Fourth generation owner Steve Blondell has retired after 41 years and decided to close Illinois’ Blondell Plumbing after 120 years in the community. Although Steve has run the company for two decades, the history of Blondell Plumbing goes back four generations to 1902. It was originally founded as Swanson Plumbing by Victor Swanson, Steve’s great-grandfather. […]
Western Illinois University Quad Cities will host the fourth annual Get Lit Writing Contest & Event from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at the Moline campus. This event brings area high school students to campus to feature their poems, short stories, screen plays, images and more. The event will also feature thematic categories such […]
It’s Sunday, and QuadCities.com proudly presents Fun10, a list of the top 10 things to do in the Quad Cities this week, and every week! Every Sunday, we drop a new Fun10, to give you a head start on your week and a heads up on what’s going on over the coming seven days. Check […]
Chicago is coming to the TaxSlayer Center in Moline on April 19! Hailed as one of the “most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era,” by former President Bill Clinton, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, came in as the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine’s […]
Playcrafters Barn Theatre is excited to welcome the incredibly funny AND incredibly talented G.I.T. Improv troupe to their stage on April 23rd at 7 PM as they will be helping the community theatre raise money for their “Raise the Roof” campaign! Playcrafters’ roof began failing seriously while we shut down in 2020. It needs to […]
Applications for our last filmmaking project – Scripted Short Films presented by Sony Pictures – are open now through April 15th and we would love for your youth to join us! Our last filmmaking project of the year is a teen favorite so we have included a program email below that you can easily forward […]
Ballet Quad Cities is unspooling a classic Lewis Carroll tale in dance, with “Alice in Wonderland” presented today, Saturday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Adler, 136 E. 3rd St., Davenport. Tickets are $25 for adults, $19 for students and seniors, and $15 for children 12 and under, available HERE. Ballet […]
Quad City Music Guild will present the area premier of Disaster! The Musical through April 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 […]
The Black Box Theatre located in downtown Moline presents the thriller, Veronica’s Room by Ira Levin, this weekend. “Most people know Ira Levin for ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Veronica’s Room’ is just as thrilling,” said director Lora Adams. The synopsis for the play states “This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary’s Baby explores the […]
We are extremely excited for our inaugural Storm The Pub crawl fundraising event to support the Storm players beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday! This is also an awesome opportunity to support our local businesses. Check in is at the University Club, and from there you will Storm the Pubs with your favorite peeps at your […]
