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Terror as Victim Rhetoric
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he entire purpose of the language of

terrorism is to cloak the sentiments
of war in a victim rhetoric. You see,
France isnt at war; its merely responding to terror attacks. Those wretched, vile
gunmen are not warriors or soldiers; theyre
madmen, lonewolf terrorists.
The attack on Charlie Hebdos office on
January 7 might otherwise be considered
an invasion, an attack from outside forces
France has declared war on. But war is far
too brutish for the 21st Century, where of
course violence is on an inevitable downturn
and world peace is just around the corner if
not for a few meddling terror cells.
Calling such events terrorism is just
a way of de-familiarizing people with the
concept of war. No matter what, an attack
on any Western nations soil is terror, wholly
undeserved, never the result of an ongoing
worldwide conflict but merely the work of
crazed individuals.
Delude yourself no longer with these
politically correct terms. Theres a war,
many Western nations are involved in it,
and attacks on your home turf are a result
of it. Maybe the neo-cons would be a little
less annoying if they stopped trying to dress
this up as something else. Maybe people
would be more hesitant to simply pick a
side and declare the other side nothing
more than barbarous lunatics if we actually
talked honestly. It would at least do us all the
service of clearing up peoples intentions and
allow those around us to judge the situation
more accurately.
All acts of war involve terror. The
horror of war is not a byproduct; it is the
intention. One cannot divorce terror from
war anymore than one can divorce pleasure
from sex. Treating an entire side of a conflict
as the mere triggering of emotions among
a geopolitical constituency reinforces that
societys self-righteousness and blinds
them to the environment of terror present
constantly throughout Middle Eastern
nations that the West has established.
Perhaps this victim rhetoric has been
generated by Western militaries and media
mouthpieces because they know the
painful truth: Islamic terrorists are simply
more efficient in provoking a feeling of
helplessness. While the psychological effects
of the Wests war of terror on the Arab world
(and beyond) cannot be overstated, it is
not difficult to notice just how much more
reactive and frightened Westerners get when
these attacks occur, because they have been
sheltered from the results of war for so long.
This is not to say their panic is not
without justification. It is perfectly normal
to become fearful and aggressive when you
realize that no public space is safe, that a
From Neighborhood
Cops to Robocops
by John W. Whitehead
johnw@rutherford.org
f 2014 was the year of militarized

police, armored tanks, and stopand-frisk searches, 2015 may well
be the year of technologized police,
surveillance blimps, and scan-and-frisk
searches.
Just as we witnessed neighborhood
cops being transformed into soldier
cops, were about to see them shapeshift
once again, this time into robocops,
complete with robotic exoskeletons,
super-vision contact lenses, computerlinked visors, and mind-reading
helmets.
For instance, with the flick of a switch
(and often without your even being
aware of the interference), police can
now shut down your cell phone, scan
your body for suspicious items as
you walk down the street, test the air in
your car for alcohol vapors as you drive
down the street, identify you at a glance
and run a background check on you
for outstanding warrants, piggyback on
your surveillance devices to listen in on
your conversations and see what you
see on your private cameras, and track
your cars movements via a GPS-enabled
dart.
Once these technologies, which
used to belong exclusively to the realm
of futuristic sci-fi films, have been
unleashed on an unsuspecting American
public, it will completely change the
face of American policing and, in the
process, transform the landscape of what
we used to call our freedoms.
It doesnt even matter that these
technologies can be put to beneficial
uses. As weve learned the hard way,
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group of extremists could, at any moment,
decide to make you a target of their violent
political agenda. But because theirs is an act
of terror and ours an act of defensive war
or, more sickeningly twisted, a humanitarian
intervention we as a civilization do not
have to come face-to-face in our discourse
on this most horrifying of realities.
Ryan Calhoun is a philosophy student and
activist at the University at Buffalo, as well
as a contributing author at the Center for a
Stateless Society (C4SS.org), where this article
originally appeared.
ILLINOIS POLITICS

by Rich Miller
CapitolFax.com
Polls, Money Point to Dems

Being More Reticent
solid majority of Illinoisans wants

newly inaugurated Governor Bruce
Rauner to find common ground with
the Democratic legislative majority rather
than be confrontational, a new poll finds.
However, most arent confident that the states
leaders can avoid gridlock, and a majority
believes Democrats will be to blame.
In a January 15 We Ask America poll,
1,026 registered voters
were asked: Do you think
Republican Governor Bruce
Rauner should try to solve
the states problems by
working to find common
ground with the Democratcontrolled legislature, or
should he take a more
confrontational approach
with the Democrats in
trying to solve this states
many problems?
Sixty-seven percent said they want Rauner
to find common ground, while 22 percent
said he should take a more confrontational
approach. Another 6 percent said he should
do both, and 5 percent were unsure.
Eighty-four percent of Democrats and 63
percent of independents wanted him to find
common ground, while 76 percent of African
Americans and 67 percent of whites said the
same.
Every demographic favored the
common-ground approach, although only a
49-percent plurality of Republicans did so, as
opposed to 36 percent who wanted a more
confrontational approach from the GOP
governor.
Next question: Now we would like to
know how confident you are that Governor
Rauner can avoid gridlock with the
Democrat-controlled House and Senate.
Just 31 percent of Illinoisans were
confident that gridlock cold be avoided, while
54 percent said they were not confident. The
most confident group was Republicans,
but even they were outnumbered 46-39 by
Republicans who said they werent confident.
I think you might get a higher
confidence level for compromise at the
Statehouse, particularly among folks who
have experienced progress under divided
government in the past. It rarely accomplishes
sweeping changes, but Springfield has a
much better track record than Washington,
DC which has a structural bias toward donothingness.
Finally, if Illinois government gets mired
in gridlock, who do you think will likely be
the cause of the gridlock? the pollster asked.
Fifty-two percent pointed a finger at
Democrats, while just 20 percent figured the

Republican governor would be the cause and
another 20 percent said all of them.
More specifically, 30 percent said they
thought House Speaker Michael Madigan
would be to blame, 3 percent said Senate
President John Cullerton would likely be the
problem, and 19 percent said it would be
Madigan and Cullerton together.
Even a 42-percent
plurality of Democrats
said their own party
leaders would be to blame
if the state crashes into
the gridlock wall. The poll
had a margin of error of 3
percent.
Meanwhile, a poll
conducted by We Ask
America on January 14
had Rauners approval
rating at 52 percent, with 23 percent
disapproving. Speaker Madigans numbers
were almost the exact reverse, with 26 percent
approving versus 55 percent disapproving.
And thats not the only Democratic deficit.
The Democratic legislative leaders spent
down their reserves during last years
campaign, and ended 2014 with a combined
total of $2.8 million in their campaign bank
accounts.
Normally, that wouldnt be too bad.
But Rauner dumped $20 million into his
campaign coffers before the year ended. That
gives him an advantage of better than seven
to one.
Rauner has said he will use the money
to communicate his message with voters
and support his legislative allies. But lots of
Springfield folks are wondering whos going
to get whacked by that cash mountain.
And for the first time in memory, the
Illinois Republican Party ended a year with
more than twice as much cash on hand
than Madigans Democratic Party of Illinois:
$566,000 for the Illinois GOP and $215,000
for the Democrats. That advantage is mostly
due to contributions from Rauner himself.
If you were wondering why people such as
me believe Speaker Madigan will hold his fire
for quite a while, all you have to do is look at
the results from the above two polls and that
cash disadvantage. Speaker Madigan knows
he and his party will be the fall guys in any
war. Rauner will have to take the first shot
and maybe the second and third.
And Madigan had better go out there and
raise some more money.
Even 42 percent of
Democrats said their
own party leaders
would be to blame
for gridlock.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily

political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.
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Merci Beaucoup!
Les Misrables, at the Circa 21 Dinner Playhouse through March 21
m on record stating that I

was Les Mis-ed out after
seeing three local productions of Les Misrables,
and facing a fourth, over a
year-and-a-half span. Yet
after attending the Circa 21
Dinner Playhouses version
on Friday, my love for the
material is renewed, as
director Jerry Jay Cranfords
staging adds intimacy while
still possessing the grandeur
of composers Alain Boublils
and Claude-Michel Schnbergs musical masterpiece.
This newly close relationship between
show and audience is largely created
with the help of scenic designer Susan D.
Holgerssons set. Her raised, stone-wall-like
platforms on either side of the stage limit
the performance space which, in turn,
makes the relatively small cast (for Les Mis)
seem bigger as they fill a more compact
area. It also brings the actors closer together,
making their characters shared experiences
seem both claustrophobic and communal,
and their cozy convergence had this jadedfrom-overexposure reviewer stirred to
passion and tears.
The waterworks started in an unexpected
spot when Adam Cloughs nuanced
Javert sang Stars. The song is about the
inspectors respect for order and truth. Yet
Clough, particularly through his use of softer
vocals paired with deep emotion, turns the
solo into a sort of love song, revealing an
underlying affection for the order of Gods
creation, and the beauty of right-minded
living, that layers this otherwise rather
heartless figure. Stars makes Javerts
never-ending hunt for parole-breaker Jean
Valjean (Don Denton) seem driven more
from conviction and honor than merciless
commitment to the letter of the law.
Passion also stirred in me during the
scene at the ABC Cafe in which Cody
Webbs stalwart Enjolras attempts to enlist
his friends to revolt, while Collin OConnors
dreamy Marius tells of his newfound love
for Cosette (Kimberly Steffen). The players
sang with such devotion to their cause that I
was almost convinced to sing along and join
their crusade and in truth, the entire cast

sings so well, Cranford couldve set them in
place at the front of the stage for the entire
performance and the piece would still be
fantastic.
Denton, meanwhile, is not only in
better voice than Ive ever heard him,
but his Valjean clearly ages as the plot
progresses, which doesnt always happen
in productions of Les Mis. With long, loose
hair and a bushy beard, his newly released
convict is youthful and unkempt in look
and spirit as the character wrestles with
his disproportionately harsh prison term.
Yet once his redemption begins through
the grace of Tristan Layne Tapscotts calm,
collected Bishop of Digne, Denton makes
the first of many costume changes (from yet
another impressive wardrobe line created
by designer extraordinaire Gregory Hiatt),
pulls his hair back into a ponytail, and adds
a touch of gray to it. And as this graying
slowly spreads through the course of the
show, Dentons stature gradually fades so
that the wiry Valjean we saw at the start of
the story becomes, convincingly, the feebler
elderly man at its end.
Caitlin Borek underscores her tragic
Fantine with a subtle sassiness in the face of
the co-workers attempting to get her fired,
while Allison Willes young Cosette adds an
aw-w-w factor through her singing voice
thats closer to how children actually sound
than youd hear from a trained professional.
(Through Les Mis run, Wille will share the
role, as well as that of young ponine, with
Lily Leding, Grace Moore, and Elizabeth
Mooy.) Joseph Brunes Gavroche, likewise,
is more a believable boy with

a youthful zest than a streethardened urchin. (Brune will
alternate playing his role with
Gage McCalester.)
Also noteworthy is Ronnie
Breedloves lighting design,
especially his abundant use
of spotlights. Oftentimes, the
stage lights go black, leaving
only one or two spots lit. This
allows cast members to fade
into the shadows while the
story continues, contributing
to Cranfords continuous flow
that helps make the two-and-a-half-hour
run-time seem not nearly as long.
Unfortunately, I do take issue with a few
of the productions elements. Holgerssons
otherwise remarkable design includes an
underwhelming barricade thats a painted
wall rather than a three-dimensional set
piece. James Fairchilds diction made him
difficult to understand during Fridays
performance, so I missed several of his
lines. OConnor didnt seem to adequately
comprehend the meaning of some of his
lyrics on opening night, such as when
he sang Hey, little boy, whos this I see?
/ God, ponine, the things you do! in a
flat manner, rather than registering his
recognition of Lili Torres ponine (whos
dressed as a boy) midway through his
greeting. And Kimberly Steffens Cosette,
who seemed to enjoy the movement of her
hoop skirt too much, came across as a bit of
a sickeningly sweet Disney princess.
OConnor and Steffen (almost) make
up for their flaws, however, with flawless,
beautiful voices, and taken overall, this
production is, in my estimation, among
the finest to ever grace the Circa 21 stage.
It says a lot when someone who was tired
of Les Misrables is now listening to the
soundtrack again, on repeat, and even
considering a repeat visit. So: Bravo, Circa
21! Bravo!
Les Misrables runs at the Circa 21 Dinner
Playhouse (1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island)
through March 21, and more information
and tickets are available by calling (309)7867733 extension 2 or visiting Circa21.com.
COVER STORY
Nacho Radio
Dave & Darren Rescue Themselves from the Airwaves
n his morning show

on January 14, Darren Pitra asked with
mock exasperation: Havent
we learned enough?
Just a year ago, the answer
to that question would have
been simple: Absolutely.
Pitra and Dave Levora have
been on-air morning-show
partners for nearly 11 years
as Dave & Darren in the
Morning so its no surprise
that these old radio pros have
an easy rapport, or that they
breezed through the show
of comedy and conversation
without a lull.
There was a bit about a
beer brewed with smoked
whale testicles, a recurring
motif of the perils
sometimes self-inflicted
of being a bus driver, and
evidence of both men having
way too much familiarity with
the live-action Flintstones
movies. They roped me in as a guest
sorry, listeners! and asked off-thecuff questions that were thoughtful and
insightful without ever getting too serious.
Their routine is smooth and comfortable
a warm welcome to the day for listeners
tuned in to their favorite radio station.
Except that the show wasnt on the
radio at all, instead a podcast on Dave
& Darrens NachoRadio.com which
was launched in October after Pitra and
Levora lost their jobs at Rock 104-9.
So the learning must continue.
The January 14 podcast was run
through a new mixing console, for
one thing, and because of that the pair
could have three people on the show
simultaneously instead of just themselves.
(Again: Sorry, listeners!) Pitra and
Levora for several months couldnt get
firm numbers on how many people were
listening to Nacho Radios two streamingmusic stations, and they still cant tell
you the geographic breakdown of their
podcast listenership except in the vague
sense of being strongest in Illinois and
Iowa.
For the first times in their careers,
theyre not just on-air personalities but
salespeople and tech guys and accountants
and ... .
Weve never been businessmen before,
Pitra said.
Always been employees, Levora added.
Dave Levora (left) and Darren Pitra
Walking the Plank

on a Sinking Ship
For more than a decade, the Dave &

Darren show was a staple of Quad Cities
FM radio, first on 96.9 and then after
being bumped from that station by Dwyer &
Michaels in 2007 104.9.
But Townsquare Media acquired 53
Cumulus stations in late 2013 including
Dave & Darrens and a country format was
unveiled for 104.9 in July 2014. The duo was
out of a job, and whats-next conversations
that had been happening for years got more
specific and urgent leading to the October
1 launch of Nacho Radio.
Levora said he knew the radio gig wasnt
going to last. There was always the general,
hanging-over-your-head [feeling] that FM
radio is a dying thing, he said. I used to
make the analogy all the time that I felt like
I was a blacksmith, and the Model Ts were
rolling down the street. The technology had
changed to such a degree that doing a show
on FM radio was not a forever thing.
The technology gives the consumer
more choices, Pitra said. Its not that theyre
not listening to radio [or other audioentertainment products]. They do, but they
dont listen to it in the same way.
Levora said that younger consumers
specifically Generation X and Millennials
look at radio as: This is someone elses iPod,
and theres commercials on it. And they have
no need for that, because they know they
can be in complete control of the content.

They dont have to sit through nine-minute
commercial sweeps.
And thats not the only problem youthful
listeners have with radio, he added: They
think that radio is inauthentic, because its all
about hype, its all about We play the most,
Were the best. People in their 20s hear that,
and their bullshit alarms go off so fast. They
want nothing to do with it. Radio is run by
50- and 60- and 40-year-old guys who are
used to the way things used to sound in the
80s.
So Levora (whos 43) said he and Pitra
(whos 50) knew they wouldnt work in radio
for even another decade. Watching that
industry implode, Im going to take some
degree of pleasure in that, he said. Because
... we walked the plank on a sinking ship. ...
We always thought wed get rescued by
some small-time operation, and it turns out:
We are the small-time operation.
Were Still in Our Infancy
It is a small-time operation, in pretty

much every way. The podcast is streamed
and recorded starting at 9 a.m. weekdays
from Levoras kitchen. When I was there,
the dishwasher was running and the Today
show was on a television in the background.
Levora had a laptop in front of him, while
Pitra brought some papers, including
sponsor promos to read.
NachoRadio.com at this point consists of
two streaming-music stations Planet ALT
with alternative music and Solid

with rock music, both curated by
Levora and the Dave & Darren
podcast.
The audience is modest so
far. Levora and Pitra said they
typically have 100 to 125 live
listeners for the podcast. When
they checked the audiences for
the music stations, Planet ALT
had 12 listeners and a peak that
day of 35. Solid had 21 listeners
and a peak that day of 203.
Combined, Levora said the two
streams now have 10,000 listeners
each week.
Billing and costs to-date
are presently measured in the
thousands of dollars rather than
the tens of thousands. Ads sell for
$10 apiece, and Pitra said Nacho
Radio has a dozen sponsors at
this point.
Most people still dont even
know what were doing, Levora
said. Were still in our infancy.
Yet for a nascent enterprise, there are
promising signs. After 74 podcasts, the
duo had amassed downloads approaching
half a million an average of nearly 6,300
downloads per podcast. (This does not
include those listening live.) The first
episode has been downloaded more than
16,000 times.
If you would have told Darren and I
that in January wed be approaching half a
million podcast downloads, Levora said,
we would have said, Theres no way. I dont
think we knew enough about the business to
have projections or goals as far as how many
people would participate live and how many
people would download the podcast. ... We
knew that we wanted to continue to do the
show. Were not smart enough to be able to
say, This is how many people we think well
have.
The Nuclear Option
Pitra said he and Levora might have talked

as many as five years ago about podcasting
as an alternative to being on the radio. But
they didnt get beyond the basic idea until
their Rock 104-9 careers ended.
As far as serious nuts-and-bolts
conversations were going to do a podcast,
were going to do two streaming stations,
were going to call it Nacho Radio that
discussion happened in July ... after we gave
ourselves a couple days to process what the
hell had happened, Levora said.

by Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
He added that they considered trying

to stay in radio: We were wondering if
maybe we would get a job across the street.
Maybe we would go to Clear Channel
[iHeartMedia].
Regardless of what form it took, Pitra
and Levora felt strongly about continuing
the show. It was a brand we spent 10 years
developing, Levora said.
Ultimately they opted for the present
and future of the Internet rather than the
at-least-temporarily-more-lucrative past of
radio broadcasting. We had three months
of severance, Levora said. The way we
looked at it was we were being paid to
develop our own company.
And the podcasting/streaming-music
combination was a natural choice for
keeping the brand alive although both
Levora and Pitra said it wouldnt have
happened without getting canned.
This was a much easier thing to do
when it was our nuclear option, Levora
said. I would not have had the courage to
do this on my own, even knowing this is
the way its going in the radio business.
Certainly, its more comfortable to go to
work than to be in charge of everything.
Unexpected challenges included getting
responses from Web designers, and trying
to figure out how many people were
actually listening to the music stations.
You would think that if someone is
hosting your stream, they would be able to
tell you how many people are listening to
you, said Pitra, who handles the bulk of the
business aspects of Nacho Radio. Thats
not the case. He added that January is the
first month for which there are superaccurate numbers.
(We want accurate numbers, Pitra said,
in large part because broadcast radio cant
provide those to advertisers. Added Levora:
FM radio will go to you with data that is
six months old and is an estimate of what
the audience is. We can tell you right now
exactly how many people are listening. ... Its
not an estimate.)
Expected challenges included not having
the stability of a corporate job. Yet Levora
said hed rather be earning less money to be
able to do the kind of show that we want to
do, to put out the kind of music that people
say they want.
Thats true even with the added
responsibilities. Being a sales guy was never
something I put on my list of things I really
wish I could be, but were not going doorto-door selling vacuum cleaners, Levora
said. Were going door-to-door selling
something we believe in. We believe in it
enough that were putting all of our eggs in

this basket. ... And it is getting heard.
That makes it easier, Pitra said.
And even though theres the potential for
a global audience that wasnt there on Quad
Cities radio, Levora and Pitra dont have
aspirations for world domination.
No one in Utah was pissed off that we
got fired in July, Levora said. This is where
were from, and this is where our audience
is. ... Its not like were national figures that
started a podcast.
Thats also true in soliciting advertising.
We continue to try to reach out to people
that we consider to be part of the fabric
of the Quad Cities, Pitra said. Lets
not pretend that its not a Quad Cities
operation.
Obvious, and
Obviously Smart
Because the podcasting-and-streamingmusic idea was so obvious, both Levora and

Pitra said they worried that their build-up
to Nacho Radios launch would be greeted
by something less than enthusiasm. You set
us up for this? Levora said. Youre doing a
podcast?
Yet even though something in the vein
of Nacho Radio seems a logical next step
for fired radio personalities, the differences
between over-the-air radio and Nacho Radio
underscore the problems that the former is
going to continue to have; this is two radio
guys doing pretty much what they always did,
but in a way that sidesteps the annoyances
and pitfalls of commercial radio.
In other words, Nacho Radio shows why
commercial stations will ultimately need to
become something much different to survive,
especially when the Internet is a standard
feature in the last stronghold of radio
broadcasting: the automobile.
The weekday podcast typically runs 75
minutes, and it has more Dave & Darren
content than their old four-and-a-halfhour radio show. Because the content is
condensed, they can play off earlier jokes
and bits without losing the audience. Because
the talk isnt interspersed with commercials
and music, they can talk about something as
long as theyd like. Advantage: Nacho Radio.
The podcast can be consumed whenever
and wherever its audience wants. Advantage:
Nacho Radio.
Dave & Darren arent interrupted by
minutes-long blocks of commercials.
Advantage: Nacho Radio.
The music isnt interrupted by minutes-
BOOKS
No Easy Answers

by Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro on Self-Help and Self-Discovery, January 27 at Augustana College
essica Lamb-Shapiros Promise Land seems to invite

preconceptions.
First, theres the white kitty
hanging perilously from a rope
on the book cover, cheekily
recalling the famous Hang in
There inspirational poster.
Then theres the subtitle: My
Journey Through Americas SelfHelp Culture.
Flip to the first page of
prologue. The book opens: Ten years ago,
I tagged along with my father to a weekend
conference on how to write self-help books. Yes,
it really was a self-help retreat for self-help-guru
wannabes.
From those elements, you might expect an
arch, cynical take-down of a movement and the
industry that feeds it (or feeds off it).
Lamb-Shapiro will be the January 27 guest
in the River Readings at Augustana series, and
youre hereby advised to not judge this book by
its cover or its opening sentence. Its so much
richer than that.
There is a hint of that on the cover: Its labeled
a memoir.
And another hint in the first paragraph: Her
child-psychologist father had written self-help
books for decades, and only the most churlish
child would write a book mocking a wellmeaning, generally competent parent.
Later in that opening chapter, Lamb-Shapiro
lays out what shes really up to, writing about her
struggles with the book, with her failure to find a
firm stance: Some of the groups and workshops
I attended seemed useful and genuine; some
didnt. Some of the books I read I admired and
enjoyed; some I didnt. There was no truth
waiting to be discovered. Eventually, I grew tired
of searching, and thats when I realized that I had
been stalled at the threshold of something much
more personal.
The next paragraph begins: Self-deception is
the most intractable deception. It ends: I was
headed toward a very uncomfortable, awkward,
and painful conversation with my father.
And the next paragraph begins: My mother
died just before my second birthday.
All of this suggests a restive, curious mind,
and in an interview last week, Lamb-Shapiro
admitted that its difficult for her to keep things
simple. Id be terrible on a debate team, she
said. Im always arguing with myself. ... Its
always very complicated.
And later: I would write the worst self-help
book ever.
So six pages in, the author has obliterated any
sense of what Promise Land is, replacing it with
suspense, with questions. How will the author
negotiate the tension between earnest assistance
and crass commerce, both inherent in selfhelp? Can she reconcile her conflicted feelings
about self-help, especially

considering her fathers
vocation and aspirations against
her skepticism? How will the
personal narrative play out in
the context of an immersion
in self-help literature and
workshops? And will it all
amount to a coherent book, or
something with a hopelessly
split personality?
To partly answer those last
two questions, Ill fast-forward to the books
epilogue, titled In Which My Father & I Break
Into a Cemetery. Ill leave the details for you to
discover, but I will say that Lamb-Shapiro has
built the book to a tender, tentative moment
that is entirely expected yet written with delicate
precision a quiet breakthrough that is a
beginning rather than an ending.
In other words, Lamb-Shapiro and her father
are still working through what they didnt talk
about for more than 30 years the 1979 death of
her mother.
I have a lifetime of habits Im still somewhat
enslaved to, she said. Its sort of a slow process
of change. ... Were still the people we were last
year.
That process is hard enough for two people.
The difficulty is magnified when its in service to
a book, and then made public through the book.
Lamb-Shapiro said she was careful to
be sincere with her father, and to never do
something merely for Promise Land.
Take the cemetery visit. Certainly, when
we made the plan to go, Lamb-Shapiro said,
it wasnt about the book. ... The writing sort of
initiated a process in real life. ... I didnt force any
of it, because I was afraid to force any of it. ...
My mothers death was a subject nobody
wanted to discuss, she added, because nobody
had discussed it. So when it became clear that
the book needed to address that death, she had
to lay groundwork with her father: In order
for me to feel comfortable talking about it
publicly, I have to talk to him privately. ... That
was something he had not wanted to talk about
with me, let alone with his friends or with the
reading public.
And, as the prologue suggests, this was
not territory Lamb-Shapiro approached with
enthusiasm. The book was published early last
year, but its origins date back a decade, to an
article Lamb-Shapiro wrote about that self-helpfor-self-help-authors workshop led by Chicken
Soup for the Soul kingpin Mark Victor Hansen.
Agents thought the article might lead to a
good book, but the author was hesitant. In 2008,
she finally sold the book on proposal, intending
to write a survey of self-help. She wrote several
complete drafts but found it repetitive and
Movie Reviews
by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com
Tickler, Failure, Soldiers, Spies: Notes on a Quadruple Feature

Friday, January 16, 10:05 a.m.-ish: My
first and final quadruple feature of 2015
(yeah, right) begins with the Michael Mann
thriller Blackhat, which opens with the
camera racing within a computer module
and deeper and deeper into the internal
workings of binary code, like a burrowing
reverse of Robert Zemeckis introductory
shot in Contact. At its climax, we discover
that weve been watching the process by
which a faraway cyber-terrorist sets off an
explosion at a Chinese nuclear facility, and its
a juicy, unsettling prelude so good, and so
promising, that it probably takes longer than
it should to realize the movie is goofy as hell.
Youre given hints about Blackhats
ludicrous bent with Chris Hemsworths
arrival as Nick Hathaway, a bad-ass, onlyin-the-movies tech whiz whose blond locks
tumble below his chin and half-buttoned
shirts constantly expose his rippling abs.
(Only one character, Wei Tangs vacantly
gorgeous ally Chen, appears to recognize
Nicks resemblance to Thor, and their
subsequent relationship is almost an insult
to the phrase tacked-on romance.) For
long stretches, through, Manns sterling
technique outweighs your complaints.
The sound design is exceptionally strong,
particularly during a tense subterranean
shoot-out, and Mann still has his gift for
images of poetic horror, such as the closeup
on Viola Davis (excellent here) staring
upward at a skyscraper, and the shaky
hand-held shot that makes a computers
Enter key look utterly sinister. But Manns
considerable skill isnt enough to disguise the
asinine contrivances that force Hemsworths
computer wonk to morph, with no hesitancy
or strain, into a gun-toting action stud, and
the final half-hour is nearly hysterical in
its ridiculousness. If you can get through
the climax without

home plumbing,
giggling with
Scotch tape, and
hundreds of
a flock of hungry
oblivious Jakartans
pigeons appeared
failing to notice the
to hit everyones
gun- and knifefunny bones
fights directly in
equally. And with
their midst youre
its lovely flights
made of stronger
of imagination
stuff than I. But not
Chris Hemsworth and Viola Davis in Blackhat and occasional,
stronger than Chris
Wes Anderson-y
Hemsworth. Those
stylization
abs, Im tellin ya ... .
augmenting the boffo humor, no grown-up
12:15 p.m.-ish: Time for Paddington,
should feel the least bit silly about attending.
writer/director Paul Kings family
There are dozens of smart throwaway gags
entertainment based on the adventures of
(Londoners, we discover, have 107 ways to say
Michael Bonds beloved childrens-book cub
Its raining), exciting chases, Sally Hawkins
who travels to London from darkest Peru.
and Julie Walters, an unexpected and priceless
A week ago, I noticed that this enormous
Winters Tale reference ... . All this plus
U.K. hit received British Academy of Film
Downton Abbeys Hugh Bonneville in disguise
& Television Award nominations for Best
as an elderly cleaning lady. I wind up loving
British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay,
Paddington so much that Im tempted to get
which seemed surprising given its manic,
in my car and call it a day, so as not to spoil
underwhelming previews. As the end
my mood. But alas, duty calls, so its off to ...
2:05-ish: ... The Wedding Ringer, director/
credits roll, however, I find myself hoping it
co-writer Jeremy Garelicks sentimental
wins both, because this thing is absolutely
gross-out that forces us to wait 100 minutes
sensational hilarious and clever and
for best-man-for-hire Kevin Hart and groomtouching, and easily the finest outing of its
to-be Josh Gad to realize theyre each the best
type since 2006s Charlottes Web. Theres not
friend the other never had. What can I say?
much to the story, which finds Paddington
If you saw the trailers and thought it looked
(beautifully voiced by Ben Whishaw)
hilarious, with Gad getting scalding-hot chili
attempting to find a home, and mean ol
Nicole Kidman attempting to capture him for poured on his crotch and Cloris Leachman
catching fire and so forth, it probably will be.
stuffing and mounting. Yet beginning with
If you saw them and quietly wept thinking
the black-and-white newsreel footage of an
this is as good as it now gets for Hart and
explorer teaching Brit-spreak to Peruvian
the Book of Mormon star ... its actually not
bears (Now say Stratford on Avon ... ), I
that terrible. I mean, its bad, all right, and
laughed so heartily and consistently at Kings
the script is so low on inspiration that the
visual and verbal slapstick that I wouldve
most tortuously unfunny bits the bachelor
been embarrassed had other adults not been
party gone awry, the muddy touch-football
cackling just as hard. The kids certainly
game with seniors getting the crap pounded
were, too; Paddingtons travails with vexing
out of them last many minutes longer

than necessary. But there are perks. Kaley
Cuoco-Sweeting (as Gads fiance) and
Olivia Thirlby (as her suspicious sister)
are gracefully assured comediennes,
and Ignacio Serricchio is wonderful as
a swishy wedding planner with a big
secret, and then a bigger secret. Jorge
Garcia, whos now completely circular in
frame, is given a great, movie-capping
Lost joke. And for all the attempted big
yuks that crash and burn and the general
unpleasantness, The Wedding Ringers
leads are actually quite charming together,
and even manage to pull off the films
scenes of sticky bro bonding. Its all mostly
a bummer, but I leave feeling surprisingly
cheery. I blame Paddington.
3:45-ish: About seven minutes into
our showing of Clint Eastwoods Iraq
War drama American Sniper newly
nominated for six Oscars including
Best Picture theres a series of digitalprojection snafus that result in the loss
of sound and eventual freezing of the
screen image. (When a patron shouts,
Its North Koreas fault!, the tensionbreaker is especially amusing because
the image were frozen on is a Sony TV.)
The problem is quickly corrected with
apologies and efficiency, but it does mean
starting the movie over again ... at which
point I sigh, because the opening seven
minutes are awful. Okay, the part with
Bradley Coopers heroic sharpshooter
Chris Kyle targeting the Iraqi woman
and kid in effect, the movies trailer
is good, if not nearly as intense as the
preview suggested. But then we get an
extended flashback to Chris as a kid,
hunting and goofing around in church
10
Whats Happenin
Music
James Armstrong
The Muddy Waters

Friday, January 23, 9 p.m.
ames Armstrong, who

plays the Muddy Waters
on January 23, is an electric
guitarist and singer/
songwriter whose venerated
talents have earned him the
nickname The Ambassador
of the Blues. But with Armstrong boasting,
according to JazzTimes magazine, the kind
of flexibility that allows him to easily and
convincingly shift gears, and celebrated
blues historian Tony Russell calling him a
master of the flexible language of feeling
allusion, Id like to propose a new moniker
for the famously flexible artist: Stretch
Armstrong.
And just now, I received a cease-and-desist
from Hasbro. Man, I really thought I was the
only one who remembered that toy ... .
Performing in a concert co-sponsored
by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society,
Armstrong is sure to bring to the Bettendorf
stage all the blues know-how and passion hes
amassed over the 40 years of his professional
career. Born in Los Angeles to a jazz-guitarist
father and a blues-singer mother, Armstrong
was touring the country in blues bands by
his late teens, and his musical education as
a young man included his learning from the
masters, serving as backup for Albert Collins,
Big Joe Turner, and Smokey Wilson.
After years spent honing his skills in the
San Francisco area, Armstrong released
GUEST COMMENTARY
his debut album Sleeping with a

Stranger in 1995. Yet not two years
later, the mans nascent career nearly
ended when he was almost stabbed
to death by a home intruder;
Armstrongs shoulder injury left
him with limited movement in his
left hand and required months of
physical therapy.
But after discovering that playing
slide guitar helped him recover his
mobility and dexterity, Armstrong
slowly convalesced, and returned
with the critically acclaimed 1998
album Dark Night. That led to frequent
touring on the blues-festival circuit and the
2000 release Got It Goin on, and in 2001,
that album received W.C. Handy Award
nominations for Contemporary Male Blues
Guitarist of the Year and (for Pennies and
Picks) Song of the Year.
Since then, Armstrong has become a
beloved blues icon, headlining blues fests
nationwide and sharing stages and studios
with the likes of Keb Mo, Coco Montoya,
Chaka Kahn, Ricky Lee Jones, and Tommy
Castro. And given the rapturous response to
his 2011 album Blues at the Border and 2014s
Guitar Angels, Armstrong is as big a critical
favorite as ever. The former was described
by Living Blues magazine as a well-balanced
combination of fire, technical proficiency,
and taste, and not to be missed. The latter,
meanwhile, found Blues Blast Magazine
calling it as edgy as a razor blade and as
smooth as the foam on a glass of beer.
Hopefully not in the same glass.
For more information on James
Armstrongs January 23 gig in Bettendorf, call
(563)355-0655 or visit TheMuddyWaters.com.
Dance
Ensemble Espaol Spanish Dance Theater

Galvin Fine Arts Center
Saturday, January 31, 7:30 p.m.
he latest entertainers and educators in Quad City Arts Visiting Artists Series are the extr
Espaol Spanish Dance Theater, the Chicago-based company that performs its public con
Galvin Fine Arts Center on January 31.
Dedicated, as its EnsembleEspanol.org Web site states, to the preservation, presentation, a
folkloric, flamenco, and contemporary traditions of Spain, this electrifying troupe of dancers
has not only thrilled audiences nationwide, but has become one of the worlds leading exempl
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, this team of incredibly gifted professionals never cea
with the variety, precision, beauty, and heat of its performances. The Chicago Tribune praises
stretches of large choral flamenco foot-tapping, phenomenal not just in acrobatic skill, but in
poetry, too. St. Louis StLToday.com raves, Ensemble Espaol Spanish Dance Theater pursu
precision and grace thats as unforgettable as it is breathtaking.
Words, however, hardly scratch the surface of the troupes expressive talents. So if you visit
guide to you to spectacular YouTube demonstrations of the Ensemble Espaol style by clickin
and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. If you choose to stick with the paper version, th
the ensemble in action:
If you dart your eyes back and forth between em, itll look like theyre dancing!
For tickets to Ensemble Espaol Spanish Dance Theaters January 30 event, call the Gal
6251. For more information, visit QuadCityArts.com and SAU.edu/galvin.
Continued From Page 3
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops

once the government gets involved, its only a
matter of time before the harm outweighs the
benefits.
Imagine self-guided smart bullets that can
track their target as it moves, solar-powered
airships that provide persistent wide-area
surveillance and tracking of ground targets, a
grenade launcher that can deliver 14 flash-bang
rounds, invisible tanks that can blend into their
surroundings and masquerade as a snow bank
or a soccer moms station wagon, and a guided
mortar weapon that can target someone up to
12 miles away.
Or what about less-lethal weapons
such as the speech-jammer gun, which can
render a target tongue-tied; sticky foam guns,
which shoot foam that hardens on contact,
immobilizing the victim; and shock-wave

generators, which use the shockwaves from a
controlled explosion to knock people over.
Imagine attempting to defend yourself or
your loved ones against police officers made
superhuman thanks to technology that renders
them bullet-proof, shatter-proof, all-seeing, allknowing, and all-powerful.
While robocops are troubling enough,
the problem were facing is so much greater
than technology-enhanced domestic soldiers.
Were on the cusp of a major paradigm shift
from fascism disguised as a democracy into a
technocratic surveillance society in which there
are no citizens, only targets.
Whats taking place in Maryland right
now is a perfect example of this shift. With
Congress approval and generous funding (and

without the consensus of area residents), the
Army has just launched two massive, billiondollar surveillance airships into the skies
over Baltimore, each three times the size of a
Goodyear blimp, ostensibly to defend against
cruise-missile attacks. Government officials
claim the surveillance blimps, which provide
highly detailed radar imaging within a 340-mile
radius, are not presently being used to track
individuals or carry out surveillance against
citizens, but its only a matter of time before that
becomes par for the course.
In New York, police will soon start employing
mobile scanners that allow them to scan people
on the street to detect any hidden object under
their clothes, be it a gun, a knife, or anything else
that appears suspicious. The scanners will also

let them carry out enhanced data collection in
the field fingerprints, iris scans, facial mapping
which will build the governments biometric
database that much faster. These scanners are a
more-mobile version of the low-radiation X-ray
vans used to scan the contents of passing cars.
Google Glass, being considered for use by
officers, would allow police to access computer
databases, as well as run background checks on
and record anyone in their line of sight.
One program, funded by $160 million
in asset-forfeiture funds, would equip
police officers and vehicles with biometric
smartphones that can scan individuals
fingerprints and cross-check them against
criminal databases. The devices will also
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
Exhibit
Yuriko Yamaguchi: Interconnected in Art,

Nature, Science, & Technology
raordinary talents of Ensemble

oncert at St. Ambrose Universitys
and promotion of the classical,

s, singers, and instrumentalists
plars of Spanish dance history.
ases to bedazzle its audiences
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lvin box office at (563)333-
Figge Art Museum

Saturday, January 24, through Sunday, May 31
n display beginning January 24, the Figge Art

Museums latest exhibition features works by the
Washington, D.C.-based Yuriko Yamaguhi and is titled
Interconnected in Art, Nature, Science, & Technology.
According to the Figges Web site,
Yamaguchi creates organic, weblike sculptures from nets of wire and
resin forms cast from dried curls of
potatoes, onion ends, leaves, and
seed pods found in nature. This
suggests that the artist probably
makes a helluva casserole, too, but as
with most art, Id be too intimidated
to eat it.
You will, though, likely find
yourself wanting to reach out
and touch the delicately glorious
works included in Yamaguchis
Interconnected exhibit installations
in which, the Figge site continues,
their creator seeks to explore the constantly
fluctuating but ever-present interconnections that
bind us to one another and to the natural world.
A sculpture instructor at George Washington
University, Japan native Yamaguchi received a 1975 BA
in art at the University of California at Berkeley, and
a 1979 MFA from the University of Maryland. That
information fits onto roughly an eighth of a page of the
artists online rsum (at YurikoYamagichiArt.com). If,
however, you check out the nine full pages of rsum
that follow it, prepare to be blown away. Over the span
of her three-decade career, Yamaguchi can proudly

boast 18 significant art prizes, grants, and fellowships;
a quartet of public-art commissions; 41 solo gallery
exhibitions; 53 museum exhibitions; more than a
dozen collections of art housed in sites including
the National Museum of American Art and the U.S.
Embassy in Abu Dhabi; and I-stopped-countingafter-100 articles in newspapers and periodicals
worldwide, from the LA Weekly to the Vienna Times.
Within those write-ups, youll discover that
reviewers have been enamored with Yamaguchis
aesthetically gorgeous and thought-provoking
sculptures for decades. The Seattle Times, for instance,
writes of the artists sculptures, Even
though the word poetic tends to get
overused as an adjective in describing
artworks, here no other fits quite so
well. Meanwhile, the Washington Post
states, No other sculptor can turn
paper, wood, flax, and wire into wall
sculptures of such intriguing ambiguity
as Yuriko Tamaguchi. The newspaper
goes on to add, With many of the
pieces, its almost impossible to know
without referring to Yamaguchis
written description whether a
sculpture is animal, vegetable, or
mineral. So again: Dont eat em.
But dont just trust the critics. See
the Interconnected works for yourself. And see a few
of them, prior to January 24, at Yamaguchis Web
site, where youll be awed by the endlessly fascinating
pieces that resemble explosions of confetti ... and
potato chips ... and Willy Wonka candies ... . I really
have to stop writing these things when Im hungry ... .
Interconnected in Art, Nature, Science, & Technology
will be on display through May 31, an artists talk is
scheduled for the evening of January 23, and more
information on Yamaguchis exhibit is available by
calling (563)326-7804 or visiting FiggeArtMuseum.org.
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What Else Is
Happenin
MUSIC
Thursday, January 22 Frank

Waln. Native American hip-hop artist
performs accompanied by Native
American hoop dancers the Sampson
Brothers. Augustana Colleges
Wallenberg Hall (3520 Seventh
Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. Free. For
information, visit Augustana.edu.
Friday, January 23 Trippin
Billies. Dave Matthews tribute band
in concert, with an opening set by
Jason Carl. Rock Island Brewing
Company (1815 Second Avenue, Rock
Island). 9 p.m. $8. For information, call
(309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com.
Friday, January 23, and
Saturday, January 24 Bucktown
Revue. Fundraising celebration of
Mississippi River Valley folk music,
humor, and culture, featuring
emcee Scott Tunnicliff and special
guests. Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
(600 Robinson Drive, Geneseo).
7 p.m. $12.50. For tickets and
information, call (309)944-2244 or visit
BucktownRevue.com or RHPlayers.
com.
Saturday, January 24 RozzTox Fundraising Concert. Event
designed to raise money for new
P.A. equipment, featuring sets by the
Easy Mark, the Toby Brown Band,
Tambourine, and Foxholes. Rozz-Tox
(2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island).
7 p.m. $5 minimum donation. For
RozzTox.com.
Thursday, January 29 The
by John W. Whitehead
johnw@rutherford.org
contain real-time 911 data; warrant information

from federal, state, and city databases;
photographs of missing persons, suspects,
Crime Stoppers posters, and other persons of
interest; and the latest cache of information on
terror suspects.
Collectively, all of these gizmos, gadgets, and
surveillance devices render us not just suspects
in a surveillance state but also inmates in an
electronic concentration camp. As journalist
Lynn Stuart Parramore notes: The Information
Age ... has turned out rather differently than
many expected. Instead of information made
available for us, the key feature seems to be
information collected about us. Rather of
granting us anonymity and privacy with which
to explore a world of facts and data, our own
data is relentlessly and continually collected

and monitored. The wondrous things that were
supposed to make our lives easier mobile
devices, Gmail, Skype, GPS, and Facebook
have become tools to track us, for whatever
purposes the trackers decide. We have been
happily shopping for the bars to our own
prisons, one product at a time.
Constitutional attorney and author John W.
Whitehead is founder and president of The
Rutherford Institute (Rutherford.org). His
award-winning book A Government of Wolves is
available online at Amazon.com.
A longer, hyperlinked version of this article is
available at RCReader.com/y/robocop.
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What Else Is Happenin
Coop. Rock and electronica musicians

Gomes. Rock and blues musician in
in concert, with an opening set by
concert, with an opening set by the
Genome. Rock Island Brewing Company
Winter Blues All-Stars. The Redstone
(1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 8
Room (129 Main Street, Davenport).
p.m. $9.50. For
8 p.m. $14-17. For
information, call
information, call
(309)793-4060 or
(563)326-1333 or visit
visit RIBCO.com.
RiverMusicExperience.
Friday,
org.
January 20
Tuesday, February
2015 Battle
3 Luther College
of the Bands.
Nordic Choir. Concert
Competition
with the Decorah
featuring
singers prior to
45-minute sets
their performances
of original music
The Worlds Toughest Rodeo @ i wireless in Rome, Florence,
by local artists
and Venice. St. Paul
Center January 23 & 24
Trippin Molly,
Lutheran Church (2136
Gain the Wolf, and Crater. Rock Island
Brady Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. $10-15.
Brewing Company (1815 Second Avenue, For information, call (800)458-8437 or
Rock Island). 9 p.m. For information, call
visit Tickets.Luther.edu.
(309)793-4060 or visit RIBCO.com.
Friday, January 30 One Family,
One Night Benefit. Cody Tucker
Friday, January 23, through
emcees a benefit performance featuring
Saturday, January 31 Julius Caesar.
a silent auction, 50/50 raffle, door
The Prenzie Players production of
prizes, and sets by alternative rockers
Shakespeares historical drama, directed
The Lion in Rome, Bailiff,
by Tracy Skaggs. QC Theatre
and Tambourine. The
Workshop (1730 Wilkes
Redstone Room (129
Avenue, Davenport). Fridays
Main Street, Davenport).
and Saturdays 8 p.m., $15;
8 p.m. $10 suggested
Sunday 2 p.m., $10; Thursday
donation. For information,
8 p.m., $10. For tickets and
call (563)326-1333 or visit
information, call (563)484RiverMusicExperience.org.
4210 or visit PrenziePlayers.
Friday, January 30
com.
Studebaker John.
Friday, January 23,
Concert with blues
through Sunday, February
guitarist and harmonica
1 Things Being What
player John Grimaldi. The
They Are. New Ground
Frank Waln @
Muddy Waters (1708 State
Theatre presents Wendy
Augustana College
Street, Bettendorf). 9 p.m.
MacLeods dramatic comedy,
January 22
$5. For information, call
directed by Bryan Woods.
(563)355-0655 or visit TheMuddyWaters.
Village Theatre (2113 East 11th Street,
com.
Davenport). Fridays and Saturdays
Saturday, January 31 Anthony
7:30 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. $15-18. For
THEATRE
tickets and information,

call (563)326-7529 or visit
NewGroundTheatre.org.
Friday, January 30,
through Sunday, February
8 Angels in America:
Perestroika. Part two of Tony
Kushners Tony Award-winning
1980s fantasia, directed by
Deb Shippy. District Theatre
(1623 Second Avenue, Rock
Island). 8 p.m. $20. For tickets
and information, call (309)2351654 or visit DistrictTheatre.
com.
vendors, information
booths, and more. QCCA
Expo Center (2621 Fourth
Avenue, Rock Island). Friday
1-10 p.m., Saturday 10
a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 10
a.m.-3 p.m. $8, ages six and
Andy Curtiss and under free. For information,
Pat Flaherty in the call (309)788-5912 or visit
District Theatres QCCAExpoCenter.com.
Angels in America:
Friday, January 23,
Perestroika Open- through Sunday, January
25 Eagles & Ivories
ing January 30
Weekend. Twenty-third
annual weekend celebrating ragtime,
early jazz, and bald eagles, with concerts,
presentations, eagle watches, movies,
Tuesday, January 27 Jessica Lamb- a soup supper, and more in downtown
Muscatine. For information, call
Shapiro. The fiction and nonfiction
(563)263-8895 or (563)263-9978 or visit
author in the latest River Readings at
MuscatineArtsCouncil.org.
Augustana presentation, followed by a
Saturday, January 24 An Evening
reception and book-signing. Augustana
of Mental Mayhem. Presentation with
Colleges Wilson Center (639 38th Street,
touring mentalist and hypnotist Dan
Rock Island). 7 p.m. Free. For information,
Ladd. Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818 Third
call (309)794-7316 or visit Augustana.
Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $13-15. For
edu.
tickets and information, call (309)786Thursday, January 29 Odd?Rod.
7733 extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
Poet and spoken-word artist Rod Duval
Friday, January 30 Champagne on
performs in Ambrose Halls BeeHive. St.
the
Rocks. WQPT-TVs annual fundraiser
Ambrose University (518 West Locust
featuring
dinner, live and silent auctions,
Street, Davenport). 7 p.m. Free. For
musical
entertainment,
and more.
Hotel Blackhawk (200 East Third Street,
SAU.edu.
Davenport). 6 p.m. $100. For tickets and
WQPT.org/champagne.
Friday, January 23, and Saturday,
Saturday, January 31 Beach Bum
January 24 Worlds Toughest Rodeo.
Bash.
Annual event featuring music by
Touring presentation featuring barrel
the
Fry
Daddies, indoor beach games,
racing and bareback, saddle-bronc, and
summertime refreshments, and more.
bull riding events. i wireless Center (1201
Quad City Botanical Center (2525 Fourth
River Drive, Moline). 7:30 p.m. $18-57.
Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $10-12. For
For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit
tickets and information, call (309)794iwirelessCenter.com.
Friday, January 23, through Sunday, 0991 or visit QCGardens.com.
LITERATURE
EVENTS
January 25 Rod & Custom Show.

A weekend of classic cars on display,
Visit the Readers full events calendars at

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COVER STORY
Nacho Radio
long blocks of commercials. The music
stations have a maximum of three oneminute commercials each hour, all separated
by music. Advantage: Nacho Radio.
If you like the music, its not interrupted by
the morning-show shtick. Advantage: Nacho
Radio.
If you like the morning-show shtick, its
not interrupted by the music. Advantage:
Nacho Radio.
Because Levora selects all the music for
the streaming stations, hes not constrained
by commercial radios limited corporate
playlists. He said his songs for the alternative
station could run for more than seven days
without a repeat, and the rock station could
go more than 22 days without the same
song being played twice. Its hand-crafted,
Levora said. It provides an infinitely better
experience than these [corporate] playlists.
Advantage: Nacho Radio, unless you really,
really like hearing the same songs several
times each day.
Yet being a superior conceptual model
doesnt ensure financial success, and a decade
as a successful team on the radio doesnt
necessarily translate into an equivalent
audience online.
That highlights the one very large
advantage commercial radio has over Levora
and Pitra: the ability to absorb losses over a
long period of time.
Cant Walk Away
Yet Levora and Pitra seem realistic in their

expectations. They know theyre not going
to make enough money this year to cover
their costs plus their old radio salaries. And
theyve planned for that.
MOVIES
by Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
We can certainly survive 2015, Pitra said.

And if for some reason we find that, going
into 2016, we need to modify things ... . I
would think at the very least well continue to
do the podcast.
If the [music] stations dont grow to a
point where it makes sense to keep doing
them, we could pull the plug on those,
Levora said. (Alternatively, if the music
stations sell out their three-ads-per-hour
inventories, Levora and Pitra will consider
adding new streams.)
They know that their podcast and music
streams have limited rather than broad
appeal.
They know that audiences wont just find
them. Pitra said hes looking forward to better
weather, for opportunities to personally put
the Nacho Radio app on peoples phones.
There are still plenty of people that dont
know about us, he said.
And they know that they might not
generate enough revenue to enable them
to keep doing Nacho Radio as their only
employment.
But the great thing about a 70- to
75-minute podcast five days a week is that it
doesnt preclude other jobs.
If I have to get a job driving a bus to
support my family, Im happy to do that,
Levora said. But theres nothing to say I cant
still spend an hour with my pal here and do
the podcast.
Added Pitra: And sell the podcast.
When you have 500,000 downloads, I
dont think thats something you can walk
away from, Levora said. We were right not
to throw it all away, not to say in July, Well,
we had a great run, but now its time to do
something else.
BOOKS
No Easy Answers
boring.
Then she had her epiphany and was able
with the help of her editor to incorporate the
personal into the exploration of self-help. Those
choices [of what to include and exclude from her
family story] felt very unclear to me, she said.
To me, everything about me is self-evident.
The result is, to some extent, messy. Personal
history is interspersed with personal self-help
experiences undertaken for the book and with
an exploration of self-help literature through
the centuries. But her family anecdotes give
the book a shape and momentum through
what the self-help books would call a journey
although Lamb-Shapiro never settles for the easy
platitudes or mangled language youll find in the
genre shes writing about.
She goes to a workshop based on the dating
handbook The Rules and hears a distressing
testimonial that undercuts the whole enterprise.
She walks on hot coals with hormonal teenagers.
She tries to overcome a deep phobia. (The
chapter begins: I am afraid of crowds, elevators,
and heights. I am to such a degree that I avoid
it entirely afraid of flying.) She attends a grief
camp for kids (in the chapter The Saddest
Camp in the World).
Lamb-Shapiro has a sharp eye, but the
book would indeed be tedious without her
heart. You can see the distaste she has for the
self-help industry and its profiteering, for the
isolation inherent in trying to work through
ones problems via books, and for the kookiness
of much of the advice. Yet she sometimes finds
herself moved personally, and cheered by the
community that develops at workshops despite
all the money changing hands. Some people are
indeed helped.
Its less neutrality than openness, and LambShapiro said that mindset was something I
had to work at. ... It was almost like a thought
experiment. Instead of going in cynically, she
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
Tickler, Failure, Soldiers, Spies: Notes on a Quadruple Feature

you get back lie.) Theres
and listening to Dads pithy
also overly convenient
bromides, and its all so
melodrama in the Iraqi
earnest, compositionally
sniper whos like a projection
obvious, and verbally painful
of Chris internal struggle
that I slouch down and
a familiar Eastwood
prepare for the inevitable:
trope and so much
Unbroken 2: Still Not Broken.
foreshadowing that I was
Eventually, thankfully, this
amazed characters could still
mostly hagiographic bio-pic
see the sun. Yet Eastwoods
got better if never great,
Paddington
staging of the combat
primarily because nearly
scenes, if unremarkable,
everything involving poor
is at least blunt and effective, the sound
Sienna Miller as Chris eternally teary-eyed
effects and squib work are consistently
spouse is unconvincing. (Weeping through
superb, and Halls dialogue hums whenever
the hoariest clichs screenwriter Jason Hall
troops are just razzing one another; like
can conceive, shes even forced to utter that
the uncharacteristically bulky Coopers
famously hackneyed I wont be here when
portrayal, the movie itself proves solid,

unfussy, and sincere. I may not have joined
in the crowds rapturous applause at the end,
but as meat-and-potatoes experiences go,
American Sniper is nourishing enough if,
for some of us, also pretty undercooked.
6:35-ish: I realize I can catch Foxcatcher
at 6:40, but then remember the overall mood
of that film, and decide to go tomorrow
instead. Still blaming Paddington.
For reviews of Foxcatcher, Selma, Taken 3,
Inherent Vice, and other current releases, visit
RiverCitiesReader.com.
Follow Mike on Twitter at Twitter.com/
MikeSchulzNow.
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by Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
tried to figure out what was good about any
particular self-help event. People arent stupid,
she said, and self-help was meeting a need.
Promise Land, she added, was helpful to her
personally in several ways. Her fear of flying,
she noted, likely wouldnt have been addressed
without the assignment she gave herself in the
book. I can push myself to do things for writing
that I wouldnt do for myself, she said. I would
not have sought out that kind of self-help.
And then, of course, theres the death of her
mother, and the way that talks with her father
have moved beyond the perfunctory.
Weve gotten a lot closer, Lamb-Shapiro
said, and I really enjoy that change in my
relationship with him.
And although she forced him to begin talking
about the previously unmentionable, I feel like
my dad has taken the lead since the book was
published, while shes become more shy on
the topic.
Its not finished, she said of her familys grief
process.
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro will speak on Tuesday,
January 27, at 7 p.m. at Augustana Colleges
Wilson Center (3750 Seventh Avenue, Rock
Island). Admission is free.
For more information about Jessica Lamb-Shapiro
and Promise Land, visit PromiseLandBook.com.
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Ask
the
Urning Curve
Advice
Goddess
My boyfriend of eight months was with

his ex for almost five years. Unfortunately,
she passed two years ago. I have sympathy
for him, but occasionally hell call me by
her name, and its really upsetting. I feel like
shes haunting his brain, and I dont know
how to do an exorcism. How do I take my
rightful place in his life?
Cant Compete
If youre putting on some skimpy
somethings to get your boyfriend in the right
mindset in bed, ideally, they arent three
strategically located Hello, My Name Is
stickers.
Its understandable that youre feeling
bad, but his detours into Wrongnameville
probably dont mean what you suspect they
do. Using the wrong name is what memory
researchers call a retrieval error, describing
how an attempt to get some specific item
from memory can cause multiple items in
the same category to pop up. Basically, your
brain sends an elf back into the stacks to get
the name to call someone, and he just grabs
the first name he spots thats associated with
girlfriend and girlfriend-type situations.
(Lazy little twerp.) This sort of cognitive
error following a well-worn path (five years
of grabbing the late exs name) is more
likely when a person is tired or preoccupied.
In other words, your boyfriends nameswapping may be a sign that he needs to stop
multitasking; it doesnt necessarily mean hes
been taping a cutout of her face over yours in
his mind.
There is a solution, and no, it doesnt
involve inventing a time machine so he can
go back 20 years and get in the habit of calling
all women babe. It turns out that a person
can get better at retrieving the right name
with practice. Cognitive psychologist Gordon
Bower explained in Scientific American that
the one making the error needs to consistently
correct themselves or be corrected and then
repeat the right name a few times. It would be
best if you correct him teasingly, and perhaps
incorporate visual aids like homemade
flashcards ideally of you in various states of
undress with your name on them.
Assuming he isnt trudging around in all
black like a Fellini film widow or putting the
exs urn between you two in bed, it might help
to consider how he is when hes with you:
Engaged? Loving? Present? If so, do your best
BY AMY ALKON
to focus on this lest you be tempted to go

low-blow and tit-for-tat and start screaming
out the names of dead men in bed: Ooh,
Copernicus ... Oh, my God, Cicero ... I mean
... . Take me, Archimedes!
Demotion Sickness
My boyfriend just broke up with me but

wants to stay friends and keep hanging out
on those terms. (He says, My life is much
better with you in it.) Id like to be friends
eventually, but I told him that its just too
painful and confusing to see him now. He
says Im being dramatic and unreasonable
and keeps calling.
Broken
This guys notion of how a breakup should
work is like telling an employee, Hey, youre
fired, but please feel free to come in a few
times a week and do some light janitorial
work.
A breakup is supposed to be an ending, not
a Lets continue as if very little has changed,
and Ill pretend not to notice those big wet
mascara stripes down your cheeks. Research
by clinical psychologist David Sbarra
confirmed what most of us already know
about getting dumped that contact with
your former partner while youre trying to
recover jacks up feelings of love and sadness,
setting back your healing. You need time and
distance to process and accept the change in
your relationship; you cant just send a memo
to your emotions, ordering them to recategorize the guy: Cut the love. From now
on, respond to him like hes a brick or maybe
a lamp.
Its wonderful to have a man who insists
on standing by you, but not because its better
for him than respecting your need to go away
and lick your wounds. This is not friend
behavior. If, despite that, you want him in
your life down the road, inform him that for
now, youve made a no contact rule lasting
until you feel ready to see him on different
terms. When he (inevitably) tries to break it,
politely reiterate it and end the conversation.
The sooner hes out of your daily life the
sooner youll be open to a new man dreamy
as it would be to spend lazy afternoons
at your exs place writing him letters of
recommendation for prospective girlfriends
and Photoshopping your arm out of pictures
so he can post them on Tinder.
Got A Problem? Ask Amy Alkon.
171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405

or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (AdviceGoddess.com)
2015, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is

there a patron saint of advertising or
a goddess of marketing or a power
animal that rules publicity and
promotion? If so, Im going to find out, then
pray to them on your behalf. Its high time for
your under-appreciated talents and unsung
accomplishments to receive more attention.
And I am convinced that the astrological
moment is ripe for just such a development.
Help me out here, Aries. What can you do to
get your message out better? What tricks do
you have for attracting the interest of those who
dont know yet about your wonders? Polish up
your self-presentation, please.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

During his 67 years of life, Taurusborn Leonardo da Vinci achieved
excellence in 12 different fields, from painting
to engineering to anatomy. Today he is regarded
as among the most brilliant humans who ever
lived. His genius was so rare and universal
that it can be said that nature worked a miracle
on his behalf, said one observer. He towered
above all other artists through the strength and
the nobility of his talents, said another. Yet
on his death bed, Leonardo confessed, I have
offended God and mankind because my work
did not reach the quality it should have. Typical
for a Taurus, he underestimated himself! Its
very important that you not do the same,
especially in the coming weeks. The time has
come for you to give yourself more of the credit
and respect you deserve.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where
you have been and what you have
done will be of little importance in the
coming weeks. Both your mistakes and your
triumphs will be irrelevant. In my estimation,
you have a sacred duty to spy on the future and
reconnoiter the pleasures and challenges that
lie ahead. So I suggest you head off toward the
frontier with an innocent gleam in your eye
and a cheerful hunger for interesting surprises.
Hows your Wildness Quotient? If its in a
slump, pump it up.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Will
you ever find that treasured memento
you misplaced? Is there any chance
of reviving a dream you abandoned? You are
in a phase when these events are more likely
than usual to happen. The same is true about
an opportunity that you frittered away or a
missing link that you almost tracked down but
ultimately failed to secure. If you will ever have
any hope of getting another shot at those lost
joys, it would be in the coming weeks. For best
results, purge the regret and remorse you still
feel about the mistakes you think you made
once upon a time.
LEO (July 23-August 22): In the early
1300s, the people of the Mexica tribe
had no homeland. They had wandered
for centuries through the northern parts of
what we now call Mesoamerica. According to

legend, that changed in 1323, when their priests
received a vision of an eagle eating a snake while
perched at the top of a prickly pear cactus. They
declared that this was the location of the tribes
future power spot. Two years later, the prophecy
was fulfilled. On an island in the middle of a
lake, scouts spied the eagle, snake, and cactus.
And that was where the tribe built the town
of Tenochtitlan, which ultimately became the
center of an empire. Today that place is called
Mexico City. Have you had an equivalent vision,
Leo? If you havent yet, I bet you will soon. Go
in search of it. Be alert.
VIRGO (August 23-September
22): By the end of the 16th Century,
nutmeg was in high demand
throughout Europe. It was valued as a spice,
medicine, and preservative. There was only
one place in the world where it grew: on the
Indonesian island of Run. The proto-capitalists
of the Dutch East India Company gained
dominion over Run, and enslaved the local
population to work on plantations. They fully
controlled the global sale of nutmeg, which
allowed them to charge exorbitant prices. But
ultimately their monopoly collapsed. Heres one
reason why: Pigeons ate nutmeg seeds on Run,
then flew to other islands and pooped them
out, enabling plants to grow outside of Dutch
jurisdiction. I see this story as an apt metaphor
for you in the coming months, Virgo. Whats
your equivalent of the pigeons? Can you find
unlikely allies to help you evade the controlling
force thats limiting your options?
.
LIBRA (September 23-October
22): Have you triggered any brilliant
breakthroughs lately? Have you made any
cathartic departures from the way things have
always been done? Have you thought so far
outside the box that you cant even see the box
any more? Probably not. The last few weeks have
been a time of retrenchment and stabilization
for you. But I bet you will start going creatively
crazy very soon and I mean that in the
best sense. To ensure maximum health and
well-being, you simply must authorize your
imagination to leap and whirl and dazzle.
SCORPIO (October 23-November
21): The cassava plant produces a
starchy root thats used as food by a
half-billion people all over the planet. No one
can simply cook it up and eat it, though. In its
raw state, it contains the poisonous chemical
cyanide, which must be removed by careful
preparation. An essential first step is to soak it
in water for at least 18 hours. I see this process
as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of
you, Scorpio. A new source of psychological and
spiritual sustenance will soon be available, but
you will have to purge its toxins before you can
use and enjoy it.
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): Italian composer
15
by Rob Brezsny
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) didnt like to
work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact,
his desire to avoid strenuous exertion was an
important factor in his abundant output. He got
things done fast. His most famous opera, The
Barber of Seville, took him just 13 days to finish.
Another trick he relied on to reduce his workload
was plagiarizing himself. He sometimes recycled
passages from his earlier works for use in new
compositions. Feeling good was another key
element in his approach to discipline. If given
a choice, he would tap into his creative energy
while lounging in bed or hanging out with his
buddies. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I
recommend you consider strategies like his.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January
19): Each hour of every day, the sun
offers us more energy than oil, gas,
and coal can provide in an entire year. Sadly,
much of our stars generous gift goes to waste.
Our civilization isnt set up to take advantage of
the bounty. Is there a comparable dynamic in
your personal life, Capricorn? Are you missing
out on a flow of raw power and blessings simply
because you are ignorant of it or havent made the
necessary arrangements to gather it? If so, now
would be an excellent time to change your ways.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February
18): According to my analysis of the
long-term astrological omens, 2015
is the year you can get totally serious about doing
what you were born to do. You will be given the
chance to slough off all thats fake and irrelevant
and delusory. You will be invited to fully embrace
the central purpose of your destiny. If youre
interested in taking up that challenge, I suggest
you adopt Oscar Wildes motto: Nothing is
serious except passion. Your primary duty is to
associate primarily with people and places and
situations that feed your deepest longings.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): Give
up all hope for a better past, writes
Emily Fragos in her poem Art Brut.
Thats generally sound advice. But I think you
may be able to find an exception to its truth in
the coming weeks. As you work to forgive those
who have trespassed against you, and as you
revise your interpretations of bygone events, and
as you untie knots that have weighed you down
and slowed you up for a long time, you just may
be able to create a better past. Dare to believe
that you can transform the shape and feel of your
memories.
Homework: Name something you feel like
begging for. Then visualize in great detail that
this something is already yours. Report results to
FreeWillAstrology.com.
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72. West African nation
74. Promise of a kind
77. _ Palmas
78. Unreactive
79. Kitchen scrap
80. MLB players
81. Sponsorship (var.)
83. Born and _

84. Hogshead
85. _ Geneva Doud Eisenhower
86. Mended
88. Checks
90. Salon solution
91. Among
92. Philately item
93. Wheels for a VIP
94. Pizzazz
97. Scale
98. Theatergoers
102. Record of events: 2 wds.
104. Promising
106. _ plaid
107. Weapon of old
108. _ America
109. _ Fifth Avenue
110. Dross
111. Swords
112. Arboreal ape
113. Old pronoun
DOWN
1. _ tide
2. Fit of shivering
3. Part of NIH: Abbr.
4. Mucilage
5. Make into gold
6. Book part
7. Stockings
8. Compass pt.
9. Loaded down
10. Factories
11. Wingless insect
12. Scottish Gaelic
13. Farm denizen
14. Focuses on
15. First Roman day
16. Clevelands waters
17. Read
18. Without
24. Deliver a discourse
26. Zone
29. Consume
32. Temptress of myth
33. Pepper plant
34. Tie
35. Spontaneous appearance of life
36. Dismal
37. Pari- _
38. Gathering places
39. Varlet anagram
40. Term in arithmetic
41. Hayloft
42. Rita Hayworth role
43. Relish
46. Votes in
47. Make greater
48. Crosspatch
51. Genus of bees
53. Be plentiful
54. Storm
56. Word of agreement
59. Wagners Earth goddess
60. One of the ancient humors
61. Honor
62. Lent
63. Placed
64. River in France
65. Edible dog, briefly
71. All-in
72. Mate for 1-Across: Var.
73. Sibilate
75. Theater award
76. Application
80. One with a paddle
82. Gazing
83. Variety of candy
84. Harpsichord
85. Comedian of a kind
87. Drop
88. Sets of steps
89. Cap
90. Kind of habit
92. Golfers problem
93. Bluebonnet: Var.
94. Droops
95. Sign on a door
96. Notion
97. Woody stem
98. Thin Man dog
99. Genesis name
100. Salad plant, abridged
101. _ est percipi
103. Tap
105. Old political acronym
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Live Music Live Music Live Music

Email all listings to calendar@rcreader.com Deadline 5 p.m. Thursday before publication
THURSDAY
2015/01/22 (Thu)
00
22
Frank Waln -Wallenberg Hall, Augustana College, 3520 7th Ave. Rock
Island, IL
I.C. Kings -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St. Iowa City, IA
Jordan & Jef -11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA
Particle - Duenday - Damn Juhl
-Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
FRIDAY
2015/01/23 (Fri)
00
23
Bucktown Revue -Richmond Hill

Barn Theatre, 600 Hk Robinson Dr.
Geneseo, IL
Cherry Gun -Riverside Casino and
Golf Resor t, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
Christine Lavin & Don White -CSPS/
Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Cedar
Rapids, IA
Corporate Rock -11th Street Precinct,
Crystal City - Extravision - Milk Duct
Tape -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St. Iowa City, IA
David G. Smith (noon) -Bettendorf
Public Librar y, 2950 Learning
Campus Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Dusty Liquor Box - Bad Boyz Pizza
& Pub, 5266 Utica Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA
Eagles & Ivories Weekend Kick-Off
Concert (9am) -SunnyBrook, 3515
Diana Queen Dr. Muscatine, IA
Eagles & Ivories Weekend: Mad
Creek Mudcats (5pm) - Ivory
& Gold featuring Jeff & Anne
Barnhart - Ragtime Dr. Dave Majchrzak - Daniel Souvigny (7pm)
-Wesley United Methodist Church,
400 Iowa Ave. Muscatine, IA
Eleven Fifty Two - Drama Major

-The Redstone Room, 129 Main St
Davenport, IA
James Armstrong -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Jef Spradley & Jordan Danielson
-Broken Saddle, 1417 5th Ave.
Moline, IL
MC Animosity - DJ XXL - Rahland
K - Imperfekt - Felix the Thunda
Cat - B-Tho -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Mrs. T & the Wack -My Place the Pub,
4405 State St. Bettendorf, IA
The Candymakers -Brady Street Pub,
217 Brady St. Davenport, IA
Tony Roi: Elvis Tribute Artist -QuadCities Waterfront Convention Center, 2021 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Trippin Billies - Jason Carl -RIBCO,
1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Winterland -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
SUNDAY
2015/01/25 (Sun)
Eagles & Ivories Weekend: Ivory &

Gold featuring Jeff & Anne Barnhart (2pm) -Muscatine Art Center,
1314 Mulberry Ave. Muscatine, IA
Mann at the Mill: Bob and Kristie
Black & Banjoy - Crystal City City High Jazz Combo - Black
Saturday (3pm) -The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
Wifee & the Huzz Band -Gabes, 330 E.
Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Brooks Strause @ Rozz-Tox January 31
Hightop Fade - Bad Boyz Pizza &

Pub, 5266 Utica Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA
Iowa City Yacht Club 12th-Anniversary Party: The Candymakers
- Surrounded by Giants - Cedar
County Cobras - Flannel Season
2015/01/24 (Sat)
CD Release - Emmett Sheehan-Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St
Barstool Boogaloo & Them Som
Iowa City, IA
Bitches -Broken Saddle, 1417 5th
Irish Session (3pm) - Ukulele Winter
Ave. Moline, IL
Spectacle (7pm) -Uptown Bills
Blues Rock It w/ Detroit Larry
Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St.
Davison -Jims Knoxville Tap, 8716
Iowa City, IA
Knoxville Rd. Milan, IL
Jack
Lion - Christopher the ConBucktown Revue -Richmond Hill
quered - Bull Black Nova -The
Barn Theatre, 600 Hk Robinson Dr.
Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa
Geneseo, IL
City, IA
Eagles & Ivories Weekend: Ragtime Dr. Dave Majchr zak (2 Justin Morrissey (6pm) -Barrel House
Moline, 1321 5th Ave. Moline, IL
& 7pm) - Locust Street Boys
(5pm) - Ivory & Gold featuring Kronos Resistor - Eleven Fifty Two Pangaea - 9th St. Memory -RIBCO,
Jeff & Anne Barnhart - Daniel
1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Souvigny (7pm) -Wesley United
Mark
Dvorak -Princeton Coffeehouse,
Methodist Church, 400 Iowa Ave.
25 E. Marion St. Princeton, IL
Muscatine, IA
Hap Hazard -11th Street Precinct, Music of the Moment -CSPS/Le gion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE Cedar
30
SATURDAY
24
25 2015/01/29
(Thu)
THURSDAY
Rapids, IA
Patio CD Release Party - Half Naked
- Evan Stock Band -Gabes, 330 E.
Roylee McPeely -RME Community
Stage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Scrap Metal -Riverside Casino Event
Center, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Songwriters in the Round (2pm)
-RME (River Music Experience), 129
N. Main St. Davenport, IA
The Easy Mark - Toby Brown Band Tambourine - Foxholes -Rozz-Tox,
2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Old 57s -Desperados, 112 S.
Main St. Wheatland, IA
The Strays (6:30pm) - Cherry Gun
(9:30pm) -Riverside Casino and
Riverside, IA
Who Cares Band -Silvis Eagles Club,
911 Mansur Ave. Silvis, IL
MONDAY
2015/01/26 (Mon)
26
Live Lunch w/ John Stanford (noon)

-RME Community Stage, 131 W.
2nd St. Davenport, IA
Mr. Daytrotter Presents Moeller
Mondays -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
TUESDAY
2015/01/27 (Tue)
27
Bahamas -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington

St. Iowa City, IA
Bailiff -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
WEDNESDAY
2015/01/28 (Wed)
28
Burlington Street Bluegrass Band

-The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.
Iowa City, IA
Maiden Mars - Planetrawk - Summer town - Heather Cousins
(8pm) - Red Rose (11pm) -Gabes,
330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
00
29
KO - Loaf - Nightlight - Baby Alchemy -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington

St. Iowa City, IA
Mixology - Soulshake -Gabes, 330 E.
Molly Conrad -Uptown Bills Coffee
House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa
City, IA
The Coop - Genome -The Redstone
Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
FRIDAY
2015/01/30 (Fri)
00
30
Bad Hair -Thirstys on Third, 2202 W.

3rd St. Davenport, IA
Battle of the Bands Round One:

Trippin Molly - Gain the Wolf
- Crater -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Chuck Murphy -Lyndon Pub, 704 1st
St. W Lyndon, IL
E11eventh Hour -The Cooler, 311 W.
2nd St. Rock Falls, IL
Fairview - Unnamed Acoustic - Evan
Stock Band -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Fire Sale - The Weathered Heads Duology -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13
S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Jive Radio -Riverside Casino and
Riverside, IA
Lewis Knudsen Band -Milltown Coffee, 3800 River Drive #2 Moline, IL
NE-HI - Younger - Bull Black Nova
-The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.
Iowa City, IA
Quad Cities Hash House Harriers 5th Annual
RED DRESS RUN
Saturday, February 28, 1pm

Shenanigans Downtown Davenport
Proceeds
to Benefit
Hand-in Hand
QCRedDressRun.com Facebook: Quad Cities Red Dress Run
18
Live Music Live Music
Dave Ellis & Guests -Grumpys Saloon, 2120 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Future Death - BLXPLTN -Gabes,
The Sapwoods - Dan Tedesco - Crystal City -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St. Iowa City, IA
North Scott Jazz Choir -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
One Family, One Night: The Lion
in Rome - Bailiff - Tambourine
Davenport, IA
Soul Storm -11th Street Precinct,
Studebaker John -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
The Chris & Wes Show -My Place the
Pub, 4405 State St. Bettendorf, IA
30
2015/01/31
(Sat)
SATURDAY
31
Aaron Kamm & the One Drops - The

Casual Ties -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
Anthony Gomes - Winter Blues AllStars -The Redstone Room, 129
Main St Davenport, IA
Beach Bum Bash: The Fry Daddies
-Quad City Botanical Center, 2525
4th Ave. Rock Island, IL
Blues Rock It w/ Detroit Larry
Davison -City Limits Saloon & Grill,
4514 9th St. Rock Island, IL
Chuck Murphy -Cochrans Pub, 13464
Galt Rd. Sterling, IL
Cobalt Blue -11th Street Precinct,
Community Drum Circle (10:30am)
- Kidz Days at the RME featuring Nick Vasquez (noon) -RME
Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
Corporate Rock -Stooges, 908 3rd
St Orion, IL
Extravision - The Muptiple Cat Brooks Strause -Rozz-Tox, 2108
3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
FRIDAY
2015/02/06 (Fri)
Studebaker John @ The Muddy Waters January 30

Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo -Firehouse
Bar & Grill, 2006 Hickory Grove Rd.
Davenport, IA
Hold On Band -Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
Justin Morrissey (6pm) -Barrel
House Moline, 1321 5th Ave.
Moline, IL
Minus Six -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Punk Turns 40: Samuel Locke Ward
- Speakerwire Collins - Wax Cannon 3 - Foxholes -Gabes, 330 E.
Seeds of Dissent Reunion w/
Marv Hain & J.P. Claussen -Uptown Bills Coffee House, 730 S.
Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA
Stephan David Johnson -Broken
Saddle, 1417 5th Ave. Moline, IL
The Recliners -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
The Undertones -Fargo Dance &
Sports, 4204 Avenue of the Cities
Moline, IL
Wild Oatz -Nitelife 48 Bar - Plamor

Lanes, 1411 Grandview Ave. Muscatine, IA
SUNDAY
2015/02/01 (Sun)
Molly Conrad - Lewis Knudsen

(6:30pm) -The Redstone Room,
129 Main St Davenport, IA
TUESDAY
2015/02/03 (Tue)
Luther College Nordic Choir -St. Paul

Lutheran Church - Davenport, 2136
Brady St. Davenport, IA
WEDNESDAY
2015/02/04 (Wed)
The Old 57s (6pm) -The Rusty Nail,

2606 W. Locust St. Davenport, IA
THURSDAY
2015/02/05 (Thu)
Bob Marley Birthday Bash: Natty

Nation - DJ Trichrome - Firesale
Davenport, IA
00
6
12th-Annual Bob Marley Birthday

Bash w/ Natty Nation -Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa
City, IA
Battle of the Bands Round Two:
Battle Red - Waking Robots Carsick Radio -RIBCO, 1815 2nd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
Dani Lynn Howe Band -Broken
Saddle, 1417 5th Ave. Moline, IL
Ellis Kell Band 25th Anniversary
Show -The Redstone Room, 129
Main St Davenport, IA
Hello Weekend -Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
In Honor of Graham Parsons: Seth
Wenger - Ryan Bernemann Scott Cochran - Laura Goddard
- Joe & Coleen Peterson - Marty
Letz -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.
Iowa City, IA
Leon J - Brian James Hill - Dan
Toomey - Tyler Holst -Gabes,
Moonshine Run -11th Street Precinct,
The Franti Project -Brady Street Pub,
217 Brady St. Davenport, IA
The Kinsey Report -The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
DJs/Karaoke/
Jams/Open Mics
THURSDAYS
SUNDAYS
THURSDAYS
SUNDAYS
C.J. The D.J. RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave., Rock

Island, IL.
Thursday Night Jam Sessions w/ Bret
Dale & Zach Harris The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendor f,
IA.
Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment
Broken Saddle, 1417 5th Ave., Moline, IL.
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct, 1107

Mound St., Davenport, IA.
FRIDAYS
FRIDAYS
Cross Creek Karaoke Firehouse Bar &

Grill, 2006 Hickory Grove Rd., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st
St., Long Grove, IA.
Karaoke Night Roadrunners Roadhouse,
3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night (Jan. 30 only) Thirstys

on Third, 2202 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.

(Jan. 30 only) Broken Saddle, 1417
5th Ave., Moline, IL.
SATURDAYS
SATURDAYS
Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st

St., Long Grove, IA.
Karaoke Night Roadrunners Roadhouse,
3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night (Jan. 31 only) Thirstys

on Third, 2202 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.
Open Mic Night Downtown Central

Perk, 226 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.
Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar The
Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar, 111
W. 2nd St.,
Davenpor t,
IA.
Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Ave.,
Moline, IL.
MONDAYS
MONDAYS
Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace 11th

Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport, IA.
Open Mic w/ J. Knight The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.
TUESDAYS
TUESDAYS
A Live One Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S.

Linn St., Iowa City, IA.
Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate
Tims Corner Tap, 4018 14th Ave., Rock
Island, IL.
Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) RME
Community Stage, 129 N. Main Street,
Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night Brady Street Pub, 217
Brady St., Davenport, IA.
Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace 11th
Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport, IA.
WEDNESDAYS
WEDNESDAYS
Brady Street Pub Open Jam Brady Street

Pub, 217 Brady St., Davenport, IA.
Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA.
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night My Place the Pub, 4405
State St., Bettendorf, IA.
Karaoke Night RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.,
Rock Island, IL.
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third,

2202 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.
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THURSDAY
22
FRIDAY
00
23
THURSDAY 22
THURSDAY
29
FRIDAY
00
30
SATURDAY
31
SUNDAY
MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY 29
The Bix Beiderbomb Comedy Workshop

(8pm) Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 W.
3rd St., Davenport, IA.
The Bix Beiderbomb Comedy Workshop

(8pm) Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 W.
3rd St., Davenport, IA.
FRIDAY 23
FRIDAY 30
ComedySportz (7pm) The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.
T.G.I. Funny: Critical Hit Improv the
Gathering (9:30pm) The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.
The Blacklist: Comedy Gang Bang (9pm)
The Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510
N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
SATURDAY
SATURDAY 24
24
Studio Series: Morning Drive (9:30pm)
The Establishment, 220 19th St.,
Rock Island, IL.
The Blacklist: 100 Laughs (9pm) The
Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N.
Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
SUNDAY
SUNDAY 25
25
The Circumstantial Comedy Show

(9pm) BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd.,
Davenport, IA.
MONDAY
MONDAY 26
26
The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase

(10pm) Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S.
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY 28
28
Comedy Open Mic Night (7:30pm) The

Comedy
ComedySpor tz: Minor Leagues
(9:30pm) The Establishment, 220
19th St., Rock Island, IL.
The Blacklist: The Backroom Comedy
Showcase (8pm) The Backroom
Comedy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St.,
Davenport, IA.
SATURDAY 31
Pimprov (7 & 9:30pm) Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave., Rock Island, IL.
Studio Series: Tubbs & Kelly Present
(9:30pm) The Establishment, 220
19th St., Rock Island, IL.
The Blacklist: Shots n Giggles (8pm)
The Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510
N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
SUNDAY 1
The Circumstantial Comedy Show

(9pm) BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd.,
Davenport, IA.
MONDAY 2
The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase

(10pm) Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S.
WEDNESDAY 4
Comedy Open Mic Night (7:30pm) The

Exhibition opEning
RichaRd Ross
GiRls in Justice
January 17March 15, 2015

This exhibition will feature 53 large-scale photographs by awardwinning photographer Richard Ross. The images focus on the stories
of young women Ross has encountered in juvenile detention facilities
across the country, accompanied by each girls personal story.
Funded through a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Richard Ross, Orleans Parish Prison, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1, 2009 digital inkjet print.
Davenport, Iowa 563.326.7804

www.figgeartmuseum.org
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