Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Impressionistic tales
Tales From the South puts on its weekly dinner and show at 7 p.m. today at Best Impressions Restaurant at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. Doors open at 5 p.m. for dinner with music by blues guitarist Mark Simpson. Storytellers for "A Lasting Impression" will be Rich Shumate, Alice Vantrease and Mickey Jordan. The show will be recorded for a 7 p.m. July 31 broadcast on Little Rock public radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1. Tickets are $10; visit the website, talesfromthesouth071514.eventbrite.com.
Enchanted encore
The Enchanted Island, combining baroque music and an English-language libretto incorporating characters from William Shakespeare's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, will be the Metropolitan Opera's Met: Live in HD summer encore, 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Breckenridge 12 in Little Rock and the Razorback 16 in Fayetteville. Ticket information is available at fathomevents.com.
Genealogy conference
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies will hold its Genealogy Conference 2014, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday in the Central Arkansas Library System's Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Oklahoma City-based historian Billie M. Fogarty will cover "War of 1812 Bounty Land in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois"; "Land Runs, Lotteries and Homesteading: Settlement American Style"; and "Discovering the American Indian Archives: Repositories/Record Types-Dead Men Tell No Tales, but Their Tombstones Do." Admission is free; advance registration is required, via the website, www.butlercenter.org/conference. Call (501) 918-3033.
The center will also hold a Genealogy Meet and Greet, 4-6 p.m. Friday in Room 124 of the Arkansas Studies Institute building, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The evening will include a screening of two episodes of PBS' Genealogy Roadshow and refreshments. Admission is free.
Preservation awards
The deadline to submit nominations for the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas' Arkansas Preservation Awards, which honor "preservation achievements, people who make a difference in their communities and projects that inspire others to protect Arkansas' special places," is Aug. 31. The alliance will hand out the awards at a Jan. 9 ceremony in these 12 categories:
• Parker Westbrook Lifetime Achievement Award
• Outstanding Service in Neighborhood Preservation
• Outstanding Work by a Craftsman
• Excellence in Preservation Through Rehabilitation
• Excellence in Preservation Through Restoration
• Excellence in Personal Preservation Projects
• Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Advocacy
• Outstanding New Construction in a Historic Setting
• Outstanding Preservation Reporting in the Media
• Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication
• Outstanding Achievement in Preservation Education
• Excellence in Heritage Preservation
Nomination forms are available online at PreserveArkansas.org. Call (501) 372-4757 or email awards@preservearkansas.org.
Style on 07/15/2014