22 Feb 2005

Best of the Quad Cities 2004: Introduction, Hall of Fame, and Major Awards

By No Author
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.
22 Feb 2005

Best of the Quad Cities 2004: Food

By No Author
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.
15 Feb 2005

Here Come the Low-Mileage Hybrids

By David Morris
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.
07 Feb 2005

Suing Over Sue

By Jeff Ignatius
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.
01 Feb 2005

Return of the Rock Island Riverfront

By Jeff Ignatius
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.
01 Feb 2005

That Funky Bead Business

By Jill Walsh
Leigh Funk loves glass beads. I could tell from her appropriately named Web site (http://www.funky-beads.com), a kind of glass-bead heaven that features photos of Funk's original designs, including sea creatures, food & drink, animals, holiday themes, and whimsical pieces.
25 Jan 2005

Smoke-Free Bars Cater to a Different Audience

By John Perreault
Two sports bars in the Quad Cities are catering specifically to non-smokers, giving people the opportunity to eat and drink without the smoke that clogs most taverns. "My friend is a smoker, so it is funny to watch him squirm while we sit and have a drink because he knows he has to wait to have a cigarette," said Jay Keim, a resident of Rock Island and a customer at 3rd & 22.
18 Jan 2005

Davenport Lofts Just the Beginning of Alexander Company's Downtown-Housing Efforts

By Administrator
It's impossible to ignore the industrial history of the apartments in the Crescent Macaroni & Cracker Company and the Waterloo Mills buildings, on the east side of Iowa Street between Fourth and Fifth streets near downtown Davenport.
11 Jan 2005

Sound and Vision

By Jeff Ignatius
On Saturday, Phil Dingeldein will serve as director of photography for a three-minute film, in what is the culmination of a Project Greenlight-like contest run by the Iowa Motion Picture Association. Three scripts and three directors were chosen, and over the course of an afternoon, all three will be filmed as part of a seminar in Des Moines.
28 Dec 2004

The Rhythm City Casino Hotel: Breaking Down the Numbers

By Jeff Ignatius
The magic number for the Isle of Capri is $207 million. That's the gaming company's estimate of the new money that the Quad Cities would receive over 10 years from its proposed expansion of the Rhythm City facility, which would include construction of a 10-story riverfront hotel and a 500-space parking ramp.

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