Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
'Little Harlem'
John Cain, program manager for community radio station KABF-FM, 88.3, and a member of the Mosaic Templars Building Preservation Society, and John Kirk, chairman of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock history department, will discuss the rise and fall of Little Rock's "Little Harlem" for the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center's "It's in the Bag: Lunch 'n Learn Series," 11:30 a.m. today at the center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock.
Admission is free and the center will provide lunch. Call (501) 683-3593 or visit MosaicTemplarsCenter.com.
Much Ado for nothing
The Classical Edge Theatre Company, a professional company dedicated to Shakespeare and other classical works, will stage William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Sept. 19-20 at Lawrence Plaza, 300 N.W. A St., Bentonville. Admission is free. Take lawn chairs and blankets; picnic concessions will be available. The performance will run about 75 minutes, with no intermission. Call (479) 200-9466.
The company will also stage the world premiere of Justin Scheuer's Masha's Seagull, a one-person show based on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Nov. 7-8, 14-15 at Fayetteville High School. Visit theclassicaledge.org.
Story swap
The Ozark Storytellers will hold its monthly story swap, 6:30-8 p.m. today in the White Oak Auditorium at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, Mountain View. The story swap will use a round-robin format; listeners are as welcome as tellers. Admission is free. Call (870) 269-3851 or visit ozarkfolkcenter.com.
El Dorado expo
The South Arkansas Community College Foundation will hold its annual SouthArk Outdoor Expo, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at the El Dorado Conference Center on the college's campus, 311 S. West Ave., El Dorado.
The Nexans AmerCable Hero 5K Run-Walk starts things off at 7:30 a.m. (registration begins at 6:15). Teams in the Herring Furniture-Holland Grill Rib Cook-Off who have set up on Friday will get their ribs at 8 a.m. Saturday; judging begins at 2 p.m. and winners will be announced at 3:30. Top prize is $2,000.
The expo will also include an outdoor photography and duck-calling contests, a climbing wall, chainsaw-wood-carving and model aviation demonstrations, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission aquarium, inflatables for small kids and archery exhibitions. Musicians Emily Cole, the Cummins Prison Band and the Mighty Electric St. Jude Band will perform.
Proceeds benefit educational scholarships for students and general operations of the foundation. Admission is one canned good or packaged food item, which will be donated to a local food pantry. Apex Redi-Mixed Concrete is the title sponsor. Call (870) 864-7130 or visit southarkexpo.com.
Mayweather vs. Maidana
The Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown in Benton and the Conway Towne Center in Conway will show "Mayhem: Mayweather vs. Maidana 2," the second bout between welterweights Floyd "Money" Mayweather, the current champion, and Marcos "El Chino" Maidana, 7 p.m. Saturday, live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Ticket information is available at FathomEvents.com.
'Sub/Urban' exhibition
"Sub/Urban," an exhibition of architectural scenes by father and son Little Rock artists Dennis and Jason McCann, opens with a reception and gallery talk by the artists, 5-7 p.m. Thursday in the Kennedy Gallery of the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, 701 S. Main St., Pine Bluff.
Admission to the reception and the exhibition, on display through Jan. 31, is free. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m. Saturday. Call (870) 536-3375, email info@asc701.org or visit asc701.org.
Adkins Christmas
Tickets -- $43-$78.50, VIP $150-$225 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Trace Adkins' 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16 Christmas Show at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St., Memphis. Call (901) 525-3000 or visit orpheum-memphis.com or Ticketmaster at (901) 743-2781 (ARTS).
Duran Duran film
The Riverdale 10 Cinema in Little Rock, the Razorback Cinema 16 in Fayetteville and the Fort Smith 14 in Fort Smith will screen Duran Duran: Unstaged, a David Lynch-directed concert film of the band onstage at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles during the band's "All You Need Is Now Tour," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The film features all four of the band's original members -- Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor -- and guest performers Gerard Way, Kelis, Mark Ronson and Arkansas' own Beth Ditto. Visit the website, screenvision.com/cinema-events/duran-duran-unstaged, for ticket information.
Drug documentary
The state Attorney General's Office will screen Bess O'Brien's 2013 documentary The Hungry Heart, a look at prescription drug abuse, at 6:30 p.m. today at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. O'Brien and a patient featured in the film will field questions afterward. The screening is part of a two-day Arkansas Prescription Drug Abuse Summit the office is conducting in conjunction with the Delta Regional Authority and other agencies. Admission is free; to reserve a seat, email rxsummit@arkansasAG.gov. Call (501) 682-2007, or visit the website, tinyurl.com/p88zptp.
Style on 09/09/2014