By Tracy Jacks Downtown watering hole leaves the gimmicks and laser light shows behind. A night out in downtown Rock Island offers a multitude of options. There’s live theatre, improvisational comedy, microbrews, and thumping dance clubs to name a few. But sometimes...

By Sean Leary History cloaked 
cigar store and 
hookah lounge 
has always been an 
exclusive company. With a history that goes back to 1901, Hickey Brothers is a shop as bold, eclectic and robust as the cigars that line its shelves. Located...

By Sean Leary Yoga Shala stays true 
to the heritage of the 
most ancient and powerful personal transformative tradition. Evan and Kelly Harris believe Yoga is a gift, one that offers something for everyone.Quad-Citians can unwrap that gift at the Harris...

By Tracy Jacks Brandy VandeWalle swears her business isn’t haunted, but I’m not buying it. There might not be poltergeists going bump in the night, but everywhere you turn inside Rock Island’s Skeleton Key Art & Antiques, you can see the...

Our downtown is filled with an eclectic mix of entrepreneurs who are following dreams and passions or carrying on a legacy that has lasted generations. While a lot of the hard work, long hours, and energy spent being pillars of the...

ROZZ-TOX PRESENTS // ROZZ-TOX  ANIMATION  SERIES:  PERSEPOLIS free admission | all ages 8PM screening a film by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud 2007 | French-Iranian | pg-13 | 1h 36m ​Based on Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in...

ROZZ-TOX PRESENTS // NOTHERN PARALLELS: 09   free admission | all ages 8PM - 1AM a 5hr journey through house and techno w/ DJ OMS MIKE DERER ​HIGGY...

ROZZ-TOX PRESENTS // LOUD SUN $5-10 sliding scale | all ages 8PM doors | 9PM show LOUD SUN / minneapolis lofi bedroom pop loudsun.bandcamp.com MEADOWLARK VALLEY / alt folk from moline meadowlarkvalley.bandcamp.com...

ROZZ-TOX PRESENTS // MOUNTAIN SWALLOWER $5-10 sliding scale | all ages 7PM doors | 8PM show MOUNTAIN SWALLOWER / recording their live album mountainswallower.com w/ special guest MAGGIE5 maggie5.bandcamp.com...

ROZZ-TOX PRESENTS // FRESH  WAX:  ANALOG  AFTERLIFE  W/  BENJIBOICRABB ​(JAZZ) no cover | all ages 9PM - 1AM ​all vinyl, all night, come hang ANALOG AFTERLIFE w/ BenjiBoiCrabb ​ Vol.1 Sunglasses Required-- An Interdimensional odyssey through jazz's finest moments, cult favorites, and unsuspected genius (1920-2017). Think of this like Atlas...