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FEB. 4
Art scene: Fondren After 5 takes advantage of the stroll-worthy weather with a host of receptions at the area’s art spots, including Brown’s Fine Art, Fischer Galleries, Twenty-Nine06 and more.
Music: Jazz, Art & Friends at the Mississippi Museum of Art, celebrating the release of the dual CD, The Nathaniel Smith Jazz Project, features Smith and friends Jimmy Jarratt, Tim Avalon and Allison Jenkins. It’s $7, $5 for museum members.
FEB. 5
Movies: Finally, Crazy Heart, with Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges in the lead role, makes it to a movie screen near us. He plays a broken-down, hard-living country music singer to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s journalist.
Expect high romance when a soldier (Channing Tatum) and a college student (Amanda Seyfried) keep their love alive over tumultuous years with rare meetings and not-so-rare correspondence in Dear John.
Expect not so much love and likely not so much kept alive in the fast-shooting action picture From Paris With Love, with John Travolta as the wisecracking and high-ranking agent partnering with intelligence operative Jonathan Rys Meyers to stop a terrorist attack.
Music: Hear why the organ is known as “the king of instruments” when Olivier Latry, organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, shares his extraordinary skills in concert with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra at Galloway United Methodist Church.
FEB. 6
Good deeds: The Doors of Hope Gala, 6-8 p.m. at Hope Hollow, 910 A Catlett Road in Canton, benefits the ministry that enriches the lives of children and adults with disabilities through camping, environmental studies and retreats. For the event, organizers removed the facility’s doors and local artists donated time and talent and an artistic touch to turn them into some fun and vibrant works of art. The doors will be unveiled at the event. Tickets are $50, with proceeds used to help build a sensory gym for the campers. Call (601) 668-6401 or e-mail kayecarr@bellsouth. net for tickets.
Music: Tempesta di Mare, the baroque ensemble from Philadelphia, Pa., lauded for zest and virtuosity, brings all that to St. James Episcopal Church in the concert From Venice to Leipzig, with the music of Vivaldi, Bach, Veracini, Telemann and Walther. Of special interest: a lute concerto.
Kick up your heels before planting them on an ottoman for the big game. Here’s where: Hal & Mal’s, for Saints Super Saturday and music from The Vamps.
FEB. 7
Family fun: The annual SOUPer Bowl, a fundraiser for the metro Jackson Salvation Army, moves to Trustmark Park for its 13th annual event.
Enjoy music from Trio Appassionato at Millsaps’ Ford Academic Complex Recital Hall.
Steppin’ out: If your Super Bowl plan requires some super fellowship out on the town, check out the game plan at a variety of local bars and restaurants.
FEB. 8
Movie: The Peavey Stage at The Auditorium will host a private screening of the documentary Mississippi ReMixed, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8. Doors open to the public at 6:30 p.m. The documentary premieres on Mississippi Public Broadcasting at 8 p.m. Feb. 11.
