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“American Pickers”: The Inside Story of the History Channel’s

Surprise Hit

By Jeff Ignatius - 3/17/10

In the American Pickers
Pick Us Up at episode "Back Breakers," Mike
Over 750 Locations Wolfe is donning a bright-red T
T Motor Home Club jacket with
the name "Louise"
embroidered on the front.
The jacket is an "ice-breaker,"
a term that Wolfe and picking
partner Frank Fritz use to
describe an item that they don't
really want but buy anyway as
a way to warm up a reticent
person to the idea of selling their old stuff.
It's a charming bit in the History channel's first-season reality-series
hit, because it shows that Wolfe and Fritz aren't afraid to look foolish
or silly. And Wolfe seems to enjoy wearing that jacket. Click here to
read more.

In the Face of an Unseen Enemy: Cancer Survivor Christina Marie

Myatt Performs an April 3 Benefit for the Genesis Center of Breast
Health

By Mike Schulz - 3/15/10

In 2005, Christina Marie Myatt
- president of the Countryside
Community Theatre's board of
directors and owner/artistic
director of Davenport's Center
Stage Performing Arts
Academy - was diagnosed with
breast cancer. And not long
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afterward, as she recalled in our interview, she received a visit from
her parents.
"They came out when I was getting ready to go for chemotherapy for
the first time," says Myatt, "and my dad said, 'I brought you a gift.' I
opened it, and it was his Purple Heart from when he was in Vietnam.
And I said, 'Why would you give this to me? I can't take this.' And he
said, 'When they hand you this medal, they tell you that this medal is
for bravery in the face of an unseen enemy. And watching you, that is
what you are doing right now.'" Click here to read more.

Bringing Out the Dead: Minda Powers-Douglas Offers a Visual

History of Chippiannock Cemetery

By Jeff Ignatius - 3/18/10

Chippiannock Cemetery in
Rock Island has its share of
impressive monuments, from
the elegant resting place of the
Cable family to the massive
30-ton boulder (for Edward
Burrall) and the six-ton
polished-granite sphere (for
Dean Tyler Robinson).
But for Minda Powers-Douglas, author of the new Chippiannock
Cemetery book in Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series,
it's the modest, handmade grave markers that mean the most. Click
here to read more.

The Pluck of the Irish: "The O'Conner Girls," at the Playcrafters Barn
Theatre through March 21

By Thom White - 3/15/10

If there's one word I'd use to
best describe Playcrafters
Barn Theatre's current
production, it would be "nice."
And while that can be taken as
an unflattering adjective, for
The O'Conner Girls I mean it
as a positive one; I left the
opening-night performance
with a smile on my face, one
awash with the sweet nostalgia and dash of humor that put it there.
Click here to read more.
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What's Happenin': March 16 - 31, 2010

By Mike Schulz - 3/16/10

Tantric
Rock Island Brewing Company
Saturday, March 27, 9 p.m.
"The funny thing about going
through struggles," says Hugo
Ferreira, lead singer of the
alternative rock band Tantric,
"is that struggles make you
interesting."
Man, what an interesting band Tantric is! Click here to read more.

Mishmash Accomplished: "Green Zone," "Remember Me," "She's

Out of My League," and "Our Family Wedding"

By Mike Schulz - 3/07/10

Set in Baghdad during the
early months of 2002, director
Paul Greengrass' action thriller
Green Zone casts Matt Damon
as a stalwart, driven military
officer who gradually discovers
that the American government
lied about the proliferation -
even the existence - of Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction. This might strike you as old news, and
it is. The disappointing surprise of Green Zone, though, is that the
movie itself should feel like such old news, and in ways that have
nothing to do with Greengrass and Damon re-teaming after the
considerable artistic and popular successes of their Bourne
Supermacy and Bourne Ultimatum films. Click here to read more.

Iowa Politics Roundup: Tax-Credit-Reform Legislation Unveiled

By Lynn Campbell - 3/12/10

Democratic lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a long-awaited
tax-credit-reform package that they said would reduce Iowa's
tax-credit liability by $115 million a year; Republicans and business
leaders were quick to criticize the legislation and said it sends the
wrong message.
"We have listened to the public's anger at abuses and we are
responding with historic reforms," said Senator Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa
City), chair of the Senate Ways & Means Committee. "We are ending
some tax credits, cutting many remaining credits, and dramatically
increasing accountability for all tax-credit spending." Click here to
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Quinn’s Budget Plan DOA but Provides Political Cover

By Rich Miller - 3/14/10

Like all of the budgets proposed by governors in the past few years,
Pat Quinn's spending outline last week was an almost complete
fantasy. It has pretty much zero chance of surviving intact and will
have to be tossed out and substantially reworked before the session
ends.
Unless the school interests can pull off a legislative miracle during an
anti-incumbent election year, Quinn's proposed one-percentage-point
tax increase to prevent $1.3 billion in school-funding cuts and pay
another $1.5 billion in overdue bills to schools and universities is
deader than a rock on a stump. House Speaker Michael Madigan
made that pretty darned clear right after the speech. Click here to
read more.

New Features!

The Reader has recently added many new features to its Web site.
Interested in getting involved in the local theatre scene? Check out
our up-to-date listings of auditions and calls for entry. Catch up on
nine years of reviews with our theatre-review and movie-review
indexes. (You can also find Mike Schulz’s reviews of movies currently
on Quad Cities screens.) And QCA Today tracks what’s being
covered by the local media.

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