Boasting timeless Johnny Cash songs including "I Walk the Line," "Ring of Fire," and "A Boy Named Sue" alongside such June Carter Cash hits as "Jackson," "If I Were a Carpenter," and "It Ain’t Me," A Johnny & June Country Christmas enjoys an engagement at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on November 30, this yuletide treat also featuring your favorite Christmas songs performed by music greats Bennie Wheels and Lori Gravel.

There's a kick in watching actors play their widely recognized “types” so flawlessly, and with such fresh enthusiasm, that these roles feel like ideal distillations of their portrayers' talent and presence. I'm thinking of Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood and Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich … and also, now, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain.

Just about nothing happened in the first week of veto session in the House and the Senate. The Democratic legislative leaders are still trying to figure out what their members want to do in the wake of Republican President-Elect Donald Trump’s victory and whether that can be done. Whether that action starts in the second and final week of veto session, or in the lame-duck January session or in the regular spring session, is still up in the air as I write this.

Directed by Dana Skiles, My Son Is Crazy, but Promising boasts 15 actors, and while about half of the characters don’t especially move the plot along, there wasn’t anyone who didn’t bring their “A” game.

Roughly 40 photographs showcasing the exhilarating and dangerous world of motorsport will be on display at the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery, with the exhibition Freezing Speed – Ian Brightman offering evocative, arresting images through December 31.

Following last year's hugely successful QCSO at the Movies presentations of Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, as well as such franchise hits as Sorcerer's Stone in 2017, Prisoner of Azkaban in 2019, and Order of the Phoenix in 2022, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra returns to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 23 to perform live accompaniment for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the seventh movie smash adapted from J.K. Rowling's iconic fantasy/adventure novels.

Composed of bass player Bob Skeat, guitarist Mark Abrahams, drummer Mike Trescott, and guitarist Andy Powell, the latter of whom began recording with the group more than 50 years ago, a legendary rock outfit plays Davenport's Redstone Room in the venue's November 26 concert with Wishbone Ash, the band's "Wish List Tour" boasting the trademark twin-guitar sound and mix of heavy-guitar edge and prog-rock adventurousness that made the outfit one of the definitive British hard rock bands of the 1970s.

With the November 22 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room presented by Rocktown Entertainment Group, a host of familiar fan favorites by two iconic artists will be delivered in A Tribute to Motown, the night boasting the talents of Alphonse Franklin, offering a tribute to Smokey Robinson, and Rob Willis, crooning compositions by Bobby Womack.

A member of such groups as Doomtree, Building Better Bombs, Gayngs, Marijuana Deathsquads, Cenospecies, Four Fists, and Shredders, hip-hop and hardcore punk musician P.O.S. performs a November 26 set at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his credits including seven solo studio albums, 17 singles, and more than 50 guest appearances on songs by fellow artists.