Rock Island Park Board is offering various basketball clinics and leagues this winter season! Playing basketball is an enjoyable sport that suits many skill levels and ages, owing to its worldwide popularity. Playing a team sport, such as basketball, can provide unique physical and mental benefits. Research found that playing a team-based sport has a positive effect on bone strength.   Check out the upcoming youth basketball programs: Basketball Clinic w/ Coach Tolivar (1st – 4th grade) Three day clinic: Saturdays 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 Basketball Skills & Drills (PreK – Kindergarten) Three... Read More

Join us Wednesday, November 3rd at 6:00 pm for a presentation by author William Hampes. When people think of television and film Westerns what tends to come to mind are the great feats of physical bravery of the heroes. However, as pointed out in Hampes’ book, “Cowboy Courage: Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery,” many of these Westerns also portray examples of moral and psychological courage, often by ordinary individuals. The presentation will discuss how these films and television programs focus on finding the moral and psychological courage to love, to redeem oneself for failures,... Read More

Saturday the Quad City Storm will drop the puck early at 6:00 at Moline’s TaxSlayer Center so that after the game all the kids in attendance can come out on the ice and trick or treat with the players! Wear your costumes and get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3bj3oRv  Read More

Looking for something fun to do? Every week, listen to our Weekend in 2 Minutes podcast, giving you a rundown of some of the fun stuff going on in and around the Quad-Cities! It’s Halloween weekend, and we’ve got plenty of holiday events in the latest Weekend in 2 Minutes! Everything from haunted houses to a dog costume contest to Boo at the Zoo to trick or treating to parades to Rocky Horror and more! Get all the details with your Weekend in 2 Minutes (that’s a little longer than two minutes!) Listen HERE!  Read More

Outback Presents is pleased to announce comedian Leanne Morgan‘s first national headlining tour will continue across the United States in 2022. The rising star revealed The Big Panty Tour will bring her hit stand-up comedy routine to the masses in 37 new cities, which includes a stop at the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. Reserved seat tickets will go on sale this Friday, October 29, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. online at Ticketmaster.com and in person at the Adler Theatre Box Office (136 E 3rd St.). Ticket prices are $29.75, $39.75 and $49.75. “I’ll be coming... Read More

Scotty McCreery will be performing at Davenport’s Rhythm City Casino on Saturday night! More information can be found here: https://www.rhythmcitycasino.com/…/mar/ScottyMcCreery.html  Read More

That sweet transvestite is back at the Circa ’21 Speakeasy, 1828 3rd Ave., Rock Island, this October with his motley crew! On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean cut kids, Brad Majors and his fiancée Janet Weiss, get caught in a storm and end up at the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank’n’furter, who is in the midst of one of his maniacal experiments! WARNING: The Rocky Horror Show is not recommended for the easily offended. This show deals with MATURE subject matters in an IMMATURE way!! If sex, drugs, rock & roll, adultery, cross-dressing, aliens, homosexuality... Read More

This weekend the Storm plays host to the Vermillion County Bobcats Friday and Saturday at the TaxSlayer Center. Friday is Trick or Treat on the Ice Night presented by iHeart Media and the puck will drop an hour early at 6:10. Kids are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes to the games and will be allowed to come down on to the ice postgame to trick or treat with Storm players. Sunday is the Storm’s first Pucks and Paws game of the season and will feature a Halloween dog costume contest. The game starts at 2:10 and dog tickets are free when purchased at the box office. Fans can purchase tickets... Read More

Rock Island, Illinois musician Jeff Konrad has remixed a classic track from Quad-Cities band Pitch Black Manor: Pitch Black Manor – Over and Over Again (Jeff Konrad Remix): Direct Download: 16-BIT WAV   Available now   Length: 2:35 FCC Clean Joshua Bentley, Chad Fifer, and Lyle Erickson gave birth to Pitch Black Manor (Quad Cities first Goth Rock band) over 25 years ago in East Moline, IL. In 2020 Pitch Black Manor returned with “Monster Classics” and in 2021 delivered “Night Creeps”. Bentley approached fellow Quad Cities producer/musician Jeff... Read More

The Artsy Bookworm, 1319 30th St, Rock Island, is accepting any and all community members to bring their decorated pumpkins for a contest! Community vote will determine the winners on Nov. 1, 2021. First place will win a $50 gift card to The Artsy Bookworm, second place will win a $25 gift card. Anyone can enter and entrance is free, just make sure staff know which pumpkin is yours and that we have your contact information! For more info, see: facebook.com/bookwormqc  Read More