Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse is pleased to announce auditions their holiday children’s musical, Jingle Arrgh The Way. This new musical is the sequel to the theatre’s highly successful 2015 production of How I Became A Pirate. Auditions will be held Saturday, October 29 at 9:00 AM at the theatre, 1828 3rd Ave., Rock Island, Illinois. […]
OBB and KJ52’s The Revive Tour is coming to Fulton at 6:00 PM Saturday, October 29, at Second Reformed Church, 703 14th Ave, Fulton. Also appearing are Ryan Dail and Hannah Rose For tickets ($5), text John at 815-441-5453 The first 50 tickets sold will be getting a VIP Q and A session with the […]
Local artist Heidi Brandt is launching “Art Meets the River”, a 2017 calendar showcasing Quad City river art from 6 local artists. The project will benefit local non-profit River Action. An art exhibit featuring the calendar art will be held at the Bereskin Gallery located in Bucktown Center for the Arts, 225 E. 2nd Street […]
“Bright Lights,” a documentary from Fisher Stevens (Oscar-winning “The Cove”) and his wife Alexis Bloom played the Chicago Film Festival and was absolutely one of my favorite films of the entire festival. It is the story of screen icons Debbie Reynolds (“Singin’ in the Rain”) and Carrie Fisher (“Star Wars”) showing two generations of show […]
Beach Slang will be chatting their way into Codfish Hollow Barn in Maquoketa, Iowa, on Saturday. Their 7 p.m. show also includes opening acts Bleached, Campdogzz and Hunny. Also coming up on the Moeller Nights schedule, Mr. Little Jeans with special guests will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12 at the Village Theater […]
Country music superstar, Keith Urban, rides into the iWireless Center on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. Urban has released a total of nine studio albums and has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 19 of which have gone to #1. Special guests Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris will be joining him on […]
Fright Night in The District, a fun, safe, and free Halloween event, will be held Thursday, October 27, 2016 from 5 to 8 p.m. in downtown Rock Island. This event in made possible by presenting sponsor Modern Woodmen of America. The District and Rock Island Parks and Recreation with support from Rock Island County Project, […]
NOTE: Nationally known film critic Connie Corcoran Wilson is providing coverage of this year’s Chicago International Film Festival for QuadCities.com. British director Steve McQueen came to Chicago to receive an award on the 20th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival’s Black Perspectives program. Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the […]
NOTE: Nationally known film critic Connie Corcoran Wilson is providing coverage of this year’s Chicago International Film Festival for QuadCities.com. 93 Days Genre: Medical Thriller 124 minutes Director: Steve Guka Actors: Danny Glover, Abimbola Akintola, Zara Udofia Actor Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon”) came to Chicago to support the Nigerian film “93 Days,” a tough, taut […]
NOTE: Nationally known film critic Connie Corcoran Wilson is providing coverage of this year’s Chicago International Film Festival for QuadCities.com. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Genre: Documentary 88 minutes Director: Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) As the Cinema Chicago program said, this is a saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family who own and run the […]
