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by Mike Opelka
0oes 7he New White House RuraI CounciI quaI the UNs Agenda 211
0
n June 9, President Barack Obama
signed his 86th executive order, and
almost nobody noticed.
Executive Order 13575 is designed to begin
taking control of almost all aspects of the lives
of 16 percent of the American people. Why
didnt we notice it? Weinergate. In the middle
of the Anthony Weiner scandal, as the press
and most of the American people were dis-
tracted, Obama created something called the
White House Rural Council (WHRC).
Section One of 13575 states the following:
Sixteen percent of the American population
lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable
rural communities are essential to winning the
future and ensuring American competitive-
ness in the years ahead. These communities
supply our food, fiber, and energy, safeguard
our natural resources, and are essential in
the development of science and innovation.
Though rural communities face numerous
challenges, they also present enormous eco-
nomic potential. The Federal Government has
an important role to play in order to expand
access to the capital necessary for economic
growth, promote innovation, improve access
to health care and education, and expand out-
door recreational activities on public lands.
Warning bells should have been sound-
ing all across rural America when the phrase
sustainable rural communities came up. As
we know from researching the UN plan for
sustainable development known as Agenda
21, these are code words for the true, funda-
mental transformation of America.
The third sentence also makes it quite clear
that the government intends to take greater
control over food, fiber, and energy.
The last sentence in Section One further
clarifies the intent of the order by tying
together access to the capital necessary for
economic growth ... health care and education
... .
The new White House Rural Council
will probably be populated by experts in the
various fields that might prove helpful to the
folks who live and work outside of large urban
areas, right? Well, Tom Vilsack, the current
secretary of agriculture, will chair the group,
but let us review the list of members appointed
to serve on this new council; according to the
order, the heads of the following groups have
been appointed:
(1) the Department of the Treasury (Timo-
thy Geithner).
(2) the Department of Defense (Robert
Gates).
(3) the Department of Justice (Eric Holder).
(4) the Department of the Interior (Ken
Salazar).
(5) the Department of Commerce (Gary
Locke).
(6) the Department of Labor (Hilda Solis).
(7) the Department of Health & Human
Services (Kathleen Sebelius).
(8) the Department of Housing & Urban
Development (Shaun Donovan).
(9) the Department of Transportation (Ray
LaHood).
(10) the Department of Energy (Steven
Chu).
(11) the Department of Education (Arne
Duncan).
(12) the Department of Veterans Affairs
(Eric Shinseki).
(13) the Department of Homeland Security
(Janet Napolitano).
(14) the Environmental Protection Agency
(Lisa Jackson).
(15) the Federal Communications Commis-
sion (Michael Copps).
(16) the Office of Management & Budget
(Peter Orszag).
(17) the Office of Science & Technology
Policy (John Holdren).
(18) the Office of National Drug Control
Policy (R. Gil Kerlikowske).
(19) the Council of Economic Advisers
(Austan Goolsbee).
(20) the Domestic Policy Council (Melody
Barnes).
(21) the National Economic Council (Gene
B. Sperling).
(22) the Small Business Administration
(Karen Mills).
(23) the Council on Environmental Quality
(Nancy Sutley).
(24) the White House Office of Public
Engagement & Intergovernmental Affairs
(Valerie Jarrett).
(25) the White House Office of Cabinet
Affairs, and such other executive branch
departments, agencies, and offices as the
president or secretary of agriculture may, from
time to time, designate. (Chris Lu [or virtually
anyone to be designated by the 24 people
named above]).
It appears that not a single department in
the federal government was excluded from
the new White House Rural Council, and
the wild-card option in number 25 gives the
president and the agriculture secretary the
option to designate anyone to serve on this
powerful council.
Within the 25 designated members of the
council are some curious ties to Agenda 21
and the structure being built to implement it:
Valerie Jarrett served on the board of
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W
hile Rod Blagojevichs jury found him
guilty on 17 felony counts last week,
jurors found him not guilty on one
count and deadlocked on two others. Not much
has been written about those other counts, so
lets take a look.
The paucity of electronic-surveillance
evidence related to those verdicts, the lack of
credible witnesses for the prosecution, and the
absence of actual harm appeared to hurt the
federal governments case.
Jurors deadlocked on whether Blagojevich
actually attempted to hit up the brother of
Rahm Emanuel for a big campaign contribution
in exchange for releasing funds to a school in
Emanuels old congressional district. But this
allegedly happened in 2006, long before the
feds began bugging Blagojevich, so there were
no tapes. And Emanuel now Chicagos mayor
testified at trial that
hed never been told
the grant would be
made if his brother
held a fundraiser. His
testimony under-
mined the feds case,
and jurors dead-
locked.
There was
some surveillance
involving the other
two counts, which
centered around
whether Blagojevich
tried to shake down a road-builder in exchange
for giving him tollway contracts. But noth-
ing concrete could be promised to the builder
because a $6-billion tollway-construction plan
that was constantly mentioned on tape was just a
dream in Blagojevichs head at the time.
Blagojevich, in other words, was just dangling
the possibility of government work in exchange
for money from the road builder. But demand-
ing a contribution from someone who does
business with the government is not illegal
under federal law.
The targeted road-builder testified that he felt
pressured to contribute, but he initially told the
FBI that there was no pressure. And the builders
bosses testified that Blagojevich never directly
connected campaign contributions to contracts.
Blagojevich was declared not guilty on one
count, and the jury deadlocked on the other.
No harm, no foul may be a good way of
summing this up. Emanuels school got the cash,
and no fundraiser was held. The road-builder
was never promised or given anything specific,
and no money was contributed.
Blagojevich was convicted of two other
similar shakedown attempts. He was recorded
being told that for every day he didnt sign a
horse-racing-industry bailout bill, track owner
John Johnston would lose $9,000. Real harm was
being done. Blagojevich was also caught on tape
instructing his aide how to approach Johnston
and appeared to admit that he was holding
off signing the bill until he got his money. He
didnt sign the bill until after his arrest. There
was nothing hypothetical about that charge and
harm was done, and the former governor was
found guilty.
The same reasoning goes for the shakedown
of a Childrens Memorial Hospital executive.
Blagojevich was repeatedly caught on tape
plotting to hit the exec up for a large contribu-
tion in exchange for releasing funding for the
hospital. Blagojevich was also busted checking
out whether he could hold up the money. And
the exec credibly testified that he believed he
was being shaken down. The state cash wasnt
released until after Blagojevich was removed
from office. Once again, real harm was done and
there was plenty of
recorded evidence
and credible testi-
mony to back up the
government.
But if hypotheti-
cal situations and
lack of actual harm
undermined the
governments case
on three counts, why
then did the jurors
decide to back the
prosecutions argu-
ments all the way on
the attempted sale of Barack Obamas U.S. Senate
seat? After all, none of the schemes was ever fol-
lowed that far. Nobody was really harmed by the
delay, and much of what Blagojevich was caught
on tape saying was obviously crazy talk.
Besides the audacity of Blagojevichs crass-
ness, the answer may have been the huge
amount of electronic surveillance. The jury was
obviously impressed with the vast number of
recordings involving the Senate scheme. There
was so much more evidence to go on, said one
juror after the verdicts were issued.
And, unlike his last jury, which deadlocked
on all but one charge, these jurors seemed to
comprehend the fact that this wasnt about
whether Blagojevich followed all the way
through on his Senate schemes. He was being
tried on attempting, not committing a crime, a
juror correctly explained to reporters.
Prosecutors also did a better job of explain-
ing a much more streamlined case this time.
The last jury got lost in a jumbled maze. But
the feds used a PowerPoint presentation during
summation that so impressed one juror that she
said she wished the jury couldve had it during
deliberations.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily
political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.
by Rich Miller
Iagojevich Verdicts:
No Harm, No FouI
But if hypothetical
situations and lack of harm
undermined the governments
case, why did jurors decide
to back the prosecutions
arguments on selling Barack
Obamas U.S. Senate seat?
a lengthy, bitter fight to save preschool,
to provide a modest increase in state
support to local schools the year after
next, and to soften cuts to colleges. These
fights, all of which could have been easily
avoided, nearly brought Iowa its first-ever
government shutdown.
Iowa House Speaker Kraig Paulsen
(R-Hiawatha) said this years session
lasted so long because of philosophical
disagreements between the Republi-
can-controlled House and the Demo-
crat-led Senate, both passionate about
their beliefs. But Paulsen said the split
government forced people with differing
perspectives to work together, and he said
that was healthy for the process.
But Branstad and Paulsen both said
they were disappointed that the legis-
lature was unsuccessful in approving
property-tax reform. Plans to provide
property-tax relief to businesses and to
all taxpayers were abandoned on the sec-
ond-to-last day of session after lawmak-
ers failed to reach agreement on the issue.
The inability of Senate Democrats to
address commercial property taxes in a
way that aids our economic-development
efforts means Iowa will continue to have
the second-highest commercial property
taxes in the nation, and this will certainly
make the work of our job-creators that
much more difficult, Branstad said. In
addition, the lack of action by Senate
Democrats on property taxes will mean
residential taxpayers in this state will see
historic increases in their property taxes
over the next five years, as record prices
for commodities will trigger a roll-up in
residential property taxes.
Branstad has said that Iowans would
see their property taxes increase by $1.3
billion during the next five years if law-
makers didnt approve his plan to reduce
commercial property taxes by 40 percent.
But Democrats have called that estimated
property-tax increase a stretch because
its based on the assumption that local
governments would increase their tax
levies each year by the 4-percent maxi-
mum permitted by state law. Democrats
predicted that local governments would
instead lower their levy rates to prevent
such a tax hike.
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l
owa lawmakers on June 30 adjourned
the third-longest legislative session in
state history with Republicans touting
their success in being fiscally responsible
and Democrats lamenting what they saw
as too little funding for education.
Adjournment finally came on the last
day of the state fiscal year and the 172nd
calendar day of session. The only times
that the legislature has taken longer to
adjourn its regular session were 1967
(when lawmakers adjourned July 2) and
1978 (when session adjourned July 15).
We all just want to go home, said
Representative Matt Windschitl (R-Mis-
souri Valley).
The Iowa House adjourned first at
3:36 p.m. after 61-31 passage of the
health-and-human-services budget bill
and closing-day speeches by leaders.
The Iowa Senate followed by approving
that same bill 27-18 and adjourning at
3:43 p.m. Both chambers also approved
a one-month budget that continues state
services while giving the governor 30
days to review the just-passed bills.
The state budget lawmakers approved
for Fiscal Year 2012 spends $5.99 billion,
or about 95 percent of available revenues.
It is projected to leave the state with a
$284-million ending balance after all of
the states reserve funds are filled.
In addition, $38 million will go to a
new Taxpayers Trust Fund created earlier
this year to provide tax cuts, although
lawmakers have not yet detailed how that
money will be spent.
Job number one was bringing the state
budget under control, solving the fiscal
crisis, and restoring predictability and
stability to the state budget so those re-
ceiving state services could count on their
uninterrupted delivery, Governor Terry
Branstad said after adjournment. Iowans
asked us to fix this fiscal mess, and we
made historic progress toward that goal
this year, and we will continue that work
as we move forward.
State lawmakers were so eager to get
home that leaders of the Iowa Sen-
ate chose not to read their closing-day
speeches, instead distributing copies to
the media.
Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike
Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) said in his
prepared closing remarks that it was a
difficult session. He said he still didnt
understand why the Senate was forced
to fight furiously for education this
year: The state of Iowa was forced into
lowa LegisIature Adjourns 7hird-
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IOWA POLITICS
Pat Flaherty Seizes the Throne in Genesius Guilds King Lear, July 16 Through 24 at Lincoln Park
How Beautiful English Can Be
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
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think it came from going to
church, says area actor Pat Fla-
herty of his childhood interest in
theatre. Because Id go to church, and Id
see this guy who was holding everybodys
interest through the whole service. It was
very dramatic theyd light the candles
and ring the bells and everything and for
a while I thought I wanted to be a priest
because of that.
It turned out I just wanted to be on
stage.
It also turned out that the priesthoods
loss was, and is, the stages gain.
To Genesius Guild founder Don
Wooten, who has worked with Flaherty
since the early 80s, the actor brings abil-
ity, focus, and devotion to every role he
undertakes. I dont know where he gets the
energy and ambition ... . I cant imagine a
director who would not be overjoyed to
have him in his cast.
To frequent area actor and director Mi-
chael King, a considerable talent in his own
right, Flaherty is multi-dimensional, and
his acting instrument is so sensitive and so
finely tuned, especially in Shakespearean
roles. He has a real willingness to play, and
hes always ready to receive new ideas, and
to implement those ideas immediately.
As for yours truly, I find Flaherty to be
one of the finest, most fiercely gifted stage
actors Ive ever seen. Years after attending
them, I can still vividly recall Flahertys
sometimes haunting, sometimes hilarious,
always impassioned portrayals in local
productions, and my only disappointment
concerning the man is that I didnt get to
start writing about his work until 2005.
Over the course of 40 years, Flaherty has
triumphed both in lighthearted fare and
in some of local theatres most demanding
roles. (Hes run the gamut from Roy Cohn
in Angels in America to Prospero in The
Tempest to Selsdon Mowbray in Noises Off.)
He has also acted for practically every
local organization you could name. A brief
sampling from Flahertys rsum includes
productions for the Circa 21 Dinner
Playhouse (All Shook Up), the Playcrafters
Barn Theatre (Moon Over Buffalo), New
Ground Theatre (August: Osage County,
Under the Radar, Swimming in the Shal-
lows), the Prenzie Players (Romeo & Juliet),
the Harrison Hilltop Theatre (The 25th An-
nual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and the
Curtainbox Theatre Company (Glengarry
Glen Ross). And thats just his rsum from
the past two years.
Even this 24-month listing of shows,
however, isnt complete, as it doesnt
include the half-dozen works he appeared
in for the classical-theatre organization
Genesius Guild. Yet with his forthcoming
portrayal of the title character in William
Shakespeares King Lear directed by King
and running July 16 through 24 in Rock
Islands Lincoln Park Flaherty is about to
embark on what will likely be his great-
est Guild challenge to date, enacting what
is arguably the greatest stage role in the
English language, in what is, inarguably,
one of the greatest dramas in the English
language.
And being only 60, Im still wonder-
ing if Im old enough to just play it, says
Flaherty of the Bards 80-year-old monarch.
Ill have to see how it goes. Being that its
a play, and it is theatrical, people might cut
me some slack just as long as I dont bore
em.
Act I: Moved by Words
Born and raised in Reynolds, Illinois,
Flaherty says that even as a youth, I was
always drawn to Shakespeare, frankly.
A young fan of the TV Western Have
Gun Will Travel (featuring Richard
Boone as the famed gunslinger Paladin)
and the Sebastian Cabot detective series
Checkmate, Flaherty says, Boone quoted
Shakespeare all the way through, and it
just amazed me. The words coming out
didnt make any sense, but they moved
you somehow. The same with Sebastian
Cabot. He recited Shakespeare, and when
he quoted something, it just sat me up
straight. I couldnt believe how beautiful
English could be.
Although full texts proved daunting
(I really couldnt put more than four or
five words together), Flaherty says that
as a youth, I started reading synopses of
Shakespeare. I kept trying to find those
words that Richard Boone and Sebastian
Cabot used. And I started to realize the
meaning was coming from them, from the
actors. They had to interpret the words to
make people understand them.
After moving with his family to Anda-
lusia at age 15, Flaherty was given his first
chance to perform on-stage, appearing in a
Rockridge High School production of An-
gel Street. I wasnt planning on audition-
ing, he says. I went with a friend because
he wanted to audition, and I was going for
moral support. But after he auditioned,
I was asked, Do you want to try? And it
looked like fun. So I did. And it was fun.
He continued to act and work behind
the scenes throughout high school, and
credits Rockridge director Tom Holt for
much of his early affinity for the stage. He
was one of those high-school directors
who, when they got crazy about theatre,
all of us did. He taught me all the rules,
and made sure I wasnt a prima donna.
Flaherty laughs. I went down that path for
about two steps.
Flahertys theatre training continued,
post-Rockridge, at Black Hawk College.
I had this amazing oral-interp teacher
[Lillian Atchison], and she kind of picked
me out from the speech class, and gave me
two years of hell. She was awesome. I was
sure she hated me the whole time, and she
mightve, you know? But she taught me
how to diagram poetry, and it really helped
as far as interpreting lines learning how
to diagram sentences to figure out what
theyre supposed to sound like.
After serving in the Army from 1971 to
1974 a period Flaherty calls the big-
gest break from theatre I ever had he
returned to the area, and soon landed a job
with the Rock Island Arsenal, from which
he recently retired. Pursuing theatre as a
career, he says, wasnt a consideration.
It never, ever entered my mind that you
could make any money doing it. And its
still true for me, you know? he says with
a laugh. It was always the material I was
interested in. I just wanted to do theatre.
And then I ran into Don Wooten.
Act II: Tripping
Ones Trigger
Prior to his first involvement with Gen-
esius Guild, Flaherty was already familiar
with the Wootens, having taken Black
Hawk classes alongside Dons son David.
So I knew Don when I was 19, says Fla-
herty. But I was afraid to go to Genesius
Guild until I was 30. Oh, I was scared to
death of doing Shakespeare.
Instead, after his years in the Army,
Flaherty acted in shows for a number of
other local-theatre groups, among them
Playcrafters, the Richmond Hill Barn The-
atre, and a couple of no-name groups that
popped up, did a show, and disappeared.
So I had enough to keep me occu-
COVER STORY
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
pied, he continues. If I couldnt get any
parts someplace else, I probably wouldve
been up there [with Genesius Guild] a
lot quicker. But since I was getting parts,
I went ahead and gave into my fear, and
just stayed away from Shakespeare, even
though thats what I really wanted to do.
Eventually, though, Flaherty found
himself underwhelmed with the area-the-
atre scene in the 1970s. Theatre here was a
little ... candy-ass at the time, he says with
a laugh. You couldnt say Jesus Christ,
you couldnt say shit ... . Forget about the
F bomb. I mean, forget about it. It just got
a little dull, it really did. The shows I was
doing, they seemed like they were just ...
nothin. There was nothin in em.
So it was either go do Shakespeare or
just quit theatre altogether, because noth-
ing was tripping my trigger.
At age 30, Flaherty finally auditioned for
Genesius Guild and found himself cast ...
though not in a play by Shakespeare. With
his schedule only allowing for participation
in one 1981 production in Lincoln Park,
Flahertys Guild debut was actually in au-
thor Christopher Frys comedy A Phoenix
Too Frequent.
And, boy, I hated that script, says Fla-
herty, laughing. It was awful. But I loved
it, because being there was a discipline.
You know, it was the discipline of that
stage out there. Youve got that great big
aircraft carrier of a stage, and the actors are
spread out, and the audience cant hear a
whisper, you know. They cant hear normal
conversation. So you have to make yourself
be heard.
During the Guilds 1982 summer
season, says Flaherty, I think I did every
play, including Sophocles Antigone, the
first of many Greek tragedies performed
in traditional period masks in which the
actor would subsequently appear.
I dont really like the Greeks, admits
Flaherty (referring here to Greek tragedies,
not Greek people). The translations are
mostly really stilted. But I do them because
its good for me that discipline thing. And
it took me a while to get used to the masks,
but now Ive kind of gotten to like them.
Ive started to understand theres really
some power in that mask like in the way
you tilt your head if you use it right.
But the summer of 1982 also allowed
Flaherty his first chances to perform
Shakespeare with the Guild in As You
Like It and Corolianus and to truly feel
like a part of what he calls just a bunch
of really wacky guys, you know? It really is
summer camp for grown-ups. And day care
for grown-ups.
Act III: Lets Do It Again
Of the many Shakespeare figures that
Flaherty has played at Genesius Guild, the
actor says that his favorites include the
meaty, richly drawn character parts that the
Bard seemed especially generous toward
roles such as Prospero in The Tempest,
Lord Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, and Le-
onato in Much Ado About Nothing.
Man, his old-man parts are good, says
Flaherty. I think Shakespeare was pretty
fond of his older actors. They must have
been friends of his. You know, where they
could look at the role and say, Punch this
up, damn it! He laughs. But almost any
Shakespearean character role is awesome.
Yet what Flaherty appears to value in
the Guild experience above all else are the
people he works with one of them being
his wife, popular area actress and Guild
veteran Patti Flaherty, to whom Pat has
Street) and Rock Island (the current District
Theatre location at 1611 Second Avenue)
that would seem far too intimate for pro-
ductions that generally require large casts,
complicated sets, and exorbitant budgets.
But I once read this quote by a New York
producer named David Binder, says Tapscott,
and he said that a show should always be big-
ger than the theatre its in. A show should be
bursting at the seams, basically. And Ive kind
of based a lot of what we do on that. Yeah, the
space is technically too small for what were
doing, but the energys gonna be so cool.
With the Hilltop opening its fourth
season with one of its most challenging
endeavors yet the vocally and emotionally
demanding rock opera Jesus Christ Super-
star, enacted by a 21-person cast Tapscott
recently shared some thoughts on the
companys history with big musicals, and
the potential debate over its latest produc-
tion. (Hint: Not all of Jesus disciples will be
played by men.)
The Rocky Horror Show
(October 2009)
Following tick ... tick ... BOOM!, with its
three-person cast and pre-recorded CD tracks,
the Hilltop assembled a live band and 13 per-
0
dd as it
may seem
now, there
actually was a peri-
od in the Harrison
Hilltop Theatres
history a run of
12 shows, to be
precise in which
the company didnt
produce any mu-
sicals whatsoever.
Yet after staging
a dozen plays
between June 2008
and May 2009,
co-founders Tristan
Tapscott and Chris
Walljasper chose to
open the theatres
second season with
a production of
Jonathan Larsons
rock musical tick ...
tick ... BOOM!
The result? We had bigger crowds than
wed ever had, says Tapscott, who also serves
as the Hilltops artistic director. And the
general consensus from people was, Wed
love it if you guys would do more musicals.
And Chris and I were both like, Well, thats
not what we were going to do ... .
But just like every theatre in the nation,
he continues, we discovered that those
shows sell, and can keep our doors open. So
while we had an affinity for plays, at the end
of the day it was like, Either we do more
musicals here, or we have to close.
Two years after tick ... tick ... BOOM!s
debut, the Hilltop is now known primarily
for musicals and for some rather intimidat-
ing musicals, to boot.
To be sure, the theatre has produced
relatively small-scale musical works among
them The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee and I Love You, Youre Perfect,
Now Change and will continue to with
Julys two-character romance The Last Five
Years.
A number of the Hilltops other musicals,
though including Aprils acclaimed Swee-
ney Todd have been anything but small-
scale, despite venues in Davenport (the
companys former location at 1601 Harrison
formers for Richard OBriens
cult and audience-par-
ticipation classic, with
co-founders Tapscott and
Walljasper (until recently a
Reader employee) making
their first appearances in a
company production.
I did that show in college
and it was just a riot, and
I was like, Man, nobodys
done that live in the area,
and I think it would be a
huge, huge thing. And
now, we do it once a year,
and it helps keep us open
thats the show that I take
reservations for all year
long.
We dont have a lot of
people at auditions, typical-
ly, which is why we use a lot
of the same people over and
over again; theyre the ones that show up. So
Rocky kind of established our core group.
We got Paul Workman out of that, and Sara
King, and Cari Downing, Lisa Kahn, Steve
Lassiter ... . And I dont remember who it
was that suggested it, but somebody was like,
Why dont you and Chris be in it? It was
never our goal to open the theatre just to
be in shows, but finally we were like, Well,
weve been open for over a year ... . I guess
we could do that now.
At the first few performances, there were
a few people that would call out things, but
mostly it was like, This is live ... are we
allowed to do this? It took people com-
ing back a lot of repeat business for it
to really work. And now its just kind of
understood. You can go to the Hilltop, yell
and scream at a bunch of live people, and hit
them with things.
Rent (April 2010)
Jonathan Larsons Pulitzer Prize-win-
ner featured a cast of 14, and Tapscott, who
portrayed Mark in the production, felt that
the Broadway smash greatly benefited from its
intimate Hilltop setting.
ursting at the $eams
The Harrison Hilltops Tristan Tapscott Discusses Big Musicals in Small Spaces
by Mike Schulz
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VoI. 18 No. 782
1uIy 7 - 20, 2011
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approach to the design of this building is
remarkably different from the neoclassical
design of libraries in the early 20th Century.
The Rock Island Main Library (at 401
19th Street in the Rock Island) opened on
December 15, 1903. The building became
the permanent home for a library col-
lection that was established in 1855 and
made public in 1872, making it the oldest
public library in the state of Illinois. Funded
primarily by Rock Island businessmen
Frederick Weyerhaeuser and Frederick
Denkmann, the building opened shortly
before the Carnegie libraries in Davenport
and Moline.
Originally called Rock Islands Temple
of Literature, the buildings fluted Ionic
columns, exterior of quarried stone, and
classical-styled ornamentation are indeed
public meeting rooms and a
childrens collection of books
even an art gallery from
its inception. Yet this is a far
cry from the community
centers that libraries have
evolved into. More than just
lenders of books, libraries
now provide Internet access
and community rooms for a
great range of not-for-profit
organizations from the
Girl Scouts to senior groups,
from choirs to quilters.
When you are next looking
for an a pleasant coffee shop,
consider going to the library.
But are buildings art?
Frank Lloyd Wright,
perhaps Americas most
renowned architect, cer-
tainly thought so when he
stated, The mother art is
architecture.
Contemporary architect Richard Meier
expanded on this by saying: Architecture is
the greatest of the arts, and it encompasses
thinking that other arts dont even deal with.
Like [the] relationship of the work to the
individual human being the person who
uses it, the person who experiences it, the
person who sees it, and how that person
perceives that space.
Bruce Walters is a professor of art at Western
Illinois University.
This is part of an occasional series on the
history of public art in the Quad Cities. If
theres a piece of public art that youd like to
learn more about, e-mail the location and a
brief description to BD-Walters@wiu.edu.
M
ore than a century
separates the open-
ing dates of the
most recent and the oldest
public-library buildings in
the Quad Cities. The differ-
ences between these build-
ings reflect our changing
relationship to the environ-
ment, and their architecture
reflects the evolution of the
library from a symbol of cul-
ture to a community center.
Davenports Eastern Av-
enue branch library (at 6000
Eastern Avenue) opened a
year ago on July 10. The hori-
zontal shape of the building
and curved entrance relate to
its surrounding environment,
an open, grassy area of gentle
rolling hills. The library has
been designated by the U.S.
Green Building Council as a Leadership in
Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)
building. Its environmental features include
a geothermal-heating and -cooling system,
stormwater-management systems for the
roof and parking areas, and energy-efficient
lighting. Even the building materials were
selected to ensure a healthy environment for
the library staff and patrons.
At the librarys entrance is a wall covered
in sheets of bronze. The prominent position
of the wall and its subtle patterning make it
seem more like a minimalist sculpture than
the means to drain water from the roof into
the rain basin and bioswale. The bronze wall
is set within a rain garden planted with
native plants and grasses, helping the water
soak into the ground instead of running into
the storm sewers. The ecologically conscious
derived from ancient Greek and Roman
temples. The dozen names incised in the
frieze near the roof from the Greek poet
Homer to the American writer Nathaniel
Hawthorne say, in effect, that there is an
unbroken link between us and the founders
of Western Civilization.
One enters the main section of the build-
ing by ascending a flight of stone steps and
passing through an imposing foyer. We
literally rise higher when we come into this
archive of knowledge. Though one is now
greeted by collections of digital informa-
tion DVDs, CDs, and audiobooks the
interior architecture is formal, creating a
very different atmosphere from the more
welcoming and comfortable space of the
newer libraries.
The Rock Island Main Library has had
Art in Plain Sight: A Tale of Two Libraries
by Bruce Walters
Davenports Eastern Avenue branch library (above) and
the Rock Island main library. Photos by Bruce Walters.
ART
the images, help each other to improve,
and socialize. The club meets at 6:30 p.m.
the first Thursday of the month September
through June at the Butterworth Center,
1105 Eighth Street in Moline. The club also
has special learning workshops and small
groups that meet on specific photography
topics.
For more information on the club, call
(563)332-6522 or visit QCPhotoClub.
com. To see works by club members, visit
QCCC.SmugMug.com.
W
e spotlight the award-win-
ning works of three Quad City
Photography Club members
this month.
The Central Illinois Camera Club
Association consists of more than 15
camera clubs and holds two salons each
year. In the fall, there is a club salon, and
in the spring there is an individual salon
for judging prints, digital images, and
slides. This springs salon was held in
Decatur and was hosted by the Decatur
Camera Club.
Quad City Photography Club mem-
bers won a number of honors. Images by
three of our members received the Best of
Show award in different categories.
In the Pictorial category, Bert Gearhart
won for Owl (top). In the Photo-Realistic
category, Lara Grossmans entry Two Lip
Smile (bottom right) was the award-win-
ner. Jay Brooks won the award for his
Color Print Fall Aspens (bottom left).
Featured Images from the Quad City Photography Club
(Editors note: The River Cities Reader
each month will feature an image or
images from the Quad City Photography
Club.)
The Quad City Photography Club
holds digital and print competitions most
months. At its meetings, members discuss
PHOTOGRAPHY
Odysseus dialogue. However, it seems the
pleasantness of his voice, at times, also
masks a lack of distinct interpretation on
some of his lines. Heather Nobiling shapes
her Athena with regal, superior intonation.
Theres a pleasing hint of friendly familiarity
in Kevin Goveias Messenger, with realistic,
rather than exaggerated, inflections in his
voice. Similarly, Andy Curtiss adds a warm
nobility to his Teucer, making clear his
characters higher position, but also giving
him an approachable nature. Bryan Woods
seems made for masked performances, with
his ability to project to the
highest balcony, grand line
deliveries, and appropriately
overstated articulation. And
Dan Fennesys stance and
speech make his Agamem-
nons forceful strength quite
clear.
Though I couldnt tell
which chorus member it
was, one actress deserved a
special accolade on open-
ing night for covering a
painfully pregnant pause
that seemed to last for
several minutes (though it
was probably little more than one, if that),
causing the shows pacing to stumble for a
few moments while actors recovered from
the gaffe. Saturdays mistakes aside, though,
theres much to applaud in Wootens work,
from the atypical way the chorus enters as
individuals when returning from an exit (the
exit also being atypical in Greek tragedy),
to the means by which Wooten stages an
unusual act of on-stage violence. Ellen
Dixons costumes are also, as always, impres-
sive in their construction, and even more so
in their bright colors and mixture of tones.
Tecmessas purple gown with glittering green
sash is a particularly stunning mix of color,
and Dixons design for the blood dripping
from Ajax is quite clever.
And Bill Hannans wheeled platform
(known in Greek drama as the ekkyklemia)
is an exceptional surprise for the way it
moves smoothly into position, aesthetically
decked out with slaughtered sheepskins and
Ajax upon his chair. Together with Ajaxs
actors, the shows design makes for an expe-
rience thats not only unique in the area, but
also to Genesius Guilds long line of Greek
tragedies.

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make a conscious effort to suppress
expectations prior to seeing a produc-
tion, for fear theyll rise to the unattain-
able. With Genesius Guilds Ajax, however,
I couldnt help it. I was so taken with last
years Andromache, performed in tradi-
tional period masks, that I was giddy with
anticipation to see this summers Greek-
tragedy offering. And despite a few apparent
stumbles over lines and one glaringly missed
cue, director Don Wootens effort did not
disappoint. Saturday nights performance
of Sophocles piece captivated me with its
creative execution.
Enraged that the defeated
Achilles armor was awarded
to Odysseus and not to him,
the drama finds the warrior
Ajax vowing to kill those
who made the error of honor.
Athena, however, intervenes,
causing Ajax to believe a
flock of sheep (which he
consequently slays) are his
enemies, and upon waking
from his ethereal stupor, an
embarrassed Ajax believ-
ing himself mocked spends
much of the play considering
suicide.
Bob Hanske, so proud as Ajax, shows
great skill in verbally shaping his character.
Without the benefit of facial expressions,
Hanskes intent, feelings, and emotions are
clear through the sometimes angry, often
anguished inflections in his voice. The actor,
whose portrayal of Bottom was the highlight
of last summers A Midsummer Nights
Dream, maintains an undertone of pride
throughout his performance. Even as he
speaks of his humiliation and suicidal plans,
it comes from a place of self-regard hes
ever the deserving hero, to the bitter end.
As a big fan of Patti Flahertys comedic
turns (and having been equally impressed by
her intense yet humorous work as Violet in
New Ground Theatres August: Osage County
last fall), I was delighted to see her shape a
character wholly different from any Ive seen
from her before. While her Tecmessa (Ajaxs
wife) is humorless, shes absorbing even
without Flahertys great skills for comicality.
Flaherty layers her characters sadness with
distress and yearning; begging her husband
not to leave her a widow and his son father-
less, Flaherty repeats the line Have pity
first with defeated sadness, and then again as
an anguished plea.
Among other cast members, Mischa
Hookers almost melodic vocal delivery, with
its lilting flow, is most pleasing as he speaks
Honor RoIe
Ajax, at Lincoln Park through July 10
By Thom White
Mische Hooker and Bob Hanske
THEATRE
by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com
TRANSFORMERS: DARK
OF THE MOON
As long as Transformers: Dark of
the Moon didnt come off as the worst
movie of the year or rather, the worst
movie of several years it would stand
as a notable improvement on 2009s
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Im
greatly relieved, then, to say that Mi-
chael Bays latest, ultra-loud toy story
is not the foul, nightmarish, jaw-drop-
ping travesty that its predecessor was.
Only half of it is.
Thats a pleasant surprise, but the
bigger surprise of Dark of the Moon is
that so much of it manages to entertain
and even, on occasion, exhilarate, which
is no mean feat considering that almost
none of it makes a lick of sense. Sure, the
film is awful in the expected Michael Bay
ways: The storyline is all but completely
incoherent; characters switch allegiances
and locales shift with no rhyme or rea-
son; the comedic routines at least the
routines that appear comedic seem to
have been thought up by a particularly
slow-witted fourth-grader. (Was Ehren
Krugers script, by any chance, written in
crayon?) Still, Ive endured less amusing
sights this year than Dark of the Moons
image of an enormous, slithering, metallic
worm tearing up Chicagos Wacker Drive.
And its team of soldiers sliding down a
toppling skyscraper like passengers on the
Titanic. And Alan Tudyk, as a vaguely fey
German named Dutch, breezing across
the screen in a floral-patterned suit jacket.
Bays movie may be crummy in big ways,
but its kind of great in lots of little ones.
Do you even care about the plot? There
are good transformers, the Autobots,
and bad transformers, the Decepticons,
and they fight. A lot. Theres a narrative
thread involving the bots home planet of
Cybertron being pulled into the Earths
atmosphere. Every so often, Shia LaBeouf
throws a hissy fit about not being appreci-
ated for saving the planet twice! while
not recognizing that he might be getting
the brush-off for being an obnoxious,
dithering ass. (Has any other screen actor
degenerated from entertaining to excru-
ciating quite as thoroughly, or quickly,
as Shia LaBeouf? Does anyone still enjoy
watching this guy?) And it all ends with a
thunderous battle royale above and within
the Windy City. Youll know when Dark
of the Moons last scene is starting, be-
cause it arrives at roughly the movies 90-
minute mark ... which would be awesome
if the movie werent 150 minutes long.
Seriously, the final hour is one extended
action sequence, albeit
one occasionally inter-
rupted by lame jokes.
Which is, of course,
just what the films fan
base wants, and heav-
en knows Bay delivers
as much Transform-
ers-ness in Dark of the
Moon as anyone could
possibly want. From
the cheeky revisionist
history of the open-
ing moon-landing
to the bowel-loosen-
ing explosions of the
finale, Bays movie feels like an attempt
to outdo everything the director has
previously attempted in terms of scale and
visual audacity, and there are moments
when he succeeds rather spectacularly.
That steel-covered slithery thing which
is called Shockwave, and which is like a
more menacing and destructive version of
Dunes sandworm is pretty breathtaking,
and the Decepticons casual annihilation
of Chicagos citizenry is pretty horrific;
terrified onlookers are zapped by lasers
(or something) and burst into poofs of
smoke, shredded clothing, and bone.
While the protracted climax eventually
turns into too much of a fine thing, the
effects are mostly outstanding, and some
scenes feature unexpectedly potent imag-
ery: paratroopers falling from the sky like
flying squirrels, a buildings slow collapse
suggested through the unbalanced water
level in a glass pitcher.
As usual, the banter between the trans-
formers, good and evil, vacillates between
humorless exposition and humorless
wisecracks, and the dialogue is occasion-
ally obvious to the point of stupefaction.
(When a tiff among a trio of bots leads
to a Mexican standoff, did we really need
one of them to say, Its a Mexican stand-
off!?) But while no one could conceiv-
ably be going to this second sequel for
the wit, you might be in shock at just how
much wit the movie actually contains,
especially since the screenwriter doesnt
appear to have provided any himself.
To be sure, LaBeouf is consistently
dreadful, Ken Jeong (must he be in every-
thing?!) briefly matches him, and while
arm candy Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
improves on Megan Fox, that was hardly a
tough assignment. (Huntington-Whiteley
is an amazing camera specimen, though;
her lips seem to encompass half her face.)
Still, while youre waiting for the next bit
of mind-blowing action spectacle in Trans-
formers: Dark of the Moon, take a moment
to thank the gods of eccentricity for John
Turturro, Frances McDormand, Julie
White, Kevin Dunn, Patrick Dempsey,
the great Alan Tudyk, and gulp! John
Malkovich, all of whose sly-comic con-
tributions help make the wait a relatively
painless one. Reacting to the unfathom-
able presence of LaBeouf in his building,
Malkovichs uppity business magnate asks,
WTF to that? I asked the same thing
about Malkovichs presence but couldnt
have been happier to see him.
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River Cities Reader Vol. 18 No. 782 July 7 - 20, 2011 14
Whats Happenin
Theatre
A Lesson Before Dying
Playcrafters Barn Theatre
Friday, July 15, through Sunday, July 24
R
unning July 15 through 24, the
Playcrafters Barn Theatres lat-
est production is author Romulus
Linneys A Lesson Before Dying.
And yes, the title does feature a
particular word that might make
you think the show is depressing
as all get-out. Allow me, though, to
alleviate your fears: Just because a
production has lesson in the title
doesnt mean its downbeat! There
are all sorts of fun lessons out there!
Piano lessons, dance lessons !
Whats that? It was the word
dying that made you think the
play was a downer? Hmm. I hadnt
thought of that ... .
Okay, so A Lesson Before Dying
is pretty sad. But since this stage
drama is adapted from a much-
admired, Pulitzer Prize-nominated
book by Ernest J. Gaines which
was also adapted into an Emmy-
winning HBO movie starring Don
Cheadle chances are excellent
that itll be an exhilarating kind of
sad.
Set in 1948 Louisiana, the story
concerns an unjustly convicted
man whose spirit has been an-
nihilated by his death sentence;
even his own attorney, attempting
to gain favor with the all-white
jury, referred to the man as a hog.
Yet thanks to the devoted efforts of
his grandmother and a committed
grade-school teacher, the prisoner
gradually learns how to die with
dignity, and the true meanings of
compassion, forgiveness, and self-
worth.
Noted area performer, storyteller,
and radio host Shellie Moore Guy
directs
Play-
crafters
presen-
tation of
Linneys
piece,
a stage
work
that the
New
York
Times
praised for its irresistible momen-
tum and cathartic explosion, and
that DCTheatreScene.com called
visually, aurally, psychologically,
and emotionally breathtaking. And
if all this isnt enough to convince
you that A Lesson Before Dying
might be worth a visit regardless
of its somber subject matter, trust
me: There are way more depress-
ing ways to spend a couple hours
this summer. Have you seen Green
Lantern?
For more information on,
and tickets to, A Lesson Before
Dying, call (309)762-0330 or visit
Playcrafters.com.
Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest
Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
Thursday, July 7, through Sunday, July 17
J
ust how beloved is Oscar Wildes
classic farce The Importance of Being
Earnest, running at the Richmond Hill
Barn Theatre July 7 through 17? Cri-
tiquing its 1895 debut production, The
Worlds William Archer wrote that the
play was an absolutely willful expres-
sion of an irrepressibly witty personality.
And thats a line from one of Earnests
negative reviews.
Nowadays, of course, its nearly impos-
sible to find any of those, and thats cer-
tainly not due to critics lack of oppor-
tunity; presentations of Wildes timeless
comedy are routinely staged for patrons
of educational, community, and profes-
sional theatre. (Broadways most recent,
Tony Award-winning Earnest described
by the New York Times as buoyant
and consistently funny closed four
days before Richmond Hills opening.)
Yet theres nothing routine about this
madly inspired entertainment that finds
two 19th Century scoundrels avoiding
social obligations and pursuing romance
through a pair of Earnest aliases, as
audiences will discover in director Joe
DePauws Richmond Hill outing one
of the very few period comedies the
Barn has produced over the past several
decades.
Boasting wonderfully memorable
situations and characters none more
so than the intimidating dowager Lady
Bracknell
The Impor-
tance of Being
Earnest is a
true theatrical
hoot, boasting
some of the
most clever
dialogue ever
composed
for the stage. You may be asking: How
clever? Lets see! Among the following,
which is the only sentiment not uttered
in Oscar Wildes Earnest?
1) It is awfully hard work doing noth-
ing.
2) Whenever people talk to me about
the weather, I always feel quite certain
that they mean something else.
3) An engagement should come on
a young girl as a surprise pleasant or
unpleasant as the case may be.
4) London society is full of women of
the very highest birth who have, of their
own free choice, remained 35 for years.
5) Experience is the name everyone
gives to their mistakes.
6) All women become like their
mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. Thats his.
Tickets to The Importance of Being
Earnest are $8 on opening night and $10
for the remainder of the shows run, and
can be reserved by calling (309)944-2244
or visiting RHPlayers.com.
Music
Rock the District with Tesla
The District of Rock Island
Saturday, July 16, 7 p.m.
I
live a stones throw away from the District of Rock
Island. Granted, it would require Superman throw-
ing the stone to actually hit anything there, but Im still
reasonably close. And on breezeless summer nights,
with the windows open, I can always hear the happily
infectious sounds of music and audience revelry during
the Districts outdoor concerts in the Great River Plaza.
Consequently, Id invite you all to my place to enjoy
this years annual, all-ages Rock the District concert
with featured guests Tesla, but Im sure wed have a
much better time seeing the venerated rockers in per-
son. (That, and my living room can comfortably seat,
like, six or seven of you tops.)
Formed in Sacramento, California, in 1984 under its
original moniker City Kidd, the group made a signifi-
cant splash with Teslas very first studio album, as 1986s
platinum-selling Mechanical Resonance rose to number
32 on the Billboard charts and scored a top-10 single
with Modern Day Cowboy. Over the next five years,
a bunch of other top-10 hits followed among them
Love Song, Signs, Call It What You Want, and
The Way It Is along with tours alongside such rock
legends as Def Leppard, David Lee Roth, and Poison.
A quarter century after the bands studio debut, Tesla
is still going strong, with the rockers most recent re-
lease 2008s Forever More hitting Billboards top-30
chart, its single I Wanna Live hitting the top five, and
a recent world tour finding the musicians visiting Aus-
tralia, Japan, and Europe. All told, Teslas is an inspiring
success story, so on behalf of fans everywhere, Id just
like to say: Words cant explain what you give when
you stir it up with song and emotion, so thank you.
(And in case youre wondering: Yes, five song references
in 18 words is a new record for me. Not that Im one to
brag.)
Tesla performs with opening sets by Pop Evil, Three
Years Hollow, and Kyng, tickets are $25, and more
information on this years Rock the District event is
available by visiting RIDistrict.com.
Elizabeth Buzard
and Cara DeMarlie
River Cities Reader Vol. 18 No. 782 July 7 - 20, 2011 15
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
What Ise
ls Happenin
MUSIC
Saturday, July 9 Echoes of Pink
Floyd. An all-ages, outdoor concert
with the ultimate Floyd experience.
Rock Island Brewing Company (1815
Second Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. For
information, call (309)793-4060 or visit
RIBCO.com.
Monday, July 11 Rhythms Along
the River: The 2011 Drum Corps
International Show. Outdoor event
featuring a lineup of world-class drum
and bugle corps. Brady Street Stadium
(3600 Brady Street, Davenport). 7 p.m.
$15-25. For information, call (317)275-
1212 or visit DCI.org.
Thursday, July 14 Tea Leaf Green.
Acclaimed indie-rock musicians in
concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main
Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $15. For
tickets and information, call (563)326-
1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com
Friday, July 15 Jolie Holland.
Folk, country, and blues singer in an
Intimate at the Englertconcert.
Englert Theatre (221 East Washington
Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $16. For tickets
and information, call (319)688-2653 or
visit Englert.org.
Sunday, July 17 Bill Bell. Famed
musician performs and educates as
part of Polyrhythms Third Sunday
Jazz Matine & Workshop Series.
Music
Music on the Lawn:
Thaddeus Rex with Rock
Butterworth Center
Wednesday, July 13
S
ee that tall, adorable, amus-
ing creature in the accom-
panying photo? Thats the latest
guest in the But-
terworth Centers
annual Music on
the Lawn concert
series, and hes
in the area to get
your kids excited
about reading
through silly
songs, goofy danc-
ing, and a whole
lot of roaring.
Oh, and standing next to him
is his dinosaur buddy, Rock.
Winner of the 2008 John Len-
non Songwriting Contest and
described by the Washington
Post as part Monty Python, part
Dr. Seuss, popular childrens
entertainer Thaddeus Rex will
perform at the Moline venue on
July 13, delivering his signature
blend of education and rockin
whimsy at 8:30 a.m. and 1 and
6:30 p.m. Stopping at more than
200 venues annually, Rex and his
plush, seven-foot-tall companion
have proven a continual smash
with family audiences nation-
wide for their high-energy ditties
that encourage literacy while also
encouraging interactive partici-
pation; in sentiments shared by
many, Time Out New York wrote,
Its pretty rare these days to find
a kids performer as imaginative
and original as Thaddeus Rex,
and rarer still, a musician who
weaves educational content into
his tunes in a hip way.
But the best way to get a sense
of Thaddeus Rexs mu-
sical (and hysterical)
talents is by listening
to them yourselves. I
hereby direct you to
the artists Web site at
ThaddeusRex.com,
where youre able to
hear selections from
the albums Martian
Television Invasion,
Shakin in Chicago, and We
Wanna Rock, including songs
with such titles as Where Can I
Find Green Eggs & Ham, Slimy
Green & Kinda Funny, and my
personal favorite, I Stepped in
Dog Doo. Seriously, Ive been
giggling at that one for hours.
And I wonder why no one at my
workplace will share an office
with me.
Admission to Thaddeus Rexs
and Rocks concert is free, youre
advised to bring lawn chairs and/
or blankets, and more informa-
tion on the day is available by
calling (309)743-2700 or visiting
ButterworthCenter.com.
Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest
Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
Thursday, July 7, through Sunday, July 17
J
ust how beloved is Oscar Wildes
classic farce The Importance of Being
Earnest, running at the Richmond Hill
Barn Theatre July 7 through 17? Cri-
tiquing its 1895 debut production, The
Worlds William Archer wrote that the
play was an absolutely willful expres-
sion of an irrepressibly witty personality.
And thats a line from one of Earnests
negative reviews.
Nowadays, of course, its nearly impos-
sible to find any of those, and thats cer-
tainly not due to critics lack of oppor-
tunity; presentations of Wildes timeless
comedy are routinely staged for patrons
of educational, community, and profes-
sional theatre. (Broadways most recent,
Tony Award-winning Earnest described
by the New York Times as buoyant
and consistently funny closed four
days before Richmond Hills opening.)
Yet theres nothing routine about this
madly inspired entertainment that finds
two 19th Century scoundrels avoiding
social obligations and pursuing romance
through a pair of Earnest aliases, as
audiences will discover in director Joe
DePauws Richmond Hill outing one
of the very few period comedies the
Barn has produced over the past several
decades.
Boasting wonderfully memorable
situations and characters none more
so than the intimidating dowager Lady
Bracknell
The Impor-
tance of Being
Earnest is a
true theatrical
hoot, boasting
some of the
most clever
dialogue ever
composed
for the stage. You may be asking: How
clever? Lets see! Among the following,
which is the only sentiment not uttered
in Oscar Wildes Earnest?
1) It is awfully hard work doing noth-
ing.
2) Whenever people talk to me about
the weather, I always feel quite certain
that they mean something else.
3) An engagement should come on
a young girl as a surprise pleasant or
unpleasant as the case may be.
4) London society is full of women of
the very highest birth who have, of their
own free choice, remained 35 for years.
5) Experience is the name everyone
gives to their mistakes.
6) All women become like their
mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. Thats his.
Tickets to The Importance of Being
Earnest are $8 on opening night and $10
for the remainder of the shows run, and
can be reserved by calling (309)944-2244
or visiting RHPlayers.com.
Music
Rock the District with Tesla
The District of Rock Island
Saturday, July 16, 7 p.m.
I
live a stones throw away from the District of Rock
Island. Granted, it would require Superman throw-
ing the stone to actually hit anything there, but Im still
reasonably close. And on breezeless summer nights,
with the windows open, I can always hear the happily
infectious sounds of music and audience revelry during
the Districts outdoor concerts in the Great River Plaza.
Consequently, Id invite you all to my place to enjoy
this years annual, all-ages Rock the District concert
with featured guests Tesla, but Im sure wed have a
much better time seeing the venerated rockers in per-
son. (That, and my living room can comfortably seat,
like, six or seven of you tops.)
Formed in Sacramento, California, in 1984 under its
original moniker City Kidd, the group made a signifi-
cant splash with Teslas very first studio album, as 1986s
platinum-selling Mechanical Resonance rose to number
32 on the Billboard charts and scored a top-10 single
with Modern Day Cowboy. Over the next five years,
a bunch of other top-10 hits followed among them
Love Song, Signs, Call It What You Want, and
The Way It Is along with tours alongside such rock
legends as Def Leppard, David Lee Roth, and Poison.
A quarter century after the bands studio debut, Tesla
is still going strong, with the rockers most recent re-
lease 2008s Forever More hitting Billboards top-30
chart, its single I Wanna Live hitting the top five, and
a recent world tour finding the musicians visiting Aus-
tralia, Japan, and Europe. All told, Teslas is an inspiring
success story, so on behalf of fans everywhere, Id just
like to say: Words cant explain what you give when
you stir it up with song and emotion, so thank you.
(And in case youre wondering: Yes, five song references
in 18 words is a new record for me. Not that Im one to
brag.)
Tesla performs with opening sets by Pop Evil, Three
Years Hollow, and Kyng, tickets are $25, and more
information on this years Rock the District event is
available by visiting RIDistrict.com.
A n s w e r : 5 . T h a t o n e s a c t u a l l y f r o m W i l d e s c o m e d y
L a d y W i n d e r m e r e s F a n . . . j u s t l i k e I t o l d y o u i n
o u r A p r i l q u i z o n t h e a u t h o r s q u o t e s ! I c a n t b e l i e v e
y o u r e n o t c o m m i t t i n g t h e s e a r t i c l e s t o m e m o r y !
Elizabeth Buzard
and Cara DeMarlie
ing going on let that be an instrument,
rather than play all the time. Similarly, he
said, hed like to use more acoustic guitars
and a bigger room on the next record.
(The opening piano and warm a cappella
harmonies of Pardon Mes Ladybird hint
at a group far more adventurous than the
records big-rock songs suggest.)
That approach, Tyler said, will partly be
an attempt to keep the lyrics from being
overwhelmed
by the band.
In a genre
in which the
words often
approach irrel-
evance, Tyler
said losing
lyrics to the
noise kind of
bums me out.
... I think its
as big a part of
it as anything
else. To me, its
probably the most important thing outside
of the actual harmony, the melody of the
music thats coming out.
Tyler said hes most influenced lyrically
by Charles Bukowski, and although he im-
mediately backtracked, he said his biggest
challenge in songwriting is courage: Im
trying to get the balls to say the things I
really want to say.
Thats a personal obstacle rather than a
function of being on a major label, he said:
If they dont like it, then they dont have
to sell our product. But he added that he
struggles with whether he wants to be that
open with everybody. Do you really want
to tell all?
As for signing with Atlantic in 2007 at a
time when many artists have eschewed the
traditional label infrastructure of the music
business Tyler said his bands experience
has been great.
We havent had any sort of clashing with
each other yet, he said. I know it happens.
If it doesnt, its just going to be a wonderful
relationship.
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights will
perform on Thursday, July 7, at the Redstone
Room (129 Main Street in Davenport). The
show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 and
available from RedstoneRoom.com.
For more information on Jonathan
Tyler & the Northern Lights, visit
JonathanTylerMusic.com.
1
onathan Tyler has described his bands
major-label debut, Pardon Me, as a
handshake album an introduction.
But unlike that description or the
apologetic title, theres nothing polite about
the full-bore rock produced by Jonathan
Tyler & the Northern Lights which will
perform at the Redstone Room on July 7.
USA Today concisely summarized the
appeal of the band in naming Pardon Me
a pick of the
week last year:
Did you think
theyd quit mak-
ing bands that
groove as hard
as they rock?
You know, like
ZZ Top, Lynyrd
Skynyrd, and
Aerosmith?
Listen to this
riff-heavy blast,
the title track
from this bands
debut album, and think again.
With its blend of Southern and hard rock
paired with Tylers charismatic vocals, the
albums first half is an undeniable statement
catchy, anthemic, loud, and big that
sustains the listener through the more-mut-
ed back end. Standouts include scorchers
Young & Free and Devils Basement
the latter sounding like Monster Mag-
net through a bluesy filter but Gypsy
Woman eclipses them with a soaring
chorus contrasted with big-beat verses.
Yet Tyler who in a phone interview this
week sounded like the polar opposite of his
outsize stage persona said the bands next
album is likely to air things out a little.
He declined to fault Pardon Me, but his
comments about it suggest some retrospec-
tive regret. It was our best effort at that
time, and it came from a really good place,
he said. And I think ... what really matters
at the end of the day is the motive behind it,
and the heart behind it. I can say that it was
pure and we had good intentions and the
best of motives.
Chalk that faint praise up to the bands
studio learning curve. While Tyler said the
next album which he hopes to record this
winter isnt far enough along in the writ-
ing process to discuss, he did say the band
will take a different approach to perfor-
mance and recording.
One of the biggest things I feel like Ive
learned is just space, and how to play less,
he said. Use the space, where theres noth-
Grooving as Hard as They Rock
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Amador County, California: The Mother
Lode Tea Party led the successful effort to
remove ICLEI form Amador County.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania:
Activists Ruth Miller and Maggie Roddin have
raised awareness that led to the removal of
ICLEI.
Edmond, Oklahoma: Molly Jenkins mo-
tivated 200 people to attend the city-council
meeting and demand action against ICLEI.
Spartanburg, South Carolina: City-council
member Roger Nutt successfully directed the
effort against the program, and Spartanburg
became the sixth community to kick out
ICLEI in a vote of 6-0 (with one abstention).
There have also been anti-ICLEI rallies held
in several cities in the past month.
There appears to be a developing grass-
roots movement to reject programs such
as Agenda 21. It remains to be seen if these
groups might also reject Washington-based
control over rural lands, such as the council
created by Executive Order 13575.
As long as theres not another Weinergate,
maybe theyll notice.
This article originally appeared, in a slightly
longer form, at TheBlaze.com. A hyperlinked
version is available at RCReader.com/y/whrc.
Mike Opelka is a displaced Midwesterner in
New York City working as the newsletter editor
and writer-at-large for TheBlaze.com.
Continued From Page 3
something called Local Initiatives Support
Corportation (LISC). LISC uses the language
of Agenda 21 and ICLEI as its Web page de-
tails work to build sustainable communities.
Melody Barnes is a former vice president at
the George Soros-funded Center for American
Progress.
Hilda Solis in 2000 received an award for
her work on environmental justice.
Nancy Sutley served on the board of the
Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District and
was one of the biggest supporters of low-flow
toilets that are now credited with costing more
money than expected while causing some
nasty problems.
Is it possible that concerns about 13575 are
just typical anti-government paranoia? Let us
review the mission and function of WHRC:
The Council shall work across executive de-
partments, agencies, and offices to coordinate
development of policy recommendations to
promote economic prosperity and quality
of life in rural America, and shall coordinate
my Administrations engagement with rural
communities.
Economic prosperity and a better quality
of life that all sounds fairly innocent and
well-intentioned. But continuing deeper into
the order we find the council is charged with
four directives. The first: (a) make recom-
mendations to the President, through the
Director of the Domestic Policy Council and
the Director of the National Economic Coun-
by Mike Opelka
cil, on streamlining and leveraging Federal
investments in rural areas, where appropriate,
to increase the impact of Federal dollars and
create economic opportunities to improve the
quality of life in rural America.
The vague language here sounds non-
threatening. But is there a hint here that a
rural stimulus plan might be in the making?
Will the federal government start pumping
money into farmlands under the guise of cre-
ating economic opportunities to improve the
quality of life in rural America? It is difficult
to discern as the language is so broad.
We continue with the functions of the
WHRC: (b) coordinate and increase the
effectiveness of Federal engagement with rural
stakeholders, including agricultural organiza-
tions, small businesses, education and training
institutions, health-care providers, telecom-
munications-services providers, research and
land-grant institutions, law enforcement,
State, local, and tribal governments, and
nongovernmental organizations regarding the
needs of rural America.
Virtually every aspect of rural life seems to
now be part of the governments mission. And
while all of the items in (b) sound like typical
government-speak, you should be alarmed
when you read the words nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs). NGOs are unelected
but typically government-funded groups that
act like embedded community organizers.
And NGOs are key to Agenda 21s plans.
Continuing: (c) coordinate Federal efforts
directed toward the growth and development
of geographic regions that encompass both
urban and rural areas.
That one sounds very similar to the
language found in Agenda 21 managing the
population in both rural and urban areas, with
a focus on controlling open spaces.
Finally: (d) and identify and facilitate
rural economic opportunities associated with
energy development, outdoor recreation, and
other conservation-related activities.
This function of Executive Order 13575 ties
energy development with outdoor recreation
and other conservation-related activities.
When did outdoor recreation become a con-
servation related activity?
The United Nations has pushed its sus-
tainable-development program for almost
20 years. The UN social justice blueprint
Agenda 21 requires governments to control
almost all aspects of an individuals life but
has recently met with substantial resistance
in America. There are many examples from
around the country of efforts to remove local
governments from ICLEI and of opposition
to Agenda 21s influence over local policy and
governance.
Carroll County, Maryland: Starting in
February 2011, all five newly elected county
commissioners, led by Richard Rothschild,
voted to become the first county in the nation
to end the ICLEI contract.
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do as poorly as the projections, either.
And there was really something interest-
ing about the way [director] David Turley
used the space: He put actors clear back to
the bathrooms, an area we had never used
before, and so there was no problem fitting
that many people. I took some pictures of
that last moment, and it looked just like the
painting.
Jesus Christ Superstar
(July 2011)
The Hilltops latest is director Turleys
production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim
Rice rock opera, which boasts the largest cast
in the companys history, Tapscott in the title
role, and the untraditional casting choice of
Sara Speight (ne King) as Judas, after the
actor originally cast in the role was forced to
drop out.
David and I were talking about a few
different options for Judas maybe moving
somebody in the ensemble up and when
we were at the Hilltop yard sale a while ago,
Sara King just jokingly said, Well, I can play
Judas, and walked away. And we were like,
Hmmm ... thats actually a great idea. And
controversial, too.
Theres already a few controversial things
about the show, because were setting it in
the late 60s, and the temple scene has drug-
dealing and things like that. But we figured
that Saras Judas would be an interesting little
twist on things. If anything, at least at times,
thats kind of what were known for: doing
something that gets people talking.
I know we have some season-ticket-hold-
ers that are already not coming, just because
of the shows theme and the female Judas.
Ive had several people say, Wed really like
to support you, but we cant come to see that
show. But thats all right. Its gonna be the
best-sounding cast weve ever had. I mean,
theres John VanDeWoestyne, Brian Nelson,
Shelly and Crianna Walljasper, Jenny Winn
... . Top-to-bottom amazing. And Sara can
sing the crap out of Judas. My God, I mean,
her vocals are ridiculous. So were just gonna
see what happens. I mean, its our third
anniversary. We might as well challenge
ourselves.
Jesus Christ Superstar runs July 7 through
31 and plays in repertory with The Last Five
Years, running July 13 through 30. Perfor-
mances are held at Rock Islands District
Theatre, and tickets and information are
available by calling (309)235-1654 or visiting
HarrisonHilltop.com.
You dont want to be the company that
screws up Rent. You dont want to be known
for that. And we were a little concerned
because again, audition-wise, we didnt have
that great of a turnout. Thankfully, though,
we got some really, really talented people.
And luckily, we had a lot of really talented
friends.
I knew enough about the show, because
Id seen it a bazillion times. But something
I always thought about the show was that a
lot of the meaning was lost if you saw it in
the balcony at a big production, like at the
Netherlander in New York. You dont get the
emotion. At the Hilltop, you had no choice
but to engage with the actors, and really see
the emotion in actors up close and personal.
Sunday in the Park with
George (June 2010)
Another Pulitzer winner was staged in
Stephen Sondheims masterpiece about
neo-impressionist painter Georges Seurat, a
notoriously demanding and given the period
sets and costumes for more than a dozen
performers costly musical that, in most
productions, finds Act I climaxing with its cast
posed against a large-scale reproduction of
Seurats A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte.
We had been told by several people that
we were gonna lose money on this. By that
point, we had a board [of directors], and ev-
eryone on the board was like, Its a mistake.
Dont do it. You might close. Because its a
really expensive show. But when we decided
to do musicals, it was kind of a goal to do
one of Sondheims a year, and we figured
we might as well start with one of the more
difficult ones. Because if we could figure
that one out, we could probably figure out
Sweeney Todd and other things.
We knew there were going to be limita-
tions. And there was a lot of discussion early
on about, Should we try to get a painting for
that last moment? We could probably design
one some way ... . But it became very clear,
once we got into production, that we didnt
need it. We knew that if we could make up
for it by really focusing on the storytelling
and the musicality, then people were gonna
buy the product. Sets and stuff are great, but
if you dont believe the actors ... .
Luckily we had such talented people in it,
and that was the first show that Danny White
music-directed. He re-orchestrated Sond-
heim for three instruments. It was amazing.
And the show went very, very well, and sold
out almost every night. I didnt expect it to do
quite as well as it did. But I didnt expect it to
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until last summer. As we were winding
down Richard III, says King of 2010s
Guild production, Pats wife, Patti, at some
point made an offhand comment that Pat
had been reading Lear quite a bit. And at
that point, Lear was not on the schedule. In
fact, we hadnt decided on what the season
was going to look like.
But she said Pat had been reading it
pretty heavily, and was just burning to do it
somewhere. So I approached him and said,
Hey, would you be interested in putting
this together with me directing it? And
he said, Hell, yeah. So I went straight to
[Guild Executive Director] Doug Tschopp,
and Doug put it on the schedule. King
laughs. And here we are.
Flaherty says that even before he was
officially asked to play Lear for the Guild,
he had begun memorizing the role, a deci-
sion motivated by his 2009 conversation
with Wooten. So Ive had plenty of time to
study it, he says. Which is a good thing,
too, because theres a lot there.
With actors, directors, and Shakespeare
scholars all having different ideas about
just how close to madness the 80-year-old
monarch is in his opening scene, Flaherty
says, Im kind of playing him like hes
senile right off the bat.
Everybody knows that he should have
retired years ago, he continues, and so of
course, hes going to make a mess of things,
because he wants to retire but still wants
to be in charge. But Im trying to point out
how childish he is, because otherwise, that
first scene doesnt really make any sense.
For him to go insane in disowning Cordelia
like that, hes got to be at a raving place to
start with.
In terms of finding character inspiration,
Flaherty says, Once I got everything mem-
orized, I decided to start looking around at
Lears on YouTube. So Ive seen [Laurence]
Olivier, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen ... . And
theyre all different. But most of Flahertys
inspiration, he admits, came from a more
personal source his late grandmother.
Shed begun going into Alzheimers
when she was in her 80s, says Flaherty,
and she was getting harder to deal with
getting very childish, and things like that.
So its a lot about Grandma Flaherty, and
her march toward death.
Considering the breadth of the role
and its many soliloquies, Flaherty says the
memorization process for King Lear was
actually a relatively simple one.
It amazes me, he admits, adding that
memorization has gotten a lot easier than
it used to be. Theres something about
been married, he says with a grim deadpan,
all of my life. (He laughs and adds, She
knows that joke and she hates it. Its been
31 years.)
The nicest thing about Genesius Guild
is the guys and the women my age over
there, he says. All those guys I started
with over there are still there: Bob Hanske,
and Peggy Hanske, and Mike Carron, and
Earl Strupp ... . Theyre great to work with.
Theyre so much fun.
And there are no egos allowed over at
Genesius Guild, he continues, because the
material is so humbling. You start to think
youre pretty good, and then ... !
Of course, given the frequent chal-
lenge of outdoor theatre, Flaherty admits
that quite a bit about Genesius Guild can
be humbling, especially if the weather
isnt cooperating. It can just be the most
uncomfortable place to watch theatre, he
says. The comedies are nice and short, but
when youre looking at a three-hour play
like Lear, you can start with 150 people
[in the audience] and end up with maybe
40. But thank God they do it. They go out
there, and they sit through our stuff.
And while the experience can be trying
for audiences, it can be even tougher, Fla-
herty suggests, on those who arent allowed
to leave Lincoln Park.
Its horrible, says the actor of perform-
ing in less-than-ideal outdoor conditions.
Its just horrible. It finally gets so bad that
you dont worry about it anymore. Youre
like, Oh, Im getting bit, oh, Im sweating,
oh, I sure could use some water ... !
Laughing, he adds, But we do it, you
know? And we all laugh about it afterward.
We almost killed ourselves tonight! Yeah,
that was funny! That was fun! Lets do it
again! You dont really know why, but you
do.
Act IV: A Lot There
Flaherty says it was two years ago that
Don Wooten asked about his interest
in one day playing King Lears lead, the
tyrannical, ultimately tragic ruler who goes
mad after banishing his loving daughter
Cordelia and unwisely leaving his kingdom
to the two daughters who claim to love him
best. And as any actor would be, Flaherty
was both flattered by, and intimidated by,
the thought of portraying perhaps the
most complex character in the Shakespeare
canon. Im almost embarrassed by the
curses he shouts at his daughters, says
Flaherty. I wouldnt say those things to a
woman to save my life!
Yet the suggestion didnt become a real-
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Shakespeare now that I understand. I
couldnt tell you what I understand about
it, but I read it, I spend time with it, and
two days later, the lines are there. Its when
they start making cuts thats whats hard.
Because it throws the timing off.
And with performances of King Lears
full text generally running over three
hours, Flaherty says it was understandable
but unfortunate that cuts to the script had
to be made for its Genesius Guild presenta-
tion.
They really didnt cut that many Lear
lines to start with, he says, which is really
what makes me feel piggy, because they cut
quite a few of Kents lines, and quite a few
of Gloucesters lines. But they did cut some,
and when I memorized, I didnt have a cut
script. So I fell in love with certain phrases,
and if they were gone, it was like, Jesus ... !
Its taken a little bit of time, Flaherty
adds, but Ive finally accepted most all of
the cuts. And Im gradually figuring out
how to be a team player. He laughs. Ive
got to be a team player. What a pain in the
butt itd be to have this big asshole as Lear.
Act V: Nerds
With numerous rehearsals still sched-
uled before King Lears July 16 opening,
Flaherty admits that hes already more
than ready to get the production on its
feet. Mike Kings been trying to settle me
down, he says with a laugh, because Ive
been memorized for two years. I cant wait
to test-drive this thing, and hes going,
You know, weve got a few weeks to go
here! Just calm the fuck down!
(Thats absolutely true, says King
with a laugh. The note that I find myself
continually giving to Pat, even this early
in the process, is Save that, Pat. Lets
not push this too hard now. I mean, he
is chomping at the bit to just punch a
hole in this role. And I know he will. He
is absolutely emotionally and mentally
ready for it.)
For all of his antsiness, though, Fla-
herty says hes thrilled to be spending
him time with the ensemble recruited for
Genesius Guilds 2011 season. Weve got
such a nice mix, he says. Weve got 65-,
70-year-old people up there, and weve got
the best high-school kids ... .
And weve got a great core group of
Augustana kids that followed Jeff Cous-
sens [director of Junes The Taming of the
Shrew] over this year, he adds. Theyve
been through their baptism of fire, memo-
rizing their Taming of the Shrew parts in
10 days and stuff like that. With that first
show, we know theyre going, What the
hell am I doing here? And then once they
get up-to-speed, its like, Well ... I think I
can do the next one, too ... ! Its wonderful.
Laughing, Flaherty adds, Oh, and
weve got one kid thats 13. I mean, he
didnt look like he could do a damned
thing, but then he started to read, and it
was like, Well, we usually dont take them
at 13, but if hes in the neighborhood ... !
Its a big commitment, says Flaherty
of the Genesius Guild experience, and
were always losing somebody in shows.
But nobody seems to drop out because its
too hot, or the materials too hard, or any-
thing like that. You know, its just a bunch
of people out there suffering, but its a nice
bunch of people.
Were nerds, he says with a laugh,
and Ive met some of the best nerds in
the world in Genesius Guild. Its just kind
of magical out there.
Genesius Guilds King Lear will be per-
formed in Rock Islands Lincoln Park July
16 through 24, with performances at 8 p.m.
on Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is
free (although donations are encouraged),
and more information is available by visit-
ing Genesius.org.
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in the lobby
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The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
Davenport). 3 p.m. all-ages jazz
workshop $5 per adult, children free;
6 p.m. concert $10-15. For tickets and
Polyrhythms.org and RedstoneRoom.
com.
Monday, July 18 Igor & the Red
Elvises. Russian-American rockers in
concert. Rock Island Brewing Company
(1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 8
p.m. $10. For information, call (309)793-
4060 or visit RIBCO.com.
Tuesday, July 19, and Thursday,
July 21 Four Play Cabaret. Concert
performance with Heather Beck singing
Carly Simon, Laura Miller singing Carole
King, Sunshine Ramsey singing Janis
Joplin, and Jan Schmall singing Joan
Baez. Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818 Third
Avenue, Rock Island). 6 p.m. $10. For
7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
THEATRE
Thursday, July 7, through Sunday,
July 31 Jesus Christ Superstar. The
Harrison Hilltop Theatres production
of the classic rock opera, running in
repertory with The Last Five Years. The
District Theatre (1611 Second Avenue,
Rock Island). $18-20. For tickets and
Friday, July 8, through Sunday,
July 17 The Drowsy Chaperone.
Quad City Music Guilds presentation
of the Broadway smash. Prospect
Park Auditorium (1584 34th Avenue,
Moline). Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30 p.m.,
Sundays 2 p.m. $10-15. For tickets and
QCMusicGuild.com.
Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July
10 High School Reunion. Original
comedy performed by the Clinton Area
Showboat Theatres intern staff, written
by artistic director Patrick Stinson.
Ericksen Community Center (1401 11th
Avenue North, Clinton). Saturday 7:30
p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. $16-20. For tickets
and information, call (563)242-6760 or
visit ClintonShowboat.org.
Wednesday, July 13, through
Saturday, July 30 The Last Five Years.
The Harrison Hilltop Theatres production
of the musical romance, running in
repertory with Jesus Christ Superstar. The
District Theatre (1611 Second Avenue,
Rock Island). $18-20. For tickets and
Thursday, July 14, through
Saturday, July 23 Red Herring.
Farcical comedy of love, marriage, and
Soviet spies, set in the 1950s. Timber
Lake Playhouse (8215 Black Oak Road,
Mt. Carroll). Tuesdays-Saturdays 7:30
p.m., Sunday 2 and 6:30 p.m. $15-23. For
2035 or visit TimberLakePlayhouse.org.
Thursday, July 14, through Sunday,
July 24 The Drowsy Chaperone. The
Tony Award-winning musical comedy
within a comedy. Clinton Area Showboat
Theatre (311 Riverview Drive, Clinton).
Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays
and Wednesday 3 p.m. $16-20. For
6760 or visit ClintonShowboat.org.
Friday, July 15, through Sunday,
July 17 All Shook Up. Elvis meets
Shakespeares Twelfth Night in
Broadways musical comedy. Ohnward
Fine Arts Center (1215 East Platt Street,
Maquoketa). Friday and Saturday 7 p.m.,
Sunday 2 p.m. $10-18. For tickets and
OhnwardFineArtsCenter.com.
Saturday, July 16, through Sunday,
July 24 King Lear. Genesius Guilds
production of Shakespeares classic
tragedy. Lincoln Park (11th Avenue and
38th Street, Rock Island). Saturdays and
Sundays 8 p.m. Free admission, with
donations encouraged. For information,
visit Genesius.org.
MOVIES
Sunday, July 10 Jews & Baseball:
An American Love Story. Documentary
about immigration, assimilation, bigotry,
heroism, the passing on of traditions,
and the shattering of stereotypes,
presented by the Jewish Federation of
the Quad Cities. Figge Art Museum (225
West Second Street, Davenport). 4 p.m.
$5, students free. For information, call
(309)793-1300 or visit JFQC.org.
EVENT
Tuesday, July 19, through Sunday,
July 24 Rock Island County Fair.
Annual summer event featuring
rides, games, vendors, 4-H and
childrens activities, live music, truck
and tractor pulls, stock-car races, a
demolition derby, and more. Rock
Island County Fairgrounds (Archer
Drive and Avenue of the Cities, East
Moline). Tuesday and Thursday 7:30
a.m. gates, Wednesday and Friday 8
a.m. gates, Saturday and Sunday 9
a.m. gates. Free gate admission. For
RockIslandCountyFair.com.
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or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (AdviceGoddess.com)
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Creature from the
$Iack Lagoon
Ive been engaged to a man for seven
years, but we havent been able to afford to
get married. I attend college part-time while
raising my daughter and working. He treats
me well and works hard, but hes unmotivat-
ed and undereducated. He doesnt even have
a high-school diploma and can only get low-
paying work with bad hours. Three months
ago, he was fired from a nursing home for
stealing drinks from the soda machine, and
he hasnt looked for a job since. He said he
couldnt when we had a rainy period; now he
says its too hot. When I suggested he get up
early to beat the heat, he got angry. Our re-
lationship has never been about money, but
Im not seeing much light at the end of the
tunnel. Why do I stay? Because I love him,
and Im scared I wouldnt be able to make it
on my own as a single mother.
Trapped
A boyfriend who actually works hard
would be working hard to stop sponging off
you maybe getting his GED so he could get
more than a dead-end, minimum-wage job.
Thats kinda tough to do when the answers to
Whered you go to school and what did you
study? are Meadowood Elementary and
Babar the Elephant.
Still, school isnt everything. A woman I
know, Tig Notaro, flunked eighth grade twice,
got moved up to ninth grade, and flunked
that, too. When her classmates started to be
kids shed babysat for, she dropped out. Like
your boyfriend, she couldve resigned herself
to employment in the paper-hat/fry-vat sector,
but she worked briefly promoting bands, then
gave her all to doing stand-up. She went on
to have her own Comedy Central special, be
a featured character (Officer Tig) on The
Sarah Silverman Program, and tour interna-
tionally as a headlining comedian. She eventu-
ally got her GED, just to get it, but found it
most useful as cat food. (She reports that her
cat ate the left side of it the day she brought it
home.)
So, the problem isnt that school isnt your
guys thing, but that motivation isnt. You,
on the other hand, are attending college and
working and caring for two children the
little girl you gave birth to and the grown man
perfecting his napping skills on your couch.
You say your relationship has never been
about money. Actually, its very much about
money, on account of how little of it hes been
bringing home. And then, when its job-hunt-
ing time, he bleats, Its too hot, its too cold,
its too wet. Excuse me, but is he a man or
Goldilocks?
Its nice to see the good in people. Its nicer
for you if the good you see is actually there.
Otherwise, you just delay admitting the obvi-
ous: There isnt much light at the end of the
tunnel. Additionally, youre paying the rent
on the tunnel. You say you fear being on your
own as a single mother, but youre already on
your own. Without your boyfriend, youd be
a single mother with one less mouth to feed.
You can have a very different kind of guy in
your life one who makes you better and hap-
pier because youre with him. If you suspect
you arent worthy, try something: Act like
youre worthy. Like you deserve a man who
brings something to the relationship (and not
just a couple Mello Yellos he swiped from the
soda machine at the old-folks home).
Not into 7hankings
Something a guy said the first time we had
sex isnt sitting well with me. He said Thank
you. Those arent the worst two words in the
English language, but hearing them after sex
made me feel bad. Sort of used. We made
tentative plans for another date, but Im
wondering if Ill even hear from him again.
What does it mean when a guy uses this sort
of courteous closure after sex?
Disturbed
After he thanked you, did he ask very
politely how much a second hour would be? A
lot of women get ticked at hearing thank you
after sex, feeling theyre being seen as service
providers. Thats because you thank somebody
who does something for you, not when youve
done something mutual together. The thing is,
getting naked with somebody for the first time
doesnt enhance anybodys ability to articulate
thoughts. Maybe this guy was at a loss for
words, and suddenly, it came back to him, his
mother saying, What do you say when the
nice lady gives you a cookie? Instead of sitting
around dissecting the possibilities, do what
you always should when youre hoping to see
some date again: Forget about him until the
phone rings and hes on the other end asking if
you give discounts for repeat customers.
Ask
the
Advice
0oddess
Y AMY ALK0N
produces harmony; if it is wafted through the
air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
With this quote, Im alerting you to the fact that
a new truth is now floating into your world,
Sagittarius. Itll be misty and sparkly, yet some-
how also decisive and lucid. It will comfort you
and yours, but also be a bit shocking. It will be
sharply tonic, like good, strong medicine that
has a pungent yet oddly delicious flavor youve
never tasted before.

CAPRICORN (December 22-Janu-
ary 19): If there were a useful website
with the domain name AmIAGood-
PersonOrNot.com, I would advise you to go
check it out. The same is true if there were web-
sites like AmIAuthenticOrNot.com, AmIYum-
myOrNot.com, AmIEnlightenedOrNot.com, or
AmIAGorgeousGeniusOrNot.com. What Im
trying to tell you, Capricorn, is that this would
be an excellent time for you to find out more
about yourself from objective sources or any
other kind of sources, for that matter. Solicit
feedback, my beautiful darling. Ask for updates
on how youre doing.

AQUARIUS (January 20-Febru-
ary 18): Ninety-six percent of all
adults say they would change something about
their appearance if they could. That statistic is
one factor that leads philosopher Jonathan Zap
to make this observation: Suffering associated
with body image has reached such epidemic
proportions in our culture that it must be
counted as one of the greatest spiritual plagues
ever to be visited upon mankind. Thats the bad
news, Aquarius. The good news is that the com-
ing months will be an excellent time for learning
to be at more peace with how you look. I invite
you to formulate a three-point plan that will help
you come to a perspective in which you will love
your body exactly the way it is.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): On
her website Reuniting.info, Marnia
Robinson reported on a discovery she
made that may be useful to you. Wandering
around a county fair, she went to a reptile exhibit
where she encountered an animal trainer who
had an alligator resting serenely on his lap. She
asked him why the creature was so well-be-
haved. I pet it daily, he said. If I didnt, it
would quickly be wild again, and wouldnt allow
this. Apply that lesson in your own life, Pisces.
Bestow regular tenderness and loving touch to
the feral, untamed, primitive influences in your
life including any that may reside within you.
Homework: Say I love you at least 15 times a
day for the next seven days. Report your results to
FreeWillAstrology.com.
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LEO (July 23-August 22): Are you
feeling the sting of disappointment,
railing at life for reneging on one of its
promises to you? Are you in the throes of un-
leashing a great accusation, suffering the twisty
ache that comes from having your pet theories
disproved? Maybe you should consider the
possibility that you are simply getting an op-
portunity to correct a misunderstanding that
life isnt being mean to you and youre not being
punished. Id like to propose that you are, in
fact, in the first phase of your healing. Listen to
Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore: We read
the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22):
The more one dwells on oneself,
says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in
his book Going Sane, the more one is likely to
suffer. He thinks people need encouragement
to avoid excessive introspection. My project
as a psychoanalyst, he writes, is to free them
to not have to think about their lives so much.
While I feel he overstates the case, I do suspect
his message would be good for you to heed in
the coming weeks. For maximum success and
robust mental health, take a generous portion
of your attention off yourself and focus it on
living your life with compassion, curiosity, and
concern for others.

LIBRA (September 23-October
22): One must choose in life
between boredom and suffering, proclaimed
author Madame de Stael (1766-1817). I beg to
differ with her, however. As evidence, I present
the course of your life during the next few
weeks. After analyzing the astrological omens,
I expect you will consistently steer a middle
course between boredom and suffering, being
able to enjoy some interesting departures
from the routine that dont hurt a bit. There
may even be pain-free excursions into high
adventure mixed in, along with a fascinating
riddle that taxes your imagination in rather
pleasurable ways.

SCORPIO (October 23-November
21): I accompanied a friend and his
family to a small fairground where
a local school was having a fundraiser. There
were rides and games for younger kids. Right
away we came to a challenging activity that
involved climbing a ladder made out of rubber
and coated with some slippery substance.
One girl, about seven years old, was having a
moment of rowdy bliss as she tried to ascend.
Its impossible but fun! she cried out to her
mom. Your assignment in the coming week is
to find an adventure like that: one thats impos-
sible but fun.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-
December 21): It is not always
needful for truth to take a definite
shape, wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It
is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Its my
observation that women find it easier
than men to tune into their natural
rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate
that ability. We men experience less dramatic
physical shifts, and that seems to give us license
to override messages from our bodies for the
sake of ambition, laziness, or convenience. Hav-
ing acknowledged that, I must say that I know
men who are highly sensitive and responsive to
somatic cues, and women who arent. Whatever
gender you are, I believe that in the coming
weeks its crucial for you to be acutely aware of
whats going on inside your beloved flesh-and-
blood vehicle. This is one time when you need
to be intimately aligned with its needs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of
the greatest kings of the ancient Persian
Sassanid Empire was Shapur II (309-
379). Shortly after his father died, he was made
king while still in his mothers womb. Since
he could not yet wear his crown, officials set
it upon his mothers pregnant belly. He ruled
from then until the day he died, 70 years later.
Im naming him your patron saint for the sec-
ond half of 2011, Taurus. My sense is that the
seed of some great accomplishment is already
germinating within you. It may take a while to
be fully born, but I suggest we consecrate its
bright future now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Ive
got no problem with the real world.
I spend a lot of time there, enjoy its
chewy riddles, and take it quite seriously. But I
also consider myself a militant lobbyist for all
the Other Worlds the domain of everything
thats invisible to the naked eye and irrelevant to
the schemes of the rational ego. These alternate
realities consist of the unconscious, the dream-
time, the spiritual sphere, the intelligence of
nature, and the realm of the ancestors. In my
astrological opinion, youre due for a major
upgrade in your relationship with these dimen-
sions in the next 12 months. Now would be a
good time to get started.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): While
listening to the sound collage radio
program Over the Edge on KPFA,
I learned that a new primary color has been
detected. Quite different from red, yellow, or
blue, it has its own distinct hue thats impossible
to describe. You really have to see it to appreci-
ate its essence. The discoverer of this marvel is
Dr. Wohan Squant, who has named the color
squant. (Full details here: http://www.bit.
ly/Squant.) I wish I could predict youre about
to create or find something equally revolution-
ary, Cancerian, but I cant go quite that far.
Nevertheless, youve entered a phase when
you have the power to tinker with and even
transform fundamental laws of your universe.
So who knows? Maybe youre on the verge of
a shift almost as revolutionary as the discovery
of squant.
1une 23 Crossword Answers
June 23 Answers: Right
ACROSS
1. Onetime Big Apple ballpark
5. Declare
9. Of vision
14. Herring relative
18. Legal claims
19. Father
20. The Purple Rose of _
21. Start for physics
22. Info
23. Pasteurized product: 2 wds.
25. Make
26. Used up
28. Plays in baseball
29. Skeletal part
31. WWI battle site
32. Sushi fish
34. Kind of old photo
35. Antimacassars
37. Tirade
38. Refinement
39. Part of NEA: abbr.
40. Despondent: hyph.
44. _ de la Cite
47. Take-home
48. _ Las Vegas
49. Preserved a certain way
50. Commotion
51. Recites
53. Optimistic
54. Lip-synced
55. Too-fond one
56. Equally
58. Threw a party for
59. Precede
60. Olympic hopeful
63. Put cargo aboard
64. Hand drum
65. Furrow
66. Tabbouleh, e.g.
67. Reception at a royal court
68. Share anagram
69. Patients complaint
70. Poison
71. Comics superhero
75. A kind of discontent
76. Pic
77. Fortune
78. Letters on a dial
79. Unkempt place
80. Some fighters
83. _ Hari
84. Throaty
86. Congressional helper
87. Successor to Coolidge
89. Watts or Sheen
91. Vile
93. _ -gurdy
94. Wanders
95. Gray wolf
96. Actor Antonio _
99. Fed. food agcy.
100. Headbangers music: 2 wds.
104. Expunge
105. British gun
106. Middle-earth denizens
107. Griffin of TV
108. Pimpinella
109. Spreads to dry
110. Control knobs
111. Welfare
112. 40 holy days
DOWN
1. Scene
2. Industrial-strength: hyph.
3. Properlypositioned, medically
4. Convince
5. Dusty remains
6. Competed
7. Time
8. Intensify (with up)
9. Transpire
10. Wingding
11. Game results
12. Nest-egg letters
13. Collected
14. Fuses ore
15. Person of influence: 2 wds.
16. Anchor position
17. _ macabre
18. Drug letters
24. Stripling
27. Hebrew letter
30. Town in the Sooner State
32. Shrewd
33. Writer _ Seton
34. Hauled
35. Some bills
36. Hunch
37. Call forth
38. Inquired, in a way
41. Bring to mind
42. Redacted
43. Kind of robbery
45. Feudal lord
46. _ Leslie Flynn
50. Granita relative
52. Dollars earned
53. Ceremony
54. Something for a hero
55. Cupola
57. Word in arithmetic
58. Undeveloped
59. Basketball team
60. Yearns
61. River in England
62. Oppressive: hyph.
63. The non-clergy
64. Doctrine
66. Jam, in a way
67. Machine for a turner
69. Try to get
70. Not at all snug
72. Words in a forecast: 2 wds.
73. Bone: prefix
74. Back
76. Passed on
77. Arbitrary order
80. Robust
81. English racecourse town
82. Steer clear of
83. Art Deco style
85. Periodicals
88. Trial
89. Lunar layer
90. Hurry
91. Book-club offering
92. Pit
93. Divide equally
95. _ lamp
96. Tough covering
97. Helper: abbr.
98. Bishop s jurisdiction
101. Yale student
102. Letters
103. Kind of towel
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Island, IL
GongShowKaraoke w/ RockNthe House
Karaoke-UptownNeighborhoodBar and
Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Jam Sessions with John OMeara &
Friends -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights
-The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Applebees Neighborhood
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -The Gallery Lounge, 3727
Esplanade Ave. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and
Grill, 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA
Keith Soko (6: 30pm) -Moj os (Ri ver
Musi c Experi ence), 130 W 2nd St
Davenport, IA
Live Lunch with Rose n Thorns (noon)
-Mojos (River Music Experience), 130
W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabanas, 2120
4th Ave. Rock Island, IL
Mary Magdalan Digi Nerv Tour - Tooth &
Nail (6pm) -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S
Linn St Iowa City, IA
Mike Conrad Trio -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Kung Fu Tofu -
Stickmans, 1510 N. Harrison St. Dav-
enport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Steve McFate -Salute,
1814 7th St Moline, IL
Seether - Adelitas Way -The Lumberyard
2, 5910 4th St. SW Cedar Rapids, IA
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow
Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
2011/07/08 (Fri)
Armed and Hammerd -Village Pub & Grill,
426 W 1st Ave Milan, IL
Bambu (6:30pm) -Weather Dance Foun-
tain Stage, outside the Sheraton Hotel,
210 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA
Bettendorf Park Band Summer Concert
-Bill Bowe Memorial Bandshell, Middle
Park Bettendorf, IA
Blues Plate Special Lunch w/ Ren
Estrand (noon) -Mojos (River Music
Experience), 130 W 2nd St Daven-
port, IA
Bobby Cool -The Clubhouse, 2501 53rd
Ave. Bettendorf, IA
Caught in the Act -The Rusty Nail, 2606
W Locust Davenport, IA
Crashland Motherboard - My Beautiful
Mistake - Above All Grounds - Moral
Belief -River Music Experience, 129
Main St Davenport, IA
David Killinger & Friends -Gs Riverfront
Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL
Ed Anderson & Chris Colson -Rozz-Tox,
2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Evergreen Grass Band - Tallgrass -Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa
City, IA
Friday Live at 5: High Cotton Blues Band
(5pm) -RME (River Music Experience)
Courtyard, Davenport, IA
Funktastic Five -River House, 1510 River
Dr. Moline, IL
Gray Wolf Band (6pm) -Ardon Creek Win-
ery, 2391 Independence Ave. Letts, IA
Hold On Band -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Jazz After Five (5:30pm) - Sleepy Kitty -
Break Up Art - Cowboy Indian Bear (9pm)
-The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose
Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham
Rd Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill,
3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar &
Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA
Karaoke Night -Stickmans, 1510 N. Har-
rison St. Davenport, IA
Kevin Chalfants Journey Experience
-Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention
Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Betten-
dorf, IA
Luis Ochoa -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325
30th St. Rock Island, IL
Night People -Cabanas, 2120 4th Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran
Church - Rock Island, 1600 20th St.
Rock Island, IL
Orgone - Spare Parts -The Redstone
Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
Rockin Jake Band -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Rootles Experience -Brady Street Pub, 217
Brady St. Davenport, IA
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) -The Rusty Nail,
2606 W Locust Davenport, IA
Smooth Groove -Edj e Ni ghtcl ub at
Jumers Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy
92 Rock Island, IL
Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollars
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Bingers -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
The Charley Hayes Trio (6pm) -Toucans
Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st
Street Milan, IL
The Hillbilly Games - Post Games Party
with North Of 40 -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills
Dr. Bettendorf, IA
The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) -The
Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Slough Buoys (5pm) -Riverfront
Bandshell, Clinton, IA
The Wayne Famous Band -Martinis on the
Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
2011/07/09 (Sat)
Back Track Band with Hollywood Dave
-The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Caught in the Act -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Cheese Pizza -Uptown Neighborhood
Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr.
Bettendorf, IA
Dani Lynn Howe Band Unplugged -Cool
Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St.
Rock Island, IL
Echoes of Pink Floyd -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Funktastic Five -Toucans Cantina / Skinny
Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL
Hold On Band -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Identity Crisis -River House, 1510 River
Dr. Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -Moes Pizza, 1312 Caman-
che Ave Clinton, IA
Michael J. Toma Band -Mojos (River
Davenport, IA
Modern Mythology -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Night People -Rhythm City Casino, 101
W. River Dr. Davenport, IA
Patio -Bent River Brewing Company, 1413
5th Ave. Moline, IL
REMOD - Carver - Emmit Wilson -River
Music Experience, 129 Main St Dav-
enport, IA
Rude Punch -Mound Street Landing, 1029
Mound St. Davenport, IA
Smooth Groove -Edj e Ni ghtcl ub at
92 Rock Island, IL
Songwriters in the Round (3pm) -River
Music Experience, 129 Main St Dav-
enport, IA
Tasty Trigger - Race Against the Machine
Tribute -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
The Knockoffs -The Torchlight Lounge,
1800 18th Ave East Moline, IL
The Recliners -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Troy Harris, pianist (6pm) -Phoenix, 111
West 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Vodkaseven -Martinis on the Rock, 4619
34th St Rock Island, IL
Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-
can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
2011/07/10 (Sun)
Buddy Olson (3pm) -Duckys Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave Andalusia, IL
Dave Ellis hosts Funday Sunday Live
Music on the Patio (6pm) -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Doug Ducey Band (5pm) -Ri versi de
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway
22 Riverside, IA
8 FRIdAy
9 SATURdAy
7 THURSdAy
10 SUNdAy
Orgone @ The Redstone Room July 8
563.359.1015
liveatuptown.com
2340 Spruce Drive Bettendorf, IA Hills
Saturday July 9th 9pm
GLAM ROCK
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Friday July 15th 9pm
Boothill Ridge
Country Rock
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Saturday July 16th 9pm
funktastic5
The Champagne of Bands
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Saturday July 23rd 9pm

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day August 26th
C S Pz a H E E E i z
Five Bridges Jazz Band (10:30am) -Brady
Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza
Hotel Davenport, IA
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -OMelias Sup-
per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock
Island, IL
Jim Ryan (2pm) -Len Browns North Shore
Inn, 7th Street and the Rock River
Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108
E 11th St Davenport, IA
Music on the Levee: The Barehanded
Wolfchokers -LeClaire Park, River Dr
& Ripley St Davenport, IA
Pappa-Razzi (5pm) -The Captains Table,
4801 River Dr. Moline, IL
2011/07/11 (Mon)
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111
Live Lunch with Mike Cochrane (noon)
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E
Burlington Iowa City, IA
Rhythms Along the River: The 2011
Drum Corps International Show
-Brady Street Stadium, 3600 Brady St
Davenport, IA
2011/07/12 (Tue)
ABCKaraokeContest Night -TheRustyNail,
2606 WLocust Davenport, IA
Island, IL
Karaoke Night -Sharkys Bar & Grill, 2902
E. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA
Live Lunch with Randy Leasman (noon)
Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse,
Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, 410
2nd St Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier
Stube Davenpor t, 2228 E 11th St
Davenport, IA
Starlight Revue Concert: Backwater
Bayou Band -Lincoln Park, 11th Ave &
The Trick - Bats in the Belfry -The Mill, 120
E Burlington Iowa City, IA
Twosdays Jam with Lojo Russo -Mojos
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
St Davenport, IA
2011/07/13 (Wed)
Armed and Hammerd -Purgatorys Pub,
2104 State St Bettendorf, IA
Boom Bang - Tambourine -Rozz-Tox, 2108
3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Jeff Miller (6pm) -Gs Riverfront Cafe, 102
S Main St Port Byron, IL
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Music on the Lawn: Thaddeus Rex
(6:30pm) -Deere-Wi man Carri age
House, 817 11th Ave. Moline, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Alan Sweet and Siri
Mason -Mojos (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Karl, Mike, & Doug
-Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Luis Ochoa -Uptown
Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340
Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollars Bar
and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Boom Bang & Tambourine -Rozz-Tox,
The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band
-The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City,
IA
The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
2011/07/14 (Thu)
Bebop Night at the Rozz-Tox -Rozz-Tox,
Buddy Olson -Applebees Neighborhood
Davenport, IA
Camp Euforia Pre-Party w/ Juno What?!
- OSG -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
Christopher Pond -Mojos (River Music Ex-
perience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Gong Show Karaoke w/ Rock N the
House Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-
hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills
Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Jam Sessions with John OMeara &
Friends -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -The Gallery Lounge, 3727
Esplanade Ave. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -The Lucky Frog Bar and
Grill, 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA
Kevin Carton -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse,
Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabanas, 2120
4th Ave. Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Kung Fu Tofu -
Stickmans, 1510 N. Harrison St. Dav-
enport, IA
Ryan Morgan, Kelley Swindall, & Bryan
Rogers (5pm) -Mojos (River Music Ex-
perience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Skynny Skynyrd -Modern Woodmen Park,
209 S Gaines St Davenport, IA
Soap -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Is-
land, IL
Tea Leaf Green -The Redstone Room, 129
Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow
Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA
2011/07/15 (Fri)
Back Track Band with Hollywood Dave
-The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Dav-
enport, IA
Bettendorf Park Band Summer Concert
-Bill Bowe Memorial Bandshell, Middle
Park Bettendorf, IA
Blues Plate Special Lunch w/ Tony
Hoeppner (noon) -Moj os ( Ri ver
Davenport, IA
Boothill Ridge -Uptown Neighborhood
Bettendorf, IA
Burl i ngton Street Bl uegrass Band
(6:30pm) -Weather Dance Fountain
Stage, outside the Sheraton Hotel, 210
S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA
Burnout - Petit Mal - Miracles Of God
- Lipstick Homicide -The Mill, 120 E
Camp Euforia Festival - 18 Bands -
Camp Euforia, 5335 Utah Ave SE Lone
Tree, IA
Cosmic -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th
St Davenport, IA
Delicate Steve - Dream Thieves -Gabes,
330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Friday Live at 5: L.T. Eckles Blues Band
-RME (River Music Experience) Court-
yard, Davenport, IA
Funktastic Five -Martinis on the Rock,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
Intimate at the Englert: Jolie Holland
-Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington
St. Iowa City, IA
Justin Morrissey -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose
Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham
Rd Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Stickmans, 1510 N. Har-
rison St. Davenport, IA
Keep Off the Grass -River House, 1510
River Dr. Moline, IL
Kent Burnside and the New Generation
-The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St.
Bettendorf, IA
Lee Blackmon (6:30pm) -Mojos (River
Davenport, IA
Milltown - Orangadang -RIBCO, 1815
2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Skynny Skynyrd @ Modern Woodmen Park July 14
15 FRIdAy
13 WEdNESdAy
14 THURSdAy
12 TUESdAy
11 MONdAy
RiverCitiesReader.com
Gray Wolf Band -Milan V.F.W. 569, 515 W.
1st Ave. Milan, IL
Illinois John Fever -The Mill, 120 E Burl-
ington Iowa City, IA
Justin Morrissey -Martinis on the Rock,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night -Generations Bar & Grill,
4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -Moes Pizza, 1312 Caman-
che Ave Clinton, IA
Night People -Len Browns North Shore
Inn, 7th Street and the Rock River
Moline, IL
Pappa-Razzi (3pm) -Purgatorys Pub, 2104
State St Bettendorf, IA
Pappa-Razzi -Edje Nightclub at Jumers
Casino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92
Rock Island, IL
Post Mortems - Satellite Heart - Boom-
stick! -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
Rock Camp USA Session #2 Concert
-The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
Davenport, IA
Rock the District: Tesla - Pop Evil - 3 Years
Hollow - Kyng -The District of Rock
Island, 16 1/2 St. Rock Island, IL
Smooth Groove -River House, 1510 River
Dr. Moline, IL
The Fry Daddies (6pm) -Toucans Cantina
/ Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street
Milan, IL
Troy Harris, pianist (6pm) -Phoenix, 111
vodkaseven -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Nashville Songwriters Association -Cool
Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock
Island, IL
Night Fever & Abbamania -Riverside
22 Riverside, IA
Night People -Cabanas, 2120 4th Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Pappa-Razzi (8pm)-Edje Nightclub at
92 Rock Island, IL
Red Pepper Sage (6pm) -Toucans Cantina
/ Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street
Milan, IL
Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) -The Rusty Nail,
2606 W Locust Davenport, IA
The Duttons (3 & 7:30pm) -Old Creamery
Theatre, 39 38th Ave. Amana, IA
2011/07/16 (Sat)
Abbamania & Night Fever -Riverside
22 Riverside, IA
Ageless - Battleship - The Overlook Ho-
tel - Murmur -River Music Experience,
129 Main St Davenport, IA
Barlowe & James -The Grape Life Wine
Emporium, 3402 Elmore Ave. Dav-
enport, IA
Camp Euforia Festival - 18 Bands -
Camp Euforia, 5335 Utah Ave SE Lone
Tree, IA
Cobalt Blue -The Muddy Waters, 1708
State St. Bettendorf, IA
Emily EmJay Jawoisz -Cool Beanz Cof-
feehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock Island, IL
Funktastic Five -Uptown Neighborhood
Bettendorf, IA
Widetrack -Tommys, 1302 4th Ave Mo-
line, IL
Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-
can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
2011/07/17 (Sun)
Bill Chrastil (5pm) -Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
Concert on the Lawn: Boothill Ridge
(4pm) -Broadway Presbyterian Church,
710 23rd St. Rock Island, IL
Dave Ellis hosts Funday Sunday Live
Music on the Patio (6pm) -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Island, IL
Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108
E 11th St Davenport, IA
Music on the Levee: Josh Duffee Orches-
tra -LeClaire Park, River Dr & Ripley St
Davenport, IA
Terry Hanson Ensemble (10: 30am)
-Brady Street Chop House, Radisson
QC Plaza Hotel Davenport, IA
Third Sunday Jazz Series featuring Bill
Bell (6pm) -The Redstone Room, 129
Who Cares? (5pm) -The Captains Table,
4801 River Dr. Moline, IL
2011/07/18 (Mon)
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Free Energy - The Olympics -Gabes, 330
E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111
Igor & the Red Elvises - The One Night
Standards -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E
2011/07/19 (Tue)
ABC Karaoke Contest Night -The Rusty
Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA
Four Play Cabaret -The Circa 21 Speak-
easy, 1818 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Island, IL
Googleplexia -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
Live Lunch w/ David Smith (noon)
Open Mic Night -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse,
Open Mic Night -The Dam View Inn, 410
2nd St Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier
Stube Davenpor t, 2228 E 11th St
Davenport, IA
Quad- Ci ti es KI X Orchestra -Moj os
(River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd
St Davenport, IA
Starlight Revue Concert: Josh Duffee
Orchestra -Lincoln Park, 11th Ave &
Who Cares? -Rock Island County Fair-
grounds, Archer Drive & Avenue of the
Cities East Moline, IL
2011/07/20 (Wed)
Armed and Hammerd -Purgatorys Pub,
2104 State St Bettendorf, IA
Jeff Miller (6pm) -Gs Riverfront Cafe, 102
S Main St Port Byron, IL
Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Brent Feuerbach (noon)
Matt Schofield -The Muddy Waters, 1708
State St. Bettendorf, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Alan Sweet and Siri
Mason -Mojos (River Music Experi-
ence), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Karl, Mike, & Doug
-Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 1/2 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Luis Ochoa -Uptown
Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340
Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollars Bar
and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
The Tailfins -Rock Island County Fair-
grounds, Archer Drive & Avenue of the
Cities East Moline, IL
TJ Sapp -Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325
30th St. Rock Island, IL
Igor & the Red Elvises @ RIBCO July 18
20 WEdNESdAy
19 TUESdAy
16 SATURdAy
17 SUNdAy
18 MONdAy

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