Join a community celebration to empower and bring awareness to the lives of the LGBTQ+ and its Allies! Enjoy a weekend of Live music, Drag Shows, Pyro, Burlesque and much more while visiting local merchants vendors and also check out some great organizations in the QC that will be present. Festivities will be held in Schwiebert Riverfront Park in Downtown Rock Island, IL. Admission is $7 PER DAY $12 WEEKEND PASS Get all the details here: https://quadcitiespridefestivals.com/  Read More

Taco Ockerse was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 21 July 1955. He spent many of his childhood years moving around the world, residing in the Netherlands, the United States, Singapore, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany. Taco attended the International School of Brussels, Belgium, and graduated in 1973. Afterward, he studied interior decoration and finished acting school in Hamburg. He held lead roles in numerous school productions, including You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Carousel; The Fantasticks; and Fiddler on the Roof. In 1975, he began his first professional theatrical... Read More

Looking for some positive news? QuadCities.com, the site for positive news about the Quad-Cities, has launched its new QuadCities.com app for iOS and Android! QuadCities.com is the ONLY area media app dedicated to the Quad-Cities entertainment scene and good news about the local community! Every day, the app offers QuadCities.com’s signature mix of entertainment, good news about the community, health news, our comprehensive local business directory, podcasts, restaurant and movie reviews and more! The new app has quick, easy navigation to thousands of unique pieces of local content, and users... Read More

QuadCities.com is happy to partner with Quad City Animal Welfare Center, 724 2nd W. Ave., Milan! Interested in adopting a pet? Check out our Pet of the Week every Monday! This week’s Pet of the Week is Keys! You could be just what this girl needs to be the key to her heart! Keys is a 9-month-old Pointer Mix who is looking for a home willing to give her a bit of time and lots of love to help her come out of her shell. Although timid at first, Keys is a huge love bug, that treasures nothing more than to be held and told everything is going to be okay. She would do well in a home with other dogs... Read More

Students at Davenport’s Monroe Elementary School will be unveiling a special memorial to the late Breasia Terrell at 3 p.m. today at the school. Last fall, with her mother’s blessing, students began creating a memorial to Terrell. Green Thumbers on Brady St in Davenport donated a healthy young maple tree and our friends from One Eight helped to get it into the ground. This spring, the non-profit, Project 15:12, provided funding for a beautiful stone bench engraved in Breasia’s honor and the boulders lining the perimeter. Breasia’s mother created a cross covered with pictures and we’ve... Read More

It’s National Museum Week, and local museums  have plenty of stuff going on for the whole family. There’s also a lot of art in galleries, a lot of bands in bars, and a whole lot of RHUBARB goin’ on at a local festival. Get the rundown on these events and more in your Weekend! #Weekend In 2 Minutes Other Episodes May 3, 2024 Quad Cities... Read More

IowaWORKS, will host “Opportunity Knocks Monday,” June 13  from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1801A East Kimberly Road, Davenport. The weekly hiring event  is held every Monday with a diverse group of employers each week. The lineup of employers for June 13 are:  Hotel Blackhawk – Hiring for housekeeping, maintenance, bartenders, and servers. Katun Corporation – Hiring for shippers. Bally’s Quad Cities – Hiring for IT, dealers, food service, casino host, hotel front desk, slot technician, and housekeepers. Tyson Fresh Meats – Hiring for general... Read More

Gabriella Torres is an abstract visual artist living and working in Clinton, Iowa. This summer, she is creating an outdoor public art exhibit in downtown Clinton that will run from June through September. The exhibit, designed to be a large-scale abstract forest of art, consists of 12 abstract paintings suspended in custom frames designed by local woodworker, Tim Fuller, that range in size from 4 to 10 feet. This project, partially funded by the Iowa Arts Council, aims to create an immersive art experience to promote the arts in Clinton and to attract visitors from the surrounding area. iel Please... Read More

Hey, it’s summer, and it’s time to smile and be happy the winter is behind us! And it’s also time to celebrate some of the great news happening around the area in our latest What’s The Good News? column on QuadCities.com and segment on KWQC-TV6’s “Paula Sands Live!” So, what’s the good news for June? Quad City Strikers Celebrates Presidents Cup Wins The Presidents Cup pits the best youth soccer teams in Iowa against each other for the coveted title of best in the state, and three teams from the Quad-Cities have won the trophy and are going on to compete against the tops in the Midwest... Read More

The Rock Island-Milan School District is offering breakfast and lunch at no cost to children under the age of 18 in June and July, regardless of income level or school district boundary area. Meals will be offered at Rock Island High School (1400 25th Avenue) from June 2 -29. Breakfast is from 7:30-8:30 a.m. and Lunch is from 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Meals must be consumed on site. Meals will be available at the locations below starting Monday, June 13 through Friday, July 14. Breakfast is from 9:00-9:30 a.m. and lunch is from 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Meals must be consumed... Read More