IN BRIEF
THURSDAY 5/23
SATURDAY 5/25
7TH STREET UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL 1 p.m. 7th Street. $10.
Little Rock’s 7th Street has long held a special place in the city’s cultural landscape. Within a few blocks of each other, you’ve got The Weekend Theater, 7th Street Tattoos, Art Outfitters and Vino’s, all of which qualify as institutions at this
point. So what better way to celebrate the spirited artistic hub than with an annual festival featuring art, music, food, beer and more? An outdoor stage in the lot just east of 7th Street Tattoos will host a raft of bands and other entertainment, including magic tricks, sideshows, fire spinners, spoken word performances and music from Austin Jones and Smooth Spirit, Itinerant Locals, Go Fast!, Jab Jab Suckerpunch,
Peckerwolf and This Holy House. Inside Vino’s, they’ll be screening episodes of “The Ren & Stimpy Show” and other cartoons from 5-9 p.m., followed by live music from Flameing Daeth Fearies, Sam Walker, Neon Skin and Flint Eastwood. There will be beer, margaritas and carnival food vendors in the lot next to 7th Street Tattoos and Vino’s, naturally, will be serving up beer, wine, pizza, sandwiches and more.
SOUL SURVIVORS: Collective Soul plays at Timberwood Amphitheater Saturday.
SATURDAY 5/25
COLLECTIVE SOUL
8 p.m. Timberwood Amphitheater. $50-$60.
Magic Springs gets the live music rolling at Timberwood Amphitheater with a concert from erstwhile bubblegrunge megastars Collective Soul. The Georgia quartet has kept things rolling all these years. After splitting with Atlantic Records back in 2001, after several hits
and millions of units sold, Collective Soul came back in 2004 with “Youth,” which is a real head-scratcher for anybody who hadn’t thought about the band since “Shine” was blasting out of car stereos all over the country long about 1994. No lie: it sounds a hell of a lot like Bowie singing for, say, Supergrass (for real, singer Ed Roland sounds eerily similar to the Thin White Duke at times — eerily similar). They dialed the power-pop/glam sound
back a bit on subsequent albums, but Collective Soul is clearly a band that is much more than a one-hit-wonder grunge-lite nostalgia act. As with all the Timberwood concerts, the show is free with admission or $5-$10 for reserved seating. In other Magic Springs news: At 10 a.m., the park hosts a grand opening ceremony for its newest attraction, the four-story water complex Splash Island. Radio Disney star Tiffany Thornton will be there.
daries it raised, but also via the sinister otherworldliness of the characters, the stunning visual qualities of Kubrick’s dystopian vision and the groundbreaking soundtrack by the pioneering electronic musician Wendy Carlos. Based on Anthony Burgess’ 1962 novel, it provoked enormous controversy on release, on account of its brutal violence, which is still shocking more than four decades
later. The film was censored in the U.S. and banned in the U.K. for decades. Though it was a hit with audiences and many critics, the film had notable detractors upon release (Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert among them) and does now as well. It’s definitely not for everybody, but any film buffs who haven’t watched “A Clockwork Orange” owe it to themselves to see it.
TUESDAY 5/28
VINO’S PICTURE SHOW: ‘A CLOCKWORK ORANGE’
7:30 p.m. Vino’s. Free.
Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 classic “A Clockwork Orange” is one of those works that stands out among its contemporaries and even among its creator’s massively influential oeuvre. The film left an indelible mark on the culture not only through the philosophical quan-
Murry’s Dinner Playhouse just opened its production of the touching yet funny “Steel Magnolias,” which runs 6 p.m.Tue.-Sat., 11 a.m. Wed. and 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sun., $15-$35. Folk-rock singer/songwriter Ben Robbins plays a free show at Maxine’s, 8 p.m.
FRIDAY 5/24
If you’re looking for something not quite so Riverest-y to do Friday night, The American Guild of Organists presents a recital to benefit the Pediatric Injury Prevention Program at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Christ Episcopal Church, 8 p.m., free, donations accepted. Texas-based blues-blaster Wes Jeans brings the 12-bar tube-amp jams to Denton’s Trotline, 9 p.m., $10. The Sideshow Tragedy and Damn Arkansan offer an evening of Americana/roots rock at Maxine’s, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. Up in Fayetteville, A Concert for Campers has performances by John Henry & Friends, Brick Fields, Houston Hughes, Dividend and Joey Largent, with proceeds helping to send children to Camp Quest Oklahoma, Nightbird Books, 7 p.m., donations accepted. If you want to keep the good times going after things wind down at Riverfest, check out Lawler and Ewell’s 5th Annual Bday Bash with Raydar and Shaolin, Joe C, Noodles and JDawg, Revolution, 9 p.m., $5 adv., $10 day of. The Center for Artistic Revolution’s Rainbow Camp is a sure bet for LGBTQ and ally youth, Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center, Friday-Monday.
SATURDAY 5/25
In Eureka Springs, the May Festival of the Arts continues with a concert from veteran folk duo Trout Fishing in America, The Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Anyone with an interest in sustainable food systems and fighting against the forces of Big Ag will probably want to be at the March Against Monsanto at the Arkansas State Capitol, 1 p.m. Nashville indie-folk duo Elenowen (married couple Josh and Nicole Johnson who were on season one of NBC’s “The Voice”) play a free show at Juanita’s with Cliff Hutchison, 7 p.m. Maxine’s has an evening of burly rock, with Opportunist (featuring members of Holy Shakes), Booyah! Dad, Tiger High and Black Horse, 8 p.m., $5 adv., $7 door. In Fayetteville, space-rock riffmeisters Mothwind play an 18-and-older gig at The Lightbulb Club with locals Dying, $5. Psychpop quartet Tsar Bomba plays with Bombay Harambee at White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m. www.arktimes.com
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