Our Easter weekend community calendar brings a variety of seasonal activities, from egg hunts and Easter Sunday services to holiday brunches and athletics – including a Hough High girls’ soccer game against Lake Norman. Local music venues are busy the next few nights, and the schedule includes a pair of gigs – one in Davidson and one in Cornelius – for local guitarist and songwriter Rusty Knox. Carrburritos in Davidson also starts a regular music series Thursday night with a jazz trio. The Davidson Farmer’s Market has a winter tailgate market Saturday, and the Lake Norman Rotary hosts 5K and 10K races on Saturday morning off Sam Furr Road in Huntersville. Read on for news about those events and more this weekend.

Our Town Cinemas has “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” “The Croods,” “Olympus Has Fallen,” “GI Joe: Retaliation,” and “The Host.” See the showtimes at right on this page. Read the full story

Lectures, exhibits, choral and chamber music concerts, and an April 7 Holocaust remembrance are among the public events during April at Davidson College. On Saturday, April 6, president Carol Quillen will host a reception followed by the annual student-run Dinner at Davidson fund-raiser for financial aid. Two nights of talks April 8-9 will focus on “Religious Ethics in Contemporary Society” and Wake Forest University professor Randall G. Rogan will give the annual Chidsey Leadership Lecture on April 9. At mid-month, athletic director Jim Murphy will give a public lecture on “Ethics in Sports.” And on April 17, the college will dedicate the latest addition to its outdoor sculpture college, “Waves III” by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. Read on for those and other events. Read the full story

It’s the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament and some may be glued to that tube. But if you’re out and about, there are a wide variety of options in the Lake Norman area, from a concert with indie rock band Passion Pit to a Davidson Beer Crawl to a 50K Bike Around the Bomb for nuclear disarmament. On stage, “Guys and Dolls” is at Davidson College, while Warehouse PAC in Cornelius has “Crimes of Omission” and Lake Norman High in Mooresville is staging “Broadway Revue.” It’s Arbor Day in Davidson Friday, and Cornelius Police are hosting an Operation Medicine Drop on Saturday. Area venues have live music all weekend, beginning Thursday with the Summit Songwriters of the Year Billy Jones and Mike Alicke at Summit Coffee in Davidson. And Conrelius PARC two Easter events: Meet the Easter Bunny Friday morning at Cornelius Arts Center, and the annual “Hop into Spring” festival Saturday at Bailey Road Park.

Our Town Cinemas has “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” “Quartet” and “Django Unchained.” Opening Friday: “The Croods” and “Olympus Has Fallen.” See the showtimes at right on this page.

And Wildcats fans, here are your key numbers for Thursday: Davidson’s men play at 3:10pm vs. Marquette. The game airs on TruTV – channel 31 (MI-Connection) or 75 (T-W Cable). Meanwhile, the women play Old Dominion in the Women’s NIT at 7pm. Catch that game live on the Web. Read the full story

By LINCOLN DAVIDSON
DavidsonNews.net

Global Zero of Davidson College and Davidson Outdoors will join together this Saturday, March 23 for Bike Around the Bomb, a 50-kilometer bike ride that traces the blast area of a nuclear explosion. The ride begins at 10am at the Davidson Town Green.

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If you’re like me, you’re still trying to adjust to the time change. I’m sorry, folks, the extra hour of daylight in the evening has done little to appease my morning grouch. I know it’s really 5am even though the clock says 6am. Waking up this week has been hard and I’m convinced the disruption to the circadian rhythm is responsible for every bit of my bad behavior.

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The artists behind two exhibits currently on view in Davidson will be in the spotlight at receptions this week. On Wednesday night, Summit Coffee on Main Street will host a reception for David Alan Goldberg, who goes by “DAG,” and his exhibit “Carolina Revelries: Legends and Landmarks.” And on Friday afternoon, there’s a reception at Davidson Town Hall for painter Mary Crow, whose work is there this month. Also coming up: Mooresville Artist Guild’s 35th annual Spring Artfest. Read the full story