Myron Scheibe, board of trustees chairperson for Davenport's Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre, last week announced the selection of Kim Findlay as the venue's new president and chief executive officer. Findlay spent 14 years working for the United Way of the Quad Cities Area, serving as president from 1995 to 2004, and currently serves on the board of directors for Quad City Arts and the executive committee for the American Heart Association's Heart Walk. Interim CEO Mark Bawden will stay on as the Putnam's development director. Scheibe also revealed that the Putnam had secured the finances to pay off its $3.65 million in remaining debt, in large part through Bawden's fundraising efforts, and announced the kickoff of the museum's forthcoming endowment campaign to offset operational costs and keep the Putnam "a debt-free institution." For information on current and upcoming Putnam events, visit (http://www.putnam.org ). - Mike Schulz
If
you were one of the 1,200 or so people who squeezed into the Bucktown
Center of the Arts for Venus Envy either of the past two years,
here's some good news: The celebration of women and the arts will
be expanding outdoors this year.
Returning
with its most pop-friendly album to date, The Marlboro Chorus knocks
out nine rock-and-roll numbers on American
Dreamers. Drawing influence
from Buddy Holly, Pink Floyd, and Bill Haley, American
Dreamers sees The Marlboro
Chorus putting aside art rock in favor of a straightforward album
complete with guitar solos, magnificently simple lyrics, and a raw
sound. From the black-and-white cover to the title of the record
itself, American Dreamers
feels so easy, but it was a long time coming.
Singer-songwriter
Carrie Newcomer tells about a friend who leads a group of people who
knit for the local food bank. They'll set up somewhere and knit
with a sign that reads, "Knitting for the Food Bank."
It's
apparent both in its publicity materials and in its recordings that
the Chicago-based band Tenki aspires to the epic.
