28 Jun 2005

Mississippi Hotel Being "Recycled"

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• The Mississippi Hotel is currently being emptied in preparation for construction of the expanded Adler Theatre stage. All refrigerators, stoves, air conditioners, and furniture is being removed from the hotel rooms that will be impacted by the stage-expansion project.
28 Jun 2005

Predatory Lending Falls Prey to Speaker's Clout

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Serious, intense clout usually only comes into play at the Illinois Statehouse on behalf of giant corporations, powerful political organizations, influential labor unions, entrenched bureaucracies, or other unstoppable special interests.
28 Jun 2005

Passionate - or Pissed? - About Polka

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If you ever engage Carl Finch in a discussion about the health or politics of polka, watch out. And do not make any polka jokes. The singer/guitarist/accordionist/keyboardist for the Texas-based band Brave Combo is passionate about his polka, and he can work himself up into such a froth that you might mistake his tone for anger.
28 Jun 2005

"Blues All My Life"

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Part of the Ike Turner philosophy is that he'll play with just about anybody. For example, he appears on a few tracks on an album that was released last month. "They knew me, but I didn't know them," Turner said.
28 Jun 2005

Recipients of the Mississippi Valley Blues Society's RiverRoad Lifetime Achievement Awards

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The purpose of the RiverRoad Award (as the Mississippi Valley Blues Society [MVBS] "a river runs through it" guitar logo attests) is to honor those artists who have devoted their lives to bringing what we call "river" blues - music that runs deep with emotion, like a river of the soul - to anyone they meet on life's highways.
28 Jun 2005

Go-Go's Bassist Prepares Solo Debut

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• With the fever of television's Hit Me Baby One More Time thrusting stars of the 1980s back into the spotlight, Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine is preparing to drop her solo debut in September. She's also taking on lead-vocal and guitar duties for the album, Light Years, which will bear the imprint of her own All for One Records label.
21 Jun 2005

Tell on your Neighbor - for Making Something Beautiful

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• The Rock Island Beautification Commission is looking for the most beautiful yards in the city. The 31st annual "Tell on Your Neighbor" residential-beautification awards contest has opened nominations for the most attractive and best-kept lawns in Rock Island.
19 Jun 2005

Bettendorf

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City of Bettendorf
    Downtown
    K & K Hardware, 1818 Grant Street
    Penguin's Comedy Club @ the Isle of Capri
    Ross Restaurant, 430 - 14th Street
    Tobacco Outlet Plus, 2302 State Street
    Trattoria Tiramisu, 18th & State Streets
Usta-Be's, 1046 State Street

    Waterfront Deli, 1020 State Street


    Midtown
    The Hungry Hobo Cumb. Sq, 2320 Spruce Hills Dr
    Deweys Cafe @ the Bettendorf Library, 2950-18th St
    Family Museum of Arts & Sciences
    Brueggers Bagels, 1503 Kimberly Rd
    Godfathers Pizza, 3340 E Kimberly Rd (Dav.)
    Old Chicago, 3030 Utica Ridge Rd
    Schnuck's, 858 Middle Rd

    North
    Coffee Hound & Healthy Habits 3376 Middle Rd
    Red Crow, 2504 - 53rd Ave
    Franks Pizza, 53rd Ave @ 18th St
    The Lodge, 3500 Utica Ridge Rd
    Java Station inside Trinity Hospital @ TerracePark
    Subway Sandwiches, 3372 Middle Road
19 Jun 2005

Blue Grass

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City of Blue Grass
    Town of Blue Grass

    no current distribution locations in this town
19 Jun 2005

Clinton

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City of Clinton

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