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Literature
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Written by administrator
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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For
the second year, the River
Cities' Reader is publishing
winners from the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest.
The
awards ceremony for the 35th-annual contest will be held on on
Saturday, May 17, at the Butterworth Center in Moline.
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Local News
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Written by Jeff Ignatius
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Many
of the lighter moments in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film
Schindler's List
came when the industrialist Oskar Schindler protested to German
officials that children and people with disabilities were essential
to his wartime manufacturing effort.
Leon
Leyson, who will speak Monday at the i wireless Center in Moline, was
the youngest person in Schindler's factory, and one of roughly
1,200 Jews that he saved from the Nazi death camps.
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Music
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Written by Jeff Ignatius
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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The
first sound on the EP Nothing
Without You has the
full-throated force of Robert Plant, and it leaves a strong
impression.
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Theatre
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Say
what you will about the Prenzie Players' latest presentation, but
you can't say that the classical-theatre troupe, with its
production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life's
a Dream, is merely resting
on its laurels.
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Theatre
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Near
as I can tell, there are two types of people: those who like Reginald
Rose's jury-room drama 12 Angry
Men, and those who haven't
seen it yet. So speedy and smart, so filled with personality and
(mostly) unforced emotion, the work seems practically indestructible,
and I actually fall into a special subset of people: those who love
12 Angry Men with
a passion bordering on mania. (Between Sidney Lumet's 1957 film
version and the 1997 television remake, I've watched it
- and this is a
conservative estimate - more than three dozen times.) So it was
with nearly delirious excitement, and just a touch of dread, that I
attended the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's Saturday-night
presentation of the show, the first stage production of Rose's
piece that I'd seen.
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Movies
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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In
future years, when I'm wondering exactly when it was that I turned
into a very old man, I'm hoping I'll remember the date of May 9,
2008, when I fell asleep some 45 minutes into the onslaught of
candy-colored incoherence called Speed Racer. And when, after
returning to consciousness a minute or so later, I made it through
another couple of scenes before falling asleep again.
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Art
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Written by administrator
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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This
month's featured image was taken by club member Mark Rasmussen on a
photography trip with his wife Christy to the Oregon coast in August
2006. The trip was a personal vacation chosen specifically for the
time of year that the Oregon coast receives its clearest weather and
during a week when low tide would occur around sunrise and sunset to
maximize the photography opportunities.
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Politics
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Written by Rich Miller
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Sometimes,
you run across something so perfect that you just have to share it.
Last
week, an anonymous commenter on my blog composed a thing of pure
beauty. The Automated Rod Blagojevich Story Generator is a very funny
satire on how our state politics are stuck in a bizarre,
ever-repeating spectacle.
The
idea, the commenter explained, is to "pick one item from each
section to generate a typical Rod Blagojevich story." And here it
is.
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Guest Commentary
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Written by Garry Reed
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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FOR YOUR UTMOST
OF PARAMOUNT ATTENTIONS!
It is to
understand that you might be of somewhat apprehension because you do
not know of me but I ensure I have a lucrative business proposal of
mutually interest to share with you.
My name is Hillaracko Bamajohn
McClainton. I am the most leading of Candidates for to becoming the
Presidency of the United States of the Americas. My Spouse was former
President of the U.S. of the America and I am also the Neocon Hero of
War and the Great Charisma Leader of The Change.
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