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It’s Hug-A-Book Dance Party Time!
Dance your way to early learning with free fun for children five and under and their families at the Rock Island Public Library! Experience the Hug-A-Book Dance Party at the Rock Island Downtown...
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Warm Up at Cool Beanz’ Hot Chocolate Bar
There’s no better way to stay warm during these cold winter days, than with a cup of hot chocolate in your hands. Build your own gourmet hot chocolate at Cool Beanz Coffeehouse’s (1325 30th...
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Circa’s ‘Kinky Boots’ A Fabulous Early Contender For Show Of The Year
Kinky Boots Through March 14 Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, 1726 3rd Ave., Rock Island (309) 786-7733, ext. 2 www.circa21.com We’re barely past two weeks into 2020 and...
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Things Are Getting Tasty in LeClaire This Weekend
It’s no secret that a trip to LeClaire can be a very tasty experience. Here is your chance to sample it all! Taste of LeClaire returns to Cody Road this Saturday Jan 1! From 1 – 4 p.m. enjoy...
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Want To Hear Your Favorite Radio Shows Back On The Air?
It’s rare in life that you get a do-over, but this could be one of those opportunities for recently fired local radio personalities and the fans of their shows. According to the Des Moines...
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Penguin Parade Waddles Into Botanical Center
Go on a Penguin Parade at the Quad City Botanical Center (2525 4th Avenue Rock Island) this Saturday Jan 8 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Penguin Parade is a family read-in at the Botanical Center in...
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Rock Island Art Guild Exhibit Hits Figge This Weekend
The Rock Island Art Guild, a volunteer-run organization founded in 1955, promotes and fosters the appreciation of the visual arts in the Quad Cities. Beginning Saturday, the Guild’s 41st juried...
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QC Hashers Announce 10th Annual Red Dress Run
The Quad City Hash House Harriers - Dirty Pirate Chapter (or QCH3), a local group that is part of the loosely affiliated international organization, the Hash House Harriers, and a self-described...
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Icestravaganza 2020 Goes Extraterrestrial
If you are looking for a free family-friendly event or a night out with friends this weekend, then make plans to head to Downtown Davenport! Icestravaganza returns for the 8th year this Saturday...
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Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back!
The legendary rocker, Alice Cooper, will bring his “Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back” tour to the Adler Theatre featuring special guest Lita Ford on Wednesday Apr 8 at 8 p.m. Alice Cooper pioneered a...
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Alan, Levora, McFadden and Evans Let Go At Mix, WOC, KISS
Jim Fisher’s firing from WOC-AM after 40 years may be the most shocking and resonant layoff by iHeart Radio Quad-Cities, but it’s not the only one. A number of other well-known and popular on-air...
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Jim Fisher Let Go After 40 Years At WOC-AM
After 60 years in broadcasting, 40 in the Quad-Cities, longtime afternoon radio host Jim Fisher has been let go by WOC-AM1420, according to various posts on social media, including one by Fisher’s...
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Coco Comes to Life at Adler Theatre
Take a trip to the Land of the Dead and experience Disney and Pixar’s Coco in Concert, at the Adler Theatre (136 E 3rd Street Davenport) this Saturday Jan 18 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Follow the...
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Midwest Writing Center Offers Free Young Emerging Writers Studio Starting January 16
What: Young Emerging Writers Studio When: Third Thursdays of each month (Jan. 16, Feb. 20, March 19, April 16, May 21), 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Where: Midwest Writing Center (ground floor of RIPL, 401...
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Matchbox Twenty and The Wallflowers Making Tour Stop in the Quad Cities
Matchbox Twenty, the multi-platinum, hit-making pop rock band, announced today a 50+ date summer tour. Produced by Live Nation, “Matchbox Twenty 2020”, will also feature special guest The...
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Cinch World’s Toughest Rodeo Heads Back to TaxSlayer Center
Let’s rodeo, Quad Cities! Cinch World’s Toughest Rodeo returns to the TaxSlayer Center (1201 River Dr. Moline) this Friday Jan 17 and Saturday Jan 18 at 7:30 p.m., both nights. Saddle up...
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Kinky Boots Steps Into Circa ‘21
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has almost arrived! That’s right, Kinky Boots is back in the Quad Cities! Preview Performances of six-time Tony Award Winner, Kinky Boots, will take place...
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Figge’s Clay for Kids Kicks Off Soon
Kids ages 5 and up are invited to come to the Figge studios for some creative clay time! Clay for Kids, offered every second Tuesday of them month, will begin this Tuesday Jan 14 from 6 – 8 p.m....
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Exclusive Reviews

The Endless Trench
We never really reckoned with World War I, not in any meaningful sense. For a while there it was called The War to End All Wars, despite the fact...
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Shifting The Lens
There are two incontrovertible facts: the first is that Louisa May Alcott was a fascinating human being. Her parents were Transcendentalists. She...
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Pressure Drop
As many of us do, the arrival of the year’s end is a time for me to look back. If I were to sum it up, 2019 was all about surprise. Putting aside...
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The Force Ricochets
In the beginning, there was the Word...or a bunch of words, anyway. They began with, “It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from...
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A Death Without a Body
If you’re currently married or you were ever married, I’ve got news for you: your marriage is insane. I hate to be the one to tell you, but there...
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The Doughnut Hole
Making a movie is hard. Making a good movie? That’s really hard. Making a good mystery? These days that appears to be damn near impossible, given...
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The Man Who Painted Houses
What is cinema? Is cinema only cinema when you’re watching it in a movie theater? While their methods have changed throughout the years, ultimately...
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Go Like Hell
One of the keenest pleasures found in moviegoing is that of competence porn. A great comedy can flood your brain with endorphins, a solid horror...
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Eat The Rich
“Someday, even the experts will figure out, that crime is not caused by rap music...or even my music, but by a power structure of self-absorbed...
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This Franchise is Terminated
Sometimes it feels like franchises never end. There’s a bunch of films in the Fast and Furious series, the James Bond movies have been trucking...
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Local Quad Cities Columns

WOC’s Jim Fisher Deserved A Better Farewell
Sean Leary
I was never a big fan of Jim Fisher’s show. I know him personally, but not very well. I was a guest on his show a...
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What’s The Good News For January, Quad-Cities?
Sean Leary
It’s a new year and a new decade, and everyone is making resolutions for a more positive life, and we at...
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What’s The Good News, Quad-Cities?
Sean Leary
With the doldrums of winter weather upon us, there’s a need now more than ever for some journalistic sunshine in our...
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QCScene Gets Froggy in Downtown East Moline
Tess Abney
A new craft beer festival celebrated their inaugural debut today and successfully jumped ahead in all the...
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Festival Of Trees Did The Right Thing By Making Fest Apolitical Again
Sean Leary
For the past few months, my Iowa friends have been deeply envious of my Illinois address. Not because of the...
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Painting The Ice For Veterans With The Quad City Storm!
Sean Leary
The Quad City Storm, your local hockey squad, is honoring veterans this weekend with their Salute To Veterans game...
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Teen Paranormal Graphic Novel Series, 'Exorcising Ghosts' Scaring Up Fans
Connie Corcoran Wilson
A teenager who can see the worlds of demons and the paranormal around us that others cannot is the protagonist of Sean...
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Happy Joe Was A Legend Who Lived Up To His Name
Sean Leary
He really did live up to his name, and lived a life of which anyone could be proud, and honored to follow. Happy Joe...
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Quad City Storm Storm Quad-Cities With Awesome Opening Weekend!
Sean Leary
The Quad City Storm stormed back onto the ice at TaxSlayer Center Friday and Saturday with two hard-fought opening...
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What’s The Good News For October?
Sean Leary
It’s the beginning of the witching season, as Halloween is just around the corner, but there are a lot of treats...
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Business of the Week

Zeke’s Offers Warm Island Fare For Cold Temps
Just off the foreboding paths of Harrison Street, in the wild jungles of a college-student populated strip, and in the midst... Read More
It's Game On For Land of Oz!
Mike Rankins is putting the pep back in Pac Man, the thrills into Evel Knievel’s pinball machine and the spring back in... Read More
Shumaker Guitar Works Offers One-Of-A-Kind Guitars For Unique Musicians
If you’re looking for a custom guitar unique as your playing style, you don’t need to fret those frets, just pick... Read More
Get Your Kickins At Rustic Pickins!
You’ll find quaint, cute, fun and funky products more folksy than a dropped “g” at Rustic Pickin’s, a new store that... Read More
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Food of the Week

You Need A Hot Potato On A Cold Day
Can you believe this crap? Tons of snow, record cold, ice and sludge and those stalagmites of coal-colored gunk behind... Read More
Bent River’s Raspberry Brings Summer To Fruition
Well, from the looks of things, between the stifling humidity, the oppressive sun between monsoons, and the constant... Read More
Take a Trip to Paradise at Zeke’s Island Café
Just off the foreboding paths of Harrison Street, in the wild jungles of a college-student populated strip, and in the midst... Read More
Sal Vitale's Offers Delicious Authentic Italian Food
There’s a robust family atmosphere that fills Sal Vitale’s and Sons, with the same richness and flavor of their... Read More
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