AMERICUS — Editor’s Note: Every Friday a list of local and area upcoming entertainment and cultural events will be published on the Steppin’ Out page in the Times-Recorder. To submit information for this listing, please send to Steppin’ Out, c/o Americus Times-Recorder, P.O. Box 1247, Americus GA 31709, or fax to 928-6344 or e-mail to beth.alston@gaflnews.com



Americus

Rylander Theatre

Dec. 17 — 2 and 7 p.m. — Americus Dance Experience presents "The Coconutcracker" at the Rylander Theatre. This is a beach-themed version of the holiday classic. Tickets are $8 and available at ADE and the Rylander box office.



Chamber Concert Series

Georgia Southwestern State University has announced its 2011-2012 Chamber Concert Series: Jan. 19 - Alfonzo Lopez, violin and Michelle Tabor, piano, Feb. 9 - Ensemble Chaconne, "European Masters in 18th c. London," Feb. 27 - Roger Chase, viola and Michiko Otaki, piano. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at GSW's Jackson Performance Hall. Season tickets for all concerts are available: adults/$45, GSW faculty and staff/$40, senior citizens/$35 and Habitat for Humanity volunteers/$25. GSW students and children 15 and under are admitted free of charge. Tickets to individual performances are also available. For more information call 931-2204.



Lake Blackshear Regional Library

The Sumter County Friends of the Public Library host their 23rd

annual theater event Jan. 27-29. Tickets will go on sale in January.



Montezuma

Museum Hours

The Macon County Historical Museum is open from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and by appointment. Call the Montezuma Downtown Development Authority at 478-472-4777 for more information.



Atlanta

The High Museum of Art

1280 Peachtree St. N.E.

• A major multi-site exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS. “KAWS: Down Time” will open on Feb. 18, 2012, with a 22-foot-high, site-specific mural painted in the Margaretta Taylor Lobby of the High’s Wieland Pavilion, along with a 24-foot-long triptych hung in of the Museum’s Robinson Atrium. In addition, a gallery installation of paintings, drawings and sculpture will feature a grid of 27 tondo paintings, each 40 inches in diameter. Visitors will be able to watch KAWS over the course of a week in early February as he creates the mural exclusively for the High. The exhibition will also include KAWS’s monumental sculpture “Companion” (2010), which will be installed on the Museum’s piazza on November 18, 2011. “KAWS: Down Time” has been organized exclusively for the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and will be on view from Feb. 18, 2012, through May 27, 2012.

“From their saturated palettes and seductive surfaces to their complex spatial geometries, KAWS’s paintings have a formal elasticity that is humorous and playful as well as complex, sophisticated and discursive,” said Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.  “KAWS has created a new order of American Pop—one that suggests the protean universe of New York abstraction re-imagined within the frame of Cartoon Network. His work is uncannily familiar but foreign at the same time, like in a dream, and it unites the often distant worlds of fine art and youth culture.”

 An influential member of a new generation of street artists who have successfully united commercial enterprises with their artistic practices, KAWS employs his skill and delight as a designer of toys and other objects in his practice as a painter and sculptor. The objects he produces for commercial consumption are in direct dialogue with his art; in fact, he thinks of his t-shirt designs as “drawings.” His new paintings in this exhibition allude to pop culture sources such as Sponge Bob Square Pants, as well as the more obscure work of artist H. C. Westermann, who also drew upon popular cartoon imagery in his work. “Companion,” which will be installed on the Museum’s Sifly Piazza, represents one of several hybrid figures created by KAWS who are part of a growing cast of characters. Enlarged to a monumental scale, “Companion” fuses a Mickey Mouse-inspired body with an inflated skull-and-crossbones head, an image that has become emblematic of KAWS. The sculpture’s contemplative pose recalls Rodin’s famed “The Thinker,” provoking us to wonder what is on the character’s mind and inviting us to empathize with its tragicomic posture.



Night Life:

Americus

American Legion Post 558

Ga. Highway 30 West

Open 6-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday

7 p.m. Tuesday is Bingo Night

Wednesday is Games Night

Open 6 p.m.-2:30 a.m. weekends

Friday is Grown Folks Night Out, featuring dance party, karaoke, music video and disco lights show from 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Presented by Monster Screen Projections

Saturday is Oldies Goldies Night

Sunday is Members/Guests Night



Astro’s “The Dance Clubb”

153 Sunset Park Road

Entertainment for 21 and over

11 p.m.-until

Thursday: College and Ladies Night

Friday: Midnight Special

Saturday: Dress to Impress Live

I.D. required

Valid college student ID exempt



Floyd's Pub at BEST WESTERN PLUS Windsor Hotel

125 W. Lamar St.

Hospitality Night: Mondays beginning at 9 p.m. employees of the service and hospitality industries enjoy specials on drinks.

Ladies Night: Tuesdays beginning at 5 p.m. ladies only enjoy specials on drinks.

Trivia Night: Wednesdays beginning at 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. test your skills at Wednesday Night Trivia! First Place winner gets a $50 gift certificate, Second Place gets a $25 gift certificate.

Live Music: Fridays beginning at 10 p.m. No cover, must be 21 and older with valid ID.

Dec. 16 — Heather Luttrell

Dec. 23 — Cole Taylor

Dec. 30 — Landis Frier

Jan. 6 — The Cowtown String Band

For more information, call  924-1555. Look for us on Facebook!



G.W.F. Phillips Lodge

The Lodge is open every Friday night with oldies from the ‘70s and ‘80s with Master TJ and Bronco Bill at the Elks Lodge. No teens allowed.



Pat’s Place

1526 S. Lee St. 924-0033

11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Saturday

• Wednesdays, fresh oysters and shrimp October-April



Quality Inn Lounge (Hillside Cafe)

1205 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Back by popular demand, South Georgia’s iconic MC/DJ Backdoor Man

Karaoke with dancing 9-11:30 p.m.

Non-stop dance music 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m.

Also featuring Vickie Craig on selected dates

Low drink prices and specials



Lake Blackshear

Booger Bottom

(3077 Lamar Road

Kinchafoonee Cowboys — 9 p.m. — Sept. 24

$10 cover charge; age 21 and over only



Cypress Grill at Lake Blackshear Resort and Golf Club

2459-H U.S. Highway 280 East

www.cypress-grill.com

South Georgia’s entertainment capital, combining the best in live music, unique casual dining and lakeside relaxation with the atmosphere of an upscale resort. Set in a natural environment on the shores of Lake Blackshear, the Cypress Grill is the perfect backdrop for outdoor dining on the patio, cocktails with friends or dancing the night away enjoying live music from well-known bands. Cypress Grill is open for the summer season. Cordelia’s Restaurant and 88'S Lounge are open, as well, for great food, fun and live entertainment Friday and Saturday nights.