Having thrilled international audiences with astounding feats of illusion involving levitations, souped-up super-cars, and an impossible escape from Houdini's water-torture cell, the prestidigitators of Champions of Magic bring their wildly successful stage show to Davenport's Adler Theatre on October 26, with Stage Door stating “Lovers of magic won't want to miss it,” and the Heresford Times calling the production “slick, clever, funny … and amazing.”

Arriving just in time for Halloween, monsters – albeit family-friendly ones – will be haunting the halls of Bettendorf's Family Museum on October 20 in the venue's special event Scarecrow Shenanigans: Monster Takeover, a holiday-themed day boasting activities, crafts, experiments, presentations, displays, performances, and plenty of ghoulish guests.

Patrons of Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center are invited to view fantastically ridiculous machines, and dream up some of their own, in the venue's Rube Goldberg: The World of Hilarious Invention!, the new traveling exhibition that opens on September 28 and showcases the legendary Rube Goldberg’s iconic contraptions, imaginative illustrations, and humorous storytelling.