02 Apr 2008

White Rabbits: Benefits with Friends

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  White Rabbits

   For a band with one independent recording under its belt, the White Rabbits have a lot going on. They appeared on Letterman in July - "Maybe U2 cancelled," joked bassist Adam Russell - and a feature-film documentary is in production. (See http://www.whiterabbitsdoc.com.)

 

Russell credits the band's publicist with the Letterman gig, and filmmaker Andrew Droz Palermo is a friend of the band dating back to some members' high-school careers.

 

But Russell said these early successes are a sign that people believe strongly in the band. "Having close friends that work with you does pay off sometimes," he said.

 

02 Apr 2008

The Walkmen: Beyond the Legend

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  The Walkmen

   The Walkmen have built enough of a legend that it would be easy to overlook their original material.

 

02 Apr 2008

Looking Past "The Third Man": Tomy Temerson Leads Zither Concert April 5 at St. Paul Lutheran Church

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   Tomy Temerson

   For contemporary American audiences, the zither begins and ends with the soundtrack to the 1949 film The Third Man - which famously featured the instrument in its opening. (See the credits at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo.) The tune was a number-one hit in the United States in 1950.

 

But the stringed instrument has a rich history in Europe and Asia and dates back more than two millennia.

 

02 Apr 2008

Edgerton Opens Women's Health Center

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Edgerton Women's Health Center has opened a new family-planning clinic located at Friendly House, 1221 Myrtle Street in Davenport. With two Edgerton locations in Davenport, women in the Quad Cities area will now have more access to low-cost or no-cost birth control, the newest long-term, reversible contraception methods, pregnancy testing, and emergency contraception. Theses clinics also offer the Women, Infants, & Children (WIC) program as well as obstetrical care. To learn more about Edgerton Women's Health Center, visit (http://www.qcwomenshealth.org).

 

26 Mar 2008

Rearranging the Pieces: New Figge Director Sean O'Harrow Wants to Reinvent the Still-Young Museum

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Reader issue #678 Sean O'Harrow, the Figge Art Museum's executive director for the past seven months, sounds diplomatic. He says all the right, polite things about collaboration and about serving the community.

 

"I'm very keen on building bridges," he said last week.

 

26 Mar 2008

The Five-Man One-Man Band: Throw Me the Statue, March 27 at the Redstone Room

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Throw Me the Statue Throw Me the Statue's debut album, Moonbeams, was largely built by one man, and you can hear it in the synthesized beats, the emphasis on front-loaded keyboards, the occasionally oddball instrumentation, the aggressive processing, and a complete disregard for the concept of "enough."

 

26 Mar 2008

"Us Covering Ourselves": Cowboy Junkies, March 28 at the Englert Theatre

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Cowboy Junkies The Cowboy Junkies first made a name for themselves with The Trinity Session, recorded live with a single microphone in a Toronto church in one night for a couple hundred bucks.

 

To mark its 20th anniversary this year, the Cowboy Junkies did it again.

 

26 Mar 2008

The Danger of Free Trade

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Patrick J. Buchanan, three times contender for U.S. president ('92, '96, and 2000) and syndicated columnist seen in the Quad-City Times, in his December 2007 book Day of Reckoning identifies the great illusion that is fatally eroding the USA's economic strength and world economic leadership: free trade.

 

26 Mar 2008

Last Legislative Forum of Season to Be Held Saturday

By Administrator

 

The last Scott County forum of this legislative session will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 29, at the Rogalski Center on the St. Ambrose University campus. Coffee and cookies will be provided starting at 10:10 a.m. The public is invited to discuss issues with representatives and senators from Scott County. These forums are sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Davenport Business & Professional Women, Scott County Farm Bureau, and UniServ.

 

 

 

19 Mar 2008

Paint the Town Green

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Reader issue #677 When the City of Rock Island created its "Green Team" last year, one thing it did was initiate an in-house recycling program.

 

Yes, the City of Rock Island - which likes to consider itself progressive - had no recycling program within city buildings.

 

Some recycling was done, said Tim Ridder, assistant to the public works director, the city's environmental-services coordinator, and the staff person who leads Green Team efforts. "It just wasn't uniform throughout the city," he said, and it wasn't being collected as a function of city government.

 

This isn't offered as proof that Rock Island is out-of-step. Rather, it shows how far the Quad Cities have come in the past year. Environmental initiatives range from obvious little things to multi-million-dollar projects, and it's evident that municipal government has gone green.

 

 

 

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