If you are a piano player or simply a piano fan, you will be in heaven the next two days. The Iowa Music Teachers Association (IMTA) State Conference is being hosted this year by the music department of St. Ambrose University, and it has special events open to the public Sunday, June 8 and Monday, […]
The Quad Cities’ public TV and public radio stations are joining the chorus of public media nationwide protesting planned cuts to federal funding. The White House has submitted a formal request to Congress to eliminate $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports more than 1,500 public media stations across […]
A stacked cast, a veteran music director, a first-time venue director, a beloved score and an eye-popping panoply of colors is ready to bring a new “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” to blazing life at Quad City Music Guild, Moline. The Biblical story (based on the Book of Genesis) was first set to music […]
It’s taken 66 million years (or really, since 1867), but the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport expects to be the first Iowa museum to display a complete dinosaur skeleton in 2027. During the Putnam’s recent annual Dino Days event, president/CEO Cindy Diehl Yang announced the ambitious plan to bring an adult Triceratops skeleton […]
The Pulling Focus Film Festival returns for its third year this weekend, kicking off with a Thursday night opening reception at The Last Picture House, downtown Davenport. In 2023, Azubuike African American Council for the Arts launched the inaugural year of the Pulling Focus Film Festival, an annual celebration of film and culture that focuses […]
The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free outdoor productions with the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex this weekend. Performances are June 7, 8, 14, and 15 at 7 p.m. in Lincoln Park, 1120 40th St., Rock Island. Admission to all Genesius Guild performances is free. Oedipus Rex is perhaps the best-known surviving ancient […]
The consistently first-class Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline continues to produce shows that no other venue does in the Quad Cities, and the latest is the Tony-winning “Fun Home,” which will get its regional premiere here May 30 to June 14. The Black Box (1623 5th Ave., Moline – full disclosure: I am playing […]
The Bix Museum in downtown Davenport is getting ready for its big move across 2nd Street, to a new home in the City Square Building at 112 W. 2nd St., Davenport. The Bix Museum will be closing their doors in the Redstone building (131 W. 2nd St.) on June 6th to begin deconstructing the exhibits. […]
Alleys have long been known as hidden, dark, out-of-the-way places, not to be advertised. But not according to the Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce. In its second major QC alley transformation in the past year, now the chamber’s Downtown Davenport Partnership (DDP) will unveil a major placemaking enhancement to the Emerson Place alley Thursday afternoon […]
Performing for a musical is always an intense, emotional, bonding experience. Since February, I’ve had the pleasure of being part of three outstanding community theater shows — providing piano accompaniment first for Music Guild’s “Escape to Margaritaville” (done the first two weekends of April), and currently Black Box Theatre’s “Fun Home” (to run May 30 […]
