Remember: It’s November

Antiques, angels, archers, arrows and area codes get an accounting

November is the month of thanks. Thanks for an extra hour’s sleep, which is thanks to the end of daylight saving time. And thanks for beans and jalapenos. When the going gets cold, the cold get chili. 1 National Traffic Professionals Day,

Plan Your Epitaph Day and — how does it go again? — which somebody is supposed to yield what way in a traffic circle?

LITERARY COMMISSARY

2 Books, Bourbon & Boogie with Lucinda Williams, 8 p.m. at CHARTS Theater, University of Arkansas Pulaski Tech, North Little Rock, benefits Oxford American magazine. Details at metrotix. com. Call (800) 293-5949.

STALE, STALE — THE SLANG’S ALL HERE

3 Cliche Day — when everything old is old again. International Drum Month goes to beat the band, and it’s back to the lab for Chemistry Week.

POTUS ’R’ US

Twenty-fifth anniversary of former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s election as president.

WHISTLIN’ DIXIE

4 Civil War Weekend living history reenactments, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Historic Washington State Park near Hope. Details at historicwashingtonstatepark.com. Call (870) 983-2684.

BOLD IN A BOWL

Chili Fights in the Heights cookoff, noon-7 p.m., Little Rock’s Heights District. Details at chilifights.com. Chili: the dish that works like flannel pajamas for a person’s insides.

EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVE SONG

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra: Romeo and Juliet, 7 p.m. Nov. 4 and 3 p.m. Nov. 5 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 6661761.

SHORE LEAVE

Landlubbers Holiday Boat

Float parade, 6 p.m. from the Clinton Presidential Center, downtown Little Rock. Details at littlerock.com.

SMART COOKIES National Easy-Bake Oven Day.

The toy oven debuted in 1963. It made cookies and cupcakes thanks to the heat generated by: (A) a candle, (B) hot air blower, (C) light bulb, or (D) a warm puppy.

Answer at Nov. 20.

WAIT UNTIL DARK

5 End of daylight saving time. Clocks fall back one hour, and everybody else falls back in bed.

ANOTHER FIZZLE

England’s Guy Fawkes Day remembers the dude behind the dud of the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

HONK IF YOU LOVE TO HONK

6 Saxophone Day: rated “R” for sax and violins.

SLEIGH BELLES IN THE SNOW

7 Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

through Nov. 12 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter. org. Call (479) 443-5600.

WOBEGON COMES BACK

Garrison Keillor, 7 p.m. at Robinson Center Performance Hall, Little Rock. Details at ticketmaster.com. Call (800) 745-3000.

POST TIME

General Election Day, and the generals are off and running.

ZIR-CONNED AGAIN

8 Real Jewelry Month — or is it?

BANJO PLAYERS PLINK TWICE

9 Mountain View Bluegrass Festival through Nov. 11 at Ozark Folk Center Auditorium. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com. Call (870) 269-8068.

LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD

National Model Railroad Month comes whoo-whoo ’round the bend, loaded with bananas for Banana Pudding Lovers Month. Car derailment causes massive spill. Clean-up crew breaks out emergency vanilla wafers.

PLEASE CHECK YOUR LISTING

10 Phone company dials up the nation’s first area code — New Jersey 201 — in 1951, making it possible for the first time to dial the wrong area code.

SALUTE

11 Veterans Day.

SEEK A ’TIQUE

Antique Alley Arkansas show through Nov. 12 at Conway Expo Center, Conway. Details at antiquealleyarkansas. com. Call (501) 230-5728.

ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD

12 Neil Young’s 72nd birthday, ’neath the harvest moon.

EARTH ANGELS

13 World Kindness Day — and just in time for a planet that could use a hug.

PALACE IN WONDERLAND

14 Prince Charles’ 69th birthday: royal, but no crowning achievement.

IT’S TIME SOMEBODY BROKE THE MOLD

15 Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day,

and wildlife guide to things that need cleaning out:

Cottage cheese with more thatch on top than the cottage of the Seven Dwarfs.

Eggs gone eggh! Wieners-turned-losers.

HOO-RAH FOR THE PUMPKIN PIE

16 Taste of the Holidays food and drink sampler, 6 p.m. at MidAmerica Science Museum, Hot Springs. Details at midamericamuseum.org. Call (501) 767-3461.

NOBODY TO BLAME

Chris Stapleton, 7 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com.Call (800) 745-3000.

METAL MEN

Oklahoma admission day, 1907. Arkansas’ neighbor admits to picking the Golden Driller in Tulsa as official state monument only because the Silver Surfer and Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze were already taken.

ROCK-’EM-SOCK-’EM SOCRATES

World Philosophy Day, and new philosophies for 2017:

Postal-ghostal-ism: Belief that the mail carrier throws away everything but junk and bills.

Crunch-a-bunch-ism: Mindset that counts only potato chips eaten off a plate as calories.

Santa-whammy-ism: Reasoning that assures there’s still plenty of time to get ready for Christmas.

SHINE ON

17 Lights of the Ozarks with carriage rides and hot chocolate through Jan. 1, downtown Fayetteville. Details at experiencefayetteville.com. Call (479) 521-5776.

ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT

How to celebrate Homemade Bread Day: strictly upper-crust. There’s croissant and crumpet, Focaccia and rye, Challah,ciabatta, And pita to try,

But nothing else does it When fall has begun

Like everyone’s favorite — The hamburger bun.

GLIMMER GLAMOUR

18 Holiday lights through December at Garvan Woodland Gardens, Hot Springs. Details at garvangardens.org. Call (800) 366-4664.

THE MOUSE THAT STIRRED

How to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s 89th birthday: with candles and cheesecake.

BRAIN ON PARADE

19 Nnatioal ameG nda zuzPle keeW — otherwise known as National Game and Puzzle Week.

SOAR SUBJECT

Eagle Tour, 9:30 a.m. at Lake Dardanelle State Park near Russellville. Details at arkansas.com. Call (479) 967-5516.

10 TIMES SIX PLUS ONE

20 Bo Derek’s 61st birthday.

CAKE WALK

Sump’in from the oven quiz

answer: (C) “Two ordinary light bulbs,” as proclaimed on the box that also quoted Betty Crocker’s fresh-baked endorsement, “realistic.”

A FINE HOWDY-DO

21 World Hello Day — and yet, no word from Hello Kitty.

THIS BULB’S FOR YOU

Enchanted Land of Lights and

Legends through December at Pine Bluff/ Jefferson County Regional Park. Details at pinebluffcvb.org. Call (870) 536-7600.

TWANGS-GIVING

22 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec 21): Is today your birthday? If so, take a bow — and arrow, and do like the archer of the heavens: Shoot for the top. Celebrate all a’quiver with fellow stringpullers Billy the Kid, born Nov. 23, 1859; and Bruce Lee, born Nov. 27, 1940.

NOVEMBER FLIES BY

Cirque Dreams Holidaze, 7:30 p.m. at Robinson Center Performance Hall, Little Rock. Details at celebrity attractions.com. Call (501) 244-8800.

TURKEY, TURKEY, SOFA

23 Thanksgiving Day and seconds and thirds on after-dinner naps. “Take’er easy there, Pilgrim.” — John Wayne.

AND TRIMMINGS

Ozark Holiday Craft Show through Nov. 24 at Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View. Details at ozarkfolkcenter.com. Call (870) 269-3851.

DASH AWAY ALL

24 Black Friday Christmas shopping.

“To the top of the splurge, to the top of the mall.” — Santa, 2017

SANTA’S LITTLE HELPER

Green Friday. State parks throughout Arkansas offer the alternative of an amble in the woods, rather than a scramble for sale prices. Sites include Lower White River Museum State Park. Lake Catherine State Park, Queen Wilhelmina State Park. Details at arkansas.com.

ECHO-HO-HO

Caroling in the Caverns through Dec. 17 at Blanchard Springs Caverns near Mountain View. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com. Call (870) 269-8068. REINDEER ON THE RUN 25 Christmas Parade of the Ozarks, music and rodeo queens, 6 p.m. from Parsons Stadium, Springdale. Details at rodeooftheozarks.org. Call (479) 756-0464.

WRITER BOOKED FOR SPEEDING

27 National Novel Writing Month.

What? — and only four days left to write at least 50,000 words. How can this be done?

SKETCH ARTIST SOLVES MYSTERY

28 Picture Book Month. A picture is worth 1,000 words, so a mere 50 pictures equals one novel, and 200 pictures equals Moby Dick.

LUCKY RABBIT’S FEAT

Harvey through December at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdp.com. Call (501) 562-3131.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BUILDING AND LOAN

29 TheatreSquared production, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, through December at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at theatre2.org. Call (479) 443-5600.

IN LIKE FINN

30 Mark Twain’s birthday, 1835. “Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.” — Mark Twain.

Coming next month: December! Write to Ron Wolfe at rwolfe@arkansasonline.com

by Nov. 15 to suggest December calendar entries or how to celebrate December as Write a Friend Month, such as: S. Claus, general delivery, North Pole. All entries require a web address and/or phone number that is answered during business hours.