River Cities' Reader Issue 748 March 18, 2010

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M Plan or aFrdom Prsidnt

U.S. Representative Ron Paul

o not prosecuting marijuana users when theiruse o the drug is consistent with state medical-marijuana laws. A constitutionalist administration

would also deer to state laws reusing compliancewith the REAL ID act and denying ederalauthority over interstate gun transactions.

None o the measures I have discussed so arinvolves repealing any written law. Tey can beaccomplished simply by a president exercising

his legitimate authority to set priorities orthe executive branch. And another importantstep he can take toward restoring the balance

o powers the Founders intended is repealingunconstitutional executive orders issued by hispredecessors.

Te president could also use his managerialpowers to shrink the ederal bureaucracy by reusing to ll vacancies created by retirements or

resignations. Tis would dramatically reduce thenumber o ederal ocials wasting our money andtaking our liberties.

While the president can do a great deal on his

own, to really restore the Constitution, he will haveto work with Congress. Te rst step in enacting apro-reedom legislative agenda is the submission

o a budget that outlines the priorities o theadministration. While it has no legal eect, thebudget serves as a guideline or the congressional

appropriations process.I Congress ailed to produce a budget that

was balanced and that moved the country

in a pro-liberty direction, a constitutionalistpresident should veto the bill. O course, vetoingthe budget risks a government shutdown. But

a serious constitutionalist cannot be deterredby cries o “It’s irresponsible to shut down thegovernment!” Instead, he should simply say: “I

oered a reasonable compromise, which was togradually reduce spending, and Congress rejectedit, instead choosing the extreme path o continuing

to jeopardize America’s reedom and prosperity by reusing to tame the welare-warare state. I amthe moderate; those who believe that America can

aord this bloated government are the extremists.”All o these measures will take a lot o work – a

lot more than any one person, even the president

o the United States, can accomplish by himsel. orestore the country to the kind o government theFounders meant or us to have, a constitutionalist

president would need the support o an active

liberty movement. No matter how many pro-reedom politicians we elect to oce, the only way

to guarantee constitutional government is throughan educated and activist public devoted to theideals o the liberty.

For an expanded version o this commentary, visit RiverCitiesReader.com.

U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-exas) is the author o End the Fed and Te Revolution: A Maniesto.

Tis essay originally appeared in Young AmericanRevolution , a magazine published by Young Americans or Liberty (YALiberty.org).

Since my 2008 campaign or the presidency I have oen been asked, “How woulda constitutionalist president go about

dismantling the welare-warare state and restoring

a constitutional republic?” Tis is a very importantquestion, because without a clear road map andset o priorities, such a president runs the risk

o having his pro-reedom agenda stymied by the various vested interests that benet rom biggovernment.

While our goal is to reduce the size o the stateas quickly as possible, we should always make

sure our immediate proposals minimize socialdisruption and human suering. Tus, we shouldnot seek to abolish the social saety net overnightbecause that would harm those who have grown

dependent on government-provided welare.Instead, we would want to give individuals whohave come to rely on the state time to prepare

or the day when responsibility or providingaide is returned to those organizations best ableto administer compassionate and eective help

– churches and private charities.A president who strictly adheres to the

Constitution could use his constitutional

authority as head o the executive branch and ascommander in chie to take several signicantsteps toward liberty on his own.

Te area where the modern chie executivehas greatest ability to act unilaterally is in oreignaairs. Unortunately, Congress has abdicated its

constitutional authority to declare wars, insteadpassing vague “authorization o orce” bills t hatallow the president to send any number o troops

to almost any part o the world.I the president has the power to order U.S.

orces into combat on nothing more than his

own say-so, then it stands to reason he can ordertroops home. Tereore, on the rst day in oce, aconstitutionalist can begin the orderly withdrawal

o U.S. orces rom Iraq and Aghanistan. He canalso begin withdrawing troops rom other areas o the world.

Domestically, the president can use hisauthority to set policies and procedures or theederal bureaucracy to restore respect or the

Constitution and individual liberty. For example,today manuacturers o dietary supplementsare subject to prosecution by the Food &

Drug Administration (FDA) or Federal rade

Commission (FC) i they make even truthulstatements about the health benets o their

products without going through the costly andtime-consuming procedures required to gaingovernment approval or their claims. A presidentcan put an end to this simply by ordering the FDA

and FC not to pursue these types o cases unlessthey have clear evidence that the manuacturer’sclaims are not true.

A crucial policy that a president could enactto bring speedy improvements to governmentis ordering the bureaucracy to respect the 10th

Amendment and rerain rom underminingstate laws. We have already seen a little renewedederalism with the current administration’s policy

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widely derided as incompetent and corrupt.But anybody who takes the time to look at

this proposal knows it’s just too obvious o asetup. Quinn didn’t propose any cuts at all tothe State Board o Education’s bureaucracy.Instead, the slashes were all classroom-related. And education took well over hal o all the cuts Quinn proposed, despite beingonly about a third o the budget.

Rather than making a serious attemptto balance the budget in a reasonable,

even-handed

manner, the Quinnadministration wentar out o its way to strike maximumear into thepopulace. Te realmotivation behindthis gambit is justway too overt to bebelievable.

And doesanybody really believe that Quinn

will actually stick to his guns?Doubtul. Tegovernor threatened

a doomsday or social-service providerslast year and then blinked when hisdeadline approached. He’s an old-schoolcompassionate liberal. Everybody knows hedoesn’t want to make these cuts and will do just about anything to avoid them.

Tere are those in the administration whosay the tax-hike-or-schools template can be

used aer the November election (assumingQuinn wins), when legislators eel saerabout voting or it. Te proposal, the insiderssay, is more o a road map or the uture thana plan to be implemented this spring.

Te schools tax h ike, they say, is alsoa way to lessen the pain o the inevitableRepublican charge that the Democrats arenot-so-secretly planning to raise taxes oncethey’re reinstalled in power in November.But i the “secret” plan is to raise taxesor schools and local governments, thatmight mitigate the political damage by

giving Quinn a way to dodge claims on thecampaign trail that he wants to raise taxesto prop up the bureaucracy. Te pollingnumbers are turning so bad on taxes rightnow that Quinn needed to do somethingto save his political skin without totally abandoning his principles.

Tat’s all well and goo d and a dandy littlepolitical theory. In the meantime, the state is$13 billion in the red and still lacking a realplan to tackle it.

Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily political newsletter) and TeCapitolFaxBlog.com.

by Rich Miller

Like all o the budgets proposed by governors in the past ew years, PatQuinn’s spending outline last week

was an almost complete antasy. It has pretty much zero chance o surviving intact andwill have to be tossed out and substantially reworked beore the session ends.

Unless the school interests can pull o alegislative miracle during an anti-incumbentelection year, Quinn’s proposed one-percentage-point tax increase to prevent$1.3 billion in school-

unding cuts andpay another $1.5billion in overduebills to schoolsand universities isdeader than a rock on a stump. HouseSpeaker MichaelMadigan made thatpretty darned clearright aer the speech.

Asked what hewould do i the

Republicans reusedto cooperate on thebudget, Madigansaid his Democraticmajority would have to go it alone. Asked i that meant he’d go it alone on a tax hike, hepointedly said: “No.”

A ew minutes later, appearing on publictelevision’s Illinois Lawmakers program,Madigan said, “Let’s be straightorwardabout this. Te people o America, thepeople o Illinois, they don’t want tax

increases. Tey’re hurting.”Madigan then praised the governor orhaving the courage to propose a tax h ike inthis climate, but quickly added: “Tat doesn’tmean it’s going to happen.”

Shortly aerwards, Senate PresidentJohn Cullerton made it crystal clear thathis chamber would not take the lead on atax hike. House GOP Leader om Crossindicated that he still has the hammer downon his members who might be amenable toa tax hike. “It’s not going to happen,” saidSenate GOP Leader Christine Radogno.

Just like that, the whole thing was deadbeore Quinn’s voice had stopped echoing inthe House chambers.

In a dierent year, the theory behindQuinn’s tax-hike gambit wouldn’t be bad.

People despise Illinois government thesedays – or good reason – s o a tax increaseor state operations is pretty much out o the question. Most people do like their localschools, parents like their kids’ teachers, andproperty-tax payers are ed up with constantincreases. Using a tax hike to “save” the

schools is ar easier to do than justiying atax hike to make more pension paymentsto state employees, or und a state system

Quinn’s Budgt Plan DOAbut Provids Political Covr

Rather than making

a serious attempt to

balance the budget, the

Quinn administration

went far out of its way to

strike maximum fear into

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Judicial, Justic BrancsCould S 600 Job Cuts

Approximately 600 ull-time state-government positions would be eliminated inthe judicial branch and justice system – whichincludes corrections and public saety – underbudgets approved on party-line votes by theHouse Appropriations Committee.

“Tere’s going to be real cuts, denitely,”said Representative odd aylor (D-CedarRapids), chair o the legislature’s joint justice-

system budget subcommittee. “Tese areessential government unctions. People say one thing that you have to do is protect thepublic, and we wil l do that. We’re going to dothat by backlling some o those positionswith any dollars that we can nd. Tat’s whatwe did last year with new ees. I think thebottom line is: We are in this budget areataking a hit because o drastic declines inrevenues. I that continues to decline, publicsaety will continue to suer.”

It’s unclear how many o those positionsreduced will translate to actual layos,although aylor said most would occur in the judicial branch. “Tere are cutbacks in salariesand mandatory unpaid days that hopeully will prevent layos in some o the correctionsarea,” he said. “ Te courts did have a lot morelayos and they’re not going to have themoney to rell many o those positions. Sothat means more closure days.”

A total o 188 people in the Departmento Corrections had also applied or early retirement by March 5, and the deadlineto apply isn’t until April 15. Some o those

who retire will be replaced with lower-paidemployees.

Te $484.1-million justice-systembudget spends $31.3 million less than thisyear’s budget aer an across-the-boardcut. It includes a reduction o 367 jobs incorrections, 184 in the judicial branch, and 54in public saety. “Tat is a drastic hit,” aylorsaid. “At the end o the day, it’s a lot less peopleand a lot less money.”

A proposal to once again increase courtees remains alive, but was not considered aspart o the judicial budget.

aylor said additional revenue generated by last year’s ee increase was oset by the across-the-board budget cut. He said any new court-ee increases this year would probably bemade in areas that weren’t aected last year.

For an expanded version o this article, visit RiverCitiesReader.com.

Tis weekly summary comes rom IowaPolitics.com, an online government and politics newsservice. Reporter Andrew Duelmeyer and other correspondents contributed to this report.

by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com

Democratic lawmakers last week

unveiled a long-awaited tax-credit-

reorm package that they said

would reduce Iowa’s t ax-credit liability

by $115 million a year; Republicans and

business leaders were quick to criticize

the legislation and said it sends the wrong

message.

“We have listened to the public’s anger at

abuses and we are responding with historic

reorms,” said S enator Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa

City), chair o the Senate Ways & Means

Committee. “We are ending some taxcredits, cutting many remaining credits, and

dramatically increasing accountability or

all tax-credit spending.”

Te unveiling o House Study Bill 738

came two weeks beore the targeted March

26 adjournment o the legislature.

Te bill would reduce Iowa’s tax-credit

liability rom $525 million to $410 million.

It includes suspending the lm-tax-credit

program or two years, lowering the

cap on business tax credits rom $185

million to $120 million, cutting in hal the supplemental-research-activities tax

credit or large corporations, and cutting

10 percent rom many other tax-credit

programs.

“Every part o the budget is being cut,

and that will now include tax credits,” said

Representative Paul Shomshor (D-Council

Blus), chair o the House Ways & Means

Committee.

House Minority Leader Kraig Paulsen (R-

Hiawatha) said it’s appropriate to review tax

credits and make sure they’re doing whatthey’re supposed to. However, he said the

bill proposed by Democrats is equivalent to

raising taxes.

Business ocials were bracing or the

bill all session and said they were glad to

nally see the legislation. But lawmakers

can expect businesses to oppose the bill as it

moves through the legislature.

“In this tough economy, when we want

to put Iowans back to work, we would

not recommend cutting these credits,”

said John Gilliland, senior vice president

or government relations or the Iowa

Association o Business & Industry. “You

look at other states that are in a similar

circumstance with their state budgets,

some o those states are being aggressive

and increasing the types o credits and

incentives to bring jobs to their state. In

reality, that’s what we’d preer, looking

at being more aggressive rather than

retreating.”

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The Inside Story o the History Channel’s Surprise Hit

American Pickers

In the American Pickers episode“Back Breakers,” Mike Wole is

donning a bright-red MotorHome Club jacket with the name“Louise” embroidered on the ront.

Te jacket is an “ice-breaker,” aterm that Wole and picking partnerFrank Fritz use to describe an item

that they don’t really want but buy anyway as a way to warm up areticent person to the idea o selling

their old stu.It’s a charming bit in the History

channel’s rst-season reality-serieshit, because it shows t hat Wole andFritz aren’t araid to look oolishor silly. And Wole seems to enjoy

wearing that jacket.But it also works because it

teaches viewers about how picking

works. We learn the nuances o scavenging, and how they get peopleto part with the objects they’ve

collected over decades. “We’re likepsychologists or people and theirstu,” Fritz said on the show.

Pickers has myriad appeals.On the unny side, Wole buys along-unworn leather coat that has

condoms in the pocket and shares alaugh with the previous owner.

Te negotiation game can be both

enjoyable and instructive. One sellerhas such a keen sense o what hiscollectibles might etch that Wole

and Fritz try to oer him a singleprice or all the stu they want; he keepstrack o their piles, though, and outsmarts

them.And then there are times when the

pickers screw up and learn something

themselves. Te pair spends so longrummaging through the barn o a 92-year-old man that he loses any interest in sellingto them; the two immediately recognize

that they were so excited about what was inthe barn that they didn’t respect t heir host’stime.

“Te show is about modern-day treasurehunting, that you can still do it,” Wole said.“And the show is about ... looking at things

with a dierent eye.” And it’s inormativeabout the histories o the eatured objects,in the orm o commentary by Wole and

Fritz, and acts that pop up on the screen.Tere’s also a human-interest angle to

American Pickers. Some people might like

the easy rapport between Wole and Fritz,who have known each other since eighthgrade.

But Wole thinks the undamental appealis the people they meet and the objectsthey’ve collected. While buying is the thrust

o the show, American Pickers spends plenty o time on the interactions between thepicking pair and the olks they encounter,

many o whom talk about their amilies and

their histories. One woman shows a car that

her husband bought to teach her to drive;

she never learned, she said, and the carsat untouched in a barn or our decades.

alking about the show’s debut, Wole

discussed 88-year-old World War II veteran

Leland rather than what they bought rom

him: “He was the treasure. He was the star

o the show.”

He added: “I wanted to tell the story

o these people that had the items, and I

actually wanted the item to have a voice,

too, in some ways.” And as he says in the

closing o the show’s introduction, “We

make a living telling the history o America

one piece at a time.”

When American Pickers debuted on

January 18, it got a lot o press in the Quad

Cities, with Wole and Antique Archeology

oce manager Danielle Colby-Cushman

living in LeClaire and Fritz based in

Davenport.

But at the time, nobody had any idea

that it would be a monster Monday hit

or History when paired with Pawn Stars. American Pickers debuted with more than

3 million viewers and this month has

approached 4 million, placing it amongthe 20 top-rated shows on cable. Tose

two shows and Ax Men pushed History to

a stellar February. “Tis is the rst time in

history the network has ranked top-ve

in all our adult and men 18-49 and 25-

54 demo[graphic]s in any given month,”History said in a press release.

In the past ew weeks – as the show

wound down its 10-episode initial run and

approached shooting its 26-episode second

season – the three stars o American Pickers

talked with the River Cities’ Reader about

the show’s success, history, and controversy.

Five Years in the MakingLike Pawn Stars, American Pickersmines

the drama o bartering, seeing i buyers and

sellers can nd common ground. But whilePawn Stars by its nature ocuses on people

who want or need the money, Pickers deals

with people who are oen hesitant to sell.

Te dynamics are dierent.

“Tis is really one o the sides o the

[bartering] business that no one’s seen,”

Wole said. “Te pickers’ story’s never been

told.”

Te episode “Super Scooter” shows

how the pair works together. Wole is

nearly drooling over a Vespa Ape scooter.

Te owner wants $5,000 or it, and Woleoers $4,500 – which is rejected. Fritz

haleartedly oers $150 or a bike but

quickly rolls over or the $200 the owner

is asking; he’s trying to soen him up or

Wole. But then Wole’s oer o $4,800 is

turned down, and he gives in to the $5,000asking price. Te t actic wasn’t successul,

but it shows viewers the process. Wole

osets the transaction by selling the Vespa

owner a sidecar rame or $600; he had paid

$400.

Some “picks” are arranged in advance,

and other times Fritz and Wole “reestyle,”

driving around the countryside looking

or promising homes, yards, and barns.

Tey bypass places where the grass is cut

too requently, or where there are new cars.

Experience tells them those properties

aren’t worth their time.

Few people realize the amount o work

that goes into the show. For the rst season’s

10 episodes, the pickers were on the road

or more than ve months, covering 20

states. Each 44-minute episode had 13

scheduled days o shooting, Wole said.

“I had no idea what I was getting into,”

he said. “We had no idea the grind it would

be.”

Tat sounds like complaining, but the

reality is that Wole has been working

toward this or ve years, when he rstbought a video camera and began recording

his picks.

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“Five years is a long time to work onsomething,” Fritz said. “And without Mike’s

drive, we probably still wouldn’t have it onthere. He’s a pretty persistent guy.”

Colby-Cushman, who said she’s known

Wole or a decade, said she was skepticalo the show’s prospects when she rstheard the idea ve years ago. “Because o

the whole small-town mentality, I kind o thought, ‘Tere’s no way. Tere’s just noway it could happen.’” I asked whet her she

thought Wole had his head in the clouds,and she replied, “He always does, but that’s

why he gets so ar. He did it.”Wole can (and will) talk or hal an hour

on the winding road that American Pickers has taken rom idea to hit series. Te short

version is that production companies andtelevision networks were interested in theshow but never pulled the trigger on it

until History snatched it up last August andbegan shooting in early September.

“I had ideas, and ... I had all these great

tapes ... ,” Wole said, but he didn’t have aconcept. “It’s like I had all these leaves but Ihad no tree.”

Wole said he initial ly approached theyoung lmmakers o Bluebox Limitedabout editing his material, but they were

too busy. Tey sent him to Justin Anderson,proprietor o Crazy Eyes Productions.Anderson said they met in 2006 andworked together or several years. “I was

never interested in antiques, but I t houghtthe idea o a modern-day Americantreasure hunter was very cool, and the piece

we put together rom the ootage was sogrungy and real – like Indiana Jones meets

Sanord & Son,” Anderson wrote in an e-mail.

Wole would post the videos heand Anderson made on his Web site

while working with various productioncompanies and pitching it to cableoutlets. Executives rom Discovery, LC,

and Smithsonian all seemed game, butthe closest the show got to airing was adevelopment deal with Discovery. “Tat’s

or a network to throw a little bit o money at you, so they can sit on it or a long timeso no one else can get it,” Wole said.

He eventually gave the videos to PlumV, a liestyle channel shown in tony

vacation spots.

Wole said that Anderson hated thePlum V situation, but he said he wantedto get the videos in ront o these wealthy,

infuential vacationers – the type o peoplewho could do something with it i they liked it. “Someone’s seeing it,” he said. “Who

gives a shit i it’s lying in a can on my desk?”But then a LC exec hooked Wole up

with the Cinefix production company,

which pitched (and sold) it to History.Fritz’s involvement is cr itical to the

show’s success, Wole said: “I always knew

that no one was going to watch a show with just me sitting there talking to mysel. Soit was great that he and I [already] had thechemistry.”

While Wole wanted to tell the storieso collectors and objects, reality televisionthrives on relationships with amiliar aces.

Te key is to balance each episode’s stand-alone stories with the main characters.

And the personalities o Wole and Fritz

– who are both in their mid-40s – arebalanced by Colby-Cushman, who is 34 andowns the Burlesque Le Moustache troupe.

(“She’s a really cool chick,” Wole said. “Andthat’s what I want people to see in here.”)

“We’re very real people,” said Colby-

Cushman, who began working or Wolewhen production o the show started.“We’re just down-home olks. And we don’t

hide that. ... All o us have very strongpersonalities that are not easily contained.Tey have to do a lot o editing. Tey have

to bleep out a lot.”

Picking on Pickers American Pickers has drawn its share o

criticism. Comments on one blog dubbed

the show Pricks Rob Hicks and AmericanPredators, based largely on the debutepisode in which a saddle was “picked” or

$75 and was later appraised at $5,000. Critics accuse the pickers on preying on

older people.

Fritz and Colby-Cushman are dismissiveo the criticism. Fritz says the complaintscome rom “armchair quarterbacks,”

“naysayers,” and “haters,” and said that he

doesn’t pay attention to them.“You cannot please everybody,” Colby-

Cushman said. “Jesus, they killed MartinLuther King. And Mike’s not Martin LutherKing.”

But Wole seems to take it morepersonally. “Sometimes I wonder i peopleare watching the same show that we made,”

he said.Much o the criticism ignores the realities

o the business, Wole said.

For one thing, he said, t he pair isn’ttargeting senior citizens; they are simply

more likely to own the objects that Fritz andWole want. “I’m not looking or someonein their 80s; I’m looking or old stu,” Wolesaid. “When you drive down these roads,

that’s who has the stu – older people.”More importantly, an appraisal doesn’t

necessarily refect a realistic sale price.

Wole said his aim is to turn items aroundquickly, not to earn top dollar.

“When you get into this business, you

need to sell,” Fritz said. “Being able tofip your stu is very, very important. I

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there’s one wordI’d use to bestdescribe Playcraers

Barn Teatre’s currentproduction, it wouldbe “nice.” And while

that can be taken as anunfattering adjective,or Te O’Conner Girls

I mean it as a positiveone; I le the opening-night perormance with

a smile on my ace, oneawash with the sweetnostalgia and dash o

humor that put it there.Te O’Conner Girls

takes place over thecourse o two days,during which twin sistersMartha (Lisa Kahn) andLiz (Pamela Crouch)– having just buriedtheir ather – are nowhelping their mother,Sara (Jan Golz), clean out the house. Marthaspent the last year taking care o her ather,losing sleep along with any semblance o a personal lie. Liz did her part by sendingmoney home, even aer losing her husbandand her job. Now, however, Sara is ready tosell the amily home and head o to Europe,and Te O’Conner Girls nds the threewomen sharing these and other secrets withone another, secrets that end up changingtheir lives.

Written by Katie Forgette, the script

does not oer new ideas or creativeplotlines. Instead, its strength is in itsrealistic dialogue. Rather than delivering

the pretentious, overly dramatic linesyou oen nd in weaker scripts, or theexquisitely poetic but loy monologues o

stronger plays, these characters speak asreal people do. Te eect created is like aslice o lie, where it’s easier to believe we’re

actually looking in on a real amily in a realsituation, rather than something staged.

In her directorial debut at Playcraers,

Susan Zelnio cras a production thatembraces that sense o realism, as do herleads. Golz has a way o taking lines that

may not have been written with humorand delivering them with an infectionthat creates a bit o o-the-cu, slightly

The O’Conner Girls, at the Playcraters Barn Theatre through March 21

T Pluc o t Iris

sarcastic un. Kahn oers a sweetly sincere

perormance, adding just enough hints atMartha’s being overburdened and tired;

her acial expressions are a bit overdonewhen simply reacting to others, but this isarguably the most unaected perormanceI’ve yet seen rom Kahn. Te same could be

said o Crouch (although her perormancein the Harrison Hilltop Teatre’s Steel Magnolias, also eaturing Kahn, was quite

enjoyable). In past shows, I’ve seen Crouchoverdo her perormances, but here it wasrereshing to see her let the lines simply

fow, rather than using them to orce acharacter.

Don Faust portrays Dr. David Stevens,

a longtime amily riend and secret loveinterest o Martha, and seems to be overly aware o the audience, oen delivering his

gestures toward those watching the play rather than those perorming in it. As inprevious productions in which I’ve seen

him (most notably Harrison Hilltop’s TeGraduate), it’s apparent that Faust likes toperorm and enjoys pleasing an audience.

Here, however, his tendency to play to theaudience is a distraction, although – as it’sconned to his body language –at least it’s

a minor one; Faust’s line deliveries projecta more honest nature, and make his D r.Stevens a simple, likable man.

It’s Judy Luster

as Aunt Martha,however, who

almost stealsthe show. Lusterdoesn’t seem tobe araid to play

things big – romdramatic highs andlows in infection

to uninhibitedphysical movement– yet doesn’t allowher perormance

to dri into

caricature, keepingit believable. And

she’s just so darncute! She had mewishing her Martha

was my aunt, too.Scenically, Te

O’Conner Girls marks the rstplay I’ve seen at

Playcraers where the perormers are notorced to pantomime opening a downstagedoor. (I loathe seeing actors pretend to turn

a doorknob or slide open a window that isnot actually there, especially when it’s theonly set piece they and the audience areorced to imagine.) For this production,Zelnio, who also ser ves as set designer,chose to include a hinged decorative board(and actual knob) to represent a ull doorwithout blocking anyone’s view. It’s such aclever piece that I actually took a moment tomarvel at it ... only to be disappointed when,during its rst usage, Golz closed the doorand reached up to fip on a pretend light

switch. Sigh.As it concerns an Irish Catholicamily, Te O’Conner Girls would seeman appropriate production or the days

surrounding St. Patrick’s Day. Yet while, orme, it’s preerable to a mug o green beer,it doesn’t matter that Playcraers chose to

stage this play during the holiday – thisproduction would be just as nice any timeo the year.

For more inormation and tickets, call (309)762-0330 or visit Playcraers.com.

Tom White is the entertainment newsreporter on WQAD Quad Cities News 8.

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GREEN ZONE Set in Baghdad during the early months o 2002,

director Paul Greengrass’ action thriller Green Zone casts Matt Damon as a stalwart, driven military ocer who gradually discovers that the Americangovernment liedabout the prolieration– even the existence– o Iraqi weapons o mass destruction. Tis

might strike you asold news, and it is. Tedisappointing surpriseo Green Zone, though,is that the movie itsel should eel like suchold news, and in ways that have nothing to dowith Greengrass and Damon re-teaming aer theconsiderable artistic and popular successes o theirBourne Supermacy and Bourne Ultimatum lms.

It takes a while or that realization to sink in,mostly because Greengrass is such a no-rillswizard at composition and choreography; theskirmishes, assaults, and chase sequences – shotin hand-held, vérité style by Te Hurt Locker cinematographer Barry Ackroyd – are beautiully executed. Yet despite the lm’s technical acumenand Damon’s expectedly magnetic stoicism, youcan’t shake the eeling that this ction inspired by truth is a little too ... well ... fctional , twisting eventso unimaginable complexity into a conveniently simplistic, one-man-bucking-the-system narrative.(Te movie ends with the swelling o John Powell’striumphant-hero score, which suggests, “ ...and everyone in Iraq lived happily ever aer!”)Brian Helgeland’s fat, prosaic script doesn’t helpmatters, nor do the oddly unocused supportingturns by Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, andAmy Ryan (who, as a compromised Wall Street Journal reporter, appears to be wincing her way through her dialogue). But in all honesty, GreenZone is never more chilling than when recountingPresident Bush’s notorious “mission accomplished”press conerence or the announcement o thedismantling o Iraq’s army; on any level you canname, those real-lie horrors trump Greengrass’and Helgeland’s invented, discouragingly roteaction-thriller horrors. In the end, the movie isproessionally assembled but easy to tune outon, and so little o it is reshly imagined that youcan nd your mind wandering in odd directionsthroughout. Whatever its lmmakers wanted us totake rom the overly amiliar experience o GreenZone, I’m doubting it’s the thought that Damonand Kinnear were actually preerable co-stars whenplaying conjoined twins in Stuck on You.

REMEMBER ME Your reaction to the romantic drama Remember

Me will largely, i not completely, depend onyour eelings toward its nale, which I’ve readreviewers and online commentators describe as agrossly exploitative, unprepared-or shock. I won’t

necessarily argue with that rst part, but the climaxseemed to me nothing but anticipated; I’m sorry,but i (SPOILER ALER ... I guess ... ) a lm opensin Manhattan in 1991, then oers a “10 Years Later”title card, then delivers a melancholic love story while May slowly turns to September ... . Well, by

then, should there really be any question as to whatlie-altering event theplot is leading toward? I you’re alert to, and can

handle, director AllenCoulter’s and screenwriterWill Fetters’ inevitabledestination, you might ndthis contrived yet hearteltlove story between

damaged souls (wilight ’s Robert Pattinson and Lost ’sEmilie de Ravin, both very ne) a solid, emotionally resonant tearjerker that nicks at your insides inunexpected ways. I not, at least you’ve been warned.Kind o.

SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

Crass, predictable, yet intermittently entertaining,She’s Out o My League gives away its entire plot in itstitle, with Jay Baruchel’s skinny nebbish spending 90-ish minutes distrustul o the aections o his perect-10 girlriend (played by the sunny, riendly Alice Eve,who seems deserving o that numerical ranking).Despite the occasional bodily-fuid and ball-shavinggags, director Jim Field Smith’s debut eature is awispy little throwaway o a movie – the laughs match

the groans in pretty much equal measure – and itculminates in one o those race-through-the-airportclimaxes that became old hat, oh, about a zillionromantic comedies ago. Still, there are worse ways

to piss away your time than with an ensemble thisenjoyable: Beyond the agreeably mismatched leads,She’s Out o My League nds room or terrically likable, even witty turns by Nate orrence, Mike

Vogel, Lindsay Sloane, Kyle Bornheimer, KrystenRitter, and that abulous Tat ’70s Show mom DebraJo Rupp, who at one point here steals a scene merely by grinning, giggling, and happily jumping up anddown. Which is pretty much my reaction any timeRupp shows up anywhere.

OUR FAMILY WEDDING

Te deathly obvious, staggeringly ununny Our Family Wedding concerns an Arican-Americanather (Forest Whitaker, wayout o his element) anda Hispanic-American ather (Carlos Mencia, all tooin his element) who are grudgingly orced to acceptthe mixed-race marriage o the ormer’s son (LanceGross) and the latter’s daughter (America Ferrera).In one scene, or reasons not worth explaining, agoat runs amok in Whitaker’s bathroom, downs theman’s supply o Viagra, and proceeds to hump hisleg to high heaven. Aerward, the animal makes eyecontact with Whitaker and bleats, “Call me,” and as itwalks away ... . Yeah, I think that’s all you really need

to know.

LISTeN TO MIk e eVeRy FRIDAy AT AM ON ROCk 10- FM wIT h DAVe & DARReN

Mismas Accomplisd

Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon

in Green Zone

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Cancer Survivor Christina Marie Myatt Perorms an April 3 Beneft or the Genesis Center o Breast Health

In t Fac o an Unsn enmby Mike Schulz

[email protected]

In 2005, Christina Marie Myatt – president o

the Countryside Community Teatre’s board o directors and owner/artistic director o

Davenport’s Center Stage Perorming Arts Academy

– was diagnosed with breast cancer. And not long aerward, as she recalled in our interview, she

received a visit rom her parents.“Tey came out when I was getting ready to go or

chemotherapy or the frst time,” says Myatt, “and mydad said, ‘I brought you a gi.’ I opened it, and it was

his Purple Heart rom when he was in Vietnam. And I said, ‘Why would you give this to me? I can’t take

this.’ And he said, ‘When they hand you this medal,

they tell you that this medal is or bravery in the aceo an unseen enemy. And watching you, that is what

you are doing right now.’”

Tat medal, says Myatt, “is now in my bedroom,

in its own little shadow box, with a little notethat says, ‘For bravery in the ace o an unknown

enemy.’” Yet as she well knows, Myatt is but one o millions who have bravely ought breast cancer, and

it’s her hope to help raise awareness and unds or the continued struggle through her April 3 cabaret

perormance at Davenport’s Col Ballroom –An

Evening with Christina Marie: A Benet or the

Genesis Center or Breast Health.

Backed by pianist Tea Engelson and Rod

Pierson’s (Not-So) Big Band – an ensemble o musicians recruited rom Pierson’s bigger Big Band

– Myatt will perorm a blend o period standards

(“Happy Days Are Here Again,” “Boogie WoogieBugle Boy,” “Fly Me to the Moon”) and showtunes

(“I Get a Kick Out o You,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Being Alive”), with all proceeds benefting the local

treatment center that ostered Myatt’s recovery. Teevent celebrates Myatt not only entering her fh

year o survivorship but also her 40th birthday on April 2, and the gied, unny, and optimistic area

talent recently sat down to discuss her illness, her recovery, and the power that the arts have on her

positive outlook.

Tis Is Not Good Myatt frst discovered a lump in 2005, during a

routine sel-exam, and says that even aer being diagnosed with Stage 1 Intraductual Carcinoma,

she and husband William chose not to share thenews with all o their riends and amily members

– including their young children.

I had always done sel-exams; I haveendometriosis, so I’d done them rom a very youngage. So one time, through the routine, I oundsomething. And I went to the doctor, who said to

me, “You’re 35 years old. It can’t be anything. Tatdoesn’t make any sense.”

So I went in or t he mammogram, and I don’t

know whether you’d call it a sick eeling, but they’ddo one test and then go, “Oh, we need to do morepictures ... .” Ten, “Oh, we need to do this test ...

.” And the doctor’ssaying, “Oh, that’sinteresting. I’ve never

really seen anythinglike that beore ... .”And you’re sittingthere going, “Tis

is not good.” Tenit was, “Now youhave to wait over

the weekend or theresults,” and I justknew, all through

the weekend, howthe tests were gonna

come back. And they did.

My daughter, at the time, was three, and my stepson was seven, and my husband and I sat down

and I said, “I want their lie to be normal. I don’twant their lie to be about this.” So we made a bolddecision not to tell them. I know that lots o people

say, “How could you do that?”, but I just didn’t wantthings to be about ... that I had cancer. I didn’t wantto be the poster child or anything. I just wanted

something in lie that was normal, where we couldhave our daily routine, and have un ... . So wedidn’t tell them.

All my co-workers knew, because I had to tellthem; there were just certain things I couldn’t do,or I’d get too ill. And some riends knew. I didn’t

take the time to callall o them. I called one riendand said, “Guess what. It’s your responsibility totell other people, because I can’t make these phone

calls.” And my parents knew, o course, but evenmy whole amily didn’t know. I had an uncle whohad brain cancer, and my grandparents had already

been in and out o the hospital, and it was like, “We

can’t add this on there. We just can’t.”

So to t his day, some amily members don’t know.Tey’re coming to the cabaret, though, so we’regoing to share it with them beore that. Because Ican’t do the cabaret and not talk about it.

hug BlssingsWishing to keep her daily routine as close

to normal as possible, Myatt continued withher job (rom 2001 to 2008) as the Putnam

Museum’s theatrical programming coordinator. “I missed

work when I had my chemotherapytreatments,” she says,“and I missed whenI was out or surgery– they ask you to takea week o becauseo everything you’re

going through. But that was it. I did radiation during my lunch hour, and

then come back.” Tankully, she also had a strong support systemthere to assist her.

My parents were great. Tey had come to st ay with us when we started chemotherapy, becausewe didn’t know what was gonna happen and

what it was gonna be like, and i the kids neededsomething, they could be a nice diversion.

I was very lucky, because I didn’t have a loto nausea. But there were certainly days where I

didn’t eel well, and just wanted to be le alone, anddidn’t want to have anything to do with the kids.And that’s when my ather would sweep in and say,

“Hey! Guess what! We’re gonna go to Happy Joe’s!”And the kids were like, “Oh, Happy Joe’s!” Tat wasa huge blessing.

But there were moments at home when I wouldeel horrible, and my little girl would go, “Look,Mommy!” And she’d sing some song rom a show

that I did, and it would be hysterical. Just laughing helped. And my husband ... . Tere were days,during the process, when just having him there

was all I needed to make everything else go away.

You know, these things you take or granted every

single day all o a sudden become so vivid to you.I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like to go

through this alone. I mean, I consider mysel a very

strong person, but I’m not sure that I could have

done that without anybody else. Tere were so

many times where I knew it had nothing to do with

me that I made it through the day.

wondrul, Porul TingBeyond work and amily, Myatt says she also

continued to fnd comort in the arts, choreographing Pleasant Valley High School’s Crazy or You,

and directing Countryside Community Teatre’s2006 production o Oliver! while undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

When I rst ound out I was sick, I went to the

[Countryside] board and said, “I’ll understand i

you don’t want me to do this. But right now, I don’t

have anything that’s holding me back, so it’s up to

you.” And they said, “No, we trust you.” And people

like [previous Center Stage owner] Shellee Frazee,

and other olks that I knew, said, “I you need

somebody to step in – like i you need somebody to

show moves to the cast – I can do that.” Everybody

was willing to be supportive o the process, whichwas really kind o cool.

So I did the best that I could. It was hard

sometimes, but once you get to a certain point

in directing, you get to sit back a lot. So when I

was having bad days, I could sit, and it was okay.

And Page Grubb was my music director. He

passed away two years ago rom cancer, but he

had had cancer beore, so he’d been through it, and

sometimes, just all o a sudden, he’d say something

to make me laugh because he knew I wasn’t eeling

well.

Te arts are a wonderul, powerul thing. I

mean, I always thought that I hated the show Annie[which Myatt will actually direct or Countryside

this summer]. I swore that I would never, ever

direct that show in my lie, and i anybody did it,

I’d run as ar away as I could. But you know what?

Tere’s something about that show, like Oliver! – that in the dark o an orphanage, in the dark o

the streets, there are people who are still happy.

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wat’s happenin’TheatreTroilus & Cressida1616 Second Avenue, The District o Rock Island

Friday, March 19, through Sunday, March 28

The arrival o William Shakespeare’s roilus& Cressida, the latest anything-goes oering

by the Prenzie Players, is a pretty huge deal, asdirector Maggie Woolley’s production is the rstto be staged in the classical-theatre troupe’s very own space, located at 1616 Second Avenue in theDistrict o Rock Island.

It’s also a pretty huge deal based on the c ast,

which eatures a quintet o gied area actors (PatFlaherty, Michael King, Brianne Kinney, MattMercer, and Steven Quartell) making their debuts

in a Prenzie endeavor, plusperormers (Stephanie Bur

David Furness, Andrew KoMcFarren, Matt Moody, BeYoder) amiliar rom previo

As or the plot to this in I actually wrote my nal excollege, but that was so mathat I don’t quite trust my me oer this description, stPlayers Web site:

“In the seventh year o thprince o roy, loves Cressiroilus seeks to woo CressiPandarus, though Cressida

MusicTantricRock Island Brewing Company

Saturday, March 27, 9 p.m.

“The unny thingabout going through

struggles,” says HugoFerreira, lead singer o thealternative rock band antric,“is that struggles make youinteresting.”

Man, what an interestingband antric is!Formed in 1999 with ormer

Merge rontman Ferreiraand three ormer memberso Days o the New – Mattaul, Jesse Vest, and oddWhitener – antric initially ound wild success with itssel-titled, platinum-sellingdebut album, smash singles in“Breakdown” and “Astounded,”and a national tour alongsideKid Rock and Creed. Tegroup’s career trajectory took aslight downward turn with thesomewhat disappointing saleso 2004’s Afer We Go, but theCD still yielded a top-10 hitwith the single “Hey Now,”and antric continued to tour,this time with ellow rockersShinedown and 3 DoorsDown.

And then ... .Vest lef the group, to be

replaced by Bruce LaFrance, in2005. antric parted ways with

its collapsing label, Maverick Records, in 2006. aul wasarrested on drug-relatedcharges in 2007. Whitener lefthe group in 2007. LaFrancelef the group in 2007. And thegroup’s third album peaked atnumber 91 on the Billboard charts. Its ironic title? Te End Begins.

Ah, but it ain’t over ’til it’sover, as you’ll witness whenantric brings its unrestrainedpost-grunge sound tothe Rock Island BrewingCompany on March 27. Withlead singer Ferreira joiningRichie Monica, Joe Pessia,Erik Leonhardt, and MarcusRatzenboeck, the group iscelebrating the release o itsrecent CD Mind Control , andwhile the band’s lineup may have changed, its rontmansays its name won’t. “I’m stillthe one who believes in it,” hesays. And besides, “I’ve got thething tattooed on my arm.”Which is exactly why I’m notallowed to nd a replacementor my mother.

For more inormation onantric’s RIBCO appearance,call (309)793-4060 or visit

RIBCO.com.

LiteratureCecil MurpheyMidwest Writing Center and The Outing ClubSaturday, March 20

When you learn that Davenportnative Cecil Murphey will soon

be leading a workshop titled “Why Can’t

You Be an Extraordinary Writer?”, yourrst response might easily be, “So whois he to teach me about writing?” Well,

according to the press materials Iwas sent, it appears that Murphey is qualied or the gig, as he’s hadthree books published: WhenSomeone You Love Has Cancer,When God urned O the Lights,and Christmas Miracles.

Oh, wait. My mistake. Toseare the books he had published last year .Murphey is actually the author o morethan 100 books, and apparently has nineothers set or release.

Fine. So he’s really, really, really

qualied.With works including the

nationwide bestseller 90 Minutesin Heaven – included on USAoday’s list o the 150 bestsellingbooks o the past 15 years – andcitations including the AdvancedWriters & Speakers Association’s

Lietime Achievement Award and theAmerican Society o Journalists &Authors’ Extraordinary Service Award,Murphey is clearly one o America’s mostprolic and lauded inspirational writers.

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Atkeyno theDaviBanqthatand awriteCent

TheatreThe Pajama GameProspect Park Auditorium

Thursday, March 25 through Saturday, March 28

You want to know how long I’ve loved the Broadway musical Te Pajama Game? Its storyline concerns a

nightwear-actory union that’s demanding a raise o seven-

and-a-hal cents an hour, and when I rst saw the show, that

seemed like a healthy chunk o change.O course, there are plenty o people

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musicians perorming with FloatingAction and Middle Distance, in an all-ages concert sponsored by Daytrotter.Huckleberry’s Great Pizza & Calzones (223

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Saturday, March 27 – Mustard Plug. Michigan-based indie rockers in concert,with opening acts Firesale and The

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nspiration will no doubt be on handthe author shares his experienceslents in two Davenport appearancesrch 20.

6 p.m., Murphey will serve as thete speaker or the 30th anniversary Midwest Writing Center’s annualR. Collins Literary Awardset, an evening at the Outing Clubill eature dinner, an auction,ards and recognition or local

s. And at the Midwest Writingr itsel, rom 1 to 3 p.m., Murphey

will unveil the dierence between awriter who sells a thousand copies o abook and one who sells a million in theaorementioned workshop “Why Can’tYou Be an Extraordinary Writer?” I’dconsider attending mysel, but you know,I hear that question rom my bosses every damned day o my lie ... .

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Corrine Smith, Through April at MidCoast Gallery West

“N to M”

by Jef Ignatius

[email protected]

The tree jumps out.And the buildings.And the still lie.

In the new show o 26works by mixed-mediaartist Corrine Smith,

these mundane objectsare nearly shocking.Smith, who teaches design

at Augustana College,said she encourages herstudents to think o shape

or shape’s sake, color orcolor’s sake, and textureor texture’s sake. “I’m very

much a ormalist in thatway,” she said recently.“Composition is a stickler

or me.”Her painting or the past

three decades has ollowed

those rules with abstract,sophisticated treatments o the most basic rectangular

and round orms. (“I don’tthink that I have exhaustedthose shapes yet,” she said.

“I’m not the least bit tiredo them at all.”)

So even though much

o the work in the newshow (which runs throughApril at MidCoast Gallery West in downtown Rock

Island) ts comortably inher pure-design aesthetic,something approaching

representative painting –in her Shelter series and in the tabletop stilllie Te Blue Olive – appears to represent a

radical shif. Shelter #9 is clearly meant as apair o buildings and a tree.

“Tat’s all really new to me,” she said o

this transition.Shelter Series #14 is not as easily

identiable, and Smith said the “buildings”

can also be seen as two people. Te tree ismissing its crown. “I suppose I didn’t putthe little green top on there because it kind

o reaked me out that I made a tree,” shesaid.

Tat’s a hint that this development in her

work has come as a surprise to the artist.“I don’t know where these things are

coming rom,” she said. “I kind o do like

it, actually. I don’t know it leaves as muchto the imagination ... but it’s still really newor me. I guess I’ll continue it or a while.”

At the end o last year, she said, shebegan looking at houses while on walksand got stuck on the idea o homes. She

thought about them as containers o

belongings, and about how the loss o a home or many people represents the

loss o their wealth, tied up as it is in

possessions. And the Shelter series was

born.

And those ideas dovetailed with a pair

o earthquakes. “Tere are a lot o disasters

happening in the world,” Smith said.

Other developments in her work have

been more gradual. “I think I’ve gotten a

little bit tighter over the years,” she said.

“I’ve gotten into a lot more layering and

a lot more planning. ... I’ve gotten into

making paper and exploring a large variety

o handmade paper, which then kind

o leads me into a little more interest inpattern.”

Her older works, she said, “might be a

little more painterly. ... I think these are

a little cleaner. ... I think these are more

controlled or some reason.”

Each work, she said, starts with two

or three line drawings laid on top o

each other, providing the compositional

ramework. She begins with a color scheme

in mind.

Yet Smith emphasized that her process

is intuitive: “I always let the painting paintitsel ... ,” she said.

And even though the basic structure is

one o the rst things sheestablishes, she rotates

the work while it’s inprogress. “Te top isconstantly changing,” she

said. “I don’t know whatis the top [edge] until it’sdone.”

Tat, o course,changes the nature o thework. urned one way, it

might be bottom-heavy.

urned another, it mighteel like it’s leaning to

the right. “It’s all aboutasymmetrical balance,”Smith said. “I tend to likethings that are weighted

on top, because I think it dees gravity a littlebit ... .”

Aside rom the Shelter series, don’t expect Smithto attach meaning to her

works. Viewers mightsee symbolism in aparticular shape or area,

she said, but “I ofenlove the shape o beans,”she said. “It’s just that

simple.”Te oldest works

in this show date to

September 2009, andthat’s a testament to howprolic Smith is. “I treat

it like a job,” she said.

She’s long had a goal o creating 100 works in a year, which she rst

surpassed with 102 in 2008. (“I never countuntil the very end,” she said.) She made 117paintings last year, she said, and sold 85.

She has a goal o creating two paintingsa week. “I you talk to most artists, it’s kindo insane,” she said.

Smith said that she works on paintings“one at a time. Always.” Beginning a newwork when she gets stumped by another,

she said, would be a cop-out. “You just haveto keep working on it,” she said. “I don’t

believe in starting another one just becausethe one you’re working on doesn’t work.You have to resolve it and then go on to thenext.”

Corrine Smith’s work is on display at MidCoast Gallery West (1629 Second Avenue in Rock Island) through April; theexhibit also eatures the ceramics o AshleyFulton. A closing reception will be held rom6 to 9 p.m. on April 16.

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“Ugh ... I don’t know ... .” But he kept bringing it

up, and bringing it up, and nally last year, he said

to me, “But you’d do it i it was or a cause youbelieved in, right? And instead o the ocus being

on you, it could be on something you could help

support.” And I said, “Yup. Tat’s true. I would.”

So last year, or my 39th birthday, my husband

said, “We’re going over to Sports Fans [Pizza].”

Tey were doing karaoke, and we were gonna meet

riends there. So we get there, and they threw my

name in to sing, and they made me sing “I Will

Survive,” ’cause that’s usually my karaoke theme

song. And as I nish singing and get ready to leave,

my husband comes up and says, “You can’t leave

yet.” And I thought it was gonna be some stupid

birthday thing.But he hands me t his CD o Rod Pierson’s (Not-

So) Big Band, and hands me this mock-up poster,

and he says, “I’ve talked with all these people,

and next year, or your 40th birthday, to celebrate

ve years o survivorship, you’re gonna give t his

cabaret. You’re gonna be backed by your own big

band, and all the money is gonna go to this charity.”

And I was really ... . I was pretty fabbergasted.

A ormer student is gonna design the lighting,

and another ormer student is gonna make me

a dress, and it’s at the Col Balroom, which is a

wonderul place to sing. And once my husbandand I started planning this, it gave us the chance

to tell the kids [about Myatt’s cancer]. It was a

whole dierent way o telling them, o course, but

do you nd the hope and strength in these horrible

situations?”, but now I know. Because hope is what

sustains you. I you don’t have that, thereis no lie.One lady said to me, “I’m amazed by how

positiveyou are all the time.” And I said, “Well,

rst o all, I have small children at home. I want to

be an example or them, and t he example I want

to set is that sometimes lie throws us really hard

things, but you keep moving orward the best that

you possibly can.” But beyond that, I said, “Nobody

ever knows when that last day is. I this were the

last time that you ever got to talk to me, I wouldn’t

want you to think, ‘Man, she’s a bitch.’”

I will Surviv Aer two surgeries, six rounds o chemotherapy,

and six weeks o radiation, Myatt was declared

cancer-ree, and began, as she says, actually being

that poster child she previously hoped not to be. “I

became involved with the [Susan G.] Komen [or

the Cure] organization,” she says, “I sang or their

survivor celebration, I’ve been asked to be part o the

race committee ... .” And she’ll now be raising unds

or the Genesis Center or Breast Health with her

cabaret perormance – not that the idea, as she reely

admits, was originally hers.

My husband, who’s always been my number-one an, had always said to me, “You should do a

cabaret evening.” And I thought, “Well, that’d be

un, but isn’t that a little sel-serving?” So I said,

In t Fac o an Unsn enm

by Mike Schulz

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we kinda said, “We went through this, Mommy’s

good now, but you need to know because it’ll bein the papers and people’ll be talking about it, andwe don’t want you to be surprised.” And they were

really good about it. O course, they’re older now,so that helps.

So now I get to do this un cabaret evening, but

it’s all or a good cause. I just eel like aer all thesepeople came orward or me, now it’s my turn togive something back, and it’s our hope that the

money will assist others who otherwise wouldn’thave the kind o experience I had. And give themthe same kind o hope.

Part o a PlanSince being presented with her clean bill o

health, Myatt says that lie has resumed to normal – or rather, better than normal. She appeared inCountryside’s productions o Seussical and TeSound o Music, co-directed (with her husband)last summer’s production o the organization’sAnnie

Get Your Gun , continues a ull class schedule at theCenter Stage Perorming Arts Academy (which shehas run since 2008), is currently choreographing Davenport North High School’s production o Anything Goes, and, on the eve o her 40thbirthday, is continually grateul or the chance to do

“all the things you thought could not be possibilitiesagain. I mean, this is it. Tis is me. And I haven’t stopped being me.”

Every day now is another day that I’m really

glad or what I have. I mean, you know, will the

cancer ever come back? My hope is no; I mean, Idon’t think anybody says, “I hope it comes back,’cause it was un.” It wasn’t . But it taught me a lot

about mysel that I didn’t know. It allowed meto be really vulnerable and ask or help, which isnot in my bag o t ricks, usually. I’m usually very

independent and do it all on my own and I couldn’t this time. And that was very humbling or me.

I love my lie, I love where I am, and I’m really

glad that, in the time that I’m here, I’ve ound a way to use what were unequivocally the most horriblemoments in my lie to do something that can be

good or other people. I just came to the realizationthat this was something that was supposed to

happen to me. Tat this was part o a plan, whetherI understood it or not.

People say to me, “Oh, you’re turning 40.” Idon’t care. It doesn’t matter how many years it

is, it doesn’t matter how old you are. One o thekids at Davenport North made me laugh, t hough,because she came up to me and said, “So-and-sosaid that you’re hot or an older person.” I’m like,

“Somewhere in there is a compliment ... .”

Myatt will perorm An Evening with ChristinaMarie: A Benet or the Genesis Center or BreastHealthat Davenport’s Col Ballroom on April 3, beginning at 7 p.m. ickets are $15, and can

be reserved by calling (563)391-3174. For moreinormation on the event, visit CenterStage-Arts.com.


wat els Is happnin’Wednesday, March 31 – Miles Kurosky.

Independent musician rom Beulahperorming with Pancho-san, in an all-ages concert sponsored by Daytrotter.Huckleberry’s Great Pizza & Calzones (22318th Street, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $6-$8. Forinormation, e-mail [email protected] visit Daytrotter.com.

THEATRESaturday, March 20 and Sunday, March21 – Little Shop of Horrors. Broadway’s hitmusical comedy about a man-eating plant,and the ourth event in the church’s annualPerorming Arts Series. First PresbyterianChurch o Davenport (1702 Iowa Street,Davenport). Saturday – 7:30 p.m., Sunday – 4p.m. $8-$12. For tickets and inormation, call(563)326-1691.

Wednesday, March 24, throughSaturday, May 22 – Church Basement

Ladies 2: A Second Helping. Sequel tothe hit musical comedy set in the kitcheno a Lutheran Church. Circa ’21 DinnerPlayhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays,and Thursday, March 23 – 6 p.m. dinner,7:45 p.m. show; Sundays 4 p.m. dinner, 5:45

p.m. show; Wednesday matinées 11:45 a.m.plated lunch, 1:30 p.m. show. $27.04-$46.28.

For tickets and inormation, call (309)796-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

Friday, March 26, through Sunday,March 28 – Avenue Q. The Tony Award-winning “Sesame Street or grown-ups,”in a presentation sponsored by HancherAuditorium. U.S. Cellular Center (370 FirstAvenue, Cedar Rapids). Friday – 7:30 p.m.,Saturday and Sunday – 2 and 7:30 p.m. $50-$57. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visithttp://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.

Thursday, March 25, through Saturday,March 27 – Sexual Perversity in Chicago.Relationship comedy written by DavidMamet, directed by St. Ambrose senior Katie

McCormack. St. Ambrose University – GalvinFine Arts Center studio theatre (2101 GainesStreet, Davenport). Thursday and Friday7:30 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m. $6. For ticketsand inormation, call (563)333-6251 or visithttp://Web.SAU.edu/theatre.

COMEDY Saturday, March 20 – Larry the Cable

Guy. Blue Collar comedian in his “TailgateParty Tour.” Adler Theatre (136 East ThirdStreet, Davenport). 5 and 8 p.m. $43.75.For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit

AdlerTheatre.com.Saturday, March 20 – Sinbad. Stand-up-

comedy set with the television and lmstar. Quad-Cities Waterront ConventionCenter (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendor).7:30 p.m. $25-$40. For tickets andinormation, call (800)843-4753 or visitBettendor.IsleOCapriCasinos.com.

MOVIESOpening Friday, March 19 – Hubble

3-D. An educational space adventure,narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. PutnamMuseum & IMAX Theatre (1717 West12th Street, Davenport). $5.50-$8.50. Forshowtimes and inormation, call (563)324-1933 or visit Putnam.org.

Wednesday, March 24 – Kenny Salwey: The Last River Rat . Fity-minutedocumentary on the author’s experiencealong the upper Mississippi River, withstorytelling and a Salwey Q&A sessionollowing each screening. The Capitol Theatre (330 West Third Street, Davenport).5 and 7:30 p.m. $5 at the door, withproceeds beneting Nahant Marsh. Forinormation, call (563)326-8820 or visit TheCapDavenport.com.

Saturday, March 27 – Fifth-Annual

Sierra Club Environmental Film Festival.

Featuring screenings o the documentariesFresh, No Impact Man, Dirt, A Sea Change,

and Coal Country , and a lmmakingworkshop with photographer Ange Glade.Olin Auditorium – Augustana College (73335th Street, Rock Island). 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.Donations accepted. For inormation, e-mail Kathryn Allen at [email protected] orvisit Illinois.SierraClub.org/eagleview.

LECTURETuesday, March 23 – Kathleen

Kennedy Townsend. Former lieutenantgovernor o Maryland and U.S. deputyassistant attorney general discusses “Hasthe Protestant Church Lost Its Bearings?”Bergendof Hall o Fine Arts – Augustana

College (3701 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. Free admission. Forinormation, call (309)794-7721 or [email protected].

EVENTFriday, March 26 – The World

Famous Lipizzaner Stallions. The 40thAnniversary Tour eaturing new music,routines, and choreography or theequine sensations. i wireless Center (1201River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m. $22-$29.

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inormation disadvantage. In the History-

channel orums, one user wrote that “thepickers know what they are buying, and

how much it’s worth, but keep it secretive

to those who they are buying it rom. Tat’s

taking advantage.”

But the stars o the show emphasized

that they’re dealing with willing buyers, and

noted that they get shut down a lot. Wole

said that i he visits 20 arms in a day, he

might come away empty-handed 15 times.

“A lot o people turn us away,” Fritz said.

“We’ve been turned away hundreds o

times.”

But American Pickers doesn’t emphasize

that. “Would you watch a shing show i

the guy never caught anything?” Wole said.

And it’s wise to keep in mind the

perspective oered by another History-

channel orum poster: “Given all the people

that actually prey on the elderly, the energy

spent griping about this show on this board

kind o makes me ill.”

The Future

Wole said it was only a matter o time beore somebody made a show like

American Pickers. He was just rst. “I took

being a picker and put it in a bottle and

stuck a label on it,” he said.

He doesn’t make any eort to hide his

glee at American Pickers’ success, and it’s

clear that he’s interested in the business end

o television. “We own the rickin’ airwaves

on Monday night,” Wole said, noting 5

million viewers or recent episodes o PawnStars and nearly 3.9 million or the March 1

Pickers. “Tat’s insane numbers or cable.”

He noted that his show’s debut drew 3.1

million people, and he added that History

hoped or 1.5 million “Tere was only

one show ever that beat us on a premiere,

and that was Ice Road ruckers in 2007,

and they only got 3.2. So they barely beat

us.” (Ice Road ruckers was History’s best

premiere, not cable’s. Te debut o TeCloser , or instance, drew more than 7

million viewers.)

Wole wouldn’t discuss the show’s budget

or how much he’s being paid, but he said

that the rst season isn’t about money; to atelevision network, the advertising revenue

is theoretical until the show airs. “You’re

nobody; the show is nothing ... ,” he said.

Te second season is bringing with it

more money or its three stars, but he

said the real money lies in endorsements

– which he said wouldn’t even be realistic

until a third season.

“We’re all making a little bit more

money,” he said o the second season. “Are

we going to retire anytime soon? No.”

Te success has its own burdens. Colby-Cushman said she’s now getting 1,200


to keep stu. ... [But] i you get stu and

fip it quick, you don’t get an emotional

attachment with it.”Tat saddle might be worth $5,000 i it’s

at an auction with multiple bidders trying

to get it, Wole said. But nobody bit with astarting bid o $199 on eBay. Wole said he

ended up selling it or $175. “I I can’t make

100 bucks on something ... then I need toget out o the business,” he said.

A 1948 Rock-Ola jukebox bought on

Pickers was estimated on the show to be

worth $5,000. “I sold it or $1,900.” Wolesaid. “I paid $1,300; I drove to Ohio to get

it.

“Te only thing that’s ever gotten us in

trouble on the show is these appraisals,” headded. “Te appraisals are way o-chart.

... We are not going to be guinea pigs to

appraisals any more.”Generally speak ing, Wole and Fritz said,

they pay hal o what they think they can

sell an item or. But even or that to work,

they have to sell a lot o items because o their costs.

“I’ve got a mortgage,” Wole said. “I’ve

got all this overhead” – including travel,

lodging, ood, storeront, and employeecosts.

Tere are times, o course, when the

pickers sell or ar more than they expected.Wole said he bought a moving-company

sign or $75, thinking he could only get

$200 or it because it was warped and

plastic, and because subject matter dictatesthe sale prices or signs. “When I put it on

eBay, it went or $1,200,” he said.

Tat speaks to the nature o the business.

Te stars o American Pickers stress

that they aren’t antique experts. (“We’reproessionals at nding things,” Fritz said.)

Tey have areas o expertise, but outsideo those, it’s a guessing game. When they

bought the jukebox on the show, Wole

said: “1,300 bucks or us is a lot o money to

gamble.”Both Wole and Fritz know their

motorcycles; Wole knows bikes and signs;

and Fritz is a toy collector. Outside o those

areas, Colby-Cushman said, “all he can dois guess at what it’s going to sell or. Tat is

where the trouble lies.”

And she said viewers oen don’t get theull story. “I can tell you o several situations

where Mike has ound out that something

he has picked or $20 is worth way more

than he thought, and he’s gone back andgiven more money to the person he’s picked

rom,” she said. “It happens more oen than

you think.”

And, she added, “we have to eat it onso many items. ... Tat stu is just what

happens.”

“You need to make sure you make more

right decisions than wrong ones,” Fritz said.Still, there’s an element o the show that’s

American Pickers

by Jef Ignatius

[email protected]

e-mail messages a day through the e-mail

address on Wole’s Web site. “We’re just

learning how to deal with something thathas exploded,” she said. “We were not ready

at all or it to be as big as it is. We thought itwould be a un little show.”

Fritz said he’s not surprised by the show’s

success. He said he thinks a lot o viewersget to have adventures through him andWole: “A lot o people would love to be

pickers, would love to be junkers. Butthey got ve kids, they got a wie, they gotthis, they got t hat. Tey can’t physically or

nancially do it.” He and Wole, he added,aren’t married and don’t have children: “Not

too many people are able to do this job laterin lie like we are.”

Wole said he hopes the show inspiresyoung people to do what he’s done since he

was a kid: pick. “It takes that one person toplant that seed,” he said. “ Tat’s what someold guy did with me. I would walk down

the alley and this old guy had a bunch o stu in his garage and he would sit and talk with me or hours. And I remember that he

gave me a cigar box one time, and that washuge. ... I remember that guy.”

Still, the degree o success has been asurprise. “Obviously we didn’t know howbig it was going to be,” Fritz said. “We’re

very ortunate to have what we have going,

and we’re going to keep riding this bus aslong as it keeps running. Te main thingis we’re hoping to spark some interest in

the antique trade,” especially among youngpeople. “I am embracing this with the mostpleasure I can. I’m very, very happy that

mother is still alive to be able to see my 15minutes o ame.”

Tat’s the diplomatic, gracious way to

look at the success o American Pickers.And Fritz sounded realistic about the long-term prospects o the show. Although PBS’ Antiques Roadshow has been around in

the United States since 1997 – the British version started in 1979 – it’s likely theexception. “Reality shows are good or three

or our years,” he said.But Wole isn’t above talking some

smack, saying that his show is responsible

or an impending glut o shows ocused onbuying and selling. “You won’t believe all

the stu all the networks are working onnow,” he said. “Now that us and Pawn Stars are spanking the shit out o everybody ...it’s all going to come at you like a ucking

tsunami now. ... Give it about a year.”

New episodes o American Pickers air Mondays at 8 p.m. on History. Te frst season concludes its run on March 29.

For more inormation on AmericanPickers , visit History.com/shows/americanpickers. Antique Archeology’s Web site is

AntiqueArcheology.com; Frank Fritz’s Website is FrankFritzFinds.com.

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makes small changes around their home (likemaking their gas-powered lights ficker),then denies anything’s dierent, making

her believe her sanity ’s gone o its hinges.In a relationship, writes Dr. Robin Stern in

Te Gaslight Eect , you’re being gaslightedwhen somebody relentlessly pressures you

to believe the unbelievable and do whatyou know you shouldn’t. Stern explains that

the gaslighter “needs to be right in order topreserve his own sense o sel and his sense

o having power in the world,” while thegaslightee allows him to bully away her senseo reality and sel because she ears losinghis love and approval. O course, in your

case, it could have something to do with notwanting to think you’ve wasted ve yearswith “a selsh, manipulative ass.” (Fart-play suddenly sounding inviting?)

Just as you don’t have to believe in Santa

to take your kid nephew to give his list

o demands to some at stranger in a akebeard, you don’t have to believe in marriageto appreciate what a huge lie event it is or

your riend. Huge enough that it’s reasonableto “sacrice” your “commitment” to attenda giant acid-dropping est in the desert.Tere are commitments, and then there

are commitments, which is why there arebazillions o wedding photographers butew earning thousands o dollars shootingkeepsake albums o people who carpooltogether.

O course, you know all this. Or knew– until Clarence Darrow, as played by a

big, soggy-diapered baby, started in onyou. Clearly, this is less about a weddingthan winning. But in a healthy relationship,winning sometimes means letting the personyou care about get their way. A loving

boyriend might be under-thrilled that you’reattending the wedding, but he won’t hammeryou about it until you’re not sure who you areor what you think. You either need to reuse

to engage when he goes bully on you or reuseto stick around or more. I you do decide

to leave, you shouldn’t have to worry aboutnding a new boyriend, just about hiring

bouncers or the line o guys wanting to dateyou aer hearing the reason behind yourbreakup: “Yeah, seems my ex just couldn’thandle it when I said, ‘Bummer that I have to

get all dressed up and go to this wedding, butyou live it up best you can at that p aganistic,psychedelic orgy in the desert.’”

I agreed to be in a riend’s wedding, andunortunately, she had to change the date

to the day my boyriend and I were going to Burning Man. When I told him I’d have

to go to her wedding instead, he eruptedin anger. He wants me to ask her to changethe date, and says he’ll “never orgive me”

i I don’t go with him. Now, we were only going to Burning Man together because he

couldn’t take the whole week o, so insteado going with his riends, he decided to

accompany me midweek. I reminded himthat we’ve been to Burning Man six times,

and a wedding, presumably, happens oncein a lietime. He called me a hypocritebecause I don’t believe in marriage, but

will “sacrifce my commitment” to himto celebrate her commitment. He argues

with such vehemence, I’m beginning todoubt my own judgment and wonder i

he’s right. He’s acted like this beore, but

it’s become less requent during our fve years together. I don’t want to believe my

boyriend’s a selfsh, manipulative ass, so… does he have a point? I not, how do I

explain that you don’t abandon your riendon her wedding day to run around naked

in the desert?– Upset Bridesmaid

I your boyriend’s ego were a pimple, it

would burst and food Vermont.He’s actually demanding that the bride

rebook the church, the caterer, the forist,

and the hall, and tell hundreds o her gueststo change their plans. Because he needs

you there when he accepts his Nobel? No,because he wants to bum a ride with you

to go to stand around the desert and watchmiddle-aged men and women fitting aboutin airy wings and clown noses, painting

daisies around each other’s nipples. It getsbetter. He’s telling you he’ll “never orgive”

you. Because you slept w ith his brother,his best riend, or his brother and his best

riend? Nope. Because he might have to

pitch in or gas or a ride in some riend-o-a-riend’s van that’s been modied into agiant rubber ducky in a tutu.

What your boyriend’s doing to you is

“gaslighting,” wh ich, unortunately, only sounds like lighting arts on re. It’s actually

insidious emotional abuse that gets its namerom the 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie,

Gaslight , about an heiress whose husband

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weeks, eed your dreams. And I mean “dreams”in both the sense o the nocturnal adventures

you have while you’re sleeping and the sweepingdaytime visions o what you’d like to become.

CAPRICORN (December 22-

January 19): I just ound out theAmerican shipping company UPS

has legally trademarked the color brown. Tegrass-roots activist in me is incredulous andappalled. But the poet in me doesn’t really

care; it’s ne i UPS owns drab, prosaic brown.I’ve still got mahogany at my command, aswell as tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan,

cinnamon, walnut, and henna. Tat’s especially important or this horoscope, Capricorn,because I’m advising you to be very down to

earth, be willing to get your hands dirty, andeven play in the muck i necessary in orderto take good care o the basics. But don’t do

any o that in a boring, humdrum “brown”way. Do it exotically and imaginatively, likemahogany, tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber,

tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): You are hereby

excused rom having to know a single nuanceabout the inside story o Angelina Jolie’s secret

love tryst with Lady Gaga, or the addictionso conspiracy theorists who lose huge sums o money gambling on the end o the world, or

the agony that millionaires suer rom havingto support social services with their taxes. Inact, it’s a good time to empty your mind o

extraneous, trivial, and useless acts so that youcan clear vast new spaces or more pressing data,like how you can upgrade your communicationskills, why you should do some upkeep on

your close alliances, and what you might do tostreamline your social lie.

PISCES (February 19-March 20):In my astrological opinion, you don’tneed anything that shrinks you or

defates you or tames you. Infuences thatpinch your imagination should be taboo, asshould anything that squashes your hope or

crimps your lie orce. o make proper useo the vibrations circulating in your vicinity,Pisces, you should gravitate toward situations

that pump up your insouciance and energize

your whimsy and incite you to express the mostbenevolent wickedness you can imagine. You’ve

got a mandate to atten up your soul so it cancontain a vaster sense o wonder and a moredaring brand o innocence.

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existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. Te whole creation is one lunatic ringe...

. No claims o any and all revelations could beso ar-etched as a single g irae.” (Dillard’s entirepassage is here: http://bit.ly/inkerCreek.) Reading

this passage is a good way or you to prepare orthe immediate uture, Leo. Why? Because you’llsoon be invited to commune with outlandish

glory. You’ll be exposed to stories that burstrom the heart o creation. You’ll be prodded torespond to marvelous blips with marvelous blips

o your own. But here’s the catch: It may all remaininvisible to you i you’re blinded by the alse belie that you live a boring, ordinary lie.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22): Te storm is your riend right now,

Virgo. So are the deep, dark night andthe last place you’d ever think o visiting

and the most important thing you’ve orgotten

about. So be more willing than usual to marinatein the mysteries – not with logical erocity butwith cagey curiosity. Te areas o lie that are

most crucial or you to deal with can’t be ully understood using the concepts your rational mindavors. Te eelings that will be most useul or you

to explore are unlike those you’re amiliar with.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22):

Here’s your mantra or the comingweek: “I disappear my ear. I resurrect my audacity.”Say it and sing it and murmur it at least 100 times

a day. Let it fow out o you aer you’ve awokeneach morning and are still lying in bed. Let itbe the last sound on your lips as you drop o to

sleep. Have un with it. Dip into your imaginationto come up with dierent ways to let it fy – say it as your avorite cartoon character might say

it, like a person with a Swedish accent, like your

inner teenager, like a parrot, like a grinning sage.“I disappear my ear. I resurrect my audacity. I

disappear my ear. I resurrect my audacity.”

SCORPIO (October 23-November21): Have you ever heard about how

some all-night convenience stores blastloud classical music out into the parking lot inorder to discourage drug dealers rom loitering?

In the coming days, use that principle wheneveryou need to drive home a point or make a strongimpression. Your aggressive expressions will be

more eective i you take the darkness and anger

out o them, and instead ll them up with orceulgrace and propulsive compassion.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Te Hebrew wordchalommeans “dream.” In his book

Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it’sderived rom the verb “to be made healthy and

strong.” Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, whichmeans “recovery, recuperation.” Extrapolating

rom these poetic hints and ring on your

astrological omens, I’ve got a prescription or youto consider: o build your vitality in the coming

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fromwhat I can tell, your excursion to Fake

Paradise didn’t exact too serious atoll. Te accidental detour may have

seemed inopportune in the moment, but you

know what? I think it slowed you down enoughto keep you rom doing something rash thatyou would have regretted later. And are you

really sorry you were robbed o your cherishedillusions? In the long run, I think it was or thebest. As or the scratches on your nose rom

when you stuck it into business you weren’t“supposed” to: Tey’re a small price to pay orthe piquant lesson you got in how not to live.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Somepeople are here on the planet to nd

success, while others are here to ndthemselves. In the big scheme o things,

I’m not sure which category you t into, aurus.

But I’m pretty sure that or the next ew weeksyou’ll be best served by acting as i you’re thelatter. Even i you think you’ve ound yoursel

pretty completely in the past, it’s time to gosearching again: Tere are new secrets to bediscovered, in large part because you’re not who

you used to be. So or now at least, I encourage

you to give your worldly ambitions a bit o a restas you intensiy your sel-explorations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Being

a paragon o moral behavior can beun and rewarding. It’s amazing howmany interesting people want to play

with me just because they think I’m so #%&@high-minded. But I’ve got to coness that my commitment to discipline and righteousness is

sometimes at odds with my rebellious itch togive you mischievous nudges and outrageous

challenges. Like right now, the conscientiousteacher in me might preer to advise you to keepa lid on debauchery, voracity, excess, uproar,slapstick, wise-cracking, reworks, and limit-

pushing. But the rabble-rousing agitator in meeels obligated to inorm you that at no othertime in 2010 will the karmic price be lower or

engaging in such pursuits.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’stime or you to stop specializing inurtive glimpses and start indulging

in brazen gazes. You’re ready to phase out your

role as a peripheral infuence and see i youcan be more o a high-intensity instigator and

organizer. Yes, Cancerian, you’ve earned theright to claim more credibility and clout – toleave your tentative position outside the magic

circle and head in the direction o the sweet hotspot.

LEO (July 23-August 22): “Natureseems to exult in aboundingradicality, extremism, anarchy,” wrote

Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at inker Creek. “I

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ACROSS

1. Shaped like an onion

8. Up, so to speak

13. Merchant’s come-on

17. Gained without eort

19. Had a yen or

21. Big cat

22. A prime minister or Victoria

23. Southern university since 1834

24. “Git _, little dogies!”

25. Map abbrs.

26. West Point undergrad

28. Not your sharp-eyed lookout man!30. To boot

31. Have a talk

33. Plains dwellings

34. Hollywood star in 1928 debut

38. Floor-plan designation

39. Postscript’s postscript: abbr.

42. Redolence

43. Symphony conductor rom

Bombay

45. Aircrat-engine enclosure

48. Recital number

49. Exchange

51. Robin Hood’s girlriend

54. More like street talk

56. What witnesses take

58. To-do list item59. Gram preceder

60. Ceremony

61. Tea cakes

62. Faucet

65. One handy with tools

70. _ and sciences

71. Spuds

73. Troubled car company

74. Clock’s meas.

76. And others

77. City on the Moselle

79. Not o the “in”crowd

84. Fountain order

86. Chopin work

88. O course!

89. Colorul wool abric

90. Theater aide92. Actress Anderson

93. Business abbr.

94. Crescent

96. Best-actress nominee or “Cinder-

ella Liberty” (1973)

100. Doesn’t stay the same

103. _ Saud

104. Columnist’s paragraph

105. Investor’s target

109. Classies

111. Movie studio, ounded 1929

114. 19th-century Iowa commune

115. One with a deck

117. Spunkier

119. Vader’s “Star Wars”title

120. Swit’s orte

121. Type o evidence

122. Dry-goods remnants

123. “_ common denominator”

124. Homemakers, o a sort

DOwN

1. Signs o spring

2. Platoon, perhaps

3. Minus

4. Lawyers, as a group

5. Delphi attraction

6. Nervous

7. Only once in a while

8. Legislature’s oering

9. Marsalis instrument10. One o the Sundas

11. “Stop it, sailor!”

12. Placed under canvas

13. Eliot’s Marner

14. Wide-eyed

15. NBC night owl

16. Cogito _ sum

18. Stamping tool

20. Poor swimmers avoid it

21. Subdue

27. Properly aligned

29. Gives a new moniker

30. Ohio city

32. Fireplace residue

34. Sign o age, in the woods

35. Object o worship

36. Sot drink 37. Epps or Shari

39. Flexible

40. Runway trac

41. Dispatches mail

44. At ull speed

46. One o the Falkland Islands

47. Fumble

49. Can

50. Paper order

52. Freeze intro

53. March 15

55. An archangel

57. Kinship group

62. Philippine peninsula

63. Slanted type

64. Waistbands

66. _ spumante

67. Astronomer Sagan

68. Japanese verse

69. Dull sound

71. Rates o speed, in music

72. Handgun

75. Map abbr.

78. Addict’s retreat

79. Friendly, in war

80. Muslim world

81. Twosomes

82. Cube-maker Rubik

83. Restraint

85. Too many to count

87. Shore fyers91. Powerul attackers

95. Breakast ood

97. Add to the payroll

98. Duds

99. On-base dining halls

100. Lets o steam

101. Mumbai servant

102. Long-snouted ray

105. Created

106. Yemen neighbor

107. Ointment

108. Byline on English “Essays”

110. Not on

111. Ascend

112. Actor Dullea

113. Middle Earth minions

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Mr. Whoopie - The Rusty Nail, 2606 WLocust, Davenport, IA

Open Mic Night - Coee Dive, 230 W. 3rdSt. 2nd Floor, Davenport, IA

Pappa-Razzi - Edje Nightclub at Jumer’sCasino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92,Rock Island, IL

Rockstar - Time Out Sports Bar and Grill,1815 Manuacturing Dr, Clinton, IA

The Bucktown Revue - River Music Expe-rience, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA

uneXpected - Shenanigan’s, 303 W. 3rdSt., Davenport, IA

2010/03/20 (Sat)

Alash - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE,Cedar Rapids, IA

Angie Pierce Jennings - Monks KaeePub, 373 Blu St., Dubuque, IA

Ava’s Blue Pick - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2ndAve., Rock Island, IL

Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Crab-by’s, 826 W. 1st Ave., Coal Valley, IL

Burning Halos - The Sullivan Gang- Justin Alan Cox - The Mill, 120 EBurlington, Iowa City, IA

Caught in the Act - The Rusty Nail, 2606W Locust, Davenport, IA

DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202

W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IADown 24’s - St. Patrick’s Day Celebra-

tion - The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313N Salina St, McCausland, IA

Final Mix - Riverside Casino and Gol Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA

DJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202W. Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA

DJ Scott Keller Productions & Karaoke - Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge,4506 27th St, Moline, IL

Gaelic Storm - Englert Theatre, 221 EastWashington St., Iowa City, IA

Gray Wolf Band - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320N. Brady St., Davenport, IA

Head for the Hills - The MilltownWranglers - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

Jake McVey (7:15 & 9:30pm) - JohnnyK & the Country Playboys (8:30pm) - Riverside Casino and Gol Resort, 3184Highway 22, Riverside, IA

Joe & Vicki Price - George’s, Iowa City, IAKaraoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody

Rd. N., LeClaire, IAKASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 1801

10th St., Moline, ILLee Blackmon & The Gamblers (6:30pm)

- Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Leslie & The Ly’s - Christopher the Con-quered - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,Iowa City, IA

Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Mr. Whoopie - The Rusty Nail, 2606 WLocust, Davenport, IA

Nick Mos s & th e F lip Tops - RascalsRock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St.,Moline, IL

Pappa-Razzi - Edje Nightclub at Jumer’sCasino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92,Rock Island, IL

Peter Balestreri - Monks Kaee Pub, 373Blu St., Dubuque, IA

Robbie Bahr - The Rodeo Saloon & Feed-

house, 1801 Lincolnway, Clinton, IARuss Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,

2606 W Locust, Davenport, IATh e Bran don Gibbs Ban d - Uptown

Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340Spruce Hills Dr., Bettendor, IA

2010/03/17 (Wed)

Alan Sweet - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,Davenport, IA

Feast of Mutton - Monks Kaee Pub, 373Blu St., Dubuque, IA

Karaoke DJ - The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill,313 N Salina St, McCausland, IA

Live Lunch w/ Chris Dunn (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

New Karaoke - Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708State Street, Bettendor, IA

Open Mic Night - The Dam View Inn, 4102nd St, Davenport, IA

Paper Thick Walls - The Blue Moose Tap,211 Iowa Ave., Iowa City, IA

The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featur-ing Jimmie Lee Adams - RascalsRock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St.,

Moline, ILTrent Wagler & the Steel Wheels - TheMill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA

Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) - Red CrowGrille, 2504 53rd St., Bettendor, IA

2010/03/19 (Fri)

ABC Karaoke - Circle Tap, 1345 Locust St.,Davenport, IA

Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Commodore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St.,Davenport, IA

Buddy Olson (5pm) - Missipi Brew, RiverDr, Muscatine, IA

Caught in the Act - The Rusty Nail, 2606W Locust, Davenport, IA

Corporate Rock - Jersey Grille, 5255Jersey Ridge Rd, Davenport, IA

Country Karaoke Idol - The Rodeo Sa-loon & Feedhouse, 1801 Lincolnway,Clinton, IA

Deja Vu Rendezvous - Marmaduke - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,Davenport, IA

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Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 180110th St., Moline, IL

SEVEN - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N.Brady St., Davenport, IA

Sin City Orchestra - Toucan’s OutdoorGril le-n-Cantina, 2020 1st Street,Milan, IL

Strange Neighbors - The RedstoneRoom, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA

“Tennessee” Tony Cavitt - The Grape LieWine Emporium, 3402 Elmore Ave.,Davenport, IA

The Brat Pack - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

The Chris & Wes Show - QC Zone, 15165th Ave, Moline, IL

The Karry Outz - Hawkeye Tap, 4646Cheyenne Ave., Davenport, IA

The Pointer Sisters - Riverside Casinoand Gol Resort, 3184 Highway 22,Riverside, IA

The Ragbirds - Bent River Brewing Com-

pany, 1413 5th Ave., Moline, ILToby Brown (6pm) - Mojo’s (River Music

Experience), 130 W 2nd St, Daven-port, IA

uneXpected - Mound Street Landing,1029 Mound St., Davenport, IA

Who Cares - Cabana’s, 4th Ave & 22nd St,Rock Island, IL

2010/03/21 (Sun)

Breille - The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W.Locust St., Davenport, IA

Hersong: Carry the Spirit On (3pm) - First Congregational Church - Moline,2201 7th Avenue, Moline, IL

Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pmbrunch performance) - The LodgeHotel, Spruce Hills & Utica Ridge,

Bettendor, IAStrangely Familiar (2pm) - Riverside

Casino and Gol Resort, 3184 Highway22, Riverside, IA

The Avey Brothers - Rascals Rock Memo-rabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL

The Terry Hanson Ensemble (10am) - Brady Street Chop House, RadissonQC Plaza Hotel, Davenport, IA

Third Sunday Jazz Matinee & Work-shop: Toscanellie “Lady T.” Marce-lain - The Redstone Room, 129 MainSt, Davenport, IA

Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) - BassStreet Chop House, 1601 River Dr,Moline, IL

2010/03/22 (Mon)

Karaoke Night - The Old Stardust SportsBar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL

Live Lunch w/ Randy Arcenas (noon) - Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ J. Knight - The Mill, 120 EBurlington, Iowa City, IA

The Edgar Crockett Jazz Quartet(6:30pm) - Coee Hound Coee

House (East Moline), 4141 7th St, EastMoline, IL

The U.S. Army Band Brass Quintet -University Capitol Centre, DowntownMall Main Floor, Iowa City, IA

2010/03/23 (Tue)

Dance Party USA w/ Rich Rok & TylerCoon - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S LinnSt, Iowa City, IA

J. Elliot - The Old Stardust Sports Bar,1191 19th Street, Moline, IL

Live Lunch w/ Jonathan Turner (noon) - Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Mac Frampton Trio - U.S. Cellular Center,370 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Open Mic Night @ M.D. Green’s w/ Jer-

emiah - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen - BierStube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St,Davenport, IA

John Gorka @ CSPS Legion Arts – March 25

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Screens - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,

Iowa City, IAThe Chris & Wes Show - Rascals Rock

Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-line, IL

Wordcure - Monks Kaee Pub, 373 Blu St., Dubuque, IA

2010/03/24 (Wed)

Cowboy Junkies - Lee Harvey Osmond - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,

Davenport, IAGoes Cube - East of the Wall - Aseethe

- The Picador, 330 E. Washington St.,Iowa City, IA

Open Mic Night - The Old Stardust SportsBar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL

Open Mic Night w/ Steve McFate(6:30pm) - Cool Beanz Coeehouse,

1325 30th St., Rock Island, IL“Tennessee,” That Nashville Cat (noon)

- Open Mic Night (7pm) - Mojo’s

(River Music Experience), 130 W 2ndSt, Davenport, IA

The Chris & Wes Show - Mound StreetLanding, 1029 Mound St., Daven-port, IA

The Craig Bentley Trio - Rascals Rock Mem-

orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, ILTyrone Wells - Tony Lucca - Roy Jay - The

Mill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA

2010/03/25 (Thu)

Ava’s Blue Pick (6:30pm) - Cae Fresh!,1711 5th Ave, Moline, IL

Black Hawk College Jazz Ensemble

(6:30pm) - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th

St, Rock Island, ILDJ Jonny O - Greenbriar Restaurant and

Lounge, 4506 27th St, Moline, IL John Gorka - Denice Franke - CSPS/

Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar

Rapids, IA

Jon Wayne & the Pain - RIBCO, 1815 2ndAve., Rock Island, IL

Live Lunch w/ Dave Maxwell (noon) - Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA



Stephen Cee - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featur-

ing Jimmie Lee Adams - RascalsRock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St.,Moline, IL


University of Iowa Jazz Performance - The Mill, 120 E Burlington, IowaCity, IA

2010/03/26 (Fri)


Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ -Commodore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St.,Davenport, IA

Dani Lynn Howe Band - Blueport Junc-tion, 6605 W River Dr, Davenport, IA

Daytrotter Presents: The DaredevilChristopher Wright w/Floating Ac-tion and Middle Distance Runner - Huckleberry’s, 223 18th St, Rock Island, IL

Dead Larry - Lunar Funk Theory - Jon

Wayne & the Pain - Iowa City YachtClub, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA


Frank Drew CD Release Party - 11thStreet Precinct, 2108 E 11th St, Dav-enport, IA

Fruit Bats - Blue Giant - The Mill, 120 EBurlington, Iowa City, IA


Mustard Plug - Firesale - The Agrestix - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,Davenport, IA

NINE-1-1 - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320 N.Brady St., Davenport, IA

Ol’ Thrashers Reunion 3: HOTT - LibertyLeg - Acoustic Guillotine - The Ter-cels - Bad Accidents - The Mill, 120 EBurlington, Iowa City, IA


Painkiller Hotel Acoustic Show - KevinPresbrey - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,Davenport, IA

Rick K & the Allnighters - RiversideCasino and Gol Resort, 3184 Highway22, Riverside, IA

Rocketpark - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320N. Brady St., Davenport, IA

Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 180110th St., Moline, ILSin City Orchestra - Toucan’s Outdoor

Gril le-n-Cantina, 2020 1st Street,Milan, IL

Smooth Groove - Martini’s On the Rock,4619 34th St, Rock Island, IL

Tantric - Cavalry - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

The Burlington Street Bluegrass Band(6pm) - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,Iowa City, IA

The Mercury Brothers - Rascals Rock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-line, IL

The Tailfins - Jersey Grille, 5255 JerseyRidge Rd, Davenport, IA

Tronicity - Greenbriar Restaurant andLounge, 4506 27th St, Moline, IL

uneXpected - Hawkeye Tap, 4646 Chey-enne Ave., Davenport, IAWho Cares - Parker’s, 635 15th St, Mo-

line, IL

Zoos of Berlin - Child Bites - The Picador,330 E. Washington St., Iowa City, IA

2010/03/27 (Sat)

Acoustic Jam Session w/ Steve McFate - Corner Tap, 4018 14th Ave., Rock Island, IL

Back 4 More - Silvis Eagles, 911 MansurAvenue, Silvis, IL


Community Drum Circle (10:30am) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Corporate Rock - Marlee’s Saloon, 506Main St., Lost Nation, IA

Cosmic - Alleman High School Perorm-ing Arts Center, 1103 - 40th Street,Rock Island, IL

Crossroads - Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310

W 1st Ave, Coal Valley, ILDani Lynn Howe Band (5pm) - PlamorBowling Alley, 1411 Grandview Ave.,Muscatine, IA

Dean Wellman - Monks Kaee Pub, 373Blu St., Dubuque, IA


Dustin Lee - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-

ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IAEvolution - Rumors, 1415 Grandview

Ave., Muscatine, IAGray Wolf Band - Jumer’s Casino & Hotel,

I-280 & I-92, Rock Island, ILGreg Sullivan & Matt Podschweit - Bor-

ders Books, Music & Cae, 4000 E. 53rdSt., Davenport, IA

Guilherme Vincens (3pm) - DenkmannMemorial Hall, Augustana College,

Rock Island, ILHap Hazard - Ducky’s Lagoon, 13515

78th Ave, Andalusia, IL

Gray Wolf Band - Jumer’s Casino & Hotel,I-280 & I-92, Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 CodyRd. N., LeClaire, IA

KASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 180110th St., Moline, IL

Left Lane Cruiser - The One NightStandards- RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

Live at the Lounge - St. Ambrose Univer-

sity, 518 W. Locust, Davenport, IAMichael Miller - Monks Kaee Pub, 373

Blu St., Dubuque, IAMidwest Dilemma - Maylane - I Eat

My Friends - Beat Boxcar Children - River Music Experience, 129 Main St,Davenport, IA

Painkiller Hotel Acoustic Show - KevinPresbrey - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,

Davenport, IARealfoot Rift - Raised by the System

- Torn Between - Six to the Chest - Hal’s Wagon Wheel, 1708 State Street,Bettendor, IA

Retro Ron - Mojo’s (River Music Experi-ence), 130 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Rick K & the Allnighters - Riverside

Casino and Gol Resort, 3184 Highway

22, Riverside, IA

Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,

2606 W Locust, Davenport, IA

Smooth Groove - Martini’s On the Rock,

4619 34th St, Rock Island, IL

Stoopifunk - Rascals Rock Memorabilia

Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL

The Mike & Carrie Show - Uptown

Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340

Spruce Hills Dr., Bettendor, IA

Tom Sadg e - Quad-Cities Waterront

Convention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway,

Bettendor, IA

Tony Hoeppner (noon) - Mojo’s (River

Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St,Davenport, IA

Vodkaseven - Route 61 Bar & Grill, 4320

N. Brady St., Davenport, IA

Left Lane Cruiser @ RIBCO – March 26

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Dawn’s Coffeehouse (5pm) - Dawn’s Hide& Bead Away, 220 E Washington St,

Iowa City, IADJ Night - Uncle Harley’s Bar & Grill, 202 W.Mayne St., Blue Grass, IA

Johnny On Point - Cirrus Minor - The Red-stone Room, 129 Main St, Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night - Sneaky Pete’s, 207 Cody Rd.N., LeClaire, IA

KASS DJ Night - Club Boulevard, 1801 10thSt., Moline, IL

Las Rubias del Norte - CSPS/Legion Arts,1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Live Lunch w/ Ren Estrand (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Mission Creek Festival: The Gglitch - D.Bess - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S LinnSt, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: The Meat Puppets- Joe Jack Talcum - Sam Locke Ward &the Boo-Hoos - The Mill, 120 E Burling-ton, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Tim Hecker - GregDavis & Lwa - The Picador, 330 E. Wash-ington St., Iowa City, IA

NINE-1-1 - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust,Davenport, IA

Passion - Riverside Casino and Gol Resort,3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA

Russ Reyman Trio (5pm) - The Rusty Nail,2606 W Locust, Davenport, IA

The Cowsills - Quad-Cities WaterrontConvention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway,Bettendor, IA

The Tailfins - Desperado’s, P.O. Box 386,Wheatland, IA

Tronicity - 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11thSt, Davenport, IA

uneXpected - Uptown Neighborhood Barand Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr., Bet-tendor, IA

2010/04/03 (Sat)

An Evening with Christina Marie - Col Ball-room, 1012 W. 4th St., Davenport, IA


Bumper Crop - Slaughterhouse Rootz - The Redstone Room, 129 Main St,Davenport, IA


DJ Scott Keller Productions & Karaoke - Greenbriar Restaurant and Lounge,4506 27th St, Moline, IL


Mission Creek Festival: Cory Chisel &the Wandering Sons - Diplomats of Solid Sound - Sad Iron Music - TheMill, 120 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Dennis McMur-rin & the Demolition Band - Iowa CityYacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Grant Hart - TheTanks - The Picador, 330 E. Washing-ton St., Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Greg Brown- Pieta Brown - Englert Theatre, 221East Washington St., Iowa City, IA

NINE-1-1 - The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust,Davenport, IA


Passion - Riverside Casino and Gol Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22, Riverside, IA

River Prairie Minstrels (6pm) - Mojo’s(River Music Experience), 130 W 2ndSt, Davenport, IA

Salsa Dancing - Club Boulevard, 180110th St., Moline, IL

The Metro Gnomes - Fargo, 4204 Avenueo the Cities, Moline, IL

Tronicity - 11th Street Precinct, 2108 E11th St, Davenport, IA

uneXpected - Time Out Sports Bar

and Grill, 1815 Manuacturing Dr,Clinton, IA

J. Elliot - The Old Stardust Sports Bar, 119119th Street, Moline, IL

Live Lunch w/ Steve Couch (noon) -

Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Mission Creek Festival Pre-Party: TheCave Sin g ers - Birds & Batteries- Mondo Drag - The Mill, 120 E Burling-ton, Iowa City, IA

Mis s ion Creek F es tival: Pocah un ted- Sun Araw - Peaking Lights - ReneHell - The Picador, 330 E. WashingtonSt., Iowa City, IA

Open Mic Night @ M.D. Green’s w/ Jer-emiah - M.D. Green’s, 1808 2nd Ave.,Rock Island, IL

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen - BierStube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St,Davenport, IA

Scott Miller - Uptown Neighborhood Barand Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr., Bet-tendor, IA

The Chris & Wes Show - Rascals Rock Mem-orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL

2010/03/31 (Wed)

Daytrotter Presents: Miles Kurosky -Pancho-san - Huckleberry’s, 223 18thSt, Rock Island, IL

Mission Creek Festival: Booker T - JJ Grey - Englert Theatre, 221 East WashingtonSt., Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: The DaredevilChristopher Wright - Brighton MA- Sarah Mannix and the WanderingBears - The New Bodies - The Mill, 120E Burlington, Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Xiu Xiu - tUnE-yArDs - Talk Normal - Coyote Sling-

shot - The Picador, 330 E. WashingtonSt., Iowa City, IAMission Creek Music Festival: Mannix!

- Carusella - Beast Wars - Liberty Leg - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St,Iowa City, IA

2010/03/28 (Sun)

Breille - The Hat Eatery & Pub, 1618 W.Locust St., Davenport, IA

Rick K & the Allnighters (2pm) - Riv-erside Casino and Gol Resort, 3184Highway 22, Riverside, IA

Roxi Copland - Shannon Curtis - RaeFehring (6pm) - The Mill, 120 E Burl-ington, Iowa City, IA

Russ Reyman, Pianist (10am-2pmbrunch performance) - The LodgeHotel, Spruce Hills & Utica Ridge,Bettendor, IA

The Avey Brothers - Rascals Rock Memo-rabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL

Troy Harris, Pianist (11:30am) - BassStreet Chop House, 1601 River Dr,Moline, IL

Whoozdads (10am) - Brady Street Chop

House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel ,Davenport, IA

2010/03/29 (Mon)

Daytrotter Presents: Holiday Shores- Twin Sister - Huckleberry’s, 223 18thSt, Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night - The Old Stardust SportsBar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL

Live Lunch w/ Randy Arcenas (noon) - Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130W 2nd St, Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ J. Knight - The Mill, 120 EBurlington, Iowa City, IA

Stress Ape - Mantaur (5pm) - Easy Street,431 Rhomberg Ave., Dubuque, IA

2010/03/30 (Tue)

Adrian Legg - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rdSt SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Deathface (Johnny Love of Guns ‘n’Bombs) - Lady Espina - Iowa CityYacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA

Open Mic Night - The Old Stardust SportsBar, 1191 19th Street, Moline, IL

Steve Grismore Quartet - WallenbergHall, Augustana College, 3701 7th

Ave., Rock Island, IL“Tennessee,” That Nashville Cat (noon)

- Open Mic Night (7pm) - Mojo’s

(River Music Experience), 130 W 2ndSt, Davenport, IA

The Craig Bentley Trio - Rascals Rock Memorabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Mo-

line, IL

2010/04/01 (Thu)

Black Hawk College Jazz Ensemble

(6:30pm) - Huckleberry’s, 223 18thSt, Rock Island, IL

Just Chords - Kilkenny’s, 3rd & Harrison,Davenport, IA

Live Lunch w/ Rose ‘n’ Thorns (noon) - Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130

W 2nd St, Davenport, IAMission Creek Festival: Acid Moth-

ers Temple - Over-Gain OptimalDeath - Wet Hair - Broken Water - The Picador, 330 E. Washington St.,

Iowa City, IA

Mission Creek Festival: Bomb Squad- Hood Internet - Database - Iowa CityYacht Club, 13 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA

Mis s ion Creek F es tival: David Bazan

- Headlights - Caroline Smith & theGoodnight Sleeps - The Poison Con-trol Center - The Mill, 120 E Burlington,Iow City, IA



The Steady Rollin’ Blues Band featuringJimmie Lee Adams - Rascals Rock Mem-orabilia Bar, 1414 15th St., Moline, IL


2010/04/02 (Fri)


Bee All U Can Bee Karaoke & DJ - Commo-

dore Tap, 2202 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IABob Dorr & the Blue Band (6pm) - The Hub,

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