June is when Dad is justifiably jumpy as a June bug full of juniper juice about the jumbled jungle of junk that will jounce his way on June 16, Father’s Day.
1 National Accordion Awareness Month, Adopt a Shelter Cat Month. June is the biggest squawk on the street since the accordion player stepped on the cat’s tail.
WALK THE LINE Tribute to Johnny Cash concert with guitarist Charlie White
and drummer W.S. “Fluke” Holland, Ozark Folk Center State Park, Mountain View.
Details at ozarkfolkcenter.
com. Call (870) 269-3851.
Take Steps to Be Heard walk, 5 p.m. at the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, benefits the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. Details at ccfa.org.
Call (501) 613-1699.
BANANA SEAT ELITE CARTI Tour de Rock advanced cyclist and fun rides, 7 a.m. from Burns Park Soccer Complex, North Little Rock. Details at carti.com. Call (501) 296-3406.
Arkansas Salutes the Troops 7:30 a.m. golf tournament and 7 p.m. benefit concert for military families at Greystone Country Club, Cabot. Call (501) 835-3399.
MUSICAL CHEERS 2 Hot Springs Music Festival through June 15 at venues including Summit Arena and the Arlington hotel. Details at hotmusic.org. Call (501) 623-4763.
Little Rock Wind Symphony concert, Sunday Serenade, 3 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church,Little Rock. Details at lrwindsymphony.org.
Call (501) 666-0777.
GOOD AND PLENTY Little Rock Full Figure Fashion Week show, The Wiz of the Runway, 7 p.m. at
Donaghey Student Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Details at lrfffwthewiz.eventbrite.com. Call (501) 541-8796.
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.” - Coco Chanel.
GRITS AND BEAR IT 3 National Soul Food Month.
THANKS A HEAP 4 Henry Ford builds his first gas-powered car, 1896, takes a bumpy ride, and calls his invention the: (A) Edsel, (B) Unicycle, (C) Tricycle, (D) Quadricycle, or (E) Business Cycle.
Answer at June 10.
HAND JIVE
5 Adult puppet show Avenue Q through June 30 at
Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
6 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Fully
Charged, through June 9 at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
WYNNE, WYNNE SITUATION
7 Wynne Farm Fest and tractor show through June
8, Wynne. Details at keepwynnesmiling.org. Call (870) 238-2601.
HANG AROUN’, UPSIDE DOWN
Bat-O-Rama hikes and talks about bats through June 9 at Devil’s Den State Park near West Fork andFayetteville. Details at arkansas.
com. Call (479) 761-3325.
BRUSHES WITH FAME
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London exhibit through Sept. 8 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
LUCKY NUMBER
Rock musical 13 through June 9 and weekends through June 23 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Details at weekendtheater.
org. Call (501) 374-3761.
WAVE LENGTH Portfest Rollin’ on the River Festival with The Bellamy Brothers and Jo Dee Messina, through June 8 at Newport and Jacksonport State Park. Details at portfest.
org. Call (870) 523-3618.
Angels & Animals, 5 p.m.
at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
Details at artssciencecenter.org.
Call (870) 536-3375.
FASHION NOOSE “Beau” Brummell’s birthday, 1778. The dandified English gent was famous for taking hours to dress. He polished his boots with champagne, and set the style for men’s fashion. To this day, he is largely to blame for gentlemen having to wear neckties.
FLAGS ON THE PLAY8 Little Rock Wind Symphony Flag Day “Stars and Stripes” concert with baritone soloist Timothy Tucker, 7 p.m. at MacArthur Park, Little Rock. Details at lrwindsymphony.org. Call (501) 666-0777.
Little Rock Music Party, 7 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church, Little Rock. Details at littlerockmusicparty.com. Call (501) 626-5889.
WAK!
9 Donald Duck’s 79th birthday makes him the world’s longest-lived, darn old duck. Daffy Duck is 76. R.I.P. Super Duck (“The Cockeyed Wonder”), Baby Huey, Yakky Doodle.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Eureka Springs Historical Museum reopening, 3-6 p.m. with renovations and new exhibits, Eureka Springs. Call (479) 253-9417.
TALL TALES 10 Skyscraper Month.
UTTER PUTT-PUTTER Jauntin’ jalopy quiz answer: (D) Quadricycle. Ford’s first automoble sputtered along on four bicycle tires. Car technology has advanced so far that, now, only the spare is a bicycle tire.
TRUNK SHOW 11 Petit Jean Car Show and Swap Meet through June 15 at the Museum of Automobiles on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton. Details at museumofautos.
com. Call (501) 727-5427.
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM12National Rivers Month.
THE SPIRITS ARE ABOUT TOSPEAK 13 TV psychic John Edward, 7 p.m. at Robinson Center Music Hall. Details at johnedward.
net. Call (800) 745-3000.
THINK PINK, HEW BLUE Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival and tomato-eating contest, through June 15, Warren.
Details at bradleypinktomato.com.
Call (870) 226-5225.
Eureka Springs Blues Weekend with The Nighthawks and Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges through June 16 at venues including The Auditorium and Basin Park Hotel. Details at eurekaspringsblues.com. Call (479) 253-7377.
14 If Great Outdoors Month caught on with the A-list, would the in-crowd go out?
FRESH ACTS TheatreSquared New Play Festival through June 16 at Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios, Fayetteville. Details at theatre2.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
ROUND AND ABOUT15World Jugglers’ Day.
WITH A GLITTER BIT OF LUCK
Prospector Jamboree and diamond exhibit at Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro. Call (870) 285-3113.
Leslie Homecoming, pancake breakfast and lawn mower races in Leslie near Marshall. Call (870) 448-7505.
A DAY TO BE HAD BY THE DUDE KNOWN AS DAD16Father’s Day.
He works all the time,
It’s no wonder’s he’s stressed;
This guy deserves one day
When father knows rest.
BIG FISH AND MINNOWS
Father’s Day Fishing, catchand-release noon-4 p.m. at Swan Lake, Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock. Details at wildwoodpark.org. Call (501) 821-7275.
UNSPRUNG OFFSPRING 17 Children’s Awareness Month is so strangely quiet, it must be up to something.
THE MAN WHOSE SOX COULD STUN AN OX 18 Paul Bunyan Day celebrates the big woodsman - not to be confused with an ache in the big toe, a Paul Bunyon.
OH, WHAT A NIGHT!
19 Musical Jersey Boys through June 23 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock.
Details at celebrityattractions.com.
Call (501) 244-8800.
GIVE GREASE A CHANCE 20 Oil Town Festival, drill bit throwing contest and pipe tote through June 22, Smackover.
Details at smackoverar.com. Call (870) 725-3521.
ON THE FLY 21 Mount Magazine International Butterfly Festival and butterfly observatory through June 22, Paris. Details at butterflyfestival.com. Call (479) 963-2244.
THE BARITONE WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN Opera in the Ozarks with Madama Butterfly, Elixir of Love and The Pirates of Penzance through July 19 at Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, and Arend Arts Center in Bentonville. Details at opera.org.
Call (479) 253-8595.
THE HEAT IS ON First day of summer.
22 Onset of the unseasonable storm to be known as the Great Summer Blizzard of 2013.
23 Temperature returns to a moderate 125 degrees.
MUM’S THE WORD, RIGHT, PA?
24 International Men’s Month, Effective Communications Month, and why men don’t communicate in ways that women can understand: Men believe the best is left unsaid, the worst goes without saying, and the stuff in between isn’t worth mentioning.
The way a man feels after a long talk is like a woman feels after an extra-onions and jalapeno gas-station chili dog.
Men don’t always have theright to remain silent, but they understand the rest of the law: Anything you say can and will be used against you.
“I DO” ADO 25 June has been the most popular month to be a bride ever since the ancient time of Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage - and to guess from the sword she sometimes carried, also the diva of divorce court.
“Alone: Bad. Friend: Good.” - Frankenstein’s Monster, The Bride of Frankenstein.
BY THE BOOK 26 National Bathroom Reading Month, and readers’ picks:
Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss.
Robbers’ Roost by Zane Grey.
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.
27 If International Surf Music Month got erased, would it be a wipe-out?
BRICK-A-BRACS 28 Brickfest and brick toss through June 29, Malvern. Details at malvernbrickfest.com. Call (501) 458-1115.
Dairy Alternatives Month: Brick, yes; brick of cheese, no.
PEAS CORPS 29 Purple Hull Pea Festival and World Championship Rotary Tiller Race in Emerson, south of Magnolia. Details at purplehull.com. Call (870) 547-3500. 30 If June Dairy Month ran dry, would it be an udder disaster?
Coming next month: July! 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 June 15 to suggest July calendar entries or how to celebrate July as Women’s Motorcycle Month, such as:You go, gir-rrrrrrr-il! 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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