22 Nov 2016

2016 Winter Guide

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The 2016-17 Winter Guide

The River Cities’ Reader’s 2016-17 Winter Guide – featuring more than 1,300 events through March – is on stands now. Pick up a copy today!

10 Nov 2016

Winners and Favorites from Our 2016 Short-Fiction Contest

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The River Cities’ Reader’s 2016 short-fiction contest, presented with the Bettendorf Public Library, received more than 130 submissions. Here are the winners and some of our favorites.

09 Nov 2016

Slow-Moving Lava: The Midwest Writing Center’s New Address at the Rock Island Library Is Its Latest Incremental Change

By Jeff Ignatius

Small organizations tend to reflect the personalities of their leadership, and that’s certainly true of the Midwest Writing Center and its executive director, Ryan Collins.

13 Oct 2016

Poultry in Motion: Backyard Chickens Got the Nod in Moline, and Soon Could in Other Quad Cities

By Jeff Ignatius
Three-year-old Cole Petersen holding one of Moline’s newly legal chickens.

If you think about the type of person likely to raise backyard chickens in the Quad Cities, you might conjure a vision of somebody similar to Liz Smith. With philosophical and practical motivations and a love of animals, she did her research and educated her city’s leaders.

01 Sep 2016

2016 Fall Guide

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Cover image by Paul Riewerts

The River Cities’ Reader’s 2016 Fall Guide – featuring more than 1,300 events through November – is on stands now. Pick up a copy today!

24 Aug 2016

Enter the 2016 Short-Fiction Contest! October 10 Deadline!

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Our 2016 short-fiction contest – presented in partnership with the Bettendorf Public Library – features 10 prompts from first and last lines of novels and stories by Iowa author Ethan Canin.

The deadline for entries is 5 p.m. Central Daylight Time on Monday, October 10.

21 Jul 2016

Slow and Steady: How WIU-QC Has Grown Despite Tough Times in Higher Education

By Jeff Ignatius

In 2006, Western Illinois University approved its master plan for a Moline riverfront campus, boasting that “this new location will host an initial enrollment of 3,000 students.”

Last year – with two of three planned construction phases complete – Western Illinois University-Quad Cities (WIU-QC) had 1,531 students.

On the surface, this looks pretty bad. There was no equivocation in that enrollment statement, and the numbers aren’t even close.

23 Jun 2016

“Love, Dr. Bob”: Remembering Bob Murdock (1957-2016)

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Bob Murdock at the 2015 HAVlife Martini Shake Off. Photo by Joshua Ford (Ford-Photo.com).

When Bob Murdock died on June 6, the outpouring of shock and grief was stunning. Many of us knew him as the stalwart bartender at Blue Cat, but these remembrances testify that he was so much more.

09 Jun 2016

2016 Summer Guide

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Bob Murdock at the 2015 HAVlife Martini Shake Off. Photo by Joshua Ford (Ford-Photo.com).

The River Cities’ Reader’s 2016 Summer Guide – featuring more than 1,400 events through August – is on stands now. Pick up a copy today!

31 May 2016

Enter the Reader’s 2016 Summer Photo Contest; June 27 Deadline!

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2016 Summer Photo Contest

The River Cities’ Reader’s summer photo contest has returned, with three new categories for your submissions: “Red,” “White,” and “Blue.”

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