Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Sounds in the Stacks
Jazz-pop duo Chris Parker & Kelley Hurt and a 7-foot, 6-inch Kawai GX-7 concert grand piano (provided by Piano Kraft) will create Sounds in the Stacks, 6:30 p.m. today at the Central Arkansas Library System's Oley Rooker Library, 11 Otter Creek Court, Little Rock. It's part of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' Arkansas Sounds project. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3033 or visit arkansassounds.org.
'Massacre & Memory'
The Central Arkansas Library System and the Clinton School of Public Service will offer a program titled "Massacre and Memory: Elaine 1919 in History and Film," noon today at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. The program will include the screening of clips from Natalie Zimmerman and Michael Wilson's film Elaine and comments by historians Brian Mitchell and Grif Stockley. Admission is free. Reserve a place by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Beach riffs
RiffTrax riffers Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (of Mystery Science Theater 3000) and friends skewer a series of strange shorts with "RiffTrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party!," 7 p.m. today with a tape-delayed encore at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Breckenridge 12 and Colonel Glenn 18 in Little Rock and Tinseltown in Benton. Tickets and information are available at FathomEvents.com.
FRIDAY
45 RPM screening
The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies will screen 45 RPM, a comedy by Arkansan Juli Jackson, filmed in Arkansas and featuring Arkansas musicians, including bluesman CeDell Davis, rockabilly pioneer Joyce Green and early garage rockers The Coachmen and The Spyders, 7 p.m. Fridayat Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Doors open at 6; Adam Faucett, Whale Fire and Justin Vinson will perform from 6 to 7. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Admission is free. Call (501) 320-5728, email jmiller@cals.org or visit arkansassounds.org.
The screening kicks off a center series called "Sweet Sweet Summer Sounds." The schedule (except as noted, all 7 p.m, Ron Robinson Theater):
• June 30: Dave Rosen Big Band. Free.
• July 13: 40 Acres & a Block -- A Spike Lee Tribute, including a screening of Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing. $5. July 14: The Rodney Block Collective performs music from Lee's films. $10.
• July 28: Greasy Greens: An Hysterical Perspective ("The Older We Get, The Better We Were"). $15.
• Aug. 18: Dazz & Brie and the Emotionalz perform songs from their debut album, Can't Afford California. $10.
SATURDAY
Book signings
Michael Hibblen, author of Rock Island Railroad in Arkansas, and Linda Howell, author of Haunted Little Rock, will sign copies of their books Saturday -- Hibblen from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Howell from 1 to 3 p.m. -- at the North Little Rock Barnes & Noble, 4000 McCain Blvd. Copies of the books will be sold at the store.
TICKETS
Aldean at Verizon
Tickets -- $33.25, $58.25 and $73.25, plus service charges -- go on sale at 9 a.m. Friday for country singer Jason Aldean's "They Don't Know Tour" concert, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena. Special guests Chris Young, Kane Brown and Deejay Silver will precede Aldean to the stage. There is an eight-ticket limit per household. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com.
Weekend on 06/15/2017