This Veterans Day weekend, the Moline-based Fourth Wall Films – run by the extraordinary husband-and-wife team of Kelly and Tammy Rundle – will premiere the latest documentary in the planned nine-part, short-film Hero Street series.

With the show presented by RockTown Entertainment Group, its sounds provided by DJ Smiles, and MZ.Behaven serving as the night's host, noted standup Donnell Rawlings brings his “Urban Comedy Tour” to Davenport's Adler Theatre on November 13, his recent credits including joining Dave Chappelle for a historic run at Radio City Music Hall and performing with the multiple Emmy and Grammy winner on Saturday Night Live.

Celebrating a dozen years of business and their status as an iconic downtown-Davenport venue, the handmade and vintage outfit Aberbathy's will hold its Bump and Grindhouse 12-Year Birthday Bash at the neighboring Capitol Theatre on November 8, the suitably eclectic night featuring live music by the One Night Standards, a screening of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, and burlesque inspired by the film performed by artists Catty Wompass, Drop Dead Red, Mae Golightly, and Kitty Pardot.

It's hard to be dismissive toward any movie that inspires you to pick up a book, and having seen Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, I'm now eager to read Warren Zanes' 2023 nonfiction that inspired the release, and maybe the Boss' 2016 memoir Born to Run, too. But I'd argue that your desire to check out those titles has little to do with the quality of writer/director Scott Cooper's bio-musical drama.

Mischa: The first thing we should note is that this production was forced by last-minute illness to shuffle some roles around mere days ahead of opening night, so the show could go on.

Kitty: Because of the last-minute casting adjustment, both actresses (understandably) had scripts in hand. But they were very natural in their deliveries and clearly familiar enough with the lines to be at least partly off-book, which is impressive.

A 2021 inductee into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame who has participated as a leader in the River Music Experience’s Winter Blues Schools program and organized BlueSkools sessions at the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Hal Reed performs a free concert at Rock Island's Hauberg Civic Center Mansion on October 29, the artist enjoying a four-decade-long career in Southern gospel, soul, and blues music.

Boasting more than 10,000 worldwide performances and featured on Entertainment Tonight and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, touring tribute artist Jay White brings his Sweet Caroline Tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 31, this stage celebration of Neil Diamond including thrilling renditions of such classics as "Cracklin’ Rosie," "Cherry, Cherry," "Kentucky Woman," "Shilo," "Solitary Man," "Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show," and "Forever in Blue Jeans."

Boasting a rich mix of classical and contemporary works that highlight the trombone’s expressive brilliance, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra opens its 2025-26 season of intimate Up Close performances with Up Close with Robert Parker, a November 1 event at Davenport's Figge Art Museum featuring the talents of the QCSO's Principal Trombonist and pianist Marian Lee.

Currently touring in support of her third studio release When I Paint My Masterpiece, a work The Line of Best Fit called "an intimate record full of poetic and melodic turns," indie-folk singer/songwriter Ada Lea headlines a November 5 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the latest recording by the Montreal-based artist also hailed by Exclaim! as ""a vibrant, revelatory dispatch."