08 Nov 2005

OK Go: Power-Pop Outfit Brings Its Song (and Dance) Routine to Iowa

By Jeff Ignatius
Damian Kulash is confused. The guitarist, lead singer, and chief songwriter of OK Go wants clarification. Is it true that the publication I write for is called the "Readery"? Like an "eatery?" he asks.
01 Nov 2005

City Elections 2005: The Trouble with Davenport

By Jeff Ignatius
Conventional wisdom says that incumbents are in trouble in Davenport's November 8 election. In primary competitions for nine seats on October 11, incumbent office-holders fared poorly. Steve Ahrens, an at-large alderman running for mayor, finished second, trailing Ed Winborn by more than 900 votes.
11 Oct 2005

The Lay of the Land

By Jeff Ignatius
To the average museum-goer, the exhibit 41˚/90˚: Contemporary Landscape at the Figge is an art show and little more. But its importance is far greater. It's a show that recognizes the Midwest as a fertile ground for artists and art, and proof that the Figge Art Museum understands that.
27 Sep 2005

A Healthy Airport

By Jeff Ignatius
In 1997, low-cost carrier AirTran Airways entered the Quad Cities market. In the years since, traffic has skyrocketed at the Quad City International Airport, while fares have dropped. Roughly 250,000 people got on planes at the airport in 1995, while 450,000 are expected to board this year.
20 Sep 2005

Can the Peace Corps Look Like America?

By Jeff Ignatius
For evidence that the Peace Corps is changing, you need to look no further than the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. For the first time, the Peace Corps is employed in a domestic situation. The Katrina initiative will involve the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps, which during times of emergency sends returned volunteers to the foreign countries in which they served.
13 Sep 2005

Fulfilled and Fed-Up Artists Showcased at Riverssance

By Jeff Ignatius
They're both 58 years old, and they've both been creating artwork professionally for decades. They're linked by this weekend's Riverssance Festival of Fine Art in Lindsay Park but have very different attitudes toward the life of a professional artist.
13 Sep 2005

The New Branch on a Musical Family Tree

By Jeff Ignatius
You might think that it's only natural that Pieta Brown turned out to be a singer-songwriter. After all, she's the daughter of the legendary Iowa roots artist Greg Brown. Her second full-length recording, In the Cool (in stores this week), makes it sound like she's been doing this forever.
06 Sep 2005

The Death of Sprawl?

By Jeff Ignatius
Thomas Hylton wanted to change things in Pennsylvania. So he made a picture book. About urban sprawl. It's the kind of idea that's at once radical and obvious. Radical because we expect books about sprawl to be academic and dry and concerned with public policy and statistics about pollution, commutes, lost farmland, and population density.
06 Sep 2005

The Search for America

By Jeff Ignatius
The Great American Thing is, in some ways, a victim of its own success. The exhibit, the first major show at the new Figge Art Museum, opens on September 17 and focuses on modern American art from 1915 to 1935, the "modernist" period roughly coinciding with the interval between the two world wars.
30 Aug 2005

Look to the Skies

By Jeff Ignatius
If you hear the phrase "underutilized asset," your eyes probably start to glaze over. But if that underutilized asset is the wind, and if using it more means it costs less to power your home, you might want to pay attention.

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