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."

One of the area's most eagerly anticipated sales events returns to Rock Island's QCCA Expo Center November 6 through 8 as Melting Pot Productions, Inc. presents this year's fall Antique Spectacular Vintage Market, allowing hunters of vintage goods an all-weekend opportunity to shop for a wide range of quality antiques.

Hailed by the New York Times as "a breathlessly paced" slapstick boasting "silly vaudeville sketches, word-association games, puns, and crude parodies of movie and television genres," the Reduced Theatre Company's The Complete History of America (abridged) enjoys an October 30 through November 8 run at St. Ambrose University's Galvin Fine Arts Student Theatre, The Gazette adding that "history has never been this much fun."

With their fourteenth studio album, Wasted Lands, being released this upcoming January, the rockers of Clutch headline an October 30 concert event at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the group's U.S. fall tour finding them performing with the guest artists of Slomosa and Blood Vulture.

Touring in support of their September release Funerals, the metal artists of Sicksense headline a November 5 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room at Common Chord, Crucial Rhythm praising the band's third EP as "a compact but remarkably varied release, moving between furious aggression, sarcastic defiance, emotional heaviness, and genuine grief without ever losing the band's unmistakable identity."

Touring in support of their fall release Squirm that Glide magazine called "a propulsive slice of angst-ridden hardcore punk," the Texas-based outfit Tear Dungeon headlines an October 30 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Punknews.org adding that the band's sophomore album boasts "12 new tracks that delve into the current state of the world with no-holds-barred lyrics and dynamic, noise-infused instrumentation."

Hailed by Atwood magazine for songs boasting "exciting rhythms" and lyrics that "heartbreakingly honest," the Nashville-based rockers of Post Sex Nachos headline a November 1 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel in support of their fifth full-length release Big Bad, Off the Record Press adding that the group "makes engaging, danceable rock tracks with just the right amount of heartache and vulnerability."

Traveling the country in support of her full-length album debut The Knife, the Needle, singer/songwriter and guitarist Elanor Moss makes her headlining debut at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 2, AllMusic raving that the musician's first LP is "a quietly stunning album throughout, and Moss delivers all the songs with a calm understanding that's as profound as her subject matter."

Touring in support of her 2026 release Runaway Jane, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Celeste Tauchar brings her indie-rock project talker to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 5, the artist describing her sound as "emo indie rock with glitter all over it."

With ChicagoBlues.live raving that "his playing stands apart as a uniquely creative force of its own," Brother John Kattke performs a special October 21 concert at Rock Island's Hauberg Civic Center Mansion, the exhilarating show co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society.

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