Saturday in the Arts is a weekly feature covering a trend, subject, event or personality of local interest. It runs every Saturday morning on your site for the best entertainment and arts coverage in the area, QuadCities.com! Reading the breezy, illuminating, insightful and downright fascinating new book, “There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America,” you can tell that author Amy Argetsinger gets it. The 384-page book sings – on the 100th anniversary of the beauty competition (it is NOT a pageant anymore), the former Dispatch and Rock Island Argus reporter is a devoted fan and a chronicler... Read More

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is almost here! That’s right, it’s time to find out who will be the next Miss Iowa and compete in this year’s Miss America Pageant! A new Miss Iowa, along with Miss Iowa’s Outstanding Teen, will be crowned this weekend at the Adler Theatre (136 E 3rd Street Davenport). 2019 Miss Iowa Scholarship Competition preliminaries will be held on Thursday Jun 13, starting at 7 p.m. Miss Iowa’s Outstanding Teen competition will take place on Friday Jun 14 at 7 p.m. Don’t miss the 2019 Miss Iowa Scholarship Competition Finals on Saturday Jun 15, beginning... Read More