03 May 2005

Styx Turns in a New "Songbook"

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• Styx returns next week with a new CD of cover tunes and a remake of one of the band's own classics. Entitled Big Bang Theory, the New Door Records release is subtitled "The Great Rock Songbook" and takes a stab at a host of 1960s and 1970s hits, from The Who's "I Can See For Miles" to Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath.
26 Apr 2005

Chicago Transit Crisis Lands In Governor's Lap

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Other than a handful of state employees, highway workers, Medicaid vendors, commercial-truck owners, and poor people, almost nobody out there in Voter Land has really paid much attention to the state's budget problems.
26 Apr 2005

Stormwater Fee Spurs Efforts to Recruit Candidates for Davenport's City Council

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Citizens' anger over garbage and stormwater fees imposed by the Davenport City Council is fueling efforts to recruit candidates to oppose incumbent members of the council in the municipal election this fall, according to interviews conducted by the River Cities' Reader.
26 Apr 2005

Winners of the 2005 River Cities' Reader Short-Fiction Contest

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Thanks to the dozens of area writers who continue to flood us with their really short stories. We received roughly 120 pieces in this year's contest, and here present a dozen of the very best. Before we begin, though, an apology: To anybody who was confused about the contest rules, we screwed up.
26 Apr 2005

Aerosmith's Perry Makes New CD Interactive

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Joe Perry of Aerosmith wants to put you in the studio driving seat this Tuesday with his new self-titled solo album. The Columbia Records CD comes exclusively in the new DualDisc format, packed with goodies on the DVD side, and features the new Umixit technology - enabling the listener to drop the disc into a computer and fiddle with new loops, blend effects, and mute instruments on two songs.
19 Apr 2005

The World's Most Unfortunately Appropriate Band Name

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This Saturday's show featuring the local metal band From the Wreckage offers one of the most unfortunately ironic - and appropriate - uses of a band name. On September 3, 2004, the band was driving home from a gig in Kankakee when its vehicle was rear-ended by a truck and pushed into a lane of oncoming traffic.
12 Apr 2005

"Northern Soul" Gets Recognition in New Record

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• Without a doubt, the hottest record auctions on eBay fall into two categories: homegrown psychedelic LPs and Northern Soul 45s. If you're not familiar with the passion of Northern Soul and the collecting of these seven-inch singles at jaw-dropping prices, don't feel left out; not many of us Yanks passed through this legendary dance scene in the north of England in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
05 Apr 2005

Governer's Gambling Proposal Might Be DOA

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Governor Rod Blagojevich's proposal last week to more than double the number of gaming slots at riverboat casinos in Illinois will require an enormous amount of leadership to become a reality. Here's the rundown of the pitfalls: • Almost all gaming bills eventually become giant legislative Christmas trees, and then usually perish because of their gross obesity.
05 Apr 2005

Concert Celebrates the "Mother of the Symphony"

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Horacio Gutierrez demonstrated his talent on the piano, creating beautiful music with each touch of his hands to the instrument. But he wasn’t the only pianist lauded by the audience at the Quad City Symphony Orchestra concert on Saturday.
05 Apr 2005

Winners of the Spring 2005 River Cities' Reader Photo Contest

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In designing our third photo contest, we decided to suggest - but not require - a spring theme. While it wasn't a criterion in our judging, several of the winners did indeed follow our advice - most clearly seen in Linda Ortiz's second-place-winning photograph in the "people" category, showing a young girl in field rich with green and accented by violet and a small dab of yellow.

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