Composed of Brook Hoover and Ian Williams on guitar, Trevor Treiber on bass, and Luke Ferguson on drums, the surf rockers and Iowa natives of Surf Zombies headline a November 18 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with Little Village magazine calling the musicians' Return of the Skeleton "a dream of an album" in which "the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 inductees bring their A-game."

A gifted alt-folk and -rock singer/songwriter based in Des Moines will take the stage at Davenport's Village Theatre in the November 18 concert event An Evening with Dan Tedesco, the artist's self-titled debut album praised by the Boston Globe for its “minimalist rhythmic guitar, melodies that swoop, soar, and linger, and lyrics saturated with metaphor."

Melding Christmas and rock music in ways never heard before, and boasting music by such bands as Metallica, Evanescence, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel, the vocalists and multi-instrumentalists of Classical Blast bring their holiday show Dark Side of the Yule to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on November 18, offering a unique take on traditional carols and classical favorites alike.

A Staten Island, New York native best-known for co-creating and starring in truTV’s long-running hit Impractical Jokers, comedian Sal Vulcano brings his national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 19, an evening of inspired standup from the longtime Tenderloins comic and popular host of Hey Babe! and Taste Buds podcasts.

Held in collaboration with the Quad Cities' TMBC at the Lincoln Resource Center, a series of performances by noted community leaders will be delivered in the Figge Art Museum's Empowerment Echoed: Responding to 'Art & Activism at Tougaloo College, the November 18 event held in conjunction with the Davenport venue's current exhibition that explores a distinctive intersection of modern art, education, and social justice.

If you know in advance that writer/director Sofia Coppola's latest film is going to cover the life of Priscilla Presley from the week of her introduction to Elvis to the day she walked out of Graceland for good, and also know that only one performer is going to play the role from ages 14 through 27, your first sight of Priscilla lead Cailee Spaeny might come as a shock.

Sarushibai (猿芝居) are a three-piece from Fujioka City, Japan, crashing merrily around the USA in support of their new album 日​陰​者​の​矜​持 (loosely translated to Pride of a Person in the Shadows.) It's a slim, clamorous ten-song rush of energetic power-chord chug.

On October 24, 2023, Iowa Senator Charles (Chuck) Grassley sent a demand letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Merrick Garland and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, instructing them to provide his Senate Committee on the Budget with all records and relevant information from an enumerated list of 15 items pertaining to the Biden family investigations into foreign entanglements and associated finances during the past five years. The deadline for AG Garland and Director Wray to respond is November 17, 2023.

There are various compassionate and generous efforts afoot in the Quad Cities that greatly alleviate animal suffering. Movers for Mutts is one of them, and as animals' families, guardians and stewards, we have an obligation to do all that we can to assist this worthy effort.