Jonathan Turner
Formerly the arts and entertainment reporter for The Dispatch/Rock Island Argus and Quad-City Times, Jonathan Turner now writes freelance for WVIK and QuadCities.com. He has experience writing for daily newspapers for 32 years and has expertise across a wide range of subject areas, including government, politics, education, the arts, economic development, historic preservation, business, and tourism. He loves writing about music and the arts, as well as a multitude of other topics including features on interesting people, places, and organizations. He has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs, and instrumentalists. He even wrote his own musical based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. He wrote a 175-page history book about downtown Davenport, which was published by The History Press in 2016. 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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Forty-three years after he first soloed with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra,world-renowned pianist Garrick Ohlsson is back this weekend to play what’s considered the quintessential American piano concerto. -
A father in Rock Island has written a book to thank people for their support during his daughter's cancer treatment. -
CommunityFor the past seven years, Sherry Ristau has focused on transforming the Quad Cities Community Foundation. And now that she's left her job as President and CEO, the 60-year-old will focus on transforming herself. -
CommunityRuth Lee loves to visit “Cloud Wine,” and a family connection helped her create an intoxicating fundraiser for another place close to heart – the Rotary Club of Rock Island. -
Because of the pandemic, film and TV production in Illinois last year spent nearly $362 million, down 35% from about $560 million spent in 2019. Doug Miller of Davenport – who heads the Quad Cities Production Coalition – wants to see some of that money come to the Illinois Q-C area. -
Black Hawk College is welcoming back a familiar face to its instrumental music program. -
This is a special year for the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport, in more ways that one. -
There’s a new theater in the Quad-Cities and it’s ready to fly. The Mockingbird On Main, 320 N. Main St., Davenport, will present its inaugural production - Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop” - July 29 through August 7. -
The latest play by the Playcrafters Barn Theatre is set in the 1930s, but holds forceful lessons for our fractious times today. -
CommunityCrawford Brew Works in Bettendorf is launching a new community fundraisingprogram.
