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Rubber-Stamping Agenda �1 Starts in Scott County

by Kathleen McCarthykm@rcreader.com

How’s this for a conspiracy theory? A global agenda, unveiled in 1992 during the United Nations Conference on Environment &

Development (UNCED, also known as the Rio Earth Summit), that is being progressively implemented in every level of government in America through a United Nations (UN) initiative called Sustainable Development Agenda 21. Agenda 21, as it is referred to in the UN’s own documentation (UN.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21), is “a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally, and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts [sic] on the environment.”

Its purpose: to centrally own and control the planet’s resources under the guise of “smart planning” and “sustainable development.” In fact, for most UN-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Agenda 21 is synonymous with sustainable development.

The two primary goals of Agenda 21 are to (1) decrease the world population to “sustainable” levels as a means to effectively control labor, the planet’s number-one resource, and (2) eradicate individual property rights via comprehensive land-use planning that dictates land use according to a global master plan that includes control of everything from food to health to energy to security, and the list goes on.

Locally, in Scott County, the slow incremental steps of this globalist agenda are wide open for all to see. On February 3, the Scott County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to adopt the state of Iowa’s “Smart Planning Principles” as part of its Comprehensive Plan. The language of such principles sounds laudable on the surface: collaboration, efficiency, diversity, revitalization. Who could not be for these principles?

On January 20, the county staff explained that adopting these principles was a requirement to be eligible for future state and federal sustainability grants. The fine print the county staff would prefer you don’t read is that the resolution adopts Iowa Code 18B Land Use, which reads in part:

“Governmental, community, and individual stakeholders, including those outside the jurisdiction of the entity, are encouraged to be involved and provide comment during deliberation of planning, zoning, development, and resource-management decisions and during implementation of such decisions. Individuals, communities, regions, and governmental entities should share in the responsibility to promote the equitable distribution of development benefits and costs.”

This language reinforces what many critics of Agenda 21 are concerned with: Accepting state and federal grants eventually leads to ceding local authority to more centralized regional councils of unelected governments – with the authority to levy more taxes (Does SECC911 ring any bells?) so they may further their top-down goals.

Supervisor Larry Minard addressed this concern prior to his vote, stating: “If such an organization does develop that relates to planning and other issues that might come before it ... the state will decide that and they will decide whether it’s a taxable organization or it doesn’t tax. They will decide what’s going to happen; we won’t. But I can guarantee you that if we have that organization that Scott County will be a participant and play an active role. And we

will do what ... allows our people to have that quality of life that we think they should have.”

Coming down the pipeline soon is the county’s “Sustainability Plan” (funded by a federal grant), which if approved will be another brick in the wall of Agenda 21 implemented locally in Scott County.

This global-to-local strategy began with President George H. Bush as the signatory for the U.S., one of 178 nations that adopted Agenda 21 at UNCED. In 1993, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-California) submitted House Joint Resolution 166 for the implementation of Agenda 21, but it failed. So President Bill Clinton created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) via an executive order to implement Agenda 21 that same year.

It is important to note that Congress has had no say in the matter because Agenda 21 is considered to be a “soft-law policy recommendation” requiring no ratification because it does not qualify as a “treaty.” Soft-law policies are not internationally binding but can find easy application through local legislation.

For most Americans, it is inconceivable that our own government would be party to any program or process, such as the United Nations’ Agenda 21, specifically designed to reduce population and eliminate private-property-rights. Yet this is exactly what is taking place across our land, and around the globe. It is a long-range plan that is methodical and precise in its execution.

Sadly, like most effective conspiracies, many participants are not even aware of its existence as they propel much of this nefarious agenda forward through local, state, and federal programming in our schools, land-use agencies, county and city services, health and emergency-management processes, and, most critically, our courts.

The most widely used tool for implementing Agenda 21 locally is through stakeholder councils, which are charged with creating consensus on some project, typically the result of a perceived crisis in the community, such as a poor water-management system or high population density. (Supervisor Minard believes 350 humans per square mile is one such problem in terms of sustainability in Scotty County.)

Once a project has been identified, NGOs, regional councils of governments, not-for-profits, etc. have a vast stock of sustainable-development cookie-cutter solutions available through the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). That organization was launched in 1990 at the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future and has its headquarters in Toronto, Canada, with branches worldwide, including in Berkeley, California.

ICLEI’s sole mission is to assist local governments, such as counties and cities, by providing policy recommendations for implementing sustainability programming. ICLEI was instrumental in writing a portion of the Agenda 21 handbook, specifically Chapter 28, and in the formulation of Local Action 21 Strategies that ensure the “unwavering, systematic implementation of local action plans over the next decade,” as reported in ICLEI’s Motto, Mandate, Movement (2003).

Agenda 21’s primary directive is for human wants, needs, and desires to conform to the views

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of Springfield’s political aisle. She’s not overly partisan, and her years in the General Assembly helped her understand how the process works. But she’s no get-along, go-along type. Topinka speaks her mind, and has a very sharp tongue. Few in politics can get away with that, but she’s always managed to say what was on her mind while still getting things done.

A few weeks ago, Topinka did something that most Illinois politicians have refused to do: She got specific about actual budget cuts.

As state government slid into budgetary hell, most Republicans chastised the Democrats for not cutting the budget, but then refused to offer up any real cuts of their own. The majority Democrats were even worse; they’re in control, but they punted to Governor Pat Quinn, sending him “lump

sum” budgets that didn’t make any specific cuts and just reduced spending for each of his agencies.

So when Topinka mentioned on a radio program that it would be easy to find a billion dollars in cuts, I challenged her staffers to come up with a list. They did.

Now, not everybody agrees that her list would actually save a billion dollars – myself included. But at least she was willing to stick her neck out and put her name on some real budget reductions, including a $100-million cut to universal preschool, moving seniors out of nursing homes and into home care to save $120 million more, and eliminating the state’s $26-million Amtrak operating subsidy.

You may not like Topinka’s cuts, but we need far more budget ideas on the table. The state budget has been left to the two Democratic legislative leaders and the governor for far too long. Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats have abdicated their responsibility as legislators.

The object of a General Assembly is to collect ideas from all over the state and then percolate them in Springfield. And even though the state just raised taxes, budget cuts will still be required because the hole wasn’t completely filled, and pension, labor, health-care, and material and energy costs will continue to rise every year.

Topinka has put herself out there. It’s time for everybody else to follow suit.

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

by Rich Miller

“Is it weird that I’m kind of glad to have Judy Baar Topinka back?” a Democratic friend of mine asked

me the other day.No, I replied. It’s not weird. I’m glad she’s

back, as well. She’s crazy, I said, but in a very sane way.

Topinka was elected state comptroller in November by a huge margin, while spending

just $270,000. That’s less than half of what it costs to run a decent state House campaign. Some cost many times that.

Down-ballot statewide races such as Topinka’s revolve a lot around name recognition. Topinka was

state treasurer for three terms, so Illinoisans knew who she was.

Perhaps because she lost the 2006 governor’s race to Rod Blagojevich, voters this time around cast more votes for Topinka than she’d ever received before. She lost just two counties and performed way better in Cook County than any statewide Republican candidate, including U.S. Senator Mark Kirk.

Topinka has kidded me recently for being responsible for that failed 2006 gubernatorial bid, which put her out of government for four years. I’ve covered her for more than 20 years, and she was a great source of information while she was in the state Senate, so while she was attempting to make up her mind about challenging Blagojevich, she asked for my thoughts. I don’t give advice, but I did pose two questions to her:

(1) Are you comfortable serving another four years as treasurer with Rod Blagojevich as governor?

(2) If Blagojevich or one of his top cronies is indicted before the election and a Republican goes on to win, are you comfortable with all of the candidates who have announced a primary bid?

Apparently, the answer was “no” to both, because she took the plunge but then lost by 10 points.

Topinka has a well-known reputation for being tight with a dollar. She’s a thrift-shop, garage-sale kind of person who lives in a modest neighborhood in suburban Riverside. With the state’s backlog of unpaid bills in the billions, a penny-pincher is good to have around.

She’s also a beloved figure on both sides

In Praise of Judy Baar Topinka’s Courage

A few weeks ago, Comptroller Topinka did

something that most Illinois politicians have refused to do: She got specific about

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Unforgettable Moments Among the 2011 Best Picture ContendersOscar Snapshots

Movies are made of moments, and after some consideration, I can’t think of a single Best Picture lineup that has provided more memorable moments than the one competing at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, airing on ABC affiliate WQAD on February 27.

Sure, having 10 contenders for the big prize, as opposed to the previously traditional five, doubles your chances (at least in theory) of being knocked out by some magical bit of filmmaking. But what’s astonishing about the nominees for the 2011 Best Picture Oscar, at least for me, is that any five you could name feature a greater number of sensationally effective, thematically resonant flourishes – compositions, line readings, examples of visual or aural technique – than in any of the anointed five over the past several decades. Nearly across the board, I was knocked out by the Big Picture in this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates, but I was even more floored by their many, many little snapshots.

So in praising this terrifically inspired roster, I thought I’d borrow from a discontinued feature in Film Comment magazine called “Moments Out of Time,” and celebrate the year’s contenders through a series of individual mentions that help explain why, for my money, 2011’s Best Picture lineup is one for the ages. Moment for moment, it was a helluva year.

The haunting echo of Toy Story 3’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” as Randy Newman’s lyrics trail off, and 10 years

pass in a blackout ... .A man’s hand fumbles for, and doesn’t

find, a Swiss-army knife on a closet shelf – someone’s 127 Hours just got a lot more challenging ... .

“You would do that for me?”: a seemingly benign question asked twice in The Social Network, and both times as an Aaron Sorkin way of saying “I freaking hate you” ... .

The first public address by the future King George VI (Colin Firth), his stammer reverberating through the air, suggesting that the whole world can hear his humiliation – The King’s Speech ... .

The Fighter’s Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) on the couch, schmoozing the HBO crew – so animated, so magnetic, so ... . Hey, how long has brother Micky (Mark Wahlberg) been sitting there? ... .

Lingering discomfort as platonic pals

(Mia Wasikowska and Kunal Sharma) react to the suggestion that they “just do it and get it over with”: We would never ... or would we ... ? – The Kids Are All Right ... .

Early montage of neon-lit fast-food signs, less product placement than a foreshadowing of regret (“I should’ve stopped for a burger ... ”) in 127 Hours ... .

Architect Nash (Lukas Haas) being dragged away by hired goons as the helicopter departs: Do the job right or never be heard from again – Inception ... .

The dozens of miniature stuffed animals in Black Swan, keeping silent watch over their owner, ensuring that she’ll never grow up ... .

“And here is what I have to say about the saddle ... .”: True Grit’s Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) bartering with a horse-trader, her tenacity wearing down the first of many adults who’ll cross her ... .

Ozark jamboree – Winter’s Bone’s milieu expressed through soulful bluegrass crooning in one room and the hesitant

revelation of secrets in another ... .The Queen Mum forever nibbling on

snacks in The King’s Speech, for those of us wondering how the royal could ever, possibly, have been as skinny as Helena Bonham Carter ... .

Humiliation and horror on the face of Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) as she’s mocked by fellow students, and realizes just how quickly hatred moves on the Internet – The Social Network ... .

The digits! A boxer so giddy about scoring

All right, kids, we’re on a roll. Two years ago, I correctly predicted 16 out of 24 winners at the annual Oscars ceremony. Last year, I scored 18 right. So this year, let’s go out on a limb and suggest that I’m gonna guess accurately in ... I dunno ... 11, 12 categories ... ?

Don’t take this as an admission of impending defeat so much as acknowledgment that I can’t fathom what’s gonna happen during this year’s presentation of the Academy Awards. A big win for The King’s Speech seems likely, but just how big will the win be? Are we talking a The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King-style sweep here? (They do share a common royal title, after all.) Do voters admire, but secretly dislike, The Social Network as much as many Oscar bloggers would have us believe? Will personal behavior weigh in against Christian Bale’s and Melissa Leo’s chances? Will sentiment and she’s-overdue factors derail Black Swan’s one serious chance for a trophy? (Not that the recipient, in that case, would be undeserving.) Will the man who’s arguably the world’s finest cinematographer finally be able to preface his name with “Oscar winner”? Will Dogtooth be the most polarizing movie to ever receive the Best Foreign-Language Film prize? Will The Wolfman be the recipient of more Academy Awards than 127 Hours and Winter’s Bone combined?

Dunno. Let’s find out on February 27, shall we? In the meantime, my stabs at this annual cinematic crapshoot are in boldface ... .BEST PICTURE Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King’s Speech 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter’s Bone

For many months, this was The Social Network’s to lose. And after King’s Speech victories at the Producers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, lose it it shall.BEST DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, True Grit David Fincher, The Social Network Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech David O. Russell, The Fighter

It is a terrible, terrible idea to bet against Tom

Hooper, because only seven times in the Directors Guild of America’s 62-year history has the winner of that group’s top prize not gone on to win the Academy Award. But since when have I shied away from terrible, terrible ideas? (Fincher also winning the BAFTA trophy – despite seven citations for The King’s Speech and Hooper being a born and bred Brit – alleviates my misgivings a little. A little.)BEST ACTOR Javier Bardem, Biutiful Jeff Bridges, True Grit Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The King’s Speech James Franco, 127 Hours

Firth’s competitors have long since throne in the towel.BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone Natalie Portman, Black Swan Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

My gut is telling me Bening will pull off a surprise victory. But I went with my gut on Melissa Leo for Frozen River two years ago, and where the hell did that get me?BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, The Fighter Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech Melissa Leo, The Fighter Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Meanwhile, I should be going with presumed front-runner Leo here, but the actress’ recent, independently financed “Consider ... ” ads have been both beyond pushy and beyond tacky. Carter won at BAFTA, and neither her nor Adams’ victory would shock me, but a major True Grit award seems both merited and wanted. Besides, it’s been 17 years since Anna Paquin won for The Piano – isn’t it time for another oh-my-God-how-cute Oscar recipient? Not counting March of the Penguins, of course.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale, The Fighter John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone Jeremy Renner, The Town Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

The Fighter kind of has to win something, and while Rush’s victory at BAFTA has shaken my confidence, I don’t see how the Academy can ignore Bale’s vocal and physical transformation into Dicky Eklund. That standing ovation at the SAG awards has

to count for something ... um, right ... ?BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right Mike Leigh, Another Year Christopher Nolan, Inception David Seidler, The King’s Speech Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrington, The Fighter

Seidler suffered from a stammer himself. Had to wait 28 years, until the Queen Mum died, for his script to be produced. Just give him the Oscar now.BEST SCREENPLAY ADAPTATION Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3 Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, 127 Hours Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, True Grit Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Winter’s Bone Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

Will I be upset with Academy members if Sorkin doesn’t win this? No. I’ll hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of them with a hammer.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE How to Train Your Dragon The Illusionist Toy Story 3

It’ll have a friend in lots and lots of people.BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Biutiful, Mexico Dogtooth, Greece In a Better World, Denmark Incendies, Canada Outside the Law, Algeria

Always, always, always go with InContention.com’s Kris Tapley in this category, who correctly predicted the widely unpredicted El Secreto del Sus Ojos last year, and Departures the year before that. He’s going with In a Better World, I’m going with In a Better World.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Black Swan Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network True Grit

Will I be upset with Academy members if eternal Oscar bridesmaid Roger Deakins, on his ninth attempt at this prize, gets shafted? No. I’ll hire the Sopranos to ... . Wait. Wrong movie. Right sentiment, though.For Mike’s predictions in the other 13 Academy Awards categories, visit RCReader.com/2011oscars.

King’s for the Day: 2011 Oscar Predictions

The Kids Are All Right The Fighter

True Grit The Social Network

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Paustian said. “My daughter used to work at a couple of Hy-Vees, so she knows firsthand what it’s like, and she’s relayed that to me many times. I’d like to see the grocery stores do what they do best, and that’s sell healthy, wholesome, safe foods. So it’s a burden for them. I just think with the recycling programs we have, we are way ahead of when the bill was passed. We had nothing back then.”

The Iowa Grocery Industry Association and the Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Stores of Iowa are among those backing the bill.

“We think that it’s time to move to a different system,” said Scott Sundstrom, a lobbyist for the Iowa Grocery Industry Association. “We have never asked for a repeal of the bottle bill standing alone. We think we need to go a better system.”

Sara Bixby, director of the South Central Iowa Solid Waste Agency, argued against repeal of the bottle bill.

“By repealing the bottle bill and going with something as proposed here, you’re gutting everything that we’ve done for the last 20 years on our current recycling programs, on our current composting programs,” she said. “This is not the right place to start.”

Jim Obradovich, a lobbyist for the Iowa Recycling Association, Redemption Centers of Iowa, Iowa Society of Solid Waste Operations, and the Iowa Environmental Council, said repealing Iowa’s bottle bill would close 70 redemption centers and cause at least 200 people to lose their jobs.

“I don’t think that’s the policy we want to have in the state of Iowa, especially during tough economic times – passing legislation that specifically closes these facilities and put these people out of work,” he said.

Senate Majority Gronstal welcomed the discussion about possible repeal of the bottle bill.

“I think people are engaged in a very serious education campaign about the next generation of recycling efforts in this state and what makes the most sense in terms of keeping things out of landfills, doing more recycling,” Gronstal said. “I think it’s a good discussion to be had. Whether they’ve got the right bill remains to be seen, but I commend them for introducing the bill.”

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This weekly summary comes from IowaPolitics.com, an online government and politics news service.

by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com

Iowa legislative leaders said they expect that redrawn districts based on 2010 Census data will likely give the Iowa

legislature a more suburban feel.“The legislature is going to become a

little bit more urban, but probably also significantly more suburban,” said Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal.

Gronstal said Iowa already has a rural legislative district with seven counties, and that district will probably get larger based on the new population numbers.

Last week’s release of U.S. Census Bureau data for Iowa is the starting point for the process of redrawing the boundaries of Iowa’s legislative and congressional districts.

With the data in hand by February 15, the deadline to produce the first maps of the proposed new districts will be April 1, said Ed Cook, the senior legal counsel for the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA), which will spearhead the process. Cook confirmed to IowaPolitics.com that he plans to submit the maps to the legislature on March 31.

Iowa will also be moving from five to four congressional districts.

Legislative Leaders Welcome Discussion of Repealing Bottle Bill

A bill that would repeal Iowa’s 1978 bottle bill will be considered by the full House Environmental Protection Committee, despite opponents of the law saying they never asked for a repeal.

“We need to look at curbside recycling,” House Speaker Kraig Paulsen (R-Hiawatha) said last week. “I’m not under any illusion that that’s a bill that ends up on the governor’s desk this year. But I think that’s a discussion that needs to take place. ... [The bottle bill] has served the state extremely well, but no one even contemplated curbside recycling at that point in time.”

Bills proposed in both the Iowa House and Senate would repeal Iowa’s beverage-container-control law (more commonly known as the “bottle bill”), which requires Iowans to pay a 5-cent deposit on cans and bottles for all carbonated and alcoholic beverages. That money is returned if Iowans bring the empty containers to a grocery store or redemption center.

Representative Ross Paustian (R-Walcott), a farmer and the bill’s floor manager, said the bill was scheduled to be brought out of subcommittee this week and taken to the full committee, although he acknowledged that it could die there.

“I think it’s a mess at the grocery stores,”

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a pretty bartender’s phone number that he doesn’t notice the bar fight taking place three feet behind him – The Fighter ... .

MIA playthings: the tender acknowledgment of Wheezy and Etch and Bo Peep, characters who didn’t evade enough rummage sales to make it to a second sequel – Toy Story 3 ... .

A slip, a fall, a dilemma, and the appearance of a title card many minutes after thinking the opening credits were over: Danny Boyle surreptitiously starting 127 Hours’ clock ... .

“Oh ... a Petite Sirah!”: Wine lover Nic (Annette Bening) wondering if she’s judged her gift-bringing sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo) too harshly, minutes before realizing, nah, she hasn’t – The Kids Are All Right ... .

A stage mother’s cruelty, and control, in a literal throwaway gesture: Black Swan’s Barbara Hershey rushing to the kitchen garbage can, and threatening to toss out the prettiest cake you’ve ever seen ... .

The city street folding on itself in Inception – a suggestion of the unlimited possibilities of the imagination, and an early “How will they top this?” effect that never actually gets topped ... .

“I already warned you once with my mouth.”: a perfectly civil, even courteous threat of violence should a girl keep digging into matters that don’t concern her – Winter’s Bone ... .

Enter the hero ... kind of – a literally glowing introduction as True Grit’s LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) lights his pipe on the boarding-house porch ... .

To be or not to be – a Victrola recording allows a future ruler to hear, for the first time, what he’d sound like without a stammer ... speech therapy by way of Mozart in The King’s Speech ... .

The dull hum of fluorescent lights as Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) endures Harvard’s disapproval ... figurative droning tedium meets literal droning tedium in The Social Network ... .

“I had to read the whole fuckin’ movie.”: Charlene (Amy Adams) strongly hinting that seeing a foreign film was maybe not the ideal first date for a girl from Lowell – The Fighter ... .

Toy Story 3’s Buster waddling into view – Pixar’s pointed reminder that, since the last time we were in Andy’s bedroom, most of us have gotten heavier and slower, too ... .

Or we could take the train ... : A girl hops in a cab three seconds before a speeding locomotive barrels through downtown traffic – Inception ... .

A mother in The Kids Are All Right so upset about a recent interloper that she finds herself arguing against composting ... .

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regardless of opposition,” Andress wrote in an e-mail. The seed-bomb project also “represents his creativity and unique sense of humor, which was ubiquitous in everything he did.”

In 2004 and 2005, he led the initiative to plant a prairie next to the Moline High School driver-education range.

“That he [Butterfield] took it upon himself to build a prairie on school grounds is amazing,” Neujahr wrote. “Through these and other things, he reinforced my belief in the power of direct action.”

So when Neujahr heard that Butterfield had suffered a serious brain injury, he didn’t hesitate. “I wanted to organize a benefit show for him – not as a form of charity, but to show my solidarity with him as a driven person,” Neujahr wrote.

That January 1 concert – featuring Bent Life, Space Race, Centaur Noir, Maylane,

about his old band, Uphold,” Neujahr wrote in a December e-mail.

Butterfield also introduced Neujahr to political organizations, including the radical environmental group Earth First – whose Web site claims it engages in everything from “grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkey-wrenching.” Like that organization, Butterfield is a believer in direct action.

Amber Andress, a volunteer with Butterfield for the Quad Cities Natural Area Guardians, recalled how Butterfield made seed bombs with his students. These “bombs” – combinations of soil, clay, and the seeds of native prairie grasses and flowers – often grow to look like most people’s conceptions of weeds.

“Once he had a cause that he deemed worthy, he didn’t hesitate to uphold it,

Students and Colleagues Rise to the Aid of Injured Moline Teacher Inspiring Action

by Tushar Rae

He was a frightening figure when I first met him, with tattoos of verses in Arabic and lines from literature

on his arms, a shaved head, a ragged beard, and the combination of a stern voice and piercing gaze.

As an Indian who is often mistaken for someone from the Middle East, I had received plenty of negative attention from people who looked like him. But I could not avoid him. It was 2002, and Curtis Butterfield was my freshman biology teacher and my coach for the junior-varsity academic team at Moline High School.

Early in the school year, Butterfield gave me a confrontation, but not the one I had been dreading.

“You know this is not your best work,” he said, with the voice and glare used to full effect, “and if you think you’re staying in my class, you need to start doing better work.”

Butterfield “doesn’t invite people to come in and learn; he demands that students learn,” said Nicholas Pitz, a Moline High German teacher and varsity academic-team coach. “Learning is not an option.”

Butterfield was an exacting teacher but also exceedingly generous. To help me learn outside of the curriculum, he gave me access before and after school to his classroom – a place I visited almost daily for four years – and provided me with leftover materials (such as fetal pigs and owl pellets) from biology classes.

That imposing man, both stern and helpful, is missing – for now.

Although the tattoos and beard remain, Butterfield has lost the authority of his eyes and voice. During a visit in December, he looked down at his mitt-covered hands and had difficulty recognizing people or focusing on conversation. While the mitts are gone now, he still has trouble following a conversation and at times needs questions repeated to him.

But when I was in high school, Butterfield was more than willing to engage in discussions ranging from whether New York City sewers can support the flushed pet alligators of urban legend to how Buddhist beliefs about meditation and achieving nirvana could be combined with orthodox Christian doctrine.

He introduced me to hip-hop and rap, including Outkast and Ice Cube. We discovered a mutual appreciation for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a Pakistani singer little-known in the Midwest. Butterfield often used music to connect with his students, and his classroom had posters for artists ranging from Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi to the hardcore band Bloodlet.

Stephen Neujahr, a former student, bonded with Butterfield over a shared interest in heavy music. “When we’d have free time in class, he’d tell me funny stories

and Is World – raised more than $2,500. The show helped Butterfield and his wife

cover the costs of child care, gas, food, and other day-to-day needs as Sarah Mason-Butterfield splits her time between home and her husband’s side as he goes through therapy. The additional costs come at a time of reduced income, because Sarah has stepped down from her position as an instructor at Kaplan.

Fellow teachers have also organized a chili and hot-dog dinner as well as a trivia contest, to be held February 26 and dubbed the “Butterfield Brain Bowl.”

Butterfield and his wife have been part of a team of trivia competitors that helps raise money for Moline High’s special-education department, so this benefit “was just fitting,” said Christina Shelton, a social-studies teacher at Moline High and one of the organizers of the event. “We thought he would enjoy that,” she added.

“He was ... honest about teaching,” recalled Shelton, who started working at Moline at about the same time as Butterfield. “About what was working and what was not. ...

“The students, they are concerned, they want him back,” Shelton said. She added, in a bit of humor that Butterfield would have enjoyed: “Teachers are not climbing on desks as much anymore.”

The AccidentOn November 8, Butterfield – who has

taught for 14 years at Moline High School – was found in his classroom with a head wound from an unknown cause, though a fall from a desk is the most likely culprit. He was rushed to the Genesis Medical Center’s Illini Campus in Silvis and subsequently airlifted to Genesis Medical Center East in Davenport. Following a neurology assessment at Genesis East, he was airlifted to the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics to receive further treatment. The injury caused his brain to swell and push down on the brain stem, the part of the nervous system that controls automatic functions needed to sustain life.

Photos courtesy of Sarah Mason-Butterfield

Butterfield, his wife Sarah Mason-Butterfield, and their daughter Clara.

Curtis Butterfield on February 14

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Because of his youth (he’s 36) and health, doctors were able to remove a part of his skull to allow the brain to swell away from the stem. He remained heavily sedated and intubated for several days.

“Within the first couple of hours, I didn’t know what to think,” Sarah said in an interview on December 18. “Eight hours [after the accident], they had me prepared to be a widow. And then, 12 hours later, he was improving.”

Butterfield’s condition continued to improve, and Sarah passed along his progress in daily e-mail messages. Before long, parts of his personality began to reveal themselves again.

“He even gave me a hug, stroked my back, and, much to my amazement and enjoyment, tried to get a little ‘fresh’ with me,” Sarah wrote in the November 18 update. “Oh! I almost forgot. Eyes are open!”

On December 14, Butterfield arrived at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where he worked with a physical therapist, occupational therapist, and speech pathologist to regain the motor skills and vocal abilities he has lost. When I visited him on December 21, he seemed to recognize some people, most obviously Sarah. When she offered her hand to him during their conversation, he grasped it and stroked her fingers.

Because of the injury, he has aphasia, a condition in which word choice and usage are impaired. But there were moments when he was seemingly able to express his thoughts. When he was offered a Christmas package to open, he said he would prefer to finish writing on the Christmas card in his hands: “Once I am finished with what I am doing here,” he said.

In December, he had begun to walk, but not in a straight line, and his tentative steps were steadied by a person walking with him and holding a belt around his waist.

“Every brain injury is different,” Sarah said in December. “There really isn’t a prognosis. The amount of progress he has made says good things about his [potential for] recovery.”

On January 27, Butterfield moved from the Rehabilitation Institute to Quality Living, Inc., in Omaha, Nebraska. At Quality Living, Butterfield’s care is more focused on therapies, because his medical condition is more stable.

Now, he has started to walk on his own, without any support, but he hasn’t yet developed a complete awareness of his own limits. “Sometimes he heads into seven-foot snowdrifts,” Sarah said. But, she added, “you don’t get better at walking unless you are walking.”

At the facility, which Sarah says “feels like small college campuses,” Butterfield

has started working on the day-to-day tasks that will help him when he makes the transition home. The facility incorporates needed therapy into activities a person already enjoys, Sarah said. For Butterfield, an avid tea drinker, this “tri-dimensional therapy” consists of making and serving cups of tea during the day.

He also used to be a regular bike-rider, and he has started to ride a stationary bike; the hope is to shift to a recumbent bike outside as the weather improves.

In a conversation on February 8, he seemed to be aware of his situation, but was also quick to insert humor into the conversation: When I told him that I lacked any Valentine’s Day plans, he joked, “That probably is a good thing.”

In the December visit, he seemed to have trouble remembering me. But in our recent conversation, he had a clearer idea of who I was. He was able to vaguely remember that we once shared a meal at an Indian restaurant, and when I offered to have my mother send him some Indian food, he requested daal, an Indian soup-like lentil dish.

Sarah hopes to have him home in about three months – “a blink of an eye in a lifetime” – and is working to introduce him to all of the aspects of his life before the accident.

The most important of these is Clara, his two-year-old daughter, whom he has not seen since the accident. Sarah recounted that in a recent conversation, she asked, “Do you want to see Clara?” Butterfield promptly offered, “Heck yes!”

“To a momma, that just breaks your heart,” Sarah said.

The last medical milestone Butterfield has to reach is the replacement of the brain bone slat, a surgery that Sarah hopes will take place sometime in March. When bone slat is put in, “things seem to reconnect and come together” for patients with traumatic brain injuries, she said. “On bad days, that provides some relief.”

The Memories Knowing that many people had

Butterfield stories and sentiments to share, at the end of December I sent out an e-mail using Sarah’s daily-update contact list. In less than 24 hours, my inbox had more than 30 long and varied memories about Butterfield.

Former students wrote about finding a bond with Butterfield over things ranging from hardcore music to the martial arts to his love for the environment. Mostly, they wrote about the way he helped shape an understanding of their responsibilities in

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For his first directorial effort at St. Ambrose University, Daniel Rairdin-Hale in April staged the ancient-Greek tragedy Oedipus

Rex. This month, however, finds the school’s assistant professor of theatre tackling a tragedy that hits much closer to home.

“I remember where I was when Columbine happened,” says Rairdin-Hale, referring, of course, to the April 1999 massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School. “It was right between my junior and senior year [at Pleasant Valley High School]. So I got to experience how everything changed. My first three years of high school were one way, and then this happened, and in senior year, everything was different. You couldn’t have backpacks, doors were locked, you couldn’t leave the building, we had bomb drills ... . It was very strange to be there during that transition.

“I mean, I’m sure there are things that high schools do now,” he continues, “where students just assume, ‘This is how it’s always been.’ You know, cameras, metal detectors – whatever. But there was a time before that.”

It’s the time period directly before and after the Columbine killings that Rairdin-Hale and his student actors are exploring in Columbinus, being performed at St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center February 18 through 20. Written by Stephen Karam and P.J. Paparelli, first produced in 2005, and including Columbine High School shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris among its featured characters, the play has been called “an ambitious examination of the suburbanization of evil” by the Washington Post and “a stark new work that compellingly captures the turmoil inherent in today’s teenagers” by CurtainUp.com.

As those quotes suggest, Columbinus is hardly two hours of feel-good fun. And that suits its director just fine.

“This is true academic theatre,” says Rairdin-Hale, who graduated from St. Ambrose with a theatre degree in 2004 and began teaching there in 2009. “And what I love about academic theatre is that you get to see things that might be a little more edgy, or a little more impactful, or have a bigger message, or explore something that wouldn’t necessarily be commercial. We get to explore themes and ideas. It’s good for us, and I think it’s good for the community.”

Rairdin-Hale first encountered Columbinus while earning his 2007 MFA in acting from DePaul University. “This was a play I had auditioned for,” he says, “and they were calling me back for a role. I had to drop out of the running because of another gig, but it’s just kind of been in the back of my mind since then. I was startled by how much it impacted me just reading it.”

Describing Columbinus’ dramatic arc, Rairdin-Hale says: “The first act could happen anywhere. It’s basic archetypes and cliques. So you’ve got your nerd and your jock and your cheerleader type and your goth kid – all of these basic types that you might see in any high school. It kind of explores high-school life in all of its detail, and it doesn’t shy away from [profane] language, it doesn’t shy away from bullying – stuff that’s still happening, right now, in high schools across the country.

“And then the second act,” he continues, “shifts to Littleton, Colorado, in 1999, and to Dylan and Eric specifically. The loner and the freak from the first act become Dylan and Eric, and we see the specific details of that day.”

For some audiences, this will prove disturbing, as might Columbinus’ second-act employment of documentary-like facets. “A lot of the lines,” says Rairdin-Hale, “are directly from interviews with people who were actually there. There’s a whole scene that’s the transcript from one of their [Klebold’s and Harris’] basement tapes. And we use actual audio from a 911 call, [and] there are images from the high school projected on a screen during part of the play. It’s going to be a ... a chilling experience, I think.”

Though not, he stresses, a horrifically brutal one. “There’s no blood, we don’t fire any guns on stage – yes, there’s a TEC-9 that we’ll have on stage, but we don’t actually fire it. We use theatrical devices to symbolize the shootings. It’s implied. Staging it would, I don’t know, be too real, and we’re trying to be respectful as we tell the story.”

Plus, he adds, “there is some humor. High school is tragic, but it’s also funny, and in the first act, there are some pretty funny things. It’s the second act that turns on you. I mean, you see it coming, but you still can’t quite prepare for it, you know?”

Prior to staging the play, Rairdin-Hale says that he and his eight-person cast – who portray

not only students, but also teachers, guidance counselors, parents, and other adult figures – gathered to discuss both the show’s themes and the Columbine High School massacre itself.

“Columbine means something to me,” says Rairdin-Hale, “because it changed my high-school experience. And with our set designer [Aaron Hook], it was the same situation. He was a junior in high school when it happened, so it’s something that affects him, as well. So at our first rehearsal, we all sat and talked about our experience with this. And for many of the students, it didn’t really affect them, because they were in elementary school at the time. You know, their moms might have been crying when they got home, or they saw something about it in the paper, but they didn’t really understand what it meant.

“That had a big impact on me,” he continues, “hearing that no, Columbine didn’t have a huge effect on these students. But there were similar events that did, and for many of them, the Virginia Tech shootings [of 2007] are a lot more present in their experience. They have that to draw on.

“I think that’s why this play is worth doing. It’s about something that still affects us today. It’s about something that’s still happening today. I think, now more than ever, it’s important to analyze what’s happening in our high schools. I mean, the rise in suicides, the bullying in the gay community ... . We need to question why things like this [the Columbine massacre] happen, and what we can possibly do to keep them from happening.”

And Rairdin-Hale’s hope for close analysis of Columbinus’ themes will also be reflected in St. Ambrose’s presentation. “We’re doing something different with it,” he says, “by putting the [audience’s] seats on stage. I mean, we’re still going to respect the aesthetic distance that’s needed to be comfortable with the guns and that kind of thing, but we do want to put them closer to the action. To make the experience more intimate.

“I don’t know that I have a specific charge for people to go out and do anything” after watching Columbinus, “but I do hope it starts a discussion. There’s the type of theatre that we use to escape from things, and there’s the type we use to ask things, and get a dialogue started. And this is the latter. Whether people like it or don’t like it, I hope that it at least starts some conversations.”

Columbinus will be staged in St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on February 18 and 19, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 20. Tickets are $7 to $11, and can be reserved by calling (563)333-6251 or visiting SAU.edu/galvin.

True Academic TheatreSt. Ambrose Explores a National Tragedy in Columbinus, February 18 through 20

by Mike Schulzmike@rcreader.com

Anthony Stratton, Nick Jensen, Kayla Jack-son, Andrew Bradford, Michael Kline, and

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JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER

Leave it to that great Socratic thinker Ozzy Osbourne, in a recent TV commercial, to ask the question that’s been on many a middle-aged mind of late: “What’s a Bieber?”

Well, for those of you equally in the dark about pop music’s über-star, director Jon Chu’s Justin Bieber: Never Say Never will more than sate your curiosity; this biographical-doc-slash-concert-experience reveals the ceaselessly driven 16-year-old to be a fine singer, acceptable dancer, preternaturally gifted drummer, charmingly gauche teenage goofball, and born movie star ... at least so long as he’s playing himself. Like the recent Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers spectacles, Bieber’s vanity project isn’t designed as a movie so much as a big-screen thank-you card to the star’s millions of rabid fans. But despite being similarly underwhelmed by this young crooner’s bubblegum output, I thought Never Say Never was quite a bit of fun, and that’s not even considering the enjoyment I got from the shrieks of audience delight whenever Bieber took off his shirt or shook his hair in slow motion.

Given a 105-minute running length and an understandably limited amount of life story to draw on, the film is able to delve into its subject’s career arc with impressive depth – I actually left the screening with enormous respect for Bieber and his hard-working management team – and there are fascinating and funny home-video clips galore. While the concert footage presents him as a god on Earth, I was thrilled to see that Chu at least opted against deifying the pop sensation when the kid was off-stage; Bieber’s often shown to be as attention-hungry and rambunctious-bordering-on-hyperactive as any 16-year-old, and several adult handlers discuss their displeasure at how, on days off, the kid seems almost hell-bent on trashing his voice. (He’s punished accordingly, with a day spent silently Twittering.) And, most entertainingly of all, the movie dedicates much screen time to the throngs of young girls – and only young girls – overcome with Bieber fever, whose every breathless declaration about their idol is endearing, touching, and utterly terrifying. “I think about him 99 percent of my life,” admits one. “One day, I Twittered him 100 times,” reveals another. “We will be husband and wife,” asserts another. No wonder Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is currently sitting with a 1.3-star rating (out of 10!) on the Internet Movie Database. With competition like Bieber, what poor teenage geek boy stands a chance?

JUST GO WITH ITI was going to spend my wordage on director

Dennis Dugan’s Adam Sandler vehicle Just Go with It – a remake, if you can believe it, of the Oscar-winning Walter Matthau/Ingrid Bergman/Goldie Hawn comedy Cactus Flower – by

describing the grating star’s latest as deeply unfunny, ineptly filmed drivel displaying hateful attitudes toward women, gays, foreigners, the elderly, and the obese. But then I thought, Jesus God, haven’t I written this review, like, dozens of

times before? So instead, let me offer some half-full analysis, and say that if you are forced into sitting through this nauseating venture, you’ll at least be treated to a refreshingly alert comic performance by Jennifer Aniston, a pair of sharp pre-teen turns by Bailee Madison and Griffin Gluck, and some game mugging by, of all people, Nicole Kidman. Oh yeah, and co-star Nick Swardson is an improvement over Rob Schneider. Barely.

GNOMEO & JULIETThe animated Gnomeo & Juliet opens with a

squat lawn ornament reciting what he calls the “long and boring” prologue to Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy – a vaudevillian hook yanks him off-screen before its completion – and I was consequently annoyed by the movie right off the bat. What’s the point in making kids hate the Bard even before they get to high school? Thankfully, though, my initial irritation quickly waned; this Touchstone Pictures comedy won’t make the folks at Pixar or Dreamworks lose any sleep, but for what it is, it’s clever and amusing enough. Recasting its familiar tale in the backyards of the squabbling residents of 2B and Not 2B Verona Drive, the film features as many obvious puns and gags as its title would suggest. Yet there’s also plenty of throwaway wit in the visual details – I loved the appearance of the “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Movers” truck – and in the vocal performances by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, and Extras’ fabulous Ashley Jensen; despite the movie’s prelude and expectedly happy ending, Shakespare’s work is treated with respect. All told, Gnomeo & Juliet is a pretty good time, and would’ve been an even better one if the filmmakers had resisted the urge to end the film with – surprise! – a mass group dance in which even the one character to get killed is granted a curtain-call boogie. Making sense of Elizabethan verse is tricky enough, but if kids eventually come to Romeo & Juliet knowing only of this animated spoof, man are they gonna be confused.

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Vehicles for Novel Imageryby Michelle Garrison

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I’ve never seen trees like Grant William Thye’s before. The textural and layered brushstrokes commonly used in rendering

trees are replaced by bright, flat, organic shapes outlined in calligraphic swooshes. The result is a fresh approach to the genre that’s part classical landscape, part abstraction, and part cartoon.

This freshness and presence of a clear style are apparent with all three artists on display through February 28 in Quad City Arts’ gallery at the Quad City International Airport. Thye, Angela Dieffenbach, and Karina Cutler-Lake employ traditional genres as vehicles for novel imagery.

Thye utilizes a contemporary painter’s style to approach the time-tested landscape. He appears to be more interested in shape, line, repetition, and contrast than the literal trees, fields, and sky commonly associated with the genre.

He presents a contrast between realistic sky and abstracted foreground shapes in Autumn in the Blue Ridge. This painting shows a forest of trees with expansive sky and mountains in the distance. The bottom half of the composition explodes with repeating oval-like shapes in red, green, yellow, blue, orange, and pink, representing trees. The shapes are all flat and outlined. The schematized ovals repeat and overlap to form a noisy patchwork, yet are balanced by the muted and calm sky and mountains. The work is saved from being too busy by Thye’s application of color; although he uses bright tones, the range is limited to a maximum of 10 colors per piece, with each color drawing from the same three to four initial hues. The use of blue in a few of the trees also ties the two halves together, stitching the painting into an unorthodox yet successful relationship.

His Springtime Sunset, approximately two and a half by four feet, shows a field at sunset. The subtle orange along the horizon gradates perfectly into the still-day blue sky at the top of the page. Dominating the composition, however, are the starkly different clouds: completely flat, with no shading or color blending, and unrealistic purple hues with a few red focal points. To further flatten the clouds, Thye outlined them with a calligraphic blue line that subtly changes thickness as it twists to define the shapes. Sunset landscapes are often somber or meditative, but Thye’s rendition is whimsical, with the loud and abstract clouds stealing the show from the subdued sky.

Angela Dieffenbach’s ceramic and mixed-media works resemble ancient stone monoliths with a modern concept. The 12 sculptures vary in size from 10 inches to four feet tall and use under-glazes and etched textures to imply rocky, weathered exteriors. Various scientific or medical-themed objects are included with the clay forms, insinuating the complex relationship between our bodies and science.

Internal Study is the tallest piece of the show. Dingy white in color, it is composed of

three stacked, rounded forms, resembling a skinny snowman. The top and middle shapes have large holes, with cold red interior sides. Contained within these hollows are loops of clear plastic tubing. The clay component implies an extremely simplified human form, with the tubing adding a mysteriously unnatural component.

The “figure” seems to command power, like an ancient idol, with the tubes adding a sci-fi aesthetic. Dieffenbach has enhanced this robotic quality through the shapes of the holes through the top two forms: The void on the top resembles the visor on a helmet, with the hole in the center looking like a control panel or LCD. The other aspects of the form appear purely organic, rather than the smooth geometry one would expect of a robot. Despite the juxtaposition, the elements all fit together visually, easily contained within the whole of the sculptural form. The mechanical elements hint at the machine-like quality of our biology, or medical devices as partners to our anatomy. In Dieffenbach’s sculptures, the organic and scientific appear in a functional but uneasy

partnership.Azathioprine, another sculpture by

Dieffenbach, also explores structural biological complexity within an elegant exterior. This work is symmetrical and balanced – creating a feeling of stability and harmony – with two egg-shaped forms bookending conjoined spheres suspended with fishing wire. The bundle looks like a model of a molecule or compound hovering in empty space. The egg forms, with their mottled gray exteriors and comparatively larger mass, function as a strong vertical “frame” for the green floating form, enhancing its feeling of lightness. Yet the visual complexity of the molecule-like form and its central placement make it appear more significant. As in Internal Study, Dieffenbach wisely applies visual hierarchy and contrast within an anchored composition to imply cooperation between disparate elements.

Karina Cutler-Lake’s mixed-media two-dimensional work combines the tradition of narrative art, a retro 1960s and ’70s design aesthetic, and modern imagery into a visual memoir. Her range of media

– drawing, printmaking, collage, found object, and stitching – enhances the feeling of personalization. Although the material use is diverse, Cutler-Lake demonstrates a unified style through her consistent color palette of yellow, orange, red, and warm green, and her use of rectilinear shapes and compositions.

Goodbye Golf is a lithograph with writing and drawing in graphite on top, roughly 24 by 18 inches. The background is solid yellow, with a hatched green square taking up a large portion of the right side. On top of this, there is a line drawing of the titular Volkswagen on the right side. The top left corner of the print has a large “96,” with the bottom left corner bearing a same-sized “08,” suggesting the car’s life span. The majority of the left side is taken up with a long, handwritten paragraph detailing important life events, including moving, vacationing, falling in love, the death of pets, and the birth of children. The simple line drawing suggests more of a sketchbook than a finished artwork, with the handwritten personal tale adding to the journalistic effect. Although all of these elements are informal by themselves, the structured quadrant composition ties it together. The wavering contour line used for the car gives the image a sense of fragility. This work is simultaneously personal, detailing events of one specific life, and universal, as they are events that most of us experience, too.

The narrative in Goodbye Golf is relatively transparent, but Cutler-Lake shows more cryptic use of narrative in pieces such as 35. This work combines gauche and graphite on a seven-foot-tall scroll of stitched-together papers. The extreme narrow, vertical nature forces the viewer to “read” the work a piece at a time, mimicking a sense of time passing. While the images seem unrelated – a child engaged in different activities, a woman in a red beret, a camera, cupcakes, calendars, a puzzle, a laptop, and a barn – the repeated woman and child imply that this is a familial tale, with the assorted items relating to the characters’ lives. The scenes are overlapping a background of alternating flat blocks of color, and are often tilted to a diagonal, giving a sense of movement. The diverse pictures are related through a similar style – flatly colored shapes with outlines – and the use of repeated red, teal, orange, tan, and white colors.

Unlike the written narrative of Goodbye Golf, 35 tells the story of years through literal images. Although the viewer might not be able relate to the importance of each individual object, the generalized illustration style and the feel of fleeting time and nostalgia are open and relatable. Through her use of timeline-like compositions, characters, and delicate line quality, Cutler-Lake turns memories into layered visual narratives.

Michelle Garrison is a mixed-media artist who teaches art and design at Geneseo Middle School and J.D. Darnell High School.

Grant William Thye, Autumn in Blue Ridge

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JUST FER KIDS!Hey, everybody! Here’s a question for

you: What do you get when you cross a spider, a rat, and an irritating little brother with one of the most beloved authors of all time?

Well, you either get one really scared and annoyed author, or you get Charlotte’s Web, the magical family adventure by world-famous writer E.B. White!

I’m sure you all know this book about the adorable pig, Wilbur, and his wonderful friendship with the motherly spider, Charlotte. But did you know that the book is also a play? And did you know that this play is about to be staged by the talented students at Davenport

Junior Theatre? Now you do!Charlotte’s Web will be performed

at Davenport’s Nighswander Theatre, located in the Annie Wittenmyer Complex, on Saturdays and Sundays, February 19 through 27; showtimes are at 1 and 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays, and tickets are just $5 for anyone over three years old. For anyone ages three and under, the ticket price is $59.95.

Just kidding! They see the show for free!

To get you in the mood for the hour-long production, see how well you do at finding 13 characters in this Charlotte’s Web word find – the answers are on page 24 ... but no cheating! Charlotte herself may be watching you!

More information on Davenport Junior Theatre’s Charlotte’s Web is available by calling (563)326-7862 and visiting DavenportJuniorTheatre.com. Have fun, kids!

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LiteratureKay RyanSt. Ambrose UniversityFriday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.

On February 25, St. Ambrose University will host an evening

with the latest guest in the Galvin Fine Arts Center’s Performing Arts Series: acclaimed poet, and the 2009-10 U.S. poet laureate, Kay Ryan.

The recipient of such honors as a 2001 fellowship from the National

Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Ryan’s poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and Paris Review, among other publications. And in lieu of delivering some good-natured joke here – say, about how Ryan’s talents might even surpass my own – I thought I’d instead defer to

the author by offering some examples of the staggering praise she’s received over the years.

From the New York Times’ Dwight Garner: “You can’t help consuming Kay Ryan’s poems quickly ... . But you immediately double back, and their moral and intellectual bite blindsides you.”

From Dana Gioia, former chair of the NEA: “Ryan reminds us of the suggestive power of poetry – how it elicits and rewards the reader’s intellect, imagination, and emotions.”

From Jack Foley, San Francisco author and literary critic: “Kay Ryan is a serious poet writing serious poems ... . Ryan can certainly be funny, but it is rarely without a sting.”

And from the Web site for the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation: “Characterized by subtle, surprising rhymes and nimble rhythms, her compact poems are charged with sly wit and offbeat wisdom.”

You know, all that brings to mind another writer of compact, sly, witty pieces for whom those accolades wouldn’t be out of ... .

Nah. I’m too humbled to even try equating myself to Ryan.But, you know, if you wanna do it ... .Tickets to St. Ambrose’s evening with Kay Ryan are $7 to $9 and

can be reserved by calling (563)333-6251 or visiting SAU.edu/galvin.

MusicCuban EssenceAugustana CollegeSaturday, February 19, 7 p.m.

The latest performers in Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artists Series are the members of the Latin-American music ensemble Cuban

Essence, and as I write this – two days after the crazy blizzard of ’11 – I’m looking out the window at a snowdrift that’s literally twice as tall as the car parked beside it. Any chance we could get a little Cuban Essence in our temperatures right now?

Probably not, but since the group is appearing at Augustana College’s Wallenberg Hall on February 19, they’re sure to be heating things up in no time.

Based in Chicago, and led by Cuban-born composer, director, and percussionist Waldo Ocaña, the acclaimed ensemble performs authentic Afro-Cuban music in the rhythms of timba, the Cuban counterpart of salsa. Substituting vocals for traditional horn arrangements, and singing and playing instruments in genres

that include Latin jazz, pop, funk, and hip-hop, Cuban Essence routinely thrills audiences nationwide with its uniquely fiery blend of styles ... and if you want to talk “unique,” you should check out Ocaña’s résumé.

As an orchestra member, the man has performed with the Chicago Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Chicago Festival of the Arts Orchestra, and as a musical director and drummer, he’s worked for Chicago’s

esteemed Pump Room and Odyssey Cruise Lines. As a touring artist, Ocaña has played backup for such disparate celebrities as celebrated contralto Marian Anderson, legendary pianist Victor Borge, I Dream of Jeannie’s Barbara Eden, and even comedienne Judy Tenuda.

And as a composer, he’s not only published more than 60 original pieces but wrote the score for the 2007 musical A Blank Stare Is Better Than an Empty Chair. So you don’t even have to enjoy yourself during Cuban Essence’s Augustana performance; Ocaña will be happy if you just show up!

But enjoy yourself you no doubt will. Tickets to Cuban Essence are $12 for adults and $8 for students, and more information is available by calling (309)794-7306 or visiting QuadCityArts.com.

MusicThe Dirty Dozen Brass BandThe Redstone RoomWednesday, March 2, 8:30 p.m.

Before you ask: Yes, that accompanying photo is indeed a picture of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Yes, I’m only counting seven musicians, too. And yes, not a single one of band members resembles Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, or George Kennedy.

The name of the group is actually inspired by New Orleans’ legendary nightspot The Dirty Dozen Social & Pleasure Club, where this internationally renowned ensemble originated in the late 1970s. Yet if you attend the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s March 2 performance at Davenport’s Redstone Room, you’ll see, and more

importantly hear, that the performers kick just as much ass as Marvin and company, with the added benefit of doing it musically.

Incorporating funk, soul, bebop, and jazz-fusion stylings into the traditional, New Orleans-flavored brass-band sound, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band had a

smash success with its interpretation of Marvin Gaye’s (entire) landmark album What’s Going On, recorded to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina devastation, and described by the Washington Post as “ambitious, defiant, searing, and spiritual.”

The group, however, was long on the musical map before that 2006 triumph. Electrifying both critics and crowds on concert tours throughout the United States

and in more than 30 countries on five continents, the Dirty Dozen Brass has also worked with some of the most noted names in music; the ensemble’s Columbia Records debut, 1987’s Voodoo, featured guest appearances by Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. John, and Branford Marsalis, and further collaborators have included Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Modest Mouse, DJ Logic, Widespread Panic, and the Black Crowes.

Described by JazzTimes.com as “jovial and rousing,” and with the New York Times raving that the band’s “crisply focused” concerts “convey a sense of communal jubilation,” you’re sure to thrill to the group’s Redstone Room set ... with or without Ernest Borgnine playing backup. Don’t rule that possibility out, though. Did you see that guy’s tribute at the SAG Awards? Man’s been everywhere.

Tickets to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band concert are $15 in advance and $18 at the door, and are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.

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JUST FER KIDS!Hey, everybody! Here’s a question for

you: What do you get when you cross a spider, a rat, and an irritating little brother with one of the most beloved authors of all time?

Well, you either get one really scared and annoyed author, or you get Charlotte’s Web, the magical family adventure by world-famous writer E.B. White!

I’m sure you all know this book about the adorable pig, Wilbur, and his wonderful friendship with the motherly spider, Charlotte. But did you know that the book is also a play? And did you know that this play is about to be staged by the talented students at Davenport

Junior Theatre? Now you do!Charlotte’s Web will be performed

at Davenport’s Nighswander Theatre, located in the Annie Wittenmyer Complex, on Saturdays and Sundays, February 19 through 27; showtimes are at 1 and 4 p.m. on Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays, and tickets are just $5 for anyone over three years old. For anyone ages three and under, the ticket price is $59.95.

Just kidding! They see the show for free!

To get you in the mood for the hour-long production, see how well you do at finding 13 characters in this Charlotte’s Web word find – the answers are on page 24 ... but no cheating! Charlotte herself may be watching you!

More information on Davenport Junior Theatre’s Charlotte’s Web is available by calling (563)326-7862 and visiting DavenportJuniorTheatre.com. Have fun, kids!

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MusicFood for Body & SoulFirst Lutheran Church of Galesburg and St. Paul Lutheran Church of DavenportSaturday, February 19, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, February 20, 4 p.m.

“Mike, I wanted to talk to you about this What’s Happenin’ you dropped

on my desk.”“The one on the upcoming performances

by the Nova Singers?”“Yeah. The Food for Body & Soul concerts.

What’s the deal?”“I don’t understand the question, Jeff. As I mention in the article, the

Nova Singers are the Galesburg-based professional vocal ensemble that sings under the direction of founder Laura Lane, and the group’s 20 members are performing their new program at Galesburg’s First Lutheran Church on February 19, and Davenport’s St. Paul Lutheran Church on February 20.”

“Yes, I’m aware of that ... .”“The repertoire for the ensemble’s latest explores the power of prayer and

meditation through music, and as its title suggests, its features a number of a cappella songs that are all somewhat related to food.”

“I get that, Mike ... .”“The singers will be performing two works by Norwegian composers –

Knut Nystedt’s Immortal Bach and Ola Gjeilo’s The Spheres – and a rendition of French composer Francis Poulenc’s Motets for the Season of Lent. The program will also include a powerful piece by England’s Herbert Howells called Take Him, Earth for Cherishing, which was composed to honor the memory of John F. Kennedy. And finally, the group will present Bob Chilicott’s Fragments from His Dish, which Lane describes as ‘a collection of songs about food that are sweet, grateful, playful, and hysterically funny.’”

“Uh huh. I read that ... .”“It’s all there in the piece, Jeff, along with the ticket prices – $15 for adults

and $10 for seniors. So what do you mean, ‘What’s the deal?’”“What’s the deal with all these water spots on the paper?”“Oh. That’s uh ... that’s drool.”“ ... ”“Hey, it’s a food-themed piece I wrote over the lunch hour. Whaddaya want

from me?!”Tickets to the Nova Singers’ Food for Body & Soul performances are available

by calling (309)341-7038, e-mailing nova@knox.edu, or visiting the group’s Facebook page.

MusicThe Dirty Dozen Brass BandThe Redstone RoomWednesday, March 2, 8:30 p.m.

Before you ask: Yes, that accompanying photo is indeed a picture of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Yes, I’m only counting seven musicians, too. And yes, not a single one of band members resembles Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, or George Kennedy.

The name of the group is actually inspired by New Orleans’ legendary nightspot The Dirty Dozen Social & Pleasure Club, where this internationally renowned ensemble originated in the late 1970s. Yet if you attend the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s March 2 performance at Davenport’s Redstone Room, you’ll see, and more

importantly hear, that the performers kick just as much ass as Marvin and company, with the added benefit of doing it musically.

Incorporating funk, soul, bebop, and jazz-fusion stylings into the traditional, New Orleans-flavored brass-band sound, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band had a

smash success with its interpretation of Marvin Gaye’s (entire) landmark album What’s Going On, recorded to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina devastation, and described by the Washington Post as “ambitious, defiant, searing, and spiritual.”

The group, however, was long on the musical map before that 2006 triumph. Electrifying both critics and crowds on concert tours throughout the United States

and in more than 30 countries on five continents, the Dirty Dozen Brass has also worked with some of the most noted names in music; the ensemble’s Columbia Records debut, 1987’s Voodoo, featured guest appearances by Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. John, and Branford Marsalis, and further collaborators have included Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Modest Mouse, DJ Logic, Widespread Panic, and the Black Crowes.

Described by JazzTimes.com as “jovial and rousing,” and with the New York Times raving that the band’s “crisply focused” concerts “convey a sense of communal jubilation,” you’re sure to thrill to the group’s Redstone Room set ... with or without Ernest Borgnine playing backup. Don’t rule that possibility out, though. Did you see that guy’s tribute at the SAG Awards? Man’s been everywhere.

Tickets to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band concert are $15 in advance and $18 at the door, and are available by calling (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com.

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MUSICThursday, February 17 – Gaelic Storm.

Acclaimed Celtic group performs originals and fresh arrangements of classics. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $25-35. For tickets and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.

Friday, February 18 – Buckwheat Zydeco. Concert with the blues- and roots-music master, with an opening set by the Whoozdads. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 8:30 p.m. $25. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.

Friday, February 18 – Michael Twitty: Memories of Conway Twitty. Concert tribute to the county-music legend, performed by his son. Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $10-20. For tickets and information, call (800)724-5825 or visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.

Friday, February 18, and Saturday, February 19 – Great River Show Choir Invitational. Song and dance competition with students from area schools. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). Friday – 5 p.m. middle-school competition; Saturday – 8 a.m. high-school competition; Saturday – 7:30 p.m. finals. $5 competition tickets; $8 finals tickets. For information, visit GreatRiverShowChoir.com.

Friday, February 18 – Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Hancher Auditorium presents a concert with the three-time Grammy Award-winning world musicians. Riverside Casino & Golf Resort (3184 Highway 22, Riverside). 7:30 p.m. $10-42. For tickets and information, call (319)335-1160 or visit http://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.

Friday, February 18 – Lucinda Williams.

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Explore the history and significance of the rail-road in the Quad Cities. This companion exhibi-tion includes works on loan from the Rock Island Arsenal Museum, the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center of the Davenport Public Library and the Putnam Museum.at left: Davenport Locomotive Works, ca. 1940s, courtesy of the Davenport Public Library

Home Is where the Hard Isby Thom White

director Emmalee Moffitt’s Richmond Hill Barn Theatre production of Independence may

be the first work I’ve seen in which the pacing is a problem because it’s too fast. It struck me, while watching Thursday night’s performance, that a lot of tension was lost due to the lack of awkward silences during verbal spats; Moffitt doesn’t allow several scenes to breathe, particularly whenever the play’s matriarch and her eldest daughter argue, and so they wind up playing like ordinary family squabbles, rather than the uncomfortable, dysfunctional altercations playwright Lee Blessing intended.

The play seems to me an August: Osage County-lite, of sorts. There’s the crazy mother, Evelyn (Nancy Teerlinck), who’s suffering the loss of her husband and prone to fits of extreme anger (albeit not fits induced by drugs). There’s the homecoming of the eldest daughter, Kess (Stacy Herrick), who arrives to check in on, and eventually take care of, her ailing mom. And there’s also the family tension created by Evelyn’s antics, and how it affects her two other daughters, Jo and Sherry (Jennifer Ufen and Dana Skiles).

Much of the weight of Blessing’s script lies on the shoulders of Teerlinck, since her character’s insanity is the source of the plot’s dysfunctional dynamics, and the actress employs a vocal timbre and inflections that embellish her fury, and tears, to great effect. At times, however, when she’s not shouting or crying, Teerlinck’s deliveries seem unnatural, and both her performance and the overall production would benefit from the actress upping the crazy ante and delivering anger that’s even more intense. Based on what I did see from her, I believe Teerlinck has what it takes to deliver a more powerful performance if one can be coaxed out of her; her emotions are effective, but not effective enough to fully drive home the harsher points in Blessing’s script.

Herrick also does some heavy-lifting of Independence’s narrative, and also struggles to carry it, seeming to merely portray Kess’ emotions rather than feel them. There is

a disconnect in her performance, as if she’s not fully embracing her character or pouring herself into the role, and Herrick reads her lines with oddly affected vocal inflections rather than her natural ones – or any natural ones. However, like Teerlinck, I think Herrick would be capable of better

work were she coached to connect with her role, rather than simply display her character’s feelings.

Connection doesn’t seem to be a problem for Ufen, the most earnest member of the cast. Her work is refreshingly sweet, with seemingly sincere emotions

pooling in her eyes, and Ufen is able to effectively create moments of awkward tension during Jo’s arguments with Evelyn by pausing before her line deliveries, staring at her mother with sadness, frustration, and/or confusion. Ufen lets her scenes breathe by using silence to build uneasiness.

Skiles, however, is the true saving grace of the play. While Ufen is emotionally strong, Skiles is delightfully funny, with her dry, slightly acerbic delivery. Given the performer’s off-the-cuff style, hers is the most realistic, unforced portrayal of the

four, and even, for all of Sherry’s unlikable traits, the most likable, thanks to the humor Skiles injects into the role.

Overall, though, the ensemble doesn’t exude the hostility and discomfort needed to fully embody this on-stage clan. The tone never suggests anything more than a typical family with typical

arguments, and the daughters’ pleas to be allowed to go out into the world and leave their mother behind don’t play as efforts to truly escape – they simply grow up and move on, as daughters are apt to do. With no sense of threat in the production, and no sense that any characters are in need of protection, Richmond Hill’s Independence family feels pretty much like any other family. And Independence itself feels pretty much like any other play – one missing the caustic, anxiety-ridden relationships that Blessing originally wrote about. For tickets and information, call (309) 944-2244 or visit RHPlayers.com.

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what Else Is Happenin’Louisiana-based singer/songwriter in concert. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8 p.m. $35. For tickets and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.

Thursday, February 24 – The Schubert Piano Trios. A Hancher Auditorium presentation of Franz Schubert’s two famed piano trios, performed by cellist David Finckel, violinist Philip Setzer, and pianist Wu Han. Riverside Recital Hall (405 North Riverside Drive, Iowa City). 7:30 p.m. $10-40. For tickets and information, call (319)335-1160 or visit http://www.Hancher.UIowa.edu.

Saturday, February 26 – Buffalo Clover. Roots musicians in concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $7. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.

Saturday, February 26 – Martha Reeves & the Vandellas. Chart-topping Motown recording artists in concert. Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $15-25. For tickets and information, call (800)724-5825 or visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.

Sunday, February 27 – Quad City Wind Ensemble 2011 Winter Concert. Event in the ensemble’s 25th-anniversary season, with guest conductor R. Scott Cohen of Big Rapids, Michigan’s Ferris State University. St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center (518 West Locust Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. $8-10, students free. For information, call (309)507-2971 or visit Quad-City-Wind-Ensemble.webs.com.

Tuesday, March 1 – The Holmes Brothers. Americana, blues, and soul musicians in concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $17-20. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.

THEATREFriday, February 18, through Sunday,

February 20 – Columbinus. Drama inspired by the Columbine High School shootings, directed by Daniel Rairdin-Hale. St. Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine Arts Center (2101 Gaines Street, Davenport). Friday and Saturday – 7:30 p.m.; Sunday – 3 p.m. $7-11. For tickets and information, call (563)333-6251 or visit SAU.edu/galvin.

Friday, February 25 – All Shook Up. National touring production of the musical comedy in which Elvis Presley’s discography meets William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street). 7:30 p.m. $29.50-49.50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

Friday, February 25, and Saturday, February 26 – Invasion Earth: As Seen on TV. Debuting comedy by high-school senior Tim Bawden and his father, Mike, in which an alien race relocates to Earth after researching TV broadcasts from the 1950s. Pleasant Valley High School (604 Belmont Road, Bettendorf). 7 p.m. For information, call (563)332-5151 or visit Facebook.com/InvasionEarth.

Friday, February 25, through Sunday, February 27 – A Little Night Music. A City Circle Acting Company of Coralville production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical romance, directed by Patrick DuLaney. Englert Theatre (221 East

Washington Street, Iowa City). Friday and Saturday – 7:30 p.m.; Sunday – 2 p.m. $15-20. For tickets and information, call (319)688-2653 or visit CityCircle.org.

Saturday, February 26, through Saturday, April 2 – Mr. U.S. Grant: A Man & a Patriot. Fifty-minute, one-man show written by and starring Dan Haughey, focusing on Grant’s efforts during the Civil War years. Harrison Hilltop Theatre (1601 Harrison Street, Davenport). Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. $8. For tickets and information, call (309)235-1654 or visit HarrisonHilltop.com.

DANCE Saturday, February 19 – “Dancing with the

Staff” Competition. Competitors from more than a dozen area schools face each other in a dance-off, with half of the proceeds going to the winning school, and the other half to the Moline Foundation. Moline High School (3600 Avenue of the Cities, Moline). 7 p.m. $5 at the door. For information, call (309)786-4800 or visit ARhythmicTime.com.

MOVIES Sunday, February 20, and Monday,

February 21 – Lincoln’s Secret Killer. Advance screenings of the National Geographic Channel documentary, partly filmed in Galesburg and at the Orpheum, questioning whether Abraham Lincoln was dying of cancer when he was assassinated. Orpheum Theatre (57 South Kellogg Street, Galesburg). Sunday – 2 p.m.; Monday – 3 p.m. Free admission. For information, call (309)342-2299 or visit TheOrpheum.org.

Sunday, February 27 – Hollywood Live! Hosted by Chris Okiishi, a red-carpet walk, movie-themed food, costume contests, a silent auction, and a screening of the Academy Awards presentation. Englert Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 6 p.m. $10 suggested donation. For information, call (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.

KIDS’ STUFF Tuesday, March 1 – Barney Live in Concert:

Barney’s Birthday Bash! Interactive concert party with the stars of the children’s television smash. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). 3 and 6:30 p.m. $10-50. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

EVENTSFriday, February 25, and Saturday, February

26 – World’s Toughest Bulls & Broncs. Rodeo competition featuring bareback riding, saddle-bronc riding, bull riding, cowgirl barrel racing, and more. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $18-35. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Saturday, February 26 – Tailgate Party with Pat Angerer. Fundraiser for the museum’s summer drop-in programs featuring food, a silent auction, and a Q&A, meet-and-greet, and autograph session with Indianapolis Colts linebacker Angerer. Family Museum (2900 Learning Campus Drive, Bettendorf). 6 p.m. $25. For tickets and information, call (563)344-4168 or visit FamilyMuseum.org.

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performs the one wholly selfless act of his life ... .

A just-released prisoner walking alone on the street, carrying a sagging “welcome home” sheet cake, searching the block for his old drug buddies – Worst Homecoming Ever in The Fighter ... .

Whose murder are we going into, exactly? – tricky

editing ensuring that we’re as unglued as Black Swan’s prima ballerina during a dressing-room bloodletting ... .

“I think you’re too old.”: a son’s simple reasoning for why his parents shouldn’t split up ... reasoning that neither parent can

necessarily disagree with – The Kids Are All Right ... .

And the circle of life continues: A little girl picks up and strums the banjo that her departing uncle has just set down, probably for the last time – Winter’s Bone ... .

Citizen Zuckerberg: Xanadu replaced by a downtown law office as a lonely billionaire loses

himself in an image from his past (refresh ... refresh ... refresh ... ) – The Social Network ... .

The straight-backed (and one-armed) walk into True Grit’s horizon – a journey

made, and respects paid, and that’s that then ... .

Toy Story 3’s Spanish-language rendition “You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Para Buzz Español)” – proof that everything’s cheerier with a Latin

beat ... .Don’t Stop Believin’: Before the cut to

black, Inception’s top spinning, and spinning, and teetering ju-u-ust a little ... .

passing her smirking doppelgänger/subconscious in the hallway, an unspoken promise that the two will meet again, and again, and again ... .

If it looks like a bear and sounds like a bear ... : the winter wardrobe and growling basso profundo of the horse-riding medicine man in True Grit ... .

Michael Gambon’s King George V, with the wide eyes of a child, signing away all rights to the throne yet not understanding why – dementia handled through abdication in The King’s Speech ... .

A sleepy grade-schooler and his dad watch the sunrise, and without words, 127 Hours elegantly explains everything you need to know about why Aron Ralston (James Franco) is who he is ... .

Melissa Leo in The Fighter: a mother’s broken heart slowly mending through an a cappella rendition of the Bee Gees’ “I Started a Joke” ... .

Winter’s Bone’s recruiting officer explaining to Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) why the 17-year-old shouldn’t join the Army – a moment of kindness and sanity in Ree’s otherwise unkind and insane world ... .

Blaring nightclub music still not drowning out the parable/pitch by Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), because you can hear the devil even when he’s whispering – The Social Network ... .

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The King’s Speech

Inception127 Hours

Winter’s Bone

“And ... tits.”: George attempts to maintain his decency by bringing his tongue-loosening exercise to a hilariously anticlimactic end – The King’s Speech ... .

“Whose subconscious are we going into, exactly?” – Inception’s Ellen Page, saying what everyone’s thinking in the movie year’s most empathetic laugh line ... .

“I shall return!”: The Kids Are All Right’s Jules (Julianne Moore) countering her kitchen-make-out-session embarrassment with

aggressive good cheer, and consequently leaving the scene even more embarrassed ... .

Paradise by the dashboard lights: the freewheeling happiness of a winter snowstorm, a beater car, and a dozen mostly naked bodies – 127 Hours ... .

The mother of all mood killers: Black Swan’s ballerina giving masturbation a try, and immediately stopping after glancing at her bedroom chair ... .

In the Hall of the Mountain King:

Spurred on by Grieg, The Social Network’s Winklevi (Armie Hammer) compete and come this close to greatness ... again ... .

Horrific violence as a man loses his fingers and another is shot in the head in three

seconds flat – the Coen brothers proving that that this ain’t your papa’s True Grit ... .

“Is this our time?”: John Hawkes’ Teardrop addressing Garrett Dillahunt’s sheriff, the shotgun in his lap suggesting just how far he’ll go for family – Winter’s Bone ... .

The single-minded stare and hideous shriek of Toy Story 3’s cymbal-playing monkey, topping

Close Encounters in viewing the toy as the scariest child’s plaything imaginable ... .

An inmate’s mortification in The Fighter, as his biographical comeback movie is revealed to be a documentary exposé on crack addiction ... just like the filmmakers repeatedly told him ... .

Lily (Mila Kunis) casually obliterating a fellow dancer’s happiness, sexual confidence, and sanity with three simple words – “Was I good?” – in Black Swan ... .

Joseph Gordon-Levitt methodically tying bodies together in a zero-gravity environment – business as usual in Inception ... .

Hair in the drain: the dawning recognition of an adulterous fling, and a punishing dinner-table silence, in The Kids Are All Right ... .

Casual effrontery in a camera move: The King’s Speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) suddenly appearing in a chair that, for the love of God, he is not allowed to sit in ... .

The horrific buzz of a chainsaw as it slices through water, and flesh and bone, twice – a teenager receives the evidence she desperately needed but never wanted in Winter’s Bone ... .

127 Hours’ enormous, inflatable Scooby-Doo – a symbol of long-gone childhood simultaneously beckoning to and mocking our hiker ... .

Mr. Tortilla Head – Toy Story 3 hits the series’ height of surreality as a plastic potato becomes a figure that Picasso himself would’ve been proud to paint ... .

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satisfaction, and revving an attraction into an obsession. Anthropologist Helen Fisher explains in Why We Love: “When a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the brain increase their work, pumping out more of this natural stimulant to energize the brain, focus attention, and drive the pursuer to strive even harder to acquire a reward.”

You get out of a habit the same way you get in: through repetition. Every time you don’t let yourself think about this woman, it’ll be a little easier to not think about her the next time. Of course, you can’t just say “I’m not going to think about her.” When you start, you need to shove the thoughts out of the way by engaging your memory and your speech (when you’re talking and remembering, you can’t also be obsessing). Have a substitute program at the ready: Recite the Cyrillic alphabet, run through the 50 states and their capitals, and move on to Canada if need be ... whatever it takes to pry your mind off how dreamy her varicose veins look when the sun hits them.

This brain retraining will be really hard at first, and seem stupid and futile, but it should eventually take if you keep at it. And you do need to keep at it. Only when you stop being the lab rat pushing the little bar for the hit of middle-aged married woman will you have clarity on why looking at your husband sends you into a heterosexually vegetative state.

Now, maybe you are a lesbian late bloomer, bi-curious, or just bored-curious. But it’s possible that you’re simply angry and resentful and maybe worried that your husband will go back on the sauce. While men can have sex without an emotional connection, women generally need to feel emotionally close to their partner first. You won’t figure out what your deal is by chasing this woman around the hors d’oeuvres table but by taking a hard look at the man and the marriage you still have. You may need to forgive him in order to want him again. You may need more proof that he won’t rekindle his affair with Jack Daniel and Mr. Cuervo. Or, you may need him to be a chick. In which case... sayonara. As successful as many people are in going to A.A. meetings and “humbly asking God to remove their shortcomings,” it’s best if those shortcomings are things like impulsivity and anger issues – not testicles.

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Menopause in the HeterosexualityI’m a 56-year-old married woman,

and as far as I can tell, I’ve been happily heterosexual all my life – until recently. For the past year, I’ve been thinking about a woman until I can no longer think about anything else. I have such powerful and authentic sexual feelings that I feel compelled to reveal myself to her, but I think she’d probably knock me out. We’re both married to men, and she’s a pretty prominent member in our community whom I’ve long respected, so there are also elements of danger and hero-worship here. There are other reasons to leave this alone, but I’m having a hard time doing it. I just want her so desperately. I should add that I haven’t been in an intimate relationship for a long time, as my husband was an alcoholic who’s now recovering. But when my desire returned, it wasn’t for him; it was all for her! I have no idea what’s happening. Argggh! I think I love her!

– Uh-Oh!

Too bad you aren’t 19 and in college. You’d be free to take a little tour of the Isle of Lesbos, change your ringtone to “I Kissed A Girl,” and come out to your parents (then maybe take it back a week later to date the cute guy you met at the GrrrlPower Rally). Unfortunately, once you’re married, “experimenting” with somebody who isn’t your spouse is called “cheating,” regardless of whether you’re “Chasing Amy” – or in your case, “Chasing Amy’s Mother.”

I’m sure this woman is all that and a bag of Indigo Girls CDs, but she’s also a convenient distraction from your difficult marriage already in progress. Adding to the fun is the drama: Your crush is small-town famous, married, and has shown zero interest in you, women, or becoming a divorced woman with a girlfriend. Of course, getting high on the prospect of forbidden love beats getting over to a marriage counselor: “It’s raining, it’s pouring, my marriage is boring!”

Every time you moon over this woman, you’re giving your brain’s motivation and reward centers a hit of the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. In doing that, you’re the cartoon horse with the carrot in front of its face, repeatedly engaging your brain in reward-seeking without reward-

and dictates of the planners. According to Harvey Ruvin, vice chair of ICLEI and clerk of the circuit and county court of Miami-Dade County, Florida: “Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” (For more information, see Understanding Sustainable Development: Agenda 21 at FreedomAdvocates.org.)

Rather than all men being created equal – with government’s role to ensure each individual’s rights are not violated – “equity” will be accomplished by implementing international economic order and transferring resources from developed countries to undeveloped countries. Because the United States has a higher standard of living than most countries, developed or not, our standard of living must decrease to bring about international economic balance. That is what is meant by redistribution of wealth. Instead of utilizing private enterprise, however, the redistribution is taking place utilizing public/private partnerships. This model is accelerating and will soon appear to be the norm rather than the exception.

Public/private partnerships are antithetical to free enterprise. Big business melds with big government to form the unholy alliances that corrupt competition. The lethal combination of economic power and government force inevitably leads to tyranny, and clearly defines nearly every democracy on the planet, past and present.

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Agenda 21 is primarily implemented through a network of agencies that provide carrots in the form of federal and state grants dangled in front of mostly unsuspecting bureaucrats and elected politicians who consider themselves omnipotent budget managers instead of upholding individual’s personal-property rights as their oaths of office dictate.

Institutional laziness that infects every level of U.S. government makes formulaic programs even more attractive to bureaucrats and politicians because all the heavy lifting is already done. The funding abounds via tax-funded agencies and foundations. So that just leaves the quid pro quo or the necessary pay-to-play, which is, simply put, the sacrificing of Americans’ unalienable rights – namely property rights that are forsaken so that massive amounts of land can be transferred, bought/sold, and/or controlled for the use of a global central-planning cabal.

Most nations are enthusiastically on-board with Agenda 21 because they have far less to lose and much more to gain. This is not the case in America. We have everything to lose and nothing whatsoever to gain. Perhaps that’s why Agenda 21 is such a stealthily crafted conspiracy, one that has plausible deniability as long as you don’t read any of the fine print. Be clear here: The “planners” are literally banking that you won’t.

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high-school friend who struggled to decide where to attend college.

Still, even when remembering him fondly, friends and former students used words such as “tough,” “rigid,” and “gruff.”

“I would always say [to Butterfield that] you get more with sugar,” Sarah said, “and he would say, ‘No, you don’t.’”

Sarah said she thinks her husband attempted to balance his belief that the world was doomed with constant efforts to improve it. “I think that was part of his own internal struggle,” she said. “I think it kept him up some nights.”

She added that the conflict made him mysterious even to her: “I guess it’s the one thing I have always wondered about him, too.”

Before his accident, on his Facebook page, Buttefield wrote: “I am not convinced of the meaning of anything. I probably don’t trust whatever it is that we base our daily lives on ... .”

That existential questioning remains. In our conversation at the end of December, I offered, “Lots of people love you, especially your wife.”

“Love. People still believe in that?” he asked with a smirk.

Moline High School teachers have organized a February 26 chili and hot-dog dinner and trivia night to be held at the Black Hawk State Historic Site lodge in Rock Island. The dinner will run from 4 to 6 p.m., and the trivia night will begin at 7 p.m.

Teachers at Moline High School have also organized a benefit taco dinner at Mulligan’s Valley Pub (310 West First Avenue in Coal Valley) on March 29 from 5 to 9 p.m.

For information about upcoming benefit events, updates about Butterfield’s progress, and memories of Butterfield, visit CurtisButterfield.com.

Tushar Rae is a former editorial intern for the River Cities’ Reader.

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talk with Butterfield about everything from the sound qualities and mechanics of subwoofers to the shocking effects created by a Van de Graaff generator to global climate change.

His giving nature wasn’t limited to the classroom. He helped his wife’s college roommate move, brought snakes to Girl Scout meetings to help them learn about reptiles, performed a marital-arts demonstration during Moline High School’s annual winter-holiday fundraising effort, and drove from South Carolina (where he was attending Clemson University) to Minnesota several times to support a

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and to the world in which they lived. “His work ethic and desire for people

to just do their best has influenced me ever since the ninth grade,” wrote former student Anna Hernstrom. “He inspired me to go out of my way to help out, whether it’s the extra mile or just a couple steps to pick up a stray piece of trash off the street.”

Fellow teachers wrote about the excellence of his craft in the classroom and his work to promote science outside of it.

“When I have a question that Google can’t solve, Curtis is the man to go to,” said fellow Moline science teacher Kelly Menge. “His passion for the environment and for

being in-touch with nature is infectious.” For Butterfield’s work, Jacquelyn

Fitzpatrick (chair of the Moline High science department) and Pitz nominated him for the 2004 John Deere Harvester Special Recognition Award. “His ability to connect with students is demonstrated in part by the fact that individuals who might be identified as ‘at risk’ will often stop in before and after school to catch up on the latest science happenings,” they wrote in their nomination letter.

As someone who spent nearly every day after school in his classroom for four years, I saw many students stop by and

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“Blues Plate Special” Lunch w/ Ren Estrand -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Buckwheat Zydeco - The Whoozdads -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav-enport, IA

Cobalt Blue -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Funktastic Five -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Great River Show Choir Invitational: Mid-dle School Competition (5pm) -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Jazz After Five: Cassius Goines & Groove Theory (5:30pm) - Jennifer Danielson & Ben Schmidt (9pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Koo Koo Kanga Roo -Gabe’s, 330 E. Wash-ington St. Iowa City, IA

Ladysmith Black Mambazo -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Lee Blackmon (6:30pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Lucinda Williams -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Maddie’s Farm (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Mi-lan, IL

Michael Twitty: Memories of Conway Twitty -Quad-Cities Waterfront Con-vention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IA

Midwest Dilemma -Monk’s Kaffee Pub, 373 Bluff St. Dubuque, IA

Night People -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill ’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Richie Lee -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Sleepin’ on the Couch -Longshots Bar & Grill, 3312 W. Rock Falls Rd Cedar Falls, IL

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Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Bucktown Revue -River Music Experi-ence, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

The Knockoffs -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

uneXpected -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Uniphonics - Twin Cats -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/02/19 (Sat)

Benefit for Bandwith.org: The Grand Tetons - Nikki Lunden - Caleb Ryder - Item 9 & the Mad Hatters - FanOff-BirdSafe -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Buddy Olson -City Limits Saloon & Grill, 4514 9th St. Rock Island, IL

Cuban Essence -Wallenberg Hall, Au-gustana College, 3520 7th Ave. Rock Island, IL

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

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

Flavor Savers - Big Funk Guarantee -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Fool’s Gold -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Funktastic Five -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

Great River Show Choir Invitational: Finals (7:30pm) -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Great River Show Choir Invitational: High School Competition (8am) -Adler The-atre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

John Pena Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Caman-che Ave Clinton, IA

Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Lee Blackmon -Applebee’s - Moline, 3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL

Pappa-Razzi -Mound Street Landing, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA

Plagued by Saints - Catastrophic Solutions - X + X - Reelfoot Rift (7pm)-River Music Experience, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Plagued By Saints - Suckerpunched - Emplyfi - Lock & Damn (9pm) -Racer’s Edge, 936 15th Ave East Moline, IL

Richie Lee -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Rob Dahms’ One-Man Band -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St Mc-Causland, IA

Sleepin’ on the Couch -The Other Place, Erie, IL

Smooth Groove -Jumer’s Casino & Hotel, 777 Jumer Dr. Rock Island, IL

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Fry Daddies (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

The Funnies -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bet-tendorf, IA

Thunder Body -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Time Span -Tommy’s, 1302 4th Ave Mo-line, IL

uneXpected -Van’s, 3333 Harrison St. Davenport, IA

Vodkaseven -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA

Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

2011/02/20 (Sun)

David Berkeley (3pm) -Uptown Bill ’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Hold On Band (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv-erside, IA

Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Karaoke w/ Steve K and the Gang -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet-tendorf, IA

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

2011/02/21 (Mon)

Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/02/17 (Thu)

Arts & Music Night (6pm) -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Civil Rights Song Fest (6:30pm) -Bet-tendorf Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus Bettendorf, IA

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

Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Heatbox -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Live Lunch with Keith Soko (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Spankalicious -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA

Twin Cats -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

University of Iowa Jazz Performance w/ Cassius Goens Combo -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

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The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/02/24 (Thu)

Andy Frasco - Collectible Boys - Dave Zollo -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Arts & Music Night (6pm) -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

David Finckel, Wu Han, and Philip Setzer: The Schubert Piano Trios -Riverside Recital Hall - St. Thomas More Church, 405 N Riverside Dr. Iowa City, IA

Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

North Scott Jazz Bands -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA

Waterstreet -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

White Water Ramble - The Trollies -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/02/25 (Fri)

American Cancer Society Relay for Life Benefit: Dani Lynn Howe Band (6pm) -Moose Lodge - Rock Island, 4410 9th St Rock Island, IL

Mutiny in the Parlor -Uptown Bill’s Cof-fee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Open Mic Night -Fireworks Coffeehouse, 2139 16th St. Moline, IL

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

Rebel City Outlaws (6pm) -Del’s, The Dis-trict of Rock Island Rock Island, IL

Ron LaPuma Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Skin Kandy - Raw Mojo -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Sleepin’ on the Couch -Mulligan’s Valley Pub, 310 W 1st Ave Coal Valley, IL

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

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

Tapped Out -Legends, 201 E. Main St., Aledo, IL

The Dawn - Kerry Tucker - Sara Angelique -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

The Fry Daddies -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

The Knockoffs -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL

The Shirelles (7 & 10pm) - The Riverias (8:15 & 11:15pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv-erside, IA

The Whoozdads w/ Ellis Kell (6pm) -Toucan’s Cantina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

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

Who Cares -Tommy’s, 1302 4th Ave Mo-line, IL

Widetrack -The Avenue Tap, 712 1st Ave Silvis, IL

Yam Cannon - Item 9 & the Mad Hatters - Old Shoe -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/02/26 (Sat)

Akron/Family - Delicate Steve - Datagun -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Ando Ehlers w/ The Apple Feat (5pm) -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Buddy Olson -Applebee’s - Muscatine, 306 Cleveland St. Muscatine, IA

Buffalo Clover -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

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

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

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash Imperson-ators (6pm) -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St McCausland, IA

Hi-Fi -The Torchlight Lounge, 1800 18th Ave East Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Generations Bar & Grill, 4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Caman-che Ave Clinton, IA

Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Karry Outz -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA

Mardi Gras Party w/ Funktastic Five -Daiquiri Factory, 1809 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Martha Reeves & the Vandellas -Quad-Cit-ies Waterfront Convention Center, 1777 Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IA

Battle of the Bands: Final Round -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Deja Vu Rendezvous featuring Fool’s Gold -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Gray Wolf Band -Martini’s on the Rock, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL

Jazz After Five: Cassius Goines & Groove Theory (5:30pm) - Christopher the Conquered - Cashes Rivers - So Much Fun (9pm) -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Just Cuz -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Mercury Brothers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Midwest Dubstep Summit: DJ Blaze One - DJ Belly - Beat Resonance - Hood-Tek - KAGE -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Night People -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill ’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Painkiller Hotel -Uptown Neighborhood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Red Pepper Sage (6pm) -Toucan’s Can-tina / Skinny Legs BBQ, 2020 1st Street Milan, IL

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

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

Summercamp Battle of the Bands: Dead Larry - Five in a Hand - Item 9 & the Mad Hatters - Chasing Shade - Purple Asteroid Cadillac -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

The Knockoffs -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL

The Riverias -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

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

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

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

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

“True Blue Mondays” Lunch w/ Ellis Kell -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

2011/02/22 (Tue)

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St Dav-enport, IA

Senior Music Series: 50’s Band (5pm) -River Music Experience, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

The Harminators (5pm) -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

The Ills - Watching the Moon -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

2011/02/23 (Wed)

Baths - Braids - Star Slinger -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

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Gong Show Karaoke -Uptown Neighbor-hood Bar and Grill, 2340 Spruce Hills Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Jam Session w/ Alan Sweet & the Candy Makers -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Lynne Hart Jazz Quartet -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Troy Harris, Pianist (6pm) -Red Crow Grille, 2504 53rd St. Bettendorf, IA

University of Iowa Jazz Performance w/ UI Jazz JCL/JRE -The Mill, 120 E Burling-ton Iowa City, IA

2011/03/04 (Fri)

Danu -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washing-ton St. Iowa City, IA

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Moe’s Pizza, 1312 Caman-che Ave Clinton, IA

Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Mommy’s Little Monster -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

Orangadang -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Schitzengigles -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Secret Squirrel -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

Talia Segal (noon) -Mojo’s (River Music Expe-rience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

2011/03/06 (Sun)

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Joe Bonamassa -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Karaoke w/ Steve K and the Gang -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet-tendorf, IA

Memories Duo (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv-erside, IA

Menomena - Maps & Atlases -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Night People -Cabana’s, 2120 4th Ave. Rock Island, IL

Open Mic Night -Uptown Bill ’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Rascal Flats - Chris Young -i wireless Cen-ter, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

Secret Squirrel -Fargo Dance & Sports, 4204 Avenue of the Cities Moline, IL

Southern Thunder Karaoke & DJ -Hollar’s Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Pimps -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

The Workshy - Lick It Ticket -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Three Years Hollow - Verdict - Beyond Words -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Twista -Col Ballroom, 1012 W. 4th St. Davenport, IA

Wild Oatz -Purgatory’s Pub, 2104 State St Bettendorf, IA

2011/03/05 (Sat)

Dani Lynn Howe Band -Brucer’s Dawg House, East Moline, IL

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Dennis McMurrin & the Demolition Band -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Family Groove Company - Kazyak - The Messy Band -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Flatfoot56 - TBOPRRIOF -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Griffin House & Charlie Mars -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

House Arrest -The Pour House, 1502 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA

Jam Factory -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Karaoke Night -Cheers Bar & Grill, 1814 7th St Moline, IL

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Open Mic w/ Jordan Danielsen -Bier Stube Davenport, 2228 E 11th St Dav-enport, IA

The Holmes Brothers -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

2011/03/02 (Wed)

Dirty Dozen Brass Band -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Head for the Hills -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th St Moline, IL

Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

2011/03/03 (Thu)

Arts & Music Night (6pm) -Uptown Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA

Burnin’ Love Cabaret -Circa ‘21 Din-ner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Del McCoury Band -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

David Killinger & Friends -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102 S Main St Port Byron, IL

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

God-Des - She -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

Jam Factor y -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riv-erside, IA

John Resch and Detroit Blues -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet-tendorf, IA

Karaoke Night (members only) -Moose Lodge - Davenport, 2333 Rockingham Rd Davenport, IA

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

Karaoke Night -Creekside Bar and Grill, 3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -Paddlewheel Sports Bar & Grill, 221 15th St Bettendorf, IA

Lubriphonic - Steez -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri-can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

2011/02/27 (Sun)

Anthony Catalfano Quartet (10am) -Brady Street Chop House, Radisson QC Plaza Hotel Davenport, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-per Club, 2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL

Karaoke Night -11th Street Precinct, 2108 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W Locust Davenport, IA

Karaoke w/ Steve K and the Gang -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet-tendorf, IA

Mark & Dee (2pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Rob Dahms’ One-Man Band -The Lucky Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St Mc-Causland, IA

2011/02/28 (Mon)

Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA

Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -Phoenix, 111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

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

“True Blue Mondays” Lunch w/ Ellis Kell -Mojo’s (River Music Experience), 130 W 2nd St Davenport, IA

2011/03/01 (Tue)

Anna Vogelzang - Pearl & the Beard - Andy Juhl -The Mill, 120 E Burlington Iowa City, IA

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