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What Makes You a Good, Loyal American?
T
homas E. Woods Jr.’s recent Nullification:
How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st
Century is a must-read book to understand
what is at stake for each of us in the states,
and what we the people can do to restore our
constitutionally protected liberties.
But before we can restore anything, we must
first be clear about what is lost, and how we lost
it. In Chapter 4, “What Is (or Are) the United
States, Anyway?” Woods opens with a fascinating
inquiry: “Was the United States created by a
group of independent political societies that
established a federal government as their agent,
reserving all undelegated powers to themselves?
Or was the United States the creation of a single,
undifferentiated American people?”
Woods asserts that the federal government was
created by America’s original 13 colonies, operating
as separate and distinct states, which established
a compact, known as the Constitution for the
United States of America, for dealing with foreign
nations, common defense when necessary, and
commerce between the 13 chartered states.
History, when studied in earnest, reveals that
the various states’ ratification documents accepting
the Constitution emphasized one dominant,
overarching principle: Powers not specifically
enumerated to the federal government in the
Constitution are automatically retained by the
individual states. No exceptions.
Over time, the federal government has sought
to expand its powers, systematically usurping

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authority from the 50 united states, treating them
as one central body instead of the 50 distinct self-
governing entities that they are and always have
been.
According to Woods, the record shows that
the states have the right, and the duty, to nullify
unconstitutional laws. States have the right to
declare such laws void, and need not obey them
as such. This is so critical, and fundamental, to the
preservation of America’s constitutional republic.
Without this tool of nullification, the federal
government is unstoppable in its quest for more
power, not stopping until it dominates every aspect
of our personal lives.
The means by which the federal government
has usurped power so far rests in the blatantly
improper use of three clauses in the Constitution:
the “Commerce” clause, the “General Welfare”
clause, and the “Necessary & Proper” clause.
Thanks to power-hungry legislatures, regulatory
agencies, and the courts, extremely inappropriate
application of these three clauses continues to
undermine the states’ compacts’ constitutional
structure.
The Commerce clause in the 14th Amendment
declares that Congress shall “regulate Commerce
with foreign nations and among the several States,
and with the Indian Tribes.” The term “regulate”
back then meant literally to “make regular trade
or exchange,” not “all gainful activity,” as the
usurpers have asserted since. “Among the States”
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meant precisely what it says – trade or exchange
between one state and another – not commerce
that might have an “effect” on another state. This
interpretation has allowed for countless abuses
of our rights under the Constitution, using the
Commerce clause to create the “substantial
effects rule” that allows the federal government to
regulate/control any activity that has an “effect” on
something.
At the core of this legal manipulation is access
to and control of individual wealth and resources.
For example, again in Chapter 4: “In Wickard V.
Filburn (1942), the court ruled that the federal
government could regulate the amount of wheat
grown on an individual’s farm even though the
wheat never left the state, and the farmer and his
livestock consumed it themselves. Had they not
grown and consumed that wheat, the argument
went, they might have purchased it from another
state, and hence their abstention from this
commerce indirectly affected interstate commerce.”
According to Woods, this absurd ruling is the
foundation of how control began to pass to the
federal government and away from the states
and its peoples. This open dismissal of the very
document that defines the conduct of the states is
the ultimate insult to Americans, yet we mostly sit
idly by because we claim not to know what to do
about all this corruption.
Nullification is how individual states have
rendered void such ridiculous federal legislation.
It is an absolutely viable, completely peaceful,
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and 100-percent lawful solution. Nullification
is something we the people can insist on in our
state legislatures, in our counties, and in our
municipalities.
Woods points out that two dozen states nullified
the REAL ID Act of 2005, which was opposed
for its unfunded federal mandate imposed on the
states and its violations of personal privacy. And
despite a Supreme Court ruling regarding medical
marijuana, many states such as California, Arizona,
and Colorado ignore such rulings, opting for the
boon to their revenue coffers.
Nullification has been used, as Woods’ book
illustrates, many times in history, and until
recently was nearly a forgotten measure. The
book is hopeful that nullification will not be a
casualty of this republic that was once made up
of participating self-governing states and has now
deteriorated into a democracy (a word that appears
in no founding documents or state constitutions)
governing simply by one more than a majority – or
mob rules.
Woods draws the line in Chapter 5,
“Nullification Today,” with this query: “Now the
question remains: Can the honorable if moribund
tradition of state resistance to unconstitutional
federal power be resuscitated, or are Americans
too deeply in thrall to the myth that unlimited
submission to federal authority is the only course
available to them, and is what makes them good
and loyal Americans?”
Well, what say you?
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Despite the Political Fallout,
Legislators Relieved at Tax Hike
W
hether they admitted it or not,
a large majority of Statehouse
denizens was relieved last week
when the General Assembly approved the
income-tax hike.
Ironically enough, Republicans might
have been the happiest. The state’s horrific
structural deficit was finally addressed, which
is good news all around. And since they
didn’t put any votes on the tax-hike bill, the
Republicans now get to use it as a wicked
political hammer against the Democrats.
Their silent but tacit consent came late
in the evening when several Republicans,
including the Senate GOP leader, joined the
Senate Democrats to support a borrowing
plan to make the state’s pension payments this
year. The Republicans wouldn’t put votes on
the bill last spring until they got some budget
reforms. But now
that the $3.7-billion
borrowing plan was
paid for with a tax History may eventually
hike, they explained
they could now go look kindly on what the
along.
House Republicans Democrats did last week.
offered up their
own version of tacit But the foreseeable future
acceptance shortly
before the tax hike is going to be absolutely
was approved in their
chamber. They took brutal.
what amounted to a
rare “caucus position”
against putting any votes on Governor Pat
Quinn’s $14-billion bond program to pay
off old debts, but afterward privately said
they would likely agree to the plan down
the road, as soon as they could extract some
concessions from Democrats. The tax-hike
proposal, of course, includes designated cash
to pay off those $14 billion in bonds.
And while there was relief and even elation
in the building after the tax hike finally passed,
the tax hike is definitely causing an uproar
among the general populace.
It is, in a way, a bit like the federal health-
care legislation. Like President Barack Obama,
Quinn would’ve been badly hobbled at the
Capitol if his tax hike had failed – undoubtedly
even worse, since no new revenues would’ve
resulted in catastrophic budget cuts.
But also like Obama, Quinn and legislative
Democrats will pay a steep political price for
passing a very big plan without a clear popular
mandate. Again, it will likely be worse for
Illinois Democrats, because most people tell
pollsters they actually like individual pieces
of that federal health-care law. Not many are
gonna love any part of this tax hike.
History may eventually look kindly on
what the Democrats did last week. But the
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foreseeable future is going to be absolutely
brutal.
There has also been much consternation
about the “temporary” nature of this tax
hike. For some reason or another, Illinois
memories only go back to 1989, when the
last “temporary” income-tax increase was
approved. That one never went away, goes the
reasoning, and neither will this one.
That previous temporary tax hike was made
permanent after the 1990 election. Republican
Jim Edgar campaigned for governor on a
pledge to make it permanent. Democrat Neil
Hartigan said he would kill off the income-tax
hike. Edgar won, and he got what he, and the
voters, wanted.
But income taxes were also raised
temporarily in 1983, during a deep, dark
recession. That tax increase was even more
controversial
than this one
because it came
after an election
when Republican
Governor Jim
Thompson had
promised not to
raise the income tax
at all. It was allowed
to expire on its own.
There is no doubt
that the planned
2015 expiration
of most of this tax
hike will be the
prime focus of the 2014 governor’s race. It’s
probably a good bet that the permanency of
the increase will likely be decided by whoever
wins the next governor’s race. Just like it was
in 1990.
Even so, voters last year thought they were
electing a guy who backed just a one-point tax
hike. Quinn said last week that conversations
over the past couple of months with financial
institutions that lend the state money led
him to break his campaign promise on taxes.
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The state’s ability to borrow was about to be
eclipsed, Quinn said.
Last summer, Quinn promised not to sign
any tax hike above one percentage point. He
made that pledge after his top budget aides
were caught on video telling an out-of-state
financial reporter that a two-percentage-point
increase would likely be passed in January
to deal with the structural deficit. It’s hardly
believable, therefore, that the governor came
to this realization just since the election.
If Quinn runs again, he’ll probably have to
put his house up as collateral against his new
promises.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily
political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com. 

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Late Budget Cuts from Culver
Impact Community Colleges,
Human Services
B
efore leaving office last week, Governor
Chet Culver stood firm and refused to
change the implementation of $83.7
million in “efficiency savings” he announced
on January 3, despite being asked by a number
of parties to change the cuts slated for human
services and community colleges.
“We have every confidence that the
legislature, working with the incoming
administration, will work together to formulate
changes they may determine are necessary,”
Culver said. “Fortunately, with our large
ending balance and reserve funds, they will
have any resources they will need to make
those adjustments. Our decisions regarding the
savings were not easy ones, but we believe they
were the right ones.”
Culver noted that he was leaving office with
an estimated general-fund ending balance
of more than $514 million this fiscal year,
which he said provides adequate resources for
supplemental appropriations for community
colleges and other programs.
The Iowa Department of Human Services
(DHS) would eliminate 188 full-time positions
between now and June, including 136 that are
currently filled, under one option for cutting
$27.3 million ordered by Culver under the
state’s government-reorganization and
-efficiency efforts.
“It’s unfortunate that my tenure comes to
a close with news like this,” outgoing DHS
Director Charlie Krogmeier said in a memo to
his staff.
The department was expecting to have to
come up with $14 million in savings, but found
out that its share is actually $27.3 million
– about 9 percent of its budget.
The plan for cuts would “decimate” rural
communities, said Danny Homan, president of
AFSCME Iowa Council 61.
“I cannot stress enough how extremely
disappointed we are with the Department of
Human Services’ plan to eliminate hundreds
of full-time positions at our state’s DHS
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institutions,” Homan said. “These proposed
cuts would decimate our rural communities,
as well as services to our seniors, kids, and
mentally disabled.”
Krogmeier outlined what he called sobering
and painful options for making the cuts with
DHS workers, the Iowa Council on Human
Services, and incoming Director Chuck
Palmer.
“We have been anticipating a reduction
and have been managing to live within what
we knew would be fewer resources,” he said.
“The general strategy has been to delay filling
approved positions, as many of you with
growing caseloads can painfully attest. The size
of the DHS reduction exceeded our estimates.
Finding these additional savings in already-
reduced budgets is all the more challenging

by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com
with just five months remaining in the fiscal
year. But the money has already been removed
from our budget, and we are required to take
additional action.”
An unexpected $6 million will be cut from
Iowa’s community colleges this fiscal year
under reductions ordered by Culver.
News of the reduction came January 12,
just hours after Senate President Jack Kibbie
and Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal
outlined their plan to create jobs by adding
more resources for Iowa’s community colleges.
House Advances
Budget-Cutting Bill as
Democrats Rally for
State-Funded Preschool
The bill cutting $544.7 million from the
state budget over three years cleared its first
legislative hurdle January 12 when the House
Appropriations Committee approved the bill
on a party-line 15-10 vote.
“This puts the taxpayer first,” said
Representative Nick Wagner (R-Marion), the
bill’s floor manager. “This is the first step in
aligning spending with revenues.”
Efforts by Democrats to prevent the
elimination of the state-funded voluntary-
preschool program for four-year-olds as
well as smoking-cessation efforts such as
Just Eliminate Lies and Quitline Iowa failed
January 12 on 15-10, party-line votes.
Representative Cindy Winckler (D-
Davenport), an educational consultant, said
21,354 four-year-olds are enrolled this fall in
326 state-funded preschool programs with
licensed teachers.
“This is not babysitting,” Winckler said.
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T
here are breakup songs and breakup
albums, and then there’s Fitz & the
Tantrums – a breakup band.
Singer/songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick
will be bringing his soul six-piece to the
Redstone Room on February 7, and the
group’s music is as infectious as its origin
story is serendipitous. Esquire last year
named Fitz & the Tantrums one of its “10
SXSW Bands to Add to Your iPod Now,”
and that’s just one of the accolades the band
has acquired in its two-year existence.
After a difficult breakup, Fitzpatrick and
his ex had a no-talking moratorium. But
one day she called and left a
message about a neighbor
who had to unload an old
Conn organ and was selling it
for $50, he recalled in a
phone interview earlier
this month.
“I literally had four or
five hours to find people
to move it out that day,”
he said, or the landlord
was going to throw it
away. “I finally found
these slightly shady
Russian piano-mover
dudes to move it in. ...
It takes up about half my
living room.”
Fitzpatrick was an
assistant engineer in
the studio of Mickey Petralia (who
has worked with Beck, Eels, and
Flight of the Conchords, among others) and
had studied songs – particularly old soul
records. A career as a performer, he said,
“had always been a dream of mine, but I
didn’t know if it would ever happen.” (In
an industry that prizes youth, Fitzpatrick
is getting a late start; he’s in his
mid-30s.)
When that organ came
into his life (and
house) more than
two years ago,
it was a happy
accident. “I
sat down that
night and
had one of
those magical
music
moments, where
the song writes
itself,” he said.
That was “Breakin’ the
Chains of Love” – the lead track on
the band’s debut full-length, Pickin’ Up
the Pieces – and it emerged in five minutes.
“I’m still waiting for another one of those
moments,” Fitzpatrick said.
Beyond that instant inspiration, Fitz &
the Tantrums is a result of a natural musical
chemistry and plenty of good luck. The
band had played all of eight shows before
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the Redstone Room
going out on the road with Flogging Molly,
and its 10th show was at the Red Rocks
Ampitheatre in Colorado. Another tour
happened because a tattoo artist in New
York was playing Fitz & the Tantrums’ EP
when Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was getting
inked.
But it all began with the organ.
“The organ was so inspiring to
me because it just had so much
personality to it,” Fitzpatrick
explained, and that character
combined with his breakup
was alchemic. “I definitely
had stuff to say at that
moment. ...
“For me as a vocalist, also, it was
the first time ... after a whole lifetime of
singing that I’d finally found what was
my authentic, natural voice.”
Fitzpatrick initially envisioned a
solo project and played his first few
recordings for friend and saxophonist
James King. They decided to put a
band together with a few stylistic
rules: It needed horns, there had to be a
female vocalist to pair with Fitzpatrick,
and there wouldn’t be any electric guitar.
“We made five phone calls, and that’s the
band that we have,” Fitzpatrick said. “We
went into rehearsal, and we could have
gone and played a show that night. ... It just
clicked.”
Soul appealed to Fitzpatrick because of
its songwriting and harmonies, and “as
a studio nerd, I was obsessed with
the way those [old] records sounded.
They’re so unique, and they’re not
technically correct but they
have so much personality
to them.”
An emphasis on
studio perfection, he
said, has robbed much
music of something
essential: “People are
thirsty for some kind of
authenticity.”
So the band’s first release (the
EP Songs for a Breakup, Volume
1) and Pickin’ Up the Pieces were
recorded in his living room
– even after Dangerbird
Records signed Fitz & the
Tantrums for that full-length.
Fitzpatrick’s primary technique
GRABBER
was to fiddle little with the setup: He kept
the instruments far away from his mic for a
roomier sound, and he employed just a few
EQ settings.
He said his studio time taught him that
“just because it [tweaking] is satisfying
your OCD doesn’t mean it’s helping the
music.” The hands-off approach
to recording “lets it be a more
human experience, and it sort
of counterbalances the sterile
nature of what the digital world
is.”
But Fitzpatrick emphasized
that the band doesn’t want
to simply ape old recordings.
“I didn’t want to ... make a
record that was just a pure
pastiche or a carbon copy
of that era,” he said, “but I
definitely wanted to use it
as a major jumping-off point,
and say: Can we continue the
dialogue of what this genre of
music is and put a modern twist on
what soul music is?”
Based on the attention and praise
the band has received, the answer
is “yes.” Fitz & the Tantrums’ full-length
debut has spent 10 weeks on Billboard’s
“heatseekers” album chart – peaking at
number 20 – and critics have largely been
enchanted.
DJ Eric J. Lawrence of taste-maker
radio station KCRW wrote that
the band’s songs “manage to
sound both cutting-edge
and timeless at the same
time, echoing a range
of artists from
Tom Jones, David
Ruffin, Daryl
Hall, and Raphael
Saadiq. But the
group is not
just a big soul
voice – the band,
anchored by the
catchy interplay
between organ, sax,
bass, and drums, is sharp and
funky, featuring players having
previously worked with Macy
Gray, De La Soul, and others.
And backup singer Noelle
Scaggs is much more than just
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a mere backup; she’s a force all her own,
expertly trading riffs with Fitz.”
Pop & Hiss, the L.A. Times’ music blog,
said the band “makes brash ’60s-style
pop that clearly derives from artists like
the Temptations, but singer/bandleader
Michael Fitzpatrick brings his own punky
attitude into the room and makes the sound
fresh.”
And Spin enthused (in a review subtitled
“The ’60s Shtick Is Thick, but the Yacht
Rocks on”): “Many recent students of old-
school soul get the rhythms and vibe right,
but what sets Michael Fitzpatrick and
his L.A. crew apart is their
mastery of Motown-esque
melodies. Guitar-less but
heavy on the organ, sax, and
hands-to-the-heavens claps,
this home-recorded
debut swings like demos
of actual ’60s hits.”
Any person’s
journey with Fitz
& the Tantrums
should start with
“MoneyGrabber” and
its diamond of a chorus;
it feels like it’s been part
of the pop/soul canon
forever. But it’s hardly
alone on Pickin’ Up the
Pieces, nearly matched
by “Breakin’ the Chains
of Love” – the spark that lit this fire – and a
handful of slightly lesser gems. Fitzpatrick
and his crew lodge into your consciousness,
and that’s a function of writing and
performance – not merely mimicking a
genre or an era.
“I’m always trying to write a great song,”
Fitzpatrick said, and he added that this
band came along when he’d
had sufficient technical
and life education: “It just
happened when I was
finally ready and had
learned ... .”
Fitz & the
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Tantrums
will
perform on
Monday,
February 7, at the
Redstone Room
(129 Main Street
in Davenport).
The show starts at 7:30
p.m., and the bill also
includes Bermuda Report.
Tickets are $10 and available
from RedstoneRoom.com.
For more information on Fitz &
the Tantrums, visit FitzAndTheTantrums.
com, Myspace.com/fitzandthetantrums, or
Facebook.com/fitzandthetantrums. 
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“I don’t think I’ll ever record any other way
Ramsey persuaded him to try something Street in Davenport). The show starts at
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singing, there are few apparent rough
microscope too much.” visit ErnieHendrickson.com or MySpace.
edges. The tone of his voice can bear an
Ramsey is a “man of few words,” com/erniehendrickson.
uncanny resemblance to Tom Petty’s, but
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by Mike Schulz • mike@rcreader.com

Cheat of the Moment

THE DILEMMA turn as the heavily tattooed Other Man is eventually
sacrificed to moist-eyed melancholy. I entered The
Leaving a screening of The Dilemma, a friend
Dilemma half-happy that Ron Howard was taking
sitting several rows away caught up with me, and
a break from the weighty works he’s been foisting
asked if the film we just saw would likely make my list
on us of late, but it appears that the man might now
of the year’s worst movies. I can’t tell you how much
be incapable of directing without potential Oscars
I’m hoping it will, because if not, 2011 is going to be
dancing in his head.
positively excruciating.
Only Winona Ryder, as James’ wife, manages to
Because it’s being
wholly transcend
distributed in mid-
the film. Giving
January despite
a fiercely honest,
having acclaimed
incisive performance
director Ron Howard
that hints at just
at the helm (even if
what we’ve been
prefacing “director
missing in the
Ron Howard” with
decade since Ryder
“acclaimed” always
fell out of public
makes me giggle a
favor, the actress has
little), you’d be right
a couple of scenes
in presuming that Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Vince with Vaughn that
this bro-mantic Vaughn, and Kevin James in The Dilemma are remarkable for
comedy with Vince
their artless rawness
Vaughn and Kevin James must be a real dog. Yet
and emotional complexity; playing the movie’s most
while I certainly endured worse over the past 12
unsympathetic character, Ryder was the only one here
months, I can’t think of the last movie I sat through
I really liked. (I wanted to applaud the diner scene
that, from scene to scene, was as achingly confused
in which she demanded that Vaughn mind his own
and tonally off as The Dilemma; not only is Howard’s
business, as the force of her incensed dignity actually
latest unfunny, but it’s freakishly difficult to determine
made him briefly stop his incessant nattering.) Ryder
when the film is trying to be funny.
aside, though, The Dilemma is an unholy mess, and
Given the omnipresent, and disgracefully
a worse one for luring crowds with the suggestion
misleading, trailers, I’m guessing you know the hook:
of hilarity while delivering practically nothing but
Vaughn discovers that the wife of BFF James is being
schmaltz. The movie may concern adultery, but it’s the
unfaithful, and endures a crisis of conscience (plus
film’s promotion that’s the real cheat.
numerous slapstick mishaps) while deciding whether
to break the bad news to his chum. It’s a perfectly
acceptable, if tired, formula, but in agreeing to direct THE GREEN HORNET
Allan Loeb’s comic screenplay, did Howard somehow Portraying the title character in The Green Hornet,
think he was actually remaking Ingmar Bergman’s Seth Rogen is aggressively irritating. Granted, nearly
Scenes from a Marriage? One sequence after another everything about director Michel Gondry’s action
climaxes with Vaughn so burdened by the weight of comedy is: the smart-ass, self-referential humor
the betrayal that he either explodes with vociferous that continually shoves its faux cleverness down
anger or nearly collapses in sobs, and these bursts of your throat; the tedious “irony” of Rogen’s masked
emotion are grossly incongruous with the script’s easy anti-hero being constantly one-upped by assistant
jokes and sitcom contrivances; during one scene of Kato (Jay Chou); the depressing waste of supporting
a tearful Vaughn praying for guidance while sitting talents – Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Edward
at a bus stop, you almost want to hide your face in James Olmos, David Harbour, Tom Wilkinson
embarrassment. – who look miserably ashamed to be there. (Only
Movie audiences are frequently asked to laugh at

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James Franco, in an early, amusing cameo, looks to
characters’ pain, as some do during Vaughn’s “riotous” be having any fun.) But it’s Rogen, who co-scripted
encounter with poisonous flora (and, as ever, Ron’s with Superbad collaborator Evan Goldberg, that
brother Clint). Howard, however, asks you to weep for single-handedly turns what should’ve been routinely
poor, tortured Vaughn, and for poor, clueless James, uninspired wannabe-blockbuster noise into an
and for the toll that the titular dilemma is taking on experience that borders on the unwatchable, or at
their friendship, and the misguided sincerity of it all least unlistenable. Barking his lines with absolutely
is tough to stomach. Similar errors of judgment are no variance or authority, the actor’s frat-boy
made with the divinely beautiful Jennifer Connelly, antics and hissy-fit petulance are unwaveringly
who portrays Vaughn’s girlfriend as if re-auditioning monotonous here, and the ear-splitting mayhem
for Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, and with Amy on the soundtrack just forces Rogen to bellow
Morton, whose role as Vaughn’s sister comes off as all the louder; he’s the first crime-fighter who
almost staggeringly misconceived. (Her introduction could conceivably get villains to surrender just by
– in which she completely misinterprets her brother’s threatening to read them their Miranda rights.
phone call – should be played for broad laughs, but is
instead directed as if out of O’Neill.) Even Channing For Mike’s predictions for this year’s Academy
Tatum, in a beyond-senseless part, falls victim to the Award nominees, visit RCReader.com/
soul-crushing earnestness; his game, physically witty y/2011Oscarnompredix.
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Dance Exhibit Music

“Critical Accla
and perhaps e
days of Sound
Max Pollak & RumbaTap Team Up! Explore Avenged Sevenfold Walking the F
Galvin Fine Arts Center i wireless Center But just how
Science & Sports the rockers’ ou
Saturday, January 29, 7:30 p.m. Family Museum Tuesday, February 1, 6:30 p.m. determining w
heard in whic
D escribed by the New Saturday, January 22, through
York Times as “wittily Sunday, May 8 1) “Everyw
phrased,” “groundbreaking,” surrounds us.”
and “essentially a full-
bodied experience,” the
Reader’s What’s Happenin’
K nowing me as you do,
which area would you guess I
was weaker in as a child: science,
pitching booth, and “Get in the
Game” employs virtual reality
to explore the science behind
A) “Critica
B) “Lost”
C) “Gunslin
pages are ... . or sports? volleyball, soccer, and downhill
Fine. Those Times That’s right – science. Which skiing. “Sweet Spot” teaches 2) “Doc, I’m
quotes aren’t in reference is why the latest exhibit at the children about trajectories by compromised
to the What’s Happenin’ Family Museum would’ve been so having them shoot marble-sized A) “Scream
pages. I can’t get anything beneficial when I was a ... . basketballs through a miniature B) “Afterlife
past you, can I? What do you mean, you hoop, while the science behind C) “Bromp
But they are in reference to the latest area guests in Quad City Arts’ guessed “sports”? So just because gymnastics is studied in the
Visiting Artist series: the gifted hoofers and musicians of Max Pollak & I’m into movies and theatre, I balance-beam and pommel-horse 3) “My han
RumbaTap. Appearing at St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center can’t be good at sports?!? Why, of exhibit “Balancing Acts.” to ignite.”
on January 29, this acclaimed ensemble will wow crowds with its unique, all the ... ! Never mind. “Inside Scoop” reveals the A) “Bat Co
exhilarating blend of Latin and jazz rhythms, and will do so, in part, with the
aid of an instrument that we all have immediate access to: the human body.
Conceived by dancer/choreographer Pollak, a native Austrian who was
Whether your children are
novices or already budding pros
at either of these fields, you
construction methods and
materials used in today’s high-
tech sports equipment. “Bounce
T he California-based metalcore
rockers of Avenged Sevenfold play
the i wireless Center on February 1, and
B) “Trashed
C) “Beast &
named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch in 2007,” RumbaTap is a can be sure that they’ll enjoy Pass” challenges kids to create the the group’s members include lead vocalist 4) “A bullet
high-energy melding of Afro-Cuban stylings, American jazz, and tap, with the latest traveling exhibition right bounce to pass a basketball M. Shadows, bassist Johnny Christ, lead skull, a friend
live music played by Paul Carlon’s Latin-jazz quartet Grupo Los Santos. The at the Bettendorf venue: Team past a barrier to a virtual guitarist Synyster Gates, and rhythm silenced me.”
resulting stage explosion has led to Max Pollak & RumbaTap performing Up! Explore Science & Sports. “teammate.” And in “Ricochet guitarist Zacky Vengeance. Anyone else A) “We Com
in such noted venues as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Providing an exciting, hands- Racket,” Family Museum wanna bet they don’t open their Moline B) “The Wi
Smithsonian Institute, while the artists’ tours have found them, over the on look at the many scientific participants adjust the angle of an gig with “Walkin’ on Sunshine”? C) “Radian
past several years, traveling through Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland, and principles in athletics, the oversize racket in an effort to hit Chances are excellent, though, that you
Germany. museum’s new interactive a target with tennis balls. Man, an will be treated to a great many ass-kicking Avenged Se
Yet the ensemble’s true claim to international fame comes from their experience will allow visitors to oversize tennis racket would’ve recent releases, including those from the openers Stone
spirited employment of body percussion, as group members also use their test their skills at, and knowledge come so in handy when I was band’s latest studio CD, Nightmare, which and New Med
hips, shoulders, arms, thighs, palms, and mouths to create an altogether in, such sports as football, trying to ... . debuted at number one on Billboard’s reserved by ca
extraordinary rhythmic experience. The Dance Insider wrote that the group’s baseball, basketball, tennis, and Science! Science! Really, I was album chart, and also immediately visiting iwirel
performances were “a stylistically satisfying blend of polyrhythms and even snowboarding, all of which awesome at sports!!! topped Billboard’s rock, hard-rock, and
percussive landscapes.” And with The New Yorker calling them “pulsing” and will be brought to life through Oh, forget it. Entry to Team Up! digital charts. Additionally, you’re sure
“virtuosic,” it’s obvious that the What’s Happenin’ pages are ... . more than a dozen interactive Explore Science & Sports is free to hear favorites from the group’s City
Caught me again. Man, you’re on the ball today! exhibits. with $4-6 museum admission, of Evil CD (which spawned the smash
Tickets to Max Pollak & RumbaTap’s St. Ambrose performance are In “How Fast Was That Pitch?”, and more information is available singles “Beast & the Harlot” and “Bat
s? It ain’t
available by calling (563)333-7251; more information on the group is available kids can measure the speed of by calling (563)344-4106 or Country”) and Avenged Sevenfold’s self-
– C.
by visiting QuadCityArts.com. their throws in a radar-equipped visiting FamilyMuseum.org. titled 2007 album (which scored hits with
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aim” and “Almost Easy”),
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Comedy
Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play
Circa ’21 Speakeasy
Thursday, January 27, 7 & 9:30 p.m.
P
erformances of Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play
are at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on January 27, and tickets are
available by calling (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visiting
Circa21.com.
I’m beginning with that information because, in the spirit of
this hysterical comedy/drinking experience, I thought I’d down
a shot after each paragraph I type. Better to play it safe, I figure.
Taking place in the Circa ’21 Speakeasy venue located right
next door to the Rock Island playhouse, Bye Bye Liver is the
long-running show that blends outrageous skits, all focused on
the pleasures and perils of the bottle, with audience interaction
– specifically, a continuous series of drinking games that pit
males versus females, and the show’s actors versus their crowds.
Theatre
Metamorphoses
Augustana College
Friday, January 28, through Sunday,
February 6
“H ey, Mike. For our next issue,
I’d like you to write a What’s
Happenin’ piece on Augustana
College’s new production of Metamorphoses, running in the
Potter Hall theatre January 28 through February 6.”
“Sure, Jeff. Whatever.”
“Um ... you know about the play, right?”
“Yup.”
“Okay, well ... good. Because it sounds really interesting. It’s
a series of imaginative vignettes that explore the meanings of
love, life, and death, and it’s based on a classic poem by Ovid,
and the characters include King Midas and the Greek god
Bacchus and Hermes, the son of Zeus ... .”
“Mmm-hmm.”
“Apparently, it’s all wildly visual and rapturous and haunting,
A five-person cast
assumes numerous
rolls ... er, roles ... in
(sometimes literal)
blackout sketches
involving collegiate
binge-drinking, ill-
functioning lotharios,
and what really goes on
in public ladies’ rooms, while the oddience ... um, audience ...
adds to the hilarity through variations on “Never Have I Ever,”
“Guess That Song,” and other participatory challenges.
Time Out Magazine raaves that its “impossible not to have
a good time” at the perfourmance, wile the Minneapolis Star-
Tribune rote that “beer goggles aren’t required to enjoy Bye Bye
Liver.”
But why reed about the show when u kin get tikkets only $15
for fun with u friends and a lot of funny peeple but dezignated
drivers not bad idea if your gonna keep up with on-stage
shenanzigans and bee sure to bring $$$ for tips ...
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so much so that Mary Zimmerman – who also adapted
the work and is an artistic associate of Chicago’s esteemed
Goodman Theatre – won a 2002 Tony Award for her direction
the show ... .”
“Uh-huh.”
“Metamorphoses also received Tony nominations for Best
Play and Best Scenic Design. Oh, and if you’re looking to use
some quotes from reviews, TalkinBroadway.com wrote that
the show ‘infuses Ovid’s tales with a frequently modern, often
funny, and always entertaining sensibility,’ while the New York
Times called it a ‘heartfelt adaptation’ displaying ‘transporting
powers of narrative and theatrical technique.’”
“Fine.”
“What’s the problem?”
“There’s no problem.”
“You’re still upset that the production has required Potter
Hall to be outfitted with a brand-new, in-ground swimming
pool, aren’t you?”
“Thousands of dollars in tuition! Where was that swimming
pool when I was a student?!?”
Metamorphoses will be performed on Fridays and Saturdays at
7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m., and tickets are available by
calling (309)794-7306.
by Mike Schulz
Business • Politics • Arts • Culture • Now You Know • RiverCitiesReader.com
mike@rcreader.com
What Else
Is Happenin’
MUSIC
Friday, January 21 – Ernie Hendrickson
and Chicago Farmer. Concert with the noted
folk singers/songwriters. The Redstone Room
(129 Main Street, Davenport). 8:30 p.m. $8. For
tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or
visit RedstoneRoom.com.
Friday, January 21 – Whitey Morgan
& the 78’s. Concert with the honkytonk
musicians. Rock Island Brewing Company
(1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m.
$5. For information, call (309)793-4060 or
visit RIBCO.com. For an interview with Whitey
Morgan, visit RCReader.com/y/whitey.
Thursday, January 27 – Luther College
Nordic Choir. Concert performance with
the 64-member ensemble, featuring a
cappella works and pieces for choir and
organ. St. Paul Lutheran Church (2136 Brady
Street, Davenport). $10-15. For tickets and
information, call (800)458-8437 or visit
LutherTickets.com.
Friday, January 28 – Studebaker John
& the Hawks. Concert featuring the 1970s-
era, Chicago-based blues guitarist and his
ensemble. The Muddy Waters (1708 State
Street, Bettendorf). 9 p.m. Free admission.
For information, call (563)355-0655 or visit
TheMuddyWaters.com.
Friday, January 28 – RIBCO’s 2011 Battle
of the Bands. First round of the annual,
five-week competition, with three bands
performing 45-minute sets of original music.
Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second
Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. $3. For information,
call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com.
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funniness, rendering it unfunny, and jokes
more worthy of groans than chuckles. But
then John VanDeWoestyne’s Tito, the titular
tenor, and Diane Greenwood’s Maria, Tito’s
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night’s performance.
Without VanDeWoestyne and
Greenwood, in truth, Playcrafters’
presentation
of playwright
Ken Ludwig’s
mistaken-
identity story
would likely
be a rather
dull affair.
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say theirs are
the show’s
only fine
performances,
but they do
have the
strongest
relationship
dynamic
among Christopher Tracy and John VanDeWoestyne
everyone in in Lend Me a Tenor
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opera duet – the latter performed by the
aforementioned actors, who are both in
good voice, and offer pleasingly accurate
harmonies and beautiful tones.
It’s also a pleasure to hear Vincent Briley
sing, and to watch his bellhop character
jockey for Tito’s attention. Briley maintains
a bright, friendly smile throughout his
performance, and his chipper attitude
endears him to the audience. Angie Keeney,
as the ladder-climbing soprano Diana,
makes consistently odd inflection choices
on a majority of her lines, but is effectively
seductive by means of her body language.
Tom Naab
takes a
straight-laced
approach to
Saunders, the
Cleveland
Opera
Company’s
general
manager,
and delivers
his jokes in
a serious
manner that
contrasts with
the sometimes
silly, very
physical
humor
surrounding
him. And Cindy Ramos-Parmley is
impressively poised and self-assured in her
role as Julia, the take-charge chairperson of
the opera company’s board, embellishing
her performance with the fine use of her
black feather boa.
Also serving as scenic designer,
Weeks’ hotel set is inventive, with the
stage dissected into multiple rooms by
the employment of half-walls that don’t
obstruct the view of each room for (most
of) the audience. Much to my relief, Weeks
also uses actual doors and doorknobs rather
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than having her actors pantomime the
opening and closing – always a pet peeve of
mine. (Unfortunately, the hotel-room light
switch flipped by one of the performers was
not a physical one. Thankfully, though, this
miming only occurred once in the show.)
I’ve never feigned interest in farce;
improbable situations mixed with silliness
are just not to my personal taste. However,
I do like Playcrafters’ Lend Me a Tenor. And
while credit is due to Ludwig’s script, which
isn’t mere silliness – it does incorporate
some clever situations and comedic lines
– it’s Weeks and her cast, for the most part,
that truly bring it to life.
For tickets and information, call (309)762-
0330 or visit Playcrafters.com. 15
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What Else Is Happenin’
Wednesday, February 2 – The Temptations
& The Four Tops. Concert event with the
Motown legends of “It’s the Same Old Song,”“I
Can’t Help Myself,”“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” and
“My Girl.” i wireless Center (1201 River Drive,
Moline). 7 p.m. $39.50-59.50. For tickets, call
(800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.
THEATRE
Thursday, January 20 – River Readings
at Augustana: Student Members of the
Theatre Department. Staged reading of
Davenport native Susan Glaspell’s turn-of-the-
century play Trifles, with a reception following.
Augustana College’s Wallenberg Hall (3520
Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. Free.
For information, call (309)794-7231 or visit
Augustana.edu.
Thursday, January 27, through Saturday,
February 19 – I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now
Change. Musical-comedy vignettes in the
off-Broadway smash. Harrison Hilltop Theatre
(1601 Harrison Street, Davenport). Thursdays-
Saturdays 8 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. (no show
on February 6); $19-24; pay-what-you-can
performance Wednesday, February 2, at 8 p.m.;
for tickets and information, call (563)499-6371
or visit HarrisonHilltop.com.
Thursday, January 27, through Sunday,
January 30 – La Traviata. Verdi’s operatic
masterpiece, in a presentation by the Mary-
Ellen Tye Opera Theater. Englert Theatre (221
East Washington Street, Iowa City). Thursday-
Saturday 8 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. $5-20. For tickets
and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit
Englert.org.
Friday, January 28, through Sunday,
February 20 – All My Sons. Arthur Miller’s
family-drama classic. Riverside Theatre (213
North Gilbert Street, Iowa City). Thursdays-
Saturdays 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. $25-28. For
tickets and information, call (319)338-7672 or
visit RiversideTheatre.org.
DANCE
Tuesday, February 1 – Riverdance: Farewell
Performance. Thunderous celebration of Irish
music and dance in the company’s final American
tour. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street,
Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $36.50-61.50. For tickets,
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call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, January 29, 5-7 p.m.
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COMEDY
Tuesday, February 1 – Etta May. Stand-up
comedy with “The Queen of Southern Sass.”
Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). 7 p.m. $20-25. For tickets, call
(309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
EXHIBIT
Friday, January 28, through Friday,
February 25 – Augustana Sights & Sounds.
Fourth-annual exhibit featuring distinctive
photography and videography by Augustana
College students, and photography by student
artists from Quad Cities high schools. Bucktown
Center for the Arts (225 East Second Street,
Davenport). Wednesdays-Saturdays 11 a.m.-6
p.m.; final Fridays of the month 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Opening reception Friday, January 28, 6-9 p.m.
For information, call (309)794-7632 or visit
BucktownArts.com.
EVENTS
Saturday, January 22 – Havana
Daydreamin’ 2011. Seventh-annual
fundraising event hosted by the Quad
City Parrot Head Club, featuring live and
silent auctions, raffles, music by Tall Paul &
Crawdaddy, The Boat Drunks, and The Coral
Reefers, and more. Davenport RiverCenter (136
East Third Street, Davenport). 6 p.m. $20-25. For
tickets and information, e-mail info@qcph.com
or visit QCPH.com.
Friday, January 28 – WQPT-TV Champagne
on the Rocks Gala. Annual PBS fundraising
event featuring dinner, live and silent auctions,
and entertainment by Chicago-based vocalist
Larry Adams. Hotel Blackhawk (200 East Third
Street, Davenport). 6:30 p.m. $85. For tickets and
information, call (309)764-2400 or visit WQPT.org.
Friday, January 28, through Sunday,
January 30 – Eagles & Ivories Weekend.
Annual celebration of ragtime music and the
bald eagle, with eagle viewings, presentations,
performances by Ivory & Gold, Jeff & Anne
Barnhart, Danny Coots, and Red Lehr’s
Powerhoue Five, and more. Taking place at
numerous venues in Muscatine. Friday 5
p.m.-midnight; Saturday 9 a.m.-midnight;
Sunday 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. For information,
e-mail muscatinearts@yahoo.com or visit
MuscatineArtsCouncil.org.
Catich Gallery
Galvin Fine Arts Center
St. Ambrose University
http://web.sau.edu/Catich/
GALLERY HOURS
Monday – Friday, 12-5 P.M. or
by appt. at 563-209-1287
January 18 – February 25, 2011
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Let Yourself Go
All Shook Up, at the Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse through March 19
G
ood God, is the Circa ’21 Dinner
Playhouse’s All Shook Up fun. The
high energy on stage kicks into
overdrive with the first song, “Jailhouse
Rock,” and
barely lets up
as the cast
sings, dances,
and emotes its
way through
many of Elvis
Presley’s hits.
I was thrilled
with the
opening-night
performance,
and my
lingering
excitement has
me still smiling Jennifer Wiengarten and Michael Karraker in All Shook Up and I’d belly
as I write this
the day after seeing the jukebox musical.
Now I’m not exactly a fan of Elvis’ music; spunk and sarcasm. I fell for the performer’s
that is to say, I wouldn’t choose to pop one
of his albums onto a turntable of my own
free will. However, once a song of his is
playing, I find I don’t mind it, and even like with a heartfelt yearning and sadness
the familiarity a bit. And in the case of All behind her extraordinary vocals, deserves a
Shook Up, with its beautiful arrangements
and choral harmonization of Presley’s hits,
I’ve found a new admiration for the King of
Rock & Roll’s tunes.
I’m also newly impressed with the
work of longtime Circa ’21 director/
choreographer Ann Nieman, who comes up
with some clever, sometimes unexpected
choices in her dance steps. “It’s Now
or Never,” for example, finds Nieman’s
choreography matching the uptempo
of the accompaniment, rather than the
gentler ballad of the melody. As Dean
(Bret Churchill) and Lorraine (Kristen
Jeter) sing tenderly of their love for each
other, they dance together with quicker
steps and higher spirits than the melody
seems to require, and the mix creates a true
impression of young romance – there’s a
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sweet excitement in their infatuation.
Actor Michael Karraker leads this 1950s-
era, Footloose-like story that focuses on
a love heptagon. With exaggerated head
jerks, knee pops, and a sometimes-curled
lip, Karraker portrays his biker, Chad,
as a caricature of Elvis, reminiscent of
the Cartoon Network’s Johnny Bravo.
He strikes and holds an Elvis-like pose
with such conviction, such force, that he
commands the stage with his coolness, and
is perhaps most impressive when grunting
and grimacing his way through “I Don’t
Want to,” as he tries to physically contain
the confession he cannot keep himself
from declaring through song. My favorite
moments of his, however, occur when
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Karraker shares the stage with Heather
Beck (who simply shined as the title
character in Circa ’21’s A Closer Walk with
Patsy Cline last year). As the initially prim
Miss Sandra,
Beck counters
Karraker’s
romantic
overtures
with effective
aplomb and a
pitch-perfect,
strong, superb
singing voice.
It’s Deidra
Grace’s Sylvia
who earns my
All Shook Up
awe, though,
up to her bar
anytime for a healthy serving of Grace’s
talent on her first line, but it was her solo
performance of “There’s Always Me” that
clinched it; Grace’s delivery of the song,
standing ovation all its own.
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47. Typecast 3. Sea near the Black Sea 73. Amerindians
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62. Aggrieves 12. Yearn 89. Strength
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the Advice Goddess
BY AMY ALKON
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complaining about her husband surfing
the Internet for porn and swimsuit photos
of Serena Williams, you seemed to have
missed a word in her question. That word
is “husband.” I doubt people get married
with it being okay for another man or
woman to be involved in their marriage.
Pornography causes great harm to
marriages. It’s not okay. It’s not normal.
It’s a selfish and destructive choice.
– Appalled Wife
It’s hard to have a rational conversation
about porn because people’s first reaction
is so often knee-jerk hysteria. I got a lot of
that in response to this particular column;
for example, as one guy wrote, “Porn
focuses on body parts, not on sex. This is
how bestiality develops.” Yes, we see that all
the time. One week, a guy’s surfing the ’Net
for busty blondes; the next, he’s got the hots
for the neighbor’s Labradoodle.
While you seem to be under the
mistaken impression that I missed the word
“husband” in the woman’s question, you
seem to have missed most of the words in
my answer. Serena Williams isn’t “involved”
in this couple’s marriage; the guy was just
using pictures of her to ring some doorbell
in his brain. As I explained in that column,
“Seeing pictures of hot women activates the
‘reward centers’ in men’s brains – the parts
that go ‘Yeah, baby!’ to stuff like drugs, beer,
and money.” Just as the guy isn’t connecting
emotionally with a can of Bud, he isn’t
emotionally involved with Serena, who
“might as well be a big, tennis-playing ham
sandwich.”
Not only is it “normal” for men to look
at porn, so many men look at it that what
would qualify as deviant behavior would be
not looking at it. Men also ogle hot women
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on the street and everywhere they go, but a
man’s forehead doesn’t come with a browser
history. If it did, it would likely reflect what
one female reader wrote: “My husband
once told me that he thinks about having
sex with every woman he sees. That’s Every.
Single. One.” She keeps this in perspective:
“I have absolutely no doubt that he has
been completely faithful to me. None. I
don’t care [about these thoughts], just like
I don’t care that he watches porn on the
Internet. My only request is that he keep his
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Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
Bettendorf, IA
Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy
Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill,
313 N Salina St McCausland, IA
Live Lunch w/ Keith Soko (noon) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Messy Jiverson -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S
Linn St Iowa City, IA
Sinjo Thraw Mash - Boar -River Music Experi-
ence, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
Superfly Samurai -Davenport RiverCenter,
136 E. 3rd St Davenport, IA
Thinner Teed -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
friday
2011/01/21 (Fri)
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“Blues Plate Special” Lunch w/ Ren Estrand
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
2nd St Davenport, IA
Conspiracy Theory -Martini’s on the Rock,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront
Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Ernie Hendrickson & Chicago Farmer - Ja-
son Carl -The Redstone Room, 129 Main
St Davenport, IA
Final Mix -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Lee Blackmon (6:30pm) -Mojo’s (River Music
Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Mercury Brothers -The Muddy Waters, 1708
State St. Bettendorf, IA
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Mooseknuckle -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Red Pepper Sage (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-
tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street
Milan, IL
Sophistifunk -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Bucktown Revue -River Music Experi-
ence, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
The Knockoffs -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204
Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL
Three Years Hollow -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
Bettendorf, IA
Tom Christopher -Rhythm City Casino, 101
W. River Dr. Davenport, IA
Useful Jenkins - Evergreen Grass Band
- National Free Hug Day -Iowa City Yacht
Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Whitey Morgan & the 78’s - Fifth of Country
-RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
saturday
2011/01/22 (Sat) 22
Alan Sweet and the Candy Makers -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Betten-
dorf, IA
Amanda Shires -Mojo’s (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront
Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Dead Larry - Lick it Ticket - Amanda Miller
& the Super Secrets - Bermuda Report
- Porch Builder - Item 9 & the Mad
Hatters - Chasing Shade - River Glen
(3pm) -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
Down 24 -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313
N Salina St McCausland, IA
Final Mix -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Funktastic Five -Uptown Neighborhood
Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-
tendorf, IA
Helmsplitter @ RIBCO – January 22
Hart to Hart DJ Service -Greenbriar Res-
taurant and Lounge, 4506 27th St Mo-
line, IL
Havana Daydreamin’ 2011: Tall Paul &
Crawdaddy - The Boat Drunks - The
Coral Reefers (6pm) -Davenport River-
Center, 136 E. 3rd St Davenport, IA
Helmsplitter - The Pear Device - Chiefton 3
-RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
House Arrest -The Pour House, 1502 W.
Locust St. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th
St Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche
Ave Clinton, IA
Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191
19th St Moline, IL
Lynn Allen -Rascal’s, 1414 15th St. Mo-
line, IL
Mona Ritemon and Friends -Fireworks Cof-
feehouse, 2139 16th St. Moline, IL
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Floozies -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
The Fry Daddies (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-
tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street
Milan, IL
The Knockoffs -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204
Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL
The Night People -Martini’s on the Rock,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
The Recliners -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-
can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
sunday
2011/01/23 (Sun)
23
Anthony Catalfano Quartet (10am) -Brady
Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza
Hotel Davenport, IA
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper
Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Karaoke w/ Steve K and the Gang -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Betten-
dorf, IA
Sunday Afternoon Social Dance w/ the Ken
Paulsen Quartet (3pm) -Moline Viking
Club, 1450 41st St. Moline, IL
monday
2011/01/24 (Mon) 24
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy
Live Lunch with Randy Arcenas -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Davenport, IA Jazz Jam with The North Scott Jazz Combo
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
Burlington Iowa City, IA 2nd St Davenport, IA
25
Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill,
Tuesday
2011/01/25 (Tue) 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA
Live Lunch w/ Dave Maxwell (noon) -Mojo’s
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL Davenport, IA
Live Lunch with Steve Couch -Mojo’s
Roster McCabe -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Island, IL
Davenport, IA
The Sweeps - Mitch Mead - Red Lining
Aspects -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
wednesday
2011/01/26 (Wed) 26 St Iowa City, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
Burlington Street Bluegrass Band -The Mill,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S
Main St Port Byron, IL friday
2011/01/28 (Fri) 28
Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 Battle of the Bands Round One: Lethal
19th St Moline, IL Injektion - Deluxe Republic - The
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Blushing Gun -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Island, IL
Live Lunch with Siri Lorece & Alan Sweet
Rock Island, IL
Blue Collar Band -11th Street Precinct, 2108
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
2nd St Davenport, IA
E 11th St Davenport, IA
“Blues Plate Special” Lunch w/ Tony Ho-
Open Mic Night (6:30pm) -Mojo’s (River
eppner -Mojo’s (River Music Experience),
Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Dav-
130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
enport, IA
Brown Bag Lunch at Noon: Ellis Kell -Bet-
The Malah -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
tendorf Public Library, 2950 Learning
St Iowa City, IA
Campus Bettendorf, IA
David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront
thursday
2011/01/27 (Thu) 27 Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Deja Vu Rendezvous: High Cotton Blues
Dirk Quinn Band - Clean Living -The Mill,
Band -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Davenport, IA
Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-
Gray Wolf Band -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
34th St Rock Island, IL
Bettendorf, IA
Groove Theory - Koplant No - Saul Lubaroff
Henhouse Prowlers - Smokin’ Joe Scarpel-
lino & Friends -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13
Quartet -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
S Linn St Iowa City, IA
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Ivory and Gold - Jeff Barnhart & Anne
Barnhart - Danny Coots - Red Lehr’s
Powerhoue Five (7pm) -Wesley United
Methodist Church - Muscatine, 400 Iowa
Ave Muscatine, IA
Joe & Vicki Price -Fat Fish Pub, 158 N. Broad
St. Galesburg, IL
Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Lee Blackmon -Fireworks Coffeehouse, 2139
16th St. Moline, IL
Mad Creek Mudcats (5pm) -Wesley United
Methodist Church - Muscatine, 400 Iowa
Ave Muscatine, IA
Maddie’s Farm (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina
/ Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street
Milan, IL
Passion -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
RetroRon -Mojo’s (River Music Experience),
130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Rude Punch -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and
Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
Steady Rollin’ Blues Band -Rascal’s, 1414
15th St. Moline, IL
Strange Arrangement -Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash-
ington St. Iowa City, IA
Studebaker John & the Hawks -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
The 70’s Soul Satisfaction -Cedar River
Landing, 301 F Avenue NW Cedar Rap-
ids, IA
uneXpected -Van’s, 3333 Harrison St.
Davenport, IA
Unknown Component (6pm) -Cool Beanz
Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Is-
land, IL
saturday
2011/01/29 (Sat) 29
.38 Special -Riverside Casino Event Center,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Aces -Tommy’s, 1302 4th Ave Moline, IL
Ben Chrisman (5pm) -Wesley United Meth-
odist Church - Muscatine, 400 Iowa Ave
Muscatine, IA
Community Drum Circle (10:30am) -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Corporate Rock -11th Street Precinct, 2108
E 11th St Davenport, IA
Cosmic -Mound Street Landing, 1029 Mound
St. Davenport, IA
David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront
Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Five in a Hand - The Magnetos - White
Tornado -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
Ivory and Gold - Jeff Barnhart & Anne
Barnhart - Danny Coots - Red Lehr’s
Powerhoue Five (7pm) -Wesley United
Methodist Church - Muscatine, 400 Iowa
Ave Muscatine, IA
Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th
St Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Camanche
Ave Clinton, IA
Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191
19th St Moline, IL
Karry Outz -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust
St. Davenport, IA
Mad Creek Mudcats (10pm) -Port City
Underground Pizza & Bistro, 208 W. 2nd
St. Muscatine, IA
Old 57’s -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St.
Bettendorf, IA
Passion -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Pat Joyce (1:30pm) -Muscatine Art Center,
1314 Mulberry Ave. Muscatine, IA
Rob Dahms & Detroit Larry Davison (6pm)
-Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020
1st Street Milan, IL
Salsa Vibe -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
Smooth Groove -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
High Cotton Blues Band @ The Redstone Room – January 28
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Premium $ellouts -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Tri-Polar XXXpress -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
Bettendorf, IA
Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-
can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
sunday
2011/01/30 (Sun) 30
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper
Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Ivory and Gold - Jeff Barnhart & Anne
Barnhart - Danny Coots (2pm) -Mus-
catine Art Center, 1314 Mulberry Ave.
Muscatine, IA
Karaoke w/ Steve K and the Gang -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Betten-
dorf, IA
Mad Creek Mudcats (10:30am) -Wesley
United Methodist Church - Muscatine,
400 Iowa Ave Muscatine, IA
Ragtime Brunch (11am) -The Button
Factory, Chestnut St. & River Dr. Mus-
catine, IA
Swing Shift (10am) -Brady Street Chop
House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel Dav-
enport, IA
Ted Leo -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
monday
2011/01/31 (Mon)
31
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-
Live Lunch with Randy Arcenas -Mojo’s
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Bettendorf, IA
Davenport, IA
Hamell on Trial - Birds to Pray -The Mill, 120
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E
E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Burlington Iowa City, IA
“True Blue Mondays” Lunch w/ Ellis Kell
Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill,
313 N Salina St McCausland, IA
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
2nd St Davenport, IA
tuesday
2011/02/01 (Tue) 1 (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Avenged Sevenfold - Stone Sour -
Hollywood Undead - New Medicine
(6:30pm) -i wireless Center, 1201 River
Dr Moline, IL
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Supper
Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Mo (noon) -Mojo’s (River
Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Dav-
enport, IA
wednesday
2011/02/02 (Wed)
2 Battle of the Bands Round Two: Eleven Fif-
.357 String Band - Hellwater -RIBCO, 1815
2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102
S Main St Port Byron, IL
Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar,
1191 19th St Moline, IL
Live Lunch with Brent Feuerbach -Mojo’s
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Retribution Gospel Choir - Peter Wolf Crier
- Mondo Drag -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
The Four Tops & The Temptations -i wireless
Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL
The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St
Iowa City, IA
3 Island, IL
thursday
2011/02/03 (Thu)
Canasta - Lion in Rome - -River Music Experi-
ence, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
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Live Lunch w/ Rose ‘n’ Thorns (noon) -Mojo’s
Davenport, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille,
2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
friday
2011/02/04 (Fri)
4
8th Annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash
featuring Natty Nation -Iowa City Yacht
Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Andrew Landers Project -The Redstone
Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
ty Two - Johnny Scum - August Zimbal
-RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
“Blues Plate Special” Lunch w/ Ren Estrand
-Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W
2nd St Davenport, IA
Bob Dorr & the Blue Band -The Hub, 402
Main St Cedar Falls, IA
Canasta -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa
City, IA
David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront
Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Firesale -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Funk Syndicate -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Gray Wolf Band -Edje Nightclub at Jumer’s
Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92 Rock
John Resch and the Detroit Blues -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Betten-
dorf, IA
Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
NINE-1-1 -The “New” Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Locust Davenport, IA
Secret Squirrel -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204
Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
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