01 Aug 2007

Fixing What Ails Us: The Quad Cities Community Vitality Scan

By Administrator

Reader issue #644 When the Quad Cities Community Vitality Scan was released this spring, it marked a welcome collaboration between five community organizations, but it was still easy to dismiss it as yet another study, one more evaluation of where we are.

What's potentially different about the Vitality Scan, though, is how those organizations plan to use it. If the five groups - the United Way of the Quad Cities Area, the Quad City Health Initiative, the Moline Foundation, the Community Foundation of the Great River Bend, and the Amy Helpenstell Foundation - can use the Vitality Scan and related efforts to guide their funding decisions, this is one study that could actually address community needs and shortcomings on a large scale.

01 Aug 2007

Potential and Precision: Tim Stopulos, "The Long Drive Home"

By Administrator
Tim StopulosIn his biography, Bettendorf native Tim Stopulos lists influences that range from Beethoven to Maroon 5, a bit of youthful overreaching that you might expect from a 23-year-old.

Yet there's a quote in the bio that strikes a chord, and puts Beethoven and Maroon 5 in a context that makes sense in light of his second album, The Long Drive Home. Music, Stopulos says, "definitely became an emotional outlet for me, but I also fell in love with the mathematical and logical side of the music as well."

01 Aug 2007

Ever Thought About Running For Office?

By Administrator

Here's the thing: If good people, without personal agendas, don't run for local political offices (mayor, alderman, etc.), then Davenport will be stuck with the same unacceptable performance we are experiencing from our current mayor (Ed Winborn) and five aldermen (Jamie Howard, at large; Ian Frink, at large; Charlie Brooke, Ward 6; Barney Barnhill, Ward 7; and Brian Dumas, Ward 8), who consistently vote as a political bloc in favor of special interests, imposing legislation that often conflicts with the citizenry of taxpayers.

01 Aug 2007

Art Is My Life

By administrator

Upon flipping through a recent Reader, I couldn't help but notice that I had offended and confused Kathleen Lawless Cox with something I had written about The Floating World exhibit at the Figge. (See "Figge's Print Exhibit Resonates," River Cities' Reader Issue 642, July 18-24, 2007.) For that reason I feel the need to clear up a few things.

01 Aug 2007

Blagojevich's Main Ally Makes His Play

By Administrator

Two months into a record-breaking overtime legislative session, the four state legislative leaders met last week to talk about the budget, but for the first time ever they made a point not to invite Governor Rod Blagojevich.

01 Aug 2007

Putnam Plans Bix Beiderbecke Hall

By Administrator

A new Bix Beiderbecke Hall, located at the Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre and being planned by the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society, was announced last week by Dana Waterman, Putnam Board of Trustees chair. The proposed $1.38-million, 1,300-square-foot interactive space will be constructed in the Grand Lobby of the Putnam Museum. It will house Putnam-owned Bix artifacts, Bix Society archives, and rarely seen photographs and footage from collectors worldwide. Bix's cornet and the Beiderbecke family piano will also be on display. The project was originally begun more than a decade ago through funding from Riverboat Development Authority. Approximately $35,000 has been raised to date by the Bix Hall Committee for initial expenses and archival costs. For more information about Bix-society fundraising efforts, contact Howard Braren at (563) 343-9606 or (info@bixsociety.org).

 

28 Jul 2007

Fall Guide 2007

By Administrator

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It's still burning hot outside, and festival season is still in full swing, but at the Reader, we're always looking ahead - making preparations for another beautiful Fall in the Quad Cities.

The Reader's Annual Fall Guide will be published Wednesday, August 29.

The Fall Guide is a 3-Month calendar and look ahead for the Quad Cities region. It covers the who, what, when and where of more than 1,000 events, from festivals, live music, and drama to lectures, sporting events, classes, and attractions. Our readers use it to find out what's new and what to do.

Advertising in the Reader's Fall Guide is a cost-effective way to reach an educated, active audience with places to go and money to spend - your best new customers!

So what's new at your shop?
Get the word out to the Quad Cities in an issue with a 3-month shelf life.


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25 Jul 2007

Festivals, Classes, and Art, Music, and Theatre Organizations and Venues

By Administrator

Annual Manual for the Arts

 

 

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25 Jul 2007

Annual Manual for the Arts

By Administrator

Reader issue #643 Welcome to the Annual Manual for the Arts.

In years past, the River Cities' Reader has published a music guide each summer. We've expanded our vision this year with this inaugural Annual Manual for the Arts.

The impetus behind the Annual Manual for the Arts is that there has been no single resource for the arts in the Quad Cities, whether you're a consumer of the arts, one of their practitioners, or someone who wants to become one of their practitioners.

25 Jul 2007

Literary Arts in the Quad Cities

By Administrator

People interested in writing in the Quad Cities might look at the list of organizations that offer classes in dance, music, art, and theatre and wonder: What about me?

For better or worse, there's only one organization in the Quad Cities that offers writing instruction to the community at-large: the Midwest Writing Center.

Most visibly, the organization hosts the David R. Collins Writers' Conference each summer.

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