With their most recent album Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston lauded by American Songwriter as "a near-perfect marriage of pop rock sensibilities and lyrical sincerity," the revered indie rockers of Built to Spill headline a May 25 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the musicians currently celebrating three decades of live performance and the forthcoming release of their 10th full-length recording When the Wind Forgets Your Name.

Visitors to Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center can receive insight into problem solving and abstract thinking using mathematics, physics, and design with fun, simple building materials in the venue's Build! Create! Innovate!, an exhibition that, through September 4, boasts 3,600 square feet of building space and more than 15,000 KEVA Planks, along with photography of local architecture and a pre-built bridge, Kone Tower, and the Putnam’s iconic Velie automobile.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and recipient of an “A” rating from Entertainment Weekly, the acclaimed Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry enjoys a May 12 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum as part of the venue's Film at the Figge series, this fascinating study of the noted Chinese artist and activist also cited by the National Board of Review as one of its year's five best feature documentaries.

The largest and most realistic dinosaur exhibit in North America is back, bigger and better than ever, in Jurassic Quest, a thrilling exhibit boasting photorealistic dinosaurs and activities for all ages that enjoys a May 13 through 15 engagement at Coralville's Xtream Arena and GreenState Family Fieldhouse.