LITTLE ROCK — September is when summer (whew!) finally gives way to fall (auggh! - leaves!) and before you know it, Christmas (what, again?), as the year clatters along like the official airline of September - the chuck wagon.
MEALS ON WHEELIES
1 National Championship Chuckwagon Races through Sept. 2 at the Bar of Ranch near Clinton. Details at chuckwagonraces.com. Call (501) 745-5250.
AUDIBLE SOCIETY
Comedy Noises Off through Sept. 23 at Theatre Squared, Fayetteville.
Details at theatre2.org. Call (479) 571-2785.
FURRED AND DEFERRED
2 Happy Cat Month, Responsible Dog Ownership Month. The dog is glad to see you’re home. The cat decides if you can stay.
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’
Midsouth Econoline Show and Shine, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton.
Details at museumofautos.com Call (501) 727-5427.
WHISTLE WHILE YOU SHIRK
3 Labor Day, the federal and state holiday.
“The only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work.” - William Faulkner.
FLINGING TELEGRAM
4 Newspaper Carrier Day.
THIS STEM AND THOSE
The flower for September is the (A) morning glory, (B) four o’clock, (C) evening primrose or (D) midnight coneflower.
Answer at Sept. 23.
Musical comedy Church Basement Ladies through Oct. 7 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Call (501) 562-3131.
ROYAL TREATMENT
5 Shakespeare’s Henry V with actor Avery Clark, through Sept. 23 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. “Pay what you can” preview night, 7 p.m. Sept. 5.
Opening night, Sept. 7. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
STICK ’EM UPDATE
Train robber Jesse James’ birthday, 1847; Update Your Resume Month, and Jesse’s revised job application:
Inspires people to reach higher.
Experienced at handling other people’s money.
Willing to relocate quickly.
KNIGHTS THAT SAY, “NITS !”
6 National Head Lice Prevention Month.
ON THE WIDE BLUEGRASS SEA
7 United States Navy Band, Country Current, 7:30 p.m. at Reynolds Performance Hall,University of Central Arkansas, Conway. Call (501) 450-3682.
Drama Good People through Sept. 8 and weekends through Sept. 22 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock.
Details at weekendtheater.org. Call (501) 374-3761.
Exhibit opening reception, 6-8 p.m., for “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” at Laman Public Library, North Little Rock. Exhibit continues through Oct. 28. Details at lamanlibrary.org. Call (501) 758-1720.
DOWN BY THE OLD JET STREAM
8 Little Rock Air Force Base
Open House and Air Show through Sept. 9 with the Blue Angels precision jet flight team at the air base, Jacksonville. Details at littlerock.af.mil. Call (501) 987-3601.
FUN’S A BRUIN
Teddy Bear’s Picnic for children and silly-willy-nilly ol’ bears, 2 p.m.
at Laman Library, North Little Rock.
Details at lamanlibrary.org. Call (501) 758-1720.
SPADE IN FULL
National Planting Day.
FREDDIE MERCURY RISES
The Music of Queen with the South Arkansas Symphony, 7:30 p.m. at El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, El Dorado. Details at southarkansassymphony.org. Call (870) 862-0521.
KEEPS ’EM IN STITCHES
Ozark Quilt Fair at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History. Details at shilohmuseum.org. Call (479) 750-8165.
LITTER GETTERS
Great Arkansas Cleanup volunteer campaign to pick up litter, through October in parks and neighborhoods statewide. Details at keeparkansasbeautiful.com. Call (501) 376-0321.
WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE PEPAW PATCH
9 Grandparents’ Day.
For cookies, for e-mails,
For birthday surprises,
No one deserves better
To win the gran’ prizes.
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
California admission day, 1850.
California admits the whole state fell into the ocean years ago, and only seems to exist thanks to Industrial Light & Magic.
HONK IF YOU HORNS
10 Hot Springs JazzFest through Sept. 16, various venues including the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs. Details at hotspringsjazzfest.org. Call (501) 627-2425.
SWEET!
11 How to celebrate
National Honey Month
: With hive mentality.
BOOM-CHICK A-BOOM
12 National Chicken Month, National Preparedness Month.
“The sky is falling!” - Chicken Little.
“Fortunately, I always carry a spare set of feathers.” - Foghorn Leghorn.
“I always try to be ready.” - Rooster Cogburn.
ONE SMART BITE
13 Fortune Cookie Day, and fortune for the wise: “He who knows what’s good for him does what his cookie says.”
PUTS THE “IN” IN VIOLIN
14 Arkansas State Fiddle Championship through Sept. 15 at Ozark Folk Center State Park near Mountain View.
Details at ozarkfolkcenter.com.
Call (870) 269-3851.
SILVER THREADS, GOLD MEDALS
Arkansas Senior Olympic Games through Sept. 23, Hot Springs. Details at srsports.org. Call (501) 321-1441.
TICKET TO RIDE
15 Beatles at the Ridge and Iron Mountain Festival at Walnut Ridge west of Paragould. Details at lawcochamber.org. Call (870) 886-3232.
GRAVY BOAT
16 Mayflower Day. The good ship Mayflower sails from England in 1620, bound for America with a cargo of 45 million Thanksgiving turkeys.
TREE-MENDOUS!
“Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey,”
drawings of the state’s biggest and oldest trees by Linda Williams Palmer, through Nov. 4 at the Arkansas Arts Center’s Terry House Community Gallery, Little Rock. Details at championtreesexhibit.org. Call (501) 372-4000.
BUT WAIT! - THERE’S SPORE!
17 National Mushroom Month.
18 Cheeseburger Day - with mushrooms.
VROOM AT THE TOP
19 Fall Antique Auto Swap Meet, Open Car Show and Military Vehicle Rally through Sept. 22 at the Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain. Call (501) 727-5441.
SOME ARR! SOME AREN’T
Avast, ye buckos! Hoist the Jolly Roger! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Awk!
PARTY ANIMALS
20 Zoo Brew party, 7 p.m. at the Little Rock Zoo.
Details at littlerockzoo.com.
Call (501) 666-2406.
FEATS OF CLAY
Bernice Garden Sculpture Party and Fall Fest, 5-8 p.m. on South Main Street, Little Rock. Call (501) 617-2511.
AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Eureka Festival with Delfeayo Marsalis, Ron Radford and the Fayetteville Jazz Collective, through Sept. 23 at venues including The Auditorium and Basin Spring Park, Eureka Springs. Details at eurekasprings.org. Call (479) 253-7333.
Save the Children CEO Mark Shriver, talk and book signing, 6 p.m. at the Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock.
Details at clintonschool.uasys.edu. Call (501) 683-5239.
Kickoff to Men’s Health free screenings, 5-8 p.m.
at Arkansas Urology, North Little Rock. Details at arkansasurology.com. Call (501) 219-8900.
DEJA-VIEWED
21 “Multiplicity” print show through Jan. 6 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. 50 for Arkansas exhibit of works donated by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, through Jan. 6. Details at arkarts.com.
Call (501) 372-4000.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Madeline and the Gypsiesthrough Oct. 7 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre, Little Rock. Call (501) 372-4000.
Jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato 7 and 9 p.m. at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
ROAD FOOD
Chuckwagon Cook-Off through Sept. 23, Mountain View. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com.
Call (870) 269-8068.
PSST! ESP!
22 Arkansas Paranormal Expo, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the MacArthur Museum of Military History, Little Rock. Details at arkansasparanormalexpo.com.
Call (501) 993-7494.
FLAP-ADO-A-DOODLE-DO
Mt. Nebo Chicken Fry, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Veterans Riverfront Park, Dardanelle.
Details at dardanellechamber.com.Call (479) 229-3328.
CHOICE OF VOICE
Barbershop Harmony Show, Feelin’ Fine, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Argenta Community Theater, North Little Rock. Details at diamondstatechorus.com. Call (501) 791-7464.
Jazz singer Al Jarreau, 7:45 p.m. at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, Little Rock.
Details at mosaictemplarscenter.
com. Call (501) 683-3593.
Beginners Dutch Oven Cooking Workshop, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott.
(Follow-up, advanced workshop Oct. 6.) Call (501) 961-1409.
LEAF ’EM LAUGHING
First day of fall, and how to cope with a yard full of fallen leaves.
Rake: Give a man a leaf rake, and watch him turn a few little problems into a heap of trouble.
Blow: A leaf blower is for the guy who is too impatient to wait for a breeze to scatter things in his neighbor’s direction.
Bag: A bag of leaves is like a sweeper full of carpet lint - satisfying up to the point where you realize it’s never the last bag.
OVER THE TOP EXCITEMENT
23 National Rice Month.
POPS UP QUIZ
Eye-opening answer: (A) Morning glory, and no wonder it likes the a.m. A flower wakes up knowing it doesn’t have to go anywhere.
HOORAY FOR BERET
24 Fall Hat Month.
CLAP IF YOU TO CLIP
25 National Coupon Month.
BRIGHT IDEA
26 Pretty Lights Illumination Tour, 7 p.m. at Riverfest Amphitheatre, downtown Little Rock. Details at prettylightsmusic.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
THE SPORK BROUGHT IT
27 Taste of the Town restaurant sampler, 5-7 p.m. at Dickey-Stephens Park, North Little Rock. Details at nlrtasteofthetown.com. Call (501) 372-5959.
THE CORK BROUGHT IT
28 Wine and Food Festival, 6:30 p.m. at Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock.
Related event: Wine Reserve Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at the Governor’s Mansion, Little Rock. Details at wildwoodpark.org. Call (501) 821-7275.
Arkansas Arts Center Fine Arts Club trip from Little Rock to the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss., through Sept. 30. Call (501) 412-3768.
THE GANG’S ALL EAR
Arkansas Sounds music festival with Black Oak Arkansas, through Sept. 29 at venues including Riverfest Amphitheatre, downtown Little Rock. Details at arkansassounds.org. Call (501) 320-5754.
ENCORE
29 Augustin Returns!
with violinist Augustin Hadelich and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m.
Sept. 29 and 3 p.m. Sept. 30 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.
UPROAR
Depot Days Festival and rock ’n’ roll tribute with Ace Cannon, Sonny Burgess, The Kentucky Headhunters, downtown Newport. Details at depotdays.org. Call (870) 523-3618.
Family Fun Fest, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Dickey-Stephens Park, North Little Rock. Details at nlrfamilyfunfest.org. Call (501) 372-5959.
Ozark Memories Day, pancake breakfast, music and chicken dinner at Dover High School in Dover, near Russellville. Call (479) 641-7161.
KEYS ISSUE
30 National Piano Month.
Coming next month: October! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or e-mail
by Sept. 15 to suggest October calendar entries or how to celebrate October as Squirrel Awareness Month, such as: A tea party with Alice, the White Rabbit and the mad chatterer. Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.
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