April is the cruelest month, as T.S. Eliot reminds us in his poem, The Waste Land. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” he threatens - but nothing compares to the fear in a handful of tax filings. The Titanic went down on April 15, 1912, another sinking sensation. The rest of the month docks with a cargo of books, baskets, bunnies, pigs and potatoes.
1 The Easter Bunny teams with the Golden Goose to bring something different this April 20 - nest eggs. April Fool! April Fool!
HIGH NOTES Outdoor concert with the U.S. Air Force Band ensemble, Starlifter, 6:30 p.m. at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, Little Rock. Details at arkmilitaryheritage.com. Call (501) 376-4602.
St. Vincent Tour de Paul Tennis Tournament through April 13 at Pleasant Valley Country Club. Related fundraisers for health care: golf tournament April 14 at Chenal Country Club. 5K run from War Memorial Stadium, Little Rock, April 19. Details at stvincenthealth.com/tourdepaul. Call (501) 552-4920.
TATER TOUT 2 Basic Training: Cooking Potatoes, 10 a.m.-noon at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Details at livethelegacy.org.
Call (501) 727-5435.
THE HILLS HAVE EYES Ozark Foothills FilmFest through April 6, Batesville. Details at ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org. Call (870) 251-1189.
OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE MEETS DANE GUY WITH FISH EYE Merle Haggard, 7 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at ticketmaster.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
The Little Mermaid writer Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 1805.
THE BUG STOPS HERE 3 National Poetry Month, National Pest Management Month.
Twinkle, twinkle, little roach, How you flee as I encroach, Snap the light, and there you go Skitter-scatter to and fro;
Sprinkle, sprinkle, kitchen chum, Here’s the bug bait: Have you some.
YOLK ARTISTS4 Eggshibition auction of celebrity-decorated eggs, 7 p.m. at University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Jack Stephens Center, Little Rock, benefits Youth Home. Details at youthhome.org Call (501) 821-5500.
TISKET-A-TASKET A STEAM ENGINE GASKET 5 Easter Basket Weaving Workshop at Powhatan Historic State Park in northeast Arkansas. Details at arkansas.
com. Call (870) 878-6765.
Railroadiana Show and Sale at the Arkansas Railroad Museum, Pine Bluff. Details at arkansasrailroadmuseum.org.
Call (870) 535-8819.
Amp Out Alz concert with rock band Geezer, 7 p.m. at the Rev Room, Little Rock, benefits Alzheimer’s Arkansas. Details at ampoutalz.com. Call (501) 224-0021.
’CHUTE, WHY NOTLeap of Faith tandem skydiving at Clinton Airport in Clinton, benefits The Children’s Advocacy Alliance. Details at hopeandjustice.org. Call (501) 328-3347.
Arkansas Orchid Society Show and Sale through April 6 Benton Event Center, Benton. Call (501) 590-9596.
CHIP OFF THE OL’ BLOCK 6 Plan Your Epitaph Day is nothing to worry about - not like these things are set in stone: “Curst be he that moves my bones.” - William Shakespeare “This old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you.” - Bonnie Parker.
“That’s all, folks!” - Mel Blanc, the voice of Porky Pig.
Classic rock group The Diamonds (“Little Darlin”), 2 p.m. at Arend Arts Center, Bentonville.
Details at liveonstagenwa.com.
Call (479) 855-9997.
DUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS 7 No Housework Day. What the heck, the Christmas tree might as well stay up.
CAN’T ALL BE GEMS 8 April’s birthstone comes from Arkansas, namely: (A) quartz, (B) diamond, (C) Little Rock.
Answer at April 26.
RED: STOP GREEN: GO BLINKING: CELLPHONE 9 Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
ODDS BODKIN 10 TheatreSquared production, Hamlet, through May 4 at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studio, Fayetteville. Details at theatre2.org. Call (479) 445-6333.
PIGS ’N’ PIPES 11 Hogskin Holiday Festival and barbecue cook-off through April 12 at Calhoun County Fairgrounds, Hampton.
Details at hogskin-holidays.com.
Call (870) 798-2100.
Arkansas Scottish Festival, pipe bands and Scottish games through April 13 at Lyon College,Batesville. Details at lyon.edu/ scotfest. Call (870) 307-7473.
SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE 12 Elvis Haircut Day celebrates the king of rock’s 1958 Army buzz cut at the Fort Chaffee Barbershop Museum, Fort Smith. Details at chaffeecrossing.
com. Call (479) 434-6774.
National Card and Letter Writing Month: When you care enough to push the envelope.
Northwest Arkansas Gem and Mineral Society Spring Show through April 13 at the Siloam Springs Community Center. Details at nwarockhounds.org. Call (479) 263-1424.
Central Arkansas Gem, Mineral and Geology Society Rock Swap and Trade, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
at Elder Johnson Pavilion, Burns Park, North Little Rock. Details at centralarrockhound.org. Call (501) 868-4553.
STRUDLE-DEE-DO German Heritage Festival at the Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie, Stuttgart. Details at grandprairiemuseum.org. Call (870) 673-7001.
OPEN WEAVE Northwest Arkansas Handweavers Guild meeting, 10 a.m. at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale. Call (479) 855-3830.
TOFU TO-DO 13 National Soyfoods Month. EGGS UNDER EASY 14 Underwater Easter Egg Hunt, 6:30-9 p.m. atJacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Details at cityofjacksonville.net. Call (501) 982-4171.
OLD TIME NOT FORGOTTEN
Ouachita Springs Historical Society’s week-long Civil War commemoration of Union occupation and the Battle of Poison Springs, Camden. Call (870) 836-9243.
MONA LISA SMILES OVER TAX REFUND 15 Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, 1452.
Federal income tax pay-up-or-they’re-coming-for-you day.
SPUTTER THERE, PAL 16 Car Care Month, and three reasons the car won’t start:
Out of gas.
Dead battery.
Horror movie.
DRAPED WITH SUCCESS 17 So far, sofa good for National Decorating Month.
THE FOLKISH ARE COMING!
18Paul Revere rides, 1775.
Arkansas Folk Festival through April 20, Mountain View and the Ozark Folk Center. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com.
Call (870) 269-8068.
GO, STEAM, GO Tired Iron of the Ozarks steam engine and tractor show, blacksmithing shop and sawmill through April 20 near Gentry, Northwest Arkansas. Details at tiredironoftheozarks.org. Call (479) 787-6982.
OKRA OK 19 Gumbo Fest, noon-8 p.m., Holiday Plaza parking lot, West Memphis. Details at wmcoc.com. Call (870) 735-1134.
BUNNIES AND CHICKS UP TO USUAL TRICKS20Easter.
BREAKING BAD
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Is today your birthday? If so, remember what happened to the bull in the china shop. He went on to bigger things. In Nashville, Tenn., he smashed all records.
In Hollywood, he shattered boxoffice expectations. In Congress, he broke with the party line.
TRAIN ON THE PARADE 21 Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Festival through April 26, Fordyce. Call (870) 352-2055.
SHE’S YOUR MOTHER NATURE, WOULD IT HURT TO CALL?
22Earth Day.
Cirque du Soleil show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal, through April 23 at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at ticketmaster.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
CASE OF THE MISSING MONIKER 23 Memo from: Perry Mason.
To: Della Street.
Message: Find out who killed National Secretaries Day.
Memo from: Della Street.
To: Perry Mason: Message: Paul Drake handled the investigation himself. National Secretaries Day operates under a new name: Administrative Professionals Day. It’s not dead.
But send flowers, anyway.
THE BOOKWORM TURNS 24 Arkansas Literary Festival with Catherine Coulter and Georgia Rep. John Lewis, through April 27 at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library and other venues, downtown Little Rock. Details at arkansasliteraryfestival.org. Call (501) 918-3098.
SAUSAGE HOMAGE Pig in a Blanket Day. Better a pig in a blanket than a bug in a rug.
Arkansas Chamber Singers Spring Garden Party, 6:30 p.m.
at the Governor’s Mansion, Little Rock. Details at ar-chambersingers.com. Call (501) 377-1121.
JOKE RATES A PEW 25 A priest, a rabbi and the Easter Bunny go into a bar. They say, “We’re here to celebrate Holy Humor Month.” The bartender says, “We don’t serve bunnies.” The priest says, “He’s with us,” but the bartender still refuses. The rabbi says, “Please!
You see, the bunny belongs to a mean dog that bit me once before. We have to keep the bunny happy, or the dog will bite me again.” The priest says to the bartender, “The dog bit me, too, and you’re next.” The bartender sets a glass in front of the bunny.
“Well, I guess it’s all right,” he says - “so long as it’s just a little hare of the dog that bit you.”Mendelssohn’s Elijah performed by the Arkansas Choral Society, University of Arkansas at Monticello Concert Choir and members of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 376-8484.
BOOZE HOUNDS 26 Dickson Street Pup Crawl, 2-5 p.m. at various bars on and around Dickson Street, Fayetteville, benefits the Fayetteville Animal Shelter.
Pre-registration, $25, includes a dog bandana. Call (479) 444-3455.
ROCK ON
Diamond-in-the-rough quiz answer: (B) the shape of the field the Arkansas Travelers baseball team plays on.
Car and Truck Show, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Goodsell Truck Accessories, Jacksonville, benefits the Jacksonville Boys & Girls Club.
Call (501) 982-2245.
Etsy in Little Rock Indie Arts and Music Festival, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. in Little Rock’s Hillcrest neighborhood. Call (501) 891-1157.
THIS, HAT AND THOSE 27 Straw Hat Month, National Landscape Architecture Month, Emotional Overeating Awareness Month. A topper, a cropper, a diet gone flopper.
BASKETS AND CASKETS
Mount Holly Cemetery Picnic, 5-7 p.m. in Little Rock’s historic graveyard, benefits grounds maintenance. Details at mounthollycemetery.com. Call (501) 912-0618.
GONE SOUTH 28 Confederate History Month. Rebel forces commandeer a riverboat, a steam locomotive, and Mr. Peabody’s WABAC Machine.
SOUND ADVICE 29 Two hundred-voice performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Community Chorus, Second Presbyterian Church of Little Rock Choir, five high school choirs and Arkansas Festival Ballet, 8 p.m.
April 29-30 at Maumelle Performing Arts Center, Maumelle High School. Call (501) 569-8993.
Second City improv comedy through May 10 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock.
Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
’DO-DAH 30 Hairstyle Appreciation Day combs through the pompadour, Afro, beehive, duck tail, dreadlocks, bouffant, pixie, bowl cut, shag, mohawk, Army buzz, mullet, bun and comb-over - and comes up a hair short of a pin curl.
Coming next month: May! 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 April 15 to suggest May calendar entries or how to celebrate May as Gifts From the Garden Month, such as: Cuke ’em! Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identiÿes the event or its sponsor.
Style, Pages 29 on 04/01/2014