Performing from a repertoire of hard-rock hits that includes the top-10 Billboard chart-toppers "Shot in the Dark," "Rock 'n' Roll Train," "Big Gun," "Hard as a Rock," and "Stiff Upper Lip," the musicians of Thunderstruck: America’s AC/DC Tribute take the stage at East Moline venue The Rust Belt on October 25, this salute to the Australian legends boasting favorites from number-one AC/DC albums including Black Ice, Rock or Bust, 2020's Power Up, and the legendary Back in Black.

Hailed by WOMEX as "astonishing musicians" known for "coaxing fantastic sounds out of their chosen instruments," the musicians of WÖR serve as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series, their October 28 and 3 area performances showcasing a band whose curiosity, passion, and talent has led to a niche goldmine of 18th-century melodies from the Flanders region of Belgium melodies, recreated in stunning contemporary arrangements.

Their October 27 event boasting works by Chopin, Brahms, Dohnányi, and Korean composer Unsuk Chin, whose piano étude gives the program its title, Chamber Music Quad Cities opens its 2024-25 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with In C, in which violinist Serena Canin and violist Lee Taylor will join CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer, on cello, and Thomas Sauer, on piano, for a thrilling exploration of that musical key.

With its lead vocalist and keyboard player Karalyne Winegarner lauded by Glide magazine as a talent who "commands your attention like Freddie Mercury working the crowd in an arena," the indie rockers of Flight Attendant headline a Halloween-night concert at davenport's Raccoon Motel, their October 31 set sure to demonstrate why Rolling Stone proclaimed, "Flight Attendant delivers an experience."

Michael Charles Angelos, 70, passed away peacefully on the evening of Tuesday May 28, 2024 at his home in Davenport, Iowa.  Angelos was quiet, reserved, soft-spoken, and a relentless driving force for restoring Liberty in Iowa. Those of us who loved him and enjoyed his revolutionary spirit will be celebrating Angelos' life on what would have been his 71st birthday on Sunday, November 3, at the Freight House's Front Street Brewery (421 West River Drive, Davenport IA), beginning at 3 p.m. Please join us in celebrating Angelos' tireless effort to make the Quad Cities an oasis for Liberty.

Two of the five Board of Supervisor seats are up for Scott County voters to elect into office November 5, 2024. Five candidates are running for two seats.

K: I immediately thought that the tapes, as a plot device, were inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale. In that book, the heroine’s story is recorded on a series of cassette tapes. But you found a parallel in a different dystopian novel.

M: It reminded me of the mysterious films in Philip K. Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle. But audience members will just have to see for themselves what the tapes are, and what they mean.

A three-time Tony Award nominee that stands as one of the most popular, enduring, and beloved comedies on the résumé of playwright Neil Simon, the vaudeville salute The Sunshine Boys enjoys an October 18 through 27 engagement at Moline's Playcrafters Barn Theatre, this 1972 Broadway smash inspiring a run of 538 performances and an Oscar-winning movie adaptation.

If Halloween is approaching, it must be time for that annual theatrical command: “Let's do the 'Time Warp' again!” Consequently, the Circa '21 Speakeasy will stage its ninth-annual presentation of the cult-musical smash The Rocky Horror Show from October 18 through 27, treating audiences to live performances of classic songs in this nutty, interactive experience that has been delighting show regulars and virgins alike for more than half a century.