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TODAY
'Cutting Edge'
"Cutting Edge," an exhibit featuring paper dresses from the 1960s that could be hemmed and altered with a pair of scissors and repaired with a piece of tape, goes on display today at ESSE Purse Museum, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. In conjunction, mixed-media artist Laura Fanning's "Caution: Garment May Be Flammable" collection of paper clothing -- to be hung on the wall, not the body -- will also be on display, and for sale.
The exhibit will remain up through May 20. Admission is $10, $8 for senior citizens 60 and older, military and children 5-18, free for children under 5.
Fanning will hold a workshop, 1-3 p.m. May 19, at which participants will make their own paper "clothes or collages." Cost, $30, includes materials; there are 20 spots available. For reservations and more information, call (501) 916-9022.
WEDNESDAY
Mixed masonry
Holly Hope, special projects historian at the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, presents: "A Storm Couldn't Tear Them Down: The Mixed Masonry Buildings of Silas Owens Sr., 1938-1955" for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' monthly "Legacies & Lunch" program, noon-1 p.m. Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Owens, from Twin Groves, was a farmer and self-taught rock mason who most notably produced cut-stone buildings trimmed with brick, in what the Preservation Program dubs "mixed masonry." Admission is free. Visit butlercenter.org.
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Winning poets
Jake Sawyer of Mena, a sophomore at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, won the first prize of $500 for his poem, "In the Margins," in the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas' 2018 statewide Jeannie Dolan Carter Memorial Collegiate Poetry Contest April 14. The judges called his poem "edgy, playful and imaginative."
Meleah Perez of Green Forest, a senior at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and managing editor of the University's newspaper The Arkansas Traveler, won the $300 second prize for her poem, "What I Mean When I Say My Family Is Close." Alexandra Borchardt of Monticello, a junior at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, won the $200 third prize for "Melancholia."
The honorable mentions: Lindsey Walker of Conway, University of Central Arkansas, "Hand-Me-Downs"; Rebecca Albert of Little Rock, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, "Grief"; Samuel Cross-Meredith of Siloam Springs, John Brown University, "Blood Hydraulics."
TICKETS
Rousey joins card
Former mixed martial arts champion Ronda Rousey has joined the card for WWE Monday Night RAW!, 6:30 p.m. June 11 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. The card (subject to change) also features Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman and Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins v. Jinder Mahal, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens, plus RAW General Manager Kurt Angle, RAW Women's Champion Nia Jax and Sasha Banks. Tickets are $18-$103 (plus service charges); there's an eight-ticket limit. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
Style on 05/01/2018