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My Plan for a
Freedom President
S
ince my 2008 campaign for the presidency
I have often been asked, “How would
a constitutionalist president go about
dismantling the welfare-warfare state and restoring
a constitutional republic?” This is a very important
question, because without a clear road map and
set of priorities, such a president runs the risk
of having his pro-freedom agenda stymied by
the various vested interests that benefit from big
government.
While our goal is to reduce the size of the state
as quickly as possible, we should always make
sure our immediate proposals minimize social
disruption and human suffering. Thus, we should
not seek to abolish the social safety net overnight
because that would harm those who have grown
dependent on government-provided welfare.
Instead, we would want to give individuals who
have come to rely on the state time to prepare
for the day when responsibility for providing
aide is returned to those organizations best able
to administer compassionate and effective help
– churches and private charities.
A president who strictly adheres to the
Constitution could use his constitutional
authority as head of the executive branch and as
commander in chief to take several significant
steps toward liberty on his own.
The area where the modern chief executive
has greatest ability to act unilaterally is in foreign
affairs. Unfortunately, Congress has abdicated its
constitutional authority to declare wars, instead
passing vague “authorization of force” bills that
allow the president to send any number of troops
to almost any part of the world.
If the president has the power to order U.S.
forces into combat on nothing more than his
own say-so, then it stands to reason he can order
troops home. Therefore, on the first day in office, a
constitutionalist can begin the orderly withdrawal
of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan. He can
also begin withdrawing troops from other areas of
the world.
Domestically, the president can use his
authority to set policies and procedures for the
federal bureaucracy to restore respect for the
Constitution and individual liberty. For example,
today manufacturers of dietary supplements
are subject to prosecution by the Food &
Drug Administration (FDA) or Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) if they make even truthful
statements about the health benefits of their
products without going through the costly and
time-consuming procedures required to gain
government approval for their claims. A president
can put an end to this simply by ordering the FDA
and FTC not to pursue these types of cases unless
they have clear evidence that the manufacturer’s
claims are not true.
A crucial policy that a president could enact
to bring speedy improvements to government
is ordering the bureaucracy to respect the 10th
Amendment and refrain from undermining
state laws. We have already seen a little renewed
federalism with the current administration’s policy
U.S. Representative Ron Paul
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of not prosecuting marijuana users when their
use of the drug is consistent with state medical-
marijuana laws. A constitutionalist administration
would also defer to state laws refusing compliance
with the REAL ID act and denying federal
authority over interstate gun transactions.
None of the measures I have discussed so far
involves repealing any written law. They can be
accomplished simply by a president exercising
his legitimate authority to set priorities for
the executive branch. And another important
step he can take toward restoring the balance
of powers the Founders intended is repealing
unconstitutional executive orders issued by his
predecessors.
The president could also use his managerial
powers to shrink the federal bureaucracy by
refusing to fill vacancies created by retirements or
resignations. This would dramatically reduce the
number of federal officials wasting our money and
taking our liberties.
While the president can do a great deal on his
own, to really restore the Constitution, he will have
to work with Congress. The first step in enacting a
pro-freedom legislative agenda is the submission
of a budget that outlines the priorities of the
administration. While it has no legal effect, the
budget serves as a guideline for the congressional
appropriations process.
If Congress failed to produce a budget that
was balanced and that moved the country
in a pro-liberty direction, a constitutionalist
president should veto the bill. Of course, vetoing
the budget risks a government shutdown. But
a serious constitutionalist cannot be deterred
by cries of “It’s irresponsible to shut down the
government!” Instead, he should simply say: “I
offered a reasonable compromise, which was to
gradually reduce spending, and Congress rejected
it, instead choosing the extreme path of continuing
to jeopardize America’s freedom and prosperity
by refusing to tame the welfare-warfare state. I am
the moderate; those who believe that America can
afford this bloated government are the extremists.”
All of these measures will take a lot of work – a
lot more than any one person, even the president
of the United States, can accomplish by himself. To
restore the country to the kind of government the
Founders meant for us to have, a constitutionalist
president would need the support of an active
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liberty movement. No matter how many pro-
freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way
to guarantee constitutional government is through
an educated and activist public devoted to the
ideals of the liberty.
For an expanded version of this commentary, visit
RiverCitiesReader.com.
U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the author
of End the Fed and The Revolution: A Manifesto.
This essay originally appeared in Young American
Revolution, a magazine published by Young
Americans for Liberty (YALiberty.org).


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Quinn’s Budget Plan DOA
but Provides Political Cover
L
ike all of the budgets proposed by
governors in the past few years, Pat
Quinn’s spending outline last week
was an almost complete fantasy. It has pretty
much zero chance of surviving intact and
will have to be tossed out and substantially
reworked before the session ends.
Unless the school interests can pull off a
legislative miracle during an anti-incumbent
election year, Quinn’s proposed one-
percentage-point tax increase to prevent
$1.3 billion in school-
funding cuts and
pay another $1.5
billion in overdue Rather than making
bills to schools
and universities is a serious attempt to
deader than a rock
on a stump. House balance the budget, the
Speaker Michael
Madigan made that Quinn administration
pretty darned clear
right after the speech. went far out of its way to
Asked what he
would do if the strike maximum fear into
Republicans refused
to cooperate on the the populace.
budget, Madigan
said his Democratic
majority would have to go it alone. Asked if
that meant he’d go it alone on a tax hike, he
pointedly said: “No.”
A few minutes later, appearing on public
television’s Illinois Lawmakers program,
Madigan said, “Let’s be straightforward
about this. The people of America, the
people of Illinois, they don’t want tax
increases. They’re hurting.”
Madigan then praised the governor for
having the courage to propose a tax hike in
this climate, but quickly added: “That doesn’t
mean it’s going to happen.”
Shortly afterwards, Senate President
John Cullerton made it crystal clear that
his chamber would not take the lead on a
tax hike. House GOP Leader Tom Cross
indicated that he still has the hammer down
on his members who might be amenable to
a tax hike. “It’s not going to happen,” said
Senate GOP Leader Christine Radogno.
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Just like that, the whole thing was dead
before Quinn’s voice had stopped echoing in
the House chambers.
In a different year, the theory behind
Quinn’s tax-hike gambit wouldn’t be bad.
People despise Illinois government these
days – for good reason – so a tax increase
for state operations is pretty much out of
the question. Most people do like their local
schools, parents like their kids’ teachers, and
property-tax payers are fed up with constant
increases. Using a tax hike to “save” the
schools is far easier to do than justifying a
tax hike to make more pension payments
to state employees, or fund a state system

by Rich Miller
widely derided as incompetent and corrupt.
But anybody who takes the time to look at
this proposal knows it’s just too obvious of a
setup. Quinn didn’t propose any cuts at all to
the State Board of Education’s bureaucracy.
Instead, the slashes were all classroom-
related. And education took well over half of
all the cuts Quinn proposed, despite being
only about a third of the budget.
Rather than making a serious attempt
to balance the budget in a reasonable,
even-handed
manner, the Quinn
administration went
far out of its way
to strike maximum
fear into the
populace. The real
motivation behind
this gambit is just
way too overt to be
believable.
And does
anybody really
believe that Quinn
will actually
stick to his guns?
Doubtful. The
governor threatened
a doomsday for social-service providers
last year and then blinked when his
deadline approached. He’s an old-school
compassionate liberal. Everybody knows he
doesn’t want to make these cuts and will do
just about anything to avoid them.
There are those in the administration who
say the tax-hike-for-schools template can be
used after the November election (assuming
Quinn wins), when legislators feel safer
about voting for it. The proposal, the insiders
say, is more of a road map for the future than
a plan to be implemented this spring.
The schools tax hike, they say, is also
a way to lessen the pain of the inevitable
Republican charge that the Democrats are
not-so-secretly planning to raise taxes once
they’re reinstalled in power in November.
But if the “secret” plan is to raise taxes
for schools and local governments, that
might mitigate the political damage by
giving Quinn a way to dodge claims on the
campaign trail that he wants to raise taxes
to prop up the bureaucracy. The polling
numbers are turning so bad on taxes right
now that Quinn needed to do something
to save his political skin without totally
abandoning his principles.
That’s all well and good and a dandy little
political theory. In the meantime, the state is
$13 billion in the red and still lacking a real
plan to tackle it.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily
political newsletter) and TheCapitolFaxBlog.
com.

Tax-Credit-Reform
Legislation Unveiled
D Judicial, Justice Branches
emocratic lawmakers last week
unveiled a long-awaited tax-credit-
reform package that they said
would reduce Iowa’s tax-credit liability
by $115 million a year; Republicans and
business leaders were quick to criticize
the legislation and said it sends the wrong
message.
“We have listened to the public’s anger at
abuses and we are responding with historic
reforms,” said Senator Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa
City), chair of the Senate Ways & Means
Committee. “We are ending some tax
credits, cutting many remaining credits, and
dramatically increasing accountability for
all tax-credit spending.”
The unveiling of House Study Bill 738
came two weeks before the targeted March
26 adjournment of the legislature.
The bill would reduce Iowa’s tax-credit
liability from $525 million to $410 million.
It includes suspending the film-tax-credit
program for two years, lowering the
cap on business tax credits from $185
million to $120 million, cutting in half
the supplemental-research-activities tax
credit for large corporations, and cutting
10 percent from many other tax-credit
programs.
“Every part of the budget is being cut,
and that will now include tax credits,” said
Representative Paul Shomshor (D-Council
Bluffs), chair of the House Ways & Means
Committee.
House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen (R-
Hiawatha) said it’s appropriate to review tax
credits and make sure they’re doing what
they’re supposed to. However, he said the
bill proposed by Democrats is equivalent to
raising taxes.
Business officials were bracing for the
bill all session and said they were glad to
finally see the legislation. But lawmakers
can expect businesses to oppose the bill as it
moves through the legislature.
“In this tough economy, when we want
to put Iowans back to work, we would
not recommend cutting these credits,”
said John Gilliland, senior vice president
for government relations for the Iowa
Association of Business & Industry. “You
look at other states that are in a similar
circumstance with their state budgets,
some of those states are being aggressive
and increasing the types of credits and
incentives to bring jobs to their state. In
reality, that’s what we’d prefer, looking
at being more aggressive rather than
retreating.”
by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com
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Could See 600 Job Cuts
Approximately 600 full-time state-
government positions would be eliminated in
the judicial branch and justice system – which
includes corrections and public safety – under
budgets approved on party-line votes by the
House Appropriations Committee.
“There’s going to be real cuts, definitely,”
said Representative Todd Taylor (D-Cedar
Rapids), chair of the legislature’s joint justice-
system budget subcommittee. “These are
essential government functions. People say
one thing that you have to do is protect the
public, and we will do that. We’re going to do
that by backfilling some of those positions
with any dollars that we can find. That’s what
we did last year with new fees. I think the
bottom line is: We are in this budget area
taking a hit because of drastic declines in
revenues. If that continues to decline, public
safety will continue to suffer.”
It’s unclear how many of those positions
reduced will translate to actual layoffs,
although Taylor said most would occur in the
judicial branch. “There are cutbacks in salaries
and mandatory unpaid days that hopefully
will prevent layoffs in some of the corrections
area,” he said. “The courts did have a lot more
layoffs and they’re not going to have the
money to refill many of those positions. So
that means more closure days.”
A total of 188 people in the Department
of Corrections had also applied for early
retirement by March 5, and the deadline
to apply isn’t until April 15. Some of those
who retire will be replaced with lower-paid
employees.
The $484.1-million justice-system
budget spends $31.3 million less than this
year’s budget after an across-the-board
cut. It includes a reduction of 367 jobs in
corrections, 184 in the judicial branch, and 54
in public safety. “That is a drastic hit,” Taylor
said. “At the end of the day, it’s a lot less people
and a lot less money.”
A proposal to once again increase court
fees remains alive, but was not considered as
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part of the judicial budget.
Taylor said additional revenue generated by
last year’s fee increase was offset by the across-
the-board budget cut. He said any new court-
fee increases this year would probably be
made in areas that weren’t affected last year.
For an expanded version of this article, visit
RiverCitiesReader.com.
This weekly summary comes from IowaPolitics.
com, an online government and politics news
service. Reporter Andrew Duffelmeyer and
other correspondents contributed to this report.

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American Pickers
The Inside Story of the History Channel’s Surprise Hit

I
n the American Pickers episode
“Back Breakers,” Mike Wolfe is
donning a bright-red T T Motor
Home Club jacket with the name
“Louise” embroidered on the front.
The jacket is an “ice-breaker,” a
term that Wolfe and picking partner
Frank Fritz use to describe an item
that they don’t really want but buy
anyway as a way to warm up a
reticent person to the idea of selling
their old stuff.
It’s a charming bit in the History
channel’s first-season reality-series
hit, because it shows that Wolfe and
Fritz aren’t afraid to look foolish
or silly. And Wolfe seems to enjoy
wearing that jacket.
But it also works because it
teaches viewers about how picking
works. We learn the nuances of
scavenging, and how they get people
to part with the objects they’ve
collected over decades. “We’re like
psychologists for people and their
stuff,” Fritz said on the show.
Pickers has myriad appeals.
On the funny side, Wolfe buys a
long-unworn leather coat that has
condoms in the pocket and shares a
laugh with the previous owner.
The negotiation game can be both
enjoyable and instructive. One seller
has such a keen sense of what his
Frank Fritz and Mike Wolfe
collectibles might fetch that Wolfe
and Fritz try to offer him a single many of whom talk about their families and a stellar February. “This is the first time in quickly rolls over for the $200 the owner
price for all the stuff they want; he keeps their histories. One woman shows a car that history the network has ranked top-five is asking; he’s trying to soften him up for
track of their piles, though, and outsmarts her husband bought to teach her to drive; in all four adult and men 18-49 and 25- Wolfe. But then Wolfe’s offer of $4,800 is
them. she never learned, she said, and the car 54 demo[graphic]s in any given month,” turned down, and he gives in to the $5,000
And then there are times when the sat untouched in a barn for four decades. History said in a press release. asking price. The tactic wasn’t successful,
pickers screw up and learn something Talking about the show’s debut, Wolfe In the past few weeks – as the show but it shows viewers the process. Wolfe
themselves. The pair spends so long discussed 88-year-old World War II veteran wound down its 10-episode initial run and offsets the transaction by selling the Vespa
rummaging through the barn of a 92-year- Leland rather than what they bought from approached shooting its 26-episode second owner a sidecar frame for $600; he had paid
old man that he loses any interest in selling him: “He was the treasure. He was the star season – the three stars of American Pickers $400.
to them; the two immediately recognize of the show.” talked with the River Cities’ Reader about Some “picks” are arranged in advance,
that they were so excited about what was in He added: “I wanted to tell the story the show’s success, history, and controversy. and other times Fritz and Wolfe “freestyle,”
the barn that they didn’t respect their host’s of these people that had the items, and I driving around the countryside looking
time. actually wanted the item to have a voice, for promising homes, yards, and barns.
“The show is about modern-day treasure too, in some ways.” And as he says in the Five Years in the Making They bypass places where the grass is cut
hunting, that you can still do it,” Wolfe said. closing of the show’s introduction, “We Like Pawn Stars, American Pickers mines too frequently, or where there are new cars.
“And the show is about ... looking at things make a living telling the history of America the drama of bartering, seeing if buyers and Experience tells them those properties
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with a different eye.” And it’s informative
about the histories of the featured objects,
in the form of commentary by Wolfe and
Fritz, and facts that pop up on the screen.
There’s also a human-interest angle to
American Pickers. Some people might like
the easy rapport between Wolfe and Fritz,
who have known each other since eighth
grade.
But Wolfe thinks the fundamental appeal
is the people they meet and the objects
they’ve collected. While buying is the thrust
of the show, American Pickers spends plenty
of time on the interactions between the
 picking pair and the folks they encounter,
one piece at a time.”
When American Pickers debuted on
January 18, it got a lot of press in the Quad
Cities, with Wolfe and Antique Archeology
office manager Danielle Colby-Cushman
living in LeClaire and Fritz based in
Davenport.
But at the time, nobody had any idea
that it would be a monster Monday hit
for History when paired with Pawn Stars.
American Pickers debuted with more than
3 million viewers and this month has
approached 4 million, placing it among
the 20 top-rated shows on cable. Those
two shows and Ax Men pushed History to
sellers can find common ground. But while
Pawn Stars by its nature focuses on people
who want or need the money, Pickers deals
with people who are often hesitant to sell.
The dynamics are different.
“This is really one of the sides of the
[bartering] business that no one’s seen,”
Wolfe said. “The pickers’ story’s never been
told.”
The episode “Super Scooter” shows
how the pair works together. Wolfe is
nearly drooling over a Vespa Ape scooter.
The owner wants $5,000 for it, and Wolfe
offers $4,500 – which is rejected. Fritz
halfheartedly offers $150 for a bike but
aren’t worth their time.
Few people realize the amount of work
that goes into the show. For the first season’s
10 episodes, the pickers were on the road
for more than five months, covering 20
states. Each 44-minute episode had 13
scheduled days of shooting, Wolfe said.
“I had no idea what I was getting into,”
he said. “We had no idea the grind it would
be.”
That sounds like complaining, but the
reality is that Wolfe has been working
toward this for five years, when he first
bought a video camera and began recording
his picks.

“Five years is a long time to work on
something,” Fritz said. “And without Mike’s
drive, we probably still wouldn’t have it on
there. He’s a pretty persistent guy.”
Colby-Cushman, who said she’s known
Wolfe for a decade, said she was skeptical
of the show’s prospects when she first
heard the idea five years ago. “Because of
the whole small-town mentality, I kind of
thought, ‘There’s no way. There’s just no
way it could happen.’” I asked whether she
thought Wolfe had his head in the clouds,
and she replied, “He always does, but that’s
why he gets so far. He did it.”
Wolfe can (and will) talk for half an hour
on the winding road that American Pickers
has taken from idea to hit series. The short
version is that production companies and
television networks were interested in the
show but never pulled the trigger on it
until History snatched it up last August and
began shooting in early September.
“I had ideas, and ... I had all these great
tapes ... ,” Wolfe said, but he didn’t have a
concept. “It’s like I had all these leaves but I
had no tree.”
Wolfe said he initially approached the
young filmmakers of Bluebox Limited
about editing his material, but they were
too busy. They sent him to Justin Anderson,
proprietor of Crazy Eyes Productions.
Anderson said they met in 2006 and
worked together for several years. “I was
never interested in antiques, but I thought
the idea of a modern-day American
treasure hunter was very cool, and the piece
we put together from the footage was so
grungy and real – like Indiana Jones meets
Sanford & Son,” Anderson wrote in an e-
mail.
Wolfe would post the videos he
and Anderson made on his Web site
while working with various production
companies and pitching it to cable
outlets. Executives from Discovery, TLC,
and Smithsonian all seemed game, but
the closest the show got to airing was a
development deal with Discovery. “That’s
for a network to throw a little bit of money
at you, so they can sit on it for a long time
so no one else can get it,” Wolfe said.
He eventually gave the videos to Plum
TV, a lifestyle channel shown in tony
vacation spots.
Wolfe said that Anderson hated the
Plum TV situation, but he said he wanted
to get the videos in front of these wealthy,
influential vacationers – the type of people
who could do something with it if they
liked it. “Someone’s seeing it,” he said. “Who
gives a shit if it’s lying in a can on my desk?”
But then a TLC exec hooked Wolfe up
with the Cineflix production company,
which pitched (and sold) it to History.
Fritz’s involvement is critical to the
show’s success, Wolfe said: “I always knew
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come from “armchair quarterbacks,”
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The Pluck of the Irish
The O’Conner Girls, at the Playcrafters Barn Theatre through March 21
I
f there’s one word
I’d use to best
describe Playcrafters
Barn Theatre’s current
production, it would
be “nice.” And while
that can be taken as an
unflattering adjective,
for The O’Conner Girls
I mean it as a positive
one; I left the opening-
night performance with
a smile on my face, one
awash with the sweet
nostalgia and dash of
humor that put it there.
The O’Conner Girls
takes place over the
course of two days,
during which twin sisters
Martha (Lisa Kahn) and
Liz (Pamela Crouch)
– having just buried
their father – are now
helping their mother,
Sara (Jan Golz), clean out the house. Martha
spent the last year taking care of her father,
losing sleep along with any semblance of
a personal life. Liz did her part by sending
money home, even after losing her husband
and her job. Now, however, Sara is ready to
sell the family home and head off to Europe,
and The O’Conner Girls finds the three
women sharing these and other secrets with
one another, secrets that end up changing
their lives.
Written by Katie Forgette, the script
does not offer new ideas or creative
plotlines. Instead, its strength is in its
realistic dialogue. Rather than delivering
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the pretentious, overly dramatic lines
you often find in weaker scripts, or the
exquisitely poetic but lofty monologues of
stronger plays, these characters speak as
real people do. The effect created is like a
slice of life, where it’s easier to believe we’re
actually looking in on a real family in a real
situation, rather than something staged.
In her directorial debut at Playcrafters,
Susan Zelnio crafts a production that
embraces that sense of realism, as do her
leads. Golz has a way of taking lines that
may not have been written with humor
and delivering them with an inflection
that creates a bit of off-the-cuff, slightly
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Jan Golz, Lisa Kahn, and Pamela Crouch
sarcastic fun. Kahn offers a sweetly sincere
performance, adding just enough hints at
Martha’s being overburdened and tired;
her facial expressions are a bit overdone
when simply reacting to others, but this is
arguably the most unaffected performance
I’ve yet seen from Kahn. The same could be
said of Crouch (although her performance
in the Harrison Hilltop Theatre’s Steel
Magnolias, also featuring Kahn, was quite
enjoyable). In past shows, I’ve seen Crouch
overdo her performances, but here it was
refreshing to see her let the lines simply
flow, rather than using them to force a
character.
Don Faust portrays Dr. David Stevens,
a longtime family friend and secret love
interest of Martha, and seems to be overly
aware of the audience, often delivering his
gestures toward those watching the play
rather than those performing in it. As in
previous productions in which I’ve seen
him (most notably Harrison Hilltop’s The
Graduate), it’s apparent that Faust likes to
perform and enjoys pleasing an audience.
Here, however, his tendency to play to the
audience is a distraction, although – as it’s
confined to his body language –at least it’s
a minor one; Faust’s line deliveries project
a more honest nature, and make his Dr.
Stevens a simple, likable man.
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by Mike Schulz • mike@rcreader.com
Mishmash Accomplished
GREEN ZONE
Set in Baghdad during the early months of 2002,
director Paul Greengrass’ action thriller Green Zone in Manhattan in 1991, then offers a “10 Years Later”
casts Matt Damon as a stalwart, driven military
officer who gradually discovers that the American
government lied
about the proliferation
– even the existence
– of Iraqi weapons of
mass destruction. This
might strike you as
old news, and it is. The
disappointing surprise
of Green Zone, though,
is that the movie itself Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon
should feel like such
old news, and in ways that have nothing to do
with Greengrass and Damon re-teaming after the
considerable artistic and popular successes of their
Bourne Supermacy and Bourne Ultimatum films.
It takes a while for that realization to sink in,
mostly because Greengrass is such a no-frills
wizard at composition and choreography; the
skirmishes, assaults, and chase sequences – shot
in hand-held, vérité style by The Hurt Locker
cinematographer Barry Ackroyd – are beautifully
executed. Yet despite the film’s technical acumen
and Damon’s expectedly magnetic stoicism, you
can’t shake the feeling that this fiction inspired by
truth is a little too ... well ... fictional, twisting events
of unimaginable complexity into a conveniently
simplistic, one-man-bucking-the-system narrative.
(The movie ends with the swelling of John Powell’s
triumphant-hero score, which suggests, “ ...
and everyone in Iraq lived happily ever after!”)
Brian Helgeland’s flat, prosaic script doesn’t help
matters, nor do the oddly unfocused supporting
turns by Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, and
Amy Ryan (who, as a compromised Wall Street
Journal reporter, appears to be wincing her way
through her dialogue). But in all honesty, Green
Zone is never more chilling than when recounting
President Bush’s notorious “mission accomplished”
press conference or the announcement of the
dismantling of Iraq’s army; on any level you can
name, those real-life horrors trump Greengrass’
and Helgeland’s invented, discouragingly rote
action-thriller horrors. In the end, the movie is
professionally assembled but easy to tune out
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on, and so little of it is freshly imagined that you
can find your mind wandering in odd directions
throughout. Whatever its filmmakers wanted us to
take from the overly familiar experience of Green
Zone, I’m doubting it’s the thought that Damon
and Kinnear were actually preferable co-stars when
playing conjoined twins in Stuck on You.
REMEMBER ME
Your reaction to the romantic drama Remember
Me will largely, if not completely, depend on
your feelings toward its finale, which I’ve read
reviewers and online commentators describe as a
grossly exploitative, unprepared-for shock. I won’t
10 Listen to Mike every Friday at 9am on ROCK 104-9 FM with Dave & Darren
necessarily argue with that first part, but the climax
seemed to me nothing but anticipated; I’m sorry,
but if (SPOILER ALERT ... I guess ... ) a film opens
title card, then delivers a melancholic love story
while May slowly turns to September ... . Well, by
then, should there really
be any question as to what
life-altering event the
plot is leading toward? If
you’re alert to, and can
handle, director Allen
Coulter’s and screenwriter
Will Fetters’ inevitable
destination, you might find
this contrived yet heartfelt
in Green Zone
love story between
damaged souls (Twilight’s Robert Pattinson and Lost’s
Emilie de Ravin, both very fine) a solid, emotionally
resonant tearjerker that nicks at your insides in
unexpected ways. If not, at least you’ve been warned.
Kind of.
SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
Crass, predictable, yet intermittently entertaining,
She’s Out of My League gives away its entire plot in its
title, with Jay Baruchel’s skinny nebbish spending 90-
ish minutes distrustful of the affections of his perfect-
10 girlfriend (played by the sunny, friendly Alice Eve,
who seems deserving of that numerical ranking).
Despite the occasional bodily-fluid and ball-shaving
gags, director Jim Field Smith’s debut feature is a
wispy little throwaway of a movie – the laughs match
the groans in pretty much equal measure – and it
culminates in one of those race-through-the-airport
climaxes that became old hat, oh, about a zillion
romantic comedies ago. Still, there are worse ways
to piss away your time than with an ensemble this
enjoyable: Beyond the agreeably mismatched leads,
She’s Out of My League finds room for terrifically
likable, even witty turns by Nate Torrence, Mike
Vogel, Lindsay Sloane, Kyle Bornheimer, Krysten
Ritter, and that fabulous That ’70s Show mom Debra
Jo Rupp, who at one point here steals a scene merely
by grinning, giggling, and happily jumping up and
down. Which is pretty much my reaction any time
Rupp shows up anywhere.
OUR FAMILY WEDDING
The deathly obvious, staggeringly unfunny Our
Family Wedding concerns an African-American
father (Forest Whitaker, way out of his element) and
a Hispanic-American father (Carlos Mencia, all too
in his element) who are grudgingly forced to accept
the mixed-race marriage of the former’s son (Lance
Gross) and the latter’s daughter (America Ferrera).
In one scene, for reasons not worth explaining, a
goat runs amok in Whitaker’s bathroom, downs the
man’s supply of Viagra, and proceeds to hump his
leg to high heaven. Afterward, the animal makes eye
contact with Whitaker and bleats, “Call me,” and as it
walks away ... . Yeah, I think that’s all you really need
to know.
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In the Face of an Unseen Enemy
Cancer Survivor Christina Marie Myatt Performs an April 3 Benefit for the Genesis Center of Breast Health
I
n 2005, Christina Marie Myatt – president of
the Countryside Community Theatre’s board
of directors and owner/artistic director of
Davenport’s Center Stage Performing Arts Academy
– was diagnosed with breast cancer. And not long
afterward, as she recalled in our interview, she
received a visit from her parents.
“They came out when I was getting ready to go for
chemotherapy for the first time,” says Myatt, “and my
dad said, ‘I brought you a gift.’ I opened it, and it was
his Purple Heart from when he was in Vietnam. And
I said, ‘Why would you give this to me? I can’t take
this.’ And he said, ‘When they hand you this medal,
they tell you that this medal is for bravery in the face
of an unseen enemy. And watching you, that is what
you are doing right now.’”
That medal, says Myatt, “is now in my bedroom,
in its own little shadow box, with a little note
that says, ‘For bravery in the face of an unknown
enemy.’” Yet as she well knows, Myatt is but one of
millions who have bravely fought breast cancer, and
it’s her hope to help raise awareness and funds for
the continued struggle through her April 3 cabaret
performance at Davenport’s Col Ballroom – An
Evening with Christina Marie: A Benefit for the
Genesis Center for Breast Health.
Backed by pianist Thea Engelson and Rod
Pierson’s (Not-So) Big Band – an ensemble of
musicians recruited from Pierson’s bigger Big Band
– Myatt will perform a blend of period standards
(“Happy Days Are Here Again,” “Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy,” “Fly Me to the Moon”) and showtunes
(“I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,”
“Being Alive”), with all proceeds benefiting the local
treatment center that fostered Myatt’s recovery. The
event celebrates Myatt not only entering her fifth
year of survivorship but also her 40th birthday on
April 2, and the gifted, funny, and optimistic area
talent recently sat down to discuss her illness, her
recovery, and the power that the arts have on her
positive outlook.
This Is Not Good
Myatt first discovered a lump in 2005, during a
routine self-exam, and says that even after being
diagnosed with Stage 1 Intraductual Carcinoma,
she and husband William chose not to share the
news with all of their friends and family members
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– including their young children.
I had always done self-exams; I have
endometriosis, so I’d done them from a very young
age. So one time, through the routine, I found
something. And I went to the doctor, who said to
me, “You’re 35 years old. It can’t be anything. That
doesn’t make any sense.”
So I went in for the mammogram, and I don’t
know whether you’d call it a sick feeling, but they’d
do one test and then go, “Oh, we need to do more
pictures ... .” Then, “Oh, we need to do this test ...
.” And the doctor’s
saying, “Oh, that’s
interesting. I’ve never
really seen anything
like that before ... .”
And you’re sitting
there going, “This
is not good.” Then
it was, “Now you
have to wait over
the weekend for the
results,” and I just
knew, all through
the weekend, how
the tests were gonna
come back. And they
did.
My daughter, at the time, was three, and my
stepson was seven, and my husband and I sat down
and I said, “I want their life to be normal. I don’t
want their life to be about this.” So we made a bold
decision not to tell them. I know that lots of people
say, “How could you do that?”, but I just didn’t want
things to be about ... that I had cancer. I didn’t want
to be the poster child for anything. I just wanted
something in life that was normal, where we could
have our daily routine, and have fun ... . So we
didn’t tell them.
All my co-workers knew, because I had to tell
them; there were just certain things I couldn’t do,
or I’d get too ill. And some friends knew. I didn’t
take the time to call all of them. I called one friend
and said, “Guess what. It’s your responsibility to
tell other people, because I can’t make these phone
calls.” And my parents knew, of course, but even
my whole family didn’t know. I had an uncle who
had brain cancer, and my grandparents had already
been in and out of the hospital, and it was like, “We
can’t add this on there. We just can’t.”
So to this day, some family members don’t know.
They’re coming to the cabaret, though, so we’re
going to share it with them before that. Because I
can’t do the cabaret and not talk about it.
Huge Blessings
Wishing to keep her daily routine as close
to normal as possible, Myatt continued with
her job (from 2001 to 2008) as the Putnam
Museum’s theatrical
programming
coordinator. “I missed
work when I had
my chemotherapy
treatments,” she says,
“and I missed when
I was out for surgery
– they ask you to take
a week off because
of everything you’re
going through. But
that was it. I did
radiation during
my lunch hour, and
then come back.”
Thankfully, she also had a strong support system
there to assist her.
My parents were great. They had come to stay
with us when we started chemotherapy, because
we didn’t know what was gonna happen and
what it was gonna be like, and if the kids needed
something, they could be a nice diversion.
I was very lucky, because I didn’t have a lot
of nausea. But there were certainly days where I
didn’t feel well, and just wanted to be left alone, and
didn’t want to have anything to do with the kids.
And that’s when my father would sweep in and say,
“Hey! Guess what! We’re gonna go to Happy Joe’s!”
And the kids were like, “Oh, Happy Joe’s!” That was
a huge blessing.
But there were moments at home when I would
feel horrible, and my little girl would go, “Look,
Mommy!” And she’d sing some song from a show
that I did, and it would be hysterical. Just laughing
helped. And my husband ... . There were days,
during the process, when just having him there
was all I needed to make everything else go away.
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
You know, these things you take for granted every
single day all of a sudden become so vivid to you.
I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like to go
through this alone. I mean, I consider myself a very
strong person, but I’m not sure that I could have
done that without anybody else. There were so
many times where I knew it had nothing to do with
me that I made it through the day.
Wonderful, Powerful Thing
Beyond work and family, Myatt says she also
continued to find comfort in the arts, choreographing
Pleasant Valley High School’s Crazy for You,
and directing Countryside Community Theatre’s
2006 production of Oliver! while undergoing
chemotherapy treatments.
When I first found out I was sick, I went to the
[Countryside] board and said, “I’ll understand if
you don’t want me to do this. But right now, I don’t
have anything that’s holding me back, so it’s up to
you.” And they said, “No, we trust you.” And people
like [previous Center Stage owner] Shellee Frazee,
and other folks that I knew, said, “If you need
somebody to step in – like if you need somebody to
show moves to the cast – I can do that.” Everybody
was willing to be supportive of the process, which
was really kind of cool.
So I did the best that I could. It was hard
sometimes, but once you get to a certain point
in directing, you get to sit back a lot. So when I
was having bad days, I could sit, and it was okay.
And Page Grubb was my music director. He
passed away two years ago from cancer, but he
had had cancer before, so he’d been through it, and
sometimes, just all of a sudden, he’d say something
to make me laugh because he knew I wasn’t feeling
well.
The arts are a wonderful, powerful thing. I
mean, I always thought that I hated the show Annie
[which Myatt will actually direct for Countryside
this summer]. I swore that I would never, ever
direct that show in my life, and if anybody did it,
I’d run as far away as I could. But you know what?
There’s something about that show, like Oliver!
– that in the dark of an orphanage, in the dark of
the streets, there are people who are still happy.
Who find joy. You want to sit back and say, “Where
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Music
Tantric
Rock Island Brewing Company
Saturday, March 27, 9 p.m.
“T he funny thing
about going through
struggles,” says Hugo
Ferreira, lead singer of the
alternative rock band Tantric,
“is that struggles make you
interesting.”
Man, what an interesting
band Tantric is!
Formed in 1999 with former
Merge frontman Ferreira
and three former members
of Days of the New – Matt
Taul, Jesse Vest, and Todd
Whitener – Tantric initially
found wild success with its
self-titled, platinum-selling
debut album, smash singles in
“Breakdown” and “Astounded,”
and a national tour alongside
Kid Rock and Creed. The
group’s career trajectory took a
slight downward turn with the
somewhat disappointing sales
of 2004’s After We Go, but the
CD still yielded a top-10 hit
with the single “Hey Now,”
and Tantric continued to tour,
this time with fellow rockers
Shinedown and 3 Doors
Down.
And then ... .
Vest left the group, to be
replaced by Bruce LaFrance, in
2005. Tantric parted ways with
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its collapsing label, Maverick
Records, in 2006. Taul was
arrested on drug-related
charges in 2007. Whitener left
the group in 2007. LaFrance
left the group in 2007. And the
group’s third album peaked at
number 91 on the Billboard
charts. Its ironic title? The End
Begins.
Ah, but it ain’t over ’til it’s
over, as you’ll witness when
Tantric brings its unrestrained
post-grunge sound to
the Rock Island Brewing
Company on March 27. With
lead singer Ferreira joining
Richie Monica, Joe Pessia,
Erik Leonhardt, and Marcus
Ratzenboeck, the group is
celebrating the release of its
recent CD Mind Control, and
while the band’s lineup may
have changed, its frontman
says its name won’t. “I’m still
the one who believes in it,” he
says. And besides, “I’ve got the
thing tattooed on my arm.”
Which is exactly why I’m not
allowed to find a replacement
for my mother.
For more information on
Tantric’s RIBCO appearance,
call (309)793-4060 or visit
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David Furness, Andrew Kos
Troilus & Cressida McFarren, Matt Moody, Bet
1616 Second Avenue, The District of Rock Island Yoder) familiar from previo
As for the plot to this infr
Friday, March 19, through Sunday, March 28 I actually wrote my final exa
college, but that was so man
T he arrival of William Shakespeare’s Troilus
& Cressida, the latest anything-goes offering
by the Prenzie Players, is a pretty huge deal, as
that I don’t quite trust my m
me offer this description, sto
Players Web site:
director Maggie Woolley’s production is the first
David Furness as Hector “In the seventh year of th
to be staged in the classical-theatre troupe’s very prince of Troy, loves Cressid
own space, located at 1616 Second Avenue in the which features a quintet of gifted area actors (Pat
Troilus seeks to woo Cressid
District of Rock Island. Flaherty, Michael King, Brianne Kinney, Matt
Pandarus, though Cressida
It’s also a pretty huge deal based on the cast, Mercer, and Steven Quartell) making their debuts
Theatre
seemed like a healthy chunk of change. songs as “He
Of course, there are plenty of people Clock,” “Her
who’ve adored Richard Adler’s and Once Was a M
The Pajama Game Jerry Ross’ musical-comedy classic for “Steam Heat”
Prospect Park Auditorium far longer than I have. The winner of you won’t wa
three 1955 Tony Awards including Best Running a
Thursday, March 25 through Saturday, March 28 Musical – with The Pajama Game’s Auditorium
2006 Broadway remount, starring J. Adam Lounsberry director Kevi
Y
ou want to know how long I’ve loved the Broadway
Harry Connick Jr., winning the award and Kelly Thompson-Reyes first outing in
musical The Pajama Game? Its storyline concerns a
for Best Revival – this sensational entertainment is filled with 2010 season, and if you’ve seen
nightwear-factory union that’s demanding a raise of seven-
laughs, romance, and one of the most memorable scores in show over the past five years, yo
and-a-half cents an hour, and when I first saw the show, that
American theatre. Trust me, you won’t be able to get such Guild talent you recognize. Am
Literature
according to the press materials I qualified. And i
was sent, it appears that Murphey With works including the when
is qualified for the gig, as he’s had nationwide bestseller 90 Minutes and ta
Cecil Murphey three books published: When in Heaven – included on USA on Ma
Someone You Love Has Cancer, Today’s list of the 150 bestselling At
Midwest Writing Center and The Outing Club
When God Turned Off the Lights, books of the past 15 years – and keyno
Saturday, March 20 and Christmas Miracles. citations including the Advanced of the
Oh, wait. My mistake. Those Writers & Speakers Association’s David
W hen you learn that Davenport
native Cecil Murphey will soon
be leading a workshop titled “Why Can’t
are the books he had published last year.
Murphey is actually the author of more
Lifetime Achievement Award and the
American Society of Journalists &
Banqu
that w
than 100 books, and apparently has nine Authors’ Extraordinary Service Award, and aw
You Be an Extraordinary Writer?”, your others set for release. Murphey is clearly one of America’s most writer
first response might easily be, “So who Fine. So he’s really, really, really prolific and lauded inspirational writers. Cente
is he to teach me about writing?” Well,
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a batch of excellent
rough, Jaci Entwistle,
ski, J.C. Luxton, Cole
th Woolley, and Denise
ous Prenzie endeavors.
requently produced title,
am on it for a course in
ny beers – er, years – ago
memory. Instead, let
olen from the Prenzie
he Trojan War, Troilus, a
da, daughter to a traitor.
da through her uncle,
secretly loves Troilus
ey There,” “Racing with the
rnando’s Hideaway,” “There
Man,” and the jazzy classic
t” out of your head. Moreover,
ant to.
at Moline’s Prospect Park
March 25 through 28,
vin Pieper’s production is the
n Quad City Music Guild’s
even one Prospect Park
ou’ll see the return of a Music
mong the show’s performers:
inspiration will no doubt be on hand
n the author shares his experiences
alents in two Davenport appearances
arch 20.
6 p.m., Murphey will serve as the
ote speaker for the 30th anniversary
e Midwest Writing Center’s annual
d R. Collins Literary Awards
uet, an evening at the Outing Club
will feature dinner, an auction,
wards and recognition for local
rs. And at the Midwest Writing
er itself, from 1 to 3 p.m., Murphey
309-762-6610
www.qcmusicguild.com
Curtain Times 7:30pm Thurs, Fri, Sat, and 2:00pm Sun
as well. Meanwhile, the Greeks, encamped outside
the walls of Troy, are suffering from dissension
among the ranks, and cannot move forward in their
goal to seize Troy until order is returned. A tale of
love, war, and betrayal, Troilus & Cressida is one of
Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, whipping
between bawdy comedy and gritty tragedy in a dark
exploration of the classic heroes of The Iliad.”
Hey, I’m doing Cyrano de Bergerac with the
group in May; I’m working for them, they can work
for me a little.
Troilus & Cressida runs Fridays through Sundays,
March 19 through 28, and information is available
by visiting the group’s Web site at PrenziePlayers.
com.
J. Adam (The Producers) Lounsberry, Shana (All Shook
Up) Lavino, Joe (Once Upon a Mattress) Urtbaitis, Kelly
(Seussical) Thompson-Reyes, Dan (You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown) McGinn, Chris (Joseph & the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat) Castle, John Donald (Little Women)
O’Shea, Mark (Miracle on 34th Street) Holmes, and Dave
(Nuncrackers) Bailey.
I’m (Really Truly Awfully) impressed.
The Pajama Game will be performed at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday; for
more information and tickets, call (309)762-6610 or visit
QCMusicGuild.com.
will unveil the difference between a
writer who sells a thousand copies of a
book and one who sells a million in the
aforementioned workshop “Why Can’t
You Be an Extraordinary Writer?” I’d
consider attending myself, but you know,
I hear that question from my bosses every
damned day of my life ... .
Pre-resigtration for both Cecil
Murphey events is strongly encouraged,
and information on both is available
by calling (563)324-1410 or visiting
MidwestWritingCenter.org.
presents…
March 25, 26, 27, 28
Prospect Park Auditorium, Moline
Tickets: $15
Children $9
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Music What Else
Is Happenin’
Cowboy Junkies
The Redstone Room
Wednesday, March 24, 8:30 p.m.
MUSIC
its home turf of Canada; and has
O
ne of the most beloved and Saturday, March 20 – The Pointer
become firmly enmeshed in pop Sisters. Grammy-winning pop and soul
enduring of alt-country culture through songs heard in
bands, the Canadian outfit singers in concert. Riverside Casino &
Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers
the Cowboy Junkies has been Golf Resort (3184 Highway 22, Riverside).
and Margo’s 1990 acknowledgment
composed of musical siblings 8 p.m. $40-$55. For information and
as one of People magazine’s “50
Margo, Michael, and Peter tickets, call (319)648-1234 or visit
most beautiful people in the world.”
Timmins and longtime bassist pal Yet some of you might think
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Alan Anton for more than two Sunday, March 21 – Toscanellie
that you still don’t know all that
decades. Since its debut in 1985, much about the group. I beg to “Lady T.” Marcelain. Chicago-based
the hugely popular and critically differ. Try matching the Cowboy jazz vocalist, bandleader, and educator
acclaimed group has released more performs as part of Polyrhythms’ Third
Junkies’ impressive professional
than 20 studio records, live albums, Sunday Jazz Matinée & Workshop Series.
accomplishments with the recent
and compilations; has performed The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
years in which they occurred; I
on Saturday Night Live; has toured Davenport). 3 p.m. All-ages workshop:
guarantee you know more than
Europe, the United States, and $5/adult, children free; 6 p.m. concert:
you might think.
$10-$15, students free. For tickets and
information, call (563)326-1333 or visit
1) 2003 A) First performance at Carnegie Hall Polyrhythms.org.
2) 2004 B) Release of The Time Before Llamas, a collection of songs Friday, March 26 – The Daredevil
3) 2005 written between 1990 and 1992
Christopher Wright. Independent
4) 2006 C) Sold-out concert in Toronto, with The Trinity Session musicians performing with Floating
5) 2007 songs played in sequence
Action and Middle Distance, in an all-
6) 2008 D) On-stage reunion with brother John Timmins for the
ages concert sponsored by Daytrotter.
7) 2009 first time in 20 years
Huckleberry’s Great Pizza & Calzones (223
8) 2010 E) Release of the band’s ninth studio album, One Soul Now
18th Street, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $6-$8. For
F) Performance with the Louisville Symphony
G) Performance with the Boston Pops information, e-mail support@daytrotter.
com or visit Daytrotter.com.
H) March 24 concert at Davenport’s Redstone Room
Saturday, March 27 – Mustard Plug.
Michigan-based indie rockers in concert,
with opening acts Firesale and The
RedstoneRoom.com.
Agrestix. The Redstone Room (129 Main
and more on the night is available by calling (563)326-1933 or visiting
concert are $37.50, the group performs with openers Lee Harvey Osmond,
Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $12. For tickets
me you didn’t get at least one right! Tickets for the Cowboy Junkies’ local and information, call (563)326-1333 or
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“New to Me”
Corrine Smith, Through April at MidCoast Gallery West
T
he tree jumps out.
And the buildings.
And the still life.
In the new show of 26
works by mixed-media
artist Corrine Smith,
these mundane objects
are nearly shocking.
Smith, who teaches design
at Augustana College,
said she encourages her
students to think of shape
for shape’s sake, color for
color’s sake, and texture
for texture’s sake. “I’m very
much a formalist in that
way,” she said recently.
“Composition is a stickler
for me.”
Her painting for the past
three decades has followed
those rules with abstract,
sophisticated treatments of
the most basic rectangular
and round forms. (“I don’t
think that I have exhausted
those shapes yet,” she said.
“I’m not the least bit tired
of them at all.”)
So even though much
of the work in the new
show (which runs through
April at MidCoast Gallery
West in downtown Rock
Island) fits comfortably in
her pure-design aesthetic,
something approaching
representative painting –
in her Shelter series and in the tabletop still
life The Blue Olive – appears to represent a
radical shift. Shelter #9 is clearly meant as a
pair of buildings and a tree.
“That’s all really new to me,” she said of
this transition.
Shelter Series #14 is not as easily
identifiable, and Smith said the “buildings”
can also be seen as two people. The tree is
missing its crown. “I suppose I didn’t put
the little green top on there because it kind
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of freaked me out that I made a tree,” she
said.
That’s a hint that this development in her
work has come as a surprise to the artist.
“I don’t know where these things are
coming from,” she said. “I kind of do like
it, actually. I don’t know it leaves as much
to the imagination ... but it’s still really new
for me. I guess I’ll continue it for a while.”
At the end of last year, she said, she
began looking at houses while on walks
and got stuck on the idea of homes. She
thought about them as containers of
belongings, and about how the loss of
a home for many people represents the
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one of the first things she
establishes, she rotates
the work while it’s in
progress. “The top is
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constantly changing,” she
said. “I don’t know what
is the top [edge] until it’s
done.”
That, of course,
changes the nature of the
work. Turned one way, it
might be bottom-heavy.
Turned another, it might
feel like it’s leaning to
the right. “It’s all about
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love the shape of beans,”
she said. “It’s just that
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of Blue Olive. The oldest works
ABOVE: Shelter Series #14. in this show date to
LEFT: Shelter #9. September 2009, and
that’s a testament to how
prolific Smith is. “I treat
it like a job,” she said.
She’s long had a goal of
possessions. And the Shelter series was
creating 100 works in a year, which she first
born.
surpassed with 102 in 2008. (“I never count
And those ideas dovetailed with a pair
until the very end,” she said.) She made 117
of earthquakes. “There are a lot of disasters paintings last year, she said, and sold 85.
happening in the world,” Smith said. She has a goal of creating two paintings
Other developments in her work have a week. “If you talk to most artists, it’s kind
been more gradual. “I think I’ve gotten a of insane,” she said.
little bit tighter over the years,” she said. Smith said that she works on paintings
“I’ve gotten into a lot more layering and “one at a time. Always.” Beginning a new
a lot more planning. ... I’ve gotten into work when she gets stumped by another,
making paper and exploring a large variety she said, would be a cop-out. “You just have
of handmade paper, which then kind
to keep working on it,” she said. “I don’t
of leads me into a little more interest in believe in starting another one just because
pattern.” the one you’re working on doesn’t work.
Her older works, she said, “might be a You have to resolve it and then go on to the
little more painterly. ... I think these are next.”
a little cleaner. ... I think these are more
controlled for some reason.” Corrine Smith’s work is on display at
Each work, she said, starts with two MidCoast Gallery West (1629 Second
or three line drawings laid on top of Avenue in Rock Island) through April; the
each other, providing the compositional exhibit also features the ceramics of Ashley
framework. She begins with a color scheme Fulton. A closing reception will be held from
in mind. 6 to 9 p.m. on April 16.
Yet Smith emphasized that her process
is intuitive: “I always let the painting paint For more information on Corrine Smith, visit
itself ... ,” she said. http://www.CorrineSmith.Home.MCHSI.
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In the Face of an Unseen Enemy
do you find the hope and strength in these horrible
situations?”, but now I know. Because hope is what
sustains you. If you don’t have that, there is no life.
One lady said to me, “I’m amazed by how
positive you are all the time.” And I said, “Well,
first of all, I have small children at home. I want to
be an example for them, and the example I want
to set is that sometimes life throws us really hard
things, but you keep moving forward the best that
you possibly can.” But beyond that, I said, “Nobody
ever knows when that last day is. If this were the
last time that you ever got to talk to me, I wouldn’t
want you to think, ‘Man, she’s a bitch.’”
I Will Survive
After two surgeries, six rounds of chemotherapy,
and six weeks of radiation, Myatt was declared
cancer-free, and began, as she says, actually being
that poster child she previously hoped not to be. “I
became involved with the [Susan G.] Komen [for
the Cure] organization,” she says, “I sang for their
survivor celebration, I’ve been asked to be part of the
race committee ... .” And she’ll now be raising funds
for the Genesis Center for Breast Health with her
cabaret performance – not that the idea, as she freely
admits, was originally hers.
My husband, who’s always been my number-
one fan, had always said to me, “You should do a
cabaret evening.” And I thought, “Well, that’d be
fun, but isn’t that a little self-serving?” So I said,
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What Else Is Happenin’
Wednesday, March 31 – Miles Kurosky.
Independent musician from Beulah
performing with Pancho-san, in an all-
ages concert sponsored by Daytrotter.
Huckleberry’s Great Pizza & Calzones (223
18th Street, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $6-$8. For
information, e-mail support@daytrotter.com
or visit Daytrotter.com.
THEATRE
Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March
21 – Little Shop of Horrors. Broadway’s hit
musical comedy about a man-eating plant,
and the fourth event in the church’s annual
Performing Arts Series. First Presbyterian
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Church of Davenport (1702 Iowa Street,
Davenport). Saturday – 7:30 p.m., Sunday – 4
p.m. $8-$12. For tickets and information, call
(563)326-1691.
Wednesday, March 24, through
Saturday, May 22 – Church Basement
Ladies 2: A Second Helping. Sequel to
the hit musical comedy set in the kitchen
of a Lutheran Church. Circa ’21 Dinner
Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock
Island). Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays,
and Thursday, March 23 – 6 p.m. dinner,
7:45 p.m. show; Sundays 4 p.m. dinner, 5:45
p.m. show; Wednesday matinées 11:45 a.m.
plated lunch, 1:30 p.m. show. $27.04-$46.28.
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“Ugh ... I don’t know ... .” But he kept bringing it
up, and bringing it up, and finally last year, he said
to me, “But you’d do it if it was for a cause you
believed in, right? And instead of the focus being
on you, it could be on something you could help
support.” And I said, “Yup. That’s true. I would.”
So last year, for my 39th birthday, my husband
said, “We’re going over to Sports Fans [Pizza].”
They were doing karaoke, and we were gonna meet
friends there. So we get there, and they threw my
name in to sing, and they made me sing “I Will
Survive,” ’cause that’s usually my karaoke theme
song. And as I finish singing and get ready to leave,
my husband comes up and says, “You can’t leave
yet.” And I thought it was gonna be some stupid
birthday thing.
But he hands me this CD of Rod Pierson’s (Not-
So) Big Band, and hands me this mock-up poster,
and he says, “I’ve talked with all these people,
and next year, for your 40th birthday, to celebrate
five years of survivorship, you’re gonna give this
cabaret. You’re gonna be backed by your own big
band, and all the money is gonna go to this charity.”
And I was really ... . I was pretty flabbergasted.
A former student is gonna design the lighting,
and another former student is gonna make me
a dress, and it’s at the Col Balroom, which is a
wonderful place to sing. And once my husband
and I started planning this, it gave us the chance
to tell the kids [about Myatt’s cancer]. It was a
whole different way of telling them, of course, but
For tickets and information, call (309)796-
7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
Friday, March 26, through Sunday,
March 28 – Avenue Q. The Tony Award-
winning “Sesame Street for grown-ups,”
in a presentation sponsored by Hancher
Auditorium. U.S. Cellular Center (370 First
Avenue, Cedar Rapids). Friday – 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday and Sunday – 2 and 7:30 p.m. $50-
$57. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit
http://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.
Thursday, March 25, through Saturday,
March 27 – Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
Relationship comedy written by David
Mamet, directed by St. Ambrose senior Katie
McCormack. St. Ambrose University – Galvin
Fine Arts Center studio theatre (2101 Gaines
Street, Davenport). Thursday and Friday
7:30 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m. $6. For tickets
and information, call (563)333-6251 or visit
http://Web.SAU.edu/theatre.
COMEDY
Saturday, March 20 – Larry the Cable
Guy. Blue Collar comedian in his “Tailgate
Party Tour.” Adler Theatre (136 East Third
Street, Davenport). 5 and 8 p.m. $43.75.
For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit
AdlerTheatre.com.
Saturday, March 20 – Sinbad. Stand-up-
we kinda said, “We went through this, Mommy’s
good now, but you need to know because it’ll be
in the papers and people’ll be talking about it, and
we don’t want you to be surprised.” And they were
really good about it. Of course, they’re older now,
so that helps.
So now I get to do this fun cabaret evening, but
it’s all for a good cause. I just feel like after all these
people came forward for me, now it’s my turn to
give something back, and it’s our hope that the
money will assist others who otherwise wouldn’t
have the kind of experience I had. And give them
the same kind of hope.
Part of a Plan
Since being presented with her clean bill of
health, Myatt says that life has resumed to normal
– or rather, better than normal. She appeared in
Countryside’s productions of Seussical and The
Sound of Music, co-directed (with her husband)
last summer’s production of the organization’s Annie
Get Your Gun, continues a full class schedule at the
Center Stage Performing Arts Academy (which she
has run since 2008), is currently choreographing
Davenport North High School’s production of
Anything Goes, and, on the eve of her 40th
birthday, is continually grateful for the chance to do
“all the things you thought could not be possibilities
again. I mean, this is it. This is me. And I haven’t
stopped being me.”
Every day now is another day that I’m really
comedy set with the television and film
star. Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention
Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf).
7:30 p.m. $25-$40. For tickets and
information, call (800)843-4753 or visit
Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.
MOVIES
Opening Friday, March 19 – Hubble
3-D. An educational space adventure,
narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Putnam
Museum & IMAX Theatre (1717 West
12th Street, Davenport). $5.50-$8.50. For
showtimes and information, call (563)324-
1933 or visit Putnam.org.
Wednesday, March 24 – Kenny
Salwey: The Last River Rat. Fifty-minute
documentary on the author’s experience
along the upper Mississippi River, with
storytelling and a Salwey Q&A session
following each screening. The Capitol
Theatre (330 West Third Street, Davenport).
5 and 7:30 p.m. $5 at the door, with
proceeds benefiting Nahant Marsh. For
information, call (563)326-8820 or visit
TheCapDavenport.com.
Saturday, March 27 – Fifth-Annual
Sierra Club Environmental Film Festival.
Featuring screenings of the documentaries
Fresh, No Impact Man, Dirt, A Sea Change,
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
glad for what I have. I mean, you know, will the
cancer ever come back? My hope is no; I mean, I
don’t think anybody says, “I hope it comes back,
’cause it was fun.” It wasn’t. But it taught me a lot
about myself that I didn’t know. It allowed me
to be really vulnerable and ask for help, which is
not in my bag of tricks, usually. I’m usually very
independent and do it all on my own and I couldn’t
this time. And that was very humbling for me.
I love my life, I love where I am, and I’m really
glad that, in the time that I’m here, I’ve found a way
to use what were unequivocally the most horrible
moments in my life to do something that can be
good for other people. I just came to the realization
that this was something that was supposed to
happen to me. That this was part of a plan, whether
I understood it or not.
People say to me, “Oh, you’re turning 40.” I
don’t care. It doesn’t matter how many years it
is, it doesn’t matter how old you are. One of the
kids at Davenport North made me laugh, though,
because she came up to me and said, “So-and-so
said that you’re hot for an older person.” I’m like,
“Somewhere in there is a compliment ... .”
Myatt will perform An Evening with Christina
Marie: A Benefit for the Genesis Center for Breast
Health at Davenport’s Col Ballroom on April
3, beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15, and can
be reserved by calling (563)391-3174. For more
information on the event, visit CenterStage-Arts.com.
and Coal Country, and a filmmaking
workshop with photographer Ange Glade.
Olin Auditorium – Augustana College (733
35th Street, Rock Island). 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Donations accepted. For information, e-
mail Kathryn Allen at kasavelie@aol.com or
visit Illinois.SierraClub.org/eagleview.
LECTURE
Tuesday, March 23 – Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend. Former lieutenant
governor of Maryland and U.S. deputy
assistant attorney general discusses “Has
the Protestant Church Lost Its Bearings?”
Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts – Augustana
College (3701 Seventh Avenue, Rock
Island). 7 p.m. Free admission. For
information, call (309)794-7721 or e-mail
kamybeattie@augustana.edu.
EVENT
Friday, March 26 – The World
Famous Lipizzaner Stallions. The 40th
Anniversary Tour featuring new music,
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Eat Cashews: Rich in American Pickers
magnesium to keep stuff. ... [But] if you get stuff and
cashews have flip it quick, you don’t get an emotional
attachment with it.”
soothing That saddle might be worth $5,000 if it’s
effect on at an auction with multiple bidders trying
our nervous to get it, Wolfe said. But nobody bit with a
starting bid of $199 on eBay. Wolfe said he
systems. ended up selling it for $175. “If I can’t make
100 bucks on something ... then I need to
Exercise at get out of the business,” he said.
least several hours before A 1948 Rock-Ola jukebox bought on
Pickers was estimated on the show to be
bed time. worth $5,000. “I sold it for $1,900.” Wolfe
said. “I paid $1,300; I drove to Ohio to get
Add chamomile oil to your it.
bath or apply to your temples “The only thing that’s ever gotten us in
at bed time. trouble on the show is these appraisals,” he
added. “The appraisals are way off-chart.
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they have to sell a lot of items because of
their costs.
“I’ve got a mortgage,” Wolfe said. “I’ve
got all this overhead” – including travel,
lodging, food, storefront, and employee
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costs.
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There are times, of course, when the
pickers sell for far more than they expected.
Wolfe said he bought a moving-company
sign for $75, thinking he could only get
$200 for it because it was warped and
plastic, and because subject matter dictates
the sale prices for signs. “When I put it on
eBay, it went for $1,200,” he said.
That speaks to the nature of the business.
The stars of American Pickers stress
that they aren’t antique experts. (“We’re
professionals at finding things,” Fritz said.)
They have areas of expertise, but outside
of those, it’s a guessing game. When they
bought the jukebox on the show, Wolfe
said: “1,300 bucks for us is a lot of money to
gamble.”
Both Wolfe and Fritz know their
motorcycles; Wolfe knows bikes and signs;
and Fritz is a toy collector. Outside of those
areas, Colby-Cushman said, “all he can do
is guess at what it’s going to sell for. That is
where the trouble lies.”
And she said viewers often don’t get the
full story. “I can tell you of several situations
where Mike has found out that something
he has picked for $20 is worth way more
than he thought, and he’s gone back and
given more money to the person he’s picked
from,” she said. “It happens more often than
you think.”
And, she added, “we have to eat it on
so many items. ... That stuff is just what
happens.”
“You need to make sure you make more
right decisions than wrong ones,” Fritz said.
Still, there’s an element of the show that’s
unsavory because the sellers are often at an
information disadvantage. In the History-
channel forums, one user wrote that “the
pickers know what they are buying, and
how much it’s worth, but keep it secretive
to those who they are buying it from. That’s
taking advantage.”
But the stars of the show emphasized
that they’re dealing with willing buyers, and
noted that they get shut down a lot. Wolfe
said that if he visits 20 farms in a day, he
might come away empty-handed 15 times.
“A lot of people turn us away,” Fritz said.
“We’ve been turned away hundreds of
times.”
But American Pickers doesn’t emphasize
that. “Would you watch a fishing show if
the guy never caught anything?” Wolfe said.
And it’s wise to keep in mind the
perspective offered by another History-
channel forum poster: “Given all the people
that actually prey on the elderly, the energy
spent griping about this show on this board
kind of makes me ill.”
The Future
Wolfe said it was only a matter of
time before somebody made a show like
American Pickers. He was just first. “I took
being a picker and put it in a bottle and
stuck a label on it,” he said.
He doesn’t make any effort to hide his
glee at American Pickers’ success, and it’s
clear that he’s interested in the business end
of television. “We own the frickin’ airwaves
on Monday night,” Wolfe said, noting 5
million viewers for recent episodes of Pawn
Stars and nearly 3.9 million for the March 1
Pickers. “That’s insane numbers for cable.”
He noted that his show’s debut drew 3.1
million people, and he added that History
hoped for 1.5 million “There was only
one show ever that beat us on a premiere,
and that was Ice Road Truckers in 2007,
and they only got 3.2. So they barely beat
us.” (Ice Road Truckers was History’s best
premiere, not cable’s. The debut of The
Closer, for instance, drew more than 7
million viewers.)
Wolfe wouldn’t discuss the show’s budget
or how much he’s being paid, but he said
that the first season isn’t about money; to a
television network, the advertising revenue
is theoretical until the show airs. “You’re
nobody; the show is nothing ... ,” he said.
The second season is bringing with it
more money for its three stars, but he
said the real money lies in endorsements
– which he said wouldn’t even be realistic
until a third season.
“We’re all making a little bit more
money,” he said of the second season. “Are
we going to retire anytime soon? No.”
The success has its own burdens. Colby-
Cushman said she’s now getting 1,200
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e-mail messages a day through the e-mail
address on Wolfe’s Web site. “We’re just
learning how to deal with something that
has exploded,” she said. “We were not ready
at all for it to be as big as it is. We thought it
would be a fun little show.”
Fritz said he’s not surprised by the show’s
success. He said he thinks a lot of viewers
get to have adventures through him and
Wolfe: “A lot of people would love to be
pickers, would love to be junkers. But
they got five kids, they got a wife, they got
this, they got that. They can’t physically or
financially do it.” He and Wolfe, he added,
aren’t married and don’t have children: “Not
too many people are able to do this job later
in life like we are.”
Wolfe said he hopes the show inspires
young people to do what he’s done since he
was a kid: pick. “It takes that one person to
plant that seed,” he said. “That’s what some
old guy did with me. I would walk down
the alley and this old guy had a bunch of
stuff in his garage and he would sit and talk
with me for hours. And I remember that he
gave me a cigar box one time, and that was
huge. ... I remember that guy.”
Still, the degree of success has been a
surprise. “Obviously we didn’t know how
big it was going to be,” Fritz said. “We’re
very fortunate to have what we have going,
and we’re going to keep riding this bus as
long as it keeps running. The main thing
is we’re hoping to spark some interest in
the antique trade,” especially among young
people. “I am embracing this with the most
pleasure I can. I’m very, very happy that
mother is still alive to be able to see my 15
minutes of fame.”
That’s the diplomatic, gracious way to
look at the success of American Pickers.
And Fritz sounded realistic about the long-
term prospects of the show. Although PBS’
Antiques Roadshow has been around in
the United States since 1997 – the British
version started in 1979 – it’s likely the
exception. “Reality shows are good for three
or four years,” he said.
But Wolfe isn’t above talking some
smack, saying that his show is responsible
for an impending glut of shows focused on
buying and selling. “You won’t believe all
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the stuff all the networks are working on
now,” he said. “Now that us and Pawn Stars
are spanking the shit out of everybody ...
it’s all going to come at you like a fucking
tsunami now. ... Give it about a year.”
New episodes of American Pickers air
Mondays at 8 p.m. on History. The first
season concludes its run on March 29.
For more information on American
Pickers, visit History.com/shows/american-
pickers. Antique Archeology’s Web site is
AntiqueArcheology.com; Frank Fritz’s Web
site is FrankFritzFinds.com.
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the Advice Goddess
BY AMY ALKON
Over My Dead Body Paint
I agreed to be in a friend’s wedding, and
unfortunately, she had to change the date
to the day my boyfriend and I were going
to Burning Man. When I told him I’d have
to go to her wedding instead, he erupted
in anger. He wants me to ask her to change
the date, and says he’ll “never forgive me”
if I don’t go with him. Now, we were only
going to Burning Man together because he
couldn’t take the whole week off, so instead
of going with his friends, he decided to
accompany me midweek. I reminded him
that we’ve been to Burning Man six times,
and a wedding, presumably, happens once
in a lifetime. He called me a hypocrite
because I don’t believe in marriage, but
will “sacrifice my commitment” to him
to celebrate her commitment. He argues
with such vehemence, I’m beginning to
doubt my own judgment and wonder if
he’s right. He’s acted like this before, but
it’s become less frequent during our five
years together. I don’t want to believe my
boyfriend’s a selfish, manipulative ass, so
… does he have a point? If not, how do I
explain that you don’t abandon your friend
on her wedding day to run around naked
in the desert?
– Upset Bridesmaid
If your boyfriend’s ego were a pimple, it
would burst and flood Vermont.
He’s actually demanding that the bride
rebook the church, the caterer, the florist,
and the hall, and tell hundreds of her guests
to change their plans. Because he needs
you there when he accepts his Nobel? No,
because he wants to bum a ride with you
to go to stand around the desert and watch
middle-aged men and women flitting about
in fairy wings and clown noses, painting
daisies around each other’s nipples. It gets
better. He’s telling you he’ll “never forgive”
you. Because you slept with his brother,
his best friend, or his brother and his best
friend? Nope. Because he might have to
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pitch in for gas for a ride in some friend-
of-a-friend’s van that’s been modified into a
giant rubber ducky in a tutu.
What your boyfriend’s doing to you is
“gaslighting,” which, unfortunately, only
sounds like lighting farts on fire. It’s actually
insidious emotional abuse that gets its name
from the 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie,
Gaslight, about an heiress whose husband
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makes small changes around their home (like
making their gas-powered lights flicker),
then denies anything’s different, making
her believe her sanity’s gone off its hinges.
In a relationship, writes Dr. Robin Stern in
The Gaslight Effect, you’re being gaslighted
when somebody relentlessly pressures you
to believe the unbelievable and do what
you know you shouldn’t. Stern explains that
the gaslighter “needs to be right in order to
preserve his own sense of self and his sense
of having power in the world,” while the
gaslightee allows him to bully away her sense
of reality and self because she fears losing
his love and approval. Of course, in your
case, it could have something to do with not
wanting to think you’ve wasted five years
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of demands to some fat stranger in a fake
beard, you don’t have to believe in marriage
to appreciate what a huge life event it is for
your friend. Huge enough that it’s reasonable
to “sacrifice” your “commitment” to attend
a giant acid-dropping fest in the desert.
There are commitments, and then there
are commitments, which is why there are
bazillions of wedding photographers but
few earning thousands of dollars shooting
more experience
keepsake albums of people who carpool paired with
together.
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finding a new boyfriend, just about hiring
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): From
what I can tell, your excursion to Fake
Paradise didn’t exact too serious a
toll. The accidental detour may have
seemed inopportune in the moment, but you
know what? I think it slowed you down enough
to keep you from doing something rash that
you would have regretted later. And are you
really sorry you were robbed of your cherished
illusions? In the long run, I think it was for the
best. As for the scratches on your nose from
when you stuck it into business you weren’t
“supposed” to: They’re a small price to pay for
the piquant lesson you got in how not to live.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some
people are here on the planet to find
success, while others are here to find
themselves. In the big scheme of things,
I’m not sure which category you fit into, Taurus.
But I’m pretty sure that for the next few weeks
you’ll be best served by acting as if you’re the
latter. Even if you think you’ve found yourself
pretty completely in the past, it’s time to go
searching again: There are new secrets to be
discovered, in large part because you’re not who
you used to be. So for now at least, I encourage
you to give your worldly ambitions a bit of a rest
as you intensify your self-explorations.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Being
a paragon of moral behavior can be
fun and rewarding. It’s amazing how
many interesting people want to play
with me just because they think I’m so #%&@
high-minded. But I’ve got to confess that my
commitment to discipline and righteousness is
sometimes at odds with my rebellious itch to
give you mischievous nudges and outrageous
challenges. Like right now, the conscientious
teacher in me might prefer to advise you to keep
a lid on debauchery, voracity, excess, uproar,
slapstick, wise-cracking, fireworks, and limit-
pushing. But the rabble-rousing agitator in me
feels obligated to inform you that at no other
time in 2010 will the karmic price be lower for
engaging in such pursuits.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s
time for you to stop specializing in
furtive glimpses and start indulging
in brazen gazes. You’re ready to phase out your
role as a peripheral influence and see if you
can be more of a high-intensity instigator and
organizer. Yes, Cancerian, you’ve earned the
right to claim more credibility and clout – to
leave your tentative position outside the magic
circle and head in the direction of the sweet hot
spot.
LEO (July 23-August 22): “Nature
seems to exult in abounding
radicality, extremism, anarchy,” wrote
Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. “If
we were to judge nature by its common sense
or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world
existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock
in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe...
. No claims of any and all revelations could be
so far-fetched as a single giraffe.” (Dillard’s entire
passage is here: http://bit.ly/TinkerCreek.) Reading
this passage is a good way for you to prepare for
the immediate future, Leo. Why? Because you’ll
soon be invited to commune with outlandish
glory. You’ll be exposed to stories that burst
from the heart of creation. You’ll be prodded to
respond to marvelous blips with marvelous blips
of your own. But here’s the catch: It may all remain
invisible to you if you’re blinded by the false belief
that you live a boring, ordinary life.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22):
The storm is your friend right now,
Virgo. So are the deep, dark night and
the last place you’d ever think of visiting
and the most important thing you’ve forgotten
about. So be more willing than usual to marinate
in the mysteries – not with logical ferocity but
with cagey curiosity. The areas of life that are
most crucial for you to deal with can’t be fully
understood using the concepts your rational mind
favors. The feelings that will be most useful for you
to explore are unlike those you’re familiar with.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22):
Here’s your mantra for the coming
week: “I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.”
Say it and sing it and murmur it at least 100 times
a day. Let it flow out of you after you’ve awoken
each morning and are still lying in bed. Let it
be the last sound on your lips as you drop off to
sleep. Have fun with it. Dip into your imagination
to come up with different ways to let it fly – say
it as your favorite cartoon character might say
it, like a person with a Swedish accent, like your
inner teenager, like a parrot, like a grinning sage.
“I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity. I
disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.”
SCORPIO (October 23-November
21): Have you ever heard about how
some all-night convenience stores blast
loud classical music out into the parking lot in
order to discourage drug dealers from loitering?
In the coming days, use that principle whenever
you need to drive home a point or make a strong
impression. Your aggressive expressions will be
more effective if you take the darkness and anger
out of them, and instead fill them up with forceful
grace and propulsive compassion.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-
December 21): The Hebrew word
chalom means “dream.” In his book
Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it’s
derived from the verb “to be made healthy and
strong.” Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom
is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, which
means “recovery, recuperation.” Extrapolating
from these poetic hints and riffing on your
astrological omens, I’ve got a prescription for you
to consider: To build your vitality in the coming
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weeks, feed your dreams. And I mean “dreams”
in both the sense of the nocturnal adventures
you have while you’re sleeping and the sweeping
daytime visions of what you’d like to become.
CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 19): I just found out the
American shipping company UPS
has legally trademarked the color brown. The
grass-roots activist in me is incredulous and
appalled. But the poet in me doesn’t really
care; it’s fine if UPS owns drab, prosaic brown.
I’ve still got mahogany at my command, as
well as tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan,
cinnamon, walnut, and henna. That’s especially
important for this horoscope, Capricorn,
because I’m advising you to be very down to
earth, be willing to get your hands dirty, and
even play in the muck if necessary in order
to take good care of the basics. But don’t do
any of that in a boring, humdrum “brown”
way. Do it exotically and imaginatively, like
mahogany, tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber,
tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna.
AQUARIUS (January 20-
February 18): You are hereby
excused from having to know a single nuance
about the inside story of Angelina Jolie’s secret
love tryst with Lady Gaga, or the addictions
of conspiracy theorists who lose huge sums of
money gambling on the end of the world, or
the agony that millionaires suffer from having
to support social services with their taxes. In
fact, it’s a good time to empty your mind of
extraneous, trivial, and useless facts so that you
can clear vast new spaces for more pressing data,
like how you can upgrade your communication
skills, why you should do some upkeep on
your close alliances, and what you might do to
streamline your social life.
PISCES (February 19-March 20):
In my astrological opinion, you don’t
need anything that shrinks you or
deflates you or tames you. Influences that
pinch your imagination should be taboo, as
should anything that squashes your hope or
crimps your life force. To make proper use
of the vibrations circulating in your vicinity,
Pisces, you should gravitate toward situations
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that pump up your insouciance and energize
your whimsy and incite you to express the most
benevolent wickedness you can imagine. You’ve
got a mandate to fatten up your soul so it can
contain a vaster sense of wonder and a more
daring brand of innocence.
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26. West Point undergrad 117. Spunkier 62. Philippine peninsula
28. Not your sharp-eyed lookout man! 119. Vader’s “Star Wars” title 63. Slanted type
30. To boot 120. Swift’s forte 64. Waistbands
31. Have a talk 121. Type of evidence 66. _ spumante
33. Plains dwellings 122. Dry-goods remnants 67. Astronomer Sagan
34. Hollywood star in 1928 debut 123. “_ common denominator” 68. Japanese verse
38. Floor-plan designation 124. Homemakers, of a sort 69. Dull sound
39. Postscript’s postscript: abbr. 71. Rates of speed, in music
42. Redolence DOWN 72. Handgun
43. Symphony conductor from 1. Signs of spring 75. Map abbr.
Bombay 2. Platoon, perhaps 78. Addict’s retreat
45. Aircraft-engine enclosure 3. Minus 79. Friendly, in war
48. Recital number 4. Lawyers, as a group 80. Muslim world
49. Exchange 5. Delphi attraction 81. Twosomes
51. Robin Hood’s girlfriend 6. Nervous 82. Cube-maker Rubik
54. More like street talk 7. Only once in a while 83. Restraint
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56. What witnesses take 8. Legislature’s offering 85. Too many to count
58. To-do list item 9. Marsalis instrument 87. Shore flyers
59. Gram preceder 10. One of the Sundas 91. Powerful attackers
60. Ceremony 11. “Stop it, sailor!” 95. Breakfast food
61. Tea cakes 12. Placed under canvas 97. Add to the payroll
62. Faucet 13. Eliot’s Marner 98. Duds
65. One handy with tools 14. Wide-eyed 99. On-base dining halls
70. _ and sciences 15. NBC night owl 100. Lets off steam
71. Spuds 16. Cogito _ sum 101. Mumbai servant
73. Troubled car company 18. Stamping tool 102. Long-snouted ray
74. Clock’s meas. 20. Poor swimmers avoid it 105. Created
76. And others 21. Subdue 106. Yemen neighbor
77. City on the Moselle 27. Properly aligned 107. Ointment
79. Not of the “in” crowd 29. Gives a new moniker 108. Byline on English “Essays”
84. Fountain order 30. Ohio city 110. Not on
86. Chopin work 32. Fireplace residue 111. Ascend
88. Of course! 34. Sign of age, in the woods 112. Actor Dullea
89. Colorful wool fabric 35. Object of worship 113. Middle Earth minions
90. Theater aide 36. Soft drink 116. Not active: abbr.
92. Actress Anderson 37. Epps or Sharif 118. Explosive
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Thursday
2010/03/17 (Wed) 18
Alan Sweet - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,
Davenport, IA
Feast of Mutton - Monks Kaffee Pub, 373
Bluff St., Dubuque, IA
Karaoke DJ - The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill,
313 N Salina St, McCausland, IA
Live Lunch w/ Chris Dunn (noon) -
Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
New Karaoke - Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708
State Street, Bettendorf, IA
Open Mic Night - The Dam View Inn, 410
2nd St, Davenport, IA
Paper Thick Walls - The Blue Moose Tap,
211 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA
The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featur-
ing Jimmie Lee Adams - Rascals
Rock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St.,
Moline, IL
Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels - The
Mill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) - Red Crow
Grille, 2504 53rd St., Bettendorf, IA
FRIday
2010/03/19 (Fri) 19
ABC Karaoke - Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.,
Davenport, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -
Commodore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St.,
Davenport, IA
Buddy Olson (5pm) - Missipi Brew, River
Dr, Muscatine, IA
Caught in the Act - The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust, Davenport, IA
Corporate Rock - Jersey Grille, 5255
Jersey Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA
Country Karaoke Idol - The Rodeo Sa-
loon & Feedhouse, 1801 Lincolnway,
Clinton, IA
Deja Vu Rendezvous - Marmaduke
- The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport, IA
DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202
W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA
DJ Scott Keller Productions & Karaoke
- Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge,
4506 27th St, Moline, IL
Gaelic Storm - Englert Theatre, 221 East
Washington St., Iowa City, IA
Gray Wolf Band - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320
N. Brady St., Davenport, IA
Head for the Hills - The Milltown
Wranglers - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL
Jake McVey (7:15 & 9:30pm) - Johnny
K & the Country Playboys (8:30pm)
- Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184
Highway 22, Riverside, IA
Joe & Vicki Price - George’s, Iowa City, IA
Karaoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody
Rd. N., LeClaire, IA
KASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 1801
10th St., Moline, IL
Lee Blackmon & The Gamblers (6:30pm)
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Leslie & The Ly’s - Christopher the Con-
quered - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,
Iowa City, IA
Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -
Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Mr. Whoopie - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Locust, Davenport, IA
Nick Moss & the Flip Tops - Rascals
Rock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St.,
Moline, IL
Pappa-Razzi - Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s
Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92,
Rock Island, IL
Peter Balestreri - Monks Kaffee Pub, 373
Bluff St., Dubuque, IA
Robbie Bahr - The Rodeo Saloon & Feed-
house, 1801 Lincolnway, Clinton, IA
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,
2606 W Locust, Davenport, IA
The Brandon Gibbs Band - Uptown
Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340
Spruce Hills Dr., Bettendorf, IA
John Gorka @ CSPS Legion Arts – March 25
The Bucktown Revue - River Music Expe-
rience, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA
uneXpected - Shenanigan’s, 303 W. 3rd
St., Davenport, IA
Saturday
2010/03/20 (Sat)
20
Alash - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE,
Cedar Rapids, IA
Angie Pierce Jennings - Monks Kaffee
Pub, 373 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA
Ava’s Blue Pick - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2nd
Ave., Rock Island, IL
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Crab-
by’s, 826 W. 1st Ave., Coal Valley, IL
Burning Halos - The Sullivan Gang
- Justin Alan Cox - The Mill, 120 E
Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Caught in the Act - The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust, Davenport, IA
DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202
W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA
Down 24’s - St. Patrick’s Day Celebra-
tion - The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313
N Salina St, McCausland, IA
Final Mix - Riverside Casino and Golf Re-
sort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA
Funktastic Five - Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
Gray Wolf Band - Viking Club of Moline,
1450 41st Street, Moline, IL
Hap Hazard - Jersey Grille, 5255 Jersey
Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA
Hardball - Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St, Moline, IL
Head for the Hills - Filling Space - Song-
bird Bethann - Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA
Hi-Fi - Len Brown’s North Shore Inn, 7th
Street and the Rock River, Moline, IL
Karaoke Night - Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Ca-
manche Ave, Clinton, IA
Marmaduke - Parker ’s, 635 15th St,
Moline, IL
Mr. Whoopie - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Locust, Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night - Coffee Dive, 230 W. 3rd
St. 2nd Floor, Davenport, IA
Pappa-Razzi - Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s
Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92,
Rock Island, IL
Rockstar - Time Out Sports Bar and Grill,
1815 Manufacturing Dr, Clinton, IA
Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 1801
10th St., Moline, IL
SEVEN - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N.
Brady St., Davenport, IA
Sin City Orchestra - Toucan’s Outdoor
Grille -n-Cantina, 2020 1st Street,
Milan, IL
Strange Neighbors - The Redstone
Room, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA
“Tennessee” Tony Cavitt - The Grape Life
Wine Emporium, 3402 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport, IA
The Brat Pack - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL
The Chris & Wes Show - QC Zone, 1516
5th Ave, Moline, IL
The Karry Outz - Hawkeye Tap, 4646
Cheyenne Ave., Davenport, IA
The Pointer Sisters - Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside, IA
The Ragbirds - Bent River Brewing Com-
pany, 1413 5th Ave., Moline, IL
Toby Brown (6pm) - Mojo’s (River Music
Experience), 130 W 2nd St, Daven-
port, IA
uneXpected - Mound Street Landing,
1029 Mound St., Davenport, IA
Who Cares - Cabana’s, 4th Ave & 22nd St,
Rock Island, IL
sunday
2010/03/21 (Sun)
21
Breille - The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W.
Locust St., Davenport, IA
Hersong: Carry the Spirit On (3pm)
- First Congregational Church - Moline,
2201 7th Avenue, Moline, IL
Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm
brunch performance) - The Lodge
Hotel, Spruce Hills & Utica Ridge,
Bettendorf, IA
Strangely Familiar (2pm) - Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway
22, Riverside, IA
The Avey Brothers - Rascals Rock Memo-
rabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
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The Terry Hanson Ensemble (10am)
- Brady Street Chop House, Radisson
QC Plaza Hotel, Davenport, IA
Third Sunday Jazz Matinee & Work-
shop: Toscanellie “Lady T.” Marce-
lain - The Redstone Room, 129 Main
St, Davenport, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) - Bass
Street Chop House, 1601 River Dr,
Moline, IL
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monday
2010/03/22 (Mon)
Karaoke Night - The Old Stardust Sports
Bar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Randy Arcenas (noon)
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ J. Knight - The Mill, 120 E
Burlington, Iowa City, IA
The Edgar Crockett Jazz Quar tet
(6:30pm) - Coffee Hound Coffee
House (East Moline), 4141 7th St, East
Moline, IL
The U.S. Army Band Brass Quintet -
University Capitol Centre, Downtown
Mall Main Floor, Iowa City, IA
tuesday
2010/03/23 (Tue) 23
Dance Party USA w/ Rich Rok & Tyler
Coon - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St, Iowa City, IA
J. Elliot - The Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th Street, Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Jonathan Turner (noon)
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Mac Frampton Trio - U.S. Cellular Center,
370 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA
Open Mic Night @ M.D. Green’s w/ Jer-
emiah - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen - Bier
Stube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St,
Davenport, IA
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Screens - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,
Iowa City, IA
The Chris & Wes Show - Rascals Rock
Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-
line, IL
Wordcure - Monks Kaffee Pub, 373 Bluff
St., Dubuque, IA
wednesday
2010/03/24 (Wed) 24
Cowboy Junkies - Lee Harvey Osmond
- The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport, IA
Goes Cube - East of the Wall - Aseethe
- The Picador, 330 E. Washington St.,
Iowa City, IA
Open Mic Night - The Old Stardust Sports
Bar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Steve McFate
Jon Wayne & the Pain - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Zoos of Berlin - Child Bites - The Picador, Karaoke Night - Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Ca-
Ave., Rock Island, IL 330 E. Washington St., Iowa City, IA manche Ave, Clinton, IA
Live Lunch w/ Dave Maxwell (noon) Mustard Plug - Firesale - The Agrestix
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Saturday
2010/03/27 (Sat) 27 - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport, IA
New Karaoke - Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708 Acoustic Jam Session w/ Steve McFate NINE-1-1 - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N.
State Street, Bettendorf, IA - Corner Tap, 4018 14th Ave., Rock Brady St., Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night - The Dam View Inn, 410 Island, IL Ol’ Thrashers Reunion 3: HOTT - Liberty
2nd St, Davenport, IA Back 4 More - Silvis Eagles, 911 Mansur Leg - Acoustic Guillotine - The Ter-
Stephen Cee - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Avenue, Silvis, IL
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Crab-
cels - Bad Accidents - The Mill, 120 E
Burlington, Iowa City, IA
The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featur- by’s, 826 W. 1st Ave., Coal Valley, IL Open Mic Night - Coffee Dive, 230 W. 3rd
ing Jimmie Lee Adams - Rascals Community Drum Circle (10:30am) - St. 2nd Floor, Davenport, IA
Rock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 Painkiller Hotel Acoustic Show - Kevin
Moline, IL W 2nd St, Davenport, IA Presbrey - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) - Red Crow Corporate Rock - Marlee’s Saloon, 506 Davenport, IA
Grille, 2504 53rd St., Bettendorf, IA Main St., Lost Nation, IA Rick K & the Allnighters - Riverside
University of Iowa Jazz Performance Cosmic - Alleman High School Perform- Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway
- The Mill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa ing Arts Center, 1103 - 40th Street, 22, Riverside, IA
City, IA
Left Lane Cruiser @ RIBCO – March 26 Rock Island, IL
Crossroads - Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310
Rocketpark - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320

(6:30pm) - Cool Beanz Coffeehouse,
1325 30th St., Rock Island, IL
“Tennessee,” That Nashville Cat (noon)
- Open Mic Night (7pm) - Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
St, Davenport, IA
The Chris & Wes Show - Mound Street
Landing, 1029 Mound St., Daven-
port, IA
The Craig Bentley Trio - Rascals Rock Mem-
orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
Tyrone Wells - Tony Lucca - Roy Jay - The
Mill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA
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Thursday
2010/03/25 (Thu)
Ava’s Blue Pick (6:30pm) - Cafe Fresh!,
1711 5th Ave, Moline, IL
Black Hawk College Jazz Ensemble
(6:30pm) - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th
St, Rock Island, IL
DJ Jonny O - Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St, Moline, IL
John Gorka - Denice Franke - CSPS/
Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar
Rapids, IA
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FRIday
2010/03/26 (Fri)
Gray Wolf Band - Jumer’s Casino & Hotel,
I-280 & I-92, Rock Island, IL
ABC Karaoke - Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.,
Karaoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody
Davenport, IA
Rd. N., LeClaire, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -
KASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 1801
Commodore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St.,
10th St., Moline, IL
Davenport, IA
Left Lane Cruiser - The One Night
Dani Lynn Howe Band - Blueport Junc-
Standards- RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,
tion, 6605 W River Dr, Davenport, IA
Rock Island, IL
Daytrotter Presents: The Daredevil
Live at the Lounge - St. Ambrose Univer-
Christopher Wright w/Floating Ac-
tion and Middle Distance Runner
sity, 518 W. Locust, Davenport, IA
Michael Miller - Monks Kaffee Pub, 373
- Huckleberry’s, 223 18th St, Rock
Bluff St., Dubuque, IA
Island, IL
Dead Larry - Lunar Funk Theory - Jon
Wayne & the Pain - Iowa City Yacht
Midwest Dilemma - Maylane - I Eat
My Friends - Beat Boxcar Children
- River Music Experience, 129 Main St,
Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA
Davenport, IA
DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202
Painkiller Hotel Acoustic Show - Kevin
W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA
Presbrey - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,
Frank Drew CD Release Party - 11th
Davenport, IA
Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St, Dav-
Realfoot Rift - Raised by the System
enport, IA
- Torn Between - Six to the Chest
Fruit Bats - Blue Giant - The Mill, 120 E
- Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708 State Street,
Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Bettendorf, IA
Retro Ron - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Rick K & the Allnighters - Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway
22, Riverside, IA
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,
2606 W Locust, Davenport, IA
Smooth Groove - Martini’s On the Rock,
4619 34th St, Rock Island, IL
Stoopifunk - Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
The Mike & Carrie Show - Uptown
Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340
Spruce Hills Dr., Bettendorf, IA
Tom Sadge - Quad-Cities Water front
Convention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway,
Bettendorf, IA
Tony Hoeppner (noon) - Mojo’s (River
Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St,
Davenport, IA
Vodkaseven - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320
N. Brady St., Davenport, IA
W 1st Ave, Coal Valley, IL
Dani Lynn Howe Band (5pm) - Plamor
Bowling Alley, 1411 Grandview Ave.,
Muscatine, IA
Dean Wellman - Monks Kaffee Pub, 373
Bluff St., Dubuque, IA
DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202
W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA
Dustin Lee - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Evolution - Rumors, 1415 Grandview
Ave., Muscatine, IA
Gray Wolf Band - Jumer’s Casino & Hotel,
I-280 & I-92, Rock Island, IL
Greg Sullivan & Matt Podschweit - Bor-
ders Books, Music & Cafe, 4000 E. 53rd
St., Davenport, IA
Guilherme Vincens (3pm) - Denkmann
Memorial Hall, Augustana College,
Rock Island, IL
Hap Hazard - Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515
78th Ave, Andalusia, IL
N. Brady St., Davenport, IA
Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 1801
10th St., Moline, IL
Sin City Orchestra - Toucan’s Outdoor
Grille -n-Cantina, 2020 1st Street,
Milan, IL
Smooth Groove - Martini’s On the Rock,
4619 34th St, Rock Island, IL
Tantric - Cavalry - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL
The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band
(6pm) - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,
Iowa City, IA
The Mercury Brothers - Rascals Rock
Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-
line, IL
The Tailfins - Jersey Grille, 5255 Jersey
Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA
Tronicity - Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St, Moline, IL
uneXpected - Hawkeye Tap, 4646 Chey-
enne Ave., Davenport, IA
Who Cares - Parker’s, 635 15th St, Mo-
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sunday
2010/03/28 (Sun)
Breille - The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W.
Locust St., Davenport, IA
Rick K & the Allnighters (2pm) - Riv-
erside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184
Highway 22, Riverside, IA
Roxi Copland - Shannon Curtis - Rae
Fehring (6pm) - The Mill, 120 E Burl-
ington, Iowa City, IA
Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm
brunch performance) - The Lodge
Hotel, Spruce Hills & Utica Ridge,
Bettendorf, IA
The Avey Brothers - Rascals Rock Memo-
rabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) - Bass
Street Chop House, 1601 River Dr,
Moline, IL
Whoozdads (10am) - Brady Street Chop
House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel,
Davenport, IA
monday
2010/03/29 (Mon) 29
Daytrotter Presents: Holiday Shores
- Twin Sister - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th
St, Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night - The Old Stardust Sports
Bar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Randy Arcenas (noon)
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ J. Knight - The Mill, 120 E
J. Elliot - The Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191
19th Street, Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Steve Couch (noon) -
Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Mission Creek Festival Pre-Party: The
Cave Singers - Birds & Batteries
- Mondo Drag - The Mill, 120 E Burling-
ton, Iowa City, IA
Mission Creek Festival: Pocahunted
- Sun Araw - Peaking Lights - Rene
Hell - The Picador, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City, IA
Open Mic Night @ M.D. Green’s w/ Jer-
emiah - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen - Bier
Stube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St,
Davenport, IA
Scott Miller - Uptown Neighborhood Bar
and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr., Bet-
tendorf, IA
The Chris & Wes Show - Rascals Rock Mem-
orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
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wednesday
2010/03/31 (Wed)
Daytrotter Presents: Miles Kurosky -
Pancho-san - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th
St, Rock Island, IL
Mission Creek Festival: Booker T - JJ Grey
- Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington
St., Iowa City, IA
Mission Creek Festival: The Daredevil
Christopher Wright - Brighton MA
SEVEN @ Route 61 Bar & Grill – March 5
Open Mic Night - The Old Stardust Sports
Bar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL
Steve Grismore Quartet - Wallenberg
Hall, Augustana College, 3701 7th
Ave., Rock Island, IL
“Tennessee,” That Nashville Cat (noon)
- Open Mic Night (7pm) - Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
St, Davenport, IA
The Craig Bentley Trio - Rascals Rock
Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-
line, IL
1
thursday
2010/04/01 (Thu)
Black Hawk College Jazz Ensemble
(6:30pm) - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th
HIGHLIGHTED
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Dawn’s Coffeehouse (5pm) - Dawn’s Hide Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Crab-
& Bead Away, 220 E Washington St,
Iowa City, IA
by’s, 826 W. 1st Ave., Coal Valley, IL
Bumper Crop - Slaughterhouse Rootz
DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W. - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA Davenport, IA
Johnny On Point - Cirrus Minor - The Red- DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202
stone Room, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA
Karaoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody Rd. DJ Scott Keller Productions & Karaoke
N., LeClaire, IA - Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge,
KASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 1801 10th 4506 27th St, Moline, IL
St., Moline, IL Karaoke Night - Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Ca-
Las Rubias del Norte - CSPS/Legion Arts, manche Ave, Clinton, IA
1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA Mission Creek Festival: Cory Chisel &
Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) - the Wandering Sons - Diplomats of
Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 Solid Sound - Sad Iron Music - The
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Mission Creek Festival: The Gglitch - D.
Mill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Mission Creek Festival: Dennis McMur-
Bess - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn rin & the Demolition Band - Iowa City
Mission Creek Festival: Bomb Squad Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA
St, Iowa City, IA
- Hood Internet - Database - Iowa City Mission Creek Festival: Grant Hart - The
Mission Creek Festival: The Meat Puppets
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA Tanks - The Picador, 330 E. Washing-
- Joe Jack Talcum - Sam Locke Ward &
Mission Creek Festival: David Bazan ton St., Iowa City, IA
the Boo-Hoos - The Mill, 120 E Burling-
- Headlights - Caroline Smith & the Mission Creek Festival: Greg Brown
ton, Iowa City, IA
Goodnight Sleeps - The Poison Con- - Pieta Brown - Englert Theatre, 221
Mission Creek Festival: Tim Hecker - Greg
trol Center - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,
Davis & Lwa - The Picador, 330 E. Wash- East Washington St., Iowa City, IA
Iow City, IA
New Karaoke - Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708
State Street, Bettendorf, IA
ington St., Iowa City, IA
NINE-1-1 - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust,
NINE-1-1 - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust,
Davenport, IA
Davenport, IA Open Mic Night - Coffee Dive, 230 W. 3rd
Open Mic Night - The Dam View Inn, 410 St. 2nd Floor, Davenport, IA
Passion - Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
2nd St, Davenport, IA Passion - Riverside Casino and Golf Re-
3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA
The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featuring sort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,
Jimmie Lee Adams - Rascals Rock Mem-
orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL
2606 W Locust, Davenport, IA
The Cowsills - Quad-Cities Waterfront
River Prairie Minstrels (6pm) - Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) - Red Crow St, Davenport, IA
Convention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway,
Grille, 2504 53rd St., Bettendorf, IA Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 1801
Bettendorf, IA

Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Stress Ape - Mantaur (5pm) - Easy Street,
431 Rhomberg Ave., Dubuque, IA
Mission Creek Festival: Xiu Xiu - tUnE-
30
tuesday
2010/03/30 (Tue)
Adrian Legg - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd
St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mission Creek Music Festival: Mannix!
Deathface (Johnny Love of Guns ‘n’
Bombs) - Lady Espina - Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA
- Sarah Mannix and the Wandering
Just Chords - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,
Bears - The New Bodies - The Mill, 120
E Burlington, Iowa City, IA
Live Lunch w/ Rose ‘n’ Thorns (noon)
yArDs - Talk Normal - Coyote Sling-
shot - The Picador, 330 E. Washington
Mission Creek Festival: Acid Moth-
St., Iowa City, IA
- Carusella - Beast Wars - Liberty Leg
- Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St,
Iowa City, IA
2
10th St., Moline, IL
FRIDAY
St, Rock Island, IL The Tailfins - Desperado’s, P.O. Box 386,
2010/04/02 (Fri) The Metro Gnomes - Fargo, 4204 Avenue
Wheatland, IA
Davenport, IA Tronicity - 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th of the Cities, Moline, IL
ABC Karaoke - Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St., St, Davenport, IA Tronicity - 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E
Davenport, IA
- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St, Davenport, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Commo-
dore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA
uneXpected - Uptown Neighborhood Bar
and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr., Bet-
11th St, Davenport, IA
uneXpected - Time Out Spor ts Bar
tendorf, IA and Grill, 1815 Manufacturing Dr,
Bob Dorr & the Blue Band (6pm) - The Hub,
ers Temple - Over-Gain Optimal Clinton, IA
Death - Wet Hair - Broken Water
- The Picador, 330 E. Washington St.,
402 Main St, Cedar Falls, IA
Crossroads - Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St, Saturday
2010/04/03 (Sat) 3
Bettendorf, IA An Evening with Christina Marie - Col Ball-
Iowa City, IA
room, 1012 W. 4th St., Davenport, IA

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