With the Moline Public Library's guest on November 28 a noted author and speaker, Dr. Ellen M. Tsagaris will deliver the presentation American Doll and Toy Museum, a lecture on the Rock Island venue for which she currently serves as executive director, with Tsagaris also showing some inclusion from her extensive collection and talking about the history of toys and dolls.

A Staten Island, New York native best-known for co-creating and starring in truTV’s long-running hit Impractical Jokers, comedian Sal Vulcano brings his national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 19, an evening of inspired standup from the longtime Tenderloins comic and popular host of Hey Babe! and Taste Buds podcasts.

Despite the event's title, an Oscar-nominated international treasure will indeed appear at Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 10, when the nationally touring An Evening with the Late John Cleese treats audiences to an evening with the legendary British actor, writer, and comedian famed for Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, A Fish Called Wanda, and the James Bond and Harry Potter franchises.

Aside from his many military and political achievements, Frederick the Great was also an accomplished flutist, composer, and a lover of the arts. Among the musicians in his court was Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the legendary Johann Sebastian. And on November 12, visitors to Davenport's German American Heritage Center are invited to Find out about what happened on an infamous “Take Your Father to Work Day” in Dr. Jacob Bancks' presentation Bach's Offering to the Musical King: Frederick the Great of Prussia, a chance to learn about the extraordinary and unique work of art that resulted when Prussia’s most enlightened king met Europe’s greatest composer.