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GovCorps Profit from Not Modifying Mortgages
I White House Wants FBI to
t has been discovered by real-estate
professionals at Think Big Work Small Daily
(ThinkBigWorkSmall.com) that banks are
refusing to modify mortgage loans because it is far
more profitable to let mortgages default so that the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
using taxpayer money, can reimburse the banks
and financial institutions for their losses under
special agreements struck during the “financial
crisis.”
A recent analysis of IndyMac’s new owner,
One West Bank, exposed the financial benefit to
One West in letting mortgages go all the way to
foreclosure rather than modifying the loans or
allowing short sales of the properties – selling the
property for less than the amount owed on the
loan.
In July 2008, IndyMac was taken over by
the FDIC, then sold to One West Bank. It is a
disingenuous name, because One West is not
a bank at all but a holding company created
specifically to absorb IndyMac’s assets. Its owners
include seven investors who are mostly Goldman
Sachs alums, including the recently indicted John
Paulson, accused of fraud against investors in a
deal between himself and Goldman Sachs. Other
owners of note are Michael Dell (Dell Computers)
and George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire who
is one of the top five largest contributors to Obama
and the Democratic party, as well as the primary
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funder of Media Matters and the Center for
American Progress (credited with choosing and
placing Obama’s administrative cabinet and czars).
One West purchased IndyMac mortgages from
the FDIC at a discount of 70 percent of the current
balances (original loan amount minus payments),
then resells the properties after they have been
foreclosed upon at a much lower market value.
The mystery has been the unwillingness of
One West to work out a loan modification with
the underwater homeowner, instead opting for
foreclosure and selling the home at a severely
discounted rate to a third party.
The reason lies in a crafty financial scam that
allows One West to recoup far more than its
purchase price of mortgages from the FDIC;
it actually makes a profit because the FDIC
reimburses One West’s losses on these foreclosed
properties via calculations using the original loan
amount rather than the actual amount owed at the
date of foreclosure, minus what it finally sold for.
It is another complexly arranged racket
that explains the huge lack of modifications to
mortgages that prevails nationwide. There is a
helpful chart that explains how this scam works
at RCReader.com/y/fdic, along with videos and
articles on the FDIC’s “Shared-Loss Agreement”
that incentivizes what appears to be blatant
criminal conduct by these unholy alliances I
appropriately refer to as GovCorps.
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establish justifiable probable cause, prohibiting
violations of our established rights, and/or abuses
Have Unwarranted Access of power that would naturally abound without
to Citizens’ Internet Activity such checks and balances.
Such actions are perpetrated under the guise
There is a new assault on Americans’ due-
of the safety and protection of Americans, but in
process rights as defined in our Constitution,
reality are a wholesale subversion of that mission.
without which we are reduced to nothing better
If you agree, then notify your congressmen of
than a police state. Due process consists of
your absolute objection to this intrusion upon
Miranda and the right to an attorney, facing your
your right to privacy and due process. Promise
accuser/knowing what you are accused of, bail (if
withdrawal of both your vote and financial
warranted), a speedy trial by a jury of your peers,
support if such an abuse of authority is granted,
and a host of other processes that guarantee our
then keep your promise.
equality under the law.
But you had better object sooner than later.
The White House has proposed that the FBI
The administration is asking Congress to enact
expand its search-and-seizure authority over
this expanded authority by October. It is not
U.S. citizens by allowing it to seize any and
enough to complain to your family, friends, or
all of an individual citizen’s or U.S. company’s
neighbors; you must make your wishes known
or organization’s “electronic communication
to your representatives, regardless of which party
transactional records” without a judge’s approval,
you support. Because if you do not voice your
which means without a warrant. Attached to this
objection, then you must accept that a police
new authority is a gag order that would prevent
state is what you actually prefer for yourself and
those citizens or companies/organizations
your children. You cannot have it both ways. Put
whose electronic activities were confiscated
simply, you are no patriot if you are unwilling to
from disclosing the seizure(s) to anyone. (See
participate in the most basic civic duty – express
RCReader.com/y/fbi.)
your political wishes to those you voted to
What possible justification could exist for
represent you on such matters. The days of sitting
such expanded authority over U.S. citizens? If a
on the sidelines are over if you don’t want to be the
citizen is suspected in the first place, there should
generation that history records as responsible for
be ample evidence to obtain a warrant. The
the final demise of American liberty.
whole point of a warrant is to force authorities to
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Political-Party Platforms Don’t
Matter, the Media Say, but ...
T
wo things you should know about the 2010
platform of the Iowa Republican Party:
(1) The document of some 12,000 words
and almost 370 planks is a fascinating and provocative
read. The work is a great candidate for any time
capsule so people 100 or more years from now can see
how their ancestors approached issues of public policy.
(2) The news media in general, and The Des
Moines Register in particular, continue to ignore party
platforms as irrelevant to the 2010 election.
The state convention of the Iowa GOP came and
went with news coverage given to the nominations of
Terry Branstad and Kim Reynolds for governor and
lieutenant governor. Little or no news coverage was
given to the GOP platform.
There seldom is.
However, one journalist paying attention to
political platforms over the years is Gil Cranberg,
former editorial-page editor of The Des Moines
Register. Gil holds these quaint and apparently archaic
notions that (a) people should say what they mean,
and (b) people should be held accountable for their
words.
So even some 20 years ago, Gil was writing about
how the religious right had taken control of the Iowa
GOP. Contrast his observations in the early 1990s
with the Register headline that in June proclaimed
the “soul” of the Republican Party was up for grabs
in the party’s primary election. As evidenced by
the platforms over the years, however, the religious
right owns that soul. They work hard and turn out at
caucus time when the party shapes its public policy.
Dedication and hard work pay off for them.
The mix of religion and politics is one reason the
platform merits attention, more so than its Democratic
counterpart. Also, the GOP platform suggests what
views Iowa Republicans will bring to the 2012 caucus
process, when they will be in the spotlight in helping
determine who will be their party’s presidential
nominee.
The GOP platform again calls for abolition of
the federal Department of Agriculture, the federal
Department of Education, the Internal Revenue
Service, the Federal Reserve, the Department of
Energy, and the National Endowment of the Arts,
along with getting the U.S. out of the United Nations.
The platform also would abolish minimum-wage laws,
academic tenure, OSHA, restrictions on smoking,
no-fault divorce, and, of course, abortion, same-sex
marriage, and any legal rights emanating from civil
unions. The 2008 platform called for “downsizing” the
Iowa Department of Education. The 2010 platform
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calls for abolishing it.
All is not abolition. Creationism should be included
“with all science instruction” in public schools, and
Iowa’s 99 counties should not be consolidated. Parents
who send their children to private schools should
receive some form of public reimbursement for that
expense.
Sticking to its guns, the platform also would allow
anyone eligible for a permit to carry a concealed
weapon to do so at any public elementary school, high
school, community college, or university. Elsewhere in
the platform, you wouldn’t even need a permit.
The platform does not call for the ouster of any
judges who found the Iowa ban against same-sex
marriages to be unconstitutional. But it does call for
 the impeachment of “activist judges” and advocates
by Herb Strentz
“the appointment of judges who respect the sanctity
of life.”
But all this and more, many Iowa journalists say,
isn’t relevant because platforms don’t matter anymore.
All platforms do is tell you who is in control of a
political party and how they would shape public
policy. B-O-R-I-N-G.
The GOP platform is far from boring.
The platform invokes God seven times, the
“family” 13 times – including three references to the
family farm – marriage eight times, and “Christian”
four times. While those are minuscule numbers in a
12,000-word document, they reflect the overall tone of
the platform. So much so that a reader can be forgiven
for thinking our Constitution itself recognizes God,
the family, marriage, and Christianity. But none of
those words are in the U.S. Constitution.
Not yet, anyway.
The word “amendment” surfaces 22 times in
the GOP platform, mostly because the Republican
leaders want to clarify current federal constitutional
amendments and add several more to the state and
federal constitutions. Really, the Iowa GOP doesn’t
want a constitution so much as it wants a 21st Century
version of the Old Testament book of Leviticus – a
collection of laws to prescribe and proscribe how we
behave and relate to one another. The Iowa and U.S.
Constitutions are viewed not so much as checks upon
government power as checks upon human behavior.
Despite its avowed dedication to constitutional
principles, however, the platform misquotes the U.S.
Constitution. The platform tells you the oath of office
for the President and others is in Article VI, but the
oath is in Article II. The platform tells you the oath
ends with the vow, “So help me God.” But those words
are not in the constitutional oath. (The Constitution,
of course, does say that no religious test is required for
holding public office or public trust.)
But again, the Iowa news media don’t find any of
this interesting.
So presumably, Iowa reporters will not ask about
plank 7.46 – which calls for limiting terms of office
to 12 years – and if that applies to gubernatorial
candidate Terry Branstad, who has already served 16
years as governor.
While journalists will not hold Republican
candidates accountable for the platform, the state GOP
will. The platform says any candidate must agree with
80 percent of the platform to receive financial support
from the party. That’s not a high hurdle because the
platform does make sense here and there. For example,
the platform recognizes that “government works for
the people. ‘We the people’ do not answer to them.”
And the platform dares to suggest that Congress
should know what is in the legislation it considers.
What a concept – almost like people should know
what is in the GOP and Democratic platforms. But
don’t count on the Register or TV news shows to tell
you.
To read the Republican Party of Iowa platform, go
to IowaGOP.org/platform. To download the Iowa
Democratic Party platform, go to RCReader.com/y/
demplatform.
Herb Strentz is a retired administrator and
professor in the Drake School of Journalism & Mass
Communication.

Quinn’s Negativity
Backfires on Him
G
overnor Pat Quinn was in rare form
last week as he attacked state Senator
Bill Brady before his Republican
opponent had a chance to get his own licks in.
Quinn was put in an extremely awkward
position by his budget director, who
indicated to an out-of-state reporter
that the state’s income-tax rate would be
increased to 5 percent from its current 3
percent come January. Democrats were
predictably stunned by the political stupidity
of such a thing,
and Republicans
were predictably
foaming at the
Quinn’s advertising
mouth with outrage.
The virulently
has been so crushingly
anti-tax Brady
quickly scheduled
negative that people are
a press conference
and we all knew
apparently heading for
what was coming:
unadulterated vitriol.
the exit doors.
The governor
explained to
reporters that his budget guru had been
“misconstrued.” Raising the income tax to
5 percent wasn’t his plan, Quinn declared,
vowing to veto any tax-hike increase above 1
percentage point.
But in between the defenses, the governor
engaged in a full-throttled attack on Brady
for proposing to cut education by 10 percent
as part of Brady’s across-the-board budget-
reduction plan. Quinn claimed Brady’s
proposed billion-dollar slash would force
the layoffs of “thousands of teachers,” crowd
classrooms to the breaking point, and,
most importantly, cause property taxes to
“skyrocket.” You could barely count to three
in between Quinn’s warnings about how
Brady would force property taxes through
the roof.
“I’m a person who wants to hold down
property taxes,” Quinn said. “If we want a
growing economy, we cannot have politicians
from Bloomington running around Illinois
telling people before an election nothing is
going to happen as far as tax reform when
it comes to supporting education, but then
after the election presiding over the biggest
property tax in Illinois history.
“I don’t want to see these local property
taxes go up,” he said moments later. “You’ve
got to be careful of these apostles of ‘no
tax.’ When they talk, they have their fingers
crossed, because they know the local
government is going to raise the property
tax on people.”
And he wasn’t finished. “I know that
there’s going to be false prophets running
around Illinois saying, ‘We don’t have to
do anything, just stand still, cut the budget
of state government for education by 10
percent.’ Make sure that everybody knows
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what this fellow is talking about. He wants
to cut the school budget in Illinois, the
education budget, by 10 percent. How are
you going to fund the schools?”
Yeah, he laid it on pretty darned thick.
And considering the position Quinn
was in, the property-tax angle might not
have been a bad push-back. People are
probably more upset about the property
tax than any other tax in the state. If he has
to divert attention from his own tax hike,
that’s the way to go.
There is also little
doubt that large,
permanent cuts to
education and local
government will
eventually lead to
property-tax hikes.
Then again, the
negative messages
pushed by Quinn
apparently haven’t
worked all that
well. The latest
Rasmussen poll has
Brady with a 7-percent (44-37) lead, even
though Quinn has spent $2 million or so on
viciously anti-Brady TV advertising already.
More ominously, the poll of 750 likely
voters taken July 26 found that a big chunk
of Quinn’s “must get” vote is now seriously
considering voting for a third-party
candidate. And there might be plenty of
those to choose from this year.
A staggering 23 percent of African-
Americans, 19 percent of moderates, 14
percent of Democrats and women, and
10 percent of liberals chose “some other
candidate” in the poll. Just one of those
demographics – moderates – was in double
digits in Rasmussen’s June 7 poll. Quinn’s
advertising has been so crushingly negative
(which tends to push people away), and
his job performance has been so utterly
abominable lately, that people are apparently
heading for the exit doors.
That isn’t happening to Brady. His natural
base – Republicans, conservatives, men,
whites, and people making over $100,000
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a year – are all still in the single digits on
the “some other candidate” response. Just
3 percent of Republicans are thinking of
straying, for instance.
And it also isn’t happening to Quinn’s
fellow statewide Democrat Alexi
Giannoulias. Not a single one of those
“must get” Democratic constituencies is in
double digits on Rasmussen’s “some other
candidate” response for the US Senate
campaign.
Pat Quinn’s worst enemy has always been
Pat Quinn, and it’s no different now.
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political newsletter) and TheCapitolFaxBlog.com. 

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Open Seats Key as GOP Aims to Win
I
owa Republicans believe they can
regain control of the Iowa House in
the November election, although they
agree with Democrats that the 16 seats left
open because of retirements after the 2010
legislative session will play a key role in
determining who will call the shots over the
next two years.
Republicans note that they have the
largest field of candidates since 1994 – when
they picked up 13 seats in the House – and
that 25 Republicans are running unopposed
compared to just 11 Democrats.
“Republicans have a tremendous
opportunity to win back the Iowa House,
and the candidates we have give us a
tremendous opportunity to win significant
seats and knock on the door of winning back
the Iowa Senate,” said Republican Party of
Iowa Chair Matt Strawn.
House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen (R-
Hiawatha) said it’s too early for predictions,
“but we’re very optimistic that Republicans
will be back in a position to control the Iowa
House,” and he said he doesn’t see a scenario
in which Republicans lose any seats.
One GOP strategist speaking on
background said he’s confident Republicans
will win four of the 10 open Democratic
seats and hold five of the six Republican
open seats, meaning Republicans would
then still need to win four incumbent
Democratic seats to hit 51 representatives
and gain control. Republicans also see the 35
Democratic incumbents being challenged
as an opportunity, compared to the just
13 Republican incumbents who have
Democratic challengers.
But House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy (D-Des Moines) said it’s rare to
lose more than one or two incumbents in an
election.
“We feel good about our incumbents; we
feel good about the work they do,” McCarthy
said. “We have them on an incumbent-
protection program, and every constituent
that contacts them they respond with a
handwritten note or a phone call. We hope
to have a decent outcome in the election.”
Strawn noted that Paulsen has more
than $200,000 cash on hand, compared to
much lower numbers for House Democratic
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leaders. “We’ve got a speaker of the House
in this state in Pat Murphy who has $2,700
cash on hand at the last reporting period,”
Strawn said. “The House Democrat leader
McCarthy has about $12,000.”
But campaign-finance reports show
that Democratic leaders contributed large
chunks of their money to other Democratic
candidates.
I-JOBS Numbers Provoke
Debate Over Impact
A new report from the Iowa Department
of Management says the state’s $875-million
 I-JOBS program launched more than 1,688
by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com
projects in all 99 counties as of July 20 and
invested $705.4 million in flood-mitigation
and infrastructure projects.
When combined with money that’s been
leveraged, “that means $1.32 billion of
projects are either underway, committed, or
completed,” the report says. “All of that has
been done without raising taxes and at the
least-possible long-term costs.”
The report says that an early-July
telephone survey of I-JOBS contractors and
subcontractors indicates there are currently
more than 7,079 directly supported
positions on the payroll of projects funded
by I-JOBS. And using various methods for
assessing economic impact, the number of
jobs supported ranges from 9,944 to 23,225
through December of last year, and from
15,724 to 36,764 for I-JOBS money granted
and leveraged through the current fiscal
year.
Governor Chet Culver’s staff at one point
estimated the program would create as
many as 30,000 jobs.
Jeff Boeyink, the campaign manager
for Republican gubernatorial nominee
Terry Branstad, criticized the new report,
saying construction employment in Iowa
is actually down 2,700 since the I-JOBS bill
was passed, and nearly 20,000 Iowans have
been added to the rolls of the unemployed
since the program began.
“These are short-term construction jobs,
not the long-term jobs Governor Culver
promised when he proposed I-JOBS,”
Boeyink said. “$1.7 billion for short-term
construction jobs is not a great return on
investment for Iowa taxpayers. In fact, these
short-term jobs are costing Iowans over
$240,000 apiece.”
“I-JOBS is creating jobs today and
creating the conditions for long-term
job growth,” countered Culver campaign
spokesperson Ali Glisson. “But Terry
Branstad already knows that because, in the
past, he’s made the case for how programs
like this work.”
Glisson pointed to a 1983 news article
that said then-Governor Branstad was well
on his way to fulfilling his jobs promise
because of his investments in infrastructure.
“When Branstad wants to sell Branstad’s
jobs program, estimates are fine to use,”
she said. “When Governor Culver’s
office actually calls the contractors and
subcontractors to account for jobs created,
according to Branstad, the program is
somehow supposed to be considered a
failure.”
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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the City grows. The bicycle projects numbered on the map below (prefaced with a “B-” elsewhere
in this plan) are listed in Chapter 5 and are described more fully in Chapter 9.

Davenport’s Smart Transportation Plan and Its Roadblocks

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Davenport in Motion is no panacea, and there are

roadblocks. The plan doesn’t include an overall price Source: AECOM
tag, and it of course still needs to be implemented.
The downtown-parking element remains problematic, DAVENPORT IN MOTION | BUILDING A 21st CENTURY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
as Davenport’s surfeit of parking makes it difficult to
encourage through scarcity modes of transportation
beyond the automobile. Because Brady and Harrison
are part of U.S. 61, changing them to two-way streets
would require approval beyond the city council. And
transportation is just one element of urban planning.
But the plan is tangible evidence that Davenport
has taken Speck’s criticism to heart. The free flow
of automobiles is no longer Davenport’s primary
transportation objective.

In the Mainstream
It’s worth noting that the substance of Davenport in
Motion isn’t a surprise, given whom the city selected to

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write it: the transportation planners of Nelson\Nygaard
Consulting Associates, which specializes in the sort of
sustainable development that Speck preaches. (Speck’s
company also contributed to the plan.)
But Dan McNeil, a member of the Quad Cities
Transportation Alternatives Group, said he was “pleasantly
surprised” that Nelson\Nygaard was chosen in the first
place, and “that the [city] council has been so supportive.”
After Speck spoke in the Quad Cities, McNeil said, it was
reasonable to ask what would come of it. McNeil credits
Davenport City Designer Darrin Nordahl for advocating
a modern approach to transportation planning. “They’re
very lucky to have a progressive thinker in that position,”
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The Soul of Wit
Lora Adams on the Curtainbox Theatre Company’s Cancer Drama, and Her Own Struggles with the Disease
(Author’s note: I’m a proud
ensemble member of the
Curtainbox Theatre Company,
and along with interviewee
Lora Adams, am serving as co-
associate producer on Wit.)
“W
hen you hear
that word
– cancer – it’s
very surreal,” says WQPT-TV
Director of Marketing Lora
Adams, regarding her 2008
diagnosis with the disease.
“There’s a moment when the
reality of it not being a television
show, or not happening to
somebody else’s family, has to
sort of settle in. You have that
moment of ‘Holy crap.’ And then
once that happens, you move forward.”
Adams is describing her own experience,
but she could also be describing the opening
minutes of Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
drama that Adams is currently co-associate
producing for the Curtainbox Theatre
Company. (The show runs August 12
through 29 at the Village of East Davenport’s
Village Theatre.) Written by Margaret
Edson, the play concerns a middle-aged
college professor recently diagnosed with
stage-four ovarian cancer, and follows her
through her hospitalization, her radiation
treatments, and – as she explains to the
audience in her opening monologue – her
eventual death.
Yet despite Wit’s subject matter, neither
the work nor its leading character, Vivian
Bearing, is unremittingly dour. Called
“brutally human and beautifully layered”
by the New York Times, Edson’s 1999 off-
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Broadway hit is also a poignant, mordantly
funny, and ultimately comforting play, one
that Adams believes has the capacity to
speak to everyone.
“It’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t been
touched, in one way or another, by cancer,”
she says. “And I think what Wit does is
allow an audience the opportunity to at
least experience it without as much emotion
as you’d feel experiencing it personally. It
prepares them.”
Before Wit’s Curtainbox staging or her
own 2008 cancer diagnosis, frequent area
performer and director Adams helmed
a 2002 presentation of Edson’s drama

Corinne Johnson in Wit
for Davenport’s New Ground Theatre
– a production that, like the play’s present
incarnation, also starred St. Ambrose
University Theatre Professor Corinne
Johnson as Vivian. And Adams says
that when Curtainbox Artistic Director
Kimberly Furness “talked about doing
Wit again” with Broadway veteran Philip
William McKinley directing, “and then
talked about Cory doing it again, that was
certainly very intriguing.
“So we went to lunch, and she said,
‘Would you like to associate produce,
because of your personal experience with
the show, and your personal experience with
cancer?’ And I said sure. I was happy to help
out any way I could.”
It was New Ground Artistic Director
Chris Jansen who first introduced Adams to
Edson’s play. “She had given me Wit,” says
Adams, “and I read it, and my first thought
was, ‘Oooo ... I don’t know that I’m up to
the task of this play.’ Because, you know,
sometimes you read something and you just
know you want it to be perfect.” She thought,
however, that greatness could certainly be
achieved with the right actress in the lead,
“because this show rises and falls on Vivian.”
Enter Corinne Johnson. Literally. “Cory
came in,” says Adams, “and I was told right
off the bat that she loved the play, but that
her schedule was crazy, and she really wasn’t
going to be able to do it. But I gave her a
side to read, and within, I don’t know, a
nanosecond, that was it. It was luminous.
She was Vivian. And so we sat down and I
said, ‘Okay. I want you in this. You would
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like to do this show. Let’s
work around your crazy
schedule.’”
The resulting production,
says Adams, was a
considerable success – “We
sold very well, between
100 and 120 a night” at
Rivermont Collegiate – and
its director was especially
pleased that audiences
embraced Wit’s inherent,
unforced positivity.
“For me, Wit wasn’t so
much about cancer,” she
says. “It wasn’t so much
about this woman dying,
and the journey in that
dying, but how wonderful it
was that she had lived. That
she had impacted so many lives with her
passion for her work. Love her or hate her,
she was certainly passionate about what she
taught.”
As much as she loved the play, however,
Adams didn’t necessarily plan on revisiting
it. Yet several years later, she was forced into
revisiting its subject, when a routine physical
revealed a series of lumps on Adams’
thyroid, a discovery that led to a sonogram
procedure, which, in turn, led to a biopsy.
“Then the phone call came,” says
Adams. “I got a message to ‘Call us back
immediately.’ And I thought, ‘Well, this can’t
be good.’ Your head immediately clicks
and you go, ‘They’re gonna tell me I have
cancer.’”
She did. “I literally sat down and the
doctor said, ‘I’m sorry – you have cancer.’”
(It should be noted that, barring the first
two words, this is exactly how Vivian’s
physician breaks the news to her in Wit.
“At least my doctor added the ‘I’m sorry,’”
Adams says with a laugh.)
Adams was diagnosed with papillary
carcinoma, and says that while “this
cancer is not like others – you don’t get
chemotherapy in the traditional sense,” her
experiences during treatment did oftentimes
mirror those of Wit’s Vivian Bearing,
particularly the one expressed in Vivian’s
line “You cannot imagine how time ... can
be ... so still.”
“There’s a sameness to the days,” says
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Guess-Who’s Coming to Dinner

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT something he shouldn’t – which is often. It’s about
Nic’s shocked, paralyzing discovery of a betrayal, the
In general terms, explaining what director Lisa
jovial discussion around her slowly shifting into a
Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is “about” is a
barely audible rumble.
pretty easy task: 18-year-old Joni (Mia Wasikowska)
The Kids Are All Right is, in short, about dozens
and 15-year-old Laser
upon dozens of brilliantly
(Josh Hutcherson) – the
textured and memorable
children of a contented
details. The tenuous yet
and devoted lesbian
indescribably forceful
couple (Annette Bening’s
bond between parents
Nic and Julianne Moore’s
and children, the loving
Jules) – arrange a first
struggle that constitutes
meeting with their shared
daily existence between
sperm-donor father
long-term partners, the
(Mark Ruffalo’s Paul),
self-inflicted wounds that
and through several Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Josh come with trying, and
more meetings, watch as Hutcherson, Mia Wasikowska, and Mark failing, to be your “highest
his casually disruptive
Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right self” – these are the
presence gradually,
subjects that Cholodenko,
irrevocably alters their family dynamic. Yet while
Blumberg, and the film’s overwhelmingly fine
this is an accurate, if simplified, plot synopsis, it
ensemble so adroitly tackle in this stunningly big-
doesn’t come remotely close to explaining what this
hearted and truthful work. Like life, The Kids Are All
buoyant, original, altogether extraordinary dramatic
Right is really funny, and really sad, and something
comedy is actually about.
you really don’t want to be over, and for all of its
It’s about the kids’ faces during their introductory
aforementioned, beautifully realized moments and
lunch with Paul: Joni’s wide-eyed, unfettered
themes, there’s one other thing that the movie is
happiness revealing that she’s finally found the Cool
about: perfect.
Dad she didn’t even know she was looking for;
Laser’s reserved fascination suggesting an adolescent
desperate to connect yet terrified of connecting DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS
too quickly. It’s about Paul’s tentative yet nearly Maybe it’s just my natural aversion to French
instantaneous rapport with these kids, and the way farce, but for all of the frequent cackling at my
he says goodbye after that lunch, giving Joni a hug screening of Dinner for Schmucks – adapted from
and Laser a handshake followed by an awkward, Francis Veber’s French-language smash The Dinner
trying-to-be-fatherly squeeze on the shoulder. (If the Game – I found it damned near impossible to
casting of Mark Ruffalo as this sweet, scruffy, laid- join in. To be sure, director Jay Roach’s leads at
back, sometimes dangerously irresponsible organic least offer some pleasure. Playing a pathologically
farmer seems a little too obvious, it’s also for good clueless IRS agent with a side interest in (and
reason: Were the role not played by Ruffalo, you’d astonishing gift for) taxidermy, Steve Carell, even
spend the whole movie wondering why it wasn’t.) after 100-plus episodes of The Office, still finds
It’s about the way that Nic, at the first dinner ways to surprise you into giggling with his flawless
they’re hosting for Paul, watches Jules as she rambles approximation of a well-meaning nitwit. And as
on about her latest business venture, her wary squint the nice guy roped into bringing this wiener to a
signifying, “Please don’t embarrass us in front of career-making soirée, Paul Rudd pulls off straight-
the sperm donor.” It’s about Jules’ subtly mortified man apoplexy with aplomb, and has a hysterical
realization that Nic, trying too hard to be pleasant bit in which he attempts to walk after dislocating
with Paul, is just barely masking her utter contempt. his back. Yet I found Dinner for Schmucks itself
It’s about the women’s continual, comically oblivious exhaustingly labored and senseless – it’s impossible
reliance on therapeutic shorthand, peppering their to believe that Rudd’s seemingly sane, gallery-
conversations with “I feel like there’s some subtext curator girlfriend (Stephanie Szostak) would be in

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here” and “Maybe it hasn’t risen to the point of thrall to the specious “talents” of Jemaine Clement’s
consciousness for you yet” and “I know I haven’t preening-egomaniac artiste – and initially amusing
been my highest self lately.” (Written by Cholodenko sequences drag on for such an achingly long time
and Stuart Blumberg, Kids’ smart, biting, literate that I, for one, began to resent them; the usually
script lightly satirizes its characters without ever great Zach Galifianakis, in particular, is forced
once stooping to mockery.) to wear out his welcome. Then, too, the movie’s
It’s about Joni’s anxious, rebellious uncertainly closeups are oppressively close, and the slapstick
as she drunkenly approaches a high-school crush. is poorly staged, and Ron Livingston and Larry
It’s about Laser’s heartbroken anger after deciding Wilmore and ventriloquist comic Jeff Dunham
that his best friend is, in truth, a colossal prick. It’s are badly wasted, and Lucy Punch delivers a
about Jules’ hilarious attempt at explaining to Laser hideously unappealing performance, and the
why lesbians would watch man-on-man porn. inevitable maudlin sentiment doesn’t jibe with the
(“Wouldn’t you rather watch naked girls?” “You early, laugh-at-the-dweeb meanness, and ... . Okay,
would think.”) It’s about Paul’s reflexive, I-can’t- maybe it’s not just my natural aversion to French
believe-I-just-did-that laughter every time he does farce.
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Model Twain
Big River, at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre through August 8
T
o paraphrase one of Big River ’s best-
known lyrics, I’ve been waitin’ for
the men to shine on the Clinton Area
Showboat Theatre stage all summer long.
In my estimation, and with the exception
of a few notable performances – Antwaun
Holley in Rent, Michael Oberfield in Show
Boat – the male actors haven’t really held
their own against the female actors this
season. That is, until Big River; on Saturday
night, every single male performer in Mark
Twain’s boy-centric tale of Huck Finn
offered a noteworthy performance.
Even before the production started, I
was grateful to see Holley cast as Jim, the
runaway slave. Holley’s Showboat roles
have been smaller than I would’ve preferred
ever since Rent, so I was glad we’d be
seeing more of his talent showcased in this
musical. And did we ever, particularly his
vocal talents. While his projection could’ve
been louder, Holley’s singing has a smooth,
rich sound that’s pitch-perfect on every
song.
The moment Mike Detmer opened
his mouth, I knew his seemingly natural,
boyish charm was well-suited to the
role of Huck. Dietmer positively exudes
youthfulness and joy, and his Huck could
do no wrong in my eyes, even when his
character was doing plenty of it.
Nick Lee’s “Hand for the Hog” finds
the actor giving his best performance
of the summer. Singing as Tom Sawyer
lauding the virtues of the hog, Lee’s pacing
and comedic timing couldn’t be better,
and elicited well-deserved laughs from
the audience. It was a thrill to watch as
Lee deftly used vocal pauses and facial
expressions to convey the number’s comedy.
Ryan Nelson, however, almost steals
the show as Pap Finn, throwing himself
into the character’s crass, drunken nature,
and playing it big in while displaying
full commitment to the role. Nelson
commands your attention as he stumbles
his way across the stage, swigging from a
jug of moonshine, and manages to make
his singular solo song, “Guv’ment,” even
funnier than written through his inebriated
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inflections.
Derrick Bertram’s delivery of “Arkansas”
adds a lot of fun to the proceedings, with
his big smile and exuberant choreography.
(Big River’s program doesn’t list a
choreographer – except for Patrick Stinson
on two songs – and that’s too bad, as
whoever handled the additional dancing
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deserves a mention.) Rob Engelson and
Michael Oberfield are quite the pretentious
pair as the Duke and King, respectively.
And Isaac Jankowski, who can’t be more
than 18, manages to transcend his youth in
his portrayals of both the upstanding Judge
Thatcher and the uneducated Silas Phelps.
Big River isn’t, however, a boys-only club.
For one thing, it’s directed by a woman
– Jalayne Riewerts’ show is well-paced
and always interesting, even as the script
and songs ebb and flow between fun,
dramatic, dark, and dull. For another, there
are women in the show, well-portrayed by
Riewerts’ female cast members. Sandee
Cunningham, in particular, possesses a
commanding stage presence as the toe-the-
line Widow Douglas and the warm-hearted
Sally Phelps. And while her role doesn’t
offer Amber Grey much opportunity to
showcase her acting ability, it does show off
her singing ability; her performance of “The
Crossing” is haunting, while her “How Blest
We Are” carries with it a deep sadness.
All of these great performances, though,
are presented on a set that left me with
a mixed impression. To start with, it’s
somewhat aesthetically off. Riewerts, who
also serves as the show’s set designer,
created a three-tiered series of platforms
shaped like piers, but covered in a gray,
foamy substance that suggests rocks and/or
caves. The space beneath the platforms,
however, is masked by streamers, creating
vertical stripes of gray and green that left
me baffled. (Why stripes?) Yet while its
look makes no sense, the design itself is
ingenious, with the streamers allowing set
pieces – such as Jim’s and Huck’s raft and
Pap’s camp – to be hidden beneath the
platforms and quickly pushed out for use.
I enjoyed Showboat’s Big River a lot more
than I expected to, considering that the
soundtrack’s bluegrass and country style
drives me a little nuts, and initially lowered
my expectations. So, too, did this summer’s
previous performances by the Showboat’s
male actors, which have been, for the most
part, adequate. Big River, though, showcases
the reason these men are on Clinton’s stage
this year.
For tickets and information, call (563)242-
6760 or visit ClintonShowboat.org.
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The Confidence to Explore
The Watson Twins, August 18 at The Speakeasy
W
hen Jenny Lewis, the singer of
the indie-pop outfit Rilo Kiley,
released her 2006 solo debut
Rabbit Fur Coat, she credited the album to
Jenny Lewis with the
Watson Twins.
That small act
of generosity is the
primary reason that
the Watson Twins
– who will perform a
Daytrotter.com show
at The Speakeasy on
August 18 – have their
current visibility.
This isn’t to say
Chandra and Leigh Watson
the Kentucky-raised
identical twins based in Los Angeles didn’t
play an important role on the record,
but the Watson sisters (to put it bluntly)
provide backing vocals for Lewis’ songs. Yet
there they are behind Lewis on the cover, in
setting and dress suggesting the creepy dead
girls from The Shining all grown up. And a
little less creepy, and a lot less dead.
The Watson Twins certainly didn’t
expect that kind of exposure from the
project. “We really loved the songs, and our
collaboration ... came very easy,” Chandra
Watson said in a phone interview last week.
“Lewis is a very modest person, and she
wasn’t really making that big a deal out of
it.”
“It had the feeling of a side project,” Leigh
Watson said. “Rilo Kiley was starting to
really get big at that point.” But Rabbit Fur
Coat was well-reviewed and a hit for an
indie record, and “two months of touring
turned into a year on the road,” Leigh said.
The Watsons sang in the church from
age nine but found alternative music in
their teenage years, resulting in a style that
mixed the two. “The music that we were
writing had more of that indie vibe to it,
but the vocals still held onto that more
gospel-sounding cadence,” Leigh said. “The
thing that we honed the most in singing in
church was harmonies; that was probably
the biggest carryover. It was more tonal and
vocal performance and harmonies than the
music itself.”
The twins arrived in Los Angeles in 1998
with their eyes on a music career. The years
between their California arrival and their
national “arrival” involved singing in the
band Slydell, making connections, learning
to record, and exploring different styles of
music. “I consider that our musical college
experience or grad school or whatever you
want to call it,” Leigh said. Slydell broke
up – after three albums – at about the time
Lewis was looking for backup singers.
The Watson Twins released the EP
Southern Manners at about the same time as
Rabbit Fur Coat, and touring behind those
led to the pair’s debut full-length, 2008’s
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Fire Songs. “By the time we got off the road
with Rabbit Fur Coat, we knew that we had
a stack of songs, that we wanted to make a
real record,” Leigh said. “It ultimately gave
us the courage to
do that, to have this
experience on the
road, the musical
confidence to feel like
vocally we can pull
this off, and we have
something to offer.”
Fire Songs
certainly has its
strong points, but
as Pitchfork.com
said, the album
“highlighted those voices primarily by
stripping everything else away, leaving
their vocals to anchor subpar songs, and an
anonymous musical backdrop ... .”
“Fire Songs was a very safe record for
us to make, and we needed to make a
safe record because we weren’t there yet,”
Chandra said. “We needed to do what we
felt comfortable in doing, and where we had
come from with the music. ... With Talking
to You, Talking to Me, we were ready to
push ourselves in a different way.”
Talking to You, Talking to Me is the
Watson Twins’ new album, released in
February. It announces itself immediately
with “Modern Man” and “Harpeth
River,” both of which put those voices in
the service of the songs, rather than the
other way around. Spin called the album
“a massive improvement. Taking a cue
from Shelby Lynne, the Watsons consult
vintage Southern styles for inspiration,
incorporating touches of country and
plenty of hot-blooded soul. The only
problem with ‘Calling Out,’ ‘Forever Me,’
and other alluring tracks is that they end
too soon ... .”
Chandra credited the freewheeling
nature of the album to the tour time
supporting Lewis, Southern Manners, and
Fire Songs: “When you spend a lot of time
on the road, something happens to you as
a performer where you gain confidence,
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and you really get to know yourself and you
get to know your voice. We really found a
confidence in ourself to explore.”
The Watson Twins will perform on
Wednesday, August 18, at Circa ’21’s The
Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue in Rock
Island). The bill also includes Tennis, Ferraby
Lionhart, and Idpyramid. Tickets to the
7 p.m. all-ages show are $8 in advance
and $10 at the door. For tickets, e-mail
teamdaytrotter@gmail.com.
For more information on the Watson Twins,
visit TheWatsonTwins.com or MySpace.com/
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Jokers! Wild!
Ecclesiazusae, at Lincoln Park through August 8
G
enesius Guild’s Ecclesiazusae is
perhaps the most ridiculous thing I’ve
ever seen on a local stage, and that’s
what I found so charming about it.
Inspired by
Aristophanes’
Greek comedy
about women
taking over
Athens,
Genesius Guild’s
production is
a hodgepodge
of pokes and
jabs at local
icons, including
Genesius Guild
itself. Director
and writer Don
Wooten’s show Michael Phillips, Lisa Pilgrim, and Claira Hart
lampoons Mary
from Good’s Furniture, Circa ’21’s Bootleggers,
Quad City Music Guild, Bill Wundram, and
many more familiar faces and groups.
Sunday night’s performance marked my
first time seeing one of Genesius Guild’s
season-ending comedies, and I had very little
idea of what to expect beyond (as I was told)
Guilders running around on stage acting silly.
The show is certainly silly, but it’s also witty
and jovial, the entire production playing like
a celebration after a summer of hard, serious
work. And yet, it’s not exclusive; I felt like
Genesius Guild was letting me be part of the
fun, and not condescendingly allowing me to
watch the group’s revelry. There were inside
jokes in spades, but they weren’t so inside that
most members of the audience wouldn’t be in
on them, as well.
The evening begins with Bryan Woods
setting the stage as the Stage Manager.
Deftly spouting sharp, often self-deprecating
comedic lines, Woods kicks off the evening’s
laughter with not just chuckles, but hearty
guffaws. Pat Flaherty, Hanna Munden, Joe
Curtiss, and Melita and Philip Tunnicliff
then follow as the Bootlickers, hilariously
parodying Circa ’21’s performing wait staff,
and responsible for two of the night’s jokes
that caused me to wince a bit (while laughing)
at their pointed nature.
Andrea Braddy takes on Mary from Good’s
in a mocking monologue as Mary Monotone,
and thrives later in the play as Grizzly Mom,
quickly recognizable as Sarah Palin. Braddy’s
looks give Tina Fey a run for her money in
portraying the Tea Party darling, and Tim
Miller – like Braddy, costumed to perfection
– is consistently funny as the hunchbacked,
leg-dragging, non-speaking Igor.
As for the women central to Ecclesiazusae’s
storyline, Lisa Pilgrim’ Bedraglia and Patti
Flaherty’s Praxagora lead a chorus of singing,
dancing, speaking-in-unison housewives
intent on overthrowing the government.
Their musical numbers aren’t very polished,
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but are incredibly amusing and endearing in
their imperfection, and the songs also offer
a welcome change of pace in the midst of
so many monologues. My personal favorite
among the
women,
however,
was Flaherty,
who was so
impressive in
her comedic
delivery, and
boasted such
stage presence,
that my
jaw literally
dropped. Why
is this the first
time I’ve seen
this woman
perform?
She’s so captivating, so comically adept, that
I’d welcome seeing her in every comedy
produced in the Quad Cities from this point
forward.
While the women shine, they don’t entirely
overshadow the men. Michael Phillips and
Joe Curtiss are particularly delightful as the
French Army (familiar characters to fans of
Monty Python & the Holy Grail), while Bob
Hanske’s Blepyros, Earl Strupp’s Pheidolos,
and Michael Miller’s Chremes continually
one-up one another, fighting over everything
from the show’s plot to which of them is the
play’s dirtiest old man.
Andy Curtiss counters them with the play’s
most sincere character; the actor doesn’t play for
laughs in his role as Epigenes, but is charmingly
likable. That is, he is until he portrays one of
the Oracles alongside Bryan Woods and Sarah
Murphy, when the trio’s parodies of Glenn Beck,
Bill O’Reilly, and Rachel Maddow unashamedly
induce laughter at the expense of the
commentators. So, too, does Ken Roberts’ turn
as Rush Limbaugh, while Don Faust is equally
hilarious as Billy Wonder, an amicable mockery
of Bill Wundram.
The only cast member who felt a little off
on Sunday night was Earlene Gould, who
portrayed Anne Hathaway portraying Mrs.
Shakespeare (if I caught her character’s
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introduction correctly). Gould could stand
to tighten up her pacing, which would keep
the comedy from falling a bit flat during her
monologue, but otherwise, the show was
funny from start to finish, and oftentimes
downright hysterical. I’m stingy with my
standing ovations, but I was so delighted by
Sunday’s performance of Ecclesiazusae that
this was one of the rare occasions when I
actually wanted to lead one.
For more information, visit Genesius.org.
Thom White covers entertainment news for
WQAD Quad Cities News 8. 13
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Theatre
The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee
Harrison Hilltop Theatre
Thursday, August 12,
through Saturday, August 28
Timber Lake Playhouse
Thursday, August 12,
through Sunday, August 22
Y up, you read that correctly:
Davenport’s Harrison Hilltop
Theatre and Mt. Carroll’s Timber Lake
Playhouse will both open productions
of The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee on August 12. And this
is one of those times when stepping
down from my theatre-reviewer
tenure seems like the stupidest
decision on Earth, because I can’t
think of many other musicals I’d be
quite so excited to see in two separate
venues over the same weekend.
For one thing, the show itself
is outstanding. Nominated for six
2005 Tony Awards, two of which it
won, book writer Rachel Sheinkin’s
and composer William Finn’s
collaboration is a wildly hilarious and
unexpectedly poignant reenactment
of a middle-school bee; the Wall
Street Journal called it “a super-smart
show that is also a bona fide crowd-
pleaser,” and Variety magazine wrote
that this musical “is so generously
warm-hearted, only the most bitter
misanthrope could resist its charms.”
But for another thing, no two
productions of The 25th Annual
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Putnam County Spelling Bee will
ever be identical ... not even those
performed at the same venue. In
addition to its pint-sized characters, are maxed out after catching
the show employs a handful of
audience volunteers at every
performance to take turns spelling
with the kids on stage, meaning that
you – yes, you! – might wind up the
bee champion at the show’s climax.
Don’t hold your breath, though.
Words used to trip up past Putnam
County contestants have included
“hasenpfeffer,” “diethylamide,” and
“weltanschauung,” and I’ll give anyone yearly festival screens works
five dollars who knows how to spell
those wo – .
Damn. I keep forgetting that
just because these things are
conversational, it doesn’t mean we’re
actually conversing.
Timber Lake’s production runs
through August 22, while Harrison
Hilltop’s continues through August
28; tickets to the former are available
by calling (815)244-2035 or visiting
TimberLakePlayhouse.org, and
reservations to the latter can be
made at (563)449-6371 or visiting
HarrisonHilltop.com.
A six session workshop covering synopsis, plot, dialogue, characters,
conflict and self-editing with internationally-published authors
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Movies
Hardacre Film Festival
Hardacre Theater
Friday, August 6,
and Saturday, August 7
A s usual, this summer
at the cineplex has
been pretty chockablock
with sequels, remakes, and
adaptations of TV series. So
if you’ve been hankering for
more original material and
Inception for the ninth time,
you’ll definitely want to make
your way to Tipton, Iowa,
on August 6 and 7, when
the town’s Hardacre Theater
presents the 13th-annual
Hardacre Film Festival.
Designed as a showcase
for cutting-edge independent
and underground works, the
from local, national, and
international professionals
and amateurs, with this year’s
lineup giving audiences the
chance to view eight debuting
features and 16 shorts over a
mere day and a half.
Among the feature films on
the 2010 schedule:
• American Grindhouse,
which “traces the history of
the exploitation film”;
• Ballhawks, which “tells
the story of Cubs fans who
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chase balls outside of Wrigley
Field”;
• Between Floors, which
“traces the human condition
through five stuck elevators
and the people trapped inside
them”;
• Cleanflix, which “explores
companies that make R-rated
films ‘clean’ for families and
religious groups”; and
• World’s Largest, which
“profiles one town’s four-year
struggle to build the world’s
largest lava lamp.”
And among the short films,
the lineup includes such
intriguing titles as A Complex
Villainelle, An Affair with
Dolls, F-Word Pizza, and The
Cow Who Wanted to Be a
Hamburger. I’d recommend
catching that last one before
Hollywood inevitably
turns it into an animated
entertainment directed by
Rob Zombie.
The Hardacre Theater
is located at 112 East Fifth
Street in Tipton, and further
information on tickets and
the weekend’s schedule
is available by calling
(319)325-3974 or visiting
HardacreFilmFestival.com.
Music
An Evening with Brenda Lee
Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center
Friday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.
Dear Brenda Lee:
I just read that you’ll be bringing your
legendary pop, country, and rockabilly
stylings to the Quad-Cities Waterfront
Convention Center on August 12, and I
have to tell you: I think I love you again.
I know you don’t need me for anything
anymore, not since we were whispering
sweet nothin’s and rockin’ around the
Christmas tree at Ruby’s Lounge in
Kansas City, and that as usual, I’m just
a dum dum – Fool. No. 1 – for feeling these
emotions. But every now and then, those m
you loved me make me think that losing y
Didn’t we do it good?
You’re always on my mind, so I come to
hand, because I was born to be by your side
you take me for a left-over love, but I want
that’s all you gotta do to guarantee that I a
more. (Sometimes I wonder if everybody lo
know I’m coming on strong, but you can d
Break it to me gently, Brenda. If this is o
wins, but I’ll still say, “Thanks a lot,” and
what I can get – that dynamite time alone
In the meantime, I’m hoping I’m enough
all I can say is ...
I’m sorry. So sorry.
Your used-to-be,
Johnny One Time
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Theatre
the theatre and murder.
Both a parody of whodunits and the genuine article, Curtains finds
a dogged detective (and major fan of the stage) trying to solve the What Else
Curtains
Prospect Park Auditorium
killing of an untalented diva immediately after her curtain call. The
suspects include her co-stars, her director, and her stage manager, but
even if you can identify the culprit, chances are excellent that Music
Is Happenin’
Friday, August 6,
through Sunday, August 15
Tyler Finley, Shana
Lavino, and Curtis Guild’s gifted cast – which includes Mark McGinn, Wendy Czekalski, MUSIC
Jim Seward, Tom Vaccaro, Andrea Millea, Shana Lavino, and more Friday, August 6 – Collin Raye.
Fischer-Oelschlaeger

Q
uad City Music Guild wraps up its summer season with a
production of Curtains, running at Moline’s Prospect Park
Auditorium August 6 through 15. I haven’t seen the show before,
but I understand that one of the characters in this mystery musical/
comedy is a theatre critic, so I’m expecting lines of Music Guild
patrons to reach around the block. After all, as Reader reviewer Thom
White and I can attest, who doesn’t love theatre critics?!
Nominated for eight 2007 Tony Awards – with Frasier star
David Hyde Pierce earning the Best Actor trophy for his Broadway
performance – Curtains was the last collaboration between the
legendary duo of John Kander and Fred Ebb (the latter of whom
passed away in 2004). It also blends the two subjects you’d most likely
e
misty memories of when expect from the composer/lyricist team behind Cabaret and Chicago:
than a dozen additional, familiar Prospect Park talents – will keep
you guessing as to who most successfully knocked the audience dead.
And if all that isn’t reason enough to attend, let’s not forget about
the presence of Curtains’ theatre critic, or the fact that it actually
features a song about theatre critics! I understand that it’s called
“What Kind of Man?”, and it’s sung while the cast is reading their
show’s review, and I just found its lyrics online. Let’s see ... : “What
kind of mom would raise her boy like that? / Who’d want her baby
to destroy like that? / Who could be jerk enough / Hard up for work
enough / To want a job like that?”
Wow. Have fun with that review, Thom.
For Curtains information and tickets, call (309)762-6610 or visit
QCMusicGuild.com.
Platinum-selling country artist in concert.
Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention
Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf).
7:30 p.m. $15. For tickets and information,
call (800)843-4753 or visit Bettendorf.
IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.
Friday, August 13, and Saturday,
August 14 – Ya Maka My Weekend.
Annual celebration of Caribbean and
Jamaican culture, with food vendors, arts
and crafts, and live music by reggae bands
including Rebel Roots, Dub Dis, and the
Now Generation Band. The District of
Rock Island. Friday 5 p.m. gates; Saturday

you was a little unfair.
you with heart in
e. That’s all right if
to be wanted, and
ain’t gonna cry no
oves me but you.) I
depend on me.
Music
that their songs have been heard in such varied entertainments as the noon gates. $8/day, $12/two-day pass.
movies Herbie Fully Loaded and Nancy Drew, and the TV series Gossip For information, call (309)788-6311 or visit
Girl and All My Children.” YaMakaMyWeekend.com.
Rooney “Right. Right ... .” Sunday, August 15 – Lois DeLoatch.
The Redstone Room “I’d definitely mention that the group has toured nationally with Jazz vocalist and songwriter performs and
Friday, August 6, 7 p.m. such acts as the Jonas Brothers, Kelly Clarkson, Weezer, The Strokes, educates as part of Polyrhythms’ Third
and Tally Hall, and that Rooney is currently on tour in support of its Sunday Jazz Matinée & Workshop Series.

“H
our last time, nobody ey, Mike, for the next
be grateful for takin’ issue, I’d appreciate it if you did a What’s Happenin’ piece on
with you. Rooney, who will be at Davenport’s Redstone Room on August 6.”
for you, and I guess
“Really, Jeff?! Excellent! I can’t wait to get started!”
“I’d like you, of course, to provide a little background information
about the band, so make sure to write that it’s a five-piece pop/rock
outfit based in Los Angeles, formed in 1999, and composed of
guitarists Robert Schwartzman and Taylor Locke, bassist Brandon
Schwartzel, keyboard player Louie Stephens, and drummer Ned
Brower.”
vance and $30 at the door,
“Oh. Um. Okay ... .”
y Music hall-of-famer’s
00)843-4753 or visiting “You’ll probably want to mention that Rooney was a headliner
at the 2003 Lollapalooza festival, that its musicians earned national
recognition when they cameoed in a 2004 episode of The O.C., and
third full-length album – Eureka – which was released on June 8.”
“Of course. Sure ... .”
“And if you want to, you can even note that the band is named
after the character Ed Rooney, the principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
That’s a fun piece of trivia.”
“Yes. It definitely is. Yes ... .”
“What’s the matter?”
“ ... ”
“You thought Mickey Rooney was coming to town, didn’t you?”
“I mean, come on, I’ve seen Pete’s Dragon 25 times!”
Rooney performs the Redstone Room alongside openers Deluxe Republic
and Slip Silo, and more information and tickets are available by calling
(563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.
The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
Davenport). 3 p.m. all-ages workshop
– $5/adult, children free; 6 p.m. concert
– $10-$15. For tickets and information, call
(563)326-1333 or visit Polyrhythms.org
and RedstoneRoom.com. For a 2008 River
Cities’ Reader feature story on DeLoatch, visit
RCReader.com/y/deloatch.
Wednesday, August 18 – The Watson
Twins. Independent musicians in a concert
sponsored by Daytrotter, performing with
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What Else Is Happenin’
Tennis, Ferraby Lionheart, and Idpyramid.
The Circa ’21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). 7 p.m. $8/advance, $10/door. For
tickets and information, call (309)786-7733
extension 2, or visit Daytrotter.com.
THEATRE
Thursday, August 5, through Thursday,
August 26 – 8-Track: Songs of the ’70s.
Full-length musical revue starring the Quad
Cities’ performing wait staff, the Circa ’21
Bootleggers. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse
(1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 7:15 p.m. on
Thursdays. $46.28. For tickets and information,
call (309)786-7733 extension 2, or visit
Circa21.com.
Thursday, August 5, through Sunday,
August 15 – Christmas Belles. Southern farce
about squabbling siblings, directed by John
VanDeWoestyne. Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
(Richmond Hill Park, Geneseo). Thursdays-
Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 4 p.m. $10. For
tickets and information, call (309)944-2244.
Thursday, August 12, through Sunday,
August 29 – Wit. A Curtainbox Theatre
Company production of Margaret Edson’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, directed by
Philip William McKinley. Village Theatre
(2113 East 11th Street, the Village of East
Davenport). Thursdays-Saturdays and
Tuesdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 3 p.m. $12-$20.
For tickets and information, call (563)322-8504
or visit TheCurtainbox.com.
Thursday, August 12, through Sunday,
Sunday, August 22 – Sunday in the Park
with George. Composer Stephen Sondheim’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about romance
and pointillism. Clinton Area Showboat
Theatre (311 Riverview Drive, Clinton).
Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays
and Wednesdays 3 p.m. $16-$20. For tickets
and information, call (563)242-6760 or visit
ClintonShowboat.org.
LITERATURE
Wednesday, August 18 – Janet Martin
Presents “Hot Flashes, Hot Pads, & Hot
Dishes: A Humorous Look at Growing
Up in the Late ’50s.” The Midwest Writing
Center hosts a program with the co-author
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of the Growing Up Lutheran books that
inspired Church Basement Ladies. Radisson
Quad City Plaza Hotel (421 West River Drive,
Davenport). Noon. $20-$22. For information
or reservations, call (563)324-1410 or visit
MidwestWritingCenter.org.
EVENTS
Friday, August 6 – Flamingo Fling. An
auction of the works in the annual Flamingo
Follies exhibit, with appetizers, a cash bar, a
raffle, and live music by the Fry Daddies. Quad
City Botanical Center (2525 Fourth Avenue,
Rock Island). 6 p.m. $10-$15. For information
and tickets, call (309)794-0991 or visit
QCGardens.com.
Thursday, August 12, through Saturday,
August 14 – 24th Annual Tug Fest. Yearly
“grudge match” festival between LeClaire,
Iowa, and Port Byron, Illinois, featuring
live music, a parade, a 5K run/walk, food,
vendors, children’s activities, a fireworks
display, Saturday’s 1 p.m. tug-of-war over
the Mississippi River, and more. Held at the
LeClaire and Port Byron levees. In Iowa:
Thursday 6 p.m. gates, Friday 4 p.m. gates,
Saturday 7 a.m. gates. In Illinois: Thursday 5
p.m. gates, Friday 3 p.m. gates, Saturday 7 a.m.
gates. $3/day. For information, call (563)289-
3946 or (309)314-0556, or visit TugFest.com.
Saturday, August 14 – Living Lands &
Waters’ Xstream Cleanup. Annual Quad
Cities-wide volunteer cleanup of creeks,
drainage ways, and sections of the Mississippi
and Rock rivers. River Action (822 East River
Drive, Davenport). 8:30-11:30 a.m. Free. For
information and to register, call (563)468-4218
or visit XstreamCleanup.org.
Sunday, August 15 – Homegrown
Iron Chef Final Showdown. Fundraiser
for Scott Community College programs
and scholarships, in which the four Market
Competition winners will prepare a dish to
be judged by two judges and visiting chef
Paul Virant, who will also offer a cooking
demonstration. Isle of Capri Convention
Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf).
11 a.m.-2 p.m. $40-$50. For tickets and
information, call (563)441-4063 or visit
RCReader.com/y/chef.
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New Way
he said.
“We really wanted a multi-modal plan – so a
plan that doesn’t just address automobile traffic
... ,” Nordahl said last week. “We really wanted
an element that addressed our transit system,
biking as transportation, as well as walking as
transportation. And also parking. We know
that you can’t give people an abundance of free
parking and expect them to ride the bus or
walk or bike.”
Davenport in Motion doesn’t make the city
cutting-edge, but it certainly puts it ahead of
the other Quad Cities. Thomas Brennan, a
principal with Nelson\Nygaard and project
manager for the Davenport in Motion
consultant team, said that if the plan were
implemented today, “you’d probably be on the
leading edge in terms of cities your size. But
given what we’re seeing around the country,
as the plan gets implemented over time, you’re
more likely to be in the mainstream.”
“We know that this is the way communities
are going to be designed,” McNeil said. “So
cities have a choice: to be on the front end in
planning – Davenport is – or be behind.”
Nordahl said he expects that the council
will approve the plan as a whole, perhaps with
some adjustments on the issues of downtown
parking and converting one-way streets to
two-ways. He said he’s hoping for passage by
the end of August, but that depends on how
quickly Nelson\Nygaard can incorporate
feedback from public meetings that were held
through August 2.
Just as McNeil was “pleasantly surprised”
by the consultant choice and the council
reception,” Brennan said Nelson\Nygaard
was “pleasantly surprised by the appetite of
the city for change” – including citizens, staff,
and the city council. “It’s often staff that does
the hiring,” Brennan said, “and it’s not terribly
uncommon that once you start working with
the community, there’s a decent amount of
resistance to a different model, or a different
approach.”
Adopting the transportation plan is just the
first step. While Davenport in Motion outlines
and prioritizes projects for 10 years, council
action will still be required on individual
projects. The city expects that some projects
can be funded through grants, and others can
be integrated into normal road maintenance.
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The remainder will likely be part of the city’s
capital-improvement budget.
On the funding question, Brennan said
Nelson\Nygaard “didn’t even try to put
together a total plan cost.”
There are several reasons for this. For one
thing, material costs are changing rapidly.
More importantly, he said, “a lot of the types
of projects that we’re recommending that
promote mode shifts are actually long-term
cost-saving measures. The most expensive
thing the city could do is continue to grow its
land development like it has the last 20 years.”
The suburban model is expensive in terms of
infrastructure and services, he said, and its
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sprawl “essentially guarantees that you won’t
be able to utilize much more cost-effective
means of transportation – like transit, like
cycling, like walking ... .”
That speaks to a larger issue: Fundamentally,
Davenport can’t change itself without also
addressing its development patterns. “You can’t
divorce land-use planning from transportation
planning,” Nordahl said. “They’re inextricably
linked. ... That is part of a much, much larger
policy discussion. ...
“The land-use patterns have to change. ... As
long as we continue to develop greenfield sites
at very, very low densities, far from where the
jobs and the core of goods and services and
our universities are, then it’s going to be tough
to see any measurable gain. That’s not just for
Davenport. That’s city-building in general.
We have to figure out how we can encourage
developers to invest in the central city and
along those streets where we tend to have high
transit use. ...
“That’s going to be difficult,” he said, and
will require willpower from the public and the
city council.
Simple Modifications
Implementing much of Davenport in
Motion, though, is relatively easy, involving
little more than paint.
“We have within our power [the ability]
to make some simple modifications to
our streets and hopefully see some great
improvements in the way people choose to
move around,” Nordahl said. “The majority
of the recommendations that they have here
involves re-striping.”
“A lot of what we’re recommending are
projects on streets that will need to be rebuilt
anyways,” Brennan said. “You’re just spending
differently.”
Nordahl said it hasn’t been decided whether
re-striping would happen as its own capital
project, or on a street-by-street basis during
normal road maintenance.
In nearly all cases, re-striping will involve
adding bike lanes. The city already added bike
lanes on Jersey Ridge Road and Marquette
Street, and those provide examples of the city’s
new bicycle-friendly approach.
“People do want to bike,” Nordahl said. “We
can encourage people to start using alternate
modes of transit if we at least provide safe,
comfortable facilities for them. ... We have a
long way to go on providing those safe and
comfortable facilities.”
Looking at all the re-striping projects in
the transportation plan, it becomes clear
that Davenport in Motion aims to create a
relatively dense network of clearly marked
bicycle routes.
It’s instructive to compare the plan’s bicycle
elements to Rock Island’s 2009 Bikeways Plan.
(See the maps on page 7.) Rock Island’s plan
outlines projects that would essentially create
four east-west bicycle routes and four north-
south ones. Basically, it’s an arterial system;
you’ll be able to get around Rock Island by
bike, but you’ll likely need to go significantly
out of your way. Davenport’s plan would create
more of a web, making travel more direct,
quicker, and safer.
In some cases in Davenport, streets would
merely have bike lanes added. In other
situations, though, the bike lanes would be
added as part of “road diets” or “complete
streets” – which involve altering traffic in
addition to painting bike lanes.
Road diets, Brennan said, are correctives to
streets designed to handle more traffic than
they’re actually carrying. Economic retraction
in recent decades, he said, has resulted in
“significantly overbuilt streets that are singular
in their purpose and have become a detraction
to safe pedestrian travel downtown and some
of your core neighborhoods like the Hilltop, as
well as a challenge for retail, street-front-level
local business.”
Road diets typically convert streets from
four lanes of automobile traffic to three –
including a center turn lane – and add bicycle
lanes.
For example, downtown streets are 55 feet
wide curb-to-curb, Nordahl said. So the plan
recommends reconfiguring most downtown
streets for one travel lane in each direction and
a turn lane (each 10 feet wide), five-foot-wide
bicycle lanes on each side, and 7.5-foot-wide
parking lanes on each side.
This configuration would make bicyclists
feel safe on city streets – both because of
dedicated bike lanes and because of slower
traffic. “Narrowing traffic lanes certainly
helps,” Nordahl explained. “Introducing
elements of surprise, like if you see a lot of
people on the street ... , that helps slow traffic
down. The presence of bicyclists tends to slow
traffic down,” as do street trees and parked
cars.
All of those things would bring downtown
streets close to being “complete streets,” which
Nordahl explained have four components: a
balance of pedestrians, bikes, and motorists;
safety; comfort; and interesting things to look
at.
And the combination of slowing traffic
down and introducing more bicycle and foot
traffic is arguably good for businesses. Drivers
and car passengers will see more storefront
businesses, and bikers and pedestrians will,
too. And that effect would be multiplied on
Third, Fourth, Harrison, and Brady streets
with two-way traffic.
Congestion Concern
There’s a cost to all of that, though: Slower
traffic can lead to congestion.
“A lot of cities around the country are
accepting very high levels of congestion in
downtowns and retail streets because they’re
realizing that very slow traffic is a benefit to
businesses,” Brennan said.
Congestion, Nordahl said, is the primary
objection he has heard to making Harrison
and Brady two-way streets. But it’s also a
concern wherever road diets are proposed.
But Nordahl said that slower-moving traffic
doesn’t necessarily mean a longer travel time;
because following distances between vehicles
are less at decreased speeds, a “slower” road
might actually move more cars.
Still, he said, “there is a perception that if
they [Harrison and Brady] go back to two-
way, it will take as long as 15 minutes to get
from Locust Street to the downtown.” Some
congestion is anticipated on Locust Street and
Central Park Avenue, he said, but “people’s
perception that it’s going to triple or quadruple
the [travel] time ... is unfounded. ... There
might be some delay, but it’s probably going to
be measured in seconds and not minutes.”
Almost by definition, though, the type of
transportation system outlined in Davenport
in Motion requires slower-moving cars, which
will sometimes translate into longer travel
times. “What they’re asking is: How much
congestion can you live with?” Nordahl said.
Even if it makes some trips five minutes
longer, McNeil argued, the benefits of this
holistic approach to transportation are worth
the cost: “To have a better community, I think
it’s worth an extra five minutes.”
Beyond the congestion and speed issues
inherent in converting one-way streets to two-
ways, the Third, Fourth, Brady, and Harrison
projects are more costly than most roadway
modifications recommended in Davenport in
Motion.
Nordahl estimated that adding the
necessary signals to Third and Fourth streets
– which is suggested as a first-year Davenport
in Motion project – would cost between $1.2
million and $1.5 million. Re-signaling the
Brady/Harrison corridor – slated for year two
or three – would cost a similar amount, he
said.
Concern about Brady and Harrison
congestion makes that project more difficult
than most of the other recommendations
– and not just at the council and community
levels.
And here you can see the tension between
traditional car-moving transportation
planning and this new way. Additional
congestion on Brady and Harrison might
be good for the community – “because it
means there’s lots of other sorts of traffic,
[and] businesses get better visibility ... ,”
Nordahl said – but the Iowa Department of
Transportation could nix it. “They’re extremely
skeptical that reverting to two-way is good,”
he said, because it’s looking at a different set of
criteria: uncongested automobile traffic versus
a roadway system geared toward business
visibility, bicyclists, and pedestrians.
The Parking Catch-22
At least the state could theoretically be
 a new approach for building transportation infrastructure in developing parts of Davenport – one
that is included in the City’s long-range planning effort for the Northwest Quadrant. The follow-
ing map shows the recommended street projects.
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in Chapter 8. The project numbers are denoted as either a downtown street project (“DS”) jeff@rcreader.com
or city-
wide street project (“S”). A full-page version of the map is included in Chapter 8.

convinced to support the conversion

Figure 4-1 Recommended Street Projects
Figure 8-4 Street Projects Davenport in Motion Recomended Street Projects
of Brady and Harrison to two-way
Project types
streets. Davenport’s downtown-parking
Downtown Street
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optimal on-street-parking usage of DS-5
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85 percent on each block – giving the DS-1 DS-4 DS-8
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GIS Data Source: City of Davenport, IA
offering free parking as a pilot project.
This was called a “right-pricing” or reducing the size of surface parking lots to ramps are dependent on parking revenue of all at an annualized rate of $360,000 since free
strategy, with the idea of finding meter rates drive on-street and ramp demand, but “we sorts for their debt service. downtown parking was instituted.
that would achieve optimal on-street usage. Funding Complete
don’t have Streetsrestrict
the ability to [significantly] According to Davenport Finance Director At that rate, Guard said, the city’s Parking
The plan was to start with free parking, identify parking even if we wanted to, because we have Alan Guard, ramp utilization including Fund would be wiped out in two years
contiguous blocks of high usage, and return
The current
too much system
of it,
” of
Nordahl funding
said. roadway
“Downtown projects RiverCenter in Iowa
event is a
parking challenge
and hourly to
meterscommunities covering such as Davenport
the ramp-debt-service shortfall. That
those areas to metered parking. But the vast that would
parking, like
we’reto create
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what we got. ... Streets
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at the state
other highways
two ramps is through
presently about urban41 areas has or
led on
some a network
aldermen to of com-
suggest uncovering
amount of parking in downtown Davenportplementary roadways. Although creating such a network can save money by avoiding expensive roadwayto boost
consultants said that we probably should have percent. To meet parking-revenue projections, downtown’s parking meters purely
rethought building those [two] ramps [that “the overall utilization of the ramps ... probably parking revenue.
meant that the right price was nothing widening projects,
opened in 2003].
highway
At the time,
funding
there was
is generally
likely needs
not
to be
available
in the 75-percent
for this range,
purpose.
in That’s counter to the Nelson\Nygaard
throughout downtown. “You keep lowering
your price until you get high utilization, butA already
currently too much
pending parking.
bill in” the Iowa House addition
would to
enact some level
an of
“Iowa revenue Complete for on-street Streets recommendations,
Act” (HF 2506). but this 1 is one example
The leg-
Free street parking affects city coffers parking ... ,
” he wrote in an e-mail. “ Offering of what might happen when the progressive,
since we do have so much parking, utilization islation would require highway projects in urban areas to accommodate “all users of the road including mo-
never meets that minimum criterion,” Nordahl in three ways: It reduces meter revenue, it free two-hour parking is like cutting off one noble ideals of Davenport in Motion meet
torists,reduces
public transit users, bicyclists,
revenue from fines, and it drives down and pedestrians of all ages
leg of a three-legged stool. The stool will fall and abilities.” The bill could help
budget and political realities. As Nordahl cities such said,
said. “So we don’t charge for it.”
Davenport in Motion recommends replacing
as Davenport fund Complete
usage of city-owned parking ramps. Streets
And those projects over.and/or
” Guard said develop
parking revenue a network has dropped of complete “It is a streets
money issue. in”two ways:
t
The bill would set up a complete streets fund to facilitate projects on secondary and municipal roads.

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t
The bill provides several criteria for roadway facilities to be exempted from the policy, including a network
of complete streets in proximity to a highway project that fulfills the purpose of the policy. This criteria
could make it cost-effective for a state DOT to allocate funding for such an alternative network of streets.
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Adams. “With any kind of catastrophic
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“I knew I’d be tired,” says Adams, “I
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“That doesn’t mean you’re never scared,”
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if it turns out I have something they’re
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Yet Adams, who describes herself as “by
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“There’s something really nice and
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and being around friends and people I
know, and watching young people have
this experience ... . I mean, there’s this
certain element that allows you to sort of
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The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featuring Jim-
mie Lee Adams -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Tony Hamilton Orchestra -Bass Street Landing
Plaza, Moline, IL
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
FRIday
2010/08/06 (Fri)
6 stone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IA
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W. Mayne
St. Blue Grass, IA
E11eventh Hour (6pm) -Poopy’s Pub & Grub,
1030 Viaduct Rd Savanna, IL
Ephraim Zenh - Mad Monks -Iowa City Yacht
Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Service
-Shannon’s Bar and Grill, 252 S State Ave
Hampton, IL
First Friday Coffeehouse (5pm) -Beadology
Iowa, 220 E Washington St Iowa City, IA
Free Moral Agents - Mija - E Sho - Nocando
-Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East Moline, IL
Friday Live @ 5: Firesale (5pm) -RME (River
Music Experience) Courtyard, 130 W. 2nd
St., Davenport, IA
Funktastic Five -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
House Arrest -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds,
2815 W. Locust St Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody Rd.
N. LeClaire, IA
Karaoke Night -The Dam View Inn, 410 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Milltown - Orangadang! -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Richie Lee -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Rooney - Deluxe Republic - Slip Silo -The Red-
Rotate the DJ w/ Chronik Solutionz -M.D.
Eric Church @ Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds – August 7
The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band
(6:30pm) -Pedestrian Plaza, Downtown
Iowa City, IA
uneXpected -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and
Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
ZZ Top -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W.
Locust St Davenport, IA
Saturday
2010/08/07 (Sat) 7 Davenport, IA
Andy Jess -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Daven-
port, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Crabby’s, 826
W. 1st Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Hi-Fi -Rieck’s Roadhouse, 916 Albany St. Erie, IL
Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche
Ave Clinton, IA
Night and Day: A Big Band Show -Orpheum
Theatre, 57 S. Kellogg St. Galesburg, IL
Open Mic Night -Coffee Dive, 226 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night -One Library, 230 W. 3rd Street
Pappa-Razzi -Beer Belly’s, 112 N College Ave
Aledo, IL
Richie Lee -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
River Prairie Minstrels (6pm) -Mojo’s (River Mu-
The Karry Outz -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
The Mercury Brothers -Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
uneXpected -Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515 78th Ave
Andalusia, IL
W900 -Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge, 4506
27th St Moline, IL
8
sunday
2010/08/08 (Sun)
Blake Shelton -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds,
2815 W. Locust St Davenport, IA
Breille -The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W. Locust
St. Davenport, IA
Crusin (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Dead Kenny G’s featuring Mike Dillon - 5 in
a Hand -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St
Iowa City, IA
Karaoke Night -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
River City Six: Music on the Levee -LeClaire
Park, River Dr & Ripley St Davenport, IA
Rootless Experience (4pm) -Blueport Junction,
6605 W River Dr Davenport, IA
Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm brunch
performance) -The Lodge Hotel, Spruce
Hills & Utica Ridge Bettendorf, IA
The Avey Brothers -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
The Five Bridges Jazz Band (10am) -Brady
Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel
Davenport, IA
The Israeli Scouts -Tri-City Jewish Center, 2715
Karaoke Night -The Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th Street Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Ellis Kell (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E Burling-
ton Iowa City, IA
tuesday
2010/08/10 (Tue) 10
Amelia White -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Blitzen Trapper - Adam H. Stephens -Gabe’s,
330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper Club,
2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Jonathan Turner (noon)
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
2nd St Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Steve McFate (6:30pm)
-Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St.
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube
Davenport, 2228 E 11th St Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ the Pena Brothers -Racer’s Edge,
936 15th Ave East Moline, IL
The Chris & Wes Show -Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Tuesday Patio Party w/ Buddy Olson (6pm)
-Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge, 4506
27th St Moline, IL
Twosdays Jam with Lojo Russo -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA

ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.

Davenport, IA
Alan Sweet & the Candymakers -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Andy Jess -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Daven-
port, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Commodore
Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Bob Log III - Pork Torta - Wolf Wars -The Mill,
120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust Davenport, IA
Smooth Groove -Jumer’s Casino & Hotel, 777
Jumer Dr. Rock Island, IL
South Pacific: In Concert -Englert Theatre, 221
East Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Sweet Country (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny
Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
The Avey Brothers -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W. Mayne
St. Blue Grass, IA
E11eventh Hour -Hook’s Pub, 318 N. 4th St.
Clinton, IA
Eric Church -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815
W. Locust St Davenport, IA
Fran Cosmo -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Gray Wolf Band -River House, 1510 River Dr.
Moline, IL
sic Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Salsa Dancing -Club Boulevard, 1801 10th
30th St. Rock Island, IL
Together We Sing (6pm) -Pearl Plaza, 208 W.
wednesday
2010/08/11 (Wed) 11
St. Moline, IL
2nd St. Muscatine, IA Dave Ellis -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Dav-
Sin City Orchestra -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny
Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) -Bass Street enport, IA
Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
Chop House, 1601 River Dr Moline, IL Lunchtime on the Plaza (11:30am) -Great
Smooth Groove -Jumer’s Casino & Hotel, 777
River Plaza, The District of the Rock Island
Jumer Dr. Rock Island, IL
South Pacific: In Concert -Englert Theatre, 221 monday
2010/08/09 (Mon) 9 Rock Island, IL
East Washington St. Iowa City, IA Dawes - Young Man -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing-
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Open Mic Night -The Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th Street Moline, IL
Social Dancing, Listening, & Fellowship (1pm)
-CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 1035 W.
Kimberly Road Davenport, IA
“Tennessee,” That Nashville Cat (noon) -
Open Mic Night (7pm) -Mojo’s (River Music
Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band -The
Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
The Chris & Wes Show -Mound Street Landing,
1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA
The Craig Bentley Trio -Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
thursday
2010/08/12 (Thu) 12
An Evening with Brenda Lee -Quad-Cities
Waterfront Convention Center, 1777 Isle
Parkway Bettendorf, IA
DJ Johnny O -Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL
DJ S.F. -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Hart to Hart DJ Service -Beer Bellies, 1704 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Irie Soundsystem w/ DJ THC -QC Zone, 1516
5th Ave Moline, IL
Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Jason Carl -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady
St. Davenport, IA
Joy Kills Sorrow -Riverside Theatre, 213 N.
Gilbert St. Iowa City, IA
Live Lunch w/ Dave Maxwell (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, 410 2nd
St Davenport, IA
RiverCity 6 (6:30pm) -Kewanee Veterans Park
Gazebo, E 2nd St Kewanee,
Seth Bradley -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Dav-
enport, IA
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The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featuring Jim-
mie Lee Adams -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
Tug Fest: Keep Off the Grass -LeClaire
Riverfront, LeClaire, IA
FRIDAY
2010/08/13 (Fri) 13
A.J. Haut (5pm) -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and
Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Commodore
Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Blue Collar Band -Edje Nightclub at
Jumer’s Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy
92 Rock Island, IL
Bones (5pm) -Clinton Riverview Bandshell,
Clinton, IA
David Zollo - Songbird -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing-
ton St. Iowa City, IA
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W. Mayne
St. Blue Grass, IA
Emily Jawoisz (6pm) -The ARTery, 1629 2nd Ave
in the District Rock Island, IL
Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Service
-Shannon’s Bar and Grill, 252 S State Ave
Hampton, IL
Five @ 5: Danika Holmes (5pm) -RME (River Mu-
sic Experience) Courtyard, Davenport, IA
Funktastic Five -Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL
Hardball -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619 34th St
Rock Island, IL
John Pena Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Karaoke Night -Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody Rd.
N. LeClaire, IA
Karaoke Night -The Dam View Inn, 410 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Kevin Presbrey -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Memphis -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Dub Dis @ Ya Maka My Weekend – August 14
Modern Mythology -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Rotate the DJ w/ Chronik Solutionz -M.D.
Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Rude Punch (12:30am) -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust Davenport, IA
Section7 (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs
BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
The Beaker Brothers (6:30pm) -Pedestrian
Plaza, Downtown Iowa City Iowa City, IA
The One Night Standards & The Old 57’s
-Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340
Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
The Recliners -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Tony Hoeppner (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music
Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Tug Fest: Corporate Rock (8pm) - Hap Hazzard
(10pm) -LeClaire Riverfront, LeClaire, IA
Tug Fest: Minus Six -Port Byron Levee, Down-
town Port Byron, IL
Ya Maka My Weekend: Jumbies (6pm)
- The Ark Band (8:15pm) - Dis N Dat
(10:15pm) - Ardie “Cuban Cohiba” Wal-
lace (11:30pm) -The District’s Plaza Stage
- East, The District Rock Island, IL
Ya Maka My Weekend: Kingly T (5pm) - Mr.
Myers (7:15pm) - Now Generation Band
(9:30pm) - Pato Banton & the Now Genera-
tion Band (11pm) -The District’s Jumer’s
Casino & Hotel Stage - West, Rock Island, IL
Saturday
2010/08/14 (Sat) 14
B2A DJ -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Daven-
port, IA
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Crabby’s, 826
W. 1st Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Blue Collar Band -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s
Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock
Island, IL
Caught in the Act -Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310 W
1st Ave Coal Valley, IL
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W.
Mayne St. Blue Grass, IA
Emily Jawoisz -The Grape Life Wine Emporium,
3402 Elmore Ave. Davenport, IA
FNR: Fine New Rebellion -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
Bettendorf, IA
Johnny Lee & the Urban Cowboy Band
-Mooney Hollow Barn, 12471 Highway 52
Green Island, IA
Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche
Ave Clinton, IA
Kevin Presbrey -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Melovine - Park Lane - Speed’s the Thing -
Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Memphis -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Natty Nation (12:30am) -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Nitrix -The Office, 305 3rd St Sherrard, IL
Open Mic Night -Coffee Dive, 226 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night -One Library, 230 W. 3rd Street
Davenport, IA
RiverCity 6 (2pm) -Davenport Public Library
- Eastern Ave. Branch, 6000 Eastern Ave.
Davenport, IA
Salsa Dancing -Club Boulevard, 1801 10th
St. Moline, IL
Section7 (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs
BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
Six to the Chest - Reelfoot Rift - X+X - Emplyfi
-Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East Moline, IL
Smooth Groove -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
Songwriters in the Round (3pm) -River Music
Experience, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
The Blackstones -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Tug Fest: Karaoke (4pm) - Spike (5pm)
- The Tailfins - The Gibbs Brothers (8pm)
-LeClaire Riverfront, LeClaire, IA
Tug Fest: Steve K’s Karaoke (4pm) - Cross-
roads (7pm) - Lynn Allen (10pm) -Port
Byron Levee, Downtown Port Byron, IL
uneXpected -Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N. Brady
St. Davenport, IA
Wylde Nept -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa
City, IA
Ya Maka My Weekend: Rude Punch (12:30pm)
- Kingly T (3:45pm) - Rebel Roots (7pm)
- Dub Dis (10:15pm) -The District’s Plaza
Stage - East, The District Rock Island, IL
Ya Maka My Weekend: The Ark Band
(1:15pm) - Natty Nation (4:30pm) - Yab-
ba Griffiths & Traxx (7:45pm) - Indika
(11pm) -The District’s Jumer’s Casino &
Hotel Stage - West, Rock Island, IL
SUNday
2010/08/15 (Sun) 15
A.J. Haut -Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East
Moline, IL
Breille -The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W. Locust
St. Davenport, IA
Concerts on the Lawn: Good Company (4pm)
-Broadway Presbyterian Church, 710 23rd St.
Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Memphis (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Polka Club of Iowa, Inc. - Eastern Chapter
Dance (1:30pm) -CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), 1035 W. Kimberly Road Daven-
port, IA
Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pm brunch
performance) -The Lodge Hotel, Spruce
Hills & Utica Ridge Bettendorf, IA
The Avey Brothers -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
The Terry Hanson Ensemble (10am) -Brady
Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel
Davenport, IA
Third Sunday Jazz Series featuring Lois De-
Loatch & Friends (6pm) -The Redstone
Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) -Bass Street
Chop House, 1601 River Dr Moline, IL
Who Cares Band (5pm) -The Captain’s Table,
4801 River Dr. Moline, IL
Wild Oatz (4pm) -Blueport Junction, 6605 W
River Dr Davenport, IA
monday
2010/08/16 (Mon) 16
Karaoke Night -The Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th Street Moline, IL
ve Music Live Music
Live Lunch w/ Ellis Kell (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E Burling-
ton Iowa City, IA
TUESDAY
2010/08/17 (Tue) 17
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper Club,
2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Steve Couch (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube
Davenport, 2228 E 11th St Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ the Pena Brothers -Racer’s Edge,
936 15th Ave East Moline, IL
The Chris & Wes Show -Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Tuesday Patio Party w/ Buddy Olson (6pm)
-Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge, 4506
27th St Moline, IL
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wednesday
2010/08/18 (Wed)
Central High School: Music on the Levee
-LeClaire Park, River Dr & Ripley St Dav-
enport, IA
Dave Ellis -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St. Dav-
enport, IA
Daytrotter Presents: The Watson Twins
- Idpyramid - Ferraby Lionheart - Tennis
-The Circa ‘21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Lunchtime on the Plaza (11:30am) -Great
River Plaza, The District of the Rock Island
Rock Island, IL
Matt Alber -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washing-
ton St. Iowa City, IA
Open Mic Night -The Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th Street Moline, IL
Social Dancing, Listening, & Fellowship (1pm)
-CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 1035 W.
Kimberly Road Davenport, IA
“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. Davenport, IA
The Craig Bentley Trio -Rascals Rock Memora-
bilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
William Fitzsimmons - Rosi Golan -The Mill,
120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
19
Thursday
2010/08/19 (Thu)
Hamell on Trial - The Lonelyhearts -The Mill,
120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Hart to Hart DJ Service -Beer Bellies, 1704 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Irie Soundsystem w/ DJ THC -QC Zone, 1516
5th Ave Moline, IL
Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Jason Carl -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady
St. Davenport, IA
Live Lunch w/ Rose ‘n’ Thorns (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, 410 2nd
St Davenport, IA
Seth Bradley -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Dav-
enport, IA
Sexy Delicious - Red Daughters - Purple As-
teroid Cadillac -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington
St. Iowa City, IA
Shaggy Wonda -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featuring Jim-
mie Lee Adams -Rascals Rock Memorabilia
Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
FRIday
2010/08/20 (Fri) 20
ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Matt Alber @ Englert Theatre – August 18
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Commodore
Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Cosmic -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St
Davenport, IA
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W. Mayne
St. Blue Grass, IA
Fat Dawgs Productions Karaoke & DJ Service
-Shannon’s Bar and Grill, 252 S State Ave
Hampton, IL
Funk Syndicate -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Golden Tones (6:30pm) -CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 1035 W. Kimberly Road
Davenport, IA
Gray Wolf Band -Len Brown’s North Shore Inn,
7th Street and the Rock River Moline, IL
Just Chords -Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St. Dav-
enport, IA
Karaoke Night -Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody Rd.
N. LeClaire, IA
Karaoke Night -The Dam View Inn, 410 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Lee Blackmon & The Gamblers (6:30pm)
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
St Davenport, IA
Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Neutral Uke Hotel - Golden Bloom - The
Motion Sick -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
NINE-1-1 -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino
and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran Church
- Rock Island, 1600 20th St. Rock Island, IL
Phyllis & the Sharks -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
River Roots Live B Stage: 500 Miles to
Memphis (6:30pm) - Cory Chisel & the
Wandering Sons (8:30pm) - Backyard
Tire Fire (10:50pm) -LeClaire Park, River
Dr & Ripley St Davenport, IA
River Roots Live Main Stage: Lojo Russo
(5:30pm) - The Right Now (7:30pm) - The
Marshall Tucker Band (9:30pm) -LeClaire
Park, River Dr & Ripley St Davenport, IA
Rotate the DJ w/ Chronik Solutionz -M.D.
Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) -The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust Davenport, IA
Scorpions - Dokken -i wireless Center, 1201
River Dr Moline, IL
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Shame Train - Old Man -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Spatterdash -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and
Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Steady Rollin’ Blues Band -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Sweet Country (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny
Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
The Funnies -Jesse’s Saloon, 803 1st Ave.
Silvis, IL
The Goddamn Gallows - The Afterdarks
- The Krank Daddies -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Lower Dens featuring Jana Hunter -The
Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
The Shawn Kellerman Band -Rascals Rock
Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Saturday
2010/08/21 (Sat) 21
A.J. Haut -Downtown East Moline, East Mo-
line, IL
Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Crabby’s, 826
W. 1st Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Caught in the Act -Jimmie Lee’s, 108 S. Main
St. Port Byron, IL
Con Queso - The Blood Beats -The Mill, 120 E
Burlington Iowa City, IA
DJ Night -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W.
Mayne St. Blue Grass, IA
Funk Syndicate -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Funktastic Five -Rascals Rock Memorabilia Bar,
1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Gray Wolf Band -Len Brown’s North Shore Inn,
7th Street and the Rock River Moline, IL
HI-FI -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s Casino and
Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock Island, IL
House Arrest -Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W.
Mayne St. Blue Grass, IA
John Resch and Detroit Blues -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Justin Morrissey -Martini’s On the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
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Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche
Ave Clinton, IA
NINE-1-1 -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill,
2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Nitrix -City Limits Pay Station, 1303 10th Ave.
Viola, IL
Open Mic Night -Coffee Dive, 226 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night -One Library, 230 W. 3rd Street
Davenport, IA
Pappa-Razzi -Beer Belly’s, 112 N College Ave
Aledo, IL
PB & the Jam - Smashing Pumpkins Tribute w/
Smashed Pumpkins -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
River Roots Live B Stage: Jimmy Riches
(noon) - Milltown (1pm) - Mondo Drag
(3pm) - Treologic (5pm) - The Diplomats
of Solid Sound (7pm) - Jonathan Tyler &
the Northern Lights (9:30pm) - -LeClaire
Park, River Dr & Ripley St Davenport, IA
River Roots Live Main Stage: Bumper Crop (2pm)
- Tim Stop Trio (4pm) - 56 Hope Road (6pm) -
Creedence Clearwater Revisited (8pm) - Grace
Potter & the Nocturnals (10:30pm) -LeClaire
Park, River Dr & Ripley St Davenport, IA
Salsa Dancing -Club Boulevard, 1801 10th
St. Moline, IL
Smooth Groove -River House, 1510 River Dr.
Moline, IL
The Afterdarks -Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds,
2815 W. Locust St Davenport, IA
The Karry Outz -Greenbriar Restaurant and
Lounge, 4506 27th St Moline, IL
The Warmth - Chico Fellini -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Wheelers - Nebula Was - The Post Mor-
tems -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa
City, IA
Theresa Gibbs Benefit: Wicked Liz & the
Bellyswirls - Lonnie & Ray - Ryan & Gibbs
- Larry Boyd - Gray Wolf Band (4pm) -Len
Brown’s North Shore Inn, 7th Street and the
Rock River Moline, IL
uneXpected -Gambino’s Place, 1500 13th St.
East Moline, IL
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