The Smyrna High School Drama Club will present stage and screen favorite “The Music Man” Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13 at 7 p.m. both nights, in the high school auditorium on Duck Creek Parkway.
Entries are still being accepted for the St. Patrick’s Parade in Smyrna on Sunday, March 14, sponsored by the Smyrna-Clayton July 4th Association. Line-up will begin at North Elementary School on North Main Street at 12:30 p.m. The parade begins at 2 p.m.
This week’s suggestions: Watch the X Paralympic Winter Games, check out one of the new movies, get ready for the time change, prepare for Selection Sunday and start celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
The Clayton Fire Company is planning a hot night of comedy and dancing on Saturday, March 27 at the fire hall. Three professional stand-up comedians will be the featured entertainment. The evening also includes a delicious light buffet before the show, and then dancing afterwards. Tickets are just $20 each. A cash bar will be available.
The 26th annual Spring Fling, sponsored by the Holly's Club, will be held Saturday, April 24 at the Clayton Fire Hall, featuring music by Sol Knopf, a buffet dinner, basket of cheer, and door prizes. Proceeds will benefit the Smyrna-Clayton Ministerium and the Holly's Club Scholarship and Community Fund.
Cooldog House Concerts near Kenton will host Irish band “Beoga” with opening act Greg Shupe on Sunday, March 14 at 3 p.m. Beoga has become one of the most popular and influential ensembles in modern Irish music. The Wall Street Journal dubs them “the most exciting new traditional band to emerge from Ireland this century.”
The Kaylyn Elaine Warren Foundation (KEWF) , a non-profit organization, is hosting the third annual Black Tie Gala on Saturday, March 13 at the Deerfield Golf and Tennis Club, Newark. All proceeds will benefit Kay's Kamp in Clayton for kids with cancer.
When 12-year-old Greg Heffley – the fictional, cartoon-drawing middle school protagonist of the four hugely popular “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books – springs to life on movie screens this week, he’ll be sharing some true family secrets with viewers.
"Mom, can we listen to The Beach Boys?” Timmy asked. It’s not an unusual request these days. Ever since Timmy and Brian’s dance class participated in “beach month” at their dance studio, they’ve been obsessed with The Beach Boys.
Tim Burton’s bold reinterpretation of “Alice in Wonderland” is the closest approximation to an acid trip you’ll encounter without indulging. Brimming with hallucinogenic imagery and characters you’d swear were sipping LSD-laced tea, Burton’s 3-D opus is sure to take “Fantasia’s” place as a favorite among hard-core stoners.
The Smyrna Opera House is in desperate need of clean, clear plastic 2-liter soda bottles for an upcoming children’s program, with 100 bottles needed by March 29.
Start your engines as Dover-area children rev up for some free, hands-on fun during the “Handy Manny Big Race Pit Stop” event at Dover Mall on Saturday, March 13 from noon to 2 p.m., in Promotional Court. Sponsored by Playhouse Disney, the event will impart lessons for kids about the value of teamwork and perseverance through hands-on games and fun activities for the entire family.
The death of Corey Haim last week adds yet another name to the lengthy list of child actors and actresses who failed to make the transition as adult stars.
The theme of the sixth annual Smyrna Opera House Arts Cotillion on Saturday, Feb. 13 was "A Mardi Gras Ball." The event featured delicious food, live and silent auctions, a Mardi Gras parade, the crowning of the Mardi Gras King and Queen, and dancing to music by The Funsters. Funds raised during the event benefited the Opera House. To view the photo gallery, click on the headline. When the story comes up, click on the main photo. Move the cursor to the top right of the photo, and the word "NEXT" should appear. Click on "NEXT" each time you want to move to the next photo.
“Brooklyn’s Finest” these guys ain’t. At least, you’ve gotta hope not. Contrary to the title of this latest release from “Training Day” director Antoine Fuqua, these cops are lousy.
The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music will present a concert of traditional American music with "Big Medicine" Friday, March 12 at 8 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall in Newark. Big Medicine plays string music from the rural South.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Southern sun and dousing rains, a diet of alcohol, drugs, cigarettes and a lot of life ahead, often with no clue as to where they’re headed, bear down on Justin Taylor’s characters, giving them time to brood, act out, connect some of the dots.
During morose economic times, escaping to another realm can be quite enticing.
Concerts, plays, children’s programs, and the sixth annual Smyrna Opera House Arts Cotillion featured in 2010 winter/spring schedule
