113 11th Street in the Vil-lage of East Davenport). Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. on Sundays. For more information and tickets, call (563)326-7529 or visit NewGroundTheatre.org.

For more information on Quad Cities Affirming Diversity (1608 Second Avenue in Rock Island), call (309)786-2580 or visit QCAD-OutForGood.org.

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Davenport riverfront were threatened by a 14-foot-high flood-wall project in the 1980s, Nora successfully led the fight against the wall, encouraging the city to pursue more modern, nonstructural flood-control alternatives and proving that the $41-million-plus wall project could not even meet the the minimum cost/ben-efit standard of paying one dollar of benefit back for each dollar spent to build it. In 2001, that lo-cal flood-wall fight was elevated into a national debate when George W. Bush’s FEMA director, Joe Allbaugh, made the mistake of standing on the Centennial Bridge and chastising Mayor Phil Yerington over the fact that Davenport was the only major city on the Mississippi without a flood wall. Mayor Yerington, not known for being a shrinking violet in a fight, held the high ground in that debate and defended nonstruc-tural flood control. The 1993 benchmark flood tested structural walls up and down the river, and it was reported that 90 percent either failed or were at the point of collapse. Such temporary structural flood-control measures cost cities

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tens of millions to build, then millions more to maintain each year. The life expectancy of such walls is only 20 to 25 years – after which, it is time to pay for a costly rebuild again.

Nora laid the very groundwork upon which Yerington stood in that national debate, which forever changed Mississippi River floodplain-management policy. Davenport now boasts 15 miles of open, primarily city-owned, riverfront park land, stretching from the Bettendorf border to I-280. After decades of floodplain buy-out programs, Davenport now has only 21 buildings that ever find their feet in the water during major floods or require alternative con-trol efforts. Other river cities routinely come to Davenport to tour our expansive riverfront and marvel at our unfettered access to it – and the many festivals and historic venues we celebrate on its banks. All because Nora had the courage to lead the way a better alternative that was a win-win for everyone.

Nora’s courage exemplified true leadership, and she will be missed greatly.

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“I will not serve with women in the military because I don’t want to see them dead. You are lovely, but I am not going to come back and save you. I can outrun you. Guess what. The bear is going to eat you,” he asserts amid my genuine mirth.

On economics, his views are concise: “Corpo-rations don’t just sit on the money they earn. It’s used to create jobs and pay other people in the form of wages. Those jobs create wealth for the people who have them. They in turn circulate those wages for goods and services that create jobs of their own.”

Furthermore, he opines: “There is no question that most of the liberal policies since the ’60s have failed. There are too many bureaucrats with too much time on their hands. They have noth-ing better to do than create more regulation. Meanwhile, we have military personnel who sit behind desks all day for their entire tour, who are getting the exact same wages and benefits as those military enlistees who are risking their very lives on a daily basis. We should greatly increase the compensation for the higher level of risk taken, and pay the clerks etc. accordingly. In other words, pay far less for less risk.”

On another topic, he says: “Liberals no longer believe their own messages. Civil rights went from rights to license.”

And if success in the marketplace is any barometer, he’s right. For the past several years, ratings for broadcasters who favor liberal agen-das are tanking. CNN used to be the recognized source for news but is now trailing, along with MSNBC, the neoconservative Fox News.

Fisher believes: “The liberal down at the core of things does not believe in it [liberal ideology]. He believes it for you, but not for himself. If you are a driver, ride a bike, but he isn’t going to ride a bike. Another example: Barak Obama does not want to pay more taxes, but he thinks you should, and you should sacrifice to do it. What the hell has he ever sacrificed? He took every al-lowable deduction to avoid paying more taxes.”

He continues: “Look at these guys in public office with the salaries and benefits they have, telling folks making $7.60 per hour that they have to pay upwards of four to five dollars for a gallon of gas. Liberals just don’t believe what they are saying. Look at the failure of Air America, a strictly liberal talk-radio show. They couldn’t make it with their liberal message. No one was interested in hearing it, and that means no advertisers.”

Part of Jim’s appeal comes from his willing-ness to throw down when callers challenge his viewpoints. He is not shy about his in-your-face approach to draw callers out. He uses what he refers to as a teacher/student methodology: “To get a student to talk, you reach out and poke the student’s idea to get him fired up about it.”

It definitely works. Callers are known to holler and sputter in an effort to get their points across. And regardless of any opposition, Fisher always gives them the floor. The community is well aware of this outlet, as evidenced by the daily stream of callers who continue to voice their opinions for or against the topic of the hour. It’s actually therapeutic, because it has the added benefit of letting callers know they are not alone. It’s a little like a town-hall meeting, with Fisher presiding.

At the end of the day, however, Jim has no expectations that he is changing people’s minds. Nor is he interested in doing so.

“Everything we do in talk radio is entertain-ment, I don’t care who it is,” he says. “How

much do we believe relative to what we say? Nobody can lie three hours a day, every day. Convictions lend credibility. And it’s not that I don’t have doubts. But you can’t go in there and be the world’s greatest teacher. You are not

there to convert people to your point of view; you’re there to entertain. You want to keep those radios turned on. So you want to pick things that are of general interest to both conservatives and liberals, rich and poor, blacks and whites, old and young. You talk to the general American. Every day, I make believe I am talking to one of those persons, not a thousand people at a time. Hopefully, though, people will get a benefit from the research I do, and from the ideas that come from others.”

If you haven’t figured it out by listening to Fisher on the air for the past 31 years, then you’re missing the real secret to his impressive success: He’s having a ball.

“You can’t imagine how much fun I am hav-ing,” he says. “I do this because it is fun, and I am making a good living at it. I get to go in every day and voice what half the audience is already think-ing. The honest truth is: There were a bunch of Republicans who thought George W. Bush was the dumbest Republican they’d ever seen. Now Barack Obama is president and there are a bunch of Democrats that think he is the dumbest Democrat they’ve ever seen. This is real life. As a talk-show host, you get to say what other people would if they were lucky enough to have a God-given talent – and I owe God everything for this talent – to do talk radio for a living.”

Spend five minutes with him, and you will discover the glint in his eye that exposes his underlying humor. He does not take himself too seriously. And you’d better watch yourself, because he prides himself on his abilities as a provocateur. By the time you figure out you’ve been “Fished,” it’s too late. That sparkle in his eye is there, his smile ever-widening as it dawns on you, even as you are still sputtering your rebut-tals to some “gotcha” argument, that he has you hooked.

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names: Sauerkraut became victory cabbage, for instance, and dachshunds became liberty pups. The German Sav-ings Bank, the state’s largest bank at the time, was renamed the American Com-mercial & Savings Bank. Davenport’s German-language newspaper ceased publication. The anti-German hysteria reached its zenith in 1918 when Iowa Governor William L. Harding issued the Babel Proclamation, stating that only English was legal in schools, in public conversations, on trains, over

the telephone, at meetings, and in religious services. In effect, German became illegal in the state of Iowa.

Eighty-eight years later, a new statue of Germania was installed at the corner of Second and Gaines streets. Titled Lady of Germania, the sculpture was created by Jeff Adams with clay and then cast in bronze in multiple pieces at his studio and foundry in Mount Morris, Illinois. It is un-

usual that the same artist has the skill and experience to both sculpt and cast such a large work. Adams conveys a sense of welcome through the sweeping gesture of the arms as well as strength though the figure’s body. In particular, the head is beautifully sculpted. The classical style of clothing, combined with the row of columns, adds a sense of timelessness.

The gateway may be placed too close to a busy intersection and too close to the ground to be fully appreciated when driving past. If one takes the time, how-ever, to visit this site and also the Ger-man American Heritage Center across the street, then this sculpture is more than a gateway into the city; it is also a gateway into a fascinating past.

Bruce Walters is a professor of art at Western Illinois University.

This is part of an occasional series on the history of public art in the Quad Cities. If there’s a piece of public art that you’d like to learn more about, e-mail the location and a brief description to [email protected].

Crossing the Centennial Bridge into Iowa, one is welcomed by a larger-than-life sculpture of a

woman with outstretched arms. Behind her is an approximately 90-foot-long colonnade with the word “Davenport” in large capital letters across the top. This gateway is at the location of the city’s first park, Washington Square, and the statue is based on a figure that once stood there.

The sculpture is the centerpiece of the first of two gateways that were completed in 2006. The other, a corporate-style sign with five-foot-tall letters, faces north on Welcome Way. According to Greg Albansoder, project manager with the City of Davenport, fund-ing is in place for three additional gateways into the city: on West River Drive near Bettendorf, on East River Drive near Schmidt Road, and on Northwest Bou-levard. Each gate-way is intended to be unique and reflect the char-acter and history of its area of the city.

It is appropriate that the first com-pleted gateway is located downtown, where the early immigrants came into the city by riverboat and railroad. Among the first settlers were educated Germans who had fought against the entrenched aristocracy during the 1848 democratic revolutions in Europe. As Washington Square became the center of a rapidly growing German com-munity, a 35-foot-high fountain was erected at the park’s center in 1876. On top of the fountain was a statue of Germania, a symbol of strength, unity, and freedom that was closely associated with the German revolution of 1848. Facing the river, the statue’s open arms welcomed all immigrants who came to Davenport.

The original statue, however, was removed and sold as scrap iron. Although the date of its removal is un-clear, it likely occured in the backlash again German Americans when the United States entered the First World War. All things German were rechris-tened with American and patriotic

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Sure, the guy could’ve been on Match to cancel his membership – or to inflate his salary and height. He’s just getting out of a 10-year marriage. This is the time for a man to play the field – or, in Tennyson’s words, “When sprung, a young man’s fancy turns to ill-advised sex with a string of bar sluts.”

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a $2,500 fine. Yet the state attorney general personally made an example of Terronez, implying that the Democratic stranglehold on Rock Island County politics doesn’t mean public officials can operate with impunity.

County Board Chair Jim Bohnsack should feel especially chastened. He likely didn’t do anything illegal in the Terronez affair, but he certainly didn’t do much right, either. And he continues to idiotically defend himself.

On April 26, he issued a press release em-phasizing that “I had no personal knowledge of, nor did I play any role in, the investigation or subsequent charges that Mr. Terronez pled guilty to this morning.”

An April 29 Quad-CityTimes article said that “Bohnsack said he doesn’t recall ever asking for Terronez’s resignation, but he noted that the state’s attorney is an elected official, which limited his and the county board’s control over the situation. He rejected the idea that he could have done more to remove Terronez from office earlier.”

The article continued: “When Terronez first told Bohnsack [on October 22 that] he had made a mistake, he didn’t share details, and the chairman didn’t ask.” Surely the state’s attorney coming to him admitting a “mistake” deserves a few follow-up questions – however uncomfortable – to determine how that “mistake” might affect county business. Bohnsack could have started here: “Was it a personal mistake, or a professional mistake?” Given that it was both, the county-board chair should have then probed a little deeper.

But Bohnsack said his don’t-ask-don’t-tell attitude wasn’t just willful ignorance – an opportunity to tell the media six months later that he had no clue about the nature of the investigation. No, it was also a function of powerlessness. As the April 29 article stated: “Even if he had [questioned the state’s attor-ney], Bohnsack argues he wouldn’t have been able to force Terronez to resign.”

True enough technically speaking, but he can’t expect us to believe that the Rock Island Democratic party is so weak that it couldn’t have successfully pressured Terronez to resign. Bohnsack was simply unwilling to confront and deal with an obvious problem.

He wasn’t alone. Rock Island Democratic leaders could have avoided significant embar-rassment by pushing Terronez out last year, with the added bonus of appearing aggressive in ensuring that county officials behave ethi-cally. Instead, they look blind and ineffectual at best.

Terronez could have admitted his mistake and resigned in October (or earlier) and come off as genuinely remorseful for a human lapse in judgment. Instead, following his long-over-due resignation, he sounded calculating, only sorry that he got busted.

stitious.” From my perspective, Sagittarius, you shouldn’t indulge yourself in being even a little stitious in the coming weeks. You have a prime opportunity to free yourself from the grip of at least some of your irrational fears, unfounded theories, and compulsive fetishes. I’m not saying that you suffer from more of these delusions than any of the rest of us. It’s just that you now have more power than the rest of us to break away from their spell.

CAPRICORN (December 22-Janu-ary 19): In Plato’s Republic, Socrates speaks derisively about people who

are eu a-mousoi, an ancient Greek term that literally means “happily without muses.” These are the plodding materialists who have no hunger for inspiration and no need of spiritual intelligence. According to my reading of the as-trological omens, Capricorn, you can’t afford to be eu a-mousoi in the coming weeks. Mundane satisfactions won’t be nearly enough to feed your head and heart. To even wake up and get out of bed each morning, you’ve got to be on fire with a shimmering dream or a beautiful prospect.

AQUARIUS (January 20-Febru-ary 18): In his Book of Imaginary

Beings, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges reports the following: “Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.” I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because my reading of the astrological omens suggests that you, too, may be in training to fight a beast that does not exist. Luckily, you’re also in an excellent position to realize that fact, quit the unnecessary quest, and redirect your martial energy into a more worthy endeavor.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): Want to see a rabbit chase a snake up a tree? Go watch this video on YouTube:

tinyurl.com/BunnyWhipsSnake. If for some reason you don’t have access to Youtube, then please close your eyes and visualize a cute bunny harassing a six-foot-long snake until it slithers madly away and escapes up a tree. Once you have this sequence imprinted on your mind’s eye you will, I hope, be energized to try a similar reversal in your own sphere. Don’t do anything stupid, like spitting at a Hell’s Angels dude in a biker bar. Rather, try a metaphorical or psycho-logical version. Homework: Imagine it’s 40 years from today. As you look back on your life, what is the one ad-venture you regret not trying? Testify at FreeWill Astrology.com.

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single course that all the runners must follow. Rather, everybody scampers around wherever he or she wants, and decides when to begin and when to end. When the “race” is all over, of course, it’s impossible to sort out who has performed best, so the Dodo declares everyone to be the winner. I encourage you to organize and participate in activities like that in the com-ing weeks, Leo. It’s an excellent time to drum up playful victories and easy successes not only for yourself, but for everyone else, too.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22): In his book The Rough Guide to Climate Change, Bob Henson

talks about the “five places to go before global warming messes them up.” One such beautiful spot is Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. Vast swatches of its trees are being ravaged by hordes of pine beetles, whose populations used to be kept under control by frigid winters before the climate began to change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and Switzerland’s Alpine glaciers are among the other natural beauties that are rapidly changing form. I suggest that you apply this line of thought to icons with a more personal meaning, Virgo. Nothing stays the same forever, and it’s an apt time in your astrological cycle to get all you can out of useful and wonderful resources that are in the midst of transformation.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22): There’s not a whole lot of funny

stuff reported in the Bible, but one notable case occurred when God told Abraham that he and his wife Sarah would finally be able to conceive their first child. This made Abraham laugh out loud, since he was 99 years old at the time and Sarah was 90. It may have been a while since God has delivered any humorous messages to you, Libra, but my sense is that She’s gearing up for such a transmission even as we speak. To receive this cosmic jest in the right spirit, make sure you’re not taking yourself too damn seriously.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): No one in history has ever drunk the entire contents of a regulation-

size ketchup bottle in less than 39 seconds. So says the Guinness Book of World Records. However, I believe it’s possible that a Scorpio daredevil will soon break this record. Right now your tribe has an almost supernaturally enormous power to rapidly extract the essence of anything you set your mind to extracting. You’ve got the instincts of a vacuum cleaner. You’re an expert at tapping into the source and siphoning off exactly what you need. You know how to suck – in the best sense of that word – and you’re not shy about sucking.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): “I’m not supersti-tious,” said Michael Scott, the former

boss in the TV show The Office. “I’m just a little

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The 16th-century English writer John Heywood was a prolific creator of

epigrams. I know of at least 20 of his proverbs that are still invoked, including “Haste makes waste,” “Out of sight, out of mind,” “Look before you leap,” “Beggars shouldn’t be choosers,” “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” and “Do you want to both eat your cake and have it, too?” I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect you’re in a Heywoodian phase of your long-term cycle. In the coming weeks, you’re likely to unearth a wealth of pithy insights and guiding principles that will serve you well into the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe,” said

astronomer Carl Sagan in his book Cosmos. In other words, the pie can’t exist until there’s a star orbited by a habitable planet that has spawned intelligent creatures and apples. A lot of preliminaries have to be in place. Keep that in mind, Taurus, as you start out down the long and winding path toward manifesting your own personal equivalent of the iconic apple pie. In a sense, you will have to create an entire world to serve as the womb for your brainchild. To aid you in your intricate quest, make sure to keep a glowing vision of the prize always burning in the sacred temple of your imagination.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ll quote Wikipedia: “Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which

is the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon.” In other words, dawn comes before the sun has actually showed itself. It’s a ghostly foreshadowing – a pale light appearing out of nowhere to tinge the blackness. Where you are right now, Gemini, is comparable to the last hour before the sunrise. When the pale light first appears, don’t mistake it for the sun and take premature action. Wait until you can actually see the golden rim rising.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When some readers write to me, they ad-dress me as “Mr. Brezsny.” It reminds

me of what happens when a check-out clerk at Whole Foods calls me “sir”: I feel as if I’ve been hit in the face with a cream pie – like someone is bashing my breezy, casual self-image with an unwelcome blast of dignity and decorum. So let’s get this straight, people: I am not a mister and I am not a sir. Never was, never will be. Now as for your challenges in the coming week, Cancerian: I expect that you, too, may feel pres-sure to be overly respectable, uncomfortably formal, excessively polite, and in too much con-trol. That would be pushing you in a direction opposite to the one I think you should go.

LEO (July 23-August 22): At one point in the story Alice in Wonderland, a large talking bird known as the Dodo

organizes a race with unusual rules. There is no


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Adam & Lucy (6pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Ex-perience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Arts & Music Night (6pm) -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Bebop Night at the Rozz-Tox -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Captured! By Robots -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Deadman Flats - Smokin’ Joe and Jon Eric & Friends -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Gong Show Karaoke w/ Rock ‘N the House Karaoke -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -The Gallery Lounge, 3727 Esplanade Ave. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Kerry Christensen -Iowa Theatre Artists Company, 4709 220th Trail Amana, IA

Live Lunch w/ Rachel Schultd (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Marshall Crenshaw & Freedy Johnston -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav-enport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Kung Fu Tofu -Stickman’s, 1510 N. Harrison St. Dav-enport, IA

Santah - The Olympics -The Blue Moose Tap, 211 Iowa Ave. Iowa City, IA

The JaneDear Girls with Grazin District -Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon - Iowa City, 4919 B Walleye Dr. SE Iowa City, IA

The Steepwater Band -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA

2011/05/13 (Fri)

Bill Frisell Quartet featuring Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, & Kenny Wollesen -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Daven-port, IA

“Blues Plate Special” Lunch with Ren Es-trand (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experi-ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Brother K Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Buddy Olson -Applebee’s - Muscatine, 306 Cleveland St. Muscatine, IA

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

E11eventh Hour -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Funktastic Five -Daiquiri Factory, 1809 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Gglitch’d - Dead Winter’s Carpenters -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Gray Wolf Band -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Ha Ha Tonka - Maylane - Satellite Heart -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Hi-Fi -Lavender Crest Winery, 5401 US Highway 6 Colona, IL

Jaron Gaier (6pm) -Cool Beanz Coffee-house, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL

Jazz After Five: Equilateral (5:30pm) - S. Carey - Other Lives - Grand Tetons (9pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Stickman’s, 1510 N. Har-rison St. Davenport, IA

Live Lunch w/ Melaine Devaney (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Night People -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Origin of Animal - Furious Frank - Day-light Savings Account -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Smooth Groove -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

Sudlow Middle School Jazz Jam (5pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Sweet Trouble Band -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Tangent -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

The Charley Hayes Trio (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) -The Circa ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven’s Last Night -i wireless Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

2011/05/14 (Sat)

August Zimbal Farewell Show - As Big as a Mouse - Lost Allies -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Banjoy w/ Bob & Kristie Black -Orange Street Theatre, 701 Orange St Muscatine, IA

Barlowe & James (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

Buddy Olson -Applebee’s - Moline, 3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL

Catfish Keith -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Caught in the Act -The Torchlight Lounge, 1800 18th Ave East Moline, IL

Crossroads -Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310 W 1st Ave Coal Valley, IL


Doug Rees -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Dr. Z’s Experiment - Matt Skinner -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Hard Ball -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA

Jeff Chin, Rachel Schuldt, & Friends -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th St Moline, IL


Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Caman-che Ave Clinton, IA


Migration of the Music (1pm) -The Circa ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Night People - Rusty Nail, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA

One Day - Bow ‘N Arrow Barfight - 20 Foot Forehead (6pm) -Shockwave, 1600 4th Ave SE Cedar Rapids, IA

Pappa-Razzi -Belgrade, 2431 16th St. Moline, IL

Secret Squirrel - Paddy O’Furniture -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

Shame Train - Amelia White - Mike Mangione -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Simon Says Uncle -Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N. Brady St. Davenport, IA

Smooth Groove -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

Songwriters in the Round (3pm) -River Music Experience, 129 Main St Daven-port, IA


Sweet Trouble Band -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv-erside, IA

Tapped Out -Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East Moline, IL

The Fry Daddies (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

The Karry Outz Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

The Slough Buoys -The Rodeo Saloon & Feedhouse, 1801 Lincolnway Clinton, IA

The Wildfire - Jim the Mule - Scattered Trees -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Is-land, IL

Third Rail -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Time Span -Tommy’s, 1302 4th Ave Mo-line, IL


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Wild Oatz -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

2011/05/15 (Sun)

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA


Polka Club of Iowa, Inc. - Eastern Chapter Dance (1:30pm) -Walcott Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA

Sweet Trouble Band (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Third Sunday Jazz Series featuring Pa-mela Reese Smith w/ Manuel Lopez III & Friends (6pm) -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

2011/05/16 (Mon)

Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

“True Blue Mondays” Lunch w/ Ellis Kell -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

2011/05/17 (Tue)

Attic Party - Phantom Vibrations - Jo-seph Mao -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Contest Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA


Karaoke Night -Sharky’s Bar & Grill, 2902 E. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube Davenpor t, 2228 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Quad-Cities KIX Orchestra -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Dav-enport, IA

The Chris & Wes Show -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Davenport, IA

2011/05/18 (Wed)

Buddy Olson (6pm) -Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL

Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL


Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL


Live Lunch w/ Brent Feuerbach (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Alan Sweet and Siri Lorece -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Karl, Mike, & Doug -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Luis Ochoa -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/05/19 (Thu)


Festival of Fools -Rookies, 2818 N. Brady St. Davenport, IA


Jaill -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA


Jazz Jam with The North Scott Jazz Combo -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA





Live Lunch w/ Keith Soko (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA


Open Mic Night w/ Kung Fu Tofu -Stickman’s, 1510 N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA

Smokestack and the Foothill Fury - Matt Skinner -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Spiritual Rez - Rude Punch -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA


2011/05/20 (Fri)

90’s210: Covering the Nineties -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

“Blues Plate Special” Lunch with Tony Hoeppner (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Buddy Olson -Applebee’s - Muscatine, 306 Cleveland St. Muscatine, IA

Crossroads -Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL


Double D & the Sensations -Edje Night-club at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

Dubuquefest: The Fast Clydes (5pm) - The Right Now (6:30pm) - Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Heart (8:30pm) -Town Clock, 823-25 Main St. Dubuque, IA

Final Mix -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Gray Wolf Band -Len Brown’s North Shore Inn, 7th Street and the Rock River Moline, IL

Iowa City West Jazz Bands (6:30pm) -Weatherdance Fountain Stage, outside the Sheraton Hotel, 210 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Jazz After Five: Equilateral (5:30pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Davenport, IA



Karaoke Night -Stickman’s, 1510 N. Har-rison St. Davenport, IA

Kent Burns and New Generation -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Lee Blackmon (6:30pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Nashville Songwriters Association Inter-national (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz Coffee-house, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL

Night People -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran Church - Rock Island, 1600 20th St. Rock Island, IL

Orquesta Alto Maiz -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Ray Price -Quad-Cities Waterfront Conven-tion Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Bet-tendorf, IA

Roger McGuinn -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Sidewalk Prophets - 1,000 Generations -Orpheum Theatre, 57 S. Kellogg St. Galesburg, IL

Smooth Groove -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL


Spiritual Rez -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

The Afterdarks - James Leg - Hellwater -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

The BackTrack band w/ Hollywood Dave (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

The Bucktown Revue -River Music Experi-ence, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

2011/05/21 (Sat)

Benefit for TJ Brietbach: Mayhem In Parlor - The Sidemen - The Drabbletails - Greg & Gene Thompson -The Mill, 120 E Burl-ington Iowa City, IA

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Coffeehouse, 2139 16th St. Moline, ILCobalt Blue -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State

St. Bettendorf, IACrossroads -Mound Street Landing, 1029

Mound St. Davenport, IADavid G. Smith CD Release Show -The Red-

stone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IADavid Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront

Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, ILDouble D & the Sensations -Edje Nightclub

at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

D u b u q u e fe s t M u s i c i n t h e G a ze b o : Dubuque Fiddlers (noon) - Peter Frater-deus (1pm) - Feast of Mutton (2pm) - Denny Garcia (3pm) -Downtown Dubuque, Dubuque, IA

Dubuquefest: Dubuque Senior High School Jazz & Big Bands (noon) - Round Midnight & M.I.C.E. (4pm) - Starlicker (6pm) - James Leg (7:30pm) - William Elliott Whitmore (8:30pm) -Town Clock, 823-25 Main St. Dubuque, IA

Dustin Lee -Mojo’s (River Music Experi-ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Elvis vs. Beatles -Timber Lake Resort, 8216 Black Oak Rd. Mt. Carroll, IL

Festival of Fools -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Final Mix -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Gray Wolf Band -River House, 1510 River Dr. Moline, IL

Hard Ball -Tommy’s, 1302 4th Ave Mo-line, IL

House Arrest -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th St Moline, IL


Karaoke Night -Generations Bar & Grill, 4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche Ave Clinton, IA


Keep Off the Grass -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Lynn Allen -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Meth & Goats Record Release Show - Su-personic Piss - Slap N Tickle -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Night People -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

Radio Moscow - Brutus - Tribal Momen-tum -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Red Pepper Sage (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL


Super Size Seven -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Tapped Out -Chopper’s Bar & Grill, 17228 Rt. 5 & 92 East Moline, IL

The Tangents (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz Coffee-house, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL

uneXpected -Van’s, 3333 Harrison St. Dav-enport, IA

Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

2011/05/22 (Sun)

Bill Chrastil (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Danika Holmes(2pm) -Wide River Winery, 1776 E. Deer Creek Rd., Clinton, IA

Dubuquefest Music in the Gazebo: Logan Ford (noon) - David Morrison (1pm) - Diva Kai (2pm) -Downtown Dubuque, Dubuque, IA

Dubuquefest: Mississippi Band (2pm) -Downtown Dubuque, Dubuque, IA


High Cotton Blues Band (11am) -Veterans Park, E 2nd St Kewanee, IL

Jim Ryan (2:30pm) -Len Brown’s North Shore Inn, 7th Street and the Rock River Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA


2011/05/23 (Mon)

Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Live Lunch w/ Randy Arcenas (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

“True Blue Mondays” Lunch w/ Ellis Kell -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Weekend Nachos - The Afternoon Gentle-men - Lord Green - Is World - Sleeper Wakes Society -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

2011/05/24 (Tue)


Karaoke Contest Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA



Live Lunch w/ Steve Couch (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube Davenpor t, 2228 E 11th St Davenport, IA

The Chris & Wes Show -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Davenport, IA

2011/05/25 (Wed)

Buddy Olson (6pm) -Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL

Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL


Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL


Live Lunch w/ Siri Lorece & Alan Sweet (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Alan Sweet and Siri Mason -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Karl, Mike, & Doug -Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night w/ Luis Ochoa -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/05/26 (Thu)


David Lowery & Johnny Hickman -The Red-stone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Euforquestra - Holding Space -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Face Candy - Old Man’s War - Kristoff Krane - Sadistik -Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash-ington St. Iowa City, IA



John L. Sullivan -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL





Live Lunch w/ Dave Maxwell (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA


Open Mic Night w/ Kung Fu Tofu -Stickman’s, 1510 N. Harrison St. Davenport, IA

To Whom It May Concern (6pm) -Hennepin Canal Parkway, Illinois 84 Colona, IL


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