LITTLE ROCK — March blows in with a gusty gust of lions, leprechauns and chocolate rabbits, and breezes out with more pirates, peas, peanuts and pens, and coffee jitters, than an Elvis look-alike could shake a lamb’s tail at.
1 Employee Appreciation Day. National Pig Day.
Peanut Butter Lovers Day. Atta boy, atta pig, whatta moufth-pft!-pft!-ful - and what to say to a classmate of Rocky and Bullwinkle’s at a college reunion: Atta Wossamotta U.
CIRCUS: MONKEYS CIRQUE: NO MONKEYS
Cirque du Soleil
Quidam through March 3 at Verizon Arena,North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
SPROUT AND ABOUT Arkansas River Valley Lawn and Garden Show through March 3 at the Fort Smith Convention Center, Fort Smith. Details at fsgardenshow.com. Call (479) 285-0148.
RUN-UP TO THE RACE Little Rock Marathon Health and Fitness Expo through March 2 at the Statehouse Convention Center. Other weekend events include a 5K fun run/walk March 2, as Little Rock limbers up for the big run March 3. Details at littlerockmarathon.com. Call (501) 918-5321.
Comedy ’Til Beth Do Us Part through March 16 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Call (501) 562-3131.
Charlotte Taylor and Gypsy Rain, 5 p.m. at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, PineBluff. Details at artssciencecenter.org. Call (870)
536-3375.
PITTA-PATTA WHATTASPATTA
2 National Umbrella Month: One celebration where people have fun without getting sloshed.
KNIGHTS THAT SAY “KNEE”
3 Little Rock Marathon, general start 8 a.m. from downtown Little Rock’s River Market District. Details at littlerockmarathon.com. Call (501) 918-5321.
FOUND THE KEYS Florida admission day, 1845. Florida admits that it wasn’t the Fountain of Youth that Ponce de Leon discovered in the Sunshine State, just a dribble of election returns.
PREZ AND ACCOUNTED FOR
4 Old Inauguration Day. March 3 used to be the presidents were sworn in - up to 1937, the year Franklin D. Roosevelt lip-synced the national anthem, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
5 Overly aggressive time clock punchers give Employee Spirit Month a black eye.
AVAST KNOWLEDGE
6 World premiere of Treasure Island: A New Musical, through March 31 at the Arrrrr!-kansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
EBB AND FLO
7 Royal Players production of The Odd Couple, the female version - Florence in place of Felix, Olive instead of Oscar - through March 10 and March 14-17 at the Royal Theater, Benton. Details at theroyalplayers.com. Call (501) 315-5483.
PLINK, YA THINK?
Mountain View Bluegrass Festival through March 9 at Ozark Folk Center State Park, Mountain View. Details at mountainview-bluegrass.com. Call (870) 269-3851.
ALL THE MUSE FIT TO PRINT
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Co. and The Ahn Trio: Temptation of the Muses, 7:30 p.m. at Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, Conway.
Details at uca.edu/reynolds. Call (501) 450-3265.
LEGUME-DEMAIN
8 The Princess and the Pea through March 24 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
National Frozen Food Month.
The princess felt a BB bump
That lumpified her bed,
And worse, “It’s cold as ice in here,”
Is what the princess said.
She found the royal mattress stuffed
With frozen peas - but whose?
She had no choice from then on
But to mind her peas and Qs.
MADE FROM SCRATCH
Arkansas Pen Show through March 10 at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel, North Little Rock.
Details at arkansaspenclub.com.
Call (501) 353-2362.
KEEP CALM, CARRY ON
9 Panic Day. Have a panic attack, or have pancakes: Your choice.
PICK-ME-UP
Keep Little Rock Beautiful cleanup drive starts at 8 a.m., Pettaway Park. Details at keeplittlerockbeautiful.com. Call (501) 765-3530.
TICK-TOCK TALK
10 Start of Daylight Saving Time. Clocks spring forward one hour at 2 a.m.
Hickory-dickory-dock The mouse put up a squawk;
“This time,” he said, “I’ll stay in bed,” Hickory-dickory-balk.
SIMON SAYS Jim Witter tribute to Simon and Garfunkel, 2 p.m. at Arend Arts Center, Bentonville. Details at liveonstagenwa.com. Call (479) 855-9997.
AHA! TADA!
11 International Ideas Month.
“I love it when a plan comes together.” - Hannibal Smith, The A-Team
GUST WHAT
12 March comes in like a lion and goes out like a: (A) Lamb, (B) Llama, or (C) Rama Lama Ding-Dong.
(Answer at March 20.)
GROUNDSWELLS OF LAUGHTER
13 International Mirth Month: The shtick heard ’round the world.
E=MC SQUARED AWAY
14 Albert Einstein’s birthday, 1879.
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” - Albert Einstein
FRAMED AT A YOUNG AGE
15 Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition - works by students from kindergarten through high school around the state‚ through April 28 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock.
Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
STEAMY LINEUP Valley of the Vapors Independent Music Show through March 19 at various venues, Hot Springs. Details at valleyofthevapors.com. Call (501) 282-9056.
CAESAR’S DRESSING DOWN The Ides of March
LEAPIN’ LEPRECHAUNS!
16 Little Rock to North Little Rock St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 1 p.m. from downtown Little Rock over the Main Street Bridge to North Little Rock’s Argenta district. Details at Irisharkansas.org. Call (501) 868-6416.
Eureka Springs St. Paddy Day Parade with grand marshal Judge Gerald K. Crow, 2 p.m., downtown Eureka Springs. Details at stpaddy.ureeka.org. Call (479) 981-9551.
St. Patrick’s Day on the Hill Parade with the Ozark Highlanders Pipe Band and Northwest Arkansas Celtic Musicians, noon, downtown Fayetteville and Dickson Street. Call (479) 871-0376.
CREAMS OF THE CROP Chocolate Roll Festival celebrating Searcy County’s claim to being the “Chocolate Roll Capital of the World,” at Marshall High School, Marshall. Details at searcycountyarkansas.org. Call (870) 448-2557.
SPREAD’S THE WORD Quilting Workshop, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott, a stitch in time before National Quilting Month in May. Call (501) 961-1409.
GOTTA SING Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert, American Songbook, with tunes from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, 8 p.m. March 16 and 3 p.m. March 17 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.
ERIN GO SPA
17 St. Patrick’s Day.
Irish-American Month.
World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade on 98-foot-long Bridge Street with grand masters Bo Derek and John Corbett; Blarney Stone kissing at 4:30 p.m., parade at 6:30, downtown Hot Springs. Details at shorteststpats.com. Call (800) 922-6478.
HE CAME, HEE HAW, HE CONQUERED
18 Donkey basketball - the players ride donkeys - 6 p.m. at Leslie Intermediate School, Leslie. Call (501) 941-4828.
DOWN IN HIS CUPS
19 National Caffeine Awareness Month, Credit Education Month: Two ways to get the jitters.
TEST ANSWER EARNS A SHEEPSKIN
20 First day of spring Bleat the clock quiz answer: (A) Baa! March goes out like Mary’s little lamb.
Mary had a little lamp That wouldn’t light the way;
She traded for a ewe that knew, And here she is - hooray!
WHO PHEW?
21 Fragrance Day: Her perfume so overwhelmed him that he whispered, “You’re the one I odor.”
SCREENED IN Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Film Forum classes with faculty members including actor Judge Reinhold and director Howard Deutch, through March 24 on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Details at livethelegacy.org. Call (501) 727-6265.
IT’S A MAN’S WORLD, BUT IT’S A WOMAN’S UNIVERSE
22 National Women’s History Month.
At least they didn’t step on his blue suede shoes.
23 Elvis Haircut Day at Chaffee Crossing Historic District, Fort Smith, remembers when Elvis Presley got his first Army buzz-cut at Fort Chaffee, in 1958. Details at chaffeecrossing.com. Call (479) 434-6774.
24 Optimism Month, and three ways to see things could be worse:The debt ceiling could mean upstairs neighbors screaming over money as the midnight hour approaches.
Global warming could have a thermostat to fight over.
Today could be Monday.
TOOT AND CONSEQUENCES
25 International Listening Awareness Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Play the Recorder Month.
CAT ON A HOT TIME TONIGHT
26 Playwright Tennessee Williams’ birthday, 1911.
SUPER GOOBER WHOOPIE
27 How to celebrate National Peanut Month: With the elephant in the room.
ABOVE AVERAGE
28 Garrison Keillor: A Brand-New Retrospective, 7 p.m. at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
“I want to resume the life of a shy person.” - Garrison Keillor
(I)NCRIMINATED, (R)EPUDIATED, (S)ENTENCED
29 National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month, and three ways to prepare to meet the taxman: Have all records in order - everything in the same shoe box.
Gather receipts and transcripts to prove actual business was done that time at Hooters.
Deny having left anything in Switzerland but the wrapper off a chocolate bar.
REEL DEAL
30 Antique Fishing Tackle and Lure Evaluation - appraisals of old fishing gear by members of the National Fishing Lure Collectors Club, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center, downtown Little Rock. Call (501) 907-0636.
WAUL MART World’s Largest Baby Shower, workshops and vendors at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center, Springdale. Details at worldslargestbabyshower.com. Call (479) 521-5566.
CHOCOLATE BUNNIES HIDIN’ EVERYWHERE
31 Easter, and a basket-hunters’ guide to where chocolate bunnies hide:
Under chocolate fountains.
Behind chocolate logs.
On a person’s hips.
TICKED OFF, THE CLOCK STRIKES
The United States wakes up to the nation’s first resetting of clocks to Daylight Saving Time, 1918. People ask what idiot came up with this idea. But the answer is Benjamin Franklin, and it’s too late to clean his clock.
Coming next month: April!
Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or e-mail
[email protected] by March 15 to suggest April calendar entries or how to avoid paying income taxes on April 15, such as: Tax day is the one time when nothing pays off better than total failure. 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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