Art students from eight area colleges and universities will have their work displayed in the Figge Art Museum’s second-floor Katz Gallery beginning Saturday, Jan. 30 for the 11th annual College Invitational exhibit. Art professors from Augustana College, Black Hawk College, Clinton Community College, Knox College, Monmouth College, Scott Community College, St. Ambrose University, and Western Illinois University selected the top works from their school for inclusion. The exhibition will feature the works of 42 student artists working in a variety of techniques — including drawing, painting,... Read More

Do you have some cool talents you’d like to show off? Head on over to the Varieties Nightclub open stage at 10:30 p.m. Thursdays at 822 W. 2nd St., Davenport. Do you have a talent? Looking for a place to show your talent? Here is your chance as performers will compete against each other to win a paid spot in one of our shows! Sign up the day of by 10:00 p.m. Varieties is an LGBTQ+ Nightclub offering the QC’s best Drag Queen/King shows, EDM shows, Burlesque, and performances every Friday and Saturday @ 10:30 pm. Serving great drinks at great prices! Available to rent for any special... Read More

Yeah, this stinks, doesn’t it? You wake up, and your driveway is buried under a ton of snow, your sidewalks are completely covered, it’s a mess. Do YOU want to go out and shovel all that stuff? If not, you might want to check into a local business to help you out. Well, QuadCities.com is here to help. HERE you can click on and find a great list of locally-owned businesses that can help dig you out from this “winter wonderland.” Give them a call, and have a HAPPY and snowshovel free new year!  Read More

Cure the winter blues and join us for a virtual book discussion on Wednesday, January 27th at 6:30 pm. We will be discussing “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. Copies of the book are available at our Eastern Avenue curbside location for patrons to borrow for this book club. This program will meet virtually using GoToMeeting. No registration is required. Information about how to join is listed below. ‘The Library Book’ by Susan Orlean book discussion Wed, Jan 27, 2021 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM (CST) Join from your computer, tablet, or smartphone: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/402755917 You... Read More

Davenport West High School is helping lead the way in providing future health care workers to fight national crises like the coronavirus pandemic. Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) shows that the number of people in the U.S. entering medical school in 2020 reached a two-decade high, with a total of 22,239 enrolled students. The AAMC is a not-for-profit association that leads and serves the academic medicine community. At West High School – 3505 W. Locust St., in Davenport – the student Falcons are flying high to meet the massive medical challenge presented by the... Read More

The Putnam’s next featured exhibit is for the birds. It explores bird species through themes of extinction and the role of citizen science to preserve these important members of the animal kingdom. Birds and You is an original exhibit at the Putnam Museum & Science Center (1717 W. 12th St., Davenport), set to open Saturday, Feb. 6. The exhibit will be included with general admission and remain open through mid-2021 at the Putnam, a Smithsonian Affiliate museum. The exhibit was inspired by the extraordinary decline of the bird population in North America – a 29% decline, or a loss of... Read More

Encourage the love of reading with virtual storytimes with the Davenport Library on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/davenportlibrary! Baby Storytime – Tuesdays at 10:00 am – Join us on Facebook Live for a special Storytime presentation developed for your 0-12-month-old! Introduce your baby to our favorite stories, rhymes, and fingerplays as you settle in and enjoy some fun-filled one-on-one time. Storytime Live! – Wednesdays at 10:00 am – Join the Library’s Youth Services Department on Facebook Live for some storytime fun! We’ll read stories, sing songs, share... Read More

Believe it or not, the classic Bucktown building in downtown Davenport was once a pretty wild and rowdy place. You can learn more about it during a new Zoom program taking place at 6 p.m. Monday, called Davenport’s Bucktown in 1903: “Worst Town in America.” A 1903 editorial in the Chicago Record-Herald claimed our very own Davenport swiped New York City’s title as the “Worst Town in America.” Join author Jonathan Turner, our very own arts and entertainment reporter for QuadCities.com, for a look at what earned Bucktown such a dubious honor. Jonathan literally... Read More

The Davenport Library offers a variety of virtual book clubs for adults covering a wide range of interests. Join us for one (or more!) of these engaging clubs! Shorts & Sweets – Second Mondays at 10:00 am – Discuss a new short story every month with a variety of different authors both current and classics. For more information, visit http://bit.ly/dpl-shortsandsweets West End Book Club – Second Tuesdays at 6:30 pm – The West End Book Club reads a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. Books are available at the drive-up window at the Fairmount Library. At this time, our meetings... Read More

Believe in Bigfoot? The Abominable Snowman (woman? person?)? Yetis??? They all exist! Just ask the folks behind The Great Yeti Hunt, taking place starting at midnight Monday and running through the day at Johnson County Reservation. There’s a yeti on the move, and she’s roaming through Johnson County Conservation parks! Help us track her over the next eight weeks. Every two weeks, the yeti will show up somewhere new – but in classic yeti style, she only roams in the most wild places – places with few visitors and few trails. Anyone tracking her should be comfortable navigating... Read More