Joseph Bathanti

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Starting off the week, the Democrats of Precinct 206 are meeting again Monday night to get a quorum of members to elect officers. Also Monday, the Future of the Library Task Force presents its recommendations to the county commission and library board. On Tuesday, Poet and novelist Joseph Bathanti, professor of English at Appalachian State University, will be reading from his work. Cynthia Lawing and Ruskin Cooper will perform Wednesday at this week’s Davidson Music Department Faculty Recital. There’s another concert on Thursday, this time at Summit Coffee where Shantell Ogden from Nashville, Charlotte songwriter Steve Simpson and host Rob McHale will be performing. The Davidson College theater and music departments will join forces to present “Into the Woods,” starting Friday and ending April 2.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Paul,” “Battle: Los Angeles,” “Rango” and “Adjustment Bureau,” are playing.

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Opening at Community School of Davidson High School.

An exhibit titled “Excavations,” including 19 paintings spanning the 50-year career of Davidson College art professor Herb Jackson, opens with a reception Thursday night at Davidson’s Belk Visual Arts Center. Elsewhere, Community School of Davidson produces its first high-school play, “Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon,” on Friday and Saturday, while the art-forgery drama “Masterpiece” continues at Davidson Community Players’ Armour Street Theater. Davidson College’s Gamut dance group hosts another show Friday and Saturday nights. There’s a Davidson Greenways, Trails and Bikeways meeting on Thursday and a Concert on the Green planning meeting on Friday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Battle: Los Angeles” opens Friday, joining “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech.” Read the full story

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Herb Jackson

The week’s activities begin Monday with a women’s self defense class at the Lake Norman YMCA and another free session offering advice on appealing your Mecklenburg County revaluation, at Ada Jenkins Center. On Tuesday, poet Kevin Prufer reads from his work at Davidson College’s Carolina Inn. Davidson Senior Scholars starts up again for its second session on financial planning and there’s a comical theatrical work titled “Celebrity Autobiography” that brings American celebrities’ memoirs to the Davidson College stage Wednesday. And a 50-year retrospective of the works of Davidson artist Herb Jackson opens with a reception Thursday night at the college.

Lectures at the college this week will focus on divination, foreign relations and philosophy. The college’s Gamut dance company, has a pair of performances, and the college also hosts a variety of musical performances, including student performances of songs and arias titled “Liederabend.” Meetings this week include the Town Board and a Precinct 127 Democratic Party on Tuesday, a Davidson Greenway meeting on Thursday and a Concert on the Green planning meeting on Friday.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Battle: Los Angeles” opens, joining “Rango,” “Adjustment Bureau,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech.”

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From left, Scot Slusarick (van Meegeren) and Charles Muller (Bredius) star in "Masterpiece" at Armour Street Theater. (Lacy Kell photo)

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

Davidson Community Players’ production of “Masterpiece” takes the stage this weekend. At Davidson College, the Wildcat baseball team will be playing three games against Furman. North Carolina’s Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers speaking at the Charlotte Writer’s Club’s March meeting on Thursday. There’s a business expo that will showcase Lake Norman businesses, nonprofits and attractions all day Friday, and Davidson library has preschool and toddler story times on Friday as well.

On Saturday, there’s a Special Olympics interest meeting at Bailey Middle School for parents, athletes, coaches and volunteers interested in being involved. Sunday, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church hosts a solo piano concert featuring Katie Reimer.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Rango” and “Adustment Bureau” open on Friday, joining “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,” “I Am Number Four,” “Just Go With It” and “The King’s Speech.” Read the full story

The cast of "Masterpiece," from left: Lou Delassandro (Wooning), Scot Slusarick (van Meegeren), Ashley Stowe (wife, Jo) and Charles Muller (Bredius). The play opens Thursday.

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

“Masterpiece,” a new play about a famous art forgery, debuts this weekend at Davidson Community Players, running Thursday-Sunday. Thursday night, there’s a Davidson College men’s basketball game against Elon. Friday night’s music includes Davidson Local at Summit Coffee,  and the Lake Norman Big Band Friday night at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. Davidson’s baseball team faces Ohio Friday. On Saturday, the Davidson Farmer’s Market is open, there are two baseball games and a basketball game and a concert to benefit McKinney Academy. Davidson College Presbyterian Church hosts a chili cook-off, while soup is at the heart of a fund-raiser in Mooresville for Serenity House.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie show times listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,” “I Am Number Four,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech” are playing. Read the full story

Peking Acrobats Tuesday at Davidson College

BY KARYN JESTER
DavidsonNews.net

This week is full of Davidson College sports. Davidson College women’s basketball is playing Furman on Monday, the men play Elon Thursday and UNCG on Saturday, and the baseball team has games Friday Saturday. Meanwhile, former WNBA star Andrea Stinson hosts a basketball clinic Saturday at Bailey Road Park.

The gymnasts, jugglers, cyclists and tumblers of the Peking Acrobats are coming to Davidson College’s Duke Performance Hall on Tuesday. Thursday is the opening day of the play “Masterpiece,” the story of one of the most notorious art forgers. It plays Thursday-Sunday this week.

There’s a new driver “experience” event where new drivers experience the dangers of drinking or texting while driving by wearing special goggles while driving golf carts. Also, the Davidson Farmer’s Market is open on Saturday at 9 a.m. and a chili cook-ff is at 6 p.m. on Sunday at Davidson College Presbyterian Church to benefit the Mooresville Soup Kitchen.

These events and more below, or in our day-by-day calendar at right. At right on this page, see our movie showtimes listings for Our Town Cinemas where “Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,” “I Am Number Four,” “Just Go With It,” and “The King’s Speech” are playing.

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