April 3rd, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Manscape Burlesque Quad-Cities will be holding a dance party April 23 at the Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island! Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8! Come and dance with the Sexy Peeps from Manscape Burlesque in this All-New Show Call (309) 786 7733 ext 2 for tickets!
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April 3rd, 2021
Art
Saturday in the Arts is a weekly feature covering a trend, subject, event or personality of local interest. It runs every Saturday morning on your site for the best entertainment and arts coverage in the area, QuadCities.com! Especially after this past year, we could all use more joy, color, light and life in our lives, […]
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April 3rd, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
From Eggstravaganzas to citywide egg hunts, from Easter bunny sightings to visits with baby animals, if you’re looking for fun stuff to do with your family to celebrate Easter festivities this weekend, we’ve got you covered. It’s Easter weekend, and of course there are plenty of egg hunts for you and your little ones to […]
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April 2nd, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
The 49th annual Western Illinois University Performance Tested Bull Sale was held in mid-March at Lowderman’s Auction Center in Macomb. The sale helps breeders, producers and cattlemen to identify important performance traits, profit-making indicators and value-added genetic markers. In October, the bulls arrived at WIU as weaned calves from 17 consignors from Illinois, Wisconsin and […]
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April 2nd, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Still got no plans for this weekend? Looking for something to do? Want to explore your options? We’ve got the show for you — our podcast, Weekend in 2 Minutes, runs every Thursday on QuadCities.com, offering a look around the area and talking about what’s going on! Listen to it at the link below, on […]
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April 2nd, 2021
Art
Quad City Arts on Friday announced the winners of the 44th Annual High School Art Invitational. It presented $6,000 in cash prizes and scholarships to area high school students and teachers for excellence in fine art. The awards are as follows: Senior Scholarship sponsored by Morency Family Foundation and Quad City Arts’ board members: Sophia […]
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April 1st, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Stephanie Acri apparently has a very short memory. It was just four years ago, that previous Moline mayor Scott Raes was set to pretty much cruise to re-election. He’d done a pretty good job as mayor, voters seemed to like him, and there didn’t seem to be much reason to switch leadership for the city. […]
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April 1st, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Join Davenport Public Library in learning how to practically care for and preserve materials at home with tips and tricks from the staff of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center. Each workshop will showcase different techniques and share applicable knowledge on creating tools and demonstrating methods of preservation for photographs, letters, books, and more. In this […]
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April 1st, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Being a full-time professional musician is hard enough. The Covid pandemic has made that a million times harder, as Davenport’s Lojo Russo learned over the past year. An ovarian cancer survivor, the popular singer-songwriter (unlike many Q-C bands and musicians) decided not to perform public gigs indoors. For St. Patrick’s Day this year, Russo did […]
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April 1st, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Two icons of the Quad-Cities indie scene celebrate birthdays today, as Moline’s CoOp Records and Rock Island’s Rozz Tox are both blowing out the candles (Rozz Tox’ are probably on cupcakes), and although they’re both suffused with a spirit of fun, their success is serious testament to hard work and an example of how to […]
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