ENTERTAINMENT NOTES
Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Airdome memories
Ralph S. Wilcox of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program presents “A History of the Airdome Theater in Arkansas,” a talk about early 20th-century open-air movie theaters in several of Arkansas’ small towns and smaller cities, for a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, noon today at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Participants are encouraged to provide a sack lunch; the museum will provide water and soft drinks. Call (501) 324-9685.
Wrestler art
“Jobbers, Heels, and Faces,” an exhibit of paintings by Robert McCann, a faculty member at Michigan State University, featuring pro wrestlers past and present as the central motif, goes on display today in Gallery I, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The exhibit will remain up through March 3. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday. McCann will present a guest lecture at 5:30 p.m. March 4 in Fine Arts Room 161. Call (501) 569-8977 or email becushman@ualr.edu.
FRIDAY
King documentary
The Clinton School of Public Service is sponsoring a screening of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Arkansas, a 30-minute documentary that originally aired Jan. 19, 1987, on KATV, Channel 7, at noon Friday in Sturgis Hall at the school, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Deborah Mathis narrated the film, which includes footage of King’s attendance at Ernest Green’s Little Rock Central High School graduation and his commencement address at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Admission is free; reserve seats by calling (501) 683-5239 or emailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu.
SATURDAY
Music Nite
Smokey and the Mirror — husband-wife duo Bryan and Bernice Hembree (also founders and co-creators of the Fayetteville Roots Festival) — will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the McCuistion-Matthews Gallery, Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, part of the center’s Main Street Music Nite series. Tickets are $12, $8 for students (center members get a discount). Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.