1 STAR WARS, ETC.
"The Movie Music of John Williams" closes out the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's 2015-16 Acxiom Pops Live! series, 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Pulaski Academy's Connor Performing Arts Center, 12701 Hinson Road, Little Rock. Philip Mann conducts film music from the Star Wars films, E.T., Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Memoirs of a Geisha, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Far and Away and Amistad, plus Air and Simple Gifts (from the 2009 presidential inaugural ceremony) and the "Call of the Champions" (official theme of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games). Sponsor is the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Tickets are $19-$58, $10 for students and active duty military, free to the Sunday matinee for K-12 students with a paying adult. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 100, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.
2 SECOND CITY
Hooking Up With The Second City, six members of the Chicago-based troupe performing sketch comedy and improvisational humor on missed connections, girls' night out adventures and "all the crazy things we do for love," will be onstage at 7 p.m. today-Sunday, Tuesday-May 12 and May 15 and 7 and 9:30 p.m. May 13-14 at the Rep, Sixth and Main streets, Little Rock. Tickets are $35, $15 for students. "BrewHaHa," a beer-and-pizza prelude sponsored by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Public House Brewing Co. and Ozark Brewing Co., precedes tonight's show at 6 p.m. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit therep.org/attend.
3 STRAWBERRIES
It's time to start stocking up on fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. The Little Rock Farmers Market celebrates its first Saturday of the 42nd season, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in the River Market pavilions. This year's market will include the Garden Gourmet Chef Series, 10-11 a.m. the second Saturday of every month, and the return of the Veggie Valet, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Call (501) 375-2552 or visit rivermarket.info.
4 SHELLFISH
Chow down on mudbugs at the Hat Club Crawfish Salute, 6 p.m. Friday at the River Market in Little Rock. The crawfish dinner includes music, a raffle, auction and the "live Crawtucky Derby." Tickets are $40 in advance, $50 at the door. Ages 13-20 are $20 and children 12 and under are free. Proceeds benefit the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Call (501) 912-0622 or visit hatclublr.com. See story on Page 4E.
5 STRUCTURES
The Quapaw Quarter Association hosts its 52nd Spring Tour, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, featuring five houses (four of which have never before been on any tour) in Little Rock's Hillcrest Historic District: 478 and 516 Ridgeway St.; the Canby House, 420 Midland St.; the Ashcroft House, 444 Fairfax Ave.; and the Foster-Cochran House, 3724 Hill Road. Pulaski Heights Elementary School -- at Pine Street and Lee Avenue -- will also be open, with student-led tours. Tickets are $20 in advance, $30 day-of (ticket booths are near the Foster-Cochran House on Hill Road, on the Lee Avenue side of Pulaski Heights Elementary and at the Little Rock Garden Clubs' Hillcrest Hall, Lee Avenue and Kavanaugh Boulevard), free for kids 10 and younger. Saturday's 5-7 p.m. Candlelight Tour will also add the house at 319 Midland; a champagne stop at the Storthz House, 450 Midland; and the chapel at Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church, 4401 Woodlawn Drive, followed by a 7 p.m. dinner/party in the church's fellowship hall. Tickets, $125, include afternoon tours. Proceeds go toward the association's historic preservation programs. Call (501) 371-0075 or visit quapaw.com.
6 SIMULATION
Guests can try their hands at printmaking, fire-starting and gold panning, then do a little dancing as the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, presents its annual Territorial Fair, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. As part of the museum's 75th anniversary, this year's festival will include 1940s recipes cooked up in the Brownlee House Kitchen and 1940s tours of the McVicar House. There will also be crafts and a chance to make Mother's Day cards. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit historicarkansas.org.
7 SENSATIONS
The budding talent of children, kindergarten-12th grade, will be on display during the Arkansas Arts Center's 55th Young Arkansas Artists exhibition, Friday-July 24. A family festival is scheduled for 11 a.m.-2 p.m., with awards being handed out at 12:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit arkarts.com.
8 SCIENCE
The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, 201 E. Broadway, North Little Rock, will host the 2016 North Little Rock Mini Maker Faire, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. The all-ages event combines science, art and technology to celebrate do-it-yourself creativity and tinkering, and this year is also showcasing do-it-yourself engineering and tech, urban farming and alternative energy sources, plus crafts, food trucks and educational workshops. Tickets are $10; visit tinyurl.com/hagvv8s.
9 SURVIVORS
The Weekend Theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, will stage A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro, adapted from the book by Keith Walker, stories of six women who served in Vietnam in various capacities and how they readjusted to life after the war, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday through May 20-21. Tickets are $16, $12 for veterans, senior citizens and students. Visit weekendtheater.org.
10 SOUNDS
Irish traditional guitarist/singer/songwriter John Doyle and Irish-American singer/songwriter Ashley Davis will perform, under the aegis of the Little Rock Folk Club, at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. Tickets are $15, $8 for students with ID, free for accompanied children 12 and younger. Call (501) 663-0634 or visit littlerockfolkclub.org. See Music Scene on Page 4E.
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