If you provide incentives, they will come. On June 8, Quad City Development Group President Thom Hart and Davenport Mayor Ed Winborn announced that the Quad Cities will provide locations for a new feature by filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who previously collaborated on the Oscar-nominated drama Half Nelson. John O'Donnell Stadium, in particular, will play a key role in the currently untitled project, which concerns a young man from the Dominican Republic who - inspired by Field of Dreams - journeys to Iowa to play in the minor leagues. Project co-producers Jamie Patricof and Jeremy Kipp Walker stated that recent legislation providing incentives to film in Iowa, and the stadium's "beautiful field" along the Mississippi River, were key motivators in their decision to shoot locally, with filming scheduled to run from late July through mid-September. Numerous Quad Cities locations are currently being scouted, and the filmmakers hope to employ local talent in the feature's production. For information on the Iowa Film Promotion Act, which was signed into law on May 17, visit (http://www.traveliowa.com/film). - Mike Schulz

One reviewer has called Sky Blue Sky the best Eagles record the Eagles didn't make, and it's impossible to shake the timeless soft-rock vibe in the sound, the vocals, and the easy pace.

"A Ghost Is Born was to me really jagged ... abrasive," Stirratt said of his band's last studio album. "And this record has a certain warmth."

But while Sky Blue Sky at first sounds like a retreat for the band that embraced noise and electronics on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, Wilco hasn't abandoned experimentation. "Side with the Seeds" features guitar and Mellotron detours that, combined with slightly muffled drums and throbbing bass spikes, recalls King Crimson's disparate In the Court of the Crimson King and Red.

An unscientific survey of River Cities' Reader employees revealed that many people have never heard of Richard Thompson.

The lack of recognition is not exactly a surprise, because Thompson has never been able to parlay intense respect into sales. But he is an important artist, and one who has no difficulty bridging the gap between folk music and hard-edged rock. He also has a fantastic sense of humor, a rarity among "serious" artists.

So allow me to introduce him.

I just wanted you to be aware that although Greg Albansoder is a project manager for the City of Davenport, he is only a landscape architect, not an engineer. (See "Bike Lanes Help Move Toward 'Complete Streets," River Cities' Reader Issue 632, May 9-15, 2007.)