The Richmond Hill Players’ 2025 season continues with a thriller, “The Woman in Black,” adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill. The show will be presented Thursdays through Sundays, October 2-12 at the Barn Theatre in Geneseo. Dana Skiles, Geneseo, directs the play. The framework of this spine-tingler (penned in 1987) is unusual: a lawyer […]
Haley DeGreve has been justly recognized over the past five years for her tireless, relentless and outstanding work in suicide prevention, as founder and CEO of the Gray Matters Collective. But the 2020 Augustana College alum was still surprised recently to be named one of the JCI USA’s 2025 Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA). Held […]
Kerry Tucker of Moline fulfilled a lifelong dream last January by recording his own songs at the famed Abbey Road Studios in London. His four-song EP, “Undertow,” was released in May (available on vinyl, CD and streaming) and Tucker’s band Einstein’s Sister will perform songs from it, plus others, at the Redstone Room at Common […]
Thirty-six local nonprofits are receiving $629,000 through the Quad Cities Community Foundation’s Operations and Program Grants. The Operations and Program Grants are made possible by generous donations to Field of Interest Funds as well as the Quad Cities Community Impact Fund. The grants make up the Community Foundation’s largest competitive grantmaking cycle each year, according […]
For the second time in less than three years, Davenport’s German American Heritage Center and Museum (GAHC + M) has a new boss. Moline native Kirk Marske, 54, took over the reins of the nonprofit in mid-September, succeeding Brian Allen, who left as executive director after 26 months this past spring to become executive director […]
Moline native Hunt Harris – a successful businessman, photographer and tireless volunteer – put in countless hours and dollars in supporting Quad Cities nonprofits his entire adult life. Nearly two years after his death at 74, his family is ensuring his legacy will live on for decades. The Harris family is making a transformative, historic […]
The Figge Art Museum (225 W. 2nd St., Davenport) has a new exhibit of local interest — Kristin Quinn: Luminous Flux Paintings From the Watershed, a new exhibition featuring recent works by local artist and St. Ambrose University professor Kristin Quinn. Quinn’s work is inspired by her connection to the Mississippi River watershed and her travels across […]
The Putnam Museum’s third-annual Recycling Fashion Show, “Garbage Glam,” is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th. The event was initially inspired by the JUNKraft: Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution exhibit two years ago. The exhibit showcased JUNK, a homemade raft which used 15,000 recycled plastic bottles for flotation. With no motor or support vessel, the two-man […]
Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Moline-based Fourth Wall Films will present their Emmy-nominated “Hero Street” Documentary Film Series for two special Hispanic Heritage Month Celebrations. The filmmakers will screen four parts from their documentary series, and excerpts from their new film “The Last to Fall from Hero Street: John Muños’ Story” on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, from 1 […]
Befitting its real-life subjects, The Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline is presenting an electrifying, glowing tribute to two powerful, strong, and pioneering women with the area premiere of the Lauren Gunderson two-hander “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” — starring Jessica White as Marie Curie and Pam Mautz Cantrell as Hertha Ayrton. This is their first show on […]
