By KARYN JESTER
Davidsonnews.net

Monday is full of Martin Luther King Jr. events, including a series of events at Davidson College. There are lectures, a walk around the campus and a gospel music concert. Continuing the MLK celebration, there’s a Community Convocation Tuesday night with poet Nikki Giovanni. Tuesday also brings the rescheduled Organ at Davidson concert featuring Thomas Warburton. A Davidson Music Department Faculty Recital is scheduled Wednesday, and the baroque Ensemble Vermillian has a recital on Saturday. The children’s production of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” runs Friday through Sunday and the Ada Jenkins ICE Gala is on Saturday to raise money for the Ada Jenkins Center.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas where “The Green Hornet,” “Black Swan,” “Little Fockers,” “True Grit” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” are playing.

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By KARYN JESTER
Davidsonnews.net

The snow wiped out most of what was planned for the beginning of the week. (Catch up with cancellations and weather related announcements in our coverage under the “cancellations” tag.) Area YMCAs have extended their free open houses originally scheduled Tuesday to last through Friday, Jan. 14.   Thursday is the first day of the “Financial Peace University” program at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, and there’s a lecture on lake-friendly landscaping by landscape designer Jan Enright in Mooresville. On Thursday night photographer Mitch Epstein and author Susan Bell will give a talk at Davidson College Visual Arts Center about their project that evaluates people’s relationships with energy. The Davidson library branch has toddler and preschool storytimes on Friday and Paws to Read on Saturday and there’s basketball Friday through Sunday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas. “The Green Hornet” opens on Friday, joining “Black Swan,” “Little Fockers,” “True Grit” and “The Chronicles of Narnia.

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By KARYN JESTER
Davidsonnews.net

There’s a good mixture of events this week that includes music, sports, lectures, and more. But many of Monday’s events have been postponed because of snow. Check our cancellations list on the front page for the latest info. Among this week’s cultural events is an artist lecture on Thursday by photographer Mitch Epstein and author Susan Bell, who will speak about their Internet and public art project whatisamericanpower.com. There’s a program at the Davidson College Presbyterian Church on Sunday that explores poetic images in faith.

Meetings this week include a Davidson town board meeting on Tuesday and a Lake Norman Transportation Commission meeting on Wednesday. The North Mecklenburg Republic Women’s meeting has been cancelled due to snow. The week closes with men’s and women’s basketball. The men play Furman on Wednesday and Wofford on Saturday. The women play Chattanooga on Friday and Samford on Sunday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas. “The Green Hornet” opens on Friday, joining “Black Swan,” “Little Fockers,” “True Grit” and “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

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Thomas Warburton

Updated Sunday, Jan. 9
The Jan. 11 Organ at Davidson concert by Thomas Warburton, emeritus professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was postponed because of winter weather. The concerrt has been rescheduled to Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Davidson College Presbyterian Church. Read the full story

The next "Chronicles of Narnia" film opens at Our Town Cinemas.

By KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

We made it through the holidays. Hope you have some energy left for the events this weekend. At a planning workshop Thursday, you’ll have a chance to offer your opinion on the proposed Davidson Retirement Residence, off I-77 Exit 30.  Thursday is also the last day of Davidson Community Player’s auditions for the play “Masterpiece.”

Summit Coffee has three nights of live local music lined up: Rusty Knox Band Thursday, Private Life of David Reed Friday and Sandcrawler Saturday. Take a bicycle ride on Saturday morning during the Polar Bear Ride through the north Mecklenburg/Lake Norman area. And there’s a free workshop on Saturday at the Coleman residence on chicken-raising and how to build your own chicken tractor.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas, where “Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader” opens Friday. Read the full story

By KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a fun, safe holiday.  This week brings a variety of activities to start  2011. Davidson public library is holding story times for toddlers, preschoolers, children with autism and Down syndrome and one in which children read to a therapy dog. On Wednesday and Thursday, there is a two-day planning workshop to receive public input on the proposal for the Davidson Retirement Residence off I-77 Exit 30. Saturday brings the Davidson Farmer’s Market and a do-it-yourself chicken tractor workshop with Greg and Jennifer Coleman. Finally, Davidson College Presbyterian Church will be offering two programs on Sunday at 9:45 a.m., one about the Gospel of Mark and the other about poetic images of faith.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. Also at right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Black Swan,” “Little Fockers,” “True Grit,” “Yogi Bear” and “How Do You Know” are playing.

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