THE TO-DO
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BY DAVID KOON, LINDSEY MILLAR, LESLIE NEWELL PEACOCK AND WILL STEPHENSO
FRIDAY 3/11
FRIDAY 3/11
SECOND FRIDAY ART NIGHT
MTCC AFTER DARK: DELITA MARTIN
There’s a lot going on for the March edition of the monthly gallery stroll and troll (via rubber-wheeled trolley), most historically at the Historic Arkansas Museum, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary with the opening of “Diamond in the Rough: 75 years of the Historic Arkansas Museum,” works from the permanent collection. The Delta Brass Combo will toot HAM’s horn and a vintage mid-century cocktail, Millionaire No. 1, will be served. The Old State House celebrates an anniversary as well: The 800th of the Magna Carta, an exhibit from the Library of Congress sponsored by the Arkansas Bar Association; the museum will also have music, by Erin Enderlin, and refreshments. Arkansas Capital Corp.’s gallery opens “Complete Spaces,” panoramic paintings by Matthew Lopas, and the Butler Center opens two shows: “Twists and Strands: Exploring the Edges,” ceramics by Barbara Satterfield and jewelry by Michele Fox, and “Jeanfo: We Belong to Nature,” sculpture by the former Hot Springs artist. Lark in the Morning will perform at the Butler Center, which also features ongoing exhibits “Painting 360: A Look at Contemporary Panoramic Painting,” curated by Lopas, and “Photographic Arts: African American Studio Photography.” Gallery 221 & Art Studios 221 features “80/20,” a retrospective of work by George Chlebak, work by Salvador Dali in the Collector’s Gallery, and works by gallery artists. Rock Region Metro’s rubber-wheeled trolley will ferry folks from gallery to gallery. LNP
Delita Martin, whose exhibit “I Walked on Water to My Homeland” is on view
5 p.m.-8 p.m. Galleries downtown. Free.
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6 p.m. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Free.
at the Mosaic Templars, will talk about her work in this new evening series at the museum. The Little Rock artist combines printmaking with stitched fabric and other media to make larger-than-life narrative portraits of African-American women; she was one of just a handful of Arkansas artists
selected to show work in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s contemporary show “State of the Art: Discovering American Art.” The exhibition runs through March 26. The MTCC After Dark series will feature persons working in all forms of art, from poetry to music to film. LNP
name it, movies about science gone wrong inevitably have the same basic plot: “Don’t dick around in God’s sandbox, mortal!” Stir a heaping gruel ladle of director David Cronenberg’s trademark body horror (and an R-rating) into that basic bouillon, and you wind up with the 1986 sci-fi instaclassic “The Fly.” Jeff Goldblum (at his Goldblumiest) stars as Seth Brundle, a brilliant scientist who achieves the dream of anyone who
has ever flown coach: linked pods that can instantly teleport animal, vegetable or mineral across space. After a common housefly gets in the chamber during a test, however, Brundle’s DNA gets a little wonky, and he soon finds himself transforming into something a lot more interesting than the douchiest guy in “Jurassic Park,” with plenty of gross shit ensuing. Like the woman said: Be afraid. Be very afraid. DK
SATURDAY 3/12
‘THE FLY’
7 p.m. Ron Robinson Theater. $5
Tales of scientific overreach and mortal hubris are as old as the story of Icarus and Daedalus: Man creates wings for a noble purpose! Wings get misused for selfish ends! The selfish misuser dies, horribly. The end. “Frankenstein,” “Blade Runner,” “The Matrix,” “The Terminator,” you
SATURDAY 3/12
NICK LOWE AND MAVIS STAPLES
8 p.m. Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. $33-$53.
STILL COOL: Nick Lowe shares a bill with Mavis Staples at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center on Saturday.
Nick Lowe’s debut solo album had two perfect names: “Jesus of Cool” and, because his U.S. distributor didn’t think that such blasphemy would fly stateside, “Pure Pop for Now People.” Both were apt. A veteran of the boy-band turned seminal pub-rock group Brinsley Schwarz, Lowe became the flagship artist and in-house producer for Stiff Records in the late ’70s, producing The Damned’s “New Rose” (perhaps the first British punk record; The Damned called Lowe “granddad” during the recording; he was 26) and Elvis Costello’s debut, “My Aim Is True.” Lowe’s own debut was sardonic and playful and weird and deeply infectious. It’s filled with jokes that are easy to miss because the music is so damned tuneful — I listened to “Marie Provost,” a song inspired by Kenneth Anger’s apocryphal story about the grisly fate of an early silent film actress, about 1,000 times before I realized the hook was “She was a winner/Who became a doggie’s dinner.” Later, Lowe married Carlene Carter (and became son-in-law to June Carter and Johnny Cash), played in the great cult pop-rock band Rockpile, divorced Carlene Carter, got stuck on alcohol, and licensed his song “What’s So Funny ’Bout Peace, Love And Understanding” to be covered on the soundtrack to “The Bodyguard.” It sold a kajillion copies, and with his sizable royalties, Lowe staged a late-career resurgence with a series of well-received albums from the label Yep Roc. He’s less of a prankster these days, but he still knows his way around a hook. Mavis Staples is one of the greatest Stax-era soul singers ever. My wife saw her when she was at Pulaski Tech and said, even at 76, her voice was still strong. Look for her and Lowe to share the stage on at least one number. LM