You're in luck. Manhattan has plenty of stuff to do after dark. There are the bars, of course, and live bands play here regularly. (In fact, if you're in a band and you're playing here, make sure to let us know.
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It will be the perfect weekend to tour the prairie by bus. Daily tours through Oct. 26 are at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. are available to experience the beauty of the prairie and learn some fun facts on this 90-minute prairie tour. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for under 4. For more information, call (620) 273-8494. The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is two miles north of Strong City on K-177.
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The perfect date might include the emotional roller coaster of K-State Theatre's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" by Paul Zindel, 7:30 tonight. The play runs through Feb. 16.
Capsule reviews of current local movies. Opinions are by Los Angeles Times reviewers. Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are: (G) for general audiences; (PG) parental guidance urged because of material possibly unsuitable for children; (PG-13) parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; (R) restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; (NC-17) no one younger than 17 admitted.
Finding events not centered around alcohol can be difficult in a college town, but K-State works really hard to keep students entertained and out of trouble. After hours is just one of the many opportunities and is sponsored by Union Program Council.
Brett Henry, Brad Waller and Buck Driggs didn't grow up dreaming of the day they'd be able to serve beer from behind a bar. But the idea of owning one came up sometime during the last three years, and the three are now the new owners of Mel's Tavern.
Last Friday McCain-goers enjoyed a program called Fiesta Flamenca danced by a New York company known as Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. The dancers were accomplished. The music was vaguely exotic. And the performance was generally pleasing.
TOPEKA — The Topeka Symphony Youth Ensembles will present their spring concerts at 2 p.m. Sunday at Washburn University's White Concert Hall. Three youth ensembles will perform: the Youth Orchestra, conducted by Steven Elisha; the Youth Philharmonic, conducted by Carolyn Rich Voth; and the Debut Orchestra, conducted by Carolyn Sandquist.
TOPEKA — The Topeka Jazz Workshop, Inc., concert originally scheduled for Jan. 3, but snowed out and postponed, will be presented Sunday at the Downtown Topeka Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 SE 6th Street. It will feature Kansas City vocalist Ron Gutierrez, a native Topekan who grew up in a jazz atmosphere: Both his father Tony and his uncle Hank played with the Topeka Jazz Workshop Band years ago.
The third course of Manhattan Arts Center's "scrumptious" theatre season was served up this past Friday, a sellout celebratory "fifteenth anniversary" remounting of A.L. Gurney's The Dining Room in the Grosh performance hail. The production was dedicated, fittingly, to the man "who made it all happen," the late Dwight Nesmith, who was in at the start of Manhattan's community theatre and helped sustain it for over forty years. Final presentations in the show's run this week: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, finishing with a Sunday matinee, March 7.
Director Antoine Fuqua's claim to fame is "Training Day," which tells what happens when a veteran and crooked L.A. cop takes a lucky rookie out for a shift. Fuqua's latest is "Brooklyn's Finest," which tells what happens when a veteran and burned out N.Y. cop takes two unlucky rookies out for two of his last shifts before retirement.
The Pittsburgh advertising executive who gave us the original "Night of the Living Dead," George Romero, made several movies, the fourth of them called "The Crazies." The new film of the same title is a remake of this 1973 picture.
Director Kevin Smith, who gave us "Clerks" and "Mall Rats" and a number of other "independent" movies which made it into general release, recently had some trouble with Southwest Airlines because of his girth. One wonders if he was trying to fly to Los Angeles, because with his latest movie, "Cop Out," he has certainly gone Hollywood.
There are a lot of interesting details one could associate with Martin Scorsese's new horror movie, "Shutter Island." Unfortunately the movie itself isn't interesting.
The new family fantasy and adventure movie based on a book series, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," is entertaining and inoffensive. It is probably the best family movie currently showing.
