LITTLE ROCK — June is when things are in the air - bridal bouquets, hot-air balloons and strange visitors from Planet Krypton. Catch a bouquet, you’re the next to be married. Catch a hot-air balloon, you’re the next off your feet. Catch Superman, you’re the next Lois Lane.
1 Superman’s 74th birthday leaps June Is Skyscraper Month in a single bound.
PUT ON A HAPPY FEZ
Hats in Hot Springs Festival, hat contests, hat dance and famous people’s hats, through June 2, Hot Springs.
Details at hotsprings.org. Call (800) 772-2489.
TUNES UP
Steamboat Days with Riverbilly, poker run, May 31 through June. 2, Des Arc. Details at steamboatdays.net. Call (870) 256-5289.
Tribute to Johnny Cash Concert at Ozark Folk Center State Park. Details at ozarkfolkcenter.com. Call (870) 269-3851.
Portfest with carnival and fireworks, The Charlie Daniels Band, through June 2, Newport and Jacksonport State Park. Details at portfest.org. Call (870) 523-3618.
Clover Blue, 5 p.m. at the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Details at artssciencecenter.com. Call (870) 536-3375.
LAWN PARTY FINDS PLACE ON THE BALLOT
“The White House Garden” exhibit shows the gardens and grounds where presidents stroll and Easter eggs roll, through July 21 at Laman Library, North Little Rock. Details at lamanlibrary.org. Call (501) 758-1720.
REEL PEOPLE
Little Rock Film Festival with actress Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, The Trouble With the Truth) and directors Jay Russell (My Dog Skip) and Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), through June 3 at venues including the Riverdale 10 movie theater, Little Rock. Details at littlerockfilmfestival.org. Call (501) 205-0400.
Center Stage production, Southern Fried Funeral, through June 3 at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 218-6636.
Inspired by Music art show through June 30 at Artifacts gallery, Eureka Springs. Details at artifactseureka.com.
Call (479) 363-6660.
2 GO GREENS How to celebrate National Soul Food Month: With true grits.
Riverfront Summer Concert with Luke Bryan, 7:30 p.m. at the Riverfest Amphitheatre, downtown Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000.
3 SOAKING IN CULTURE Hot Springs Music Festival with the Cassatt String Quartet, various locations through June 16, Hot Springs. Details at hotmusic.org. Call (501) 623-4763.
4 GIVE P’S A CHANCE A symbol of June is the: (A) Pearl, the birthstone of the month; (B) Pear, the fruit of the month; or (C) Purple-hull, the pea of the month.
Answer at June 29.
5 HANG UPS International Clothesline Week, Effective Communications Month, and time to air dirty laundry in public - but there’s no room left to hang anything.
6 Adopt a Shelter Cat Month, National Tailors Day, Perennial Gardening Month: Hiss, hem and hose.
7 Boone Day celebrates frontiersman Dan’l Boone’s arrival in the land that would be Kentucky, 1767. But where did Dan’l come from? - (A) Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee; (B) Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania;or (C) Early career included singing with the Ames Brothers.
Answer at June 27.
’MATER MATTERS
Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival and tomato-eating through June 9’s all-tomato lunch, Warren. Details at bradleypinktomato.com. Call (870) 226-5225.
MIDSUMMER MADNESS
Arkansas Shakespeare Theater season opens with Twelfth Night at The Village, Hendrix College, Conway, continuing through July 1 with performances also of Big River, Richard III and a children’s version of The Tempest at venues also including Reynolds Hall at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway and Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock. Details at arkshakes.com. Call (501) 852-0702.
8 HOE DOWN Farm Fest, tractor show and barbecue cook-off, through June 9, Wynne. Details at keepwynnesmiling.org. Call (870) 238-4183.
SQUEAK NOW, OR HANG SILENT
Bat-o-Rama, bat-related talks, hikes and crafts, through June 10, Devil’s Den State Park near West Fork. Call (479) 761-3325.
HYDRATION CELEBRATION
Celebrate The Springs festival remembers the said-to-be healing water that gave Eureka Springs its name, only this time the drink is wine, through June 10. Details at eurekasprings.org. Call (479) 253-7333.
Musical Spring Awakening through June 10 and weekends through July 1 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Details at weekendtheater.org. Call (501) 374-3761.
9 DUCK AND PLOVER Donald Duck’s 78th birthday makes him 624 in duck years.
“Phooey!” - Donald Duck.
Johnny Depp’s 49th birthday makes him 98 in pirate years.
“Stop blowing holes in my ship.” - Captain Jack Sparrow.
STREAMING NEWS
Never change horses in the middle of National Rivers Month.
SCRATCH COOKING: THE ANSWER TO HUNGER ITCH
Cooking Basics with Mary Twedt, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Call (501) 727-6220.
STRIKE UP THE BAND
Little Rock Wind Symphony Orchestra concert, A Stars and Stripes Celebration, 7 p.m. in MacArthur Park, Little Rock. Details at lrwindsymphony.org. Call (501) 666-0777.
Red Hat Ladies Treasure Sale, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at 4100 Royal Oak Drive, North Little Rock. Call (501) 753-8672.
10 BEWARE THE BLOB Ballpoint pen patented, 1943.
Sid McMath Day observance, 9 a.m. at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Little Rock, remembers the late governor, who would have been 100 on June 14. Call (501) 664-3600.
11 PINCH HITS Dairy Month, Dairy Alternatives Month, National Accordion Awareness Month. Squeeze once for yes, twice for no, three times for “Lady of Spain.”
12 HEAPS OF FUN Petit Jean Car Show and Swap Meet through June 16, Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Details at motaa.com. Call (501) 727-5427.
13 SHAKE, WATTLE & ROLL Turkey Track Bluegrass Festival with the Hillbenders, Turkey Track Band through June 16, Waldron. Details at turkeytrackbluegrass.com. Call (479) 637-3717.
THORN SECTION
Drama A Loss of Roses by William Inge (Picnic) through July 1 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
14 MAKE IT SNAPPY Flag Day.
SLICK ENTERTAINMENT
Oil Town Festival, drill bit toss and pipe tote through June 16, Smackover near El Dorado. Details at smackoverar.com. Call (870) 725-3521.
SPLISHES COME TRUE
Summer Fun Extravaganza finds science lessons in water activities through June 16 at the Museum of Discovery, Little Rock. Details at museumofdiscovery.org. Call (501) 396-7050.
Artosphere Chamber Music Series through June 21, venues in and around Fayetteville; Artosphere Festival Orchestra concerts June 17, 18 and 22. Details at artospherefestival.com. Call(479) 443-5600.
15 NATURALLY THE BEST Arkansas statehood day, 1836. The nation’s 25th state makes it possible for future states to be numbered 26-to-50.
16 How to celebrate World Juggling Day: Same as always - keep the balls in the air, keep the plates spinning, and be careful you don’t lose your job to a trained seal who works for minnowmum wage.
Leslie Homecoming, music, parade, rodeo near Marshall in Searcy County. Call (870) 448-7505.
17 PAPA PATCH Father’s Day.
Father’s Day Family Fishing Derby, noon-5 p.m. at Swan Lake, Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock. Details at wildwoodpark.org. Call (501) 821-7275.
18 BONAPARTE’S RETREAT Napoleon meets his Waterloo, 1815. Waterloo is a place in Belgium, where he also could have lost his Overpelt and had his Hastiere handed to him. But things could have been worse. In Arkansas, he could have met his Smackover.
19 NYUCK-NYUCK-NYUCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR Head Stooge Moe Howard’s birthday, 1897.
“Why don’t catfish have kittens?” - Moe Howard
20 HAPPY BLAZE First day of summer.
STRUM ENCHANTED EVENING
Steve Martin (him with a banjo, seriously) and the Steep Canyon Rangers, 7 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000.
21 ONCE AROUND THE BLOCKS Brickfest, brick toss and best-dressed brick contests through June 23, Malvern. Details at malvernbrickfest.com. Call (501) 458-1115.
22 Take Your Dog to Work Day, and you both go home dog-tired.
PRETTY BAUBLES IN THE AIR Great War Memorial Balloon Race, hot-air balloons, kite flying and food trucks that stay on the ground, through June 24 at War Memorial Stadium, Little Rock. Details at greatwarmemorialballoonrace.com. Call (501) 993-4504.
Turkey Lovers Month.
A turkey made giddy by June
Sat high on a hot air balloon;
Determined to hatch it,
She happened to scratch it,
And wound up up-up! -
Down!-down!
BOOM!!
COCOONING FESTOONING
Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival and observation tent, through June 23, Paris and Mount Magazine State Park. Details at butterflyfestival.com. Call (479) 963-2244.
ARIA, OR ARIA NOT?
Opera in the Ozarks season of more than 20 performances of The Magic Flute, La Boheme and A Little Night Music, through July 20 at Inspiration Point near Eureka Springs and Arend Arts Center, Bentonville. Details at opera.org. Call (479) 253-8595.
SKIN DELVING
“Tattoo Witness: Photographs by Mark Perrott” through Sept. 9 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
23 SUNSHINE BOYS Summer Solstice Celebration, 4-8:30 p.m. at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park near Scott. Call (501) 961-9442.
24 STIHL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE STEERS National Safety Month, National Steakhouse Month, and three ill-advised ways to cut a tough steak: Texas T-Bone: Texas chainsaw.
Kansas City strip: Kansas City Chiefs tomahawk chop.
Sirloin: The sword of Sir Lancelot.
25 WATERLOO REDUX Custer’s Last Stand, 1876.
26 SOLE MATES Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park through July 22 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Call (501) 562-3131.
27 MINGO WAS HIS NAME-O Rough-hewn Boone quiz answer: (B) Young Dan’l was a farm boy, later memorialized in the TV series, Daniel Boone, with Ukraine-American Ed Ames of the singing Ames Brothers as the frontier explorer’s American Indian companion, Mingo. The Ames Brothers’ hit, “Rag Mop,” described Dan’l’s coonskin cap.
LOOKIN’ FOR A GOOD TIME
Lady Antebellum, 7 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000.
28 How to celebrate National Handshake Day: Thumbs up.
29 PEAS PORRIDGE HOT RODS Purplehull Pea Festival, pea-shelling contest and World Championship Rotary Tiller Race at 2:30 p.m. June 30, Emerson. Details at purplehull.com. Call (870) 547-3500.
June P’s and Q’s quiz answer: (A) The pearl is June’s birthstone - hard to find in the ocean, harder still to find in a bucket of purple-hull peas.
30 Last day of Rebuild Your Life Month. It’s never too late to start - just sometimes, too late to finish.
Coming next month: July! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or e-mail
rwolfe@arkansasonline.com by June 15 to suggest July calendar entries or what to on July 22, Ratcatcher’s Day, such as: Build a better rat trap, and the world will gnaw a path through your door. 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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