10 Feb 2026

Eleven Minutes for Love: Ballet Quad Cities Presents “Romeo + Juliet: A Love Story,” February 21 and 22 at St. Ambrose University

By Mike Schulz

As Valentine's Month options go, Shakespeare's tale of thwarted love between a teenage Montague and Capulet is certainly devastatingly romantic. Those aware of its ending know it's also devastating, full stop. Yet as choreographer and Ballet Quad Cities Artistic Director Courtney Lyon understands, feeling bad about doomed love can, in this context, feel awfully darned good.

04 Dec 2025

Boundless Free Expression: A Look Inside Davenport's Burlesque-Themed Ecdysiast Arts Museum

By Jonathan Turner

When Danielle Colby and other local women strut, create character, and gradually remove items of their costumes in on-stage routines at the Ecdysiast Arts Museum, they not only bare their bodies, but their souls, personalities, dreams, and desires – and have great fun in the process.

07 Oct 2025

Mo' Poe: Ballet Quad Cities Reunites with Edgar Allan in “More Twisted Tales of Poe,” October 17 and 18 at the Spotlight Theatre

By Mike Schulz

Even in the world of dance, it's not surprising when a successful original inspires a sequel, and on October 17 and 18, a Halloween-themed one comes to Moline's Spotlight Theatre in the form of Ballet Quad Cities' More Twisted Tales of Poe.

02 Oct 2025

Quad Cities Haunt Actors Ready to Scare Up a Good, Creepy Time

By Jonathan Turner

Touring the haunted halls and dark crevices of Skellington Manor is scary enough, with its depraved permanent displays and figures. But add the colorful, creepy live performers during the haunted-house season of October 3 through November 2, and the fear factor is super-charged.

05 Sep 2025

Floatzilla 2025 Racing Results

By Todd McGreevy

On Saturday, August 16, 2025, River Action celebrated its 16th-Annual Floatzilla event with an all-day float on the Mississippi River culminating at Lake Potter in Rock Island, Illinois. For the first time ever, the float included a couple competitive races: the Dam to Dam race for kayak racers and the QC Cup for Navarro Canoe Co. canoe racers.

25 Aug 2025

"Secret Iowa" Offers Lots of Fun Spots to Visit, Including in the QC Area

By Jonathan Turner

Iowa gets unfairly maligned as “flyover country.” But the Hawkeye State also has been immortalized as “heaven” in the 1989 classic film Field of Dreams, which was shot in Dyersville. Megan Bannister is firmly in the latter camp, as the bubbly Chicago native turned willing Iowan has traversed our divine cornfields and assembled 84 quirky, fun places to stop in her 192-page paperback book Secret Iowa: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, & Obscure.

13 Aug 2025

Ballet Quad Cities' “Ballet Off the Lawn,” August 23 and 24

By Mike Schulz

“Yeah, we're Off the Lawn,” says Ballet Quad Cities Artistic Director Courtney Lyon. “We were asking ourselves, 'What are we gonna call it?' As a joke, kind of tongue-in-cheek, someone said, 'Ballet Off the Lawn'? And we were like, 'Ummm … okay!' Because it has the same feeling as the Ballet on the Lawns – it has great energy, and everything's really engaging and theatrical. It's just gonna be indoors.”

05 Aug 2025

Three New Races Added to the Mississippi's Largest All-Day Paddling Event: River Action’s Floatzilla, August 16

By Jonathan Turner

River Action’s fun Floatzilla event is roaring back for its 16th year, and it's bigger than ever.

03 Jul 2025

Instead of a Toothbrush, a Porcupine: ComedySportz Quad Cities to Host World Championship in Moline, July 9 through 12

By Jonathan Turner

For the first time in 10 years, ComedySportz (CSz) Quad Cities will host the world championship for the improvisational comedy group, and for the first time at Moline’s Spotlight Theatre (1800 Seventh Avenue, Moline IL).

01 Apr 2025

Ballet Quad Cities' “The Firebird” and “La Création du monde,” April 12

By Mike Schulz

Even if you've previously seen Lyon's takes on The Firebird and La Création du monde, which will enjoy two stagings at Davenport's Adler Theatre on April 12, you won't have seen them quite the way you soon will.

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