The Shannon Theatre gave the Icon the heads up on the movies it has scheduled for Jan. 11 - 17. According to Pete Suter, here's what's playing:
Parental Guidance (PG) - stars Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei. Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behaviors collide with Artie and Diane's old-school methods. (IMDb)
Jesse Henry, former Bluffton resident, will perform in concert at 7 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 13, in the Town Hall Concert Series. Henry will perform with Angela Perley. The concert is billed as a homecoming concert of acoustic original music, raising money and collecting instruments to teach music in Nairobi, Kenya.
Evelyn Luginbuhl will receive a lifetime membership to the Bluffton Senior Center in honor of her 90th birthday.
A potluck will take place during the January dinner meeting on Monday, Jan. 14, at noon at the Senior Center and Evelyn will recieve a red rose and her lifetime membership.
Bill Peebles will MC the event with Ruth Bartels hosting. The program for the evening is entitled "It's cold and dark so lets look at photos of Hawaii."
The ArtSpace/Lima Photography Club will present its annual juried exhibition from Friday, Jan. 4 through Saturday, Feb. 16 in The Ellen Nelson Gallery at ArtSpace.
The exhibit will feature 114 total photographs: 90 photographs by 38 adult photographers and 24 photographs by 15 youth photographers. In all, 47 photographers entered 183 photographs. Entry categories include: Animals, Architecture, Black and White, Landscape, Plants, Portraiture, Special Effects, Still Life, Miscellaneous, and Youth.
The holiday season is sliding to an end and things will get back to normal any minute now. But until then, you can embrace one last tradition, one last thing to bind us to each other as we look ahead to the new year.
How about we drop something?
The most famous drop in the United States is the dropping of the New Year's ball in Times Square, New York City. Thousands gather to watch the ball make its one-minute descent, arriving exactly at midnight.
