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The River City Boys, August 23

Performing a salute to the legendary Americana/country musicians who have amassed five Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and three Country Music Association Awards, the Nashville-based River City Boys headline an August 23 concert event at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center, delivering ...
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“Future Now” Closing Celebration and Artist Talk, August 28

With the colorful and arresting exhibit on display through August 31, a closing celebration and artist talk on the footwear-themed exhibit Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks will be held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on August 28, the evening featuring a captivating ...
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“Unbreakable,” August 22

A box-office hit from 2000 lauded by Quentin Tarantino as "a brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology," M. Night Shymalan's psychological superhero thriller Unbreakable enjoys a special August 22 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the event hosted by, and featuring a ...
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“V for Vendetta,” August 27

With review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes' hailing the dystopian thriller as "visually stunning and thought-provoking," director James McTeigue's 2006 hit V for Vendetta enjoys a special August 27 screening as part of Rozz-Tox's community series Filmosofia, this evening in Rock Island also boasting a reading ...
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“Hot Fuzz,” August 22

Boasting a 91-percent approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and hailed by the site's critical consensus as "a bitingly satiric and hugely entertaining parody," director/co-writer Edgar Wright's 2007 cult classic Hot Fuzz enjoys an outdoor screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, the August 22 ...
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Leavin’ Like a Jet Plane, Don’t Know When They’ll Be Back Again: “Weapons,” “Freakier Friday,” and “Sketch”

In Weapons, writer/director Zach Cregger is almost too inventive, his apparent making-it-up-as-he-goes-along approach so reckless that it seems to stop mattering if what we're watching makes any earthly sense.
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The Gubernatorial Tug-of-War Over the Fugitive Texas Dems Little More Than Theatre of the Absurd

I’m assuming you’ve already seen coverage of the Democratic Texas state legislators who fled to Illinois to prevent a Republican-backed redrawing of congressional district lines in their home state. Their absence means their Legislature doesn’t have enough members to legally conduct business.
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Lifetime’s Original Dance Mom: Quad City Music Guild’s “Gypsy,” at the Prospect Park Auditorium through August 17

Quad City Music Guild’s summer season winds down with one of the big American musicals: Gypsy, directed here by Troy Stark, and featuring a score by Jule Styne, book by Arthur Laurents, and lyrics by an early-career Stephen Sondheim. And while there were a ...
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New York States of Mind: “Ordinary Days,” at the Black Box Theatre through August 17

Director Shelley Cooper, Augustana College's associate professor of theatre arts, and music director and accompanist Rob Elfline, professor of music at Augustana, have engineered another extraordinary production with Ordinary Days.
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Mayhem on the Disoriented Express: “The Play That Goes Wrong,” at the Spotlight Theatre through August 17

K: Dolly Parton famously said, “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.” Likewise, it takes many hours of rehearsal to make a show look humorously under-rehearsed.M: Ironically, it’s necessary to play a bad actor well.
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Young Emerging Writers 20th-Anniversary Event and “THE ATLAS 20” Reading, August 14

With the Midwest Writing Center's literary magazine THE ATLAS celebrating the publication of its 20th volume, a release party, open-mic night, and DJ set honoring the Young Emerging Writers (YEW) program will be held at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox on August 14, the evening ...
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“Image & Idea,” August 15 through September 30

At the Rock Island Public Library's Watts-Midtown Branch from August 15 through 30, works by three gifted area visual artists will be displayed in the exhibition Image & Idea, an arresting showcase for the works of Tony Seabolt, Lisa Mahar, and Jeff Ignatius.
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