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Quad Cities Community Foundation awards nearly half-million in grants to 27 nonprofits
Sean Leary Bettendorf
Twenty-seven nonprofits were awarded just over $470,000 in grants from the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Coordinated Field of Interest Grant Program. The grant program includes awards from 10...
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Princeton Review Names Western Illinois University "Best Midwestern College"
Sean Leary Education
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL -- Continuing a 17 year trend, Western Illinois University's combination of excellent academics, affordability, supportive faculty, and student services has again brought a "Best...
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Hug-A-Book At Rock Island Library This Week!
Sean Leary Books
Families can sign up to pick up a Hug-A-Book: Play kit next week filled with at-home activities to support preschool learning through play. The event kit is available at Rock Island Public Library...
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One Dollar Producer Project's Innovative Online ‘Planet’ Replicates Intimacy Of Live Theater
QuadCities.com Entertainment
David Burke is the former Entertainment Editor for the Quad City Times, and generously offered to review 'Lonely Planet' for Anthony Natarelli, and allow us to publish his review as an Arts And...
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10 Fun Things To Do Week of September 20th: Live Music, Haunted Houses, Movies and MORE!
Tess Abney Art
QuadCities.com proudly presents FUN10, a list of the top 10 things to do in the Quad Cities this week, and every week! Every Sunday, we drop a new FUN10, to give you a head start on your week and a...
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Ballet on the Lawn Take Two
Tess Abney Davenport
Ballet on the Lawn was such a success that Ballet Quad Cities has added another performance! All new choreography plus one favorite! Ballet on the Lawn Take Two will happen this Sunday Sep 20 from...
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Western Illinois University Fall 2020 Enrollment Sees Gains Over Past Decade
Sean Leary Education
MACOMB/MOLINE, IL – For the first time in 10 years, new student enrollment at Western Illinois University has increased. The number of new freshmen enrolling at Western this fall stands at...
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Rock Island Library Offering Tons Of Awesome Events During September!
Sean Leary Books
The official “spokesperson” of National Library Card Sign-up Month is Wonder Woman, who reminds everyone that libraries are wonderful. The Rock Island Public Library is also providing wonderful...
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Quad-Cities High School and College Arts Struggle, Adapt During Covid
Jonathan Turner Art
Saturday in the Arts is a comprehensive, in-depth look at a personality, issue, or trend in the Quad-Cities arts and entertainment scene, running every Saturday morning on your site for fun, free,...
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Seeking Quad-Cities Musicians! Third Round of QC Beats Starting Up in October
Jonathan Turner Davenport
The next round of QC Beats, a local online audio streaming service, is taking submissions from Quad-Cities musicians the entire month of October. Thanks to the partnership of the Davenport Public...
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Skeleton Key Art And Antiques Adding New Local Artists This Weekend
Sean Leary Art
Skeleton Key Art and Antiques of Rock Island is hosting additional Quad Cities artists this Saturday, September 19th. The family-friendly pop-up shopping will take place from 10 am - 5 pm in the...
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'Tenet' A Beautiful, Big Scale Mind Bender
Connie Corcoran Wilson Connie Wilson
Director Christopher Nolan started tinkering around with the concept of time many years ago on a much smaller budget with 2000’s “Memento.” I liked it so much that, on a visit to the Twin...
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Rock Island Two-Man Play From Home Makes Big Impact; Shows Streaming This Weekend
Jonathan Turner Entertainment
With so many people working from home and so many artists left to scramble during this interminable pandemic, it makes perfect sense that Rock Island-based actor Anthony Natarelli would do a play...
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Experience Wallessance at Skeleton Key
Tess Abney Art
Normally, the third weekend in September means you can find Skeleton Key Art and Antiques selling John VandeWalle’s sculptures at one of their favorite Quad Cities events,...
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Netflix' 'Social Dilemma' Is A Dark, Must-See Mirror Into Our World
Sean Leary Entertainment
There are very few shows you can deem “must see” anymore, although not as much due to their quality, as due to the fact that not many shows can truly be described as being targeted for a wide...
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Betcha Didn't See THIS Coming: Long Island Medium's Adler Show Postponed
Sean Leary Davenport
Wow! Who could've seen this coming? Theresa Caputo Live! The Experience, previously scheduled for Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at the Adler Theatre, has been rescheduled to Sunday, May 16, 2021 at...
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Country Superstar Joe Nichols Coming To East Moline's The Rust Belt!
Tess Abney East Moline
The Rust Belt has finally announced an ACTUAL in-person concert for this fall! Socially-distanced and outdoors, of course. According to The Rust Belt’s Facebook page this morning, country music...
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Chinese-American Writer in Bettendorf Releases Debut Novel
Jonathan Turner Bettendorf
A native of China, Xixuan Collins has lived in Iowa since 1997, but has only written in English since 2015. Her debut novel, “Flowing Water, Falling Flowers” from the Rock Island-based Midwest...
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Exclusive Reviews

Be Excellent To Each Other
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
Bill & Ted Face the Music is streaming on Prime Let’s talk about trilogies. Specifically, how unbelievably hard they are to pull off. It’s...
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A Gorilla Never Forgets
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
The One and Only Ivan is streaming on Disney+. Once upon a time, there was a mall, located in a faraway land known as Tacoma. This mall wasn’t...
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Superheavy
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
Project Power is streaming on Netflix Next to westerns, there’s no other genre that has the flexibility that superheroes have in terms of...
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Headspace
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
7500 is streaming on Amazon Prime Americans are not good at empathy. We like to think we are, but the hard truth is, we suck at it. Why? Because...
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What A Croc
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
The Pool is streaming on Shudder. There aren’t too many animals that genuinely scare me. Sure, I know that my place on the food chain isn’t...
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Love, Die, Repeat
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
Sometimes, the best-case scenario is to be wrong. We all have our blind spots, right? I was wrong about Andy Samberg. Wrong as hell. For a while...
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Blast From the Past
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
The Old Guard is streaming on Netflix So there I was, in the midst of a bout of pandemic depression. The old ways of coping were gone for the...
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Their Performance Is an Adventure
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is streaming on Netflix I like to think I’m a relatively knowledgeable guy. I read a number of...
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Critic & Son - MCU Edition
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
I’m writing this on the morning of July 2. By now, we should have been a couple of months deep into the summer movie season. I’d be lying if I...
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Brothers
Tim Brennan Movie Reviews
Da 5 Bloods is streaming on Netflix I’ve never served in the military. At the tail end of high school, recruiters from the Army bombarded my...
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Local Quad Cities Columns

10 Fun Things To Do Week of September 20th: Live Music, Haunted Houses, Movies and MORE!
Tess Abney Art
QuadCities.com proudly presents FUN10, a list of the top 10 things to do in the Quad Cities this week, and every week!...
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Quad-Cities High School and College Arts Struggle, Adapt During Covid
Jonathan Turner Art
Saturday in the Arts is a comprehensive, in-depth look at a personality, issue, or trend in the Quad-Cities arts and...
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'Tenet' A Beautiful, Big Scale Mind Bender
Connie Corcoran Wilson Connie Wilson
Director Christopher Nolan started tinkering around with the concept of time many years ago on a much smaller budget...
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Netflix' 'Social Dilemma' Is A Dark, Must-See Mirror Into Our World
Sean Leary Entertainment
There are very few shows you can deem “must see” anymore, although not as much due to their quality, as due to the...
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This Week's Featured Quad-Cities Artist Is Kevin Richard Schafer!
Sean Leary Art
Welcome to the QuadCities.com Virtual Art Gallery! In this feature, we’re spotlighting area artists and their...
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Meet Diesel, Our Pupper Of The Week!
Sean Leary Family
Got a perfect pupper? A great good boi? A darn awesome doggo? QuadCities.com wants to feature your dog in our...
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Soy Un Perdidor... It's The Video You Deserve Baby
Sean Leary Art
It's Monday. The weather over the last week has sucked. Covid and 2020 suck. And in general you're feeling like a...
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10 Fun Things To Do Week of September 13th: Big Lebowski, Ballet, Tacos and MORE!
Tess Abney Articles
QuadCities.com proudly presents FUN10, a list of the top 10 things to do in the Quad Cities this week, and every week!...
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Quad City Arts celebrates 50 years serving the community
Jonathan Turner Art
Saturday in the Arts is a comprehensive, in-depth look at a personality, issue, or trend in the Quad-Cities arts and...
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Downtown Rock Island Is Ripe For A Renaissance
Sean Leary Business
Denny and Brett Hitchcock are the most tenacious of entrepreneurs. For over 40 years, their business, Circa ’21...
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Business of the Week

Dr. Tuvi Mendel: A Shoulder To Lean On
When it comes to treating and alleviating shoulder pain, patients are finding Dr. Tuvi Mendel a shoulder to lean on. Dr.... Read More
Curious About Sci-Fi, Magic, And D&D? Check Out This Dickens Of A Shop
Looking for different dragons to slay than just the ones offering bad pickup lines? A local science-fiction and curio... Read More
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
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Food of the Week

You’ll Be Sweet On Radicle’s Strawberries And Cream Beer
You ever wonder what happened to Strawberry Shortcake? You know, Strawberry Shortcake, the cartoon ginger who has had her... Read More
Redband Coffee Is Pretty Damn Close To Perfect
It’s rare in life you find anything perfect, but you’ll come pretty damn close at Redband Coffee. I’ve been to... Read More
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
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