Hailed by Roger Ebert for its "delightful wackiness" the iconic film critic adding that the movie "has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity," the cult classic Bubba Ho-Tep enjoys a trio of June 13 screenings at Davenport's The Last Picture house: two inside the theater, one on the rooftop, and the VIP Experience event featuring a meet-and-greet with the noted team of Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl.

I'm not sure what it says about the future of horror movies – if it says anything at all – that the year's strongest, scariest creep-out to date is directed by someone not quite old enough to drink.

Kitty: I think that Godspell is a highly underrated musical. It’s the secret, more heartfelt version of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Mischa: And without Andrew Lloyd Webber’s malevolent influence!

Currently touring in support of their fifth LP No Fun in the Chrysalis, a 2025 release hailed by Folk Alley for songs that "shine gem-like, sparkling with the light of love and joy," the Midwestern artists of Them Coulee Boys enjoy a headlining engagement at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn on June 6, the group inspiring Jam & Toast to rave, "With a unique blend of Americana, folk-rock, bluegrass, and punk influences, they have cultivated a sound that is both familiar and refreshingly original."

Touring in support of his most recent album Winged Victory, which Glide magazine praised as "timeless folk music" that "addresses these times without being straight-out protest music," singer/songwriter Willi Carlisle headlines a June 5 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Moon, the artist's frequently cheeky recording also hailed by SputnikMusic as "Chock-full of innuendos, comedically verbose tangents and brutally honest horniness."

Touring in support of 2025's remastered version of their album In a Perfect World, a 30th-anniversary release for which, according to New Noise magazine, the artists were "sounding as powerful and vital as ever," the post-punk and alternative rockers of Season to Risk headline a June 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, other fan-favorite albums including 1-800-Meltdown, Men Are Monkeys, Robots Win, and their sefl-titled 1993 debut.

Touring in support of their 2026 recording Grace in Decay that Headbangers Australia said "moves with complete and total purpose," the heavy-metal artists of Spiral Fracture headline a June 10 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group's latest also hailed by Rock-Expert as a work that "reflects the band's view of the modern world, exploring themes of inner struggle, collapse, resilience, and personal truth."

One of William Shakespeare's most delightful and infrequently staged romantic comedies opens Genesius Guild's 2026 summer season at Rock Island's Lincoln Park, with Love's Labour's Lost, from June 6 through 14, treating audiences to what the New York Times' Ben Brantley called a work that "may well be the first and best example of a genre that would flourish in less sophisticated forms five centuries later: the college comedy."

Bringing together contemporary artists responding to the themes and aesthetics explored in the Davenport venue's concurrent exhibition The Golden Age: Featuring Northern European Works from the National Gallery of Art, the Figge Art Museum's A Golden Age for Whom? will be on display through September 20, the two exhibitions' adjoining galleries allowing visitors to move directly between historic works and contemporary responses.