Held in honor of June's LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Davenport Public Library and Midwest Writing Center will host the third-annual Pride Storytelling Night at the library's Eastern Avenue branch on June 11, 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.
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A two-day milestone celebration will take place at the Rhythm City Casino Resort on June 12 and 13, with the Davenport venue proud to host its 10-Year Anniversary Weekend, treating hotel guests and visitors to free live-music events, amazing deals, and the chance to win thousands of dollars in cash and prizes.
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Germans have been a part of the American story since its beginnings as a country, and on June 14, visitors at the German American Heritage Center are invited to a discussion on notable citizens who were active in U.S. military affairs in Germans in the Military from von Steuben to WWII, the latest presentation in the Davenport venue's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series.
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Delivering a blend of local history, environmental issues, education, entertainment, and fresh air, Davenport's River Action will again present a series of outdoor presentations in the first month-plus of the annual Channel Cat Talks and Riverine Walks: weekly "Explore the River Series" programs that, from May 26 through June 27, will address such topics as raptors, barges, Modern Woodmen Park, and the historically wicked night spot that was Davenport's Bucktown.
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In the latest exhibition at Davenport's German American Heritage Center, guests are invited to explore how German immigrant traditions transformed local musical life through Play On! German Immigrants & the Quad Cities' Musical Legacy, this showcase of ingenuity celebrating the enduring organizations, venues, and rich riverfront behind area-wide music culture.
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Six days before the last day of the spring state legislative session, Senator Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, gave me two big reasons why it was so difficult to push a Bears stadium bill across the finish line. Cunningham, as you know, is the chief sponsor of the Senate’s Bears bill.
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The 21st century is silly with a vast wealth of data for doing reliable research. Using advanced computer technology to access troves of rich data relative to climate, as well as volumes of historic climate data, we should be able to accurately draw useful conclusions on climate change. So where's the beef?
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Here we are again, a decade later, fighting for the preservation of Scott County's exceptional land, with its rich soil, as farmland in perpetuity (and that of Iowa at large), especially due to its 100 rating as the best soil in the world for food production.
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As Justice Thomas Waterman of the Iowa Supreme Court has observed, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
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Important determination about city hired outside counsel's obligations to private citizens.
If you visit "David Ezra Sidran vs. City of Davenport, Iowa," you'll find the full text of Ezra Sidran's late May 2026 law suit against the City of Davenport and its elected leaders.
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The perfectly suited look and demeanor of each person, and their consistent Southern lilts throughout, made this experience particularly magical.
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I admit that at Saturday’s opening-night performance, I was initially confused when Genesius Guild's Andy Shearouse explained both the entire plot of William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and that the set was designed to represent the inner workings of a broken cuckoo clock. One might think both concepts would be self-explanatory. But alas, they were not. In the end, I was grateful for the introductory explanation.
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One of the greatest and most beloved musicals in the history of American theatre opens the 2026 summer season at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, with Guys & Dolls running from June 11 through 21, and treating audiences to a nine-time Tony Award winner that the New York Times called “the show that defines Broadway dazzle.”
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The winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and being presented locally in celebration of America's 250th-birthday year, the lauded historical musical 1776 enjoys a June 12 through 21 run at Moline's Prospect Park Auditorium, the show lauded by the New York Times as "a most striking, most gripping musical" whose "characters are most unusually full."
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A delightful, hilarious family show adapted from the winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, the stage romp The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales enjoys its area debut at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, the show's June 12 through 21 run treating audiences to a comedy in which, per the Broadstreet Review's critic, "the adults around me laughed as much as the kiddos.”
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Touring in support of 2025's remastered version of their album In a Perfect World, a 30th-anniversary release for which, according to New Noise magazine, the artists were "sounding as powerful and vital as ever," the post-punk and alternative rockers of Season to Risk headline a June 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, other fan-favorite albums including 1-800-Meltdown, Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win, and their sefl-titled 1993 debut.
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Hailed by Saving Country Music as "the hot thing of the Austin honky tonks," singer/songwriter Ellis Bullard headlines a June 9 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artists' sophomore album Honky Tonk Ain't Noise Pollution lauded by Metal Planet Music as "a damned fine slice of good ol’ country music: well written, well played, well sung, and very well produced."
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Touring in support of their 2026 recording Grace in Decay that Headbangers Australia said "moves with complete and total purpose," the heavy-metal artists of Spiral Fracture headline a June 10 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group's latest also hailed by Rock-Expert as a work that "reflects the band's view of the modern world, exploring themes of inner struggle, collapse, resilience, and personal truth."
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Families across the Quad Cities are invited to celebrate music, literacy, culture, and community as Grammy Award-winning children’s artist and author Lucky Diaz visits the region for two special public events: a June 11 visit to the Moline Public Library, and a June 12 concert at Moline's Mercado on Fifth.
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With the group dedicated to revitalizing Anatolian folk music and instrumentation by infusing timeless melodies with a modern psychedelic flair, the touring ensemble Derya Yildirim & Group Şimşek headline a June 12 concert at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, the group's 2025 release Yarın Yoksa inspiring The Guardian to rave that "fuzzy, hypnotic beats, soulful saz-funk and emotive balladry mark Yıldırım's powerfully imaginative new music."
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I'm not sure what it says about the future of horror movies – if it says anything at all – that the year's strongest, scariest creep-out to date is directed by someone not quite old enough to drink.
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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. Or you can check the Reader Web site and listen to their latest conversation by the warm glow of your electronic device. Never miss a pithy comment from these three scintillating pundits again
Thursday, June 4: Discussion of Backrooms, Pressure, and The Breadwinner, and previews of Masters of the Universe, Scary Movie, and Power Ballad, all from the comforts of Dave's and Darren's fresh digs in downtown Davenport. A new chapter begins!
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Over the course of two-hours-plus, “cute” will only get you so far. But it's astounding how far it gets us in Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu, which might've been an easy franchise low point if not for the diminutive cuddlebug of the title.
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With the 2014 dramatic comedy hailed by The Guardian as “impassioned and lovable,” the Iowa Industrial Workers of the World General Membershiip Branch hosts a special June 10 screening of Pride at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on June 10, a celebration of Pride Month that demonstrates the crucial solidarity that continues to exist between the queer community and the working class.
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Now playing at area theaters.
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A trio of gifted Midwest photographers, one of them based in the Quad Cities, will have their latest works featured at Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center through June 19, with the Huang, Jackson, & Terry exhibition showcasing the talents of the Peoria-based Qingjun Huang and Natalie Jackson, as well as those of Davenport's Matthew Terry.
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For the Davenport's final new exhibition of 2025, the Figge Art Museum will be taking an up-close-and-personal look at some of its most arresting in-house works in A Surreal Lens: Photography from the Figge Collection, a celebration of the medium on display in the Lewis Gallery hrough June 21.
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Inviting visitors to reflect on themes central to the artist's practice – including the joyful celebration of LGBTQ identity, acknowledgment of ongoing challenges to the community’s rights, and the enduring impact of the AIDS epidemic – Felix Gonzalez-Torres: "Untitled" (L.A.) will be on display in the Figge Art Museum's Gildehaus Gallery through June 21.
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Colorful, playful, and delightfully goofy works will be on display at the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery from April 29 through June 29, with the shared exhibition Butcher, Hymes, & Murtha showcasing new illustrations on shaped wood by Aaron Butcher and examples of fiber art by MaryKay Hymes and Diane Murtha.
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Four Chicago-based artists will present concurrent solo exhibitions across the galleries of Dubuque's Voices Studios from June 5 through July 31, with the collective Quiet Intersections exhibit a multi-faceted experience that reveals how individual artistic voices can converge, diverge, and share creative space.
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