Amidst the Symphony in Bloom activities taking place this weekend, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) is also offering the world premiere of British composer Andrew Carter's "Three Nonsensical Songs." This piece was commissioned in honor of Ezra Mozart Hartman as a memorial gift from Karen Hartman Getz, Tom Getz, and the Moline Foundation.
Although Steven Sinner is best known as an artist - making turned wooden vessels airbrushed in gold and silver acrylic paint - he also loves music, playing bass clarinet in the Black Hawk Community College Band and the Bettendorf Park Band.
Welcome to the Best of the Quad Cities 2004! Nearly a decade old ... and growing. The River Cities' Reader Best of the Quad Cities poll is now in its ninth year, and reader response continues to get better.
Restaurant opened in 2004 1. Centro 2. Granite City 3. Crave Best Restaurant Opened in 2004With its distinctive, New York-style pizzas baked in coal-fired ovens and made-from-scratch Italian dishes with meticulously chosen ingredients, it's little wonder that Centro won readers' hearts in 2004.
Community service organization 1. United Way of the Quad Cities Area 2. Gilda's Club Quad Cities 3. American Red Cross of the Quad Cities Area Best Community-Service Organization
Alternative health-care provider 1. Dr. Dennis Hagemann, Hagemann Chiropractic Center 2. Palmer College of Chiropractic & Palmer Chiropractic Clinics 3. Deere Road Chiropractic Ltd. 3.
Local theatre organization 1. Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse 2. Quad-City Music Guild 3. ComedySportz Best Local Theatre Organization
The September introduction by Ford of a hybrid SUV marks the end of the beginning of the long-evolving saga of the hybrid electric vehicle. After more than two decades of public and private initiatives, the hybrid is in the marketplace.

Suing Over Sue

In 1990, Peter Larson paid Maurice Williams $5,000 for some fossilized dinosaur bones that his team had found on Williams' property in South Dakota. It wasn't a speculative buy. "We knew it was really good," Larson said in a phone interview last week.
Re-development of abandoned industrial sites is, by now, old hat. But what might be happening in the coming years in Rock Island is something fresh. What's unusual is that the Quad City Industrial Center isn't abandoned at all.

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