A wildly popular presence on TikTok and Instagram, and the 2022 winner of the inaugural James Beard Award for Best Social Media Account. Alexis Nikole Nelson serves as the latest virtual guest in the Illinois Libraries Present series, her April 10 program The Act of Foraging, co-presented by the Rock Island and Silvis Public Libraries, designed to celebrate all the edible plants hiding in plain sight.

Offering a bold, provocative critique of societal structures through collaborative, resistance-driven prints, the exhibition Delusion of Choice, by the art collective Fatherless Print Posse, enjoys a showcase at Dubuque's Voices Studios through May 31.

Landing in Iowa on a month-long tour that includes stops in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and Florida, the Million Dollar Time Machine turns back the clock at Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 30. Its mission: to treat audiences to more than two dozen of the country's finest vocal impressionists who cover classic artists from the 1960s to today.

A tribute to one of the greatest vocalists of all time, singer/playwright Lisa Rock's Close to You: The Music of the Carpenters enjoys a March 29 performance at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre, with Rock and her six-piece band showcasing some of the most memorable and beloved songs of the '70s, among them "We’ve Only Just Begun," "Rainy Days and Mondays," and of course, "Close to You."