December 17th, 2022
Arts & Entertainment News
Join us for our year end celebration, Muddy Water Mayhem presents Masquerade on Saturday, December 17 at 9pm! Break out the lavish masks, gowns, costumes (or come in your fave fet ware!) and come out to see a menagerie of stage shows, music, dancing, and more! Join us for general admission of $15 ($20 at […]
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April 23rd, 2022
Arts & Entertainment News
Enjoy a night of Masculine Burlesque and Feminine Comedy! Featuring the Comedy of Pubali Kundu, Amber Phillips, Rein Razor, Jenny Lynn Stacy and Celtic Honey! Plus all the nakedness from your favorite Manscape Burlesque members!! Tickets are $12.00 in advance. $15 at the door. Call 309 786 7733 ext 2 for tickets! Doors open at […]
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March 12th, 2022
Arts & Entertainment News
Burlesque is back March 19! This all new show gives you all the thrills and chills you’ve come to love from Bottom’s Up! Get your tickets now when you visit: https://www.thecirca21speakeasy.com/
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February 12th, 2022
Arts & Entertainment News
Saturday, February 12, The Speakeasy is pleased to welcome back Bottom’s Up Burlesque! Bottom’s Up is the longest running burlesque troupe in the Quad Cities and is excited to premiere their all new show BLOODY VALENTINE! Flowers and chocolates are so overrated so let the gorgeous performers of Bottoms Up Burlesque show you a darker […]
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December 31st, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
A New Year’s Eve tradition for the last nine years is back at The Speakeasy in downtown Rock Island as the theater welcomes Bottom’s Up Burlesque to ring in 2022 with an all new show! “We’re thrilled to be continuing this tradition after having to skip last year,” said Brett Hitchcock, Speakeasy director of audience […]
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August 26th, 2021
Arts & Entertainment News
Everything about Mary Francis is big and boisterous – her brassy, unpretentious personality, her infectious laugh, her sense of fun, her voluptuous figure, and her passion for burlesque and the Quad-Cities. The founder and leader of Mary Quite Contrary’s House of Burlesque (launched in late 2019), Mary is celebrating all things Q-C in a new […]
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July 24th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Rein Razer participated as a guest performer at the last burlesque show at the Village Theatre – a March 14 gig from the new Crystal Crown Cabaret – and the Rock Islander is back organizing a special return, Friday, July 24 at 8 p.m. The theater is at 2113 E. 11th St., Village of East […]
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July 24th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
I want to give kudos to Rein Razer. In our story earlier this week on QuadCities.com on her upcoming burlesque show, Rein Razer’s Court of Royalty, coming to Village Theater tonight, she said the following: “I got the idea from how the Speakeasy was doing their booking for shows.” Seems simple, right? Just […]
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May 25th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Despite its title, there’s not a ton of burlesque in “Burlesque River,” a new romance novel set in the Quad-Cities, penned by veteran burlesque performer Kitty Bardot. There are key club scenes — at the start and near the end of this beautifully written book (part of a planned series) — that reflect the raunch, […]
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December 12th, 2018
What's the Good News
We’re always looking for great, positive news in the Quad-Cities, and every month, I present some of the awesome things here in What’s The Good News? This regular column, in conjunction with my appearances with Paula Sands on “Paula Sands Live” (3 p.m. weekdays on KWQC-TV6), put the spotlight on some of the upbeat and […]
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