Presented as the latest in a series of groundbreaking feature-length films that celebrate the remarkable achievements women have made in the cinematic arts, director Ava DuVernay's Academy Award-winning Selma enjoys a May 25 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this 2014 historical drama a work that the New York Times deemed "a triumph of efficient, emphatic cinematic storytelling."

Inviting audiences on a journey of emotions from laughter, intrigue, danger, and fear to wonder, anticipation, tears, and sentimentality, internationally touring illusionist Mike Super brings his stage spectacular Magic & Illusion 2.OH to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the Mark on May 19, the gifted performer from Penn & Teller: Fool Us still the only prestidigitator in U.S. history to win a live magic competition on prime-time network television.

If you're a parent of young children, you're no doubt familiar with the magical world of the TV puppy Bluey, and on May 20, the Davenport Public Library's Fairmount Street Branch will celebrate the pooch and his pals in the Bluey Party!, with games, crafts, snacks, book recommendations, and a "flossing dance party" taking place in advance of the forthcoming Bluey's Big Play touring event at Davenport;s Adler Theatre.

An unmistakable performer who led a pop-culture phenomenon to a dozen top-20 singles, four chart-topping albums, and two Emmy Awards, Micky Dolenz brings his concert event The Voice of the Monkees to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on May 20, the musician's lauded touring event allowing the artist to draw on his diverse background in television, film, and the Broadway stage.

Double-platinum-selling musicians whose smash hits from the '90s include As Ugly as They Wanna Be and America's Least Wanted, the hard rockers of Ugly Kid Joe headline a May 22 concert event at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, their 2022 album Rad Wings of Destiny inspiring Tom Cornell of CGCM Rock Radio to rave, "Showing perhaps more subtlety than all those years ago, but still maintaining the fun and silliness in small doses, they still know how to rock and entertain."

Stryper, May 20

The rare touring outfit that can boast raves from both Metal Planet Music (which deems the ensemble "a phenomenal heavy rock band and worthy of your full attention") and Jesus Freak Hideout (which states that "they continue to rock hard and move at a breakneck pace"), Stryper headlines a May 20 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the Grammy-nominated and Dove Award Winning group famed for such Billboard-charting hits as “Calling on You,” “Honestly,” and “Always There for You.”

Touring in support of their 2022 release that, according to No Depression, proves the band's "otherworldly qualities" make them "the quirkiest sound around," blues, rock, and pop ensemble The Claudettes headline a May 19 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, with Americana Highways stating that in The Claudettes Go Out!, "Their tight approach to varied musical genres is adorned with no gimmicks, nothing superficial, and everything suited to inspiring melodies and spirited lyrics."

For its Rivermont Collegiate concert event on May 21, Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz Series will treat audiences to the glorious vocals of a Midwestern artist when it presents a 5 p.m. performance with the Judy Page Quartet, the Peoria native's repertoire given tremendous instrumental assist by bass player Mike Nellas, keyboard player Daniel Leahy, and popular Quad Cities percussionist Manuel Lopez III.

Lauded by NPR for his "witty and insightful songs" totally more than 1,000 to date, Americana singer/songwriter Dan Bern headlines a May 20 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, suggesting why, as NPR continued, many consider him "the next Bob Dylan," adding the the artist is "rapidly becoming the voice of a new generation of folk music."

Lauded by Nada Mucho for their "upbeat, happy, and very crowd-pleasing songs about relationships gone bad," the three-piece garage-twang outfit Chris King & the Gutterballs headlines a May 18 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Chicago musicians' talents inspiring ReverbNation to rave that the artists “posses a charm as the songs worm into the ear via wooly production and heartfelt playing."

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