The largest crowd ever — more than 24,000 people — flocked to last year’s Bald Eagle Days at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island, and show director Arlynn Hartwig says that’s a perfect reason to expand the wingspan for what will be the 22nd annual event this weekend.
The members of the Harlem Globetrotters have had an array of nicknames in their 82-year history: Meadowlark, Curly, Geese and Goose.
Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who competed in the sixth season of ABC-TV’s “Dancing With the Stars,” is among the celebrities performing on the current tour. In an e-mail interview with the Quad-City Times, Matlin, who is deaf, discusses performing:
When Maksim Chmerkovskiy was hired to be the choreographer of the “Dancing With the Stars” tour, he was immediately given DVD copies of its first three years.