With his new comedy special Say It Ain't So! now streaming on YouTube, touring standup Dale Jones brings his energetic comedy stylings to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Rhythm Room on November 14, the funnyman's credits including wins at the Comedy 10K, Laughlin, San Diego, and Antelope Valley Comedy Festivals.
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With the program blending environmental history, Indigenous perspectives, and the spirit of firsthand travel, Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa will be presented at Davenport's German American Heritage Center on November 15, this latest event in the venue's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series revealing how Iowa’s landscape still echoes with the stories of its past.
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Inspired by her upbringing at the turn of the 20th century and considered “Iowa’s first feminist writer,” Ruth Suckow was largely forgotten until researchers rediscovered her story in the 1980s. Consequently, the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association, with the support of Humanities Iowa, has developed a traveling exhibition celebrating the life and work of this Iowa novelist and short-story writer who lived from 1892 to 1960, the exhibit Everyday Lives, Extraordinary Voices: Ruth Suckow's Iowa on display at Davenport's German American Heritage Center through November 15.
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Fire-Damaged Barrel House Pub to Reopen with New Ownership Guided by Multimedia Radio Marketing and Technology Partners
Waiting for the elevator inside the south entrance lobby to the first-floor Barrel House pub currently being renovated in downtown Davenport, one is greeted by semi-finished renovations and a large flat screen showcasing over a dozen tenants' brands with a presence in the three-story building.
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Geifman Plans to Bring 350 Employees to a Transformed Quad-City Times Building
For Steve Geifman and his family, who acquired the 272,000-square-foot structure on 6.25 acres at the corners of Third and Fourth Streets and River Drive in downtown Davenport for just over $3.5 million, transforming this massive space isn’t just a real estate deal; it’s the next chapter in his century-old family's legacy.
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Four House Democrats who were instrumental in drafting and circulating a letter last week that successfully called for a new Illinois House speaker issued another letter the next day aimed partly at the now-departing chamber leader and his internal organization: Back off.
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A few weeks ago, Governor JB Pritzker told reporters that negotiators are closer than they’d ever been to a deal with the Bears to stay in Illinois. The Bears are threatening to decamp to a wasteland in Northwest Indiana’s dirty energy and industrial corridor.
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Policy Practices, NDAs, and County Home Rule Relative to Iowa Utilities Commission
There are five supervisor seats on the county board, and elected supervisors serve four-year terms. This year, there are three open seats, and two of the three incumbents are running again, as Ross Paustian did not run again. Only one of the two incumbents, Jean Dickson, responded to the questionnaire. Supervisors are paid $45-50,000 annually plus health and retirement benefits. Five of the seven candidates vying for the three seats participated this year. Responses are in alphabetical order by family name.
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The incumbent Scott County Treasurer, Tony Knobbe has served since 2023, and last fiscal year was paid $102,313 plus benefits. Knobbe is not running for re-election and there are two candidates for a single seat that has a four-year term, Greg Guy and Samuel Samara. Responses are in alphabetical order by family name.
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According to the Scott County, Iowa Recorder's Office's web page, "The Recorder's Office was created by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa in 1839."
The incumbent Recorder, Rita Vargas has served since 2002, and last fiscal year was paid $102,313 plus benefits. Vargas is not running for re-election and there are two candidates for a single seat that has a four-year term, Tony Paone and Michael Wulf. Responses are in alphabetical order by family name.
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If it sounds like this show is trying to do a lot, it is.
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Tracy Letts' pedigree is impressive enough. But The Minutes' cast and crew, professionals all, are a dream team, and have created a hilarious, devastating theatre experience.
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Based on the Oscar-winning modern classic that stands as one of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, Disney's Frozen enjoys a Quad City Music Guild presentation at Moline's Prospect Park Auditorium November 13 through 22, this magical family enchantment a three-time Tony Award nominee hailed by The Guardian for its "theatrical razzmatazz" and "sense of a real, beating heart in the relationship between the two tortured sisters."
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A masterpiece of brooding intensity and dark laughs that introduced the world to the adage "Hell is other people," Nobel Prize winner Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit closes the 2026 season at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, its November 13 through 22 run treating audiences to a work the Oxford Culture Review deemed "complex and dark ... convincing and enticing."
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Lauded by the George Street Playhouse as a work in which the author's "wit, warmth, and clever storytelling are on full display," playwright Joe DiPietro's comedy An Old-Fashioned Family Murder wraps up the 2026 season at Geneseo's Richmond Hill Barn Theatre, its November 12 through 22 run treating audiences to what Broadway World called “an uproarious new farce" in which "DiPietro pours every possible Film Noir detective cliché into a mixing bowl. The result is delicious."
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Currently touring in celebration of the band's remarkable 53rd year of professional performance, the rockers of Cheap Trick take the stage at Davenport's Capitol Theatre on November 14, treating fans of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to nostalgic performances of classics including "I Want You to Want Me," "Surrender," and "The Flame."
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With his chart-topping singles including “Truth About You," "At the End of a Bar” (with Chris Young), and the 4x-platinum smash "Drunk Me," Nashville's country-pop singer/songwriter Mitchell Tenpenny headlines a November 14 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, his Billboard successes also boasting the albums This Is the Heavy and the gold-selling hit Telling All My Secrets.
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Touring in support of her October release Vegas that Post-Trash called "a splendid new album," singer/songwriter Geneviève Beaudoin brings her Dead Gowns project to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 14, her follow-up to 2025's It’s Summer, I Love You, & I’m Surrounded by Snow also inspiring Post-Trash to rave, "Blending together alternative folk, fuzzy indie rock, and a touch of art pop, Dead Gowns’ music is gentle but muscular."
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Touring in support of their October release Delights that All About Jazz said "succeeds because the three musicians trust one another enough to let the music breathe, shift, and surprise," the Chicago-based talents of Twin Talk return to Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on November 14, the group previously lauded by Downbeat magazine as a trio that "expresses both its melodic rigor and appetite for adventure."
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Under the baton of conductor Justin Swearinger, the Knox-Galesburg Symphony will bring their expressive musical talents to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre in the November 14 presentation Light, Lyric, & Lofty, an evening of timeless music and captivating performances featuring music by Mozart, Reinecke, and Brahms.
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With the November 15 event featuring free admission, drawings, popcorn, and a Q&A with filmmaker Sally Aitken, River Action will host a sneak preview of its 2027 Quad City Environmental Film Festival at Davenport's St. Ambrose University, the afternoon featuring the announcement of the season's titles and a special screening of the documentary Every Little Thing.
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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, November 12: Discussion, again, of Godzilla Minus Zero (Mike finally saw it), plus Wild Horse Nine, Possible Love, Jimmy, and The Cat in the Hat. Also previews of Victorian Psycho, How to Rob a Bank, and Ebenezer, the latter a take on Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Finally. We were worried Hollywood would never get around to that one.
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Whatever else there is to say about writer/director Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero, you gotta give the film credit: It sure knows how to make an entrance.
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Along with Manhattan's skyline and the Statue of Liberty, few images more indelibly, succinctly suggest New York than the face of John Turturro.
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Now playing at area theaters.
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Speaking about and signing copies of her new book The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon, renowned American-art and cultural historian Wanda Corn makes a special appearance at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on November 19, the event also featuring Dr. Ranelle Knight-Lueth, director of the Grant Wood Catalogue Raisonné project.
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An arresting and thought-provoking group show featuring 38 pieces of art made by 27 Midwestern artists whose work explores the many forms our “monsters” can take, The Monster Under My Bed will be on display at Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center through December 4, this exhibition designed to demonstrate ways in which creativity can help us give shape to experiences that are difficult to put into words.
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Guests of the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery are invited, through December 28, to celebrate the creativity and artistic talents of the UD community in the exhibition Campus Creatives: Creative Celebration Faculty & Staff, its collection of arresting works showcasing the talents of nearly two dozen gifted participants.
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Timed to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States' Declaration of Independence, the Figge Art Museum exhibition Connie & Michael Roberts: Portrait of America will be on display in the Davenport venue's Lewis Gallery through January 3, this arresting collection of works inviting audiences to reflect on the individuals who helped shape our nation’s history.
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From now rhrough January 3, masterworks on loan from Wichita, Kansas will be presented throughout the Figge’s Art Museum's Linda and J. Randolph Lewis Wing, with the exhibition Art Bridges: Ulrich Museum of Art presented through the Art Bridges Partner Loan Network – an art-sharing initiative that connects museums across the country.
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