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Grand Reflection: A Thank-you
Note Times a Thousand
M
Vol. 29 · No. 1000 y very first contribution to the
AUGUST 2022 River Cities’ Reader landed with
issue 19 in March of 1995. This
was back when I was a freelance contributor
and the print edition was a monthly, before
it became a weekly, before it became a bi-
RIVER CITIES’ READER
weekly, before it became a monthly again.
532 W. 3rd St.
Davenport IA 52801 (Our online version, if memory serves,
RiverCitiesReader.com didn’t yet exist.) For my debut, I attempted
(563)324-0049 (phone) to predict the winners of the “big six” cat-
(563)323-3101 (fax)
egories at the impending Academy Awards:
info@rcreader.com
Best Picture, Directing, Actor, Actress, Sup-
porting Actor, and Supporting Actress. And
PUBLISHING SINCE 1993
because it was either an insanely easy year
The River Cities’ Reader is an independently owned
publication and website, dedicated to providing readers for guessing – this was Forrest Gump time,
and members the “keys to the Quad Cities’ culture.” after all – or I was particularly on fire in
my prognostication, I somehow got all six
PRINTED MONTHLY correct.
Newly printed complimentary editions are available
Considering I’ve managed that same
monthly at select locations in the region. For a complete
feat only three additional times over 27
list, visit www.rcreader.com/distribution.
subsequent attempts, I suppose you could
PRINT & DIGITAL ADVERTISING say that my Reader tenure has been mostly
Visit QCAdvertising.com for full
downhill from there. Except that wouldn’t
publishing calendar, sponsorship
be at all true.
opportunities, ad sizes, and pricing.
I’ll be honest: Even though I was an early
proponent for our team delivering a few
PUBLISHER
Todd McGreevy • todd@admospheres.com
Memory Lane reminiscences in celebra-
tion of the River Cities’ Reader’s 1,000th
EDITOR & BUSINESS MANAGER (!!!) issue, when it came time to actually
Kathleen McCarthy • km@rcreader.com compose something, I balked. It’s not that
I couldn’t think of things to say. It’s that I
ARTS & CALENDAR EDITOR couldn’t think of things to say that didn’t
Mike Schulz • mike@rcreader.com
inherently make the assignment all about
me. “Here are my favorite movies from
IT-SYSMIN
more than a quarter-century of review-
William Reveal
ing!” “Here are my favorite area-theatre
ADVERTISING SALES experiences from 17 years of coverage and
sales@rcreader.com occasional participation!” “Here are my
favorite local or visiting artists who were
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS kind enough to talk to me!”
Rob Brezsny, Pamela Briggs, Caitlin Johnstone Every idea I had felt grossly self-serving,
and while regular readers will know that
PRINT COPY DISTRIBUTORS I’m hardly shy about referencing myself
Cheri Delay, Greg Fitzpatrick, Jay Strickland (and family members, and friends, and
random folks I’ve been in contact with) in
Email info@RCReader.com
articles, I felt that my already abundantly
to make your business
stoked ego needed to chill on this one.
a Reader pick up spot.
That this independent newspaper has been
able to survive in print – to survive at all –
ALIVE AND FREE while so many other similar publications
didn’t; that it managed to weather signifi-
SINCE ’93 cant staff changes and the 2008 financial
crisis and COVID; that it successfully
Keep the free press free with engaged readers and sparked debates and
your direct support at pissed people off 999 previous times … .
Well, that’s something way bigger than me.
Love us or don’t, it’s an accomplishment.
RCReader.com/Support And, I’m proud to say, a laudable one.
Mail checks to:
532 W 3rd St - Davenport, IA 52801 So while the remainder of this piece will
Letters to Editor: letters@rcreader.com kind of forced to be All About Me, allow
me to raise a figurative champagne f lute
© 2022 River Cities’ Reader – figurative because it’s actually a glass of
chillable red I’ll be raising – in acknowl-
edgment of others.
Thank you, Todd and Kathleen, and
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By Mike Schulz
full-time critiquing duties at the end of
2009, it’s been nothing but pleasure to
work with – and enjoy the talents of – Jeff
Ashcraft, Dee Canfield, Heather Herkel-
man, Victoria Navarro, Mark Ruebling,
my dear college friend Jeff Wichmann, for
Brent Tubbs, Jill Walsh, Thom White (who
wound up reviewing longer than I did), and
envisioning and creating the River Cities’
Reader, and for the opportunity to write
our current team of Pamela Briggs, Mad-
eline Dudziak, and Roger Pavey Jr. I am so
for you 27 very long yet strangely swift
ridiculously proud of the hopefully positive
years ago. I’ve now been working for the
impact the Reader has had on the cover-
paper, either in part- or full-time capacity,
age of local or local-ish stage productions.
for exactly half my life, and a better gig for
A collective thanks, too, for only saying
more passionate individuals I can hardly
occasional negative things about me despite
imagine. I love you guys, and wouldn’t have
my totally deserving more.
the life I have without you. You’re allowed
Thank you to all of the artists who’ve
to take both credit and blame for that.
suffered through my rambling, stutter-
Thank you, Jeff Ignatius – a world-class
ing interview techniques. Whether you’re
editor and somehow-even-better friend
frequent targets such as Ballet Quad Cities’
whom I was fortunate to work either in
Courtney Lyon and the Haus of Ruckus duo
person or across a river with for the better
of T. Green and Calvin Vo or the sublimely
part of 17 years. Jeff still lets me know
Christ-like Ted Neely, your openness and
whenever I’ve accidentally misspelled
patience have been hugely appreciated.
something or have totally misconstrued the
And a special thanks to the late Olympia
plot to, say, Everything Everywhere All at
Dukakis, an Oscar winner who ended our
Once. I adore/loathe him for that.
mandated 20-minute interview by saying,
“I gave you 27 minutes, honey … that’s how
So while the remainder of
much I enjoyed talking with you!”
this piece will kind of forced Thank you to all of the TV and radio
to be All About Me, allow hosts who’ve booked me, and have helped
promote this 1,000-issue-old paper, solely
me to raise a figurative
on the basis of my Reader employment, with
champagne flute – figurative special shout-outs going to Herb Trix, Jim
because it's actually a glass Mertens, the WHBF team I’ve been visiting
of chillable-red in my reach – weekly for close to five years, and the Dave
in acknowledgment of others. & Darren team whose studio(s) I’ve been
visiting – and I can’t believe I’m typing this
– for going on 20 years. The added brand
Thank you to everyone I’ve been lucky
awareness has been invaluable. And I’ve
enough to work with in the Reader offices
made a lot of good friends, to boot.
over so many hundreds of issues. I’m
Thank you to everyone who has written
absolutely, unintentionally, embarrassingly
me over the years, whether they were moved
going to leave several important someones
by my 2006 Brokeback Mountain review, or
off the list. But as soon as I stop typing, I’m
incensed by my 2004 Passion of the Christ
raising my glass of chillable red to Rick,
review, or delightedly surprised that I
Nathan, Max, Shawn, Larrrrrrs, Rosie, Lou
named 21 Jump Street my second-favorite
Ann, Chris, Jeremy, Stephanie, De Leon,
movie of 2012. (It still is!) I’ve always appre-
Beth, Jay, Cheryl, my beloved pal Jonathan,
ciated the feedback. Even from the person
and the ever-divine Miss Lib. Many of you
or persons who voiced their displeasure at
were there back when I was still wearing
my 2008 Hellboy review from the e-mail
ties and button-down shirts to the office.
address “ihatemikeschulz@mikeschul-
Boy, those were some crazy times, huh?
zsucks.com.” As you perhaps intended,
Thank you, Hollywood and not-Holly-
I’ve never forgotten you. And at least you
wood. You’ve always given me something
spelled my name correctly.
new to write about pretty much every week
Finally, thank you, you – whomever you
for more than 1,400 weeks running. Except
for that understandable period of a few
are. That you’re reading this at all is proof
that someone, somewhere, is, and there
months in 2020. I made do.
Thank you, area-theatre community. You
would be no point to our doing what we
do – and loving doing what we do – without
cautiously welcomed me as an opinionated
you. While this celebratory article might
outsider in 2005 and gradually accepted me
read as a farewell, it’s anything but; I hope I
as a member of the family … if, sometimes,
speak for my bosses when I say that we look
that member of the family no one wants to
sit next to at Thanksgiving dinner. In every
forward to many more years of engagement
and debate and pissing people off. But it’s
conceivable way – as a reviewer, a patron,
my distinct honor to praise those respon-
an actor, a director, a producer, a human
sible for making this 1,000th issue possible,
being with curiosity and empathy and
and you, beyond all others, are responsible.
affection – you’ve made me a better person
Keep reading. Tell your friends about us.
than I was before my Reader tenure began.
And seriously, from the bottom of my heart:
Thank you, fellow Reader theatre review-
Thank you.
ers. As tough as it was to stand down from
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WORDS FROM THE EDITOR
Battling Civic Impotence for 1,000 Issues
T
he time has come to make a personal
change as an American, ignoring for the
moment any partisan politics because for
this purpose, party affiliation simply does not
matter. Each of us needs to reclaim our individual
authority, expressly acknowledged and protected
via the Declaration of Independence, U.S. and
State Constitutions, including the Bill of Rights
(first 10 Amendments of the Constitution), the
cumulative body of laws and substantive due pro-
cess. That means robustly familiarizing ourselves
with the above, especially the Bill of Rights and
Declaration.
The reason party affiliation isn’t necessary
to do this is because it is completely irrelevant.
Parties come and go, political affiliations
change. Every American’s individual rights and
authority is apolitical and permanent. What the
Constitution does is task government with pro-
tecting our rights, and respecting our authority.
America is the only country with a found-
ing framework, that if acted upon as conceived,
could resolve many inequities. It was created
based on the core principle that if you protect
the rights of a single individual, you automati-
cally protect the rights of any group of individu-
als. Corrections have been made along the way
to more accurately adhere to this principle, and
still more must be done.
But first, we have to reclaim the authority
that empowers our role in America’s Republic to
see it done. It is our responsibility, not govern-
ments. Government is not our keeper; we are
its keeper. People around the world grasp this
unique and powerful dictum and are looking
to us to restore our remarkable government
to its proper limitations according to our
constitution.
I know no American interested in revolu-
tion to install a different form of governance,
especially one that enforces centralized
planning with global oversight, or promotes
group ascendency at the expense of individual
rights and autonomy. Instead most Americans,
regardless of party affiliation, want to restore
the Declaration’sand Constitution’s Articles
established more than 200 years ago as a blue-
print for achieving equality and peace under the
rule of law, including economic opportunity,
and the pursuit of individual happiness and the
potential to thrive. None of which are privileges
bestowed by our government, let alone secured
by it. America’s founders identified core rights
inherent in our humanity, understanding that
only we can secure them, therefore deliberately
limited government’s ability to interfere or
intrude upon our inalienable rights.
Our constitutional republic is a bottom-up
governance model for which we the people are
the most important balancing check of all, yet
we have all but abdicated our roles with gradu-
ally worsening socioeconomic consequences.
Precisely because America is a bottom-up gov-
erning model, the people’s active participation
is the most important value in the formula and
cannot be abdicated without severely under-
mining order.
Be crystal clear: No one can take your indi-
vidual inalienable rights away.
The American people throughout the 50
states have to agree to forfeit their right(s) by a
defined process in law – constitutional amend-
ments. Otherwise no law legislatively passed,
or executively enforced, including admin-
istrative rule-making, or judicially ruled as
constitutional, has binding authority to remove
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individual rights.
That said, our rights can absolutely be
violated, but only if we permit it. And we are
permitting it, mostly by our silence, as well as
our woeful lack of challenges to volumes of
federal and state administrative overreach that
violates each of the three branch’s constitutional
constraints, stepping all over our individual
constitutionally protected rights.
In order to challenge such misconduct, we
must fully understand our own constitutional
authority to do so. We must reclaim that author-
ity, ours by foundational law. With a comprehen-
sive grasp of the U.S. and State Constitutions,
Declaration of Independence, and the substan-
tive due process guaranteed by the Magna Carta
and an accumulated body of laws through time,
we can formidably bring the necessary chal-
lenges for peaceful remedy and far more agree-
able country.
Who can blame politicians and bureaucrats
for usurping our authority if we will not defend
it? Why should any one of them protect our
rights if we won’t protect them ourselves? Seri-
ously, if we have so little respect for our own
authority, refusing to defend and protect our
inherent rights when constitutional and statu-
tory violations pile on every year, why on Earth
should self-serving politicians and bureaucrats,
who greatly benefit from our apathy, inertia, and
incurious sloth, not take advantage of such col-
lective civic impotence?
Not Unlike the Hunger
Games
Over the centuries, we have moved closer to
an oligarchical form of Corporatism, or more
accurately Neofascism, recently redefined by
the World Economic Forum (WEF) as “Stake-
holder Capitalism” as part of its Great Reset (a
misleading use of the term “Capitalism” in this
redefinition due to the elimination of its core
requirement – competition). See the March 2022
Reader edition number 995 for a good explana-
tion of WEF Director Klaus Schwab’s Great
Reset agenda. The intent is to codify selective
economic participation via exclusive private-
public partnerships for profit within globally
designated regions determined jointly by oligar-
chical corporations and the governing bureau-
cracies of the region to be centrally controlled
and coordinated by a perpetual self-selecting
governing body. Not unlike the Hunger Games.
When you widen the lens, you can perceive
the various domestic and global systems of
opportunity constantly usurping greater control
within D.C.’s federal jurisdiction for the past
century. However, this administrative assimila-
tion of authorities has escalated over the last
five decades with very few challenges, thanks to
Americans civically sidelining themselves. The
longer we do nothing, the more entrenched the
unconstitutional transfer of authorities becomes,
making it harder by the year for American citi-
zens to unravel the administrative overreach.
Administrative federal and state bureaucra-
cies are becoming increasingly compromised
by regulatory capture by oligarchical corporate
influences. For example, the FDA regulators are
captured by Big Pharma, the USDA regulators
are captured by Big Agriculture, the EPA regula-
tors are captured by Big Oil and the growing
green-energy industrial complex. This means
these regulatory agencies routinely receive
huge funding infusions, lucrative investment
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partnerships, prestigious appointments, eventu-
ally becoming captured via dependency on the
fox’s benefits at the expense of robustly protect-
ing the hens by approving potentially harmful
or dangerous consumer products, services, and
precarious business plans so as not to risk losing
the benefits.
Similarly, American voters are politically cap-
tured by the two-party political machine that, if
we are finally honest, has become political the-
ater for elections, and thus unavoidably blurred
the lines between the two parties’ political
allegiances – big donors, global agendas, media
cover, and always special interests.
Yet regardless of the amount or degree of
political abuse, Democrats will almost never pull
the lever for a Republican candidate, no matter
how unsuitable the liberal candidate is. And visa
versa, Republicans will almost never pull the
lever for a Democrat even when their conserva-
tive candidate is wholly unacceptable.
Such political self-entrapment provides a
continuum of near perfect opportunity for
exploitation by media to trigger then cement
predetermined emotions and arena mentali-
ties that effectively distract us from real issues,
ultimately capturing us in an endless loop of
unresolved civic angst, disappointment, and
angry cynicism.
More importantly, this political self-entrap-
ment easily maintains the two-party status quo
– fossilized career incumbents, an entrenched
unelected bureaucracy that actually controls
most public-sector activities, and unfettered
growth of destructive bipartisan levels of
spending via more debt, most of it done with no
sunlight or accountability for purposes that are
increasingly antithesis to American interests,
such as advancing UN Agenda30, heavily sub-
sidizing interests of domestic special interests,
foreign governments and/or foreign billionaires,
shackling future generations with impossible
levels of debt.
And then, like clockwork, we predictably
blame the other side because what we actually
know about any of our government’s activi-
ties we could fit in a thimble, making our civic
engagement as Americans the weakest contri-
bution this century, even amidst an economy-
crushing pandemic. Like I said, we must make
some changes as Americans first, tackle our
civic responsibilities second by reclaiming our
individual authority, then we can deal with
politics and the rest from a position of authentic
strength.
Additional examples of regulatory interven-
tions, ignoring the unreasonable timing for
implementation in the midst of high inflation,
include recent supply chain disruptions brought
on by onerous, expensive, unmanageable regula-
tory impediments. For example, (1) trucks older
than five years old could not access CA ports
to haul stranded cargo, or (2) raising Diesel
Exhaust Fuel (DEF) requirements, an additive
standard mandated in semi-tractor trailers’
fuel tanks, without first ensuring cross county
availability of the new fuel for truckers hauling
long distances, and (3) limiting the weight of the
cargo truckers are permitted to haul in single
loads, creating inconsistent cargo tonnage from
state to state for long-haulers, and reducing their
profitability by reducing their payload.
The Biden Administration tried blaming
supply shortages of gasoline on Putin’s inva-
sion of Ukraine as the overarching cause for
the steep price hike consumers are paying for
domestic gasoline. But it doesn’t explain why big
oil producers are more profitable than ever by
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billions of dollars, especially thanks to capturing
a larger share of the U.S. domestic market due to
over regulation of the smaller oil producers who
cannot compete in such a deliberately onerous
regulatory environment. Some smaller produc-
ers were subsidized to not produce, so there is
that perverse incentive. And government coffers
are also enjoying higher gas tax revenues across
the board.
Add to targeted regulatory abuse, three oil
refineries went offline due to explosions in 2022,
affecting supply. On February 21, 2022 the Mara-
thon Garyville, Louisiana oil refinery exploded
into flames due to a hydrocracker. Exxon-Mobile
Lockwood, Montana experienced an explosion
on March 26, 2022, the cause is unknown. And
on June 17, 2022, there were three explosions at
the Girard Point Refinery, one of two refineries
that make up the Philadelphia Energy Solutions
Refining Complex in southern Philadelphia.
Again, the causes for these three explosions are
also unknown. But if these refineries are subsi-
dized, or compensated for their damages and lost
production beyond insurance reimbursement,
there are arguably perverse incentives afoot.
The more gruesome deliberate supply disrup-
tions relative to food, and by association grocery
items, are brutal and make no sense whatsoever.
Rembrandt Enterprises in Thompson, Iowa is
one of the nation’s largest producer of eggs. In
March 2022, a single solitary chicken tested
positive for Avian flu using a PCR test, infa-
mous for its unreliability in detecting disease
depending on the cycle thresholds used (a vari-
able completely under the control of the tester).
After which 5.3 million chickens were locked
in their coops and barbarically, cruelly roasted
alive, then mass buried using bulldozers. This
inexcusably inhumane horror was based on the
PCR test result of one lone chicken. This is one
story among many terrible stories of recent mass
killings of chicken flocks.
And then there is the mysterious death of
10,000 cattle in Kansas due to heat. I have yet
to meet a single person who believes that is the
real cause. How did that rancher manage to lay
10,000 cows head to hoof, approximately 10 cows
deep in side-by-side rows along the highway for
miles, with their four limbs sticking straight up
indicating they were still in rigor mortis? Some-
thing is just wrong with the narrative for this
event. Kansas livestock, like Iowa and Illinois
livestock, are no strangers to weeks of 100 degree
temps during the day, cooling off at night.
It is also hugely suspect that in 2021/2022,
27 U.S. food-processing plants/facilities have
been taken out of production due to mysterious
fires and explosions, including two that were
destroyed by planes crashing into them a week
apart. The probability of these 27 accidents
occurring randomly is statistically impossible,
meaning these facilities were arguably sabotaged
yet no investigations are reported.
The Green New Steal Needs
More Debate
The recent passage of Congress’s $480 billion
Chips and Science Act of 2022, which appropri-
ates $280 billion to climate change and green
projects, among other things, via the Depart-
ment of Energy’s (DOE) Science of the Future
initiatives, could use some additional explana-
tion considering its meteoric upward spiraling
budget increases in just five years to fund much
of the Administration’s agenda for climate
change and green goals. For instance, is all this
massive funding advancing domestic goals,
or is there more of the Biden Administration’s
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slippery excising of amendments in this bill
forbidding China’s participation in our domestic
semiconductor and chips manufacturing?
The nearly trillion-dollar science budget
includes the recently authorized Office of Science
with a raise from $7.5 billion to $8.9 billion in
2023, then increasing to $10.9 billion annually by
2027, to support nearly 29,000 researchers from
industry, universities, national laboratories, and
other federal agencies.
Also included in this Act is a herculean boost
of 40 percent to $1.5 billion in 2023 increasing
to $2.3 billion by 2027, for the DOE’s National
Institute of Standards and Technology For The
Future, which supports … wait for it … research
in standards and technology.
Finally the DOE’s National Science Founda-
tion for the Future gets the prize with an increase
in overall funding of $1.2 billion in fiscal year
2023, increasing to $10 billion and growing at an
average annual rate of 8 percent to $13.8 billion
in fiscal year 2027! (Note: This does not include
the foundation’s new Directorate’s separate
budget of $1.85 billion in fiscal year 2023 with an
average annual increase of 36 percent to $5.1 bil-
lion in fiscal year 2027, for a grand total of $18.9
billion to direct investments in critical research-
enabling infrastructure.)
The following link provides fact sheets on
these initiatives. Considering the half-trillion
dollars authorized for these three initiatives,
on principle alone, an independent watchdog
should specifically track every nickle of these
allocations for return on investment. (Science.
house.gov/imo/media/doc/division_b_sst_fact_
sheets.pdf)
No matter how you skin this fat green cat, it’s
still just a lot of old fashioned crony corporatism
(not capitalism because it is missing Capital-
ism’s core element: competition), with the same
usual greedy control freaks at the public trough,
such as $10-trillion-under-management private
equity Blackrock dangling access to capital,
using its newly established ESG scoring, in front
of potential recipients who must meet Black-
rock’s scoring threshold.
ESG compliance, nonsensical as an actual
business viability/health measure, can’t generate
a nickle of profit, but instead signals corporate
alignment with WEF’s Great Reset goals and
Agenda30 globalization. The question lurking
is how is ESG compliance justified as a mea-
sure of capital worthiness when it minimizes
positive, successful revenue-generating market
forces, such as efficient resource allocation,
input/output controls, and labor productivity
based on relevant skills, and instead prioritizes
far broader environmental, social, governance
attributes that apply whether you are a coffee
shop or a pump manufacturer. When you really
understand this truthy-ism, you will be able to
see much more through your widened lens.
The new concentration for economic growth
is being directed toward a global green industrial
complex that may or may not be a whole lot of
smoke and mirrors. Some climate scientists pas-
sionately insist we are experiencing the highest
levels of CO2 in history, while other climate
experts just as earnestly counter-claim CO2 is at
historically lowest levels ever.
Which is it? Who do we believe? Why can’t we
have these critical debates with climate experts
from both sides of these climate issues so we can
make informed decisions based on evidence that
goes beyond just predictive modeling. After two
decades, we should have volumes of real-world
evidence to direct viable climate solutions, yet
the vast majority of climate science is still depen-
dent on computerized predictive modeling based
on a trove of subjective inputs, which in and of
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itself drives legitimate controversy, especially
when most of the predictions generated, accord-
ing to various International Panel on Climate
Control (IPCC) documents and research, have to
yet come true.
Another climate controversy is carbon credit
offsets, including the creation of the carbon
credit exchange that functions like a commodi-
ties exchange, arguably not reducing a micron
of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Look closer and
you’ll see the carbon credit exchanges are creat-
ing, bundling, and trading carbon commodities
as derivative combos, some born of new tech-
nologies trying to balance (offset) CO2 emissions
with capture and sequestration (storage) out
of thin air, literally, to meet an internationally
agreed upon goal of net zero carbon emissions
by 2050.
Again, some credentialed climate scientists
are admitting “net zero by 2050” is an unreal-
istic, unachievable goal. So is it or isn’t it? We
deserve to have this debate once and for all based
on the massive appropriations authorized by
Congress over the next five years for projects
toward achieving net zero. (TheConversation.
com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-
dangerous-trap-157368)
There are other proposed solutions that also
deserve meaningful debate, such as where is
the justifiable offset created by transitioning
to electric vehicles that require plugging into
coal-fired electric grids to recharge the lithium
batteries that power the vehicles? Replacing a
single household’s two gasoline-fueled cars with
two electric cars will require doubling the elec-
tric power delivered to that one household. How
is this considered a renewable solution when the
energy source that powers the two electric cars is
still coal, and lots more of it, let alone green and
lean energy efficiency?
Finally, have you seen the horrific child labor
in countries mining/stripping the lithium from
the ground necessary for batteries that power
the electric green dream machines once they
are charged via the coal-powered electric grids?
Or the obscene scarring of the land itself once
a lithium mine is depleted. Spare me the green
consolation prize for this largely ignored wick-
edness.
Think Through the Next
Plandemic
Far too many of us continue to comply with
unjustifiable government intrusion and over-
reach mandated as emergency mitigations, from
the benign to the absurd to the dangerous, due
almost entirely to politics. Not science, not eco-
nomics, not health, certainly not common sense.
We are vaccinating and boosting with experi-
mental gene therapies redefined as vaccines for a
disease that is lethal to only 0.003 percent of the
human population with significant comorbidi-
ties. This suggests we are making these decisions
based mostly on politics because none of us has a
clue as to what is actually contained in the highly
controversial injections that have unendurable
efficacy, hence further boosting. We now have
clinical proof that vaccinating for the majority
of humans to prevent death, hospitalization,
and reinfection of COVID is inferior to the
immunity acquired from getting and recovering
from COVID using early treatments available
worldwide.
Instead, we are blindly trusting a handful
of arguably compromised public figures and
media cartels, all of whom relentlessly claim
the vaccines are “safe and effective” but to date
have not produced a single long-term clinical
trial study that proves this assertion. But that
is never the judgment. It always boils down to a
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feeble-minded conclusion based on politics: Vac-
cinated folks are liberal/left, and unvaccinated
folks are conservative/right.
And here we go again. In parts of the country,
we are ramping up to mask our children for
eight-hour school days again, and ourselves
based on the latest pop-up variant, or not mask-
ing at all as COVID cases climb again, according
to the nightly news’ relentless display of the
colorfully macabre case-counter plastered on
the screen 24/7. This made-for-TV graphic was
provided by the Event 201 design crew, who used
it for its own coronavirus pandemic simulation
held at John Hopkins a mere three months before
it actually erupted in real life. What are the odds
of that?
With no lethality looming for adults, statisti-
cal zero risk to children, it must follow that we
are complying based on politics, otherwise the
100-to-1 studies proving masks don’t stop viral
respiratory infections would permanently dis-
suade us from such a filthy mitigation. Conclu-
sion: Liberals wear masks; conservatives don’t
wear masks.
Worst of all, we are actually considering
vaccinating children based on politics, because
most of us know there are no earthly benefits to
them for doing so. Especially compared to the
real health risks from the injections themselves,
according to the CDC’s unprecedented growth
in its Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
(VAERS) database of shocking adverse reactions
from the COVID injections. Where and what are
the risk-benefit calculations for injecting chil-
dren with experimental mRNA gene therapies
redefined as vaccines? Pfizer, Moderna, and the
FDA produced none. What possible justification
is there when no medical science exists (actual
data from controlled clinical trials) to support
such potentially dangerous protocols? I would
be relieved to be proven wrong, but to date there
is no confirming clinical evidence, especially
long-term safety and efficacy data for developing
children.
Also worth noting is that most of the current
testing, including over 900 new PCR and antigen
rapid tests for both hospitals and home kits, are
enjoying wide distribution amidst public skepti-
cism relative to the tests’ accuracy, especially
considering the frequent mutations producing
new variants. The medical community could
dispel past anxieties by better educating the
public to avoid repeating the same mistakes
made during the first two years’ of the COVID
pandemic.
Recall that the PCR testing used for the first
two years (2020-2021) to diagnose COVID-19
was banned by the CDC at the beginning of
2022 due to its gross inaccuracy and unreli-
ability, generating as high as 90-95 percent false
positives. Does that mean that anyone with a
false positive did not actually have COVID-19
in that period? The CDC’s bundling of COVID
deaths with those of influenza and pneumonia
(CI&P) in its mortality tables would suggest this
is possible, as does the reclassifying of death
certificates nationwide to reflect COVID was not
the primary cause of death.
The CDC and FDA would go a long way in
reassuring the public that the hundreds of dif-
ferent rapid PCR and antigen tests currently
in use are not only substantially more reliable,
but are also definitively able to distinguish
between influenza and coronaviruses, let alone
can reliably detect SARS-CoV-2, unlike the
previous PCR testing which used unreliable
cycle thresholds of 38-45 all but guaranteeing a
positive result. Interestingly, when PCR testing
mRNA vaccinated patients, the cycle thresholds
were lowered to 28 or below, greatly decreasing
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the chance of a false positive thereby increasing
the reliability of a positive PCR test result should
one occur.
Sadly, EUA has become a severely compro-
mised designation after FDA’s deficient data
informing its EUAs for vaccinating babies and
toddlers up to four years of age, and for eliminat-
ing any future clinical trials for reformulated
COVID vaccines and boosters going forward.
This means that future new mRNA COVID
vaccines and boosters administered using EUA
will not require clinical trials for safety and effi-
cacy before injecting the public. As stunningly
irresponsible as this policy is, it is amplified
exponentially by the provisions in the Public
Preparedness and Emergency Response Act
(PREP Act) that gives blanket immunity for any
and all harm to vaccine manufacturers, provid-
ers, nursing homes, healthcare workers, anyone
administering the injections and/or providing
COVID care.
Such broad immunity from liability shields
the healthcare industry, from the most dili-
gent and careful to the most incompetent and
careless. PREP also provides perverse incen-
tives to providers and caregivers by creating an
umbrella of immunity for associated healthcare
for COVID. Add this to the additional monetary
reimbursements for all things COVID and it gets
uncomfortable in appearances.
The Emergency Use Authorization hinges
on the federal and state governments declaring
an emergency specific to COVID. Without it,
reimbursements for COVID care stop, and more
importantly, so does all COVID testing, and all
but two injections would be prohibited. The only
fully FDA approved mRNA vaccines are Pfizer’s
Cominarty, authorized for 12 years and up, but
to date unavailable in the U.S.; and Moderna’s
Spikevax authorized for 18 years and up. This
would mean millions of EUA-approved COVID
vaccine doses and boosters, already purchased
with billions of U.S. tax dollars, would stockpile
and eventually be trashed due to limited shelf
life.
By invoking emergency powers via the
Emergency Powers Act (among other associ-
ated legislation, including amended Act for
COVID), our state and federal governments have
a grandiose notion of far greater authority, and
also have immediate access to a huge source of
funding specifically set aside for such declara-
tions. Already lawsuits and court interventions
are prevailing on behalf of employees who
were denied religious exemptions by employers
mandating injections, not to mention deficient
informed consent where adverse reactions
occurred. Without the clinical trials required
for EUA that affirm wide-spread claims of “safe
and effective,” the PREP Act may not provide
the complete liability shield relied upon, nor is it
likely provisioned as such n the CARES and/or
Emergency Powers Acts, either.
These health-emergency authorities are at the
heart of a growing opposition worldwide to the
World Health Organization’s efforts to corral
these very powers for itself under a new Inter-
national Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Treaty to be released in May of 2024 unless it is
stopped by the majority of 194 member countries
required to participate to make it binding on us
all. It is a completely unconstitutional endeavor,
as it cedes our individual, constitutionally pro-
tected rights to a foreign body, and that is simply
not allowed.
Please visit this story online at RCReader.com
for a full set of links to source materials.
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We’ve Been Lied to Our Whole Lives
About Everything That Matters
S
tories about protagonists who’ve been
misguided their whole lives about some-
thing very important have been emerging
in our culture for generations, and they con-
tinue to delight audiences at the box office to
this day.
The pauper was really a prince. Luke was
Darth Vader’s son. Keanu Reeves had been
living in a computer simulation. Bruce Willis
was really a ghost. Jim Carrey’s whole world
was the set of a TV show, and everyone in his
life had been lying to him since his infancy.
This theme repeats so often because
it strongly resonates with people. And it
strongly resonates with people because it’s
exactly what is happening.
From our earliest moments, we are trained
to fit in with a society that was designed from
the ground up by the powerful in the service
of the powerful. As soon as we are old enough
to get curious about the world and how it
works, our heads are filled with lies about
such matters: by our education systems; by the
media we consume; by our parents who were
indoctrinated in the same way; and by the
very culture we find ourselves immersed in
from day one.
These stories about a character who’s been
deceived about life resonate so strongly with
us because on some level we all suspect it
might be true of our own lives, as well. They
whisper to something hidden and sacred
within us that has always sensed that there’s
something not quite right with the way we are
perceiving things.
We’ve spent our whole lives marinating in
lies that serve the powerful. We’re deceived
into believing that we live in a democracy
whose government acts in accordance with
the will of the voting public. We’re deceived
into believing our political systems are driven
WORDS FROM THE PUBLISHER
Compromised Media Enables
Regulatory Capture
The Power of the Pen and Printed Information Matters More Than Ever
W
elcome to the 1,000th edition of the
River Cities’ Reader, and thanks for
picking up the printed copy you are
reading now. The number of editions we would
print was never a metric for achieving any mile-
stones. Still, reaching one thousand printed issues
is a gratifying moment that inspires reflection and
meta contemplation!
The quick math is it has taken us nearly 29
years to print 1,000 issues. It’s been a blend of
weekly editions for 13-plus years, bi-weekly for 10
years and monthly for five-plus years.
Why keep up the printed product? Yes, digital
media marketing crushed the print publishing/
advertising industry. There are very few printed
newspapers or magazines on the planet not subsi-
dized by digital platforms or benevolent owners.
When printing ink is considered contraband by
authoritarian government agencies is when free
speech protection is over. Printed matter’s tangi-
bility matters. As longtime Iowa publisher Jona-
than Narcisse (R.I.P.) would say, “Nothing keeps
an elected official or person in power responsive
to questions more than a printed newspaper with
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by two warring ideological factions whose
divisions are naturally occurring phenomena
in our society instead of the product of deliber-
ate social engineering. We’re deceived into
believing our government is basically good,
and that it stands in opposition to foreign
governments who are pure evil. We’re deceived
into believing the way things are is the only
way they could possibly be.
We’re deceived into believing false things
about the ways we gather information and
form our understanding of the world. We’re
deceived into believing that the news media
tell us the truth about what’s going on. We’re
deceived into believing that everything we
hear from our side of the political partisan
divide is true and trustworthy. We’re deceived
into believing that the partisan filters that have
been placed over our perception of national
and world events by indoctrination are entirely
reliable instruments for interpreting informa-
tion and drawing conclusions.
We’re deceived into believing false things
about ourselves. We’re deceived into believing
that we are successful if we can become domi-
nant capitalists and wealthy ladder climbers,
and that we are failures if we don’t turn the
gears of industry and climb over others to get
ahead. We’re deceived into believing that we
are good if we uphold the made-up, power-
serving rules of law, of culture and of religion,
and that we are bad if we transgress them. We
are deceived into believing that we need to
keep accomplishing, achieving, and obtain-
ing – that we need to keep earning money
and approval – so that we might one day feel
adequate at some imaginary point in a future
that never arrives.
If we really commit to uprooting the untruth
that’s been planted in us, we can even discover
that we’ve been deceiving ourselves about the
their picture in it. They have no idea how many
more of those issues are out there.”
The printed magazine, the printed newspaper,
the tangible product that requires no WiFi or
electricity to read is everyone’s analog life hack.
Printed books and magazines are the shield
against a leviathan technocracy that assaults the
citizenry’s privacy and censors reality. We’ve been
taken to task for using “mainstream media” too
glibly. The more accurate term is “compromised
media.” A media bought and paid for by corpo-
rate oligarchs such as Big Pharma, and taxpayer-
funded government enables the regulatory
capture that Kathleen writes about in her column
on page six. The old cliché is “Follow the money.”
And that practice reveals the motive more often
than not behind all of the crises manufactured by
both the captured government agencies and their
corporate global captors. This is all about launder-
ing money.
Yes, the Reader has had both Big Pharma- and
government-funded advertising in nearly every
issue for the past many years. However, can you
name one other local media outlet that has asked
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way we experience reality. That the perception
of oneself as a finite character who is separate
from the world is based on false assump-
tions about the way experience is happening,
unhelpful mental habits born of incorrect
premises, and overlooked aspects of our own
consciousness. That we’ve been making our-
selves miserable with false beliefs about who
and what we are.
This civilization is the set of The Truman
Show, and we are all Truman.
But because we are all Truman, we can only
walk off the set if we walk off together. There
is no option to leave as an individual, because
even if you know it’s all lies, you’re still stuck
in a world full of humans whose behavior is
driven by lies.
Awakening to reality as an individual can,
for this reason, sometimes be more uncom-
fortable than remaining asleep in the dream,
because you’re like Truman after he realizes
it’s all a sham, but before he escapes. At times
you’re just stuck there, freaking out at the actor
who’s playing your mother while she tries in
the difficult questions of our local health officials
during the pandemic? Do a search for Julian
Assange at any local media Web site and compare
those results to those as RCReader.com/assange.
Did any other media outlet even consider inter-
viewing one of the many local activists who were
on-site at the U.S. Capitol on the infamous Janu-
ary 6? Would any other outlet even entertain an
alternate viewpoint to the official narrative? No.
The fourth estate is dead and buried amidst the
legacy print, television, and radio outlets in the
Quad Cities. No so-called reporter or journalist
can hold their head up as long as they ignore the
pending doom that Assange faces for being what
every journalist should be: relentlessly dedicated
to transparency and holding those in authority
accountable.
Thanks to the support of our loyal readers,
cherished advertisers, and continued commit-
ment from our superhuman arts editor Mike
Schulz, we’re excited to keep this independent
publishing train going.
There’s no amount of words that can express
how fortunate we are to have had Mike on the
Reader team since issue 19! Without Mike,
it would be impossible for Kathleen and I to
continue this labor of love. Thank you, Mike, for
being the ber-professional partner and hilarious
collaborator. We love you and you help make this
avocation a joy to continue.
We also must thank our son Max Allison for
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By Caitlin Johnstone
vain to cut to a commercial break. It can be
distressing for you, and it can be distressing
for the people around you who aren’t yet on the
same page.
The only way we’re getting off the set of The
Truman Show is if we can all succeed in waking
each other up from the lies which built it. Until
then, we’ll be stuck in a world of poverty, war,
exploitation, degradation, ecocide, and suffer-
ing. It’s not until enough of us have unplugged
our minds from the matrix of lies that we’ll be
able to use our strength of numbers to force
real change.
Only then will we be able to escape.
Only then will we be able to walk off the set.
Only then will we be able to turn to the
audience and say, “In case I don’t see ya: Good
afternoon, good evening, and good night!”
And then turn around, and walk out the
door, and begin our adventure into reality.
Caitlin Johnstone is an independent jour-
nalist whose further writings can be found at
CaitlinJohnstone.com.
By Todd McGreevy
bringing fresh perspectives on music and for
being such a phenomenal layout artist (who keeps
a cool hand under pressure), ensuring the printed
piece you hold looks and reads as good as it does.
It’s a personal privilege to be able to work with
one’s son and have fun doing so and we are very
thankful.
One can print all the most well written stories
and exciting advertising one wants … however,
without distribution, one has nothing. It always
comes down to distribution, no matter the
medium. And on that front, we have to give a
huge shout-out to our loyal and longtime paper
distributors Jay Strickland and Cheri DeLay. Jay
and Cheri ensure you have this copy available at
more than 300 locations every month, and with-
out their dedication and perseverance through
all sorts of weather and lockdowns and more, the
Reader would not flourish. We must also thank
Bill Reveal, our long-time system administrator,
our “dude named Ben.” Bill has kept our Web
sites up and running and collaborated on so many
projects that help keep the Reader efficient and
manageable. We are sorry to lose Bill to his retire-
ment and will always have great adoration for his
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Aug 9 and Wed Aug 10
The Beths - Rosie Tucker, concert with the
New Zealand indie-pop band, featuring a
set by… Raccoon Motel, 7pm Wed Aug 10
Gray Wolf Band, outdoor event in the
Thursday Night Bass Street Landing
Summer Concert… Bass Street Landing
Plaza, 7pm Thu Aug 11

RhythmCityCasino.com, Thu Aug 4 thru
Sat Aug 6
Carly Pearce, the country star headlines
the Mississippi Valley Fair’s grandstand
concert;… Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds,
8pm Fri Aug 5
Kidstock Concert: Session III, concert
with the young musicians, ages 8-18, from
the annual… The Redstone Room, 8pm Fri
Aug 5
Live @ Five: Matt Fuller Band, all -ages
outdoor concert in the annual summer
series; free;… RME Courtyard, 5pm Fri Aug
5 Live @ Five: Frank Sauce Brass Band,
Mirabilia, a concert in the venue’s Summer
2022 Music Lineup; for information,
call 563-949-1000; The Tangled Wood,
3636 Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA,
TheTangledWood.com, 7pm Fri Aug 5
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse - Randy
Randall, concert with the married indie
singer/songwriters, featuring a set by…
Raccoon Motel, 8pm Fri Aug 5
10 of Soul, a concert in the venue’s
Summer 2022 Music Lineup; for
information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sat Aug 6
Amateur Selectors: An Ethical & Moral
Dilemma Nostagia - Dan Koretzky, join
us for the weekly, all-vinyl DJ series; free…
Rozz-Tox, 8pm Sat Aug 6
Brantley Gilbert, the country star
headlines the Mississippi Valley Fair’s
grandstand concert;… Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds, 8pm Sat Aug 6
Meltt, concert with the four multi-
instrumentalists who use psychedelic
guitars, swelling… Raccoon Motel, 7pm Sat
Aug 6
Dustin Lynch, the country star headlines
the Mississippi Valley Fair’s grandstand
concert;… Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds,
8pm Sun Aug 7
Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra
featuring Mike Conrad, University of
Northern Iowa Professor and award-
winning jazz composer Conrad… LeClaire
Park Bandshell, 7pm Sun Aug 7
Shawn Pittman, the Texas blues guitarist
extraordinaire in a concert co-presented by
the… Moline Viking Club, 3pm Sun Aug 7
Soul Storm, an event in the Summer
Concert Series; attendees are
encouraged… Bettendorf Public Library,
6:30pm Thu Aug 11
Felix & Fingers Dueling Pianos, a concert
in the venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, pm
Fri Aug 12
Lady Denim - Leland Blue - Hollyy,
concert with the touring indie musicians;
$12… Raccoon Motel, 7pm Fri Aug 12
all -ages outdoor concert in the annual
summer series; free;… RME Courtyard, 5pm
Fri Aug 12
Heads In Motion, a concert in the
venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sat Aug 13
The New Duncan Imperials - Halo of
Flies, concert with the Tennessee-based
musicians, featuring a set by Halo… Rascals
Live, 8pm Sat Aug 13
Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Experience
w/ Shawn Klush, concert experience with
touring Elvis impersonator Klush; $42-
92; for tickets, call 800-745-3000; Adler
Theatre, 136 East Third St., Davenport IA,
7:30pm Sat Aug 13
Big River Brass Band, outdoor concert,
free… LeClaire Park, 7pm Sun Aug 14
Gregory Alan Isakov - Daniel Rodriguez,
concert with the South African-born singer/
songwriter currently based in Boulder,…
Codfish Hollow Barn, 8pm Sun Aug 14
Opera Out of the Box at the Esperanza
Center, the community program series
continues with this family oriented
performance… Moline Public Library, 6pm
Mon Aug 15
Kuinka - Good Looks - PR Newman,
concert with the touring indie musicians;
$15… Raccoon Motel, 7pm Wed Aug 17
Morgan Wade, concert with the country-
music singer/songwriter in support of her
2021… Raccoon Motel, 7pm Thu Aug 18
Muscadine Bloodline, concert with the
Southern-country duo of Charlie Muncaster
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W
ith Davenport one of the
100 cities in which she’ll
stop on her current Big
Panty Tour, Leanne Morgan brings
her evening of standup to the Adler
Theatre on August 12, the come-
dian of 22 years beloved for her
albums Sweaty & Pissed: Meno-
pause & More and You’ d Be Crazy,
Too!, as well as her hit comedy spe-
cial So Yummy.
After graduating from the
University of Tennessee with a
degree in child and family stud-
ies, Morgan and her new husband
Chuck moved to Bean Station,
Tennessee, in the foothills of the
Appalachian Mountains. To stay
busy after having her first baby,
Morgan started selling jewelry at
home parties. As she states in her
online biography at LeanneMor-
gan.com, “she was supposed to
talk about the jewelry but instead
conversed about breastfeeding,
hemorrhoids, and being a mama.
The party guests thought that she
was hilarious to the point some-
body peed on a couch, and before
she knew it, she was booked out a
year in-advance.” With Morgan a
clear hit with her home audiences,
the jewelry company asked her
to speak at their sales rallies, at
which point the attendees telling
her “You need to do stand-up!”
gave Morgan the impetus to move
with her family to San Antonio
in 2001 and launch her career in
comedy.
Since then, Morgan’s obser-
vational humor and and spiky
relatability have landed her at the
prestigious Just For Laughs Festi-
val in Montreal and brought her
development deals for her own
sitcom with ABC and Warner
Brothers; writer/producer Matt
Williams of the comedy smashes
Rosanne and Home Improvement;
TV Land; and now with Sony
Television. Her album You’ d Be
Crazy, Too! Live from the Comedy
Club was an instant hit that can
currently be enjoyed via Spo-
tify, and in addition to touring
with the Southern Fried Chicks,
Morgan has appeared on ABC’s
The View and Nick at Nite’s Fun-
niest Mom. She has also garnered
more than 1.5 million followers
across her social-media platforms,
with her popular stand-up special
So Yummy reaching more than 50
million views on YouTube. Her
fan base, meanwhile, continues to
grow due to the comedian’s honest
yet hilarious accounts of real-
world adventures, with her current
Big Panty Tour topics boasting
everything from being a housewife
to sharing Jell-O recipes to having
a new grandbaby.
Leanne Morgan performs her
Davenport engagement on August
12, admission to the 7 p.m. event is
$29.75-49.75, and tickets are avail-
able by calling (800)745-3000 and
visiting AdlerTheatre.com.
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Music
and Gary Stanton;… The Rust Belt, 7pm Thu
Aug 18
Opera Out of the Box at Overlook
Village, the community program series
wraps up with this program at… Moline
Public Library, 6pm Thu Aug 18
QCBeats in the Street!: David G. Smith
- Kumate, the Downtown Library kicks
off the first night of the Alternating…
Davenport Public Library - Main Branch,
5pm Thu Aug 18
Zeta - La Armada, concert with the touring
indie rockers; $12… Raccoon Motel, 11pm
Thu Aug 18
Live @ Five: Diplomats of Solid Sound,
all -ages outdoor concert in the annual
summer series; free;… RME Courtyard, 5pm
Fri Aug 19
Next Gen Fest: Hemlock - Splitdriven
- All Things Lost - Crimson Clean
Sweep - Empty Graves, Next Generation
Entertainment and Rascals Live presents a
three-day show… Rascals Live, 6:30pm Fri
Aug 19
The Shagadelics, a concert in the
venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Fri Aug 19
Here Come the Mummies, concert event
with the tightly wrapped rockers; $24;
for tickets and information, call 563-328-
8000; Rhythm City Casino Resort Event
Center, 7077 Elmore Ave., Davenport IA,
RhythmCityCasino.com, 8pm, Fri Aug 19
8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage
Festival, celebration of the late, great
jazz artist featuring concert sets… Martin
Luther King Jr. Park, Fri Aug 19 and Sat
Aug 20
Silent Disco, by wearing the provided
headphones, party-goers… Davenport
SkyBridge, 9pm Fri Aug 19 and Sat Aug 20
Mr. Speed: The World’s Best KISS Tribute,
the rock-tribute artists perform “Rock and
Roll All Nite,” “Detroit Rock… Bally’s Quad
Cities, 7pm Sat Aug 20
Next Gen Fest: Discrepancies - Widow7
- Khaos Ordinance - Scream at the
Sky - Pigweed - Darker Than Fiction -
Nongrata - Based Nexus - Safe Space
- Random Tanner, Next Generation
Entertainment and Rascals Live presents a
three-day show… Rascals Live, 2:30pm Sat
Aug 20
Quad City Bank & Trust Riverfront Pops:
The Music of Elton John, rock to Elton’s
greatest hits including “Rocket Man,”
“Madman Across… LeClaire Park, 7:30pm
Sat Aug 20
Your Mom, a concert in the venue’s
Summer 2022 Music Lineup; for
information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sat Aug 20
8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage
Festival, celebration of the late, great jazz
artist featuring concert sets… Rivermont
Collegiate, Sun Aug 21
Next Gen Fest: Messer - Emperors &
Angels - Etched In Embers - Reign of
Z - The Coursing - Corrupt the Masses -
Consume the Divide - Prison City Brigade
- High Five Sinners, Next Generation
Entertainment and Rascals Live presents a
three-day show… Rascals Live, 2:30pm Sun
Aug 21
FREE ASSANGE.
Ivan Singh, the Mississippi Valley Blues
Society co-hosts a Summer Concert
Series… Schwiebert Riverfront Park, 7pm
Thu Aug 25
Martina McBride, concert with the
chart-topping, multi-platinum-selling
country singer/songwriter; $45-80; for
tickets and information, call 563-328-
8000; Rhythm City Casino Resort Event
Center, 7077 Elmore Ave., Davenport IA,
RhythmCityCasino.com, 8pm Thu Aug 25
The Prince Project, an evening with the
Prince & The Revolution tribute band;
6pm… Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, 7:15pm
Thu Aug 25
Jordan Danielsen, a concert in the
venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Fri Aug 26
Live @ Five: Beaker Brothers, all -ages
outdoor concert in the annual summer
series; free;… RME Courtyard, 5pm Fri Aug
26
Futurebirds - Jordan Sellergren - Dan
Tedesco, concert with the indie-rock band
formed in 2008 from Athens,… Codfish
Hollow Barn, 7pm Fri Aug 26
JC & the Redemption, a concert in the
venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sat Aug 27
John Resch & Doggin’ Out, the Mississippi
Valley Blues Society co-hosts a Summer
Concert Series… Quinlan Court, 7pm Thu
Sep 1
Courtney Marie Andrews - Angela
Meyer, concert with the indie-pop and folk
singer/songwriter; featuring an opening…
Raccoon Motel, 8pm Fri Sep 2
Johnny Russler & the Beach Bum Band, a
concert in the venue’s Summer 2022 Music
Lineup; for information, call 563-949-1000;
The Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Fri Sep 2
Live @ Five: Crooked Cactus, all -ages
outdoor concert in the annual summer
series; free;… RME Courtyard, 5pm Fri Sep
2 Community Center, 6pm Fri Aug 19
Funktastic 5, a concert in the venue’s
Summer 2022 Music Lineup; for
information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sat Sep 3
Hand in Hand Music Fest, family-friendly
fundraising event featuring six hours of
music, food trucks,… Isle of Capri, 4pm Sun
Sep 4
Laura Jane Grace, concert with the solo
musician best known as the founder,…
Raccoon Motel, 8pm Sun Sep 4
Threat Level Midnight, a concert in
the venue’s Summer 2022 Music Lineup;
for information, call 563-949-1000; The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA, TheTangledWood.com, 7pm
Sun Sep 4
Watchhouse - The Onlies, concert with the
married folk duo of Andrew Marlin and…
Codfish Hollow Barn, 7pm Mon Sep 5
REO Speedwagon - Styx - Loverboy,
concert with the rock legends on their
“Live and UnZoomed”… TaxSlayer Center,
7:30pm Tue Sep 6
LITERARY ARTS
Davenport Public Library Summer
Know More. Do More.
Reading Program, join the Davenport
Public Library for our… Davenport Public
Library - Main Branch, thru Wed Aug 31
The Judge’s Will, discuss short stories from
a variety of contemporary and classic…
Davenport Public Library - Fairmount Street
Branch, 10am Mon Aug 8
A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist’s
Bicycle Journey Across the United
States, a discussion of David Goodrich’s
book with the Get Lit… Bettendorf Public
Library, 7pm Tue Aug 9
The Lost Night, a discussion of Andrea
Bartz’s book with the West End…
Davenport Public Library - Fairmount Street
Branch, 6:30pm Tue Aug 9
It’s Your Choice Club, on Tuesdays; we will
meet and talk about whatever book… Blue
Suede Cocktails & Coffee, 3:30pm Tue Aug
9 thru Tue Sep 6
American Spy, a discussion of Lauren
Wilkinson’s book with the Between the…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 6:30pm Wed Aug 10
Baking Cakes in Kigali, a discussion of
Gaile Parkin’s book with the Midtown
Readers… Rock Island Public Library -
Downtown Library, 6:30pm Tue Aug 16
Invisible Eden, a discussion of Maria
Flook’s book with the Book ’Em… Moline
Public Library, 1pm Tue Aug 16
I Happy Am, a discussion of Jamel
Brinkley’s book with the Contemporary
Books… Bettendorf Public Library, 7pm
Wed Aug 17
The House on Fripp Island, a discussion
of Rebecca Kauffman’s book with the Novel
Naptime… Moline Public Library, 9:30am
Wed Aug 17
One River, Many Wells, meet author Rev.
Dr. Matthew Fox in this online event;… Our
Lady of the Prairie Retreat, 6pm Thu Aug 18
Meet & Greet: Black Authors Forum and
Book Fair, an event in the 8th Annual
Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage Festival… Martin
Luther King Jr. Community Center, 5pm Fri
Aug 19
Black Authors Forum and Book Fair,
an event in the 8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz &
Heritage Festival… Martin Luther King Jr.
Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to
Conservation That Starts in Your Yard,
a discussion of Douglas Tallamy’s book
with the Environmental Book Club;… River
Action, 7pm Tue Aug 23
Malibu Rising, a discussion of Taylor
Jenkins Reid’s book with the Brown…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 1pm Wed Aug 24
The Time Is Now!, a beginning writers’
workshop led by Jodie Toohey; $20; for
information… Our Lady of the Prairie
Retreat, 6pm Wed Aug 24
Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for
the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal
Body and Soul, a discussion of Lucy Jones’
book with the Nonfiction Book Club; for…
Longview Park, 5:30pm Thu Aug 25
Last Monday Book Club, light
refreshments will be paired with good
conversation; copies of… Silvis Public
Library, 6:30pm Mon Aug 29
Servant Leadership, meet author Dr.
Dan R. Ebener; discover this textbook for
leaders… Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat,
10am Wed Aug 31
Local Author: Authoress Isis, discussions
on writing a book and engaging in self-
publishing; Authoress… Davenport Public
Library - Fairmount Street Branch, 3pm Fri
Sep 2
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Pageturners, books are provided on a
first-come, first-served basis; free; for…
Moline Public Library, 1pm Tue Sep 6
Spoken Word Night: Out of Darkness, the
Figge is partnering with QC Pride and the
Midwest… Figge Art Museum, 6pm Thu
Sep 8
THEATRE
Nunsense, musical-comedy hit featuring
vocal harmonies, tap and ballet dancing,
an… Timber Lake Playhouse, Thu Aug 4
thru Sun Aug 7
The World Goes ’Round, a stirring revue of
the songbook from the multi-Tony award-
winning team… Clinton Area Showboat
Theatre, Thu Aug 4 thru Sun Aug 14
Jekyll & Hyde, Tony-nominated musical
thriller based on the Robert Louis
Stevenson character(s), directed by Heather
Herkelman; Thu.-Sat. 7:30pm, Sun. 2pm;
$11-16; for tickets and information, call 309-
762-6610; Quad City Music Guild - Prospect
Park Auditorium, 1584 34th Ave., Moline
IL, QCMusicGuild.com, Fri Aug 5 thru Sun
Aug 14
Disaster!, musical spoof of ’70s disaster
movies featuring classic ’70s songs;… Circa
’21 Dinner Playhouse, Fri Aug 5 thru Wed
Sep 7
Auditions: Sylvia, auditions for A.R.
Gurney’s dog-love comedy running
September 30 through… Playcrafters Barn
Theatre, Sat Aug 6 and Sun Aug 7
The Frogs, Genesius Guild presents an
updated telling of Aristophanes’ classic
comedy;… Lincoln Park, 7pm Sat Aug 6
and Sun Aug 7
Ride the Cyclone, musical about a roller-
coaster ride gone wrong, directed by
Shelley Cooper… The Black Box Theatre,
Thu Aug 11 thru Sat Aug 20
We Will Rock You, musical revue featuring
more than 20 hit Queen songs; Tue.-Sat.…
Timber Lake Playhouse, Thu Aug 11 thru
Sun Aug 21
Leaving Iowa, Tim Clue’s and Spike
Manton’s road-trip comedy, directed by
Dana… Richmond Hill Barn Theatre, Thu
Aug 18 thru Sun Aug 28
The Christmas Letter Writing Club,
Quad Cities native Tom Ackers’s holiday-
themed play, directed by Madison Duling...
Playcrafters Barn Theatre, Fri Aug 19 thru
Sun Aug 28
Let’s Rock TLP, the annual gala featuring
live performances, hors d’oeuvres, a full…
Timber Lake Playhouse, 6pm Sat Aug 20
Random Access Morons, world-premiere
Haus of Ruckus comedy by the team of
Calvin Vo… The Mockingbird on Main,
7:34pm Thu Aug 25 thru Sat Sep 3
My Brother’s Gift, based on the
experiences of Heinz Geiringer, neighbor
and friend… The Black Box Theatre, Thu
Sep 1 thru Thu Sep 8
Hank Williams: Lost Highway, musical
biography about the country-music legend;
Tue.-Sat. 7:30pm; Sun., Wed.,… Timber Lake
Playhouse, 7:30pm Thu Sep 8
DANCE
Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance
Classes, offering classes in Ballet Pointe,
Modern, Jazz, Tap, Conditioning, Creative
Movement, and Adult Ballet, for ages 3 to
adult; all classes taught by the company’s
professional dancers; for information and
to register, call 309-786-2677, Ballet Quad
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THEATRE
The Towering Piranha
Earthquake Inferno Adventure
Disaster!, at the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse
through September 10
Colin Stansky, Thomas Besler, Natalie Carrera, Quinn Cason, Ashley Becher,
Tristan Tapscott, and Bobby Becher in Disaster!
I
love disaster movies. Gimme scenes of hor-
rifying devastation wreaked on an unpre-
pared populace; the cheesier, the better.
Natural phenomena are wonderful (Earthquake),
as are tragedies caused by hubris (The Towering
Inferno). Now, the 1950s and ‘60s had big-scope
terror flicks, but they were largely of the radia-
tion-mutated-insects and aliens-conquering-
Earth varieties. The ‘70s, though, were when
disaster films really exploded, so to speak.
Disaster!, created by Seth Rudethsky, written
by Rudethsky and Jack Plotnick, and now at the
Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, combines classic
catastrophic-cinema elements with ‘70s pop
tunes. (I can hear people saying, “Seventies’
music was a disaster.” Har har har. You prefer
Kajagoogoo? Cool. You do you.) These are
beloved songs of my childhood and teen years.
RCReader.com/Support. FREE ASSANGE.
I wrote my editor saying I would love to get this
assignment – I used the word “luuuv” – and
happily, I did. Fortuitously, my companion for
the show was someone I’d gone to high school
with, who would no doubt get this like I would.
We saw the July 21 preview, and director/cho-
reographer Amy McCleary, music director Ron
May, and all involved came together to create
this silly, music-filled diversion.
The action takes place on a land-based float-
ing casino (sound familiar, Quad Citians?),
thus conveniently providing a locale that can
be menaced by both earthquakes and tidal
waves. Pastel rainbow stripes swoop through
Joe Klug’s set, creating a mega late-’70s/early-’80
vibe, and there’s a steep stairway leading to a
taffrail, providing additional playing space. (A
taffrail is a ship’s railing – like where The Love
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Boat passengers gathered to wave goodbye at
launch.) Specific places are depicted with the
aid of actors wheeling various items on and off
stage, and special kudos go to Disaster!’s nimble
column handlers, because those things are tall.
Some of my favorite disaster-film archetypes
populate the stage, including Greedy Amoral
Entrepreneur (Tony, played convincingly and
appropriately annoyingly by Tristan Layne Tap-
scott), Scientist Whom No One Believes (Ted,
played in full-on nebbish mode by Thomas J.
Besler), and Estranged Couple Thrown Together
Again (Marianne, played by Michaela C. Moore,
and Bobby Becher’s Chad, who both handle
their songs and scenes with admirable aplomb).
The iconic, Poseidon-y Loveable Older Couple
characters Shirley and Maury Winters (Shirley
Winters … get it?) are portrayed by venue
veterans Shelley Walljasper and Brad Hauskins,
respectively. Jack Carslake portrays Moppets
in Peril (yes, that’s plural) Ben and Lisa with
amazing skill, timing, and vocal finesse. (He’d
taken the same roles in Quad City Music Guild’s
production of this show in the spring.)
Some of the musical’s unappealing, worn-out
tropes include Sexual Old People Are Hilari-
ous – despite the scriptwriters’ penchant for
cheap laughs, though, I found Walljasper’s and
Hauskins’ portrayals warm and touching – and
Blonde Performers Are Bimbos. (Savannah Bay
Strandin, in a wig as amazing as her voice, plays
the casino’s singer Jackie – who, in fairness,
isn’t wholly in bimbo territory.) A couple of
vocal powerhouses with major comedy chops,
Kira Rangel as disco diva Levora and Erica Lee
Bigelow as Sister Mary, provide some wonder-
ful moments. (Levora flaunts another of stylist
Dianne Dye’s spectacular wigs.) And one of my
favorite bits came when scientist Ted eluded a
jealous Tony by inserting himself into Jackie’s
“Mockingbird” number. I also applaud the
versatile ensemble members – Ashley Mills
Becher, Quinn Cason, Natalie Carrera, and
Colin Stansky – who danced, sang, acted, and
tumbled around during natural and unnatural
phenomena just as hard as the principals.
I walked into Disaster! thinking the evening
would be bursting mostly with disco beats,
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By Pamela Briggs
but the musical selections cover a range of
pop styles. The score includes more than 30
throwback compositions, or parts of them,
and the writers even insinuate instrumentals
including “Feels So Good” and the Hawaii 5-0
theme into the action. On the other hand, some
of the rationales for song choices were painfully
contrived; I envision the writers as drunk bud-
dies challenging one another to shove this or
that tune into the plot. But I suppose that’s part
of the fun, although, disappointingly, there was
no “Disco Inferno” and no Bee Gees. Worse, I
learned afterward that Queen’s “You’re My Best
Friend” is in the script, but was cut here. (Sorry,
but you cannot have the ‘70s without Queen.) I
also gotta say there were perfect opportunities
to use the theme from Jaws. Maybe the show’s
creators intended to, but couldn’t get the rights.
Unfortunately, in this music-heavy produc-
tion, there were sound issues during that Thurs-
day preview. A few vocals were shaky at the top
of the show, as if warm-ups had been skipped,
but they smoothed out nicely later. Also, the
sound system itself had faults. Too often, the
recorded accompaniment drowned out both
singing and speaking voices. The audio range
of the music was out of balance, too, with the
sound tending toward tinny and reedy. I didn’t
necessarily expect this stately venue with its
rococo embellishments to be rocked by pound-
ing disco-esque bass (and Sensurround was
out of the question), but I would have liked the
audio to be less shrieky. Still, as many of us did
listen to music in the ‘70s on transistor or car
radios, this shrill sound quality wasn’t wholly
inappropriate.
With Disaster!, time travel is possible – if for
a limited time – in Rock Island. You’ll enjoy this
decade-in-a-blender confection more fully if
you already know the music, but there’s plenty
for others to love, too.
Disaster! runs at the Circa '21 Dinner
Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island IL)
through September 10, and more information
and tickets are available by calling (309)786-7733
extension 2 and visiting Circa21.com.
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Dance

Cities School of Dance, 617 17th St. Rock

Island IL, BalletQuadCities.com, Thu Aug 4
thru Thu Sep 8
Latin Social Dance, hosted by El Ritmo;
the beginner lesson is at 7pm and… The
University Club, 7pm Fri Aug 19
Ballet Quad Cities’ Ballet on the Lawn, at
1, 3, & 6pm; enjoy a fun-filled performance
featuring old and new favorites; find
your picnic spot with friends and family
and connect through the arts; $15-25; for
tickets and information, call 309-786-3779;
Davenport Outing Club, 2109 North Brady
St., Davenport IA, BalletQuadCities.com.
Sun Aug 28

COMEDY
Vintage Is Sexy: Michele’s 50th Birthday
Bash, featuring comedy by Amber P, Pubali
K, Sarah B, Maggie… Village Theatre, 8pm
Fri Aug 5
Big Room Comedy Open Mic, if you have
something funny to say, come and tell it…
Village Theatre, 7pm Sun Aug 7 thru Sun
Aug 21
Leanne Morgan, an evening of standup
with the comedian on her “The Big Panty
Tour”; $29.75-49.75; for tickets, call 800-
745-3000; Adler Theatre, 136 East Third St.,
Davenport IA, 7pm Fri Aug 12
Steve Hofstetter, an evening with the
author, columnist, and touring comedian;
$25; for information, call 563-328-8000;
Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm
Room, 7077 Elmore Ave., Davenport IA,
RhythmCityCasino.com, 7pm Sun Aug 14
Holy Smokes Bogarts It!, catch the Quad
Cities’ newest mix-in-your-mouth comedy
show; $10… Village Theatre, 8pm Sat Aug
20
Big Room Comedy Open Mic, if you have
something funny to say, come and tell it…
Village Theatre, 7pm Sun Sep 4
A Comedy Night with T-Mo, comedian
Tony Morrell comes home for the first time
in… The Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 8pm
Wed Sep 7

MUSEUMS
Build! Create! Innovate!, the exhibit
includes 3,600 square feet of building
space and more than… Putnam Museum &
Science Center, thru Mon Sep 4
Faces of the Past, an original Putnam
exhibit that explores portraiture around
the world… Putnam Museum & Science
Center, thru Mon Sep 4
Mother Nature: Modern Muse, life on
Earth has been evolving for billions of
years;… Putnam Museum & Science Center,
thru Mon Sep 4
Pollination Investigation, exhibition that
explores the who, what, when, where, why,
and… Putnam Museum & Science Center,
thru Mon Sep 4
Our Neighbors, Our Friends, exhibit
including firsthand accounts of migration,
story/text panels,… German American
Heritage Center, thru Thu Sep 8
Kaiserslautern: Items from the GAHC’s
Collection, explore the connections
between Davenport and our German sister
city,… German American Heritage Center,
thru Thu Sep 8

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Museums
Historic Summer Walking Tours, learn
about where German immigrants worked,
lived, and created a… German American
Heritage Center, 9:30am Sat Aug 6 thru Sat
Aug 20
1948ers Lecture Series: Part IV, join
us virtually as Yogi Reppmann takes us
through the… German American Heritage
Center, 3pm Sun Aug 7
Grant Wood: Prairie Rebel, in this
45-minute solo performance by Tom
Mulligan, Grant Wood… German American
Heritage Center, 2pm Sun Aug 14
Historic Summer Sitting Tour, learn about
where German immigrants worked, lived,
and created a… German American Heritage
Center, 5pm Wed Aug 17
Iowa’s Ethnic Heritage: A Brief
Interactive History, enjoy the unfolding
adventure of Iowa’s immigration history
from Native… German American Heritage
Center, 2pm Sun Aug 21
MOVIES
Afternoon Classics, we will be watching
movies from the 1930s-1960s featuring
your… Davenport Public Library -
Fairmount Street Branch, 2pm Thu Aug 11
Ice Age, screening of the animated comedy
in the Summer Movies on… Davenport
Public Library - Fairmount Street Branch,
8pm Fri Aug 26
Cinema at Southwest, he movies are
mainly chosen for adult audiences, but
anyone… Rock Island Public Library -
Southwest Branch, 6pm Tue Sep 6
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movies from the 1930s-1960s featuring
your… Davenport Public Library -
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SPORTS
Quad Cities River Bandits vs. the
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, professional
minor-league baseball; for tickets, call 563-
324-3000; Modern Woodmen Park, 209 S.
Gaines St., Davenport IA, MILB.com/quad-
cities, thru Sun Aug 7
QCSportsNet Play-by-Play Workshop, the
provider of live play-by-play of high school
sports and… Rooster’s Sports Bar & Grill,
noon Sun Aug 7
Quad Cities River Bandits vs. the Cedar
Rapids Kernels, professional minor-league
baseball; for tickets, call 563-324-3000;
Modern Woodmen Park, 209 S. Gaines St.,
Davenport IA, MILB.com/quad-cities, Tue
Aug 9 thru Sun Aug 14
3rd Annual Ridgecrest Foundation
Golf Outing, $300/team for a 4-person
preferred ball tournament; cost includes
18… Palmer Hills Golf Course, 9am Mon
Aug 15
Quad Cities River Bandits vs. the Dayton
Dragons, professional minor-league
baseball; for tickets, call 563-324-3000;
Modern Woodmen Park, 209 S. Gaines St.,
Davenport IA, MILB.com/quad-cities, Tue
Aug 23 thru Sun Aug 28
3rd Annual Kickin’ for Ollie Kickball
Tournament, a day of kickball, raffles, and
family to support Oliver… Dorrance Park,
9am Sat Aug 27
Quad Cities River Bandits vs. the
Peoria Chiefs, professional minor-league
baseball; for tickets, call 563-324-3000;
Modern Woodmen Park, 209 S. Gaines
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St., Davenport IA, MILB.com/quad-cities, deepen… Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat,
6:30pm Tue Sep 6 thru Thu Sep 8 5pm Fri Aug 5
Heartland British Autofest, hosted by the
OTHER EVENTS Quad City British Auto Club; the club will…
LeClaire Levee, 9am Sat Aug 6
2022 Mississippi Valley Fair, annual Riverboat Twilight Sightseeing Cruises,
event featuring grandstand concerts, on Saturdays; one-and-a-half-hour cruises
rides, attractions,… Mississippi Valley at 11am, 1pm, and 4pm; $20 per… Riverboat
Fairgrounds, thru Sun Aug 7 Twilight, 11am Sat Aug 6 thru Sat Sep 3
Riverboat Twilight Sightseeing Cruises, If It Suits You, on Mondays; meet to play
on Tuesdays and Thursdays; $209-469; your favorite card games; for… Davenport
for information, contact Carrie Stier… Public Library - Eastern Avenue Branch,
Riverboat Twilight, 8am thru Thu Sep 8 1pm Mon Aug 8
Popular Astronomy Club Night Sky Bunco with Friends of River Valley
Viewing, the club plans to bring the District Library, have some fun playing
PACMO, their mobile observatory,… Bunco; for information, call 309-523-3440…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue River Valley District Library, 1pm Wed Aug
Branch, 8:30pm Fri Aug 5 10
Viva La Divas, the area’s hottest drag show 2022 Tug Fest LeClaire, the annual tug-
delivers unforgettable production numbers of-war over the Mississippi River… LeClaire
as… The Circa ’21 Speakeasy, 8pm Fri Aug 5 Levee, Thu Aug 11 thru Sat Aug 13
12 Step Centering Prayer Retreat, led
by Paul Witmer and Dick Jensen; learn and
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Texas
VENGEANCE
W
hen entrusted to play basically
nondescript, slightly smug
“regular” guys in movies
such as Inglourious Basterds, Saving
Mr. Banks, and The Founder, B.J. Novak
has been mostly unbearable – his blasé
detachment reads as boredom, and he
doesn’t seem to have the acting resources
necessary to make fundamentally dull
characters interesting. Yet when Novak
is the butt of a joke, as he frequently was
during his long tenure on The Office,
he can be an utter delight. You loved
watching that smarmy, entitled little
d-bag Ryan Howard getting handcuffed
by the cops, to say nothing of Michael
Scott revealing that the eternal temp’s
new workspace was a windowless supply
closet.
In his first outing as a feature-film
writer/director/star, Novak does a lot of
very smart things in Vengeance; while
I’ve enjoyed a bunch of movies this
summer, none of them has been the
low-key, completely unanticipated sur-
prise that this comedic thriller proves
to be. Yet the man’s wisest inspiration
was to make his Manhattan-ite Ben
Manalowitz – a wannabe podcaster
attempting to solve a shaggy-dog mys-
tery in West Texas – every bit as self-
involved and condescending as Novak
himself has appeared nearly every
time we’ve seen him on screens big
and small. From his first minutes here,
despite his gifts for sardonic repartee,
you kind of detest Ben. That knee-jerk
response, though, is instrumental in
understanding why Vengeance works as
well as it does. In the end, it’s a movie
about the folly of snap judgments based
on little beyond cultural or character
stereotypes – an exploration of pre-
sumed heartlessness that winds up
displaying a heart as big as, well … .
You know.
The event that sends Novak’s plot
into motion is a late-night phone call,
which Ben receives from a sobbing
Texan named Ty (Boyd Holbrook). It
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Issa Rae and B.J. Novak in Vengeance
seems that Ty’s sister Abilene has just
been found dead of an opioid overdose,
and as Ben was the love of her life, Ty
knows that her beau will want to trek to
the family’s small town in West Texas
for her funeral. Trouble is, Ben doesn’t
remember her: Abilene was just one of
his many, many hookups during her
failed attempt to make it as a singer in
New York. But Ty’s grief, in an admit-
tedly unlikely turn, wears Ben down,
and before long he’s in the Lone Star
state surrounded by Abilene’s loved
ones, goaded by Ty into tracking down
his sister’s “killer,” because no way was
her death an accident. After his initial
misgivings subside, Ben agrees to help.
He smells a long-form hit, even though
his smart, savvy producer (the excel-
lent Issa Rae) astutely reminds him that
“not every white guy in America needs
to have a podcast.”
This material could have gone wrong
in so many different ways that it’s
frankly astounding that it barely goes
wrong in any of them. We’re guided
into expecting primo Blue State v. Red
State comedy, as well as some timeless
Fish Out of Water comedy, from the
moment Ty picks Ben up at the airport
and, on the subsequent car ride, tells
the New Yorker that he reminds Ty
of a character from his least-favorite
Liam Neeson movie: Schindler’s List.
Yet while Novak’s film has a lot of fun
– and we do, too – with the divide that
finds Abilene’s family constitutionally
unable to define the precise magic of
the fast-food chain Whataburger (“It’s
always there!”), more often than not it’s
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the gently snooty aesthete Ben who’s
the subject of friendly mockery. In his
attempts to sound hip to the astute
Texans who could care less about such
things, Ben gets routinely, hilariously
schooled on the theory of Chekhov’s
gun and his reasons for visiting “South
by,” and the rodeo scene in which Ben
emerges as a horse’s ass by cheering the
wrong team is a masterful bit of B.J.
Novak comeuppance courtesy of Novak
himself.
The twists of expectation, however,
don’t stop after Ben gets truly serious
about his impending podcast – one
given the initially crude-yet-grabby title
Dead White Girl – and the truth behind
Abilene’s death becomes tougher to
ascertain. Ben has an encounter with
a seemingly affable record-producer
hayseed (Ashton Kutcher) who proves
to be intensely sharp in his analysis and
Harvard-educated, to boot. He meets
with a reportedly vicious drug runner
(Zach Villa) who reveals a deeply
buried sensitive side. He receives kindly
acceptance from Abilene’s mom (Suc-
cession’s marvelous J-Smith Cameron)
whose phraseology is bristling with
hidden fire. No one is completely who
they seem in Vengeance, and that goes
for Ben, too. Our first view of him is
at a chic rooftop party in Manhattan,
trading self-pitying witticisms with
John Mayer (!) and complaining about
how white men of their clichd type are
tragically misunderstood. By the film’s
mid-point, it turns out that Ben actu-
ally has a soul … which means that B.J.
Novak has a soul. I gotta admit: Didn’t
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see that coming.
Much of Vengeance is devoted to
highfalutin’ – or perhaps merely falutin’
while high – discussion of the specific
nature of Red/Blue disassociation, as
well as our dissimilar views on the
Second Amendment, law-enforcement
terrain, culpability in opioid addic-
tion, and whether Frito Pie, which is
essentially a bag of Fritos with chili and
nacho cheese poured atop, should serve
as a serviceable dinner. (My view after
seeing the movie: Hell yeah.) But the
majority of these detours are fantasti-
cally effective – Kutcher, whom I didn’t
realize I missed as much as I appar-
ently do, beautifully delivers a couple of
Novak’s best-written monologues – and
the movie also offers honest suspense
(and a shocking car explosion), huge
laughs, legitimate local f lavor, a truly
unforeseen narrative climax, and the
best screen role that the ridiculously
charismatic Boyd Holbrook has yet had.
In the end, I loved Vengeance, and loved
it all the more for not being remotely
prepared for it. I get why, on its opening
weekend, the film made roughly one-
fifteenth of what DC League of Super-
Pets did. As a juicy, largely unheralded
gem that audiences will gradually
discover over the years, I’m hoping it’ll
endure 15 times longer.
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Pets, Nope, Thor: Love & Thunder,
Where the Crawdads Sing, The Gray
Man, Paws of Fury: The Legend of
Hank, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and
other recent releases, visit
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MUSIC
Martina McBride
Thursday, August 25, 8 p.m.
Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IA
A
country-music singing/song-
writing legend with 14 Grammy
nominations to her name, Mar-
tina McBride brings her eagerly awaited
national tour to Davenport’s Rhythm City
Casino Resort Event Center on August 25,
the neo-traditionalist talent beloved for
smash hits including “Independence Day,”
“Blessed,” and “Concrete Angel.”
Born in Sharon, Kansas, in 1966,
McBride effectively began her career as
a pre-teen, singing with the Schiffters
band fronted by her father. Follow-
ing her 1989 move to Tennessee, she
signed a recording contract with RCA
Nashville, launching her debut studio
album The Time Has Come in 1992. The
album’s title track made it to number
23 on the country-music charts, and
in September of 1993, the singer/song-
writer’s second studio album The Way
That I Am was issued. Its lead single “My
Baby Loves Me” reached number two
on the Billboard Hot Country Songs
chart, becoming her breakthrough hit,
while its third single “Independence
Day” peaked in the top 20 and became
McBride’s signature song. “Indepen-
dence Day’s success elevated sales of The
Way That I Am to platinum status, and
after her subsequent Wild Angels was
released in September 1995, the album
reached number 17 on the Billboard Top
Country Albums chart, with the record-
ing’s title track becoming McBride’s
first song to top the Hot Country Songs
chart. Debuting in 1997, her fourth
studio release Evolution became the
artist’s best-selling album to date,
certifying three times platinum in the
United States and spawning six singles
that all became major hits, including
“A Broken Wing,” “Wrong Again,” and
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“Whatever You Say.” After releasing a
holiday album, McBride’s fifth studio
album Emotion, issued in 1999, found its
lead single “I Love You” topping the Hot
Country Songs chart and also making
Billboard’s Adult Contemporary and
Hot 100 charts.
In 2001, McBride released her first
Greatest Hits project, which became
her first album to top the Top Country
Albums chart. All four of the album’s
new tracks were single releases, includ-
ing the chart-topping “Blessed,” while
2003’s Martina certified double plati-
num in the United States and boasted
the top-five singles “This One’s for the
Girls” and “In My Daughter’s Eyes”.
McBride’s seventh studio album, 2005’s
Timeless, debuted atop the country-
albums chart and the top 10 of the Bill-
board 200, and two years later, the artist
returned with her eighth studio record
Waking Up Laughing, which debuted
in the top five of the Billboard country-
albums chart and Billboard 200. A
quintet of additional studio recordings
have landed since, and to date, McBride
has sold more than 23 million albums
worldwide. In addition, she has won the
Country Music Association’s Female
Vocalist of the Year award four times
(tied with Reba McEntire for the third-
most wins) and the Academy of Country
Music’s Top Female Vocalist award three
times.
Martina McBride plays her Davenport
engagement on August 25, admission to
the 8 p.m. concert is $45-80, and more
information and tickets are available by
calling (563)328-8000 and visiting
RhythmCityCasino.com.
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Other Events
2022 Tug Fest Port Byron, the annual
tug-of-war over the Mississippi River… Port
Byron Levee, Thu Aug 11 thru Sat Aug 13
Adult Tabletop Adventures Guild (TAG):
Dungeons & Dragons, on the 2nd & 4th
Thu.; adults role-play, role dice, and have…
LeClaire Community Library, 6pm Thu Aug
11 thru Thu Sep 8
Bingo, bring your family and friends for an
hour of bingo… Davenport Public Library -
Eastern Avenue Branch, 4pm Sat Aug 13
Fairmount Block Party, a wonderful
opportunity to connect with local
organizations, learn about… Davenport
Public Library - Fairmount Street Branch,
11am Sat Aug 13
Bettendorf Public Library Chess Club,
join us for some friendly games of chess;
no experience… Bettendorf Public Library,
1:30pm Sat Aug 13
When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond
the Beginning, St. Alphonsus Parish Altar
and Rosary Society presents a retreat… St.
Alphonsus Catholic Church, 8:30am Tue
Aug 16
2022 Alternating Currents Festival, four
days of music, art, comedy, and movies at
dozens… Downtown Davenport, Thu Aug
18 thru Sun Aug 21
Squonk, Quad City Arts presents a
joyous, participatory event that brings…
Davenport SkyBridge, Fri Aug 19 thru Sun
Aug 21
Bottoms Up Burlesque, an evening with
the area striptease artists and comedians;
for… RIBCO, 8pm Sat Aug 20
Discovery Fair, a day filled with free
learning and fun; for information,…
Bettendorf Public Library, 10am Sat Aug 20
Floatzilla 2022, take part in the largest
paddle on the Mississippi; experience…
Sunset Park, 7am Sat Aug 20
Night Sky Viewing with the Popular
Astronomy Club, held in the parking lot;
Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Wild Duck… Niabi
Zoo, 8pm Sat Aug 20
Trivia Night, 5pm doors, 6pm game;
$10/person or $80/table; bring your own
food,… Christ Anglican Church, 5pm Sat
Aug 20
Moline Public Library Lobby Book Sale,
fill a bag for a donation; for information,
call 309-524-2470… Moline Public Library,
10am Fri Aug 26
Bettendorf Public Library Chess Club,
join us for some friendly games of chess;
no experience… Bettendorf Public Library,
1:30pm Sat Aug 27
Family Fun Day & Parade, an outdoor
community block party and parade; this
event celebrates all… Martin Luther King Jr.
Community Center, 9am Sat Aug 27
Vettes on the River: Vettes Supporting
Vets, Corvettes should be in attendance
by 10am that day; a flag-raising… LeClaire
Levee, 8am Sat Aug 27
Flea Market, featuring vintage items,
antiques, jewelry, coins, collectibles,
and more; space… Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds, 8am Sun Aug 28
Memory Circle, join us for crafts, games,
activities, conversation, and more at…
Bettendorf Public Library, 10:30am Tue Aug
30
Viva La Divas, the area’s hottest drag show
delivers unforgettable production numbers
as… The Circa ’21 Speakeasy, 8pm Fri Sep 2
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Book Sale at Southwest, fill a bag for a
donation, shopping bags available; for…
Rock Island Public Library - Southwest
Branch, 10am Tue Sep 6
Spice Up Your Life, join us each month
as we try a new spice,… Davenport Public
Library - Fairmount Street Branch, 6:30pm
Tue Sep 6
LECTURES
Beiderbecke and Bellson, a presentation
in River Action’s Channel Cat Talks series;
learn… Riverbend Commons Dock, 9am
Thu Aug 4
Opening the Box: Area School Records,
explore and learn about the curious world
of archives and… Davenport Public Library
- Main Branch, 2:30pm Fri Aug 5
The A to Zzz’s of Sleep Health by Cathy
Rosenbaum PharmD, learn about the
stages of sleep, causes for insomnia, and…
Rock Island Public Library - Downtown
Library, 2pm Fri Aug 5
Green Rooftops, Wed. 6:30pm and Sat.
9am; a presentation in River Action’s…
River Action, 9am Sat Aug 6
Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society:
Rock Island Arsenal Confederate
and Union Cemeteries Overview and
Resources, joining us for our August’s
presentation is Kevin Braafladt, the…
Davenport Public Library - Main Branch,
1pm Sat Aug 6
Under Construction: History of
Butterworth Center and Deere-Wiman
Homes, in celebration of the City of
Moline’s 150th anniversary and… Moline
Public Library, 6:30pm Tue Aug 9
River Landscape Mosaic, a presentation
in River Action’s Channel Cat Talks series;
Dr.… Riverbend Commons Dock, 9am Tue
Aug 9 and Thu Aug 11
How David Sears Brought John Deere
to Moline, Wed. 6:30pm and Sat. 9am;
a presentation in River Action’s… River
Action, Wed Aug 10 and Sat Aug 13
When the Well Runs Dry, led by Mark
Nimo and Fr. Bob Miller; praying through…
Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, 9:30am Mon
Aug 15
Blockchain & IP: Cross-section of
Blockchain, Patents, and Open-Source,
join the USPTO and East Coast Attorney,
James Gatto, as… Davenport Public Library
- Main Branch, 3pm Tue Aug 16
Life After High School: Planning and
Paying for College and Career, the
library welcomes Lupe Hernandez, Student
Success Advisor with the… Davenport
Public Library - Eastern Avenue Branch,
6pm Tue Aug 16
Preservation Workshop – Reformatting
Materials: From Physical to Microfilm
and Microfiche, learn how to practically
care for and preserve materials at…
Davenport Public Library - Main Branch,
2pm Tue Aug 16
Lock and Dam 15 Improvements, a
presentation in River Action’s Channel
Cat Talks series; as… Riverbend Commons
Dock, 9am Tue Aug 16 and Thu Aug 18
Negotiate Like a Pro, learn why
negotiation is important, when it is useful,
and… Davenport Public Library - Eastern
Avenue Branch, 6:30pm Wed Aug 17
Time to Trace!, help your little one hone
a pre-writing skill that builds… Davenport
Public Library - Main Branch, 3pm Wed Aug
17
German American Heritage, Wed. 6:30pm
and Sat. 9am; a presentation in River
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Sat Aug 20 Moline Public Library, 9am Mon Sep 5 MUSIC

Here Come the Mummies

Unraveling Yarns about the First Ladies,
Debra Scala Giokas delivers a presentation
in the 3rd Thursdays at… Davenport Public
Library - Main Branch, 6pm Thu Aug 18
Butterfly Gardening in Iowa, led by
Ray Wolf; support a healthy butterfly
population right… Our Lady of the Prairie
Retreat, 9am Sat Aug 20
Twisted Tales presents “Long Gone
Moline”, Mon 6:30pm, Tue. 2pm; in
honor of the city’s 150th anniversary, Jeff
Adamson… Moline Public Library, Mon
Aug 22 and Tue Aug 23
MRCTI: Mayors’ Collaborative Projects,
a presentation in River Action’s Channel
Cat Talks series; Riverdale… Riverbend
Commons Dock, 9am Tue Aug 23 and Thu
Aug 25
Intro to Bee Keeping, Jennifer and Kurt
Burnham present a bee keeping 101
presentation;… Moline Public Library, 6pm
Wed Aug 24
Hampton’s Historic Riverfront Walking
Tour, Wed. 6:30pm and Sat. 9am; a
presentation in River Action’s… River
Action, Wed Aug 24 and Sat Aug 27
Growing Your Intuition, led by Kathleen
Collins; build your intuitive muscles; $35
MEETINGS
Republican Women of Rock Island
County Monthly Dinner Meeting, retired
Marine Colonel Larry Kaifesh will speak
Friday, August 19, 8 p.m.
about “The Great Reset”… The Rock Party Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IA
Facility, 5pm Thu Aug 4
Muscatine City Council Meeting, meets
on the first, second, and third Thursday of
each… City Hall of Muscatine, 7pm Thu
Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
Scott County Board of Supervisors
Regular Meeting, on the 1st & 3rd Thu.;
activities may include voting on actions…
Scott County Administrative Center, 5pm
thru Thu Sep 1
Quad Cities Social Action Committee, for
information, e-mail e-fellowship@hotmail.
com; help protest unfair treatment of the
elderly… Sippi’s Fine Food and Cocktails,
12:30pm Fri Aug 5
Rock Island City Council Meeting, Public
Comment is held at the beginning of City
Council… Rock Island City Hall, 6:45pm
Mon Aug 8 thru Mon Aug 22
Sherrard City Council Meeting, held
on the second Monday of the month; for

includes… Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat,
9am Sat Aug 27
The Heart of Downtown Davenport:
Architectural Styles and Stories, join
architectural historian and guide Ellen
Shapley for this informative… Davenport
Public Library - Main Branch, 10am Mon
Aug 29
Constellation Fish Hatchery and Other
Hot Topics of the Mississippi River, a
presentation in River Action’s Channel
Cat Talks series; Jeremiah… Riverbend
Commons Dock, 9am Tue Aug 30 and Thu
Sep 1
Opening the Box: Alice French and
Jane Allen Crawford Collection, learn
about the curious world of archives and
manuscripts at… Davenport Public Library
- Main Branch, 2:30pm Fri Sep 2
Virtual Opening the Box, explore and
learn about the curious world of archives
and… Davenport Public Library - Main
Branch, 2:30pm Fri Sep 2
The Heart of Downtown Davenport:
Architectural Styles and Stories, join
architectural historian and guide Ellen
Shapley for this informative… Davenport
Public Library - Main Branch, 10am Sat Sep
3 Downtown Library, 11am Wed Aug 10
COURSES
Free In-Person Nutrition Class, on
Fridays; free education, recipe tasting,
workout, lesson materials and… Women’s
Choice Center, 10am Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Aug
19
Kids, Media, & Technology, learn about
the effects of too much media and
technology… Rock Island Public Library -
Downtown Library, 4:30pm Thu Aug 11
Learning Libby Class: Introduction to the
Library’s Digital Titles, this class will take
you through the process of downloading…
Bettendorf Public Library, 10am Thu Aug
18
Rules of the Road Class, Nancy Johnson,
associated with AARP and the Office of
the… Moline Public Library, 1:30pm Thu
Aug 18
Self-Paced Citizenship Exam Preparation
Resource, individuals preparing for the
information,… Sherrard City Hall, 7pm Mon
Aug 8
Geneseo City Council Meeting, meets
on the 2nd Tuesday of the month; for
information,… Geneseo City Council
Chambers, 6pm Tue Aug 9
Village of Erie Board/City Council
Meeting, held on the 2nd Tuesday of the
month; for information,… Village of Erie
Office, 6pm Tue Aug 9
Moline City Council Committee of the
Whole Meeting / Regular Meeting, meets
in Council Chambers; the formal City
Council meeting is… Moline City Hall, 6pm
Tue Aug 9 thru Tue Aug 23
Riverdale City Council Meeting, held on
the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month;…
Riverdale City Hall, 7pm Tue Aug 9 thru
Tue Aug 23
Rock Island Committee of the Whole
Meeting, held on the 2nd Wednesday of
the month (subject to… Rock Island County
Office Building, 5:30pm Wed Aug 10
Rock Island Public Library Board of
Trustees Personnel & Policy Committee
Meeting, for information, call 309-
732-7323… Rock Island Public Library -
Davenport City Council Meeting, the
Davenport City Council meets on the first
and third… Davenport City Hall, 5:30pm
Wed Aug 10 thru Wed Aug 24
Library Board of Trustees Meeting,
free; for information, call 563-344-4175…
Bettendorf Public Library, 5pm Thu Aug 11
Moline Public Library Board of Trustees
Meeting, agendas are available prior to the
meetings; minutes are available… Moline
Public Library, noon Thu Aug 11
Quad Cities Chamber Annual Meeting,
the Quad Cities Chamber’s Annual Meeting
brings together our region’s executives,
elected officials, business owners, and
civic leaders; attendees get an inside
look at the Chamber’s accomplishments
over the past year and our vision for
the future; 11am registration, 11:30am
lunch, noon programRhythm City Casino
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escribed by t he Examiner
as “a band unlike any other”
a nd Blurt maga zi ne as “a
hybrid of Idris Muhammad, George
Clinton, Ohio Players, and Ear t h,
Wind & Fire,” the tight ly-wrapped
f unk, rock, and R&B musicians of
Here Come the Mummies return to
Davenpor t’s R hy t hm Cit y Casino
Resort Event Center stage on August
19, their infectious grooves leading
The Bob & Tom Show co-host Bob
Kevoian to call one of their concerts
“the most fun I’ve had in 20 years.”
A novelty band best k nown for
its live performances, Here Come
the Mummies, which originally
formed in 2000, is composed of
various professional musicians
based in Nashville. Although
there are rumored to be several
Grammy Award winners among
the ensemble, this has been impos-
sible for journalists to verif y, as
the identities of band members are
kept quite literally “under wraps.”
(The musicians are widely believed
to be under contract to various
record labels, and consequently
hide their true identities to pre-
vent contract disputes while per-
forming.) Since their debut nearly
two decades ago, Here Come the
Mummies has opened for P-Funk,
Al Green, Mavis Staples, Cheap
Trick, and KC & the Sunshine
Band; rocked crowds at Super Bowl
Village; made regular visits to
radio’s Bob & Tom Show; played
outdoor festivals such as Summer
Camp, Common Ground, Voodoo
Fest, Musik fest, Summerfest, and
R iverbend; and sold tickets by the
thousands across large swaths of
North America.
Beginning with the group’s debut
Terrif ying Funk from Beyond the
Grave in 2002, Here Come the
Mummies has also released nine
full-leng th studio albums, two live
albums, three compilation albums,
and a quartet of 2014 EPs, with the
band ’s popular song “Dirty Minds”
heard on TV’s Scrubs, The Loop,
Big Shots, and the feature f ilm
Fired Up! And with their music
described by National Rock Review
as “ lively, fun, and even hilarious,”
the band is currently touring the
Midwest boasting an ensemble of
12 singers and instrumentalists
with most unusual stage monikers:
Mummy Cass, Eddie Mummy,
K.W. Tut, Spaz, Midnight Mummy,
The Flu, Mummy Yo, Ra, Mummy
Highlander, High Priest of Death,
Motherlode, and The Pole! – excla-
mation point included.
Here Come the Mummies’ per-
form their Davenport engagement
on August 19, admission to the
all-ages 8 p.m. concert is $25, and
more information and tickets are
available by calling (563)328-8000
and visiting
R hy thmCityCasino.com.
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Bettendorf City Council Committee of HEALTH

the Whole Meeting, recorded meetings
PRICE CHECK • AUGUST 9, 2022 July 12 Answers: Page 21 can be seen at Bettendorf.org or City’s The A to Zzz’s of Sleep Health by Cathy
Cable… Bettendorf City Hall, 5pm Mon Rosenbaum PharmD, learn about the
Aug 15 stages of sleep, causes for insomnia, and…
Rock Island Public Library - Downtown
East Moline City Council Regular Library, 2pm Fri Aug 5
Meeting / Committee of the Whole
Meeting, meets on the 1st and 3rd Monday Free In-Person Nutrition Class, on
of every month;… East Moline Council Fridays; free education, recipe tasting,
Chambers at City Hall, 6:30pm Mon Aug 15 workout, lesson materials and… Women’s
Choice Center, 10am Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Aug
Aledo City Council Committee of the 19
Whole Meeting / Regular Meeting, held
on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month; Yoga, on Tuesdays; for all levels of
Committee… Aledo City Council Chamber, experience; the instructor has… River
6:15pm Mon Aug 15 thru Mon Sep 5 Valley District Library, 5:30pm Tue Aug 9
thru Tue Sep 6
Milan City Council Meeting, held on the
first and third Monday of the month;… Yoga, led by Bobbi Kelley; join this gentle,
Milan Municipal Center, 5:30pm Mon Aug slow flow class;… Our Lady of the Prairie
15 thru Mon Sep 5 Retreat, 1pm Wed Aug 10
Bettendorf City Council Meeting, Yoga at the Figge, join us for yoga
recorded meetings can be seen at asana; bring your own mat for… Figge Art
Bettendorf.org or City’s Cable… Bettendorf Museum, 10:30am Sat Aug 13
City Hall, 7pm Tue Aug 16
ImpactLife Blood Drive, in the Gold Room;
Rock Island County Board Regular masks and appointments are required; to…
Meeting, all meetings are open to the Moline Public Library, 2pm Wed Aug 17
public, but may be… Rock Island County
Office Building, 5:30pm Tue Aug 16 Qigong for Self-Care, led by Carolyn
Krafka; learn an ancient practice that
Rock Island Public Library Board of works… Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat,
Trustees Meeting, agendas and minutes 10am Fri Aug 19
are posted on our website in accordance…
Rock Island Public Library - Downtown 5th Annual Body, Mind & Spirit Expo,
Library, 5pm Tue Aug 16 a growing metaphysical and holistic
experience providing visitors with a…
Silvis City Council Meeting, held on the Riverfront Events Center, 9am Sat Aug 27
1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month;… Silvis
City Hall, 6:30pm Tue Aug 16 and Tue Sep Cultivating Mindfulness, cultivate
6 mindfulness through art, qigong,
meditation, and sound healing in… Figge
Scott County Board of Supervisors Art Museum, 5:30pm Sun Aug 28
Committee of the Whole Meeting, the
board will review legislative actions, Medicare 101, learn answers to the
administrative items, and contracts; for… following questions: What does Medicare
Scott County Administrative Center, 8pm cover?;… Davenport Public Library -
Tue Aug 16 thru Tue Aug 30 Fairmount Street Branch, 2pm Thu Sep 1
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1. Roe source 80. Elected 6. Supporting timber 67. Mild interjection Coal Valley City Council Meeting, held Yoga at the Figge, join us for yoga
5. A state in India 81. Indigo dye 7. Bro's sib 68. Ersatz on the first and third Wednesdays of each asana; bring your own mat for… Figge Art
10. Breaks 82. Sergeant at _ 8. Dismounted 72. Wing or flipper, e.g. month;… Coal Valley Village Hall, 6pm Wed Museum, 10:30am Sat Sep 3
15. Official proceedings 83. Any of the Titans 9. Crepuscular insect 73. Military hat Aug 17 and Wed Sep 7
19. Colombian city 85. Thorn apple 10. Unchanging 74. Hand tool: 2 wds.
20. Old Jewish thinker 86. Paul or Howard 11. Bildungsroman 76. Lean
21. Out-and-out
22. Stage or storm
88. Part 4 of quip:
3 wds.
12. Under discussion:
2 wds.
78. Minced oath
79. _ the Explorer
Davenport City Council Committee of
the Whole Meeting, the Davenport City SENIORS
Council meets on the first and third…
23. Has a pecuniary 93. Presidential 13. Yesteryear 80. Smart Davenport City Hall, 5:30pm Wed Aug 17 Davenport School Supply Drive, we are
obligation nickname 14. Position 81. Semitic goddess collecting pencils, pens, erasers, crayons,…
24. Postulate 94. Make 15. Monk of 82. Parastas Scott County Board of Supervisors CASI (Center for Active Seniors), Thu Aug 4
25. Dispatch boat 96. Brit's local tax TV's "Monk" 84. Tierra _ Fuego Regular Meeting, activities may include and Fri Aug 5
26. Litter's littlest 97. Piano part 16. Pre-launch events 87. Scrap voting on actions and conducting public
27. Supplanter 98. Early wind 17. Chinese gang 89. Skull: Prefix hearings;… Scott County Administrative Caregivers Support Group, on the 1st &
29. Start of a quip by instrument 18. Humanities 90. Barrel wood Center, 5pm Thu Sep 1 3rd Thu. of the month; $1/person;… CASI
Coco Chanel: 3 wds. 100. Senegal's capital 28. Steamed rice dish 91. Prickle (Center for Active Seniors), 4:30pm Thu
32. Money for counsel 101. A thousand grand 30. Duck 92. On-air show Quad Cities Social Action Committee, for Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 1
34. Troubles 102. Pappy 31. Papal crown 95. Anticipated information, e-mail e-fellowship@hotmail.
35. Snack 103. Wrack and _ 33. Like a revised script 99. Refusal: Hyph. com; help protest unfair treatment of the Free Senior Day at the Figge Art
36. Antiquity 105. Fred and 38. Mottled 100. Mickey's maker elderly… Sippi’s Fine Food and Cocktails, Museum, for seniors age 60 & up on the
37. Lyric poem Wilma's era: 2 wds. 39. Incorrect 101. Shaped 12:30pm Fri Sep 2 first Thursday… Figge Art Museum, 10am
40. Inhabitant 110. End of the 41. Ballet movement 104. Modules Thu Aug 4 and Thu Sep 1
among hills quip: 2 wds. 42. Writer _ Deighton 106. Not at all relaxed Bettendorf City Council Committee of
45. Musk's motorcar 116. Play by Sophocles 43. Sidestep 107. Heart chambers the Whole Meeting, recorded meetings 500, on Thursdays; $1; for information, call
48. Newlywed 117. Wetlands bird 44. Hannah Montana's 108. Garbo of old can be seen at Bettendorf.org or City’s 563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
49. Took out 118. Red dye bodyguard movies Cable… Bettendorf City Hall, 5pm Mon Sep Seniors), 2:30pm Thu Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
50. Ab _ 119. Antelope 45. _ douloureux 109. Canvas support 5
51. Part 2 of 121. Son of Zeus 46. Oklahoma town 110. In _ veritas Bags, Cornhole, & Boards, on Thursdays;
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55. Neither Dem. 122. The Big Easy, 49. Consider 112. Intel processor recorded meetings can be seen at (Center for Active Seniors), 2pm Thu Aug 4
nor Rep. for short 52. Score in golf 113. Skin opening Bettendorf.org or City’s Cable… Bettendorf thru Thu Sep 8
56. Grow 123. Orate 53. Yearn 114. Term in grammar City Hall, 7pm Tue Sep 6
57. AFL- _ 124. Salon solution 54. Ant 115. Noted nom Beginning Line Dancing, on Tuesdays &
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water 127. Full of glad tidings 64. San _ Obispo Council meets on the first and third… Seniors), 10am Thu Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
61. Quaid or Newman 128. Headquartered 65. Mediate Davenport City Hall, 5:30pm Wed Sep 7
63. Delectation 129. Afrikaans Billiards, Mon.-Fri.; $1/day; for information,
66. WWI battle
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet
Ada Limón advises us to notice and love
“the music of the world.” She says that
praising and giving attention to the good
things “are as important and necessary as witness-
ing and naming and holding the grief and sorrow
that comes with being alive.” This is always a cru-
cial principle to keep in mind, but it will be extra
essential for you in the coming weeks. Your ability
to attract the influences and resources you need
most will thrive if you focus on and celebrate the
music of the world. P.S.: I encourage you to sing
more than usual, too.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s my
hope for you in the coming months: You
will cultivate a specialty for connecting
people and situations that need to be
affiliated but aren’t yet. You will regard your flair
for blending as a gift you offer generously. Can you
picture yourself doing that? I think it will be fun
and will also benefit you in unexpected ways. So
here’s my proposed plan: Conspire to heal frag-
mentation and schisms. Unite heavenly and
earthly things. Keep the far side and the near side
in touch with each other. Never let the past forget
about the future, and vice versa. One more thing,
Taurus: Be gleefully imaginative as you mix and
conjoin and combine.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In a play by
Gemini philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, a
character says, “Hell is other people.”
What did he mean by that? One interpre-
tation is that our fellow humans always judge us,
and their judgments rarely align with who we
really are and who we imagine ourselves to be.
Here’s my solution for that problem: Choose allies
and companions whose views of you match your
own. Is that so hard? I suspect it will be easier than
usual for you in the coming months, Gemini. Take
advantage of life’s natural tendency to connect you
with cohorts who appreciate you. Be picky as you
avoid the hell of other people.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The people
most likely to succeed as entrepreneurs
are those with a high degree of analytical
intelligence. Right? Well, it’s more com-
plicated than that. Reasoning ability and
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problem-solving skills are key skills, but not as
important as emotional intelligence: the power to
understand and manage feelings. I mention this,
Cancerian, because the coming months will be a
favorable time to advance your ambitions by
enhancing and expressing your emotional intelli-
gence. Here’s some reading to foster your powers:
(1) TinyURL.com/EmotionSmarts; (2) TinyURL.
com/SmartFeeler; (3) TinyURL.com/WiseFeller;
(4) TinyURL.com/BrightFeeler.
LEO (July 23-August 22): In the coming
weeks, Leo, I urge you to always be confi-
dent that you are the party! Everywhere
you go, bring the spirits of fun and rev-
elry. Be educationally entertaining and entertain-
ingly educational. Amuse yourself by making life
more interesting for everyone. At the same time, be
kind and humble, never arrogant or insensitive. A
vital part of your assignment is to nourish and
inspire others with your radiance and charm. That
formula will ensure you get everything you need. I
foresee bounty flowing your way! P.S.: Regularly
reward your admirers and followers with your
magnanimous Cheshire-cat grin.
. S AG I T TA R I U S
VIRGO (August 23-September 22): In
my Astrological Book of Life, here’s what
I have inscribed about Virgos: You may
not always find the perfect solution, but
you are skilled at finding the best solution avail-
able. This will be an especially valuable knack in
the coming weeks, both for yourself and others. I
trust you will scan for practical but compassionate
answers, even if they are partial. And I hope you
will address at least some of everyone’s needs, even
if no one is completely satisfied. You can be the
master of creative compromise that we all need.
Thanks in advance for your excellent service!
LIBRA (September 23-October 22):
Everyone knows that “balance” is a key-
word for you Librans. However, there are
many interpretations of what balance
entails. Here’s how I define it for you during the
coming weeks: (1) an openness to consider several
different ways to capitalize on an opportunity, but
to ultimately choose just one way; (2) the ability to
see and understand all sides of every story, while
also knowing that for pragmatism’s sake you must
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endorse a single version of the story; (3) the capac-
ity to be both constructively critical and support-
ively sympathetic; (4) the facility to be welcoming
and inviting while still maintaining healthy
boundaries.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21):
“Life is enchanting for me because I have
so much control over what I think,” my
Scorpio friend Daria told me. “If I decide
to flatter myself with comments about how attrac-
tive I am, I can do just that. If I would like to imag-
ine a good fairy visiting me while I sleep and giving
me a dream of having an orgasm with my lover
while we fly over the Serengeti Plains, I can.” I
asked her about the times when worries gush forth
unbidden from her subconscious mind and dis-
turb her joy. She said, “I simply picture myself
shoving those worries in a hole in the ground and
blowing them up with an exploding rose.” I bring
Daria’s mind-management expertise to your atten-
tion, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an
excellent time for you to raise your mastery over
what you think.
(November
22-December 21): People might impa-
tiently advise you to relax and settle
down. Others might tell you to stop
dreaming such big visions and formulating such
adventurous plans. Still others might give you the
side-eye because they imagine you are having too
much fun and brainstorming too wildly and
laughing too loudly. If you receive messages like
those, give the complainers a copy of this horo-
scope. It will tell them that you will not comply
with any inhibiting directives. Your astrologer, me,
authorizes you to be as vast and venturesome and
enterprising and spontaneous as you dare. In
doing so, I am speaking on behalf of the cosmic
rhythms. Your plucky audacity has been heavenly
ordained.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January
19): In accordance with astrological
omens, I hereby authorize you to worry,
worry, and worry some more. Stew and
simmer and ferment as you weigh all the options
and mull the correct actions. But when the time is
right, end your fretting with crisp decisiveness.
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By Rob Brezsny
Shake off any residual doubt that still clings to you.
And then undertake robust action to transform
the situation that provoked your righteous brood-
ing. In my astrological opinion, what I have just
described is your best plan for success in the
coming days.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February
18): Author John Berger described
birch trees as “pliant” and “slender.” He
said that “if they promise a kind of permanence,
it has nothing to do with solidity or longevity – as
with an oak or a linden – but only with the fact
that they seed and spread quickly. They are
ephemeral and recurring – like a conversation
between earth and sky.” I propose we regard the
birch tree as your personal power symbol in the
coming months. When you are in closest align-
ment with cosmic rhythms, you will express its
spirit. You will be adaptable, flexible, resource-
ful, and highly communicative. You will serve as
an intermediary, a broker, and a go-between.
PISCES (February 19-March 20):
“Even raw and messy emotions can be
understood as a form of light, crackling
and bursting with energy,” writes Jungian psycho-
analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés. For example, “We
can use the light of rage in a positive way, in order
to see into places we cannot usually see.” Likewise,
confusion might be a healthy sign that a long-held
misunderstanding is dissolving. Disappointment
may herald the demise of an unrealistic expecta-
tion. So let’s unleash a big cheer for raw and messy
emotions, Pisces! I suspect they will soon be your
gateway to clarity and renewal.
Homework: Ask for something you’ve never had
the clarity or chutzpah to ask for until now. Visit
FreeWillAstrology.com.
Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s
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MUSIC
Judy Steffens and
Lisa Mahar Exhibits
Through Monday, August 29
Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery,
2200 69th Avenue, Moline IL
Judy Steffens' The Goal
A
pair of summertime exhibits by
Illinois artists – with some of their
works boasting a distinctly sum-
mertime theme – are currently on display
at the Quad City Arts International Airport
Gallery, with the Moline locale, through
August 29, housing vividly colorful oil paint-
ings by Wapella’s Judy Steffens and acrylic
paintings and mixed-media assemblages by
Rock Island’s Lisa Mahar.
Boasting a Bachelor of Science and Fine
Art from Bradley University, Steffens is a
2021 member of American Women Artists
and the National Association of Women
Artists Inc., and enjoyed a dozen solo exhi-
bitions in 2021 alone. As Steffens says in her
artist statement, “I am a figurative realism
painter using oils on canvas. These paint-
ings are more than portraits. I am inter-
ested in revealing human nature through
experiences we all share. In the simple,
everyday moments we express who we are
and what is important to us.”
Regarding her pieces currently on display
at the airport, the artist says, “This col-
lection of work, full of color and light, is
inspired by ordinary people enjoying them-
selves at the beach. Where the sand meets
the sea is universally a place we love to be.
It is a place and feeling most can relate to.
The paintings capture people in a single
moment in time. Each person has their own
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unique story which takes center stage, so it
is not lost in the sea of humanity.”
As a self-taught artist based in the
Quad Cities, Lisa Mahar has been creat-
ing one-of-a-kind art for over more than
years. She paints on recycled furniture,
canvases, and creates thought provoking
collages and assemblages, utilizing found
objects, and believes in recycling as much
as possible, finding ways to repurpose com-
monly discarded items to create meaning-
ful art. Mahar’s frequently returned-to
themes include nature, symbolism, family,
animals, fashion, and the empowerment
of women, and her artworks frequently
boast a whimsical, funny quality, As Mahar
states, her art is always evolving. She likes
to hone her skills and cultivate new ideas
into each piece she creates, and her hopes
for the future lie in experiencing new medi-
ums, creating meaningful art, and living
her best life.
The Quad City Arts International
Airport Gallery is located opposite the air-
port’s gift shop and restaurant, there is a $1
fee for parking, and more information on
the Judy Steffens and Lisa Mahar exhibits
on display through August 29 is available
by calling (309)793-1213 and visiting Quad-
CityArts.com.
Know More. Do More.
Seniors
Bob Gaston New Horizons Band Practice,
on Thursdays; $2-5; for information, call
563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
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CASI Chess Club, on Thursdays in the
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Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
Card Embroidery, on Thursdays; learn how
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Chess for Experienced Players, on
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Low Impact Exercise, Mon., Wed., & Fri.
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$2/person;… CASI (Center for Active
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Milestones AAA Meal Site, Mon.-Fri; meals
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Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
NAMI (National Alliance for Mental
Illness), Mon.-Fri. by appointment; for
information, call 563-386-7477 ext. 266…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), Thu Aug 4
thru Thu Sep 8
Reflexology, Mon.-Fri. by appointment;
$20/session; for information, call 563-349-
5832… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
Thu Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance
Information Program), Mon.-Fri. by
appointment; free; for information, call
563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), Thu Aug 4 thru Thu Sep 8
Zumba Toning, Mon. & Fri. 10:15am, Thu.
8:45am; $3/person; for information, call…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), Thu Aug 4
thru Thu Sep 8
The Devil in the White City, a discussion
of Erik Larsen’s book with the CASI Book…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 10am Fri
Aug 5
Adult Coloring, on Fridays; $2; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 10am Fri Aug 5
thru Fri Sep 2
Friday Afternoon Bingo, on Fridays; no
admission fee, card costs are $0.25 &… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 1pm Fri Aug 5
thru Fri Sep 2
Golden Tones Chorus Practice, on Fridays;
sing along to some classical memories; $2
practice… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
9am Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Sep 2
Senior Theatre: Second Avenue Players,
on Fridays; bring your theatrical side to
CASI’s senior theater… CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 11am Fri Aug 5 thru Fri
Sep 2
Bridge, on Mondays & Fridays; $2-5; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 11:30am Fri Aug
5 thru Mon Sep 5
CASI Walking Club, on Mon., Wed., and
Fri.; free; for information, call 563-386-
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7477… CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 8am
Fri Aug 5 thru Wed Sep 7
Courtside Styling Salon, Fri. & Mon.-Wed.
by appointment; for information, call 563-
265-2150… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
Fri Aug 5 thru Wed Sep 7
Euchre, on Wed. & Fri.; $4/session; for
(Center for Active Seniors), 12:30pm Fri Aug
5 thru Wed Sep 7
Low Impact Exercise, Mon., Wed., & Fri.
9-10am, Tue. 11am-2pm, Thu. 11am-noon;
$3/person;… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), Fri Aug 5 thru Wed Sep 7
Sell It Saturday, for those who have flea
market items, homemade craft items,…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 9am Sat
Aug 6 thru Sat Aug 13
CASI Silver Linings Bell Choir, on
Mondays; for information, call 563-386-
7477… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
10am Mon Aug 8 thru Mon Sep 5
Chess, on Mondays; $1/person; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 2pm Mon Aug 8
thru Mon Sep 5
Chess for Beginners, on Mondays; $1/
person; for information, call 563-386-7477…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 1pm Mon
Aug 8 thru Mon Sep 5
Shuffleboard, on Mondays; $2/person;
for information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 1pm Mon Aug 8
thru Mon Sep 5
Ugly Quilts, on Mondays; volunteer group;
no sewing experience necessary; free; for…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 9am Mon
Aug 8 thru Mon Sep 5
Zumba Toning, on Mondays; $3/person;
for information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 10:15am Mon
Aug 8 thru Mon Sep 5
Cheaper by the Dozen, a screening of the
Steve Martin comedy in the CASI… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 1pm Tue Aug 9
Beginning Line Dancing, on Tuesdays &
Thursdays; $3/person; for information, call
563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), 10am Tue Aug 9 thru Tue Sep 6
Canasta, on Tuesdays; $2/session; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 1pm Tue Aug 9
thru Tue Sep 6
Chair Based Exercise, on Tuesdays; $3;
for information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 9am Tue Aug 9
thru Tue Sep 6
Chair Yoga, on Tuesdays; with Logan
Anderson, owner of All Strong Fitness;…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 2pm Tue
Aug 9 thru Tue Sep 6
Cribbage, on Tuesdays in the library; bring
your board and enjoy… CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 2pm Tue Aug 9 thru Tue
Sep 6
Knitting & Crocheting, on Tuesdays;
volunteer group; free; for information, call
563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), 12:30pm Tue Aug 9 thru Tue Sep
6
Senior Technology Clinic, on Tuesdays;
with expert Mike Shinbori; bring your
laptops, tablets,… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), noon Tue Aug 9 thru Tue Sep 6
Step into Balance: Balance & Strength,
on Tuesdays; half-hour exercise class with
Logan Anderson, owner of… CASI (Center
for Active Seniors), 1pm Tue Aug 9 thru
Tue Sep 6
Uno. Spades, & Scrabble, on Tuesdays; $2;
for information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
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(Center for Active Seniors), 2pm Tue Aug 9
thru Tue Sep 6
Grief Support Group, on the 2nd &
4th Wed. of the month; food… Family
Restaurant, 9:30am Wed Aug 10 thru Wed
Aug 24
Bunco, on Wednesdays; $2/person; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 2pm Wed Aug
10 thru Wed Sep 7
Evening Bingo, on Wednesdays; 5pm
doors, $10 card pack minimum purchase;
cash prizes… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), 6pm Wed Aug 10 thru Wed Sep 7
TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly
Weight-Loss Support Group), on
Wednesdays; $1/meeting plus national
dues; for information, call 563-386-7477…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 10:30am
Wed Aug 10 thru Wed Sep 7
T’ai Chi Ch’un, on Wednesdays; $24/six-
week class; for information, call 563-386-
7477… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
10:15am Wed Aug 10 thru Wed Sep 7
CASI Ice Cream Social, join our talented
music groups at CASI for an afternoon…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 4pm Thu
Aug 11
Rock Valley Physical Therapy Injury
Screenings, Michelle Sarb, PT, DPT, OCS
will be at CASI doing… CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 1:15pm Fri Aug 12
Balance Clinic with Logan Anderson,
join the owner of All Strong Fitness, and a
fitness… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
1pm Mon Aug 15
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in… CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 9am
Mon Sep 5 THEATRE
Red Hat Ladies Club, meeting locations
vary; for information, call 563-386-7477…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 11am Tue
Sep 6
Quad City Music Guild’s
CASI Advisory Council, free; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 9am Wed Sep 7
Jekyll & Hyde
Friday, August 5, through Sunday, August 14
KIDS’ STUFF Prospect Park Auditorium, 1584 34th Avenue, Moline IL
Big/Little Book Club, book club for
Littles (kids in 3rd through 5th grade)…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 6:30pm Thu Aug 4
Escape Room, ages eight to 18 follow the
clues, solve the puzzles,… Moline Public
Library, 6:30pm Thu Aug 4 thru Sat Aug 6
Reading Assistance Dogs, children have
the opportunity to read aloud to dogs
from… Bettendorf Public Library, 6pm Thu
Aug 4
Tween/Teen Lock-In, his program is open
to readers who have completed the…
Moline Public Library, 4:30pm Fri Aug 5
Dungeons & Dragons, join RVDL every
other Friday for the beloved fantasy
tabletop… River Valley District Library, 4pm
Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Sep 2
Family Storytime with Miss Ashe, on
Fridays; stories, songs, and fun; every week
is a… LeClaire Community Library, 10:30am
Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Sep 2
Taylor Bley in Jekyll & Hyde @ Quad City Music Guild - August 5 through 14
Stories @ Main, on Fridays; enjoy stories,

CASI Country Music Dance, $7 at the door;
for information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 7pm Mon Aug
15
Drums Alive, on the 1st & 3rd Mon. of the
month; $2/class;… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), noon Mon Aug 15 thru Mon Sep
5 Fairmount Street Branch, 10am Sat Aug 6
ProMedica Blood Pressure Clinic, Susan
Herman, RN, BSN, will be available for drop
in… CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 9am
Mon Aug 15
Low Vision & Blindness Support Group,
free; for information, call 563-386-7477…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 10am Tue
Aug 16
Welcome to Medicare, this free seminar
offered by the State of Iowa’s Senior
Health… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
6pm Tue Aug 16
Rock Valley Physical Therapy Seminar-
Wrist Injuries, free drop-ins for CASI
Members only; for information, call 563-
386-7477… CASI (Center for Active Seniors),
9am Thu Aug 18
Free Oral Screenings, for information,
call 563-386-7477… CASI (Center for Active
Seniors), 11am Fri Aug 19
Scott County Health Department’s
I-Smile Silver Oral Screenings, Carole
Ferch, RDH will be at CASI to provide free…
CASI (Center for Active Seniors), 11am Fri
Aug 19
Fatherhood, a screening of the Kevin Hart
comedy in the CASI… CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 1pm Mon Aug 22
Rock Valley Physical Therapy Injury
Screenings, Michelle Sarb, PT, DPT, OCS
will be at CASI doing… CASI (Center for
Active Seniors), 1:15pm Fri Aug 26
CASI Book Club, $2/meeting; for
information, call 563-386-7477… CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 10am Fri Sep 2
ProMedica Blood Pressure Clinic, Susan
Herman, RN, BSN, will be available for drop
dancing and more; perfect for children…
Davenport Public Library - Main Branch,
10am Fri Aug 5 thru Fri Sep 2
1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
Celebration, redeem milestone incentives,
celebrate progress, and cheer for program
graduates… Davenport Public Library -
Facebook Live Saturday Storytime,
recommended for grades 3 & under; Join
Mrs. Swanson on… Silvis Public Library,
10am Sat Aug 6
Story Time, on Mondays; featuring
bubbles, music, crafts, games, snacks, and
tons… River Valley District Library, 10am
Mon Aug 8 thru Mon Sep 5
Sunshine and Stories, on Mondays; come
outside and dance your wiggles out; we’ll…
Davenport Public Library - Fairmount Street
Branch, 10am Mon Aug 8 thru Mon Aug 29
Bridging Literacy Event at Esperanza
Center, fun early literacy activities, stories,
games, crafts, snacks, a bounce… Moline
Public Library, 4:30pm Tue Aug 9
Storytime with WQPT, children will hear
a story and participate in a hands-on…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 10am Tue Aug 9
Teen Advisory Board Meeting, TAB
Members volunteer, organize & participate
in teen programming, and give their…
Davenport Public Library - Fairmount Street
Branch, 6:30pm Tue Aug 9
Teen Tuesday: Teen Advisory Board, earn
volunteer hours and decide on books and
programs for… Silvis Public Library, 5pm
Tue Aug 9
Weekly Teen Book Talk, on Tuesdays;
check out this week’s book talk from
Emily,… Rock Island Public Library -
Downtown Library, 3:45pm Tue Aug 9 thru
Tue Sep 6
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A
Broadway musical sensation that
played for more than four years and
1,500 performances, the stage version
a Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary classic –
one boasting a score by Frank Wildhorn and a
book by the legendary Leslie Bricusse – comes
to life in Jekyll & Hyde, the romantic thriller
that will enjoy a Quad City Music Guild inter-
pretation from August 5 through 14.
As it weaves its tale of epic struggle, Jekyll
& Hyde details the evocative saga of two
men: one a doctor, passionate and roman-
tic; the other a terrifying madman. It’s also
the story of two women: one, beautiful and
trusting; the other beautiful but trusting
only herself. Both of them, however, are
in love with the same man – and are both
unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man
of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find
a chemical breakthrough that can solve
some of mankind’s most challenging medi-
cal dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that
be, Dr. Jekyll decides to make himself the
subject of his own experimental treatments,
accidentally unleashing his inner demons
along with the man that the world would
come to know as Mr. Hyde. In doing so, both
a legendary novel and a beloved stage musi-
cal were born, with the lauded Broadway
spectacle Jekyll & Hyde receiving four Tony
nominations as well as Drama Desk and
Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Directing and choreographing Jekyll &
Hyde’s Moline presentation is Music Guild
veteran Heather Herkelman, who has previ-
ously appeared on the Prospect Park stage
in productions of Beauty & the Beast, West
Side Story, Mary Poppins, and last summer’s
Mamma Mia! Taylor Bley, a fellow Beauty
& the Beast castmate who also performed
in the musical version of Billy Elliot and
Miracle on 34th Street at Moline’s Spotlight
Theatre, enacts the challenging roles of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, while the roles of
Emma Carew and Lucy Harris are respec-
tively portrayed by Ariela Policastro and
Megan Warren.
Additional featured members of Herkel-
man’s cast include Victor Angelo, Aaron
Deneckre, Tyler Henning, Joel Kolander,
Mark McGinn, John Donald O’Shea, Erin
Platt, and Joe Urbaitis, with the show’s
ensemble composed of Lydia Cox, Matthew
Downey, Mark Holmes, Paulla Houston,
Julia Hummel, Olivia Lyman, Alex Minyard,
Emmalynn Tully, and Vaughn Varodsky.
And with David Baxter as Jekyll & Hyde’s
music director and Kathryn Weber as its
assistant director and stage manager, addi-
tional members of the creative team include
assistant music director Robert Elfine; set
designer Luke Vermeire; costume designer
Connie McGinn; lighting designer John
Weigandt; sound designer Adam Loun-
sberry; props designer Mike Turczynski;
makeup designer Sue Cates; and producer
Christina Myatt.
Quad City Music Guild’s Jekyll & Hyde
will be staged at Moline’s Prospect Park
Auditorium August 5 through 14, with
performances on Fridays and Saturdays at
7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Admission
is $11-16, and more information and tickets
are available by calling (309)762-6610 and
visiting QCMusicGuild.com.
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MUSIC
College Invitational 2022
Through Sunday, August 28
Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second Street, Davenport IA
Lillian Smith's Dandelion Wish in the College Invitational @ Figge Art Museum -- through August 28
I
n the 12th installment of the venue’s latest
group exhibition, the artistic talents of 41
students from area colleges and universi-
ties are on display in the Figge Art Museum’s
College Invitational 2022 through August
28 – a showcase of techniques and mediums
including drawing, painting, collage, print-
making, clay, digital illustration, silkscreen,
mixed media installation, and found materials.
Housed in the Figge’s Mary Waterman Gildehaus
Community Gallery, the exhibit recruited art
professors from Augustana College, Black Hawk
College, Clinton Community College, Knox Col-
lege, Monmouth College, St. Ambrose University,
Scott Community College, and Western Illinois
University to select top works from their schools
for inclusion.
With Alan C. Marin as this year’s College
Invitational sponsor, this year’s featured artists
are:
From Augustana College: Gray Cunnar (Self,
colored pencils and acrylic paint); Carly Davis
(Parallel Play Diptych, graphite); Christopher
Ferman (Parallel Dimensions,digital art);
Elizabeth Hord (Cake Jar & “Cups,” earth-
enware clay, underglaze, and glaze); Heather
Michalski (Acceptance, colored pencil); Esme
O’Rourke (The Artist in Summer, oil on canvas);
and Aykeem Spivey (Meet My Friends, oil on
canvas).
From Black Hawk College: Alondra Alegre
(Found Salvation, assemblage with found
objects); Koby Brooks (Little Creek,digital pho-
tograph); Ella Crockett (A Piece of Pie, water-
color with pen and pink); Shakira’a Gbenyo
(Space of Uncertainty, oil pastel); Lillian Smith
(Dandelion Wish, digital composite); Andrew
Forsterling (Freeing My Craziness, oil pastel on
paper); and Zoe Petersen (Enchanted Dreams,
assemblage with found objects).
From Clinton Community College: Peyton
Clare Metzger (Skeleton with Circus Monkey,
graphite on paper).
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From Knox College: James Adamson (Fric-
tion, digital); Angel Blanchard (Protection &
Healing, monotype and collage); Charles Erick-
sen (Phantasmagoria: The Right Way, ceramics);
Jessica Kriho (Frenetic Triumph, cardboard
packaging); Anna Schultz (Party, acrylic paint
and oil pastel); and Ingrid Wasmer ([sic], oil and
collage on canvas).
From Monmouth College: Kendall Burt
(Mishima Dinner Plates, ceramics with Celadon
glaze); Grace Cornelius (Patches, mixed media);
Connor Dickerson (Heavy Heart, mixed media);
Michael Moon Gonzalez (False Life, mixed
media); Satyr Keeling (Giving Back to the Water,
oil on linen); Z Kendall (Las Astas, monoprint
with embroidered embellishment); and Jennie
Nichols (Overwhelmed, oil on panel).
From St. Ambrose University: Autumn
Huff (Living with ADHD, oil on canvas); Abby
Lownik (The Burroughs, screenprint on paper);
Becky Meissen (Ossein, screenprint on paper);
Jordan Monnens (A Sunrise in the Sky, ink and
paint); Rachael Young (Laundry Day, oil on
canvas); and Isabella Zopf (Natural Connection,
digital, printed).
From Scott Community College: Dania
Marie Green (Mama’s House, acrylic on canvas).
From Western Illinois University: Rivers
Ashton (Reminiscence, oil on canvas); Molly
Borth (Nyx, serigraph); Yahzyah Crutcher-
Hanna (Hearts, glazed stoneware); Ashley
Derry (Downy, cast bronze); Tatiana Ward-
Lawrence (Self-Love, digital photograph); and
Mackenzie White (Untitled, lithograph).
College Invitational 2022 will be on display
through August 28, with regular museum hours
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays
(10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays) and noon to 5
p.m. on Sundays. Museum admission is $4-10,
and more information is available by calling
(563)326-7804 and visiting
FiggeArtMuseum.org.
Know More. Do More.
Kids Stuff
Creativity Lab: Mini Murals, held on the
lawn on the south side of the… Moline
Public Library, 6pm Thu Aug 11
OWLT and About: Party in the Park,
attendees can enjoy food, entertainment,
and activities for the whole… Ridgeview
Park, 5:30pm Thu Aug 11
Facebook Live Storytime, recommended
for grades 3 & under; Join Mrs. Swanson
on… Silvis Public Library, 6pm Thu Aug 11
Facebook Live: Krafty Kids, join Mrs.
Swanson for a live take-away craft tutorial;
free;… Silvis Public Library, 2pm Sat Aug 13
Hug-a-Book: Create!, art projects
especially suitable for 2-5 year olds;
children receive… Rock Island Public
Library - Downtown Library, 10:30am Sat
Aug 13
OWLT and About: Freight House
Farmer’s Market, cool off in the shade
of our awning, check out… Freight House
Farmer’s Market, 8am Sat Aug 13
Young Adult Reading Club, ages 10-14 will
meet -in person or via Zoom to… German
American Heritage Center, 4pm Sun Aug 14
English/Spanish Bilingual Storytime,
stories, music, and activities will be
presented in both English… Davenport
Public Library - Fairmount Street Branch,
6pm Tue Aug 16
Overbooked, teens talk about the new
books they’re reading; refreshments
provided;… Silvis Public Library, 5pm Tue
Aug 16
Kids Anime Club, grades 5-8 watch anime,
do a fun craft and talk… Moline Public
Library, 5pm Wed Aug 17
OWLT and About: Party in the Park,
attendees can enjoy food, entertainment,
and activities for the whole… Emeis Park,
5:30pm Thu Aug 18
Read to a Dog, QC CAN’s Reading
Assistance Dogs are specially trained, along
with… Davenport Public Library - Eastern
Avenue Branch, 5:30pm Thu Aug 18
Teen Kit Kat Challenge, Miss Amber
needs a group of teens willing to work…
Davenport Public Library - Main Branch,
2pm Thu Aug 18
Teen Library Council, grades 6-12 are
needed to give advice and feedback
about… Moline Public Library, 3:30pm Thu
Aug 18
Facebook Live: Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead,
join Mrs. Swanson for her live experiment;
free; for information,… Silvis Public Library,
2pm Sat Aug 20
Fejervary Family Fun Days, we will be
hosting family activities, local vendors,
nature crafts,… Fejervary Learning Center,
noon Sat Aug 20
Library-opoly, join us for an afternoon of
unbridled zest for the… Davenport Public
Library - Eastern Avenue Branch, 1pm Sat
Aug 20
PJ Party Storytime: Glow Party!, put on
your PJ’s and join us live in the… Moline
Public Library, 6pm Mon Aug 22
Facebook Live Storytime, recommended
for grades 3 & under; Join Mrs. Swanson
on… Silvis Public Library, 6pm Thu Aug 25
Facebook Live: Lego Charades,
recommended for ages 5-12; join Mrs.
Swanson to build an… Silvis Public Library,
2pm Sat Aug 27
RCReader.com/Calendar.
OWLT and About: Freight House
Farmer’s Market, cool off in the shade
of our awning, check out… Freight House
Farmer’s Market, 8am Sat Aug 27
Lego Club, create your LEGO masterpieces;
whether you want to take-on the… River
Valley District Library, 11am Sat Aug 27
Outreach: Family Fun Day, Rock Island
Library staff will be on site; look for…
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center,
10am Sat Aug 27
Teen Gaming, on Wednesdays; pop in for
gaming on the Switch, playing… Davenport
Public Library - Fairmount Street Branch,
3pm Wed Aug 31
Big/Little Book Club, book club for
Littles (kids in 3rd through 5th grade)…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 6:30pm Thu Sep 1
Reading Assistance Dogs, children have
the opportunity to read aloud to dogs
from… Bettendorf Public Library, 6pm Thu
Sep 1
Baby Storytime, on Thursdays; for babies
birth to 12 months and their grown-ups;…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 10am Thu Sep 1 thru Thu Sep 8
Milk & Cookies Storytime, on Thursdays;
perfect for unwinding from school and
enjoying a… Davenport Public Library -
Fairmount Street Branch, 4pm Thu Sep 1
thru Thu Sep 8
Facebook Live Saturday Storytime,
recommended for grades 3 & under; Join
Mrs. Swanson on… Silvis Public Library,
10am Sat Sep 3
Girls Love Code, an after-school club for
girls in grades 3-5 who… Davenport Public
Library - Eastern Avenue Branch, 4pm Tue
Sep 6
Toddler Storytime, we’ll sing songs,
dance, and read fun stories followed…
Davenport Public Library - Eastern Avenue
Branch, 10am Tue Sep 6
Preschool Storytime, Tue.-Fri.; ages 3-5
are invited to attend these 30-minute
sessions… Bettendorf Public Library, 10am
Tue Sep 6 thru Thu Sep 8
After School Kids Lab: Fluffy Cloud
Dough, we will be making fluffy cloud
dough using three simple… Bettendorf
Public Library, 3pm Wed Sep 7
Playgroup & Perks, play and socialization
for toddlers and preschoolers and…
Davenport Public Library - Fairmount Street
Branch, 10:30am Wed Sep 7
Slimy Crafternoons, kids can come
explore new ways of making… Davenport
Public Library - Eastern Avenue Branch,
3:30pm Wed Sep 7
Teen Gaming, pop in for gaming on the
Switch, playing… Davenport Public Library
- Fairmount Street Branch, 3pm Wed Sep 7
Teen Role-playing Club: 5E Edition, learn
a system, create a character, roll some…
Bettendorf Public Library, 1pm Wed Sep 7
Toddler Storytime, dance your wiggles
out; we’ll sing songs, dance,… Davenport
Public Library - Fairmount Street Branch,
10am Wed Sep 7
Creativity Lab: Stamping and Sponging,
for grades K-5; we will be stamping with
stampers we… Moline Public Library, 6pm
Thu Sep 8
Facebook Live Storytime, recommended
for grades 3 & under; Join Mrs. Swanson
on… Silvis Public Library, 6pm Thu Sep 8
Tales for Tots, an enriching activity time
for children ages birth… Bettendorf Public
Library, 6:30pm Thu Sep 8
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LIVE MUSIC
THURSDAY
2020/09/04 (Fri) (4)
Anderson East – Aaron Raitiere –
Raccoon Motel, 315 E. Second St.,
Davenport IA
Angela Meyer (2pm) – Michael
Moncada (6 & 10pm) – Mississippi
Valley Fairgrounds Shed, 2815 Locust
St., Davenport IA
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz
Festival: Bix Youth Jazz Band (6pm)
– Chicago Cellar Boys (7pm) – NOLA
Jazz Band (8pm) – Mortonia Sextet
All–Stars (9pm) – Miss Jubilee and
the Yas Yas Boys (10pm) – Rhythm
City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz
Festival: NOLA Jazz Band (4pm) –
Putnam Museum & Science Center,
1717 W 12th St, Davenport IA
Brad Morgan (4pm) – Megalord
(7:30pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Pavilion, 2815 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
Caitlyn Wolfe (4pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Craft Beer Tent, 2815 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
David G. Smith (6:30pm) – Bettendorf
Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus
Dr., Bettendorf IA
Diplomats of Solid Sound – Fairfield
Arts & Convention Center, 200 N. Main
St., Fairfield IA
The Diplomats of Solid Sound –
Fairfield Arts & Convention Center,
200 N. Main St., Fairfield IA
Fairer Maidens’ Music Fest: Tedious
& Brief – Crawford Brew Works, 3659
Devils Glen Rd., Bettendorf IA
Frank Sinatra Tribute Night – Bass
Street Landing Plaza, 17th St., Moline
IL
Jason Carl – Johnny Baker (6:30pm) –
The Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 2606
W. Locust St., Davenport IA
Jimmie Allen – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St,
Davenport IA
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Kyle Cord (6:30pm) – The Faithful Pilot
Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd, LeClaire
IA
The Local Honeys – Monica Austin
(6pm) – Contrary Brewing Co., 411 W
Mississippi Dr., Muscatine IA
North of 40 – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Farmer’s Tent, 2815 W.
Locust St, Davenport IA
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s, 307
10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Radio Flyer Pilots (6pm) – Twin Span
Brewing, 6776 Championship Dr.,
Bettendorf IA
Steve Grismore Summer Jazz Jam –
The Grape Life Wine Store & Lounge,
3402 Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Tommy Pickett (noon) – Sara
Simmons (3pm) – Hot Rods (6
& 10pm) – Sting Rays Jukebox
Rock (7 & 9pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Oldies Tent, 2815 Locust
St., Davenport IA
FRIDAY
2020/09/05 (Sat) (5)
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz
Festival: Bix Youth Jazz Band
(11:30am) – NOLA Jazz Band
(12:30pm) – Southside Aces
(1:30pm) – Cakewalkin’ Jass
Band (2:30pm) – Chicago Cellar
Boys (3:30pm) – Bix Beiderbecke
Memorial Jazz Festival: Joe
Smith & the Spicy Pickles (6pm) –
Mortonia Sextet (7pm) – Graystone
Monarchs All–Stars (8pm) – Miss
Jubilee and the Yas Yas Boys (9pm)
– Southside Aces (10pm) – Rhythm
City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077
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Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Caitlyn Wolfe (4pm) – Mississippi Valley
Festival: Cakewalkin’ Jass Band
(10am) – Oakdale Memorial Gardens,
Jake McVey – Hawkeye Tap Sports Bar N
Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave., Davenport
Pocket Change – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Edgar Crockett & Corey Hendrick
(2pm) – Mississippi River Distilling
Fairgrounds Craft Beer Tent, 2815 W. 2501 Eastern Ave., Davenport IA IA Ave., Davenport IA Company & Cody Road Cocktail
Locust St., Davenport IA Brantley Gilbert – Mississippi Valley Jason D Williams (7pm) – Richie Lee Scott Stowe (2pm) – Doug Brundies House, 303 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Carly Pearce – Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St, (9pm) – Riverside Casino and Golf (6 & 10pm) – Mississippi Valley Fairer Maidens’ Music Fest: Ariel
Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St, Davenport IA Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA Fairgrounds Shed, 2815 Locust St., McReynolds (1pm) – Crawford
Davenport IA Casey Mussigmann – Mississippi Valley Jordan Danielsen (6:30pm) – Tuggers Davenport IA Brew Works, 3659 Devils Glen Rd.,
Concert with the Cows: Angela Meyer Fairgrounds Farmer’s Tent, 2815 W. Burger Bar & Ale House, 201 N. Main Tommy Pickett (noon) – Sara Bettendorf IA
– John Cole Born (6pm) – Galva Park Locust St, Davenport IA St., Port Byron IL Simmons (3pm) – Hot Rods (6 Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra
District, SE 6th St., Galva IL Crooked Cactus (4pm) – Nuclear Joshua Sinclair – Galena Brewing & 10pm) – Sting Rays Jukebox featuring Mike Conrad – LeClaire
Don Gustafson (6:30pm) – The Faithful Plowboys (7:30pm) – Mississippi Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL Rock (7 & 9pm) – Mississippi Valley Park Bandshell, , Davenport IA
Pilot Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd, Valley Fairgrounds Pavilion, 2815 W. Karaoke Night (5pm) – Marketplace Fairgrounds Oldies Tent, 2815 Locust Karaoke Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
LeClaire IA Locust St., Davenport IA Cafe - Silvis Hy-Vee, 2001 5th St., Silvis St., Davenport IA Drive #106, Moline IL
Doug Brundies (2pm) – Scott Stowe Doug Brundies (4pm) – Mississippi IL Kerry Tucker & Rich Fricke (2pm) – Len
(6 & 10pm) – Mississippi Valley Valley Fairgrounds Craft Beer Tent, Kickin Back – The Palace, 701 15th Ave, SUNDAY
2020/09/10 (Thu) (7) Brown’s North Shore Inn, 700 N. Shore
Fairgrounds Shed, 2815 Locust St., 2815 W. Locust St., Davenport IA East Moline IL Dr., Moline IL
Angela Meyer (2pm) – Doug
Davenport IA Down the Rabbit Hole – 11th Street Ky & Ty Duo – Green Tree Brewery, 309 Millyz – Gringo Gang – L$D MPRG –
Brundies (6pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairer Maidens’ Music Fest: The Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA Big Steeze & Cuzdox – Gabe’s, 330 E.
Fairgrounds Shed, 2815 Locust St.,
Burney Sisters – Crawford Brew IA Lewis Knudsen – Bootleg Hill Honey Washington St., Iowa City IA
Davenport IA
Works, 3659 Devils Glen Rd., Fairer Maidens’ Music Fest: Lauren Meads, 321 E. 2nd St., Davenport IA Phyllis & the Sharks (5pm) – The
Buddy Olson (3pm) – Ducky’s Lagoon,
Bettendorf IA Ashley Hall – Crawford Brew Works, Mamiltons – Denny O’s, 307 10th Ave, Captain’s Table, 4801 River Dr., Moline
13515 78th Ave W., Taylor Ridge IL
Far Out 283 – The Gypsy Highway Bar & 3659 Devils Glen Rd., Bettendorf IA Fulton IL IL
Dustin Lynch – Mississippi Valley
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA Funktastic 5 – The Gypsy Highway Bar & Meltt – Raccoon Motel, 315 E. Second
Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust St,
Gray Wolf Band – Rams Riverhouse, 102 Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA St., Davenport IA
South Main Street, Port Byron IL
Davenport IA Continued On Page 30
Jenny Lynn Stacy – Village Theatre,
2113 E 11th St, Davenport IA
Joie Booth (5pm) – Wide River Winery
- LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Jordan Danielsen – Green Tree
Brewery, 309 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Karaoke Night – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Karaoke w/ Michelle from Party Times
DJ Service – Manning’s Whistle Stop,
416 N. 2nd St., Clinton IA
Kidstock Concert: Session III – The
Redstone Room, 129 Main St,
Davenport IA
Live @ Five: Matt Fuller Band (5pm)
– RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St.,
Davenport IA
Michael Moncada & Whiskey
High (4pm) – Just Cuz (7:30pm)
– Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds
Pavilion, 2815 W. Locust St.,
Davenport IA
Mirabilia – The Tangled Wood, 3636
Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Project X (9pm) – Roadside Circus
(11:15pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Farmer’s Tent, 2815 W.
Locust St, Davenport IA
Roger Carlson, Rob Dahms, & Chris
Mann (5pm) – Rock Island Hy-Vee
Market Grille, 2930 18th Ave., Rock
Island IL
Summer Son – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Sushi Roll – Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse – Randy
Randall – Raccoon Motel, 315 E.
Second St., Davenport IA
Tommy Pickett (noon) – Sara
Simmons (3pm) – Hot Rods (6
& 10pm) – Sting Rays Jukebox
Rock (7 & 9pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Oldies Tent, 2815 Locust
St., Davenport IA
SATURDAY (6)
10 of Soul – The Tangled Wood, 3636
Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Amateur Selectors: An Ethical &
Moral Dilemma Nostagia – Dan
Koretzky – Rozz-Tox, 2108 Third Ave.,
Rock Island IL
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz
Festival: Bix Youth Jazz Band
(11:30am) – Southside Aces
(12:30pm) – Cakewalkin’ Jass Band
(1:30pm) – Graystone Monarchs
(2:30pm) – Joe Smith & The Spicy
Pickles (3:30pm) – Bix Beiderbecke
Memorial Jazz Festival: Miss
Jubilee and the Yas Yas Boys (6pm)
– Graystone Monarchs All–Stars
(7pm) – Chicago Cellar Boys (8pm) –
Mortonia Sextet (9pm) – Joe Smith
& the Spicy Pickles (10pm) – Rhythm
City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz
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LIVE MUSIC
Sara Simmons (11:30am) – Mississippi
Valley Fairgrounds Oldies Tent, 2815
Locust St., Davenport IA
Scott Stowe (4pm) – Mississippi Valley
Fairgrounds Craft Beer Tent, 2815 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
Shawn Pittman (3pm) – Moline Viking
Club, 1450 41st St., Moline IL
The Stone Flowers (4pm) – Dirt Road
Rockers (7:30pm) – Mississippi
Valley Fairgrounds Pavilion, 2815 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
Vox Sambou – Josh Hoyer & Soul
Colossal – JigJam (6pm) – Wiley
Park, SE 6th St., Galva IL
Whitehall – Mountain Swallower –
Micah Schnabel – Raccoon Motel,
315 E. Second St., Davenport IA
MONDAY (8)
The Tailfins (6:30pm) – Moline
Township Activity Center, 620 18th
St., Moline IL
TUESDAY (9)
Alan Knapper’s Five Bridges Jazz
Band (6:30pm) – Carriage Haus, 312
W 3rd St, Davenport IA
Ani DiFranco – The Righteous Babes:
Gracie & Rachel, Zoe Boekbinder,
and Jocelyn Mackenzie – Codfish
Hollow Barn, 5013 288th Ave.,
Maquoketa IA
Big River Brass Band – Geneseo City
Park, 115 S Oakwood Ave, Geneseo IL
Cicada Rhythm – Raccoon Motel, 315 E.
Second St., Davenport IA
Open Mic Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
WEDNESDAY (10)
Adventurer – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
Ani DiFranco – The Righteous Babes:
Gracie & Rachel, Zoe Boekbinder,
and Jocelyn Mackenzie – Codfish
Hollow Barn, 5013 288th Ave.,
Maquoketa IA
The Beths – Rosie Tucker – Raccoon
Motel, 315 E. Second St., Davenport IA
End Game (5:30pm) – Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Gray Wolf Band (6pm) – Sheridan
Meadows Park, , Eldridge IA
Jef Spradley (6:30pm) – The Faithful
Pilot Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd,
LeClaire IA
Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Open Blues Jam (6pm) – Kavanaugh’s
Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228 30th St., Rock
Island IL
Open Mic with Donovan Gustofsan
– Whiskey Stop, 1726 15th Ave., East
Moline IL
THURSDAY (11)
The Delta Bombers – Reckless Ones
– Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St., Iowa
City IA
Gray Wolf Band – Bass Street Landing
Plaza, 17th St., Moline IL
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Levi Craft (6pm) – Twin Span Brewing,
6776 Championship Dr., Bettendorf IA
Matt Hamilton (6:30pm) – The Gypsy
Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s, 307
10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Sean Kistler (6pm) – Go Fish Marina Bar
& Grill, 411 River Dr., Princeton IA
Soul Storm (6:30pm) – Bettendorf
Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus
Dr., Bettendorf IA
Tug Fest: K & Ty & the Other Guy
– LeClaire Levee, 117 S. Front St.,
LeClaire IA
Village Series Songwriter Round:
Angela Meyer – Monica Austin
(6:30pm) – Village Theatre, 2113 E
11th St, Davenport IA
FRIDAY (12)
Angela Meyer (6pm) – Steventon’s,
1399 Eagle Ridge Rd, LeClaire IA
Felix & Fingers Dueling Pianos – The
Tangled Wood, 3636 Tanglewood
Rd., Bettendorf IA
Fiddlerock (5pm) – Wide River Winery
- LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Freddy Allen 2&4 Swing Trio – The
Grape Life Wine Store & Lounge, 3402
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Hexagram – Hawkeye Tap Sports
Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave.,
Davenport IA
Identity Crisis – The Gypsy Highway
Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust St.,
Davenport IA
Jef Spradley (6:30pm) – Tuggers
Burger Bar & Ale House, 201 N. Main
St., Port Byron IL
Karaoke Night – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Karaoke w/ Michelle from Party
Times DJ Service – Manning’s
Whistle Stop, 416 N. 2nd St., Clinton
IA
Kickin Back (5pm) – Milan Hy-Vee
Market Grille, 201 W. 10th Ave., Milan
IL
Lady Denim – Leland Blue – Hollyy
– Raccoon Motel, 315 E. Second St.,
Davenport IA
Last Call Party Band (8:30pm) – Toxic
Blonde (10:30pm) – Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184
Highway 22, Riverside IA
Live @ Five: Frank Sauce Brass Band
(5pm) – RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Midnight Blue Band – Rhythm City
Casino Resort Rhythm Room, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Tug Fest: Daylight Over (7:30pm)
– Rolling Thunder (10pm) – Port
Byron Levee, Downtown Port Byron,
Port Byron IL
Wilco – Courtney Marie Andrews –
Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington
St., Iowa City IA
SATURDAY (13)
Angela Meyer (2pm) – Downtown Erie,
, Erie IL
Bethann Heidgerken – Bootleg
Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd St.,
Davenport IA
Blue 60 Band – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
The Carefree Highwaymen – The
Grape Life Wine Store & Lounge, 3402
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Code 415 – The Gypsy Highway Bar &
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
Gray Wolf Band (6:30pm) – Tuggers
Burger Bar & Ale House, 201 N. Main
St., Port Byron IL
Heads In Motion – The Tangled Wood,
3636 Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Ky & Ty Duo – Galena Brewing
Company / Moline Ale House, 1534
River Dr., Moline IL
Levi Craft – Hawkeye Tap Sports
Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave.,
Davenport IA
Moonshine Run – 11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
The New Duncan Imperials – Halo
of Flies – Rascals Live, 1414 15th St.,
Moline IL
Nunn – Stressica – Systyems – Rozz-
Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock Island IL
Radio Flyer Pilots – The Quarry, 2202
W. 3rd St., Davenport IA
Ron Tegeler – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Serendipity – Riverside Casino and
FREE ASSANGE.
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Tug Fest: Hap Hazard (4pm) – Soul
Storm (8pm) – LeClaire Levee, 117 S.
Front St., LeClaire IA
Tug Fest: North of 40 (8pm) – Port
Byron Levee, Downtown Port Byron,
Port Byron IL
Ultimate Elvis Tribute Ar tist
Experience w/ Shawn Klush – Adler
Theatre, 136 E. Third St., Davenport IA
SUNDAY (14)
Angela Meyer (1pm) – Jennie’s Boxcar
LLC, 545 12th Ave., East Moline IL
Big River Brass Band – LeClaire Park,
400 Beiderbecke Dr., Davenport IA
Buddy Olson (3pm) – Ducky’s Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W., Taylor Ridge IL
Catfish Jazz Society Monthly Jam
(3pm) – Columbus Club, 1111 W. 35th
St., Davenport IA
Celtic Summerfest (3pm) – Coralville
Center for the Performing Arts, 1301
5th St., Coralville IA
David G. Smith (2pm) – Carl Sansburg
State Historic Site, 313 E 3rd St,
Galesburg IL
Funktastic 5 (5pm) – The Captain’s
Table, 4801 River Dr., Moline IL
Gregory Alan Isakov – Daniel
Rodriguez – Codfish Hollow Barn,
5013 288th Ave., Maquoketa IA
Jacquie Miller (3pm) – Wide River
Winery - Clinton, 1776 East Deer
Creek Rd., Clinton IA
John Resch & Doggin’ Out (3pm) – The
Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
Karaoke Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
Rebecca Casad & Alan Morrison
(2pm) – Mississippi River Distilling
Company & Cody Road Cocktail
House, 303 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
September Mourning – Bullet to the
Heart – Shatter Smile – Original
Violence (6pm) – Wildwood
Smokehouse & Saloon, 4919 B
Walleye Dr.SE, Iowa City IA
MONDAY (15)
CASI Country Music Dance – CASI
(Center for Active Seniors), 1035 W.
Kimberly Road, Davenport IA
Gray Wolf Band (6:30pm) – Stevens
Square, , Moline IL
Opera Out of the Box at the
Esperanza Center (6pm) – Moline
Public Library, 3210 41st St., Moline IL
TUESDAY (16)
Open Jam Fundraiser – The Gypsy
Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
Open Mic Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
WEDNESDAY (17)
DR Duo (6:30pm) – The Faithful Pilot
Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd, LeClaire
IA
Enterprise Earth – Within
Destruction – Sentinels – Great
American Ghost – Empty Graves –
Portals – Skylark, 4401 Seventh Ave.,
Rock Island IL
Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Kuinka – Good Looks – PR Newman
– Raccoon Motel, 315 E. Second St.,
Davenport IA
Open Blues Jam (6pm) – Kavanaugh’s
Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228 30th St., Rock
Island IL
Open Mic with Donovan Gustofsan
– Whiskey Stop, 1726 15th Ave., East
Moline IL
Ted Stockton (5:30pm) – Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184
Highway 22, Riverside IA
Todd Striley & the Noize – Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184
Through September 8, 2022
September Print Edition Deadline:
August 28: calendar@rcreader.com
Highway 22, Riverside IA
THURSDAY (18)
2022 Alternating Currents Festival –
Downtown Davenport, Davenport IA
Dandelion Stompers – Fairfield Arts &
Convention Center, 200 N. Main St.,
Fairfield IA
Jan Kraybill (11:30am) – John & Alice
Butler Hall - University f Dubuque
Heritage Center, 2255 Bennett St.,
Dubuque IA
Jeff Dowler (6pm) – Twin Span
Brewing, 6776 Championship Dr.,
Bettendorf IA
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Ky & Ty & the Other Guy Open Mic
Night (6pm) – Green Tree Brewery,
309 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Morgan Wade – Raccoon Motel, 315 E.
Second St., Davenport IA
Muscadine Bloodline – The Rust Belt,
533 12th Ave., East Moline IL
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s,
307 10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Opera Out of the Box at Overlook
Village (6pm) – Moline Public
Library, 3210 41st St., Moline IL
Pat Foley (6pm) – Go Fish Marina Bar &
Grill, 411 River Dr., Princeton IA
QCBeats in the Street!: David G.
Smith – Kumate – Davenport Public
Library - Main Branch, 321 Main
Street, Davenport IA
Tom Gowan (6:30pm) – The Gypsy
Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
Zeta – La Armada (11pm) – Raccoon
Motel, 315 E. Second St., Davenport
IA
FRIDAY (19)
The ’80s Mix Party w/ DJ SILK –
Kavanaugh’s Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228
30th St., Rock Island IL
10 of Soul – The Gypsy Highway Bar &
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
2022 Alternating Currents Festival –
Downtown Davenport, Davenport IA
8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage
Festival – Martin Luther King Jr. Park,
601 9th St., Rock Island IL
Amateur Selectors: Pineapple on
Pizza – DJ Mayhem – DJ John Early
– Rozz-Tox, 2108 Third Ave., Rock
Island IL
Here Come the Mummies  – Rhythm
City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
Amos Lee – Danielle Ponder – Englert
Theatre, 221 East Washington St.,
Iowa City IA
Chuck Murphy – Hawkeye Tap Sports
Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave.,
Davenport IA
Dave Killinger – Bootleg Hill Honey
Meads, 321 E. 2nd St., Davenport IA
Karaoke w/ Michelle from Party
Times DJ Service – Manning’s
Whistle Stop, 416 N. 2nd St., Clinton
IA
Kayla Brown (5pm) – Wide River
Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd.,
LeClaire IA
Live @ Five: Diplomats of Solid Sound
(5pm) – RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Next Gen Fest: Hemlock – Splitdriven
– All Things Lost – Crimson Clean
Sweep – Empty Graves (6:30pm) –
Rascals Live, 1414 15th St., Moline IL
Push the Limit – Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
The Shagadelics – The Tangled Wood,
3636 Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Silent Disco – Davenport SkyBridge,
Second Street between Brady &
Know More. Do More.
Get Your Local Licks Saturday
12-3pm w/ Johnny Dollar
Main, Davenport IA
V Funk Band – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
SATURDAY (20)
2022 Alternating Currents Festival –
Downtown Davenport, , Davenport
IA
8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage
Festival – Martin Luther King Jr. Park,
601 9th St., Rock Island IL
Andrew Jacob & Lisa Lyn – Bootleg
Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd St.,
Davenport IA
Code 415 – Crabby’s Bar & Grill, 826 W.
1st Ave., Coal Valley IL
Crooked Cactus – 11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St., Davenport IA
Doug Brundies’ Big Acoustic Show –
Galena Brewing Company / Moline
Ale House, 1534 River Dr., Moline IL
Gordy & Debbie – Ohnward Fine Arts
Center, 1215 E Platt St., Maquoketa IA
The Grand Band – Hawkeye Tap Sports
Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave.,
Davenport IA
Joseph Hall: Elvis Rock N Remember
– Coralville Center for the Performing
Arts, 1301 5th St., Coralville IA
Kickin Back (2pm) – Village of East
Davenport, , Davenport IA
Lee Blackmon (6:30pm) – Tuggers
Burger Bar & Ale House, 201 N. Main
St., Port Byron IL
Mr.Speed: The World’s Best KISS
Tribute – Bally’s Quad Cities, 777
Bally Blvd., Rock Island IL
Next Gen Fest: Discrepancies –
Widow7 – Khaos Ordinance
– Scream at the Sky – Pigweed –
Darker Than Fiction – Nongrata
– Based Nexus – Safe Space –
Random Tanner (2:30pm) – Rascals
Live, 1414 15th St., Moline IL
Past Curfew – The Gypsy Highway Bar &
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
Push the Limit – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Quad City Bank & Trust Riverfront
Pops: The Music of Elton John –
LeClaire Park, 400 Beiderbecke Dr.,
Davenport IA
Ruby & Donovan – Green Tree Brewery,
309 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Shekinah King – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Silent Disco – Davenport SkyBridge,
Second Street between Brady &
Main, Davenport IA
Thrash of the Titans – HeavyWeight
– Toxic Messiah – Skylark, 4401
Seventh Ave., Rock Island IL
Tony Hoeppner & Friends – The Grape
Life Wine Store & Lounge, 3402
Elmore Ave., Davenport IA
V Funk Band – Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Your Mom – The Tangled Wood, 3636
Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
SUNDAY (21)
2022 Alternating Currents Festival –
Downtown Davenport, , Davenport
IA
8th Annual Bill Bell Jazz & Heritage
Festival – Rivermont Collegiate,
1821 Sunset Dr., Bettendorf IA
Buddy Olson (3pm) – Ducky’s Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W., Taylor Ridge IL
Frankie Joe & Kinfolk (2pm) – Contrary
Brewing Co., 411 W Mississippi Dr.,
Muscatine IA
Karaoke Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
Lewis Knudsen (3pm) – Wide River
Winery - Clinton, 1776 East Deer
Creek Rd., Clinton IA
Molly Conrad (2pm) – Mississippi River
Distilling Company & Cody Road
Cocktail House, 303 N. Cody Rd.,
RCReader.com/Calendar.
LeClaire IA
Next Gen Fest: Messer – Emperors &
Angels – Etched In Embers – Reign
of Z – The Coursing – Corrupt the
Masses – Consume the Divide –
Prison City Brigade – High Five
Sinners (2:30pm) – Rascals Live,
1414 15th St., Moline IL
Orpheum Theatre 106–Year Birthday
Party Concert (2pm) – Orpheum
Theatre, 57 S. Kellogg St., Galesburg
IL
Rebecca Casad & Alan Morrison
(3:30pm) – The Gypsy Highway Bar &
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
The Textures (5pm) – The Captain’s
Table, 4801 River Dr., Moline IL
TUESDAY (23)
Open Mic Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
Taj Mahal – Englert Theatre, 221 East
Washington St., Iowa City IA
Tracy Hannemann & the Power of
Five – Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
WEDNESDAY (24)
Jason & John Experience (5:30pm) –
Casi Joy (8:30pm) – Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Lewis Knudsen (6:30pm) – The
Faithful Pilot Cafe & Spirits, 117 N
Cody Rd, LeClaire IA
Open Blues Jam (6pm) – Kavanaugh’s
Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228 30th St., Rock
Island IL
Open Mic with Donovan Gustofsan
– Whiskey Stop, 1726 15th Ave., East
Moline IL
Real Friends – The Failsafe – Rational
Anthem – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
(25)
THURSDAY
Ariel McReynolds (6:30pm) – The
Faithful Pilot Cafe & Spirits, 117 N
Cody Rd, LeClaire IA
Donovan Gustofson (6:30pm) – The
Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
Ivan Singh – Schwiebert Riverfront
Park, 101 17th St., Rock Island IL
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Ky & Ty Duo (6pm) – Go Fish Marina Bar
& Grill, 411 River Dr., Princeton IA
Martina McBride – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Event Center, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Monica Austin – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s,
307 10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
The Prince Project – Circa ’21 Dinner
Playhouse, 1828 Third Ave., Rock
Island IL
Rebecca and Alan Duo (6pm) – Twin
Span Brewing, 6776 Championship
Dr., Bettendorf IA
FRIDAY (26)
The Ex–Bombers (5pm) – Wide River
Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd.,
LeClaire IA
Fueled by Emo – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Futurebirds – Jordan Sellergren –
Dan Tedesco – Codfish Hollow Barn,
5013 288th Ave., Maquoketa IA
Hap Hazard – Denny O’s, 307 10th Ave,
Fulton IL
Hit List – The Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill,
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2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
Jordan Danielsen – The Tangled Wood,
3636 Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Karaoke Night – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Karaoke w/ Michelle from Party
Times DJ Service – Manning’s
Whistle Stop, 416 N. 2nd St., Clinton
IA
Lee Blackmon – The Grape Life Wine
Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore Ave.,
Davenport IA
Live @ Five: Beaker Brothers (5pm)
– RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St.,
Davenport IA
Norma Jean – Idle Threat –
Manhattan Blockade – Phantom
Threat – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
Pokey LaFarge – Orpheum Theatre, 57
S. Kellogg St., Galesburg IL
Ron Tegeler Jazz Trio – The V’ue, 137
5th Ave. S., Clinton IA
Threshold – Hawkeye Tap Sports
Bar N Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave.,
Davenport IA
Up All Night – Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22,
Riverside IA
SATURDAY (27)
16th Anniversar y Celebration
featuring Garth Live! & Neon Circus
– Riverside Casino Event Center, 3184
Highway 22, Riverside IA
Kerry Tucker & Rich Fricke (2pm)
– Tycoga Winery & Distillery, 2585
195th St., DeWitt IA
Kyle Cord (3pm) – Green Tree Brewery,
309 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Rabbit Hole (5pm) – The Captain’s
Table, 4801 River Dr., Moline IL
MONDAY (29)
Bodysnatcher – Vatican – Disdain
– Hardship – Guilty of Treason –
Wildwood Smokehouse & Saloon,
4919 B Walleye Dr. SE, Iowa City IA
TUESDAY (30)
Open Mic Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
WEDNESDAY (31)
Angela Meyer (5pm) – Durant
Community Center, 606 5th Ave.,
Durant IA
Jim Ryan (6:30pm) – The Faithful Pilot
Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd, LeClaire
IA
Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Open Blues Jam (6pm) – Kavanaugh’s
Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228 30th St., Rock
Island IL
Open Mic with Donovan Gustofsan
– Whiskey Stop, 1726 15th Ave., East
Moline IL
Funktastic 5 – The Tangled Wood, 3636
Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
K.Y. & the Jellies – Green Tree Brewery,
309 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
Karaoke Night – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
Ky & Ty Acoustic Duo (6:30pm) –
Tuggers Burger Bar & Ale House, 201
N. Main St., Port Byron IL
Michael Moncada & Whiskey High
– Route 30 Slots & Cocktails, 2000 E
Rock Falls Rd., Rock Falls IL
The Six One Five Collective – Timber
Lake Playhouse, 8215 Black Oak Road,
Mt. Carroll IL
Victor Dean – Bootleg Hill Honey
Meads, 321 E. 2nd St., Davenport IA
SUNDAY (4)
Angela Meyer (4pm) – The Lucky
Frog Bar & Grill, 313 N. Salina St,
McCausland IA
Buddy Olson (3pm) – Ducky’s Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W., Taylor Ridge IL
Dirt Road Rockers (5pm) – The
Captain’s Table, 4801 River Dr.,
Moline IL
Hand in Hand Music Fest (4pm)
– Isle of Capri, 1777 Isle Parkway,
Bettendorf IA
Karaoke Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
Laura Jane Grace – Raccoon Motel, 315
E. Second St., Davenport IA
Skyla Burrell (2:30pm) – The Gypsy
Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
Threat Level Midnight – The Tangled
Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA
MONDAY (5)
Shaun Easton (2pm) – Mississippi River
Distilling Company & Cody Road
Cocktail House, 303 N. Cody Rd.,
LeClaire IA
Watchhouse – The Onlies – Codfish
Hollow Barn, 5013 288th Ave.,
Maquoketa IA
TUESDAY (6)
Open Mic Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
REO Speedwagon – Styx – Loverboy
– TaxSlayer Center, 1201 River Dr,
Moline IL
WEDNESDAY (7)
Ed James (6:30pm) – The Faithful Pilot
Cafe & Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd, LeClaire
IA
Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 Second
Ave., Rock Island IL
Open Blues Jam (6pm) – Kavanaugh’s
Hilltop Bar & Grill, 1228 30th St., Rock
Island IL
Open Mic with Donovan Gustofsan
– Whiskey Stop, 1726 15th Ave., East
Moline IL
THURSDAY (8)
Chuck Murphy (6:30pm) – The Gypsy
Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W. Locust
St., Davenport IA
David Bromberg Quintet – Englert
Theatre, 221 East Washington St.,
Iowa City IA
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s,
307 10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Village Songwriter Series: Angela
Meyer (6:30pm) – Village Theatre,
2113 E 11th St, Davenport IA

3 on the Tree – Route 30 Slots & Cocktails,
2000 E Rock Falls Rd., Rock Falls IL
Angela Meyer – Al & Gerry’s Tap, 204 N
2nd St., Eldridge IA
Blues Rock-it – 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport IA
Brian Skow & Rich Fricke (noon) –
Tuggers Burger Bar & Ale House, 201 N.
Main St., Port Byron IL
Code 415 (6pm) – Psycho Silo Saloon,
intersection Rt. 6 & Rt. 40, Langley IL
Danger Zone – The Gypsy Highway Bar &
Grill, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport IA
The Detour Band (6pm) – Go Fish Marina
Bar & Grill, 411 River Dr., Princeton IA
Dynoride – Murnau – K1ng Supr3m3 –
Mirabilia – Village Theatre, 2113 E 11th
St, Davenport IA
Fun DMC – Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside IA
Funktastic 5 (6:30pm) – Tuggers Burger
Bar & Ale House, 201 N. Main St., Port
Byron IL
Hair Band Night – Timber Lake
Playhouse, 8215 Black Oak Road, Mt.
Carroll IL
JC & the Redemption – The Tangled
Wood, 3636 Tanglewood Rd.,
Bettendorf IA
Joey Peate (5:30pm) – Eugene Levy
(9pm) – Fueled by Emo (10:30pm) –
Missipi Brewing Company, 107 Iowa
Ave., Muscatine IA
Rob and Gary of the Night People –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
Smooth Groove – Rhythm City Casino
Resort Rhythm Room, 7077 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Songbird Bethann – The Grape Life
Wine Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Telekinetic Yeti – White Hills –
HeavyWeight - Snowfall – Skylark,
4401 Seventh Ave., Rock Island IL
Tony Walker – Galena Brewing
Company, 227 N. Main St., Galena IL
SUNDAY (28)
Buddy Olson (3pm) – Ducky’s Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W., Taylor Ridge IL
Code 415 (4pm) – Parkside Grill &
Lounge, 2307 5th Ave, Moline IL
Dan Hubbard (2pm) – Mississippi River
Distilling Company & Cody Road
Cocktail House, 303 N. Cody Rd.,
LeClaire IA
Karaoke Night – Pub 1848, 1601 River
Drive #106, Moline IL
(1)
THURSDAY
B2wins – John & Alice Butler Hall -
University of Dubuque Heritage
Center, 2255 Bennett St., Dubuque IA
John Resch & Doggin’ Out – Quinlan
Court, 101 East River Dr., Davenport
IA
Karaoke Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708
State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night – My Place the Pub,
4405 State St., Bettendorf IA
Open Jam Night (6pm) – Denny O’s,
307 10th Ave, Fulton IL
Open Mic Night w/ Antone Burton –
Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, 321 E. 2nd
St., Davenport IA
FRIDAY (2)
Brooke Byam & the Daymakers – The
Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 2606 W.
Locust St., Davenport IA
Courtney Marie Andrews – Angela
Meyer – Raccoon Motel, 315 E.
Second St., Davenport IA
Crowbar – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington
St., Iowa City IA
Douglas & Tucker Duo – The Grape Life
Wine Store & Lounge, 3402 Elmore
Ave., Davenport IA
Johnny Russler & the Beach Bum
Band – The Tangled Wood, 3636
Tanglewood Rd., Bettendorf IA
Karaoke w/ Michelle from Party
Times DJ Service – Manning’s
Whistle Stop, 416 N. 2nd St., Clinton
IA
Kickin Back – The Palace, 701 15th Ave,
East Moline IL
Live @ Five: Crooked Cactus (5pm)
– RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St.,
Davenport IA
Matt Barber (5pm) – Wide River Winery
- LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd., LeClaire IA
SATURDAY (3)
Angela Meyer (noon) – Crawford
Brew Works, 3659 Devils Glen Rd.,
Bettendorf IA
Avey Grouws Band (6pm) – Go Fish
Marina Bar & Grill, 411 River Dr.,
Princeton IA
Big John Hammer & the Rusty Nails –
The Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill, 2606
W. Locust St., Davenport IA
Black Velvet – Galena Brewing
Company / Moline Ale House, 1534
River Dr., Moline IL
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