WEEKEND TEN
1 ACROBATS The high-fliers and tumblers put on a post-Christmas show at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus’ production Legends continues with performances at 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20$60 plus fees. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
2 ATMOSPHERE Pinnacle Mountain State Park offers some outdoor entertainment this weekend. The Holiday Hayride, with a campfire and treats at the end, starts at 3 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $12, $6 for ages 6-12, and reservations are required. On Sunday, visitors can meet an interpreter at the East Summit Trailhead for the Holiday East Summit Trail Hike, 9 a.m.-noon. Or they can gather at the West Summit Trailhead at 3 p.m. for an afternoon of nature stories and snacks at the Holiday Campfire and Marshmallow Roast. Admission is free. Call (501) 8685806 or visit arkansasstateparks.com.
3 AFRICAN The Ugandan Kids Choir is coming to Arkansas for a series of performances: 9 and 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Fellowship North Church, 1 E. 52nd St., North Little Rock; 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Piney Grove United Methodist Church, Hot Springs; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, First Lutheran Church, Hot Springs; 10:30 a.m. Jan. 3, Sardis United Methodist Church, Bauxite; 5:30 p.m. Jan. 3, Walnut Valley Baptist Church, Hot Springs. Call (360) 647-2283 or visit childcareworldwide.com/ ugandan-kidschoir.
4 ARTSY This is the last chance to catch some special exhibitions at central Arkansas galleries. “In Arkansas Territory” by John Deering ends its run today at Cantrell Gallery, 8206 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Hours today are 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and admission is free. Call (501) 224-1335. Or there’s “Pressure: Representing Printmakers” at Gallery 360, 900 S. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. Hours today are 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call (501) 6632222.
5 ANTICS Bipartisan politics get wackier than normal at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, where Ray Cooney’s farcical Out of Order enters its final week Saturday-Dec. 31. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday with show times at 7:30 p.m., 12:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., respectively. Tickets are $32$36, $23 for children 15 and under. Show-only tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for children. Call (501) 562-3131 or visit murrysdp.com.
6 AMAZE Comedy hypnotist The Sandman is once again taking and making volunteers from the audience the stars of his show (now as singers and dancers, yet), 7:30 and 10 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Loony Bin, in the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center, Interstate 430 and North Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock. Tickets are $15. Call (501) 228-5555 or visit loonybincomedy.com.
7 ACCOMPLISH Performing artist Adam Crockett will guide you step by step through creating your own painting while you sip the beverage of your choice at Paint Nite at Zin Wine Bar, 300 River Market Ave., Little Rock, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday. (You probably shouldn’t wear anything you’d be “devastated to get paint on.”) Tickets — 21 and older only — are $45, 45 percent off ($25) — use the coupon code PaintNiteLR online at paintnite.com. Drinks, food, and gratuities for artist and/or bartender are extra.
8 APPRECIATE Looking for someplace to take yourself, the kids and/or out-of-town Christmas guests? Stop by one of these museums, all of which will be closed Christmas Day but which will reopen at various times over the weekend: The Arkansas Arts Center, in MacArthur Park, East Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock, will be open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Among the current attractions: the 47th annual Collectors Show and Sale, up through Jan. 3; “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” up through Jan. 17; and the continuing exhibitions “Foundation Collection” and “Masterworks.” Admission is free. Call (501) 372-4000; visit arkansasartscenter.org.
The Museum of Discovery, 500 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, reopens Saturday, offering “hands-on science activities on the museum floor,” 10 a.m.-3 p.m. through Wednesday, plus special and regular exhibits. Museum hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday; admission is $10, $8 for senior citizens 60 and older, children 12 and younger, teachers, city employees and military. Call (501) 396-7050; visit museumofdiscovery.org.
The Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, with all sorts of presidential memorabilia on display and a special exhibit, “Coca-Cola: An American Original,” up through Feb. 15. Admission is $7, $5 for retired military, college students and adults 62 and older, $3 for children 6-17, free for active military and children under 6. Call (501) 374-4242. The Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock, will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, showing off historic buildings, plus art and historic craft exhibitions. Admission: $2.50, $1.50 adults 65 and older, $1 children 17 and younger. Call (501) 324-9351.
The Old State House, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock, will show off more Arkansas history, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9685. Got time for a road trip? Head for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. See lots of primo artworks by American artists and special exhibitions “From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas,” up through Jan. 18, and “At the Vanguard of Modernism,” works by Alfred H. Maurer, through Jan. 4. Call (479) 418-5700 or visit crystalbridges.org.
9 ACQUIRE The Christmas shopping season used to start the day after Thanksgiving. Now it starts the day after Christmas. Your paper today and Friday will no doubt be laden with circulars offering post-Christmas blowout sales (unsold Christmas decorations, Christmas candy and ugly Christmas sweaters will universally be selling at 50 percent off or better). Folks may not be lining up outside big-box stores waiting for doorbusters, but that doesn’t mean there’s no risk of being run over by bargain-mad shoppers. Intersections near malls and other major retail clusters will be difficult to transit and your first shopping stop should probably be to fill up your gas tank in case you have to circle, like vultures, looking for a parking space. Good luck.
10 APPETITE And if you are not preparing, or preparing to share, Christmas dinner at home with family and/or friends, we’ve got a non comprehensive list of places that are open today in our Restaurant Transitions column on Page 4E.