Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Water park opens
Magic Springs Water and Theme Park, Crystal Falls, U.S. 70 (East Grand Avenue), Hot Springs, will open its water park area, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, operating on weekends through May 17 and seven days a week May 22-Aug. 16.
The water park has added children's slides, an expanded shaded area, stadium lighting in the Crystal Lagoon area, new menu items and upgrades to the Big Kahuna Cafe, a new Surf's Up! retail store and three more luxury cabanas and upgrades to the current cabanas overlooking Crystal Lagoon.
Season passes, $69.99 (discounted passes available at area Walgreens outlets, $64.99), allow unlimited visits to the park and the concert series. Single-day tickets are $59.99 Saturdays, $44.99 on any other day; $36.99 and $34.99 for children under 4 feet tall and adults age 55 and older; free for children 3 and younger. Call (501) 624-0100 or visit MagicSprings.com.
Reception and lecture
In conjunction with the current "30 Americans" exhibition, on display through June 21 at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock, the center will hold a reception at 5:30 p.m. today, preceding a 6 p.m. lecture titled "Building 30 Americans," in the lecture hall in the center's Lower Lobby.
Exhibition collectors Donald and Mera Rubell and Juan Roselione-Valadez, director of the Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, will discuss the art of building a collection. Mixed-media artist Shinique Smith, whose work is included in the exhibition, will be part of the panel, which Arts Center Executive Director Todd Herman will facilitate. Admission is $10, free for Arts Center members. Call (501) 372-4000.
'Faces & Landscapes'
"Human Faces & Landscapes: Paintings by Sui Hoe Khoo" opens with a reception, 5-8 p.m. Friday at Butler Center Galleries, 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, part of Second Friday Art Night. Hank Kaminsky will be the featured Arkansas artist; Justin McGoldrick & the P47s will perform. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3033 or visit butlercenter.org/art. The exhibit of portrait and landscape paintings by Khoo will remain on display through July 25.
History 'sandwich'
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program's "Sandwiching in History" tour will visit the Dan Stowers Office Building, 1516 W. Third St., Little Rock, at noon Friday, including a brief lecture. Take a lunch; admission is free. Call (501) 324-9880, email info@arkansaspreservation.org or visit arkansaspreservation.org.
Summer waltz
The North Little Rock Community Concert band will kick off its "concerts in the park" portion of the 2015 season at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the amphitheatre at Lakewood Village, on McCain Boulevard at North Hills Boulevard, North Little Rock. The program for the concert, titled "I've Made My Plans for the Summer" (after a John Philip Sousa waltz), will consist of that waltz and two Sousa marches; "A Tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein"; highlights from Jersey Boys; "A Gershwin Tribute to Love" and "A Hymn for Band." Music Director Rico Belotti conducts. Admission is free; take lawn chairs and/or blankets. Call (501) 758-2576 or visit nlrcommunityband.com.
Cafe 'MovieTime!'
Filmmakers Corner, Filmteur and Sweetgrass Jazz & Blues Cafe will screen the 1991 film A Rage in Harlem at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the cafe, 801 W. Markham St., Little Rock, part of a new "MovieTime!" series featuring popular films and cult classics that highlight black culture.
The R-rated, 115-minute movie stars Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines and Robin Givens in a comic caper in which a gangster's moll, fleeing to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, is unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavory characters, are on her trail. Bill Duke directed.
Admission is free. Call (501) 351-0452.
Cirque du Avatar?
Tickets -- $37.50-$132.50 -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Cirque du Soleil's touring show Toruk -- The First Flight, inspired by James Cameron's movie Avatar, Feb. 19- 21 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. Visit cirquedusoleil.com/toruk.
Weekend on 05/07/2015