From delicious food to fun Grandstand shows to the free entertainment, rides, and family fun, there’s something for everyone to enjoy at Mississippi Valley Fair, starting Tuesday and running through Sunday at the Mississippi Fairgrounds, 2815 W. Locust Street, Davenport, Iowa. It’s one of the most attended and memorable summer traditions in the Quad-Cities, so […]
Don’t throw the arts organization out with the (alleged) pedophile. In recent days, the arrest of a man for having child sex abuse material has been blasted across local media, along with his previous designation as interim director of Quad City Arts. If the man is guilty of these crimes, he certainly deserves the condemnation. […]
Science is constantly changing. That’s part of it being science. You have a theory, you test it, your peers test it, it goes through what should be a rigorous process, and only then is it considered a fact… at least until it’s not, if further testing or evidence is discovered down the line to change […]
Gene Bass and his wife Barbara have the faith, and want to help others find, live and spread the good news as well. Gene, a 68-year-old ordained minister in Davenport, with his 66-year-old wife, recently started the new Eternal Freedom Church, in a commercial building at 3817 W. Locust St. (Suite 3), Davenport, near Fairmount […]
Note: Ezra Sidran is a local reporter and has contributed to QuadCities.com in the past. As part of a robust and active free press, which we believe is especially important now as corporations have taken over considerable swaths of the media, we welcome different opinions and letters to the editor. I made the mistake of […]
I used up almost all my sister’s voicemail the other day. It couldn’t be avoided. There was something of vital importance I had to share with her. Taco’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” was on the radio and the event had to be recorded for posterity. Especially the part where the robotic voice says “super duper.” […]
Katy Perry didn’t just kiss a girl and liked it, she apparently faked her own death and got cloned and liked that too. And why the hell not? Everyone needs a hobby. As we roll through this bizarre year, the conspiracy theories just keep getting weirder and weirder. Some of them are pretty harmless and […]
“Lucky Stiff,” the show opening this weekend and running through March 7 at Rock Island’s Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, is new to area stages, but it’s not new to one cast member. Megan Mistretta did the show in summer 2024 (in a different part) at the Maples Repertory Theatre in Macon, Mo. “It’s really a […]
It isn’t often that you get to comment on the story of your own death, but we live in a time of unreality, rumor and the aptly and ironically named Artificial Intelligence, so, here we are, and here is Paula Sands, erstwhile retired local media personality, confirming that tales of her demise have been, to […]
WARNING: This article is satire and may not be acceptable for more sensitive readers. CORRECTION ARTICLE: Mockingbird on Main, home to avant garde Quad-Cities theater productions and run by area top hat and ascot aficionado and resident cult follower of Todd Cleary, Tristan “The Big Ragoo” Tapscott, has ceased operations after more than a decade. […]
