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“A Surreal Lens: Photography from the Figge Collection,” December 20 through June 21

For the Davenport's final new exhibition of 2025, the Figge Art Museum will be taking an up-close-and-personal look at some of its most arresting in-house works in A Surreal Lens: Photography from the Figge Collection, a celebration of the medium on display in the ...
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“Boone & Zahn,” December 12 through January 30

Closing 2025, and opening 2026, with an arresting and enthralling collection of surreal paintings and sculpture, Rock Island's Quad City Arts Center will house the Boone & Zahn exhibition from December 12 through January 30, treating gallery attendees to a series of remarkable works ...
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Dancers’ Studio’s “The Nutcracker,” December 19 and 20

A group of dedicated student dancers will bring their talents to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on December 19 and 20 when Monmouth, Illinois' Dancer's Studio presents two performances of The Nutcracker, the timeless holiday ballet by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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“German Holiday Sing-Along,” December 21

With the December 21 event designed to inspire holiday cheer and nostalgia through the crooning of classics including "O Tannenbaum" and "Stille Nacht," guests of Davenport's German American Heritage Center are invited to join the fun of the German Holiday Sing-Along, a celebration of ...
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Don’t Kill the Dandelion Messenger

The Fertilizer Institutes Heralding MAHA's Second Report Brings Attention to Biostimulants That Grateful Graze and Soil Saviors Also AdvocateWhat if the ubiquitous dandelion plant was not a weed to be destroyed as a pest to the soil it emerges in, but rather a natural, ...
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Grief Encounter: “Hamnet,” “Jay Kelly,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Fackham Hall,” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2”

Although the film is anchored by a ferocious Jessie Buckley and a frequently moving Paul Mescal, it might be impossible, after seeing director/co-writer Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, to reflect on the movie without the face of its titular portrayer coming instantly to mind, and potentially ...
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I’ve Got 99 Problems, but a Grinch Ain’t One!: “Who’s Holiday,” at the Circa ’21 Speakeasy through December 19

M: It was an unmitigated pleasure to watch Sydney Richardson portray this part. She exuded the perfect mix of Midwestern charm and knowing experience to make it really come to life.Kitty: Oh, absolutely. This show's brisk run time of just over an hour could ...
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Blue Line Burn: Attacks on SAFE-T Act’s Efficacy Merely More Baby-with-the-Bathwater Rhetoric

In the days after the horrific burning of a woman on a CTA train, allegedly by a clearly deranged habitual criminal suspect last month, some in the news media immediately focused on their go-to issue: The Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today, or SAFE-T Act. ...
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Bibbidi-Bobbidi Boon: “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” at the Spotlight Theatre through December 14

The Spotlight Theatre's current offering is the 2013 Cinderella, which has all the memorable songs and just the right amount of appealing humor. And I thoroughly enjoyed Friday's opening-night performance, with director Sarah Greim, music director Christine Rogers, and choreographer Michelle Kabel wrangling a ...
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Boundless Free Expression: A Look Inside Davenport’s Burlesque-Themed Ecdysiast Arts Museum

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 ...
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