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Tuesday, 14 August 2001 18:00 |
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Last week’s announcement that the Vision Iowa board will contribute $20
million to Davenport’s $113 million riverfront-revitalization project was, with good reason, greeted with smiles all around the Quad Cities. |
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Tuesday, 07 August 2001 18:00 |
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When Mike and Amy Finders began playing music together four years ago, they were playing folk rock in the bars around Dubuque and Galena, where they lived.
But they decided to change direction. “Let’s not just try to be loud and entertaining to people who aren’t exactly paying attention,” Finder said of the thought process behind the decision. |
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Tuesday, 31 July 2001 18:00 |
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Minor-league baseball has erupted into a major-league furor in the Quad Cities.
On the one hand, Davenport Mayor Phil Yerington has complained about the composition of a task force appointed by Moline Mayor Stan Leach to explore ways to keep professional baseball here when the Quad City River Bandits pack up for Ohio in the next two years. |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2001 18:00 |
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At the inaugural ArtStroll, MidCoast Fine Arts and the River Cities’ Reader gathered 110 visual artists and their supporters for a group portrait by area photographer Dennis Fretty. Now we’re bringing the music community together for a picture at the site of the planned River Music History Center, coming even closer to the spirit of the famous 1958 photograph “A Great Day in Harlem. |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2001 18:00 |
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In its first year, the ArtStroll street-fair event in downtown Davenport drew an estimated 2,000 people.
“That’s pretty good for a first-year event,” said Dean Schroeder, executive director of MidCoast Fine Arts. |
