On June 9 and 10, 30 talented and intelligent young women from across the state will compete for top honors in the preliminaries and finals for the Miss Iowa and Miss Iowa's Outstanding Teen Competitions, with guests at Davenport's Adler Theatre invited to share the excitement as this year's candidates compete in four separate phases: Talent/HERStory, Health & Fitness, Evening Gown, and On-Stage Interview.

While most of the presentations in the Davenport Public Library's monthly 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presidential Library & Museum program have focused on former president Herbert Hoover, the series will take an overdue look at the extraordinary contributions of his wife when speaker Annette Dunlap, on June 15, delivers her fascinating virtual event Lou Henry Hoover's White House Years, the first in a three-month "best of" series.

With the artist's most recent release Human: The Double Album praised by AllMusic.com for its “emotional facility” and “unfussy, unhurried execution,” country-rock singer/songwriter Cody Johnson brings his national tour to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK on June 15, his most recent laurels including a 2023 CMT Music Award for his single “'Til You Can't,” a song that also earned three nominations from the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Listed by NME as an "Essential Emerging Artist for 2023," the rockers of The Heavy Heavy headline a June 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group's Life & Life Only, a debut EP lauded by Pop Matters as a work that "mashes up soul, psych, mod, and a tinge of eerie folk to create a blended sound that might be thrillingly at odds with today’s pop charts but would sound perfectly at home busting the rock conventions of half a century past."