On October 8, the Davenport Public Library and Midwest Writing Center will host the third-annual Pride Storytelling Night at the library's Eastern Avenue branch, inviting the community to hear community members, all local to the Quad Cities, sharing personal stories about their lives and identities as members of the Queer community.

On October 10 and 11, the lives of three remarkable woman – Mary Deere, Katherine Butterworth, and Pattie Wiman – will be explored when Moline's Butterworth Center and Deere-Wiman House offer The Ladies of the Houses Tours, the fascinating 90-minute events taking place on Saturday at 10 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m.

With Variety magazine calling the musical "smartly conceived" and boasting "catchy tunes and witty lyrics," the tune-filled romantic comedy I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change makes its debut at Moline's Black Box Theatre October 9 through 24, Gannett Newspapers raving that the original production was "hilarious ... the most entertaining show on or off Broadway."