Led by the American Legion Riders, the annual Christmas parade, put on by the Holiday Visions Committee, made its way down Main Street Thursday evening.
The FlintHills Folk Music Guild is bringing the group Small Potatoes to town Saturday.
The Coutts Museum of Art is auctioning off an original painting by Leon artist Peter Johnson.
Visitors to the newest exhibit to the Erman B. White Gallery of Art at Butler Community College will be able to view a vast array of artwork.
It was an evening of glamour, lights and dreams coming true during the 2009 Miss Prairie Port Pageant Thursday evening.
Inventiveness was a key aspect at Bradford Memorial Library last week with a teen program dedicated to duct tape.
On New Year’s Eve, a day after his untimely death at the theater, a sold-out crowd stood and sang Happy Birthday one last time to Ted Morris, owner of the Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre in Wichita for the past 32 years. He would have been 71 years old Jan. 1.
After a successful first year, the Prairie Port Festival Committee is looking for a logo for its “Smoke on the Prairie BBQ Contest.”
Those looking for a fun way to spend their time next weekend will have a great tasty and musical option when Trinity United Methodist Church presents its annual Ice Cream Social and Broadway Concert at 3 p.m. on Aug. 24.
The El Dorado Municipal Band will perform its weekly concert at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Forest Park Band Shell at Ninth and Taylor streets.
Two area artists have their work on display at the SouthWind Gallery in their newest exhibit, which opens Friday. Mary Binford Miller and Jim Clements each have paintings that were accepted into the show.
Though she spends the bulk of her time writing and shooting pictures for The El Dorado Times, photography is also a hobby for Editor Julie Anderson. And that pastime has garnered her recognition from Mead Street Gallery in Wichita, where she’s been named the most recent Featured Artist.
He may very well be the greatest musician you’ve never heard of.
His name is Aaron Sidwell and he’s been writing songs since he was 12 years old and he wants to be the next American Idol.
But he missed that boat.
Twice.
Butler Community College students will be hoofing it to the tony tunes of 60 years of Broadway hits this weekend. The dance department’s final show of the year, entitled “Steppin’ Out,” will feature numbers from “West Side Story,” “Rent,” “Fosse,” “Hair,” “Tarzan” and “Grease.”
If one is the loneliest number, perhaps William Inge could be called a singular playwright for his ability to convey the depths of human longing for connection.
This week, Butler Community College is staging one of the Kansas writer’s best-known shows, “Bus Stop,” directed by Bob Peterson.
The Coutts Memorial Museum of Art is unveiling its newest exhibit, “The County Life...the art of Maleta Forsberg.”
“Music is an outburst of the soul,” English composer Frederick Delius once said.
If that’s the case, El Dorado Middle School’s stage will be filled with soul Saturday evening when the ARC of Butler County’s Circle of Friends presents a variety show entitled Outburst.
Imagine you’re being asked to compile a list of actors you’d like to see in a Hollywood movie.
Now imagine you’ve written the movie and the people asking for your input are producers.
For some, this is a geeked-out dream come true. For others, this might seem a silly notion. For Leon resident Robin Gomez, this is reality.
The El Dorado Community Concert Association is kicking off its membership drive for the 2008-09 season.
