An acclaimed national comedian with ties to the Quad Cities performs at Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on September 5, with TV and film talent Tammy Pescatelli treating attendees to the hilarious insights and sharp-witted observations beloved from numerous talk shows, Last Comic Standing, and her 2013 Netflix special Finding the Funny.

With the Figge Art Museum hosting an intimate exhibition on loan from the Deere & Company collection, Revolutionary Artist: The Prison Fantasies of David Alfaro Siqueiros, on display in the Davenport venue through January 5, will treat patrons to evocative works by the artist (1896-1974) who founded the modern school of Mexican mural painting alongside his contemporaries Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.

A Labor Day-weekend tradition once again blasts into the District of Rock Island in this year's Xtream Rock Island Grand Prix, the August 31 and September 2 event in which hundreds will cheer as participants, from one inch off the ground, traverse city streets at speeds approaching 100MPH.

Promising patrons a nostalgic journey back to the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when the “Mississippi River Jams” and “Isle of Rock” festivals filled Credit Island with the sound of rock, the Davenport locale will host Common Chord's 2024 Credit Island Throwback Fest on August 31, offering guests a family-friendly concert and community festival, plus the annual delights of the Great River Ducky Derby.

A beloved local tradition designed specifically for seniors continues into its 25th year when River Action, on September 5 and 6, hosts two days worth of self-guided Senior Citizen Golf Cart Tours, with his year’s event including a tour of the Arsenal Island taking place in the early evening, allowing for a normally unseen look at the Mississippi River and the historic island.

A revolutionary work that Roger Ebert said was arguably "the first true horror film," director Robert Wiene's 1920 landmark The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari serves as the first presentation in the German American Heritage Center's German Expressionist Film Series, its September 4 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House treating audiences to the silent classic that helped draw worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema.

On September 5, a widely lauded, deeply important Iranian film will enjoy a special screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum in the presentation of directors Ali Asgari's and Alireza Khatami's Terrestrial Voices, the Un Certain Regard Award recipient at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival that also won both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival.

With the stage hit lauded by Broadway World as "entirely entertaining and enjoyable," the spooky, kooky, ooky musical-comedy version of The Addams Family makes its debut at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse, its September 4 through November 2 run treating audiences to a Tony Award-nominated delight inspired by the beloved TV comedy and the iconic cartoon strip by series originator Charles Addams.

A Grammy Award nominee whose chart-topping singles include "No Doubt About It" and "Wink" from his platinum-certified album No Doubt About It, country singer Neal McCoy brings his national tours to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on August 31, his repertoire also boasting such top-10 Billboard smashes as “The City Put the Country Back in Me,” “For a Change,” “The Shake,” and “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye.”

Celebrating a quintet of years as one of the Quad Cities' most popular FM radio stations with a free Labor Day weekend bash, East Moline venue the Rust Belt will present the I-Rock Fifth-Anniversary Show on August 31, this evening of exhilarating live music featuring sets by three national rock outfits: the Massachusetts-based All That Remains, northern Illinois' Alborn, and the Alabama talents of Shallow Side.

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