Adored for her many TV and film appearances, including memorable roles in Coming 2 America and the original Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, as well as her 2023 Netflix special Town Business, comedian and actor Luenell headlines a September 7 night of comedy at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, her varied list of accomplishments including being inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 2015.

An operatic comedy by composer/librettist Derrick Wang that was hailed as “a dream come true” by the iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scalia/Ginsburg opens the 2024-25 season at Iowa City's Riverside Theatre, its September 5 through 15 run telling the story of the friendship between the notorious RBG and her fierce judicial opponent Antonin Scalia through the lens of their shared love of opera. What better way to tell of this unlikely bond across political lines than through the art form they both adored?

Currently touring in support of their 2024 album Contractual Obligations, a recording that The Grateful Web praised as a "wildly life-affirming portrait of growing older without losing heart," the alternative rockers of Deer Tick headline a September 8 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, their latest recording also inspiring Mxdwn Music to rave that "each song has a story that opens up new emotions simultaneously through powerful lyricism and a passionate production."

With his live show described as a "blues punk guitar dance party," and the artist having enjoyed frequent tours of North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Taiwan, and Iceland, experimental rocker Bob Log III headlines a September 6 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist famed for donning a full-body human-cannonball sui and a helmet wired to a telephone receiver, which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums.

With the Mississippi Valley Blues Society presenting the concert in partnership with the 2024 Xtream Rock Island Grand Prix, a pair of thrilling, Chicago-based blues acts take the outdoor stage of Rock Island's Schwiebert Park in the final presentations of the MVBS's summer season: an afternoon set with the high-energy talents of the Sean McKee Band, and an evening set with the equally gifted artists of the Kilborn Alley Blues Band.

Director/co-writer Greg Kwedar's Sing Sing allows Colman Domingo's soul to spill for roughly 100 solid minutes. Thrillingly, however, his isn't the only soul on display. Not by a long shot.

Since the 2022 election, far too many Illinoisans have been far too eager to pine for a repeat of the past.

With the Figge Art Museum hosting an intimate exhibition on loan from the Deere & Company collection, Revolutionary Artist: The Prison Fantasies of David Alfaro Siqueiros, on display in the Davenport venue through January 5, will treat patrons to evocative works by the artist (1896-1974) who founded the modern school of Mexican mural painting alongside his contemporaries Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco.

Promising patrons a nostalgic journey back to the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when the “Mississippi River Jams” and “Isle of Rock” festivals filled Credit Island with the sound of rock, the Davenport locale will host Common Chord's 2024 Credit Island Throwback Fest on August 31, offering guests a family-friendly concert and community festival, plus the annual delights of the Great River Ducky Derby.