Mantra Indian Cuisine & Spirits is a classic Northern Indian restaurant that has been a staple of downtown Davenport cuisine for years. Best known for their lunch buffet,
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Iowa gastrology: Local restaurant recommendations based on your zodiac sign
If astrology is a method of divination based on the positions of stars and planets used for predicting and explaining human events, then gastrology must be a method of divining dining destinations based on cosmic culinary cravings. Read on for your hunger horoscope. ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19) Oak Park, Des Moines Energetic, influential, confident and […]
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LV Recommends: Front Street Pub & Eatery builds on rich (and delicious) history of the Bucktown neighborhood
One of the things I find handy about living in eastern Iowa is my relatively close proximity to the Illinois border and that state’s, uh, produce markets. Every month or two I gaze into an empty jar, curse my home state’s regressive vegetable supply policies, gas up the car and drive east for exactly one […]
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A bloody Valentine weekend in the Quad Cities
Love isn’t patient and isn’t kind in Factory of Fear’s newest haunt. Moline-based Factory of Fear has been manufacturing Halloween scares for nearly 30 years, showcasing year-round attractions across more than 40 scare rooms. They’ve been sharpening their fangs in preparation for their 2023 Valentine’s weekend event, “Love is Blind: Vampires Suck.” This year marks […]
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Northern Parallels close out a chapter with a fifth anniversary NYE show at Rozz-Tox
In December 2016, Adam “Higgy” Higgins and Mike Derer held the first Northern Parallels event. This was before the record label, before the event promotion, before the series of dance parties. “It was a crazy night, the weather wasn’t in our favor, it was a blizzard with 40+ mph winds and well-below-zero temperatures,” Derer wrote […]
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Refugee-led nonprofit Tapestry Farms fights Quad Cities food deserts with gardens
Half of Iowa’s grocery stores closed in the last quarter of the 20th century, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Today, roughly 40 percent of Iowans live a half mile or more from the nearest source of fresh fruits and vegetables—a minor inconvenience for folks with ready access to transportation, but devastating to […]
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A town full of motivated doers on a mission: Mapping the QC scene in a post-Daytrotter landscape
“What’s going to happen to the Quad Cities music scene now?!” Jason Parris, who has been booking shows at Rock Island Brewing Company for over a decade answers: “It’s just going to keep getting better.”
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Get plugged in to Benjamin Fawks’ Outlet series at Rozz-Tox
An Outlet performance is an experience, says curator Benjamin Fawks. It’s not just a concert, and audiences aren’t just going to be entertained. Japanese master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, performing on Sunday, April 7, is definitively innovative as he tests the limits of his homemade bows and gongs. His genre is typically labeled “jazz,” but what he does is beyond labels.
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Pop punk outfit Direct Hit! comes to Davenport’s Daytrotter Dec. 3
Direct Hit! w/ Terribly Happy + Fairhaven — Live at Daytrotter Daytrotter — Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. Drug benders, nuclear bombs and volatile relationships abound in Direct Hit!‘s driving pop punk anthems, and now they’re coming to Iowa. After touring with groups like NOFX and Blink-182, the Wisconsin punk band will play an […]
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Singer-songwriter David Bazan to headline Daytrotter holiday show
Daytrotter, the esteemed Quad Cities-based music website and recording studio, is presenting a festive holiday show with special guest singer-songwriter David Bazan at Davenport’s Village Theatre (2113 E. 11th St.) this Thursday at 7 p.m…
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Video shows Davenport restaurant owner brawling with customer, brandishing knife
A video uploaded Wednesday to Youtube shows Mike Buckley, owner of Ram’s Chicken Shack in Davenport, kicking out a customer at knifepoint after…
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Davenport conference to raise awareness about human trafficking
Human trafficking is the largest criminal industry in the world after drug trade, and some are working to raise awareness…
