March is the gusty month when change is in the air - namely, the start of daylight saving time. Leprechauns, fiddlers, dentists and Cher blow in, as March arrives like a lamb and goes out like, well - another 31 days.
1 Peanut Butter Lovers Day, National Peanut
Month, and advice on how to read a newspaper from Goober Pyle (George Lindsey) on The Andy Griffith Show:
“Readin’ a day-old paper - I do it myself sometimes. Kinda gives you a sense of power, don’t it? I mean knowing how everything’s gonna come out.” GOOD TIMES ROLL Fat Saturday Parade of Fools, 2 p.m. downtown Fayetteville. Details at fayettevillemardigras.com. (479) 236-4794.
Eureka Springs Mardi Gras parade, 2 p.m.
downtown. Details at eurekaspringsmardigras.com. Call (479) 981-9551.
Beaux Arts Ball, 7 p.m. at the Basin Park Hotel, Eureka Springs, benefits the Eureka Springs Historical Museum. Details at eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org. Call (479) 253-9417.
PRETTY THINGS
Keep Arkansas Beautiful volunteer clean-up campaign through May 31. Details at keeparkansasbeautiful.com. Call (888) 742-8701.
Orchid Society of the Ozarks show and sale, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, Fayetteville. Details at bgozarks.org. Call (479) 750-2620.
PRETTY THINGS ON STRINGS
Canehill Kite Festival at Springfield Ranch, Canehill near Fayetteville. Call (479) 824-8109.
BY LAND AND BY SEA
Hot Springs Boat, Tackle and RV Show through March 2 at the Hot Springs Convention Center. Details at dgattractions.com. Call (501) 765-1423.
HEART AND SOLE
2 Little Rock Marathon, 8 a.m. from the River
Market District in Little Rock, presented by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Details at littlerock marathon.com. Call (501) 371-4639.
GRAMPA MOVED TO TAMPA
3 Florida admission day,
- Florida admits the state song should be, “Okefenokee is OK by me.” CAJUN CONTAGION 4 Mardi Gras - in New Orleans and wherever fine beads are flung.
Fat Tuesday on Dickson pub crawl and parade, 7 p.m., Fayetteville. Details at fayettevillemardigras.com. (479) 236-4794.
YOU GO, HUGO
5 Musical Les Miserables
through April 6 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock.
Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
OCCUPATIONAL CEILING
6 Michelangelo’s birthday,
1475; Dentist’s Day. If Michelangelo had been a dentist, would he have painted the roof of the mouth?
7International Ideas Month.
Oh, where - oh, where
Did my big idea go?
Oh, how - and why
Did it bloop?
It was new and bold,
And as shiny as gold,
And so big, people said:
“Ehh - big whoop.” ’DIL POWER
Camden Daffodil Festival, garden tours and steak cookoff through March 8, Camden.
Details at camdendaffodilfestival.com. Call (870) 833-2443.
Steel Magnolias through March 9 and March 14-16 at the Royal Theatre, Benton. Details at theroyalplayers.com. Call (501) 315-5483.
Conceptual art exhibit by Arkansas Tech University students;
reception 5-8 p.m. March 7, show through March 29 at Gallery 301 and The Frame Shop, Russellville. Call (479) 223-7351. OOHS AND OZ 8 Arkansas Symphony Orchestra pops concert, The Wizard of Oz and Orchestra, 8 p.m.
March 8 and 3 p.m. March 9 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.
LOOK! UP IN THE SKY.
IT’S A BIRD -
River City Comics Expo with Bernie Wrightson (Swamp Thing), James O’Barr (The Crow) and Dennis Calero (X-Men Noir), 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Metroplex, Little Rock. Details at rivercitycomicexpo.com. Call (501) 492-9007.
IT’S A PLANE
Central Arkansas model airplane swap meet, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
at North Little Rock Community Center. Details at themarcs.org.
Call (501) 278-7951.
TOCK OF THE TOWN
9 Start of daylight saving time.
Time springs forward one hour at 2 a.m. This makes for an hour less of warm and wonderful spring. Standard time returns in November, and this makes for an hour more of miserable winter: another government job done backward.
NICE GOING
How to celebrate Good Deeds Day: wearing goody two-shoes.
The Jesse Lynch Trio, 2 p.m.
at Arends Art Center, Bentonville.
Details at liveonstagenwa.com.
Call (479) 855-9997.
MOCHA JIVIN’ 10 How to celebrate National Caffeine Awareness Month: bright-eyed and whooshy-tailed, like when the cat tears all over the house for no reason.
RAZZLE JAZZLE 11 Musical Chicago through March 16 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
Alzheimer’s Arkansas advocate of the year award dinner honors Bob Shell, 6 p.m. at Temple B’Nai Israel, Little Rock. Details at alzark. org. Call (501) 224-0021.
KERNEL IN THE REGIMENT 12 Popcorn Lovers Day pans out.
INVENTOR MUFFS IT 13 Maine man Chester Greenwood receives a patent for his invention of earmuffs, 1887.
BLUE SUEDE SHOWS
“Young Elvis” Travis Ledoyt through March 15 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdp.com. Call (501) 562-3131.
FOLLOW THE YELLOWED BRICK ROAD 14 Jonquil festival through March 16 at Historic Washington State Park near Hope. Details at historicwashingtonstatepark.com. Call (870) 983-2684.
HOW TO WIN
A CHOCOLATE COOK-OFF?
FUDGE A LITTLE 15 Chocolate Roll Festival at Marshall High School, Marshall, in “Chocolate Roll Capital of the World” Searcy County. Details at searcycountyarkansas.org. Call (870) 448-6224.
LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUNS!
Irish Cultural Society of Arkansas St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 1 p.m. from downtown Little Rock across the Main Street Bridge to North Little Rock with Irish dancers, bagpipers and punk rockers The Dead Celt Society. Details at irisharkansas.org. Call (501) 868-6416.
St. Patrick’s Day on the Hill parade, 11 a.m. downtown and Dickson Street, Fayetteville. Craft Beer Village, 2 p.m. Details at stpatricksonthehill.com. Call (479) 871-0376.
Eureka Springs St. Paddy Parade serpentines through twisty downtown, 2 p.m. Details at stpaddy.ureeka.org. Call (479) 981-9551.
FEAT OF CLAY 16 TV premiere of The Gumby Show, 1957, about the little green guy made of clay and his horse, Pokey.
“Never trust animated people.” - Pokey.
EASY BEIN’ GREEN17St. Patrick’s Day.
World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade with grand marshal Jim Belushi, leprechauns and the Texas Tortilla Queens on the march down the 98-foot length of Bridge Street, downtown Hot Springs. Blarney Stone kissing, 4:30 p.m.; parade, 6:30 p.m.
Details at shorteststpats.com. Call (501) 321-2027.
POT O’ COLD
Lucky the Lucky Charms cold breakfast cereal-selling leprechaun’s 50th birthday.
IDES AND SEEK 18 The Romans named March in honor of: (A) Marching legions, (B) Mars, god of war, or (C) S’mores, god of burnt marshmallows.
Answer at March 23.
BIRD’S EYE VIEW 19 How to celebrate National Frozen Food Month: Default to defrost.
OUT FROM UNDER
THE GROUNDHOG’S SHADOW 20 First day of spring, and how to know winter is finally over:
Leftover Christmas lights all of a sudden look wrong - just wrong.
Starbucks is out of peppermint mocha.
Gone away is the bluebird.
Here to stay is the grilled chicken.
SIGHS OF THE ZODIAC 21 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Is today your birthday? If so, you share the day with celebrities Matthew Broderick, Johann Sebastian Bach and Little Boy Blue. The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn, and the ram’s in high clover.
NOT KITE A CHECK - THE OTHER KIND 22 Kite Fest at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge near Eureka Springs. Details at turpentinecreek.org. Call (479) 253-6596.
CAPTAIN’S LOG: STARDATE 3.22.14
William Shatner’s 82nd boldly-going birthday.
“Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young.” - Capt. Kirk, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
THE REAL SQUEAL
Hog Wild: Our Area’s Love Affair with the Pig exhibit at Rogers Historical Museum, Rogers.
Details at rogersarkansas.com/ museum. Call (479) 621-1154.
ARF SHOW
Little Rock Dog Training Club obedience trial through March 23 at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds Hall of Industry, Little Rock. Call (501) 352-1908.
NO CREDIT, NO PROBLEM 23 How to celebrate Credit Education Month: Know your credit score. This is a number figured the same way as a bowling score. One wrong fling, you’re in the gutter.
SOME GAUL
Great Caesar’s ghost quiz answer: (B), Mars, once the god of war, but these days in charge of 5 p.m. traffic.
EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY 24 Optimism Month, and three reasons to feel good:
One thing in the world still works without a password - a toothbrush.
Just one more Hobbit sequel, then it’s over.
No word from Donald Trump.
INCOMPLETE COVERAGE 25 National Umbrella Month.
A frilly little parasol
deflects the raindrops
Not at all;
Don’t trust a British bumbershoot;
Its coverage isn’t
Worth a hoot;
My old umbrella, inside out,
Does just as well -
In times of drought.
WIT’S END26International Mirth Month.
“Very funny. Ha-ha. It is to laugh.” - Daffy Duck.
FIDDLE FADDLE 27 Fiddlers’ Convention through March 30 at the south campus of North Arkansas College, Harrison. Details at harrisonarkansas.org. Call (870) 429-6174.
HERE AND CHER 28 Cher: Dressed to Kill Tour, 8 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
The Man Who Came to Dinner through March 30 and April 3-6 at the Victory Theater, Rogers. Details at rogerslittletheater.org. Call (479) 631-8988.
IN THE CLOUD 29 National Kite Month, National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day, National Craft Month, International Listening Awareness Month. A thing in the air, a venturesome pair, some glue and some tacks, an ear full of wax.
YOU GO, VAN GOGH 30 Vincent van Gogh’s starry, starry birthday, 1853.
MAKE A WISH
AND BLOW OUT THE BLUE FLAME31 Bunsen Burner Day warms the birthday of German scientist Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, the gas burner’s inventor, in 1811.
Coming next month: April! 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 March 15 to suggest April calendar entries or how to avoid paying income taxes on April 15, such as: Claim dependents. Simply tell the IRS,“I may or may not feel like paying taxes. It all depends.” Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.
Style, Pages 27 on 02/25/2014