For the week of July 8 – July 14:

FILM:

Wednesday night at 6 and 8 p.m. at the University Center, Robert Mulligan’s

“To Kill A Mockingbird”. Gregory Peck won an Oscar in this 1962 classic as

a lawyer defending a black man accused of rape. This movie provides a

poignantly direct view of the Old South, as a 60’s text and through the

story’s actual implications. Based on Harper Lee’s novel, the film

adaptation also stars Robert Duvall and Mary Badham

VOLUNTEER\/PARTICIPATION:

The Arts Council seeks artists who do original work in any media including

painting, drawing, collage, photography, print making, sculpture, etc. to

participate in the Second Annual “Artists’ Extravaganza”. The exhibition

will occur on October 22 and 23. For more information, the Arts Council

office is on the second floor of the Candy Factory.

The Bijou Theatre Center will be holding auditions for the musical comedy,

“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on the Peanuts Gang characters,

Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, and Charlie Brown.

Auditions will take place between 6 and 8 p.m., Monday, July 11,and

Tuesday, July 12, on stage at the Bijou Theatre Center. Steve Krempasky,

the director, is looking for actors\/singers who can be flexible to perform

the play on August 16, 18, 20 and 27 late mornings and early

afternoons.

Knoxville Museum of Art solicits East Tennessee artists’ entries for

exhibition “East Tennessee Art Currents”. Guest Curator Jeff Fleming of the

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem will select

roughly 50 works by approximately 10 to 15 artists and will write a printed

piece for the exhibition, which is scheduled for the Museum’s largest

gallery starting December 16.

ART:

“Textures and Tones of Summer” by Virginia Woods. This exhibition consists

of collages, landscapes and floral paintings. On the fourth floor of the

Candy Factory through the month of July.

Through July 17 at the Knoxville Museum of Art works by Robert Longo. This

contemporary artist has had works featured at the Museum of Modern Art and

The Whitney Museum. His five colossal paintings at KMA feature frenzied

undercurrents of modern urban society. Some of these multi-media works are

over 30 feet in length. Admission to the museum is free.

THEATER:

“The Reach of Song” at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds in Hiwassee,

Georgia. A drama of mountain culture told by the natives of Appalachia with

storytelling and mountain ballads. Tickets are $5-$12. Through July

30.

“Christy, The Musical” at the Smoky Mountain Amphitheater in Townsend,

Tenn. This performance features a musical version of Catherine Marshall’s

well-loved, best-selling novel about a year in the life of Marshall’s

mother, who as a 19-year-old traveled to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1912

to teach school. Show runs nightly through October 29. Tickets are $8.50

for children and $12.50 for adults.

“A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking,” a comedy by Lisa Hatmaker

and Ginny Thurston, runs a Thursday, Friday and Saturday schedule at the

Westside Dinner Theater in Farragut. Buffet starts a 6:15 and the play

begins at 8:15. Regular price for dinner and play is $18 per person.

Starting July 14, The Bijou Theatrical Company of Young Actors’ production

of “The Ugly Duckling” at the Knoxville Zoo Amphitheatre. Ticket prices are

$3 for adults and $1 for children with Zoo admission. Based on the Hans

Christian Anderson classic.

MUSIC:

Alive After Five at the Knoxville Museum of Art features vocalist Evon

Easley. Backed by the Marcus Shirley Group, Easley will give her

habitually fine-tuned performance of everything from blues and jazz to

contemporary Rhythm and Blues. Tonight at 5:30, admission is $3.

Saturday, July 9 at Flamingo’s The Urban Shakedancers. Complemented

by vintage instruments, their original songs combine the traditional blues

influence of Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters, the style and swing of B.B.

King, with a distinct southern blues\/rock edge. This accomplished Atlanta

band has opened for the likes of The Black Crowes, Greg Allman, The Stray

Cats, Johnny Winter, The Dixie Dregs, Derek Trucks and Merle Sanders. Also

with southern-fried punkabilly Ramblin’ Roy and the National

Inbreeding Society. At 10 p.m. $5.

Monday, July 11 at Manhattan’s for Club Eclectic sonic rush/

heart-on-your-sleeve Power Pop/Rocksters Superdrag. 10 p.m. $3.

Friday, July 8 at the Mercury Theatre The Urge with special guests

Revolution Block. Tickets are $5 and the show starts around 10

p.m.

Lyle Lovett. Starting out as a strange big-haired anomaly at the

vanguard of a so-called “new wave” of country music, this man is now the

cult son of Hollywood thanks to Ms. Roberts and Mr. Altman. Music-wise,

Lovett is crooning more than ever in a cornucopia of country, folk, blues

and swing. with The Nashville Bluegrass Band. Thursday, July 14 at 8

p.m. $24.50

DANCE:

Every Friday night The Underground, Knox-vegas’ megaclub, host Platform

Night. Go-Go dancers, film productions, occasional performance art and that

oh-so-groovy disco music. Funky, funky, funky.

At the Laurel Theatre Saturday, July 9 at 8 p.m. Traditional Contra Dancing

with an upbeat attitude. Traditional New England Folk Dancing. No need in

bringing a partner, everyone’s welcome to drop by and there is always good

live music. A $3 donation is requested.

WE RECOMMEND:

Hank Flamingo with Floyd Eats Mayberry Saturday, July 9 at

The Library. Rooted in country and Rhythm and Blues, Hank Flamingo is one

skewered, hip country band. With influences ranging everywhere from Hank

Williams to Jimi Hendrix, Hank Flamingo satiates everyone from honest

country music fans to the blue suede shoe variety. Their “hip-a-billy”

sound was created out of a fusion of this wide array of influences

Past shows have been described as “wildly audacious,” “musically

inventive,” and “honestly down-home.” These college-educated hillbillies

are simplistic and scholarly at the same time. Some songs are “Little Miss

Fire Prevention,” “Redneck Martians Stole My Baby” (“the song proves that

there’s room for Martians and other extra terrestrials is country music”)

and “Slaw” (“…this may be the world’s first culinary love song. How can

you be a good country boy if you don’t like slaw.”)

This six-man outfit features good ole’ southern boys with a love for the

Southern feel of “rural” while not forgetting their book smart wit and

humor. Fun for all. Show starts at 9 p.m. $7.