Court-ing fans in their eagerly anticipated return to Moline, the electrifying athletes of the Harlem Globetrotters bring their “2025 World Tour" to the Vibrant Arena at the MARK on January 8, thrilling crowds with phenomenal basketball action, comic hijinks, ankle-breaking moves, jaw-dropping swag, and rim-rattling dunks in a fully-modernized amphitheater production.

Its subject a multifaceted talent who has been recognized 13 times with the James Beard Foundation Award for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education in the United States, the virtual Illinois Libraries Present program Chicago Pizza: Past, Present, & Future with Steve Dolinsky will be hosted by the Rock Island and Silvis Public Libraries on January 9, Dolinsky a reporter for NBC 5 Chicago, where his “Food Guy” segments air weekly.

With his outfit's most recent recording Lightlessness Is Nothing New praised by Pitchfork as a work that "captures how absence can become a radiating presence that infiltrates and upends every aspect of life," Chicago-based alternative rocker Dave Davison, vocalist/guitarist for Maps & Atlases, headlines a solo New Year's Eve concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with AllMusic adding that Lightlessness finds its artists "remaining faithful to their past while eyeing their future."

Performing iconic hits including "Folsom Prison Blues," "Ring of Fire," "A Boy Named Sue," and more accompanied by a live country band, stage star Scott Moreau brings his touring smash Walkin' the Line: A Tribute to Johnny Cash for Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse on December 31, this special event also boasting a New Year's Eve party featuring party favors, a champagne toast, a souvenir photo, a countdown to midnight, and a joyous balloon drop.