Demonstrating that what unites us is more important than what divides us, the Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films turn their documentary lens on their Quad Cities home base in a September 14 screening of Moved by Waters.

With the goal of the evening's guest the creation of a rich environment in which emergent behavior can occur without a preconceived outcome, visual artist Leo Villareal takes part in a September 19 artist talk at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this fascinating and thought-provoking discussion held in conjunction with the September 21 opening of the artist's new Figge exhibition Interstellar.

In the first exhibit of the venue's 2024-2025 season, award-winning children's book author Arthur Geisert's original etchings of pigs building a treehouse with letters hidden amongst the pages will decorate the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Gallery, the exhibition Arthur Geisert: PIGS from A to Z, through September 27, on loan to UD from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Inspired by Carl Sandburg’s poem of the same name, Lisa Nelson Raabe's Prayers of Steel serves as the first art exhibition of the 2024-25 academic year at Galesburg's Carl Sandburg College, its display in the Lonnie Eugene Stewart Art Gallery through October 18 treating patrons to the talents of the Peoria-based artist who has enjoyed solo exhibitions in locales including San Antonio, Chicago, Peoria, Decatur, and Quincy.

Currently boasting a 97-percent "freshness" rating on aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, where the film's critical consensus calls it "a visually awe-inspiring science-fiction classic from the silent era," Fritz Lang's legendary 1927 opus Metropolis serves as the third presentation in the German American Heritage Center's German Expressionist Film Series, this masterpiece also lauded by Roger Ebert as "a work so audacious in its vision and so angry in its message that it is, if anything, more powerful today than when it was made."

Touring in support of his standup special Woke-ish that debuted to millions of delighted Netflix subscribers this past June, the gifted multi-hyphenate Marlon Wayans brings his wildly popular "Wild Child Tour" to Davenport's Adler Theatre on September 19, the actor, writer, director, and comedian famed for numerous television series and scores of movies ranging from the high comedy of In Living Color to the gritty drama of Requiem for a Dream.

On September 13 and 14, the Quad Cities' NormaLeah Ovarian Cancer Initiative will host a pair of special happenings at Bettendorf's Shive-Hattery/Geifman Pond in the organization's “Making Strides Together: Gynecologic Cancer Awareness” program: a Chalk the Walk event on Friday, and a quarter-mile walk around the pond on Saturday.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner that stands as one of the most revered plays in theatrical history, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire rolls into the Playcrafters Barn Theatre from September 13 through 22, this fierce, funny, and tragic work enjoying its first staging at the Moline venue in more than 50 years.

An evening of exhilarating rock, rap, and hip-hop awaits fans at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 13, with the Davenport venue hosting a special evening featuring two chart-topping headliners: the iconic Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice, and Rob Base, who, alongside DJ E-Z Rock, released the number-one smash "Get on the Dance Floor."

With their 2023 album Can't Find the Brakes lauded by Rock & Blues Muse as "pure, organic rock with a bluesy edge that's nearly unbeatable," the Los Angeles-based talents of Dirty Honey bring their national tour to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on September 13, their sophomore recording also hailed by HeadBangers Lifestyle as "one of the most entertaining classic-rock albums you have heard in a while."

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