11 Oct 2005

The Lay of the Land

By Jeff Ignatius
To the average museum-goer, the exhibit 41˚/90˚: Contemporary Landscape at the Figge is an art show and little more. But its importance is far greater. It's a show that recognizes the Midwest as a fertile ground for artists and art, and proof that the Figge Art Museum understands that.
04 Oct 2005

War Without End: A Conversation with Award-Winning Author Tim O'Brien

By Nicholas Depew
In The Things They Carried, the prize-winning novelist Tim O'Brien offers this nugget in a chapter titled "How to Tell a True War Story": "In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical.
27 Sep 2005

A Healthy Airport

By Jeff Ignatius
In 1997, low-cost carrier AirTran Airways entered the Quad Cities market. In the years since, traffic has skyrocketed at the Quad City International Airport, while fares have dropped. Roughly 250,000 people got on planes at the airport in 1995, while 450,000 are expected to board this year.
20 Sep 2005

Wild About the Wine

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
Paul Tabor and his wife Martha officially opened Tabor Home Vineyards & Winery in 1996, but Paul, a professor of microbiology at the time, was growing and experimenting with grapes for five years before that. When he managed to get his harvest to survive the harsh Iowa winters, he knew he was ready for business and quit his day job.
13 Sep 2005

Fulfilled and Fed-Up Artists Showcased at Riverssance

By Jeff Ignatius
They're both 58 years old, and they've both been creating artwork professionally for decades. They're linked by this weekend's Riverssance Festival of Fine Art in Lindsay Park but have very different attitudes toward the life of a professional artist.
13 Sep 2005

Discover a World of Better Beer - Through Home-Brewing

By Administrator
If you go to Saturday's Brew Ha Ha event in LeClaire Park, make sure to talk to some of the people serving in the home-brewing area, booths 37 through 39. These folks could be your new best friends, and not just because they're handing you samples of their beer.
06 Sep 2005

The Search for America

By Jeff Ignatius
The Great American Thing is, in some ways, a victim of its own success. The exhibit, the first major show at the new Figge Art Museum, opens on September 17 and focuses on modern American art from 1915 to 1935, the "modernist" period roughly coinciding with the interval between the two world wars.
30 Aug 2005

Look to the Skies

By Jeff Ignatius
If you hear the phrase "underutilized asset," your eyes probably start to glaze over. But if that underutilized asset is the wind, and if using it more means it costs less to power your home, you might want to pay attention.
16 Aug 2005

Looking Up in LeClaire

By Jeff Ignatius
The big attraction in LeClaire this past weekend was Tug Fest, but city leaders hope visitors paid attention to 6,000 square feet on the levee. It's nothing special - it looks like paving stones embedded in gravel - but it's a symbol of what's happening in this small town situated on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River.
02 Aug 2005

A Figge First Look

By Johanna Welzenbach-Hilliard
As Development Director Margaret Babbitt led me up the Figge Art Museum's wide stairway to its second-floor galleries, I was momentarily stunned by Sol LeWitt's enormous drawing that occupies most of the north wall.

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