Author to talk about architect Fay Jones
The former dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will discuss the school's namesake today .
Jeff Shannon will present his new book, Shadow Patterns: Reflections of Fay Jones and His Architecture, at 6 p.m. at the Arkansas Arts Center. The event, part of the June Freeman Lecture Series, is free and follows a reception at 5:30 p.m.
Shannon's book, published by The University of Arkansas Press, is a collection of critical essays that examine Jones' personal qualities and the homes and buildings he designed.
Jones, born in Pine Bluff but raised in El Dorado, in 1990 won the highest honor from the American Institute of Architects. He died in 2004.
Shannon stepped down as the architecture school's dean in 2013. He now teaches full time at the school.
Library book sale Friday, Saturday
The Central Arkansas Library System's quarterly used-book sale returns next weekend with 50-cent paperbacks and $1 hardbacks.
Sale hours at the system's Main Library, 100 Rock St., run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries members and people who pay $5 for a wristband can take advantage of earlier hours -- from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday and beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Spike Lee tribute set for two nights
The Central Arkansas Library System system will pay tribute to filmmaker Spike Lee with a screening Thursday of his 1989 film Do the Right Thing and a live concert Friday featuring music from Lee's movies.
Paired together as 40 Acres & a Block -- A Spike Lee Tribute, both events will start at 7 p.m. in the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave.
Admission to the film screening is $5. Admission to the concert by Rodney Block Collective is $10.
The tribute is part of the Arkansas Sounds Music Series, a project of the system's Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Library to screen movie Dementia 13
The Central Arkansas Library System will screen today the movie Dementia 13 as its summer-long horror movie series returns after an Independence Day break.
The movie, released in 1963, concerns woman who hides her husband's body after he dies of a heart attack to maintain the illusion he's alive in order to inherit a part of the family fortune, according to the Internet Movie Database.
The $2 showing will start at 6 p.m. in the Ron Robinson Theater.
Metro on 07/11/2017