Make plans to join Tour de Brew QC, a 40 mile charity bike ride along the Mississippi Trails in the Quad Cities. Saturday, April 30,2022, is the day to come join the Crew and enjoy a brew or two as hundreds ride bikes, sing songs, and raise money for cancer! 2022 marks their 8th Year of hosting Tour de Brew QC and they have an amazing lineup of ride stops and great sponsors who have come together to help them make a difference. Get Registered today! The event starts with a pre-party kick off the weekend on Friday, April 29 at Icons Martini bar in Rock Island. Then official riding will... Read More

The program opens with Johann Strauss Jr.’s charming waltz Voices of Spring. Roberto Díaz returns to the Quad Cities to perform Jennifer Higdon’s Grammy® Award-winning Viola Concerto; this unrelenting showpiece was written specifically for Díaz. Experience the lyricism and power of Samuel Barber’s First Symphony before we close the season with Ottorino Respighi’s beloved Pines of Rome, depicting four events witnessed by the centuries-old trees in full orchestral color. Program: Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410 “Voices of Spring”, Johann Strauss Jr. Viola Concerto, Jennifer Higdon Symphony... Read More

Tristan and Savannah recently took a family vacation to Walt Disney World! Tune in for their trip report, their tip and tricks, their rock star Rise of the Resistance hack and learn how they got stuck on the same attraction not once but twice! Other Episodes April 18, 2024 Top 5 Moments in Disney History (Episode 116) Episode 116: Top 5 Moments... Read More

Quad City will present the area premier of Disaster! The Musical April 1-10! It’s 1979 and New York’s hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino and discotheque.  Also attending is a faded disco star, a sexy nightclub singer with her eleven-year-old twins, a disaster expert, a feminist reporter, an older couple with a secret, a pair of young guys who are looking for ladies, an untrustworthy businessman and a nun with a gambling addiction.  What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters such as earthquakes,... Read More

Playcrafters Barn Theatre will be holding auditions for the darkly comic Dog Sees God April 2 and April 3. Dog Sees God By Bert Royal Directed by Jay Megan Sushka Audition Times: April 2nd 2-4 PM April 3rd 4-6 PM Performance Dates: June 3-5, June 10-12 Rehearsals will begin in May and will be scheduled based on actors’ availability. Actors should come prepared to cold-read from the script. A dark comedic coming-of-age tale surrounding a cast of familiar characters. The Peanuts gang are all in high school and, with the death of his beloved beagle, C.B finds himself tackling adult topics. As... Read More

Here are my picks for the 2022 Academy Awards! Play along on Sunday night by using this ballot! Happy Oscar Sunday, everyone!  Read More

The Mockingbird on Main is back with another new show – Murder at Mistwell Manor – in Downtown Davenport! 2 dead bodies. 3 suspects. 1 detective. And everyone has a motive. What seems like an ordinary paint by numbers murder mystery becomes much more with each new revelation. Directed by Tristan Tapscott, this new murder mystery features Doug Kutzli (Clinton Showboat’s Bridges of Madison County) Eric Teeter (Playcrafters’ Princeton’s Rage), Savanna Bay Strandin (Circa ‘21’s Beehive) and Jeremy Littlejohn (Circa ‘21’s Elf). Murder at Mistwell Manor will play the Downtown... Read More

Sean and Tristan talk Walt Disney and his connection to the Midwest! Other Episodes April 18, 2024 Top 5 Moments in Disney History (Episode 116) Episode 116: Top 5 Moments in Disney History (Tristan knows he said the wrong date - he knows it’s 1928! Don’t come at him!) Listen... ... Read More

Scott Community College, with the generosity of the Figge Art Museum, will host a screening of the award-winning film, Road to Perdition (2002), starring Tom Hanks on March 22, 2022, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd Street, in Davenport. The film screening will begin at 4 p.m. with the author question and answer panel to follow. Following the film will be an author question and answer panel with Max Allan Collins, author of the graphic novel, Barbara Collins, critically acclaimed author and short story writer, and Matthew Clemens, author and frequent collaborator of Max Allan Collins. This event... Read More

Check out The Nines – a mixed media art event – this Friday at DeSoto Pottery Studio in Rock Island! Check out all the details here: DESOTO POTTERY STUDIO PRESENT THE NINES  Read More