From May 5 through 9, a TV pop-culture phenomenon comes to thrilling stage life when Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse presents Schoolhouse Rock Live!, the beloved show – presented as part of the venue's Magic Owl Children's Theatre program – inspired by the Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday-morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, and more through clever, tuneful songs.

A two-time Academy Award winner The Times deemed a "landmark movie, hugely important, that's unafraid of difficult ideas," writer/director Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest will be screened at the Figge Art Museum on May 7, this powerful 2023 work the latest presentation in the Davenport venue's series of provocative, suspenseful films set in the context of authoritarian fascism.

A six-time Grammy Award winner, 15-time GMA Dove Award winner, and 13-time ASCAP Christian Music Award winner – emerging victorious on every single one of his nominations between 2021 and 2024 – Brandon Lake headlines an April 25 concert event at Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK, his list of chart-topping Billboard singles including Gratitude,” “That's Who I Praise,” and “Hard Fought Hallelujah.”

With the band's 2025 album What Remains hailed by The Rock Pit as a "faultless collection" that's "Just what you'd hope for," the alternative-metal and post-grunge talents of Pop Evil return to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on April 25, headlining this spring's I-Rock 83.5-sponsored Shut Up & Rock event with additional sets by Sierra Pilot, Kamenar, and The Forty Twos.