One of the area's most eagerly anticipated sales events returns to Rock Island's QCCA Expo Center November 1 through 3, as Melting Pot Productions, Inc. presents this year's autumnal 2024 Antique Spectacular Vintage Market Quad Cities, allowing hunters of vintage goods an all-weekend opportunity to shop for a wide range of quality antiques.
Beloved guest performers on two of the most successful sitcoms in television will be demonstrating their gifts for standup at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on November 2, with the touring sensation Where Are they Wow! showcasing the singular comedy stylings of Steve Hytner, who played Kenny Bania on NBC's Seinfeld, and Marc Price, beloved from NBC's Family Ties as Alex Keaton's pal and Mallory's not-so-secret admirer Skippy.
Appearing in a pair of relaxed, 45-minute public events as a guest in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists Series, renowned pianist, composer, actress, and author Robin Spielberg hosts respective presentations in Rock Island and Muscatine on November 5 and 7, this lauded Steinway artist and founding member of the Atlantic Theatre Company also a national celebrity artist spokesperson for the American Music Therapy Association.
Coupling the intentional carved marks of 15th-century wood engravings with the bold shapes and composition of early-20th-century expressionist woodcuts, Joseph Lappie's art exhibition Die Hoffnung der Pflanzen: The Hope of Plants will be on display at Davenport's German American Heritage Center November 5 through February 23, delivering a hand-colored contemporary portrayal of personal herbology, or the assumed language of a plant and its individual meaning to a person.
Star-crossed lovers. Palace intrigue. Mistaken identities. Patricide. A dude turning into a donkey. Just another Saturday night in the realm of William Shakespeare. But on the Saturday night of November 9, these and many other Bard-ian tropes will be affectionately spoofed in the return of Shakespeared!, an hour of long-form improvisational comedy taking place in Moline's Spotlight Studio Theatre.
This constitutional training resource Gibbs would implement if elected, prompts us to recall the questions we asked prior to the 2016 primary candidates for Scott County Sheriff (when Gibbs ran as a Republican) which, along with each candidate's 2016 responses, are re-printed below, along with our follow up question for the 2024 General Election.
Two of the five Board of Supervisor seats are up for Scott County voters to elect into office November 5, 2024. Five candidates are running for two seats.
Auditor Tompkins did not respond to our requests to participate in this printed forum. The invitation was extended for Tompkins to provide her responses by October 10, 2024, and we will supplement this article at our Web site with her responses. Tompkins has responded to none of the questions published in the September 2024 print edition and published online here Who Has Access and/or Control of County Election Data Before, During, and After an Election?, nor any of the questions provided below.
One of the most important legislative debates next year will be about reforming, restructuring, and finding a way to fund Northeast Illinois’ public-transportation system. Statewide taxes could possibly be raised to pay for this, so you should pay attention, no matter where you live.
Perhaps the single most dangerous corrosive in our Republic is the increasing lack of transparency in government. Less transparency enables less accountability. Less accountability fosters less collaborative governance. Less collaborative governance devolves into socioeconomic chaos. Socioeconomic chaos empowers authoritarian tyranny. Where in this downward spiral do you see our American Republic?
Hailed by Backstage as "an entertaining and ribald report from the battle of the sexes with plenty of sparkling Shavian wit," George Bernard Shaw's 1905 comedy The Philanderer opens the 2024-25 season of student-directed theatre at Rock Island's Augustana College's, the work a biting, rarely staged piece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan.
Kitty: I adored this production – which honestly surprised me, because I’ve seen this musical performed elsewhere and … didn’t love it.
Mischa: I’ve never seen this show before, but also really enjoyed it. Okay, I’ll admit, the storyline is not amazing. But the execution was superb.
The scenes featuring Savannah Bay Strandin and Stephanie Moeller were particularly engaging highlights of this Dial M for Murder.
Delivering what the Denver Post called “a sleighful of gifts” including “a minuet of the familiar and the special” and a “gentle, genial advocacy of the impossible,” the holiday spectacular Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical enjoys a November 6 through December 29 return to Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, this delightful adaptation of the beloved movie classic boasting music and lyrics by The Music Man creator Meredith Willson.
Delivering what the New York Times deemed "the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem, and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting," Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice enjoys a November 7 through 10 staging by the University of Dubuque’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Times adding that the genre-spanning show is a "devastatingly lovely – and just plain devastating – theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth."
With their eponymous 2018 release the winner of the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, the Nashville-based The Travelin' McCourys brings their two to two area venues this month, the lauded artists headlining the "Codfish Halloween w/ the Travelin' McCourys" at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn on October 30, and an actual Halloween show at Davenport's Redstone Room on October 31.
With its lead vocalist and keyboard player Karalyne Winegarner lauded by Glide magazine as a talent who "commands your attention like Freddie Mercury working the crowd in an arena," the indie rockers of Flight Attendant headline a Halloween-night concert at davenport's Raccoon Motel, their October 31 set sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone proclaimed, "Flight Attendant delivers an experience."
A Quad-Cities based tribute act dedicated to free-spirited and energetic concert experiences from the Stop Making Sense era, the tour de force of musicians known as Heads in Motion plays Davenport's Capitol Theatre on November 1, with the 10-piece ensemble celebrating Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and his iconic rock outfit Talking Heads.
Bringing their wildly popular "Harvest the Wind Tour '24" to Davenport, the tribute artists of Bearly Dead headline a Redstone Room concert on November 1, the rockers continuing to add to their 250-plus-song catalog and showcase authentic, spontaneous improvisation in their celebration of the Grateful Dead.
Widely lauded for his live performances, improvisation and studio composition using various combinations of drums, percussion, objects, junk, amplification, and electronics, Australian percussionist Will Guthrie performs in a special November 1 concert at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, his singular music having been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL, and his own Antboy Music.
In director Edward Berger's Conclave, both the narrative and the principal characters are hiding secrets that shouldn't be spoiled to those who haven't seen the movie and didn't read novelist Robert Harris' 2016 source material. But one secret about the film absolutely can, and should, be revealed in advance: This thing is an almost ridiculous amount of fun.
First M. Night Shymalan makes his chanteuse daughter a significant part of his thriller Trap, then Todd Phillips floods his Joker followup with songs, and now this. Is no genre safe from the global Swift-ification?
Going to the cineplex or staying in and streaming this weekend? Every Thursday morning at 8:15 a.m. you can listen to Mike Schulz dish on recent movie releases & talk smack about Hollywood celebs on Planet 93.9 FM with the fabulous Dave & Darren in the Morning team of Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. The morning crew previews upcoming releases, too.
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Thursday, October 31: Discussion of Venom: The Last Dance, Conclave, and Your Monster, and previews of Here, an unasked-for Forrest Gump reunion, and Absolution, another Liam-with-a-Gun thriller. Mike must've been really awful in a past life to deserve this double feature. Happy Halloween!
In the spirit of the five-word pitches each of this quintet requires, here are similarly succinct (if 295-words-longer) takes on what resulted, discussed in order of attendance.
Now playing at area theaters.
A trio of Iowa-based artists working in a trio of artistic mediums will have pieces showcased at the Quad City Arts International Airport from October 31 through January 5, with the gallery, in Brown Swanson, Hassig, & Shahrivar, hosting arresting examples of fused glass by Des Moines' Tilda Brown Swanson, collages by Cedar Rapids' Michael Hassig, and oil landscape paintings by Iowa Falls' Naser D. Shahrivar.
Formerly known as the German Theological College and Seminary, the University of Dubuque has a strong and vibrant history, and it's one that will be celebrated in a series of arresting and heartwarming photographs, with the exhibition UD: Then & Now on display in the university's Bisignano Art Gallery through November 8.
In a fascinating program held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on November 14, Celebrating the Lewis Collection: Marsden Hartley & Fellow American Modernists will find Gail R. Scott, director of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project with Bates College Museum of Art, discussing the pioneering American modernist and the six works by Hartley recently gifted to the Figge by Linda and J. Randolph Lewis.
The whimsical world of Walter Wick has fascinated people of all ages since 1992, when his first children's book series I Spy found its way onto the bookshelves of millions of American households. And through November 17, admirers of the artist can delight to his elaborate images in Walter Wick: Hidden Wonders!, a dazzling collection of dozens of colorful wonders on display at Davenport's Figge Art Museum.
With its creator a noted artist and instructor based in Chicago, the fascinating exhibition Evergreen will be on display at Cornell College's Peter Paul Luce Gallery through November 20, with painter Marina Ross employing the visual symbolism of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz to explore cultural and personal memory, grief, and performance.
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