Performing from a repertoire of favorites includes swinging Frank Sinatra standards and lush blue-eyed ballads, popular stage crooner Ben Jones brings his touring show Let Me Be Frank to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on February 14. The Valentine's Day concert also boasts the talents of pianist, composer, and music director Ron Abel, side-splitting laughs, and tunes from the songbooks of Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Brel, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Winner of both the American Comedy Award and the Phyllis Diller Award for "Best Female Comedian," and the star of popular streaming specials Bothering Jesus and Hunting Bigfoot, standup sensation and podcaster Kathleen Madigan brings "The Day Drinking Tour" to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on February 20, her lauded talents inspiring the Chicago Tribune to rave, "She has all but perfected the art of crafting and delivering a perfect joke."

With the in-person event held in celebration of Black History Month, an Augustana College graduate, former Moline teacher/coach, and Superintendent of Rock Island-Milan Public Schools takes part in a conversation about his recent memoir in From Dubuque to Selma & Beyond: An Evening with Local Author Dave Markward. The February 19 program at the Rock Island Public Library Watts-Midtown Branch finds Dr. Markward sharing his personal journey of understanding racism in America.

A Dubuque native who enjoys bringing comfort, healing, and honesty to those in need. Melissa Culbertson - better known by her stage moniker Melissa the Medium - will speak to and with audience members at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on February 15, the professional counselor beloved for employing her Christian background as guidance while she delivers messages from the spirit world.

Appearing in a February 20 program in the Bettendorf Public Library's popular "Community Connections" series, local documentarians Kelly and Tammy Rundle will present two of their works that share an environmental theme, the Rundles' Fourth Wall Films a five-time regional Emmy Award-winning independent media production company formerly located in Los Angeles, California, and now based in Moline.

With each piece chosen by the institutions’ art professors to showcase campus talent and creativity, the Figge Art Museum's 13th installment of the College Invitational will be celebrated at the Davenport venue on February 20, the event finding students and professors from area colleges and universities on hand and recipients of the student awards announced during the evening.

I absolutely adored this funny, nasty, intensely satisfying shiv to the gut knowing its hook in advance. The mind boggles at how much fun I might've had going in unprepared.

An artist who has broken ground for Latino comics by embracing his ethnicity, confronting racial stereotypes, and fighting for his community on and off the stage, Grammy-nominated comedian George Lopez brings his national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on February 15, the famed funnyman beloved for six seasons as the star of his eponymous ABC sitcom, which currently ranks as one of the top-rated shows on Nick at Nite.

Honoring the legendary "day the music died" with a nonstop celebration full of musical life, the touring artists of John Mueller's Winter Dance Party take the stage at Davenport's Capitol Theatre on February 7, the night a tribute to the eternal magic of rock-and-roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson.