IN BRIEF, CONT.
SATURDAY 5/12
Shop with blocks made by Russellville woodcut artist Neal Harrington. Animals from Heifer International will lend a bit of woolly authenticity to the pre-statehood agrarian way of life and there will be demonstrations of natural dye making and cooking. Pioneer games involving zero need for screens or cellphone towers will return, along with performances by the Arkansas Country Dance Society and live music. The custom ice cream will take its inspiration from territorial days; you can vote on a name for the new flavor through the week on HAM’s Facebook page. For heartier sustenance, Cypress Knee Food will have lunch for sale, including a territorial-themed specialty. LNP
SUNDAY 5/13
CHICAGO 7:30 p.m. Verizon Arena. $50-$90.
Few bands draw a range of response like Chicago. Now entering its 51st year as a touring unit, with 24 studio albums under its belt, “the rock band with horns” has guided itself, in name at least, through virtually the entirety of contemporary rock history. Line up Chicago’s albums and you’ll get a pretty uneven oeuvre, but one album seems to stand out as an exemplary classic. 1970’s “Chicago II,” which the band will perform in its entirety Sunday night, is a proggy, bigband jazz-rock monster full of threepart harmonies, a DuPaul-trained horn section and some truly wild guitar moves by the late, great Terry Kath. Folks who were there may remember the album for “Ballet for a Girl In Buchannon” and “It Better End Soon,” the two song cycles that occupy the bulk of the album. Younger heads will know it from Chicago’s greatest song, “25 or 6 to 4” — still an unparalleled headbanger, as far as dad rock goes. (And, it just occurred to me, it’s a riff bit clean off by Green Day on “Brain Stew.”) The show’s second half, which the band calls “the world’s longest encore,” runs down the group’s greatest hits. Classic rockers, you know what to do. JT
Tacos & Tianguis 2018 benefits El Zocalo Immigrant Resource Center, 6 p.m., The Bernice Garden. Geoffrey Robson conducts the music of John Williams for Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark: In Concert,” 7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun., Robinson Center, $15-$68. DOT, Or and Kami Renee play a show at Capitol View Studio for the benefit of Trust Tree Songwriting Camp for Girls, 9 p.m., $10. The Flatland Funk Donors keep it funky at Four Quarter Bar, 10 p.m., $7. Elsewhere in North Little Rock, Chris Tomlin presents “Worship Night in America” with guests Kim Walker-Smith, Matt Maher, Christine D’Clario, Tauren Wells and Pat Barrett, 7 p.m., Verizon Arena, $15-$130; and Argenta Community Theater hosts a screening of “Top Gun,” 8 p.m., $5. The Salty Dogs and Cherry Red team up for a country and boogie show at White Water, 9 p.m. Primus and Mastodon team up for a loud, weird bill at the Walmart AMP in Rogers, 7 p.m., $43-$57. CALS’ Ron Robinson Theater screens “The Organizer,” a film depicting the story of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, 1 p.m., free. ESSE Purse Museum hosts a bridal show with vendors from small businesses and a fashion show, 11 a.m., Bernice Garden. Amity Road performs at the Rev Room, 8 p.m., $8-$21. Alex Summerlin performs for happy hour at Cajun’s Wharf, 5:30 p.m., free, or stay later for a show from Canvas, 9 p.m., $5. Jet Black Alley Cat brings its crisp arrangements and bubblegum harmonies to Stickyz, with opening sets from Quiet, Please and The Rios, 8:30 p.m., $8-$10.
MONDAY 5/14 Los Angeles punk rockers Spanish Love Songs perform at White Water, with Attagirl and Pancho Casanova, 9 p.m., $7.
CHRONIC CELLARS WINE DINNER Join us Tuesday, May 15th at 6pm
ENJOY 4 MAGNIFICENT WINES AND1 SPARKLING PAIRED WITH CHEF CARLOS’ UNIQUE ITALIAN CREATIONS FOR $80 PER PERSON CHRONIC CELLARS representatives will personally be presenting five of their unique creations from the Paso Robles Vineyard. Guests will enjoy four Chronic red blends and one delightful Sparkling. The menu will consist of traditionally prepared Italian cuisine.
TUESDAY 5/15 Claire Denis’ “White Material” is next up in the Arkansas Times Film Series, 7 p.m., Riverdale 10 Cinema, $9. Jazz guitarist Isaac Helgestad plays at CALS’ Esther D. Nixon Library in Jacksonville as part of its “Sounds in the Stacks” series, 6:30 p.m., free.
WEDNESDAY 5/16 The Creek Rocks play for a benefit for the Democratic Party of Arkansas at White Water, 6 p.m., $10. Author, activist and Rev. John Dear speaks about his book “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace & Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change,” 7 p.m., St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 12415 Cantrell Road.
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