Jonathan Turner
Jonathan Turner has three decades of varied Quad Cities journalism experience, and currently does freelance writing for not only WVIK, but QuadCities.com, River Cities Reader and Visit Quad Cities. He loves writing about music and the arts, as well as a multitude of other topics including features on interesting people, places, and organizations. A longtime piano player (who has been accompanist at Davenport's Zion Lutheran Church since 1999) with degrees in music from Oberlin College and Indiana University, he has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs, and instrumentalists. He even wrote his own musical ("Hard to Believe") based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. He wrote a 175-page book about downtown Davenport ("A Brief History of Bucktown"), which was published by The History Press in 2016, and a QC travel guide in 2022 ("100 Things To Do in the Quad Cities Before You Die"), published by Reedy Press. Turner was honored in 2009 to be among 24 arts journalists nationwide to take part in a 10-day fellowship offered by the National Endowment for the Arts in New York City on classical music and opera, based at Columbia University’s journalism school.
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Savannah Bay Strandin is living her dream, performing as Cinderella in the newest Disney Cruise Line ship, the Singapore-based Adventure. -
East Moline is not only making big street improvements to downtown and The Bend area. It has a major multi-year initiative to help protect drinking water citywide. -
Friends of MLK has chosen nationally recognized artist and muralist Cbabi Bayoc to create a new public mural next to the Martin Luther King Jr. Interpretive Center, 501 N. Brady St., in downtown Davenport. -
As part of their 10th anniversary season, The Black Box Theatre in downtown Moline is presenting the QC premiere of “The Shark is Broken” by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, opening Friday, June 12. -
The relocated Bix Beiderbecke Museum is opening briefly tonight and Saturday for a sneak preview, at its new home across from its old one, 112 W. 2nd St., Davenport. -
Cameron Ulrich is thrilled to be making his Quad Cities theater debut, in Genesius Guild’s first 2026 show, for many reasons. -
Dr. Kathleen Figaro will lead a benefit concert for The Center of St. John’s United Methodist Church on Sunday, June 7 at 3 p.m., in the church sanctuary, 109 E. 14th St., Davenport. -
By winning a Triple Threat Award at the May 28 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards, Wrigley Mancha becomes the fourth Davenport Central student to qualify for national honors in New York City. -
Several progressive speakers, from a variety of groups, called out for kindness and equality at a “Stand Up for Each Other” rally on Sunday, May 31, at MLK Park, 501 Brady St., Davenport. -
The new partnership includes six John Deere facilities across Iowa, where workers are framing and assembling walls of entire homes for Des Moines, Quad Cities, Waterloo, and Dubuque.
