July was a pretty big month for Colin Gould of Davenport – his birthday, a big party for the Bix 7 race going by his house, a country music fest in Wisconsin, the last Steamwheelers home game, and the biggest of all, a sold-out Luke Bryan concert. It was the last event, July 10 at […]
The 55th Bix Jazz Festival celebrates its emerald anniversary with events highlighting Bix Beiderbecke’s collaborations with Jean Goldkette (1893-1962), the jazz pianist and bandleader. The 2026 festival will also recognize the festival’s new home as a program of Common Chord. The festival begins Thursday, July 30, with a session from 5 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., […]
About two and a half years after the diverse gift shop WaterMark Corners closed in downtown Moline, the space is now filled by Pop the Cork, a spacious, relaxing wine bar and store at 1500 River Drive. The upscale business is owned by Tara Rommel, native of Hanover Park, Ill., a northwest suburb of Chicago, […]
The Genesius Guild is wrapping up its 70th anniversary season with two weekends of an updated Greek comedy by Aristophanes. Performances of Women’s Festival (previously staged under its Greek name Thesmophoriazusae) are July 25 & 26 and August 1 & 2. The productions start at 7 p.m., in Lincoln Park, 1120 40th St., Rock Island, and admission is free. Women’s Festival continues […]
The Bix Beiderbecke Museum will have its grand opening celebration in the City Square Building at 112 W. 2nd St., Davenport, on Friday, July 24th from 3-5 p.m. You can see the new museum with light refreshments and live 78-rpm record spinning. The museum (across the street from its old location) opened its doors by […]
Gene Bass and his wife Barbara have the faith, and want to help others find, live and spread the good news as well. Gene, a 68-year-old ordained minister in Davenport, with his 66-year-old wife, recently started the new Eternal Freedom Church, in a commercial building at 3817 W. Locust St. (Suite 3), Davenport, near Fairmount […]
When you have intellectual property as famous and beloved as “The Wizard of Oz,” it can be a heavy lift in more ways than one to live up to tremendous audience expectations. But a flawless new production at Circa ’21 in Rock Island more than rises to the challenge – thoroughly entertaining, satisfying and makes […]
Get ready to sample some of the best local flavors in the Quad Cities as Mercado on Fifth hosts its third-annual El Sabor del Mercado (Taste of Mercado) competition this Friday, July 17, during the weekly Mercado night market, on Moline’s Fifth Avenue west of 12th Street. Presented by Modern Woodmen of America, Taste of […]
Over 400 years ago, it was standard practice in William Shakespeare’s time for boys and men to play all the roles (female and male) in his plays. For the first time in the 70-year-history of Genesius Guild, the current production puts that old tradition on stage, for one of the Bard’s most famous female roles, in […]
Last month, I had an old friend from my Dispatch/Argus days email me a review I did in 2018 of Quad City Music Guild’s “Shrek the Musical,” and its headline could easily apply to the current Guild show, “The SpongeBob Musical”: “Colorful, entertaining ‘Shrek’ is a blast and a lesson.” Both based on iconic animated […]
