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Memory has a way of playing trickson the mind, but my recollectionis that each of the seven presi-

dential elections since I reached adulthood(I turned 18 the week after Ronald Reaganwas re-elected in 1984) has been adver-tised – by the parties, by the candidates,by the media – as “the most importantelection of our lifetimes.”

Here comes the eighth. Same shtick,even if the Jerry Springer atmosphericshave been turned up a little. The world willend if Candidate X is elected. Americanswill starve in the streets if Candidate Y isn’telected. You know what I’m talking about.

Of course, each presidential electionis incredibly important to the parties,the candidates, and the media. Electionsare their bread and butter. But are theyreally that consequential to the rest of us?On close examination, the only plausibleanswer is “no.”

Politicians of both major politicalparties trot out big plans and contrastthose big plans with the big plans of the

other candidates. Yes, those plans differbetween the parties and from candidateto candidate, but only in degree, not kind.They all boil down to minor variations onthe theme of “let me spend your moneyand run your lives.”

Look, I get it. I’m a politics junkie. I lovethe horse race, too. Like most Americans,I let myself get wrapped up in the dueling

narratives. Probably more so – I’ve beenan activist at one level or another in everypresidential election since 1992. It’s easy toforget that there’s more to li fe than politics.But there is.

Here’s a secret the politicians don’t wantyou to know: You don’t need them nearlyas much as they need you. In fact, you needthem like you need another hole in yourhead, while they need you desperately.

Without them, your life goes on.Without you, their careers screech to ahalt.

Their conflicting plans are a constantlow-level social contaminant. Sure, thoseplans vary by single-digit parts per million

in content and composition, but that variation isn’t anything to obsess over.

We’d all be better off ignoring them untilthey close up their campaign offices, gohome, and get real jobs in the productivesector.

Okay, that’s probably not going tohappen any time soon. But let’s at leastcommit to giving this new crop of

presidential candidates the attention andrespect actually due them instead of theattention and respect they demand. Turntheir fake “debates” into a drinking game.Picture the various candidates in theirunderwear. Mentally preface each of theirspeeches with “if I were on drugs, I mightsay ... .”

But whatever you do, don’t take themseriously.

Thomas L. Knapp is director and seniornews analyst at the William Lloyd GarrisonCenter for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism(TheGarrisonCenter.org), where thiscommentary originally appeared.

GUEST COMMENTARY by David M. Brown

How the Government Makes Data Hacks a Thousand Times Worse

In May 2015, the federal government

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In a press release, the Office ofPersonal Management (OPM) reportedthat as a result of its “aggressive effortto upgrade the agency’s cybersecurityposture,” the agency discovered themassive theft of background records,reportedly originating in China,including “identification details suchas Social Security numbers; residencyand educational history; employmenthistory; information about immediatefamily and other personal and businessacquaintances; health, criminal, andfinancial history; and other details.Some records also include findings frominterviews conducted by backgroundinvestigators and fingerprints. Usernames and passwords that background-investigation applicants used to fill out

their background-investigation formswere also stolen.”

This was a new breach – not the samelooting of 4.2-million records that theagency discovered in April of this year.

The news didn’t stop OPM DirectorKatherine Archuleta, appointed to thepost in 2013, from congratulating herselffor the agency’s great strides in security.It was her “comprehensive IT strategicplan” that led to the knowledge that these

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Even Archuleta would probablyconcede that discovering a robbery isnot quite as good as preventing it. Butlet’s go so far as to say that the nature ofbureaucracy itself is more to blame thanArchuleta is for having failed to fix howher agency functions. Continued On Page 17

by Thomas L. KnappElection 2016 Reminder: Who Needs Whom?

Of course, governments are not the onlyorganizations vulnerable to being cyber-attacked because of lax security. Other

victims in recent years have includedTarget, Chase, and Sony.

But it’s the decades-old privacy-invading policies of the federalgovernment that have routinely convertedall such breaches of personal data into

potentially limitlessdisasters for the

victims.The federal

government decadesago assured us onthe cards stampedwith our SocialSecurity numbersthat these digitswere “not to be usedfor purposes of

identification.” It’s the same governmentthat now mandates the SSN’s ubiquitousdeployment to monitor and tax us.

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It’s the privacy-invading

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Survey, Speech MakeNegotiations Harder

by Rich Miller

CapitolFax.comILLINOIS POLITICS

Apoll and a speech might have hardened

positions even further on both sides of

the highly partisan and bitter state-

government impasse.

The speech, by Chicago Archbishop Blase

Cupich, you likely already know about. The

survey, taken by Governor Bruce Rauner’s

pollster, you probably don’t. So let’s start with

the poll.

Basswood Research,

which has done extensivework for the Rauner

campaign, surveyed 800

likely Illinois general-

election voters September

14 and 15 and found quite

a bit of support for Rauner

and a whole lot of opposition

to House Speaker Michael

Madigan.

The poll, which had a margin of error of

3.5 percent, found that 45.5 percent approve

of Rauner’s job performance, while 40 percent

disapprove and 14 percent don’t know. Not

great.

But a whopping 71 percent agreed with

the statement “Bruce Rauner is trying to

shake things up in Springfield, but the career

politicians are standing in his way,” while just

21 percent said that wasn’t true.

Another 55 percent agreed that “Bruce

Rauner is working to find bipartisan solutions

that will help fix Illinois’ budget mess and

improve the struggling state economy,” while34.5 percent said it wasn’t true.

President Barack Obama’s favorables

(50 percent) were higher than Rauner’s (47

percent) in the poll, but Obama’s unfavorables

(45 percent) were higher than Rauner’s (40

percent).

Only 11 percent approve of the job being

done by the General Assembly, while 73

percent disapprove. House Speaker Michael

Madigan’s favorable rating was only 21 percent,

while his unfavorable was 60 percent. Only 19percent had no opinion of Madigan either way,

which means that Madigan is quite well-known

to voters.

Seventy-six percent agreed that “Mike

Madigan controls the Democratic legislators in

Springfield,” while a mere 10 percent disagreed

and 14 percent weren’t sure.

If you trust these poll results, then the public

is largely siding with Rauner and views the

General Assembly as unlikable obstructionist

tools of the House speaker. So a well-crafted,well-funded message that ties legislators or

legislative candidates to Madigan could be

disastrous.

There are caveats here. This is Rauner’s

pollster, so Democrats will likely be dismissive.

Also, the group that commissioned the poll –

the Illinois Business & Industry Council – is an

unknown quantity with a vague Web site that

was created this past July.

But Rauner’s pollster was almost alone in

accurately predicting the governor’s win last

year. So keep that in mind when the nay-saying

starts.

And the point isn’t what the Democrats or

even you or I think of the

poll anyway. The point isthat the Rauner people

trust that pollster and are

convinced of the poll’s

results. So they truly believe

they are winning and can

make Madigan pay a steep

price for losing.

But on the other side of

the equation, we now have

some very powerful folks

who believe they have God – or at least the

pope – firmly on their side.

Archbishop Cupich’s September 17 speech

to the Chicago Federation of Labor was

perhaps the most profound rallying cry for

the importance of organized labor that I’ve

ever seen. Without mentioning the anti-union

governor’s name, he made it clear that he and

Pope Francis stand firmly with unions – both

public- and private-sector – and against those

who would exploit or weaken them.

Two years ago, Madigan specifically credited

Pope Francis’ words of inclusion for his changeof heart about gay marriage. You could argue

that Madigan was simply using his pope to

justify a popular position change, but this time

around he has a pretty clear mandate from

his church’s leadership. “The archbishop has

said the same thing that we’ve been saying

in Springfield,” Madigan told reporters after

Cupich’s address.

The problem with mixing religion too deeply

with politics, of course, is that religious beliefs

can’t easily be negotiated away. So Cupich mayhave complicated matters.

Both the poll and the speech came during a

period when folks with ties to both sides were

attempting to get the top dogs to talk. Some are

saying that the governor will further narrow

his economic demands to a far more politically

doable list before he’ll agree to finally deal with

the state budget.

But the poll numbers could easily harden the

governor’s position, and the archbishop’s timing

might very well end up hurting many of the

neediest people served by his church’s charities

if we don’t get a budget deal anytime soon.

Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily

political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.

Both the poll and thespeech came when folks

on both sides were

attempting to get the top

dogs to talk.

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easy to hope for thebest for this plucky

young writer, andto cheer her ontoward love andcareer success. It’salso not hard to seewhy Churchill’s Lizfalls so readily forher photographer,as Fridley’s Drew isattractive, collected,and cool in a non-condescending way.How could Liz – oranyone, for thatmatter – not fall forsuch a charismaticcharacter?

I’m also inlove with Susan

Holgersson’s ingeniously simple andeffective scenic design. Her set is prettymuch just a circular platform with asort of triangular lean-to on it. Yet the

platform spins so that each side of thelean-to, with the help of new signageor other adornments, becomes one of23 locations required for the story. Italso allows designer Scott Glascock touse his lighting effects to differentiatespaces without the aid of backdrops,and is small enough to not impede Liz’sand Drew’s “car” (which is actually amodified golf cart) as it’s driven aroundthe stage. Even costume designer

Gregory Hiatt assists the musical’slocales through the employment oftrade-specific outfits that make clear, forexample, that Liz and Drew aren’t just ina restaurant, but a greasy-spoon diner.I like Circa ’21’s Route 66 a lot. Sure,the plot has its weaknesses. But they’recertainly forgivable given the jovial spiritof everything, and everyone, involved inthe telling of this tale.

Route 66 runs at the Circa ’21 DinnerPlayhouse (1828 Third Avenue, RockIsland) through November 7, and moreinformation and tickets are availableby calling (309)786-7733 extension 2 orvisiting Circa21.com.

lyrics flow remarkably well and feelunstrained in their poetr y, and Starkaccompanies them with rhythmsthat match the flow of the characters’

speech so that each song comes acrossas effortless. One particular delightis “Chugga Thunk,” in which Wallaceand Liz’s editor Suki (Paige Salter, anotable and likable blend of daft andbossy) try to convince Liz to take theRoute 66 assignment. The duet is purefun, with Wallace delivering his pitchwhile Suki throws in “chugga thunk”s inrhythmically captivating places.

Among Route 66 ’s cast, Paul G.Nelson, Deborah Kennedy, Tamarin

K. Ythier, Joey Boos, Tom Walljasper,and Illy Kirven each take on variouswaitresses, museum owners,shopkeepers, and other residents alongthe highway, and do so in ways thatcollectively bring the road’s historyto life. Each one makes impressivedistinctions between their various rolesand conveys the joy that is, for many,Route 66, underscoring the musical’spoint that the life of this cherished

highway resides in people.I’m not sure there’s a local actress

more charming than Churchill, atrait that serves her over-scheduled,oftentimes frazzled Liz quite well. It’s

The plot twistsand turns, or

lack thereof,are visible from a mileaway in the Circa ’21Dinner Playhouse’sproduction of Route66 . This boy-meets-girl musical has fewsurprises, and theoutcome is abundantlyclear from the momentErin Churchill’s aspir-ing writer Liz meetsKenton Fridley’s free-wheeling photographerDrew; they’re like oiland water, but youknow they’re going toblend in the end. Evenso, Circa ’21’s romanticcomedy is a delight, boasting endearingcharm in spades and one catchy tuneafter another.

With its book by Jerold Goldstein

and William Squier, lyrics by Squier,and music by Fred Stark, this tale ofa woman striving for a columnist jobat a Chicago publication is delightfuldespite its clichés. Hand-picked by thecompany’s owner (Paul Glodfelter’sself-important Wallace) to contribute thewritten portion of a photo essay, Liz ispaired with Drew on a tour of the iconicRoute 66. She quickly learns that whatmakes the highway so essential aren’t the

tourist spots listed on her phone app,but the people they meet along theirtrek, and the show’s dynamic tensionswitches from whether Liz and Drewwill fall in love (which they do, and fairlyquickly) to Liz’s push – despite Wallace’sobjections – to switch the focus of thepiece she’s writing.

There’s not a lot of weight to thismusical, but it’s still a precious pieceof theatre due not only to director

Dennis Hitchcock’s delicate touchand his cast’s magnetic performances,but also for Squier’s and Stark’s songs;during Friday’s production, Route 66 ’sBroadway-style, folk-infused tunes hadme smiling again and again. Squier’s

Route 66, at the Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse through November 7

Americana Beautyby Thom White

[email protected]

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Ballet Quad Cities Premieres Murder Mystery at the Ballet , October 9 through 17 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral

Making a Killing

With a foreboding Beethovencomposition lending an in-congruously somber air to the

proceedings, Ballet Quad Cities’ ensembleis rehearsing. The brightly lit studio spacefinds the 10 company members engaged inall manner of movement during these fiveminutes of Ludwig van: two male dancerstussling in the foreground; another maleskulking in the background; a petite femalegliding amongst her fellow dancers and

voicelessly addressing one with an accusa-tory glare.

A quartet of ensemble memberscollectively lunges and thrusts while, on theother side of the studio, a young womanmakes seductive overtures toward one ofher scene partners, and, eventually, nearlyeveryone lines up to gracefully pass afist-sized, invisible prop from one dancerto another. That’s when choreographerCourtney Lyon comes up to me and,

regarding the unseen object, whispers,“That’s a bottle of poison.”

Given that many of the company’srecent fall productions have found guestperformer Domingo Rubio casuallykilling dancers in his role as Dracula, theappearance (or, at this moment, non-appearance) of a potential murder weaponin a Ballet Quad Cities endeavor shouldn’traise anyone’s eyebrows. What might,however, is the degree of difficulty involved

in the company’s 2015-16 season-opener Murder Mystery at the Ballet – a worldpremiere in which, as of that September21 rehearsal, even its chief creator doesn’tknow whodunit.

“The story keeps changing,” says Lyon ofthe ballet that will – in a change from hercompany’s norm – run for two weekends(October 9 through 17) instead of one atMoline’s Scottish Rite Cathedral. “At first,I thought I knew who was going to die.

But then I got about 15 minutes into thechoreography and was like, ‘No, wait, it’sso obvious – it should be this person!’ Butthen I thought, ‘Okay, but that means thisother person couldn’t have killed them ... !’So I’m still not convinced I know who didit, because the story is taking its own path.”

In truth, Murder Mystery at theBallet ’s patrons may find it a somewhatrecognizable path, at least if they’re awareof popular Hasbro suspects outfitted inhues of scarlet, mustard, and plum. But her

show, Lyon adamantly states, “is not basedon Clue. It is ‘inspired by a board game.’”

She does, however, say this with a grin,and you can hear the quote marks in her

voice ... .

A Fun Approach for theHalloween Season

Lyon, who serves as Ballet Quad Cities’artistic director under Executive DirectorJoedy Cook, says that her concept for

Murder Mystery at the Ballet came to mindroughly two years ago – and that its exactorigin is a mystery of its own. “I seriously

have no idea where it came from,” she says.“None at all.”

From what Lyon recalls, she, Cook, andcompany Ballet Mistress Margaret Hulingwere rummaging through clothes in thestorage area above the studio – “just kind ofsitting amongst our things, looking at hatsand pieces of costumes and things like that.We usually plan our seasons a couple seasonsin advance, so we were throwing aroundideas of ballets that would be really fun oreffective. And I just said, ‘You know whatI think would be really, really cool? If wedid a murder mystery.’ I don’t know why. It

just seemed like it would be a fun approachfor the Halloween season. Something a bitdifferent.”

Cook, however, says that the desire to dosomething different also stemmed from thecompany’s success with its 2007 presentationBlue River , an original work celebratingDavenport’s roaring-’20s jazz scene featuringchoreography by Matthew Keefe and live

music performed by Josh Duffee & HisOrchestra. “People still talk about that show,”says Cook. “It was such a fun performanceand so new ... . And it really sold .”

Then again, over many autumns since

2007, so has Ballet Quad Cities’ Dracula, and

Lyon and Cook both state that going with anuntested fall production instead of Rubio’s

vampire had nothing to do with taperingticket sales.

“People are already asking me when it’scoming back,” says Lyon. “They love Dracula,and there are people who come every yearand can’t wait to see it again.” (Take heart,Domingo Rubio fans: You can also see himin Murder Mystery at the Ballet .)

“But you know,” adds Cook, “there are

also people who say to me, ‘I hope you’re notdoing Dracula again.’ Sales were always goodand it’s not that we didn’t want to do it. Thisis just something new.” And, for Cook, a lessfinancially risky “something new” than full

productions of ballets such as Swan Lake and

Giselle.

“Quite honestly, they probably wouldn’t

sell here” says Cook of those famed works.

“Although Act II of Giselle is one of my very

favorite ballets of all time, I don’t know if I’ll

see Ballet Quad Cities perform that in my

lifetime.

“But I think we really know our niche

now,” she says of the traditional company

season that progresses from autumnal

vampires/killers to December’s TheNutcracker to mid-winter’s Love Stories

vignettes to spring’s balletic fairytales to

June’s presentations of Ballet Under the Stars,

most of them clocking it at 90-ish minutes.

“We’re finding our market, and even in

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Ballet Quad Cities dancers rehearse Murder Mystery at the Ballet Photos by Joseph S. Maciejko




by Mike Schulz

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terms of the length of performances, I thinkwe really do understand just how long wecan keep somebody’s attention – how longthey can sit and enjoy the work we’re doing.It’s taken a long time, but it’s a really excitingtime.”

Meanwhile, Lyon says she was excitedabout her potential project from the momentthe murder-mystery theme came to her. “Mybrain just started to explode thinking of thepossibilities,” some of which, yes, fine, did stem from Clue – or at least the italicizedClue.

“That was the jumping-off point,” she

admits. “Actually, it was the movie versionfrom the ’80s, the cult classic – that’s oneI saw a lot growing up. But what I wasthinking about it were the characters. Thatmovie has really strong archetypes, andthe same thing can be true for dance. AndI just thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to createdance characters who are those same sorts ofstrong archetypes, and give them all a reasonto come together, and see what happens?’”

With a half-embarrassed smile, Lyonadds, “I was also thinking a little bit of myfavorite, Angela Lansbury, in Murder, SheWrote. I kind of have her as my guide ... but

no one really needs to know that ... .”

One Detective, One BoddyUnlike Clue’s dinner-party scenario, the

storyline Lyon devised for Murder Mysteryat the Ballet opens, appropriately enough, atthe ballet.

“What happens,” she says, “is that we havean international director/producer [playedby Rubio] who has this big premiere of a new

show he’s been working on. We also meet adetective [portrayed by the choreographer’shusband, dancer/actor Jacob Lyon]. Wesee him going to the theatre for the balletpremiere. But then at some point during theballet, someone gets murdered.”

(Lyon is mum on which of her dancersbites the dust, but it should be noted thatthe Murder Mystery poster does promoteRubio’s “cameo appearance,” and theprogram will reveal his character name to

be “Alucard Boddy,” which might be telling.He also appears very well cast in the role – atleast if you read the character’s first namebackward.)

Following the unexpected death, saysLyon, “all the characters are taken downto the police station to be questioned.And that’s when you really see our ballet,”as opposed to the show-within-a-showballet, “because the whole performance isreally done in flashback, and shown fromeveryone’s individual perspective.

“For instance,” she continues, “thedetective will be interviewing someone –like Marie Buser, who’s one of our dancers.She’ll say to him, ‘Well, I don’t know if it’simportant, but I did see this ... .’ And whileshe tells him what she saw, the audience willsee that moment danced out on-stage. Andthat’ll happen over and over.

“We might see an argument, or we mightsee a love pas de deux.We might notice,‘Well, that person’s not on-stage now ... that

person is on-stage now ... that person lookssuspicious ... .’ We won’t know exactly whateverything means, but we’ll try to figureout clues based on those flashbacks. Andat the end, after everyone’s kind of accusedeach other and the detective f igures out howthe murder happened, he’ll put all those

vignettes in their right order, and condensethings, and add props, and the audiencewill know who did it. It’ll be a three-minute

version of what actually happened.”

Complicated though all that may sound,it’s really the formula for many, manymurder mysteries ranging from AgathaChristie to Angela Lansbury. There is,however, one crucial, intensely challengingdifference: This being a ballet, all of the stage

action unfurls without any spoken dialogue.At least for now.

“I potentially might have a voice-over tohelp guide the audience,” says Lyon. “Butno, none of the characters will be speaking.”And in a genre in which suspected figuresare known to speak frequent untruths, thatmight actually simplify things for patronshoping to figure out whoduit.

“You get to watch body language, anddetails from people’s movements, and figureout what you think you’re seeing them do.Someone’s yelling – what does that mean?Someone’s missing from the group – whatdoes that mean? I really believe that ballet,or dance in general, can be as effective acommunication tool as words. And what’sreally cool about dance is that sometimesyou can express things that you can’twith words – that go beyond words. So byintermission, the audience will probablyalready have picked out who they think

has done it – not based on any specialinformation they’ve been given, but based onhow they see people acting with each other.

“Of course,” Lyon says with another grin,“after intermission they might totally changetheir minds ... .”

A Very Organic ProcessWhile some of Murder Mystery at the

Ballet ’s characters (see sidebar) may bereminiscent of those from the board gameand movie, there are a few fundamentaldifferences between Clue and Lyon’s not-Clue. For one thing, audiences won’t beasked to guess which room the murder tookplace in, or which of a half-dozen weaponswas used to pull it off. And crucially, unlikethe board-game possibilities and famed trioof alternate climaxes from Clue’s theatricalrelease, there’s only one killer.

“I feel like there’s potential to do anythingwith this story,” says Lyon. “But to make

it easier for an audience to understand,and for them to get the most enjoymentfrom it, no, I’m not going to do a milliondifferent endings.” Especially when, as thechoregrapher says, finding even one isproving tough enough.

“As I get to know more about each of thecharacters,” she says, “they’re really comingalive to me. And while I get to know them,I’m slowly figuring out, ‘Oh, this personreally could’ve done it ... !’”

Describing the rehearsal process, Lyonsays, “There are big scenes where we’re allworking together – where they’re dancingas a group and I’m choreographing on the

Joseph Flickner

a.k.a. Clark NewbieSignature color: green

“He’s the new kid

in the [show’s] ballet

company – a big

dreamer who wears his

heart on his sleeve, and

has a romantic interest

in the company’s new leading lady.

He’s your average Joe, very sweet.”

Kayleigh Danowski

a.k.a. Betsy Boetjes

Signature color:

mustard

“She’s the new

leading lady in the

company – the ingénue,

the innocent, and the

object of Clark Newbie’s

romantic intentions. She’s kind of like

a Disney princess.”

Emily Kate Longa.k.a. Stella O’Hara

Signature color: scarlet

“She’s the former

leading dancer of the

company. She’s used to

having it all and getting

what she wants, and

she’s able to manipulate

people into giving her

what she wants.”

Jill Schwartz

a.k.a. Victoria SnowSignature color: white

“She’s a woman of

mystery. Actually, she’s

a Russian spy who’s

undercover in the ballet

company. She doesn’t

speak English, so no one

knows her very well,

and she kind of lurks around in the

background.”

Branson Bice

a.k.a. Julian Grape

Signature color: plum

“He’s the loner, the

thrill-seeker, the rebel,

the destroyer. We also

come to find out that

he’s connected with

Victoria Snow, and those

characters are secretly working

together.”

Patrick Green

a.k.a. Frederick Phoenix

Signature color:

peacock blue

“He’s a type-A

personality, a

perfectionist, prone to

anger and outbursts.

He’s dating Stella O’Hara.

And that’s all anybody really knows

about him.”

The Unusually Graceful SuspectsWant some inside scoop on the who-might’ve-dunits in Ballet Quad Cities’

whodunit? Familiarize yourself with the following mug shots for Murder Mystery at the Ballet ’s dancing suspects, with character commentary provided bychoreographer Courtney Lyon. Any resemblances to figures from the board gameClue are wholly, completely, entirely coincidental.

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awarded two prestigious honors. Edgarhas been selected to win the DoscherAward for Traditional Photography,which is give to a PSA member whoshows excellence in photographing a variety of classical subjects. He also willbe presented with the GMPSA (Grand

Master) Award, which is awarded to aperson who has had more than 3,000images accepted in PSA-recognizedinternational exhibitions. These awardsare the result of talent, hard work, andperseverance by Edgar.

The Quad Cities Photography Clubwelcomes visitors and new members.The club sponsors numerous activities

(The River Cities’ Reader each month will feature an image or images from the QuadCities Photography Club.)

Asummer challenge is given toQuad Cities Photography Clubmembers each June to spur their

creativity during the summer. Eachmember is given a different subject toportray any way they wish in a photo,and the results are shared with the clubat the September meeting. This summer,longtime club member Edgar Lower’stopic was “Window Light Portrait.” Edgarwas at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City,Utah, where tradesmen were demonstrat-ing work as it was done in the 1870s. In

PHOTOGRAPHY

Featured Image from the Quad Cities Photography Club

encompassing many types and aspects of photography. It holds digital and printcompetitions most months. At its meetings,members discuss the images, help eachother to improve, and socialize. The clubalso holds special learning workshopsand small groups that meet on specific

photography topics, and occasionally offersinteresting shooting opportunities. Theclub meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Thursdayof the month September through June atthe Butterworth Center, 1105 Eighth Streetin Moline.

For more information on the club, visitQCPhotoClub.com.

the saddlery shop, he noticed the windowlight on the leather worker, and waiteduntil the interested group of children hadmoved out of the way to make his shot.

Edgar used a Nikon D800E with aNikon 28-300-millimeter lens at 36millimeters. It was taken at f/8, 1/50 of a

second, and ISO 800. He did a little workin Photoshop to lighten the image.

In addition to being a member of theQuad Cities Photography Club, Edgaris also a longtime active member of thePhotographic Society of America (PSA),an international organization. He isattending the PSA annual conference inlate September and early October in WestYellowstone, Montana, at which he will be




The differencesbetween two versions of Satel-

lite Heart’s “Bob DeNiro” are composition-ally minor, but the newrecording transformsthe song.

On the 2012compilation HelloQuad Cities Volume

1, the track was acatchy chug, but it alsofelt lumbering and unwieldy, with theinsistently crashing cymbals exemplifyingan overall coarseness.

On the indie-rock band’s new EP,Between Phases, the track is, in all itscomponent parts, pretty much the same– but it’s been compressed and polished,and the effect is like coal becoming adiamond. It’s just 10 seconds shorter, butthe quicker tempo and other changes

breathe such life into the track that it feels like it’s performed at double speed.

The dynamic range has been flattenedsignificantly, but the sloppy explosivenesslost in the Between Phases track isreplaced by additions and refinement:a new buzz-guitar bit, more-preciseharmonies given greater emphasis, theon-beat stuttering vocal on the word“my” in “my mistake.”

The changes, said guitarist/singer

Andy Smith, can be attributed to theearlier version being a quick take on afreshly written song, while the new onereflects comfort with the material andseveral years spent recording, mixing,and tweaking Between Phases. The HelloQuad Cities “Bob De Niro,” he said,“wasn’t the same level of detail, the samelevel of production.” The core tracks forthe EP were put down in the summer of2013, he added, but the band members’

work schedules meant that “it got mixedover a very long period of time.”

The time was well-spent. The newrecord still rocks plenty hard, but there’san agile tightness that the quartet’s 2012album Become the New only hinted at.Smith said the goal with each track was tocapture the best version of each song, andthat care is evident throughout BetweenPhases.

In many ways, the EP is a study ofhighlighting contrasts. That’s mostobvious on “Cut It Out” in the wayguitarist Jacob Ruefer’s scorched vocalsplay off the delicately precise lead guitar,which itself is placed next to passageswith the dull thuds of drums and rhythm

by Jeff Ignatius

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Time Well SpentSatellite Heart, Between Phases; October 10 at RIBCO

guitar joiningRuefer’s singing.

Lead track“Wooden Soldier”is the band inmicrocosm, withseveral layers of soft-loud-soft call-and-response dynamics.There’s a structuralcomplexity here – the

chorus is two-tiered,with distorted guitarand joyous backing vocals kicking upthe intensity in the second part – but it’sthe sort of musical density that’s casuallydisguised by the song’s undeniable hooks.

Yet while “Wooden Soldier,” “Cut ItOut,” and “Bob De Niro” represent thecore sound of Satellite Heart, the sevensongs on Become the New demonstratea compelling breadth. The bass andrazor-thin rhythm guitars of “Blood Red”

lend the song a metallic menace, while“Home” has a rootsy warmth. Smithsaid the band has difficulty describingwhat it sounds like, because it changesfrom track to track. “It’s a good song,” hesaid of the process of choosing material.“That’s all we really care about.”

On “Animal Man,” Ruefer’s vocalswork hard at heartfelt, and he needsthe remainder of the band to pull itoff: The guitars, Tyler Willhite’s bass,

and Tyler Drayton’s drums are eachbusy and pregnant, deftly fleshing out acomplicated emotional portrait.

Already brief and with its titlesuggesting transition, Between Phases closes with 87 seconds of “In the City,”which is a fantastically simple, bass-heavy, poppy Red Hot Chili Peppers-esque tease. Ruefer’s singing is spot-onAnthony Kiedis – sweet, sincere, andstripped of its rough edges – and the

song’s voice is distinctive enough thatit feels anything but derivative. When itand the EP end abruptly with “Now wemust go / ’Cause this song is over,” there’sonly one reasonable reaction: Come backsoon.

Satellite Heart will perform a record-release show for Between Phases onSaturday, October 10, at RIBCO (1815Second Avenue, Rock Island; RIBCO.com).The show starts at 9 p.m. and also featuresWaking Robots and Speaking of Secrets.Cover is $5.

For more information on Satellite Heart,visit Facebook.com/SatelliteHeartMusic.

MUSIC




accompanies their demises and the camera

doesn’t follow the trajectory of the bodies

as they fall – they’re just there one moment

and gone the next. And, of course, a major

perk of having a cast this accomplished lies

in the performers’ collective ability to dial

down the potential hysteria and deliver

pathos through specificity and subtlety.

Clarke, Brolin, and Watson are especiallymoving, and even Knightley – whose

character is pregnant, you’ll recall, and

whose portrayer literally phones in most of

her performance – ignores her numerous,

obvious opportunities to over-emote.

I had an unbelievably good time at

Everest , but I do worry about the film’s

legacy once it becomes available for home

viewing, and the tinniness of the banter

and TV-movie contrivances become more

glaring when viewed on a more intimate

scale. (Have you watched Gravity lately?

Technically amazing though Cuarón’s

sci-fi wonder is, it doesn’t hold up terribly

well.) So make the point moot by giving

the movie a shot now. Years from now, the

film’s grandeur, and the emotional effect

it had on you, will likely keep Kormákur’s

achievement – at least in memory – forever

larger than life.

THE INTERN

Older audiences deserve comforting,

pandering crap as much as everyone else,

so I probably shouldn’t be too hard on

The Intern, especially because, with Nora

Ephron’s passing, writer/director Nancy

Meyers is pretty much carrying the torch

for Hollywood’s all-too-rare female-centric

dramedies detailing the personal costs of

Having It All. But I’m going to be hard on

Movie Re views by Mike Schulz • [email protected]

EVEREST

Before Friday, the only way to see director

Baltasar Kormákur’s adventure drama Everest

– the only legal way, at any rate – was in its

IMAX 3D presentation. Yet even if, like me,

you consider yourself a generally frugal (i.e.,

cheapskate) cineplex patron, I implore you to

suck it up, shell out the extra dough, and treat

yourself to the biggest, loudest Everestavailable.I’m not sure how well this thing will play on

smaller screens, but the IMAX 3D version is a

staggering, even humbling experience for the

eyes and ears – a mountain that, on your TV

or computer or iPhone, might more accurately

suggest a molehill.

During Kormákur’s and screenwriters

William Nicholson’s and Simon Beaufoy’s

early scenes, it also suggests something else:

a less-campy Poseidon Adventure with the

water in solid form. Inspired by the tragic1996 expedition detailed in Jon Krakauer’s

bestselling nonfiction Into Thin Air (with

Krakauer, in Everest , played by Michael Kelly),

the film opens by introducing us – in tried-

and-true disaster-flick style – to the parties

hoping to reach Everest’s peak, their handlers,

and their spouses. Among the vacationing

amateur climbers are Kelly, Josh Brolin, and

John Hawkes. Expedition teams are led by

Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal. Emily

Watson, Sam Worthington, and ElizabethDebicki provide health and safety guidance.

And Keira Knightley and Robin Wright are

spouses offering varying degrees of support.

Given the rush and abundance of familiar faces,

who arrive almost like passengers on The Love

Boat , you wouldn’t be at all surprised to see

Ernest Borgnine or Stella Stevens there, too.

(We’re given no cute kid who finds himself

imperiled, but the screenwriters kind of take

care of that with Hawkes, whose nebbishy

mailman is on

the trek to prove

to schoolkids

that anything is

possible; he even

carries a flag that

grade-schoolers

made for him to

place at Everest’speak.)

Also

providing a

vague, disquieting sense of Irwin Allen are

the incidental subplots and complications that

are revealed before the climbers make their

ascent, none of which, even if they’re based on

truth, really feel true. Clarke and Gyllenhaal,

it turns out, have a professional rivalry that’s

only compounded by Kelly’s plan to do a

story on Clarke. Brolin, it turns out, headed

for the Himalayas without telling wife Wright

about the trip. Knightley is pregnant with

her and Clarke’s first child. Hawkes failed to

scale Everest the year before and is hoping for

redemption. Naoko Mori’s fellow traveler is

attempting to climb the seventh of the seven

highest places on Earth, the other six already

knocked off her bucket list. Nearly every

figure here seems equipped with a convenient

excuse for melodrama, and even in the film’s

really interesting first half – which details the

demanding six-week preparation climbers haveto endure before attempting Everest itself – my

guard was up for the rigged circumstances and

shameless sentiment sure to come.

Well, the rigged and the shameless kind of

do come. Yet for Everest ’s second half, I was too

busy gasping or wincing or weeping to care.

Barring a few possible exceptions – Gravity

being the only one that comes immediately

to mind – I’m not sure I’ve ever seen more

effective use of green screen. Kormákur’s and

cinematographer

Salvatore

Totino’s swirling,

soaring camera

movements, and

the dizzyingly

vertiginous shots

above and below

our climbers,feature the

actors (or their

stuntpeople)

amidst astoundingly realistic suggestions of

Everest, and the horrific weather created by the

film’s effects team beats at them with stunning

fury; you can practically feel the frostbite. The

sound effects, too, are oftentimes nightmarishly

violent, so much so that large swaths of

dialogue are fittingly lost in the aural hubbub

(though vocal intent isn’t). Our climbers’

ordeal, however, is peppered with moments of

grace, and one of the things Everestdoes best

is document just how crazily unpredictable

Himalayan weather patterns prove to be. One

moment, you can barely tell the voyageurs apart

through the blinding snow; the next, they’re

enjoying hours of windless calm with their

glasses off and ski masks down, partaking – as

are we – in the stunning beauty of a vacation

that suddenly seems worth the $65,000 per

person spent. (And that only cost us about $16

– including the IMAX 3D surcharges.)But as its true story confirms, of course,

Everest is a tragedy, and Kormákur’s outing

not only delivers wrenching, cathartic

emotion on a par with James Cameron’s epic

weepie Titanic, but does so through far less

manufactured means. Two of the travelers,

in separate instances, perish on their returns

down the mountain simply by falling off the

edge of a cliff, and both deaths had me in tears

merely by being so simply staged; no music

Social Climbers

Jake Gyllenhaal in Everest

by Mike Schulz • [email protected] Mike Schulz • [email protected]





What’s Happenin’MusicThe Original Night People50th Draught House ReunionCol Ballroom

Saturday, October 10, 6 p.m.

On October 10, Davenport’s Col Ballroom will host aspecial concert event officially titled “The Original Night

People 50th Draught House Reunion.” And local music fanswill surely know the Night People, at least by reputation – and

especially if they’re also local-music (with the hyphen) fans.For more than half a century, this popular rock outfit –

whose current lineup features Larry Boyd, Jimmy Stroehle,and original members Gary Pearson, Rob Dahms, and Jimmy’sbrother Mike Stroehle – has entertained literally tens ofthousands with its rousing, confident takes on ’60s and ’70sfavorites. Over the past few months, they’ve played the RustyNail, Len Brown’s North Shore Inn, Harley Corin’s, MamaCompton’s, and Port Byron’s Baby Blues & BBQ Fest. Amongmany other talents, the group has shared stages with the likesof Chubby Checker, Freddie Fender, and Reba McEntire. And

in 1968, the original Night People musicians even served as

the opening act for a legendary Col

Ballroom set with Jimi Hendrix.So yeah, people know the Night

People. But what, some of you maywonder, is the Draught House?

“Unless you came from thatera, you probably wouldn’t knowit,” says Night People foundingmember and lead vocalist Pearson.“But that was a good time, man.”

Originally located in theriverfront venue that became the Dock Restaurant – a site

scheduled for demolition, ironically, two days after the NightPeople’s Col Ballroom concert – the Draught House came intobeing, says Pearson, “in 1965, after Davenport had one of theworst floods ever. This building had the VFW offices upstairs,and they would rent out the downstairs, and the flood justcrashed this building.

“And what happened was that one of the guys in our group– Kenny White – and some of his buddies approached peopleat the VFW and said, ‘Hey, if we go in there and we get rid ofall that crap and sludge and whatever, and clean it all up, andre-paint this and re-do that, can we hold a couple of danceshere?’ And they said, ‘Hey, if you do that for us, you can do

that.’ So one thing led to another, and led to the Drau

House, and there’s probably about 1,000 people that sup to these dances.

“The Draught House was such a neat place,” Pearsocontinues, “in that all ages kind of intertwined. Teensallowed – they’d do a Teen Night there – but to get toyou’d have to go through the back half where the dancand big stage was, and they’d have a black light, and y have to show your mark to get into the barroom. Andcouldn’t leave the area. So all kinds of people mixed.”

Pearson says the Night People played the Draughtregularly on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, “an

place just was absolutely packed all the time” – no doin large part, to the band’s popularity.“That was when the British groups were really com

along: the Beatles and the Stones and the Kinks and tand all that. And the band was so ahead of its time thnew song would come out by one of these groups – beven hit the radio or anything – we had a way of gettithese new releases. We’d rehearse ’em and play ’em, anwould wonder what they were, and we’d say, ‘Well, thanew song by the Beatles,’ or ’That’s a new song by theAnd people would just go crazy.”

Having established themselves as a huge draw for t

EventCornConSt. Ambrose University

Saturday, October 3, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

A

sk most parents if they’d like to see their childgrow up to be a computer hacker, and the

response you’d get would likely be “no,” perhapswith a well-chosen expletive in front of it. But asexplained by Shadrock Roberts, one of the co-organizers behind October 3’s cybersecurity event“CornCon,” that job title encompasses far more

than villainous figures in techno-spy movies.“Obviously, because of Hollywood, ‘hacking’ does

have a negative connotation,” says Roberts, referringto entertainments such as this past winter’s cyber-thriller Blackhat . “But there’s a whole other groupof people that are counterbalancing that kind ofactivity in the cybersecurity field, to offset that badelement. The reality is that a lot of the best hackersare what we call ‘white hats.’ They’re on the good

guys’ side. And they have to be just as skilled indefense, and the threats that are out there, as thosethat are actually committing crimes.”

Both kids and adults are consequently invited toattend the Quad Cities’ inaugural “CornCon” event,

which will feature agames, and computeMcCarthy Hall. AndJohn Johnson says thaspect” to all of the C“anyone who has anwill fit right in.”

“You certainly donthe field to attend,” a

have an interest.”While this is the fi

dedicated to cyberse– an event modeledas Las Vegas’ Defcon




MUSICThursday, October 1 – Stevie

Wonder Tribute with Byron “BK”

Davis. The Steinway InternationalArtist performs a concert tributeto the legendary musician, with aRasheen Davis book-signing heldbefore the show. The Redstone Room(129 Main Street, Davenport). 7 p.m.$25. For tickets and information,call (563)326-1333 or visitRiverMusicExperience.org.

Friday, October 2 – The Nadas.Concert with the Iowa-based alt-rockand country musicians, featuringan opening set by Hello Dave’sMike Himebaugh. The RedstoneRoom (129 Main Street, Davenport).8 p.m. $16.75-17. For tickets andinformation, call (563)326-1333 orvisit RiverMusicExperience.org.

Saturday, October 3, and Sunday,

October 4 – Quad City Symphony

Orchestra: The Re-Creation. The firstMasterworksconcerts of the season,with pianist Kyu Yeon Kim andsoprano Heidi Melton accompanyingthe orchestra on compositions byWagner, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, and

Tchaikovsky. Saturday: Adler Theatre(136 East Third Street, Davenport),8 p.m. Sunday: Augustana College’sCentennial Hall (3703 SeventhAvenue, Rock Island), 2 p.m. $26-62. For tickets and information, call(563)322-7276 or visit QCSO.org.

Saturday, October 3 – Trippin’

Billies. Dave Matthews tribute band

What ElseIs Happenin’

by Mike Schulz

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Draught House, “the Col Ballroom kind of jumped into the

act,” says Pearson. “At the time, Don Wachel owned it, and hewanted the band to play on Sunday nights. And a lot of times,he would bring in headliners, so we opened up for just tonsand tons of one-, two-hit wonders – Tommy James, and Samthe Sham & the Pharoahs, and The Box Tops ... . It just goes onendlessly.”

By the 1970s, says Pearson, the original Night People beganheading in different directions – “a couple of them [White andRich Collignon] went out west, a couple of us hung together, Iwent on the road with the Elvis revue right before he died ... .”But to hear him tell it, the band’s legacy proved more powerful

than even Pearson could have imagined.“It’s such a crazy thing,” he says. “The band got backtogether periodically for these reunions, the first being almost20 years after all this Draught House and Col Ballroomstuff,” when the Night People played for the 1983 opening ofDavenport’s RiverCenter. “Nobody knew what to expect, butthey had over 3,000 people show up for the band, and theyclaim – I don’t know how true this is – but from the doorall the way around the city block, there were people waitingin line to get into this place. I mean, everybody was justoverwhelmed.”

And then, Pearson says, “A couple years later WOC hosted

this big family festival down at the LeClaire Park bandshell,

and we were the only band playing, and we had over 12,000people there. I mean, it’s crazy how this thing has lived on andon and on.”

The last reunion of the original band members was held lastyear to celebrate both the Col Ballroom’s 100th anniversaryand the 50th anniversary of the Night People, and Pearsonsays that “even with minimal publicity, that drew close to 700people.

“But this is the last time we’ll play with all the originalmembers.” With White and Collignon settled in Nevada andWashington, Pearson says, “it’s just getting too hard to bring

people back. I mean, we [the current Night People lineup] willkeep playing for as long as we can. We’re still enjoying it. Butif you want to hear all the originals, this is it. Show up. Have agood time. Get off the couch.”

Doors for the Original Night People 50th Draught HouseReunion open at 6 p.m. (at which point food will be available),Larry Boyd opens with a solo set at 7 p.m., and the original NightPeople take the stage at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20at the door, and can be purchased by calling (563)322-4431 or

visiting LegendaryColBallroom.com. For more information onthe Night People, visit TheNightPeopleQuadCities.com.

ay’s worth of guest speakers,challenges in St. Ambrose’s

while Roberts’ co-organizert “there will be a technical

ornCon lectures and activities,ppreciation for technology

t have to be a professional inrees Roberts. “You just have to

st time a day-long conferenceurity and updates in the fieldfter similar conferences suchand Louisvil le’s Derbycon

– has been attempted in the area, Roberts says,“The lineup we’ve got for the Quad Cities is justunbelievable.” With speakers including WesternIllinois University Homeland Security ResearchProgram Director Dean C. Alexander and G4SSecurity Project Manager Joseph Dagama, “We haveprofessors, we have several published authors ... .We have Richard Thieme, who’s like the godfatherof hacking ... . It’s just an amazing group, especially

for a metro our size, and this being our first event.”The recruited field specialists will offer

presentations on everything from “SituationalAwareness in Our Cyber-Neighborhood” to “UFOs& Government: A Case Study in Disinformation,

Deception, & Perception Management.” And forfledgling white hats, activities will include Minecraftprogramming, sessions of cryptography and lock-picking, and a Capture the Flag game in which, saysJohnson, “you have to complete as many challengesas you can within the time period, and the winnersreceive a remote-controlled video drone.”

The moniker for the youths’ CornCon track, bythe way? “Children of the CornCon.”

“None of the kids wi ll probably understand that,”says Johnson, “but their parents will. Hopefully,Stephen King doesn’t sue us.”

For more information on October 3’s CornConand to register, visit CornCon.net.




in concert, with an opening set by JasonCarl. Rock Island Brewing Company(1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island). 9p.m. $10. For information, call (309)793-1999 or visit RIBCO.com.

Saturday, October 3 – Living Hour.

All-ages concert with the Canadianpsychedelic-pop musicians. Rozz-Tox(2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island). 9 p.m.$5-10. For information, call (309)200-0978 or visit RozzTox.com.

Sunday, October 4 – DPL Jazz

Workshop & Concert for the Big

Read The Great Gatsby . Event heldin conjunction with the Davenportlibraries’ “Big Read” of F. ScottFitzgerald’s novel, featuring a 3:30p.m. family jazz workshop and 5:30p.m. concert with the Josh DuffeeOrchestra. The Redstone Room (129Main Street, Davenport). Free. Forinformation, call (563)326-1333 or visitRiverMusicExperience.org.

Wednesday,

October 7 – DefLeppard, Foreigner,

and Tesla. Chart-topping, multi-platinum-sellingrockers in concert. iwireless Center (1201River Drive, Moline).7 p.m. $39.50-99. Fortickets, call (800)745-3000 or visit iwirelessCenter.com.

Thursday, October 8, and Friday,

October 9 – How Great Thou Art: The

Gospel Music of Elvis Presley . Concertperformance of the King’s gospel hitswith impersonator Robert Shaw andhis band. Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse(1828 Third Avenue, Rock Island).

Thursday and Friday: noon-12:45 p.m.plated lunch, 1:15 p.m. show, $46.50plus tax. Thursday: 6-7 p.m. buffet, 7:15p.m. show, $52.50 plus tax. For ticketsand information, call (309)786-7733

extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.Friday, October 9 – Aaron Kamm

& the One Drops. St. Louis-basedroots, reggae, and blues musiciansin concert, with an opening set byBone Jugs N Harmony. The RedstoneRoom (129 Main Street, Davenport).9 p.m. $8.50-9. For tickets andinformation, call (563)326-1333 or visitRiverMusicExperience.org.

Saturday, October 10 – Chris

Tomlin. Concert with the Grammy-and Dove-winning Christian musician,featuring an opening set by RendCollective. i wireless Center (1201 RiverDrive, Moline). 7 p.m. $16.50-36.50.

For tickets, call (800)745-3000 or visitiwirelessCenter.com.

Saturday, October 10, and Sunday,

October 11 – Nova Singers: Encore!

The professional vocal ensemblepresents a compilation of favoritepieces from its past 30 years ofperformance, under the direction ofLaura Lane. Saturday: Knox College’sKresge Recital Hall (2 East South Street,Galesburg), 7:30 p.m. Sunday: St. PaulLutheran Church (2136 Brady Street,Davenport), 4 p.m. $15-18. For tickets

and information, call (309)341-7038 orvisit NovaSingers.com.

THEATREThursday, October 1, through

Sunday, October 11 – Murder on

the Rerun. Fred Cramichael’s comedywhodunit, directed by Eugenia Giebel.Richmond Hill Barn Theatre (600Robinson Drive, Geneseo). Thursday

through Saturday

7:30 p.m., Sunday 3p.m. $10. For ticketsand information, call(309)944-2244 orvisit RHPlayers.com.

Monday, October

5 – Mary Pickford

One-Woman

Show. The lifeof the silent-film

sweetheart enacted by Leslie Goddard.Moline Public Library (3210 41stStreet, Moline). 6:30 p.m. Free. Forinformation, call (309)524-2470 or visitMolineLibrary.com.

Friday, October 9, through

Saturday, October 31 – The Rocky

Horror Show . Do the time warpagain in the annual presentation ofthe musical cult classic, directed by

Tom Vaccaro. District Theatre (1724Fourth Avenue, Rock Island). 8 p.m.and midnight performances on Fridays

and Saturdays, 8 p.m. performances onOctober 25 and 27. $25. For tickets andinformation, call (309)235-1654 or visitDistrictTheatre.com.

Friday, October 9, through Sunday,

October 11 – Parade. Jason RobertBrowne’s Tony-winning musical drama,directed by Daniel Rairdin-Hale. St.Ambrose University’s Galvin Fine ArtsCenter (2101 North Gaines Street,Davenport). Friday and Saturday 7:30

p.m., Sunday 3 p.m. $14-17. For ticketsand information, call (563)333-6251 orvisit SAU.edu/theatre.

DANCEFriday, October 9,

through Saturday, October

17 – Murder Mystery at the

Ballet . Ballet Quad Citiespresents a balletic whodunit

inspired by a popular board

game, with choreographyby Courtney Lyon. Scottish

Rite Cathedral (1900 Seventh

Avenue, Moline). October9, 16, and 17 at 7:30 p.m.;

October 10 at 2:30 p.m.$12-22. For tickets andinformation, call (309)786-

3779 or visit BalletQuadCities.com.

Sunday, October 11 – Stoughton

Norwegian Dancers. The internationallytouring ensemble will perform authentic,

lively, and acrobatic Scandinavian dances,

in a co-presentation by Davenport’sStorelva Lodge of the Sons of Norway and

the Bettendorf Public Library. Bettendorf

High School Performing Arts Center (3333

18th Street, Bettendorf). 2 p.m. Free. Forinformation, call (563)344-5705 or visit

BettendorfLibrary.com.

MOVIETuesday, October 13 – Hot Spots:

America’s Volcanic Legacy . Screenings

in the museum’s World Adventure Series,

presented by filmmaker Gray Warriner.Putnam Museum & Science Center (1717

West 12th Street, Davenport). 1 and 7

p.m. $6.50-10. For tickets and information,call (563)324-1933 or visit Putnam.org.

LITERARY ARTSWednesday, October 14 – Kelly

Daniels. A “Read Local” presentation with

the award-winning author and associate

professor of creative writing at AugustanaCollege. Bettendorf Public Library (2950

Learning Campus Drive, Bettendorf). 7

p.m. Free. For information, call (563)344-4175 or visit BettendorfLibrary.com.

VISUAL ARTSSaturday, October 3, through

Sunday, January 24 – Ellen Wagener:

Horizon Lines. Exhibit featuring pastel

evocations of particular weather patternsand times of day. Figge Art Museum

(225 West Second Street, Davenport).

Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday noon-5

p.m. Free with $4-7 museum admission.

For information, call (563)326-7804 orvisit FiggeArtMuseum.org.

Saturday, October 10, through

Sunday, January 17 – Edward S. Curtis:

100 Masterworks.

Exhibition ofimages from Curtis’

photographic document

of Native American life.Figge Art Museum (225

West Second Street,

Davenport). Tuesdaythrough Saturday 10

a.m.-5 p.m., Thursday

10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sundaynoon-5 p.m. Free with

$4-7 museum admission.

For information, call(563)326-7804 or visit

FiggeArtMuseum.org.

EVENTSFriday, October 2, and Saturday,

October 3 – North American

Strongman National Championships.

Competitions featuring more than 200male and female athletes, with doorprizes, health screenings, health and

fitness vendors, children’s activities,and more. Davenport RiverCenter (136East Third Street, Davenport). Friday 8a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $7/person, or $5 with a nonperishablefood item to be donated to a localfood pantry. For information, visitStrongmanCorporation.com.

Sunday, October 4 - QC CROP Hun-

ger Walk. Forty-fourth-annual fundraiserfor Churches United of the Quad Cities,featuring live music by Chris Dunn.Modern Woodmen Park (209 SouthGaines Street, Davenport). 2 p.m. Forinformation, call (563)332-5002 or visitCUQCA.org.

Friday, October 9 – The After Hour .

Andrew King hosts a late-night talk

show featuring comedian Luke Swanson,

District Theatre Artistic Director Tristan Tapscott, and roots rocker Lewis Knudsen.

Circa ’21 Speakeasy (1818 Third Avenue,

Rock Island). 10:30 p.m. $8-10. For tickets

and information, call (309)786-7733extension 2 or visit Circa21.com.

Sunday, October 11 – Apple Fest

on the River. Annual festival featuring

apple-heavy food and beverages, arts

and crafts, games, children’s activities,and more. LeClaire Levee. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

For information, visit VisitLeClaire.com.Monday, October 12 – The

Illusionists: Live from Broadway . The

touring magicians perform in a Broadway

at the Adler presentation. Adler Theatre(136 East Third Street, Davenport). 5:30

and 8:30 p.m. $37-62. For tickets, call

(800)745-3000 or visit AdlerTheatre.com.

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The rules:A) Entries, including titles, must be 250 words or fewer – not counting the passage required in Rule G. We

recommend being careful or leaving some breathing room.

B) Entries must be typed.

C) Entries must include the author’s name, mailing address, and daytime phone number.

D) Entries must be previously unpublished.

E) Entries must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, October 19, 2015. We will accept submissions by e-mail

([email protected] with “Fiction Contest” as the subject line); mail (532 W. 3rd St., Davenport IA 52801, with“Fiction Contest” on the envelope); and fax (563-323-3101). Please do not request confirmation of receipt.

F) People may submit as many as five entries, but no more than one for any given prompt.

G) All stories must include one of the 15 passages below. Outside of using a given passage within the story, no

fidelity or relationship to the source is required.

Enter the Reader’s 2015 Short-Fiction Contest:

Spooky Stories!October 19 Deadline!

1) I don’t care for the pale people; I

like them with lots of blood in them,

and hers had all seemed to run out.

(Bram Stoker, Dracula)

2) Ovando lived in the thickest partof the night, the deepest part of the

night, the part of the night where all

suffering dwells, including death; the

part of the night in which the weight

of the world is made visible and

eternal terror is confirmed. (Jamaica

Kincaid, “Ovando”)

3) Ian knew he was beyond

salvation from the beginning,

because he’d died this way in his

sleep on a hundred occasions andDaddy never got there in time. (Clive

Barker, “Rawhead Rex”)

4) The blood around his mouth was

the most horrible, smeared around

like finger-paint. Before I became

hysterical, I couldn’t see the blood

anymore. (Adam Golaski, “The Man

from the Peak”)5) It was a house without kindness,

never meant to be lived in, not a fit

place for people or for love or for

hope. (Shirley Jackson, The Haunting

of Hill House)

6) The last man on Earth sat alone

in a room. There was a knock on the

door ... . (Fredric Brown, “Knock”)

7) When it was over she wiped at

her mouth and said she would let me

go today if I promised never to tellanybody if I sent my pretty little sister

to her tomorrow. (Joyce Carol Oates,

“Haunted”)

8) Zach had been splitting wood

most of the morning down by the

shed when he first sniffed the familiar

scent of his father, who had died five

years ago in a mining accident. (LanceOlsen, “Family”)

9) In London there is a man who

screams when the church bells ring.

(H.P. Lovecraft, “The Descendant”)

10) He was still gazing at his own

sweating face when, to his disbelief

and horror, the shaving-glass gave

a sort of shudder. (Sarah Waters, The

Little Stranger )

11) He must be deformed

somewhere; he gives a strong feelingof deformity, although I couldn’t

specify the point. (Robert Louis

Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll &

Mr. Hyde)

12) Everything in the house hears

me. (Peter Straub, “The Juniper Tree”)

13) The movement of the jaws, in

this effort to cry aloud, showed methat they were bound up, as is usual

with the dead. (Edgar Allan Poe, “The

Premature Burial”)

14) The cellar door stood open. And

the screams began. (Stephen King,

’Salem’s Lot )

15) I had gazed on him while

unfinished; he was ugly then, but

when those muscles and joints

were rendered capable of motion, it

became a thing such as even Dantecould not have conceived. (Mary

Shelley, Frankenstein)




MOVIES

it anyway, given that Meyers’ mildly insulting

sitcoms about strong, successful career women

who are only truly fulfilled after Findingthe Right Man are usually buoyed by ace

performances (Something’s Gotta Give’s Diane

Kaeaton and Jack Nicholson; It’s Complicated ’s

Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, and Steve Martin),

and this film just doesn’t have ’em.

Heaven knows, though, that leads Robert

De Niro and Anne Hathway at least try, and it’s

certainly refreshing to see The Intern’s Right

Man a platonic pal rather than a romantic

ideal. The film’s jokey premise – or rather,

the premise that everyone on-screen initiallytreats as a joke – finds De Niro’s 70-year-old

retiree Ben assuming a senior-intern role

for an online-shopping company led by

Hathway’s founder and CEO Jules. At first, the

overworked, type-A Jules wants little to do with

Ben, presuming the hand-holding he’ll require

will just slow her down. (Considering how

slowly she pedals her bicycle, from meeting to

meeting, throughout her warehouse offices, you

can’t imagine how he could.) Yet Ben’s paternal

grace and old-school wisdom gradually win the

respect of his much younger co-workers, and

before you can say, “Mornin’, Miss Daisy!”, he’s

won Jules over, too, serving as her chauffeur

and business-trip traveling companion, and

gently guiding the frazzled CEO through one

professional and emotional dilemma after

another. (Unlike Hoke Colburn, Ben never

dusts his employer’s light bulbs, but that’s only

because dust apparently ran screaming from

every shiny, pristine, fastidiously art-directed

surface.)

Based on the heartiness of the laughter atmy Thursday-night screening, the routine coos

of “ Aw-w-w-w! ”, and the occasional applause,

The Intern’s intergenerational wish-fulfillment

is clearly hitting some viewers right in the

sweet spot. And I guess I can’t begrudge them

the affection they obviously feel for De Niro

and Hathaway, the former with his soothing

serenity and the latter with her grinning-

through-tears vulnerability. But Jesusdid this

movie ever irritate me. A significant part of my

annoyance stemmed from elements that were just too Nancy Meyers for words, from the

distracting homogeneity of Jules’ Manhattan

workplace to the maudlin violin cues to the

requisite scene of “comedic” panic in which

someone witnesses another in flagrante delicto

and instantly starts screaming. (This time

around, a foot rub is mistaken for oral sex, and,

in general, the slapstick here – as when Ben and

his officemates break into the home of Jules’

mom in the hopes of erasing an e-mail – is

just slightly less inept and embarrassing thanwhen Paul Blart attempts it.) I was greatly put

off by the condescending, unfunny slaps at

Generation Y – with Adam DeVine’s wannabe-

lothario needing Ben to tell him a text is not the

Social Climbersway to apologize

for sleeping with

his girlfriend’sroommate – and

the indifferently

cruel treatment

toward the movie’s

female seniors,

with poor Celia

Weston and Linda

Lavin made to

look like dimwits.

But I was most

bothered to see De Niro and Hathaway clearlytrying to lend some complexity and thought

to the proceedings, and to realize that The

Intern was, itself, the enemy of complexity and

thought. Hathaway strains to create a credible

basket case, but instead emerges as a bastion of

clichéd, harried-working-gal tics and neuroses;

it’s strongly implied that this woman’s only real

problem is that she hasn’t had a kindly father

figure around to tell her everything’s gonna

be okay. And while De Niro is nicely relaxed

and has some terrific reaction shots, Ben is

too perfect – so eternally patient, so wise and

understanding – and the occasional flashes

of De Niro’s wicked smile are the only things

suggesting a human being under all that bland,

deferential subservience. The depressingly

mediocre The Intern is a waste of the actor’s

gifts, and I never felt worse for him than in the

scene that finds saintly Ben quietly crying while

watching An American in Paris on TV. If he

were instead watching Taxi Driver or Raging

Bull, would De Niro’s reaction have been any

different?

BLACK MASS

There’s a scene in the gangster thriller Black

Mass that should sound bells of recognition for

all fans of the genre. In it, legendary crime lord

James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) and

some friends are enjoying a dinner prepared

by one of Bulger’s associates: FBI agent John

Morris (David Harbour). Bulger compliments

Morris on their steaks and asks what seasoning

was used, to which the agent replies that it’s a

secret family recipe whose ingredients, upon

further pressing, he genially reveals. That’s when

Bulger seems to snap.

His smile curls into a frown, his eyes go

deader than usual, and he calmly inquires of

Morris that if the agent is willing to share this

“family secret” so quickly, what other secrets –

perhaps secrets about Bulger – might he have

shared? During the unbearably thick silence

that follows, Morris and his tablemates appear

nearly frozen with panic. Bulger, meanwhile,stares and stares, and we in the audience prepare

for an inevitable, horrific burst of violence.

And then ... Bulger laughs. A lot. Exclaiming

“You should see your face!”, he insists he was

Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway in The Intern

just busting

Morris’ balls.

Very slowly, theothers begin

to smile, and

then they, too,

laugh. And as

this sensationally

tense sequence

ends on a note of

cautious cheer,

it’s impossible

to ignore

the suggestion of what we just witnessed:GoodFellaswith Johnny Depp in the Joe Pesci

role. All that was missing was the psychotic

query “I’m funny how?!”

This isn’t to imply that Depp’s Bulger is in

any way a runty, motormouthed sociopath à

la Pesci’s Tommy DeVito. Quite the opposite.

Tall and lean in his mid-50s – a scene of him

determinedly performing stomach crunches

helps explain the fitness – this Bulger rarely

raises his voice above a concentrated undertone,

mostly because he doesn’t have to; his ferocious

gaze and notoriety as south Boston’s reigning

criminal already speak volumes. But like Pesci’s

Oscar-winning turn, Depp’s Bulger is both

frightening and hypnotically charismatic, and

the “funny how” lies in how unpredictable he

is regarding whether violent executions or

just good-natured ball-bustings are in store.

There were at least a half-dozen moments in

Black Mass in which Depp, his sickly blue-gray

contact lenses and pallid skin tones giving him

an otherworldly creepiness, had me quietly

giggling – partially in dread, but primarly indelight at the obvious relish Depp was taking in

the role. There’s such performance joy evident

in his whispered threats and gravelly dialect

and exquisitely held pauses that I, for one,

felt like applauding Depp at pretty consistent

intervals. Happily, by its finale, director Scott

Cooper’s movie has also proven itself worthy of

an ovation.

Black Mass, which covers the decade and a

half (beginning in 1975) that Bulger served,

unwisely, as an FBI informant, has the benefitof a great story – and it takes a while to realize

it’s Bulger’s story only peripherally. The larger

tale being told concerns FBI agent John

Connolly (Joel Edgerton), who convinces his

bosses that Bulger’s involvement will help bring

down the Italian mafia, and who seems barely

concerned that this, in turn, will only promote

Bulger’s own Winter Hill Gang to higher and

more dangerous levels of power. Connolly, it’s

gradually revealed, wants this childhood friend

from “the old neighborhood” in power. Heloves the fame and debaucherous perks that

come from both his Bulger-assisted dismantling

of the mafia and his entitled position among

Bulger’s inner circle, and, as a viewer, you start

questioning whether Connolly may actually be

the movie’s more insidious villain. Edgerton’s

crafty performance is a marvel of vaingloriousconfidence masking pathetic ass-covering.

Every time his superiors (among them those

played by Harbour, Adam Scott, and Kevin

Bacon) question Connolly’s motives or the FBI’s

involvement with Bulger, the agent burrows into

deeper, more vitriolic layers of deception and

self -deception, and Black Mass ends up painting

an unexpectedly vivid portrayal of corruption

on both sides of the law.

As strong as the narrative is, though, the

dialogue by screenwriters Jez Butterworth andMark Mallouk rarely rises above serviceable,

and there are times when the film swerves

into Whitey’s Greatest Hits (in all senses of

the term “hits”) territory, eschewing thematic

complexity for more traditional gangster-thriller

scenarios. (Depp’s mere presence would bring

to mind Donnie Brasco, but that 1997 release

gets hat-tipped even when the star isn’t around,

and it should go without saying that there are

additional echoes of Scorsese’s entire thug-

themed oeuvre – GoodFellas,but also Mean

Streets, Casino, and especially The Departed .)

But Black Mass’ authors and director aren’t out

to re-invent the wheel here. Cooper ensures that

the deliberate pace never turns funereal, and he

and cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi

deliver simple yet unsettling compositions that

stick in your mind: Bulger strangling a victim

while the camera crawls toward the henchman

sickened and saddened by the sight; the barely

controlled terror in the face of Connolly’s wife

Marianne (Julianne Nicholson) as she endures a

series of menacing compliments.Nicholson hardly has anything to do in the

movie. But she does spectacularly well with

what she’s given (particularly when Marianne

chides her husband for his unhealthy Bulger

fixation), and it’s a trait shared by all – with the

partial exception of Benedict Cumberbatch,

who’s sly enough as Bulger’s state-senator

brother Billy, but who also continues to suggest

he may be the lone British actor incapable

of a decent American accent. (Considering

he’s just as distracting-sounding here as hewas playing an Oklahoman in August: Osage

County , maybe Cumberbatch just needs to

give up on regional American accents.) Bacon

and Scott hit the right, welcome comedic notes

as uncomprehending agents, and Corey Stoll,

showing up late in the proceedings, plays a

no-nonsense one with zeal; the scene in which

his Fred Wyshak cuts through Connolly’s BS

and the latter finally gets slapped down has

some of the charge of Scorsese’s “Bond villain”

scene aboard the Wolf of Wall Street yacht.Harbour’s broken agent John Morris is pitiful

and heartbreaking; Jesse Plemons is fierce and

magnetic as one of Bulger’s brooding cronies;

as another, Rory Cochrane is alternately





scary and deeply moving (and officially

unrecognizable from his stoned-sweetheart

days as Slater in Dazed & Confused ).Believe it or not, I can go on. Dakota

Johnson, as the mother of Bulger’s young son,

has an emotionally devastating hospital scene

in which she threatens to take their son off

life-support – a suggestion that, for Bulger, is

received not at all well. Juno Temple has only a

few minutes as a chirpy teen prostitute, yet she’s

so animated, and connects so fully to both her

role and to us, that you’re saddened to see her

go. And on that note, I don’t know how Cooper

convinced Peter Sarsgaard to show up for allof four scenes and five minutes as a coked-up

lowlife whose narrative purpose is, admittedly,

unclear. But it’s to all of our good fortune that

he did; Sarsgaard is so manically alive when

being grilled by FBI agents, and so teasingly

funny when not leaving a room Bulger’s asked

him to leave four times already , that the actor’s

presence is less a cameo than a gift. Black Mass’

may be, to date, the film ensemble of the year,

and it’s led by a splendid Johnny Depp turn that

brings to mind no one so much as Mae West.

When he’s good, he’s very good, and when he’s

bad, he’s better.

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2

The animated Hotel Transylvania, with its

lead vampire voiced by Adam Sandler and

several Happy Madison cronies providing

vocal support, was released in 2012, and at

the time I was amazed at how not-bad it

was. Now there’s a sequel, and I’m positively

dumbfounded:Hotel Transylvania 2,somehow, is even not-bad-er. The rare case of

a comedy that saved its best gags for the movie

and didn’t spoil them in the trailers, director

Genndy Tartakovsky’s goofy, inventive,

colorful lark is chock-full of riotous bits: the

stretching rack used for yoga; David Spade’s

invisible man faking an equally invisible

girlfriend; Mel Brooks’ elderly vampire

referring to Keegan-Michael Key’s mummy

as “talking toilet paper”; Megan Mullally and

Nick Offerman just doing what they do. There

are, admittedly, more than a few groaners

sprinkled throughout. But the hilarious

throwaways pop up with such regularity, and

with such a hearty success rate, that Hotel

Transylvania 2 actually gets you thinking

that maybe all of Sandler’s movies would be

hysterical if their jokes landed as speedily as

this one’s. Maybe.

For reviews of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,

The Green Inferno, Captive, Grandma, and

other current releases, visit RiverCitiesReader.com.

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group – where there isn’t a tremendousamount of time to have a dialogue aboutwhat’s going on in the moment. But then,

afterward, we talk about it – how the dancerscan inform their movement, and inserttheir characters’ own personal, physicalcharacteristics into the dance scene I’ve puton them.

“And then when I’m creating some of thesmall flashback vignettes, we really do talkabout ‘What do you think your characterswould do now?’ And then they’ll play offeach other and react off each other, and oncewe’ve created the choreography, we findmusic for it. It’s a very organic process.”

The task of finding appropriate music is,Lyon says, “one of the really fun parts. I spenta lot of time amassing a bank of music thatI thought was really, really great, and I knewthat when I began working with the dancersand forming the story, I would find the rightpiece of music to attach to each character.

“So I’m using a lot of classical music,” shecontinues. “We have Beethoven, I think I’vefound a Debussy piece that I like ... . I’m stillfinding things and it isn’t all set, but it’s really

cool to hear how these classical composerscan help set a mood for any time period.This show is set in the present, but theclassical music works so well.”

It should also provide potential cluesfor, as Lyon says, “audiences with musicalintelligence.” In another of the rehearsalscenes I watched on September 21,dancers Jill Schwartz and Branson Biceperformed a slow, sensual pas de deux.But the lithe, hungry beauty of the dance

was (intentionally) mitigated by edgyand morbid undertones, considering thatSchwartz and Bice were dancing to Mozart’shaunting Requiem Mass in D Minor – themusic that, as we Amadeus fans know,

accompanied Mozart’s funeral and thesubsequent, ugly dispatching of his body.

“Some of the pieces will be familiar to

people,” says Lyon. “Maybe they won’t beable to put their finger on exactly wherethey heard them, but they’ll get a sense ofatmosphere from them. The music helpsdrive the characters.”

As do the dance styles employed.“It’s all over the place,” says Lyon of herchoreography. “Our ingénue, for example,is a little more proper than the others,so hers are more ‘classical ballet’ dances.Our thrill-seeking, ‘destroyer’ character isalmost breakdancing at some points – reallythrowing himself all over the stage. So boththe movement styles and the music arehelping to define each character.”

All Lyon needs now is a killer. But she’snot worried. “When I was just abstractlycoming up with all these concepts,” shesay, “it was very difficult. But once I get mydancers in front of me, you see what works,you see what reads, you see what doesn’t,and it all starts making sense.”

Another grin. “Unless one of the

characters is lying .”

Murder Mystery at the Ballet will be performed at the Scottish Rite Cathedral(1800 Seventh Avenue, Moline) on October9, 16, and 17 at 7:30 p.m., and October 10at 2:30 p.m. Those seeking clues in advanceare also invited to visit the production’ssponsorship partners – Barley & Rye, BassStreet Chop House, Café Fresh, Cool BeanzCoffeehouse, Cup a Jo, La Flama, and Le

Mekong – to pick up secret information on theballet’s roster of suspects.

For more information and tickets, call(309)786-3779 or visit BalletQuadCities.com.

COVER STORY Continued From Page 7 GUEST COMMENTARY

by David M. Brown

How the

GovernmentMakes DataHacks aThousandTimes Worse

housed, SSN-tagged stuff can be targetedagain and again.

Yet it has become harder and harder torefrain from giving others that number.You can join a club without divulgingyour SSN. You can open an e-mailaccount or buy a book, a hamburger,a refrigerator, or a gift card withoutreporting your SSN. But you cannot put$10 in the bank, or open an investment

account, or apply for a credit card or a job without reporting it. Most often, youcannot rent an apartment or buy a housewithout reporting it.

Absent unusual efforts to protect yourfinancial and personal privacy (of thekind outlined in J.J. Luna’s book Howto Be Invisible), the most you can do byway of preventing cyber-assaults is totake such precautions as using differentand non-obvious passwords for different

cyber-accounts, and withholding youraddress, data of birth, and SSN frompersons who may ardently request thesedata but will still do business with you ifyou refuse.

If your data has been grabbed, youcan also – if and when you learn of thetheft – arrange to monitor your creditand to block routine access to your creditreports, and perhaps take a few otherbarn-door-slamming measures. But you

cannot, short of engaging in fraud, supplyanything other than your actual SocialSecurity number when a governmentagency requires that it be supplied.

Our most personal information hasn’talways been thus exposed. Today we areso used to privacy-violating mandatessuch as the Social Security numbertag that we take the necessity of suchpoisonous violations for granted. Butpoison does not become nutritiousmerely because it has become, for now,

unavoidable.

This article originally appeared at AnythingPeaceful, a blog at the Foundation forEconomic Education (FEE.org).





about themselves. (“She’s all over me like ants ona Croissanwich!”) There’s also what Henningsen

calls the “exploring” motivation: safely testing

what a relationship with somebody new might

be like (in case the wife runs off with the census

taker).

Chances are this guy is into you but is clinging

to fidelity like a shipwrecked rat on driftwood.

Maybe try to enjoy this for what it is: free lunch,

free work, and referrals to the amazing Carlos

at Numero Uno Auto. And try to be grateful

for all that he shares with you, like the poetryand short stories that his wife probably (wisely)

refuses to read. As for a companion to take you

to that dark place with satin sheets, you’ll have to

find somebody unmarried and available. If this

guy is looking to make his wife cry, it seems he’ll

stick to low-grade relationship misdemeanors,

like forgetting her birthday or, when they’re in

bed, calling her by an old girlfriend’s name. Or

by the dog’s.

A Brief Historyof Slime

I just discovered that my boyfriend of a year

not only is married but has two young kids. I

broke it off immediately and texted his wife. I

made clear that I had no idea he was married.

But now his wife keeps contacting me, wanting

to meet for lunch. I’m not sure what she wants

from me.

– Go Away, Lady

When somebody just can’t let go after a

relationship, you don’t expect it to be your

married boyfriend’s wife. You can’t seem to get

it through her head: “I’m out of his life, and I’d

really like to be out of yours.”

She’s probably just looking for answers –

sadly, to questions such as “How pretty are you?”,

“How big are your boobs?”, and “How the heck

did you get him to go to the dermatologist?”

But the only answer you really need to give her

is a definitive no: no calls, no texts, no more

contact. Meanwhile, review any signs you may

have overlooked that this guy wasn’t the single,

available man he made himself out to be, and

go into future relationships wanting to find out

rather than wanting to believe. This should keep

you from having scorned wives hitting you up

for lunch dates and from the charming offers

that might ensue: “Whaddya say – if I treat you

to tiramisu, would you help me dump his body

in the ravine?”

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

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

Ask the

AdviceGoddessBY AMY ALKON

Wed BlanketI’m very attracted to my co-worker – a

self-described “happily married man.” We

are “friends,” but he always has a warm hug,

an interesting YouTube video, or a poem or

short story he’s written to share with me. He

has taken me to lunch and has done work for

me gratis. If I have car trouble, he connects

me to a mechanic and sees I get great work for

a great price. Twice he’s told me, “I love you.”

The second time, I responded, “I love you, too,

and if you weren’t married, I’d take you on!”He then responded, “Previous commitment!”

I’m confused as to what’s going on in his head.

There has been no sex, and he hasn’t asked for

any.

– Huh?

Nothing says “I want to make mad, passionate

love to you” like a referral to a skilled and honest

auto mechanic.

The guy seems to be having a “flirtationship”

with you – which is to say, this stuff he’sdoing is foreplay to foreplay that’s unlikely to

happen. There seems to be some evolutionary

psychology bubbling up here – specifically, a

facet of “error-management theory.” This is

the mouthful of a way that researchers Martie

Haselton and David Buss explain how, when we

might make an error in judgment, we evolved

to make the least costly error. And though

women engage in flirtationships, men seem to

have evolved to err on the side of not missing

a possible mating opportunity. And yes, that’strue even when they aren’t technically free to

“mate” – like when a guy has taken (and seems

to adhere to) those pesky vows to grow old with

some lady, and not just in between sex romps

with some other lady.

That’s where flirting comes in. Interpersonal

communications researcher David Henningsen

points out that the essence of flirting is

ambiguity, leading the target to “suspect that

sexual interest is being expressed” but not

allowing them to really be sure. As for a flirt’sgoal, predictably, for many in Henningsen’s and

others’ research, it’s about “getting some.” But

some flirting, called “instrumental” flirting,

is about getting something else – like getting

a discount, getting some free help, or getting

out of a ticket by flashing a lady cop one’s man

boobs.

As for what may be going on here,

Henningsen notes that some flirting is just about

having fun or is a way for a person to feel good

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LEO (July 23-August 22): Should Ioffer my congratulations? You havecorralled a gorgeous mess of problems

that are more interesting and provocative than

everyone else’s. It’s unclear how long this oddgood fortune will last, however. So I suggestyou act decisively to take maximum advantageof the opportunities that your dilemmas have

cracked open. If anyone can turn the heartacheof misplaced energy into practical wisdom,you can. If anyone can harness chaos to drumup new assets, it’s you. Is it possible to be bothcunning and conscientious, both strategic and

ethical? For you right now, I think it is.

VIRGO (August 23-September

22): Let’s say you have walked alongthe same path or driven down the

same road a thousand times. Then, one day,as you repeat your familiar route, a certainobject or scene snags your attention for the firsttime. Maybe it’s a small fountain or a statue of

the Buddhist goddess Guanyin or a wall withgraffiti that says “Crap happens, but so doesmagic.” It has always been there. You’ve beensubconsciously aware of it. But at this moment,for unknown reasons, it finally arrives in your

conscious mind. I believe this is an apt metaphorfor your life in the next week. More than once,you will suddenly tune in to facts, situations, orinfluences that had previously been invisible toyou. That’s a good thing! But it might initially

bring a jolt.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22): The 20th Century’s most influential

artist may have been Pablo Picasso. He created

thousands of paintings, and was still churningthem out when he was 91 years old. A journalist

asked him which one was his favorite. “Thenext one,” he said. I suggest you adopt a similar

attitude in the coming weeks, Libra. What youdid in the past is irrelevant. You should neitherdepend on nor be weighed down by anythingthat has come before. For now, all that mattersare the accomplishments and adventures that lie

ahead of you.

SCORPIO (October 23-November

21): A windbreak is a line of stouttrees or thick bushes that provides

shelter from the wind. I think you need ametaphorical version: someone or somethingto shield you from a relentless force that hasbeen putting pressure on you, a buffer zone orprotected haven where you can take refuge from

a stressful barrage that has been hamperingyour ability to act with clarity and grace. Do youknow what you will have to do to get it? Here’syour battle cry: “I need sanctuary! I deserve

sanctuary!”

SAGITTARIUS (November

22-December 21): Your fellowSagittarian Walt Disney accomplished

a lot. He was a pioneer in the art of animationand made movies that won numerous AcademyAwards. He built theme parks, created an

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Thenext seven weeks will not be afavorable time to fool around withpsychic vampires and charismatic

jerks. I recommend you avoid the followingmistakes, as well: failing to protect the woundedareas of your psyche; demanding perfectionfrom those you care about; and trying to fulfillquestionable desires that have led you astray in

the past. Now I’ll name some positive actionsyou’d be wise to consider: hunting for skillfulhealers who can relieve your angst and aches;favoring the companionship of people who areempathetic and emotionally intelligent; and

getting educated about how to build the kind ofintimacy you can thrive on.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may

have seen Web sites that offer practicaltips on how to improve your mastery of

life’s little details. They tell you how to de-clutteryour home, or how to keep baked goods fromgoing stale, or why you should shop for shoes at

night to get the best fit. I recently came across ahumorous site that provides the opposite: badlife tips. For instance, it suggests that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying

for jobs you don’t want. Put your laptop in coldwater to prevent overheating. To save time,brush your teeth while you eat. In the two setsof examples I’ve just given, it’s easy to tell thedifference between which tips are trustworthyand which aren’t. But in the coming days, you

might find it more challenging to distinguishbetween the good advice and bad advice you’llreceive. Be very discerning.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On a

windy afternoon last spring I was

walking through a quiet neighborhoodin Berkeley. In one yard there was a gardenplot filled with the young green stems of as-yet

unidentifiable plants. Anchored in their midstwas a small handwritten sign. Its messageseemed to be directed not at passers-by likeme but at the sprouts themselves. “Grow faster,you little bastards!” the sign said – as if the

blooming things might be bullied into ripening.I hope you’re smart enough not to make similardemands on yourself and those you care about,Gemini. It’s not even necessary. I suspect that

everything in your life will just naturally growwith vigor in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I amrooted, but I flow,” wrote VirginiaWoolf in her novel The Waves. That

paradoxical image reminds me of you right now.You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid as ariver. Your foundation is deep and strong, evenas you are resilient in your ability to adapt to

changing circumstances. This is your birthrightas a Cancerian! Enjoy and use the blessings itconfers. (P.S. If for some strange reason you’renot experiencing an exquisite version of whatI’ve described, there must be some obstacle you

are mistakenly tolerating. Get rid of it.)

entertainment empire, and amassed fantasticwealth. Why was he so successful? In partbecause he had high standards, worked hard,and harbored an obsessive devotion to his

quirky vision. If you aspire to cultivate any ofthose qualities, now is a favorable time to raiseyour mastery to the next level. Disney had oneother trait you might consider working on:He liked to play the game of life by his own

rules. For example, his favorite breakfast wasdoughnuts dipped in Scotch whiskey. Whatwould be your equivalent?

CAPRICORN (December

22-January 19): October is Fix theFundamentals Month. It will be a

favorable time to substitute good habits forbad habits. You will attract lucky breaks and

practical blessings as you work to transformoverwrought compulsions into rigorouspassions. You will thrive as you seek to discoverthe holy yearning that’s hidden at the root ofdevitalizing addictions. To get started, instigate

free-wheeling experiments that will propel youout of your sticky rut and in the direction of apercolating groove.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February18): Have you made your travel

plans yet? Have you plotted your escape? Ihope you will hightail it to a festive playgroundwhere some of your inhibitions will shrink, orelse journey to a holy spot where your spiritual

yearnings will ripen. What would be evenbetter is if you made a pilgrimage to a place thatsatisfied both of those agendas – filled up yoursenses with novel enticements and fed yourhunger for transcendent insights. Off you go,

Aquarius! Why aren’t you already on your way?

If you can’t manage a real getaway in the nearfuture, please at least stage a jailbreak for yourimagination.

PISCES (February 19-March 20): Pablo

Neruda’s Book of Questions consists

entirely of 316 questions. It’s one of those

rare texts that makes no assertions and draws no

conclusions. In this spirit, and in honor of the

sphinx-like phase you’re now passing through,

I offer you six pertinent riddles: (1) What is the

most important thing you have never done? (2)

How could you play a joke on your fears? (3)Identify the people in your life who have made

you real to yourself. (4) Name a good old thing

you would have to give up in order to get a great

new thing. (5) What’s the one feeling you want to

feel more than any other in the next three years?

(6) What inspires you to love?

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Round Midnight Jazz (5pm) - FlattedFifth Blues & BBQ, 300 Potter Dr.Bellevue, IA

Steve McFate Acoustic - Mr. Ed’s LiquorStore and Tap, 127 4th St. W. Milan, IL

Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duf-fee Jazz Quartet (9am) - Bix Bistro,200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

The Josh Duffee Orchestra (5:30pm)- The Redsto ne Room, 129 Main StDavenport, IA

2015/10/05 (Mon) -

Moeller Mondays Presents - Rozz-Tox,2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Wake the Sun - Here’s to the Life -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. IowaCity, IA

2015/10/06 (Tue) -

Blues Cafe (6:30pm) - RME CommunityStage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Chris Avey Live - My Place the Pub, 4405State St. Bettendorf, IA

Filthy Animals - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing-ton St. Iowa City, IA

Jennifer Hall - The Low D own - Rozz- Tox, 2108 3rd Av e. Rock Island , IL

Los Lonely Boys - Englert Theatre, 221East Washington St. Iowa City, IA

QC Kix Orchestra - Freight House, 421W. River Dr. Davenport, IA

Tannahill Weavers - CSPS/Legion Arts,1103 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA

2015/10/07 (Wed) -

Burlington Street Bluegrass Band - The Mill, 120 E. Bu rlingto n St. IowaCity, IA

Quad City Symphony Orchestra Mas-terworks I: The Re-Creation - Adler Theatre, 136 E. 3rd St. Davenpor t, IA

Russ Reyman Request Piano Bar - ThePhoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar,111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Stone Tattoo - Harley Corin’s, 1708 StateSt. Bettendorf, IA

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

Tanya English Band - Flatted Fifth Blues& BBQ, 300 Potter Dr. Bellevue, IA

The Stone Flowers - Ubriaco’s Trattoria,1029 Mound St. Davenport, IA

The Tailfins - Edje Nightclub at Jumer’sCasino and Hotel, I-280 & Hwy 92Rock Island, IL

Trippin’ Billies - Jason Carl - RIBCO,1815 2nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

2015/10/04 (Sun) -

4th Annual Joel Pena Memorial Jam(2pm) - Geezer’s Draft House, 1654W. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

Americana-na - Def Kittie Blindogg -Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. IowaCity, IA

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

Chuck Murphy (2pm) - Psycho SiloSaloon, intersection Rt. 6 & Rt. 40Langley, IL

Jennifer Hall - Dan DiMonte & the BadAssettes - The Low Down - The Mill,120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA

Kodi & Tyler Kargl (3pm) - CreeksideVineyards Winery & Inn, 7505 120thAve. Coal Valley, IL

Quad City Symphony Orchestra Mas-terworks I: The Re-Creation - Cen-tennial Hall, Augustana College, 37037th Ave. Rock Island, IL

2015/10/01 (Thu) -

Dave Ellis & Guests - Grumpy’s Saloon,2120 E 11th St Davenport, IA

Locally Owned - Ben Roller - JackBequieth - Johnny Thompson -Bored of Education - Gabe’s, 330 E.Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Matt Hectorne - Lewis Knudsen - Rozz- Tox, 2108 3rd Av e. Rock Island , IL

Recycled Percussion - John and AliceButler Hall, University of DubuqueHeritage Center, 2255 Bennett St.Dubuque, IA

Steve Wonder Tribute w/ Byron “BK”Davis - The Redstone Room, 129 MainSt Davenport, IA

The Kinsey Sicks - CSPS/Legion Arts,1103 3rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA

Trout Steak Revival - Von Stomper -

Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn StIowa City, IA

University of Iowa Jazz Faculty (6pm)- Psalm One - The Palmer Squares- The Rapper Chicks - AWTHNTKTS(10pm) - The Mil l, 120 E. Burli ngtonSt. Iowa City, IA

2015/10/02 (Fri) -

Brad Brenny - The Faith ful Pilo t Cafe &Spirits, 117 N Cody Rd LeClaire, IA

Buddy Olson - My Place the Pub, 4405State St. Bettendorf, IA

Dale Thomas Band - Walcott Coliseum,116 E Bryant St Walcott, IA

Funktastic Five - 11th Street Precinct,

1107 Mound St. Davenport, IAGenie: AC/DC Cover - Harley Corin’s,1708 State St. Bettendorf, IA

Head for the Hills - Flash in a Pan -Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn StIowa City, IA

Chikken Boy Bash: Divebomb - Lilith’sB.S. Burlesque - Wicked Liz & the

Bellyswirls - Eleven Fifty Two -Katalina - 3 Years Hollow - OneNight Standards - AsBigAsAMouse- Sugar Nipples - The Last Glimpse- Drama Major - Chris Avey Band -Dead Forms - Age of Stars (2pm)- Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL

Corporate Rock - Sidetracked Saloon,906 3rd St. Orion, IL

Dark Hollow Boys (6pm) - Mama Comp-ton’s, 1725 2nd Ave Rock Island, IL

Just Chords - Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St.Davenport, IA

Justin Morrissey - River House, 1510River Dr. Moline, IL

Laranja Album Release Show - TheMill , 120 E. Burlington St . IowaCity, IA

Jumbies - RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave. RockIsland, IL

Just Chords - Kilkenny’s, 300 W. 3rd St.

Davenport, IA Justin Morrissey (4:30pm) - Isle of Ca-

pri, 1777 Isle Parkway Bettendorf, IAKerry & Rich Acoustic Duo (5pm) - Hy-

Vee Market Cafe Patio, 2930 18thAve. Rock Island, IL

Kerry & Rich Acoustic Duo - Bleyart’s Tap, 2210 E. 11th St. Dav enport, IA

Mike + Ruthy - CSPS/Legion Arts, 11033rd St SE Cedar Rapids, IA

Oktoberfest Celebration (6pm) - BierStube Moline Biergarten, 415 15thSt. Moline, IL

Passion - Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Quad City Santana Tribute Band -Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL

Rob Dahms & the Night People (6pm)- Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd AveRock Island, IL

The Nadas - Mike Himebaugh - TheRedstone Room, 129 Main St Dav-enport, IA

Wild Oatz - Biscuits Bar & Grill, 600 FrontSt Buffalo, IA

2015/10/03 (Sat) -

Alyx Rush (1pm) - SouthPark Mall, 450016th St Moline, IL

Alyx Rush (8pm) - Rustic Ridge GolfCourse Grille & Pub, 1151 East IowaSt. Eldridge, IA

BBQ, Blues, & Rockabilly Festival:Kerry & Rich Acoustic Duo (noon) -QC Slim Blues Band (3pm) - JulianaLogan & Friends (6:30pm) - JaneRose & the Deadend Boys (8pm) -Kavanaugh’s Hilltop Tap, 1228 30thSt. Rock Island, IL

Living Hour - Bob Bucko Jr. - Rozz-Tox,2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Mike Cochrane - RME CommunityStage, 131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IAMuscatine Blues Showcase: Ellis Kell

Band (3:30pm) - Hal Reed (6:30pm)- Ernie Peniston (9pm) - DowntownMuscatine, Muscatine, IA

No Bad News! - Coralville Center forthe Performing Arts, 1301 5th St.Coralville, IA

Oktoberfest Celebration (6pm) - BierStube Moline Biergarten, 415 15thSt. Moline, IL

Passion - Riverside Casino and Golf Re-sort, 3184 Highway 22 Riverside, IA

Pat Foley - Governor’s Pub & Grill, 3470Middle Rd. Bettendorf, IA

Philly B - Tok5’1 - Junior Red - Tezzy- Trey Snapz - Gucciboy Taz - KingAnderson - DukeFTRG & Decal -Kodac - Jumbies - Gabe’s, 330 E.Washington St. Iowa City, IA

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Eddie Butts Band - Riverside Casinoand Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22Riverside, IA

Gray Wolf Band - River House, 1510

River Dr. Moline, IL Jul iann a & Frie nds (6p m) - MamaCompton’s, 1725 2nd Ave RockIsland, IL

Justi n Morri ssey (3pm) - CreeksideVineyards Winery & Inn, 7505 12 0thAve. Coal Valley, IL

Karl Beaty - My Place the Pub, 4405State St. Bettendorf, IA

Leon Russell - Englert Theatre, 221 EastWashington St. Iowa City, IA

Live Lunch w/ Ben Florence (noon) - AlyxRush (7pm) - RME Community Stage,131 W. 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Mason Jennings - CSPS/Legion Arts,1103 3rd St SE Cedar Ra pids, IA

Miles Nielsen & the Rusted Hearts -River’s Edge Gallery, 216 W 3rd StMuscatine, IA

Nicole Green - Governor’s Pub & Grill,3470 Middle Rd. Bettendorf, IA

Beaker Brothers Band - Englert The-atre, 221 East Washington St. IowaCity, IA

Crystal City - Dan Tedesco - Field Divi-sion - The Mil l, 120 E. Burling ton St.Iowa City, IA

Curt Oren - Dubb Nubb - Idpyramid- Nora Petran - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rdAve. Rock Island, IL

Earth Ascending - RIBCO, 1815 2ndAve. Rock Island, IL

Eddie Butts Band - Riverside Casinoand Golf Resort, 3184 Highway 22Riverside, IA

Gray Wolf Band - Len Brown’s NorthShore Inn, 700 N. Shore Dr. Moline, IL

Hammer & Nailers - My Place the Pub,4405 State St. Bettendorf, IA

How Great Thou Art: The Gospel Mu-sic of Elvis Presley (1:15pm) - Circa

‘21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rd Ave.Rock Island, ILKerry & Rich Acoustic Duo (6pm) -

Mama Compton’s, 1725 2nd AveRock Island, IL

Live Lunch w/ Tony Hoeppner (noon) -RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St .Davenport, IA

Randall Hall: A Moving Performance(noon) - Moline Public Library, 321041st St. Moline, IL

Rory Block - CSPS/Legion Arts, 1103 3rdSt SE Cedar Rapids, IA

The Jason Carl Band - 11th Street Pre-cinct, 1107 Mound St. Davenport, IA

The Manny Lopez Big Band (6pm) - The Circa ‘21 Speake asy, 1818 3rdAve. Rock Island, IL

Uniphonics - Plastic Relations - IowaCity Yacht Club, 13 S Linn St IowaCity, IA

Nova Singers: Encore! AudienceFavorites - Knox College’s KresgeRecital Hall, 2 East South St., Knox

College Galesburg, ILPete Cassani - Chris Dunn - Rozz-Tox,

2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, ILRuss Reyman Request Piano Bar - The

Phoenix Restaurant & Martini Bar,111 West 2nd St. Davenport, IA

Satellite Heart - Waking Robots -Speaking of Secrets - RIBCO, 18152nd Ave. Rock Island, IL

The Four Preps - Ohnward Fine ArtsCenter, 1215 E Platt St . Maquo-keta, IA

The Old 57’s - Galena Brewing Com-pany, 227 N. Main St. Galena, IL

The Original Night People 50thDraught House Reunion w/ LarryBoyd - Col Ballroom, 1012 W. 4th St.

Davenport, IAWho Cares - Generations Bar & Grill,4100 4th Ave. Moline, IL

Wild Oatz - Desperado’s, 112 S. Main St.Wheatland, IA

2015/10/11 (Sun) -

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

Cult of Lip - Brilliant Beast - Gosh! -Cheat Codes - Rozz-Tox, 2108 3rdAve. Rock Island, IL

Nova Singers: Encore! AudienceFavorites (4pm) - St. Paul LutheranChurch - Davenport, 2136 Brady St.Davenport, IA

Steve McFate Acoustic (6pm) - Mc-Manus Pub, 1401 7th Ave Moline, IL

Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show- Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL

Def Leppard - Foreigner - Tesla - i wire-less Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

Strahan & the Good Neighbors -Mathew Mulnix - Gabe’s, 330 E.Washington St. Iowa City, IA

2015/10/08 (Thu) -

Caskey - Nate Millyunz - Chandla- Jose G - YNTU - Gabe’s, 330 E.Washington St. Iowa City, IA

Friendly House Bacon, Brews, &Berries: The Stone Flowers - Dav-enport RiverCenter, 136 E. 3rd StDavenport, IA

How Great Thou Art: The Gospel Musicof Elvis Presley (1:15 & 7:15pm) -

Circa ‘21 Dinner Playhouse, 1828 3rdAve. Rock Island, IL

Jazz Jam w/ the North Scott Jazz Combo- RME Community Stage, 131 W. 2nd St.Davenport, IA

Jef & Doc - 11th Street Precinct, 1107Mound St. Davenport, IA

Jon Wayne & the Pain - Rude Punch- Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S Linn StIowa City, IA

Kerry & Rich Acoustic Duo - Har-rington’s Pub, 2321 CumberlandSquare Dr. Bettendorf, IA

Lojo Russo - Grumpy’s Saloon, 2120 E11th St Davenport, IA

Steve McFate Acoustic - Dee’s Place,2536 5th Ave. Rock Island, IL

2015/10/09 (Fri) -

Aaron Kamm & the One Drops - Bone Jugs N Harm ony - The Red sto neRoom, 129 Main St Davenport, IA

Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ the Josh Duf-fee Jazz Quartet (9am) - Bix Bistro,200 E. 3rd St. Davenport, IA

The Thrio (5pm) - Flatted Fifth Blues& BBQ, 300 Potter Dr. Bellevue, IA

2015/10/12 (Mon) -

Moeller Mondays Presents - Rozz-Tox,2108 3rd Ave. Rock Island, IL

Scotch Hollow - Gabe’s, 330 E. Washing-ton St. Iowa City, IA

2015/10/13 (Tue) -

Chris Avey Live - My Place the Pub, 4405State St. Bettendorf, IA

Christopher the Conquered - The Mill,120 E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA

Mayday featuring Kap Kallous w/

GetEM Music (6:30pm) - RascalsLive, 1414 15th St. Moline, ILWild Belle - Younger - Gabe’s, 330 E.

Washington St. Iowa City, IA

2015/10/14 (Wed) -

Burlington Street Bluegrass Band - The M ill, 120 E. B urlingt on St . Iow aCity, IA

Chris Avey Experience Acoustic Show- Rascals Live, 1414 15th St. Moline, IL

Conor Oberst - Larkin Poe - High Up- Englert Theatre, 221 East Washing-ton St. Iowa City, IA

Eyes - Blue Movies - Dog Hairs - Rozz- Tox, 2108 3rd Ave . Rock Island, IL

Late Night Radio - Marvel Years -

Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St. IowaCity, IA

2015/10/10 (Sat) -

Bellevue Blues Fest: Brent Johnson

& the Call Up (noon) - Bruce Kort(2 & 6pm) - Bob Dorr & the BlueBand (3pm) - Aaron Williams & theHoodoo - Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ,300 Potter Dr. Bellevue, IA

Bikers Against Child Abuse Benefit- Harley Corin’s, 1708 State St. Bet-tendorf, IA

BlueStem Trio - Uptown Bill’s CoffeeHouse, 730 S. Dubuque St. IowaCity, IA

Brandon Gibbs Acoustic/ElectricBlues Show - Rascals Live, 1414 15thSt. Moline, IL

Bully - Heat - Fake LImbs - The Mill, 120E. Burlington St. Iowa City, IA

Chris Tomlin - Rend Collective - i wire-less Center, 1201 River Dr Moline, IL

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

Dead Larry CD Release - EGi - DoctorMurdock - Iowa City Yacht Club, 13S Linn St Iowa City, IA

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Ellen Wagener, Four Elements: The Cyclonic Change in the Blink of an Eye (air),2015, pastel on paper, one of four panels, each 15x15 in., courtesy of the artist.

FIGGE ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Davenport, Iowa • 563.326.7804

www.figgeartmuseum.org

ELLEN WAGENER | HORIZON LINES

October 3, 2015-January 24, 2016

Ellen Wagener takes the quintessential Midwestern landscape—rows of corn receding to the

horizon under ever-changing skies—as the starting point for her works. Working in pastel, and

often in series and at large scale, she uses sketches, photographs and her memory to create

vivid evocations of particular weather patterns and times of day. Horizon Lines will feature

several new series of works depicting the seasons and the rising sun, as well as earlier works.

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THURSDAYS

Cobra Kai Karaoke – The Backroom Com-

edy Theater, 1510 N. Harrison St., Dav-enport, IA.

DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Pub,303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.

DJ Night w/ 90s Music – Thirsty’s on Third,2202 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.

Jam Night – My Place the Pub, 4405 State St.,Bettendorf, IA.

Karaoke Night – Bier Stube Moline, 415 15thStreet, Moline, IL.

Open Jam Night – Harley Corin’s, 1708 StateSt., Bettendorf, IA.

Open Mic Night – Uptown Bill’s Coffee House,730 S. Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA.

The TuckerAfterTen Happy Fun Time MusicExplosion! – The Dark Horse Hall, 1510 N.Harrison St., Davenport, IA.

Thumpin’Thursdays DJs - Rascals Live, 141415th Street, Moline, IL.

Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment – Broken Saddle, 1417 5th Ave., Moline, IL.

FRIDAYS

Cross Creek Karaoke – Firehouse Bar & Grill,2006 Hickory Grove Rd., Davenport, IA.

DJ Dolla – The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800 Sec-ond Ave., Rock Island, IL.

DJ K Yung – Barrel House Moline, 1321 FifthAve., Moline, IL.

DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Pub,303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA

Karaoke Night – Circle Tap, 1345 West LocustStreet, Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st St.,

Long Grove, IA.Karaoke Night – Miller Time Bowling, 2902 E.

Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.Karaoke Night – Roadrunners Roadhouse,

3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W.

Third St., Davenport, IA.

TUESDAY 6

Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) – HarleyCorin’s, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.

WEDNESDAY 7

Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) – Pen-guin’s Comedy Club, 208 SecondAve. SE, Cedar Rapids, IA.

The Backroom Comedy Open MicNight (7:30pm) – The BackroomComedy Theater, 1510 N. HarrisonSt., Davenport, IA.

THURSDAY 8

The Only Comedy Show in Town (9pm) – Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 ½ W. 3rd St.,

Davenport, IA.

FRIDAY 9

ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establish-ment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.

Studio Series: A Midsummer Night’sImprov (9:30pm) – The Establish-ment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.

The After Hour (10:30pm) – Circa ‘21Speakeasy, 1818 Third Ave., RockIsland, IL.

Todd Yohn (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Com-edy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, CedarRapids, IA.

SATURDAY 10

ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establish-

ment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.Stu di o Se r i e s : N o c tu r n e F a l l s

(9:30pm) – The Establishment, 22019th St., Rock Island, IL.

Todd Yohn (7:30pm) – Penguin’s Com-edy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE, CedarRapids, IA.

SUNDAY 11

The Circumstantial Comedy Show(9pm) – BREW, 1104 Jersey RidgeRd., Davenport, IA.

Comedy Open Mic (9pm) – The Mill,120 E. Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.

MONDAY 12

The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase(10pm) – Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S.Linn St., Iowa City, IA.

TUESDAY 13

Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm) – HarleyCorin’s, 1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.

WEDNESDAY 14

Comedy Open Mic (7:30pm) – Pen-guin’s Comedy Club, 208 Second Ave.SE, Cedar Rapids, IA.

The Backroom Comedy Open MicNight (7:30pm) – The BackroomComedy Theater, 1510 N. HarrisonSt., Davenport, IA.

THURSDAY 1

The Only Comedy Show in Town (9pm)

– Boozie’s Bar & Grill, 114 ½ W. 3rd St.,Davenport, IA.

FRIDAY 2

ComedySportz: Comedy for a Cause(7pm) – The Establishment, 220 19thSt., Rock Island, IL.

Kevin Bozeman (7:30pm) – Penguin’sComedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,Cedar Rapids, IA.

Studio Series: True Story (9:30pm)– The Establishment, 220 19th St.,Rock Island, IL.

SATURDAY 3

ComedySportz (7pm) – The Establish-ment, 220 19th St., Rock Island, IL.Studio Series: Wisenheimer (9:30pm)

– The Establishment, 220 19th St.,Rock Island, IL.

Kevin Bozeman (7:30pm) – Penguin’sComedy Club, 208 Second Ave. SE,Cedar Rapids, IA.

SUNDAY 4

The Circumstantial Comedy Show(9pm) – BREW, 1104 Jersey RidgeRd., Davenport, IA.

MONDAY 5

The Catacombs of Comedy Showcase(10pm) – Iowa City Yacht Club, 13 S.Linn St., Iowa City, IA.

Open Mic Coffeehouse (Oct. 9) – First Luther-an Church, 1600 20th St., Rock Island, IL.

Soulshake – Gabe’s, 330 E. Washington St.,

Iowa City, IA.

SATURDAYS

Community Folk Sing (Oct. 10, 3pm) – Up-town Bill’s Coffee House, 730 S. DubuqueStreet, Iowa City, IA.

DJ Dolla – The Smoking Dog Pub, 1800Second Ave., Rock Island, IL.

DJ Night w/ 2-Tone – Shenanigan’s Irish Pub,303 W. Third St., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – The Grove Tap, 108 S. 1st St.,Long Grove, IA.

Karaoke Night – Miller Time Bowling, 2902 E.Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – Roadrunners Roadhouse,3803 Rockingham Rd., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W.Third St., Davenport, IA.Open Mic Night – Downtown Central Perk,

226 W. 3rd St., Davenport, IA.Songwriters Round Table (Oct. 10, noon)

– River Music Experience, 129 N. MainStreet, Davenport, IA.

Twisted Mics Music & Entertainment –Barrel House Moline, 1321 Fifth Ave.,Moline, IL.

SUNDAYS

Drum Circle (Oct. 4, 5:30pm) – UnitarianUniversalist Church of the Quad Cities,3707 Eastern Ave., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – 11th Street Precinct, 1107Mound St., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke w/ JB Promotions – The Rusty Nail,2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA.

MONDAYS

Open Mic w/ J. Knight – The Mill, 120 E.Burlington St., Iowa City, IA.

The Homeless Open Mic Project (Oct.5, 1pm) – The Center, 1411 Brady St.,Davenport, IA.

TUESDAYS

Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate – Mr.Ed’s Liquor Store & Tap, 127 Fourth St.W., Milan, IL.

Acoustic Music Club (4:30pm) – RiverMusic Experience, 129 N. Main Street,Davenport, IA.

Open Mic Night (6:30pm) – Cool Beanz Cof-feehouse, 1325 330th St., Rock Island, IL.

Open Mic w/ Corey Wallace – 11th StreetPrecinct, 1107 Mound St., Davenport, IA.

Underground Open Mic w/ Kate Kane – IowaCity Yacht Club, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA.

WEDNESDAYS

Acoustic Jam Night w/ Steve McFate – McManus Pub, 1401 7th Ave., Moline, IL.

Jam Session w/ Ben Soltau – Iowa City YachtClub, 13 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA.

Karaoke Night – 11th Street Precinct, 1107Mound St., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – Circle Tap, 1345 West LocustStreet, Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – My Place the Pub, 4405 StateSt., Bettendorf, IA.

Karaoke Night – RIBCO, 1815 2nd Ave., RockIsland, IL.

Karaoke Night – Sharky’s Billiards, 2902 E.Kimberly Rd., Davenport, IA.

Karaoke Night – Thirsty’s on Third, 2202 W.Third St., Davenport, IA.

Open Jam w/ Earth Ascending – BentRiver Brewing Company, 512 24th St.Rock Island, IL.

Open Mic w/ Frankie Joe Willderman (6pm)– Mama Compton’s, 1725 Second Ave. ArtsAlley, Rock Island, IL.

Rock’N the House Karaoke – Harley Corin’s,1708 State St., Bettendorf, IA.

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