The Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) continues its 2025–26 Masterworks season with another world premiere from a female composer this weekend. Masterworks V: Beethoven Second Symphony – a dynamic program that highlights rhythmic vitality, artistic innovation, and the power of personal storytelling through music – will be presented Saturday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the […]
The seventh-annual QC Environmental Film Series (QCEFS) ended on a high note Sunday, March 1, at a crowded Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport. After the screening of the seventh documentary shown this year (since January, including one double feature), “Reef Builders” (2025), series leaders Kristin Bergren and Kathy Wine explained that they started a new […]
Seeing the tremendously intense, uncomfortable, brutal and cathartic production of “God of Carnage” made me realize again how much I’ve missed the now-defunct QC Theatre Workshop in Davenport. The original 2009 Broadway version of Yasmina Reza’s bitter, black comedy — with the star-studded cast Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden – won […]
The 2026 season at Playcrafters Barn Theatre (4950 35th Ave., Moline) kicks off this weekend and next with the bitter, black comedy “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza, hailed by Variety as “elegant, acerbic, and entertainingly fueled on pure bile.” When a playground fight between two boys leaves one injured, their parents agree to meet […]
The Cambridge Academic Foundation invites the community to an evening of suspense, laughter, and intrigue at “Murder at the Mall II: The Class Reunion,” a murder mystery comedy written by Tom Akers. The event will take place Saturday, Feb. 28th at Midland Golf Club in Kewanee, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. and the show […]
I wanted very much to enjoy “word play,” a world premiere from the incredibly prolific playwright, Alex Richardson, and his Barely There Theatre. Unfortunately, I really didn’t, I’m sorry. Despite 11 years of revisions, from when Richardson first tackled his first of many plays, “word play” still feels unfinished, a random collection of pretty brief […]
February has been kind of a busy month for Alex Richardson. The prolific playwright is back with his Barely There Theatre to present another world premiere (his second in less than a month) at the Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline. “word play” is a new play from Richardson, and first-time director Emma Wahlmann, featuring […]
Hope and beauty triumphed over evil and hatred in a special program Tuesday night at the Putnam Museum and Science Center, Davenport. The free event kicked off a worldwide traveling exhibit of violins now in the Quad Cities, which reflects the power of music to heal, inspire and teach. Violins of Hope Iowa will bring […]
There are many Mexican restaurants throughout the Quad Cities, but Corazon Latino is decidedly not one of them. The new bar and restaurant at 1514 5th Ave., Moline, in fact, is unlike any eatery in the QC, in more ways than one. Fresh, authentic cuisine from Latin America combines with a vibrant, colorful atmosphere (the […]
It’s fitting that a Memorial Jam concert for Greg Hipskind will be held Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb. 14 at The Rust Belt in East Moline, at 7 p.m. That’s because the beloved drummer, teacher, and director of QC Rock Academy – who died unexpectedly on Jan. 3 – had a huge heart, and the love […]
