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This is Academy Awards season,
which means lots of prestigious films
are playing in theaters.
“Project Almanac” isn’t one of
them.
But it does have our favorite bad
movie feature: time travel!
In this movie, opening today, a
group of teenagers build a time machine and discover messing with the
past can have serious repercussions
on the present. Did they learn nothing from “Hot Tub Time Machine”?
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Entertainment highlights for:
January 30 – February 7
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SUNDAY
Are you ready for
some football? How
about 65 hours of pregame blather?
It’s Super Bowl
Sunday, which
means excess is in,
and we don’t just
mean how much
guacamole you’ll stuff
into your pie hole before
kick-off.
Enjoy the Big Game — the
New England “Deflated
Balls” Patriots are taking on
the defending champion Seattle Seahawks — at home,
with family and friends, or at
one of the many, many Super
Bowl parties in taverns and
restaurants.
The game itself starts about
5:30 p.m. on NBC. Katy Perry is
performing the halftime show.
After the game, a new episode
of the James Spader drama
“The Blacklist” airs. Note: Animal
Planet’s adorable “Puppy
Bowl,” featuring three hours
of shelter dogs cavorting on
a stain-resistant gridiron, starts
at 2 p.m. And the Hallmark
Channel counters that canine
cuteness with its “Kitten Bowl,”
starting at 11 a.m.
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MONDAY
Will the groundhog
see his shadow and
give us six more
weeks of winter?
We won’t officially
know until this morning at 7:25, when
the rodent makes his
128th trek to Gobbler’s Knob for “Phil’s
Official Prognostication.” The folks in
Punxsutawney, Pa. —
home to Phil the groundhog — go all out with live
entertainment, music and
fireworks for the big event.
Closer to Kenosha, the
Milwaukee County Zoo
welcomes its groundhog,
Wynter, to take center stage
in the annual weather prediction festivities at 10:30 this
morning. For more information, go to www.milwaukeezoo.org.
And if you’re sticking close
to home today, it’s the perfect
day to watch the 1993 Bill Murray comedy
“Groundhog Day.”
Not into football? The Lakeside Players’ production
of “Into the Woods” has a 2
p.m. matinee today. No pigskin
is involved!
At the Rhode Center for the
Arts, 514 56th St. Tickets are $15
for adults and $12 for children
and senior citizens. www.rhodecenter.org.
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TUESDAY
Here’s a great way to inject
more fiber into your diet: The
Anderson Arts Center is
hosting a fiber arts exhibit,
featuring works by the Madison Contemporary Fiber Artists
Group and Women’s Journeys
in Fiber.
The show runs through March
22 at the arts center, 6603 Third
Ave. Admission is free.
The gallery is
open 1 to 4
p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
www.andersonartscenter.com.
Here’s
your
chance
to get involved with
community theater:
The Racine Theatre Guild is
hosting open auditions starting at 7 p.m. Feb. 2-3 for “The
Giver.”
The play — based on the
book by Lois Lowry that itself
inspired a 2014 film — will be
performed April 10-20 at the
theatre guild, 2519 Northwestern Ave. in Racine. Note:
Performances are on two
weekends for the general public
and four weekdays for school
groups.
Auditions will consist of cold
readings from the script. Scripts
are available to check out in
advance from the box office.
262-633-4218.
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WEDNESDAY
Here’s another
chance to show off your
mad chess skills.
The Kenosha Chess
Association is hosting
Chess Night at the
Library, from 6:30 to 8
p.m. at the Southwest
Library, 7979 38th Ave.,
this evening.
Admission is free; everyone is welcome. Bring your
own chess set or use one
from the libary’s collection.
The 1968 film “Funny Girl”
made Barbra Streisand a bona
fide movie star.
She plays Ziegfeld Follies star
Fanny Brice — the role she also
played to acclaim on Broadway.
Omar Shariff also stars, though
only Streisand won an Academy
Award for the film. (She tied for
Best Actress with Katharine Hepburn for “The Lion in Winter.”)
Kenosha’s Tinseltown
Theater, 7101 70th Court, is
showing the movie twice today
— at 2 and 7 p.m.
Rated G. Running time: 2
hours and 31 minutes. Tickets
are $4.500ww.
$9.50. www.
cinemark.
k.
com. (Note:
ote
te:
“Funny Girl””
is also playaying 2 p.m.
m.
Sunday,
Feb. 1.)
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THURSDAY
Brighten up
a bleak winter
day with a visit
to the colorful
“Watercolor
Wisconsin”
exhibit at Racine’s Wustum
Museum of
Fine Arts.
Admission
and parking
are free to
the museum,
2519 Northwestern Ave. in
Racine. The museum is open 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
262-636-9177.
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In Milwaukee tonight, the
Domes — actually the Mitchtc
ch-ell Park Horticultural
Conservatory — is hosting
g
“Music Under Glass,”
a concert series featuring
live music Thursday nights
through March 19.
Performing tonight is the
Liam Ford Band, playing
g
its tribute to Johnny Cash
sh.
d
Inside the Domes, you’ll find
find
cactuses and succulents in
he
e
the Arid Dome. Or, stroll the
jung
ngle-liik trails of the Tropical
ic
cal
jungle-like
Dome
Do
, where you’ll see
a rich diversity of plants
from the rainforests of
five continents.
6:30 to 9 p.m.
Admission is $7; $5
for
fo ages 6-17. For more
inform
m
information
and band listings,
call 414-649-9830
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or log on
at www.milwaukeedomes.
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org.
Well, this is just out of
this world!
The Kenosha
This is the final weekend for the
Racine Theatre Guild’s production of a modern wedding-day
farce, “One Slight Hitch,” written
by comedian Lewis Black.
The action takes place on the
morning before a big wedding
when “the one slight hitch” arrives in
the form of the bride’s ex-boyfriend.
The play runs through Feb. 1 at
the Theatre Guild, 2519 Northwestern
Ave. (Highway 38) in Racine. Tickets
are $11-$17. 262-633-4218 or www.
racinetheatre.org.
al Band
Ba d —
The Real Deal
tion — is
a Kenosha institution
playing from 8 to
11 tonight at the
VFW Post 1865,
6618 39th Ave.
262-652-2751.
The VFW Post
also hosts trivia on
n
Tuesday nights,
starting at 7 p.m.
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Public Museum,
5500 First Ave., is
hosting “Out of
this World: a
Down-to-Earth
Extravaganza”
from noon to 4
p.m. to kick off its
new exhibit, “Earth
From Space.”
Today’s free
activities include
the inflatable Star Lab
planetarium (hosting
45-minute programs starting
every hour), space-themed Lego
projects from the Kenosha Lego Users
Group and Channel 12 meteorologist
Mark Baden explaining how satellites
are used in weather forecasting (at
noon).
At 2 p.m., Patrick Frendreis will present the program “Satellite: Eyes in the
Skies.”
Admission and activities are free.
The exhibit, featuring satellite images
of our plaent, will be on display at
the museum Jan. 31 through June 21.
262-653-4140.
Lake Geneva is hosting the U.S.
National Snow Sculpting Competition as part of its annual Winter
Fest.
The teams start sculpting Jan. 28,
with sculpting ending at 11 a.m.
today.
Visitors can vote for their favorites
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. A winner
will be crowned at 3 p.m.
Entertainment, activities and food
will be available at the Riviera Ballroom on the lakefront from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday.
For more information about the festival, go to www.lakegenevawi.com.
While the rest of the country gets
ready for Sunday’s National Nachos
Day (otherwise known as the Super
Bowl), Kenosha hosts its own “super
bowl” this weekend at Indian Trail
High School, where hundreds of
student musicians are performing in
the 58th annual Band-O-Rama.
Band-O-Rama is 7:30 tonight and
2 p.m. Sunday. Go to www.kusd.edu/
finearts for more information.
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The Racine Children’s Theatre
presents two favorite Beatrix Potter
stories that have been combined
into one play that’s filled with action,
music and laughter.
“The Tale of Peter
“T
Rabbit
Rab
b (and Benjamin
Bunny),”
Bu
unn
a Horlick High
School Theater Arts
production, is Feb.
6-8 at the theater,
2519 Northwestern
A
Ave. in Racine.
TThe play is one hour
and is designed for families with children ages
4 and
a
older. Shows are
5:3
5:30 and 7:30 today and
no
noon, 2 and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. All ticke
ets
ts are
a $6. 262-633-4218 or
go to www.racinetheatre.org.
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to try new things in 2015? There’s
still time to make good on that
pledge.
Start today by attending the folk
music hootenanny 7 to 10 p.m.
tonight at the Anderson Arts Center, 6603 Third Ave.
Check out our calendar of events at KenoshaNews.com/Where2B
This is an informal gathering of
people who love to sing or play
acoustic instruments.
Free admission; everyone is welcome. Bring an acoustic instrument
or just come to sing along. Donations
to the arts center are welcome. For
more information, contact Marialyce
Kornkven at 262-654-6840.
The Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra is performing “Bernstein
& Prokofiev” — a program including Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 (“The
Age of Anxiety”) featuring pianist
William Wolfram and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100.
Performances are 8 p.m. Feb. 6-7,
led by guest conductor Andrew Litton.
In Uihlein Hall in the Marcus Center
for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water
St. in downtown Milwaukee. Tickets
are $25-$105 (plus fees). Call 414-2917605 or visit www.mso.org. Note: Both
concerts include “Meet the Music,” a
free, interactive pre-concert starting
at 7 p.m. in the Anello Atrium.
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today
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offering a Family Free Day
with free general admission
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information, go to www.milwaukelwaukeezoo.org.
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ovKenosha’s Dinosaur Discovery Museum is celebrating
ati
ting
Darwin Day from noon to
o 5 p.m.
today at the museum, 5608
8 10th Ave.
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Throughout the day, visitors are
invited to come and discover the
work of Charles
Darwin, who was
the first scientist to
describe biological evolution via
natural selection.
Organizers say
museum visitors
are welcome to
discuss evolutionary biology with
museum staff
and professors from local universities
“and learn how scientific knowledge,
acquired through human curiosity
and ingenuity, has contributed to the
advancement of humanity.”
The event is free and open to the
public.
The museum also hosts “Dino
Digs” from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and
Sundays.
Visitors are invited to “experience
first-hand the excitement of excavating a dinosaur fossil.”
The Dinosaur Discovery Museum is
at 5608 10th Ave. All exhibits are free.
Call 262-653-4450 for more information.
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