Appearing locally on his nationally sold-out "Boujee on a Budget" tour, comedian and musician Matt Mathews performs two sets of standup at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 20, the Southern-raised talent lauded by American Songwriter for his "unique brand of no-filter-farm-funny meets observational humor."
An eagerly awaited pre-summer event complete with food, vendors, local history, games, and entertainment for the entire family, the 2026 Quad City Juneteenth Festival will be held at Davenport's LeClaire Park on June 20, the celebration hosted by the Friends of MLK (FoMLK) and held in commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
Continuing last year's exciting twist on the organization's annual Father's Day activity Ride the River, Davenport's River Action will again host hours of outdoor fun in Ride the Island, a June 21 opportunity for cyclists to ride the roads and trails on the Rock Island Arsenal while exploring its rich history and visiting iconic landmarks.
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.
Local history, 19th-century innovations, and figurative and literal harmony will blend at the German American Heritage Center on June 28 in the Davenport venue's Hamburg-on-Mississippi: Davenport's Germans & the Musical Mecca of the West, with Davenport native Gates Thomas delivering this latest presentation in the popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series.
Governor JB Pritzker last week squarely placed the responsibility for passing a Bears stadium bill on the team itself, and had some unsolicited lobbying advice for the Bears as he attempted to brush off his own session attendance issues.
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.
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?
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.
As Justice Thomas Waterman of the Iowa Supreme Court has observed, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
An ancient-Greek classic that has long been translated for stage, cinema, television, and more than a half-dozen full-length operas, Sophocles' Antigone will be staged in Rock Island's Lincoln Park June 20 through 28, Genesius Guild's latest serving as the theatre company's annual presentation largely performed in traditional Greek masks.
I enjoy experiencing new-to-me talent, but it’s cozy and comforting to see familiar faces at the theatre.
Magic is on display in Quad City Music Guild's and director Kathryn Weber's current, spirited presentation of 1776, its music direction by Claire Schaecher and choreography by Beth Marsoun. (And I hear the intermission hot dogs are terrific.)
John Glore’s theatrical adaptation preserves the witty, slightly dark sensibility that made the book so beloved by youth and adults alike, and as directed by Jennifer Hoeper, the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's presentation combines adults and children to bring these fractured fairy tales to life.
Adam Sanders' production has some of the most intricate, varied, prolonged, high-density, high-energy choreography I’ve yet seen.
Performing a thrilling night of Americana, rock, and blues, the combined talents of Dick “Dickie” Prall and the Tanya English Band play an exhilarating, co-headlining engagement at Rock Island's RIBCO on June 20.
Touring in support of their newly release sophomore album Di Hotel Malibu, the Indonesia-based soul trio Thee Marloes headlines a June 20 engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Far Out magazine stating that with their latest recording, the international artists "have reaffirmed their position on the upper echelon of modern soul."
With her 2022 recording Still, Here praised by Pitchfork as "an alternately deliberate and exploratory” work in which "the guitarist and composer finds flashes of beauty at the heart of each instrumental tale," singer/songwriter Marisa Anderson headlines a June 20 concert at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox in support of her May release The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music: Volume 1.
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 Bettendorf's The Tangled Wood on June 20, with the 10-piece ensemble celebrating Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and his iconic rock outfit Talking Heads.
With the June 20 show boasting a repertoire of beloved classics including "Gentle on My Mind," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston," "Southern Nights," and the iconic "Rhinestone Cowboy," the touring talents of the Wichita Linemen come to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center with their lauded stage show A Tribute to Glen Campbell featuring Carl Acuff Jr.
Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is many things:but most of all, it's an excellent self-test determining just how jaded you've become.
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 18: Previews of Toy Story 5, Girls Like Girls, The Death of Robin Hood, and Leviticus, and discussion of Tuner, Stop! That! Train!, and Disclosure Day, the latter not great, but with maybe the best doesn't-show-up-'til-the-last-10-minutes performance in movie history. The actor's name is Courtney Grace. You'll wanna remember it.
Even in a sword-and-sorcery saga with considerable sci-fi elements, just how seriously are we supposed to take a movie whose protagonist goes by the moniker “He-Man”? Perhaps anticipating this question, the team behind the new Masters of the Universe has a locked-and-loaded reply: “Not seriously at all.” And when I say “not at all,” I mean Not. At. All.
Presented as the fourth and final event in a month-long series of screenings held in celebration of Pride Month, the first half of author Tony Kushner's, director Mike Nichols' and HBO's Emmy-dominating miniseries Angels in America, Millennium Approaches, enjoys a June 25 screening at the Figge Art Museum, this special series made possible by the Art Bridges Foundation in conjunction with the Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibition now on view at the Davenport venue.
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.
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.
With the latest Quad City Arts Center exhibition taking on a very specific theme, and a seasonally appropriate one, at that, a pair of Midwestern artists will have beautiful works displayed in Urban & Williams, with the Rock Island venue, from June 26 through August 7, treating patrons to bike photography by Ken Urban and bike illustrations by Jeff C. Williams.
Colorful, playful, and delightfully goofy works will be on display at the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery 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.
Four Chicago-based artists will present concurrent solo exhibitions across the galleries of Dubuque's Voices Studios 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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