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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the military (DOD), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Science & Technology (DST). The stated purpose is to effect weather, slowing down global warming by blanketing the atmosphere with “pollution particles” (MSNBC.MSN.com/id/30112396/)

and/or micro-scopic shards of aluminum to reflect the sun. Sadly, precious few studies exam-ining the fallout (literally) from these programs have been con-ducted relative to negative impacts.

It gets worse.According to the documentary, in 2009,

the U.S. Patent Office granted patent 7582809 (Patents.com/us-7582809.html), among others, jointly to the USDA and the Brazil-ian Enterprise for Agriculture Research. This patent protects genetically modified seeds that are resistant to massive levels of alumi-num. The composition of materials covered in the patent, and others like it, match induced compositions of aluminum, barium, and strontium found in the soil and water sources in numerous locales nationwide. These toxic levels have only occurred in the past five years, coinciding with the onset of the geo-engineering’s chemtrails.

The pH balances of the soil necessary for growing food around Mount Shasta, and numerous other sites, including the Hawaiian islands, is slowly being neutralized, losing forever the requisite acidity for proper farm-ing. Naturally, whoever owns the patents for genetically modified seeds that resist alumi-num will have control of a significant portion of the world’s food source.

This fits perfectly with the newly passed Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, mandating the use of specific seeds for food production. As hard as this is to believe, dismissing the possibility that the nation’s natural resources are deliberately being com-promised is far more dangerous. Not only are our leaders crushing the financial stability of the world’s economies; they are destroying our ability to survive on our own.

Don’t take my word for any of this. Inves-tigate for yourself. Begin by watching What on Earth Are They Spraying? Read the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010. Do a Web search for “chemtrails,” “geo-engineering,” and “weather manipulation.” The amount of evidence is overwhelming if you just peek, let alone research in earnest.

by Kathleen McCarthykm@rcreader.com

Take a second look the next time you see jet-streams way up in the atmo-sphere. Are they lingering for a long

time? Do you see a pattern or grids forming? These are not commercial airlines creating these trails in the sky.

Geo-engineering programs that claim to prevent global warming by spraying toxins into our atmo-sphere are com-monly referred to as “chemtrails.” Most people as-sume the white, fluffy trails being emitted from some jets as they fly across the sky are condensation trails from exhaust, or “contrails.” But common sense informs us that contrails do not occur in crisscross grids across the sky, remain overhead long after the plane(s) have left the sky, or continue to expand throughout the day, culminating in a veil of fog that eventually falls to the earth.

Chemtrails have become a common occur-rence both nationwide and around the world, delivering massive doses of toxic materials over not just our farmlands and homesteads but also over some of the planet’s most pristine environments, including Mount Shasta in California and remote areas of the Hawaiian islands.

Testing of soils and aquifers, including lakes, ponds, and streams, conclusively proves that the chemtrails are composed of toxic levels of aluminum, barium, and stron-tium, impacting negatively on every living bio-system exposed. The EPA declares 1,000 parts per billion as an unacceptably toxic level of aluminum. Testing of soil and water sources on and around Mount Shasta shows 61,000 parts per billion of aluminum, 3,090 parts per billion of barium, and 375 parts per billion of strontium.

The pH balance of the soil in this region is being dramatically compromised as a result of chemtrails, including the poisoning of the snow that covers this glorious mountain, contaminating the myriad water sources the melted snow supplies.

G. Edward Griffin’s documentary What in the World Are They Spraying? (RealityZone.com/whatspray.html) is perhaps this topic’s most compelling and exhaustive film. It pres-ents information that is must-see, if we have any hope of saving our natural resources, including our ability to grow organic food the way God intended. And therein lies the horror.

The geo-engineering programs appear on the surface to be a partnership between the

What in the World Are They Spraying?: A Must-See Documentary

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passed two referendums would no longer be subject to an automatic county referendum every eight years on its gambling license. That part of the bill would be retroactive to 1994. However, citizens could petition for a referendum if they gather signatures of at least 10 percent of the voters from the last general election.

Senator Jerry Behn (R-Boone) offered an amendment to strike that portion of the bill, but it was rejected 16-34.

“We are breaking our word. Is it any wonder people don’t trust politicians?” Behn said, arguing to keep the referendums. “Here we’re openly acknowledging we’re changing the rules of the game.”

Behn said it takes only 100 signatures to run for the Iowa Senate and only 50 signa-tures to run for the Iowa House. That’s 7,500 signatures for all 150 members of the Iowa legislature to get on the ballot, he said, while a referendum on a casino could require nearly three times as many signatures.

“We’re going to require 21,000 signatures to get a referendum in Polk County,” Behn said. “This is a hurdle so high. Why do you think they’re [casinos are] asking for a reverse refer-endum? Because they know it won’t happen.”

But Danielson argued that referendum votes on casinos routinely pass at rates of 70 percent or higher. He said costs for a referen-dum range from $1 million to $4 million.

Senator Bill Dotzler (D-Waterloo) said the vote on a casino’s future every eight years is a hindrance to investors.

“Why would they put money into their community when in eight years, we’re going to yank the rug out from under them?” Dotzler asked. “It’s important that we get rid of it to save taxpayer dollars.”

Senator Roby Smith (R-Davenport) argued that referendums on casinos don’t cost any money because they’re usually held at the same time as another election. And Zaun said eliminating the requirement of referendums every eight years also eliminates account-ability.

This article was produced by IowaPolitics.com. For more articles on Iowa politics, visit RCReader.com/y/iapolitics.

The Iowa Senate on April 20 voted 38-12 for a gambling bill that calls for a report on Internet poker and lifts the require-

ment that Iowa casinos face a vote of the people every eight years.

“There are good parts of this bill and other parts that give me grave concern,” said Senator Brad Zaun (R-Urbandale). “The seven years I’ve been down here, we’ve talked about the referendums, horse racing, but never could any of these bills survive and stand on its own two feet.”

Senate File 526 would have the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission produce a report that would look further into the issue of Internet poker. The bill originally would have legalized Internet poker, but Zaun credited the change to an Iowa poll that showed 73 percent of Iowans are opposed to legalizing Internet gambling.

“The original bill had Internet gambling, the state of Iowa going into the Internet-gam-bling business. Well, the public spoke loudly, and we decided that this was going to become a study,” Zaun said. “We have the opportunity to slam the door on Internet gambling here today. I am going to support slamming that door.”

But Senator Jeff Danielson (D-Cedar Falls), the bill’s floor manager, said Iowa can’t ignore the fact that about 150,000 Iowans are taking part in Internet poker illegally every day, and the revenue is benefiting offshore Internet-gambling companies.

“Technology and time marches on. We have an issue before us that outpaced our own laws,” Danielson said. “This issue has risen to such a level of economic implications for the United States. Someone is going to act. Iowans are pragmatic and practical. In this case, I think Iowa citizens deserve a frame-work, consumer protection and a regulatory framework.”

On a voice vote, senators on April 20 called for an additional report by the Iowa Depart-ment of Public Health on the societal effects of Internet gambling. The report would be due October 1.

Drawing the most discussion during the debate was a provision about referendums.

Under the bill, a casino that has successfully

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chance. So they are no longer supporting the bill.

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce’s support was crucial to the bill’s Senate passage, but it reportedly received serious heat from Chicago Mayor Rich Daley and Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel. So it’s backing away as well.

And the main lobbying firm that pushed the legislation through the Senate has withdrawn from the fight. The firm also represents the DuPage County Board, the chair of which is now oppos-ing the bill after ini-tially backing it. That position change meant the lobbying firm had a conflict, so it’s out.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Michael Madigan’s spokesper-

son said last week that while opinion is divided in the House over the bill’s future, with some Downstaters pushing hard for its passage, Madigan has put the legislation “under very serious review” because the “alarm bells have been sounded.” That might look like a hedge to you, but Madigan’s people don’t usually tip their hand so clearly. The wheels have come off this bill.

The RTA’s chief lobbyist is Speaker Madi-gan’s son-in-law, which doesn’t help the Senate bill, of course, but the strong opposition from pretty much all of the governmental units in the Chicago region is hugely important. Also, Madigan’s own state senator, Steve Landek, forcefully opposed the tax bill in committee, claiming that much of the construction of the Chicago Fire’s soccer stadium in his district avoided local sales taxes by using those Down-state tax havens.

And now the Senate bill’s opponents are gearing up to introduce legislation of their own in the House that would officially kill off these tax havens. The measure will likely be tacked onto a broader bill that deals with taxation. Doing it that way would make it far tougher to vote against the provision.

The bottom line here is that the backers of the original Senate legislation might have set the stage for exactly the opposite of what they originally intended. Instead of just letting the judicial branch handle the issue completely un-der everybody’s radar screen, they decided to move the fight into the General Assembly, but then everybody discovered what was going on.

Oops.

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

by Rich Miller

Some big Chicago-area retailers have found a way to avoid paying high local sales taxes on their wholesale purchases.

They’ve essentially set up their own “tax havens” in Downstate counties that have no local sales taxes. The havens are mostly just one-person offices with a fax machine.

The retailers contract to purchase mass quantities of fuel, or construction equip-ment, or lumber, or whatever, and then those contracts are faxed to their little Downstate offices, stamped as received and then faxed back to headquarters and – voilà – no high local sales taxes are owed.

Back in January, the Illinois Depart-ment of Revenue lost a court case filed by Hartney Fuel Oil Company, Putnam County, and the little town of Mark, Illinois (population 500). Hartney is based in Cook County but had a “sales office” in no-tax Mark. The Department of Revenue claimed Hartney owed sales taxes in Cook, but a Putnam County judge disagreed.

Nobody really noticed. But then some folks got the bright idea of introducing a bill at the Statehouse to codify the Downstate court case to make certain that all Chicago-area compa-nies had the same option.

Bad move.Introducing that legislation shined a light on

this tax-avoidance scheme, and now all heck is breaking loose.

Proponents say this tax-haven thing has been standard practice for 50 years, and they’re just hoping to codify the judge’s ruling after the Department of Revenue changed its practices. They also claim that if their bill fails, compa-nies will move their headquarters out of the Chicago area to avoid high sales-tax rates. A lobbyist who worked for the bill claimed that after five state audits ruled against his clients, four moved out of Cook, with one going to Indiana. The bill passed the Senate earlier this month, partly because opponents reacted too late to kill it.

The legislation has received scant media coverage so far, but it is considered a major threat by the Regional Transportation Author-ity (RTA), Cook County, the City of Chicago, and several suburban taxing bodies that worry that the legislation would lead to a loss of tax revenues. Some suburban counties thought they could get some of those tax havens until they realized their inclusion in the RTA’s regional sales-tax zone meant they had no

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by Jeff Ignatiusjeff@rcreader.comDaytrotter’s Barnstormer Tour

Closes in Maquoketa on April �0Daytrotter.com’s latest Barn-

stormer tour – five nights of live music in Midwest-

ern barns – closes Saturday at the Codfish Hollow barn in Makoqueta. The Reader published an interview with headliner Sondre Lerche in 2009 (RCReader.com/y/lerche), but we wanted to acquaint our readers with a couple of the other bands on this year’s tour: Guards and the Romany Rye. (The bill also includes Keegan DeWitt, ARMS, Mike & the Moon-pies, and Hands.)

Guards: A Series of Fortunate Events

Richie James Follin said that the ongoing joke of his current band is that as long as a song has a Omnichord – an electronic instrument that was meant to mimic an autoharp – and a 12-string electric guitar, it’s a Guards song, regardless of genre or any other con-sideration.

So Guards’ seven-inch of covers includes a startlingly sleepy and longing inversion of Metallica’s “Motorbreath” alongside trans-formed tracks from M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend. There’s a dreamy, retro haze over everything, but on that and the earlier col-lection of seven songs that Follin posted on Guards’ Bandcamp site (Guards.Bandcamp.com), the vibe ranges from dark, propulsive pop to angular, doom-filled rock. (Both sets of recordings can be downloaded for free.)

If that sounds scattershot, it’s fitting considering how much happenstance has shaped the story of Guards. A member of Willowz and until recently a touring member of Cults – which features his sister Madeline – Follin said his original Guards recordings were just one of a handful of projects he put up on Bandcamp for friends and family.

The unusual sound, he said in a phone interview last week, was the result of cir-cumstance. Most of his musical equipment was still in a tour trailer, and all he had to work with was a 12-string and an Omnich-ord. The latter, he said, “made me write a lot different than I had ever written before, and do a lot of different chord changes that I would have never done on the guitar. We

owe a lot to the Ominichord.”The tracks, he said, were originally writ-

ten for other people to sing. But between tours, he recorded and sang on them him-self “while I was waiting to see if Cults were going to use them.” He then got his sister and Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek to sing on a song apiece, and then he posted them to Bandcamp.

Those two singers wrote about the project at various online outlets, and Guards all of a sudden generated a lot of buzz – much like Cults had done previously. (The Reader wrote about Cults last year: RCReader.com/y/cults.) “I didn’t really think it was going to turn into something serious until it did, I guess,” Follin said.

Crawdaddy.com spotlighted Guards last summer: “For something that came togeth-er seemingly by chance, or at the very least without grand intentions, Guards’ music is undeniably catchy, refreshingly trend-defy-ing, and remarkably polished as a singular vision, which is a testament to Follin’s range and prolificacy.”

But Follin doesn’t attribute Guards’ emergence to anything except the push by his sister and Polachek: “People seem to really love anything those two girls sing on,” he said.

And because he wants to focus on Guards

– a single on the Kitsuné label is due May 10 – he’d prefer to keep his other projects un-der-the-radar: “I have like four other things up on Bandcamp right now that have been there for a while and nobody knows about it,” Follin said. “Now I don’t want anybody to know.”

The Romany Rye:Non-Good Good

Luke MacMaster shouldn’t be on the Barnstormer tour. He shouldn’t have writ-ten, recorded, and released the Romany Rye’s debut album (Highway 1, Looking Back Carefully) in 2009. And he sure as hell shouldn’t be on the cover of Rolling Stone – a remote possibility, but a possibil-ity nonetheless because of the magazine’s current readers-put-a-band-on-the-cover contest.

“I never really expected to be the front-man, lead singer, or writer of a band,” MacMaster said in a phone interview last week. “I was only supposed to play guitar in a band.”

When he left his previous band – the rock group the Colour – four years ago, he thought he was done with music. He said that band had signed one of the last “pretty big deals” with a record label (the EMI subsidiary Re:think), but things didn’t go well. The label had an old-school mental-ity – pushing radio instead of the Internet – and that caused a rift in the band. “When it became the most miserable place to even

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photo by Lauren WardLuke MacMaster of the Romany Rye

photo by Olivia MaloneRichie James Follin of Guards

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Featured Images from the Quad City Photography ClubPHOTOGRAPHY

(Editor’s note: The River Cities’ Reader each month will publish images from the Quad City Pho-tography Club.)

This month, we are featuring the work of Quad City Photography Club member Al Doyle, who passed away April 1. He was a longtime photographer and photo-club member who was also involved in several other local clubs as well as the Central

Illinois Camera Club Association and the Photographic Society of America. Al served in a number of capacities in each organization and was always willing to help other photogra-phers. He presented workshops at local clubs on black-light and glassware tabletop pho-tography, and in addition to those he especially enjoyed travel photography. He won many awards with his images, including a number of international honors.

The Quad City Photography Club holds digital and print competitions most months. At its meetings, members discuss the images, help each other to improve, and socialize. The club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of the month September through June at the Butterworth Center, 1105 Eighth Street in Moline. The club also has special learning workshops and small groups that meet on specific photography topics.

For more information on the club, call (563)332-6522 or visit QCPhotoClub.com. To see works by club members, visit QCCCSmugMug.com.

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markable yet again. Although he has a boyish face, Langdon really captures the childish na-ïveté and innocence of his character with his puppy-eyed glances, and while he has some problems with pitch, his sharp comic delivery makes them easy to overlook. The true strength of Langdon’s portrayal, however, is showcased in how he slowly darkens Tobias’ purity, with that darkness overwhelming it by

the musical’s penultimate scene (one I won’t detail, for fear that someone read-ing this actually hasn’t seen Sondheim’s show yet).

It was Rachelle Walljas-per’s Mrs. Lovett, though, that I found most surpris-ing, as her characterization is completely different from that of any other meat-pie-maker I’ve seen or heard. There’s usually at least a hint of evil, or self-serv-ing, capitalistic desire, in Mrs. Lovett, but Walljasper plays the part with neither; everything that her Mrs. Lovett suggests to Todd (renting a room, turning

his victims into pies) seems to serve one purpose: to get closer to him so she can enjoy his company. The performer’s greatest mo-ments are her physical portrayals of surprised delight whenever her character thinks that Todd is giving her attention of a more-than-friendly nature; with Todd’s every touch, Walljasper offers a sincere, doe-eyed look of hopeful wonder that just melted my heart.

In other roles, Joe Maubach provides laugh-out-loud-worthy comic relief (and the show’s most pitch-perfect vocal performance) with his Pirelli, and Mark Ruebling brings a slightly eccentric nature to his Judge Turpin and shades him beyond mere evil, making him more realistically human. Angela Elliott’s physical portrayal (her facial and full-body tics especially) are most impressive in her role as the insane Beggar Woman, while Matt Mercer delightfully shades his Beadle Bam-ford, turning the unscrupulous character into an amusing, likable man who also happens to be ... well, unscrupulous. Krianna Walljasper (Tom’s and Rachelle’s daughter) clearly has a long stage career ahead of her, with her pleas-ing singing voice, pitch, comic timing, and stage presence – all of which she’s acquired while still in elementary school!

And I would be remiss not to mention lighting designer Joe Simpson’s work. With his frequent use of back-lighting form-ing foreboding silhouettes, and his visual schemes creating heavily shadowed spaces, Simpson’s efforts add a notably menacing air to Harrison Hilltop’s impressive, if spatially limited, production.

For tickets and information, call (563) 449-6371 or visit HarrisonHilltop.com.

When the cast for the Harrison Hill-top Theatre’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was

revealed several weeks ago, I’ll admit I was concerned. While I’d previously admired the work of most of the actors, I wasn’t sure they were up to the tasks of the roles they’d been awarded – chiefly Tom Walljasper, cast as the titular barber. While Walljasper excels at co-medic roles, I worried that, with his smirking, tongue-in-cheek style of delivery, he wouldn’t be able to carry the dramatic weight of Stephen Sondheim’s killer character. But after seeing Thursday’s opening-night performance, I’m pleased to admit that I was wrong. Very wrong; Walljasper’s ability to handle the role was apparent with the first lyric he sang, which carried with it a dark, sinister, intense appeal.

Co-directors Jason Platt’s and Tristan Layne Tapscott’s overall effort, however, took at least half an hour to grow on me. In hindsight, I realize the size of the performance space (or lack thereof) inhibited the scale of their creation. Yet at the time, my disconnect with the musi-cal – about a barber set on revenge against the lustful judge who jailed him years ago – was mostly due to the minimal amount of move-ment in Platt’s and Tapscott’s work. While some of the blame did lie with a few of the ac-tors (some of whom seemed uncertain about their motivations behind standing in a certain spot other than being told to stand there), most of it lay with the theatre’s stage limita-tions. In visual and emotional terms, Platt and Tapscott have created something grander than the space in which it’s being played – a show that deserves more room to not only allow the actors more movement, but help differentiate the different settings in which they perform. (The intentionally shabby set design places Joanna’s window, Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop, and the shop’s cellar only a few steps apart from each other, although Todd’s barber shop is on a raised platform with a full staircase leading up to it.)

That being said, the directors do fine work within the space they’re given; while a larger performance area would allow the play to reach its full potential, given the restrictions, it’s still quite good. In fact, the Hilltop’s effort is only the second Sweeney Todd staging of the several I’ve seen (including the film ver-sion) that, I think, effectively captures this masterpiece’s ominousness and the characters’ descent into insanity, and that has a lot to do with C.J. Langdon’s turn as the sweet, slow-witted Tobias. Langdon, with whom I was impressed in the Hilltop’s Frost/Nixon, is re-

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with the audience through knowing glances and asides – giggling at Alexander’s trouble opening the door, for example, or cringing as Alexander spits his toothpaste into the sink. There’s this sense of, “Hey, kids! Watch this!” to the show, a playfulness that resonates throughout Danner’s overall concept. And with each actor offering a fantastically exag-gerated portrayal with a childlike air, it’s all so sweet and so cheerful that I didn’t stop smiling from beginning to end.

Alexander himself, played by Marc Ciemiewicz, manages to pull off a lot of pouting in a sincerely lovable manner. His Alexander is overplayed, for sure, but ap-propriately so; this is, after all, a boy who considers something as insignificant as get-ting all white shoes (instead of the blue ones with red stripes) reason enough to move to Australia. Ciemiewicz’s caricature of a kid with an ever-present raincloud over his head is pitiable in a way that made me just want to pinch his cheeks, rather than cry for him out of sympathy.

Due to a scheduling conflict, I was not able to take my children to see the show with me this time around. Still, I didn’t need to watch Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day vicariously, through their eyes, to enjoy it.

For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733, extension 2, or visit Circa21.com.

Not being a child my-self, I can

only imagine the delight that kids feel at seeing a much-loved book played out, on stage, before their eyes – which is what’s currently happening in the Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse’s produc-tion of Alexander & the Terrible, Hor-rible, No Good, Very Bad Day. While I’ve personally never read author Judith Viorst’s work, I do know it’s a popu-lar story among younger readers, and those in the audience during Saturday morning’s performance cer-tainly seemed to like what they were seeing. (They were also at least familiar enough with the source material to be able to shout out the show’s title without a hitch... though I’d bet many could recite much more than that part of the book by heart.)

As for me, I found director Tyson Dan-ner’s take on this tale of one boy’s Worst Day Ever nothing short of adorable. It’s playful from beginning to end, boasting non-stop cuteness and a good number of laughs for even the adults in the audience, and Viorst’s lyrics – set to composer Shelly Markham’s music – are often clever and chuckle-worthy. In truth, Danner’s staging of Viorst’s story is so captivating, I didn’t hear any sounds of restlessness from even the audience’s young-est members. They seemed to be engaged for the show’s entire hour, which is notable (and, as a parent, much welcome) when it occurs.

While Alexander stands out, of course, the piece is really an ensemble effort, with six actors taking on various roles – from Alexander’s brothers to his best friends, from his female teacher to his male den-tist (the latter two delightfully played by Janos Horvath, who is a sight to see in Mrs. Dickens’ dress and wig.) Whether by Viorst’s design or Danner’s imagination, the actors also portray inanimate objects, such as his bedroom door and bathroom sink. They’re not simply doors and sinks, though. While in “inanimate” form, the actors still connect

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Alexander the GreatAlexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, at the Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse through May 7

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WATER FOR ELEPHANTSAfter his where’s-my-paycheck? turn in The

Green Hornet, I was mildly concerned that, fol-lowing his Oscar-winning Inglourious Basterds portrayal, Christoph Waltz might be resigned to a career of forever playing Euro-trashy über-vil-lains in Hollywood action dreck. With director Francis Lawrence’s Water for Elephants, though – a Depression-era romance based on Sara Gruen’s beloved novel – my fears have proved unfounded. As the egomaniacal, possibly sociopathic owner and ringleader of a second-tier traveling circus, enraged by the blossoming affections between his star-per-former wife (Reese Witherspoon) and the troupe’s young veterinar-ian (Robert Pattinson), Waltz is every bit as mesmerizing – charming, unpredictable, terrifying – as he was in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II opus. Yet fantastic though he is, Waltz’s talents here aren’t a shock. The bigger surprise is that the movie itself is so bloody marvelous.

Boasting a topnotch script by Richard LaGraven-ese and splendidly atmospheric, evocative cinema-tography by Rodrigo Prieto, the movie re-creates a long-gone age with true feeling for both the period and those struggling to survive it; without pushing for its effects, Lawrence’s film locates the beauty in squalor and the poetry in the mundane. Pattinson and Witherspoon, against some expectation, make a soulful, absolutely satisfying pairing, his slightly abashed charisma playing off her confident, radiant directness. And in the persona (animal-a?) of the elephant Rosie, whose arrival rescues the failing circus and whose Big Top tricks are literally jaw-dropping, the film provides no end of miracles. Despite its awkward narrative framing device and its perhaps-too-chaotic climax, the defiantly old-fashioned Water for Elephants delivers two hours of near-constant pleasure. It may not be the greatest show on Earth, but with Rango gone, it’s currently, definitely, the greatest show at the cineplex.

TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY

Because his previous film, last autumn’s For Colored Girls, was one of the most powerful and affecting showcases for female talent the movies have delivered in ages, I suppose Tyler Perry can be forgiven (somewhat) for Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, in which nearly every woman onscreen is a shrill, vindictive, hateful shrew. This includes Perry’s titular, drag-act woman, an oftentimes hysterical caricature in previous Madea titles who, here, has little to do but beat and berate; she’s/he’s an ambulatory Old Testament with sag-ging breasts and a speech impediment.

But the auteur’s latest – in which, with Madea’s “help,” a dying woman (Loretta Devine) attempts to

unite her dysfunctional family – is still labored and depressingly repetitive, with Perry working his sig-nature blend of slapstick, religious fervor, and lurid melodrama to increasingly tired effect. As ever, I’ll concede that I’m hardly the film’s target demo-graphic – fellow audience members happily cried “Amen!” and “That’s the truth!” following Madea’s tough-love platitudes – and Big Happy Family is hardly devoid of good things: There are touching performances by Devine and Shad “The Artist

Formerly Known as Lil’ Bow Wow” Moss, and Chandra Currelley-Young belts out a glori-ous gospel number to leave you shaking. But I still found this poorly staged, poorly written endeavor a tough sit, and that’s not even con-sidering the exhausted dirty-old-lady comedy of Cassi Davis’ Aunt Bam, a bitterly sarcastic

yowler in a fright wig and house dress. Really, isn’t one Madea per Tyler Perry movie enough?

RIO and AFRICAN CATSThere are so many weak releases designed for

the 10-and-under set these days (I’m lookin’ at you, Hop) that I’m now just grateful for the ones that manage to not be actively insulting for audiences past puberty. It’s a pleasure to report, then, that two of our current options – 20th Century Fox’s ani-mated Rio and Disneynature’s live-action African Cats – are titles you can take the kids to without, in the process, wanting to take your own life.

A comedy about a Minnesota-bred macaw (voiced, with neurotic glee, by Jesse Eisenberg) who relocates to his native Rio de Janeiro, director Carlos Saldanha’s Rio is basically one antic chase after another, interspersed with occasional songs, G-rated danger, and rom-com squabbles with Anne Hathaway’s avian love interest. But the colors in this fast-moving, enjoyably unpretentious film are spectacularly vibrant, Tracy Morgan’s slobbery bulldog is a hoot, and the Brazilian vistas prove utterly breathtaking in animated form, with Rio’s 3D effects put to excellent use; during one amazing aerial shot, you’ll feel like you can practically high-five that Christ the Redeemer statue.

As for the beautifully photographed African Cats – Alastair Fothergill’s and Keith Scholey’s nature documentary that follows a pride of lions and a “single mom” cheetah in Kenya’s Masai Mara Nature Reserve – the filmmakers offer consistently stunning, fascinating, and oftentimes scary sights and sounds, and Samuel L. Jackson’s narration provides a near-perfect blend of the dramatic and the playful. As is typical with these things, the presentational sameness caused my interest to eventually fade, but it’s still a solid, engaging effort, and for kids, a wonderful visualization of maternal instincts in the wild. The film’s Earth Day release made perfect sense, but African Cats might make for an even better field trip on Mother’s Day.

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EventVenus Envy Quad CitiesBucktown Center for the ArtsSaturday, April 30, 6 – 11 p.m.

Ordinarily, if you have an itch that lasts five hours, you should consider making

haste to the nearest emergency room. On April 30, though, an itch of this sort will be not only bearable, but closer to exhilarating,

as the Bucktown Center for the Arts presents its seventh-annual Venus Envy Quad Cities. Themed “The Seven-Year Itch,” this free downtown festival will showcase regional female talents in the arts of music, dance, visual arts, and the written and spoken word, and will do so both on the four floors of Bucktown and on performances stages located outside the Davenport building.

More than 40 visual artists will have works on display and for sale, including the five selected as this year’s Venus Envy featured artists: Pamela Crouch, Haley Ellerbach, Brit-

tany Klarkowski, Pamela Ohnemus, and Billie Davids. (It’s Davids’ monroe painting Marilyn Monroe that accompanies this piece.)

Among this year’s musical performers are Emily Jawoisz, Kumari Keiko, the Zloti Village Chorus, the Quad Cities’ female ensemble Hersong, and the first two singers/songwriters to travel

from outside the region for Venus Envy Quad Cities: the Des Moines-based Mary McAdams, and Tracy Walker from Cincin-nati, Ohio.

Area musician/author Mona Ritemon will deliver readings of her poetry, while several other female authors from the Midwest Writing Center read from their own original works. Dance performances will be presented by the gifted artists of Destination Tribal, Luna Bonita, and Eclec-tic Tribal Bellydance. Tarot and fairy-card readings will be available on Bucktown’s

third floor.And in a piece of performance art, the

Iowa City-based talents of the Dance Knots Project will present two performances of their work Log in / Time out, an eight-minute exploration of the world of online dating. I’m guessing it’s a work of fiction; my online dates never last that long.

Artworks from Venus Envy Quad Cities will remain on display at Bucktown through May 27, and for more information on the April 30 celebration, visit Venus Envy’s Face-book page or VenusEnvyQC.com.

What’s Happenin’

TheatreOur TownAugustana CollegeFriday, April 29, through Sunday, May 8

True story: In a 1946 issue of the Christian Science Monitor, it was reported that a

production of Thornton Wilder’s theatre classic Our Town was shut down in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin “on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.” You gotta wonder: If the Russians were that concerned about it, just how depressing is this play?

The answer: a little. But it’s also funny and charming and pro-found, as audiences will discover when director Jeff Coussens stages this masterpiece in Augustana College’s Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts from April 29 through May 8.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Wilder’s visually minimalist, emotionally expansive work follows three early-20th Century days in the sleepy town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. With running commentary provided by Wilder’s alter ego The Stage Manager, Our Town’s author explores universal themes of life, love, marriage, and death with beautiful specificity, and the play’s timeless appeal is evident in the many, many professional versions of the piece over the past seven

decades plus.There was Our Town’s 1938 Broadway debut

(with most of the original cast recruited for the 1940 movie), and a 1944 Broadway revival featur-ing Montgomery Clift. A 1955 musical version on TV starred Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint, and 1966’s Broadway revival boasted Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, and the Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton.

The 1977 TV adaptation featured Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, and Robby Benson; Broadway’s Tony Award-winning 1988 revival starred Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, and Frances

Conroy; the 2003 Broadway version showcased a Tony-nomi-nated performance by Paul Newman.

And 2009’s off-Broadway Our Town – which, at 648 perfor-mances, was the longest-running production of Wilder’s play in history – found The Stage Manager being played by, among others, Oscar winner Helen Hunt, Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, and former and future Spinal Tap-per Michael McKean. Wow. After listing those talents, it seems almost pointless to mention that I also played The Stage Manager, when Coussens directed the show at Augie in 1989.

Almost.Our Town will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and

Saturdays and 1:30 p.m. on Sundays, and tickets are available by calling (309)794-7306.

DanceBallet Quad Cities’ CinderellaAdler TheatreSaturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1

“Hey, Jeff!”“Hi, Mi – . Oh, for the love of God. What are you wear-

ing?”“Pretty cool, huh? I thought I’d pop over to the Ballet Quad Cities

office and audition for an understudy role for the company’s upcoming performances of Cinderella, playing April 30 and May 1 at the Adler Theatre! I figured, you know, I’ve been in a production of Cinderella before, and I’ve been in a Ballet Quad Cities production before ... !”

“Uh huh ... .”“And trust me, Jeff, this show is going to be amazing! It’s a two-act

version of the classic fairytale with brand-new choreography by Ar-tistic Director Courtney Lyon, set to the classic score by the legendary composer Sergei Prokofiev!”

“Yes, I know ... .”“Cinderella has been hugely acclaimed and beloved by audi-

ences since its debut in the mid-1940s, when the title role was first presented by the Russian dancer Galina Ulanova, considered one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th Century! And with this new production’s vibrant costumes, magical sets, and talents including the 11 sensational members of Ballet Quad Cities’ professional dance company, this new Cinderella is sure to be an amazing experience for the whole family!”

“That’s all well and good, Mike. But what are you wearing? That can’t be the prince’s costume.”

“It’s not – it’s a stepsister costume. In past productions of the Cin-derella ballet, the stepsisters have occasionally been played by men. Whaddaya think? Don’t I look great?”

“Well, I hope you break a leg.”“Aw, thanks, Jeff! But I haven’t even auditioned yet ... .”“No. Please break a leg before the audition.”

Saturday’s performance of Cinderella begins at 8 p.m., Sunday’s takes place at 2 p.m., and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 or visiting BalletQuadCities.com or AdlerTheatre.com.

TheatreAlice in WonderlandNighswander TheatreSaturday, April 30, through Sunday, May 8

Parents, please hand the paper over to any of your children

in the vicinity. Much appreciated.Hey, kids! Who’s up for taking a

magical tumble down a rabbit hole?I’m hoping the answer is “Me!

Me! Me!” Because Davenport Junior Theatre is getting ready to stage its version of the Lewis Car-roll classic Alice in Wonderland, running at the Annie Witten-meyer Complex’s Nighswan-der Theatre on Saturdays and Sundays from April 30 through

May 8.Star-

ring such wonder-ful young talents as Emily Baker (playing

Alice) and performing broth-ers Andy Pavey (the White Rabbit) and Roger Pavey (the Dormouse), the hour-long show will feature all sorts of colorful costumes, exciting adventures, and memorable characters, with direction and a brand-new Alice in Wonderland script by Junior Theatre’s artistic director, Daniel D.P. Sheridan.

To get yourself in the mood for this sensational family treat, what say you test your Alice in

Wonderland knowledge with a little word scramble? Rearrange the letters to form the names of Alice’s fantastical friends; the answers are listed below, but no cheating!

1) BATHE RIB WIT2) RODEO SUM3) THREAD MAT4) ARCHER HAM5) REACH ITCHES6) DELETED EWE7) WELDED MUTE8) A REQUEST OF HEN

Alice in Wonderland plays at 1 and 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays, and infor-mation is available by calling (563)326-7862 or visiting DavenportJuniorTheatre.com.

Answers: 1 – WHITE RABBIT; 2 – DORMOUSE; 3 – MAD HATTER; 4 – MARCH HARE; 5 – CHESHIRE CAT; 6 – TWEEDLE DEE; 7 – TWEEDLE DUM; 8 – QUEEN OF HEARTS. If you got at least one right, you and all of your friends and family members get to see the show for $5 each! And if you missed all of ’em ... well, if you ask really nicely, they might let you in for $5 anyway!

Join us for the

American Cancer Society

Relay for Life of Scott County

April 30, 2011 12 p.m. noon – 12 a.m. midnight Brady Street Stadium, Davenport

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EventVenus Envy Quad CitiesBucktown Center for the ArtsSaturday, April 30, 6 – 11 p.m.

Ordinarily, if you have an itch that lasts five hours, you should consider making

haste to the nearest emergency room. On April 30, though, an itch of this sort will be not only bearable, but closer to exhilarating,

as the Bucktown Center for the Arts presents its seventh-annual Venus Envy Quad Cities. Themed “The Seven-Year Itch,” this free downtown festival will showcase regional female talents in the arts of music, dance, visual arts, and the written and spoken word, and will do so both on the four floors of Bucktown and on performances stages located outside the Davenport building.

More than 40 visual artists will have works on display and for sale, including the five selected as this year’s Venus Envy featured artists: Pamela Crouch, Haley Ellerbach, Brit-

tany Klarkowski, Pamela Ohnemus, and Billie Davids. (It’s Davids’ monroe painting Marilyn Monroe that accompanies this piece.)

Among this year’s musical performers are Emily Jawoisz, Kumari Keiko, the Zloti Village Chorus, the Quad Cities’ female ensemble Hersong, and the first two singers/songwriters to travel

from outside the region for Venus Envy Quad Cities: the Des Moines-based Mary McAdams, and Tracy Walker from Cincin-nati, Ohio.

Area musician/author Mona Ritemon will deliver readings of her poetry, while several other female authors from the Midwest Writing Center read from their own original works. Dance performances will be presented by the gifted artists of Destination Tribal, Luna Bonita, and Eclec-tic Tribal Bellydance. Tarot and fairy-card readings will be available on Bucktown’s

third floor.And in a piece of performance art, the

Iowa City-based talents of the Dance Knots Project will present two performances of their work Log in / Time out, an eight-minute exploration of the world of online dating. I’m guessing it’s a work of fiction; my online dates never last that long.

Artworks from Venus Envy Quad Cities will remain on display at Bucktown through May 27, and for more information on the April 30 celebration, visit Venus Envy’s Face-book page or VenusEnvyQC.com.

by Mike Schulzmike@rcreader.com

What else Is Happenin’

MUSICThursday, April 28 – Heartbreak Hotel:

A Salute to Young Elvis. Famed Presley impersonator Robert Shaw performs “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Love Me Tender,” and other hits. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $22.50-27.50. For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

Friday, April 29 – Swing-Time at Tangle-wood. Annual spring concert under the direction of Lori Potts, featuring four- and six-part swing, jazz, and sacred arrangements. Tanglewood Hills Pavilion (4250 Middle Road, Bettendorf ). 7 p.m. $20. For tickets and informa-tion, call (309)794-0106.

Saturday, April 30 – First Festival. Per-formances by local youth bands the Crookes, FireSale, Fairhaven, and Jack Hill, with proceeds to benefit the River Music Experience’s Karli Rose Kell Music Scholarship Fund. Middle Park Bandshell (23rd Street, Bettendorf ). 2-7 p.m. Donations encouraged. For information, call (563)326-1333.

Saturday, April 30 – Whitey Morgan & the 78’s. Honky-tonk musicians in concert, with an opening set by Bob Wayne. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. $10. For information, call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com. For a January interview with Whitey Morgan, visit RCReader.com/y/whitey.

Saturday, April 30 – The Harry James Orchestra. Big-band hits under the direction of Harry James’ lead-trumpet virtuoso, Fred Radke. Ohnward Fine Arts Center (1215 East Platt Street, Maquoketa). 7 p.m. $13-25. For tickets and information, call (563)652-9815 or visit OhnwardFineArtsCenter.com.

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MusicJaniva MagnessThe Redstone RoomThursday, April 28, 8 p.m.

Acclaimed blues vocalist Janiva Magness performs at

Davenport’s Redstone Room on April 28, and included among the performer’s many song titles are “Don’t Do It,” “That’s No Way to Get Along,” “Eat the Lunch You Brought,” and “I Give Up.” All things that our publisher, Todd, tells us at weekly staff meetings, but the words sound much nicer when Magness sings them.

Currently nominated for four 2011 Blues Music awards for her CD The Devil Is an Angel, Too – B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year, Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year, and Contemporary Blues Album of the Year – Magness is certainly no stranger to the blues, having lost both parents to suicide, and giving up a child for adoption, while still in her teens. Yet if her early years suggest a particularly tragic blues song, it’s one that wound up having a decidedly happy ending.

With her earthy, soulful vocals and reputation for electrifying live shows, Magness is considered one of the country’s foremost blues-music powerhouses and in 2009 became only the second woman (after Koko Taylor) to ever be named B.B. King Enter-tainer of the Year at the Blues Music Awards.

Her laurels include three awards for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year and nearly a dozen additional Blues Music Award nominations. And in a welcome bit of synchronic-ity, music critics appear to agree with the organization; Midwest Record Recap stated that “Magness sets the proceedings on fire,” Blues Revue raved about her “incendiary vocal performances,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “Magness sings superb, potent soul-blues with a scorching intensity.” If you’re planning to applaud the vocalist during her area engagement, be sure to bring along some oven mitts.

The 8 p.m. concert opens with a set by local musician Alan Sweet, and more information on the night is available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.

TheatreOur TownAugustana CollegeFriday, April 29, through Sunday, May 8

True story: In a 1946 issue of the Christian Science Monitor, it was reported that a

production of Thornton Wilder’s theatre classic Our Town was shut down in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin “on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.” You gotta wonder: If the Russians were that concerned about it, just how depressing is this play?

The answer: a little. But it’s also funny and charming and pro-found, as audiences will discover when director Jeff Coussens stages this masterpiece in Augustana College’s Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts from April 29 through May 8.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama, Wilder’s visually minimalist, emotionally expansive work follows three early-20th Century days in the sleepy town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. With running commentary provided by Wilder’s alter ego The Stage Manager, Our Town’s author explores universal themes of life, love, marriage, and death with beautiful specificity, and the play’s timeless appeal is evident in the many, many professional versions of the piece over the past seven

decades plus.There was Our Town’s 1938 Broadway debut

(with most of the original cast recruited for the 1940 movie), and a 1944 Broadway revival featur-ing Montgomery Clift. A 1955 musical version on TV starred Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint, and 1966’s Broadway revival boasted Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, and the Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton.

The 1977 TV adaptation featured Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, and Robby Benson; Broadway’s Tony Award-winning 1988 revival starred Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, and Frances

Conroy; the 2003 Broadway version showcased a Tony-nomi-nated performance by Paul Newman.

And 2009’s off-Broadway Our Town – which, at 648 perfor-mances, was the longest-running production of Wilder’s play in history – found The Stage Manager being played by, among others, Oscar winner Helen Hunt, Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, and former and future Spinal Tap-per Michael McKean. Wow. After listing those talents, it seems almost pointless to mention that I also played The Stage Manager, when Coussens directed the show at Augie in 1989.

Almost.Our Town will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and

Saturdays and 1:30 p.m. on Sundays, and tickets are available by calling (309)794-7306.

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What else Is Happenin’Saturday, April 30 – Tony Orlando. Concert

with the legendary performer of “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” fame. Riverside Casino Event Center. (3184 Highway 22, Riverside). 8 p.m. $25-35. For tickets and information, call (877)677-3456 or visit RiversideCasinoAndResort.com.

Saturday, April 30 – Daytrotter Barnstormer Tour. Fourth-annual tour of Midwestern barns with indie musicians, featuring performances by Sondre Lerche, The Romany Rye, Guards, Keegan Dewitt, Hellogoodbye, Hands, ARMS, and Mike & the Moonpies. Codfish Hollow Barn (3437 288th Street, Maquoketa). 7 p.m. $15-20. For information, e-mail teamdaytrotter@gmail.com or visit Daytrotter.com.

Sunday, May 1 – Quad City Wind En-semble: A 25th-Anniversary Celebration. Featuring guest conductor Andrew Mast, the world premiere of composer Roy Magnuson’s Colonel Davenport remembrance “To Have Seen the Worst ... and to Expect the Best,” and a flute solo by Grace Brasel, the first-place winner of the ensemble’s annual Young Performer’s Com-petition. St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center (2101 Gaines Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. $8-10, students free. For information, call (309)507-2971 or visit Quad-City-Wind-Ensemble.webs.com.

Sunday, May 1 – Quad City Choral Arts: Spring Choral Collage Concert. Classical-music concert under the direction of Jon Hurty, with a guest appearance by the Augustana Youth Choir. St. Paul Lutheran Church (2136 Brady Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $7-10, students free with ID. For information, call (563)326-3547 or visit QuadCityChoralArts.org.

Wednesday, May 4 – The Four Tops & The Temptations. Concert event with the Motown legends, rescheduled from winter. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7 p.m. $39.50-59.50, For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Thursday, May 5 – Kenny Chesney. Coun-try-music superstar in concert, with special guests Billy Currington and Uncle Kracker. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7 p.m. $25-79.50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Thursday, May 5 – Miller Time. Acoustic concert featuring Circa ’21 Bootleggers Laura Miller and Brad Hauskins and area musician Ben Holmes. Circa ’21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $10-12. For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

Friday, May 6 – MercyMe. Multi-platinum-selling contemporary Christian musicians in concert, with openers Brandon Heath and Natalie Grant. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $24-65. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

Saturday, May 7 – Here Come the Mum-mies. Tightly wrapped ska, funk, and soul musi-cians, with openers The Premium $ellouts. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $20-25. For information, call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com.

Sunday, May 8 – Todd Snider. Accalimed rock, folk, and country musician in concert. En-glert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $20. For tickets and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org. For a 2009 interview with Snider, visit RCReader.com/y/snider.

Monday, May 9 – The Lettermen. Chart-top-ping pop legends in concert. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 11:45 a.m. plated lunch and 1 p.m. performance: $48.36. 6 p.m. buffet dinner and 7:15 p.m. perfor-mance: $54.60. For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

COMEDYFriday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30

– Thirsty: Chicago’s Premier Improv Drinking Party. Comic skits, drinking games, and songs in the long-running Windy City favorite. Circa ’21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 7:30 and 10 p.m. $15. For tickets and informa-tion, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

ART Saturday, May 7, and Sunday, May 8

– Beaux Arts Fair. Annual juried arts and crafts fair featuring live music, a children’s project area, a food court, and more. Figge Art Museum Plaza (225 Second Street, Davenport). Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admis-sion. For information, visit BeauxArtsFair.com.

EVENTSFriday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30

– Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam. Mon-ster-truck action for the entire family. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m. $7.50-49.50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30 – Vintage Torque Fest. Indoor and outdoor rac-ing event, with vendors, an art show, live music, on-site camping, and more. 1212 East Quarry Street, Maquoketa. Friday noon-midnight, Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $5 spectator entry. For information, visit VintageTorqueFest.com.

Saturday, April 30 – Steve’s Old Time Tap Spring Chaser. Fifth-annual 5K walk/run bene-fiting the American Red Cross of the Quad Cities Area, with an awards presentation following for winners in numerous age divisions. Steve’s Old Time Tap (223 17th Street, Rock Island). 9 a.m. $20 registration. For information and to register, call (309)721-6378 or visit SpringChaser.com.

Sunday, May 1 – Yom HaShoah. The 2011 Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust, co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, and featuring speaker Walter W. Reed and music by the Augustana College Chamber Singers. Temple Emanuel (1115 Missis-sippi Avenue, Davenport). 7 p.m. Free admis-sion. For information, call (309)793-1300 or visit HolocaustEduQCA.com.

Saturday, May 7 – BeeRME for Music Fund-raiser. Brews from local establishments, hors d’oeuvres, and live music by Bermuda Report in the third-annual fundraiser for music-education programming at the River Music Experience. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 5-8 p.m. $18-25. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.

Saturday, May 7 – Derby Day. Annual horse-racing event sponsored by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, with proceeds benefiting music-education programming for area youths. Rock Island Arsenal Golf Club (312 Gillespie Avenue, Rock Island). 2 p.m. $65. For tickets and information, call (563)322-7276 or visit QCSymphony.com.

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vocal groups of its kind.“We do quite a bit of vocal jazz,” she says,

“which you don’t hear a lot in the Quad Cities. But we’ve also kind of opened up so that we do

some Renaissance music, some classic choral numbers, gospel. For the spring concert, we’re also doing a little bit of a ’40s dance party, with ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ and popular dance tunes.”

Plus, she adds, “we’re also doing a fun Stevie Wonder piece – ‘Don’t You

Worry About a Thing’ – which is done com-pletely a cappella.”

“We have such a variety in this concert,” says Winn. “We’re doing some of our favorites – ‘Cry Me a River’ and ‘Hit Me with a Hot Note’ and ‘Beyond the Sea.’ Some of those great, classic vocal-jazz types of things. But we’re also singing another really cool piece that Lori introduced us to called ‘Jamaican Marketplace,’ and an arrangement of ‘Down to the River to Pray’ from O Brother, Where Art Thou?... . A lot of things that are more challenging for us – numbers where you really have to listen to each other.

“That’s something I was missing, definitely, after singing with the Augie Choir,” adds the 1995 Augustana College graduate, “and so it’s great to be with a group that really wants to do that.”

She also appreciates the opportunity to per-form occasional programs for and with area students, such as April 10’s Quad City Singers engagement with the members of the Rock Island High School Chamber Choir.

“That was awesome,” says Winn of the concert that showcased both ensembles. “Get-ting to show kids, ‘You know, this ensemble singing that you really love doing right now, you can actually continue to do that. Even if you’re not necessarily a musician, and it’s not your career path, you can still do it even when you’re out of school.”

The Quad City Singers’ “Swing-Time at Tanglewood” concert will be performed at the Tanglewood Hills Pavilion (4250 Middle Road in Bettendorf) at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 29. Tickets are $20, and are available by calling Ken Hill at (309)794-0106.

For more information on the group, visit the Quad City Singers’ Facebook page, or contact director Lori Potts at lori.potts@north-scott.k12.ia.us.

In the beloved Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland films of the 1930s, staging a full-length musical production seemed ridicu-

lously easy: A bunch of talented youths would simply unite with the rallying cry “Let’s put on a show!”

Yet according to Lori Potts, director of the area vocal-jazz ensemble the Quad City Singers, her group’s inception came about just as simply – although the rallying cry, in that case, was more along the lines of “Let’s put on a concert!”

“It was really just kind of casual,” says Potts of the Quad City Singers’ 1994 beginnings. “Just friends getting together and deciding, ‘You know, we like to sing, so let’s form a group and see what happens.’”

In the 17 years since that original inspi-ration, what’s happened has included the group morphing from a small collective of friends (“10 or 12 people,” says Potts) singing occasional gigs to a 20-voice, not-for-profit ensemble that, this month, has performed as visiting artists at Rock Island’s 15th Avenue Christian Church and Washington, Iowa’s United Methodist Church.

On April 29, the Quad City Singers will deliver their annual, full-length springtime concert with “Swing-Time at Tanglewood,” taking place at Bettendorf ’s Tanglewood Hills Pavilion. Performing with instrumen-tal accompaniment, the group will present renditions of such enduring swing and jazz hits as “Moon River,” “Come Fly with Me,” and “Moonglow,” as well as several sacred selec-tions, and songs with complicated six-part presentations instead of traditional four-part arrangements.

The event will also showcase the vocal tal-ents of the numerous Quad City Music Guild veterans within its ranks, among them Nathan Bates, Sheri Brown, Chris Castle, J. Adam and Sarah Lounsberry, Kevin Pieper, Jennifer Sondgeroth, Joe Urbaitis, and Jenny Winn.

“Our trademark style is vocal jazz,” says Winn of the Quad City Singers, with whom she has performed for 11 years, “but we’re really trying to expand beyond what we feel comfortable doing.”

Although Potts – a director for numerous choirs at Eldridge’s North Scott High School – left the group shortly after its 1994 origin to pursue her teaching career, she returned as the Quad City Singers’ director in 2005, and believes it’s the diversity of the musical selec-tions that separates her ensemble from other

... And All That (Vocal) JazzThe Quad City Singers Perform Their Annual Spring Concert, April 29 at the Tanglewood Hills Pavilion

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ethecover), fearing a stigma of being a “contest band.” (“‘They didn’t make it there on their own.’ ... Just that whole American Idol mind-set,” MacMaster said. “Maybe it was just pride on my end.”)

But the band reconsidered and made it to the second round. “It’s a lot of free press,” MacMaster said. “And these days it doesn’t re-ally matter how you get in front of people.”

Based on Tweets and Facebook “likes,” it appeared unlikely early this week that the Romany Rye would advance beyond the round of eight. (Third-round participants were announced April 27, after this issue went to press.) And MacMaster said that’s fine with him, calling it “more of a win-win situation for us anyways. ... We don’t really want to end up anywhere that they would want us to end up.”

The Daytrotter Barnstormer tour comes to the Codfish Hollow Barn (3437 288th Avenue in Maquoketa, Iowa) on Saturday, April 30. Performers include Sondre Lerche, Guards, the Romany Rye, Keegan DeWitt, ARMS, Mike & the Moonpies, and Hands. The show starts at 6 p.m., and tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. For tickets and more information, visit RCReader.com/y/barn.

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hang out, I was like, ‘All right, I’m done,’” he said. He stored his guitar at his parents’ house and moved to L.A.

But after a few months, the songs started coming. “I don’t even remember doing it,” he said. “I really don’t. The next thing you know, I had written and I was singing that song ‘All the Boys.’” It was about his experiences of being in the Colour, and he said it was the first song he’d written front-to-back.

Then more songs came, and then he had enough for an album, and then he recorded them with Delta Spirit’s Kelly Winwrich. The musical aesthetic, he said, “was a little vague until we actually recorded them.” But what emerged on the Romany Rye’s Highway 1 is a confident, unforced roots/folk rock that’s casually compelling in its songwriting and performance even though its creator is modest about his talents.

“I kind of feel like I fit in that non-good good thing,” MacMaster said, name-dropping Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen as models for his simple, somewhat artless style. “I’m not the best musician, I don’t feel like I have a gift for melody or any of those things. So the only way that I can actually write and continue to write and play music is just let whatever falls out fall out. I can’t force any-thing out, I can’t be anything else besides me. ... I don’t have a choice. I’m not good enough to go, ‘I want to make a song that sounds like this.’”

MacMaster called his writing process “the diet”: “When you have a chance, when you’re not on tour, ... you go home and you’re not drinking and you’re not getting stoned, you’re not doing anything but reading and writing.” Then you “regurgitate that in your own way.” For the upcoming Quicksilver Sunbeam, MacMaster said, his diet included Hemingway and poetry by Bukowski, and the songs reflect a dichotomy of the road – both the romance and realities. (The Romany Rye, Paste magazine wrote, “embodies a sound that recalls an America viewed through a road-trip car window.”)

After he released Highway 1, MacMaster assembled a proper band. Kings of Leon’s Mat-thew Followill has championed the Romany Rye, and he even put up half the money for its tour van. And Quicksilver Sunbeam is ready to go. (The Rolling Stone contest put label-shop-ping on hold; Atlantic has an option to sign participants.)

While Highway 1 was essentially a solo record, the new one makes room for MacMas-ter’s collaborators. There’s “more of an overall focus on the interaction between the playing,” he said. “We needed to really figure out a place a time and place for each individual member to shine, and really be a band.”

MacMaster said that the Romany Rye initially chose not to participate in the Rolling Stone cover contest (RollingStone.com/choos-

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The 34th-annual Quad City Arts High School Invitational fea-tures 197 artworks, and that’s a

lot. But the technical ability on display is exciting, particularly if one imagines the work these high-school students might create as they mature.

As a middle-school art teacher, I’m familiar with the long process of artis-tic development. During high school, students who put in the practice can draw with line realistically and under-stand composition and visual elements. Getting students to the point where they can draw an accurate still life, or mix the correct paint hues for a por-trait, however, is a milestone in itself. And young people who can not only achieve technical fluency but begin to apply a consistent visual style, and express ideas and tone, are generally in the extreme minority. Although all students in this show should take pride in their exceptional work, only about a quarter of the students have reached this even higher level.

This exhibit, running through May 19 at the Quad City Arts gallery at 1715 Second Avenue Rock Island, pres-ents work from high-school students selected by their teachers, who are invited to display their work as well. Fourteen schools – from Rock Island, Henry, Scott, and Muscatine coun-ties – participated. Besides providing the opportunity to display and sell in a professional venue, the exhibition hands out more than $2,000 in awards and scholarships, donated by commu-nity stakeholders.

Three-dimensional work represents the largest portion of media pres-ent, with 52 student works, including sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry. With this age of artist, sculpture projects tend to produce the most imaginative work. When freed from the worry of being realistic – and working with new, and therefore exciting, media – students often approach sculpture in a more adventurous way. About three quarters of the sculptural works pres-ent capture this expressive quality.

A sculpture that inspires contem-plation is Bettendorf junior Corrin Roswell’s whimsical untitled ceramic figure. Its size of about 10 inches tall gives it an initially subtle impact, emphasized by the airy composition created through voids and negative space. But the surreal content demands further inspection: a hand, posed like a walking animal, with a harness around the middle finger “neck.” Holding the reins is

Mature Beyond Their YearsThe Quad City Arts High School Invitational, Through May 19

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a smooth, featureless, pure-white figure on a saddle poised on the back of the hand. In that figure’s other hand is a bouquet of color butterflies attached to strings, as one would expect to see balloons. The disem-

bodied hand and the captive butterflies add a vaguely dark element. The use of matte glaze creates an earthy, unassuming feel, and Roswell’s use of post-fire materials (the string of the reins and the wire for the but-

terfly strings) makes this strange scene seem more plausible.

A ceramic work made with strong technique is Stick Teapot, by Moline High School senior Anthony Ceurvorst. This tea set appears to have been wheel-thrown, then carefully pushed inward to form four even, sym-metrical indentations on each piece. The finish is a simple white glaze with subtle gloss. What makes this more than an ordinary teapot is Ceurvorst’s sculpting of sticks for the handles and spout, and an acorn for the pull on the pot’s lid. The surface treatment of varying browns adds to the illusion, suggesting real branches. Stick Teapot is an appealing blend of precise technique with a touch of style.

Drawing is the next most represented media, with 30 works. A large majority of this component of the show demon-strates strong realistic technique through portraits and still lives but lacks a mature development of style. This seems to be reflec-tive of art-course scheduling in schools; drawing classes are usu-ally populated by underclassmen, while older students prevail in the painting, sculpture, and com-puter-art classes. Drawing classes also seem to focus on learning realistic technique – a necessary skill, but it’s difficult for fledgling artists to incorporate ideas and concepts into their lifelike images.

The students applying draw-ing materials to mixed-media pieces, however, demonstrate both technical and expressive skill. An example of a promis-ing visual style is Self in Space by Travis Tomlinson, a senior from Moline. About eight by 12 inches, this image gives the viewer a lot to see. To the right of the composition is a frowning man, face slightly turned. He is wear-ing a futuristic space suit, with inscrutable words, symbols, and lines appearing on the face shield of the helmet, and the man’s face itself. These symbols draw us in to inspect the man, and separate him from the complex back-

ground, as we puzzle over their meaning. The composition seems to have captured a brief, still moment in time, emphasizing the narrative quality of the image. The blend of watery and thick acrylics, with marker

Top: Centennial Bridge, by Katie Whiteman. Second row (left to right): Brothers, by Nick Lennon, and an untitled piece by Corrin Roswell. Third row (left to right): Self in Space, by Travis Tomlinson, and Impugnable, by Erin

Johnson. Fourth row: What’s for Lunch – Triptych, by Samantha Chavez.

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An equally ambitious oil painting is Brothers, by Moline senior Nick Lennon. This canvas, about five by three and a half feet, shows a guitar and drum set, with a stretched canvas in the background, all viewed from just above floor level. The perspective challenges presented by this unusual angle, coupled with the lines of the drum kit’s hardware, were handled well by Lennon. The proportions and colors are true-to life, but with the feathery feel of a brush-stroked and layered painting. The title, as well as the objects included in the composition, add some thought to this still life. The viewer wonders if this is a familial narrative about brothers jamming in a base-ment, or a more metaphorical relationship.

Using paint on canvas in a completely dif-ferent way, Davenport Central’s Samantha Chavez creates detailed and stylized charac-ters engaged in a visual joke with her acrylic piece What’s for Lunch – Triptych. These three canvases, each about two by one and a half feet, contain anthropomorphic, cartoonish animals. The left panel features a moose/octopus holding a cow taco; the center panel has a winged rodent chew-ing a crustacean sandwich; and the right panel includes an elephant holding a peanut bearing a child’s face. The vibrant color scheme adds to the animated flair, featuring saturated purples, pinks, blues, and oranges, and the precisely repeating zigzagged, spotted, and striped backgrounds are the equivalent of a visual shout. Chavez’s repeti-tion of color, and her use of bold, simple shapes with flat colors, balance the craziness to create a fun feel. Despite the simplicity of silhouette, each animal has tidbits of detail – such as the bracelet on the elephant and the layered shirts on the octopus. The use of acrylic is clean and impeccable, with not a single errant brushstroke, and the character design shows a finger on the pulse of con-temporary illustration.

There are standout works in other media, as well. Rose Couch, from Wilton High School, shows a delicate and ethereal monoprint of a giraffe – its silhouette filled with swooshing layered strokes of ink. Ben Steckel of Davenport Central represents a heavily abstract approach with his chunky, scratchy acrylic painting Bad Moon. Jacob Leyhe, also from Central, offers a haunting sepia photograph of people descending a spiral staircase with Downward Spiral.

There aren’t many chances for high-school artists to get their work seen outside of the classroom. The teens in this show have seized this opportunity with work that is – almost universally – excellent for high-school students. And the best pieces would be great for nearly any artist.

Michelle Garrison is a mixed-media artist who teaches art and design at Geneseo Middle School and J.D. Darnell High School.

by Michelle Garrisonmichelle_m_garrison@hotmail.com

to accentuate the linear elements, recalls digitally painted concept art for a movie or game. Tomlinson shows us a snippet of an implied story, leaving the viewer to decipher the rest.

Senior Erin Johnson, from Pleasant Val-ley High School, presents another acrylic and marker mix with stylistic flair in her lighthearted work Impugnable.This canvas, about two feet squared, shows two pug dogs centered on a background of overlapping, vertical brushstrokes in shades of green. The dog on the right is larger, on two legs, and turning to look over his shoulder at the viewer, while the dog on the left is much smaller, and standing on all fours. Their fur is mottled, watery gray, brown, and yellow paint, with splotches and drips overlapped by black marker hatching. In contrast, their vibrant blue eyes are cleanly rendered and stare, begging, at the viewer. The dogs’ pro-portions are simplified and cartoonish, with tiny pointed forms for legs. Their expres-sions make the viewer feel both endeared and implored – an experience many pet owners know. The visual style is compel-ling, with the messy paint drips contrasted against clean marker lines and the cartoony appearance. The placement of the emotive dogs with no background context also sug-gests an open-ended tale.

The exhibition’s paintings show some of the most impressive technique, especially in the still-life genre. Moline and Bettendorf high schools especially present exceptional oil painters working in a realistic style. Im-mediately eye-catching is Katie Whiteman’s triptych Centennial Bridge. The sheer ambition of a high-schooler tackling three two-foot-square canvases for a single image is impressive, but pulling it off with correct perspective and proportions, dramatic light-ing, and expressive color is to be applauded. This picture of the bridge depicts a light blue at the top of the sky fading to a dark purple-blue at the horizon. The lights of Davenport, and on the bridge itself, twinkle in yellow, and reflect a deep orange into the Mississippi. Whiteman added interest to the sky with cross-hatching brushstrokes, and gave the lights extra twinkle by scratching away paint in energetic scribbles around their perimeters. This dramatic yet familiar scene employs strong expressive realism.

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Will you Still Shove Me Tomorrow?

regression Toward the MeanieMy girlfriend of three months seems to

relish treating me like her narcissistic psycho ex-boyfriend treated her – constantly pull-ing away and basically putting her on an emotional roller coaster. She brings up her ex in almost every conversation, although I’ve asked her not to. I keep telling her mature love is about putting out what you wish to receive, and she agrees. Should I stay with her while she struggles to overcome her past?

– Mistreated

“Mature love”? At best, that sounds like a porn mag put out by the AARP or some old man’s pickup line: “Something tells me you

aren’t wearing any Depends.” The last person who should be pontificating about “mature love” is a guy who thinks he can lecture somebody into providing it. Even better, your student is a woman who treats your relation-ship like the revenge phase of her last one. (Her narcissistic psycho ex is gone, but you’ll do.) If you want a project, buy macaroni and glue. If you’re really after “mature love,” you need a woman who’s capable of sharing it with you. This starts with recognizing that “mature love” doesn’t only involve “putting out what you wish to receive” but putting out what you don’t – and then running inside and bolting the door so it can’t get back in.

I’m in a relationship that feels like it could last, but I’m afraid of ending up like my parents: constantly bickering over minutiae, snarling at each other from other rooms, and slamming doors. The thing is, my boyfriend and I are already starting to fight over the stupidest stuff!

– Worried

Before you know it, you’re thinking, “What was it, a year ago, he was promising me the moon, and now he can’t even bring home the right freaking pepper?!”

Being annoying is the human condition. But the partner who will be most annoying is one you only find halfway hot – somebody you have the hots for physically but whose charac-ter flaws and incompatibilities you ignore. You basically need to have a crush on a partner as a human being (have deep respect and even ad-miration for who he is and how he goes about life). Being human, he’ll do things that would annoy a Buddhist monk who could relax for an afternoon in a tank of fire ants. If you have the hots for him all around, it’s far less likely that the things you dream of doing to him in bed will involve strangling or blunt force trauma.

You should also make sure your partner isn’t your second greatest love, after your love of being right. Approaching problems as “ours” rather than “mine vs. yours” takes what re-searcher John Gottman calls “deep friendship,” where overwhelming positive feelings about each other and the relationship really suck the life out of any negative ones. The more rela-tionship research I read, the more essential an overall positive sentiment seems. For example, researcher Shelly Gable found that the happiest

relationships involve partners who make sac-rifices for each other – because they love and want to support their partner, and not as some sort of investment to avoid conflict or keep from losing them. So, in a good relationship, a guy goes to his girlfriend’s poetry reading because it means a lot to her to have him there, and not because it means a lot to him to keep her from running off with some spoken-word slacker who doesn’t wash between his toes.

Each time you snap at each other, you hack a little chunk out of your relationship. Before long, snapping becomes the culture of your relationship, and you become your snarly parents. It helps to make a pact that you won’t act like you’ve forgotten you love each other. Of course, there will probably be times you slip and get nasty. What’s important is not letting yourselves stay nasty. Not for a minute. Not even for 30 seconds.

If you do have “deep friendship,” there’s a good chance you’ll vault yourselves out of the feel-bad situation with what Gottman calls “the secret weapon of emotionally intelligent couples” – “the repair attempt.” This is some-thing you say or do, maybe even something silly like making a face you know will crack your partner up, that defuses the tension and keeps the argument from getting out of hand. This is essential, since Gottman has found that a couple’s success in preventing negativity from escalating when they argue is one of the primary factors in whether a marriage lasts – and not in the sense that your parents’ has: “Please help us celebrate our 30 years – of non-stop screaming, door slamming, and vicious putdowns. Dinner and character assassination, followed by dancing.”

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these days. I’d prefer it if you didn’t actually rip out the violets to make room for the harder-to-grow blooms. Would it be possible to find a new planting area that will allow you to keep what you already have in the original planting area? One way or another, I think you really should give yourself a challenging new assignment.

CAPRICORN (December 22-Janu-ary 19): “Dear Dr. Brezsny: For five years my wife and I have been mar-

ried but still have made no children. We have consulted uncountable physicians with no satis-fying result. Please predict a happy outcome for our troubles. When will the stars align with her womb and my manhood? She: born December 31, 1983 in Chakdaha, India. Me: born January 7, 1984 in Mathabhanga, India. - Desperate for Babies.” Dear Desperate: I’m happy to report that you Capricorns have entered a highly fertile pe-riod. It’s already going strong, and will culminate between May 16 to May 23. I suggest you jump on this sexy opportunity. You couldn’t ask for a better time to germinate, burgeon, and multiply.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): “Welcome home, beautiful!”

I hope you hear those words or at least experi-ence those feelings very soon. In my astrologi-cal opinion, you need to intensify your sense of belonging to a special place or community. You’ve got to grow deeper roots or build a stronger foundation or surround yourself with more nurturing – or all of the above. And that’s not all. As you bask and thrive in your enhanced support system, you also deserve to feel better appreciated for the wonderful qualities you’re working so hard to develop in yourself. Ask and you shall receive.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): Whatever you have been trying to say, it’s time to say it stronger and

clearer. You can no longer afford to hope people will read your mind or guess what you mean. Your communications must be impeccable and irresistible. A similar principle holds true for the connections and alliances you’ve been working to ripen. It’s time to raise your intensity level – to do everything you can to activate their full potentials. Starting today, you’d be crazy to toler-ate shaky commitments, either from yourself or others. Be sharp and focused and unswerving, Pisces – keen and candid and to the point.

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LEO (July 23-August 22): With a fortune of $27 billion, business tycoon Larry Ellison is the sixth richest person

in the world. His monumental sense of self-im-portance is legendary. One of his colleagues says, “The difference between God and Larry is that God does not believe he is Larry.” Ellison seems to be what astrologers call an unevolved Leo – an immature soul whose ego is a greedy, monstrous thing. Evolved Leos, on the other hand, are very different. Are you one? If so, you do a lot of hard work on your ego. You make sure that in addi-tion to it being strong, it’s beautiful and elegant. It’s not just forceful; it’s warm and generous. It gets things done, but in ways that bless those who come in contact with it. For you evolved Leos, this is Celebrate Your Ego Week.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22): Seventy-five percent of all adults confess they would like to have sex

in the woods at least once in their lives, and yet only 16 percent say they have actually enjoyed that thrill. If you’re one of the 59 percent who would like to but haven’t, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make it happen. Your capacity for pleasure in wild places will be at a peak, as will your courage for exotic adventures. In fact, I suggest that between now and May 21 you consider carrying out three fantasies that have been marinating in your imagination for many moons.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22): It’s time for the Big Squeeze. All the

contradictions in your life are coming up for re-view. You will be asked to deal more forthrightly with enigmas you’ve been avoiding, and you will be invited to try, try again to unravel riddles you’ve been unable to solve. Does all that sound a bit daunting? It could be. But the end result should be evocative, highly educational, and maybe even exhilarating. The scintillating play of opposites may caress you with such intensity that you’ll experience what we could refer to as a metaphysical orgasm.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): In the coming weeks, I would love to see you get excited about many

different people, places, animals, and experi-ences. And I hope you will shower them with your smartest, most interesting blessings. Do you think you can handle that big an outpour-ing of well-crafted passion? Are you up for the possibility that you might blow your cover, lose your dignity, and show how much you care? In my opinion, the answer is yes. You are definitely ready to go further than ever before in plumbing the depths of your adoration for the privilege of being alive.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-De-cember 21): Here’s poet James Schuy-ler: “It’s time again. Tear up the violets

and plant something more difficult to grow.” In my opinion, that’s almost the right advice for you

ARIES (March 21-April 19): To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll

offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have a modicum of cooking skills. Your task is to create a hearty, tasty soup from scratch without the benefit of a recipe. You will need a variety of ingredients, but on the other hand you don’t want to just throw in a welter of mismatched ingredients without regard for how they will all work together. To some degree you will have to use a trial-and-error approach, sampling the concoction as it brews. You will also want to keep an open mind about the possibility of adding new ingredients in the latter stages of the process. One more thing: The final product must not just appeal to you. You should keep in mind what others would like, too.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many artists want “to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack

in the bull’s eye,” says Brian Eno, a Taurus genius renowned for his innovative music. He prefers a different approach. He’d rather “shoot his arrow” wherever his creative spirit feels called to shoot it, then paint the target around the place where it lands. That’s why his compo-sitions don’t resemble anyone else’s or fit into any traditional genre – it’s Brian Eno-like mu-sic. Can I talk you into trying a similar strategy in the coming weeks and months, Taurus? I’d love to see you create a niche for yourself that’s tailored to your specific talents and needs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When World War I ended in 1918, the vic-torious nations demanded crushing

financial reparations from the loser, Germany. It took 92 years, but the remaining $94 million of the debt was finally paid last October. I hope this story serves as an inspiration to you, Gemini. If entities as notoriously inflexible as governments can resolve their moldering karma, so can you. In the next few weeks, I’d love to see you finally clean up any messes left over from your old personal conflicts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I know how secretive you Cancerians can be because I’m one of your tribe.

Sometimes the secrecy is a bit neurotic, but more often it serves the purpose of sheltering your vulnerable areas. I’m also aware of how important it is for you to be self-protective. No one is better than you at guarding your goodies, ensuring your safety, and taking care of your well-being. I would never shame you for expressing these talents and I would never ask you to downplay them. Having said that, though, I want to make sure that in the coming weeks they don’t interfere with you getting the blessings you deserve. It’s crucial that you al-low yourself to be loved to the hilt. You simply must let people in far enough so they can do that.

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2011/04/28 (Thu)

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

Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Tristen & Apache Relay -The Mill, 120 E Burling-ton Iowa City, IA

Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Heartbreak Hotel: A Salute to Young Elvis -Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

Janiva Magness - Alan Sweet -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, 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

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

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

Mason Jennings - Chasing Shade -Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge - Uni-versity of Iowa, 125 N. Madison St. Iowa City, IA

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

Rude Punch - Matter of Fact -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Sovereign Sect - HooD-TeK -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

The Fiyah (6pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experi-ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

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

2011/04/29 (Fri)

“Blues Plate Special” Lunch with Ren Estrand (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Ex-perience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Bow ‘N Arrow Barfight -Del’s in the Dis-trict, 1829 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Caught in the Act -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

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

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

Deja Vu Rendezvous featuring The Late Nite Blues Brothers -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Down Lo -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA

Dream Thieves - Roman Numerals -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Funktastic Five -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Generationals -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Gray Wolf Band -Assumption High School, 1020 Central Park Ave. Davenport, 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 -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

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

Liz Mandeville -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

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

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

Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Orangadang -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

Tripolar Xxxpress -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Uniphonics - More Than Lights -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Vintage Torque Fest: Sur f Zombies (4:45pm) - Rhythm Dragons (6pm) - Rumble Seat Riot (8pm) - Mad Trucker Gone Bad (9:15pm) - The Afterdarks (10:30pm) -Jackson County Fairgrounds, junction of Iowa State Highways 62 & 64 Maquoketa, IA

2011/04/30 (Sat)

Ageless EP Party - Somnium - Orson Welles - Krotchripper -River Music Experience, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Caught in the Act -Mound Street Landing, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA

Centaur Noir - Chad Gooch - ieatmy-friends -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

Community Drum Circle (10:30am) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

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

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

Dave Maxwell in Bluegrass @ The Beanz -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL

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

Daytrotter Barnstormer Tour: Sondre Lerche - The Romany Rye - Guards - Keegan Dewitt - Hellogoodbye - Hands - ARMS - Mike & The Moonpies. -Codfish Hollow Barn, 3437 288th Ave. Maquoketa, IA

Dubsetp Summit: Somasphere - Control Freqs - Inflect - Basstoven - Electroc-ity - Btsunami - Audiomatic - Caro - 3ID -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

First Festival: The Crookes – FireSale – Fairhaven – Jack Hill (2pm) – Bet-tendorf Bandshell, Veterans Memorial Park, Bettendorf, IA

Frank Drew Live – Studio Pub, 1465 19th St., East Moline, IL

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

Justin Morrissey & Friends -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA

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

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

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

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

Lee Blackmon -Applebee’s - Moline, 3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL

OSG - Jet Edison -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Polyester Blend -Clear Water Farm, 4970 Lakeside Rd. Cedar Rapids, IA

Rude Punch – The Corey Booth Project – Hook’s Pub, 318 N. 4th St., Clinton, IA

Schitzengigles -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Simon Says Uncle -One More Round, 209-211 E. 2nd St Muscatine, 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

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

The Harry James Orchestra -Ohnward Fine Arts Center, 1215 E Platt St. Ma-quoketa, IA

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

The Right Now - The Uniphonics - Ma-thien -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Tony Orlando -Riverside Casino Event Cen-ter, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

uneXpected -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Venus Env y Brigid Stage: Hersong (6pm) - Zloti Village Chorus (7:15pm) - Emily Jawoisz (8:45pm) -Bucktown Center for the Arts, 225 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Venus Envy Hera Stage: Kumari Keiko (6:30pm) - Mary McAdams (8pm) - Tracy Walker (9:30pm) -Bucktown Center for the Arts, 225 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Vintage Torque Fest: The Aquahol-ics (11am) - Whitey Morgan & the 78’s (12:30pm) - Wayne “The Train” Hancock (3pm) - Mad Max & the Wild Ones (4:30pm) -Jackson County Fairgrounds, junction of Iowa State Highways 62 & 64 Maquoketa, IA

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Whitey Morgan & the 78’s - Bob Wayne -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Whoozdads? -City Limits Saloon & Grill, 4514 9th St. Rock Island, IL

William Fitzsimmons -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

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

2011/05/01 (Sun)

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

John Vanderslice & Damien Jurado -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

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

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

Sunday Afternoon Social Dance w/ the Ken Paulsen Quartet (3pm) -Moline Viking Club, 1450 41st St. Moline, IL

2011/05/02 (Mon)

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

Cruisin’ the Blues Highway with the Avey Brothers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

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

Live Lunch w/ Angela Meyer (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

Steady Rollin’ Blues Band -Rascals Live, 1418 15th St. Moline, IL

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

2011/05/03 (Tue)

Benefit for Generando: Kol Shira - Bossa Major -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 -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

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

Live Lunch w/ Mo (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Dav-enport, 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

2011/05/04 (Wed)

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

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

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

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

Lord Huron - Break Up Art -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

MarchFourth Marching Band -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, 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 Nightw/ 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 Dads -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

The Four Tops & The Temptations -i wire-less Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

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

2011/05/05 (Thu)

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

Chester Bay -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Cinco de Spanko w/ Spankalicious - BASSthoven - MonDope - HooD-Tek -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

D12 w/ Young Buck, Trick Trick, & King Gordy -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Daniel & the Lion - John Paul Roney - The Boom Forest -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

David Church -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

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

Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Gwyneth & Monko -Mojo’s (River Music Ex-perience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, 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

Kenny Chesney - Billy Currington - Uncle Cracker -i wireless Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

Live Lunch w/ Rose ‘n’ Thorns (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

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

Miller Time -The Circa ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

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

2011/05/06 (Fri)

Avey Brothers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

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

Bob Dorr & the Blue Band -The Hub, 402 Main St Cedar Falls, IA

Crossroads -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

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

Evergreen Grass Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

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

Gray Wolf Band -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

GTO Band -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

High Cotton Blues Band -Beer Belly’s - Aledo, 112 N College Ave Aledo, IL

Jason Carl & Ben Lorentzen -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

John Resch & the Detroit Blues -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

Keep Off the Grass – Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St., Bettendorf, IA

Local High School Band Showcase(6pm) – Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St., Rock Island, IL

Merc yMe - Brandon Heath - Natalie Grant -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

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

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

Open Mic Night -Uptown Bil l ’s Cof-fee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Signal Path - The Tripp Brothers -The Red-stone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

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Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, ILThe Dani Lynn Howe Band -The Circa ‘21

Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave. Rock Island, ILThe Pines - Seth Winger -The Mill, 120 E

Burlington Iowa City, IAThree Years Hollow - Bow N’ Arrow Barfight

- Mind Drop -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Tronicity – 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E. 11th Street, Davenport, IA

2011/05/07 (Sat)

1910 Fruitgum Company (7 & 10pm) - Riverias (8pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Bermuda Report (5pm) -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Cosmic (5pm) -Ganzo’s Tacos, 3923 Mar-quette St. Davenport, IA

Crossroads -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA

Dave Moore - New Broom -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

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

Dennis McMurrin & the Demolition Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

David G. Smith – Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St., Rock Island, IL

FlatTop (6:30pm) -Huckleberry’s, 223 18th St Rock Island, IL

Gray Wolf Band -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL

Here Come the Mummies-The Premium $ellouts -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

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

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

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

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

Katie Schrick -Fireworks Coffeehouse, 2139 16th St. Moline, IL

Lynn Allen -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Meet the Press -Jim’s, 311 W. 2nd St. Rock Falls, IL

Modern Mythology -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

River Prairie Minstrels (6pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Rob Dahms & Detroit Larry Davidson (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

Rock 4 the Roof: The Recliners - Dick Prall - OSG - Daddy’s Brother Band -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Secret Squirrel - Paranoid Android -Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL

Smooth Groove -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

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

Tapped Out (4pm) -Kavanaugh’s Hilltop Bar, 1228 30th St. Rock Island, IL

Ted Leo - The Poison Control Center - The Color Pharmacy -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Tronicity – 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E. 11th Street, Davenport, IA

Wide Track -Tommy ’s, 1302 4th Ave Moline, IL

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

2011/05/08 (Sun)

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

Josh Duffee & His Band (9am) -Hotel Blackhawk, 200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

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

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

Steve Bobbit & Quentin Flagg (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Todd Snider -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

2011/05/09 (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/ Mike Cochrane (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

The Lettermen (1 & 7:15pm) -Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

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

2011/05/10 (Tue)

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

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

Live Lunch w/ Randy Leasman (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

Twosdays Jam with Lojo Russo -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

2011/05/11 (Wed)

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

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

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

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

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

Marshall Crenshaw - Freedy Johnston -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, 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 Nightw/ 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

2011/05/12 (Thu)

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

Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood 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

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 Crenshall & 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

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

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

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