Sonja Strathearn has turned her passion for Jane Austen into an art project, sewing and collecting Regency-era costumes for Austen conventions halfway across the world.

Well, it turns out I lied. Actually, The Lion in Winter was NOT the close of the Quad Cities’ theatre season. The close-out is actually Playcrafter’s Barn Theatre’s production of Christopher Sergel’s adaptation of the 1948 book Cheaper by the Dozen a real-life recounting of growing up in a household of 12 children authored by two of those children: Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and here directed by Emma Terronez.

In her short life so far, 10-year-old Milan C. Ellis has already moved six times. And she wrote about her new experiences in her debut children’s book, “The Adventures of a Military Kid.”

A local documentary following a musical production by the Penguin Project of the Quad Cities is airing on PBS station WQPT this month.

The old Lodge hotel in Bettendorf was torn down in 2016, but a new Lodge has opened inside the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport.

In March, the entire Institute of Museum and Library Services staff was placed on administrative leave by the Trump administration, indefinitely pausing all work processing 2025 grant applications. Now, the IMLS has reinstated terminated grants.

Brass concerts are a centuries-old holiday tradition that symphonies across Iowa have picked up over the years. We've compiled a list of all the holiday concerts to catch this season.

Talking Art welcomes Marc Zyla, longtime arts contributor and former Director of Community Engagement at WVIK. Marc reflects on the role of art and music in strengthening community bonds in the Quad Cities, while sharing insight into his upcoming move and exciting new role leading the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra as Executive Director.

The 1908 mansion, which sits in a residential neighborhood (45 minutes from the QC) at 1314 Mulberry Ave., Muscatine, combines two of my favorite things – glorious historic architecture and a varied, spectacular collection of first-class art.

KFMW Rock 108 has been transparent from the start about their use of an AI DJ to introduce eastern Iowa to new rock 'n' roll music.