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COVER STORY
Iowas War on Government-Worker Unions
Attacking Organized Labor Is Good, Divisive Politics on an Issue That Deserves Better
T
he pendulum swung swiftly.
House File 291 was introduced in
the Iowa legislature on February 9, was
passed by the House and Senate on Febru-
ary 16, and was signed by Governor Terry
Branstad the next day.
Despite that speed, this was not some
emergency measure. Instead, it was part
of a pent-up agenda being unleashed, as
Republicans enjoyed really enjoyed their
first unified control of the legislative and
executive branches of state government
since 1998.
House File 291 dramatically changes the
collective-bargaining framework that had
been in place for government-worker unions
since 1974 although it largely exempts
unions representing public-safety workers.
Roughly 180,000 public-sector workers in
Iowa are covered by union contracts, includ-
ing 27,000 state employees.
Representatives of the United Electrical
Workers wrote that the bill was aimed at
destroying public-sector unions and the
rights of public employees ... .
This legislation is designed to render col-
lective bargaining meaningless by making it
illegal to negotiate most of the subjects now
covered by contracts, and to cripple unions
financially by eliminating the dues-checkoff
process which union members voluntarily
pay to support their unions activities.
There is, of course, a flip side to the alarm
raised by the United Electrical Workers.
Republicans profess that House File 291
is not a war on unions but a long-overdue
correction giving state and local govern-
ments tools to protect taxpayers by keeping
employee costs in check.
Under the law, only base wages are
subject to bargaining and pay increases
are capped. With subjects such as pen-
sions and health insurance no longer part
of contract negotiations, governments can
better control personnel costs. The law also
removes seniority, performance evaluations,
staff reductions, and health and safety from
the process.
These necessary reforms to our
antiquated 43-year-old public-employee
collective-bargaining law bring fairness
for Iowa taxpayers and flexibility to public
employees, Branstad said. This bill also
gives local governments, schools, and state
government greater freedom in managing
their resources with the opportunity to
reward good public employees.
Finally, Iowa taxpayers have a seat at
the table, added Lieutenant Governor
Kim Reynolds, and local governments are
empowered to make decisions in the best
interests of their communities and schools.
Proponents of the law hope it will create
results like those claimed by Iowas neighbor
to the northeast. As the National Review
stated last year in lauding Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walkers similar anti-union
efforts: Walker curbed state aid to local
governments and, in return, gave local
governments the flexibility to control their
costs. ... Mayors, school superintendents,
and county officials would no longer be
forced to accept union agreements. They
finally would be able to balance budgets and
reform their governments to better serve the
people they represent. ...
Wisconsin taxpayers are seeing a clear
benefit ... . To date, they have saved more
than $5.24 billion as a result of Act 10,
according to a study by the John K. MacIver
Institute for Public Policy. This works out to
about $2,291 per household in Wisconsin.
It includes more than $3.36 billion saved by
simply having state employees contribute a
reasonable amount to their retirement.
Both of these perspectives have merit,
and both are incomplete. In considering
House File 291, its important to keep two
things in mind.
First, compensation of public employees
is in many ways out-of-line with whats
offered in the private sector, and is not
sustainable especially with pension and
health-care benefits. Its a subject that
deserves debate.
Second, Republicans rushed through an
extreme bill without any effort at biparti-
sanship. By itself, restricting the scope of
collective bargaining might be a reasonable
remedy, but to also cap wage increases and
hamstring unions undermines claims of
noble intentions. Bluntly, this legislation
appears designed to provide Republicans
with substantial electoral benefits by dimin-
ishing the political power of unions.
Full Disclosures
As House File 291 showed passing with
literally no support from Democrats the
attack on unions in Iowa and elsewhere is
deeply partisan. If you research the issue,
youll struggle to find much thats not sub-
stantially colored by the sources bias. So you
might as well know mine.
Undoubtedly, unions were once an
essential bulwark against the exploitation of
employees, both in terms of compensation
and working conditions. They are probably
still necessary, as many workers struggle
to find jobs that provide reasonable wages,
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benefits, and employment environments.
It doesnt bother me that public-sector
employees have wage-and-benefit packages
that are the envy of workers in the private
sector. This is nothing more than the result
of unionization being most prevalent in the
public sector and of organized labor doing
its job.
I allow for the possibility that public-
sector workers generally are not over-
compensated, but are instead fairly
compensated. (Im married to an employee
of the federal government.)
I also allow that a great many people
think government employees are overpaid.
Im somewhat sympathetic to the argu-
ments (if not necessarily the conclusion) of
the Hoover Institutions 2010 article The
Case Against Public-Sector Unions.
The idea of eliminating union privileges
in the public sector may seem like a radical
one, the authors wrote, before making
three main points: First, public employees
are typically protected by civil-service stat-
utes that provide an important measure of
job security and protection from arbitrary
hiring and firing decisions. ... Second,
governments typically face lower borrowing
costs and enjoy easier access to sources of
direct financing (i.e., taxation) than private-
sector employers, which insulates the public
sector from the business cycle. ... Third,
workers who prefer government employ-
ment typically have a variety of options
(federal, state, county, city) or possess skill
sets that are transferable to the large private
service sector. In short, the potential social
benefits offered by private-sector unions are
not present in the public sector.
Beyond those arguments, private com-
panies negotiating with unions have to put
their long-term livelihoods above all else
when considering the costs of wages and
benefits. Governments, on the other hand,
are playing with your tax dollars. (And
legislatures have often deferred employee
costs through pension benefits that they
dont or cant adequately fund meaning over half of the countrys change in union
that theyre often playing with your future
tax dollars.)
With that out of the way, lets explore why
Iowa Republicans are conducting this war
on public-sector unions.
A Bomb Was Dropped
As Walkers measures did in Wisconsin,
House File 291 if it withstands legal chal-
lenge by the states two largest public-sector
unions would radically alter the balance
of power between unions and government.
3
By Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
It operates on three fronts: making it more
difficult for public-sector unions to exist;
making it more difficult for those that do
exist to survive; and severely limiting the
scope of collective bargaining after all that.
The bill was pushed through with
urgency. Writing in Dissent, Colin Gordon
compared the legislation to what happened
in the Badger State: The battle in Wiscon-
sin unfolded over months after Walker
took office in 2011. In Iowa it was more like
a bomb was dropped; three weeks into the
legislative session, the damage was done.
He called House File 291 a gutting of
public-sector collective bargaining ... . As in
most states, Iowas public-sector bargaining
law was a bipartisan bargain struck in the
early 1970s, which raised pay and labor stan-
dards for public workers (especially teach-
ers) in exchange for an effective no-strike
pledge. The new public-employee relations
code outdoes even Wisconsin in disman-
tling this bargain. Bargaining is now limited
to base wages, with annual increases
limited to 3 percent or the rate of inflation,
whichever is lower. All other contract details
health care, pensions, working condi-
tions are off the table. Public-sector unions
must win a re-certification vote before each
new contract (every two to three years).
To twist that knife, the law requires the
union to win a majority of workers in the
bargaining unit (not just those voting) and
it requires the union to pay for the election.
And unions are now barred from collecting
dues through payroll deduction, a practice
that was already voluntary.
In Wisconsin, the effect of Act 10 and
other anti-union measures supported by
Walker is clear enough on a union-busting
level: According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, union membership in Wisconsin
dropped from 339,000 in 2011 to 219,000
last year a drop of more than a third.
Union membership nationwide dropped
less than 2 percent during the same period.
Wisconsin by itself was responsible for well
membership over the past five years.
And that, union supporters argue, is a key
reason Iowa Republicans shoved House File
291 through the legislature.
The blog BleedingHeartland.com
explained: It comes down to money and
power. Public-sector unions are major
financial supporters of the Iowa Democratic
Party, and thousands of union mem-
bers volunteer to help elect Democratic
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COVER STORY Continued From Page 3
Iowas War on Government-Worker Unions
candidates for the Iowa House and Senate. ...
Losing automatic payroll deduction will
surely cause some attrition in membership.
Many more workers may question why they
should keep paying dues to a union that can
no longer bargain for anything meaningful,
especially after receiving what amounts to
a pay cut once the state forces them to pay
thousands of dollars more each year for
health insurance.
While collecting less in dues, AFSCME
and ISEA [the states two largest public-
sector unions] will have to spend money
conducting certification elections. In the
worst-case scenario, one or both unions
could become de-certified. Assuming
they survive the certification process, both
unions will likely be forced to cut staff and
will have less money to spend on volunteer
recruitment for phone-banking and can-
vassing on behalf of endorsed candidates.
Pitting Us Against Them
On the surface, attacking unions in
this fashion would seem to be bad politics
for Republicans.
A 2014 survey by Gallup asked: Do you
approve or disapprove of labor unions?
Fifty-three percent approved, and 38
percent disapproved.
But you dont need to scratch too deeply
to see it differently.
For one thing, the approval/disapproval
splits based on party affiliation are as one
would expect: 77/19 among Democrats,
47/40 among independents, and 32/57
among Republicans.
For another, support for unions has
eroded both since the middle of the 20th
Century and over the past two decades. The
overall support is substantially lower than in
the late 1950s (with a 75/14 split) and even a
late-90s peak (65/28).
And when one considers another
factor, anti-union legislation makes a lot
more sense.
First, understand that the Gallup ques-
tion is broad and to a large extent abstract.
To approve or disapprove of labor unions private-sector employees (7.4 million)
is different from approving or disapprov-
ing of the effects of labor unions. A person
could support the idea of labor unions, for
example, without supporting the effect that
labor unions have on goods and services.
(Higher wages and benefits secured by
unions, of course, raise prices or, in the
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case of public-sector unions, taxes.)
Second, the question ignores trends in
union membership. As Daniel Disalvo
wrote in National Affairs in 2010: Since the
middle of the 20th Century, organized labor
in America has undergone two transfor-
mations with major implications for the
nations politics. The first is the dramatic
decline in overall union membership. In
1955, organized labor represented one-third
of the non-agricultural workforce; today,
it represents just 12.3 percent. The second
transformation, however, is even more
significant: the change in the composition of
the unionized work force.
As private-sector unions have withered,
public-sector unions have grown dramati-
cally. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
that, in 2009, for the first time ever, more
public-sector employees (7.9 million) than
unions represent such a relatively high
belonged to unions. Today, unionized
workers are more likely to be teachers,
librarians, trash collectors, policemen, or
firefighters than they are to be carpenters,
electricians, plumbers, auto workers, or
coal miners.
Although the number of union workers
is roughly equal in the private and public
sectors, the rates of unionization are not.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that
in 2016, Public-sector workers had a union
membership rate (34.4 percent) more than
five times higher than that of private-sector
workers (6.4 percent).
Disalvo summarized: The rise of
government-worker unionism has also
combined with the broader transforma-
tion of the American economy to produce a
sharp divergence between public- and pri-
vate-sector employment. In todays public
sector, good pay, generous benefits, and job
security make possible a stable middle-class
existence for nearly everyone from janitors
to jailers. In the private economy, mean-
while, cutthroat competition, increased
income inequality, and layoffs squeeze the
middle class.
That discrepancy provides a wedge,
allowing for a war on unions thats not
necessarily a war on workers. Because labor
percentage of government employees what
Citizens Against Government Waste calls
a privileged class legislatures can attack
government labor unions in the name of
the common worker. Its ostensibly a fight to
level the playing field, bringing the govern-
ment worker down to the level of everybody
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else to protect taxpayers.
Gaps in Compensation
You can find lots of seemingly definitive
analysis comparing private- and public-
sector pay. Most will claim that government
employees are compensated better than
workers in the private sector, and some
will claim the opposite. For the most part,
these are cherry-picked analyses meant to
confirm a conclusion.
For an unbiased view of things, the
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office
concluded in 2012 that overall, the federal
government paid 16 percent more in total
compensation than it would have if average
compensation had been comparable with
that in the private sector, after account-
ing for certain observable characteristics
of workers. Federal-government workers
without a bachelors degree earn higher
wages than their private-sector counter-
parts, the study said, and total compensa-
tion for federal workers was higher up
through employees with masters degrees.
In other words, except for workers with
more than a masters degree, federal-gov-
ernment work is a pretty sweet deal when
total compensation is considered.
Although that study didnt compare
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and didnt include state- and local-govern-
ment employees, the findings are consistent
with similar studies looking at differences in
public- and private-sector compensation.
This shouldnt be surprising. Given the
unionization rates in government compared
to the private sector, its common sense that
public-sector workers have better com-
pensation packages, no matter the body of
government. Thats what unions do.
The problem comes with differences in
benefits.
As the private sector has shifted away
from defined-benefit pension plans, for
example, the public sector has not at least
not quickly. As I noted in a 2012 article,
84 percent of local- and state-government
employees had access to a defined-benefit
retirement plan in 2011, while only 13
of the Fortune 100 companies offered a
defined-benefit plan.
Health insurance is another area where
public-sector benefits are much more gener-
ous than in the private sector. According to an
Iowa Legislative Services Agency evaluation,
for example, in 2016 the state picked up 95.4
percent of employee-health-insurance costs.
And governments cant afford those
benefits at current taxation and spending
levels. For one segment of Iowa employment
contracts from Fiscal Years 2005 through
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2015, state outlays for health-insurance
premiums increased 64.6 percent, with
those state contributions growing from 11.7
percent of salary and benefits in 2005 to 15.1
percent in 2015.
On the pension front, according to the
Pew Charitable Trusts, states in 2014 had
nearly a trillion dollars in unfunded pension
liability, with a funding ratio of less than 75
percent. Illinois had more than $111 billion
in pension debt (with a funding ratio of
41.3 percent), while Iowa had more than $4
billion in pension debt (with a funding ratio
of 87.4 percent).
This reflects short-term legislative think-
ing, because employee pensions are a bill not
yet due a benefit whose cost can be (and
too often has been) kicked down the road
for future legislators to deal with. (Illinois
pension benefits guaranteed by the state
constitution once given were never going
to be adequately funded without massive
tax increases.)
The Nuclear Option
These are very real problems demand-
ing serious, measured, bipartisan discus-
sion. They merit soul-searching by elected
officials and unions alike. They deserve
more consideration than Iowa Republicans
gave them in February, when they rammed
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through legislation that smells like political
opportunism.
Public-sector unions absolutely should
have a role in addressing the stress that
their members place on taxpayers and
government budgets. As Michele Master-
fano wrote in 2013 at the reliably liberal
HuffingtonPost.com, Union leaders ... need
to understand business more the finan-
cials, the trends, how to evaluate the viability
of a business or state/city/municipality they
work for. ... Union members and their lead-
ership also have to come to the table with
reasonable requests, particularly in trying
economic times. Negotiating to a win-win
is much more reasonable than assuming
it is a zero-sum game that must be won at
all costs.
Its certainly possible that unions
wouldnt play nice that theyd be unwill-
ing to make concessions substantial enough
to provide governments with greater
budgetary flexibility while bringing com-
pensation packages closer to whats available
in the private sector. But they should have
been given the opportunity through more-
modest reforms of the states collective-
bargaining process.
Instead, Republicans chose the unilateral
nuclear option of House File 291 trying to
kill public-sector unions.
REWARDS
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ILLINOIS POLITICS
Honesty Hard to Come by in
Already-Active Gubernatorial Race
I
suppose its too much to expect that we
get an honest debate about the need for
more state revenues in the already-active
gubernatorial race. Candidates will be
candidates, after all.
Governor Bruce Rauners campaign
blasted out an e-mail last week telling sup-
porters that newly announced billionaire
Democratic candidate J.B. Pritzker wants
to raise the state income tax to over 5 per-
cent, which, the campaign claimed, would
be higher than it was under Pat Quinn!
Never mind that Rauner himself
privately supports raising state taxes to
historically high levels. Hes okay with a
4.99-percent income-tax rate and a 7-per-
cent corporate tax rate. But he also backs
a new tax on sugary beverages and a new
sales tax on several services. If all that were
implemented, state government would be
taxing residents billions of dollars more
than it ever has before.
So apparently you can only be for the
massive tax hikes that Rauner wants.
Otherwise, youll be portrayed as being
in House Speaker Michael Madigans
hip pocket.
The Illinois Republican Party obtained
audio of Pritzker speaking at a private
Democratic event. In one snippet, Pritzker
is heard saying, Lets remind everybody,
the tax used to be 5 percent, and [Rauner]
let it lapse down to three and three-quar-
ters percent. And thats what started a lot
of the problems that weve got in the state.
So, if you just put it back thats $5 billion.
That doesnt get you everything you need,
but its a good way toward, you know,
toward getting real revenue in the state.
The comment was eerily similar to one
made by Madigan in late 2015. A good
place to begin, Madigan said back then,
would be the level we were at before the
income tax expired. Starting there, you
can go in whatever direction you want to
go. Rauner immediately pounced on that
comment to claim that Madigan wanted to
raise the income tax above 5 percent, even
though he never actually said that.
Pritzkers private comments along with
a claim that hes in league with Madigans
plan were sent to reporters hours before
Pritzkers official campaign kickoff.
I think that we ought to start with
the millionaires and billionaires and
make sure that theyre paying taxes first,
Pritzker responded when asked, in appar-
ent reference to a graduated income tax
or a surcharge on the wealthy, according
to the the Chicago Sun-Times. Were
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By Rich Miller
CapitolFax.com
not going to talk about raising taxes on
middle-class families until we take care of
that problem.
But taxation such as that would require
a constitutional amendment, because the
states constitution mandates a flat income
tax. And that means it would require a
three-fifths majority in both legislative
chambers, and the Republicans (along
with some Democrats) have historically
resisted a graduated tax. So forget it.
After Pritzkers press conference,
Republicans released yet another audio
snippet of Pritzker admitting the hard
truth about a graduated tax: So lets just
talk about this flat income tax, because
were not going to be able to turn it into a
millionaires tax, a fair tax; its gonna take
us three years.
The Republicans used that second snip-
pet to claim that Pritzker wasnt telling the
truth to reporters earlier in the day. And
their point has merit.
Rauner insists his plan is better because
tax hikes are coupled with his reforms.
But even his full package of reforms from
back in 2015 wouldve only slightly moved
the economic and budgetary needles,
according to the analysis he sent to legisla-
tors that year. His reform demands have
since been significantly scaled back. And
while some of his reforms are undoubtedly
needed (particularly reducing workers
comp costs), much of the rest is little more
than political window dressing (term
limits) and has next to nothing to do with
spurring growth.
We are in this hole because our leaders
refused to be honest, starting with the 2011
temporary tax hike, right through the
2014 campaign and then allowing the tax
hike to partially expire and then fighting
over who would blink first on raising taxes
and accepting reforms.
And the public prefers the lies. Polls
show Illinoisans are convinced some-
body else should solve the problem, either
millionaires via taxation (which wouldnt
raise enough cash) or the faceless bureau-
cracy via cuts (except for just about every
state program under the sun).
Again, I suppose its too much to ask
that candidates and the governor are
honest about this stuff. But that means this
contest could not only turn out to be the
most expensive in Illinois history; it could
also be the most dishonest.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily
political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.
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hen St. Ambrose Uni-
versity senior Sam Jones
arrives for our March 30
interview, he enters carrying what
he calls his rehearsal bag a
backpack emblazoned with the
Green Lantern insignia. I bring
it everywhere, he says, eventu-
ally pulling out a stack of reading
material currently aiding him in
his title role as William Shake-
speares Richard III. There isnt a
DC Comic in sight.
One of the bags items, under-
standably, is the script for Richard
III, which runs at St. Ambrose from
April 21 (Jones birthday) through
April 23 (Shakespeares birthday).
That script sits atop another copy
of the Bards historical tragedy,
which Jones peruses for its extensive
footnotes. Then theres the Dan Jones
book The Wars of the Roses: The Fall
of the Plantagenets & the Rise of the
Tudors, which Jones Sam Jones
says he first read about a year-
and-a-half ago, because I really like
Medieval history, and which is cur-
rently being re-read for insight into
King Richards 15th Century reign.
Yet another book from the
bag is Year of the King by British
acting legend Antony Sher. This is one
of my favorites, says Jones. Antony Sher
famously did Richard III for the Royal
Shakespeare Company, and this is his
actors diary on the process. Its just amaz-
ing. He talks about his doubts about playing
the character, and the kind of monumental
task of taking on one of Shakespeares most
famous roles, especially when its been done
so many times. Like, How can we keep
reinventing these roles? Do we need to keep
reinventing these roles?
And the fifth literary supplement Jones
shows me is a brown leather journal that
he says contains all of my notes every-
thing Ive taken on my own in classes and
rehearsals. At one point, Jones opens it to
a page featuring a portion of Richard IIIs
soliloquy from Henry VI: Part III, gives it to
me to read, and says it might be his favorite
quote in terms of understanding the
Kayla Lansing and Sam Jones
notoriously loathsome figure hell be play-
ing on-stage. I ask if he has it committed to
memory. Barring only minor paraphrasing,
he does:
I had no father, I am like no father;
I have no brother, I am like no brother;
And this word, love, which greybeards
call divine,
Be resident in men like one another
And not in me I am myself alone.
Given all this Bard-ian angst, I then ask
Jones if hes also reading anything these
days for, you know, fun. And happily, he
gives the exact answer youd expect, and
hope for, from a longtime theatre lover and
Shakespeare fan assigned to such a canoni-
cal character: This is fun.
Even if you havent seen a St. Ambrose
production in the last four years, you may
have easily seen Jones on a different area
stage, as the nearly-22-year-olds
credits include the Circa 21 Dinner
Playhouses 2015 The Sound of Music,
Genesius Guilds 2015 Macbeth, four
years as an improv performer with
ComedySportz, and even more years
as a mainstage actor for Davenport
Junior Theatre. (Although we never
shared a scene, Jones and I also
appeared in 2015s The Pillowman
for the QC Theatre Workshop, and
are playing father and son our first
time acting together in Augusts
Brighton Beach Memoirs for Augus-
tana Colleges debuting Mississippi
Bend Players.)
But if you have seen a recent SAU
show, youve no doubt seen Jones,
whose list of famed characters to
say nothing of his considerable
talent would be impressive for an
actor of any age. Richard Roma in
Glengarry Glen Ross. Leo Frank in
Parade. Lancelot (and others) in
Monty Pythons Spamalot. Eilert
Lvborg in Hedda Gabler. Trinculo
in Shakespeares The Tempest.
And now Richard III, which is not
only one of the most sought-after
roles in Elizabethan theatre, but
depending on the source the figure
with either the most or (because of
Hamlet) second-most lines in any single
Shakespearean text. So is the process of
taking on such an intimidating character,
and memorizing all those lines, also fun?
Yes, says Jones with the slow nod and
wide grin of a true Shakespeare aficionado.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Poetic Words and a Dope
Mohawk
Like many who are similarly Daven-
port-born and -bred, the SAU students
theatrical interests originated at Daven-
port Junior Theatre, where Jones began
taking classes at age five. In his early years
with the organization, says Jones, It was
just another thing that I did, and I took
some time off from it here and there. But it
really became consistent when I got to be
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Now Is the Springtime of His Deep Content
about 11. Thats when it became kind of a
haven for me.
In my sixth-grade year, says Jones,
there were a bunch of seniors that had
been there forever. This was like their
last hurrah, and I was just coming in for
mainstage shows. And there was some-
thing about their experience and how they
treated me as a sixth-grader that I hung
onto. They were awesome people, and
even though there was this huge age gap,
they reached out to the sixth-, seventh-,
eighth-graders, and showed us that this
was something that needed to keep going.
Thats where I learned what it was like to
enjoy theatre, and the people I was with,
and really be a professional.
Jones, however, says his true turning
point the moment he began considering
theatre as a career came in eighth grade
with the 2008 arrival of Junior Theatres
new artistic director, Daniel D.P. Sheridan.
Daniel really taught me how to be an
actor, says Jones. And how to have power
as an actor. I was very raw with everything
until he got there. Especially at that age, I
was very all-over-the-place, and I had a lot
of energy. But he taught me how to use it,
and contain it.
This is such a simple thing, he contin-
ues, but Daniel wouldve been the first
person to show me how to just plant my
feet and be present in the space. And he
has this talent for treating everybody, no
matter what age they are, like a profes-
sional from the first second he meets them.
Like theyre capable of doing more than
they think. Which, for many student
talents, might well include Shakespeare.
It was at Junior Theatre that Jones
performed his first Elizabethan role,
portraying the fairy king Oberon in a
2011 production one with a distinctly,
memorably 1980s slant of A Midsummer
Nights Dream. And although the chal-
lenge may have been a formidable one for
Jones, Sheridan says he didnt doubt that
success would follow.
Sam best applies himself when his
heart is in something, says Sheridan, and
even then, you could tell he had a knack
and a taste for the classics that has clearly
continued beyond Jones Junior Theatre
tenure. As soon as he knew Richard
was being done, he came knocking and
reading all he could. (Regarding Jones
subsequent casting in the lead, Sheridan
adds, Im actually a little jealous.)
It was sort of difficult, says Jones of his
first foray into Shakespeare, because I was
learning everything from the ground up,
and at first, it is sort of like youre reading
another language. But its amazing how
when you really get into doing Shake-
speare, you understand it. And now hes
my favorite.
I mean, theres so much to delve into,
you know? The characters, the plots
theyre all complex and interesting, and
theres so much to talk about and try to
understand. And its the words, of course.
Theyre poetic and beautiful and inspiring
and challenging ... . I think thats what I
like most. The challenge.
So yeah, it was really fun from the
beginning. I learned a lot about the basics
in Midsummer. And, says Jones with a
laugh, I got to have a dope Mohawk in
that one, too.
While his rsum has subsequently
boasted dozens of contemporary roles or,
as with Hedda Gabler and The Sound of
Music, more-contemporary roles Jones
keeps finding his way back to Shakespeare.
Genesius Guilds Macbeth found him
portraying a sergeant and Young Siward
alongside a lot of passionate people that
really do love to do Shakespeare. They love
their Shakespeare there. And I got to do
some sword-fighting, which was cool.
Also in 2015, as a St. Ambrose student,
Jones played the title role in Macbeth for
an advanced-acting class a one-hour
Macbeth we did at midnight in the Rogal-
ski Center. It was kind of rashly thrown
together, very raw, where we all worked on
it mostly on our own, practiced it a couple
times, and just did it. But it was fun. I
mean, come on. Macbeth at midnight!
And this past fall, Jones enacted the
jester Trinculo opposite Jackson Greens
Stephano in SAUs The Tempest, which
Jones calls a really different experience,
because everybody else kind of had more
serious parts in it, and we were cut out
from all of the seriousness. We cut that
show down a lot, and a lot of those cuts
were from our scenes; I honestly dont
think we were on-stage for more than 15
minutes, and it was mostly slapstick. So we
were like a whole other entity, and after a
certain while, I felt like I was reaching for
something that wasnt there. It was good,
but I wish we had more.
With Richard III, Jones has certainly
found his more.
I dont know how long Richard is
without cuts, he says. Its got to be at least
four hours. But ours is probably two-and-
a-half, and it feels like most of the stuff
thats cut isnt my stuff. We ran through
the whole show just kind of stumbling
through it, and at the end, there were three
or four scenes in a row where I would leave
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the stage and just circle back on. I was like,
This is ridiculous!
Im Not Gonna Like You!
Its accurate to describe Richard III as
a dream part for Jones, who calls it one
of my three favorite roles in Shakespeare.
One of them is kind of cheating because
hes in three different shows, but its Prince
Hal, who turns into Henry V. Hes my
favorite. But then it would be Richard and
[Othellos] Iago. And then Hamlet ... but
thats different, you know? Every actor
wants to play Hamlet on some level and
should want to. It just seems like that
mountain peak everybody kind of wants
to climb.
Yet as anyone familiar with Richard
III knows, even Hamlet doesnt begin his
stage journey at the top of the mountain
the way Richard does.
You start the whole show with the most
famous line in the show, says Jones, and
it is so daunting. Like, my heart beats out
of my chest before I say the first line: Now
is the winter of our discontent. Made glori-
ous summer by this sun of York ... . Its like
starting Hamlet with To be, or not to be
... . I mean, you dont get a break youre
starting with the big thing.
Not that theres any end to the big things
where Richard is concerned. As the his-
torical figure was born with curvature of
the spine, hes often referred to as a hunch-
back, with portrayals of the character
tending to follow suit. For Jones take on
the role, I kind of have a bend to my leg,
and one of my arms is useless, and I know
theres going to be some sort of deformity
built into the costume, as well.
But its going to be rather small, Jones
continues, because we all kind of agreed
that we didnt want to make a big deal out
of the deformity. He truly believes himself
to be something spited by nature: Sent
before my time. Into this breathing world,
scarce half made up. But he doesnt make
excuses for what he is, or how he looks.
If you get too caught up in that, then you
dont understand that its Richards words
that matter. Thats his real weapon.
According to Richard III director Ron
Clark, words are Jones chief weapon,
too. Sams proficiency with language is
remarkable, says Clark. He has been
incredibly well-prepared during this
process, and Im impressed with his
thoughtful interpretation of the char-
acter and analytical skills. I think his
performance will be clear, charming, and
quite chilling.
Jones clearly understands that Richards
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chilling quality So much verbal bile! So
many murders! will be one of his signifi-
cant challenges in presenting the character
to audiences.
About two weeks ago, he recalls, an
older lady was talking to a couple of us
actors, and she said, Oh, youre doing
Richard! Whos playing Richard? I said it
was me, and she was like, Oh ... very evil.
Im not gonna like you! And I realized
theres this preconceived notion about
Richard that hes pure evil. That he doesnt
have any morals. And maybe he doesnt.
But I dont think hes a villain. I think he
plays a villain because he has to. Because
he feels like he has to.
He grew up during the Wars of the
Roses, Jones continues. All he ever knew
was war. And he doesnt understand love
because hes never been given love. So I
think hes a product of his time and these
circumstances that hes been placed into.
Yes, hes a deeply troubled man who does
very, very evil things that cant be forgiven.
But I think it would be a disservice to
Richard as a character to just dislike him,
or disregard him. Because I think theres
something to be learned there. Hes a
human in search of a soul.
I mean, even the folio of Richard is
called The Tragedy of Richard III. So I
think hes a tragic hero. I think he wants
love, and has the capability to love, but
doesnt know how which is something,
at least. Under different circumstances,
I think he wouldve been a fabulous
politician. Hes brilliant and cunning and,
oh my God, hes a wordsmith. He could
actually be great at running a state. Its
just that, by the time he does become king,
hes gone, because of all these evil things
hes done.
Jones laughs. Man, the role is daunt-
ing. And it can be a little overwhelming
sometimes. Like, Wow, this is a lot to try
to conceive all in one speech. But Ron has
been doing a really great job of simplifying
things for me when I need it, because I can
definitely get caught up in the intricacies
of character. All these machinations, as
an actor, that let you feel and understand
everything Richards going through. Its
definitely a challenge. But its a challenge
Im excited for.
Richard III runs at St. Ambrose Univer-
sitys Galvin Fine Arts Center (2101 North
Gaines Street, Davenport) April 21 through
23, with Friday and Saturday performances
at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays performance at 3
p.m. For tickets and more information, call
(563)333-6251 or visit SAU.edu/theatre.
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PHOTOGRAPY

Featured Image from the Quad Cities Photography Club

(The River Cities Reader each month will
feature an image or images from the Quad Cities
Photography Club.)

S
cott County Park has a lot to offer a photog-
rapher in search of a subject. Quad Cities
Photography Club member Dale Fehr headed
there with his camera to hike the trails on a nice day
in November with a little snow on the ground. He
enjoyed and had success with his images from the
hike, but then decided to try some pictures of Olde
St. Anns Church in the parks Dan Nagle Walnut
Grove Pioneer Village. He stated: The clouds were
very cool, so I took the photo from a lower angle
to include more clouds and give the steeple more
height.
Dale used a Canon EOS Rebel SL1 with a Canon
EF-S 10-18-millimeter lens at 12 millimeters. He
used a tripod and shot the image at f/18, 1/25th of a
second, and ISO 100. He used Lightroom to process
the raw image and did some dodging to enhance the
stained-glass windows.

The Quad Cities Photography Club welcomes visitors

and new members. The club sponsors numerous
activities encompassing many types and aspects of
photography. It holds digital and print competitions
most months. At its meetings, members discuss the
images, help each other to improve, and socialize. The
club also holds special learning workshops and small
groups that meet on specific photography topics, and
occasionally offers interesting shooting opportunities.
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.

For more information on the club, visit

QCPhotoClub.com.

Photo by Dale Fehr

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Whats Happenin
Most of Johnsons 1990s were spent as lead vocalist and
guitarist for Brother Crane, which released three albums that
yielded three number-one singles. After eight years of record-
ing and performing as headliners and support on tours with
Van Halen, Aerosmith, Robert Plant, and Lynyrd Skinner,
Brother Crane eventually disbanded in 1998. But Johnson
would spend the next dozen years no less busy, his rsum
boasting songwriting for Stevie Nicks, Carlos Santana, and
Ted Nugent, guitar duties for Sammy Hagar and John Waite,
and four years as a band member for Alice Cooper.
Warwick, in addition to his long association with The
Almighty, spent significant portions of the 90s with the
rock outfits The Stiff Little Fingers and (sic). But after
The Almightys (second) disbandment in 2001, Warwick
spent most of the aughts employed as a solo artist, with
his acoustic releases including 2003s Tattoos & Alibis
and 2005s Love Many Trust Few, and his solo talents
showcased in European tours with headliners Bob Dylan,
Sheryl Crow, and Keith Caputo. Then, in 2009, he was
invited to be a member of iconic rock act Thin Lizzy.
And then, two years later, so was Johnson.
It may have been an incredibly roundabout way to a
musical partnership, but few could argue that the wait
wasnt worth it. Not only have Johnson and Warwick

Music
Alabama, 52-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Johnson
formed his first garage band as an eighth-grader, and
spent his teen years playing clubs throughout northeast
Damon Johnson & Ricky Warwick Alabama. At age 23, he moved to Birmingham to join the
Rascals Live rockers of Split the Dark winners of MTVs 1986 Base-
Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m. ment Tapes Competition and, by the end of the 1980s,
he had enjoyed guitarist tenures with four other bands:
achieved enormous success with both Thin Lizzy and
their co-founded project Black Stars Riders, but their
rock-duo tours such as the one bringing them to Rascals
Live have earned fan adoration and critical acclaim
for their intimate, acoustic takes on the artists collec-
tive oeuvre. Andy Nathan, at GetReadyToRock.Me.UK,
described one particular Johnson/Warwick concert as

O n April 22, Rascals Live will host a special acoustic

concert with power-rock stalwarts Damon Johnson
and Ricky Warwick, whose third album as members
of Black Star Riders recently hit number six on the UK
charts. Given that theyve collaborated with the likes of
Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Sheryl Crow, and Ted Nugent,
you may wonder, after their area performance, how we
were lucky enough to find them in Moline. But consider-
ing their individual backgrounds, the bigger question is:
How were they lucky enough to find each other?
Born in Macon, Georgia, and raised in Monroeville,
Witness, Delta Rebels, Chinatown, and Chyld.
Fifty-year-old Warwick, by contrast, was born and
raised in Newtownards, County Down in Northern
Ireland, although like Johnson he, too, was a nascent
singer/songwriter with an early gift for the guitar. War-
wicks 1980s found him invited to join the rock musicians
of New Model Army as rhythm guitarist for their Ghost of
Cain albums world tour, and by decades end he had left
the band to co-found The Almighty, a heavy-metal group
that toured extensively alongside legends such as Mega-
deth, Iron Maiden, and Metallica.
good-humored throughout as the pair swapped stories
and banter and one anecdote about both growing up
on chicken farms (dont ask), resulting in a night that
showed that it is attitude and passion, rather than the
level of your amplification, that makes for a great rock
n roll show. That and, apparently, shared insight on the
lives of chicken farmers. But I wont ask.
Damon Johnson & Ricky Warwick play Rascals Live on
April 22 at 8 p.m., tickets are $20 to $30, and more infor-
mation on the evening is available by calling (309)797-
9457 or visiting RascalsMoline.com.

A fter premiering in England in 1991,

the musical sensation Stomp made
its United States debut at off-Broadways
Orpheum Theatre in February 1994.
More than 23 years later, its still there.
Id complain that Stomp was being a tad
territorial, but the show would likely
just take my complaint and turn into an
electrifying 10-minute dance routine.
to President Bill Clintons millennium
celebration to the closing ceremony of
the 2012 Summer Olympics. Now, local
Quad Cities engagement, try your hand
at the following true-or-false quiz, with
a true for items that have been used as
audiences will be able to witness this Stomp percussion, and false for those
unforgettable explosion of movement that havent.
and sound a production the New York
1) buckets 7) shoes
Times called irresistibly frisky when
2) garbage cans 8) playing cards
Stomp lands at Davenports Adler The-
3) wet socks 9) cigarette lighters
atre on April 25 boasting updated and

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4) brooms 10) blenders
A crowd-pleasing showcase on the art re-structured material as well as all of
5) pipes 11) apples
of turning found objects into musical the provocative, sophisticated, sexy, and
6) miniature tow 12) back issues of the
and dance genius, the Stomp experi- utterly unique thrills that have made the
Stomp ence is nothing short of legendary, with show beloved by worldwide audiences of
trucks River Cities Reader
Adler Theatre its casts having performed in every- every age. For tickets to Stomp, call (800)745-
Tuesday, April 25, 7:30 p.m. thing from the Sydney Opera House So in honor of the touring shows 3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.
Answers: True for all but the Reader ... but the show is being performed just down the street, so ya know ... . Fingers crossed!
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mike@rcreader.com

What Else Is Happenin

MUSIC
Thursday, April 13 Six Organs of
Admittance. A Moeller Nights concert of
guitar-based folk in the primary musical
project of Ben Chasny. Triple Crown Whiskey
Bar & Raccoon Motel (304 East Third Street,
Davenport). 8:30 p.m. $10-15. For information,
visit MoellerNights.com.
Thursday, April 13, and Friday, April 14
Liverpool Legends: The Complete Beatles
Experience. Touring concert tribute to the
Fab Four. Isle Casino Hotel Bettendorf (1777
Isle Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $10-25. For
tickets and information, call (800)843-4753 or
visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com. Aaron Lee Tasjan @ Daytrotter April 15

Music
Friday, April 14 Dyle Bramhall II. Concert
with the blues, rock, and soul singer/songwriter
and guitarist, featuring an opening set by
Future Stuff. The Redstone Room (129 Main
Calliope Musicals Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $32.50-33. For tickets
The Redstone Room and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit
RiverMusicExperience.org. For an interview
Friday, April 21, 9 p.m. with Bramhall, visit RCReader.com/y/bramhall.
Friday, April 14 Lorrie Morgan. Touring
drummer Manuel Lopez III, and tenor
saxophonist Josh Forbes. Black Hawk Colleges
Building Four Hawks Nest (6600 34th Avenue,
Moline). 7:30 p.m. Free. For information, call
(309)796-5479 or visit BHC.edu.
Thursday, April 20 The Sextones and
Have Your Cake. Concert co-headlined by
the soul/funk musicians and the Cake tribute

W inners of the Best New Austin Band citation at the 2016 SXSW festival, the
exuberant, psychedelic-folk artists of Calliope Musicals bring their tour to
Davenports Redstone Room on April 21. And if you choose to view only one online
country vocalist in concert, featuring an opening
set by Jodi Miller. Adler Theatre (136 East Third
Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $43-73. For tickets, call
(800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.
band interview conducted by a nine-year-old girl this year, I urge you to check out
Saturday, April 15 I Love the 90s Tour.
MusicFelon.com, where an adorable kid named Mabel queries the group about
An evening of chart-topping hits with Salt-
their collective love of camping, gets some sage growing-up advice, and learns from N-Pepa, All-4-One, Color Me Badd, Coolio,
lead vocalist Carrie Fussell the tricks behind performing a perfect Snoopy Dance. Tone Lc, Rob Base, and Young MC. iWireless
Which is fitting, because to hear reviewers tells it, a Calliope Musicals concert itself Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m.
is like the stage embodiment of a Snoopy Dance. $45. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit
iWirelessCenter.com.
Founded by Fussell and vocalist/guitarist Matt Roth, the Austin-based ensemble
Saturday, April 15 Aaron Lee Tasjan.
also boasts Josh Bickley on drums, Craig Finkelstein on vibraphone, Andrew
Nashville-based singer/songwriter in concert
Vizzone on bass, and Chris Webb on guitar. But if you want to know the secret featuring opening sets by Lewis Knudsen
ingredient to Calliope Musicals psych-folk traveling party, it might lie with touring and Esme Alexis. Daytrotter (324 Brady Street,
partner Jerry Sparkman, whose credit as the groups Confetti Cat is a literal one Davenport). 8 p.m. $8-10. For information, call
hes the guy, frequently dressed as an alien and/or unicorn, who gets to shoot off the (563)293-3240 or visit Daytrotter.com.
confetti cannons for which the bands sets are famed. Saturday, April 15 Mandy Barnett:
Sweet Dreams. An evening of Patsy Clines
While shredded paper fills the air, the atmosphere at a Calliope Musicals concert
country and pop hits with the touring Nashville
is also filled with the kind of uplifting, dance-worthy electricity that according
singer. Ohnward Fine Arts Center (1215 East
to the groups Facebook biography exudes feel-good vibes that aim to swallow Platt Street, Maquoketa). 7 p.m. $13-25. For
listeners and spit them out as happier versions of their former selves. And between tickets and information, call (563)652-9815 or
their buoyant tour stops and the 2016 release of the musicians first full-length visit OhnwardFineArtsCenter.com.
album, Time Owes You Nothing, Calliope Musicals has clearly left plenty of listeners, Sunday, April 16 Willie Pickens Trio.
post-spitting, awfully darned happy. Polyrhythms presents a concert in the Third
Sunday Jazz Matine Series with the jazz
According to Talent Monthly magazine, Calliope Musicals has created one of the
pianist, Ron Wilson, and Manuel Lopez III,
most incredible stage shows in the country. Beats Per Minute magazine raves about
preceded by a Demystifying Jazz Workshop.
the ensembles chest-rattling bass and percussion that could shake a mountain to The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
its foundation. NPR has described the group as a vibrant psych-folk band whose Davenport). 6 p.m. concert, $10-15, suggested
shows are spectacles of concentrated celebration. And according to Texas KUTX $10 piano-restoration donation. 3 p.m.
radio station, This Austin six-piece channels youthful energy that shows how much workshop, $5, free for students. For tickets
and information, call (309)373-0790 or visit
enjoyment can be found in life, and is like a bunch of kids who got really good at
Polyrhythms.com or RiverMusicExperience.org.
their instruments instead of growing up. Damn. Had I know that was an option in
Wednesday, April 19 Black Hawk
my youth, I wouldve spent way more time with my clarinet. College Jazz Festival. Twenty-fifth-annual
Calliope Musicals performs locally with an opening set by Paper Bird whose concert event, featuring performances by
band name suggests they may wanna steer clear of the headliners confetti cannon trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and the BHC
and more information and tickets are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting Jazz Band, with special guest artists including
RiverMusicExperience.org. pianist Corey Kendrick, bassist Ron Wilson,
artists, featuring an opening set by The Good
Company. The Redstone Room (129 Main
Street, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $11.50-14. For
tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or
visit RiverMusicExperience.org.
Friday, April 21 The Obsessed. Concert
with the Maryland-based heavy-metal musicians,
featuring opening sets by Karma to Burn and
Fatso Jetson. Rock Island Brewing Company
(1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. For
information, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.
Friday, April 21 Bucktown Revue.
Variety show in the tradition of A Prairie Home
Companion, featuring emcee Scott Tunnicliff,
area comedians and musicians including the
Barley House Band and Milltown, and special
guests. Nighswander Theatre (2822 Eastern
Avenue, Davenport). 7 p.m. $13 at the door.
For information, call (563)940-0508 or visit
BucktownRevue.com.
Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April 23
Nova Singers: A Cappella Masterworks. The
professional vocal ensemble performs some of
the greatest works written for a cappella choir,
under the direction of Laura Lane. Saturday:
First Lutheran Church (364 East Water Street,
Galesburg), 7:30 p.m. Sunday: St. Paul Lutheran
Church (2136 Brady Street, Davenport), 4
p.m. $15-18. For tickets and information, call
(309)341-7038 or visit NovaSingers.com.
Sunday, April 23 Sondre Lerche. A
Moeller Nights concert with the Norwegian
singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Baked Beer & Bread Co. (1113 Mound Street,
Davenport). 7 p.m. $15. For information, visit
MoellerNights.com.
Monday, April 24 Dressy Bessy. Denver-
based indie rockers in a Moeller Nights concert
featuring opening sets by Arc Flash and Bottom
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What Else Is Happenin
Dollars. Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon
Motel (304 East Third Street, Davenport). 8:30
p.m. For information, visit MoellerNights.com.
Wednesday, April 26 The Lacs. Concert
with the Southern rap and rock musicians
featuring an opening set by 3andTwenty.
The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $22-27.50. For tickets
and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit
RiverMusicExperience.org.
Wednesday, April 26 The Hackensaw
Boys. A Moeller Nights concert with the
folk and Americana string band, featuring
an opening set by The Tillers. Triple Crown
Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel (304 East Third
Street, Davenport). 8:30 p.m. For information,
visit MoellerNights.com.
THEATRE
Thursday, April 20, through Saturday,
April 29 The Tin Woman. Sean Grennans
drama about a heart-transplant recipient,
directed by Aaron Lord. The Black Box Theatre
(1623 Fifth Avenue, Moline). Thursday through
Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2:30 p.m. $16. For
tickets and information, call (563)284-2350 or
visit TheBlackBoxTheatre.com.
Thursday, April 20, through Sunday, April
30 Out of Sight, Out of Murder. Comedy
mystery by Fred Carmichael, directed by John
Donald OShea. Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
(600 Robinson Drive, Geneseo). Thursday
through Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. $12.
For tickets and information, call (309)944-2244
or visit RHPlayers.com.
Thursday, April 20, through Saturday,
May 13 Big Nate: The Musical. Family-
musical comedy inspired by the comic-strip
character, directed by Brad Hauskins. Circa
21 Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). Scheduled 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
performances on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday. $8.50 show-only admission. For
tickets and information, call (309)786-7733
extension 2, or visit Circa21.com.
Friday, April 21, through Sunday, April
23 Richard III. William Shakespeares
historical tragedy, directed by Ron Clark and
choreographed by Jeff Coussens. St. Ambrose
Universitys Galvin Fine Arts Center (2101
North Gaines Street, Davenport). Friday and
Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. $8-11. For
tickets and information, call (563)333-6251 or
visit SAU.edu/theatre.
DANCE
Saturday, April 22 Augustana Dance
Company. Spring performance featuring
pieces choreographed by members of the
company, showcasing genres including tap,
ballet, and hip hop. Augustana Colleges
Centennial Hall (3703 Seventh Avenue, Rock
Island). 7 p.m. $4-9, ages 12 and under free. For
tickets and information, call (309)794-7306 or
visit Augustana.edu/arts.
EXHIBITS
Saturday, April 15, through Sunday, April
23 Young Artists at the Figge: Davenport
Schools. Exhibition of works by student artists.
Nova Singers in A Cappella Masterworks
April 22 and 23
Figge Art Museum (225 West Second Street,
Davenport). Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m.-
5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday noon-5
p.m. Free with $4-7 admission. For information,
call (563)326-7804 or visit FiggeArtMuseum.org.
Thursday, April 20, through Thursday, May
11 2017 Senior Honors Exhibitions. Displays
of work by student artists Morgan Allen, Emma
Hubner, Lindsay OBrien, and Jonathan Wray.
St. Ambrose Universitys Catich and Morrissey
galleries (2101 Gaines Street, Davenport).
Tuesday through Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday
10 a.m.-4 p.m (Catich) and noon-4 p.m.
(Morrissey). Free. For information, call (563)333-
6444 or visit SAU.edu/galvin.
Friday, April 21, through Saturday, May
13 2017 Senior Art Exhibition. Displayed
works including the senior-inquiry projects
of the Augustana College studio-art and
graphic-design majors from the class of 2017.
Augustana College Teaching Museum of Art
(3703 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). Friday and
Saturday noon-4 p.m. and by appointment.
Free. For information, call (309)794-7400 or visit
Augustana.edu/arts/art-museum.
EVENTS
Friday, April 21 Magic Men Live! Themed
acts and choreography with the touring male
exotic dancers. Adler Theatre (136 East Third
Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $23-73. For tickets, call
(800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.
Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22
Bottoms Up Quad City Burlesque. Local
burlesque with the Quad Cities troupe and area
comedians. Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818 Third
Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $18-20. For tickets
and information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2
or visit Circa21.com.
Saturday, April 22 Gildas Run for
Laughs. Annual fundraising event for Gildas
Club of the Quad Cities featuring a one-mile
fun run at 9 a.m. and 5K run/walk at 9:30 a.m.,
with a post-race party at RIBCO featuring
tribute band Bluz Brother. The District of Rock
Island. $15-30 registration. For information, call
(563)326-7504 or visit GildasClubQC.org.
Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, April
23 QC Game Fest. Convention gathering
admirers of board games, RPGs, miniatures,
and card games. Davenport RiverCenter
(136 East Third Street, Davenport). 8 a.m.
doors, 9 a.m. events. For information, visit
QCGameFest.com.
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Movie Reviews By Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com

A Quadruple-Feature That Only Starts Blue

F riday, April 7, 10:05 a.m.-ish: To
misquote Dickens, 10:05 proves the
best of time and the worst of time. The best
because Im currently seated next to my
favorite movie-going companion under the
age of three. The worst because the movie
were seeing is the animated Smurfs: The
Lost Village, which turns out to be like the
live-action Smurfs from 2011 and 2013 if
you surgically removed Hank Azaria, Neil
Patrick Harris, and Jayma Mays. In other
words: awful.
Theres always been something gross
about the origin story for Smurfette, whom
the nefarious Gargamel created out of clay
to infiltrate and help destroy the Smurfs
before their inherent goodness so warmed
her heart that she turned into a blond. Yet
while director Kelly Asbury and screen-
writers Stacey Harman and Pamela Ribon
may think theyre doing damage control
by giving our generically feisty heroine
(Demi Lovato) an all-girl village to romp
about in, their plot so insistently casts her
as a non-Smurf other in need of rescue
that shes still treated rather insultingly. (Id
also call the films You matter even if youre
not a boy! moral insulting if there werent
stupider ones on hand, among them Dont
save mean people from drowning! and If
loved ones die, cry a little and theyll come
back to life!) Smurfs: The Lost Village is
just as manic as youd expect, particularly
when were being Avatar-ded by trippy
jungle creatures and besieged by protracted
slapstick mayhem and the shrieking antics
of Clumsy Smurf, voiced by a too-aptly-
named Jack McBrayer. But this adult didnt
find it the least bit charming or funny, and
even my two-year-old pal appeared far less
invested than she was at The Boss Baby or
even Rock Dog although she did cackle at
one of this family comedys de rigueur fart
jokes. He tooted! she happily exclaimed.
Yes, honey. The whole movie tooted.
11:45-ish: I havent seen 1979s elderly-
bank-robbers comedy Going in Style in at
least 35 years, but my childhood memory of
Lee Strasberg suffering a fatal heart attack
on a park bench remains vividly scary and
sad. Consequently, the thought of watching
Alan Arkin play out that same scene was
almost enough to make me dread director
Zach Braffs Going in Style remake, until I
remembered 2017s infinitely more squea-
mish and mercenary Hollywood: Aint no
old man gonna die on no park bench, espe-
cially if he could be conceivably recruited
for a sequel. Heaven knows any excuse to see
Arkin, Michael Caine, and Morgan Free-
man in leading roles cant be a wholly bad
one, and as they formulate a plan to screw
a bank thats been screwing its customers,
these three pros share a relaxed camaraderie
that gets you through even screenwriter
Theodore Melfis most-maudlin situations
and lamest jokes. Yet especially when com-
pared to the original, Braffs update is obvi-
ous, crass, and condescending, and doesnt
blink at wasting the unusually fine support-
ing crew of Ann-Margret, Matt Dillon, Joey
King, Peter Serafinowicz, John Ortiz, Kenan
Thompson, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan.
Of the films entire cast, the only one who
makes me laugh is Christopher Lloyd. But
I must admit that I (and my fellow patrons)
laugh a lot, because what Lloyd delivers
is nothing less than Taxis Reverend Jim
Ignatowski 40 years on, as pop-eyed and
addled and riotous as ever. If a Going in Style
sequel is in the offing, please let Lloyd be the
first one asked to return, and please let his
answer be Okey-DOKE!!!
1:35 p.m.-ish: Just before the under-pro-
moted Japanese anime Your Name begins,
two patrons enter the auditorium, and one
of the pair noticing the paltry few already
sitting says, Oh, man, theres actually
people here. I know! I was shocked, too! By
films end, though, Im feeling sympathy for
everyone who isnt there, because writer/
director Makoto Shinkais achievement is
utterly glorious an unclassifiable genre
mash-up that emerges as a bold, devastat-
ing, hugely entertaining original. (Shinkais
movie was in contention for the 2016 Ani-
mated Feature Oscar, and how it didnt make
the final lineup Ill never know.) Although it
takes an impressively long time for the nar-
rative to become clear(ish), you may initially
think youre at a gorgeously animated Freaky
Friday, with protagonists Taki and Mitsuha
the former a teen male living in Tokyo, the
latter a teen female living in its rural outskirts
magically trading bodies back and forth
after each nights sleep. This leads to sweet-
ness, cheekiness (Taki cant stop fondling
his boobs every morning), chuckles, and
lovely, understated metaphors for the confus-
ing experience of adolescence. But its also
only the start of Your Names surreal journey,
which goes on to borrow elements from
Your Name
Memento, then Twelfth Night, then (gulp!)
The Lake House, then Back to the Future ... .
And right when you think you finally have
the wildly inventive Your Name pegged, it
does one final flip with scenes on a train car
and at a crater lake and on a flight of stairs,
and turns into a romantic tearjerker to rival
An Affair to Remember. By the time the cred-
its roll, Ive spent about 15 minutes crying Bird provides loads of funny, telling details,
buckets at this thing, and wouldve made a
successfully dignified exit had I not opened
the theater door to four cineplex employees
all clearly aware of the nearly 50-year-old
man wiping away tears. Damned ushers.
Always there when you dont want em. Frankie Faison, and Faye Dunaway (!), and
3:35-ish: Decision time. I can either stick
around Davenport for the 4:20 screening of
The Case for Christ, or make a mad dash to
Moline, miss 15 minutes of (likely) non-
secular trailers, and catch a 3:35 showing
there instead. Not choosing option three
skipping the movie altogether I hightail
it to Illinois and wind up glad I did, as my
Your Name high isnt ruined in the slightest.
If anything, its intensified, because director
Jon Gunns faith-based drama is unexpect-
edly terrific, and so superior to Gunns 2015
Do You Believe? that its almost as though the
man was engaged in a body-switching ritual
of his own. In its telling of how former Chi-
cago Tribune reporter and atheist Lee Strobel
waged an investigative war on Christianity
after his wife became a true believer, the film
is a bit dawdling, and there are some distract-
ing syncing and looping issues; as a movie,
it has obvious flaws. None of them, though,
involve the 1980 period design and details,
which are so no-sweat excellent that the film
doesnt even make passing comment on the
Strobels and their young daughter tooling
along the highway sans seat belts. (Lee aero-
sol-spraying his perfect do in place was also a
nice touch, as were his jean-shorts-and-black-
socks ensemble and our seeing the periods
beloved Uh-one, uh-two, uh-three ... !
Tootsie Pop commercial.) Screenwriter Brian
such as Lees Chicago-based snobbery in not
wanting to travel for interviews in Wisconsin
and Indiana. And good God but The Case for
Christ is well-acted, with the supporting cast
boasting L. Scott Caldwell, Robert Forster,
leads Mike Vogels and Erika Christensens
marital squabbles ceaselessly passionate and
truthful. In terms of moving and memorable
screen couples, this duo may not be Taki and
Mitsuha, but as actual humans go, they more
than suffice.
5:40-ish: Driving home happy
particularly upon realizing I finished a
quadruple-feature and still didnt put in a
full eight-hour work day. Please dont tell
my boss.
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Greed Between the Lines
I love my boyfriend, yet feel bad that he
never buys me presents. He did when we
were dating, and he buys himself extrava-
gant stuff. But he got me nothing for my
birthday and only some trinkets for Christ-
mas because I made a stink. When Ive
brought up the gifts issue, hes implied that
Im materialistic. However, what matters to
me is not the cost but that hes thinking of
me. Is my desire for gifts somehow shallow?
Coal Digger
Once again, its Christmas. Ooh, ooh,
whats that under the tree?! Once again its
the floor.
Many men sneer at the importance their
ladies place on getting gifts from them, deem-
ing it a sign of female emotional frailty. What
these men arent taking into account is that the
differences that evolved in male and female
psychology correspond to differences in male
and female physiology. To put this another
way, women disproportionately are into
getting gifts from romantic partners for the
same reason men (disproportionately) are into
watching strippers. All the better to pass ones
genes on with, my dear!
Because, for a woman, sex can lead to
pregnancy and a hungry kid to drag around,
female emotions evolved to act as a sort of
alarm system, making a woman feel crappy
when there are signs a mans commitment
may be waning. (Wanting to feel better makes
her take corrective action pressing him to
put up or get out.) However, a mans being
willing to give gifts suggests a willingness
to invest at least beyond 2.6 minutes of
foreplay and a teaspoon of sperm.
Accordingly, evolutionary behavioral
scientist Gad Saad believes that gift-giving
evolved as a distinctly male courtship
strategy. Though women do give gifts to
romantic partners, they tend to wait til theyre
in a relationship and then do it to celebrate
being together. Saads research finds that men,
on the other hand, are much more likely to
be tactical in their reasons for offering a gift
to a romantic partner like, in the courtship
phase, to get a woman into bed. (Of course,
if a woman wants to get a man into bed, she
doesnt need to give him a present to unwrap;
she just starts unbuttoning her top.)
Explain the science to your boyfriend. You
dont have a character deficiency; you just want
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him to show his love in the way that works for
you. Thats what people who love each other
do even if they, say, believe the gift of their
side salad at dinner should be gift enough.
Besides, you arent demanding Tiara-of-the-
week or Im gone! Youd just like occasional
little thinking of you prezzies and somewhat
bigger ones on Official Girlfriend Holidays
(birthdays, anniversaries, etc.). Ultimately,
these are not just gifts but messages that
making you happy is worth an investment of
money and effort beyond what hes been put-
ting in to run out and get his wallet wired shut
just in time for your birthday.
Wussy Galore
My fiance and I were driving my drunk
friend home from a party. He was saying
rude things to her, but I knew he was just
wasted and didnt mean them, so I didnt say
anything. I thought my fiance would also
shrug it off, but she was mad and hurt that I
didnt stand up for her. Is it that big a deal?
Couldnt she have stood up for herself?
Middleman
Yes, theres actually more to being an ideal
partner to a woman than being able to unhook
a bra with your teeth.
A woman today may be perfectly capable
of defending herself with her big mouth or
her big pink handgun. However, she has an
emotional operating system pushing her to go
for men who show an ability and a willingness
to protect her. This comes out of how, over
millions of years of evolution, certain ladies
children were more likely to survive and pass
on their mothers genes (and the psychology
that rides along). Which children? Those
whose mothers chose men whod do more in
an attack than, well, effectively crawl under the
car seat and wish all the awfulness would stop.
Your fiance probably still feels resentful
and maybe even thinks less of you for how
you basically showed all the testosterone-
driven fortitude of a geranium. Consider what
grandpas everywhere call having character:
doing the right thing even when that kinda
blows for you. If, in looking back, you wouldve
done things differently, tell your fiance. Then
pledge that going forward, youll be that kind
of guy and protecting the person who means
most to you wont involve pushing your girl-
friend toward the grizzly bear so youll have
more time to make a run for it.
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before
visiting Sicily for the first time,
American poet Billy Collins learned to
speak Italian. In his poem By a Swimming Pool
Outside Siracusa, he describes how the new
language is changing his perspective. If he were
thinking in English, he might say that the gin hes
drinking while sitting alone in the evening light
has softened my mood. But the newly
Italian-ized part of his mind would prefer to say
that the gin has allowed my thoughts to traverse
my brain with greater gentleness and has
extended permission to my mind to feel a
friendship with the vast sky. Your assignment in
the coming week, Aries, is to Italian-ize your
view of the world. Infuse your thoughts with
expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If
youre Italian, celebrate and amplify your
Italian-ness.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Its
closing time. You have finished toiling
in the shadow of an old sacred cow.
Youve climaxed your relationship with ill-fitting
ideas that you borrowed from mediocre and
inappropriate teachers once upon a time. And
you can finally give up your quest for a supposed
Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first
place. Its time to move on to the next chapter of
your life story, Taurus! You have been authorized
to graduate from any influence, attachment, and
attraction that wouldnt serve your greater good
in the future. Does this mean youll soon be ready
to embrace more freedom than you have in
years? Im betting on it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The
heaviest butterfly on the planet is the
female Queen Victorian Birdwing. It
tips the scales at two grams. The female Queen
Alexandra Birdwing is the butterfly with the
longest wingspan: over 12 inches. These two
creatures remind me of you these days. Like
them, youre freakishly beautiful. Youre a
marvelous and somewhat vertiginous spectacle.
The tasks youre working on are graceful and
elegant, yet also big and weighty. Because of your
intensity, you may not look flight-worthy, but
youre actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your
sorties are dazzling and influential. Though your
acrobatic zigzags seem improba-
ble, theyre effective.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Picasso
had mixed feelings about his fellow
painter Marc Chagall, who was born
under the sign of Cancer. Im not crazy about his
roosters and donkeys and flying violinists, and
all the folklore, Picasso said, referring to the
subject matter of Chagalls compositions. But he
also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters
who understands what color really is, adding,
Theres never been anybody since Renoir who
has the feeling for light that Chagall has. I
suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be the
recipient of mixed messages like these. Praise and
disapproval may come your way. Recognition
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and neglect. Kudos and apathy. Please dont dwell
on the criticism and downplay the applause. In
fact, do the reverse!
LEO (July 23-August 22): Go Tell It
on the Mountain is the title of an old
gospel song, and now its the meta-
phorical theme of your horoscope. I advise you to
climb a tall peak even if its just a magic with plenty of slack when dealing with cautious
mountain in your imagination and deliver the
spicy monologue that has been marinating
within you. It would be great if you could gather a
sympathetic audience for your revelations, but
thats not mandatory to achieve the necessary
catharsis. You simply need to be gazing at the big
picture as you declare your big, ripe truths.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22): If
you were a snake, it would be a fine
time to molt your skin. If you were a
river, it would be a perfect moment to overflow
your banks in a spring flood. If you were an office
worker, it would be an excellent phase to trade in
your claustrophobic cubicle for a spacious new
niche. In other words, Virgo, youre primed to
outgrow at least one of your containers. The
boundaries you knew you would have to
transgress some day are finally ready to be
transgressed. Even now, your attention span is
expanding and your imagination is stretching.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22):
For over a century, the Ringsaker
Lutheran Church in Buxton, North
Dakota hosted rites of passage, including 362
baptisms, 50 marriages, and 97 funerals. It closed
in 2002, a victim of the areas shrinking
population. I invite you to consider the possibility
that this can serve as a useful metaphor for you,
Libra. Is there a place that has been a sanctuary
for you, but has begun to lose its magic? Is there a
traditional power spot from which the power has
been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a
mundane hang-out? If so, mourn for a while,
then go in search of a vibrant replacement.
SCORPIO (October 23-November
21): Most people throw away lemon
rinds, walnut shells, and pomegranate
skins. But some resourceful types find uses for
these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a
deodorizer, cleaner, and skin tonic, as well as a
zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut
shells work well in facial scrubs and pet bedding.
When made into a powder, pomegranate peels
have a variety of applications for skin care. I
suggest you look for metaphorically similar
things, Scorpio. Youre typically inclined to
dismiss the surfaces and discard the packaging
and ignore the outer layers, but I urge you to
consider the possibility that right now they may
have value.
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): Youre growing too
fast, but thats fine as long as you dont
make people around you feel theyre moving too
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slowly. You know too much, but that wont be a
problem as long as you dont act snooty. And
youre almost too attractive for your own good,
but that wont hurt you as long as you overflow
with spontaneous generosity. What Im trying to
convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are likely
to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile
than confusing. And that should provide you
folks who are a bit rattled by your lust for life.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January
19): Until recently, scientists believed
the number of trees on the planet was
about 400 billion. But research published in the
journal Nature says thats wrong. There are
actually 3 trillion trees on Earth almost eight
times more than was previously thought. In a
similar way, I suspect you have also underesti-
mated certain resources that are personally
available to you, Capricorn. Now is a good time to
correct your undervaluation. Summon the
audacity to recognize the potential abundance
you have at your disposal. Then make plans to tap
into it with a greater sense of purpose.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February
18): The poet John Keats identified a
quality he called negative capability.
He defined it as the power to calmly accept
uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without
any irritable reaching after fact and reason. I
would extend the meaning to include three other
things not to be irritably reached for: artificial
clarity, premature resolution, and simplistic
answers. Now is an excellent time to learn more
about this fine art, Aquarius.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): Are
you ready for a riddle thats more
enjoyable than the kind youre used to?
Im not sure if you are. You may be too jaded to
embrace this unusual gift. You could assume its
another one of the crazy-making cosmic jokes
that have sometimes tormented you in the past.
But I hope that doesnt happen. I hope youll
welcome the riddle in the liberating spirit in
which its offered. If you do, youll be pleasantly
surprised as it teases you in ways you didnt know
you wanted to be teased. Youll feel a delightful
itch or a soothing burn in your secret self, like a
funny-bone feeling that titillates your immortal
soul. P.S.: To take full advantage of the blessed
riddle, you may have to expand your understand-
ing of whats good for you.
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ACROSS 82. _ Me 37. _ energy

1. The rudiments 84. Beat 39. Runs
5. Bare infinitives 85. Treatise by Euclid 40. Prevails uncontrolled
10. Spars 87. Falls antecedent 41. _ You
15. Boat 89. Things 42. Rounded parts
19. Saintly radiance 90. Chow 43. Body armor piece
20. Postulate 91. Make haste 46. Resist
21. Rose oil 93. Row 47. Static
22. Salad veggie 95. Ring-shaped reef 50. Answer a charge
23. _ Snowman 98. Grand or comic 51. Skin
25. _ trust 99. Like a boor 53. Takes in
27. Confounds 103. _ instrument 55. Follow a border
28. Nail of a kind 106. _ income 57. Intone
30. Mountain nymph 108. Lake 59. Hatfields and McCoys
31. Quiche 109. Wreck 60. Of France
32. Prince of _ 110. Succession 61. Drug letters
33. Money in Izmir 111. Anything _ 62. Tool for cabinetmakers
35. Colophony 112. ISUs home 64. Florida city
38. Old office worker, for short 113. Sheds 65. Hellion
40. Ailing industrial region: 2 wds. 114. Animal groups 66. Medieval tale
44. Garden plants 115. Oddments 67. Tempest name
45. _ doubt 68. Office workers, for short
48. Extinct bird DOWN 69. Bushed
49. _ -en-scene 1. Captain of fiction 70. Gap
50. Support 2. Bunyans ox 71. Weedy plants
52. Orbital point 3. Divot 73. Essentials
53. Declines 4. Whenever 74. Very very cold
54. Kind of name 5. Race of Norse gods 77. Dispatched
55. Apertures 6. Raises 78. Grow narrower
56. Multicolored 7. Cookout fare 80. Guardianship
57. Worries 8. Place near Braz. 82. Distributed cards
58. Slows down 9. Bartered Bride composer 83. Extent
60. A cosmetic 10. Twin crystal 84. Pub orders
62. Series of musical notes 11. A Musketeer 86. Fruits of a vine
63. Siege-of-Troy story 12. Laurel or Musial 88. Cobra, e.g.
64. Billiards shot 13. Sailor 91. Divided
65. _ fixe 14. _ Lanka 92. Discarded portions
66. Hoax 15. Sacred insect 94. Pictures
68. Diacritical mark 16. Hexahedron 95. Wall pier
69. Cut across 17. Sooner State: Abbr. 96. Squad
72. Praying figure 18. Do a gardeners job 97. Fairy tale heavy
73. Grain, crushed 24. Lendl and Pavlov 98. Old Greek weight
74. Gargantuan 26. Cake 99. Monarch
75. Cry of discovery 29. Shad genus 100. Black
76. Pen points 32. Sobs 101. Pulk or luge
77. Meeting 33. Did a mechanics job 102. Meeting: Abbr.
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THURSDAY 13
Devin Tha Dude Will Murk Jordan
Burgett QonfliQ w/ Freestyle
Diamonte Zeke the Rapper
The Guy Fly (6:30pm) Gabes,
330 E. Washington St., Iowa City IA
Ed James (5pm) Hy-Vee Market
Grille - Moline, 4218 Avenue of the
Cities, Moline IL
The Ghost Wolves Jenny Lynn
Stacy & the Dirty Roosters Rozz-
Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock Island IL
Last Call Band w/ Chad Johnson
Riverside Casino and Golf Resort,
3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
Liverpool Legends: The Complete
Beatles Experience Isle Casino
Hotel Bettendorf, 1777 Isle
Parkway, Bettendorf IA
Mers Music Showcase Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City IA
Moeller Nights: Six Organs of
Admittance Triple Crown
Whiskey Bar & Raccoon Motel, 304
E Third St., Davenport IA
Rob Dahms & Gary Pearson
(5:30pm) Hy-Vee Market Grille -
Moline, 4218 Avenue of the Cities,
Moline IL
FRIDAY 14
Acoustic Guillotine Otros Outros
Zuul Wax Cannon Gabes, 330
E. Washington St., Iowa City IA
Bobby Ray Bunch Riverside Grille,
1733 State St., Bettendorf IA
Chuck Murphy Stone Cliff Winery,
474 Bluff St, Dubuque IA
Corporate Rock 11th Street
Precinc t, 1107 Mound St.,
Davenport IA
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Lorrie Morgan @ Adler Theatre April 14
The Diamonds (8pm) The Hotrods
(9:45pm) Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Dirt Road Rockers Rookies Sports
Bar, 2818 N. Brady St., Davenport IA
Doyle Bramhall II Future Stuff
The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
Fred Hersch Trio (7 & 9:30pm)
Hancher Auditorium, 101 East Park
Rd., Iowa City IA
Jason Carl & the Whole Damn Band
RIBCO, 1815 Second Ave., Rock
Island IL
Jim Swim Ono Strangers of
Necessity Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St, Iowa City IA
LKB Trio (6pm) 1 Hundred West
Bar & Dance Club, 100 76th St.,
Davenport IA
THROUGH MAY 14, 2017
World War I and America Project
www.figgeartmuseum.org
Fifty Shades of Rock Purgatorys
Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner
(noon) RME Community Stage,
129 N. Main St., Davenport IA
Liverpool Legends: The Complete
Beatles Experience Isle Casino
Hotel Bettendorf, 1777 Isle
Parkway, Bettendorf IA
Lorrie Morgan Jodi Miller Adler
Theatre, 136 E. Third St., Davenport IA
The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm)
The Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 Third
Ave., Rock Island IL
Molly Conrad John Franco (6pm)
Milltown Coffee, 3800 River Drive
#2, Moline IL
NEHI Deleters The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St., Iowa City IA
QC Nu Gruv Society Rozz-Tox, 2108
Third Ave., Rock Island IL
Roger Carlson The Grape Life Wine
Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport IA
Ton O Fun Band Rhythm City
Casino Resort Rhythm Room, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
SATURDAY 15
Aaron Lee Tasjan Lewis Knudsen
Esme Alexis Daytrotter, 324
Brady St., Davenport IA
Chuck Murphy Main Avenue Pub,
115 Main Ave., Clinton IA
Darren Jay & the Delta Souls
Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ, 300
Potter Dr., Bellevue IA
The Diamonds (8pm) Pastmasters
(9:45pm) Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
The Fez The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St., Iowa City IA
Pub, 2104 State St, Bettendorf IA
Fred Hersch Trio (7 & 9:30pm)
Hancher Auditorium, 101 East Park
Rd., Iowa City IA
Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo Geneseo
Brewing Company, 102 S. State St.,
Geneseo IL
I Love the 90s Tour: Salt n Pepa All
4 One Color Me Badd Coolio
Tone Loc Rob Base Young
MC iWireless Center, 1201 River
Dr, Moline IL
The Knockoffs The Office Bar & Grill,
305 3rd St., Sherrard IL
The Limns Honeywise Isolated
Brigade Iowa City Yacht Club, 13
S Linn St, Iowa City IA
Lipstick Slick Harley Corins, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Mandy Barnett: Sweet Dreams
Ohnward Fine Arts Center, 1215 E
Platt St., Maquoketa IA
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Molly Conrad The Grape Life Wine
Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport IA
The Pork Tornadoes & Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels: Then Vs Now
Paramount Theatre, 123 3rd St. SE,
Cedar Rapids IA
Tangent 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport IA
Ton O Fun Band Rhythm City
Casino Resort Rhythm Room, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Tony Hoeppner & Friends Green
Tree Brewery, 309 N. Cody Rd.,
LeClaire IA
Winterland RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
SUNDAY 16
Third Sunday @ 3 Concert St.
Johns United Methodist Church,
109 E 14th St, Davenport IA
Third Sunday Jazz: Willie Pickens
(6pm) The Redstone Room, 129
Main St, Davenport IA
MONDAY 17
Moeller Nights: Trevor Sensor
Triple Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon
Motel, 304 E. 3rd St., Davenport IA
Rob Lytle (6:30pm) Ca DZan, 411
South Rd., Cambridge IL
TUESDAY 18
Moeller Nights: Steve Poltz Triple The Sextones Have Your Cake
Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon
Motel, 304 E. 3rd St., Davenport IA
Quad City Kix Band RME
Community Stage, 129 N. Main St.,
Davenport IA
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WEDNESDAY 19
25th Annual Black Hawk College
Jazz Festival Black Hawk College
- Quad City Campus, 6600 34th
Ave., Moline IL
Dead Man Winter The Pines The
Mill, 120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City IA
The Sextones Stonebelly Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa
City IA
Spring Jazz Ensemble: Swing into
Spring University of Dubuques
Heritage Center, 2255 Bennett St.,
Dubuque IA
THURSDAY 20
Drama Major (6pm) RME
Community Stage, 129 N. Main St.,
Davenport IA
Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo
Harringtons Pub, 2321 Cumberland
Square Dr., Bettendorf IA
Jim McDonough Central DeWitt
Performing Arts Center, 519 E. 11th
St., DeWitt IA
Johnnie Walker Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Kyle Miller Culshaws Nightmare
Ft. John The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St., Iowa City IA
Lagunitas Burn Down: Dead Larry
Zeta June The Commanders
Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.,
Iowa City IA
The Good Company The
Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
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Speed Gang Whensday Will
Murk Jordan Burgett Yung
Flxx (6pm) Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St, Iowa City IA
FRIDAY 21
Angela Perley & the Howlin
Moons Lunar Tricks Dead
Perezidents Iowa City Yacht
Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City IA
Bucktown Revue Nighswander
Theatre, 2822 Eastern Ave,
Davenport IA
Calliope Musicals Paper Bird
The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
David Kroll Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Dirt Road Rockers Harley Corins,
1708 State St., Bettendorf IA
Ernie Peniston (7pm) Bob Dorr
(8:30pm) Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
The Jason Carl Band 11th Street
Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
Keith Soko RME Community Stage,
129 N. Main St., Davenport IA
Lyle Beaver Trio Dance Walcott
Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St, Walcott IA
The Obsessed Karma to Burn
Fatso Jetson RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin
Altar Boys Kavanaughs Hilltop
Tap, 1228 30th St., Rock Island IL
Sister Wife Album-Release Show
Karen Meat Rozz-Tox, 2108 Third
Ave., Rock Island IL
Willie Pickens @ The Redstone Room April 16
Zuul Johnny Scum Abnormal
Man Viva Moxie Gabes, 330 E.
Washington St., Iowa City IA
SATURDAY 22
Bad Hair Purgatorys Pub, 2104
State St, Bettendorf IA
Bella Cain Band Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Bent Knee Thank You Scientist
Blue Moose Tap House, 211 Iowa
Ave., Iowa City IA
The Cadillac Three First Avenue
Club, 1550 First Ave, Iowa City IA
CherylWheeler Princeton Coffeehouse,
25 E. Marion St., Princeton IL
Curt Orren Terror Pigeon Rozz-
Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock Island IL
Damon Johnson and Rick y
Warwick Rascals Live, 1414 15th
St., Moline IL
David Kroll Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Ed James Geneseo Brewing
Company, 102 S. State St., Geneseo IL
Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo Jims
Knoxville Tap, 8716 Knoxville Rd.,
Milan IL
Griffin House Dan Vaughn
Gabes, 330 E. Washington St., Iowa
City IA
Lauren Mitchell Flatted Fifth Blues
& BBQ, 300 Potter Dr., Bellevue IA
Hap Hazard 11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
Nova Singe rs: A Cappe lla
Masterworks First Lutheran
Church - Galesburg, 364 E. Water
St., Galesburg IL
Slow Stoics Soul Sherpa Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa
City IA
The Undertones Building 311 @
Fros Pub & Grub, 309 Cedar St.,
Wilton IA
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Wild Oatz Band Hawkeye Tap
Sports Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne
Ave., Davenport IA
Zeta June Dead Larry RIBCO, 1815
Second Ave., Rock Island IL
SUNDAY 23
Footings Liv Carrow Ryan Davis
Rozz-Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock
Island IL
Moeller Nights: Sondre Lerche
Baked Beer & Bread Co., 1113
Mound St., Davenport IA
Nova Singe rs: A Cappe lla
Masterworks (4pm) St. Paul
Lutheran Church - Davenport, 2136
Brady St., Davenport IA
Seepeoples Gabes, 330 E.
Washington St., Iowa City IA
MONDAY 24
Moeller Nights: Dressy Bessy Arc
Flash Bottom Dollars Triple
Crown Whiskey Bar & Raccoon
Motel, 304 E Third St., Davenport IA
TUESDAY 25
B Dolan DJ Abilities Cas One vs
Figure Dope Knife Ion Jim
Swim Gabes, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
Folk Songs of the First World War
(noon) Moline Public Library,
3210 41st St., Moline IL
Moeller Nights: HEMBREE
Halfloves Triple Crown Whiskey The Blackbirds Isle Casino Hotel
Bar & Raccoon Motel, 304 E Third
St., Davenport IA
WEDNESDAY 26
Burlington Street Bluegrass Band The
Mill, 120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City IA
Coax Golden Jaybird Good Mr.
Square Rozz-Tox, 2108 Third
Ave., Rock Island IL
Hippo Campus Gabes, 330 E.
Washington St., Iowa City IA
The Lacs 3andTwenty The
Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
Moeller Nights: Hackensaw Boys
The Tillers Triple Crown Whiskey
Bar & Raccoon Motel, 304 E Third
St., Davenport IA
Twinsmith Viva Moxie Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City IA
THURSDAY 27
Bass Physics Blunt Force Gabes,
330 E. Washington St., Iowa City IA
Johnny A. Charlie Hayes & Detroit
Larry The Redstone Room, 129
Main St, Davenport IA
Kid & Nic Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
United States Navy Band Sea
Chanters Bettendorf High
School Performing Arts Center,
3333 18th St., Bettendorf IA
FRIDAY 28
Angaleena Presley Angela Meyer
Jake McVey Daytrotter, 324
Brady St., Davenport IA
Bettendorf, 1777 Isle Parkway,
Bettendorf IA
Bruce and Old Friends Orpheum
Theatre, 57 S. Kellogg St.,
Galesburg IL
Concrete Slim Flatted Fifth Blues
& BBQ 300 Potter Dr., Bellevue IA
Doug Brundies (noon) Bettendorf
Public Library, 2950 Learning
Campus Dr., Bettendorf IA
Ed James The Grape Life Wine
Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport IA
Gray Wolf Band (6pm) Hy-Vee
Market Cafe Patio, 2930 18th Ave.,
Rock Island IL
Ice Hockey Reunion Show Victor
Shores The Truth About
Dreaming Closet Witch Rozz-
Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock Island IL
Kid & Nic Rhythm City Casino Resort
Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport IA
Passion Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside
IA
Powell 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport IA
St. Thomas & the Fervors Remod
Garbage Man 2014 Leather
Parachute Inbred Trash (5pm)
Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.,
Iowa City IA
The Steepwater Band Minus Six
The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
Still Standing A Casual Affair
Bare Bones RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Stone Cold Moonshine Harley
Corins, 1708 State St., Bettendorf IA
Stone Tattoo K & Ts Bike Rack
Sports Bar & Grill, 3303 Brady St.,
Davenport IA
Winterland Pine Travelers Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa
City IA
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Jams/Open Mics
THURSDAYS
Cross Creek Karaoke Hey Bryans, 1140
15th Ave., Moline IL
DJ Night w/ 90s Music Thirstys on
Third, 2202 W. Third St., Davenport IA
Jam Session & Mug Night Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City IA
Karaoke Night Bier Stube Moline, 415
15th St., Moline IL
Karaoke w/ Double Dz Purgatorys
Pub, 2104 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Session My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Mic Night Uptown Bills Coffee
House, 730 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City IA
Open Mic w/ H.C. Wallace (Apr. 13)
Geneseo Brewing Company, 102 S.
State St., Geneseo IL
Rock the House Karaoke Bottoms Up
on 7th, 1814 Seventh St., Moline IL
Thumpin Thursdays DJ Night Rascals
Live, 1414 15th St., Moline IL
FRIDAYS
Cabana Karaoke Night Cabanas, 2120
Fourth Ave., Rock Island IL
Cross Creek Karaoke Firehouse Bar & Grill,
2006 Hickory Grove Rd., Davenport IA
DJ K Yung Barrel House Moline, 1321
Fifth Ave., Moline IL
DJ Lacey Hawkeye Tap Sports Bar N Grill,
4646 Cheyenne Ave., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Circle Tap, 1345 West
Locust St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S.
First St., Long Grove IA
Karaoke Night K & Ts Bike Rack Sports
Bar & Grill, 3303 Brady St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Miller Time Bowling,
2902 E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Roadrunners Roadhouse,
3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third, 2202
W. Third St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night V.F.W. Post 9128, 2814
State St., Bettendorf IA
Karaoke Night w/ Mike Matthews
Hollars Bar & Grill, 4050 27th St., Moline IL
Soulshake Gabes, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
SATURDAYS
Cross Creek Karaoke Jims Knoxville
Tap, 8716 Knoxville Rd., Milan IL
Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S.
First St., Long Grove IA
Karaoke Night K & Ts Bike Rack Sports
Bar & Grill, 3303 Brady St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Miller Time Bowling,
2902 E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Roadrunners
Roadhouse, 3803 Rockingham Rd.,
Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third, 2202
W. Third St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night w/ Jim Harker Hollars
Bar & Grill, 4050 27th St., Moline IL
Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment
Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Ave.,
Moline IL
SUNDAYS
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
Open Mic Night (5pm) Lynns BBQ &
Saloon, 1151 E. Iowa St., Eldridge IA
MONDAYS
Karaoke Monday w/ Pierced
Productions Grumpys Saloon, 2120
E. 11th St., Davenport IA
Musicians Jam w/ CJ Lomas (Apr. 17, 6pm)
Theos Java Club, 213 17th St., Rock Island IL
Open Mic w/ J. Knight The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St., Iowa City IA
TUESDAYS
Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) River
Music Experience, 129 N. Main St.,
Davenport IA
Karaoke Night My Place the Pub, 4405
State St., Bettendorf IA
Karaoke Night w/ Okeedokee Its
Karaoke Lynns BBQ & Saloon, 1151
E. Iowa St., Eldridge IA
Open Mic Night Broken Saddle, 1417
Fifth Ave., Moline IL
Open Mic Night Cool Beanz Coffeehouse,
1325 330th St., Rock Island IL
Tuesday Blues Jam w/ Mark Avey &
Detroit Larry Davison Cabanas,
2120 Fourth Ave., Rock Island IL
Underground Open Mic w/ Kate Kane
Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St.,
Iowa City IA
WEDNESDAYS
Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate
McManus Pub, 1401 Seventh Ave., Moline IL
Hump Day Wing & Sing w/ Marybeth
Hawkeye Tap Sports Bar N Grill, 4646
Cheyenne Ave., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night Circle Tap, 1345 West
Locust St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third, 2202
W. Third St., Davenport IA
Open Jam w/ The Channel Cats Bent
River Brewing Company, 512 24th St.
Rock Island IL
Open Mic Night Boozies Bar & Grille,
114 1/2 W. Third St., Davenport IA
Comedy
FRIDAY 14
Bix Beiderbomb Presents (8pm)
Boozies Bar & Grille, 114 W. Third
St., Davenport IA
ComedySportz (7pm) The
Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island IL
Doug Thompson (8pm) Penguins
Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,
Cedar Rapids IA
Stand-up Open Mic (9pm) Boozies
Bar & Grille, 114 W. Third St.,
Davenport IA
Studio Series: MFK (9:30pm) The
Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island IL
SATURDAY 15
ComedySportz (7pm) The
Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island IL
Doug Thompson (8pm) Penguins
Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,
Cedar Rapids IA
Studio Series: Full Disclosure
featuring Chris Schlichting
(9:30pm) The Establishment, 220
19th St., Rock Island IL
SUNDAY 16
Circumstantial Comedy Show
(10pm) BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge
Rd., Davenport IA
Kyle Dunnigan John Busch (8pm)
The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.,
Iowa City IA
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MONDAY 17
Honeycombs of Comedy (9pm)
Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St.,
Iowa City IA
WEDNESDAY 19
Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm)
Penguins Comedy Club, 208
Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids IA
THURSDAY 20
Freshest Comics: Preliminary
Round (7pm) The High Ground
Caf, 301 East Market Street, Iowa
City
Guys in Ties: Shakespeared! (6pm)
Rock Island Main Library, 401 19th
Street, Rock Island IL
James Draper & Friends Comedy
Show (7:30pm) Bier Stube
Moline Blackhawk Room, 417 15th
St., Moline IL
FRIDAY 21
Bix Beiderbomb Presents (8pm)
Boozies Bar & Grille, 114 W. Third
St., Davenport IA
ComedySportz (7pm) The
Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island IL
Kevin Bozeman (8pm) Penguins
Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,
Cedar Rapids IA
Stand-up Open Mic (9pm) Boozies
Bar & Grille, 114 W. Third St.,
Davenport IA
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Studio Series: caRICKatures
(9:30pm) The Establishment, 220
19th St., Rock Island IL
SATURDAY 22
Cheryl Wheeler (7:30pm) The
Princeton Coffeehouse, 25 E.
Marion St., Princeton IL
ComedySportz (7pm) The
Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island IL
Kevin Bozeman (8pm) Penguins
Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,
Cedar Rapids IA
Studio Series: Its Your Fault
(9:30pm) The Establishment, 220
19th St., Rock Island IL
SUNDAY 23
Circumstantial Comedy Show
(10pm) BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge
Rd., Davenport IA
MONDAY 24
Honeycombs of Comedy (9pm)
Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St.,
Iowa City IA
WEDNESDAY 26
Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm)
Penguins Comedy Club, 208
Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids IA
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