On August 21, Figge Art Museum visitors are invited to experience an evening of phenomenal country music and craft beer when music legends Lorrie Morgan and Suzy Bogguss, alongside special guest Angela Meyer, light up the night in the 2025 Art of the Brew, an exhilarating outdoor celebration held on the Figge plaza.

Hailed by Atwood magazine for delivering a “gritty blend of rock and soul that has a way of stopping people in their tracks,” the blues, Americana, country, and rock artists of Sons of Legion, Adam McInnis and Jack "Daddy Jack" Crenshaw, bring their “Soul to SØL World Tour 2026”to East Moline venue The Rust Belt on August 22, AllMusic adding that the artists have “pushed a vision of mystery and authenticity through their gritty country-rock tunes.”

Hailed by Americana Highways as "a pro’s pro as a musician" and "a personable and warmly engaging performer," folk and indie-pop singer/songwriter Josh Rouse headlines an August 27 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, AllMusic.com's Tim Sendra adding, “Like a baseball player who quietly hits 30 home runs every year or a golfer who regularly finishes in the Top Ten, Josh Rouse's continued streak of excellence is easy to ignore and maybe even downplay a little."

His 2024 album Honky Tonk Ain't Noise Pollution praised by Metal Planet Music as “a damned fine slice of good ol' country music” that's “well-written, well-played, well-sung, and very well-produced,” Ellis Bullard headlines an August 27 concert at davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also lauded by Saving Country Music for “making country music that actually sounds country, while also making it cool.”

Lauded by the Washington Post as "unforgiving and darkly hilarious" and the New York Times as "brutally honest and outrageous," comedian, author, podcast host, and actor Patricia Williams - better known by her stage moniker Ms. Pat - returns to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Rhythm Room on August 21, the headliner beloved as the star of the Emmy-nominated The Ms. Pat Show and new web series Whiskin’ It All.

You’ve likely heard about the great Native American warrior Black Hawk who made the Rock Island area his home. On August 27, the Rock Island Public Library's Downtown Branch invites you to Please Meet Singing Bird, Black Hawk's less-memorialized wife whose life story is the subject of this presentation by Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Kim Sigafus.

Held in conjunction with the Davenport venue's new exhibition “Everyday Lives, Extraordinary Voices: Ruth Suckow's Iowa,” The latest event in the German American Heritage Center's popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series, August 23's Ruth Suckow's Lost Story: Iowa's Great German American Writer, will find President of the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association Barbara Lounsberry exploring the extraordinary backstory of this too-little-known German-American writer.

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch sat down for interviews with selected reporters last week. He told most of them that his office had conducted an “informal investigation” into sexual harassment allegations against former Representative Harry Benton, D-Plainfield, in 2023.

Director Pam Cantrell, her cast, and her crew served this entertaining concoction (yes, there are funny bits) with seven of Poe’s stories as ingredients.