LITTLE ROCK — November is a month to be thankful for in many ways: For turkeys, twinkle lights, Beethoven, peanut butter, the Wicked Witch of the West, and most of all — that it’s still another 54 shopping days to Christmas.
1 National Author’s Day, Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month, and how these famous authors would have sounded with a mouthful of peanut butter: Herman Melville: “Call me Ishhhhft-pft!-mael.” Charles Dickens: “’I am the gooft of Criftth-mas preffff-ent,’ thed the Sprut.” William Shakespeare: “Alaf, poor Yorick-ick-ick!”
GREAT DANE
Shakespeare’s Hamlet through Nov. 14 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Call (501) 378-0405.
Death by Fatal Murder through Nov. 14 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Call (501) 562-3131.
RUN IT UP THE FLAG POLL
2 Election Day
WITCH WAY TO OZ
3 Broadway musical Wicked through Nov. 14 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. For tickets: Celebrity Attractions at (501) 244-8800, or Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.
YULES RUSH IN
4 Junior League of Little Rock’s Holiday House Christmas shopping through Nov. 6 at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock. Details at jllr. org. Call (501) 375-5557.
Original Ozark Folk Festival with Eliza Gilkyson, talent show, arts and crafts through Nov. 6, Eureka Springs. Details at ozarkfolkfestival.com. Call (479) 253-7333.
University of Central Arkansas Concert Choir
performance, Illumination of the Spirit — The Light of Love, 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Performance Hall, UCA, Conway. Call (501) 450-5751.
Art for Arc’s Sake show and sale, 5-9 p.m. at Next Level Events, Little Rock, benefits Arc Arkansas. Call (501) 375-7770.
DRESSED TO THE CANINES
5 “In the Blue” reception with Blue Dog artist George Rodrigue at the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, benefits the Thea Foundation. Call (501) 379-9512. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead through Nov. 6, Nov. 12-13 and Nov. 19-20 at The Weekend Theater, downtown Little Rock. Call (501) 374-3761.
BOOM AND BUST
Guy Fawkes Day: England remembers the “Gunpowder Plot” of 1605, a failed try at blowing up King James I and the Houses of Parliament.
CLAN DO
Arkansas Genealogical Society Fall Seminar and Book Fair with speakers Russell Baker, Daniel Littlefield Jr. and Paula Stuart Warren through Nov. 6 at the Airport Holiday Inn, Little Rock. Details at agsgenealogy.org. Call (501) 425-2742.
CRAFTY ELVES
Gone to the Bazaar, 8 a.m.-7 p.m., and turkey dinner, 5-7 p.m. at the Oak Forest United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 663-9407.
COME AN’ GIT IT! (— OR THEY’LL THROW IT IN THE CREEK)
6 Cookin’ on the Creek barbecue cook-off on Crooked Creek near downtown Harrison. Details at cookinonthecreek.com. Call (870) 741-2659.
How to celebrate Saxophone Day: Dress up with big brass buttons.
ONE GUY IN THE FUNGI
Mushroom Mania, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with mycologist Jay Justice at Pinnacle Mountain State Park near Little Rock. Call (501) 868-5806.
THE ART OF ARF
Reigning Dogs and Cats auctions and entertainment, 7 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel, Little Rock, benefits the Humane Society of Pulaski County. Call (501) 227-6166.
TROOPS, TROUPES
Civil War Weekend, living history and re-enactments through Nov. 7 at Historic Washington State Park. Details at historicwashingtonstatepark.com. Call (870) 983-2684. Foothills FoodFest: A Culinary Revelation restaurant sampler, 2 p.m. at Elizabeth’s restaurant, Batesville, benefits the Ozark Foothills FilmFest. Call (870) 251-1189. Fall Craft Show and used book sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 291-3751.
TIME AND AGAIN
7 End of daylight saving time.
The clock falls back one hour at 2 a.m.
Backward, turn backward O’ time in thy flight, Let me sleep late again — Noon sounds just right; Leave me to burrow here Under the sheets Safe from alarm clocks, And e-mails and Tweets.
8 How to celebrate Aid and Abet Punsters Day: Be o’pun to the possibilities.
FLYBOY IN THE SOUP
9 Aviation History Month
10 Sesame Street premieres, 1969, brought to you by the letters P, B and S.
11 Veterans Day
BANJO MOJO
Fall Bluegrass Festival
through Nov. 13 at Ozark Folk Center State Park, Mountain View. Call (870) 269-2542.
Center Stage production of Neil Simon comedy God’s Favorite, through Nov. 14 at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church, Little Rock. Call (501) 978-0522.
NICKLED AND DIMED
12 Arkansas Numismatic Coin Show through Nov. 14 at Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 985-1663.
GOODNESS GRACIOUS!
13 World Kindness Day, and three totally unexpected acts of kindness:
Open the door for someone who doesn’t want in.
Return a lady’s handkerchief, but not to the lady who dropped it.
Say, “Have a nice day!” — after dinner.
Festival Cabaret Dinner and Concert, 6 p.m. at the Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, benefits Hot Springs Music Festival scholarship fund. Call (501) 623-4763.
St. Bernard Women’s Club Holiday Bazaar, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. Bernard Parish, Bella Vista. Call (479) 855-9069.
14 How to celebrate Vegan Month: No crying over spelt milk.
John Davidson concert, 2 p.m. at Arend Arts Center, Bentonville High School, Bentonville. Details at liveonstagenwa.com. Call (479) 855-9997.
15 National Pomegranate Month asks the — pft! — question: How many — pft! pft! — seeds are there in — pft! — one pomegranate? — (A) Exactly 57, (B) Exactly 840, or (C) None. Pomegranates don’t have seeds any more than poofy Pomeranians with pompous, pomaded pompadours have — pft! — pits.
(Answer at Nov. 23)
NO-FAT TWINKIES
16 Enchanted Land of Lights and Legends drive-through display of 150 lighted scenes through Dec. 31 in Jefferson County Regional Park, Pine Bluff. Call (870) 536-7600.
Comedy Boeing Boeing through Dec. 31 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Call (501) 562-3131.
17 How to celebrate Homemade Bread Day: Loaf.
RICKETY MOUSE
18 Mickey Mouse’s 82nd birthday — or in mouse years, 3,280th birthday.
KNIGHT FEVER
19 Broadway musical Monty Python’s Spamalot
through Nov. 20 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Call (479) 443-5600.
TheatreSquared Gala for Education, 6:30 p.m. at Savor Restaurant, Fayetteville. Call (479) 445-6333.
DONALD, DUCK!
20 Wings over the Prairie Festival and World Championship Duck Calling Contest, events through Nov. 27, Stuttgart. Carnival opens Nov. 24; duck gumbo cook-off and championship duck-calling contests Nov. 27. Details at stuttgartarkansas. org. Call (870) 673-1602.
SEQUIN SEGUE
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert, Beethoven & Blue Jeans, 8 p.m. Nov. 20 and 3 p.m. Nov. 21 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Call (501) 666-1761.
Eureka Springs Fall Antiques Show and Sale through Nov. 21 at the Inn of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs. Call (479) 253-7551.
A FINE HOWDY-DO
21 World Hello Day
SUDDENLY GONE BLINK
22 Lights of the Delta display of 6 million blinks and twinkles through Dec. 28, Blytheville. Details at lightsofthedelta.com. Call (870) 762-9788.
23 Taken for pomegranate quiz answer: (B) 840 seeds. One — pft! — two — pft! — three — pft! ...
SUGARPLUM AND ALUM
24 Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, 7:30 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000
76 TOM BONES
25 Thanksgiving — proof again of the amazing coincidence that a 12-pound turkey fits equally well in a standard-size oven and in a regulation football halftime.
26 Black Friday. Christmas shoppers rush to the maul.
HATCHET JOB
Mountain Rendezvous pioneer camp and tomahawk throwing through Nov. 28 at Petit Jean State Park on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Details at pe titjeanstatepark.com. Call (501) 727-5441.
ECHOING JOYOUS STRAINS
27 Caroling in the Caverns, singing in Blanchard Spring Caverns near Mountain View, weekends through Dec. 19. Details at yourplaceinthemoun tains.com. Call (870) 269-8068.
CURLY TAILGATES
University of Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Louisiana State University at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Details at arkan sasrazorbacks.com. Call (479) 575-5151.
Mannheim Steamroller, 8 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Call (800) 745-3000.
28 How to celebrate International Drum Month: Bada-bing!
29 November was called “the wind month” in old Anglo-Saxon times. Today? — “the whirred month,” as in, “Whirred it go?”
30 National Inspirational Role Models Month, and four nominees for the man with something for everybody:
Jolly Old St. Nicholas.
St. Nick.
Father Christmas.
Steve Jobs.
Coming next month: December! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203; or e-mail
by Nov. 15 to suggest December calendar entries or what to leave for Santa this Christmas Eve besides a cookie, such as: A state Game and Fish Commission SUV to drive while his sleigh is in the shop on recall. A man girdle. A deer license. Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours, or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.
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