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GUEST COMMENTARY
by John W. Whitehead
johnw@rutherford.org
A
merica is in the grip of a highly profit-
able, highly organized, and highly
sophisticated sex-trafficking business
that operates in towns large and small, raking in
upwards of $9.5 billion a year in the U.S. alone
by abducting and selling young girls for sex.
It is estimated that there are 100,000 to
150,000 under-aged sex workers in the U.S.
The average age of girls who enter into street
prostitution is between 12 and 14 years old, with
some as young as nine years old. This doesnt
include those who entered the trade as minors
and have since come of age. Rarely do these girls
enter into prostitution voluntarily. As one rescue
organization estimated, an under-aged prostitute
might be raped by 6,000 men during a five-year
period of servitude.
This is Americas dirty little secret.
You dont hear much about domestic sex-
trafficking from the media or government
officials, and yet it infects suburbs, cities, and
towns across the nation. According to the FBI,
sex-trafficking is the fastest-growing business
in organized crime, and the most-lucrative
commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Its an industry that revolves around cheap sex
on the fly, with young girls and women who are
sold to 50 men each day for $25 apiece, while
their handlers make $150,000 to $200,000 per
child each year.
To avoid detection by police and cater to male
buyers demand for sex with different women,
pimps and the gangs and crime syndicates they
work for have turned sex-trafficking into a
highly mobile enterprise, with trafficked girls,
boys, and women constantly being moved from
city to city, state to state, and country to country.
With a growing demand for sexual slavery
and an endless supply of girls and women who
can be targeted for abduction, this is not a
problem thats going away anytime soon. Young
girls are particularly vulnerable, with 13 being
the average age of those being trafficked. Yet
as the head of a group that combats trafficking
pointed out: Lets think about what average
means. That means there are children younger
than 13. That means eight-, nine-, 10-year-olds.
Consider this: Every two minutes, a child is
exploited in the sex industry. In Georgia alone,
it is estimated that 7,200 men (half of them in
their 30s) seek to purchase sex with adolescent
girls each month, averaging roughly 300 a day.
It is estimated that at least 100,000 children
girls and boys are bought and sold for sex in
the U.S. every year, with as many as 300,000
children in danger of being trafficked each year.
Some of these children are forcefully abducted,
others are runaways, and still others are sold
into the system by relatives and acquaintances.
With such numbers, why dont we hear
more about this? Especially if, as Ernie Allen
of the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children insists, This is not a problem that
only happens in New York and Los Angeles
and San Francisco. This happens in smaller
communities. The only way not to find this in
any American city is simply not to look for it?
Writing for the Herald-Tribune, reporter J.
David McSwane has put together one of the
most chilling and insightful investigative reports
into sex-trafficking in America. The Stolen
Ones should be mandatory reading for every
American, especially those who still believe it
cant happen in their communities or to their
children because its mainly a concern for lower-
income communities or immigrants.
As McSwane makes clear, very little time and
money are being invested in the fight against
sex-trafficking except for the FBIs annual
sex-trafficking sting, which inevitably makes
national headlines for the numbers of missing
girls recovered.
For those trafficked, its a nightmare from
beginning to end. Those being sold for sex have
an average life expectancy of seven years once
theyre forced into the trade, and those years
are a living nightmare of endless rape, forced
drugging, humiliation, degradation, threats,
disease, pregnancies, abortions, miscarriages,
torture, pain, and the constant fear of being
killed or, worse, having those you love hurt
or killed. A common thread woven through
most survivors experiences is being forced to go
without sleep or food until they have met their
sex quota of at least 40 men.
Holly Austin Smith was abducted when she
was 14 years old, raped, and then forced to
prostitute herself. Her pimp, when brought to
trial, was only made to serve a year in prison.
Barbara Amaya was sold repeatedly, abused,
shot, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, trafficked,
beaten, and jailed all before she was 18 years
old. She said: I had a quota that I was supposed
to fill every night. And if I didnt have that
amount of money, I would get beat, thrown
down the stairs.
As McSwane recounts: In Oakland Park, an
Continued On Page 12
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Off His Talking Points,
Rauner Struggles
by Rich Miller
CapitolFax.com
ILLINOIS POLITICS
A
quick note to Bruce Rauner: The next
time you try to claim that Governor
Pat Quinn is personally under fed-
eral investigation an allegation that, as far
as anyone can tell, is not true its probably
best not to say it while standing next to a dif-
ferent governor who actually is personally
under federal investigation.
Rauner held a relatively
brief press conference
last week to talk about
Chicagos violence problem,
with New Jersey Goveror
Chris Christie at his side.
Rauner attempted to claim
that Quinn was somehow
responsible for the murder
of a nine-year-old boy by a
convict on probation even
though it appears right
now that all state laws and
procedures were followed.
And not mentioned, of
course, is that Newark,
New Jersey, has a murder
rate almost twice that of
Chicago, which undercut
Christies contention that Quinn had failed
to protect Illinois public safety.
Rauner was then asked about the growing
scandal of an alleged nursing-home bust-
out scheme, which includes the bizarre,
sordid story of how the troubled company
was sold off to a pathetic old man who
thought he was buying computer parts
and instead wound up with an empty-shell
corporation that ended up being responsible
for about a billion dollars in wrongful-death
judgments.
The candidate denied any personal
knowledge of the companys problems (he
never seems to know about his companies
many, many problems); denied lying to the
Chicago Tribune when he said he had only
served on the nursing home companys board
of directors for a year (the Tribune eventually
discovered his tenure was four times longer
than that); and claimed that Quinn was
trying to create a distraction by even
bringing up the subject.
Actually, Quinn ran TV ads last week on
a different Rauner company in Georgia that
was hit with federal Medicaid-fraud charges.
Perhaps Rauner is confusing his companies.
The nursing-home story is an issue now
because a federal bankruptcy trial, which
started last week, is attempting to sort out
who is responsible for paying what to the
surviving families of dead nursing-home
residents.
The gubernatorial contender then
attempted to turn the tables on Quinn by
claiming the governor is under federal
investigation for a 2010 anti-violence
initiative. But Rauners campaign has
repeatedly pointed to the fact that their
candidate was never even deposed in the
nursing-home-bankruptcy proceeding as
proof that he has no responsibility. Using
Rauners own standard,
because Quinns e-mails
havent been directly
subpoenaed by the feds,
he can also legitimately
claim to be innocent.
And thats when a
reporter pointed out
that Christie (whom
Rauner referred to last
week as one of the
greatest public servants in
America) is under federal
investigation for that
bridge-closing scandal. Its
hardly the next Watergate
and appears freakishly
overblown to my eyes, but
a federal probe is a federal
probe, so it was a fair point. Rauner refused
to respond, and Christie gave the reporter the
evil eye.
Most Chicago reporters dont know much
about state governance, and they know
even less about state budgeting. So Rauner
has been able to avoid tough questions
about things such as business reforms that
he refuses to detail, his proposed massive
spending hikes coupled with even bigger tax
cuts that will produce budget holes in the
billions, etc. Thats where his highly polished,
tried-and-true talking points do him the most
good with reporters who dont understand
the details and, for the most part, dont care.
But that phase of the campaign is now
behind us. Whats left is Chicago reporters
pushing Rauner to comment on the issues of
the day as defined by them. And when he has
no poll-tested talking points to rely on, hes
proving to be a sorely inadequate candidate.
Quinns campaign often sends out its
lieutenant-governor candidate, Paul Vallas,
when it needs an attack dog. Rauners
running mate, Evelyn Sanguinetti, is most
definitely not capable of handling herself
with Chicagos notoriously aggressive
reporters. Shes just not good at it, and theyd
eat her for lunch. For as lacking as Rauner is,
Sanguinetti is just not an option. So the top
guy is left to do all the dirty work.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily
political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.
Rauner has been able to
avoid tough questions
about things such
as business reforms,
proposed massive
spending hikes coupled
with even bigger tax cuts,
etc. That phase of the
campaign is behind us.
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The Quad City Symphony Smartly Marks Its Centennial
A Dream Season
L
ooking despondent, the young con-
ductor was comforted by his men-
tor. Think of it this way, my son,
the old maestro began. If everyone was
equally dissatisfied with your repertoire,
at least you gave them a balanced season.
Its an old joke, but it sarcastically
underscores the futility of finding music
that will satisfy everyone.
But, in the Quad City Symphonys
100th season, Music Director and
Conductor Mark Russell Smith has
fashioned a carefully considered,
diversely adventuresome musical
celebration that includes a balanced
sampling of masterpieces, premieres
of six new commissioned works, and
guest soloists ranging from world-class
recording artists to members of the
orchestra.
Its a dream season that lies ahead,
but its been an evolutionary process for
Smith to get there.
Building on What Works
Over the past three years, Ive watched
and listened as Smith experimented with
musical and conceptual ideas for concerts
some more successful than others. The
2014-15 season expands upon the best
aspects of recent seasons while removing
those that didnt work.
Notably absent from the upcoming
season are concert versions of opera,
themed programs, and attempts to merge
popular music into the Masterworks
format.
Opera excerpts in the 2011-12 and
2012-13 seasons had radiant moments
but were awkwardly staged and suffered
from balance problems.
A season of themed concerts in
2012-13 was an interesting idea, but the
selections represented a narrow stylistic
period and didnt result in musically
balanced programs.
Also in 2012-13, turning the February
concerts into Valentines Day pops
programs diluted the quantity of classical
music in the Masterworks series and
taught planners that microphones can
amplify problems.
Those ideas have been replaced in
the centennial season with music that
clarifies and fortifies the concept and
artistic implications of the Masterworks
series name. The upcoming repertoire
also draws from recent season strengths.
In 2011-12, the series spanned 300
years of stylistic development from
the Baroque of Vivaldi to contemporary
American composer Michael Abels.
That season also had Benjamin
Brittens massive and logistically
challenging War Requiem an example
of a maestro on a mission that showed
the Quad City Symphony capable of
working persuasively on a larger scale
and with greater complexity. That
undertaking arguably paved the way for
similarly grand thinking: Stravinskys
Rite of Spring in 2012-13 and Mahlers
Symphony No. 3 in 2013-14.
The 2013-14 season featured a
welcome emphasis on American music
with Samuel Barber, commissions from
Michael Torke and Jacob Bancks, and the
contemporary symphonic music of Aaron
Jay Kernis and Jennifer Higdon.
Each of those can be clearly seen in the
2014-15 season: a variety similar to that
of 2011-12, with a broad historical and
cultural diversity; new commissions from
American composers; and, in Beethovens
Ninth, an appropriately bold vision.
Great Examples of the
Symphonic Form
This centennial season, the musical
center stage will be occupied by a
balanced assortment of iconic musical
masterpieces. All symphonies, yet
distinctly differentiated by culturally
unique musical characteristics. They
are arguably the best examples of
symphonies from Dvok, Tchaikovsky,
Bruckner, Harris, Beethoven, and Mozart
representing music from the Czech
Republic (Bohemia), Russia, Austria, the
United States, and Germany.
Antonn Dvok was a paradox as
a composer, using urbane musical
form and development but also the
unsophisticated folk tunes of his rural
home; he was an intuitive genius with
the heart of a peasant. In the season-
opening October concerts, there is a
connection between the prairie of Iowa
and the rolling hills of Bohemia. His
tuneful Ninth Symphony From the New
World was influenced by folk music from
America and Bohemia and is one of the
most popular and often played pieces in
the symphonic catalog.
Dvok wrote it during the winter
and spring of 1893 as director of the
National Conservatory of Music of
America. During the summer of that
year, he packed up his family and traveled
to Spillville, Iowa, to visit relatives and
countrymen who had immigrated
earlier, but also to finish scoring his new
work. Leonard Bernstein called it an
international symphony, revealing not
only Dvoks roots but ours as well.
Pyotr Tchaikovskys last symphony, The
Pathetique, will be featured in Novembers
concerts. An oscillation between triumph
and despair, it is the musical melodrama
of Tchaikovskys Russian soul at its best.
Immediately, the low, foreboding bassoon
moans a theme unlike the openings of
his fourth and fifth symphonies. It warns
of a darker, less-predictable musical trek
whose outcome is uncertain, but its more
faithful to the emotions of a
conflicted composer.
Decembers concerts
showcase a piece that
concisely synthesizes
European musical thought:
Mozarts 40th Symphony.
Most people are familiar
with stories of the
composing prodigy playing
all over the continent. But
as audiences were listening
to Mozart across Europe, he
was also listening to them
their concert, dance, and
opera music. Wherever he
went, he absorbed the music
around him and integrated
the best ideas into his own
music.
Put a church cathedral and
Richard Wagner together
and you get the great
Austrian Romanticist Anton
Bruckners Symphony No. 4 Romantic
in the February concerts. The organist
and teacher combined the grand vaults,
spaces, and sounds of a cathedral with the
influence of Wagnerian operas medieval
legends. Bruckners result is music with
towering pillars of heroic brass separated
by reverberating, contemplative stretches
of musical prayer.
The first great symphony in the
burgeoning American style will be the
centerpiece of the March concerts:
Oklahoman Roy Harris Symphony No. 3.
The composer was determined to remain
artistically truthful, in symphonic form,
to his inspirations jazz, syncopation,
and broad expanses of dusty plains.
Written in one long movement, Harris
third symphony made him a leading
American composer with its premiere in
1939. Since then, the work has become
the most widely performed and recorded
of all American symphonies, according
to Neil Butterworth in his 1998 book The
American Symphony.
The Quad City Symphony will fittingly
end its centennial season in April with
Ludwig van Beethovens monumental
Symphony No. 9 The Choral. Music
commentator Martin Bookspan wrote: If
ever there was a cosmic musical creation,
this is it a score so overwhelming in
its vision and breadth that it transcends
temporal, worldly affairs.
There are many reasons why the Ninth
holds such esteem among music lovers,
but musicologists note that it is the first
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use of the human voice in a symphony.
Beethoven successfully combined the
text of Friedrich Schillers poem Ode
to Joy with his inspired musical score.
From its suspenseful opening measures
to the first massive statement of its bold,
direct theme, the raw tonal austerity of
the music sets the stage for the climatic
brotherhood of man message that
eventually emerges.
An Investment in
American Composers
In an innovative approach, Quad City
Symphony-commissioned music will
open each concert in the Masterworks
series. Expect each piece to be brief,
surprising, and probably lively. For me,
this is the perfect way to begin a concert,
when the air is fresh and uncluttered and
I havent heard anything that would set
my mood.
The Masterworks commissions include
new work from John Frantzen, concert
and film composer from Maquoketa,
Iowa (October); James Romig, professor
of composition and theory at Western
Illinois University (November); David
Gompper, director of the Center for
New Music at the University of Iowa
(December); St. Ambrose Universitys
William Campbell (March); and
Lake Forest, Illinois, composer James
Stephenson (April).
The symphony will also perform a
commission from last season, Torkes
Oracle, to open the February concert.
And on October 19, Jacob Bancks
new Five Pieces for Violin & Piano will
premiere as part of the symphonys
Signature Series.
These commissions represent an
investment in American art music
by supporting its composers and
disseminating their music through
performances.
But they also have the potential to
raise the Quad City Symphonys national
profile. Last seasons premiere of Bancks
Rock Island Line was recently featured
on public radios Performance Today
program.
Setting the Bar High
A seasons roster of soloists should be
a mixture of world-class and aspiring
talent to set the bar high and provide
a forum for challengers. And thats what
the Quad City Symphony has done for its
centennial.
Separate from the Masterworks season
an add-on billed as a pops program
but with classical music cellist Yo-
Yo Ma on May 14 will join the Quad
City Symphony for a one-night-only
performance of Dvoks Cello Concerto.
Considered by most critics the worlds
preeminent cellist, Ma is also the worlds
best-known and best-selling classical
recording artist with 16 Grammys and
more than 75 albums to his name.
Perhaps the most glorious aspect of
Mas music-making is the extent of his
mystical communication all those
personal, beyond-words feelings he
conveys in his playing; you stop thinking
about anything else when you see him
perform. His musical storytelling is so
compelling because he lives the music
with each measure, completely consumed
in its creation. It becomes the only thing
going on in the room.
Another world-class soloist opens
the Masterworks season in October:
pianist Andr Watts. A short time
after his concerto debut at age 16 with
Leonard Bernstein and the New York
Philharmonic, Watts was called in at
the last minute to replace the legendary
Glenn Gould. This weekend, hell step
in to replace the ailing Garrick Ohlsson
as the featured soloist for the Quad
City Symphony and perform one of his
signature pieces, Rachmaninoff s Second
Yo-Yo Ma
Photo by Todd Rosenberg
Artists also
have Vimeo
accounts that
have password-
protected
works, she
adds, and they
would give the
passwords,
which
eliminates the
need for screeners. Its so much more
efficient.
As for the types of films she was
particularly seeking for the MEIs Middle
Eastern Film Festival, Zando-Dennis
says, Theres a cinematic practice that
originated in Latin America and the
Middle East and North Africa that
has this kind of specific resistance to
Hollywood to film as a commodity.
Rather, it uses film as a tool to
communicate ideas, and to tell stories
that dont fall into the model of Western
or Hollywood cinema, and thats always
been interesting to me.
She adds that recently, shes been
fascinated with the art that has resulted
from the protests and demonstrations
in the wake of the 2010 Arab Spring.
Artwork came out of that through
social media, says Zando-Dennis, but
also through filmmakers and painters
and graffiti artists and musicians that
responded to those uprisings, either
aesthetically or conceptually. Or
sometimes literally, documenting events
on the street.
Zando-Dennis curatorial efforts
eventually resulted in the Middle Eastern
Film Festival spanning six evenings, with
Rock Islands Rozz-Tox, Davenports
Figge Art Museum, and St. Ambrose
Universitys Galvin Fine Arts Center
each hosting two nights of screenings.
Regarding the decision to have multiple
venues host the works, Dye says, We
really view the Middle East Institute as a
public initiative, and we wanted to make
sure that we engaged the community on
both sides of the river.
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comedy about the
Israeli military.
(Reviewing the
movie in the
Jerusalem Post,
Hannah Brown
wrote, A few
firearms are
brandished, but
the most lethal
weapon turns out
to be a staple gun.)
It gives us a chance to see what
Middle Eastern filmmakers are thinking
about and working on, says Dye, and to
get a different kind of feel and flavor for
the Middle East. We tend to forget that
these are real people with families and
daily lives, and a variety of interests that
go beyond war and politics and religion.
Describing the process of finding films
for inclusion, Zando-Dennis says: With
the Internet now, it really changes the
curatorial landscape. Historically, one
would have to go to a film festival in
Toronto or Berlin or L.A. or New York
to see work. Youd have to go to galleries,
meet artists, and call them on the phone
or write them a letter. But now, artists
are putting their trailers and their artist
statements and the descriptions of the
work online.
So for me, she continues, it was a
combination of looking at other Middle
Eastern film festivals and the work shown
there, researching those artists, looking
at that work online, and then following
a kind of trail to other artists through
electronic-based sites for art.
One especially beneficial Web site, says
Zando-Dennis, was the online collective
Ibraaz.com. Its a critical forum on visual
culture in North Africa and the Middle
East, and they support artists who are
more conceptual whose work is dealing
with the politics and culture of the Arab
world, but who are also interacting in
what we call the global art world. So I
would look at those artists and contact
those whose work I thought would fit
into the program at St. Ambrose, and
have conversations with them about my
intentions for their work.
S
t. Ambrose Universitys educational
initiative the Middle East Institute
(MEI), which just began its first
school-calendar year of programming,
was designed to foster discussion and
study of this frequently misunderstood
and geopolitically critical region. And as
institute director Ryan Dye says, when it
came time to create an event schedule for
the MEIs fall semester, I consulted with
our fine-arts department, and they were
really excited about the idea of doing a
film festival.
Through the art departments Clea
Felien, Dye was put in contact with
Ghen Zando-Dennis, a cinema-studies
professor at Ramapo College in Mahwah,
New Jersey. An Alaska native and
occasional filmmaker herself, Zando-
Dennis teaches a course in Middle
Eastern films at Ramapo and was eager
to curate the MEIs event. Zando-Dennis
admits, however, that the curator position
did come with a challenge for her.
I didnt want to show work just
because its from this place we regard as
the Middle East, she says. I didnt want
anyone to come away from it thinking it
was a kind of survey, in any sense of the
imagination, of Middle Eastern media
art. And yet Im programming a film
festival thats called the Middle Eastern
Film Festival. So thats tricky.
But with her chosen collection of
features, shorts, and experimental works
for the MEI festival films that will be
screened on six nights, at three different
Quad Cities venues, between October 15
and 24 Zando-Dennis says, Hopefully
the audience will be provided some
insight into the different kinds of art and
cinema that are coming out of this region,
or that speak about this region in some
way or another, and how art and film
intersect with the culture.
And while works about war and
oppression in the Middle East are almost
inevitably on the schedule, Dye says
that the festivals lineup should also
be a lot of fun, with its inclusion Zero
Motivation the Best Narrative Feature
and Nora Ephron Award winner at the
2014 Tribeca Film Festival actually a
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THE BOXTROLLS
Witty, weird, and a little bit
wonderful, the stop-motion animated
comedy The Boxtrolls concerns a little
boy raised by adorable monsters in
London sewers, a little girl in need of
a friend, and a cross-dressing villain
with an unfortunate cheese fetish,
considering that when he ingests it,
his lactose intolerance makes his face
resemble an overinflated balloon
animal. That last bit was just one
of many curlicues that tickled me
in directors Graham Annables and
Anthony Stacchis imaginative work
adapted from Alan Snows childrens
book Here Be Monsters! Its a bit on
the formulaic side, but the occasional
blandness is suffused with brilliant
visual and aural gags (such as the
perfectly timed ba-dum-ching! sound
effect following some intentionally
corny wordplay). And with amusing
vocals provided by Jared Harris, Elle
Fanning, Tracy Morgan, and frequent
co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost,
Ben Kingsley earns funniest-in-show
honors for his gloriously named baddie
Archibald Snatcher. Bonus points for
characters, twice, responding to assaults
with You bit me! With your mouth!
Its the twice that makes it art.
For reviews of The Maze Runner, A
Walk Among the Tombstones, This Is
Where I Leave You, Tusk, and other
current releases, visit RiverCitiesReader.
com.
Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/
MikeSchulzNow.
Movie Reviews
by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com
THE EQUALIZER
As he did, to great acclaim and an
Oscar victory, in director Antoine Fuquas
Training Day, Denzel Washington plays a
psychopath in Fuquas new action thriller
The Equalizer. And the most interesting
thing about the movie in truth, the only
interesting thing about this laughably
earnest, resoundingly foolish endeavor
is that none of its on- or off-screen
participants seems to realize it.
If youve seen the films trailers, or even
its poster, or know that The Equalizer
is based on the vengeance-minded CBS
series that aired from 1985 to 1989,
you may spend its first 30-ish minutes
wondering if youve wandered into the
wrong Denzel Washington movie by
mistake. The actor stars as Robert McCall
(or, more likely, Robert McCall),
whos some kind of mid-level employee
at a home-furnishing and building-
supply superstore. Through a series of
intentionally repetitive scenes, we watch
the avuncular Robert in his daily routine:
fastidiously tidying his one-bedroom
apartment; serving as personal trainer to
a hefty subordinate (Johnny Skourtis);
trading friendly flirtations and jokes
with co-workers. (He convinces two
particularly gullible youths that he used to
be one of Gladys Knights dancing Pips.)
Every night into the wee hours, Robert
sits in the same booth at a neighborhood
diner, working his way through literary
classics while chatting amiably with a
teenage prostitute (Chlo Grace Moretzs
Alina). And so it goes for roughly a half
hour, with only a few needling questions
specifically, Why is Robert timing
every daily activity with a stopwatch?
preventing this
Antoine Fuqua
thriller from
suggesting a
cool-tempered
Tom McCarthy
dramedy.
But one
night, Alina
enters the
restaurant with a shiner, courtesy of a
client. The next night, shes beaten and
hospitalized, courtesy of her Russian
pimp. And the next night, to much of the
audiences apparent relief, all semblance
of reality is ditched when Robert pays
a visit to that pimp and his half-dozen
henchman, and proceeds to turn the
roomful of Russians into so much
human borscht. This sequence really is
something. With Washington (and Fuquas
camera) surveying the surroundings like
Benedict Cumberbatch amassing clues
on Sherlock, Robert eyeballs potential
weapons A paperweight! A corkscrew!
and mentally calculates both his attack
trajectories and his victims responses
to those attacks. He then goes to town
on the Russians through limb-spinning
choreography that wouldnt look out of
place on a particularly violent Dancing
with the Stars episode, with Fuqua careful
to show every execution in grisly, viscera-
spewing closeup. (If you close your eyes
during this sequence, dont worry about
missing anything; Fuqua will replay the
highlights in flashback 10 minutes later.)
The scene is ludicrous, even in light of the
eventual, unsurprising reveal that Robert
McCall is a retired CIA assassin long
thought dead. Yet a question lingers, and
is never really addressed: Isnt this mass
execution
maybe
a slight
overreaction
to a teen
hooker
getting
punched in
the face?
If your
reply is Hell, no!, by all means enjoy
the films concluding 90-plus minutes, a
stubbornly single-minded loop in which
a tattooed Russian enforcer (Marton
Csokas) vows revenge on Robert, and
Robert vows revenge on seemingly
anyone with a Russian accent. (Its hard
out here for a Pip.) If, however, youre
of the mind that Robert is probably
dangerously unstable even though the
movie tries desperately to convince us hes
merely acting in the best interests of
the oppressed The Equalizer will likely
come off as lazy and timid in addition to
senseless, with its meant-to-be-thrilling
climax in a makeshift Home Depot the
source of one unintentional laugh after
another. (With Robert using a weed
whacker, a microwave, and even birdseed
to fell his assailants, how I longed for the
dead-serious Washington to be replaced
by a pun-happy Arnold Cleanup in aisle
three! Schwarzenegger.) The fine cast
helps matters, even if theres not as much
of David Harbour, Melissa Leo, and Bill
Pullman as you might want. Yet while
the finale promises sequels, or maybe a
CBS series based on the movie based on
the series, Id argue that watching Denzel
Washington read in a diner might prove
far more rewarding than watching him
exact vengeance on all of North Korea.
Both Eyes for an Eye, a Jaw for a Tooth
Marton Csokas and Denzel Washington in The Equalizer
by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com
Whats Happenin
Theatre
Working
St. Ambrose University
Friday, October 3, through
Sunday, October 5
Y
ou kind of have to feel for
the theatre-department
students at St. Ambrose University. A
mere six weeks after summer vacation
bam! The departments got em working.
And I mean capitalized, italicized
Working.
Then again, the Working in
question is a beloved musical loaded
with memorable songs and beautiful
monologues and rich, funny, moving
characters, so, you know ... . They can
deal.
Running October 3 through
5 in the Galvin Fine Arts
Center, the show is based on
author Studs Terkels acclaimed
1974 nonfiction Working:
People Talk About What They
Do All Day & How They Feel
About What They Do. Replace
talk with sing, and thats
an incredibly apt synopsis for
its stage adaptation, which debuted at
Chicagos Goodman Theatre in 1977,
made its Broadway debut in 1978, and
went to to score a Drama Desk Award
and five Tony nominations.
Presented as a series of mostly
musical vignettes, Working explores
the highs and lows of roughly three-
dozen career choices through figures
including a teacher, a trucker, a mill
worker, a fireman, a receptionist, a
waitress, and a parking-lot attendant.
But though some of the jobs examined
may appear mundane and, as some
Working characters will tell you, are
mundane the show itself emerges as
a glorious celebration of humanity, one
made all the more dynamic by its song
list featuring compositions by Stephen
Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant,
Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor. (One
of Taylors contributions here the
tender ballad Millwork has even been
famously covered by such artists as Bruce
Springsteen, Bette Midler, and Eddie
Vedder.)
While Working can be produced with
as few as six cast members, director
Corinne Johnson has enlisted 16 for St.
Music
ZZ Top
Adler Theatre
Sunday, October 12, 7:30 p.m.
S
o whats this latest dream
thats bothering you,
Mike?
Aw, doc, this ones got me
under pressure. So Im having
TV dinners in my sleeping bag
with Leila, and shes just killing
me a girl in a T-shirt and
cheap sunglasses, 36-22-36,
with delirious legs and a tush
that .
Okay, okay. Go on.
But my heads in Mississippi
with Francine. Im thinking
about how she cant stop rockin
when I get arrested for driving
while blind with all those beer-
drinkers and hell-raisers by the
salt lick in La Grange ... .
Uh huh ... .
I figure its only love. But its
also decision or collision time
with Leila, who wants to turn
me, in stages, from a rough
boy to a sharp-dressed man.
So I give it up and breakaway
from the memory, and tell her,
Gimme all your lovin!
Right ... .
But just when were about
to enjoy and get it on bang
bang! She smacks me with a
pincushion of concrete and
steel and screams, You better
doubleback, because I know
somebody else been shakin
your tree! And then I woke up.
With wood.
Hmmm.
Whats up with that?
Well, Mike, as youve
just name-dropped 34 of the
bands songs, my guess is that
youre currently obsessing on
ZZ Top. Which would make
sense, because youre probably
due to write an article on the
multi-platinum-selling blues
rockers and Rock & Roll Hall
of Famers, considering that
the musical legends will be
performing at the Adler Theatre
on October 12.
Whoa ... thats amazing!
Youre so right! I gotsta finish
that ZZ Top article cuz I gotsta
get paid!
Yes. And thats 35.
Im outta here, doc! And I
thank you!
Thats 36 ... .
Piece!
For tickets to ZZ Tops Davenport
concert, call (800)745-3000 or
visit AdlerTheatre.com.
Music
The Chop Tops
Rock Island Brewing Company
Saturday, October 11, 9 p.m.
P
erforming a dizzying blend
of styles they call revved-up
rockabilly, the Santa Cruz, California-
based touring musicians of the Chop
Tops will play the Rock Island Brewing
Company on October 11. If you want a
sense of the bands genre-defying sound,
you should know that theyve opened
for acts as diverse as Chuck Berry, the
Reverend Horton Heat, Dick Dale, John
Lee Hooker, Los Lobos, Dead Kennedys,
Wanda Jackson, and Black Flag. If you
want a sense of the bands spirit, just
listen to their thrashing, exuberant
rendition of Chicks Smicks, Food
Smood, Beer Yeah! But you only need to
listen to it once. Itll be in your head for
the rest of your life.
Founded by vocalist and percussionist
Sinner who performs alongside the
similarly single-named guitarist Shelby
and upright bassist Josh the Chop Tops
have performed their distinct melding of
rock, punk, psychobilly, and surf-music
sensibilities since 1995, and have released
seven CDs and four compilation albums
since 1997. Currently in the midst of
visiting 36 cities and 25 states over the
1) How Many ____
2) Running ____
3) Deadly ____
4) 13 ____
5) Too Many ____
6) American ____
A) Times
B) Cats
C) Months
D) Gun
E) Nightmare
F) Love
A n s w e r s : 1 A , 2 D , 3 F , 4 C , 5 B , 6 E . I k n e w I r e s p o n d e d t o t h e C h o p T o p s s o n g s f o r a r e a s o n . T o o m a n y c a t s i s m y A m e r i c a n n i g h t m a r e .
Americas Dirty Little Secret: Sex-Trafficking Is Big Business
by John W. Whitehead
johnw@rutherford.org
industrial Fort Lauderdale suburb, federal agents
in 2011 encountered a brothel operated by a
married couple. Inside The Boom Boom Room,
as it was known, customers paid a fee and were
given a condom and a timer and left alone with
one of the brothels eight teenagers, children as
young as 13. A 16-year-old foster child testified
that he acted as security, while a 17-year-old girl
told a federal judge she was forced to have sex
with as many as 20 men a night.
One particular sex-trafficking ring that was
busted earlier in 2014 caters specifically to
migrant workers employed seasonally on farms
throughout the southeastern states, especially
the Carolinas and Georgia. Traffickers transport
the women from farm to farm, where migrant
workers would line up outside shacks, as many
as 30 at a time, to have sex with them before they
were transported to yet another farm where the
process would begin all over again.
What can you do?
Call on your city councils, elected officials,
and police departments to make the battle
against sex-trafficking a top priority, higher than
the so-called wars on terror and drugs and the
militarization of law enforcement.
Insist that law-enforcement agencies in the
country at all levels funnel their resources into
fighting sex-trafficking. Stop prosecuting adults
for victimless crimes (such as growing lettuce
in the front yard) and focus on putting away the
pimps and buyers who victimize these young
women.
Educate yourselves and your children about
this growing menace in our communities. The
future of America is at stake.
Stop feeding the monster. This epidemic is
largely one of our own making, especially in a
corporate age where the value placed on human
life takes a backseat to profit. The U.S. is a huge
consumer of trafficked goods, with national
sporting events such as the Super Bowl serving
as backdrops for the sex industrys most lucrative
seasons. Each year, for instance, the Super Bowl
serves as a windfall for sex-traffickers selling
minors as young as 13 years old. As one sex-
trafficking survivor explained, Theyre coming
to the Super Bowl not even to watch football.
Theyre coming to the Super Bowl to have sex
with women and/or men or children.
Finally, as the Abell Foundations report on
trafficking advises: The police need to do a better
job of training on, identifying, and responding
to these issues; communities and social services
need to do a better job of protecting runaways,
who are the primary targets of traffickers;
legislators need to pass legislation aimed at
prosecuting traffickers and johns, the buyers
who drive the demand for sex slaves; hotels need
to stop enabling these traffickers by providing
them with rooms and cover for their dirty deeds;
and we the people need to stop hiding our
heads in the sand and acting as if there are other
matters more pressing.
Constitutional attorney and author John W.
Whitehead is founder and president of the
Rutherford Institute (Rutherford.org) and
editor of GadflyOnline.com. His latest book,
A Government of Wolves: The Emerging
American Police State, is available online at
Amazon.com.
GUEST COMMENTARY
Continued From Page 3
MUSIC
Thursday, October 2 The Sea &
Cake. Chicago-based indie rockers in
concert, with opening sets by The Multiple
Cat and J.E. Sunde. Rock Island Brewing
Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock
Island). 8 p.m. $13-15. For information,
call (309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com.
For a 2012 interview with the bands Sam
Prekop, visit RCReader.com/y/prekop.
Thursday, October 2 Chicago
Farmer. Singer/songwriter in his
vinyl-release show, with an opening
set by Edward David Anderson. The
Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
Davenport). 7 p.m. $8-10. For tickets and
information, call (563)326-1333 or visit
RiverMusicExperience.org.
Thursday, October 2, and Friday,
October 3 Surf Rock Beach Party.
Concert featuring summertime pop hits,
surf-rock instrumentals, a limbo contest,
and a steel-drum showdown. Circa 21
Dinner Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). Thursday: 6-7 p.m. buffet,
7:15 p.m. show, $49.12. Friday: noon-12:45
p.m. plated lunch, 1 p.m. show, $43.37.
For tickets and information, call (309)786-
7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
Friday, October 3 EGi. Funk and rock
musicians in concert, with an opening set
by Half Naked. The Redstone Room (129
Main Street, Davenport). 9 p.m. $8.50. For
tickets and information, call (563)326-
1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.
Saturday, October 4, and Sunday,
October 5 Quad City Symphony
Orchestra: Into a New World. The
What Else
Is Happenin
Whats Happenin
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
Music
Grace Askew
Rozz-Tox
Sunday, October 12, 8 p.m.
W
ebsters dictionary
defines grace as
a way of moving that
is smooth and attractive. Websters
dictionary defines askew as at an
angle. An author who begins an article
with Websters dictionary defines,
meanwhile, is defined as unoriginal
and desperate, but thats neither here
nor there.
What I mean to say is that the
Websters folk would no doubt love the
name of October 12s musical guest at
Rozz-Tox, because Americana singer/
songwriter Grace Askew has been
earning raves for her smooth, attractive
song stylings that oftentimes veer off
at unpredictably thrilling angles. Not
for nothing, after all, did the Knoxville
News-Sentinel write that her voice
warbles, trembles, swings, and flops
while granting four-out-of-four stars to
her riveting and genuine August release
Scaredy Cat.
The 27-year-old Memphis native
began her career of blues and country
or what she fittingly calls bluntry
music playing high-school assemblies
and open-mic nights at age 17, and cut
her first EP, Wasted Lipstick, at age 21. Its
local success led to another EP (2009s
Hawthorne), a pair of full-length albums
(2010s Until They Lay Me Down to Rest
and 2011s Grace Askew &
the Black Market Goods),
and numerous tours as a
solo artist. And all that
led to a little TV program
titled The Voice.
As a contestant in
the programs fourth
season, Askew delivered
a knockout rendition of
These Boots Are Made for Walkin,
scored country star Blake Shelton as
her coach, and was eventually cited by
Yahoo Musics Reality Rocks as season
fours most robbed contestant when
she didnt make the shows final cut.
But considering the stellar reviews shes
amassed for Scaredy Cat, its doubtful
that Askew let the defeat bother her for
long, with Spin magazine calling the
album beautifully haunting, Los Angeles
magazine describing Askew as a killer
slide-guitar player with a sultry swagger,
and the Philadelphia Inquirer raving,
Her sultry drawl is both seductive and
powerful.
Yet admirers might be shocked to
learn that all 11 Scaredy Cat songs were
recorded in four hours on one day,
because as Askew told the Memphis Flyer,
I love the magic of the first take. Which
is why I only write first drafts although
had I written a second, I probably
couldve ditched that lame Websters
opener.
Grace Askew performs with opening
sets by Erin Moore and Johnnie Cluney,
and more information is available
by calling (309)200-0978 or visiting
RozzTox.com.
including a teacher, a trucker, a mill
worker, a fireman, a receptionist, a
waitress, and a parking-lot attendant.
But though some of the jobs examined
may appear mundane and, as some
Working characters will tell you, are
mundane the show itself emerges as
a glorious celebration of humanity, one
made all the more dynamic by its song
list featuring compositions by Stephen
Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant,
Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor. (One
of Taylors contributions here the
tender ballad Millwork has even been
famously covered by such artists as Bruce
Springsteen, Bette Midler, and Eddie
Vedder.)
While Working can be produced with
as few as six cast members, director
Corinne Johnson has enlisted 16 for St.
Ambroses production, among them
such SAU-theatre talents as Kelci Eaton,
Becca Brazel, Chris Galvn (all pictured),
Jonathan J.J. Johnson, Sam Jones, Jordan
McGinnis, Nick Pearce, and Brooke
Schelly. As someone whos been a fan of
the material for three decades plus, Im
also psyched to see that Johnson is staging
2012s slightly revised edition of Working,
which features updated careers, characters,
and two new numbers by Tony-winner
Lin-Manuel Miranda. I am, however,
still waiting for the shows inclusion of an
indie-newspaper journalist who gets paid
to write smart-alecky comments. Maybe in
a production of Working with a question
mark at the end ... ?
For more information on, and tickets
to, Working, call (563)333-6251 or visit
SAU.edu/Galvin.
Sinner who performs alongside the
similarly single-named guitarist Shelby
and upright bassist Josh the Chop Tops
have performed their distinct melding of
rock, punk, psychobilly, and surf-music
sensibilities since 1995, and have released
seven CDs and four compilation albums
since 1997. Currently in the midst of
visiting 36 cities and 25 states over the
seven-week Revved-Up Rockabilly
Mayhem Tour, RIBCOs set will
find the Chop Tops thrilling fans
with their dynamic stage presence
and electrifying sound a sound
that some gamers might be very well
acquainted with, as three Chop Tops
tunes can be heard on 2009s action
video game Wet.
Are you among the faithful? We
shall see: Trying filling in the missing
words on the six Chop Tops numbers
above and to the left.
The Chop Tops local concert also
features sets by Rumble Seat Riot and
3 on the Tree, and more information is
available by calling (309)793-4060 or
visiting RIBCO.com.
A) Times
B) Cats
C) Months
D) Gun
E) Nightmare
F) Love
A n s w e r s : 1 A , 2 D , 3 F , 4 C , 5 B , 6 E . I k n e w I r e s p o n d e d t o t h e C h o p T o p s s o n g s f o r a r e a s o n . T o o m a n y c a t s i s m y A m e r i c a n n i g h t m a r e .
Masterworks I concerts with Mark Russell
Smith conducting a world premiere by John
Frantzen, Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No.
3, and Dvoraks Symphony No. 9: From the
New World, featuring guest pianist Garrick
Ohlsson. Saturday: Adler Theatre (136 East
Third Street, Davenport), 8 p.m., $15.35-66.35.
Sunday: Augustana Colleges Centennial Hall
(3703 Seventh Avenue, Rock Island), 2 p.m.,
$13.50-39.50. For tickets and information, call
(563)322-7276 or visit QCSymphony.com.
Wednesday, October 8 Jeremy Camp.
Contemporary-Christian artist in concert,
with opening sets by Kutless and Adam
Capp. Adler Theatre (136 East Third Street,
Davenport). 7 p.m. $20-40. For tickets, call
(800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.
Thursday, October 9 Lynne Rothrock
and Ron May. Cabaret performance with
the Iowa City singer and the area pianist.
Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). 7 p.m. $12.50-15. For tickets and
information, call (309)786-7733 extension 2
or visit Circa21.com.
Friday, October 10 The Good
Intentions. Liverpool-based Americana
musicians in concert, with an opening set
by Josh Harty. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). 9 p.m. $5-10. For information,
call (309)200-0978 or visit RozzTox.com.
Saturday, October 11 Demi Lovato.
Platinum-selling recording artist in concert,
with opening sets by Christina Perri and
MKTO. i wireless Center (1201 River Drive,
Moline). 7:30 p.m. $19.50-29.50. For tickets,
call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.
com.
Saturday, October 11 Grand Funk
Railroad. Concert with the funk rockers
famous for Some Kind of Wonderfuland
Were an American Band.Quad-Cities
Waterfront Convention Center (2021
State Street, Bettendorf). 8 p.m. $30. For
Bettendorf.IsleOfCapriCasinos.com.
Saturday, October 11 Smooth Jazz
Festival. The Grammy-nominated Jeff
Lorber Fusion performs with special guest
saxophonist Eric Marienthal. The Redstone
Room (129 Main Street, Davenport). 8 p.m.
$38-53.50. For tickets and information, call
(563)324-4208 or visit RiverMusicExperience.
org.
Wednesday, October 15 Los Lobos.
Grammy-winning rockers perform in the
25th Anniversary of La Pistola Tour. Englert
Theatre (221 East Washington Street, Iowa
City). 8 p.m. $42-57.50. For tickets and
Englert.org.
THEATRE
Thursday, October 2, through Sunday,
October 12 Sherlock Holmes & the Case
of the Jersey Lily. Mystery/comedy by Katie
Forgette, directed by John VanDeWoestyne.
Richmond Hill Barn Theatre (600 Robinson
Drive, Geneseo). Thursdays through
Saturdays 7:30 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m. $10. For
tickets and information, call (309)944-2244 or
visit RHPlayers.com.
Thursday, October 9, through Sunday,
October 19 Iowa Partnership in the Arts:
Crescendo. Original piece by Paul Kalina,
John Rapson, Paola Coletto, Matteo Destro,
and David Bills exploring how the Industrial
Revolution affected the educational
system. University of Iowas David Thayer
Theatre (200 North Riverside Drive, Iowa
City). Wednesdays through Saturdays 8
p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. $10-18. For tickets
and information, call (319)335-2700 or visit
Theatre.UIowa.edu.
DANCE
Sunday, October 12 Dancing with the
Local Media Stars. Fundraising perfor-
mance featuring emcee Denise Hnytka, and
Bailey Deitz, Jason Fechner, Angie Sharp,
Brittany Lewis, and Emily Scarlett dancing
with Arthur Murray Dance Studio profes-
sionals. Golden Leaf Banquet & Convention
Center (2902 East Kimberly Road, Daven-
port). Noon. $40. For tickets and information,
call (563)326-4321 or visit ArthurMurrayQCA.
com.
Sunday, October 12 Marias Voice.
Tony-winning dancer Savion Glover leads an
exploration of domestic violence through
dance, poetry, and song. Englert Theatre
(221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 7
p.m. $15-60. For tickets and information, call
(319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.
Tuesday, October 14 So You Think You
Can Dance: Season 11 National Tour. Revue
featuring performances by the TV series
Rudy Abreu, Casey Askew, Tanisha Belnap,
Emilio Dosal, Zack Everhart, Jacque LeWarne,
Jessica Richens, Valerie Rockey, Ricky Ubeda,
and Bridget Whitman. Adler Theatre (136 East
Third Street, Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $39.75-
65. For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit
AdlerTheatre.com.
COMEDY
Saturday, October 4 Capitol Steps.
Political skits and song parodies with the
touring comedy stars. Englert Theatre
(221 East Washington Street, Iowa City). 8
p.m. $35. For tickets and information, call
(319)688-2653 or visit Englert.org.
Tuesday, October 7 Lena Dunham.
The comedy author and Girls star converses
with Curtis Sittenfeld in an event featuring
poet Jenny Zhang. Englert Theatre (221 East
Washington Street, Iowa City). 7 p.m. $30. For
tickets and information, call (319)688-2653
or visit Englert.org.
LITERARY ARTS
Wednesday, October 8 Read Local:
Robin Throne. Presentation by the local
author on her novel Her Kind, featuring a
Q&A and book-signing. Bettendorf Public
Library (2950 Learning Campus Drive,
Bettendorf). 7 p.m. Free admission. For
BettendorfLibrary.com.
Thursday, October 9 SPECTRA Poetry
Reading. Event co-sponsored by the
Midwest Writing Center, featuring authors
Lauren Haldeman and Erin Keane. Rozz-Tox
(2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. Free
admission. For information, call (563)324-
1410 or visit MidwestWritingCenter.org.
Saturday, October 11 Pen-in-Hand
Writing Mini-Conference. Annual event
featuring the workshops This Is a Story,
Too: Nontraditional Formats for Revealing
Short-Story Narratives,led by Christiana
Langenberg at 10 a.m.; and The Body as
Canvas & Page: The Use of Visual Literacy &
Literary Imagery in the Anatomy of Poetry,
led by Gabriella Miotto at 1:30 p.m. Midwest
Writing Center (225 East Second Street,
Suite 303, Davenport). $20-25/workshop,
$35-40/both workshops. For information
and to register, call (563)324-1410 or visit
MidwestWritingCenter.org.
KIDS STUFF
Friday, October 10 Disney Live!
Mickeys Music Festival. All-new stage show
with classic Disney characters from The Little
Mermaid, Aladdin, and Toy Story. i wireless
Center (1201 River Drive, Moline). 4 and 7
p.m. $21.60-66.95. For tickets, call (800)745-
3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.
Saturday, October 11 Noogiefest.
The 16th-annual Halloween party featuring
themed rooms, games, crafts, activities,
door prizes, and more, with costumes
encouraged. Gildas Club of the Quad
Cities (1234 East River Drive, Davenport). 4
p.m. Free admission. For information, call
(563)326-7504 or visit GildasClubQC.org.
Sunday, October 12 Petes Awesome
CommUNITY Party. Family-friendly
event held in honor of National Bullying
Prevention Month, featuring live music,
dance, presentations, family activities, and
a visit by Pete the Purple Bull. Quad-Cities
Waterfront Convention Center (2021 State
Street, Bettendorf). 1 p.m. Free admission.
For information, visit QCUnited.com.
EVENTS
Friday, October 3 Sleepout 2014.
Third-annual overnight fundraiser for the
Humility of Mary Shelter, with live music,
games, contests, food, a ComedySportz
performance, a movie, and more.
Modern Woodmen Park (209 South
Gaines Street, Davenport). 4 p.m. $25. For
HumilityOfMaryShelter.com.
Saturday, October 4 Zoofari. Brazil-
themed fundraiser featuring cocktails,
dinner, entertainment, live and silent
auctions, zoo tours, and more. Niabi Zoo
(13010 Niabi Zoo Road, Coal Valley). 6 p.m.
$100. For information and to reserve, call
(309)799-3482 or visit NiabiZoo.com.
Saturday, October 4 Make-a-Wish
Iowa Riverbend Walk/Run for Wishes.
Annual fundraising event with the 10K
beginning at 10 a.m., the 5K beginning at
10:30 a.m., and the one-mile walk beginning
at 10:45 a.m. Modern Woodmen Park (209
South Gaines Street, Davenport). $20-40
registration. For information, visit Iowa.Wish.
org.
Sunday, October 5 CROP Hunger
Walk. The 43rd-annual fundraiser sponsored
by Churches United of the Quad City Area,
with a walk through downtown Davenport,
across the Centennial Bridge, around the
District of Rock Island, and back to the
stadium. Modern Woodmen Park (209
South Gaines Street, Davenport). 2 p.m.
For information, call (563)332-5002 or visit
CUQCA.org.
Saturday, October 11 Familes On!
Challenge. A obstacle course in which
families climb over an enormous couch,
jump on a huge bed, run through masses
of bubbles, throw dishes at a dishwasher,
and more, with local youth music, theatre,
and dance performances throughout the
day. Credit Island (800 Credit Island Lane,
Davenport). 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $29-39/person
registration, $5/spectators. For information,
visit FamiliesOn.com.
Sunday, October 12 Running Dead
5K. Zombie-themed fundraising race for
the Moline Park Department, with post-race
entertainment by 7 Sins Sideshow. Ben
Butterworth Memorial Parkway (3000 River
Drive, Moline). 4 p.m. $35-40 registration.
Facebook.com/QCRunningDead5K.
Wednesday, October 15, through
Friday, October 17 Upper Mississippi
River Conference. Annual River Action
event focusing on issues and opportunities
associated with the river, featuring special
presentations and keynote speaker Matt
Rota of the Gulf Restoration Network. i
wireless Center (1201 River Drive, Moline).
RiverAction.org.
What Else Is Happenin
PHOTOGRAPHY
(Editors note: The River Cities Reader each
month will feature an image or images from the
Quad Cities Photography Club.)
M
embers of the Quad Cities Photogra-
phy Club are given several chal-
lenges each year one of which is
the Summer Challenge. Each member is given
a topic to envision, execute, and then share at
the September club meeting. Member Michael
Zechers challenge this summer was stairs.
He wanted to do something out of his comfort
zone and had tried several ideas, but the morn-
ing of the deadline he thought of this image.
As a farmer, he loves the harvest season, so
he decided to show his Stairway to Heaven
using the stairs to the cab of a combine for his
subject although he did substitute a clean
combine at the dealer showroom instead of
the somewhat dirtier one on his farm. Using a
low angle and a fisheye lens to exaggerate the
perspective and emphasize the stairs, he had
the lens just inches from the stairs. To make a
more interesting sky, he used the high-dynam-
ic-range (HDR) technique. The entire process
took him less than 30 minutes.
He used a Canon 7D with a Canon
8-15-millimeter f/4L fisheye lens at 8
millimeters. The shot was hand-held, an HDR
composite of three f/11 images at 1/800 of
a second, 1/320 of a second, and 1/125 of a
second. The raw images were processed on
Photomatics Pro software with painterly
effect added for an extra pop of color. The
finishing touches were applied in Adobe
Lightroom.
The Quad Cities Photography Club welcomes
visitors and new members. The club sponsors
numerous activities encompassing many types
and aspects of photography. It holds digital
and print competitions most months. At its
meetings, members discuss the images, help
each other to improve, and socialize. The club
also holds special learning workshops and small
groups that meet on specific photography topics,
and occasionally offers interesting shooting
opportunities. The club meets at 6:30 p.m. the
first Thursday of the month September through
June at the Butterworth Center, 1105 Eighth
Street in Moline.
For more information on the club, visit
QCPhotoClub.com.
Featured Image from the Quad Cities
Photography Club
that illustrate literal tweets that were
being sent out from Egypt during the
revolution, and that were being censored
by the government. So the films are a
way of, again, archiving history, and then
creating a visual element to accompany it.
And Zero Motivation, which just
won at Tribeca, is an Israeli film by a
young, young filmmaker [26-year-old
Tayla Lavie]. There have been a lot of
films made about Israeli soldiers and
what thats like for them, but this one just
seems to turn that theme on its head. Its
about these young womens experiences
in serving the bureaucrats of the Israeli
army, and so its kind of an unpredictable
way into that military-film world. But,
like with Ziba, it deals with gender
roles and expectations, and theres a
connection with the characters stasis and
paralysis in the system theyre in.
But I actually havent seen Zero
Motivation yet. So Im taking a risk there,
but I wanted something in the festival
that was just, like, banging right now, and
so this gives audiences a chance to see
something current from the film world
that marketplace, if you will. Ill be seeing
it in Davenport for the first time. And I
really had to persuade the distributors at
Zeitgeist [Films] to let us show it. They
were like, What? Its not even in theaters
yet! And I said, No, we gotta show it! We
gotta show it, we gotta show it ... ! And it
worked.
For more information on St. Ambrose
Universitys Middle East Institute, its
upcoming programs, and the full schedule
for the Middle Eastern Film Festival, visit
SAU.edu/MEI.
Beyond War and Politics and Religion
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
What follows are some of the festival
curators thoughts on the lineups.
Wednesday, October 15:
Experimental Shorts: The
Body Is a Location (Rozz-
Tox, 7 p.m.)
Wednesday, October 22:
Experimental Shorts: The
Archive (Rozz-Tox, 7 p.m.)
The first screening of experimental
works is dealing with the notion of space
in the body as its located in a political or
geographic space. Or, in the case of Beard
Burn, using the body. Edward Salem, the
artist, actually burns his beard in the film.
Its a kind of performative video piece, as
is Shannon Plumbs The Window Series,
which also uses the body in a frame.
Shes a North American artist, and Ive
been following her work for a long time.
And then Jasmina Metwalys film From
Behind the Monument, which I found
though the Ibraaz platform. These are
works that dont speak directly to any
particular politic of the region, but all of
them speak indirectly to the culture of
conflicts in the Middle East, and also to
daily social life.
And the second week at Rozz-Tox
has experimental shorts that are dealing
with questions of representation an
archive of different ways the Middle East
has been represented in other spaces
like Hollywood or European film, and in
news coverage. Elia Suleimans and Jayce
Salloums Introduction to the End of an
Argument puts that together in a sort
of collage, this mimicry showing how
dominant media represents the Middle
East. Walid Raads The Dead Weight
of a Quarrel Hangs is this collection of
performative archives he did in response
to the Lebanese Civil War.
And Peggy Ahweshs Beirut Outtakes
is composed entirely of footage that was
found in an old cinema in Beirut. Thats
a beautiful work because film is a tactile
medium, unlike digital video, and so as
it sat in this abandoned cinema over the
years, the celluloid started to decay in
certain patterned ways. So the film itself
has this beautiful analog texture that
speaks to the material of film as much as
to what its representing. The actual film
becomes part of the films subject.
Thursday, October 16: The
Noise of Cairo (Figge, 7 p.m.)
Friday, October 24: Return to
Homs (Galvin, 7 p.m.)
I wanted to include at least one film
that talked about the uprisings. There are
a lot of them out there a lot of good,
strong ones. And I chose The Noise of
Cairo because its representing artists,
talking about how different artists in
Egypt responded to the political scene
there, and creating a kind of program of
films that deals with art-making. Thatll
be shown with the short film Eid, which
is also about an artist, and made by the
Saahab Collective, and Nurit Sharetts
H2, which is about using video art as a
social and political tool of storytelling
creating personal documentaries to
empower people.
Those speak to the revolution from
the vantage point of artists. Whereas
Return to Homs, which is also a
contemporary representation of the
situation in Syria, deals with a journalist
a media person filming in the streets.
Its the story of this filmmaker and his
friend whos a nationally known soccer
player in Syria, and how they go through
different iterations of the revolution and
become militarized after being peaceful
demonstrators and activists.
Both of those features speak very
specifically to the contemporary
situation in the Middle East, and show
media being used as a political tool of
storytelling, documentary, and biography.
Im drawn to work that talks about media
art within the work itself.
Friday, October 17: Ziba
(Galvin, 7 p.m.)
Thursday, October 23: Zero
Motivation (Figge, 7 p.m.)
I was interested in showing a work by
Bani Khoshnoudi whether some of her
experimental work or her documentary
work but Ziba, aesthetically, is so
different from any of her other films.
It creates a kind of observational space
where we travel through a city with
this character Ziba, who represents
a kind of upper-class housewife, and
as Knoshnoudi describes it, its about
the experience of asphyxiation and
oppression and suffocation of women in
Iran. You see her relationship with her
husband, her female subjectivity its a
very quiet film where things kind of roll
out in real time.
The Speak@Tweet shorts showing
with Ziba are from Heba Amin, and
theyre experimental Super 8 films
MOVIES
A Dream Season
by Frederick Morden
f.morden@mchsi.com
Piano Concerto. Music critic Ayuano
Hodouchi wrote of Watts Rachmaninoff
with the New York Philharmonic:
Economy is not on Watts agenda he
plays unstintingly, every little passage
crafted with love and attention. His tones
are warm and gleam like burnished gold.
In November, Minnesota Orchestra
Concertmaster Erin Keefe joins the
Quad City Symphony in a performance
of Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto.
Renowned conductor Hans von Bulow,
after its premiere in 1879, summarized
that the concerto was not written
for the violin but against the violin.
Keefe, however, has the chops to
bring the Brahms under control. The
Massachusetts Republican said: Coupling
... technique and understanding with
a winning persona and nerves of steel,
Keefe clearly has a brilliant career ahead
of her.
Februarys concerts introduce Chicago
native and nationally recognized flutist
Demarre McGill, playing Mozarts
joyful Flute Concerto in G. Principal
flute of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra,
McGill has performed as a soloist with
the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle,
San Diego, Baltimore, and Milwaukee
symphony orchestras. The Seattle Sun
Break wrote of McGills sound: Totally
clean, liquid, mellifluous, ... rounded, and
beautiful, it beckoned you in.
Joel Fan, who made his performing
debut with the New York Philharmonic
at age 11, returns to the Quad Cities in
March, playing a toe-tapping program
of American music including George
Gershwins tuneful, jazzy Rhapsody in
Blue and Morton Goulds Interplay for
Piano & Orchestra. David Weininger
of the Boston Globe wrote: Fan played
with eloquence and sensitivity, phrasing
lines in a natural, unhurried way.
As a recording artist, Fan scored two
consecutive Billboard Top 10 classical
debuts with his solo CDs World Keys and
West of the Sun.
The season-finale concerts in April
will feature four vocalists bringing
Beethovens timeless Symphony No. 9
to life: soprano Karen Slack, tenor Vale
Rideout, bass baritone Dean Elzinga, and
Quad Cities-based mezzo-soprano Eleni
Matos.
Matos is the winner of an
unprecedented 33 national and
international vocal competitions,
including the Maria Callas, Luciano
Pavaroti, Metropolitan Opera, and
Caruso. She performed Beethovens
Symphony No. 9 with the Detroit
Symphony as part of a PBS special,
and she sang the Verdi Requiem at the
foot of the Acropolis for the week-long
remembrance of opera legend Maria
Callas on Greek national television.
Slacks voice, according to Opera
News, is glorious ... in tone, generous in
volume, flexible in tempo, and luminous
on top, and San Francisco Classical
Voice called it crystal clear, yet with
that smooth nuance of the sort heard
from a Schwarzkopf or Te Kanawa. Her
performance has major career stamped
all over it.
Of Rideouts performance of Benjamin
Brittens Serenade for Tenor & Horn, the
New York Times wrote that his luminous
tenor voice has remarkable purity in the
high range and is able to maintain an
even polish across the dynamic range.
With his excellent diction and natural,
smooth-flowing delivery light on vibrato,
he was an ideal match for Britten.
Elzinga, meanwhile, is one of the
countrys most-sought-after basses for
Beethovens Ninth, having performed
it with the Minnesota Orchestra and
dozens of other orchestras.
Joining the quartet in singing Schillers
Ode to Joy for the April concerts will be
Quad City Choral Arts and the Handel
Oratorio Society prepared by Jon Hurdy.
Those groups will also take their bow
in a vocally and ear-challenging stroke of
artistic insight. Written in 1907, almost
a hundred years after Beethovens Choral
symphony, Arnold Schbergs Friede
auf Erden (Peace on Earth) for choir
journeys from a first-verse depiction
of the Nativity through a second telling
of bloodshed and imploring angels.
The third and fourth verses deliver the
peace of the title. Schnbergs extended
tonality, modern for its time, and the
words by Conrad Meyer set the stage
for Beethovens powerful message of
brotherhood that follows in his Ninth
Symphony.
But the piece also provides a musical
magnifying glass that reveals the depth of
the choirs training in a subtle, intimate
a cappella setting and it represents a
symbolic union between our community
and the Quad City Symphony.
That relationship will also be evident
in the December concerts, showcasing
some of the orchestras principal players
performing a variety of chamber music.
Theyll share their talent and musical
insight as hundreds of other homegrown
musicians have done over the years.
French Romantic Camille Saint-
Sans Romance will highlight hornist
Marc Zyla. The Classical style of Joseph
Haydns Sinfonia Concertante will feature
violinist Naha Greenholtz, cellist Hannah
Holman, oboist Andrew Parker, and
bassoonist Benjamin Coehlo. And the
French Impressionist Maurice Ravels
Introduction & Allegro will spotlight
harpist Lillian Lau.
Giving soloist slots to members of
the orchestra is stimulating for the
audience but also an act of professional
trust between the conductor and his
players. After all, its the orchestra
members more than the conductor,
the administration, the board, or the
audience who are most responsible for
the Quad City Symphonys century of
music-making.
For more information on the Quad City
Symphony, visit QCSymphony.com.
Frederick Morden is a retired orchestra-
music director, conductor, composer,
arranger, educator, and writer who has
served on the executive board of the
Conductors Guild.
COVER STORY
Photo by Steve J. Sherman
Andr Watts
account, not a cubicle.
You dont have to turn your pay-stub
drawer into a petting zoo to show her you
care about her concerns. You could offer to
help her come up with tactics for negotiating
a raise. Keep in mind that research shows that
women tend to take the salary, raises, and
opportunities theyre offered instead of trying
to negotiate for more. A book you might get
her is Ask for It: How Women Can Use the
Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really
Want, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.
Finally, prepare yourself for being put on the
spot by her or anyone with what I call The
Power of Not Right Now recognizing that
you can decline to answer a persons question
right then and there (perhaps with the
exception of inquiries like You gonna give
me your wallet, or do I have to gut you with
this rusty screwdriver?).
Curl, Interrupted
The girl Im dating wears hair extensions
and feeling them creeps me out. Shes very
pretty, and her hair is lovely without the
extensions. Can I tell her they make me
uncomfortable?
Mr. Natural
When youre running your hand through
your girlfriends hair and a bunch comes out
in your palm, it can be hard to keep straight
whether youre making out or snaking the
shower drain.
Your girlfriend joins an increasing number
of women in planting non-native foliage
in her hair-garden, probably because men
tend to be attracted to long, lush hair. Its
actually an evolutionary sign of good health.
(Hair suffers when a person eats poorly
or has a disease.) Because complaints are
most productive when reconstituted as
compliments, start by telling your girlfriend
shes a natural beauty (as opposed to If I
wanted a girlfriend with interchangeable
hair, Id date Mrs. Potato Head). Add that
youd love to run your hands through her
real hair, and ask whether shed consider
going without the extensions. If she agrees,
be sure you effuse when shes hair naturelle,
so shes inspired to keep it up. All in all, a little
mystery is a good thing in a relationship, but
its best if youre wondering whether your
girlfriend got her pretty hair from her mother
and not suspecting she hired somebody to
take a big scissors to Seabiscuits tail.
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BY AMY ALKON
Heavy Meddle
Is it okay to keep your income a secret
from someone youre dating? I recently
started seeing a girl I work with at an
advertising company. She believes women at
our company get paid less on average, and I
suspect shes right. Yesterday she came right
out and asked me how much I make. Im
pretty sure Im the highest-paid person on
our team, but her question made me really
uncomfortable, and I told her I make a lot
less than I actually do. I felt bad lying to a
woman I could get serious with, but I dont
want her or other co-workers knowing my
salary.
Johnny Paycheck Privacy
Its normal to keep some personal
information secret from the person youre
dating such as your exact income or the fact
that you belt out Lynyrd Skynyrd in the car
every day on your way to work.
Unfortunately, your girlfriend decided
it was time to bridge the gap between
conversation and colonoscopy. She snookered
you into going along by asking you point-
blank how much you make. This is really rude
on the level of yelling across the office, Hey,
Steve, ya still got that weird rash on your
balls? Because of that, it catches a person
off-guard, leading to a reaction like yours
stammering out an answer but not the one the
prying person actually deserves: some version
of Up your butt with a coconut.
Maybe she doesnt believe youre entitled
to boundaries in a relationship, or maybe she
decided she could erase yours for a good cause.
And sure, you, like most people, probably want
the person youre with to really know you.
But really knowing the people we date means
understanding their hopes and dreams, not
having the same information youd get if you
duct-taped yourself to the awning of the ATM
just before they deposit their paychecks.
Beyond one of the biggest problems with
lying the tendency to get caught by not
standing up for your right to keep select areas
of your life private, youre paving the way for
future info-hooverings. To dial back your
privacy settings, tell her you only revealed
your salary because you were so unprepared
for her to ask about it. Request that she keep
a lid on it, and let her know the boundaries
that work for you such as that the woman
in your life has a right to know how much
you make when youre sharing a checking
COSTUMES
SO SEXY,
ITS SCARY!
313 S. State St., Atkinson, IL Exit 27 of 1-80
of Congress to actually read or listen to a
reading of any bill before they voted on it. The
proposal has been in limbo ever since, and its
unlikely it will ever be treated seriously. This is
confusing to me. Shouldnt it be a fundamental
requirement that all lawmakers know whats in
the laws they pass? Dont make a similar error,
Leo. Understand exactly what you are getting
into, whether its a new agreement, an interesting
invitation, or a tempting opportunity. Be
thoroughly informed.

VIRGO (August 23-September
22): Oliver Evans (1755-1819) was a
prolific Virgo inventor who came up
with brilliant ideas for steam engines, urban gas
lighting, refrigeration, and automated machines.
He made a radical prediction: The time will
come when people will travel in stages moved
by steam engines, almost as fast as birds fly, 15
or 20 miles an hour. We may be surprised that a
visionary innovator such as Evans dramatically
minimized the futures possibilities. In the same
way, I suspect that later in your life, you might
laugh at how much you are underestimating
your potentials right now. In telling you this, Im
hoping you will stop underestimating.

LIBRA (September 23-October
22): When Jimmy Fallon was a
senior in high school, he received a weird
graduation gift: a troll doll, one of those plastic
figurines with frizzy, brightly colored hair.
Around the same time, his mother urged him
to enter an upcoming comedy contest at a
nearby club. Jimmy decided that would be fun.
He worked up a routine in which he imitated
various celebrities auditioning to become a
spokesperson for troll dolls. With the doll by his
side, he won the contest, launching his career
as a comedian. I foresee the possibility of a
comparable development in your life: an odd
blessing or unexpected gift that inspires you to
express one of your talents on a higher level.

SCORPIO (October 23-November
21): Dear So-Called Astrologer:
Your horoscopes are worse than
useless. Mostly they are crammed with
philosophical and poetic crap that doesnt apply
to my daily life. Please cut way back on the fancy
metaphors. Just let me know if there is money
or love or trouble coming my way like what
regular horoscopes say! Skeptical Scorpio.
Dear Skeptical: In my astrological opinion, you
and your fellow Scorpios will soon feel the kind
of pressure you just directed at me. People will
ask you to be different from what you actually
are. My advice? Do not acquiesce to them.

SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): Tomatoes are
a staple of Italian cuisine now, but
there werent any tomatoes in Europe until
the 16th Century, when Spanish explorers
brought them from Central and South America.
Likewise, Malaysia has become a major
producer of rubber, but it had no rubber trees
Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny's
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): As
I hike through the wilderness at
dusk, the crickets always seem to be
humming in the distance. No matter
where I go, their sound is farther off, never right
up close to me. How can that be? Do they move
away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I sense
no leaping insects in the underbrush. Heres
how this pertains to you: My relationship with
the crickets song is similar to a certain mystery
in your life. Theres an experience that calls to
you but forever seems just out of reach. You
think youre drawing nearer, about to touch it
and be in its midst, but it inevitably eludes you.
Now heres the good news: A change is coming
for you. It will be like what would happen if I
suddenly found myself intimately surrounded
by hundreds of chirping crickets.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In three
years, you will comprehend truths
about yourself and your life that you
dont have the capacity to grasp now. By then,
past events that have been confusing to you will
make sense. Youll know what their purpose was
and why they occurred. Can you wait that long?
If youd rather not, I have an idea: Meditate and
visualize yourself as you will be three years from
today. Imagine asking your future self to tell you
what he or she has discovered. The revelations
may take a while to start rolling in, but I predict
that a whole series of insights will have arrived
by this time next week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The
journey that awaits you is succinct but
epic. It will last a relatively short time
but take months to fully understand. You may
feel natural and ordinary as you go through it,
even as you are being rather heroic. Prepare
as best as you can, but keep in mind that no
amount of preparation will get you completely
ready for the spontaneous moves youll be called
on to perform. Dont be nervous! I bet you
will receive help from an unexpected source.
Feelings of dj vu may crop up and provide a
sense of familiarity even though none of what
occurs will have any precedents.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the
wild, very few oysters produce pearls
about one in every 10,000. Most
commercial pearls come from farmed oysters
whose pearls have been induced by human
intervention. As you might expect, the natural
jewel is regarded as far more precious. Lets use
these facts as metaphors while we speculate
about your fate in the next eight months. I
believe you will acquire or generate a beautiful
new source of value for yourself. Theres a
small chance you will stumble upon a treasure
equivalent to the wild pearl. But I suggest you
take the more secure route: working hard to
create a treasure thats like a cultivated pearl.

LEO (July 23-August 22): In June
2012, a U.S. senator introduced a
bill that would require all members
until seeds were smuggled out of Brazil in the
19th Century. And bananas are currently a
major crop in Ecuador thanks to 16th Century
Portuguese sailors, who transported them
from west Africa. I foresee the possibility of
comparable cross-fertilizations happening for
you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Do you
have your eye on any remote resources youd like
to bring back home?

CAPRICORN (December
22-January 19): Years ago, you
experienced an event that was so
overwhelming you could not fully deal with it,
let alone understand it. All this time it has been
simmering and smoldering in the depths of your
unconscious mind, emitting ghostly steam and
smoke even as it has remained difficult for you
to integrate. But I predict that will change in
the coming months. You will finally find a way
to bring it into your conscious awareness and
explore it with courage and grace. Of course
it will be scary for you to do so. But I assure
you that the fear is a residue from your old
confusion, not a sign of real danger. To achieve
maximum liberation, begin your quest soon.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February
18): This is prime time to do things
that arent exactly easy and relaxing, but that, on
the other hand, arent actually painful. Examples:
Extend peace offerings to adversaries. Seek
reconciliation with valuable resources from
which you have been separated and potential
allies from whom you have become alienated.
Try out new games you would eventually like
to be good at but arent yet. Get a better read on
interesting people you dont understand very
well. Catch my drift, Aquarius? For now, at
least, leaving your comfort zone is likely to be
invigorating, not arduous.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): Your
oracle is built around the epigrams of
conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. From
her hundreds of pithy quotes, I have selected
six that offer the exact wisdom you need most
right now. Your job is to weave them all together
into a symphonic whole. (1) Its crucial to have
an active fantasy life. (2) Ensure that your life
stays in flux. (3) I have every kind of thought,
and that is no embarrassment. (4) Animalism
is perfectly healthy. (5) Finding extreme
pleasure will make you a better person, if youre
careful about what thrills you. (6) Listen when
your body talks.

Homework: Make nonsense noises for a
minute straight every day this week. Report
results to TruthRooster@gmail.com and visit
FreeWillAstrology.com.
September 18 Answers: Right
DOUBLE TROUBLE October 2, 2014
ACROSS
1. Wad
5. Of the kidneys
10. Young equines
15. Fraudulent
19. Proficient
20. Ancient magistrate
21. Buff bird
22. Highway
23. Cut and gather
24. Prospect
25. Wall hanging
26. The devil, mostly
27. Start of a quip by Ambrose Bierce:
3 wds.
30. Candle quality
31. Customs
32. Varieties of wine
33. _ Berry Stapp Earp
35. Communist doctrine
38. Fed. agcy.
40. Break
44. Part 2 of quip: 3 wds.
49. Around: Prefix
52. Dead letter
53. Blunt or Watson
54. Predator whale
55. Some lemons
57. Part of TVA: Abbr.
58. Wing
59. Oppidan
60. Kind of coat
62. Make frost-free
65. Jog
67. Roman goddess
68. First king of Israel
70. Many years
71. Colossal
73. Japanese drama
76. _ tide
78. Like a fright wig
81. Repeated
85. Portray
87. Danson or Nugent
89. Hockey event
91. Big vessel
92. _ _ time (never)
93. A possessive
95. Rabats kingdom: Fr.
97. 20 quires
98. Part 3 of quip: 4 wds.
102. Plant of the rose family
103. A ratite
104. Sign
106. _ Bulba
109. Olive genus
112. Titlark
114. Knights mount
117. End of the quip: 3 wds.
122. Cocoyam
123. One of the Gabors
124. Attribute
125. Garfieldpooch
126. Beige
127. Some tests
128. Salon solution
129. Approach
130. Sphagnum
131. Cap
132. Simple answers
133. Perrys maker
DOWN
1. Grape residue
2. Perpendicular to, at sea
3. Winter games event
4. Splits
5. Emendation
6. Redact
7. _ prius
8. Mutate
9. Legal agreement
10. Dreadful
11. Shrek or Fiona
12. Traffic sign element
13. Like kale
14. Blvds.
15. Game attendee
16. Apiary item
17. Similar
18. Soften
28. Pet sound
29. Contributes
30. Commotion
34. Cry heard on deck
36. Puppet show
37. Varied
39. Iwo _
41. Supercharger, for short
42. Open
43. Bean and Hannity
45. Muses number
46. Gainsays
47. Granular sediment
48. Burn brightly
49. Perfectly
50. Abbr. in a gazetteer
51. Abbr. on a road map
56. Little
59. City in New York
61. _ and cry
63. Kindergarten _
64. Mystery
66. Unclose, poetically
69. Turners machine
72. Lute or lyre, e.g.
73. _ -foot oil
74. Victorious: 2 wds.
75. Red River city
77. Skin
79. Zen riddle
80. Grassy expanses
82. Mineral
83. Timetable abbr.
84. Weir
86. Well-mannered
88. Disreputable place
90. Sluggish
93. Ruler of old
94. Most unlikely
96. Fruit servings
99. Peruse
100. Star Treklieutenant
101. News item, for short
105. German song
107. At an earlier time
108. _ plexus
110. Submission
111. Nest
113. Ordeal
114. Pipe part
115. Tex-Mex fare
116. Miscalculates
118. Stir up
119. Gets darker
120. River in France
121. Withered
123. _ lot
September 18 Crossword Answers
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Dennis McMurrin -The Mi l l, 120 E.
Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
DJ Johnny Sixx - Wolf Mixer - Sotr
Caf -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
Evergreen Grass Band -Iowa City Yacht
Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Funktastic Five -On the Rock Grille &
Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
Irish Music Session (4:30pm) - An-
dina & Rich (7pm) -Uptown Bills
Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA
Joe Tingles DJ Entertainment -Bar-
rel House Moline, 1321 5th Ave.
Moline, IL
Karaoke Night -Boozies Bar & Grill, 114
1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -The Grove Tap, 108 S 1st
St Long Grove, IA
Live Lunch w/ Keith Soko (noon) -RME
Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
Mars Electric Reunion Show - Drama
Major -Rascals Live, 1414 15th St.
Moline, IL
Mason Greve (4pm) -Wide River Win-
ery - Clinton, 1776 East Deer Creek
Rd. Clinton, IA
Open Mic Night -Downtown Central
Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Peter Walker -Trumpet Blossom Cafe,
310 E. Prentiss St. Iowa City, IA
Pierced Productions Karaoke & DJ
featuring Leigh Timbrook -The
Old Stardust Sports Bar, 1191 19th
Street Moline, IL
Southern Thunder Karaoke -Hollars
Bar and Grill, 4050 27th St Moline, IL
The Camel Tones -Bad Boyz Pizza & Pub,
5266 Utica Ridge Rd. Davenport, IL
2014/10/02 (Thu)
ABC Karaoke -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W.
Locust St. Davenport, IA
Area 51 & UI Graduate Combos (6pm)
-The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa
City, IA
Chicago Farmer Vinyl Release Show
- Edward David Anderson -The
Redstone Room, 129 Main St Dav-
enport, IA
Cobra Kai Karaoke -Rumors Lounge &
Nightclub, 1704 Second Ave. Rock
Island, IL
Danika Holmes -Barrel House 211, 211
E. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Double Dz Karaoke -Purgatorys Pub,
2104 State St Bettendorf, IA
Fablos Karaoke Night -RME Com-
munity Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Dav-
enport, IA
Human Behavior -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night (5pm) -River Valley
District Library, 214 S. Main St. Port
Byron, IL
Karaoke Night -Applebees - Moline,
3805 41st Ave. Moline, IL
Mountain Standard Time -Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Open Mic Night -Rookies, 2818 N. Brady
St. Davenport, IA
Open Stage Night -Theos Java Club,
213 17th St. Rock Island, IL
Soulshake - Mixology -Gabes, 330 E.
Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Stardust Talent Night -The Old Star-
dust Sports Bar, 1191 19th Street
Moline, IL
Surf Rock Beach Party -Circa 21 Din-
ner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
The Last Bison - Dust & Chrome -Rozz-
Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Tailfins -Col Ballroom, 1012 W. 4th
St. Davenport, IA
Who Cares Band -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
2014/10/05 (Sun)
ABC Karaoke -11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA
Alan Sweet & Friends (6pm) -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bet-
tendorf, IA
Casey Abrams -CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103
3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA
Danika Holmes & Jeb Hart (2pm)
-Creekside Vineyards Winery & Inn,
7505 120th Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Open Mic for Originals Only (noon)
-Mama Comptons, 1725 2nd Ave
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty -Barrel
House 211, 211 E. 2nd St. Daven-
port, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Rob Dahms (5pm)
-Rustic Ridge Golf Course Grille &
Pub, 1151 East Iowa St. Eldridge, IA
Peter Walker -The Smokestack, 62 E. 7th
Street Dubuque, IA
Sunday Jazz Brunch (8:30 & 10:30am,
12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Sunsquabi - Mr. Whiskerz -Gabes, 330
E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
2014/10/06 (Mon)
ABC Karaoke -The Muddy Waters, 1708
State St. Bettendorf, IA
Minus Six -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. Rock
Island, IL
North of 40 -Camden Center, 2701 1st
St. East Milan, IL
Street Moline, IL
Pieta Brown CD Release Show - Kim
Delmhorst -CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103
Steve McFate -Generations Bar & Grill,
4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL
Surf Rock Beach Party (1pm) -Circa
21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Hanging Gardens - Gosh! - Wulf-
briar - Garrin Jost -Rozz-Tox, 2108
3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Old 57s -On the Rock Grille & Bar,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
The Sea & Cake - The Multiple Cat -
J.E. Sunde -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Tailfins -Schwiebert Riverfront
Park, between 17th & 20th Streets
Rock Island, IL
Thursday Night Jam Session -The
tendorf, IA
2014/10/03 (Fri)
80s Rewind (8pm) - Shining Star
(9pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-
sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 W. Locust
St. Davenport, IA
ABC Karaoke -Creekside Bar and Grill,
3303 Brady St. Davenport, IA
ABC Karaoke -Moose Lodge - Daven-
port, 2333 Rockingham Rd Dav-
enport, IA
Ben Soltau Band - Amanda Miller - Jon
Eric Trio -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S
Linn St Iowa City, IA
Blues Rock It w/ Detroit Larry Davi-
son -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
Dale Thomas Band Dance -Walcott
Coliseum, 116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA
DICKIE - Eric Pettit Lion -The Mill, 120
E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
EGi - Half Naked -The Redstone Room,
129 Main St Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Bowlmor Lanes, 2952
N. Brady St. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Roosters Sports Bar &
Grill, 2130 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Karaoke Night -The Grove Tap, 108 S
1st St Long Grove, IA
Mason Greve (5pm) -Wide River Win-
er y - LeCl ai re, 106 N. Cody Rd.
LeClaire, IA
Vagabond Entertainment presents
Koobys Karaoke - Bi er St ube
LeClaire, 1001 Canal Shore Dr. SW
LeClaire, IA
2014/10/04 (Sat)
80s Rewind (8pm) - Shining Star
(9pm) -Riverside Casino and Golf Re-
sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
9th St. Memory - The Post Mortems -
Dinner at the Kids Table and Lights
Out -Geneseo Moose Lodge, 1025 S.
State St. Geneseo, IL
Ai r Nati onal Guard Band of the
Midwest (6pm) -Black Hawk Col-
lege - Quad City Campus, 6600 34th
Ave. Moline, IL
Cheese Pizza - Shadow Stone -RIBCO,
1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Cody Road -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W.
Cosmic -11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St. Davenport, IA
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Cooper and the Jam -Riverside Casino
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Riverside, IA
DJ K Yung -Barrel House 211, 211 E. 2nd
St. Davenport, IA
enport, IA
Lewis Knudsen (6pm) -Barrel House
Moline, 1321 5th Ave. Moline, IL
Lynne Rothrock & Ron May Cabaret
-The Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd
OM - Watter - Soulshake - Mixology
-Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa
City, IA
St. Davenport, IA
prettygirlhatemachine - Errol Hem -
Milky Way - DJ Nilestyle -Rozz-Tox,
2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Nite w/ Alan Sweet -Vans
Pizza, Pub, & Grill, 3333 N. Harrison
St. Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace & Friends
-11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound
St. Davenport, IA
Youri DeFrance -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd
2014/10/08 (Wed)
ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 W. Lo-
cust St. Davenport, IA
Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve Mc-
Fate -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave
Moline, IL
Acoustic Open Mic Night (6:30pm)
-RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd
St. Davenport, IA
Burlington Street Bluegrass Band
-The Mi l l, 120 E. Burl i ngton St.
Iowa City, IA
Cody Road Unplugged (6pm) -Go
Fish Marina Bar & Grill, 411 River Dr.
Princeton, IA
Doug Brundies Big Acoustic Show
-Valley Inn Ale House, 24575 Valley
Dr. Pleasant Valley, IA
Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau -Iowa City
Jeremy Camp - Kutless - Adam Cappa
-Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Dav-
enport, IA
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Lojo Russo (noon) -RME
Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
Matt Hectorne -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Moline, IL
Sunpilots -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S
Linn St Iowa City, IA
Susan Werner (7 & 9:30pm) -The Mill,
120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
tendorf, IA
2014/10/10 (Fri)
ABC Karaoke -Ci rcl e Tap, 1345 W.
ABC Karaoke -Moose Lodge - Daven-
port, 2333 Rockingham Rd Dav-
enport, IA
Cal Stage Band -On the Rock Grille &
Bar, 4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
Riverside, IA
David Bromberg -Englert Theatre, 221
East Washington St. Iowa City, IA
-Mi ssi ppi Brew, Ri ver Dr Musca-
tine, IA
Heavyweight - Eleven Fifty Two -
Green Death -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Jazz After Five: Steve Grismore &
Friends (5pm) -The Mi l l, 120 E.
Karaoke Night -Bowlmor Lanes, 2952
N. Brady St. Davenport, IA
Karaoke Night -Roosters Sports Bar &
Grill, 2130 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Karry Outz -Purgatorys Pub, 2104 State
St Bettendorf, IA
Home Free -Englert Theatre, 221 East
Live Lunch w/ Lewis Knudsen (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E.
The Ditchrunners - Tauk -Gabes, 330 E.
The Homel ess Open Mi c Proj ect
(1pm) -The Center, 1411 Brady St.
Davenport, IA
2014/10/07 (Tue)
Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) -RME
(River Music Experience), 129 N.
Main St. Davenport, IA
Blues Cafe w/ the Harris Collection
(6:30pm) -RME Community Stage,
131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Bring Your Own Vinyl -Gabes, 330 E.
Glenn Hickson (5pm) -Jake Os Grille,
2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Keller Karaoke -Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave. Moline, IL
Live Lunch w/ Steve Couch (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
Open Jam Session -Brady Street Pub,
Open Mic Night (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz
Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock
Island, IL
Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
Noi se, Jazz, & Experi mentati on
-Downtown Central Perk, 226 W.
3rd St. Davenport, IA
North of 40 -The Rusty Nail, 2606 W.
Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran
Church - Rock Island, 1600 20th St.
Rock Island, IL
Pieces of Candy (5pm) -Wide River
Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd.
LeClaire, IA
Street Moline, IL
QC Slim -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State
St. Bettendorf, IA
The Good Intentions - Josh Harty - The
Penny Serfs -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) -The
Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Uniphonics - Poppa Neptune -Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa
City, IA
Vagabond Entertainment presents
Koobys Karaoke - Bi er St ube
LeClaire, 1001 Canal Shore Dr. SW
LeClaire, IA
2014/10/11 (Sat)
Battle Red - Shadow Stone - Six to
the Chest -Rascals Live, 1414 15th
St. Moline, IL
Nahko & Medicine for the People
- Dustin Thomas -Gabes, 330 E.
Open Mic Night -Rumors Lounge &
Island, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty & Mike
Miller -Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 1/2
W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
The Chris & Wes Show -Ubriacos Trat-
toria, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA
The Harris Collection Open Jam Ses-
sion -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St.
Davenport, IA
Twisted Mic DJ -Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave. Moline, IL
2014/10/09 (Thu)
Amy Fi nders Band -Uptown Bi l l s
Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA
C.J. the D.J. -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Island, IL
The Good Intentions @ Rozz-Tox October 10
9 THURSDAY
30
11 SATURDAY
00
10 FRIDAY
8 WEDNESDAY
7 TUESDAY
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African American Art Since 1950
Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center
On view through January 4, 2015
Comprised of more than 55 works from the David C. Driskell
Centers permanent collection, this exhibition traces the
development of African American art over the past 60 years.
FIGGE ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION
Jacob Lawrence, Carpenters, 1977, silkscreen, 2011 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation,
Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY, from the David C. Driskell Center Collection.
Sponsored by
The Chris & Wes Show -Ubriacos Trat-
toria, 1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA
The Harris Collection Open Jam Ses-
sion -Brady Street Pub, 217 Brady St.
Davenport, IA
Twisted Mic DJ -Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave. Moline, IL
2014/10/16 (Thu)
BeauSol ei l avec Mi chael Doucet
-The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
Davenport, IA
Island, IL
enport, IA
Jazz Repertory Ensemble & Jazz Gui-
tar Ensemble (6pm) -The Mill, 120
E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
St. Davenport, IA
Soulshake - Mixology -Gabes, 330 E.
Moline, IL
tendorf, IA
White Violet -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic Night -Downtown Central
Perk, 226 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Street Moline, IL
Shade of Blue -The Mill, 120 E. Burling-
ton St. Iowa City, IA
Smooth Jazz Festival: Jeff Lorber
Fusion featuring Eric Marienthal
-The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
Davenport, IA
Steve McFate & Friends -Tims Corner
Tap, 4018 14th Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Chop Tops - Rumble Seat Riot - 3
on the Tree -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Knockoffs -Generations Bar & Grill,
4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL
2014/10/12 (Sun)
Alan Sweet & Friends (6pm) -The
tendorf, IA
Grace Askew - Erin Moore - Johnnie
Cluney -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo (5pm) -On
the Rock Grille & Bar, 4619 34th St
Rock Island, IL
Leradee -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
Open Mic for Originals Only (noon)
-Mama Comptons, 1725 2nd Ave
Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace & Friends
-11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound
St. Davenport, IA
ODeath - Al Scorch - Stone Jack
Jones -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St. Iowa City, IA
2014/10/15 (Wed)
ABC Karaoke -Circle Tap, 1345 W. Locust
St. Davenport, IA
Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve Mc-
Fate -McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave
Moline, IL
Acoustic Open Mic Night (6:30pm)
St. Davenport, IA
Andrew McKnight -Unitarian Universal-
ist Church of the Quad Cities, 3707
Eastern Ave. Davenport, IA
Cody Road Unplugged (6pm) -Go
Fish Marina Bar & Grill, 411 River Dr.
Princeton, IA
Crushed Out -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau -Iowa City
Karaoke Night -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Los Lobos -Englert Theatre, 221 East
Open Mic Night -Rumors Lounge &
Island, IL
Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty & Mike
Miller -Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 1/2
W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
State Champs - Handguns - Forever
Came Calling - Front Porch Step -
Heart To Heart - Brigades (5:30pm)
-Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa
City, IA
2014/10/14 (Tue)
Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) -RME
(River Music Experience), 129 N.
Main St. Davenport, IA
Glenn Hickson (5pm) -Jake Os Grille,
2900 Blackhawk Rd. Rock Island, IL
Keller Karaoke -Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave. Moline, IL
Open Jam Session -Brady Street Pub,
Open Mic Night (6:30pm) -Cool Beanz
Coffeehouse, 1325 30th St. Rock
Island, IL
Open Mic Nite w/ Alan Sweet -Vans
Pizza, Pub, & Grill, 3333 N. Harrison
St. Davenport, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Karl Beatty -Barrel
House 211, 211 E. 2nd St. Daven-
port, IA
Open Mic Night w/ Rob Dahms (5pm)
-Rustic Ridge Golf Course Grille &
Pub, 1151 East Iowa St. Eldridge, IA
Ruth Moody -CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103
Sunday Jazz Brunch (8:30 & 10:30am,
12:30pm) -Bix Bistro, 200 E. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
ZZ Top -Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
2014/10/13 (Mon)
Live Lunch w/ Lewis Knudsen (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
LYL UP - Mitski - A Little Strange -Rozz-
Tox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Open Mic w/ J. Knight -The Mill, 120 E.
Black Velvet Band (4pm) -Wide River
Winery - Clinton, 1776 East Deer
Creek Rd. Clinton, IA
Buckshot Classic -Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave. Moline, IL
Canned Ham -On the Rock Grille & Bar,
4619 34th St Rock Island, IL
Code 415 -Purgatorys Pub, 2104 State
St Bettendorf, IA
Cody Road -Stooges, 908 3rd St Orion, IL
Community Folk Sing (3pm) - Joe
Brisben (7pm) -Uptown Bills Cof-
fee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa
City, IA
Riverside, IA
Demi Lovato - Christina Perri - MKTO
-i wireless Center, 1201 River Dr
Moline, IL
Detroit Larry Davison & Charlie
Hayes -The Muddy Waters, 1708
-Cochrans Pub, 13464 Gal t Rd.
Sterling, IL
Grand Funk Railroad -Quad-Cities Water-
front Convention Center, 2021 State St.
Bettendorf, IA
Joe Tingles DJ Entertainment -Bar-
rel House Moline, 1321 5th Ave.
Moline, IL
Jordan Danielsen (2pm) -Creekside
Vineyards Winery & Inn, 7505 120th
Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Karaoke Night -Boozies Bar & Grill, 114
1/2 W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
North of 40 -Wildwood Smokehouse
& Saloon, 4919 B Walleye Dr Iowa
City, IA
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