The rain may not start to pour, but staffers at Great River Brewery will be there for you – like they've been there before! – on November 21, the evening of which will find the Davenport venue inviting patrons to share their best guesses on Central Perk factoids in the sitcom- and holiday-themed FriendsGiving Trivia Night.

Wrapping up the organization's eight Novembers of Harry Potter films presented in the hugely popular QCSO at the Movies series since 2017, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra returns to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 22 to perform live accompaniment for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the final, and highest-grossing, movie smash adapted from J.K. Rowling's iconic fantasy/adventure novels.

On November 21, a revered group of chart-topping, Grammy-winning rockers will be celebrated when Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center presents the tribute event Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles, an evening of beloved, iconic hits sure to include such chart-toppers as "Heartache Tonight," "Peaceful Easy Feeling," "Best of My Love," "One of These Nights," and, of course, "Hotel California."

Touring in support of their 2025 release Mourning You that Punknews deemed "an album that you feel deep within your soul," twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor bring their punk outfit Bonnie Trash to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 21, Guitar World adding that their latest recording is "a sonic mass that’s abstract, beautiful, and bloodcurdling in equal measure."

Winner of the Josie Awards” “Tribute Artist of the Year” for 2024, country artist Mike Sugg brings his touring sensation The American Ride: Toby Keith Tribute to Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on November 22, his show delivering good-time, patriotic, party music from the late artist's first hit "Should've Been a Cowboy” to "Don't Let the Old Man In" and everything in between.

House Democratic legislators received a stern lecture during the second week of veto session about leaks from their private party caucus meetings. During the first week of veto session in October, I posted a photo on my blog of a caucus PowerPoint presentation showing the range of revenue ideas under consideration in the House to fund mass transit ... while the caucus was still meeting. That apparently caused quite a stir.

Delivering what the New York Times deemed "the subliminal potency of music, the head-scratching surprise of a modernist poem, and the cockeyed allure of a surrealist painting," Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice enjoys a November 14 through 23 staging in the Galvin Fine Arts Studio Theatre at St. Ambrose University, the Times adding that the genre-spanning show is a "devastatingly lovely – and just plain devastating – theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth."

Featuring a world-class vocal group assembled from past and present members of legendary ensembles The Miracles and The Contours, the touring sensation A Motown Christmas lands at Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 17, and evening of dazzling choreography and unforgettable harmonies performed in that unforgettable, soulful Motown style.

Touring in support of his 2024 album If It Takes Forever and lauded by Paste magazine for delivering "nimble grooves, creamy choruses, and vocal performances of immediacy and genuine feeling," folk singer/songwriter Brett Dennen headlines a November 15 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, the show an interactive art, storytelling, and acoustic-music concert with the artist Glide praised for his "bouncy rhythms, upbeat acoustic strumming, and sunny choruses."