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Court ound Morrell in violation o Botskosright to due process because o her obvious biasin avor o Nabb or not only sitting at Nabbstable during the 2003 hearing but or numerousinstances o counseling the claimant and herattorney throughout the proceedings. Te courtconcluded: Te combination o advocacy andadjudicative unctions has the appearance oundamental unairness in the administrativeprocess.

Tat was the beginning o the end o thisasco. In that same decision, Te Iowa SupremeCourt allowed or the opportunity or Nabb V.

Botsko to be transerred rom the DCRC to theIowa Civil Rights Commission (ICRC). Againstthe wishes o the DCRC, Davenport CorporationCounsel om Warner wisely passed it to DesMoines. Obviously the ICRC did its due diligencewith this case, something the DCRC consistentlyailed to do, thereby inicting great nancialharm on a highly skilled area proessional, whodeended his reputation, his honor, his practice,and his own civil rights to the end. He reused tosettle, and ought this abuse o power to its nalconclusion dismissal o all charges.

Tere is no question that Dr. Botskos victory

is one all Iowans can celebrate because the ICRCdid its job and actually protected our civil rightsby upholding Botskos. However, no ruling oinnocence can overcome the damage o 10 yearso living with constant uncertainty relative toones reputation, ones emotional well-being, orthe loss o ones sense o security that comes romliving in a republic o laws. Nor can it remedythe nancial devastation that occurs rom beingorced to deend onesel against a quasi-judicialgovernment agency such as the DCRC that

vindictively and capriciously abuses its power byrelentlessly prosecuting an individual, intruding

into every aspect o his lie with uncorroboratedaccusations, illegally levying bank accounts,and seizing private property and proprietarydocuments long beore a ruling o guilt orinnocence is ever rendered.

In Botskos case, Nabbs then-attorney MarletaGreve illegally seized approximately $60,000 romBotskos bank account without his knowledge, orthe legal authority. She was ordered to pay it backby the courts, and is now a sitting judge hersel inour own Seventh District Court o Iowa. (Votersshould remember this at election time.)

It is time or the Davenport City Council to

do its job in protecting us rom DCRCs abuse opower. Nabb V. Botsko is not the only case thathas nothing short o astonishing abuses in itsoverreaching conduct/procedures. But that is astory or another day.

It should be a no-brainer or the council to callor Morrells resignation. And knowing that inthe uture, taking a case to the ICRC is innitelymore preerable to the DCRCs purview, whynot consider disbanding the DCRC altogether?I the council does not have the backbone to dothis politically, then take the technical route.Under Iowa Code, the threshold or a Civil

Rights Commission is a population o 100,000.Davenport is approximately 10,000 short o thisrequirement.

Justic in Spit of DavnportCivil Rights Commission

by Kathleen McCarthy

[email protected]

The decade-long travesty o justice thatassailed local dentist Dr. David Botskobecause o an out-o-control Davenport

Civil Rights Commission (DCRC) is nallyover thanks to a ruling by the Iowa Civil RightsCommission on Friday, May 7, dismissing allcharges against him.

Iowans can be reassured that when due processis actually ollowed, testimonies actually read, andevidence actually considered and weighed againstthe rule o law, justice does prevail, at least whenthe Iowa Civil Rights Commission is adjudicating.

Davenport residents, however, have no such

assurances where the DCRC is concerned. Tiscommission, under the direction o ExecutiveDirector Judith Morrell, has proven its abilityto violate the very same civil rights it claims

to protect. At the end o the day, operating asjudge, jury, and prosecutor in civil-rights casesis a perect ormula or abuse o said rights, asunequivocally demonstrated in Nabb V. Botsko.

In 2000, aer nearly three years as a dentalassistant or Dr. Botsko, then-62-year-old,German-born Inglenore Nabb complained tothe DCRC that then-46-year-old Dr. Botsko was

violating her civil rights in the workplace with age,

sex, and national-origin discrimination, includingaccusations o sexual harassment and constructivedischarge. Damages sought by Nabb, accordingto a November 13, 2009, Iowa Supreme Courtdecision that orbade attorney ees in any damagesawarded, included $25,000 to Nabb or emotionaldistress and compensatory damages, $57,028 toNabbs attorneys, and $2,935 or the DCRC. Teabove gure does not include 10 years o legal eesthat Botsko paid or his own deense.

A hearing was held in 2003 with AdministrativeLaw Judge (ALJ) Kevin Visser presiding, aerwhich he ruled that Dr. Botsko was innocent on

all counts. Seventeen witnesses testied over athree-day period, only one o which corroborateda single accusation Nabb brought against Botsko.In other words, the bulk o evidence was based onNabbs testimony alone.

Among the 17 witnesses were past and presentemployees and patients who contradicted Nabbstestimony, attesting that they saw none o thealleged behavior. Tis was the same aggregatetestimony learned in discovery, yet the DCRCproceeded with its prosecution o Botsko. Nor didit suce when ALJ Vissers ruling determined thatNabb had not met her burden o proo.

Te DCRC continued with its prosecutiono Botsko by rejecting most o Vissers decision,dropping the age-, sex-, and national-origin-discrimination portions o the suit but ndingBotsko guilty o sexual harassment andconstructive discharge based on the exactsame evidence that a 20-year civil-rights-law

judge dismissed categorically. O the sevencommissioners responsible or overturning

Vissers ruling, only one attended parts o thethree-day hearing. No other commissioner evenbothered to attend.

Knowing this case is weak becomes doubly

egregious considering its own civil-rightsviolations; the case was eventually dismissed andorced to start over because the Iowa Supreme

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about sending a message by withholdingtheir support, but even they would have to

admit that nothing much would improveno matter how much more time theyd take,and that things will only get worse or their

cherished programs i the session went intoovertime and the Republicans got a seat at thetable.

Teres no way that a tax hike will pass thismonth. Even the lib indies had to comprehendthat cold, hard act. Te House Democratic

recalcitrants have proposed almost no cuts

themselves and probably wouldnt supportmany i they were

actually on the table.Stomping their

little eet and

demanding they bedelivered rom thisnightmare without

coming up with arealistic, doable,passable alternative

made them look lesslike legislators than

spoiled childrenwhove been shieldedrom unpleasant

realities all their lives. Tey let their big daddy

(House Speaker Michael Madigan) run thingsall year without uttering a single word, andnow he set the table with one o the most

unpalatable spreads ever and they wanted tohold their breath until they turned blue. Nicetiming.

O course, the Republicans are nobetter. Several whined last week that

recommendations rom groups such as theIllinois Policy Institute werent included in the

Democratic budget plan. But not one personrom that side o the aisle ever bothered toturn those budget ideas into an actual piece

o legislation. Te reason is obvious. Not eventhe Republicans were willing to go on-recordsupporting such radical cuts.

Senate President John Cullerton rightlypointed out last week that Republicangubernatorial candidate Senator Bill Brady

had introduced an appropriations bill at thebeginning o the year. Instead o turning

that bill into an alternative GOP budget,Brady gave up his sponsorship. Te HouseRepublican caucus proposed a little more than$5 billion in budget-cutting suggestions

earlier this year, but almost all o it wasbased on a ridiculous and scally impossiblescheme to use nonexistent dollars rom the

capital construction plan to und the budget.And when the House Republican hig her-upsrealized what theyd done, they backed away

rom it entirely.What a mess this state is.

Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a dailypolitical newsletter) and TeCapitolFaxBlog.com.

by Rich Miller

One o the things that became crystalclear last week during the Illinois

Senates debate over a new st atebudget was that the Democratic legislativeleaders have completely broken the budget-

making process.Its no big se cret that more and more power

has been concentrated into the hands o the

leaders the House speaker and the Senatepresident. And now they have it all.

Long gone are the days when the

appropriations committees had any input.

Also vanished is the budgeteers system, inwhich appropriations

chairs and expertsrom each caucuswould sit down to

hash out the budgetsdetails. Instead, allo the work is now

being done by staf atthe leaders absolutedirection.

As a consequence,senators barely had

any idea about whatthey were voting orlast week when theyapproved a budget along party lines. Te

committee hearing beore the vote providedprecious ew details and instead revolvedaround partisan bickering over a Democratic

maneuver solely designed to embarrassthe Republicans. Republicans repeatedlydenounced the budget process as ar too

rushed and wholly un-transparent, and theywere right.

Tis was without a doubt the most top-down, opaque budget ever produced under

the Statehouse dome. Te Democrats andRepublicans couldnt even agree on whetherspending would increase or drop next scal

year because there was so little time to analyzethe data, and the legislation itsel is so obtusethat analysis was made extremely dicult, i

not impossible.Te granting to the governor o huge new

budget powers in a diferent bill was at the

root o that analysis problem. Hes supposedto make most o the cuts, and nobody really

knows how much he will actually slash. Telegislation included a 5-percent reduction inpersonnel and operations lines, but GovernorPat Quinn would be given the power to hold

back even more spending and make majorchanges to state-mandated programs with thestroke o a pen. Nobody knows how ar he will

really go, so its impossible to say just what thenal spending level will be.

And then the stinking disaster moved to the

House, where liberal independents were upsetat the way things were going. Many wantedto see a vote on a tax hike; some wanted cuts.

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deeply in debt by passing this big bondingplan that is mortgaging our uture and is

going to cost the taxpayers interest over

the next 20 years.

Vander Plaats, a Sioux City businessman,

agreed with Branstads assessment o

Culvers nancial management.

A 10-percent across-the-board cut is

not leadership; in act, it doesnt take a lot

o intellectual repower to do a cut like

that, Vander Plaats said. We didnt have

to be here.

Te three candidates agreed that insteado cutting the budget by a xed rate,

there should have been targeted cuts to

government overhead and unnecessary

bureaucracy. Te candidates a ll pointed

to education as a part o the budget that

could be more ecient.

We need to get our arms around

education; otherwise were just ooling

ourselves about the budget, Vander Plaats

said, arguing that cutting administrative

costs would mean more money could go

to teachers. I think we need to be unding

schools, not the bureaucracy.

Another area the three candidates

said Culver ailed was with his initiative

ofering state-unded preschool education,

arguing that such a plan will cost the state

millions o dollars that it cant aford.

It is a classic example o state

government going beyond its means,

Roberts said. Te Carroll Republican

continued: We would have been better of

with private sources providing education

or our our-year-olds.

Culver Campaign Manager Stanleysaid aer the debate that the candidates

had pandered to their special interests

and proposed tax cuts without ofering

specics on how the state would aford

them.

None o these candidates have

answered the ultimate question o how

they would manage to balance the budget

today, and that is the denition o reckless

and irresponsible, Stanley said.

He also singled out Branstad, saying he

is attacking Culver or making across-the-board cuts when Branstad did the same

thing as governor.

It is sadly par or the course that erry

Branstad attacks others or the same things

he has done beore, Stanley said.

For an expanded version o this article, visit

RiverCitiesReader.com.

Tis weekly summary comes rom

IowaPolitics.com, an online government

and politics news service. Reporter Andrew

Dufelmeyer and other correspondents

contributed to this report.

by Lynn Campbell, IowaPolitics.com

Iowa Attorney General om Miller is

asking the Executive Council to appointDes Moines attorney Larry Scalise as a

special prosecutor to look into allegations

o improper donations to Governor Chet

Culvers campaign rom Fort Dodge

gambling interests.

Aer careul consideration I have

concluded this oce has no actual conict

o interest in this case, Miller said in a May

5 prepared statement. However, I have

also concluded that there is an appearance

o a conict o interest in this matter thatis sucient to lead me to seek a special

prosecutor or this action.

He said his determination was not an

easy decision. But he said he believes the

need or public condence in the criminal-

justice process outweighs any other

consideration.

Scalise was attorney general o Iowa

rom 1965 to 1967 and was the rst

chair o the Iowa State Racing & Gaming

Commission, serving rom 1983 to 1988.

He has also worked as an assistant PolkCounty attorney, director o the Law

Enorcement Division o the Iowa Liquor

Control Commission, and vice chair

o the Campaign Finance Disclosure

Commission.Te investigation stems rom a $25,000

donation to Culvers re-election campaign

rom three Fort Dodge casino supporters.

Te issue o a possible conict o interest

has been raised by Republican attorney-

general candidate Brenna Findley, ormer

Governor (and current Republican

gubernatorial candidate) erry Branstad,and the conservative Iowa Progress Project,

because Assistant Attorney General Donn

Stanley took a l eave o absence rom the

attorney generals oce to become Culvers

new campaign manager.

Aer Millers announcement, Findley

called the actions too little, too late.

Culver a Focal Point asRepublicans Debate

Republican gubernatorial candidatesBob Vander Plaats, state Representative

Rod Roberts, and Branstad took turns

hammering Culver on the states budget,education, and taxes during a May 1

debate hosted by the Iowa Broadcast News

Association.

Branstad in particular was critical

o Culver, calling him reckless and

irresponsible multiple times, especially in

his handling o the state budget decit.

He did this reckless across-the-board

cut, which really put the burden back on

local governments, Branstad said. On

top o that, he insisted on putting the state

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Making School Lunches Fresher (and More Local) Isnt Easy, But It Can Be Done

Fding Young Minds

by Jef Ignatius

[email protected]

When Jodee Oools son enteredkindergarten in the Bettendor

Community School District in 2008, she

was troubled by the meals the school ofered.

I started looking at the menu, she said. I am

in the eld o nutrition, so thats something thats

important to me.

Its mostly processed ood, she said. Not much

resh ood. ... A lot o it is hot dogs. ... A lot o

chicken nuggets. Fried ood ... .

Te Bettendor elementary menu or May is

a good illustration. Te 20 lunches include three

meals anchored by chicken nuggets, one with

popcorn chicken, and one with a breaded chickenpatty. One entre is a hot dog; another is breaded

mozzarella sticks.

On the resh s ide are days with orange wedges,

bananas, apple slices, watermelon wedges, grapes,

celery sticks, carroteenies, and reshly made salads.

While these meals meet ederal nutrition

standards, Oool said theyre not particularly good

or students overall. And shes trying to change the

way the Bettendor Community School District

eeds its children.

Its All Schools ProblemOool stressed that school-meal nutrition is anational challenge with many roots. A key issue, she

said, is government commodities. Te schools get a

bunch o ree ood rom the government, and thats

what the kids get, she said. And thats the problem.

Its not Bettendors problem; its all schools

problem. Its a part o how the system is set up.

Systemic changes are possible on a national level.

Te Child Nutrition Act expires on September

30, and many nutrition advocates are pushing or

enhanced nutrition standards and unding or

school-meal programs in the reauthorization.

Te April report oo Fat to Fight: RetiredMilitary Leaders Want Junk Food Out o Americas

Schools (http://CDN.MissionReadiness.org/MR_

oo_Fat_to_Fight-1.pd) pressed or meaningul

increases in the school-lunch unding so that ...

schools will have enough unding to make their

meals more nutritious and more inviting or all

children. Otherwise, children will not learn the

crucial lesson that healthul meals can also be

appetizing. Improvements in the quality o school

meals are needed, and that requires unding.

[TeJournal o the American Dietetic Association]concluded that given the serious and persistent

budget constraints many school ood-serviceadministrators ace, it is not surprising that resh

ruits, vegetables, and whole grains are not ofered

daily. Te act is that resh ruits and vegetables and

whole-grain products cost more. Funding to equip

and train ood-service proessionals with the means

to prepare more nutritious and appealing meals is

also necessary.

Bettendor Community School District

Superintendent Teron J. Schutte said that national

and state resources are essential because o local

nancial limitations. Its helpul or schools when

... its being pushed at the state level as well as the

ederal level in order to accomplish that, he said.Because then some onus is on those two entities to

help school districts cover those costs.

But Oool isnt waiting or action romCongress; shes pushing or the Bettendor schools

to improve their school lunches. Schutte said he

expects that Oool will be given the opportunity

to make a presentation to the districts wellness

committee or a district nance subcommittee in

the all.

Oool and a ew other parents began circulating

a petition last year that has so ar garnered roughly

100 signatures, she said; it has not yet been

submitted to the school district. It is our belie that

many o the choices provided could be healthier

and more nutritional ... , the petition reads. We

... call on Bettendor schools to evaluate, research,and implement changes to the schools breakast

and lunch menus. We believe there is a strong

correlation between nutrition and perormance, and

in choosing to serve healthy oods that are low in

at, salt, and sugar, we can have a positive impact on

our childrens perormance. Quality oods including

resh ruits and vegetables should be the basis o all

school meals, eliminating processed and articial

additives when possible. Te petition also pushes

or implementation o a arm-to-caeteria program.

Oool said she would like to see the district

start with a pilot project at one school, generating

a groundswell o support or district-wide changes.Te parents [o children at other schools] are going

to want it, she said. Te other schools are going to

want it .

Her hope is that shiing meals rom processed

toward resh and reshly made will also create an

opportunity or local armers to get in the school-

lunch game. Augustana College in the past ew

years has made the shi to all-scratch cooking and

now gets roughly 20 percent o its ood rom local

agricultural providers.

I have no doubt you can make it work or local

school districts, said Augustana Director o Dining

& College Center Garry Grith.

A Little Bit o Extra WorkCommodities ofered through the U.S.

Department o Agriculture can be a serious

problem. Te commodities that we receive help

hold our cost down, said Bettendor Director o

Food Service Cindy Jacobsen.

But those commodities are heavy with processed

ood. Te current commodities list (http://www.

FNS.USDA.gov/dd/oods/SY10-schoods.pd)

includes 27 varieties o canned, dry, or rozen ruit,

and ve varieties o resh. Tere are 38 varieties ocanned, dry, or rozen vegetables, and ve varieties

o resh all potatoes.

Other obstacles acing school districts in ofering

healthier, resher meals cost, acilities, culture

also loom large.

Tere are a lot o challenges, Schutte said.

Some o them are bureaucratic. Some o them are

nancial in nature. Some o them are changing

cultures o communities and amilies. Its a lot easier

to sell at school i the same belies are held at home.

Tere are already positive signs in Bettendor

with school meals. Jacobsen said the school district

has long ofered resh ruits with its lunches, anda ew years ago introduced spinach to include in

romaine salads. We do resh ruit as much as we

can, she said. We do have to watch the out-o-season prices.

She said shes also working with her ood

providers including Lofredo Fresh Produce

Company to identiy locally grown produce, so

that menus can note when items come rom the

Quad Cities area. She said she hopes to begin doing

that in the all.

And Bettendor, with the other school districts

in Scott County, is working to establish a arm-to-

school program through the State o Iowa. Jacobsen

said that in recent weeks shes e-mailed the Scott

County arm bureau, the county extension service,

and the state about procuring local produce.But theres also hesitation. Jacobsen suggested

that the district needs to be careul to ensure that

its ollow[ing] the right guidelines when youre

eeding children.

When asked whether it was easible to reduce

the amount o processed ood in school meals,

Jacobsen replied, I dont know at this point. She

cited the lack o variety in raw proteins available

as commodities, which emphasizes the districts

reliance on the commodity program.

Jacobsen estimated that 70 percent o the

Bettendor districts entres are pre-made, and the

remainder o the meals are reshly made in thedistricts one production kitchen. Pasta dishes,

or example, use reshly made sauces based on

commodity tomato paste.

But while there have been resh-ood additions,

the menus have remained largely static. Te

meals themselves we do not change those much,

Jacobsen said. Tose have been the same ... or

years.

In addition to concern about meeting nutrition

guidelines, Jacobsen said the menus need to be

accepted by students. Student preerence what

are popular menus with the children to keep our

participation up?Oool argued that although students might balk

at new menu items at rst, theyll get used to them.

I dont believe that [students will reject resh ood

long-term] at all, she said. Especially when were

starting at elementary age. It does take time. You

dont learn to read in a day; you dont teach math in

a week. Youve got to introduce the stuf repeatedly

over a 90-day period, and kids will start to eat it.

Money is another barrier, and Schutte said its a

signicant one. Most school-lunch services t ry to

be sel-sucient, but we still wind up having to

subsidize ... rom our general und, he said. And he

doesnt believe that Bettendor can raise its school-meal prices, which are pretty much at the top o

this area. Te number o ree or reduced-price

meals in the district has doubled in the past decade,

and he said I think it would be a real challenge to

raise prices.

Barring increased ederal or state unding or

higher prices, the district would need to allocate

additional general-und money or meals i costs

rise because o a shi to resher oods. School

lunches, then, would be competing with teacher

salaries and other education essentials or unding.

I think there would be resistance to it, because the

goal is always or those ood programs to be sel-sucient, Schutte said.

ammy Stotts, marketing specialist with the

Agricultural Diversication & Market DevelopmentBureau o the Iowa Department o Agriculture &

Land Stewardship, conceded that resher meals

made with local ingredients can be more expensive.

But a state arm-to-school designation could bring

up to $5,000 in grant unding, and Oool said other

organizations ofer money to assist with transitions

to healthier school meals.

Stotts also said theres oen reticence within a

school districts administration. She noted a recent

meeting with more than 50 ood directors, many o

whom thought a shi toward resher meals would

take too much time, require too much work, and

cost too much money.Te ood-service director and administration ...

they have to be supportive, she said. It is a little

bit o extra work.

But, she added, i theres a will, theres a way.

And while the resh commodity oferings arent

robust, they are available.

She added that theres growing interest across the

state in arm-to-school programs. I more money

was available, she said, the state could easily double

school participation. In the beginning, it was

kind o like twisting someones arm to get them to

consider it, she said.

We All ThoughtYou Were the Devil

Iowa has nine state-registered arm-to-school

chapters (http://www.Agriculture.Atate.IA.us/

AgDiversication/chapterInitiative.asp), and their

programs range rom modest to comprehensive.

Many schools provide resh ruits and vegetables as

snacks; other schools have committed to purchase

locally sourced oods or school lunches including

milk, eggs, meats, and breads in addition to resh

produce.

Nine schools in Iowa have done this, Oool

said. Te wheel doesnt need to be reinvented.

Te ABC showJamie Olivers Food Revolution (which ran in March and April) showed the

celebrity che trying to change the eating habits o

one o the United States unhealthiest communities:

Huntington, West Virginia. Te shows Web

site (JamieOliver.com/campaigns/jamies-ood-

revolution/school-ood) includes a two-week menu

planner with recipes or school lunches. (Cooked

rom scratch with resh ingredients by the lunch

ladies, they meet school meal nutrition standards

and the local budget.)But the best example or local districts might

be Augustana College. While it is undoubtedly

a diferent institution a private college with a

smaller, older, and presumably more-receptive age

demographic it had many o the ood-preparation

habits that make school lunches less than

nutritionally ideal.

When I got here [in 2007], they were using all

processed oods pre-made entres, rozen soups,

rozen vegetables, Potato Pearls ... , Grith said.

Its convenient. Its easy to get a consistent product.

... I think the mindset is: Tats the way that we have

to do things.Grith concedes that there are capacity issues in

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leist, but he wrote that hes anentertainer to most people: I

am up there, trying to be clearand report back to the audienceabout what I saw and how I eltabout it, he said. I have no idea

what role I play. I cant think itsanything much.

And he wrote that he doesnt

eel an obligation to try to reachthose who disagree with him: Allperormer types spend a good

amount o time in ront o peoplewho are already on-board. I amnot running or oce. I am on a

stage, letting it rip as clearly as Ican.

Beyond his Frequent Flyer

tour, Rollins said hes working ona photo book that will have a loto essays. Tat project is dragging

along. All the photos are done,but the writing is hard to do outhere. I am also working on a

travel/journal book. I have someother smaller writing projectsthat move along very slowly.

A return to music, however,sounds unlikely: I miss playing

music, absolutely, he wrote. I think it

would be cheating to go out and play oldmusic at this point. It would be too easy. Ican see perhaps making new music with

diferent people, but I dont want to workwith the old gang; we would just repeatpatterns and all into the same things.

And even though music was thespringboard to much o his other work,Rollins said it was never his calling: I was

never very good with music; I tried reallyhard, played as hard as I could. I dont knowwhat else I could do with the medium with

my limitations.

Henry Rollins will perform at the CapitolTeatre (330 West Tird Street in

Davenport) on Saturday, May 15. Te showstarts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $25. For moreinformation, visit TeCapDavenport.com.

For more information on Rollins, visitHenryRollins.com.

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Henry Rollins career hasound him ronting the

seminal hardcore bandBlack Flag as well as the RollinsBand, acting (in movies such as Heatand Lost Highway and the V show

Sons of Anarchy), hosting radio andtelevision shows, writing books, andblogging or Vanity Fair(VanityFair.

com/online/daily/straight-talk-espresso).

Hes currently on a talking tour

he says he dislikes the phrasespoken word that will stop atDavenports Capitol Teatre on May

15.Rollins Frequent Flyer show

covers his recent world travels.

Mid-October to mid-January ...I went all over the world just bymysel with some camera gear and

a backpack, he explained in oneinterview. I started in Jordan andbounced through Saudi Arabia,

the Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka,Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China,Senegal, Mali, and then Dublin.

Because he was touring inAustralia and Arica, Rollins wasntavailable or a phone interview. But he

graciously answered questions via e-mail.Te stories evolve as the tour goes on,

Rollins wrote, but its basically storytel ling,

reportage, and on-my-eet editorializing. Idont have a writing process or what goeson-stage but I do talk through ideas so I

can hear how the words sound. Its a littlestrange I guess, to see some man walkingdown the street talking to himsel, but

thats what I do. I did that all over the worldin the last months o last year. I am surepeople tripped on me.

Teres really no script, he continued.Tere are ideas that I work through in aspecic order, but I am always trying to

add new things to the mix as oen as I can;so sometimes the approach to an idea canchange but not the truth o it. Sometimes Icome up with things on-stage that I had not

thought o beore; thats always un.Rollins said that his travels are a way

to learn a thing or two: I think that the

only way or me to get my head aroundsomething is to go out into the world andhit the streets and see things as close up as I

can. ... I saw a lot o poverty on this last trip.I learned a lot about peoples resiliency andhow people deal with what they have to in

order to take care o their amilies and getthrough lie. Tere were many humblingmoments, many where I was made aware o

how the Western culture that I come romis sometimes removed rom a ar more

vigorous existence. I think the stand-out

event was being in Bhopal, India, or the25th anniversary o the Union CarbideIndia Limited gas leak that killed so many

people. It was sad to see people on-stage,yelling about how Union Carbide killedtheir amilies, while trac just roared by.

He also said travel is one o the bestways to learn about America. Leave it andsee how it washes up on other shores. See

the cultural impact o what America does,means, and produces in a diferent context;it can be very illuminating. Globalization

looks one way rom one end, very diferentrom the other, like a whip. One end doesnthurt; the other end can leave a mark. Te

world outside the West, as it were, is a veryhungry, thirsty, and hopeul place.

Rollins politics are unabashedly

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too exaggerated as, too, is Diane Greenwoodsenunciation. Her line deliveries worked quitewell or her when playing a pretentious actress

in PlaycraersMoon Over Bualo, but here,as heiress Celia, its a distraction. Greenwoodhas a gi or interpreting comedic characters,

but her over-pronunciation here all-too-oenoverwhelms her perormance.

On the opposite end o the spectrum is Bill

Bates, whois almost tooreticent as

Celias husband,J. (Althoughhe may simply

be too reticentin comparisonto Greenwood,

as hes notbad.) Dan Adeadequately

portraysnewspaperreporter Jack;

he doesnt

deliver muchnuance, but

hes likable. Its Don Hazens perormance asRoger, the reader o the will, thats rereshinglyunderplayed. Hazen simply brings himsel to

the character, ofering an unorced, laid-backnaturalism a low-key approach that wouldntwork in every role, but has worked, so ar, inthose in which Ive seen him cast. StephanieMoellers young heiress, Sally, is also niceenough, and her perormance is certainly more

limited by her character than her talent, which

was much better showcased in the PrenziePlayers rojan Women.Neither too hot, nor too cold, but just right,

is Spiro Bruskas, whose butler Edgar is perectlycreepy. Lisa Kahn matches him well with her

(mostly) consistent accent as Zenia, a Haitiangypsy o a housemaid; Kahn adds just enoughauthenticity to her tarot-card-reading mystic

to come across as realistic rather than corny.Bryan Woods creates a delightully snobbish,likably unlikable Carter. And Barbara King,

in her Playcraers debut, is arguably the mostintriguing o them all. Her detective Ernestine

is somewhat o a mystery hersel, letting youknow rom the start that theres denitely more

to know about her.I I were to sum upAny Number Can Die

in just two words, they would be amusing

enough. Te plays hilarity may have aded overthe years, but Playcraers is able to bring outjust enough o its chuckles to keep it rom being

boringly bad.

For tickets and inormation, call (309)764-0330or visit Playcrafers.com.

Tom White covers entertainment news orWQAD Quad Cities News 8.

As I watched Fridays perormance oAny Number Can Die at the PlaycraersBarn Teatre, I tried to remember

that there was (probably) a time when FredCarmichaels script was considered hilarious.As a spoo o murder mysteries o the 1920s,

this 1965 work may originally have been resh,poking un at the plays that audiences wereused to seeing. Now, though, with so many

comedies pokingun at murder-mystery clichs

and withone seeminglypresented

each year byPlaycraers the jokes at

the expenseo the clichshave themselves

becomeclich. Still,Carmichaels

script and

Playcraersproduction o it

are amusing enough to make the show at leasttolerable.

Te play involves 10 people whove

arrived at an island mansion or the readingo its deceased owners will. Some o thosepresent stand to inherit a ortune. Others

are there to investigate potential crimes. Terest arrive under alse pretenses, to eitherprotect potential heirs or get the ortune or

themselves. And over the course o one night,

they will all endure or encounter a lightningstorm, a midnight reading o the will, secret

passageways, a creepy house staf, and a hootingowl. (Im sure, though, that I missed a spoo-yclich or two. Or our.)

I theres anything especially impressive aboutPlaycraers production, its the sound efects. Idont recall a moment during the play in which

there werentany. Created by sound designerMark McGinn, there are constantly uctuatingsounds o rain and occasional thunderclaps

combined with impressive lightning efectsby designer John Weigandt plus an owl that

hoots in response to about hal o the lines inthe play. (With so many sound cues to ollow,sound operator Jean Lupoli deserves a mentionor not missing a beat on opening night.)

And the set is almost as impressive, asdesigner Bill Marsoun who also directedthe production has created a mansion that

eels grand and overwhelming, completewith cobwebs, a ickering chandelier, a grandstaircase, and hidden passageways.

Marsouns cast, however, is a bit inconsistent.Mike Schmidt is overly over-the-top as

Hannibal, an older private investigator on hisrst case. Schmidts hammy perormance doesadd punch to some punchlines, but is oen just

Killing TimAny Number Can Die, at the Playcrafters Barn Theatre through May 16

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IRON MAN 2

As expected, the rocket-ueled title character

ies across the screen pretty damned quickly

in director Jon Favreaus Iron Man 2, but thismight be the very rst

comic-book movie to

boast dialogue that

zips by even quicker.By now, summer-

blockbuster crowds

are so used to beingwowed or, or some

o us, wowed by

pricey visuals and

gargantuan action set

pieces that the true

thrill o Fevreaus and

screenwriter Justin Terouxs sequel comes

as both a relie and a shock; how on earth did

Paramount (thankully) agree to shell out some

$200 million or what is, in essence, an updated

take on a 30s screwball comedy? Te climax

in which our metal-plated superhero takes on

more than a dozen artillery-laden robots is

enjoyable enough, I guess, yet in terms o actual

celluloid magic, it doesnt hold a candle to the

sight oIron Man 2sRobert Downey Jr. and

Gwyneth Paltrow arguing over whether Latin is,

or is not, a dead language.

Its probable, though, that a large portion

o the movies audience wont give two hoots

about the banter, and or them, the lmmakers

dutiully and mostly unimaginatively ofer

the expected comic-book-ick niceties: a

heavily-tattooed, maniacal ber-villain (Mickey

Rourke) with a murderous vendetta and a petcockatoo; a dweeb-ish governmental stooge

(Sam Rockwell) intent on mass-producing

Iron Mans armor or personal gain; a mid-lm

crisis o character that nds our hero teetering

toward the dark side. (Teres also a mid-lm

interruption by Samuel L. Jacksons Nick Fury,

who shows up or no purpose other than to

jazz audiences with the promise/threat o the

orthcoming comic-book movie Te Avengers.)For too much o its length, you can eel this

ollow-up attempting to placate its target

demographic with generic blow-em-ups andshattering glass, and the tone in many o these

sequences eels suspiciously of. Iron Mans

wildly destructive battle against Don Cheadles

James Rhodes, scored to Queens Another One

Bites the Dust, emerges as both unpleasant

and senseless, and a scene o Rockwell selling

weaponry to Cheadles military unit the

camera lingering on the rearms with etishistic

attention is like so-core porn or Guns &Ammo subscribers.

For all o its obviousness and heavy-

handedness, however, and or all the details

that eel less inspired than obligatory, Iron

Man 2 ends up a remarkably lighthearted, even

buoyant, entertainment. o be sure, this was all

but guaranteed upon Downeys entrance, when

his billionaire playboy ony Stark who publicly

revealed himsel to be Iron Man at the tail

end o Favreaus 2008

precursor landed on

stage amidst a thousand

cheering ans, and

shouted an ebullient Itsgood to be back! (Oursilent response: Hell

yeah it is.) reating his

characters superheroics

as a supreme orm o

play, Downey is even

more madly inventive

and efortlessly

hilarious here than he was in the ranchises rst

installment, and the act o watching Stark work

out intricately detailed puzzles, his mind racing,

is more inherently exciting than any number o

CGI wonders; as usual, Downeys perormance

gis are special efects unto themselves.Yet what a smart and unny script Teroux

provides him with, and what a bevy o talents

hes routinely partnered with! rading badinage

and irtations with stunning style, Paltrows gal

Friday Pepper Potts matches Downeys Stark

quip or quip someone really should write a

proper romantic comedy or these two stat and

Scarlett Johansson delivers a deeply amusing

turn as Starks curvaceous new assistant, her

Natalie Rushman causing understandable strie

or the lms leading almost-lovebirds. (Why

dont you Google her? asks Pepper, bitingly,when questioning the vixens proessional

background. I thought I was oglingher, replies

Stark.)

Rourke, who nds a dazzling middle ground

between the satiric and the scarily sincere,

creates a low-key, menacing Russian whos a

perect complement to Rockwells sublimely

clueless, whining egomaniac. And among such

sterling comic talents as Cheadle, Favreau

(playing right-hand man Happy Hogan), and the

peerless Garry Shandling, Clark Gregg shows

up as a deadpan secret agent, utters about ve

sentences at lightning-ast speed, and just aboutstrolls of with the picture. (At the screening a

riend and I attended, his curtain line elicited

the biggest laugh in the auditorium, which is

saying a lot.) Given its over-reliance on rote,

noisy action spectacle, I le Iron Man 2 slightlydisappointed. Remembering the experience two

hours later and realizing that this comic-book

extravaganza was also, thus ar, 2010s wittiest

and most enthralling comedy I ound it hard to

wipe the grin rom my ace.

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1) Complete the title o the_____

A) GoB) Drive

C) Sing

2) According to the lyrics oa Baby, what is Stephei its a girl?

A) EnidB) YokoC) Gordon

3) Whats the name o theholiday songs?

A) Barenaked for the HolidB)A Barenaked ChristmasC) God Rest Ye Barenaked

Whats Happenin

MusicJuli WoodThe Redstone Room

Sunday, May 16

Perorming at Davenports RedstoneRoom on May 16, saxophonist andjazz singer Juli Wood is the latest guestin Polyrhythms Tird Sunday Jazz

Matine & Workshop series, and herlocal appearance is bound to make jazzans shout a vigorous Hurray! Or,

i youd preer, Hoora!, Hurra!, or!

Based in Chicago, the sax player

began her proessional career with therhythm-and-blues bands Paul Cebar& the Milwaukeeans and Te R&B

Cadets. She turned to jazz, however,in 1993, and the ormer genres losshas clearly been the latters gain,

with Wood perorming as singer andinstrumentalist in the jazz bands Jeruand the Prohibition Orchestra, the

all-emale ensemble SHE, and her ownJuli Wood Quartet. Beyond her regularsets in the Windy City, the artist enjoys

requent tours o the Midwest, andher considerable gis ledJazzimesmagazines Bill Milkowski to describe

her as a gutsy tenor and baritonesaxophonist who also sings with theearthy gusto o an R&B diva.

Yet Woods an base isnt restrictedto American shores, as her talentshave also brought her to jazz estivals

in Athens and the Greek venue Bar

Guru, the Spanish cities o Grenadaand Fuengirola, Denmarks Bent Js

Club, and the noted Skansen Jazz &Blues Fest in Stockholm. Jan-ErikHolmberg, o the Swedish newspaper

Hufvudstadsbladet, even went so aras to ca ll Wood en suvern saxoonistmed smak r lng blues drnkt solon

och ett gediget knsla r tradition.*So you know shes good!

Juli Wood will lead a 3 p.m. jazzworkshop and headline a 6 p.m.concert alongside pianist Kelly Brand,bassist Kelly Sill, and drummer Mike

Schlick, and more inormation on theTird Sunday series is available bycalling Polyrhythms at (309)373-0790

or visiting Polyrhythms.org.

*Meaning a superb saxophonist witha taste for blues-drenched solos and asterling feel for tradition. With thanksto my Augustana education for the

translation. Tat and, you know, anonline translation dictionary.

TheatreThe Mystery of Edwin DroodNew Era Community Building

Friday, May 14, through Sunday, May 23

Have you ever had the experience o sittingthrough a stage production and, aer

being disappointed by its resolution, saying toyour theatre-going companion, Hell, Icouldvewritten a better ending to that show! Well,now you have your chance!

For its annual springtime production,Muscatines New Era Comminty Teatre will

present the Victorian-era Te

Mystery o Edwin Drood, amusical comedy inspired by aCharles Dickens novel. Or rather,

inspired bymosto a CharlesDickens novel, as the authorsbook was never completed.

Consequently, the show itsel which concerns a hapless,somewhat crazy theatre troupe

and its eforts to stage Dickensliterally endless work doesntreach a proper conclusion, either.

And thats whereyou come in! Beore the

productions nal scenes, the audience is asked

ony Aw

So enj

MusicBarenaked LadiesAdler Theatre

Sunday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.

Ill tell you what Id do iIhad amillion dollars: Id buy all o youtickets to the orthcoming BarenakedLadies concert at Davenports Adler Teatre.

O course, Im working on a journalists salary, so the point is moot. But I hope youappreciate the sentiment.

Fresh rom the bands headlining concert at a 2010 Winter Olympics Victory

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album:Maybe You Should

n Stephen Page Is Havingplanning to name the child

roups 2004 album o

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entlemen

4) What V series did the Barenaked Ladies onceappear on?

A)Ally McBealB) Friends

C) wo Guys & a Girl

5) I I Had a Million Dollars, what wouldntI buyyou?

A) A Derringer

B) A ChestereldC) A Garunkel

Barenaked Ladies perorm the Adler with opening

musician Serena Ryder, and tickets are available by call-ing (800)745-3000 or visiting AdlerTeatre.com.

TheatreDisneys Beauty & the BeastAdler Theatre

Wednesday, May 19, and Thursday, May 20

(To be sung to the Beauty

& the Beast title song)

ale as old as time,

rue as it can be:Want to see a show kids reuse to goI its not Dis-ney.

Sitters all have plans;Folks live in the east.Ten you get the news the musical to choose Beauty & the Beast !

Major Broadway smash

Such a sight to see!Te Na-tion-al our, t or ages ouro well past ninety-three!

Its in Davenport,Te drive will be a breeze,

ony-winning show your kids will beg to goOn their hands and knees!Colors, lights, and sounds

A singing, dancing east!Make your children smile! Trill the kids in

style!Beauty & the Beast !

Get your tickets now, ore theyre sold and

how!Beauty & the Beast !

Te Adler Teatre will present Disneys Beauty

& the Beast on May 19 and 20, and tickets can bereserved at (800)745-3000 or AdlerTeatre.com.

by Mike Schulz

[email protected]

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What elsIs HappninCOMEDY

Friday, May 14, and Saturday, May 15

ComedySportz 20th-Anniversary Weekend.Celebratory shows eaturing the Quad Citiesimprovisational comedians, with CSZ alumni

perorming on Saturday. ComedySportz (1818Third Avenue, Rock Island). 7 p.m. $10-$12. Fortickets and inormation, call (309)786-7733

extension 2 or visit ComedySportzQC.com.

MUSICThursday, May 13, and Friday, May 14

Mark Wood. Demonstration and concert withcomposer, musician, and original member othe Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Meet-and-greetand instrument demonstration West MusicQuad Cities (4305 44th Avenue, Moline).Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Free admission. Concert Rock Island High School (2400 17th Street,Rock Island). Friday, 7 p.m. $10-$12. Forinormation, call (309)764-9300 or [email protected].

Friday, May 14 Karen Durrants Dream

Girls. Concert tribute to such perormers asTina Turner, Donna Summer, and Diana Ross& the Supremes. Quad-Cities WaterrontConvention Center (1777 Isle Parkway,Bettendor). 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. For ticketsand inormation, call (800)843-4753 or visit

Bettendor.IsleOCapriCasinos.com.Saturday, May 15 Henry Rollins.

Forront man or Black Flag on his spoken-

word Frequent Flyer Tour. The Capitol Theatre(330 West Third Street, Davenport). 8 p.m. $25.

For tickets and inormation, call (563)326-8820or visit TheCapDavenport.com.

not only to vote on who

(possibly) murdered the titlecharacter, but which o itscharacters become romantically

linked. Its a conceit that led theNew York imes Frank Rich tostate, In a Broadway dominated

by technologically oppressivespectacles, it is the display ohuman hands that lis this

musical to so happy an end,and certainly contributed to themusicals winning o ve 1986

rds, including Best Musical.

y, all you backseat playwrights, and

i you really want to have some un, enjoy the

show more than once New Eras actors haventlearned all those alternative endings or nothin!Te Mystery o Edwin Drood will be staged

at the New Era Community Building (3455New Era Road in Muscatine) at 7 p.m. on May14, 15, 21, and 22, and at 6 p.m. on May 23.An optional dinner precedes all per ormances with all o the shows proceeds benetingLutheran World Relie s Haitian EearthquakeResponse, the Salvation Army, and the NewEra Lutheran Church and more inormationand tickets are available by calling MaxineStark at (563)263-5255 or Nancy Henke at

(563)263-0881.

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And it can be done to all sorts o artists,adds Rick. Glen Miller, Michael Bubl,Christina Aguilera, the Backstreet Boys ... .

Whoever.Teres at least 15 to 17 types o swing

dancing, says Brenda, and whichever type

is most common depends on what regionyoure in. I you go out west and say, Were

gonna go swing dancing,

people know youre goingto do West Coast.

As or participants

at A. Rhythmic imesswing-dance weekend,theyll be given an

introduction to WestCoast swing, and EastCoast swing, and all

manner o Lindy andCharleston variations,Balboas, Low & Slows,

leans, hops, drops,pretzels ... .

People show up Friday

night, says Rick o theschedule, and we have acouple lessons and then a

[social] dance. On Saturday, we start at 10a.m., take a lunch break, come back, keepgoing, take a dinner break, come back, and

dance again til 11.Ten, on Sunday, there are a couple

more lessons and another dance, the

diference being that the Friday andSaturday dances are exclusively swing,and Sundays includes Latin and ballroom

dancing.

With roughly 20 hours o lessons andsocial dances scheduled over the three days,

its a jam-packed syllabus, to be sure. But asBrenda insists, Its not like work. Its a veryplayfulweekend.

Its also a weekend that, i last yearsturnout is an indicator, should appeal todancers rom a wide range o locales

2009s 100-plus attendees included visitorsrom Des Moines, St. Louis, and KansasCity and o wildly varied ages. Most oour dancers are 40-plus, says Rick, and

we have one couple thats, I think, ninety-something. But at the swing weekend, wehad way more 17-to-35-year-olds than

anything else.But I like that, no matter the age, [swing

weekend] seemed to open peoples mindsup, he adds. Maybe theyd been araid totry dancing, or had said Im too old ... or whatever. But all o a sudden theyd seesomeone else doing it, and their eyes wouldlight up ... . Its a neat eeling to be a part o.

For more inormation about A. Rhythmic

imes Tat Spring Swing Ting workshopweekend and the studios course schedule, call(309)786-4800 or visit ARhythmicime.com.

Anote or uture rst-time visitors tothe A. Rhythmic ime dance studio:I you nd yoursel nearing your

destination but are pretty sure youre lost,dont panic. Youre probably right whereyoure supposed to be.

When we got this place, says RickTames, who co-owns the Moline studio (at5447 Tird Avenue) with

wie Brenda, we nishedrenovations in the winter[o 2008], when it was too

cold to paint the outsideo the building. And, youknow, its an industrialarea, and you have to

come down an alley,and theres a dumpsteroutside ... . So wed just

tell people, Look or theblue door.

Yet when you do nd

that blue door to theTameses converted-warehouse space, dont be

araid to walk in: Despitethe venues somewhat of-putting exterior, inside youll nd a lovingly

designed, 35-oot-by-100-oot, honest-to-goodness ballroom.

Tats the best part, says Rick. When

people rst come through the door. Becauseall o a sudden their aces are like, I cantbelieve this is here.

People call it Te Speakeasy oDancing, adds Brenda with a laugh.Because rom the outside ... !

Like when A. Rhythmic ime waslocated in Rock Island (rom 2006 to 2008),the main ocus or the more-spacious

Moline venue was, says Rick, dancelessons, but we also wanted to host biggerevents. And the studios biggest annual

event will take place over the May 21-23weekend, when the Tameses host theirsecond workshop weekend, Tat Spring

Swing Ting, geared to both novice andexperienced swing dancers.

Brenda, who teaches nightly studio

classes alongside instructor Jaxon Boyd,says the idea or a weekend devoted entirelyto swing steps was one the Tameses had

long considered. Tey do them in a lot obig cities Iowa City just had theirs andthe Quad Cities didnt have anything like

that. We have the blues est and the jazzest, but those are geared toward music,and there was nothing, necessarily, that

celebrated dance. So thats what we decidedto do. Celebrate all the generations o swingdancing.

Plus all the diferent styles o swing

dancing. A lot o people think o swingdancing as a dance, Brenda continues,

when its actually agenre o dance.

Th Spakasy of DancingA. Rhythmic Time Hosts Its Second-Annual Swing-Dance Workshop Weekend

by Mike Schulz

[email protected]

Brenda and Rick Thames

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through music, and in attempting to capturethe beauty o the reuge and its human andanimal denizens, he says, I started playingand writing and remembering why I likedto play music in the rst place. For mysel,you know? Not because Im in a band, notbecause o girls. I just wanted to make strongsongs that didnt need a horn sect ion, that

didnt need a rhythmsection. And thatswhat I love aboutthis disc. Its strippeddown.

CallingMission:Wolmy happiestwork since theDagobah [Willisormer band] CD weput out in the mid-90s, Willis hopesthe album will givelisteners a visceralsense o his years atthe Colorado reuge,although he doesnt

consider himselartistically exhausted on the subject just yet.

I was actually starting to write a book,but I just ... . Im not slow enough yet, hesays with a laugh. I cant stop moving longenough to do the book yet. So I settled on aCD.

Willis will perorms songs romMission:Wolin Davenport on May 15, when themusician plays the patio stage betweenthe Harrison Street venues McButts andStickmans an outdoor locale that Willisreers to as StickButts. (And I hope the namesticks, he says, cause its agoodone.)

Te concert also marks Willis nal areagig beore returning to Colorado or thesummer, and nds him sharing the bill withlocal band Orangadang! and Willis newlyormed ensemble Pats Acoustic Disco, abluegrass/disco hybrid that perorms acoustictakes on such genre classics as DonnaSummers Hot Stuf and Peaches & HerbsShake Your Groove Ting.

You wouldnt think itd work, says Willis,because bluegrass is absolutely not unky.

But I started liking the juxtaposition obluegrass and whatever bluegrass and BlackSabbath, bluegrass and Pink Floyd and Ijust came around to disco songs recently.

And all o a sudden, Willis says with anair o comedic dejection, I was like, Oh,man ... its working really well... .

For more on the Mission Wol reuge, visitMissionWol.com.

May 15s outdoor concert between Stickmansand McButts (at 1514 North HarrisonStreet in Davenport) begins at 8:30 p.m. Forinormation, call (563)322-7724.

Describing his latest CD release,musician Pat Willis says its originsbegan with his song Rami, a

composition written, as so many are, abouta girl.

When I rst saw her, there was a palpablepresence, says the ormer Burnt McMelbaoast rontman. You know, she had anenergy about her, andyou could justeelthe electricity. Andso when she nallycame over to me, andslavered all over me, Ijust melted.

Its probablyimportant to notethat Willis isnt beinghyperbolic about theslavering.

Its probably alsoimportant to note thatRami is a wol. A literalwol.

I just puddled,

adds Willis (hopeullyhyperbolically), remembering his rstencounter with Rami at Colorados MissionWol animal reuge. I ell in love with her,and her beautiul hair, and wrote the song thenext day.

Tat composition a tribute to both thereuge and its lupine inhabitants led toanother, titled Runnin: Fading Footsteps.And those songs led toMission: Wol, Willis12-track, acoustic remembrance o his twoyears spent among the animals and humansat Mission Wol, located in Colorados WestMountains region.

Barring a roughly two-year Quad Citiesstint with the band Patio, Willis says hesspent most o the last 15 years in Colorado,and discovered the Mission Wol reugenine years ago, aer receiving his bachelorsdegree in English rom Boulders Universityo Colorado.

I went or a weekend aer I graduated, hesays, and it was such an amazing place. Itswolves that were born in captivity, and theycant be released into the world or theyd die,

or be killed, within a couple days, so they takecare o them there.

Willis ound the weekend so inspirational,he says, that he later returned to Mission Wolor a month-and-a-hal stay, and roughly twoyears later given the proper window in hisschedule or a two-year tenure.

I slept on a hillside, watched coyotes chewon entrails, saw their glowing eyes, he says.And I met these amazing people rom allover the world. Because a place like that justsucks in incredible people. People that wantto do things.

Among the things that Willis mostwanted to do was preserve the experience

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What els Is HappninSaturday, May 15 Local Natives. Indie

rockers in an all-ages, outdoor concert

sponsored by Daytrotter, eaturing opening actSuckers. Rock Island Brewing Company (1815

Second Avenue, Rock Island). 6 p.m. $8-$10. Forinormation, e-mail [email protected] orvisit Daytrotter.com.

Friday, May 21 The Duke Ellington

Orchestra.Legendary big-band musicians inconcert. Quad-Cities Waterront Convention

Center (1777 Isle Parkway, Bettendor). 7:30p.m. $35-$45. For tickets and inormation,call (800)843-4753 or visit Bettendor.

IsleOCapriCasinos.com.Saturday, May 22 Rick Springfeld.

Grammy Award-winning pop-rock star o

Jessies Girl and General Hospitalame. Quad-Cities Waterront Convention Center (1777 IsleParkway, Bettendor ). 7:30 p.m. $45-$55. For

tickets and inormation, call (800)843-4753 orvisit Bettendor.IsleOCapriCasinos.com.

THEATREFriday, May 14, through Sunday, May

23 Cyrano de Bergerac. Edmond Rostandsstage classic, in a presentation by classical-theatre ensemble the Prenzie Players. 1616

Second Avenue, Rock Island. Fridays throughSundays and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. doors,8 p.m. perormance. (1:30 p.m. doors, 2

p.m. perormance on Sunday, May 16.) $8at the door. For inormation, e-mail [email protected] or visit PrenziePlayers.com.

Saturday, May 15 Be Your Own Bard: Quad

City Playwrights Festival. Staged readings

o works by area playwrights, perormed and

directed by students in the theatre depar tment.

Augustana College Bergendof Hall o Fine Arts,

Black Box Theatre. (3701 Seventh Avenue, Rock

Island). 7:30 p.m. Free admission. For inormation,

call (309)794-7320.

EXHIBITSaturday, May 22, through Sunday,

September 5 Prehistoric Playground.

Hands-on exhibit in which visitors can createtheir own dinosaurs in the Design-a-Dino area,

experience amily development in Nest SideStory, control a lie-sized baby T-Rex, and more.Family Museum (2900 Learning Campus Drive,

Bettendor). Free with museum admission.

For inormation, call (563)344-4106 or visit

FamilyMuseum.org.

EVENTSSunday, May 16 Broadway District

Tour o Homes. Featuring tours o fvehistoric residences, and a walking tour o the

1000 block o old Adams Street. BroadwayHistorical District, Rock Island. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.$10 donation, ree or ages 12 and under.For inormation, call (309)235-5496 or visit

BroadwayDistrict.org.Thursday, May 20 Louis Bellson

Memorial Reception. Celebration o the

late, great drummer and composer, eaturing

presentations, testimonies, and musical

perormances by the North Scott Jazz Ensemble

and other guest musicians. Mojos Coee House

River Music Experience (130 West Second

Street, Davenport). 6 p.m. Donations accepted.

For inormation, call (563)326-1333 or visit

RiverMusicExperience.org.

Thursday, May 20 A Winos Journey

Wine-Tasting Beneft. Fundraiser or theQuad Cities Advertising Federations CreativeMinds Scholarship Fund, with a presentation

by sommelier Brian Burke. Biaggis RistoranteItaliano (5195 Utica Ridge Road, Davenport).5:30 p.m. $30. For inormation, e-mail Michele

Stoos at [email protected], May 22 Family Museum

Market Music Fest. Family event eaturing the

Young Entrepreneurs Market, rereshments,and music by Justin Roberts, Trout Fishing inAmerica, and the Boogers. Family Museum

(2900 Learning Campus Drive, Bettendor). 9a.m.-5 p.m. Free with museum admission ($4-$6); $20 VIP ticket includes a meet-and-greet

with the bands and a complimentary JustinRoberts CD. For inormation, call (563)344-4106or visit FamilyMuseum.org.

Saturday, May 22 St. Ambrose

University Wine Festival. Annual undraiserbenefting student scholarships, with gourmet

appetizers and samplings o more than 140wines. St. Ambrose University lawn (518 WestLocust Street, Davenport). 3 p.m. $45. For

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were the devil.

But even though Grith said he was prepared

to ask orgiveness rather than permission, he hadsupportive bosses, and dining staf, students, and

college aculty have come around. More aculty

and staf are eating on campus, and the amount o

money given back to students or unused meals

dropped $90,000 in one year.

When students get resh vegetables ... , when

they get real mashed potatoes, they notice a

diference, Grith said.

And he said ood and labor costs have actually

gone down by several hundred thousand dollars.

You pay or convenience, he said. Convenience

costs money. (Because o the ood they receiverom the ederal government, its highly unlikely

school districts would see cost savings unless

there are signicant changes to the commodity

program.)

Grith said hes willing to assist any local

school district that wants to move away rom

processed oods. Hes worked with Oool

(through Progressive Action or the Common

Good) on approaching the Bettendor schools.

He is a great example o what can be done,

Oool said.

We just have to be patient and get one [public]school that can be a model, Grith said. I know

theres a lot o interest. I think people just dont

know how to do it. ... I know it can work.

the local agricultural system because production isgeared to corn or ethanol production and animal

eed, and to soybeans. We import 95 percent oour ood in ippin Illinois and Iowa, he said.

And there is oen resistance rom theagricultural community that same status-quo

inertia that one sees in school districts.When he talked to 30 armers at a local

growers meeting in January 2008, all o themhad a glazed look in their eyes and thought I wascrazy except one, he said. A lot o them were verysuspicious.

But that meeting was the beginning o arelationship with Jim Johansen o WesleyAcres Produce in Milan, and that led to other

relationships with local armers.Augustana started in 2008 with local lettuces,

tomatoes, and other produce as much as wecould bring in, Grith said.

He said he told his staf: Were going todo scratch cooking. Te only allowed rozen

vegetables would be peas and kernel corn. All

soups and sauces would be reshly made. Teywould roast and slice their own meats.

When we talked last week, Grith said hewas getting 50 pounds o asparagus, 13 poundso lettuce, and resh green onions that day thebeginning o the growing season. He estimated

that Augustana this year will probably buy$200,000 in locally grown or raised ood.

It wasnt an easy sell. He relates with a laughthat one staf person told him: We all thought you

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