ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
Runner’s tales
Ozark dialect
Distance runner Leah Thorvilson will be the featured storyteller for the taping of a Tales From the South Tin Roof Project today at Starving Artist Cafe, 411 Main St., North Little Rock.
Thorvilson, a native of Robbinsdale, Minn., ran for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock track team from 1999 to 2003. She has won the women’s field in more than 10 marathons and “ultras” since.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for dinner, drinks and music by the Salty Dogs. The show starts at 7. The show will air at 7 p.m. May 9 on public radio station KUAR-FM, 89.1. Tickets are $7.50 plus the cost of dinner and drinks. Seating is very limited. Visit the website, talesfromthesouth.com.
Conway Frontier
Conway-based The Frontier Circus — Danny Grace fronts the group under the stage name “Frontier Dan” on guitar, lead vocals and theremin; his band mates are “Daredevil Dave” on drums, “Lightnin’ Lou” on bass and “Victor El Valiente” on guitar) — will “reverse headline” for The Rolling Blackouts (“The Circus Always Plays First” is among their mottos) at 10 p.m. today at the White Water Tavern, West Seventh and Thayer streets, Little Rock. Admission to the “21 and over” show is by a suggested $5 donation at the door. The band is performing in support of its new foursong EP, Sideshow. Call (501) 375-8400.
Susan Young, outreach coordinator at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, will speak on the roots of the Ozark dialect and the influence on it by the language of 16th-century British Isles for the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ “Legacies and Lunch” program, at noon Wednesday in the Darragh Center, Central Arkansas Library System Main Library, 100 Rock St., Little Rock. Admission is free with partial support from the Arkansas Humanities Council. Take a sack lunch; the center will provide drinks and dessert. Call (501) 918-3029 or visit cals.org.
Riverfest discounts
Half-price three-day tickets, $17.50, for Riverfest 2013, May 24-26 in downtown Little Rock, are available at Walgreens stores across the state.
Regular cost of gate admission is $35 (free for children 6 and younger); attendees will swap advance tickets at any festival gateway for a wristband that can be used for admission for all three days in riverfront venues Julius Breckling Riverfront Park and Clinton Center Park and on the nearby Heifer International headquarters and in the River Market District.
Visit riverfestarkansas.com/ticketsmerch for a list of store locations.
The headliner lineup for this year’s Memorial Day Weekend festival is:
Bud Light Stage: Friday — Daughtry; Saturday — Sugar Ray, Blackstone Cherry, Bush; Sunday — Cody Belew, Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley.
Miller Lite/Arkansas Federal Credit Union Stage: Friday — Rodney Atkins, Jana Kramer, Darius Rucker; Saturday — Lupe Fiasco, Kelly Rowland; Sunday — Drive By Truckers, Peter Frampton.
Festival organizers will announce the names and performance times for local and regional entertainment in the coming weeks. Verizon will again serve as the presenting sponsor. Visit the website, riverfestarkansas.com.
Summer fun
June 7 is the deadline to enroll for the Old State House Museum’s Summer Fun youth enrichment program for youngsters going into grades 4-10, 8 a.m.-noon July 22-26 at the museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. This year’s program focus is the Civil War in Arkansas. Registration fee is $75. Call (501) 324-9685.
Bridge posters
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, in conjunction with the 2013 Arkansas Historic Preservation Conference on May 1-3 in North Little Rock, is offering free posters featuring postcards depicting 15 historic Arkansas bridges. Send a request to: AHPP Bridge Poster, 323 Center St., Suite 1500, Little Rock, Ark. 72201, or e-mail info@ arkansaspreservation.org. Allow two to four weeks for delivery.
For information on or to register for the conference, visit the website, preservearkansas.org; call (501) 372-4757 or (501) 324-9665; or e-mail vmckuin@preservearkansas. or patriciab@arkansasheritage.org.