THE WEEKEND TEN

The top things to do and places to be

— MOBILE

More than 30 mobile food vendors will line Main Street in downtown Little Rock for the second Main Street Food Truck Festival, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday between Third and Ninth streets. The area will be blocked off to traffic; between food trucks, attendees (last year’s drew an unexpected 5,000 and a lot of trucks ran out of food) can listen to music and also visit craft vendors, three beer gardens, a costume sale at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre and a children’s plaza sponsored by Heifer International Village. Call (501) 375-0121; find a complete list of participating food and craft vendors at downtownlr.com/index.php?fuseaction=p0006. view&mod=22&start=21&rec_id=846.

2 MELODY The music of the Delta region heats up downtown Helena for the annual King Biscuit Blues Festival, today-Saturday. Recording star Bonnie Raitt serves as one of the main headliners of the festival, performing Saturday. This year’s gathering of blues musicians also includes performances by Bobby Rush today and Taj Mahal on Friday. All headliner performances start at 9:30 p.m. on the main stage. The festival also includes a barbecue cook-off, a children’s area and a blues symposium. Tickets for the main stage are $40 for all three days. The other stages are free, as are children under 6. Call (870) 572-5223 or visit kingbiscuitfestival.com.

3 MYSTERY Classical Mystery Tour — Benjamin Chadwick as Paul McCartney, Tyson Kelly as John Lennon, Thomas Teeley as George Harrison and Joseph Bologna as Ringo Starr — joins the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra for “Classical Mystery Tour: A Tribute to the Beatles,” 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, Little Rock. Geoffrey Robson conducts the first concert of the orchestra’s 2012-13 Acxiom Pops Live! season; part sponsor is Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Tickets are $18-$58, $10 for students and military, free to the Sunday matinee for kindergarten to age 12 with a paying adult. Call (501) 666-1761 or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

4 MMM!

Prepare to stuff your face for a pair of good causes. Pots will be full to feed the masses at the annual Shrimp Boil Benefit, 5-9 p.m. Saturday, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St. The St. Francis House fundraiser includes a shrimp dinner and music by Greasy Greens. Tickets are $30, $15 for children. Call (501) 225-4203.

If catfish is more to your taste, you can fill your plate at the annual Camp Aldersgate Fish Fry, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sunday. Including a fish dinner, a bake sale and family entertainment, the event takes place at the camp, 2000 Aldersgate Road. Parking is provided at Baptist Eye Center, off Lile Drive at Interstate 630, Exit 7, with free shuttle service. A drive-through for to-go meals will be at OrthoArkansas at the corner of Kanis and Aldersgate roads. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 225-1444 or visit campaldersgate.net.

5 MUGS Join the Central Arkansas Fermenters for brand-name, craft, brew-pub and home brews at the 10th annual Littlerocktoberfest, “Arkansas’ greatest beer and brat festival,” 6-10 p.m. Saturday at Dickey-Stephens Park, 400 W. Broadway, North Little Rock. The Itinerant Locals will perform. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and you must be 21 years old to enter; a portion of the proceeds goes to the Arkansas Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial. Find a list of beers and more details at centralarkansasfermenters.com/littlerocktoberfest; call (501) 758-6261.

6 MILLER

A doctor who discovers the medicinal springs in a small Norwegian town are poisoned is treated as a dangerous crank in Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller, adapted from the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen, opening Friday and running 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 20 at the Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock. Buy tickets — $16, $12 for students and senior citizens 65 and older — at weekendtheater.org; for more information, call (501) 374-3761.

7 METROPLEX Support Arkansas Hospice with games, auctions, refreshments, music by The B-Flats and master of ceremonies Craig O’Neill at A Fair to Remember, 6:30 p.m. today. The fundraiser will be at The Metroplex, 10800 Colonel Glenn Road and tickets are $50. Call (501) 748-3306 or visit afairtoremember.org.

8 MUSICFEST Jake Owen, MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice will be among the more than 30 country, rock, R&B and or blues acts performing as part of MusicFest El Dorado XXV, 5 p.m.-midnight Friday and 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday at 101 W. Main St., El Dorado. The festival will also feature a Kids’ World, family stage acts and attractions, blowup carnival amusements, face painting, a beauty pageant and food vendors. Tickets are $20 per day, free for kids 12 and under; discount weekend passes, $30, are available online at musicfesteldorado.com, where you’ll also find a complete schedule. Call (870) 862-4747.

Also in El Dorado this weekend, pianist Yue Chu, gold medalist at February’s International Wideman Piano Competition, will solo in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the South Arkansas Symphony and conductor Kermit Poling at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the El Dorado Municipal Auditorium, 100 W. Eighth St. Also on the program: Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Tickets are $20-$25, $15 for senior citizens, $10 for college students, $5 for children, $5 off with proof of MusicFest ticket purchase. Call (800) 792-0521 or visit SouthArkansasSymphony.org.

9MIX Hear, see and dance to an eclectic array of folk, insurgent country, zydeco, honky-tonk, indie rock, bluegrass and gypsy-punk-countrygrumble-boogie — not all at once, of course — at the Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival, Friday-Saturday at Hill Wheatley Plaza, 629 Central Ave., Hot Springs. Gates open at 4 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. Saturday. Top-name acts include Dirtfoot, Dikki Du & the Zydeco Crew, Jimbo Mathus, Dana Falconberry and Adam Faucett; a complete schedule is available at hotwaterhills.com. The festival also features art, arts and crafts, kids’ activities and contests, local food, wine, craft beer and locally brewed root beer. Tickets are $5, free for children under 12. Call (501) 282-9056.

10 MULES

In Scott, the Scott Plantation Settlement, 15525 Alexander Road, celebrates the old days with High Cotton on the Bayou, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. There will be mule plowing, sorghum making, butter churning and blacksmith demonstrations as well as period games and crafts, music and plantation building tours. Tickets are $3, $1 for ages 6-17. Call (501) 351-0300 or visit scottconnections.org.

Nearby Keo will host its annual Keo Fall Day, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, with a car and bike show, carriage rides, bounce house and games for children, food and sales. General admission is free. Call (501) 842-3531 or (501) 626-5917.

Weekend, Pages 31 on 10/04/2012

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