What’s your fancy this week? Interior design using items found at the Habitat ReStore? Local music, a choral concert or a bit of local history? Our calendar this week has them all. Highlights include the annual Town Day Road Race and Davidson Town Day as well as a day of music to honor the memory of Davidson Professor Robert Whitton, all Saturday in downtown Davidson. Cornelius library has an open house Wednesday. And the annual Charlotte Asian Festival and Dragon Boat Races is Saturday on Lake Norman in Cornelius. Read on for a full list of the week’s events.

Also, see our movie listings at right for Our Town Cinemas, where it’s your last chance to see “The Lucky One” and “Hunger Games,” and “The Avengers” hits the screen. Read the full story

Rixey Terry plays Paddington Bear at Armour Street Theatre.

Our calendar this weekend has a lot to choose from, between Mecklenburg County’s Bark in the Park for dog lovers at Rural Hill, “A Bear Called Paddington” and “Mr. Marmalade” on local stages, and Strawberry Shortcake Day at the Davidson Farmer’s Market. Michael Reno Harrell plays an outdoor concert Sunday at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. And Davidson College basketball players and alumni host BUZZKILL,a fundraising 3-on-3 tourney and other events to fight malaria in Africa.

Also, two rescheduling announcements: The Jazz Combo and Sax Quartet concert originally scheduled at Davidson College Thursday night has been rescheduled to Sunday, May 6, because of a conflict at the college. And the Young Life Mini-Golf Mania tournament at Lake Norman Mini-Golf that was rained out last weekend is back on – this Sunday. Read on for the details, or see our day-by-day calendar at right on this page.

See also the latest movie listings at Our Town Cinemas, on this page at right. On the schedule there: “The Lucky One,” a tale about a soldier returning from Iraq; “The Hunger Games” is still on view, along with “Three Stooges,” “American Reunion” and “Mirror Mirror.” Read the full story

Michael Reno Harrell plays outdoors at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Sunday afternoon.

Lectures, fundraising road races, a dog-lovers’ Bark in the Park at Rural Hill, and an outdoor concert at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church are on the calendar across the area this week. Davidson College’s basketball players and alumni host their annual BUZZKILL fundraising 3-on-3 tourney, plus an evening party and other events, to fight malaria in Africa. On stage, Davidson College theater students continue their one-act play productions this weekend, and Davidson Community Players’ Connie Co. wraps up the run of “A Bear Called Paddington.” Read on for the details, or see our day-by-day calendar at right on this page.

See also the latest movie listings at Our Town Cinemas, on this page at right. On the schedule there: “The Lucky One,” a tale about a soldier returning from Iraq; “The Hunger Games” is still on view, along with “Three Stooges,” “American Reunion” and “Mirror Mirror.” Read the full story

A customized zucchini racer from last year's Zucchini 500 at Stewart-Haas Racing in Kannapolis. This year's event is Saturday, part of the NC Science Festival.

Davidson’s Art on the Green festival is back for another year, running Saturday and Sunday in downtown Davidson. This weekend also brings the season’s first Concert of the Green, a performance by the Davidson College Symphony and Jazz Ensemble on Sunday. The Jazz Ensemble also plays Friday, alongside Latin jazz composer arranger Bernardo Hernandez. The region’s Jewish community gathers at Davidson College Thursday night for Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony. In Huntersville, get on your kilt for the 19th annual Rural Hill Scottish Festival and Loch Norman Highland Games. Saturday morning brings Earth Day activities in Cornelius and around Lake Norman, there’s a breakfast at Davidson Presbyterian Church and the Davidson Farmer’s Market is open until noon. Read on for the details, or see our day-by-day calendar at right on this page. Read the full story

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

An advance screening of the documentary “Bully” is among a series of events around the area area this weekend devoted to the growing problem of bullying — both the physical kind and the growing trend of “cyber-bullying.” Other events on tap this weekend include the April Is for Arts Gallery Crawl in Davidson, performances of “Alice in Wonderland,” and the Lake Norman YMCA’s Family Fun Day. Read the full story

The Cornelius-based nonprofit Foundation for Respect Ability on April 12 at the movie theater in Concord Mills Mall will host a pre-screening of the controversial movie Bully, set to debut in Charlotte the following day. Community members are invited to attend the preview, that will be followed by a panel discussion and question-and-answer session.

Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, Bully is a character-driven documentary that follows five children and their families as they with the effects of bullying over the course of a school year. Read the full story