A new racing league is rocketing onto the scene in Muscatine. Rocket League will hold its first double-elimination tournament from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Star Collectibles’ Island Speedway, 1109 Grandview Ave, Muscatine. Tom and Alex Knapper, Sean Stivason and Aaron Burton set up the league a month ago to convert one of […]
Skeleton Key Art and Antiques announces a new “shop hop” style shopping event, Best Kept Shopping Secrets, taking place Saturday, February 24. Four Illinois small businesses will offer shopping, sales, refreshments, and prizes as they welcome shoppers to some of the best kept shopping secrets in Rock Island and Moline. Skeleton Key Art and Antiques […]
Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse in Rock Island is pleased to welcome back popular stand-up comedienne ETTA MAY in BOX WINE AND GAS STATION CHICKEN on Thursday, March 8. “ETTA MAY has been coming to Circa ’21 for several years and plays to sold-out houses. Audiences just love her show,” said Brett Hitchcock, Circa ‘21 director […]
Travis Glynn is soft-spoken and quick to smile as he sips his coffee from a large mug at Elly’s in downtown Muscatine. He’s talking about his family, one of his favorite subjects, and the winter holidays, but he speaks with the same consideration and compassion on most topics, displaying the humanity and courtesy that informs […]
Storyteller and librettist Charlotte Blake Alston will be in residence through Feb. 23, thanks to Quad City Arts’ Visiting Artist Series. Charlotte Blake Alston is a nationally acclaimed storyteller, narrator, instrumentalist, librettist and singer who performs in venues throughout North America and abroad. She is the host of “Sound All Around,” the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Preschool […]
Rock Island Library will be hosting a Teen YouTube Challenge Video Night Tuesday, Feb 20, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, at the Rock Island Downtown Library, 401 19th St. Teens who enter the Quad City wide Teen YouTube Video Challenge could see their work on the big screen at the Putnam. If you need help with […]
In their first Broadway musical in nearly a decade, Junior Theatre brings Dr. Seuss to Life in “Seussical.” Performances are 1 and 4 p.m. Feb. 17, 18, 24 and 25. Tickets are $6 for 3-17, $8 for adults and free for kids under 2 at Mary Fluhrer Nighswander Junior Theater, 2822 Eastern Ave., Davenport. Since […]
WQPT announces its annual PBS KIDS Writers Contest empowering children in grades K-3 to celebrate creativity and build literacy skills by writing and illustrating their own stories. Stories, which must be the original work of the child, may be non-fiction, fiction, prose or poetry. Entries, postmarked by Friday, March 30 can be dropped off at […]
Do you know your muggles from your quidditch? Can you hold your butter beer and your regular beer? Then you might want to ride your broom on in to Boonie’s, 214 Iowa Ave., for Harry Potter Trivia Night at 7 p.m. Friday. Muggles and wizards alike are invited to play Harry Potter Trivia and learn […]
National Inspire Your Heart with Art Day is a day to reflect on how art affects your heart. Art, in all of its forms, has the power to move us, and to inspire our hearts. Of all the different kinds of art created in the world, those that move us to tears or cause us […]
