Earlier this month — for the first time in nearly four decades — Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 25 hosted some of the trade’s top apprentices from across the state of Illinois during the 2019 Apprentice Contest. Organized by the Committee On Training and Education (COTE), 32 apprentices representing 14 unions competed in the categories […]
Tripmaster Monkey, one of the most commercially and creatively successful bands in Quad-Cities music history, has reunited to begin recording a new album, and has begun a kickstarter campaign to get fans involved in the process and raise money for the project. The group — guitarist and singer Jamie Toal, singer Chris Bernat, drummer Marty […]
The Speakeasy, in downtown Rock Island, has been home to popular improv comedy shows in the Quad Cities for over 25 years! For 20 years it was the home of ComedySportz and, after that, The Blacklist and The Open Source. Through the years few improv comedy shows have been more popular then SHOTS ‘N’ GIGGLES! First […]
The Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline will present the musical “The Last Five Years,” opening March 28. The Drama Desk winner is an intimate musical about two twentysomething New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, with the woman (Cathy) telling her story backwards, while the man (Jamie) […]
Quad City Arts presents the 42nd Annual High School Art Invitational at Quad City Arts Gallery in Rock Island, from March 30-May 2. The exhibition is open to the public, and includes a reception and award ceremony on Thursday, April 4th from 6:30-8:30 p.m. This exhibition features exemplary works of art selected by each high school art […]
Rock Island Public Library has events for all ages at its various branches throughout the rest of 2019! Check out their full rundown of cool stuff going on: Southwest Craft Nights (open to all, registration needed.) 6:00 pm, 2nd Tuesday of each month, Rock Island Southwest Library, 9010 Ridgewood Road. Free, materials supplied. Register online […]
From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. Now, the band will bring that energy to the Adler Theater at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19. Tickets go on sale at […]
One of the hottest indie bands of the last decade, The Faint, will be performing in the Codfish Hollow barn in Maquoqueta with Choir Boy and Closeness Sunday, May 26th! Tickets to this monster show go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. at www.codfishhollowbarnstormers.com
Be whisked away to the land of fairy tales on March 30 when Ballet Quad Cities and Orchestra Iowa perform to the music of Prokofiev, Ravel, and more. You will be entertained by Peter and the Wolf, Belle and her beast; Aurora, Tom Thumb and more. Mindy Heusel host of the popular afternoon show, Perspective on WVIK, […]
Legendary music icons, THREE DOG NIGHT, will play the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets ($88, $74, $49, $38) will go on sale Friday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the Adler Theatre Box Office (136 E. 3rdSt.), online at Ticketmaster.com, and by phone at 800-745-3000. THREE DOG NIGHT, celebrating nearly […]
