A beloved touring artist who has twice appeared on Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and has released three Netflix comedy specials including 2021's On the Rocks, acclaimed funnyman Brian Regan brings his quick-witted talents to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 26, demonstrating why Vanity Fair called him “the funniest standup alive,” and Entertainment Weekly deemed him “your favorite comedian's favorite comedian.”

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.

Presented as part of the German American Heritage Center's popular "Kaffee und Kuchen" series, the September 14 program 20th Century German Expressionism will find Western Illinois University's Keith Holz addressing moments in the history of German Expressionist art from the 1905 founding of Die Brücke in Dresden to glimmers of its renewed popularity in European museums today.

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.