Weekend Look: In town and around
Weekend Look: In town and around

1. Art Garfunkel joins the Oklahoma City Philharmonic for an evening of music, including several Simon and Garfunkel classics. You'll also hear songs from Garfunkel's latest recording, "Some Enchanted Evening,” a collection of standards from the 1930s and '40s.

The Pops Series concert begins at 8 p.m. today and Saturday at the Civic Center, 201 N Walker. Tickets are $12 to $62 and are available online at www.okcphilharmonic.com. For more information, call 842-5387.

2. Grave Digger, Blue Thunder, Batman, Bounty Hunter and Scarlet Bandit are among the car-smashing competitors at Monster Jam. See the monsters of the U.S. Hot Rod Association tear down the house at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno. Tickets are $16 or $5 for children age 12 and under if bought in advance. Order online at www.okfordcenter.com or call 235-8288.

Meet drivers, get autographs and take pictures with the trucks at the Built Ford Tough Party in the Pits from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Get free passes at metro-area Ford dealers. You also must have a valid Saturday ticket to enter. For more information, go online to www.monsterjamonline.com.

3. Hear Swiss composer Arthur Honegger's claim to fame from the 1920s, "Le Roi David” ("King David”). The Windsong Chamber Choir performs the dramatic Psalm at 3 p.m. Sunday at Spring Creek Baptist Church, 11701 N MacArthur. The Rev. Joseph A. Bias provides narration.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Group rates are available. For more information, go online to www.windsongchoir.org or call 413-9587.

4. Reality shows get a bit too real in "The Dead Guy.” A contestant get $1 million to spend any way he wants for seven days. Then he dies, and the audience votes on the method of his death. (Say what you will, it's still a better concept than "My Dad Is Better than Your Dad.”)

See the Carpenter Square Theatre production at 8 p.m. today and Saturday at Stage Center, 400 W Sheridan. Performances continue through March 8. Get tickets and find out about the theater's two-for-one Thursdays, online at www.carpentersquare.com or call 232-6500.

5. NORMAN — Grab your fossils, plants, furs, arrowheads and sparkly rocks you can't identify and bring them to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Experts will identify and discuss all kinds of natural and cultural objects during "What on Earth! Science Exploration and ID Day,” made possible by OU Physicians. You'll also have the chance to identify objects at stations throughout the museum.

The free event, ideal for families with children ages 5 to 12, is from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 2401 Chautauqua. For more information, go online to www.snomnh.ou.edu or call 325-4712.

6. Find everything you need to make your house a home — and get ready for spring — at this weekend's Home and Garden Expo. The expo, brought to you by the Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association Inc., is from noon to 8 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in the Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens.

Admission is $7 for adults and free for children age 12 and under. Today only, seniors age 60 and older get in for $5. For more information, go online to www.okchomeandgardenexpo.com.

7. Experience an evening of elegance while you contribute to the fight against cardiovascular disease and stroke. Reflections of the Heart, a black tie affair, begins at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens. Become a Patron Couple with a donation of $750 to the American Heart Association. This year you can meet the Sweethearts, high school girls who spent a year learning about heart-healthy lifestyles, CPR, fitness and community service.

For more information, call 948-2121 or go online to www.heart.org.

8. The Red Dirt Rangers have "dirt under their fingernails, beat up snakeskin boots on their feet, whiskey and jalapenos in their bellies and Kerouac on their minds.” Hear the Sooner State favorites at 10 p.m. today at VZD's Restaurant and Club, 4200 N Western.

Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information, call VZD's music line at 524-4200.

9. A heavenly host of contemporary Christian musicians comes to the metro next week for the Winter Jam 2008 Tour Spectacular. See bands that defy the space bar on computer keyboards — MercyMe, NewSong, BarlowGirl — plus Skillet, American Idol's chubby cherub Mandisa and more. The music starts at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Ford Center, 100 W Reno. Admission is $10. For more information, go online to www.jamtour.com.

10. Check your wallet, your bank account and your couch cushions before making your way to this weekend's Leake Classic Car Show and Auction. Or just watch other people bid on 425 classics of chrome and steel.

The show is from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and Saturday in the Cox Pavilion and Centennial Building at the State Fair Park, NW 10 and May. Auctions begin at 1 p.m. today and 10 a.m. Saturday. For more information, go online to www.leakecarauction.com.

1. ARDMORE — Faris Family and Saltgrass are among the artists performing at the Sanders & Lake Murray Resort Bluegrass Festival at 7 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Saturday at Lake Murray Resort Lodge, Interstate 35 south, turn east on exit 24.

For more information, call (918) 423-4891 or go online to www.sandersfamilybluegrass.com.

2. OKEMAH — Josh Smith performs from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday as the Grape Ranch features some of the region's best musicians during Singers & Songwriters at Grape Ranch.

The ranch is six miles south of Interstate 40 on State Highway 27 (exit 221-Woody Guthrie Boulevard). At the Grape Ranch sign, turn west and go one mile.

For more information, call (918) 623-2250 or go online to www.graperanch.com.

3. MUSKOGEE — Oklahoma wine tasting, music by Mike Dunn and friends, Italian food and two spring fashion shows are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bedouin Flying Fez Wine Tasting Festival at the Bedouin Shrine Temple, 201 S 6th St.

For more information, call (918) 348-0376 or go online to www.flyingfez.com.

4. HULBERT — See a short program about deer, then walk into the Eastern deciduous forest to search for shed deer antlers.

The Antler Drive is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Three Forks Nature Center, 19460 Park 80.

For more information, call (918) 772-2108 or e-mail threeforks@intellex.com.

5. TULSA — Celebrate Black History Month as vocalist Ernestine Dillard with the Booker T. Washington High School Jazz Choir, Debra Brown Community School Choir, Hope International Ministries Worship Team, Now Generation, Oklahoma Jubilee, Voices of Faith, and The 5 Tones perform Songs Of The Heart, a Journey of Generations. The performance is at 7 p.m. today in the John H. Williams Theatre at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E 2nd St.

For more information, call (918) 596-7122 or go online to www.tulsapac.com.

6. VIAN — See Southern bald eagles on the nest at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Then visit Tenkiller State Park to see more eagles and plenty of loons during The Eagle Tour and Loon Watch.

To get to Tenkiller, take exit 287 on Interstate 40, follow State Highway 100 north through Gore to the park. Sequoyah is on State Highway 51, 8 miles east of Wagoner.

For more information, call (918) 489-5641 or go online to www.oklahomaparks.com.

7. YALE — A Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Round Mountain between the Confederate and Union armies will be staged in Payne County.

See the reenactment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the park just off State Highway 51 east of the city.

For more information, call (918) 387-2815.

8. HULBERT — Listen to professional fiddle players at the Fiddlers Festival. Daily and evening dances as well as jam sessions will be all day today, Saturday and Sunday throughout the hotel lobby at the Western Hills Guest Ranch, on State Highway 51, 52 miles east of Tulsa, on Fort Gibson Lake at Sequoyah State Park.

For more information, call (918) 772-2108.

9. BARTLESVILLE — A scheming theatrical producer and his mousy accountant hatch a plan to embezzle a fortune in "The Producers,” performing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bartlesville Community Center, 300 SE Adams.

For more information, call (918) 337-2787 or go online to www.bartlesvillecommunitycenter.com.

10. TULSA — Watch "He Wears Black,” celebrating the music of Johnny Cash, and Tuff Profit and 4 Barrel at 7 p.m. today at Cain's Ballroom, 423 N Main St.

For more information, call (918) 584-2306 or go online to www.cainsballroom.com.

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