Yearly Archives: 2014

Science of Passion tonight at the Museum of Discovery

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Feb 14 SAD-01This monthly event is for the grown-ups. Why? Because, science is fun…at any age! Science After Dark provides visitors the opportunity to have fun and learn about science in a unique setting. Museum educators pick a science-related topic and build an entertaining, interactive evening around it. You never know what will sprout, pop, fizzle, or glow. We invite you to discover the science of having fun.

 

February Science After Dark

Science is for Lovers

The Science of Passion

Wednesday, February 26

6-8pm

  • Enjoy chocolate and cheeses
  • Wine with Jay Bruno
  • The Physiology of Passion & Arousal
  • Aphrodisiacs, Man- we’ll explore the myths and facts behind aphrodisiacs (foods and herbs said to enhance your passion) as well as anaphrodisiacs (mood-killers)
  • A heart dissection
  • Circuit Bloxxx- building circuits for adults only!
  • Love and Robots- with I-MOD, the museum’s robot
  • We’ll also show a film series by Isabella Rosselini that explores the romantic habits of the animal kingdom through performance art.

 

Cash bar and pizza sold by the slice

Admission: $5 per person; members FREE

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Architect Michael Rotondi discusses Hybrid of Extremes tonight

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RotondiTonight at the Arkansas Arts Center, the latest in the continuing series of lectures about architecture. HYBRID OF EXTREMES, a lecture by Michael Rotondi, FAIA, architect and educator. He is founding partner and principal of RoTo Architects, Los Angeles, and a Professor in Practice of the Arizona State University School of Architecture.

Based in Los Angeles, Michael Rotondi has been the co-founder of two esteemed architectural firms. He and Thom Mayne, with whom he had a productive partnership, founded Morphosis in 1975. Almost two decades later he established RoTo Architects, a firm committed to enlarging the scope of architectural practice to include issues of socio-economic concern and the environment.

The 2009 recipient of the Los Angeles Chapter the American Institute of Architects gold medal for creating a body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture, Rotondi has emphasized  architecture’s role  in “making the world a better place”. He has stressed the importance of architects being aware of the impact of their work on people, places and communities.

Rotondi and a group of friends were instrumental in the 1972 founding of the Los Angeles based California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Among the school’s first graduates, the innovative young architect who had earned a degree from California State Polytechnic University in 1971, later served as SCI-Arc’s director (1987-1997). Currently a member of its Board of Trustees, he also teaches there. Rotondi has lectured and taught all over the world.

Rotondi’s participation in Architecture and Design Network’s 13/14 lecture series has been made possible by the Fayetteville based University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture where he ls this year’s John G. Williams Distinguished Visiting Professor.

In addition to the School of Architecture, Network supporters include the Arkansas Arts Center and the Central Arkansas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. All ADN lectures are free and open to the public. For additional information contact ardenetwork@icloud.com.

Southern Tales of the Bard on Tuesday

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schedule~~element27Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre has once again joined the Oxford American magazine to bring a special Shakespearean edition of “Tales from the South” at South on Main, one of Little Rock’s premier dining destinations.

February 25th
Doors open at 5 p.m.; Tales begin at 7:30 p.m.
South on Main
1304 South Main St.
Little Rock, AR 72202

Forsooth y’all! If you missed either of the first two “Shakespeare in the South” evenings, fear not! Greg Brownderville, Stacey Margaret Jones and Sara Shumaker will be weaving whimsical tales during this year’s evening of Southern storytelling. Music will be provided by Bonnie Montgomery while Phillip Rex Huddleston will be the featured visual artist.

Tickets are required to attend the event, and the cost of admission does not cover dining. A portion of the proceeds goes toward Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre’s 2014 summer season.

Reserved seats at a table are $15 each. Purchasing a reserved ticket online guarantees you a table. General admission tickets are $10 each. General admission seating doesn’t include a table and is available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Little Rock Look Back: Byron Morse, LR’s 55th Mayor

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20130222-185157.jpgOn February 23, 1917, future Little Rock Mayor Byron R. Morse was born. A founder of the real estate firm of Rector-Phillips- Morse, he was long active in civic affairs of Little Rock.

Mayor Morse was first elected to the City Board of Directors in November 1960. In 1963, he was chosen as Little Rock Mayor. After serving two years as Mayor, he chose to not seek re-election to the City Board. In 1980, he was appointed to the City Board to fill out an unexpired term. He was later asked to fill another unexpired term but declined.

In 1983, he was elected national president of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Mayor Morse also served as president of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, the Little Rock United Way, the Little Rock Red Cross, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Little Rock Boy’s Club. He was a member of the Fifty for the Future. On July 25, 2001, Mayor Morse died.

Acclaimed musical BABY is latest offering of CTLR

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Baby CTLRThe latest offering of the Community Theatre of Little Rock (now in its 58th season) is BABY.  This Tony nominated musical from acclaimed duo Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, examines how parents-to-be experience the emotional stresses and triumphs, as well as the desperate lows and the comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of a baby.

BABY tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirtysomethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.

The cast is led by Miki Thompson, Jeremy Elliot, Elizabeth Reha, Bob Bidewell, Erin Murphey Martinez and Justin Pike.  Others in the cast are Pammi Fabert, Mary Ann Hansen Cheryl Troillett, Duane Jackson, Danny Troillett, Case Dillard, Libby Smith and Doug Robillard.  The production was directed by Michael Henderson with music direction by Matthew Mentgen.  Jerry Woods is the executive producer.

The show opened last weekend and continues through March 2.  Show times are 7:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays; Sunday matinees are at 2pm.

Kevin Kerby Tonight in Downtown Little Rock at The Undercroft

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kevinkerbyKevin Kerby plays at one of Little Rock’s newest music venues when he performs tonight at The Undercroft. It is located on Capital Avenue just east of Scott Street, in the undercroft of Christ Church.

The concert starts at 8 p.m. The cover charge is $5 at the door. The space is on the campus of Christ Church; the entrance is through the sidewalk-level red door on Capitol Avenue east of Scott Street.

Kerby has long been one of those songwriters about town who has consistently created great music. It’s a streak that stretches back to before his days in Ho-Hum, and includes time in Ho-Hum, Mulehead — with its four albums of Arkansas rock — and other bands. Following the end of Mulehead, Kerby wrote and recorded two solo albums. First came The Secret Lives of All Night Radios, and then, picking up backing band Battery, Beautiful & Bright.

undercroftFor information about the new performance space The Undercroft, contact Rev. Scott Walters at Christ Church at swalters@christchurchlr.org or 501-375-2342.

Final Weekend of JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE at Weekend Theater

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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Little Rock's The Weekend TheaterThis weekend affords the final three times to see August Wilson’s powerful award winning play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Weekend Theater.  The show is playing tonight, Saturday night, and a Sunday afternoon matinee has been added as well!

Directed by Meredith Bagby Fettes, this post-Civil War era play depicts the migration of African-Americans, from the rural South to the urban North, as they meet in a 1911 Pittsburgh boardinghouse. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences, is an installment in the author’s series chronicling black life in each decade of this century.

The play uses realistic language and dialogue representative of the day, with each denizen of the boardinghouse owning a specific rhythm and speech pattern and carrying a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to an urban present.

The characters include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife. The Weekend Theater production cast includes seasoned alums, as well is newcomers to the stage.

The cast includes Margaret Pierson-Bates Herald, Jeremiah Herman, Charles Holloway, Diondre’ Wright, London Jones, Shanika Thompson, Paul Person, Drew Ellis, Pamela Reed, Candrice Jones and Ebon Jones

Curtain time is 7:30 pm. The Box Office (and the theater) opens one (1) hour prior to curtain. The House opens 30 minutes prior to curtain.

There will be a brief talk-back with the cast after each Saturday performance. This plays contains some simulated violence and adult language.