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Rubber-Stamping Agenda 21
Starts in Scott County
H
ow’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
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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
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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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In Praise of Judy Baar
Topinka’s Courage
“I
s it weird that I’m kind of glad to of Springfield’s political aisle. She’s not
have Judy Baar Topinka back?” a overly partisan, and her years in the General
Democratic friend of mine asked Assembly helped her understand how the
me the other day. process works. But she’s no get-along, go-
No, I replied. It’s not weird. I’m glad she’s along type. Topinka speaks her mind, and
back, as well. She’s crazy, I said, but in a very has a very sharp tongue. Few in politics can
sane way. get away with that, but she’s always managed
Topinka was elected state comptroller in to say what was on her mind while still
November by a huge margin, while spending getting things done.
just $270,000. That’s less A few weeks ago, Topinka did something
than half of what it costs to that most Illinois politicians have refused to
run a decent state House do: She got specific about actual budget cuts.
campaign. Some cost many As state government slid into budgetary
times that. hell, most Republicans chastised the
Down-ballot statewide Democrats for not cutting the budget, but
races such as Topinka’s then refused to offer up any real cuts of their
Topinka revolve a lot around name own. The majority Democrats were even
recognition. Topinka was worse; they’re in control, but they punted to
state treasurer for three terms, so Illinoisans Governor Pat Quinn, sending him “lump
knew who she was. sum” budgets
Perhaps because that didn’t make
she lost the 2006
governor’s race to
A few weeks ago, any specific cuts
and just reduced
Rod Blagojevich,
voters this time
Comptroller Topinka did spending for each of
his agencies.
around cast more
votes for Topinka
something that most Illinois So when Topinka
mentioned on a
than she’d ever
received before. She
politicians have refused to radio program that
it would be easy to
lost just two counties
and performed
do: She got specific about find a billion dollars
in cuts, I challenged
way better in Cook
County than any
actual budget cuts. her staffers to come
up with a list. They
statewide Republican did.
candidate, including Now, not
U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. everybody agrees that her list would actually
Topinka has kidded me recently for being save a billion dollars – myself included. But
responsible for that failed 2006 gubernatorial at least she was willing to stick her neck
bid, which put her out of government out and put her name on some real budget
for four years. I’ve covered her for more reductions, including a $100-million cut
than 20 years, and she was a great source to universal preschool, moving seniors out
of information while she was in the state of nursing homes and into home care to
Senate, so while she was attempting to make save $120 million more, and eliminating
up her mind about challenging Blagojevich, the state’s $26-million Amtrak operating
she asked for my thoughts. I don’t give subsidy.
advice, but I did pose two questions to her: You may not like Topinka’s cuts, but we
(1) Are you comfortable serving another need far more budget ideas on the table.

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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
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.

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Oscar Snapshots
Unforgettable Moments Among the 2011 Best Picture Contenders
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.
T
he 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
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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
The Kids Are All Right
 The Fighter
King’s for the Day: 2011 Oscar Predictions
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
True Grit
(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 ... .
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
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
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.
The Social Network
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
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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 ... .
Black Swan’s Nina (Natalie Portman)
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Suburban Legislators
Expected to Increase
After Redistricting
I
owa 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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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
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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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Inspiring Action
Students and Colleagues Rise to the Aid of Injured Moline Teacher
H
e 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
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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
Curtis Butterfield on February 14
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,
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,
Photos courtesy of Sarah Mason-Butterfield
Butterfield, his wife Sarah Mason-Butterfield,
and their daughter Clara.
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 Accident
On 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.

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
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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
3
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
the power of
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 Digital Cable
conversation, he had a clearer idea of who Online
I was. He was able to vaguely remember Phone
that we once shared a meal at an Indian
restaurant, and when I offered to have my
mother send him some Indian food, he
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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
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promptly offered, “Heck yes!”
“To a momma, that just breaks your
heart,” Sarah said.  
The last medical milestone Butterfield
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True Academic Theatre
St. Ambrose Explores a National Tragedy in Columbinus, February 18 through 20
F
or 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.”
Anthony Stratton, Nick Jensen, Kayla Jack-
son, Andrew Bradford, Michael Kline, and
Keaton Connell
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?”
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Biebermania
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 Justin Beiber in Justin Bieber:
your curiosity; this Never Say Never
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 for what it is, it’s clever and amusing enough.
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 – I loved the appearance of the “Rosencrantz &
several adult handlers discuss their displeasure at Guildenstern Movers” truck – and in the vocal
JUST GO WITH IT
I 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 & JULIET
The 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
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

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how, on days off, the kid seems almost hell-bent performances by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt,
on trashing his voice. (He’s punished accordingly, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham,
with a day spent silently Twittering.) And, most Patrick Stewart, and Extras’ fabulous Ashley
entertainingly of all, the movie dedicates much Jensen; despite the movie’s prelude and expectedly
screen time to the throngs of young girls – and happy ending, Shakespare’s work is treated with
only young girls – overcome with Bieber fever, respect. All told, Gnomeo & Juliet is a pretty good
whose every breathless declaration about their time, and would’ve been an even better one if the
idol is endearing, touching, and utterly terrifying. filmmakers had resisted the urge to end the film
“I think about him 99 percent of my life,” admits with – surprise! – a mass group dance in which
one. “One day, I Twittered him 100 times,” reveals even the one character to get killed is granted a
another. “We will be husband and wife,” asserts curtain-call boogie. Making sense of Elizabethan
another. No wonder Justin Bieber: Never Say verse is tricky enough, but if kids eventually come
Never is currently sitting with a 1.3-star rating to Romeo & Juliet knowing only of this animated
(out of 10!) on the Internet Movie Database. With spoof, man are they gonna be confused.
competition like Bieber, what poor teenage geek
boy stands a chance? For reviews of The Eagle and other current
releases, visit RiverCitiesReader.com.
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Vehicles for Novel Imagery
Three Artists at the Quad City International Airport, Through February 28
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
Grant William Thye, Autumn in Blue Ridge
Angela Dieffenbach, Azathioprine
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
by Michelle Garrison
michelle_m_garrison@hotmail.com
– 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.
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that include Latin jazz, pop, funk, and hip-hop, Cuban Junior Theatre? Now you do!
Essence routinely thrills audiences nationwide with its Charlotte’s Web will be performed
uniquely fiery blend of styles ... and if you want to talk at Davenport’s Nighswander Theatre,

KIDS!
Cuban Essence “unique,” you should check out Ocaña’s résumé. located in the Annie Wittenmyer
Augustana College As an orchestra member, the man has performed Complex, on Saturdays and Sundays,
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musical director and drummer, he’s worked for Chicago’s you: What do you get when you on Sundays, and tickets are just $5 for
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esteemed Pump Room and Odyssey Cruise Lines. As a touring cross a spider, a rat, and an irritating little anyone over three years old. For anyone
are the members of the Latin-American music ensemble Cuban
artist, Ocaña has played backup for such disparate celebrities as brother with one of the most beloved ages three and under, the ticket price is
Essence, and as I write this – two days after the crazy blizzard of
celebrated contralto Marian Anderson, legendary pianist Victor authors of all time? $59.95.
’11 – I’m looking out the window at a snowdrift that’s literally twice
Borge, I Dream of Jeannie’s Barbara Eden, and even comedienne Just kidding! They see the show for
as tall as the car parked beside it. Any chance we could get a little Well, you either get one really
Judy Tenuda. free!
Cuban Essence in our temperatures right now? scared and annoyed author, or you get
And as a composer, he’s not only published more than 60 To get you in the mood for the hour-
Probably not, but since the group is appearing at Augustana Charlotte’s Web, the magical family
original pieces but wrote the score for the 2007 musical A Blank long production, see how well you do a
College’s Wallenberg Hall on February 19, they’re sure to be heating adventure by world-famous writer E.B.
Stare Is Better Than an Empty Chair. So you don’t even have to enjoy finding 13 characters in this Charlotte’s
things up in no time. White!
yourself during Cuban Essence’s Augustana performance; Ocaña Web word find – the answers are on pag
Based in Chicago, and led by Cuban-born composer, director, I’m sure you all know this book
will be happy if you just show up! 24 ... but no cheating! Charlotte herself
and percussionist Waldo Ocaña, the acclaimed ensemble performs about the adorable pig, Wilbur, and his
But enjoy yourself you no doubt will. Tickets to Cuban Essence may be watching you!
authentic Afro-Cuban music in the rhythms of timba, the Cuban wonderful friendship with the motherly
are $12 for adults and $8 for students, and more information is More information on Davenport
counterpart of salsa. Substituting vocals for traditional horn spider, Charlotte. But did you know that
available by calling (309)794-7306 or visiting QuadCityArts.com. Junior Theatre’s Charlotte’s Web is
arrangements, and singing and playing instruments in genres the book is also a play? And did you
available by calling (563)326-7862 and

Literature
know that this play is about to be staged
the author by offering some examples of the staggering praise she’s by the talented students at Davenport visiting DavenportJuniorTheatre.com.
received over the years. Have fun, kids!
From the New York Times’ Dwight Garner: “You can’t help
Kay Ryan
St. Ambrose University
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
Music
Friday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.
of the suggestive power of poetry – how it elicits and rewards the The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Redstone Room
O n February 25, St. Ambrose reader’s intellect, imagination, and emotions.”
University will host an evening From Jack Foley, San Francisco author and literary critic: “Kay Wednesday, March 2, 8:30 p.m.
with the latest guest in the Galvin Ryan is a serious poet writing serious poems ... . Ryan can certainly
Fine Arts Center’s Performing Arts
Series: acclaimed poet, and the 2009-
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,
B efore 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,
10 U.S. poet laureate, Kay Ryan. smash success with its int
her compact poems are charged with sly wit and offbeat wisdom.” not a single one of band members resembles Lee Marvin, (entire) landmark album
The recipient of such honors as a
You know, all that brings to mind another writer of compact, sly, Charles Bronson, or George Kennedy. mark the one-year annive
2001 fellowship from the National
witty pieces for whom those accolades wouldn’t be out of ... . The name of the group is actually inspired by New devastation, and describe
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship, Orleans’ legendary nightspot The Dirty Dozen Social
and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Ryan’s poems and Nah. I’m too humbled to even try equating myself to Ryan. “ambitious, defiant, searin
But, you know, if you wanna do it ... . & Pleasure Club, where this internationally renowned The group, however, w
essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American ensemble originated in the late 1970s. Yet if you attend
Scholar, and Paris Review, among other publications. And in lieu Tickets to St. Ambrose’s evening with Kay Ryan are $7 to $9 and before that 2006 triumph
can be reserved by calling (563)333-6251 or visiting SAU.edu/galvin. the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s March 2 performance crowds on concert tours t
of delivering some good-natured joke here – say, about how Ryan’s at Davenport’s Redstone Room, you’ll see, and more
talents might even surpass my own – I thought I’d instead defer to
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this What’s Happenin’ you dropped
on my desk.”
Acclaimed Celtic group performs originals and
fresh arrangements of classics. Englert Theatre
(221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8
“The one on the upcoming performances p.m. $25-35. For tickets and information, call
D G O O L E N R R E F
by the Nova Singers?” (319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.
E T T O L R A H C G Y “Yeah. The Food for Body & Soul concerts. Friday, February 18 – Buckwheat Zydeco.
- What’s the deal?” Concert with the blues- and roots-music master,
at
R A N P W H I G O X R “I don’t understand the question, Jeff. As I mention in the article, the with an opening set by the Whoozdads. The
L I M A G A Z O U J N Nova Singers are the Galesburg-based professional vocal ensemble that sings Redstone Room (129 Main Street, Davenport).
ge under the direction of founder Laura Lane, and the group’s 20 members 8:30 p.m. $25. For tickets and information, call
f C E D I T H S H E R E are performing their new program at Galesburg’s First Lutheran Church on (563)326-1333 or visit RedstoneRoom.com.
Friday, February 18 – Michael Twitty:
T A L R P E E H S O H February 19, and Davenport’s St. Paul Lutheran Church on February 20.”
Memories of Conway Twitty. Concert tribute to
“Yes, I’m aware of that ... .”
AVERY • CHARLOTTE • EDITH • FERN • GANDER • “The repertoire for the ensemble’s latest explores the power of prayer and the county-music legend, performed by his son.
GOOSE • HENRY FUSSY • HOMER • JOHN ARABLE • meditation through music, and as its title suggests, its features a number of a Quad-Cities Waterfront Convention Center (1777
LURVY • SHEEP • TEMPLETON • WILBUR cappella songs that are all somewhat related to food.” Isle Parkway, Bettendorf). 7:30 p.m. $10-20. For
“I get that, Mike ... .” tickets and information, call (800)724-5825 or
“The singers will be performing two works by Norwegian composers – visit Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.
importantly hear, that the and in more than 30 countries on five continents, the Knut Nystedt’s Immortal Bach and Ola Gjeilo’s The Spheres – and a rendition of Friday, February 18, and Saturday,
performers kick just as much ass Dirty Dozen Brass has also worked with some of the most French composer Francis Poulenc’s Motets for the Season of Lent. The program February 19 – Great River Show Choir
as Marvin and company, with noted names in music; the ensemble’s Columbia Records Invitational. Song and dance competition with
will also include a powerful piece by England’s Herbert Howells called Take
the added benefit of doing it debut, 1987’s Voodoo, featured guest appearances by Dizzy students from area schools. Adler Theatre (136
Him, Earth for Cherishing, which was composed to honor the memory of John
musically. Gillespie, Dr. John, and Branford Marsalis, and further East Third Street, Davenport). Friday – 5 p.m.
F. Kennedy. And finally, the group will present Bob Chilicott’s Fragments from
Incorporating funk, soul, collaborators have included Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, middle-school competition; Saturday – 8 a.m.
His Dish, which Lane describes as ‘a collection of songs about food that are
bebop, and jazz-fusion stylings Modest Mouse, DJ Logic, Widespread Panic, and the Black high-school competition; Saturday – 7:30 p.m.
into the traditional, New Orleans- Crowes. sweet, grateful, playful, and hysterically funny.’”
finals. $5 competition tickets; $8 finals tickets.
flavored brass-band sound, the Described by JazzTimes.com as “jovial and rousing,” “Uh huh. I read that ... .”
For information, visit GreatRiverShowChoir.com.
Dirty Dozen Brass Band had a and with the New York Times raving that the band’s “crisply “It’s all there in the piece, Jeff, along with the ticket prices – $15 for adults
Friday, February 18 – Ladysmith Black
terpretation of Marvin Gaye’s focused” concerts “convey a sense of communal jubilation,” and $10 for seniors. So what do you mean, ‘What’s the deal?’”
Mambazo. Hancher Auditorium presents a
What’s Going On, recorded to you’re sure to thrill to the group’s Redstone Room set ... “What’s the deal with all these water spots on the paper?”
concert with the three-time Grammy Award-
ersary of the Hurricane Katrina with or without Ernest Borgnine playing backup. Don’t “Oh. That’s uh ... that’s drool.” winning world musicians. Riverside Casino &
ed by the Washington Post as rule that possibility out, though. Did you see that guy’s “ ... ” Golf Resort (3184 Highway 22, Riverside). 7:30
ng, and spiritual.” tribute at the SAG Awards? Man’s been everywhere. “Hey, it’s a food-themed piece I wrote over the lunch hour. Whaddaya want p.m. $10-42. For tickets and information, call
was long on the musical map Tickets to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band concert are $15 from me?!” (319)335-1160 or visit http://www.Hancher.
h. Electrifying both critics and in advance and $18 at the door, and are available by calling Tickets to the Nova Singers’ Food for Body & Soul performances are available UIowa.edu.
throughout the United States (563)326-1333 or visiting RedstoneRoom.com. by calling (309)341-7038, e-mailing nova@knox.edu, or visiting the group’s Friday, February 18 – Lucinda Williams.
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Home Is Where the Hard Is
TRACKS: Independence, at the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre through February 20
The Railroad in Photographs
D
irector Emmalee Moffitt’s
Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
from the george eastman House Collection production of Independence may
be the first work I’ve seen in which the
Through April 24, 2011 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 Nancy Teerlinck and Dana Skiles
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
RAilRoAd imAgeS covering 160 years evoke cherished memories of playing to fits of extreme anger (albeit not fits
induced by drugs). There’s the homecoming
with model trains and waiting on a platform for a glimpse of an oncoming
of the eldest daughter, Kess (Stacy Herrick),
train, hearing its whistle in the distance. Explore how trains transformed our who arrives to check in on, and eventually
country’s social and physical landscape. take care of, her ailing mom. And there’s
also the family tension created by Evelyn’s
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antics, and how it affects her two other
and stories performed by Roald Tweet, professor emeritus of English at Augustana daughters, Jo and
College, and host of WVIK’s Rock Island Lines, and musician Chris Dunn. Sherry (Jennifer Ufen
and Dana Skiles).
Much of the weight
Crossing the mississippi: of Blessing’s script lies
on the shoulders of
Teerlinck, since her
The Quad Cities, the Railroad and Art character’s insanity
Through April 24, 2011 is the source of the
plot’s dysfunctional
Explore the history and significance of the rail- dynamics, and the
road in the Quad Cities. This companion exhibi- actress employs a vocal
tion includes works on loan from the Rock Island timbre and inflections
Arsenal Museum, the Richardson-Sloane Special that embellish her
fury, and tears, to
Collections Center of the Davenport Public Stacy Herrick and Dana Skiles
Library and the Putnam Museum. great effect. At times,
however, when she’s not shouting or crying,
at left: Davenport Locomotive Works, ca. 1940s,
Teerlinck’s deliveries seem unnatural, and
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both her performance and the overall
production would benefit from the actress
Tracks: The Railroad in Photographs is sponsored by Riverboat Development Authority upping the crazy ante and delivering anger
This program is supported by Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. that’s even more intense. Based on what I
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did see from her, I believe Teerlinck has
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harsher points in Blessing’s script.
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www.figgeartmuseum.org Independence’s narrative, and also struggles
Davenport, Iowa to carry it, seeming to merely portray Kess’
emotions rather than feel them. There is
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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
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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.
THEATRE
Friday, 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
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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.
EVENTS
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Friday, 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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passing her smirking doppelgänger/ “And ... tits.”: George attempts to An inmate’s mortification in The Fighter, performs the one wholly selfless act of his
subconscious in the hallway, an unspoken maintain his decency by bringing his as his biographical comeback movie is life ... .
promise that the two will meet again, and tongue-loosening exercise to a hilariously revealed to be a documentary exposé on A just-released prisoner walking alone on
again, and again ... . anticlimactic end – The King’s Speech ... . crack addiction ... just like the the street, carrying
If it looks like a “Whose subconscious are we filmmakers repeatedly told him a sagging “welcome
bear and sounds going into, exactly?” – Inception’s ... . home” sheet cake,
like a bear ... : the Ellen Page, saying what Lily (Mila Kunis) casually searching the block
winter wardrobe everyone’s thinking in the movie obliterating a fellow dancer’s for his old drug
and growling year’s most empathetic laugh happiness, sexual confidence, buddies – Worst
basso profundo of line ... . and sanity with three simple Homecoming Ever
the horse-riding “I shall return!”: The Kids Are words – “Was I good?” – in Black in The Fighter ... .
medicine man in All Right’s Jules (Julianne Moore) Swan ... . Whose murder
True Grit ... . countering her kitchen-make- Joseph Gordon-Levitt Black Swan are we going into,
Michael Toy Story 3 out-session embarrassment with methodically tying bodies exactly? – tricky
Gambon’s King George V, with the wide aggressive good cheer, and consequently together in a zero-gravity environment editing ensuring that we’re as unglued
eyes of a child, signing away all rights to leaving the scene even more embarrassed ... . – business as usual in Inception ... . as Black Swan’s prima ballerina during a
the throne yet not understanding why Paradise by the dashboard lights: Hair in the drain: the dawning recognition dressing-room bloodletting ... .
– dementia handled through abdication in the freewheeling happiness of a winter of an adulterous fling, and a punishing “I think you’re too old.”: a son’s simple
The King’s Speech ... . snowstorm, a beater car, and a dozen mostly dinner-table silence, in The Kids Are All reasoning for why his parents shouldn’t
A sleepy grade-schooler and his dad naked bodies – 127 Hours ... . Right ... . split up ... reasoning that neither parent can
watch the sunrise, and The mother of Casual necessarily disagree with – The
without words, 127 all mood killers: effrontery in a Kids Are All Right ... .
Hours elegantly explains Black Swan’s camera move: And the circle of life
everything you need to ballerina giving The King’s Speech continues: A little girl picks up
know about why Aron masturbation a try, therapist Lionel and strums the banjo that her
Ralston (James Franco) is and immediately Logue (Geoffrey departing uncle has just set
who he is ... . stopping after Rush) suddenly down, probably for the last time
Melissa Leo in The glancing at her appearing in a – Winter’s Bone ... .
Fighter: a mother’s broken bedroom chair ... . chair that, for the Citizen Zuckerberg: Xanadu
heart slowly mending In the Hall of the love of God, he is Winter’s Bone replaced by a downtown law
through an a cappella The King’s Speech Mountain King: not allowed to sit office as a lonely billionaire loses
rendition of the Bee Gees’ “I Started a Joke” Spurred on by Grieg, The Social Network’s in ... . himself in an image from his past (refresh ...
... . Winklevi (Armie Hammer) compete and The horrific buzz of a chainsaw as it refresh ... refresh ... ) – The Social Network
Winter’s Bone’s recruiting officer come this close to greatness ... again ... . slices through water, and flesh and bone, ... .
explaining to Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) Horrific violence as a man loses his fingers twice – a teenager receives the evidence she The straight-backed (and one-armed)
why the 17-year-old shouldn’t join the Army and another is shot in the head in three desperately needed but never wanted in walk into True Grit’s horizon – a journey
– a moment seconds flat – the Coen brothers Winter’s Bone ... . made, and respects
of kindness proving that that this ain’t your 127 Hours’ enormous, paid, and that’s that
and sanity in papa’s True Grit ... . inflatable Scooby-Doo – a then ... .
Ree’s otherwise “Is this our time?”: John symbol of long-gone childhood Toy Story 3’s
unkind and Hawkes’ Teardrop addressing simultaneously beckoning to Spanish-language
insane world ... . Garrett Dillahunt’s sheriff, the and mocking our hiker ... . rendition “You’ve
Blaring shotgun in his lap suggesting Mr. Tortilla Head – Toy Got a Friend in
nightclub just how far he’ll go for family Story 3 hits the series’ height Me (Para Buzz
music still not – Winter’s Bone ... . of surreality as a plastic potato Español)” – proof
drowning out The single-minded stare and becomes a figure that Picasso 127 Hours that everything’s
the parable/ Inception hideous shriek of Toy Story 3’s himself would’ve been proud to cheerier with a Latin
pitch by Sean cymbal-playing monkey, topping paint ... . beat ... .
Parker (Justin Timberlake), because you can Close Encounters in viewing the toy as the Endless walk below starry skies: The Don’t Stop Believin’: Before the cut to
hear the devil even when he’s whispering scariest child’s plaything imaginable ... . heavens themselves seem to smile upon True black, Inception’s top spinning, and spinning,
– The Social Network ... . Grit’s Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) as he and teetering ju-u-ust a little ... .

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the Advice Goddess
BY AMY ALKON
Menopause in the Heterosexuality
I’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
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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-
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Rubber-Stamping Agenda 21
Starts in Scott County
and dictates of the planners. According to Harvey Agenda 21 is primarily implemented through
Ruvin, vice chair of ICLEI and clerk of the circuit
and county court of Miami-Dade County, Florida:
a network of agencies that provide carrots in the
form of federal and state grants dangled in front
satisfaction, and revving an attraction into “Individual rights will have to take a back seat of mostly unsuspecting bureaucrats and elected
an obsession. Anthropologist Helen Fisher to the collective.” (For more information, see politicians who consider themselves omnipotent
explains in Why We Love: “When a reward Understanding Sustainable Development: Agenda 21 budget managers instead of upholding individual’s
at FreedomAdvocates.org.) personal-property rights as their oaths of office
is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the
Rather than all men being created equal – with dictate.
brain increase their work, pumping out more
government’s role to ensure each individual’s rights Institutional laziness that infects every level of
of this natural stimulant to energize the brain, are not violated – “equity” will be accomplished by U.S. government makes formulaic programs even
focus attention, and drive the pursuer to implementing international economic order and more attractive to bureaucrats and politicians
strive even harder to acquire a reward.” transferring resources from developed countries to because all the heavy lifting is already done. The
You get out of a habit the same way you undeveloped countries. Because the United States funding abounds via tax-funded agencies and
get in: through repetition. Every time you has a higher standard of living than most countries, foundations. So that just leaves the quid pro quo
don’t let yourself think about this woman, developed or not, our standard of living must or the necessary pay-to-play, which is, simply put,
it’ll be a little easier to not think about her decrease to bring about international economic the sacrificing of Americans’ unalienable rights
the next time. Of course, you can’t just say balance. That is what is meant by redistribution – namely property rights that are forsaken so that
“I’m not going to think about her.” When of wealth. Instead of utilizing private enterprise, massive amounts of land can be transferred, bought/
you start, you need to shove the thoughts however, the redistribution is taking place sold, and/or controlled for the use of a global
out of the way by engaging your memory utilizing public/private partnerships. This model is central-planning cabal.
and your speech (when you’re talking and accelerating and will soon appear to be the norm Most nations are enthusiastically on-board with
remembering, you can’t also be obsessing). rather than the exception. Agenda 21 because they have far less to lose and
Public/private partnerships are antithetical to free much more to gain. This is not the case in America.
Have a substitute program at the ready:
enterprise. Big business melds with big government We have everything to lose and nothing whatsoever
Recite the Cyrillic alphabet, run through the
to form the unholy alliances that corrupt to gain. Perhaps that’s why Agenda 21 is such a
50 states and their capitals, and move on to competition. The lethal combination of economic stealthily crafted conspiracy, one that has plausible
Canada if need be ... whatever it takes to power and government force inevitably leads to deniability as long as you don’t read any of the fine
pry your mind off how dreamy her varicose tyranny, and clearly defines nearly every democracy print. Be clear here: The “planners” are literally
veins look when the sun hits them. on the planet, past and present. banking that you won’t.
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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Inspiring Action
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
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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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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2011/02/17 (Thu)
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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
friday
2011/02/18 (Fri) 18
Battle of the Bands: Wild Card Round -
RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
“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
Waterstreet @ RIBCO – February 24
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
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 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
saturday
2011/02/19 (Sat) 19
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
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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
sunday
2011/02/20 (Sun) 20
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
monday
2011/02/21 (Mon)
21
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
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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
Tuesday
2011/02/22 (Tue) 22
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
wednesday
2011/02/23 (Wed) 23
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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The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
St Iowa City, IA
thursday
2011/02/24 (Thu) 24
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
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friday
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
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Battle of the Bands: Final Round -RIBCO, Midwest Dubstep Summit: DJ Blaze One
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
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- 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
saturday
2011/02/26 (Sat) 26
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
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
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Zither Ensemble (10am) -German Ameri- Glenn Hickson (5:30pm) -O’Melia’s Sup-
can Heritage Center, 712 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
sunday
2011/02/27 (Sun) 27
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- Jeff Miller (6pm) -G’s Riverfront Cafe, 102
tendorf, IA
Mark & Dee (2pm) -Riverside Casino Karaoke Night -Applebee’s Neighborhood
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
Rob Dahms’ One-Man Band -The Lucky Karaoke Night -Old Stardust Sports Bar,
Frog Bar and Grill, 313 N Salina St Mc-
Causland, IA
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monday
2011/02/28 (Mon)
Acoustic Showcase -Iowa City Yacht Club, The Jam -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn
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
1
Tuesday
2011/03/01 (Tue)
Anna Vogelzang - Pearl & the Beard
- Andy Juhl -The Mill, 120 E Burlington
Iowa City, IA
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
wednesday
2011/03/02 (Wed) 2 Iowa City, IA
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
S Main St Port Byron, IL
Grill - Davenport, 3005 W. Kimberly Rd.
Davenport, IA
1191 19th St Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
Karaoke Night -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W
Locust Davenport, IA
St Iowa City, IA
3
thursday
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
Quarter Moon Tinsnips @ Mojo’s – February 26
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
4
friday
2011/03/04 (Fri)
Danu -Englert Theatre, 221 East Washing-
ton 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
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.
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
saturday
2011/03/05 (Sat) 5 Davenport, IA
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
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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.
sunday
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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
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