In a special evening featuring acclaimed touring artist Mike Wiley, a horrific piece of history will come to life with thrilling immediacy and power in the author/star's solo performance Blood Done Sign My Name, this arresting work - being presented in the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center on January 22 - hailed by Broadway World as "a fascinating story of one man's journey to understanding and coming to terms with his own community."

On display in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery of Mt. Vernon's Cornell College through March 31, the fascinating exhibition Come Celebrate with Me ... will treat patrons to a collection of arresting pieces by the Illinois-based interdisciplinary artist Nicole Davis.

With the event held not long after the celebration of the building's 150th anniversary and the decade-long rehabilitation of historic Forest Grove School Number Five, Kelly and Tammy Rundle of the Moline-based Fourth Wall Films will screen their documentary Resurrecting Forest Grove at the Bettendorf Public Library on January 18, this special presentation a program in the library's popular Community Connections series.

It arrived a few days late, but the undisputed movie tearjerker of 2023 finally landed in '24 with Thursday's Netflix debut of Society of the Snow, writer/director J.A. Bayona's foreign-language survival thriller about the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 disaster.

On January 6, 2021, there was no “insurrection.” This is evidenced in part because three years later no charge or indictment of “insurrection” has been filed against anyone, including Trump.

The corporate media fabricated “misinformation” and “fake news” crises funded by the uni-party overlords inside the so-called “conservative” and “liberal” Democratic and Republican party oligarchies currently enable mass distraction away from government accountability and self-determinate solutions.

Lauded by Broadway World for its "broadly drawn characters, exotic settings, and a spectacular murder with no shortage of suspects," the stage version of Agatha Christie's classic Murder on the Orient Express makes its debut at Rock Island's Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse from January 17 through March 2, this delightful mystery comedy also hailed by the Hartford Courant as "a fast-moving, powerful theatrical locomotive" that "will get you to a better place, and slay you merrily en route."

Returning to Moline with two spectacular, all-new touring presentations, the live, multi-sensory musical experience known as the Candlelight Concerts series enjoys its fourth Quad Cities engagement at Moline's Spotlight Theatre with a pair of eagerly awaited January 12 events: Candlelight: A Tribute to Coldplay and Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift.

With their most recent album Regenerator inspiring The Obelisk to hail the band as "one of the brightest lights shining in underground rock today" trio of vocalist/guitarist Sean McVay, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson bring their outfit King Buffalo to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on January 16, their talents also leading Sludgelord to call the group "a powerful concoction of heavy psych, blues, and stoner rock in stunning cohesion."