“Who’s the Boss?”, Applesauce, Tony Danza — Not at a Loss, and Very Much Present: Aaron Dail Talks with the Man, May 4

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Anthony Dail talks with Tony Danza, the son of a Brooklyn garbageman and a graduate of the University of Dubuque, about the great good fortune of his career, whose embers started glowing on Taxi (1978-1983), caught fire on Who’s the Boss? (1984-1993), lighted his way to teaching English for a year for a reality show (Teach: Tony Danza) and wrote about that (I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High), and continues to blaze his way across the nation, having played his alma mater 22 October 2022 and, most recently, Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center in Davenport, 23 May 2023. As assuredly as one can sustain a metaphor across an entire sentence, Danza works a room, reminding (or teaching) audiences about the days of variety TV, when a performer performed: If he could sing, dance, play a ukulele, tell jokes, and keep a steady patter going, then he might be ready for Prime Time. And Danza’s been ready for PT for the longest time. Respect!

Between What the Government Can’t Talk About and What It Won’t, We Survive, Somehow — Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the June Edition of River Cities’ Reader

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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with Aaron Dail and his buddy Gary re the highlights of Issue N° 1010: Continue reading Between What the Government Can’t Talk About and What It Won’t, We Survive, Somehow — Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the June Edition of River Cities’ Reader →

Aaron Dail Interview with Andrew Lehman, New John Deere Classic Tournament Director, June 20

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Aaron Dail talks with Andrew Lehman about the big gets for this year’s John Deere Classic Tournament. Among them is West Des Moines’s Caitlin Clark, the celebrated Hawkeyes basketball guard, “the closest thing the state of Iowa has to The Beatles right now,” whose nine-hole club-off with Waterloo’s Zach Johnson will be well-attended. “We’ve seen such a positive response since we announced that [Clark is] coming,” Lehman said, Continue reading Aaron Dail Interview with Andrew Lehman, New John Deere Classic Tournament Director, June 20 →

Aaron Dail Interview w Fanny Curtat, June 21, re “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,”

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In the “Crows” segment Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film Dreams, Akira Terao portrays an art student. The student views the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh one minute, and the next he steps inside the canvas, into the worlds Van Gogh rendered. He finds the artist, played by Martin Scorsese, and learns from him his extreme dedication to his work: That he’s forever chasing the sun, that he drives himself “like a locomotive,” and that he had a problem with getting his left ear just so for his Self-Portrait, so he did what any reasonable person would do Continue reading Aaron Dail Interview w Fanny Curtat, June 21, re “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” →

June 23, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Elemental” and “The Flash”

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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how, despite the warning signs, he didn’t hate Elemental, the latest Disney/Pixar animated joint. Given the film concerns anthropomorphic elements — earth, air, fire, and water — he was a bit flummoxed that earth and air didn’t figure hardly at all in the finished work. Apparently, the thematic thrust is whether fire and water can get along with each other without, you know, canceling one another out. Aside from the lack of songs from Earth, Wind, and Fire in the soundtrack, Continue reading June 23, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Elemental” and “The Flash” →

June 15, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

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Mike Schulz, back from holiday, having seen no movies over the break, talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how “man-oh-man” good Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was; about how the richness of the concept (infinite Spider-Men across an infinite multi-verse, each sharing special life circumstances that made their super-heroism possible) is matched by the eye-popping digital visual effects and the compelling voice-acting. “Favorite movie of the year?” asks one of the Deez. Continue reading June 15, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” →

Monday June 5, 2023 Davenport City Officials Shift to “Under Investigation Can’t Answer Questions Mode” on The Davenport Building Collapse

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This podcast is the ten-minute news conference held Monday, June 5, 2023 around 10AM. Only once was the Saturday before the collapse 911 call mentioned, and then only fleetingly, as if an afterthought. Andrew Wold, the owner of The Davenport Hotel, had to be brought up by a reporter, and might otherwise have gone unmentioned throughout the conference. Continue reading Monday June 5, 2023 Davenport City Officials Shift to “Under Investigation Can’t Answer Questions Mode” on The Davenport Building Collapse →

Tuesday May 30, 2023 City of Davenport News Conference re The Davenport Hotel Building Collapse

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This podcast is the one hour news conference held Tuesday May 30, 2023 around 11am inside the Davenport Police Department in downtown Davenport.

This is in the wake of the City belaying the demolition crews of the building known as The Davenport (formerly The Davenport Hotel) less than 48 hours after the Sunday afternoon partial collapse of the west side of 324 Main Street, which is a 1914 built building diagonally across the street from Davenport City Hall. Said building had as many as 50 residential tenants leasing apartments inside.

Due to the public pressure from displaced and concerned citizens amassing in a near mob like protests outside of City Hall early Tuesday morning, backing down the demolition crews.

The concerned citizens are crying foul due to the city claiming there was no one left inside the building early Monday, only to have a woman appear in a window Monday evening to be rescued.
Prior to this Tuesday news conference rumors were abound that two people who lived there were still missing and unaccounted for. Continue reading Tuesday May 30, 2023 City of Davenport News Conference re The Davenport Hotel Building Collapse →

June 1, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Little Mermaid,” “You Hurt My Feelings,” “The Starling Girl,” “About My Father,” and “The Machine”

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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about having missed Kandahar, but he may have dodged a bullet there; otherwise, he saw the majority of the movies discussed last week. About The Little Mermaid, one of The Deez laments the exclusion of the song “Les Poissons” from the remake, which he felt was the best song in the original. Though the film was not designed to be a “laugh riot,” as Schulz indicates, Rob Marshall’s 2023 remake did do better than either man in the studio could have foretold ($209.2 million on a $250 million budget, and expected to grow, grow, grow). Continue reading June 1, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Little Mermaid,” “You Hurt My Feelings,” “The Starling Girl,” “About My Father,” and “The Machine” →

May 25, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Fast X” and “Master Gardener”

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Mike Schulz reflects with Dave Levora (the presence of Darren Pitra not in evidence) over his nearly-thirty-year-long writing stint as a film critic for the River Cities’ Reader (“the mid-Nineties were the worst. . . Forrest Gump has not aged well at all. . . I hate Bravehart; I really hate Bravehart”) before discussing Fast X, either the tenth or the eleventh installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise — eleven if you count the Hobbs and Shaw spin-off with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. Continue reading May 25, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Fast X” and “Master Gardener” →