Presented by the Scottish-American Society of the Quad Cities, an eagerly anticipated evening of traditional pageantry and heritage returns to the Quad Cities in the 47th Robert Burns Night, the February 22 event at Bettendorf's Isle Casino Hotel boasting live music, delicious food, and a celebration of the 224-year-old Scottish tradition honoring Celtic legend Robert Burns.

If you're a parent of young children, you're no doubt familiar with the magical world of the TV puppy Bluey, and on February 22, the Moline Public Library will celebrate the pooch and his pals in the Bluey Bash, with games, crafts, and dance breaks inspired by everyone's favorite blue Heeler family – all for the low, low price of absolutely zero dollar bucks.

A critically acclaimed 2023 release and Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, writer/director Celine Song's arresting, ravishingly emotional Past Lives enjoys a February 27 screening in the Figge Art Museum's “Free Film at the Figge” series, the semi-autobiographical work also included on Indiewire's list of the "Best American Independent Movies of the 21st Century."

Violets are blue, roses are red / Why not spend V Day with folks getting dead?

Kitty: Conceptually, this musical is certainly a challenge. Presenting what is essentially the same material over and over again, but in a way that’s going to be interesting to the audience, is inherently difficult.

Mischa: There are also too many layers of philosophical or ideological meaning added to an essentially frivolous story, as though a light entertainment were trying to turn into Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus.

Whether one head-banged with Rob Zombie and Black Sabbath in the 1990s, enjoyed dinner and a Broadway musical downtown in the 2000s, or busted a gut at a John Crist tour stop in 2024, the experience inside the Adler Theatre on show night always begins on a positive and classy note thanks to the heretofore unheralded volunteer usher corps.

On February 6, art lovers are invited to celebrate the christening of the newly named John Deere Gallery at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, its walls featuring selections from the remarkable John Deere Art Collection. Visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to experience these internationally significant works of art, many of which were previously accessible only within John Deere’s corporate facilities.

With Irish Music Magazine raving that the quintet delivers "music that’s brimming with energy and creative zeal," the Celtic talents of Goitse – the Gaelic word for "come here" pronounced "go-wit-cha" – serve as the latest guests in Quad City Arts Visiting Artists' series, offering a 45-minute performance and talk at the Bettendorf Public Library on February 18, and a full concert at Moline's Sound Conservatory on February 20.

Performing from a legendary repertoire that includes “All of My Love,” “Good Times Bad Times,” and “Stairway to Heaven," the Led Zeppelin tribute artists of Get the Led Out headline a February 16 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, their evening of hits also touching on deeper cuts that were seldom, if ever, heard in concert, this special “acoustic set” of Zep favorites including numbers such as “Tangerine” and "Hey Hey What Can I Do."