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Of Moving Colors’ lifeguards are on duty, so there’s no danger of drowning. Now, that doesn’t mean the Manship Theatre’s waters won’t be hazardous at times, almost overwhelming. They will. They’ll also be happy and fun. Sounds like life, doesn’t it?

She was Aileen Wuornos in real life, the woman who became the world’s first female serial killer by murdering seven men in a year. That year took place on Interstate 75 in Florida between November 1989 and 1990.

MTNA WINNERS RECITAL: 1 p.m., LSU School of Music Recital Hall, Dalrymple Drive. The LSU MNTA Chapter Recital will follow at 3 p.m. Free.

The Baton Rouge Concert Band will perform its annual Spring Concert at 3 p.m. today, March 14, at BREC’s Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd. This year’s theme is “No Strings Attached.”

This tale of the settlement of the colony of Louisiana begins in the year 1704. It is a tale in two parts, told from two viewpoints. The first voice is that of Elisabeth Savaret, a “casket” girl from La Rochelle, France, whose family sends her off to the unknown lands in the New World where she is expected to be married to a colonist. She carries her possessions in a trunk or casket.

The Audubon Pilgrimage will again celebrate spring in St. Francisville Friday-Sunday, March 19-21. Each year, the West Feliciana Historical Society, with its docents decked out in 1820s costumes, welcomes visitors to the area’s state historic sites, and this year, four private residences.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Library is celebrating the 2010 Big Read selection, Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, with a white linen party in the rose garden with Zelda.

Lisa Lutz is back with her fourth account of the quirky Spellman family, who have a private investigation business in San Francisco and live their work so thoroughly that they follow, tape-record, videotape and blackmail each other routinely.

The Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., will host the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at 7 p.m. tonight, March 14.

Dare to imagine. Christopher Turner does each time he takes the stage with his canvas.

Think of it as you would a group of people where all are bound by substance yet are different in style. “It’s a constant conversation,” Malia Krolak said. “It’s all about how people see the cup.”

Every March, LSU celebrates Women’s History Month to honor and celebrate women from all walks of life.

DALLAS — Texas should have a colorful spring, with recent rains bringing an abundance of wildflowers and blooms already popping up, experts say. By the end of March, Texas should be awash in the reds, yellows, whites and blues of wildflowers, with the season peaking in mid-April, said Damon Waitt, senior botanist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

There’s a bit of jealousy brewing in Camelot. Guenevere is jealous of Arthur and Lancelot. And all other knights sitting at the round table if you want to be specific. Oh wait. You thought the jealousy was entrenched in the love triangle of Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot, right? Well, that may be true.

A compilation of arts events for the week ahead.

The 12th Annual Women’s History Poetry Reading will be held on Sunday, March 14, at the Baton Rouge Gallery. The event was founded by Sue Owen, then poet-in-residence at LSU. It is a part of the gallery’s “Sunday’s @ 4” series and is held in March to commemorate National Women’s History Month. The National Women’s History Project is largely responsible for this federal designation, and the Project is celebrating its 30th year.

There were eight, no, nine U.S. Army generals in attendance that day, some retired, some active. Charles Vincent doesn’t remember the exact Founder’s Day they congregated at their alma mater, but he does recall the magnitude of their presence.

The LSU School of Music and Buffet Crampon USA will present the first Clarinet Masters Day event from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at the LSU School of Music building.The LSU School of Music and Buffet Crampon USA will present the first Clarinet Masters Day event from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at the LSU School of Music building.

The Foundation for Historical Louisiana will “bring back to life” notable Baton Rougeans to tell their intriguing life stories in the popular Magnolia’s Memories drama for its 17th production in historic Magnolia Cemetery. The event will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 12-13.

Auditions for Ascension Community Theatre’s upcoming production of Doubt: A Parable are 3-7 p.m. today, March 7, and 6-9 p.m. Monday, March 8, at the Pasqua Theatre, 823 N. Felicity St., Gonzales. The production is set to run April 22-25 and will be directed by Derek Bourque. The play takes place at St. Nicholas School in the Bronx.

Kurt Heinlein, who has a doctorate’s degree in theater from LSU, returns home to present his new play Evangeline Drowning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in the Reilly Theatre on Tower Drive on campus.

Too many people are jumping to conclusions. It’s not that the content doesn’t deal with drug abuse. It does, among so many other issues. But reference to “crack” in the play’s title has nothing to do with crack cocaine. Nothing.

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — On a recent, chilly evening, I looked up and saw more stars than I ever had in the Florida sky. I was 45 feet above the ground and my heart was racing. Then, I stepped off my platform into an inky abyss. I could barely see the glimmer of a swamp below.

Truth be known, Tony Mose is known more for figurative paintings than landscapes. Just ask him. He’s standing in Rue Cou Cou now only hours before the opening reception for the gallery’s latest exhibit, The Landscape in Art.

Jazz makes it special. Jazz combined with spirituals and Americana. George Gershwin somehow knew the musical dramas would perfectly mix with opera. And make no mistake – Porgy and Bess definitely is an opera.

“Get a Biloxi souvenir before the potter dies or gets a reputation,” the sign said. Those who followed that crazy advice are probably celebrating now, because it really wasn’t so crazy.

When D’Army Bailey was growing up in Memphis, he was haunted by “the bloated and disfigured face of Emmett Till, the black kid our own age who was lynched in Money, Mississippi, in 1955.” It was a time of lynchings, segregated schools, whites-only lunch counters, blacks passengers forced to ride at the back of buses...

A sure sign of spring, the tram at Poverty Point State Historic Site in Epps will resume its daily tours beginning Monday, March 1. The tours will continue through October.

Volunteers from the Friends of the LSU Libraries Book Barn have been working around the clock collecting and organizing books for the 2010 Book Bazaar.

The characters in Anne Tyler’s books are mostly misfits of some sort. They are women who wear frowzy clothes, men with hang-ups. They’re overweight, too old and self-absorbed. They are lost, lonely souls who can’t understand their own families.

“Those are fightin’ words,” Sam Hyde was told. But he’s not going to alter history. Things happened in the past, and there’s no changing them.

Baton Rouge Gallery, 1442 City Park Ave., is featuring the work of four of its artist members — Judi Betts, Mary Claire Delony, Ross Jahnke and Brian Kelly — beginning today, Feb. 28.

Tickets are on sale for a concert by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, set for 8 p.m. March 9 in the River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts, 220 St. Louis St. The Tuesday evening concert is part of the River City Jazz Masters concert series. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is made up of 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players and is the resident orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

OVERTON, Nev. — You’ve done your time in Las Vegas. You’ve given generously to the casinos, gorged on their food and overdosed on their glitz. You need an escape from the Strip. The Grand Canyon is too far. The Hoover Dam is too crowded. You crave space and air that isn’t tainted by cigarette smoke.

Don’t look for fluff. Little Shop of Horrors director Kevin M. White is promising a darker, bloodier show when the Ascension Community Theatre production of the comic musical takes the stage in Gonzales this week.

Pianist, composer and arranger Laurence Hobgood will perform concerts at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Lyceum, 124 Third St. The concert is part of The Listening Room, a series of jazz concerts presented by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and The River City Jazz Coalition.

Philadanco! The Philadelphia Dance Company will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Baton Rouge Community College’s Magnolia Performing Arts Pavilion.

Calling all birders: the fifth annual Eagle Expo gets under way Thursday, Feb. 25, in Morgan City and surrounding areas, and lasts through Saturday, Feb. 27. The expo will offer boat tours to view American Bald Eagles, seminars from wildlife and nature experts and opportunities to meet fellow birders. The expo will also feature a workshop by wildlife photographer C.C. Lockwood on Thursday.

Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 program today, Feb. 21, hosts author Casey Willems reading from his latest book, On The Run.

The cadets are Barry Cowan’s favorite. Everything is so clear, their expressions, their uniforms, their shoes. Even the cannon wheel by which they pose.

Auditions for Just Dance!, an original production with famed choreographer Debbie Allen, will take place Friday through Sunday, March 5-7.

The Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation, in association with BREC, will present the fifth annual Black History Month event, a dramatic presentation of the play Sojourner Truth Is My Name.

He went into the school playing the piano and came out dancing. And that’s the story of Calvin Royal III. There are details, lots of fillers that haven’t yet been mentioned. Details such as how he’s been on the road two years with American Ballet Theatre’s ABT II company and how he’ll be performing in Baton Rouge on Sunday, Feb. 28.

The line between story and reality blurs a little more after each rehearsal. That’s a good thing, because the more actors understand what their characters are going through, the better they are able to convey Judi Ann Mason’s story to the audience.

The West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Ave., Port Allen, is showing the exhibit We Remember: A Tribute to Coretta Scott King through March 7.

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