24 Jul 2001

ArtStroll's Sophomore Effort Attracts More Acts and Artists

By Administrator
In its first year, the ArtStroll street-fair event in downtown Davenport drew an estimated 2,000 people. "That's pretty good for a first-year event," said Dean Schroeder, executive director of MidCoast Fine Arts.
17 Jul 2001

High-Schoolers Find Summer Arts Jobs That Pay

By Jeff Ignatius
Tim Sievert's motivation for applying to the Quad City Arts Metro Arts program was pretty simple: "I was looking for a summer job," said the 18-year-old. That statement is a bit surprising, because it's easy to forget that these 75 teenagers playing music, dancing, painting, and writing and acting are getting paid; the Metro Arts spread in The District of Rock Island resembles a summer camp.
26 Jun 2001

Looking Forward to 45 More Years

By Jeff Ignatius
Oh, the perils of outdoor theatre. There are the mosquitoes. The heat. And of course,the threat of rain. At a rehearsal for two one-act plays on Monday, director David Wooten told the cast he wanted strong efforts for the next few days.
12 Jun 2001

Citizens Wrongfully Kept from Voting in 2000

By Jeff Ignatius
Last month in Washington, D.C., Bettendorf resident Scott Morschhauser ran into people a lot like him. "I can't sleep at night," somebody would say to him. "I can't sleep at night, either!" Morschhauser would reply.
06 Jun 2001

Niky's Nightmare

By Administrator
For a year and a half, Davenport citizens have been witness to the ongoing saga of Niky Bowles versus the City of Davenport, as Bowles has attempted to rezone 10 acres of property her family owns as Cypress Points Developers just south of 53rd Street on Eastern Avenue.
29 May 2001

Good Movies? Good Luck

By Jeff Ignatius
If there was any doubt, the past month has shown that the Quad Cities have pretty sophisticated taste in movies. After a months-long dry spell in which the local cineplex showed no independent or limited-release movies (excepting the blink-and-you-missed-it one-week run of the Oscar-nominated Before Night Falls), audiences were treated to The Tailor of Panama and Memento in consecutive weeks.
08 May 2001

When Art Attacks

By Jeff Ignatius
This Friday's gallery hop in The District of Rock Island has a more aggressive flavor than past installments with the theme "Art Attack." The quarterly event kicks off at 5 p.m. and runs through 10 p.m., featuring dozens of artists.
01 May 2001

Low-Power Radio: The Revolution Will Be Broadcast

By Tucker Teutsch
Publisher's Note: We picked up this story from a fellow independent paper, the San Antonio Current. This is critical information in the new and emerging economies of data, access and information.
17 Apr 2001

The Top 10 Censored Stories of 2000

By Alternet
Have you read the one about corporations planning to charge you hundreds of dollars a month for your tap water? Or the one about military "psychological operations" specialists manipulating viewers of CNN? What about the highly skilled programmers in Silicon Valley who, because they are immigrants, are laboring under sweatshop-like conditions? If none of these stories rings a bell, it's not because you've missed the latest e-mail hoax.
13 Mar 2001

Best of the Quad Cities 2000

By No Author
For the fifth consecutive year, the River Cities' Reader offers the results of our annual Best of the Quad Cities poll. The ballots were printed in December of last year, and the results reflect our readership's views on what was best in Y2K.

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