On October 16, guests of Davenport's Figge Art Museum are invited to watch a recorded fashion program in the second-floor John Deere Auditorium, with historical costumier Ninya Mikhaila's fascinating program Stitching up History - Clothing in NGA Portraiture being held in conjunction with the current exhibition The Golden Age: Featuring Northern European Works from the National Gallery of Art.

With legendary film critic Pauling Kael describing the film as "one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made," George A. Romero's legendary zombie thriller Night of the Living Dead enjoys a spooky-season screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on October 11, this low-budget masterpiece also inspiring Rex Reed to state, "It is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in horror movies not to see it."

Initially inspired by the JUNKraft: Global Crisis of Plastic Pollution exhibit from two years ago, the Putnam Museum & Science Center's fundraiser Garbage Glam: A Recycling Fashion Show was born in 2023, and on September 27, the innovative event will enjoy its third-annual presentation with hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, and some astonishing outfits largely or completely made from recyclable materials.

A beloved touring comedian whose platinum-selling debut recording Here's Your Sign held the number-one position on the Billboard Comedy Chart for an astounding 15 straight weeks, the Grammy-nominated Blue Collar Comedy veteran Bill Engvall returns to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on October 3, the actor/standup currently traveling the country on his acclaimed "Here's Your Sign, It Wasn't My Time" tour.