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Walter Trout Returns

from the Bottom of the
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The District
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WORDS FROM THE EDITOR
by Kathleen McCarthy
km@rcreader.com
Fight the Rules-for-Us/Rules-for-Them System
alfway through 2015 already, and the

stunning lack of oversight for increasing lawlessness remains unchanged
and its arguably even more rampant. It is
hard to fathom how the children of the 60s
and 70s the ones who objected loudly
enough to end the Vietnam War, who forced
the resignation of a president, and who history will show as the last generation that exceeded the standard of living of their parents
are the primary culprits in this devolution
of the rule of law.
We have mostly fossils running the
travesty that is government partnering with
monster corporations the industry leaders
who control all aspects of infrastructure
manufacturing, as well as primary services
such as finance, health care, insurance,
academia, and media, thereby virtually
eliminating meaningful competition in
America.
Americans need to admit that capitalism
is no longer the economic model here, and
hasnt been for decades. Capitalism depends
on competition to succeed as an economic
model first and foremost. Once government
enters the arena with legislation and
regulations that favor certain corporations
and enterprises over others, capitalism is
corrupted and morphs into something else.

The better descriptor is fascism, where a
small percentage of private-sector interests
own, but government controls, most of a
nations resources. Socialism differs only in
the ownership, leaving government owning
and controlling those resources.
America is fast departing from its
founding governing principles as a
republic under the rule of law with a freemarket capitalistic economic model as its
underpinning. Administrative law is the
largest contributor to this erosion, providing
a massive set of rules and regulations
administered by the executive branch at
the federal and state levels, with counties
mostly responsible for local implementation,
to enforce broad legislation that is rarely
read by the legislators who approve it. This
behemoth of an unaccountable governing
apparatus, no longer able to justify itself
by any measure as representative of the
people, derives its authority under a different
primary directive altogether known as
continuity of government.
The sheer disproportion of the executive
branch to the legislative and judicial
branches is proof of the gross imbalance
of the U.S. governing bureaucracy, whose
agencies executive-management teams,

in many cases, are insiders from the very
monster corporations they are tasked with
overseeing. For example, Michael Taylor,
the past vice president of public policy
for Monsanto, is currently the deputy
commissioner for foods at the Food &
Drug Administration, a position created
especially for him. He also worked at the
U.S. Department of Agriculture for several
years, in between his revolving employment
at Monsanto and the federal government.
Taylor is also a professor at the University
of Maryland and a senior fellow at the
think tank Resources for the Future, where
he published two documents funded by
the Rockefeller Center. (See RCReader.
com/y/immunity1.) These connections are
not meaningless. More importantly, there
are many employed in government, just
like Taylor, with one foot in the monster
corporations, academia, and/or financebased foundations, all of whom serve
the interests of a select few over those of
American taxpayers who pay the high
salaries of these bureaucrats.
Consider that in 2014 the executive
branch alone employed 2.6 million people,
while the legislative and judicial branches
combined employed only 63,000 (RCReader.

com/y/immunity2). There is no conceivable
way that Congress or the judiciary can
provide adequate oversight. Watch any
hearing taking place on the Hill (currently
or archived) to observe the shocking
ineffectiveness of congressional committees.
The contempt in which the bureaucrats hold
the politicians is glaring. Whether monsters
or morons, these agency personnel obstruct
at every turn via all manner of administrative
obfuscation, including ignoring
subpoenas. This deliberate, across-agencies
unresponsiveness routinely occurs with the
full blessing of the Department of Justice,
whose job it is to prosecute the lawlessness of
these flagrant acts, yet it refuses to act.
June 2015 congressional hearings exposed
billions in health-care-for-veterans contracts
issued illegally because they are out of
compliance with procedural requirements
for letting. There is not a hint of denial by
any of these agencies leaders, just a pervasive
remorselessness that equates to these
bureaucrats giving taxpayers the proverbial
finger. How is it that these persons can break
rules with impunity, not even losing their
jobs?
Continued On Page 16
ILLINOIS POLITICS

by Rich Miller
CapitolFax.com
Democrats Finding Wedges

to Use Against Rauner
epublican Governor Bruce Rauner

is proving to be quite adept at
skirting responsibility for the current Statehouse impasse and impending
government shutdown.
He has relentlessly painted himself as
the good guy, even to the point of blatantly
abandoning his previous stances.
For instance, Rauner has righteously
slammed the Democrats unconstitutional
unbalanced budget, even though his own
proposed budget was also billions of dollars out
of balance.
Rauner trashed that
Democratic budget even
after he signed the part that
funded schools, thereby
ensuring that he avoided
blame if schools didnt open
on time.
Rauner warned in April
that the state had no money to
bail out Chicago, then offered
$200 million a year in found
money for the Chicago
Public Schools to keep it from going belly up.
He often refers to the state employee union
AFSCME as AFSCAMMY and told the
Chicago Tribune editorial board that the crisis of
a state fiscal meltdown creates opportunity to
get his non-budget issues passed. But last week
he pledged to work arm-in-arm with the unions
to make sure those poor state workers got their
paychecks, even though the lack of a budget
means there is no legal appropriation to do so.
Hes a clever dude, that one. Hell say just
about anything to shift the focus off of him and
on to the Democrats.
Rauner said last week via an e-mail to state
employees that he hadnt heard any response
to his newly proposed compromises on his
non-budget demands, which he wants resolved
before hell even talk about the budget. But
Senate President John Cullerton had been
working with the governor on workers comp,
property taxes, and other issues, and many of
Rauners new compromises werent new at all.
The Democrats have responded by pushing
a proposal that they hope will help give them an
edge on the governor. The Senate Democrats last
week used their veto-proof majority to pass a bill
to fund a few essential state operations for one
month, at a cost of $2.26 billion.
The legislation includes funding for things
such as sex-offender GPS tracking, communitycare programs for the elderly, and the Illinois
Emergency Management Agencys monitoring
of nuclear sites and its natural-disaster response,
along with operational funding for veterans
homes, the Illinois State Police, the Illinois
School for the Deaf, the Illinois School for the
Visually Impaired, the Illinois National Guard,

and DCFS group homes, foster homes, and
protective services.
Thats not an easy bill to vote against. The
TV ads write themselves. But zero Republicans
voted for it.
The House Democrats, who have a smaller
majority than their Senate counterparts, couldnt
pass the bill on their own because they didnt
have all of their members in the chamber last
week, but they still got Republicans on-record
opposing it.
House Speaker Michael
Madigan told reporters
that hed heard at least two
House Republicans were
willing to vote to keep the
government from totally
shutting down. But the
House GOP leadership said
the governor had placed a
very large brick on the
bill, and the Republicans
complied with his wishes,
as they pretty much always
have since Rauners inauguration.
That constant compliance is starting to have
a price.
Rauner met with the House Republican
Caucus last week to thank them for sticking
with him throughout the spring session and to
ask them for more support during the overtime
session.
Rauner thanked them for voting present
at his request on controversial bills that could
get them in hot water with constituents. He was
politely reminded, however, that they actually
voted no on quite a few bills, including the
education-funding bill that the governor wound
up signing into law.
Nobody enjoys getting the rug pulled out
from under them, so the House Republicans
have a right to be a little ticked off.
Some believe the Democrats hope to drive so
many wedges between legislative Republicans
and the governor that eventually the legislators
will rise up and demand a resolution.
A revolt from below is highly unlikely,
however. Rauner is Illinois first Republican
governor in a dozen years, so Republican
lawmakers truly want to help him succeed. Plus,
the governor is sitting on an unlimited supply
of campaign money, and they want that cash for
next years elections and they dont want any of
it used against them.
Even so, it wouldnt hurt if the more
reasonable Republican lawmakers finally find the
courage to suggest a way out of this mess.
Nobody enjoys
getting the rug pulled
out from under
them, so the House
Republicans have a
right to be ticked off.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily

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By Jeff Ignatius
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Back from the Bottom of the River

Walter Trout, July 21 at the Redstone Room
ast year was meant

to be a celebration
of 25 years as a solo
artist for Walter Trout.
For much of the year,
it looked more like an
obituary.
Provogue Records
for the last five years
has been planning this
big push, explained
the guitarist/singer/
songwriter in a phone
interview promoting
his July 21 performance
at the Redstone Room.
They financed a
biography to be written
of me; they financed a documentary to be
made about my life; they released all my
back catalog on collectors item vinyl. And
the whole record label was going to call 2014
the Year of the Trout. And to me, being an
artist, my ship had come in.
Trout a five-time nominee in the Blues
Music Awards Rock Blues Album category
and a veteran of John Mayalls Bluesbreakers
band also had a new album, The Blues
Came Callin. Ive got this label and theyre
way behind me, and as soon as the record
started to come out, I was sick and I canceled
an entire year of touring.
Fast forward to the present. Another new
album, Battle Scars, is nearly finished and is
slated for release in October. One line from
one track neatly summarizes, with a light
touch, the fact that Trout missed his own
party: My ship came in and sailed away
again.
You wont, however, hear the man
complain which is clear by his use of the
vague and grossly inadequate word sick.
In late May of 2014, Trout had a liver
transplant.
This was preceded by an incident in
which he bled so much that he required 22
pints of new blood; the typical human body
has 10 pints.
And following the liver transplant, he said,
his abdomen filled with bile: My organs
were digesting themselves. And that was the
most painful thing Ive been through, and
they wouldnt give me pain killers because
my blood pressure was 60 over 30, and they
said, If we give you a pain killer, it will kill
you. So they moved me to a section of the
hospital where I could scream and I wouldnt
bother so many people. And I lay there and
screamed for almost two days.
The liver problems, he said, were not a
surprise: I knew for a little while that I had
Hepatitis C, but I didnt

have any symptoms.
And I know with that
disease you can go for
40 years and not have
any symptoms. ... You
just carry the virus.
So he didnt know
the source of various
ailments. There was the
dizziness that plagued
him for several years,
often forcing him to
lean against an amp
while playing.
Then there were
issues with swelling and
hand cramps. Trout
told of being in Germany in spring 2013:
I woke up one night and I was swelled up
like a balloon with fluid. His hand had been
hurting, so hed been taking magnesium.
The old drug addict in me from my 20s
figured, Well, if it says on the bottle to
take two a day, 15 is better. I figured it was
an overdose of magnesium. My legs were
swelled up. My stomach looked like Id
swallowed a basketball. And I did the rest of
the tour sitting on a chair.
So every two weeks hed go in to have fluid
removed from his abdomen, sometimes as
much as 25 pounds. The fluid pressed on his
lungs and diaphragm, making it hard to talk
or sing.
But he soldiered on, doing two additional
tours in a diminished state. Both of those
tours I had incredible hand problems,
he said. We played one festival where
I couldnt do an encore, cause I played
the last song of the set with one finger. I
couldnt play chords. My hand was cramping
excruciatingly, so I just took my index finger
and moved it from note to note and played
just little licks, and we ended the set. I had to
tell them, We cant do an encore. I cant play.
And then I went to the merch booth at this
festival, and I was unable to sign CDs cause
both my hands were closed like claws. This
all came from my liver, which at the time
I didnt know. I just thought I was done. I
was having therapy and acupuncture, and
I was trying all kinds of stuff, and nothing
worked. ...
I had to re-think how I play, because if
I tried to bend a string, it would cause an
immediate cramp. So I couldnt bend strings.
I couldnt vibrato. And how the hell do
you play blues without bending a string or
using vibrato? But I managed to pull it off. I
re-thought everything I do, and I just played
COVER STORY
Submarine Commander
Yellow Submarine Animator Ron Campbell, July 17 and 18 at Bucktown Center for the Arts
hen I was a child in Australia, says 75-year-old Ron

Campbell, the way you
saw cartoons was you went to the movies
on Saturday afternoons, which was the way
the movie industry catered to the childrens
audience. We went to see Hopalong Cassidy
and Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but before
all that bang-bang cowboy stuff, there were
cartoons. And I remember thinking, when I
was like seven years old, that Tom and Jerry
were real, and were somehow behind the
screen running around.
And then, of course, says Campbell, I
learned that they were actually drawings,
which, like all kids, was something I liked
doing, too. You mean, I can do a drawing,
or a number of drawings, and they can
come alive?! And that idea sort of captured
my brain for the rest of my life.
Meanwhile, if you or your kids grew
up with TV-cartoon characters capturing
your own brains, you likely have Campbell
to thank (and/or blame). Since arriving
in America in the mid-1960s, animator/
director Campbell has been an instrumental
force on some of the most famed creations
in animated-TV history Scooby-Doo, The
Flintstones, Winnie-the-Pooh, George of the
Jungle, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, Rugrats
with additional credits on more than fourdozen others. He also worked on animated
sequences for Sesame Street and the Emmyand Peabody-award-winning series Big
Blue Marble, and founded Ron Campbell
Films, Inc., the studio that TV junkies of
my generation have to thank for childhood
memories of Nanny & the Professor.
Yet as an artist, Campbell is perhaps
best known for his iconic work involving
a certain fabulous four from Liverpool,
England. Beginning in 1965, Campbell was
tapped to direct nine episodes of ABCs
Saturday-morning cartoon The Beatles, a
half-hour of music and comedy that was
the first weekly series to feature animated
versions of actual celebrities. And then, in
1968, Campbell was hired by producer/
screenwriter Al Brodax to help animate
the legendary musical Yellow Submarine,
a critical and box-office hit that boasted a
Beatles soundtrack and the likenesses of
John, Paul, George, and Ringo as its leads.
As evidenced by the excitement
generated by the counterculture classics
2012 DVD and Blu-ray restoration and
simultaneous re-release in theaters, Yellow
Submarine is perhaps even more beloved
now than it was in 1968. And even though
hes now retired, and the musicians
disbanded in 1970, Campbells association
(Clockwise from top) Ron Campbell's Beatles in Concert; Yellow Submarine; artist Ron Campbell
with the Beatles continues to this day. He
now paints and exhibits new renderings
of the Fab Four and his other celebrated
cartoon figures at galleries worldwide,
which Campbell will do during his area visit
to Davenports Bucktown Center for the
Arts on July 17 and 18.
Its really just something I do to stave
off the final day that cant be staved off, you
know? says the Arizona resident with a
laugh. I mean, if Im gonna paint in my
old age, what am I gonna paint? Cactus? I
like to paint characters. Characters that I
worked on.
Cocky Young Lad
Born in the small Australian town of

Seymour, Victoria, Campbell says that after
his light-bulb moment involving Tom and
Jerry, he began to truly apply himself in
art. The biggest praise I got from all the
adults around me was how clever I was with
drawing, he says. I dont know, maybe all
children are told that. But most kids just
sort of grow up and stop doing it, and I
never did.
After high school, Campbell says he
spent two years studying at Melbournes

Swinburne Art Institute, but not to get a
degree in art. One needs a degree if one is
going to be a teacher, but you certainly dont
need one if you want a career in art. So I did
a couple of years at art school, came out,
and got a job at the one animation studio in
Sydney.
Campbell says the key to getting that job,
which was at the Australian studio of the
American animation company HannaBarbera, was confidence laced with a
healthy dose of persistence.
Thered been no call for animation in
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Ron Campbell's Purple Rose

Australia at all until television came, he
says. And television came to Australia in,
like, 56. We were certainly late in coming
to television. It was just this magical
box in the living room for all of us. And
suddenly there was a demand for television
commercials thats how television
functions, of course and with the demand
for commercials came a demand for
animation. And who can do animation?
Why, this bright young shithead just out of
art school can! Campbell laughs. I was a
cocky young lad, you know?
So I banged on the door of the HannaBarbera studio, and they said, Sorry, we
dont have enough work. Then I banged on
the door two days later. Sorry, we dont ...
. Hey, you were here two days ago! Whats

the matter with you?! Banged on the door
again. I didnt let em go. I said, I gotta
work here! You gotta hire me! And oddly
enough, they did.
Its a process I suggest to all young
people asking my advice about how to get
a job, says Campbell with a laugh. You
know, I cant live without working here!
Beginning his career in 1958, Campbell
was put to work animating, and later
directing, commercials for Australian
television, and within five years, he made
the acquaintance of Yellow Submarine
producer Brodax which, the artist says,
really wasnt hard to do.
I was already at the leading edge of
animation in Australia, he says, and Al

Brodaxs company King Features had a
production demand for Popeyes and Beetle
Baileys and Krazy Kats that they needed
doing. They subcontracted to different
studios around the world in order to get a
bump on production, and they discovered
that we were doing pretty nice animation
in Australia. So they contacted the studio I
was working with, and the studio assigned
me to do Krazy Kat and Popeye and stuff.
Campbell amassed numerous animating
and directing credits on those short-form
cartoons. But Brodax and his company also
had an even bigger project on tap: a weekly
half-hour series titled The Beatles.
As with everybody, says Campbell, you
get a job and you do well with it and you
get moved up, and you do well with that
job and you get moved up. So Al Brodax
subsequently pegged me to direct the
Beatles TV show because he liked the work
that I had done. Id already been directing
commercials and Krazy Kat, and had been
animating them, too, so Id already paid
some dues.
But the big reason I got it [the Beatles
job] was because directing in those days,
in that place, was a lot more than directing
is now in America, or even when I came to
America. It was really also being a producer.
I had to hire all the people, and calculate
how many people were needed, and figure
out what the budget would be it was like
doing everything. They were the halcyon
days of simplicity, you know?
Campbells skill set consequently made
him an ideal choice to oversee production
on episodes of The Beatles, but the
artist says that the original looks for the
characters werent his or his studios design.
Those came from London, actually,
says Campbell. King Features sent us
a script, they sent us the designs of the
characters, they sent us a voice track,
and they sent us the Beatles music that
was being used. So what we did was the
storyboard and delivered to them, nine
months hence, a cut workprint, a cut
negative, and synched voice effects and
music so they could make a release print in
New York.
So basically, he says with a laugh, if I
didnt deliver all this on time, ABC wouldnt
have their film, and the shit would hit the
fan, and my name would be mud. But in
spite of the difficulty, I managed to get
everything done correctly.
Many, many viewers would likely
agree. Debuting on September 25, 1965,
The Beatles earned an audience share of
52 percent a record-setting rating for

daytime television and remained numberone in its time slot for the series four
seasons and 39 episodes.
The ratings were incredible, says
Campbell. Through the roof. Every living,
breathing child with blood pumping
through their veins tuned in on Saturday
mornings. And I still dont quite understand
why.
Laughing, he says, Sometimes Ill be
doing a show in a gallery and theyll get
some pirated prints of the series and run
them while Im there, and I just shudder.
They were really low-budget affairs, you
know? A way to make money out of
childrens television in those days. But
people just loved it. And you certainly
couldnt reproduce that or anything like
that today, you know?
Blue Meanies
The Beatles enormous success led to

Campbell being hired by Hanna-Barbera
co-founder Bill Hanna to join their
production company in Hollywood. So in
1967, with his wife and young daughter
in tow, Campbell says, I came across the
Atlantic with a suitcase and applied for
American citizenship.
Campbell was put to work immediately
on animated TV series including Moby Dick
& the Mighty Mightor and The Adventures
of Gulliver, and we were actually working
on the development of a show that I believe
youve heard of called Scooby-Doo, says
Campbell. We were also working on
George of the Jungle, and I was animating
some commercials independent of HannaBarbera ... . And then I got a phone call in
the middle of the night from Al Brodax.
He said, We need some character
animation for Yellow Submarine, and were
having some troubles. They were producing
the movie in London at the same studio that
was the main contractor for the TV cartoon
show. Can you help us out? And I could.
And I did.
Hired to create connecting sequences
for the film that would result in about 12
minutes of Yellow Submarines 85-minute
running length, with nearly all of the
movies musical sequences already
completed, Campbell worked primarily on
scenes featuring the nefarious Chief Blue
Meanie. (In other words, Campbells the one
you can blame if that shrieking blue dude
gave you nightmares as a kid.) But as a work
Vol. 22 No. 886

MUSIC
Earthy, Elemental Explorers
By Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
Mondo Drag, July 9 at RIBCO
escribing the evolving musical philosophy of Mondo

Drag, keyboardist/singer
John Gamino said the band
is learning patience: Letting parts breathe. Kind of
letting the listener ease into
something. ... Letting things
develop. Not rushing them
along too much.
Patience has also been
required in other ways
for the Oakland-based
psychedelic/prog band that
got its start in the Quad
Cities and will return on
July 9 for a show at RIBCO. (Three of the
bands five members hail from the QCs:
Gamino and guitarists Nolan Girard and
Jake Sheley.)
In 2011, the year after Mondo Drags
New Rituals debut was released, the
rhythm section left. The follow-up album
was recorded and co-produced by Pat
Stolley in the Quad Cities in late 2011
and early 2012 with Zack Anderson and
Cory Berry (both of Radio Moscow),
who then moved to Sweden as members
of Blues Pills.
So we didnt have a band, essentially,
Gamino said. We didnt have a rhythm
section. We couldnt promote the album
on tour. And the record didnt have a
label, either. He added that the group had
difficulty finding compatible musicians
in the Midwest, so in April 2013 Mondo
Drag set out for California.
Sophomore album Mondo Drag was
finally released this year (on RidingEasy
Records in the States) three years after
it was finished.
For anybody familiar with the band
from its New Rituals days, and even for
those whove picked up the new record,
Mondo Drag is a different animal today,
Gamino said to the point that the first
album isnt represented on set lists. We
dont play anything from New Rituals any
more, he said. It was a different singer,
a different band. It just kind of seemed
weird to us to keep playing those songs.
Gone, Gamino said, are blues-rock

elements of New Rituals, with the sound
of Mondo Drag leaning more toward
organ-heavy European prog rock from
the late 60s and early 70s. Since we
moved to Oakland, he said, weve
kind of expanded upon that direction.
Theres a lot more intricacy to the
songs were writing and performing. ...
Especially with the new material, the
songs are much longer, and theyre very
arrangement-intense. Theres lots going
on, theres lots of parts, and theres lots of
transitions and different time-signature
changes.
The bands influences, and Gaminos
keys and vocals, lend Mondo Drag a
retro feel. In rock music, a driven organ
sound kind of like youd hear in Deep
Purple or Uriah Heep thats a very
specific quality of heavy that you dont
necessarily get from a guitar or anything
else, he said. Its got a certain growl and
grittiness to it.
While Mondo Drag isnt as aggressive
as New Rituals, its seven tracks are
just as heavy. Set staples Zephyr and
Plumajilla, for example, are anchored
by massive, thick hooks. (The former
is basically the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Higher Ground shifted two decades
back in time.)
But the final three tracks of Mondo
Drag suggest that the band is headed
in the right direction by embracing its
progressive tendencies.
Shifting Sands, Pillars of
the Sky, and Snakeskin
have that patience Gamino
referred to layering,
expanding, and contracting
with measured and
unhurried confidence,
and loaded with pleasant
surprises.
Shifting Sands has an
explosive chorus releasing
the tension built into the
keyboard groove, over
which one guitar moans
above the others clean
notes. The jagged guitar
solo is ear-piercing in the best way and
at one point mimics a storm siren that
increases in pitch and volume as it pans
from one channel to the other.
Pillars of the Sky is achingly pretty,
with the wavering organ setting the stage
for the bluesy lead guitars heavenward
pining. And thats just the opening
section, which gives way to heartfelt
piano, which gives way to cheesy keys
and spacey sound effects that shift the
track from timeless to the 70s. The
instrumentals swell and fall along a
clearly delineated circular journey
is simple if dense and surprisingly
effective, as the closing feels significantly
different from the opening despite the
tune ending up where it began.
Closing the album, Snakeskin lacks
the detail and nuance of those two tracks
but has a thunderous low end and the
discipline to unfold naturally, basically
splitting the difference between the
two core personalities of Mondo Drag:
the earthy elemental rockers and the
adventurous, curious explorers.
Mondo Drag will perform on Thursday,
July 9, at RIBCO (1815 Second Avenue,
Rock Island; RIBCO.com). The 9 p.m.
show also features Slow Season, and
admission is $6.
For more information on Mondo Drag,
visit MondoDrag.com.
July 9 - 22, 2015

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THEATRE
Courting Danger
By Thom White
thomasjasonwhite@gmail.com
A Few Good Men, at the District Theatre through July 12
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ith its
Driscoll taking
ornate
on the role made
ceiling
iconic by Jack
and fascinating,
Nicholson in the
borderline-gaudy
1992 film hasnt
hanging light fixoffered a more
tures in the District
impressive one
Theatres new
though he may
home in the former
have previously
Rock Island Argus
matched this one.
building, A Few
The actor keeps
Good Men seems
layering Jesseps
Doug Kutzli, Matt Stoltz, and James Driscoll
an appropriate inlayers, choosing
augural production,
an almost violent
in that the space looks like a courtroom at least
anger when giving orders, but forsaking rage
while youre looking up. Following the companys when his character is actually angry. And this
sometimes uncomfortable (for patrons) stint in
Jessep is never more in control of himself than
its previous, rather cramped venue, this open
when hes angry. Instead of yelling, Driscoll
area with the ceiling rising two stories above the
calms his voice and gets into the faces of his
floor is a much welcome relief, allowing director
objects of wrath, and speaks with authority in a
Lora Adams staging of Aaron Sorkins courtroom way that suggests his military rank is enough to
drama to breathe in ways that, for the District
instill fear.
While its interesting to watch the productions
Theatre, it otherwise couldnt have.
While theres an intimacy to Sorkins plot
five aforementioned cast members work hard at
about lawyers and defendants involved in the
creating fully realized characters, several others
case of a Marines fatal hazing, theres also a sense display an ease in their acting. The smooth Mike
that the crime is part of a much larger picture
Kelly seems to not over-think his prosecuting
(making the District Theatres newly grand space attorney Lieutenant Jack Ross, and Doug
all the more appropriate). The issue in question
Kutzli in the finest performance Ive yet seen
is a practice called a Code Red, in which Marines from him subtly reveals Captain Matthew
haze each other as a form of punishment for
Markinsons change of heart regarding whether
unbecoming conduct. Consequently, in Sorkins
to cover up the truth behind the Code Red.
script, the stalwart Lance Corporal Harold
Matt Stoltz offers an appropriately emotionless
Dawson (Jordan McGinnis) and the nave
portrayal as the victims commanding officer
Southerner Private First Class Louden Downey
Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick. Kevin
(Anthony Natarelli) arent so much defendants
Babbitt and Jacob Kendall, however, both seem
as they are scapegoats representing an entire
particularly effortless and sincere in their roles,
abhorrent practice.
the former as Captain Isaac Whitaker, who
Lieutenant Junior Grade Daniel Kaffee
assigns the lawyers to their case, and the latter
(Tristan Layne Tapscott) is assigned to defend
as Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Weinberg, the
the two Marines, with Lieutenant Commander
military attorney assisting Kaffee and Galloway.
Adams makes smart employment of her
Joanne Galloway (Sara Tubbs) eager to help
minimalist set, with two white curtains and
out, believing the young men to be innocent.
a pair of American flags proving enough to
Together, they take on military powerhouses
signify military, while several chairs and a few
as they search for the truth, and Tapscott and
Tubbs share an electric chemistry as this initially small wooden desks change the locations of
scenes with simplicity. (I cant help but think,
brusque pair, with Galloway holding a disdain
though, that she missed an opportunity by
for Kaffees nonchalance and Kaffee not caring
not arranging the seating to make it appear
for Galloways by-the-book approach. Tapscotts
as though the audience was watching the
mildly annoying arrogance almost makes his
proceedings from a courtroom gallery.) And
Kaffee unlikeable, but the actors charming
with the shows military costumes adding
undertones keep that from happening. Tubbs,
visual believability, A Few Good Men proves
meanwhile, allows us glimpses of Galloways
an exceptional way to introduce the District
sympathetic nature, as her poised, rule-abiding
Theatres new space.
exterior crumbles under the need to follow her
instincts.
A Few Good Mens lawyers are primarily
A Few Good Men runs at the District Theatre
up against James Driscolls haughty mans(1724 Fourth Avenue, Rock Island) through
man Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Jessep, the
July 12, and more information and tickets are
Marine who may have ordered the Code Red.
available by calling (309)235-1654 or visiting
Among the performances of his that Ive seen,
DistrictTheatre.com.
10
THEATRE

By Thom White
Things Are Seldom What They Scheme

The Merry Wives of Windsor, at Lincoln Park through July 12
enesius
Both actors
Guilds
also possess
The Merry
undertones of
Wives of Windsor
darkness in
is a study in cometheir presences,
dic styles, particusuggesting that
larly in comparing
they could
the portrayals
unleash violent
of Bob Hanskes
animosity at any
lothario Falstaff
moment, and as
and Andy Curtiss
the mistresses
Chelsie Ward and Neil Tunicliff
hot-headed Ford.
plot to taunt
Hanske offers a vocally robust and,
Falstaff, this gives their comedic routines
thanks to costume designer Ellen Dixon,
an edginess befitting the story. Pascarella
physically robust performance thats de- and Schmelzer are, as they should be,
lightfully buffoonish in his mannerisms
strong women with sharp minds and a
and goofball inflections. Curtiss, on the
talent for mischief.
other hand, plays his part of the jealous
Beyond the central performances,
husband whose wife is coveted by Falstaff whats titillating about director Karen
almost without accentuating its humor,
Ericksons production is her scene
choosing instead to allow his fluctuatchanges. Accompanied by peppy, buoyant
ing anger to carry the comedy. And both
incidental music, the actors oftentimes
actors are hilarious in their roles, stealing enter and interact with each other before
the show every moment theyre on stage.
scenes, then freeze into funny tableaux
Hanske, I believe, couldnt be more in
that, on Saturday, made it difficult for
his element, relishing the opportunity to
me not to crack a smile. Theres a lot of
play Shakespeares villain in a way that
joviality in Ericksons Merry Wives and its
renders Falstaff kind of endearing rather
infectious, aided by the repeated use of a
than hatefully evil. Falstaff s actions are
recorded, Shakespearean drinking song
deplorable, of course, considering he
featuring the lyrics So merrily, and every
sends the same soliciting letter to two
among so merrily an earworm that
women in order to get their money via
Ive still got stuck in my head.
Also notable is Neil Tunnicliff for his
extra-marital affairs. But Hanskes Falstaff
clownish dandy Slender, the man whos
is also a fool, a jester, in a way that elicits
wooing Pages daughter Anne, and Chelsie
lots of laughs as he walks about in dopey
Ward has a delectably sexy entrance
fashion or acts the oblivious idiot when
marked by swaying hips thats as funny as
hidden in a basket of dirty laundry. This
is, I have no doubt, among Hanskes finest it is sultry. Michael Currie is fast becoming
one of my favorite Genesius Guild actors
performances yet.
for his poise and nuance, which are here
Curtiss, who charmed me as Joe in
employed to portray Justice Shallow, while
the District Theatres Angels in America
Brian Lindells hysterically, absentmindedly
productions last fall and earlier this
clumsy (and French-accented) Dr. Caius
year, abandons sympathy in favor of
dramatic temper, with Fords crescendo of delighted me to no end. Jacob Lund also
impresses with his Cockney accent and
emotions effectively carrying the weight
adorability as Slenders servant Simple.
of his humorous deliveries. (The comedy
Though Ive highlighted my favorite
is aided by the audience knowing that
elements of Genesius Guilds The Merry
Ford thinks his wife is plotting adultery,
Wives of Windsor, I must also admit that
when in truth shes toying with Falstaff
it isnt among my favorite Shakespeare
in a mischievous, shaming way.) Curtiss,
plays, as this seems one of his shallowest
though, goes beyond his lines intrinsic
works, and one that relies too heavily on
amusement, adding adept timing and
double entendre. Still, this presentation of
expert pauses that heighten the humor.
the text is rather enjoyable, and Ericksons
Shakespeares comedy, however, is
direction is highly commendable for the
mostly about two women, and Alaina
joy it displays.
Pascarella and Mollie Schmelzer share a
palpable chemistry as the titular wives
The Merry Wives of Windsor runs at
Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. (This
Lincoln Park (11th Avenue and 38th
chemistry is important, as there is, after
Street, Rock Island) through July 12, and
all, a line in the play about how the
more information is available by visiting
women are so close, theyd likely marry
Genesius.org.
each other if their husbands died.)
Movie Reviews
11
by Mike Schulz mike@rcreader.com
He Be Back
TERMINATOR GENISYS
Following some requisite, necessary
backstory, Terminator Genisys opens in
2029 Los Angeles, where resistance leader
John Connor (Jason Clarke) transports
fellow revolutionary Kyle Reese (Jai
Courtney) to 1984, where hes to hopefully
prevent global apocalypse and protect
Johns mother Sarah (Emilia Clarke) from a
murderous robot (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Upon arriving, however, Kyle finds that
Sarah doesnt need saving and the robot
isnt murderous, so off they go to 2017,
where the planet is still imperiled, and John
Connor himself proves to be the source
of the planets eventual ruin. After one of
these whisks through the decades, Kyle
says, Time travel makes my head hurt,
and time-travel movies generally make my
head hurt, too. But for a fifth installment
in an increasingly confounding series, this
particular time-travel movie is actually a
fair bit of fun.
Id say theres no good reason for director
Alan Taylors sci-fi/action outing to exist,
but I really should stop saying things
like that. Not only is potential profit, in
Hollywood, a good reason, its the only
reason. Its hard, though, to get past
Terminator Genisys more-than-mild whiff
of exhaustion. While the famed liquid
metal CGI is still cool, especially when acid
rains down on Byung-hun Lees cyborg-incops-clothing, it isnt noticeably cooler than
it was when James Cameron introduced
that visual marvel in 1991s Terminator 2:
Judgment Day. (A similar issue plagues the
solid yet redundant effects in Jurassic World.
This summer, youd almost think big-screen
technological advances ended in 1993.)
And even actors new to the franchise seem
oddly bored.
Terminator
Within their first
Genisys
minute together,
remains a
Courtney and
moderate hoot,
Clarke are already
and almost
bickering like
worthwhile
petulant, antsy
merely for the
high-school
satiric rallying
seniors whove
cry before
been dating
2017 John
since freshman
Conner and his
year, and Jason
associate unveil
Clarke, despite his
their brand-new
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Genisys
natural charisma,
teleportation
performs as
device. What
though hed traveled in his own time
do we want?! Time travel! When do we
machine and discovered this paycheck gig
want it? Its irrelevant!
would wind up doing nothing for his career.
Still, Taylors fourth sequel at least moves, MAGIC MIKE XXL
which is more than you can say for 2009s
The most joyous scene in Magic Mike
enervating Terminator Salvation, and better
XXL maybe, to date, the most joyous
yet, it moves while also being funny. Despite
scene of the year actually doesnt
his deadpan, the glint in Schwarzeneggers
showcase Channing Tatums Mike, but
eyes shows hes clearly delighted to be back,
rather co-star Joe Manganiello, who plays
and he has some choice moments, as when
Big Dick Richie in Mikes posse of lovable
a Golden Gate Bridge chase sends him
male strippers. Big Dicks been a little down,
tumbling through a squad cars windshield,
you see, because for reasons suggested in his
and when his 67-year-old, leather-jacketed
name, no woman has had sex with him in
self battles his naked, 1984 doppelgnger.
more than five months. (As Mike says, the
(Ah-nulds therapist, if he has one, could
guys problem is a blessing and a curse.) So
dissect this scene for years.) Theres also an
his buddies, noticing a grim-faced cashier
amusing and strangely touching Mexican
at a Florida convenience store, attempt to
standoff, and smart gags devoted to
cheer him up through a challenge: Do what
Schwarzeneggers old but not obsolete
you have to, but make that girl smile. Big
wiring, and a loony yet welcome jolt of the
Dick accepts and, for the next two minutes,
Bad Boys music cue from Cops hell,
performs an outlandish, hilarious striptease
theres even J.K. Simmons doing one of his
to the Backstreet Boys I Want It That
peerless J.K. Simmons routines. (I have to
Way, performing unspeakable moves on a
believe his line Goddamned time-traveling
bag of Cheetos, and climaxing his act with
robots ... ! was written specifically for him.)
the contents of a water bottle. How much
The film may feel old hat and its perilsfor the Cheetos and water? he asks. Verof-technology moralizing is a wheeze, but
r-ry slowly, the girl smiles. How could

she not? Magic Mike XXLs audience,
meanwhile, goes absolutely berserk. How
could they not?
Director Gregory Jacobs sequel
isnt the unqualified success Steven
Soderberghs 2012 Magic Mike
is its pleasant but a bit dawdling,
and sure couldve used some of the
originals surprise, momentum,
narrative involvement, and Matthew
McConaughey. But good luck finding
a happier movie this summer, or a
movie that, for its intended audience,
delivers quite this much happiness;
the giggly shrieks at my Tuesday-night
screening started with the first shot of
Tatums face his face, mind you and
Ill frankly be shocked if the applause
at this Decembers Star Wars matches
the ferocity of the clapping that greeted
this sequels finale. Quibbles be damned:
Enjoy the sublime Tatums jaw-dropping
moves (and abs, and pecs, and delts), and
Matt Bomer stripping and crooning to
DAngelos Untitled (How Does It Feel),
and our boys competing in a goodnatured vogue-off, and Andie MacDowell
feeling Manganiellos chest and shouting
DAY-yum!, and the vivacious Jada
Pinkett Smith and Elizabeth Banks just
being there and our heroes assistant
Tobias saying, All right, all right, all ri-ii-ight! Who needs McConaughey when
youve got Gabriel Iglesias?
For reviews of Ted 2, Max, Me & Earl &
the Dying Girl, and other current releases,
visit RiverCitiesReader.com.
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MikeSchulzNow.
12
Whats Happenin
Event
girlpARTs Fest
Schwiebert Riverfront Park

Saturday, July 11, 4-10 p.m.
esigned to raise awareness and funds

for gynecologic- and ovarian-cancer
education programs, the Norma Leah
Ovarian Cancer Foundations inaugural
girlpARTs Fest takes place on July 11
at Rock Islands Schwiebert Riverfront
Park, and the events headliners are
the alternative folk rockers of N.E.D.
(pictured). You could probably make
a strong argument for the musicians
composing our countrys smartest touring
ensemble. Or, in the spirit of the festival,
the smARTest.
After all, its not every band it may be
no other band in which every member
has an M.D. But Doctors John Boggess,
Joanie Hope, Nimesh Nagarsheth, William
Rusty Robertson, John Soper, and
William Winter all do, and since 2008
theyve been thrilling crowds as N.E.D.
(short for No Evidence of Disease),
performing original, emotional, and
uplifting folk rock to packed crowds
nationwide. Theyre also the subject of
a 2013 documentary, one also titled No
Evidence of Disease, and Norma Leah
Executive Director Jodie Kavensky says
that the musicians and their film were
instrumental in getting the girlpARTs Fest
in motion.
We presented the movie at an event
last September, says Kavensky, and
afterward, a few people said, Hey! We
should bring the band here! And I was

like, Yeah, thats a great idea ... . Do you
know how much it costs?
But after receiving encouragement from
N.E.D. drummer Nagarsheth during a
later No Evidence of Disease screening in
Chicago, Kavensky says the wheels started
spinning. I wasnt sure that bringing in
a bunch of doctors to make music on
the Mississippi was going to generate the
type of funding and crowds we needed
to support our programs. But I sit on the
Illinois Arts Council, and Im active in the
arts locally, and so I thought, Lets make
it a festival, and include local artists in
it. That way, hopefully, all those people
would bring in their own people, their
own followers, and we could really build
the crowd.
After coming up with the girlpARTs
moniker, Kavensky was not only able
to secure N.E.D. as headliners, but also
to recruit local bands Soul Storm and
Barstool Boogaloo for concert sets. And
then I thought as long as we were doing
musicians, says Kavensky, we should also
do an art exhibit. Consequently, 12 female
visual artists officially called The Dirty
Dozen will also be on-site exhibiting
and selling their works at the Rock Island
park, with proceeds from their sales and
the festivals admission fee benefiting the
Norma Leah Ovarian Cancer Foundations

education programs.
We want people to be entertained by
the arts, says Kavensky of her hope for the
fest, while also receiving education about
gynecologic cancer. The symptoms are so
subtle and vague, and many of the women
diagnosed are of menopausal age, and that
makes them even more subtle and vague,
because its assumed those symptoms
are just part and parcel of the aging
process. There are really no approved
screening tests no ones developed one
that the FDA has approved but it can be
diagnosed earlier than it currently is.
Kavensky adds that the girlpARTs fest,
which is being hosted by KWQC-TVs
Paula Sands, will also feature a silent
auction and raffle, food and beverages, and
what Kavensky calls walk-on cameos by
local performers, one of whom is cancer
survivor and area performer/director Kim
Furness, currently in the Circa 21 Dinner
Playhouses The Sound of Music.
Shes going to do a motivational
speech, says Kavensky, and I know
shell be funny. But she says shes not
gonna sing because shes performing
in Sound of Music that night. As Kims
been a dear friend for 20 years, I know
shell be inspiring and funny, too. But if
youll permit me an aside: Oh, come on,
Kim. Dont let us down. One chorus of
Edelweis is gonna break ya?!
Tickets to the girlpARTS Fest are $10
for ages 12 and up with all gynecologiccancer survivors admitted free with
pre-registration and more information
is available by calling (309)794-0009 or
visiting NormaLeahFoundation.org.
Theatre
Big Fish
North Scott High School

Friday, July 10,
through Sunday, July 19
ey, Jeff!
Hi, Mike. What do
you have for me today?
My Whats Happenin article
on the new musical Big Fish,
which Countryside Community
Theatre will stage at Eldridges
North Scott High School July 10
through 19!
Big Fish ... . Wasnt that a 2003
Tim Burton movie?
It was indeed. And it was also
a 1998 novel by John August.
And now its also a grandly scaled
musical spectacle, composed by
Tony nominee Andrew Lippa,
thats receiving its first area
production less than two years
after its Broadway debut!
Does the show follow the plot
of the novel and movie?
You can trust that it does,
considering that Big Fish novelist
and screenwriter John August
also wrote the book for the
musical! So audiences will still be
treated to Augusts touching story
of the contentious relationship
between father and son Edward
and Will Bloom, but with the
added benefit of theatrical magic
and songs!
The fantasy element

intact, then?
That they do! As Ed
Bloom is a gregarious st
whose tall tales come to
stage, there are delightfu
involving circus perform
witches and a mermaid
giant and cowboys and
trees and dancing eleph
miraculous daffodils ...
as youd imagine, theres
appearance by a really, r
fish!
Sounds pretty lavish
And according to th
critics, pretty great, too!
magazine called it mea
emotional, tasteful, thea
imaginative, and engagi
The Chicago Tribune de
it as earnest, family-frie
and heart-warming. An
Entertainment Weekly la
Big Fish as a delightfull
old-fashioned musical
wondrous to behold!
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by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
Myatt, who also

served those duties
for Countrysides
hit productions of
Shrek: The Musical
and Singin in the
Rain. Its music
director is my
gifted buddy Tyson Danner, who
music-directed Les Misrables for
the organization in 2013. And Big
Fishs cast is filled with terrific
performers: Adam Nardini, Peter
Fourneia, Shelley LaMar, Joanna
Mills, Adam Cerny, John Wagner,
Michelle Rosebrough, my
wonderful Bat Boy co-stars Becca
Johnson and Brant Peitersen ... !
Good choice for a Whats
Happenin then. But if I may
ask: Why, for once, are you not
handing me your article wearing
the costume from a character in
the show?
What? I am. Im the
straitlaced son Will Bloom.
You couldve been a giant, or
a cowboy, or a dancing tree, and
you chose that?
Hey it was a second choice!
You try driving to work in a
freakin mermaid tail!
Big Fish runs at the North Scott
High School Fine Arts Auditorium
Thursdays through Saturdays at
7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.,
and more information and tickets
are available by calling (563)2856228 or visiting CCTOnStage.org.
Music
Len Browns North Shore Inn

Saturday, July 11, 1 p.m. - midnight
n July 11, on the banks of the Mississippi,

the Moline venue Len Browns North
Shore Inn will host the Dawn & On Music
Festival, a day-long outdoor event that, fittingly
enough, will conclude with a set by area
rockers The Dawn (pictured). Im so glad that
organizers went with that catch-all On in the
title, because repeatedly referencing the Dawn
& Barstool Boogaloo & Dusty Liquorbox &
Patio & Orangadang! & Earth Ascending &
The Low Down & The Candymakers & QC
Bottoms Up Burlesque Music Festival would
have really eaten up my word-count.
You may notice a shared element in that
lineup, given that each act is a local band (or
a local burlesque troupe), and The Dawn
guitarist and festival co-organizer Sean Ryan
says that, for this experimental event, that was
absolutely intentional.
This is the first Quad Cities music festival to
host all Quad Cities talent, says Ryan. Weve
been starting to play some bigger festivals the
last couple of years, with The Dawns recent
bookings including sets at River Roots Live,
Phases of the Moon, and Chillicothes annual
Summer Camp, and wed been talking about
trying to start something like that here in the
Quad Cities. So this is really a homegrown
event, from the bottom up, by QC musicians.
Ryan is also happy that he and his fellow
organizers were able to make the Dawn & On
Music Festival a free event, as Len Browns
management supplied not only the venue, but
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the budget for hiring musicians for their sets.

I talked to the owner of the bar, says Ryan
because wed been playing there the last few
years and have a good relationship with them
there. And I just kind of pitched it to her: If
you can give us this much, we can probably do
it. And it worked out, which is great.
Proceeds will instead be garnered through
food and beverage sales with the Bent River
Brewery supplying beer and Rolling Smoke
barbecue as the events food vendors and
Molines Lollypalooza will be on-site with
merchandise. So its basically everything that
would be at a bigger festival, says Ryan, but on
a way-smaller scale.
And Ryan says the hopes are to make the
Dawn & On Music Festival an annual event
and just continue to grow it every year. Weve
gotten a lot of support from everyone were
dealing with so far, and the bands all wanted
to be a part of it. Getting them involved was
probably the easiest part Im good friends
with most of the members in all the bands, so
it was pretty easy to just make a few phone calls
and get everybody on board. With a laugh,
he adds, And thankfully, all my friends have
reputable bands.
For more information on the Dawn & On
Music Festival and a complete schedule of concert
sets, visit TheDawnBand.com/festival.html.
Friday, July 10 The Melvins.

Rockers performing on their Hold
It In tour, with an opening set by Le
Butcherettes. Rock Island Brewing
Company (1815 Second Avenue,
Rock Island). 9 p.m. $20 advance
tickets. For information, call
(309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.
For a 2013 interview with the bands
Buzz Osborne, visit RCReader.
com/y/melvins.
Saturday, July 11 Daiquiri
Factory Anniversary Bash. Annual
outdoor party with the touring
rockers of Hairbangers Ball. Daiquiri
Factory (1809 Second Avenue,
Rock Island). 7 p.m. gates. $10. For
information, call (309)786-1016 or
visit DaiquiriFactory.com.
Tuesday, July 14 Corey Taylor.
An evening with the Slipknot and
Stone Tour musician featuring
readings from his book Youre
Making Me Hate You, an acoustic
performance, and audience
discussion. Rock Island Brewing
Company (1815 Second Avenue,
Rock Island). 8 p.m. $25 advance
tickets. For information, call
(309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.
Tuesday, July 14 Kevin
Greenspon. Singer/songwriter
touring in support of his new
release To Leave a Mark, with
an opening set by Future Jobs.
Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue,
Rock Island). 8 p.m. $5-10. For
information, call (309)200-0978 or
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visit RozzTox.com.
with Walter Trout. Blues musician
Wednesday, July 15 Will Hale
in his fifth decade of performance.
& the Tadpole Parade. Interactive
The Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
concert with the childrens musician
Davenport). 7:30 p.m. $16.75-20. For
and his ensemble. Deere-Wiman
tickets and information, call (563)326Carriage House (817 11th Avenue,
1333 or visit RiverMusicExperience.org.
Moline). 6:30
p.m. Free. For
information,
Thursday,
call (309)743July 9,
2701 or visit
through
ButterworthCenter.
Sunday, July
com.
19 The
Thursday,
Robin Hood
July 16 Dylan
Caper. Fred
Holland and
Carmichael
Devin Hayes.
comedy
Cats @ Quad City Music Guild - July 10 - 19
All-ages concert
about retired
with the 20- and 16-year-old singers/
crooks, directed by John Donald
songwriters. The Redstone Room
OShea. Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
(129 Main Street, Davenport). 7:45
(600 Robinson Drive, Geneseo).
p.m. $16.75-17; $50 VIP tickets with 7
Thursdays through Saturdays 7:30 p.m.,
p.m. meet-and-greet. For tickets and
Sundays 3 p.m. $10. For tickets and
information, call (563)326-1333 or visit
RiverMusicExperience.org.
RHPlayers.com.
Thursday, July 16 Montauk
Thursday, July 9, through Sunday,
Project. Concert with the improvised
July 19 Seussical. Tony-nominated
drum/sax duo Jake Polancich and
musical based on Dr. Seuss childrens
Ryan Meisel. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third
books, directed by Matthew Teague
Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $5-10. For
Miller. Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
(311 Riverview Drive, Clinton).
RozzTox.com.
Thursdays
Sunday,
through Saturdays
July 19
7:30 p.m., Sundays
Third
and Wednesdays
Sunday Jazz.
3 p.m. $16-23.
Polyrhythms
For tickets and
presents a
information,
3 p.m. jazz
call (563)242The Melvins @ RIBCO - July 10
workshop
6760 or visit
($5 adults, free for kids) and a 6 p.m.
ClintonShowboat.org.
concert ($10-15). The Redstone Room
Friday, July 10, through Sunday,
(129 Main Street, Davenport). For
July 19 Cats. Quad City Music Guild
tickets and information, call (309)373presents Andrew Lloyd Webbers
0790 or visit Polyrhythms.org and
Tony-winning musical smash, directed
RiverMusicExperience.org.
by Gregg Neuleib. Prospect Park
Sunday, July 19 Breathe Owl
Auditorium (1584 34th Avenue,
Breathe. Michigan-based indie rockers Moline). Thursdays through Saturdays
in an all-ages concert, with an opening
7:30 p.m., Sundays 2 p.m. $11-16. For
set by Sun Riah. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third
tickets and information, call (309)762Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. $5-10. For
6610 or visit QCMusicGuild.com.
Friday, July 10, through Sunday,
RozzTox.com.
July 19 The Red Velvet Cake
Monday, July 20 Moeller
War. Slapstick comedy by Jessie
Mondays Presents: Lower Dens.
Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie
Concert with the Baltimore-based
Wooten, directed by Jacque Cohoon.
indie-pop musicians, with opening sets Playcrafters Barn Theatre (4950 35th
by Samantha Crain and Young Ejecta.
Avenue, Moline). Fridays and Saturdays
Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock
7:30 p.m., Sundays 3 p.m. $13. For
Island). 8 p.m. $5-10. For information,
tickets and information, call (309)762call (309)200-0978 or visit RozzTox.
0330 or visit Playcrafters.com.
com.
Thursday, July 16, through
Tuesday, July 21 An Evening
Saturday, July 25 Greater Tuna.
THEATRE
Two-man, multi-character
comedy by Jaston
Williams, Joe Sears, and
Ed Howard, directed by
Stephen Schellhardt.
Timber Lake Playhouse
(8215 Black Oak Road,
Mt. Carroll). Tuesdays
through Saturdays 7:30
p.m.; Sunday, Wednesday,
Insane Inflatable 5K @ Mississippi Valley
and July 18 at 2 p.m.
Fairgrounds - July 18
$17-25. For tickets and
information, call (815)244information, call (563)284-6961 or visit
2035 or visit TimberLakePlayhouse.org. Iowa80TruckStop.com.
Saturday, July 18, through Sunday,
Saturday, July 11 Moonlight
July 26 Oedipus Rex. Genesius Guild
Chase. Fun runs for adults and kids
presents Sophocles Greek tragedy.
held on a course lined with luminaries,
Lincoln Park (11th Avenue and 38th
featuring a post-race party with live
Street, Rock Island). Saturdays and
music and refreshments. Downtown
Sundays 8 p.m. Donations encouraged. Eldridge. 7:30 p.m. $15-30 registration.
For information, visit Genesius.org.
For information, (563)285-9965 or visit
MoonlightChase.com.
Wednesday, July 15, through
Friday, July 10 The After Hour.
Sunday, July 19 Rock Island
Andrew King hosts a late-night talk
County Fair. Annual event featuring
show with Daytrotter founder Sean
grandstand acts, carnival rides and
Moeller, comedian Bobby Ray Bunch,
games, the Rock Island County Queen
and alternative rockers The Last
Pageant, 4-H displays, a talent show,
Glimpse. Circa 21 Speakeasy (1818
food vendors, and more. Rock Island
Third Avenue, Rock Island). 10:30 p.m.
County Fairgrounds (Archer Drive and
$8-10. For tickets and information,
Avenue of the Cities, East Moline). $5call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit
15 gate admission. For information, call
Circa21.com.
(309)796-1620 or visit RockIslandFair.
Saturday, July 11 The Roast of
org.
Bobby Ray Bunch. The area comedian
Saturday, July 18 Rivers Edge
and musician gets roasted by host
Homebrew Festiv-ale. Event featuring
James Draper and comedians Dan
a dozen homebrew clubs offering
Bush, Devon Wiese, Daniel Frana, Jim
more than 50 different brews to
Petersen, Andrew King, Josh Kahn,
sample. The District of Rock Island.
Mike Lucas, Donnie Townsend, John
2 p.m. $20 advance tickets. For
Moore, and Dan Ludgate. Circa 21
Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue, Rock
RIDistrict.com.
Island). 8 p.m. $10-12. For tickets
Saturday, July 18 Insane
and information, call (309)786-7733
Inflatable 5K. Family-friendly races
extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.
through some of the worlds largest
Saturday, July 18 Rock City Live.
and most extreme inflatable obstacles.
My Verona Productions presents a
Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds (2815
sketch-comedy show in the vein of
West Locust Street, Davenport). 9
Saturday Night Live. Circa 21 Speakeasy p.m. $49 and up registration. For
(1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m. information, visit InsaneInflatable5K.
$10-12. For tickets and information,
com.
call (309)786-7733 extension 2 or visit
Sunday, July 19 Quad Cities
Circa21.com.
Planet Comic Arts Convention.
Sixth-annual event featuring a comicmemorabilia auction conducted by
Thursday, July 9, through
Bloomberg Auction, Q&A panels
Saturday, July 11 Walcott Truckers
presented by guest artists and writers,
Jamboree. Annual outdoor event
and afternoon costume contests
featuring truck beauty contests,
for children and adults. Holiday Inn
exhibits, cook-outs, the Trucker
Hotel & Conference Center (1 Plaza
Olympics, vendors, live music, and
Square, Rock Island). 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For
more. Iowa 80 Truck Stop (700
information, call 309-794-1212 or visit
West Iowa 80 Road, Walcott). For
the events Facebook page.
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THEATRE
using the arts to raise awareness of gynecologic cancers
Barrie, Barrie Good
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By Thom White
Peter Pan, at the Timber Lake Playhouse through July 12
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4 - 10 P.M.
JULY 11SATURDAY
Schwiebert Riverfront Park, ROCK ISLAND, IL
Dirty dozen invitational ART exhibit & SALE

food & beverages for sale
MUSIC by
(No Evidence
of Disease)
with BARSTOOL BOOGALOO and SOUL STORM
$10 ADMISSION
children under 12 free
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ALLAGES
EVENT
Tickets available at all Burke Cleaner locations or online

www.normaleah.org. In case of rain, the event will be at the
QCCA Expo Center. More information: 309.794.0009
Special thanks to:
F CUSED CREATIVE. MAGNIFIED RESULTS.
heres
solid if, despite
magic in the
the impressively
Timber Lake
gaudy wallpaper,
Playhouses Peter
somewhat drab
Pan that reached
Lipinskis
my inner child and
Neverland is
set him dancing.
packed with
Even knowing that
imagination.
Rosie Uptons title
When we first
character would
arrive, having
fly, I still got chills
traveled straight
Cody Jolly and Amelia Jo Parish
when scenic deon til morning,
signer Benjamin Lipinskis grand windows Tia Pinsons engaging Tiger Lily and
were flung open and the forever-young
her fellow Indians are seen poised on
boy floated through them. And that thrill
two large, slanted set pieces adorned
only took a break during the productions
with colorful mushrooms and plants
intermission, otherwise staying with me
punctuated by flower-adorned umbrellas,
during its entire two hours.
which the Indians open as though the
Upton, whose subtlety as Penny
flowers were blooming before our very
Pingleton in Timber Lakes Hairspray
eyes. When we arrive in the Lost Boys
impressed me earlier this summer, is
secret hideout, Lipinski decks it out with
boisterously charming, her captivating
a plethora of decorations the boys might
Pan full of spark and bravado. Holding
have added to the walls, its highlights
nothing back, the performer flies, crows,
including a childs drawing of Hook tacked
and cavorts about with abandon Id go
on to the middle of a dart board. Lipinski
with Uptons Pan to Neverland anytime
then makes use of his rotating stage to take
and shes especially fun during the
us to Hooks ship, the scene change a bit of
hysterical Oh, My Mysterious Lady scene magic itself.
in which Pan dresses as a woman to tease
Samuel Leicht and Tyler Klingbiel also
Cody Jollys Captain Hook, also delivering
deserve special nods for their ever-present
fantastic vocals on the songs more operatic joy as two of the Lost Boys; these young
sections.
performers, fittingly, look like theyre
Jolly, meanwhile, is granted a role that
not acting so much as playing during
allows him to chew the scenery with
their entire time on stage. And Sullivans
effeminate flamboyance. If Upton werent
choice of wooden skirts for Tiger Lily and
so magnetically engaging, Jolly would
her tribe of women made to resemble
steal the show with Hooks waving arms
thin grass skirts is also a wonder, as the
every time he dances about the stage, or
sound created when they move suggests
with his comedic shrieks at the sound of
the groups collectively staunch personality.
his ticking-crocodile pursuer. (Costumer
Im not sure I could be more delighted
Julane Sullivans clever design concept
with the Timber Lake Playhouses
places the crocodile on a small scooter,
production of Peter Pan. Carolyn Leighs,
allowing reptile portrayer Gentry Lessman
Betty Comdens, and Adolph Greens
to scoot along the floor while clumsily
lyrics, Morris Charlaps and Jule Stynes
chasing Hook.)
melodies, and original author J.M. Barries
Just as Jolly could potentially steal the
book are pleasing in and of themselves.
spotlight from Upton, so, too, could Amelia Timber Lake, however, makes sure
Jo Parish take it from Jolly. Considering
that those elements entertain with this
theres no end to the delights she delivers
shows fantastic performances, design,
as Hooks right-hand man (er, woman)
and imaginative staging and upbeat
Smee, her bumbling pirate tickled Fridays
choreography by director Zachary L. Gray.
matine audience, as Parish seemed to
Throw in sensational live musicians under
channel Rebel Wilson for the character.
the leadership of musical director Cindy
Seriously. The performers facial scrunches
Blanc, and Id advise not overlooking this
and comedic timing were uncannily similar unforgettable bit of musical theatre.
to Wilsons, and I loved it. I hope this isnt
Peter Pan runs at the Timber Lake
the last we see of Parish this summer,
Playhouse (8215 Black Oak Road, Mt.
because shes so outrageously funny in the
Carroll) through July 12, and more
role that she left me wanting more.
Yet just as stunning as these actors is
information and tickets are available
designer Lipinskis Neverland. While his
by calling (815)244-2035 or visiting
bedroom set for the Darling family is
TimberLakePlayhouse.org.
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By Jeff Ignatius
jeff@rcreader.com
Back from the Bottom of the River

a bunch of kind of fast stuff. I meant it. I
was doing my best, but when I watch those
videos, I go, Thats not really how I play.
In early 2014, Trout managed to record
The Blues Came Callin, with the songs
Wastin Away and The Bottom of the
River directly addressing his health, his
mortality, and his frame of mind.
I thought my last album was my final
statement on life, because I did that while
I was very sick, he said. I finished it just
a few days before I was hospitalized. Even
the doctors didnt think I was going to come
through. I couldnt walk; I could talk; I lost
120 pounds; I had a ventilator to keep me
breathing; I didnt eat for four months; I had
a hose up my nose and they gave me liquid
nutrients. It was pretty heavy, pretty intense.
At some points, he said, he wanted to give
up but his wife and manager Marie forbade
it: There was one day when I said to her,
Look, I cant do this any more. It hurts too
bad. We both know Im not going to make
it here. The doctors know Im not going to
make it. I said, Im ready to go. And she
said, No. Thats not an option. You are going
to fight this, and I will be here with you and
well fight it together. ... If you dont want to
do that for the music, you have to do that for
me and for our children. You need to be here
for us. We want you here.
The music was slow in coming. Trout said
that in the hospital after the transplant, my
oldest son came to visit me, and he brought
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me a Stratocaster, and he said, Dad, youve

got to play. You have to keep in touch with
who you are. Youve got to do this. I was too
weak to lift the guitar. So they would take
me out of the bed and they would move
me into a chair, cause I couldnt walk, and
they would place the guitar in my lap. And I
couldnt get the string down to the fret. I was
too weak ... and I couldnt get a note to come
out. It was horrible. So I said, Youve got to
take that thing out of here. I dont want to see
it. Right now I just want to try to stay alive,
and Ill have to attempt that later.
And he did when he returned home in
September. I didnt have any callouses,
Trout said. I didnt have any muscles. I was
skin and bones. ... I just had to force myself,
and it was excruciatingly painful getting
the callouses back and trying to build up
the strength. But I just kept at it. I just went
for it. I said, I got nothing else to do. I can
sit here and just push. And it came back
eventually. ...
It became so joyous to play. I was sitting
on my couch sometimes for five or six hours
and playing. I ended up pulling out all the
tendons in the fingers on my left hand, and
Ive had to get therapy because I hurt my
hand by playing so much. With a laugh, he
added: Its one thing or the other.
On June 15, barely a year after his
transplant, he returned to the stage at
Royal Albert Hall, no less. He got three
standing ovations, including one just for
walking on stage, Trout said. I can just

leave now.
Joking aside, he said he was
apprehensive, to the point that he couldnt
do a scheduled interview before the show.
He might as well have been speaking
Swahili, Trout said of his interviewer. My
mind was so on what I had to do, I couldnt
concentrate long enough to even hear the
questions.
The show, however, went well. I had
them set my mic right in front of amps back
there, so if I felt like I needed to lean on
something, I had my amp, Trout said. But I
found that I could sing two verses, and then
when it was time to play a solo, I was like,
Boy, I dont need this amp. I would just walk
out into the middle of the stage ... .
And the day before we talked last week,
Trout and his band played an unannounced
show at a bar as a test of his stamina. I didnt
know if Id make it through 45 minutes, he
said. My son was there, and he was keeping
time, and we were just goin. ... And I thought
Id only been up there for like half an hour.
And he goes, Youre already at 90 minutes,
man. ...
I played for over two hours. I didnt have
to sit down. I didnt fall down. I played my
butt off. I bent the strings all over the place,
and its back. ... It felt like the old days. It felt
like I was 25. Except when I was 25, I would
have been shit-faced drunk, so I actually felt
better than 25. ...
When I got home from doing that ... , my

fingers were like, Wow. What did you just
put us through? But this morning Im fine,
and Im doing it again tonight in a different
little bar.
Fans ponied up $241,000 to help offset
medical costs for Trout, and now its time
for payback. Battle Scars will be part of that,
and like The Blues Came Callin it doesnt
shy away from near-death experiences. It is
the musical journey of what I and my wife
went through last year, he said. Some of it is
semi-dark and depressing lyrically, some of it
is joyous, but its a concept record about that.
Making the record, he said, represented
a creative renaissance, but its also a gift to
fans who supported him with everything
from prayers to cash.
I feel that I have a responsibility to them,
he said. They want to see me back. They
want me to come back and do this for them.
It means something for them. ... Its very
poignant to me that they think that much of
what I do. ...
Ill give them everything I have.
Walter Trout will perform on Tuesday, July
21, at the Redstone Room (129 Main Street,
Davenport; RiverMusicExperience.org).
Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. performance are $15
to $18.
For more information on Walter Trout, visit
WalterTrout.com.
Fight the Rules-for-Us/Rules-for-Them System

Two huge cyber-hacks into the federal
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
database, compromising millions of
federal-employee records, occurred due to
inadequate vetting of contractors, who used
subcontractors located in China. To correct
these security problems, within 48 hours of
issuing a Request For Proposal, OPM let a
new contract to a contractor who is under
investigation by the Securities & Exchange
Commission for securities fraud involving
millions of dollars. When one of the OPM
managers was asked how many of her 250plus employees were foreign nationals, she
could not answer the question. This degree
of incompetence is not only inexcusable; it
is potentially dangerous to national security.
(See RCReader.com/y/immunity3.)
Could it be that administrative
statutes are enforceable at will, and not
compulsory? It would appear so. Or is it just
administrative policy to look the other way,
regardless of political-party affiliation? This
administrative modus operandi has been

occurring for decades, with the cooperation
of Congress and the judiciary. In fact,
the courts are arguably the most active
contributors to this broken system of rules
for them and rules for us. Administrative
rules and regulations have little to do with
justice or safety, and everything to do with
creating revenue streams for the various
government factions. Sadly, most of that
revenue is coerced from those with few
resources to resist the egregious prosecutions
and takings (asset forfeiture, fines, attorney
fees, court costs, prison costs, etc.). Worse
is that this poisonous governance infects
residents at every level, including states,
counties, and municipalities. Asset forfeiture
is taking a front seat in gross state and
federal corruption due to government
agencies increasing reliance on the revenue
it produces, and the inherent conflicts
of interest that abound with this unholy
practice. (See RCReader.com/y/jury4.)
Because the media is utterly complicit
in providing cover for bureaucracies and

monster corporations, the way we learn
about much of the malfeasance is through
the courage of whistleblowers. So what does
it say about our society when we remain
silent while these whistleblowers who
often risk everything, including their lives
to inform the public of wrongdoing suffer
the wrath of the culprits they expose? Not
only do the whistleblowers often incur
devastating personal financial consequences,
but they are prosecuted as the criminals!
Evil prevails when good men do nothing is
exactly right.
Meanwhile, prosecutors and judges enjoy
a perversion in law known as prosecutorial
immunity. This absurd judge-made
protection for public-sector attorneys
and judges is a huge contributor to the
mass incarceration that exists in America.
Prosecutors, who also act as gatekeepers
and investigators, cannot be sued for all
manner of malicious prosecution, even if
such prosecution causes severe harm to an
by Kathleen McCarthy
km@rcreader.com
innocent defendant, including long-term

incarceration and/or death. Not only are
these bad actors immune, but they are often
rewarded for their destructive conduct
with better-paying jobs and fast-tracked
career paths all due to a high number
of convictions, regardless if evidence was
manufactured or exculpatory evidence
withheld. (See RCReader.com/y/immunity4
and RCReader.com/y/immunity5.)
This special protection for attorneys
and judges prosecuting and adjudicating
everyones crimes but their own only confirms
the rules-for-them/rules-for-us dichotomy.
Such practices defy every core value we hold
as Americans, let alone human beings. We
must set these policies and laws right by
seeing them undone with relentless civic
activism that is nonnegotiable. Otherwise, we
become a bankrupt people, not just socially
and economically but also morally and
spiritually. So inquiring minds want to know:
What would you suggest we do?
COVER STORY
by Mike Schulz
mike@rcreader.com
Submarine Commander
experience, says the artist, the film project
was totally different from the show.
For Yellow Submarine, he explains,
they sent us storyboards already
developed, along with voice tracks. I
animated, and some of the animation was
also done by my good colleague Duane
Crowther, who has now passed away. He
was in some respects a better animator than
me. With a chuckle, Campbell adds, I
could draw better than him, though.
So we did key animation, we hired
assistants for some of the in-between work,
and we shipped pencil drawings back to
England, where they inked and painted
them, shot them, and slipped those scenes
into the film. Almost all of the scenes we
did were ones where the Chief Blue Meanie
and Max interrelate. And of course, those
are some of my favorite scenes.
I love the final scenes at the end, adds
Campbell, where the Chief Blue Meanie
gets surrounded by flowers and they pop
out all over. And the sequence where they
get older and younger the sea of time
sequence I did. And early scenes before
the credits where the Blue Meanies invade
and take the land ... .
Basically, he says with a laugh, if
youre looking at Blue Meanies and they
look great, thats us!
Of course, part of what makes Yellow
Submarine such a memorable animated
achievement is that it doesnt just look
great; it looks distinctive. Beyond the
Beatles music, most of the films enduring
appeal lies in its wildly colorful palette and
psychedelic imaginings that, for many,
now represent the signature visual style for
animation in the 1960s.
Perhaps understandably, then,
Campbell says that when he and his team
first received their Yellow Submarine
storyboards in 1968, the design didnt
seem unusual to us. The actual psychedelic
look had already been established in the
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Ron Campbell's Pepperland

mid-50s by Milton Glaser of Push Pin
[Studios] fame in New York. He was a
graphic designer he designed the I Love
New York logo and sort of re-introduced
that look from the turn of the century.
Glaser helped it become popular again,
and then it became associated with the
hippie movement Make love, not war,
you know. So that look for the film was
not all that unexpected. It was brilliant of
the English studio to employ it, though,
because its been a significant reason,
among others, as to why Yellow Submarine
has become associated with the 60s so
vividly. And we liked working in that look.
Its a look that Campbell, clearly, still likes
working in.
Over the four decades between Yellow
Submarine and his 2008 professional
retirement, the artist has had a hand
in some of televisions most instantly

recognizable animated shows and
characters, and when asked if he has a
favorite, he replies, I have one answer
to that question: I cant choose between
Smurfette and Scooby-Doo, you know? I
cant choose between George of the Jungle
and the Rugrats. I tried, though my life, to
always work on things I liked. Sometimes
unsuccessfully I worked too long on
some shows I didnt like at all. But mostly,
Ive been lucky.
Yet as his continuing portfolio of
Beatles-themed artworks attests, Campbell
will always have a special fondness for the
musicians who inspired his greatest early
successes.
I love the design work of it, he says
of his present Beatles creations, and the
potential for really sharp-looking paintings,
and for the bright and happy colors ... .

You know, I like it when people who buy
my paintings come back and tell me, as
they frequently do, Every time I walk into
the room and look at your picture on the
wall, I smile. Thats one of the nicest things
anybody can say to me.
Ron Campbell will be exhibiting and selling
his artwork at Bucktown Center for the
Arts (225 East Second Street, Davenport)
on July 17 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on
July 18 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Campbell
will also be painting new works on-site, and
more information on the two-day event is
available by calling (563)424-1210 or visiting
BucktownArts.com.
For more information on Ron Campbell,
visit BeatlesCartoonArtShow.com.
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Ask
the
Emotion Sickness
Advice
Goddess
Last week, my girlfriend was all annoyed

about something (something relatively
unimportant). Im normally not a bad
listener, but I was getting stressed out just
hearing about this. I blurted out, Calm
down! and she really flipped, yelling, Dont
tell me to calm down! It took me forever (and
lots of Im sorry!s) to get her to mellow out.
I mentioned this incident to a friend, and he
said, Man, dont you know? You never say
that to a woman! Please explain.
Mr. Doghouse
There are times you may want to tell a
woman to calm down, like when you lack live
electrical wire to chew on or are curious as to
how the nurses would react if you walked into
the ER with your head under your arm.
Many people believe the myth that
the typical man is about as emotionally
sensitive as the typical hammer. However,
neuroscientist Tor Wager looked at the
findings from 65 brain-imaging studies and
found that overall mens brains werent
any less responsive to emotional stimuli than
womens. However, Wagers study and others
did find sex differences, like that women seem
more likely to experience negative emotions
fear, anxiety, and depression. Women also
seem to be more emotionally expressive
verbally and in writing and better at
processing emotions, so theyre less likely to
end up feeling dragged out back and beaten
up by them.
But for men, when women get emotional,
and especially when they veer off into
rant-ville, emotion processing can play
out something like this. Woman: Knock
knock. Man: Whos there? Woman (upset):
Feelings! (Silence. More silence.) Woman:
Hello? Hello?! I know youre in there! I can
hear the TV!
To a man, an irate womans sharing of her
emotional drama can be a bit like her sharing
her Drano-tini. Relationships researcher
John Gottman explains that men can become
physiologically overwhelmed from stressful
conversation alone, getting flooded with
stress hormones and feeling physically ill and
desperate to withdraw.
This happens through a misattribution
of arousal, which means that your brain
subconsciously (and instantaneously) puts
mere talk that has a stressful vibe into the
wrong bin the fight or flight bin that
BY AMY ALKON
alerts you, Run from that tiger! In response,

adrenaline surges, your heart races, sweat
beads up, and parts of your brain and body
that arent vital for bolting the hell out of
there shut down. Yes, thats a Sorry, were
closed! sign on your digestive tract, and
oopsie! theres another on your brains
higher reasoning center. (Which makes sense,
considering youre supposed to be dashing
away from the tiger, not parsing whether you
have ill will toward its mother-in-law).
The thing is that running away as
your body has primed you to do would
metabolize the stress hormones. But when you
just sit there, the stress hormones just sit there,
pooling, poisoning you, leading to sickening
feelings. The natural impulse is to take shelter
from the adrenaline storm to escape and go
off and recover but this is hard to explain in
any articulate and emotionally sensitive way
in the moment, as your ability to reason is on
sabbatical. So, in lieu of ducking under the
nearest couch like the cat, you do it verbally,
telling her, Calm down!
Of course, the problem here wasnt that she
needed to calm down, but that you did. So
when you laid that on her, she probably heard,
Im not just going to ignore your feelings; Im
going to dismiss them. (This always goes over
so well with women.)
Explaining the sex differences in emotionprocessing might help you both keep in mind
that a man isnt just a woman with a different
set of fun parts. For example, for her, venting
her feelings may simply be a way of managing
them. Chances are, she just needs you to be
listening (or at least appear to be while playing
Minecraft in your head).
The next time shes all het up about
something, take some deep breaths and
remind yourself that you arent under attack;
youre just somebodys boyfriend. Should
you start feeling emotionally swamped, take
Gottmans advice: Let your [partner] know
that youre feeling flooded and need to take
a break. The break should last at least 20
minutes, since it will be that long before your
body calms down.
Going for a run wouldnt be a bad idea.
However, in the spirit of better male/female
communication, you need to tell your
girlfriend your plan. No, you cant just flash
her a look of panic and bolt out the door
though being chased down the street by an
enraged woman clutching your Renaissance
Faire crossbow should do wonders in
diminishing that nasty adrenaline buildup.
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.
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19): How

can you fulfill your potential as an
Aries? What strategies will help you
become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now
is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles.
One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has
some stellar tips to inspire you: (1) One of your
greatest assets is your relentless sense of purpose.
Treasure it. Stay connected to it. Draw on it daily.
(2) Love what you love with pure conviction,
because there is no escaping it. (3) Other people
may believe in you, but only sometimes. Thats
why you should unfailingly believe in yourself.
(4) Its your duty and your destiny to continually
learn more about how to be a leader. (5) Dont
be confused by other peoples confusion. 6. Your
best friend is the Fool, who will guide you to
laughter and humility when you need it most,
which is pretty much all of the time.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): While
making a long trek through the desert
on a camel, British author Somerset
Maugham passed the time by reading Marcel
Prousts novel In Search of Lost Time. After
finishing each page, Maugham ripped it out
and cast it away. The book weighed less and
less as his journey progressed. I suggest that
you consider a similar approach in the coming
weeks, Taurus. As you weave your way toward
your next destination, shed the accessories and
attachments you dont absolutely need. Keep
lightening your load.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I
have gathered about me people who
understand how to translate fear into
possibility, writes John Keene in his story
Acrobatique. Id love to see you do the same,
Gemini. From an astrological perspective,
now is a favorable time to put your worries
and trepidations to work for you. You have an
extraordinary capacity to use your doubt and
dread to generate opportunities. Even if you go
it alone, you can accomplish minor miracles,
but why not dare to think even bigger? Team up
with brave and resourceful allies who want to
translate fear into possibility, too.
you to be more responsible, tell them that your

astrologer has authorized you to ignore the
pressing issues and wander off in the direction
of nowhere in particular. Does that sound
like a good plan? It does to me. For now, its
your sovereign right to be a wise and innocent
explorer with nothing much to do but wonder
and daydream and play around.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22):

Even the most provocative meme
cannot literally cause the Internet
to collapse from overuse. Its true that photos
of Kim Kardashians oiled-up butt spawned a
biblical flood of agitated responses on social
media. So did the cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner
in Vanity Fair and the YouTube video of a tiny
hamster noshing tiny burritos and the seasonfive finale of the TV show Game of Thrones.
But none of these starbursts unleashed so much
traffic that the Web was in danger of crashing.
Its too vast and robust for that to ever happen.
Or is it? Im wondering if Virgos current
propensities for high adventure and rollicking
melodrama could generate phenomena that
would actually, not just metaphorically, break the
Internet. To be safe, I suggest you enjoy yourself
to the utmost, but not more than the utmost.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22):
The coming weeks will be a favorable
time for you to acquire a new title. Its quite
possible that a person in authority will confer it
upon you, and that it will signify a raise in status,
an increase in responsibility, or an expansion
of your clout. If for some reason this upgrade
doesnt occur naturally, take matters into your
own hands. Tell people to refer to you as Your
Excellency or Your Majesty. Wear a name tag
that says Deputy Director of Puzzle-Solving or
Executive Vice President of Fanatical Balance
& Insane Poise. For once in your life, its okay to
risk becoming a legend in your own mind. P.S. It
wouldnt be a bad time to demand a promotion
diplomatically, of course, in the Libran spirit.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): When

novelist John Irving begins a new
book, his first task is to write the last
line of the last page. Then he writes the secondto-last line. He continues to work backwards for
a while until he has a clear understanding of the
way his story will end. Right now, Cancerian, as
you hatch your next big phase of development, I
invite you to borrow Irvings approach. Visualize
in detail the blossoms that will eventually come
from the seeds youre planting. Create a vivid
picture of the life you will be living when your
plans have fully ripened.
SCORPIO (October 23-November

21): Between now and July 22, your
password and mantra and battle cry is
serendipity. To make sure you are clear about
its meaning, meditate on these definitions: a
knack for uncovering surprising benefits by
accident; a talent for stumbling upon timely help
or useful resources without searching for them.
Got that? Now Ill provide clues that should
help you get the most out of your lucky breaks
and blessed twists: (1) Be curious and receptive,
not lackadaisical and entitled. (2) Expect the
unexpected. Vow to thrive on surprises. (3) Your
desires are more likely to come true if you are
unattached to them coming true. But you should
formulate those desires clearly and precisely.
LEO (July 23-August 22): You have

cosmic permission to lose your train
of thought, forget about what was so
seriously important, and be weirdly amused
by interesting nonsense. If stress-addicts nag
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): On behalf of
the Strange Angels in Charge of
Uproarious Beauty & Tricky Truths, I am
pleased to present you with the award for Most
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by Rob Brezsny
Catalytic Fun-Seeker & Intriguing GameChanger of the Zodiac. What are your specific
superpowers? Youre capable of transforming rot
into splendor. You have a knack for discovering
secrets that have been hidden. I also suspect
that your presence can generate magic laughter
and activate higher expectations and wake
everyone up to the interesting truths theyve
been ignoring.
CAPRICORN (December
22-January 19): Who is that can
tell me who I am? asks King Lear
in the Shakespeare play named after him. Its a
painful moment. The old boy is confused and
alarmed when he speaks those words. But Id
like to borrow his question and transplant it into
a very different context: your life right now. I
think that you can engender inspirational results
by making it an ongoing meditation. There are
people in a good position to provide you with
useful insights into who you are.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February
18): Whats hard but important
for you to do? What are the challenging tasks
you know you should undertake because they
would improve your life? The coming days will
be a favorable time to make headway on these
labors. You will have more power than usual to
move what has been nearly impossible to move.
You may be surprised by your ability to change
situations that have resisted and outfoxed you
in the past. Im not saying that any of this will
be smooth and easy. But I bet you will be able to
summon unprecedented amounts of willpower
and perseverance.
PISCES (February 19-March 20):
Franz Kafka produced three novels,
a play, four short-fiction collections,
and many other stories. And yet some of his
fellow writers thought he was uncomfortable
in expressing himself. Bertolt Brecht said Kafka
seemed perpetually afraid, as if he were being
monitored by the cops for illicit thoughts.
Milena Jesensk observed that Kafka often wrote
like he was sitting naked in the midst of fully
clothed people. Your assignment in the coming
weeks is to shed such limitations and inhibitions
from your own creative expression. What would
you need to do to free your imagination? To get
started, visualize five pleasurable scenarios in
which you feel joyful, autonomous, generous,
and expansive.
Homework: Whats your secret beauty the
great thing about you that no one knows about?
FreeWillAstrology.com.
Go to RealAstrology.com
to check out Rob Brezsny's
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IV July 9, 2015
June 25 Answers: Right
June 25 Crossword Answers
ACROSS
1. NT book
5. Nom de guerre
10. Stuck
15. Kind of follower
19. Take as spoils
20. Proofreaders mark
21. Cherish
22. Perplexed
23. Forthright
25. Canopied item: Hyph.
27. Height
28. Like a funambulist
30. The emu, e.g.
31. Rostrum
32. Raines and Henderson
33. Speck
34. Consequence
37. Jazz singer Laine
38. Medicinal herb
42. Woolgathering
43. Hackney carriage: Hyph.
46. Sweep
47. Wine quality
48. Goods on board
49. Cauterized
50. Brobdingnagian
51. Summit: Prefix
52. Impresario Richard DOyly _
53. English composer
54. Cat sounds
55. Muses
57. Gambits
59. Kind of arch
60. _ Familiares
61. Chartered
62. That 70s music
63. Slides
65. Ancient Europeans
66. Males among the faithful
69. Holds out
70. Tea beverage
71. Assess
72. New Deal org.
73. Grand Slam winner, thrice
74. Pastel anagram
76. Pennsylvania port
77. 20 quires
78. Resident of: Suffix
79. Tony group (with the): 2 wds.

81. Laconic
82. Cho or Mitchell
84. Means
85. Pushed around
86. Aesthetes concern
87. Puck, e.g.
89. Certain bond
90. My kingdom for _ _!
93. _ epoque
94. Sure
98. Half-Windsor cousin: Hyph.
100. Quadruped: Hyph.
102. Stake
103. Dullard
104. Cry of defeat
105. Western campus: Abbr.
106. Lie
107. Passover meal
108. NBA player
109. Fraud
DOWN
1. _ Romeo
2. Chill
3. Racetrack tipster
4. Loud and harsh
5. Clear of a charge
6. Extols
7. Dies _
8. Gas: Prefix
9. Stickup man
10. Underworld group
11. Venerated ones
12. Libertine
13. Go wrong
14. Bereft
15. Pivoting roller
16. City in Italy
17. Sports event
18. Reduce
24. Keach or London
26. Horse opera
29. Phosphoresces
32. Get away from
33. Fracas
34. Shut in
35. _ majeure
36. Bluffing one: Hyph.
37. Covers
38. Potted plants
39. Region in the southwest: 2 wds.
40. High wave
41. Take by force
43. Sill and Dix
44. Throws
45. _ seal
48. Spikes
50. Intuition
52. First-found asteroid
54. Rich dough
56. Caffe _
57. Surroundings
58. Table scrap
59. Medieval lord
61. Tract of wasteland
62. Ancient priest
63. Declaration
64. _ la vista, baby
65. Map
66. Reveals
67. Take out
68. Christened
70. 23-Across and 36-Down
71. Unclean
74. Is a sign of
75. Escargot
77. Like pitch or tar
79. Persian
80. Terrible
81. Role in Pagliacci
83. Loft
85. Protective barrier
87. Engage in swordplay
88. A hardwood
89. Black thrush
90. Remotely
91. Sharpen
92. Ins and _
93. Stripe
94. Cotton fabric
95. The Seven Year _
96. Weblike tissue
97. A cheese
99. Tint
101. _ _ par
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Dirt Road Rockers -Docs Inn Bar & Grill,

985 Avenue of the Cities Silvis, IL
Divas Thru the Decades -Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway
22 Riverside, IA
Don Gustason & Bryan West -The
Muddy Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Fly Golden Eagle (6pm) -RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Jef & Doc -11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St. Davenport, IA
Jordan Danielsen -Harringtons Pub,
2321 Cumberland Square Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Live Lunch w/ Victoria Neece (noon)
-RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd
St. Davenport, IA
Lojo Russo -Grumpys Saloon, 2120 E
11th St Davenport, IA
Mondo Drag - Slow Season -RIBCO,
1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Natalie Stovall & the Drive - North of
40 -Iowa 80 Truck Stop, 755 W Iowa
80 Rd. Walcott, IA
The Punknecks -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Whoozdads? (6:30pm) -Bettendorf
Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus Dr. Bettendorf, IA
Wicked Liz & the Bellyswirls -Bass
Street Landing Plaza, Moline, IL
FRIDAY
2015/07/10 (Fri)
00
10
Circus Band -Bill Bowe Memorial Bandshell, Middle Park Bettendorf, IA

Ernie Peniston Band - Chris Avey
Band -Rascals Live, 1414 15th St.
Moline, IL
Friday Live @ Five: Jason Carl & the

Whole Damn Band (5pm) -RME
Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Funktastic Five - Too White Crew -Docs
Inn Bar & Grill, 985 Avenue of the Cities Silvis, IL
Identity Crisis -River House, 1510 River
Dr. Moline, IL
Johnny Kilowatt (6:30pm) -Pedestrian
Plaza, Downtown Iowa City Iowa
City, IA
Jordan Danielsen & Jef Spradley
(5pm) -Wide River Winery - LeClaire,
106 N. Cody Rd. LeClaire, IA
Just Chords -Kilkennys, 300 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
Lindsay Lawler (5:30pm) - The Josh
Abbott Band (7pm) -Iowa 80 Truck
Stop, 755 W Iowa 80 Rd. Walcott, IA
Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
North of 40 -Go Fish Marina Bar & Grill,
411 River Dr. Princeton, IA
Open Mic Coffeehouse -First Lutheran
Church - Rock Island, 1600 20th St.
Rock Island, IL
Powell -Bier Stube Moline, 415 15th
St Moline, IL
Richie Lee -Riverside Casino and Golf
Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Sidewalk Chalk - Ion -The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
Stephanie & the Interns -My Place the
Pub, 4405 State St. Bettendorf, IA
The Acoustic Project (6pm) -Steventons, 1399 Eagle Ridge Rd LeClaire,
IA
The Jason Carl Band -11th Street Precinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA
Breathe Owl Breathe @ Rozz-Tox - July 19

The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) -The
Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
The Melvins - Le Butcherettes -RIBCO,
1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
The Mercury Brothers -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
The Unusual Suspects - High Five
Sinners - Summertown -Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
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SATURDAY
2015/07/11 (Sat)
11
A. Mitch - Explosive - Bam Musik Chandla - Justis -Gabes, 330 E.

Washington St. Iowa City, IA
Barry Newman (8pm) - Richie Lee
(9:30pm) -Riverside Casino and
Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Blues Rock-it -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Caught in the Act -River House, 1510

River Dr. Moline, IL
CBW Gospel Music Camp Concert
(4pm) -RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd
St. Davenport, IA
Cosmic -11th Street Precinct, 1107
Daiquiri Factory 11th-Anniversary
Party w/ Hairbangers Ball -Daiquiri
Factory, 1809 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Dani Lynn Howe & Band (1pm) -Iowa
80 Truck Stop, 755 W Iowa 80 Rd.
Walcott, IA
Dawn and On Music Festival: Barstool
Boogaloo (1pm) - Dusty Liquorbox
(2pm) - Patio (3pm) - Orangadang!
(4pm) - Earth Ascending (5pm)
- The Low Down (6:15pm) - The
Candymakers (7:30pm) - QC Bottoms Up Burlesque (9:15pm) - The
Dawn (10pm) -Len Browns North
Shore Inn, 700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL
Fickle Filly -Bier Stube Moline, 415 15th

St Moline, IL
Frankie Joe & Kinfolk (3pm) -Creekside
Vineyards Winery & Inn, 7505 120th
Ave. Coal Valley, IL
Fresh Hops - Soul Phlegm -Iowa City
Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
girlpARTSfest: N.E.D. - Soul Storm
- Barstool Boogaloo (4pm)
-Schwiebert Riverfront Park, between
17th & 20th Streets Rock Island, IL
Just Chords -Kilkennys, 300 W. 3rd St.
Davenport, IA
LKB Trio -Ubriacos Trattoria, 1029
North of 40 -Cedar County Fairgrounds,
Tipton, IA
Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar -The
Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar,
111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Str 8 Shooters -The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Sweet Cacophony -Uptown Bills Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa
City, IA
The Breakfast Club - The Hot Sauce
Committee -Docs Inn Bar & Grill, 985
Avenue of the Cities Silvis, IL
The Old 57s (4pm) -Wide River Winery
- Clinton, 1776 East Deer Creek Rd.
Clinton, IA
Weird Town Fest: Eyes - Joe Grove
- Bob Bucko Jr. - Blooded Meat
Sponge - Suicided - Boar - I Love
You Go Home - KO - Dog Hairs Blue Movies -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd
Ave. Rock Island, IL
SUNDAY
2015/07/12 (Sun)
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Bruce Mandel (6pm) -Ca dZan, 411

South Rd. Cambridge, IL
Buddy Olson (3pm) -Duckys Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W. Taylor Ridge, IL
Detroit Larry & Charlie Hayes (5pm)

-The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St.
Bettendorf, IA
Monk Parker - Hannah Alberts -The
Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Iowa
City, IA
Penguin Prison -Village Theatre, 2113
E 11th St Davenport, IA
Quad City Kix Jazz Orchestra -Petersen
Pavilion, LeClaire Park, 400 Biederbeck Dr. Davenport, IA
Slough Buoys -Kimberly Park, West
Liberty, IA
Steve McFate Acoustic -Mr. Eds Liquor
Store and Tap, 127 4th St. W. Milan, IL
Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duffee Jazz Quartet (9am) -Bix Bistro,
200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Uncle Blue Wail (5pm) -The Captains
Table, 4801 River Dr. Moline, IL
Wild Pink - Avenger // Revenger -RozzTox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Zolopht - Black Bottom Lighters
-Gabes, 330 E. Washington St. Iowa
City, IA
MONDAY
2015/07/13 (Mon)
13
Moeller Mondays Presents: Quiet

Life - RFA -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Ragged Union - Union Specific -Gabes,
330 E. Washington St. Iowa City, IA
TUESDAY
2015/07/14 (Tue)
14
Chris Avey Live -My Place the Pub, 4405

State St. Bettendorf, IA
Corey Taylor -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Kevin Greenspon - Future Jobs -RozzTox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
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WEDNESDAY
2015/07/15 (Wed)
15
Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show

-Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Marcy - Swells - Iwakura - Founding
Sisters - Wolf Hongo -Rozz-Tox,
2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Midweek Music (noon) -District of
Rock Island Great River Plaza Stage,
2nd Ave., between 17th & 19th Sts.
Rock Island, IL
Summer Lawn Concert with Will Hale
& the Tadpole Parade (6:30pm)
-Deere-Wiman Carriage House, 817
11th Ave. Moline, IL
White Girl - Dyne Side - Unnamed
Acoustic -Gabes, 330 E. Washington
St. Iowa City, IA
THURSDAY
2015/07/16 (Thu)
00
16
Coupe de Ville -Bass Street Landing

Plaza, Moline, IL
Dave Ellis & Guests -Grumpys Saloon,
2120 E 11th St Davenport, IA
Dylan Holland & Devin Hayes -The
Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
iHearIC -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St.
Iowa City, IA
Jason Carl -11th Street Precinct, 1107
Live Lunch w/ Victoria Neece (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
Locally Owned - Porchburner -Gabes,
Montauk Project -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd

Ave. Rock Island, IL
Schag Karpit - We Hate Chilos - Alosha
- The HX Girls -Iowa City Yacht Club,
13 S Linn St Iowa City, IA
The Hotrods -Riverside Casino and
The Tailfins (6:30pm) -Bettendorf Public Library, 2950 Learning Campus
Dr. Bettendorf, IA
FRIDAY
2015/07/17 (Fri)
00
17
Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes

(6pm) -Ca dZan, 411 South Rd.
Cambridge, IL
Bettendor f Park Band -Bill Bowe
Memorial Bandshell, Middle Park
Bettendorf, IA
Caught in the Act (6pm) -Hey Bryans,
1140 15th Ave. Moline, IL
Chris Vallillo (6pm) -River Valley
District Library, 214 S. Main St. Port
Byron, IL
Clayton Anderson & Keith Anderson
-Rock Island County Fairgrounds,
Archer Drive & Avenue of the Cities
East Moline, IL
Dennis Florine -Kilkennys, 300 W. 3rd
St. Davenport, IA
Dirt Road Rockers -Bier Stube Moline
Biergarten, 415 15th St. Moline, IL
Douglas & Tucker (6pm) -Steventons,
1399 Eagle Ridge Rd LeClaire, IA
Friday Live @ Five: Minus Six (5pm)
-RME Courtyard, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
Girls Rock Benefit Explosion: Croaker
- Arcade at Midnight - Hot Tang Conetrauma - Maiden Mars - Tub
Girl (6pm) - The Synthaholics Collectible Boys - Tack Fu (10pm)
-Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St
Iowa City, IA
Hap Hazard -11th Street Precinct, 1107

Honeyhoney - Eric Pettit Lion -The Mill,
120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
Keep Off the Grass -River House, 1510
River Dr. Moline, IL
Killer of Giants: A Tribute to Ozzy
Osbourne -RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Lil Mike & the Tornados -The Muddy
Waters, 1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA
Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner (noon)
St. Davenport, IA
Maiden Mars - Croaker - Conetrauma
- Hot Tang - Tub Girl (6pm) -Gabes,
Mirage (6:30pm) -Pedestrian Plaza,
Downtown Iowa City Iowa City, IA
North of 40 -Mulligans Valley Pub, 310
W 1st Ave Coal Valley, IL
Pieces of Candy (5pm) -Wide River
Winery - LeClaire, 106 N. Cody Rd.
LeClaire, IA
The Breakfast Club -Riverside Casino
and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
Union Specific - Danger Iron - Nate
Gordon -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
Wild Oatz -Len Browns North Shore Inn,
700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL
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SATURDAY
2015/07/18 (Sat)
18
Avon Dale -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.

Rock Island, IL
Blueprint - Supastition - DJ Rare
Groove - Strangers of Necessity
-Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St
Iowa City, IA
Caught in the Act -11th Street Precinct,
1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA
Charlie Worsham -Rock Island County

Fairgrounds, Archer Drive & Avenue
of the Cities East Moline, IL
Code 415 -Purgatorys Pub, 2104 State
St Bettendorf, IA
Dave Moore -The Mill, 120 E. Burlington
St. Iowa City, IA
Dennis Florine -Kilkennys, 300 W. 3rd
St. Davenport, IA
Fifth Element -Bier Stube Moline, 415
15th St Moline, IL
Kick - Dark Seas - Liberty Hall Collective - Red Rose -Gabes, 330 E.
Kidz Days at the RME (noon) -RME
Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.
Davenport, IA
Orion Walsh - Jordan-Morgan Lansdowne -RME Community Stage, 131
W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA
Phineas J -The Muddy Waters, 1708
Rob & Rich Acoustic Duo featuring
Rob Dahms -Village Pub & Grill, 426
1st Ave. West Milan, IL
Rock Camp USA Concert: Session 2
(noon) -The Redstone Room, 129
Main St Davenport, IA
Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar -The
Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar,
111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA
The Doobie Brothers -Riverside Casino Event Center, 3184 Highway 22
Riverside, IA
The Funnies -River House, 1510 River
Dr. Moline, IL
The Knockoffs -Sergeant Majors, 213
6th Ave. W. Andalusia, IL
USA Dance Company (6:30pm) - The
Breakfast Club (8:30pm) -Riverside
Casino and Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA
Victoria Vox -Uptown Bills Coffee

House, 730 S. Dubuque St. Iowa
City, IA
Walcott Days: North of 40 -Downtown
Walcott, Walcott, IA
Twinsmith - Black Bull Nova - Warren

Terror -Gabes, 330 E. Washington
St. Iowa City, IA
2015/07/19 (Sun)
An Evening with Walter Trout -The

Redstone Room, 129 Main St Davenport, IA
Chris Avey Live -My Place the Pub, 4405
Fairhaven - Cabin 7 - Fitness -Rozz-Tox,
Flagship Romance (6:30pm) -Ca dZan,
411 South Rd. Cambridge, IL
Natalie Prass - In Tall Buildings - Christopher the Conquered -The Mill,
120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
Native Eloquence - Poppy Patica
City, IA
Orion Walsh, Jordan Morgan-Lansdowne, & Justin Swafford -Uptown
Bills Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque
St. Iowa City, IA
SUNDAY
19
Bill Chrastil -Riverside Casino and

Breathe Owl Breathe - Sun Riah -RozzTox, 2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL
Buddy Olson (3pm) -Duckys Lagoon,
13515 78th Ave W. Taylor Ridge, IL
Donnie Hottub Gustason & Friends
(5pm) -The Muddy Waters, 1708
Greg & Rich Acoustic Duo (2pm) -Len
Browns North Shore Inn, 700 N.
Shore Dr. Moline, IL
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams
-CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
RiverCity 6 -Petersen Pavilion, LeClaire
Park, 400 Biederbeck Dr. Davenport, IA
Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duffee Jazz Quartet (9am) -Bix Bistro,
200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA
Traveling Suitcase - Schag Karpit
City, IA
MONDAY
2015/07/20 (Mon)
20
Mississippi Valley Country & Western

Music Association Dance -East
Moline American Legion, 829 16th
Ave. East Moline, IL
Moeller Mondays Presents: Lower
Dens - Samantha Crain - Young
Ejecta -Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rd Ave.
Rock Island, IL
TUESDAY
2015/07/21 (Tue)
WEDNESDAY
2015/07/22 (Wed)
21
22
Burlington Street Bluegrass Band

(7pm) - The Overtime Vandals - Pee
Wee Moore & the Awful Dreadful
Snakes (10pm) -The Mill, 120 E.
Burlington St. Iowa City, IA
Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show
-Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL
Midweek Music (noon) -District of
Rock Island Great River Plaza Stage,
2nd Ave., between 17th & 19th Sts.
Rock Island, IL
Moxie -Gabes, 330 E. Washington St.
Iowa City, IA
Neobeat Amazigh Band -Rozz-Tox,
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DJs/Karaoke/
Jams/Open Mics
THURSDAYS
Karaoke Night Miller Time Bowling, 2902

E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.
Cobra Kai Karaoke The Backroom Com- Karaoke Night Roadrunners Roadhouse,
3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.
edy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St., DavKaraoke Night Thirstys on Third, 2202
enport, IA.
W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
DJ Night w/ 2-Tone Shenanigans Irish
Open Mic Night (July 10, 5pm) River
Pub, 303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
Valley District Library, 214 S. Main St.,
DJ Night w/ 90s Music Thirstys on
Port Byron, IL.
Third, 2202 W. Third St., DavenOpen Mic w/ Frankie Joe Willderman
port, IA.
(6pm) Mama Comptons, 1725 Second
Karaoke Night Bier Stube Moline, 415
Ave. Arts Alley, Rock Island, IL.
15th Street, Moline, IL.
Karaoke Night My Place the Pub, 4405
SATURDAYS
State St., Bettendorf, IA.
Open Jam w/ the Avey Brothers The Muddy Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA. Community Folk Sing (July 11, 3pm) Uptown Bills Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque
Open Mic Night Uptown Bills Coffee
St., Iowa City.
House, 730 S. Dubuque Street, Iowa
DJ Dolla The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800
City, IA.
Second Ave., Rock Island, IL.
The TuckerAfterTen Happy Fun Time
Music Explosion! The Dark Horse DJ Night w/ 2-Tone Shenanigans Irish Pub,
303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
Hall, 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
Thumpin Thursdays DJs - Rascals Live, Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st
St., Long Grove, IA.
1414 15th Street, Moline, IL.
Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment Karaoke Night Miller Time Bowling, 2902
E. Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.
Broken Saddle, 1417 5th Ave., Moline, IL.
Karaoke Night Roadrunners Roadhouse,
3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.
FRIDAYS
THURSDAYS
SATURDAYS
FRIDAYS
Cross Creek Karaoke Firehouse Bar &

Grill, 2006 Hickory Grove Rd., Davenport, IA.
DJ Dolla The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800
Second Ave., Rock Island, IL.
DJ K Yung Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth
Ave., Moline, IL.
DJ Night w/ 2-Tone Shenanigans Irish
Pub, 303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night (July 10) Bier Stube
LeClaire, 1001 Canal Shore Dr. SW,
LeClaire, IA.
Karaoke Night Circle Tap, 1345 West
Locust Street, Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st
St., Long Grove, IA.
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third, 2202

W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
Open Mic Night Downtown Central Perk,

226 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.
Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment
Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Ave.,
Moline, IL.
Ukulele Social Club (July 18, 4pm) Uptown Bills Coffee House, 730 S. Dubuque
St., Iowa City.
SUNDAYS
SUNDAYS
Acoustic Jam Session (July 19, 6pm) McManus Pub, 1401 Seventh Ave., Moline, IL.
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport, IA.
Comedy
Karaoke w/ JB Promotions The Rusty Nail,
2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA.
MONDAYS
MONDAYS
Open Mic w/ J. Knight The Mill, 120 E.

Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.
TUESDAYS
TUESDAYS
Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate Mr.

Eds Liquor Store & Tap, 127 Fourth St.
W., Milan, IL.
Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) River
Music Experience, 129 N. Main Street,
Davenport, IA.
Karaoke & Debauchery The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.
Open Mic Night (6:30pm) Cool Beanz Coffeehouse, 1325 330th St., Rock Island, IL.
Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace 11th Street
Precinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport, IA.
Underground Open Mic w/ Kate Kane Iowa
City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA.
WEDNESDAYS
WEDNESDAYS
Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau Iowa City Yacht

Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA.
Karaoke & Debauchery The Muddy Waters,
1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.
Karaoke Night 11th Street Precinct, 1107
Mound St., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night Circle Tap, 1345 West Locust
Street, Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night My Place the Pub, 4405 State
St., Bettendorf, IA.
Karaoke Night RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave., Rock
Island, IL.
Karaoke Night Sharkys Billiards, 2902 E.
Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.
Karaoke Night Thirstys on Third,

2202 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.
Youth Open Mic (6:30pm) River Music Experience, 129 N. Main Street, Davenport, IA.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Gift for the Quad Cities
The Figge Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition

July 5-October 4, 2015
Philome Obin, Self-portrait, circa 1980, oil and graphite on Masonite

Gift; Dedicated in Memory of George S. Nader, 2014.1
Davenport, Iowa 563.326.7804

www.figgeartmuseum.org
THURSDAY
THURSDAY 9
An Evening with Jen Kirkman (9pm) The

Mill, 120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.
Bix Beiderbomb: Comedy Invitational
(8pm) Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 W. 3rd
St., Davenport, IA.
Dustin Diamond (8pm) The Backroom
Comedy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St.,
Davenport, IA.
FRIDAY
FRIDAY 10
00
10
ComedySportz (7pm) The Establishment,

220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.
Davenport, IA.
Larry Uncle Lar Reeb (8pm) Penguins
Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar
Rapids, IA.
Studio Series: Survivor (9:30pm) The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.
The After Hour (10:30pm) Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island, IL.
SATURDAY
SATURDAY 11
11

Davenport, IA.
Larry Uncle Lar Reeb (8pm) Penguins
Rapids, IA.
Studio Series: True Story (9:30pm)
The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island, IL.
The Roast of Bobby Ray Bunch (8pm)
Circa 21 Speakeasy, 1818 Third Avenue,
Rock Island, IL.
SUNDAY
SUNDAY 12
12
The Circumstantial Comedy Show (9pm)

BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA.
MONDAY
MONDAY 13
13
The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase

(10pm) Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn
St., Iowa City, IA.
TUESDAY
TUESDAY 14
14
Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) The Muddy

Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY 15
15
Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) Penguins

Rapids, IA.
Comedy Open Mic Night (7:30pm) The
Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N.
Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
THURSDAY
THURSDAY 16
16
The Speakeasy Laugh Hard (8pm) Circa

21 Speakeasy, 1818 Third Avenue, Rock
Island, IL.
SATURDAY
18
30
SUNDAY
19
SUNDAY
19
SATURDAY 18

Mike Toomey (8pm) Penguins Comedy
Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Rock City Live (8pm) Circa 21 Speakeasy,
1818 Third Avenue, Rock Island, IL.
Studio Series: 309 (9:30pm) The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.
The Blacklist (9pm) The Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
Comedy Open Mic (7pm) The Mill, 120 E.

Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.
The Circumstantial Comedy Show (9pm)
BREW, 1104 Jersey Ridge Rd., Davenport, IA.
MONDAY
MONDAY 20
20
Bix Beiderbomb: Comedy Invitational

(8pm) Boozies Bar & Grill, 114 W. 3rd
St., Davenport, IA.
The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase

(10pm) Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn
St., Iowa City, IA.
FRIDAY 17
TUESDAY 21
FRIDAY
00
17

Mike Toomey (8pm) Penguins Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, Cedar
Rapids, IA.
Studio Series: Dodgeball (9:30pm)
The Establishment, 220 19th St., Rock
Island, IL.
The Blacklist: 100 Laughs (8pm) The
Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N.
Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
TUESDAY
21
Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) The Muddy

Waters, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY 22
22
Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) Penguins

Rapids, IA.
Comedy Open Mic Night (7:30pm) The
Backroom Comedy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St., Davenport, IA.
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