It’ time to celebrate! The Argrow’s 5th year anniversary celebration will be held on September 15th at 6pm at the Quad City Botanical Garden! This year will include a virtual speech from Mrs. Joy Reyes. Joy is the Founder and Executive Director of a social enterprise called New Hope Girls. She works with women and […]
The Grand Prix is bringing racing fun and excitement to downtown Rock Island this weekend! X Tream Rock Island Grand Prix Presents: Track Side Bash! Hosted by The Smoking Dog this week, Sept. 1-4. Join us for a weekend filled with live music, good food, cold drinks and some racing on the main down town […]
Orion Fall Festival is back! Orion Fall Festival – Orion, Illinois…THE place to be Labor Day Weekend! Proceeds go back into the community!! It’s taking place Sept. 2-4 at Central Park Bandstand in Orion. More information on the festival is here.
Looking for fun in the Quad-Cities this weekend? Check out our Weekend in 2 Minutes podcast! Rock Island Gran Prix roars in, the Blackhawk Motorcycle Show hits the fairgrounds, and there’s plenty of live music and more coming your way in this week’s Weekend!
Shocking! Stunning! Amazing! All three of those words would likely accompany any “Better Call Saul” spinoff at this point. With the “Breaking Bad” prequel wrapping things up two weeks ago, with Saul Goodman stuck in jail for 86 years (give or take a few for good behavior), it’s looking like the story of our favorite […]
The Midwest Writing Center is proud to present the winners of the Great River Writers’ Retreat from both 2021 and 2022 as they share their work and current projects for a live reading. Jo Ivy Young and Jeffrey Wolf will be sharing some of their experiences and reading from the projects they will be working […]
X Tream Rock Island Grand Prix kicks off roaring through the streets of Rock Island this weekend, and so does Track Side Bash! Hosted by The Smoking Dog this week, Sept. 1-4. Join us for a weekend filled with live music, good food, cold drinks and some racing on the main down town plaza! With […]
Circa ’21 looking for girls for their holiday shows! Circa ’21 is announcing auditions for local youth females in their holiday musicals, “White Christmas” and “Santa Claus the Musical.” Auditions will be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the theater, 1828 3rd Avenue, Rock Island. For the role of Susan in “White Christmas,” […]
For Alex Johnson, the annual fireworks display over Lake Matherville this past July felt more celebratory than ever. The village of Matherville, in northeast Mercer County, had wrapped up a variety of improvements to the lake area just in time for thousands of spectators to gather for the holiday—a project Johnson had spearheaded as one […]
The crew of the Avenger will be taking a stand against censorship as we take part in the online event, Banned Book Week, September 18-24, 2022. We will be hosting nighty book reading events throughout the week and more details will be announced soon! Follow this Facebook page for more details: https://facebook.com/events/s/banned-books-week/625802382486574/ Learn more: https://bannedbooksweek.org/ […]
