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Sean O'Harrow, PhD, will become the new executive director of the Figge Art Museum beginning August 20, 2007. O'Harrow, a U.S. citizen currently living in England, has been the development director for Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, is an art historian with a strong background in business and finance, has taught art history and architecture at American and British universities, and has worked in several museums in the United States. He earned his undergraduate degree in History of Art from Harvard and his doctoral degree in History of Architecture from Cambridge, and his specific area of scholarship is late-15th and early-16th century English and French architecture.

In writing in January about the first release from Planning the Rebellion, the college-age duo of brothers Robert and Scott Cerny, I said, "The band excels when it embraces its electronic elements fully." (See "Unwasted Youth," River Cities' Reader Issue 614, January 3, 2007.)

I mention this because for their second recording, bafflingly titled Volume 2, the Quad Cities-bred Cernys seem hell-bent on making a fool out of me, or at least calling my judgment into question. The self-recorded CD - roughly 30 minutes of music in nine songs - chucks the electronic processing until the coda that is the final track, and instead tries to skate by on voice, acoustic guitar, and piano.

And we're not talking about built-up layers; the Brothers Cerny stick with simple melodies, and even harmony vocals are rare. The gall!