River Cities' Reader - Issue 887 - July 23, 2015

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GUEST COMMENTARY by John A. Sparks

Keep Your Hands Off My Raisins: Court Invalidates Raisin Grab

U.S. citizens are still subjected to a bevy of similar antiquated,

unnecessary regulations.

Laura and Marvin Horne are raisin farmers. Early one morning in 2002, a truck appeared at their business, and the drivers demanded a whopping 47 percent of their raisin crop. The truck was sent by the federal government, and those demand-ing the Hornes raisin crop claimed to be operating under a marketing order first put in place in 1937 as part of President Franklin Roosevelts effort to shore up agricultural prices. Amazingly, this antiquated scheme lasted for more than 65 years well past the agricultural crisis of the Great Depression.

By 2002, the Hornes had endured enough of these raisin grabs. They refused to turn over nearly half of their crop. The federal government assessed a fine of $480,000 for the missing raisins and another $200,000 in civil penalties against the Hornes. The Hornes fought the government through the courts and finally landed in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 allowed the secretary of agriculture to issue marketing orders to stabilize market prices for certain agricultural products, including raisins. Under this order, raisin producers could be forced to relinquish a portion of what

they produced to the government without any compensation. The percentage of the crops that had to be relinquished in a given year was determined by the Raisin Administrative Committee. The plan was that the government would keep these reserve raisins off the domestic market a reduction in supply to help shore up prices. This system was originally part of the New Deal aimed at aiding farmers whose agricultural products had fallen steeply in price. Unfortunately, as with most government programs, it remained in effect despite the passing of the immediate economic emergency that spawned it.

In the Supreme Courts Horne V. Department of Agriculture decision last month, Chief Justice John Roberts and the majority agreed with the Hornes. Roberts stated that the Fifth Amendment requires that property cannot be taken by the government for public use without the original owner being properly compensated. Part of the Fifth Amendment, often dubbed the takings clause, has been interpreted

to mean that when the government takes a private citizens property for a public purpose such as, for example, for the building of a road the owner must be paid a reasonable amount for the seized property.

Here, even though the property (raisins) could be regarded as having been taken for a public use the stabilizing of agricultural prices during an economic crisis there was virtually no compensation being paid to raisin growers such as the Hornes.

In a fitting tribute to the 800th anniversary of the great document of English liberties the Magna Carta Roberts traced the origins of the Fifth Amendments takings clause to that charter and concluded that the reserve requirement imposed by the Raisin Committee is a clear physical taking. Actual raisins are transferred from the growers to the Government. Title to the raisins passes to the Raisin Committee. The Committee disposes of what become its raisins as it wishes, to promote the purposes of the

raisin marketing order.The government unsuccessfully argued

that the takings clause did not apply to personal property, but the court roundly rejected that contention. Furthermore, the Department of Agriculture claimed that if the government successfully sold the seized raisins as exports, for example, growers such as the Hornes might receive a residual payment that would amount to compensation. Again, the court said the mere possibility of a residual payment was not equivalent to compensation. It was simply too contingent and indeterminate.

Other U.S. citizens are still subjected to a bevy of similar antiquated, unnecessary regulations. They should make ample use of the courts holding here to challenge these governmental restraints and reintroduce the fresh air of freedom into markets for goods and services.

John A. Sparks is the retired dean of the Calderwood School of Arts & Letters at Grove City College. He is a member of the state bars of Michigan and Pennsylvania and is a fellow for educational policy for The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, where this commentary originally appeared.

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Mailer Shows Off Rauners Political Muscle

by Rich MillerCapitolFax.com

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House Speaker Michael Madigan told reporters earlier this month that hed had a frank discussion with Governor Bruce Rauner, and I gave him good, solid advice.

Word is that advice had two parts. First, the governor needs to find a way to

get himself out of this long overtime-session, no-state-budget mess.

Second, if the governor thinks he can get himself out of this mess by somehow breaking the speakers will, hes mistaken.

But the governor isnt giving up. In fact, hes doubled down.

Rauner has made it clear that there will be no budget talks until the Democrats give in on his Turnaround Agenda, including his anti-union demands.

And several days after receiving Madigans advice, the governor started sending some very negative direct-mail pieces into some Democrat-controlled legislative districts.

The Rauner folks say almost 20 legislative districts both House and Senate were targeted last week. More to come, a Rauner guy told me.

One mailer features an ominous photo of Madigan above and behind a picture of a smiling Representative Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg), who won her race by 3 percentage points last year despite optimism by Republicans that they had her on the run.

Chicago political boss Mike Madigan wants your Representative Michelle Mussman to kill the reforms you voted for, claims the mailer, which displays her district office number and asks recipients to Call Michelle Mussman now and tell her to side with taxpayers, not with Mike Madigans Chicago political machine.

Michelle Mussman should work for you, not Mike Madigan, claims the other side of the mailer. Tell Madigan & Mussman: No property-tax hikes!

Illinoisans already pay the second-highest property taxes in the country, but Mike Madigan wants to use his powerful political machine and State Representative Michelle Mussman to help him block Governor Rauners tax-freeze reforms, which benefit Illinois working families, the mailer claims, without, of course, noting that Rauner also wants to essentially eliminate collective-bargaining rights for many heads of working families in that reform.

Tell Madigan & Mussman you demand term limits! the mailer continues. Political puppetmaster Mike Madigan has blocked

reform for 44 years, protecting the status quo that put him in power. Illinois needs Michelle Mussman to stand up to Madigan to break the cycle of corruption and restore the integrity to the legislature by supporting term limits.

Call Michelle Mussman Right Now the mailer commands, displaying her phone number in a large font at the bottom of the page.

The idea here is probably twofold.First, put so much heat on Madigans

members that they beg him to cut a deal with Rauner.

I dont see that happening as long as the governor sticks by his anti-union demands. Madigan isnt going to abandon the literal backbone of the Democratic Party because a few members are skittish.

The second part is likely to soften these members up for next years campaign, when theyll be attacked again with the same sort of message.

That may work, but pretty much all political-science studies have shown that when ad campaigns end, they tend to lose almost all of their punch. If Rauner is going to mail straight through election day next year, thats a different story. But I doubt thatll happen.

And theres a real downside to this, as well.Once you attack legislators like this, they

tend to go political right away. And because there is likely no avenue other than standing and fighting, these mailers could just make legislators dig in ever deeper.

But, if nothing else, the mailers are a stark reminder that Rauner has a huge financial advantage over the Democrats.

Madigans three campaign committees reported raising a total of $618,000 in the second quarter, according to filings with the State Board of Elections. Madigans committees had $1.99 million sitting in the bank at the end of June 30, according to the filings.

Democratic Senate President John Cullertons two committees raised $592,000 and had just shy of $1.3 million on hand at the end of the quarter.

That wouldnt be bad at all for the second quarter of an off year, but Rauners main campaign fund was sitting on $19.7 million at the end of the quarter. Rauners Turnaround Illinois PAC had another $2.7 million. The governor also has a dark money fund, but we dont know how much is in it.

Times have changed.

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

One goal is to soften these members

up for next years campaign.

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of Directing 101 praise, her work is notable here because Greek tragedy seems to frequently inspire a more formal placement of cast members, and Foster avoids directing in that mold. This is clear from the opening scene in which Oedipus is flanked by several

chorus members; while positioned symmetrically, theres enough variance in their individual states of despair that you sense a clear element of freedom within the formality. And after this scene ends, and throughout the play, the motions and interactions of the main characters convey palpable chemistry as their actors connect physically, and not just vocally.

Overall, theres an ever-present sense of depressive foreboding in this production that emanates even from scenic designer Earl Strupps set. Hes painted the wings to look like cracking walls, but chose to highlight the cracks in red, so the effect suggests bleeding wounds that the sins of Oedipus have rooted into the very fabric of his city.

Beyond its subject matter, I saw few sins in Genesius Guilds staging of Oedipus Rex. The depth of Sophocles story is enough to warrant a viewing, but Foster and her cast make this incestuous tragedy even more beautiful to behold.

Oedipus Rex runs at Lincoln Park (11th Avenue and 38th Street, Rock Island) through July 26, and more information is available by visiting Genesius.org.

Despite the oppressive heat, the abundance of hungry mosquitoes, and the young couple behind me rudely whispering during the entire length of the performance, I not only enjoyed but admired Saturdays presentation of Gen-esius Guilds Oedipus Rex. Director Dori Fosters dynamic staging which is especially dynamic for a Greek tragedy performed mostly in masks and the casts impressive ability to emote without the benefit of facial expressions were well worth the nights distractions.

Sophocles play about accidental incest is a familiar tale to many, but one I dont mind seeing staged repeatedly. Here, Gary Adkins is a powerhouse in the leading role, frighteningly domineering when angry or ruling as the king, and convincingly frightened by the fated possibilities of killing his father and marrying his mother. As the truth that the king he killed was actually his father is revelaed, and his current wife begins to realize that Oedipus, now her husband, is also her son, Emma Simmons regal countenance slowly crumbles as her Iocaste descends into shock and shame.

Both actors elicit sympathy for their plights as we watch their limbs lose their strength, each aware of how theyve mistakenly succumbed to their deplorable destinies. These are not fates they willingly accept, but fates that damn their souls with horrific, self-executed consequences. And despite my knowledge of what was to come, I still found myself almost weeping for Oedipus and Iocaste, as Adkins

and Simmons make it clear that their characters were powerless against fate, and agree that their actions were, and are, reprehensible.

Meanwhile, future actors in the Guilds Greek tragedies could take a cue from Neil Tunnicliff. Though all of Oedipus Rexs masked characters notably Jason Dlouhys Priest, Michael Phillips Shepherd, and Doug Adkins Corinthian Messenger boast performers who act beyond the limitations of their masks, Tunnicliff s portrayal is the clearest. As Tieresias, the blind priest whom Oedipus initially asks for help in finding the murderer of King Laius, Tunnicliff appears to take everything he would put into facial expressiveness and channels it through his limbs and voice. The thought and feeling in his lines are so clear that its as if Tunnicliff isnt wearing a mask at all, and as a result hes enthralling.

Fosters staging is nearly as spirited as Tunnicliff. Rather than shuffling the chorus and leads on stage to stand about in formation, Foster sets them in motion particularly the principals, whose movements exude true purpose of character. While this might seem a sort

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Optimism for Next Year Ignores Long-Term Funding Challenges for the MVBSWhat Next for Blues Fest?

The announcement came 10 days after the final notes of the 2015 Mississippi Valley Blues Festival should have filled LeClaire Park: There would be no 2015 Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.

Citing financial difficulties, on July 15 the Mississippi Valley Blues Society (MVBS) said that it had canceled the festival. This followed a decision in February to move the blues fest from its traditional Independence Day weekend to the Labor Day weekend, and to reduce it from three days to two changes designed to lessen the chance the event would be flooded out of LeClaire Park, to give the blues society the opportunity to raise more money, and to cut costs. The board was sharply divided on both the date-change and cancellation votes.

There are several cruel ironies here.The cancellation comes a year after the

Blues Foundation honored the festival with a Keeping the Blues Alive award for U.S. festivals, citing the Quad Cities event as one of the longest-running, most-prestigious blues festivals in the world.

And there was no Fourth of July flooding in LeClaire Park this year, and the weather was rain-free and just about perfect. Had the festival happened at its normal time as it had for the past 30 years the MVBS would very likely have shored up its financial position significantly. It would have been the best weather weve had in 16 years, said MVBS Board Member Ric Burris.

Instead, the organization now faces an existential crisis. Will the MVBS be able to put on a festival next year as its president and many board members hope to? How will the group rebuild its board and fundraising efforts in the wake of this years cancellation? And would a Mississippi Valley Blues Society without the blues fest be a shell of its former self or could it perhaps be a stronger organization more focused on its education programs and smaller concerts?

Burris said hes confident next years blues fest will happen and that he hopes it returns to its traditional place on the calendar. If the fest isnt held, he said, that might be the end of the blues fest, but it in no way means the blues

society will go under. We have great, incredible education programs; its one of the models for everywhere. And we do great events throughout the year. ... We dont have to have a festival. Thats not our charter. The charter is keeping the

blues alive and blues education.

The MVBSs Blues in the Schools program typically includes four to six residencies throughout the year, reaching 7,500 Quad Cities schoolchildren annually. The society also puts on a handful of concerts each year,

such as July 27s performance at The Muddy Waters with the Golden State-Lone Star Revue.

Burris and MVBS volunteer/member Steve Pedigo both said that instead of a festival, the society could increase the number of concerts it presents each year including at larger venues such as the Col Ballroom. Burris suggested quarterly major events two indoors and two outdoors while Pedigo said the organization could basically spread out the festival over the course of a year, with

one show every other weekend.But that kind of radical change would

be difficult for many board members to swallow; the festival for three decades has been the public face of the organization. Im sick about it, said Board Member Kristy Bennett of the cancellation. It affects the growth of the blues in the Quad Cities. Its going to be a big hit for the blues music in this community, and thats very sad for me.

That feeling will likely linger, but now its time for the organization to move beyond this years tumult, and to look beyond next year, too. The long-term viability of the blues festival will depend on the MVBS reinvigorating its fundraising base or finding a way for the fest to at least break even independent of sponsorships and grants.

Short-Term ThinkingThe past few years certainly helped

bring about this years cancellation. Flood-related moves from LeClaire Park to downtown-Davenport streets in 2013 and 2014 resulted in increased fest expenses, and a rainy Sunday sank last years attendance and revenues. Those pushed the MVBS closer to the edge

financially.While those circumstances brought

the situation to a head this year, a day of reckoning has been brewing for years, and it was going to arrive sooner rather than later.

The root of the problem is simple: a long-term trend of shrinking underwriting of the blues society.

But the MVBS, until now, has been unwilling or unable to attack that issue head-on. The Labor Day change and a failed fundraising campaign represented short-term thinking an effort to limp along in the hopes of some monetary reprieve, with no eye toward sustainability.

New MVBS President Steve Heston said the decision to move the festival to Labor Day this year was based on several factors: that the event has been flooded out of LeClaire Park in three of the past six years, and also we were running a little bit short on money. ... So we thought that would give us a little bit more time to raise money, and also avoid the flooding ... .

The idea, he said, was that a date change could remove one of two major variables affecting the festivals bottom line: Youre always fighting the weather, and youre always fighting the Mississippi River.

The blues society on April 11 started a GoFundMe.com campaign aiming to raise $50,000 to put on this years festival, and to provide the MVBS with a financial cushion for future festivals.

According to Burris, the campaign raised $3,000 before being halted. (Heston would only say that we were quite a ways from that [$50,000] figure, and that contributions will be returned to donors. The campaign page has been deleted from the GoFundMe.com Web site.)

Burris said that fans of the festival figured that were just going to put it on, no matter what happens. [But] weve been talking to them for a year that were having a rough time.

Bennett, who voted to cancel the festival, also expressed frustration that fans of blues festival didnt step up to fund it through the campaign. When people see that an organization they care about is pleading for funds, they should take that seriously, she said. If 2,000 people gave $25, we would be having a festival. But were not. ... I think they didnt get the seriousness of our money

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Im sick about it. It affects the growth of the blues in the

Quad Cities. Kristy Bennett

John Primer at the 2013 Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.Photo by Matt Erickson (MRE-Photography.com)

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situation, and they just thought it [the festival] was going to happen anyway.

When the board voted to cancel the festival last week, Burris said, the best-case scenario had the two-day Labor Day event generating a $17,000 profit. That just isnt enough to risk losing everything, he said. One bad day, one rainy day, and that moneys gone.

So he voted to cancel. I really wanted the blues society to keep going, he said. I just didnt think that [having the festival] was the right way. It killed me to make that choice, because I live and breathe this. ... Sometimes youve got to lose the battle to win the war.

Pedigo echoed that sentiment, calling the cancellation the best decision: The society itself is more important than the festival.

Heston said: With two days of good weather, we could have maybe made money on a 2015 festival. But theres no guarantee on that. We wanted to be more fiscally responsible than that.

MVBS Board Member Bob Covemaker voted to hold the festival in 2015, saying he believed that anything is possible. We can make this work. But he acknowledged that had we had rain, it would have been disastrous.

The date change and fundraising campaign were desperation moves, yet if things had gone differently, the current conversation about the futures of the MVBS and its signature festival might not be happening. A significantly more-successful fundraising campaign, a strong 2015 festival lineup, and great Labor Day weather could have forestalled the doom and gloom.

Yet the blues society faced (and will continue to face) an inescapable fact: There has been a slow and steady erosion of the money that has made the blues festival possible. As Heston said: We could kind of see the handwriting on the wall.

A Shrinking Funding BaseThe key to understanding the MVBSs

financial situation is to recognize that the blues festival generally loses money.

Board Member Ellen Clow (who voted against cancellation) wrote in an e-mail that the blues festival has been a self-sustaining event.

But thats only true if one factors in sponsorships, grants, and other contributions. Those turn whats a

money-loser on a revenue-and-expense level into something that in theory, at least builds the MVBSs coffers.

According to its 2011 through 2013 not-for-profit filings with the IRS, the festivals those years lost a total of more than $140,000.

In those three years, the festival averaged $92,000 in admissions and almost $192,000 in direct costs. Beyond that, concessions averaged almost $77,000 and cost almost $24,000.

Using round numbers, basically the festival lost $100,000 a year on admissions compared to direct costs, and half of that gap was made up through concessions profits.

For the remaining shortfall an average of almost $47,000 a year the MVBS relied on grants, sponsorships, and other contributions.

And here we get to the heart of the problem. That gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees revenue for the organization has been in steady decline since 2008. The MVBS reported $113,519 in that category in 2007 and $135,779 in 2008. In 2009, the number was $96,629. And after that, it dropped roughly $6,000 to $10,000 a year every year: $86,436 in 2010, $80,241 in 2011, $70,128 in 2012, and $64,279 in 2013.

Were not good enough at fundraising, Pedigo said. Its kind of an acquired art, and we dont have it.

And because the MVBS has been slowly but steadily losing its corporate/civic funding base, its been depleting its assets.

Net assets for the organization were $100,558 in 2010 and $105,385 in 2011, but in 2012 and 2013 they were $77,655 and $70,951, respectively.

Heston attributed much of the fundraising problem to increased competition: A lot of companies are tightening their belts. They dont have quite as much money to pass around for grants and sponsorships ... , and theres a lot more people seemingly going for that same amount of money, too.

The numbers show an organization with a severely diminished margin for error with blues-fest flooding and/or rain having a potentially catastrophic

effect on the MVBS.Its also important to recognize several

fallacies about MVBS finances that some board members have used to at least partially explain its situation.

First, while moves due to flooding increase costs for the MVBS, they are not necessarily responsible for poor years. Among the three festival years cited above, only one of those years 2013

included a festival moved from LeClaire Park, and that was the best of the three years, losing only $24,000.

Theres no denying the

concrete costs associated with a festival move to downtown Heston said they were in the neighborhood of $20,000 but weather is almost certainly a more-important factor because it depresses attendance. (Last years festival had the double-whammy of a move from LeClaire Park and one rainy day.)

Second, board members sometimes cite the loss of a major sponsor as one cause of financial problems. From 2005 through 2010, the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival had a title sponsor IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union and since then it has not. Yet grants and contributions dropped in both 2009 and 2010 (when the sponsor was on-board), and they have continued to fall each year. The loss of sponsorship hurt, but the trend of dropping funding exists beyond it.

Rebuilding the MachineThe fundraising problem has only

gotten worse since 2013, several board members said.

The number-one reason were in this position is our fundraising machine broke down, Burris said. Several key fundraisers left the organization in the past 18 months, he said, and as a result contacts with sponsors werent made or werent made immediately after the 2014 festival. It didnt happen this year, he said. Its hard to say how we let that happen, or if it just happened without us really realizing it. To me, thats the number-one thing we have to fix right now is the fundraising machine.

We have to find ways to better raise money, Heston said. The MVBS must get our fundraising committee back

together. Right now theres not very many people on there. ... It probably kind of went downhill a little bit this year.

Covemaker, who is on the MVBS fundraising committee, said uncertainty about the date and duration of the 2015 festival significantly delayed efforts to contact and sign sponsors. He said that despite increased competition for funds, its still possible to attract more financial backers to the festival and the organization. They are out there, he said. You just have to work harder to do it.

Rebuilding the fundraising team and the sponsorship base will be a major challenge for the all-volunteer organization, especially considering the state of its board, which is supposed to have 14 members.

In the weeks leading up to the vote to cancel, the MVBS president (Scott Klarkowski) and its treasurer (Steve Brundies) resigned. Vice President Heston replaced Klarkowski, so the MVBS, according to its Web site, now has no vice president or treasurer.

And since the vote to cancel, at least one additional board member Karen McFarland, who was still listed on the board as of July 21 resigned. The signs were there that the board wants to go in a different direction, said McFarland, who voted to hold the festival this year. We had enough money for the festival.

Bennett stressed a need for new blood not just to fill the current vacancies and open slots in the October board elections, but for new contacts, ... new energy, ... new ideas on how to make the event successful how to keep this festival going next year. ... We need people who are able to raise money.

Burris said the MVBS needs to put a lot more focus on it [fundraising] than we have and he also stressed the need for new people with different approaches to generating money. We just need to get a functioning fundraising committee with people on it that are ambitious enough to go door-to-door and talk to people and follow up on things and reintroduce ourselves to past donors that stopped.

Despite the pain of the cancellation decision and the resulting turmoil on the board, however, he said he believes the MVBS will meet the challenge: Its going to take a little time for the feelings that got hurt [to heal] ... , but we still all care about the blues society. ... We have a president, and we have a board. We need to get on it.

The number-one reason were in this position is our fundraising machine broke

down. Ric Burris


Lewis Knudsen kicks off his album The Way of Most Resistance with a track titled Death & Cats, featuring the slightly omi-nous lyric Death and cats are taking over / You better look over your shoulder.

Its not the most musically arresting track on the record, but in addition to its great title and chorus, it has a gently infectious (and not at all ominous) slink in both verse and chorus. Its a low-key charmer announcing that Knudsens artistic potential has quickly become confident maturity.

I liked much of what the singer/songwriter/guitarist/pianist and his band were up to on last years Joy, Pain, Love, Songs although its mishmash nature made it hard to divine how its disparate threads could or would be woven into a coherent artistic vision.

While Knudsen admitted that his 2014 album was a collection of unrelated songs, he said via e-mail that he conceived The Way of Most Resistance as an alt-funk/neo-soul album. That description is a bit of a stretch given the restraint in tempo and dynamic range and how well Knudsens voice and his band fit within them.

The sax, keys, and bass on Fire Inside Me fit that funk/soul description, but the vibe on Resistance seems more rooted in the carefully orchestrated pop of Badly Drawn Boy. (Remember him?) Knudsens palette isnt quite so broad, but his arrangements (as on his previous album) make smart use of saxophone, violin, and vocal textures, while his heartfelt singing and the wit in his songwriting complete the package.

The cleverness here is more subtle than on last years record, with nothing rivaling the cheerily presented contradictions of I Dont Have Anything to Hide. Fire Inside Me starts with the words Ive had about enough of all these sad songs with the initial musical threat of being one of those sad songs. The Law of Love uses traffic signals as a metaphor for all manner of quandaries that momentary paralysis when choosing whether to speed through a yellow light or slam on the brakes.

For the most part, though, Resistance is an earnest collection, with the treatments doing as much to articulate the myriad moods as the words and vocals. 100 Parking Lots neatly summarizes the tension of eager anticipation in its lyrical refrain of I wait / But I just cant wait,

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Potential Into MaturityLewis Knudsen, The Way of Most Resistance; July 23 at the Redstone Room

and the music similarly demands patience teasing a climax before the actual release.

Soulful sax and piano create the lament of Oh Those Eyes, although Knudsen sings the hell out of it, and his lyrics do a sharp hairpin turn, initially expository before submitting to the reality of something beyond words; And theres no use trying to forget about her segues naturally into the sustained howl of Oh, those eyes.

While theres good cheer aplenty on Resistance, the albums biggest achievement is capturing a specific character of defeat and then transcending it. The feel of the title track seems a weary acceptance of impossibility, but the lyrics are more complicated: The way of most of resistance / The truth that is not seen / Life that comes from dying / Snow-covered scenes / Might that comes from being crushed / Love that crushes hate. That foreshadows the songs escalating musical transition from a bleak valley to the briefest peak of triumph a temporary victory, but a victory nonetheless.

Only two songs on the 10-track album feel like missteps. Crumble Under You features some husky, hushed vocals reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, yet the similarities end there. The lyrics are far too blunt and simple, and they dont scan well: Theres nothing like a woman to teach a man / To take the things he doesnt care about and make him understand. The lovely, subdued music is too static to generate much interest. And some ill-considered vocal manipulation seals the deal.

Your Love Lifted Me, an adaptation of a church hymn, doesnt stumble so obviously, and really the only thing wrong with the pleasant, straightforwardly praising song is its placement as The Way of Most Resistances closer. Nestled somewhere in the middle of the album, it would function well as a palate-cleanser. But it hits a false note as the final piece of a record thats otherwise a strong, idiosyncratic statement of Lewis Knudsen the songwriter and musician.

Lewis Knudsen will perform a CD-release show on Thursday, July 23, at the Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport; RiverMusicExperience.org). Admission to the 7 p.m. show is $5.

For more information on Lewis Knudsen, visit LewisKnudsen.com.

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credit, if you can imagine, is 2000s cheerleader classic Bring It on and so most of Ant-Man just lies there like a squashed bug on a windshield.

Rudd seems to have had all of his snarky, ironic wit surgically removed for his first crime-fighting lead, and the films tepid excuses for humor are visible in everything from the jokey product placement for Baskin-Robbins to the ethnic second bananas played by Michael Pea, T.I., and David Dastmalchian. (The latter plays a stereotypically accented Russian who blames the Ant-Man costumes supernatural wizardry on gypsies, while Pea spends much of his screen time serving T.I. waffles. Oh, Marvel.) Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, and Bobby Cannavale try to brighten matters with Evangeline Lilly continually darkening them again as a dour ally with a really unfortunate pageboy but Ant-Man remains a dully, aggressively formulaic franchise-starter not helped by its lackluster CGI or lack of narrative surprises. Or, at my Friday-morning screening, by the front-row patron who started snoring within the first 10 minutes, and proceeded to rouse himself, then begin snoring again, at regular intervals throughout. If he was intentionally trying to disrupt the proceedings, I say well done, but DC Entertainment really should find subtler saboteurs than that.

For reviews of Minions, The Gallows, Self/less, The Overnight, and other current releases, visit RiverCitiesReader.com.

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Movie ReviewsTRAINWRECK

Longtime admirers of Comedy Centrals Inside Amy Schumer could easily be troubled by director Judd Apatows Trainwreck, considering that by its finale, the wickedly smart, subversive, hysterical Schumer has morphed into a pretty standard rom-com heroine. (The transformation may be particularly dispiriting knowing that Schumer wrote the script.) As for me, I came to the party late, not having seen the stars sketch-series output until a few months ago, so Im still living happily in the Amy Schumer afterglow, and was grateful for the very funny Trainwreck at least being better than standard Hollywood rom-coms. Schumers more die-hard fans may well bristle, but hey I barely know the woman.

I do, however, wonder if Schumers screenplay started out as truly dangerous and satiric before more sensitive or timid souls maybe Apatow, maybe studio executives convinced her to gently apply the brakes. In outline, Trainwreck is every Sandra Bullock or Katherine Heigl movie I never wanted to see, with a love-em-and-leave-em career gal enjoying her life of casual flings and copious wine consumption before falling head over stiletto heels for a sweet, patient guy who just might be The One. And for nearly half the films length, Schumer, as both writer and performer, appears to have a blast tweaking, if not actively offending, everyone who traditionally enjoys those Bullock/Heigl flicks. Schumers conveniently named Amy curses a blue streak (even in voice-over) and engages in sexual encounters to make the Sex & the City cast blush, and shes not shy about revealing her cultural ignorance, dislike of children, or offhanded bigotry. (When asked for evidence of the black friends she

claims to have, Amy sheepishly produces a selfie of her, a white pal, and their black waiter.)

All of this is a mean-spirited riot, as are the scenes at Amys mens-magazine workplace (lorded over by a tyrannical, unrecognizably spray-tanned Tilda Swinton), and the winning, rubber-faced Bill Hader is allowed to be goofier and more improvisational than most romantic foils to showcased comediennes. Thats why its so vexing when Schumer gives herself maudlin subplots involving Amys ailing father (a good, gruff Colin Quinn) and disapproving sister (an excellent Brie Larson), and when Amy has to inevitably learn to Be a Better Person by admitting her faults and tossing out her booze and so forth. The finale, meanwhile is pure wish-fulfillment kitsch, the sort of wildly improbable happy-ending spectacle that made at least a dozen patrons at my screening go Aw-w-w-w! Even given my limited exposure to her, Id really hoped to never hear an Aw-w-w-w ... reaction to Schumers comedy unless it was followed by ... thats so-o-o-o gross.

There are other disappointments and dumb digressions, particularly those involving celebrity cameos; the clips from a spoofy Sundance hit featuring Daniel Ratcliffe and Marisa Tomei are almost, almost, as stunningly ill-conceived as Amys romantic intervention involving Matthew Broderick, Chris Evert, and Marv Albert.

(John Cena and LeBron James the latter playing himself have hefty supporting roles, though, and their ace comic timing suggests they could have solid film careers after

their WWE and NBA retirements.) Yet Schumers talents and spiky charm are vast enough to outweigh most of Trainwrecks failings, and, especially in its first half, Apatows latest is looser and more winning than anything hes done since Knocked Up which, of course, was a rom-com starring Katherine Heigl. And the circle of life continues.

ANT-MANAmong the Marvel Studios oeuvre, the

only thing Ant-Man really has going for it is that its funny, and it isnt all that funny. One can only imagine, with regret, what the films original, replaced director Edgar Wright mightve done with this origin tale for the worlds tiniest comic-book hero (Paul Rudd), which does demonstrate a bit of agreeably loony, Wright-ian comic imagination in its perspective-shifting action climax and clever exposition montages. (Wright retains a co-screenwriting credit along with Rudd, Joe Cornish, and comedy savant Adam McKay.) But assigned director Peyton Reed is not a helmer of any discernible excitement or personality or style his most impressive

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Amy Schumer and Brie Larson in Trainwreck

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Whats HappeninMusicYonatan GatRozz-ToxThursday, July 23, 9 p.m.

On July 23, Rock Islands Rozz-Tox will host an evening of thrillingly eclectic power rock with the New York-based trio led by guitarist/composer Yonatan Gat. According to TheFireNote.com, Gat displays unhinged creativity ... with a tone that fits somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana. Meanwhile, NYPress.com writes, Gats Jimi-Hendrix-

meets-Godzilla guitar tone is the instrument by which the band brings the arena-rock experience within your immediate reach. Im consequently thinking that Gat will be treating the Rozz-Tox

crowd to some serious Jimi Hendrix action. That, and maybe a chorus of Evil Ways while kicking the crap out of Mothra.

Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, the 32-year-old Gat initially made his name in 2005 as guitarist and founder of the Israeli garage-rock ensemble Monotonix, who were once described by Spin magazine as the most exciting live band in rock n roll.

Yet the wild, largely improvisational and therefore unpredictable nature of their concerts eventually got the musicians barred from music venues citywide, and they left the country to tour Europe and the United States, playing more than 1,000 shows (and releasing the acclaimed albums Where Were You When It Happened? and Not Yet) before disbanding in 2011.

After moving to New York City, though, Gat began pursuing a career as a solo artist, and in 2014 alongside fellow Israeli and drummer Gal Lazer and the Brazilian bassist Sergio Sayeg he formed the eponymous punk, psychedelic, and world-music fusion Yonatan Gat, releasing

the groups debut album Iberian Passage in 2014 and Director this past March.

Continuing to tour internationally, this exhilarating rock outfit has shared stages with the likes of Thee Oh Sees, Of Montreal, and Sun Ra Arkestra, and Yonatan Gats 2014 performance at SXSW was praised by BuzzFeed magazine as one of the top shows of the festival. But these days, neither the group nor its frontman are strangers to praise.

San Franciscos TheBayBridges.com raves that while weaving the global smattering of styles seamlessly together like the great jazz musicians of the 60s, Yonatan Gat delivers everything from

Afrobeat grooves to Middle Eastern folk melodies to straight up rock n roll noise, sometimes all within the span of one song. And the paper of record has even chimed in with plaudits of its own, as the New York Times writes, Mr. Gats music is loud and aggressive somewhere in his imagination, hes playing for the Who but theres always a lilt and an invention in it. He leaves a space for you to get it.

Given the bands popularity, one cant say the same for Rozz-Tox on July 23, so arrive early for the Yonatan Gat concert and its opening set by Haunter, with more information on the night available by calling (309)200-0978 or visiting Rozz-Tox.com.

ComedyAlex Reymundo and Michael BlacksonThe Col BallroomFriday, July 24, and Thursday, July 30

According to the literary genius Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, otherwise known by his nom de plume Molire, The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. Those naturally averse to being corrected are therefore advised to stay far away from Davenports Col Ballroom over the next week, because thats where QC Nightlife Entertainment will soon be housing a pair of hysterical, nationally touring comedians: Alex Reymundo (pictured, right) on July 24, and Michael Blackson (pictured, left) on July 30.

Born in Acapulco, Mexico, Reymundo moved to the United States at age 22, and soon found himself

cast in the 2002 TV movie The Movement, a piercing drama about an inner-city bus hijacking. Thats one of the rare times youll see the word drama in any way associated with Reymundos career, because over the past decade, this award-winning improv artist has taken the comedy world by storm. Perhaps best known for touring alongside Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, and George Lopez as one of The Original Latin Kings of Comedy, Reymundo enjoyed a solo Comedy Central special with Alex Reymundo Hick-Spanic: Live in Albuquerque, and his credits include five additional comedy specials, five movies, and the receiving of a prestigious 2007 American Latino Media Arts Award.

Blackson is a native of Ghana who moved to the

United States, and immediately began performing in Philadelphia comedy clubs, in 1992. After competing in the 2000 Laffapalooza Comedy Festival in Atlanta, Blackson scored a role in the comedy sequel Next Friday, which has led to an additional 26 film and television credits to date, including 2007s Oscar nominee The Savages and the forthcoming Meet the Blacks opposite Charlie Murphy, Mike Epps, and Mike Tyson. His stand-up talents, meanwhile, have been showcased on BETs The MoNique Show and Showtimes Shaquille ONeal All-Star Comedy Jam, and preserved on CD in the sketch-comedy release Modasucka, Welcome to America.

Considering youll be able to witness Reymundos talents locally on Friday the 24th and Blacksons on Thursday the 30th, theres no point in choosing one comedian over the other. But guess what: In this accompanying quiz, thats just what Im gonna make you do! Which of the following can be accredited to Reymundo, and which to Blackson?

1) Has a foundation in his name supporting disadvantaged children.

2) Voiced a character in the video game based on Pixars Cars.

3) Appeared in B.o.B.s music video Ill Be in the Sky.4) Appeared on the 30 Rock episode Jack Meets

Dennis.5) Performed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft

carrier.6) Is the brother-in-law of Blue Collar Comedian

Ron White.

A) Alex ReymundoB) Michael Blackson

Tickets to Alex Reymundos and Michael Blacksons Col Ballroom sets are $20 to $30 available by calling (309)721-6801 or (563)322-4431 and more information is available by visiting the Facebook page for QC Nightlife Entertainment.

Answers 1 B, 2 A, 3 B, 4 B, 5 A, 6 A. That means, at family reunions, Reymundo is never responsible for bringing the Tater Salad. Hey, comically speaking, Im more than just references to 17th Century French playwrights, ya know!

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Thursday, July 23 Lewis Knudsen CD Release Show. The Quad Cities internationally touring singer/songwriter in concert. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $5-7. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.

Friday, July 24 Jack Russells Great White. Hard-rock musicians in concert, with an opening set by Bad Hair. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. $15-20. For information, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.

Saturday, July 25 Moose-a-palooza. All-day concert featuring 14 bands, with sets by local musicians including Eleven Fifty Two, 3 Years Hollow, and Them SomBitches. Geneseo Moose Lodge (1025 South State Street, Geneseo). 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m. $10-15. For tickets and information, call (309)944-2025 or visit the events Facebook page.

Saturday, July 25 Metalfest 2015. Local and regional bands perform in an all-ages Biergarten event, with sets by Helmsplitter, Crater, In the Mouth of Radness, and more. Bier Stube (415 15th Street, Moline). 2 p.m.-midnight. $5. For information, call (309)797-3049 or visit the events Facebook page.

Saturday, July 25 Whitey Morgan & the 78s. Michigan-based honky-tonk band in concert, with an opening set by Tony Martinez. Rock

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Whats Happenin by Mike [email protected] grooves to Middle Eastern folk melodies to straight up rock n roll noise, sometimes all within the span of one song. And the paper of record has even chimed in with plaudits of its own, as the New York Times writes, Mr. Gats music is loud and aggressive somewhere in his imagination, hes playing for the Who but theres always a lilt and an invention in it. He leaves a space for you to get it.

Given the bands popularity, one cant say the same for Rozz-Tox on July 23, so arrive early for the Yonatan Gat concert and its opening set by Haunter, with more information on the night available by calling (309)200-0978 or visiting Rozz-Tox.com.

TheatreBoeing-BoeingCirca 21 Dinner PlayhouseWednesday, July 29, through Saturday, September 19

Winner of two 2008 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, the Circa 21 Dinner Playhouses new presentation is the 1962 Marc Camoletti slapstick Boeing-Boeing, which runs at the Rock Island dinner theatre July 29 through September 19.

This Americanized farce by the author of Circa 21s 2007 hit Dont Dress for Dinner is being helmed by Warner Crocker, whose venue credits include directing the comedies Always a Bridesmaid and Things My Mother Taught Me, and both directing and writing the theatres 2012 bluegrass-comedy smash Southern Crossroads.

Featured among Boeing-Boeings six-person cast are four performers making their Circa 21 debuts: Cory Boughton, Jacqueline Keeley, Theresa McGuirk, and Cara Moretto. Joining this quartet are prolific area actor and District Theatre Artistic Director Tristan Tapscott, most recently seen in local productions of A Few Good Men, Young Frankenstein, and High Fidelity, and Elizabeth Loss, a returning Circa 21 favorite whose performance as Miss Hannigan in Circa 21s 2003 Annie is truly the stuff of legend.

Listed in the 1991 Guinness Book of World Records as the most-performed French play in the world, Boeing-Boeing initially ran for seven years at Londons Duchess Theatre and for 279 Broadway performances beginning in 2008, and Camolettis material was turned into a

Golden Globe-nominated 1965 film comedy starring screen legends Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, and Thelma Ritter.

The New York Daily News called Boeing-Boeing nothing but blue

skies and mile-high hilarity, and a breath of fresh laughing gas. Calling the play a classic Broadway cure for whatever may ail you, the Journal News of Westchester wrote, Its laughs sneak up on you, in the way only genuine laughs can. For its part, the Star-Ledger advised that audiences better tape their ribs to prevent fractures from laughing so furiously at the madness galloping across the stage.

And what, you may be asking, is the plot of Boeing-Boeing? Well, in a nutshell, it involves the farcical complications that ensue when a man finds his three beautiful, air-hostess lovers the health-obsessed American Gloria, the lust-ridden Italian Gabriella, and the domineering German Gretchen all winding up in his apartment at the same time, and the efforts of this man, his best friend, and his cranky housekeeper to keep the women romantically satisfied yet unaware of one anothers presences. In other words: just your typical Thursday night. Or is that just me?

For more information on, and tickets to, Boeing-Boeing, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

1) Has a foundation in his name supporting disadvantaged children.

2) Voiced a character in the video game based on Pixars Cars.

3) Appeared in B.o.B.s music video Ill Be in the Sky.4) Appeared on the 30 Rock episode Jack Meets

Dennis.5) Performed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft

carrier.6) Is the brother-in-law of Blue Collar Comedian

Ron White.

A) Alex ReymundoB) Michael Blackson

Tickets to Alex Reymundos and Michael Blacksons Col Ballroom sets are $20 to $30 available by calling (309)721-6801 or (563)322-4431 and more information is available by visiting the Facebook page for QC Nightlife Entertainment.

Answers 1 B, 2 A, 3 B, 4 B, 5 A, 6 A. That means, at family reunions, Reymundo is never responsible for bringing the Tater Salad. Hey, comically speaking, Im more than just references to 17th Century French playwrights, ya know!


Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. $20. For information, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com. For a 2011 interview with Morgan, visit RCReader.com/y/whitey.

Sunday, July 26 Shania Twain. Concert with the best-selling female artist in county-music history, performing with guest Gavin DeGraw. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m. $46-136. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Monday, July 27 Golden State Revue with Mark Hummel, Anson Funderburgh, and Little Charlie. The Mississippi Valley Blues Society presents a blues concert with barbecue and beer catered by Rolling Smoke BBQ, featuring a 5 p.m. opening set by Detroit Larry & Charlie Hayes. The Muddy Waters (1708 State Street, Bettendorf ). 6:30 p.m. $20-25. For tickets and information, call (563)355-0655 or visit TheMuddyWaters.com.

Wednesday, July 29 The Beach Boys. Concert with the legendary musicians and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 7 p.m. $39-69. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Thursday, July 30, through Sunday, August 2 Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. Forty-fourth annual celebration of the legendary jazz cornetist from Davenport, with concert sets at the Davenport RiverCenter, Adler Theatre, and LeClaire Park featuring the Josh Duffee Orchestra, Bill Allreds Classic Jazz Band, the Fat Babies, and more than a dozen additional bands. $30 single-session tickets, $55-65 all-day pass, $145 festival pass. For information, call (563)324-7170 or visit BixSociety.org.

Friday, July 31 MJ the Legend Live. Michael Jackson impersonator Jalles Franca in concert. Col Ballroom (1012 West Fourth Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $15-25. For tickets and information, call (309)721-6801 or (563)322-4431.

Friday, July 31 The Schwag. Outdoor concert with the Grateful Dead tribute musicians. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. For

information, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.

Friday, July 31 Jerry Garcias Birthday Bash. Tribute concert with folk-rock, psychedelic, and jam bands Old Shoe and Earth Ascending. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $11.50-12. For tickets and information, call

(563)326-1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.

Saturday, August 1 In the Flesh. Outdoor concert with the Pink Floyd tribute musicians. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m. For information, call

(309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.Tuesday, August 4 An Evening

with G. Love & Special Sauce. Concert with the bands original lineup of hip-hop and blues musicians. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $37.75-38. For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org. For a 2007 interview with Garrett Dutton (G. Love), visit RCReader.com/y/glove.

Wednesday, August 5 Alanna Royale. Rock, pop, funk, and soul musician in concert, with an opening set by Busted Chandeliers. The Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $8.50-9 For tickets and information, call (563)326-1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.

THEATREThursday, July 23, through

Sunday, August 2 Steel Magnolias. Robert Harlings dramatic comedy set in a Southern beauty parlor, directed by Kristy Cates. Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (311 Riverview Drive, Clinton). Thursdays through Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays and Wednesdays 3 p.m. $16-23. For tickets and information, call (563)242-6760 or visit ClintonShowboat.org.

Thursday, July 30, through Sunday, August 9 Big Fish. Broadway musical based on Tim Burtons 2003 screen fantasy, directed by James Beaudry. Timber Lake Playhouse (8215 Black Oak Road, Mt. Carroll). Tuesdays through Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays and Wednesday 2 p.m. $17-25. For tickets and information, call (815)244-2035 or visit TimberLakePlayhouse.org.

Saturday, August 1, through Sunday, August 9 Macbeth.

Genesius Guilds production of William Shakespeares tragedy. Lincoln Park (11th Avenue and 38th Street, Rock Island). Saturdays and Sundays 8 p.m. Donations encouraged. For information, visit Genesius.org.

DANCESaturday, July 25 Dancing with

the Stars Live! Touring performance hosted by All-Stars Champion Melissa Rycroft, featuring pro dancers Witney Carson, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Artem Chigvintsev, Peta Murgatroyd, and Emma Slater, and troupe dancers Alan Bersten, Brittany Cherry, Sasha Farber, and Jenna Johnson. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $39.50-75. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

COMEDYSaturday, August 1, through

Saturday, August 22 Regional Stand-Up Comedy Competition. Three preliminary rounds and August 22 finals with some of the Midwests finest amateur comedians. Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). Saturdays 8 p.m. $10. For tickets and information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

MOVIESunday,

July 26 Low & Peachy. Screenings of a new, locally filmed comedy by writer/director Josh Davidson. The Establishment (220 19th Street, Rock Island). 4 and 6:30 p.m. $10 at the door. For information, call (309)786-1111 or visit the films Facebook page.

EXHIBITSSaturday, July 25, through Monday,

August 24 Brett Whitacre: Maximum Wage. Exhibit of works employing a reverse glass-painting technique by the local artist and drummer for the Legendary Shack Shakers. L&D15 (520 West Second Street, Davenport). 10 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. Free. For information, visit LAndD15.com.

Friday, July 31, through Saturday, August 22 Lee Kimball. Exhibit of works by the award-winning oil and

pastel artist. Berskin Fine Art Gallery & Studio (Bucktown Center for the Arts, 225 East Second Street, Suites 102 and 104). Wednesdays through Saturdays 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. For information, call (563)508-4630 or visit BereskinArtGallery.com.

EVENTSFriday, July 24, and Saturday, July

25 Street Fest 2015. Annual street party on Second Street between Brady and Ripley streets, featuring live music, arts-and-crafts vendors, childrens activities, food and drinks, the fourth-annual Firefighter Water Fights, and more. Downtown Davenport. Friday 10 a.m.-midnight, Saturday 9 a.m.-midnight. Free. For information, visit DowntownDavenport.com.

Friday, July 24 Jr. Bix. Annual street races for children, with ages five and under starting and finishing on East Third Street, and ages six through 12 starting and finishing on East Fourth Street. Downtown Davenport. 6 p.m. $18 registration. For information and to register, visit Bix7.com.

Saturday, July 25 Quad-City Times Bix 7. Local, national, and international races compete in the annual seven-mile race. Downtown Davenport, beginning on Fourth and Brady streets. $45 registration. For information, visit Bix7.com.

Saturday, August 1 Pints for Preservation. The zoos fifth-annual beer-, wine-, and spirits-tasting fundraising event. Niabi Zoo (13010 Niabi Zoo Road, Coal Valley). 5:30 p.m. $30-35. For tickets and information, call (309)799-3482 or visit NiabiZoo.com.

Tuesday, August 4, through Sunday, August 9 Mississippi Valley Fair. Annual outdoor fair featuring games, rides, childrens activities, vendors, and grandstand concerts with Kip Moore, Reba, the Marshall Tucker Band, Styx, the Band Perry, and Big & Rich. Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds (2815 West Locust Street, Davenport). $4-10 gate admission, $45-50 Fun Card includes entrance to grandstand concerts. For information, call (563)326-5338 or visit MVFair.com.

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Low & Peachy @ The Establishment - July 26

Lee Kimball exhibit @ Berskin Fine Art Gallery & Studio - opens July 31


them as disposable as objects. In a study by psychologist Pablo Brinol, participants who wrote down troubling thoughts and then ripped them up were found to have mentally discarded them and actually experienced relief. Following their lead, put this behind you psychologically by doing it physically: Write down what happened. Burn the paper in a dish. Maybe do a little ceremony. And then scatter the ashes as you would those from Fluffys urn.

And finally, have a little compassion for yourself. Okay, so its best not to follow up Will you marry me? with Uh take-back! But you were young and probably immature, and you realized that youd gotten yourself in over your head. And to your credit, you had the guts to admit that you werent ready, unlike all the people who come to the realization that they arent but go through with the wedding anyway. (Wholl join me in a toast to miserably ever after?)

Jerk du SoleilA good male friend (going back 20 years)

is a great guy fiercely ethical and very kind and is irate about the jerks Ive been out with recently. He has two guy friends he thinks Id like. Is it safe to assume that theyll be cool/respectful because this is coming through our mutual friend? (I figure it cant be worse than truly blind dating online.)

Jerk Magnet

A friend who cares about you wouldnt knowingly put you together with jerks which would be like recommending a prospective tenant to his landlord with He just wants a quiet, safe place and neglecting to mention where he can pursue his hobby of balcony chicken farming.

And the good news is that a good guy is likely to have friends of a feather. Studies by psychologist J. Philippe Rushton suggest that we have a genetically driven preference for both mates and friends who are similar to us especially in age, ethnicity, and educational level, but also in opinions and attitudes. So if this guy likes and respects women, theres a good chance his friends do, too. But a good chance is not the same thing as an ironclad guarantee. In other words, go in with your eyes wide open, because its still largely a gamble; its just less likely that your friend will be all Found the perfect guy for you. We all call him B because its easier than saying Beelzebub.

Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon.171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405

or e-mail [email protected] (AdviceGoddess.com)2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.

Askthe Advice GoddessBY AMY ALKONMourning Breath

I was engaged to a woman 20 years ago. We were in college and in our mid-20s. I realized that I wasnt ready to get married and called off the engagement. I loved her and wanted to stay with her, but she broke off the relationship. Ive had relationships since then, but I still regret not marrying her. Shes married now, and I shouldnt even be thinking about her so many years later, but I cant seem to shake the loss of her. How do I get her and, moreover, the regret out of my head?

Stuck

The reality is that youre the envy of a number of people like those who ran up $80,000 in legal fees battling for joint custody of their suede sectionals and are now working as manservants for their divorce lawyers while living in tents in their backyards.

Youve got a bad case of the coulda shouldas, which, in psychology, is called counter-factual thinking, as in thinking counter to the actual facts of what happened. Its basically a mental re-do of the past imagining what could have been. Theres healthy counter-factual thinking using how things turned out as a reminder to act differently in the future. Also healthy is recognizing that things could have turned out worse, like with all the divorce-y fun above, plus having to borrow your kids like library books on alternate weekends.

The unhealthy kind of counter-factual thinking is what youre doing setting aside the now to obsess over how great things surely would have been if only . Never mind how pointless this is, considering that the closest thing you own to a working time machine is probably a battery-operated cuckoo clock your grandma gave you. And never mind how this woman is forever 24 in your head preserved like a bug in amber at the peak of her hot-itude and never does things those pesky real women do, like nagging you to fix that broken thingie until your head is about to explode all over the kitchen wallpaper.

You can get out of Regretsville. You just need to have a funeral for your relationship. And yes, I know this sounds like a ridiculously hokey stunt, but more and more, researchers are finding that the physical is tied to the psychological like that physical acts of closure lead to psychological closure and that treating thoughts as physical objects makes

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Photos from Camp Euforia

Photos by Lars Rehnberg (Flickr.com/larsanders) from the Camp Euforia festival, held July 16 through 18 in Lone Tree, Iowa. For more photos from the event, visit RCReader.com/y/camp.

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Be here now! The world would be more like a sanctuary and less like a battleground if people focused more on the present moment rather than on memories of the past and fantasies of the future. But in accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a temporary exemption from the Be here how! approach. You have a poetic license to dream and scheme profusely about what you want your life to be like in the future. Your word of power is tomorrow.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 19): A philanthropist offered $100,000 to the Girls Scouts

chapter of western Washington. But there were strings attached. The donor specified that the money couldnt be used to support transgender girls. The Girl Scouts rejected the gift, declaring their intention to empower every girl regardless of her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Do you have that much spunk, Capricorn? Would you turn down aid that would infringe on your integrity? You may be tested soon. Heres what I suspect: If you are faithful to your deepest values, even if that has a cost, you will ultimately attract an equal blessing that doesnt require you to sell out. (P.S. The Girls Scouts subsequently launched an IndieGoGo campaign that raised more than $300,000.)

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): Consider the possibility

of opening your mind, at least briefly, to provocative influences you have closed yourself off from. You may need to re-familiarize yourself with potential resources you have been resisting or ignoring, even if they are problematic. Im not saying you should blithely welcome them in. There still may be good reasons to keep your distance. But I think it would be wise and healthy for you to update your relationship with them.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): More than 10,000 species of mushrooms grow in North America. About 125 of those,

or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others are unappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility is in question. By my reckoning, a similar statistical breakdown should apply to the influences that are floating your way. I advise you to focus intently on those very few that you know for a fact are pleasurable and vitalizing. Make yourself unavailable for the rest. Homework: Write a fairy tale or parable that captures what your life has been like so far in 2015. Share with me at FreeWillAstrology.com.

LEO (July 23-August 22): A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to

read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vincis famous painting the Mona Lisa. The results suggest that she is 83-percent happy, 9-percent disgusted, 6-percent fearful, and 2-percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your likely mix for the coming days: 16-percent relieved, 18-percent innocent, 12-percent confused, 22-percent liberated, 23-percent ambitious, and 9-percent impatient.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22): What makes you heroic? asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Heres how he answered himself: simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope. This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo. Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain. Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Actress and musician Carrie

Brownstein was born with five planets in Libra. Those who arent conversant with astrologys mysteries may conclude that she is a connoisseur of elegance and harmony. Even professional stargazers who know how tricky it is to make generalizations might speculate that she is skilled at cultivating balance, attuned to the needs of others, excited by beauty, and adaptive to lifes ceaseless change. So what are we to make of the fact that Brownstein has said, I really dont know what to do when my life is not chaotic? Heres what I suspect: In her ongoing exertions to thrive on chaos, she is learning how to be a connoisseur of elegance and harmony as she masters the intricacies of being balanced, sensitive to others, thrilled by beauty, and adaptive to change. This is important for you to hear about right now.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Youre entering a volatile phase of your cycle. In the coming weeks, you

could become a beguiling monster who leaves a confusing mess in your wake. On the other hand, you could activate the full potential of your animal intelligence as you make everything you touch more interesting and soulful. I am, of course, rooting for the latter outcome. Heres a secret about how to ensure it: Be as ambitious to gain power over your own darkness as you are to gain power over what happens on your turf.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Im a big fan of the attitude summed up by the command

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob BrezsnyARIES (March 21-April 19): The Latin motto Carpe diem shouldnt be translated as Seize the day!, says

author Nicholson Baker. Its not a battle cry exhorting you to freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. The proper translation, according to Baker, is Pluck the day. In other words, you should gently pull on the days stem, as if it were a wildflower, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things so that the days stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, and the flower is released in your hand. Keep that in mind, Aries. I understand you are often tempted to seize rather than pluck, but these days plucking is the preferable approach.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When I talk about The Greatest Story Never Told, Im not referring to the documentary film about singer Lana

Del Rey or the debut album of the rap artist Saigon or any other cultural artifact. I am, instead, referring to a part of your past that you have never owned and understood a phase from the old days that you have partially suppressed an intense set of memories you have not fully integrated. I say its time for you to deal with this shadow. Youre finally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as a crucial thread in the drama of your heros journey.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest

mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. Funny story: Once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. Oops! He didnt watch where he was going, and fell down into a well. He was okay, but embarrassed. Lets make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated, and inspired but only if you watch where youre going.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Charles Darwin is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains

his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. But while he was still alive, his best-seller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. The painstaking result of over 40 years worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creatures crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwins central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time can have monumental effects. This also happens to be one of your key themes in the coming months.


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Sarah Allner w/ Brian Allen (3pm) -Creekside Vineyards Winery & Inn, 7505 120th Ave. Coal Valley, IL

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2015/07/23 (Thu)

Jason Carl & the Whole Damn Band (6:30pm) -Bettendorf Public Li-brary, 2950 Learning Campus Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Jordan Danielsen & Jef Spradley -11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA

Lewis Knudsen CD Release Show -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

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2015/07/24 (Fri)

50 Shades of Rock -Bier Stube Moline Biergarten, 415 15th St. Moline, IL

Blues Rock-it -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Buddy Olson (5pm) -Missippi Brew, River Dr Muscatine, IA

Caught in the Act -Len Browns North Shore Inn, 700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL

Cobalt Blue -11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA

Street Fest 2015: Doug Brundies Big Acoustic Show (10am) - Jor-dan Danielsen (11:30am) - Natty Scratch (1pm) - The Blackstones (3pm) - The Knockoffs (5pm) - North of 40 (7:30pm) - 10 of Soul (10pm) -2nd Street between Brady & Ripley, Davenport, IA

The Beggarmen -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

The Camel Tones -Hollars Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL

The Dudes Going Away Party: Win-terland - Porch Builder - Jon Eric Trio - Velcro Moxie -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

The Golden Fleece - Killshakes - Denim Dragon -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

The Old 57s -Galena Brewing Company, 227 N. Main St. Galena, IL

The Rough & Tumble (4pm) -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

The Tailfins -Len Browns North Shore Inn, 700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL

Tim McGraw - Chasin Crazy -Jones County Fairgrounds, 700 N Maple St. Monticello, IA

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Whitey Morgan & the 78s - Tony Martinez -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

2015/07/26 (Sun)

Buddy Olson (3pm) -Duckys Lagoon, 13515 78th Ave W. Taylor Ridge, IL

Detroit Larry & Charlie Hayes (5pm) -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Street Fest 2015: QC Rock Academy featuring Vanderveer, Plot Twist, & Mississippi 3 (11:30am) - Johnny Dont (1:45pm) - Justin Morrissey & Friends (4pm) - Rude Punch (6pm) - The Cal Stage Band (8pm) - Electric Show: The AC/DC Show (10pm) -2nd Street between Brady & Ripley, Davenport, IA

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The Jim Busta Band -Walcott Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA

The Old 57s (5pm) -Wide River Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd. LeClaire, IA

The Stone Flowers -Grumpys Saloon, 2120 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Winterland (6:30pm) -Pedestrian Plaza, Downtown Iowa City Iowa City, IA

Deutsche Polka Band -Bil l Bowe Memorial Bandshell, Middle Park Bettendorf, IA

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Eric Church - Charlie Worsham -Jones County Fairgrounds, 700 N Maple St. Monticello, IA

Fresh Hops -Bent River Brewing Com-pany - Rock Island, 512 24th St. Rock Island, IL

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Jordan Schafer - Justin Swafford (8pm) - Sage Francis - AWTHNTKTS - Strangers of Necessity (9:30pm) -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA

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Kerry & Rich Acoustic Duo (6pm) -Steventons, 1399 Eagle Ridge Rd LeClaire, IA

Live Lunch w/ Keith Soko (noon) - Dra-ma Major (6pm) -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

LKB Trio -Ubriacos Trattoria, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA

Matthew Kane & The Band Greenbrier (6:30pm) -Ron-de-Voo Park, down-town 3rd Street West Liberty, IA

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Cosmic -River House, 1510 River Dr. Moline, IL

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H.C. Wallace (5pm) -Wide River Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd. LeClaire, IA

Heartache Tonight -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Jerry Garcias Birthday Bash featur-ing Old Shoe & Earth Ascending -The Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Karl Beatty -Barrel House 211, 211 E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Lost Country Dancers -Walcott Coli-seum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA

Mark Avey Band -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Men on Horseback -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

MJ the Legend Live -Col Ballroom, 1012 W. 4th St. Davenport, IA

North of 40 -The Office Bar & Grill, 305 3rd St. Sherrard, IL

Dirt Road Rockers -Bier Stube Moline Biergarten, 415 15th St. Moline, IL

Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo (noon) -Riv-erBottom Chophouse, 102 S. Main St. Port Byron, IL

Joe & Vicki Price (3pm) -Tabor Home Winery, 3570 67th St Baldwin, IA

Jordan Danielsen & Jef Spradley (2pm) -Fireside Winery, 1755 P Ave. Marengo, IA

Newsboys - Matthew West -Jones County Fairgrounds, 700 N Maple St. Monticello, IA

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