LITTLE ROCK — 1 Soup’s on
Yes, soup for you! Soups, breads and desserts from about three dozen area restaurants and food service operations, plus a silent auction, activities for children and music by the Carl Mouton Ensemble featuring Ramona Smith are all part of the 29th Soup Sunday, 4-7 p.m. Sunday at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 11301 Financial Centre Parkway, Little Rock. It’s the primary fundraiser for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. Participants who have been on board since the beginning: the Faded Rose, Dave’s Place, Bruno’s Little Italy, the Villa Italian Restaurant and Community Bakery (a complete list is available at aradvocates.org/soup-sunday-restaurantlist). New this year: a VIP Signature Soup Room in which Mark Abernathy, owner and chef at Loca Luna and Red Door, will share samples and recipes of two signature soups and swap food secrets and stories with Mary Twedt, host of KUAR-FM’s Arkansas Cooks, from 5-6:30 p.m. (Diamond Bear Brewery will provide beer; wine, bread and desserts will also be available.) Tickets are $20, $5 for children under 12; VIP tickets, $50, include main-venue admission. Call (501) 371-9678 or visit arad vocates.org.
2 ‘PUCCINI PARADISO’
Tenor Dominick Rodriguez, one
of Glimmerglass Opera’s 2010 Young American Artists, will headline “Puccini Paradiso,” a benefit for the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Opera Theatre, at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, 2801 University Ave. The program will feature excerpts from Giaccomo Puccini operas including La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Manon Lescaut. Tickets are $75, including a post-concert champagne reception. Call (501) 569-8993.
3 MODISH MOMOLU
Project Runway finalist Korto
Momolu will introduce her line of Dillard’s accessories at a launch party to be held from 6-9 p.m. Friday near the cosmetics department in Dillard’s Park Plaza west. A special piece designed by Momolu for Susan G. Komen for the Cure will be auctioned off to raise money for the Arkansas Chapter. This event also kicks off Momolu’s tour of Dillard’s appearances, a tour whose second stop will be Pinnacle Hills Promenade in Rogers, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. The Little Rock party will feature a duplication of Momolu’s Fall 2010 Fashion Week show, which took place Monday in New York. Call (501) 661-0053.
4 BREAK UP
Channel your child’s energy and
curiosity into something educational at Constructive Destruction, through Saturday. At this Museum of Discovery event, children are not only allowed, but encouraged, to take things apart to see how they work. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $8, $7 for ages 65 and older and children 1-12. Call (501) 396-7050 or visit amod.org.
5 MEET THE FOLKS
Canadian folk duo Twilight Hotel
makes a stop in Little Rock for a Little Rock Folk Club concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday. The performance will be in Thomson Hall at Unitarian Universalist Church of Little Rock, 1818 Reservoir Road. Tickets are $12, $6 for students with ID, free for accompanied children 12 and under. Call (501) 663-0634 or visit lrfolkclub.org.
6 SEEING DOUBLE I
A therapist (Hannah Sawyer), a year after her husband’s death in Iraq, has to deal with an unexpected visit from his gay, identical twin brother (Justin Pike) in Dying City by Christopher Shinn, which opens at 7:30 tonight at the Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through Feb. 27. Tickets are $14, $10 for students and senior citizens 65 and older. Call (501) 374-3761 or visit weekendtheater.org.
7 SEEING DOUBLE II
Twin duo-pianists Richard and
John Contiguglia will play a pair of keyboards for the Hot Springs Music Festival’s “All Keyed Up” series at 3 p.m. Sunday at Woodlands Auditorium, Ponce de Leon Center, DeSoto Boulevard and Balboa Drive, Hot Springs Village. Their program includes Dame Myra Hess’ arrangement of J.S. Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”; Partita, op.5b, by British composer Howard Ferguson; Andante and Variations by Robert Schumann; and Percy Grainger’s Fantasy on George Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess.” Tickets are $20, $10 for students. Call (501) 623-4763.
8 HAPPY TRAILS
Pioneer re-enactors will set up
camp on the grounds of Historic Washington State Park for Frontier Days at the Five Trails Rendezvous, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Guests are invited to watch demonstrations of early Arkansas survival skills like tomahawk throwing. The park is on U.S. 278, nine miles northwest of Hope and admission to the camp is free. Building tour tickets are $8, $4 for children ages 6-12. (870) 983-2684 or visit historicwas ingtonstatepark.com.
9 CORPUS DE-LITERATI
Exquisite Corpse Annual: A
Journal of Letters and Life will celebrate its second year in Arkansas with a “launch party” at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bears Den Pizza, 235 Farris Road, Conway, adjacent to the University of Central Arkansas. Founder, editor-in-chief and sometimes National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu moved the journal, which he founded in 1983, from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge to UCA in the fall of 2008. Codrescu, New Orleans poet Bill Lavender, Philip Martin of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, members of the UCA writing faculty and various magazine contributors will take part in readings. Admission is free; copies of the publication will be for sale at $10. Call (501) 450-5134 or visit uca.edu/writing/exquisite_ corpse.php.
10 STOMP!ING GROUND
The rhythmic cacophony
of STOMP! ends its run in Little Rock with a trash can and broom-filled performance at 7:30 p.m. today at Robinson Center Music Hall. Tickets are $27.95-$55.15. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster. com.
Weekend, Pages 31 on 02/18/2010