A largely pro forma musical bio-pic on the British pop sensation Robbie Williams, Better Man is only director Michael Gracey's second non-documentary feature, the first being 2017's word-of-mouth hit The Greatest Showman. And about 40 minutes into his new film, you're finally treated to evidence of what a powerfully great showman Gracey can be.

Featuring 26 beautiful paintings and drawings by a noted graduate of Stanford University and the California School of Fine Arts, the colorful exhibition Beth Van Hoesen: Prints from the Permanent Collection will be on display at the Muscatine Art Center through March 9, the collection's opening held on the top floor of the historic Musser-McColm mansion.

Stunning works by an Argentine-American artist and educator revered for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking, as well as members of his family, will be celebrated at the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery through February 3, with Lasansky: UD's Private Collection honoring the man who established the school of printmaking at the University of Iowa, which offered the first Master of Fine Arts program in the field in the United States.

Apocalyptic in its vision and ambitious in its musicality, High on Fire’s first album since 2018 is an explosion of pent-up heavy metal energy from one of the finest and most progressive bands active today.

A lauded 2024 documentary sequel that, according to The Guardian, "will make you think twice about what you put in your supermarket basket," directors Robert Kenner's and Melissa Robledo's Food, Inc. 2 serves as the first presentation in 2025 QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action, its January 19 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum treating attendees to what RogerEbert.com's Glenn Kenny deemed "an engaging and watchable activist documentary that does make way for optimism."

Fresh off her critically acclaimed role in Pamela Adlon's 2024 indie comedy Babes, an award-winning standup comedian, actress, television host, producer, and podcast host takes part in the latest virtual Illinois Libraries Present program hosted by the Rock Island and Silvis Public Libraries, the January 23 event Love & Laughs with Michelle Buteau finding its subject in honest, hilarious conversation with interviewer Greta Johnsen.

Celebrating an iconic band that revolutionized the music scene through hard-hitting hits from the '90s and 2000s, Land of Linkin: Linkin Park Tribute headlines a January 18 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, reproducing the dual-vocal screams of Chester Bennington and raps of Mike Shinoda revered from such chart-topping albums as Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, and A Thousand Suns.

Performing a glorious repertoire of works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Jeremy Bankson, Franklin Ashdown, and Percy Fletcher, University of Dubuque organist and professor of music Dr. Charles Barland will deliver a faculty organ recital of varied works on January 19, the event demonstrating the many varieties of sound and color that are possible on the Heritage Center's magnificent John and Alice Butler Pipe Organ.

After its 2024 cancellation due to extreme weather, an eagerly awaited wintertime treat and annual celebration of Jack Frost's powers returns to downtown Davenport in Icestravaganza 2025, with this family-friendly event – taking place from January 17 through 19 – boasting favorite monuments carved out of ice and lit up with gloriously colorful LED lights.