1 New Year’s Day. Paul Revere’s birthday, 1735.
Diet Resolution Week.
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Who really should have lost some weight, And so just barely cleared the gate As off he rode with urgent drumming, Crying out, “The diets are coming!” REVOLVING RESOLUTIONS New Year’s Day bicycle ride, 30 miles through eastern Pulaski County, 9:30 a.m. from the Kroger parking lot at 2509 McCain Blvd., North Little Rock. Details at arkansasbicycleclub.
org. Call (501) 912-1449.
THE SPLOT THICKENS 2 How to celebrate Oatmeal Month: by raisin expectations.
HIGH SPIRITS 3 Eureka Springs Paranormal Weekend and ghost hunt through Jan. 5 at the Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs. Details at americasmosthauntedhotel.com. Call (479) 253-9766.
GUMMY ON THE TUMMY Fruitcake Toss Day. Manitou Springs, Colo., is the home of championship fruitcake-throwing, but amateurs have been tossing fruitcakes for centuries - and always, the same two fruitcakes.
“Suddenly, he wanted to … start gnawing on a fruitcake.” - John Grisham FLICK FLOCK 4 Arkansas Shorts: A Night of Short Film, 7 p.m. at the Arlington Resort Hotel and Spa, Hot
Springs. Details at valleyofthevapors.com. lowkeyarts.org Call (501) 282-9056.
Ken Goodman and Roy Rivers concert, 7 p.m. at First United MethodistChurch Christian Life Center, Hot Springs, benefits The Caring Place. Call (501) 623-2881.
WHOLE LOTTA MONEY, HONEY 5 International Wealth Mentality Month and how to think about accumulating money, such as: Start a penny jar, and one day you’ll have enough pennies in a jar to make a paperweight.
The trouble with middle income is having more change than the parking meter will take, but never enough for the valet.
The more money the better: People are nickeled and dimed to death all the time, but nobody ever died of too many dollars.
PARTRIDGE IN A BARE TREE 6 The Twelfth Day of Christmas. The geese have quit laying, the lords are done leaping, the pipers are pooped, and the stores are decorated for Easter.
DID EINSTEIN TEACH HIS CAT TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX?
7 International Creativity Month - when all ideas are good ideas, and the only question is who came up with such a dumb idea.
RUBBER DUCKY, DON’T BE CRUEL 8Bubble Bath Day; Elvis Presley’s birthday, 1935 CRANIUM DRAINIUM 9 International Brain Teaser Month, and three mental challenges:
I parked the car - where?
I came here - why?
I know you are, but - who are you?
ART ESCAPES Arkansas Arts Council exhibit “Small Works on Paper,” through Jan. 30 at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Call (870) 536-3375.
Featuring the creations of 40 Arkansas artists, the show will travel to 10 galleries around the state through November. Venues include Arkansas Tech University at Russellville, Feb. 3-25, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, March 2-30. Details at arkansasarts.org.
ROOT OF THE ISSUE 10 Houseplant Appreciation Day.
GALLOPING AMBITIONS Live thoroughbred racing through April 12 at Oaklawn Racing and Gaming, Hot Springs.
Details at oaklawn.com. Call (501) 623-4411.
Drama blu Jan. 10-11, Jan.
17-18 and Jan. 24-25 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock.
Details at weekendtheater.org.
Call (501) 374-3761.
AERIE TALES Eagle Awareness Weekend through Jan. 11 at Bull Shoals-White River State Park in north-central Arkansas. Details at arkansasstateparks.com. Call(870) 445-3629.
11 Eagle Awareness Weekend through Jan. 12 at Petit Jean State Park near Morrilton. Details at petitjeanstatepark.
com. Call (501) 727-5441.
EAGLE n. 1. A rare sight, the majestic and soaring national bird; 2. Pretty much any buzzard that somebody wants to claim is an eagle way, way up there.
CAPTAIN’S LOG
William Shatner one-man show, Shatner’s World, 8 p.m. at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville.
Details at waltonartscenter.org.
Call (479) 443-5600.
“Get a life!” - William Shatner
“That’s an order!” - Capt.
Kirk
Panel discussion on David O.
Dodd, “Boy Martyr of the Confederacy,” 1 p.m. at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Little Rock. Details at arkansasmilitaryheritage.com. Call (501) 376-4602.
HOORAY THE TRAY 12 How to celebrate Be Kind to Food Servers Month: Hip the tip.
SNOW BIZ QUIZ 13 The way to dress for January is: (A) an Eskimo coat and mukluks, (B) a Mongolian goat coat and snow boots, or (C) a white sports coat and a pink carnation.
Answer at Jan. 27.
ROOM SWAYIN’, BAND PLAYIN’ 14 Hello Dolly! with Sally Struthers through Jan. 16 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at celebrityattractions.com. Call (501) 244-8800.
LID LIFTER 15 How to budget for Hat Day: with a spending cap.
SHOW ’EM HOW, RATE A WOW 16 National Mentoring Month. HOOK, LINE AND SINKER 17 Arkansas Tackle and Hunting Show through Jan. 19 at Fort Smith Convention Center, Fort Smith. Details at arkansastackleandhuntingshow.com. Call (918) 343-4868.
SLICK ENTERTAINMENT Broadway on Ice through Jan. 19 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville.
waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
STOPS ON A DIME Tri-Lakes Coin Show through Jan. 19 at Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs. Details at hotspringscoinshow.com. Call (501) 624-0074.
18 Silly-willy-nilly ol’ Winnie the Pooh Day.
19 Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, 1809, and how Poe would have written Winnie-the-Pooh:
Once upon a picnic sunny
Went a bear in search of honey,
Went a bear with his friend, Piglet,
Bringing cookies, jam and more,
Quoth the Pooh Bear: “Where’s Eeyore ?”“I DO” ADO
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Bridal Show, 12:30-5 p.m. at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock. Details at arkansasbridalcommunity.com. Call (501) 378-3807.
20 Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, the state and federal holiday.
Robert E. Lee’s birthday, the state holiday.
WHY JANUARY IS DRACULA’S FAVORITE National Volunteer Blood Donor Month.
NUTS FOR A HUG 21 Squirrel Appreciation Day, National Hugging Day.
SOCK AND AGH!
22 National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month.
“I biffs ’em and buffs ’em, and always out-roughs ’em.” - Popeye the Sailor
Clybourne Park through Feb. 9 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
UPPER CRUST23Pie Day takes the cake.
GLITTER BIT OF LUCK 24 California Gold Rush, 1848. Prospectors attempting to join the crowd at Sutter’s Mill create the first California traffic gridlock.
DAIRY, DARE WE?
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type through Feb. 9 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
LADDY COME HOME 25 Robert Burns birthday, 1759. National Skating Month, cold toes and hot chocolate binge.
“We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet.” - Robert Burns
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert, Bohemian Rhapsody, through Jan. 26 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock.
Details at arkansassymphony.
org. Call (501) 666-1761.
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE 26 Michigan admission day, 1837. Michigan admits that even though the Great Lakes are great, Lake Superior is just plain full of itself.
27 Denote a coat quiz answer: (C) a white sports coat and the flower for January, a carnation.
RAZZ-MA-TAZZ 28 Kazoo Day.
Whenever I am down and blue,
There’s no cure like me ol’ kazoo,
To give the day a buzz-a-roo,
And make my nose feel buzzy, too.
29 Kansas admission day, 1861; Puzzle Day. Kansas admits the state is so flat, it’s a puzzle why the capital is called Topeka.
CAN WE GET A HUG HERE?
30 Self-Help Group Awareness Month.
“Delta Small Prints Exhibition” through Feb. 28 at Fowler Center, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. Details at bradburygallery.
com. Call (870) 972-3471.
EVERYBODY NEEDS A LITTLE PICK-ME-UP 31 Get Organized Month, because a neat desk is the sign of a person who really intends to keep all those New Year’s resolutions. A messy desk is the sign of a realist.
Coming next month: February! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or email
rwolfe@arkansasonline.com by Jan. 15 to suggest February calendar entries or how to tell a groundhog from a woodchuck on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, such as: A woodchuck chucks wood, and a groundhog (with any luck) chucks winter. 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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