May 08, 2008 11:05 pm
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Editor’s Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin’ Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please send to Steppin’ Out, c/o Americus Times-Recorder, P.O. Box 1247, Americus, GA 31709, or fax to 928-6344 or e-mail to beth.alston@gaflnews.com
Americus
Georgia Southwestern State University Fine Arts Department
GSW Field Trips
• GSW Continuing Education offers a trip to see “Riverdance” at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta on May 17. The bus leaves at 9 a.m. from the GSW Education. Fee is $100 (includes lunch, matinee ticket and transportation. Does not include dinner after the show. Call 931- 2151 for information.
Rylander Theatre
Downtown
• Sumter Players’ production of “Gaslight” — 8 p.m. TODAY & SATURDAY and 2:30 p.m. SUNDAY. For tickets call 931-0001
• Americus Dance Experience “Peter Pan” — 2 and 7 p.m. May 24
• “Johnny Mercer ... Too Wonderful for Words” — 7:30 p.m. May 31 — A Friends of the Rylander presentation
• Hope for Africa Children’s Choir from Uganda, Africa — 2 p.m. June 7 — Free admission; love offering will be received — Hosted by Lee Street United Methodist Church; coordinated by the Lee Street United Methodist Women
• “Robinson Crusoe” — 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. June 14 — A Missoula Children’s Theatre production
• “Cabaret” — 8 p.m. Aug. 14-16 and 2:30 p.m. Aug. 17 — A GSW/Rylander production
Mother/Son Gala
A Mother/Son Gala, sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., is 7-11 p.m. May 24 in the SGTC Gymnasium, 800 South Georgia Tech Parkway. Cost $15, $5 for each additional chils. See a member of DST for tickets.
Plains
Mother’s Day Celebration
The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site hosts a Mother’s Celebration at 3 p.m. SATURDAY when President Jimmy Carter pays tribute to his late mother, “Miss” Lillian Carter. He will sign his new book, “A Remarkable Mother,” and others at the Plains High School Museum.
Albany
Muncipal Auditorium
200 Pine Ave.
Albany Symphony Orchestra
2007 – 2008 (43rd Season) Masterworks Series: Classical Celebrations
• SATURDAY brings the Latin flavor of “A Classical Cinco de Mayo”
All concerts of the ASO's Masterworks Series begin at 8 p.m. at the Albany Municipal Auditorium, 201 N. Jackson St. at Pine Ave. Pre-concert reception/informational/meet the Maestro at 6 p.m. at Jim's Piano & Organ Galleries, 2100 N. Slappey Blvd. Free to all concert attendees.
Visit www.albanysymphony.org for pricing and further information of call 229-317-6799.
In addition:
Theatre Albany
514 Pine Ave.
www.theatrealbany.com
229-439-7943
• "Man of La Mancha": May 23-25, 30-June 1, 5-7.
Fort Valley
Massee Lane Gardens
• Thousands of daylilies will have their colors on display during June. A special morning of workshops is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon June 21. Daylily experts Wilfred Huff, Barbara Kirby and Billy Dick will be leading sessions on topics from soil preparation to choosing varieties and companion plants to disease, insect and weed control to hybridization. The informative and entertaining morning will conclude with a tasty box lunch. Admission to the gardens is included and attendees are invited to tour Massee Lane on their own after lunch.
Admission is $10 per person for ACS members and interested children accompanied by an adult, $15 for non-members. Advance reservations are required. RSVP by June 13.
A special workshop on the art of making exceptional photographs of flowers will be conducted from 9-11:30 a.m. June 28. Participants will learn from experts Gene Phillips and Stephen Jones how to best capture the nature beauty of flowers using their own cameras. This special morning will also conclude with a box lunch. Admission to the gardens is included and attendees are invited to tour Massee Lane on their own after lunch.
Admission is $10 per person for ACS members and interested children accompanied by an adult, $15 for non-members. Participants should bring their own cameras. Advance reservations are required. Please RSVP by June 20.
The ACS will also be selling daylilies during June while supplies last. For more details on these activities, please contact the ACS at 478-967-2358 or ask@camellias-acs.org.
Atlanta
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St.
www.High.org
404-733-5000
• Louvre Atlanta: The Eye of Josephine
“The Eye of Josephine” will reassemble more than 60 masterworks from the collection of Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris. In 1801 Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, gave Napoleon Bonaparte a collection of antiquities unearthed at Herculaneum and Pompeii as a peace offering, which Napoleon in turn gave to his wife, Josephine.
The exhibition, which will reunite Josephine’s antiquities for the first time since their dispersal among the Louvre’s various collections in 1814, will feature fragments of frescoes, bronzes, marbles, an extensive group of Greek vases and a small number of Egyptian sculptures.
Through May 18
• “Houdson at the Louvre: Masterworks of the Enlightenment”
The sixth “Louvre Atlanta” exhibition opens at the High Museum of Art in June, featuring highlights from the Louvre’s unparalleled collection of sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon. “Houdon at the Louvre: Masterworks of the Enlightenment” features approximately 20 works portraying intellectual and political leaders, including famous busts of French Enlightenment thinkers Denis Diderot and Voltaire, portraits of American founding fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and well-known portraits of Houdon’s wife and children. For the first time, a catalogue featuring the Louvre’s entire Houdon collection will be published in English to accompany the exhibition.
Premieres June 7. On view through Sept. 7.
Macon
Georgia Music Hall of Fame
www.georgiamusic.org
888-427-6257
• Otis Redding: I’ve Got Dreams to Remember — Through Sept. 30
Birmingham, Ala.
Birmingham Museum of Art
"Vanishing Worlds: Art and Ritual in Amazonia" — Through July 27 — an exhibition of spectacular and rare works of Amazonian material culture, including full body costumes, masks, feather headdresses, body ornaments, baskets, weapons, pottery, and textiles.
The Birmingham Museum of Art is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Docents offer free tours of the permanent collection at noon Tuesday-Friday and topical tours at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Museum is located at 2000 8th Ave North. Parking is free to Museum guests. For information, call 205-254-2565 or go to www.artsbma.org.
Night Life:
Americus
American Legion Post 558
Ga. Highway 30 West
Open 6-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday
7 p.m. Tuesday is Bingo Night
Wednesday is Games Night
Open 6 p.m.-2:30 a.m. weekends
Friday is Grown Folks Night Out, featuring dance party, karaoke, music video and disco lights show from 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Presented by Monster Screen Projections
Saturday is Oldies Goldies Night
Sunday is Members/Guests Night
Astro’s “The Dance Clubb”
153 Sunset Park Road
Entertainment for 21 and over
11 p.m.-until
Thursday: College and Ladies Night
Friday: Midnight Special
Saturday: Dress to Impress Live
I.D. required
Valid college student ID exempt
Floyd’s Pub at the Windsor Hotel
Hospitality Night at Floyd’s Pub: From 9 p.m. every Monday, employees of the service and hospitality industries enjoy specials on drinks. Also watch football game on Floyd’s plasma TV and enjoy happy hour prices from 5 p.m.
Ladies’ Night at Floyd’s Pub: From 5 p.m. every Tuesday, ladies only enjoy specials on drinks.
Trivia Night from 8-10 p.m. Wednesdays. The first-place winner gets a $50 gift certificate and the second place gets a $25 gift certificate. The pub also offers Happy Hour from 5-7 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more information call 924-1555.
G.W.F. Phillips Lodge
The Lodge is open every Friday night with oldies from the ’70s and ’80s with Master TJ and Bronco Bill at the Elks Lodge. No teens allowed.
JC Pineapples
118 N. Jackson St.,
Open from 7-11:30 p.m. Fridays for grades seven through 12.
Pat’s Place
1526 S. Lee St. 924-0033
11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday
11 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday
• Wednesdays, fresh oysters and shrimp October-April
• Texas Hold’em Poker tournaments starting at 8:30, sign-up at 8 p.m. Must be 21 or over to play. No entry fee. Gift card prizes.
• Saturdays: live music starts at 9 p.m. on some Saturdays nights
• First Saturday Karaoke with The Backdoor Man
Pub 280
116 W. Lamar St.
Americus
928-0302
• Monday — Monday Night Football with six TVs, Happy Hour 11 a.m.-2 a.m.
• Tuesday — College Night with live music
• Wednesday — Karaoke and dance music with Romeo
• Thursday — Bike Night, Karaoke Contest
• Friday and Saturday — Karaoke with Vicki Craig
Quality Inn Lounge
U.S. Highway 19 South
Karaoke with Russell Halliwill (The Singing Cowboy), 7:30-8:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Karaoke and DJ with the Backdoor Man (Southwest Georgia’s Party Expert), 9 p.m.-closing Monday-Thursday
The Master of Ceremonies, DJ, Karaoke, singer, guitar and trumpet player Danny Bruce, 9 p.m.-midnight Fridays and Saturdays
DJ with the Backdoor Man, midnight-2 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays. At Midnight the Backdoor Man sings his hit song “Black Drawers.”
Seafood Center
224 N. Jackson St.
924-5177
Happy Hour 4-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday — Raw oysters on half shell by the dozen plus beer and wine specials .
5-10 p.m. Monday — All you can eat boiled shrimp
5-10 p.m. Tuesday — All you can eat catfish
5-10 p.m. Wednesday — All you can eat tilapia
5-10 p.m. Thursday — Wing special
Daily on the patio: sporting events in HD television
Saturday — College football from first game of the day until midnight plus wing special
Lake Blackshear
Cypress Grill at Lake Blackshear Resort and Golf Club
2459-H U.S. Highway 280 East
www.cypress-grill.com
South Georgia’s entertainment capital, combining the best in live music, unique casual dining and lakeside relaxation with the atmosphere of an upscale resort.
Hours:
5 p.m.-midnight Wednesday (Comedy Night starts at 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday)
11 a.m.-midnight Thursday
11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday
11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Saturday
11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday
Closed Monday and Tuesday
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