30 Sep 2025

“Night of the Living Dead,” October 11

By Reader Staff

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."

27 Sep 2025

Brandon Santini, October 5

By Reader Staff

Revered for delivering high-energy performances, driven by searing harmonica and passionate vocals, Brandon Santini plays Davenport's Gypsy Highway Bar & Grill in a concert co-presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, his October 5 headlining engagement treating audiences to the artist whom Blues Blast magazine called "one of the best harp players in the blues scene today."

24 Sep 2025

2025 Garbage Glam: A Recycling Fashion Show, September 27

By Reader Staff

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.

23 Sep 2025

World Ballet Company's “The Great Gatsby,” October 7

By Reader Staff

“Lauded by the San Diego Reader for its “heightened sense of reality, folk tales, and folk dances transmogrified into sinuous spectacle,” the World Ballet Company's touring production of The Great Gatsby lands at Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 7, this thrilling adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece also hailed by the Times-Advocate's critic as “one of the most transcendent cultural experiences I have had in a long time.”

23 Sep 2025

Bill Engvall, October 3

By Reader Staff

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.

23 Sep 2025

Banned Books Read-in, October 6

By Reader Staff

Held in conjunction with the October 5 through 11 Banned Books Week – a celebration of our collective freedom to read – the Midwest Writing Center's and Rock Island Public Library's annual Banned Books Read-In will take place on October 6, with more than a dozen participants gathering at the library's Watts-Midtown Branch to read from frequently challenged works and unite in the fight against censorship.

23 Sep 2025

“From Me to We: Developing Character for the Common Good,” October 6

By Reader Staff

Joshua Freedman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Six Seconds – the global non-profit dedicated to teaching people how to use emotional intelligence (EQ) – will deliver the Fall 2025 Michael Lester Wendt Character Lecture at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, his presentation "From Me to We: Developing Character for the Common Good" being presented free to the public on October 6.

23 Sep 2025

“An Evening with Topher Grace” and “The Big Picture,” October 4

By Reader Staff

A beloved actor from That '70s Show, Spider-Man 3, and the Golden Globe-nominated Scott Beck/Bryan Woods thriller Heretic will make a special appearance at Beck's and Woods' Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the October 4 event An Evening with Topher Grace boasting a Q&A with the film and television star and a screening of director/co-writer Christopher Guest's critically acclaimed 1989 comedy The Big Picture.

23 Sep 2025

“Young Frankenstein,” October 3 through 12

By Reader Staff

An Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Best Musical that also earned a Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite New Broadway Musical, the stage adaptation of Mel Brooks' film classic Young Frankenstein takes over Moline's Spotlight Theatre October 3 through 12, this Tony-nominated riot lauded by the New York Post for its "bright and witty" lyrics and the book's "great job ... in transferring the original script to the stage."

23 Sep 2025

Quad City Symphony Orchestra Masterworks I: “Grieg Piano Concerto,” October 4 and 5

By Reader Staff

A celebration of brilliant musicianship and the Romantic with a capital "R," the Quad City Symphony Orchestra opens its 2025-26 Masterworks season with Grieg Piano Concerto, the concert's October 4 and 5 performances at Davenport's Adler Theatre and Augustana College's Centennial Hall boasting a trio of thrilling compositions and the return of guest pianist Wei Luo, an artist whom the San Diego Union Tribune called "destined for stardom."

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