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THEATER
BUTTONWILLOW CHURCH CIVIL WAR DINNER THEATER – 1060 Main St., Whitwell, Tenn. 423-658-7478, www.button willowchurch.com. “Granddaddy’s Watch,” dinner and two-hour live show based on events during the “real War Between the States,” 5:15 p.m. CST Fridays and Saturdays year-round (closed this weekend) and other days for groups.
VAUDEVILLE CAFE – 138 Market St. 517-1839. www.funny dinner.com. Audience-interactive comedy-mystery shows resume Thursday with “Mystery at the TV Talk Show,” 7 p.m. Tickets include Italian dinner.
FILM EVENTS
BESSIE SMITH CULTURAL CENTER – 200 E. M.L. King Blvd. 266-8658. “The Black Candle,” Maya Angelou-narrated film explores and celebrates why Kwanzaa is important to American blacks, noon Tuesday. Free.
ARTISTS/EXHIBITS
ARTS CENTER OF CANNON COUNTY – 1424 John Bragg Highway, Woodbury, Tenn. 615-563-2787 or 800-235-9073, www.artscenterofcc.com. “The Good Earth: Southern Soil as Inspiration and Provider,” works by Carroal Cloar, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Son Ford Thomas and Jerry Brown examine the role of soil in the creation of art works and in the evolution of culture, through spring.
ATHENS ARTS CENTER – 320 N. White St., Athens, Tenn. Free admission. 423-745-8781, www.athensartscouncil.org. “The Art of the Portrait,” juried art competition and exhibit of two- and three-dimensional depictions of animate objects in high school, college, open and photography categories, through Dec. 31.
BESSIE SMITH CULTURAL CENTER – 200 E. M.L. King Blvd. Admission: $7 adults, $3 children 6-12, $5 seniors and students. 266-8658.
• Permanent exhibit: a look back at black history through African artifacts, oral histories, documents, photographs, art and personal effects.
• “Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente,” Smithsonian traveling bilingual panel exhibit is tribute to life of the former Pittsburgh Pirate great, through Jan. 30. Free Family Day, 5-8 p.m. Jan. 28.
• “Black Diamond Days: Life in the Negro League,” exhibit on the history of the Negro baseball leagues includes panels, uniforms, signed memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artifacts and photographs, through Jan. 30.
BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM – 501 Museum Drive, Cartersville, Ga. 770-387-1300, www.boothmuseum.org.
• “Kids Cowboy Up,” seventh annual exhibition in Borderlands Gallery of art in a variety of media by elementary through high school youth in the Cartersville Boys & Girls Club and the Hands of Christ after-school program, through Jan. 9.
• “Ansel Adams: A Legacy,” exhibit showcases more than 100 photographs by the 20th-century landscape photographer, through March 13.
CREATIVE ARTS GUILD – Dalton, Ga. 520 W. Waugh St. 706-278-0168, www.creativeartsguild.org. “Small Works,” Gallery 111 exhibit, through Dec. 31.
EXUM GALLERY & MEMORIAL GARDEN – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 305 W. Seventh St. 266-8195. Exhibit of watercolor paintings by Alan Shuptrine depicting landscapes, beachscapes and figures displayed in water-gilded frames designed and handcrafted by the artist, and grouping of handcrafted crosses, through Jan. 9.
GALLERY AT BLACKWELL – Blackwell Automotive, 71 Eastgate Loop, Eastgate Mall. 894-7112, www.chattanooga photo.org. Member’s Choice exhibit, through Feb. 28.
HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART – 10 Bluff View. Admission: $9.95 adults, $4.95 children, free to younger visitors and to members. 267-0968. www.huntermuseum.org. “Hunter Invitational 2010,” exhibition by regional artists Daud Akhriev, Michael Aurbach, Pradip Malde, Lin C. Parker, Amy Pleasant, Billy Weeks and Sunkoo Yuh, through Jan. 16.
IN-TOWN GALLERY – 26A Frazier Ave. Free admission. 267-9214. www.intowngallery.com. “Different Strokes,” collection of new acrylic paintings on canvas and board with a tree theme by Peggy Huffstutler, through Dec. 31.
JEWISH CULTURAL CENTER – 5461 N. Terrace. 493-0270, ext. 13. “Spirituality of Light,” exhibit highlights the use of light as a metaphor and as a compositional element, through Jan. 21.
MARSH HOUSE MUSEUM – North Main Street in downtown LaFayette, Ga. See period furniture and other of-the-era artifacts during docent-guided tours, hear stories about Marsh-Warthen family and Walker County from 1840-1900. Contact: David P. Boyle of Marsh House management team, 706-272-2682. Extended holiday tours offer Christmas from a Victorian perspective and the history of the Marshes and their descendants who occupied the house, 6-8 p.m. Sunday. $5 adults, $1 children.
MEDAL OF HONOR EXHIBIT – Northgate Mall, next to Piccadilly Cafeteria, 5000 Hixson Pike. Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The National Medal of Honor Museum of Military History, exhibit that examines exploits of America’s heroes through pictures, narratives, uniforms and artifacts from Revolutionary War through Iraqi Freedom. Free admission. 877-2525. www.mohm.org.
MUSEUM CENTER AT FIVE POINTS – 200 E. Inman St., Cleveland, Tenn. Admission: $5 adults, $4 students and seniors, free for members and children younger than 5. 423-339-5745, www.museumcenter.org. “Home for the Holidays: Turn-of-the-Century Entertaining and the Chastain Glass Collection,” exhibit highlights selections from the more than 1,200 pieces of late 19th century/early 20th century American glass pattern donated by the Chastain family of Cleveland, through Jan. 8.
NORTH RIVER CIVIC CENTER – 1009 Executive Drive, Suite 102, Hixson. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free. 870-8924. “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” exhibit by Civic Arts League of Chattanooga, through Feb. 28.
RIVER GALLERY – Bluff View Art District, 400 E. Second St. Free. 265-5033, ext. 5. www.river-gallery.com. “Triple Whipple,” exhibit includes work of wearable sculpture and jewelry made of found objects by Marty Whipple, surreal figurative characters by painter John Whipple and collages of old photographs, sketches and found objects by mixed-media artist Lynn Whipple, through Dec. 31.
SHUPTRINE FINE ART GROUP – 2646 Broad St. 266-4453, www.ShuptrineFineArtGroup.com. “A Vested Interest,” through Dec. 31.
SIXTH CAVALRY MUSEUM – 2 Barnhardt Circle, on former parade field, a National Register of Historic Places site in Fort Oglethorpe. Admission: $3 adult, $2 child or senior adult. 706-861-2860. Display chronicles the “Fighting 6th” from 1861 to present day and features soldier’s life when Fort Oglethorpe was an active Army post (1902-1946). Patton M47 tank and Cobra gunship helicopter are featured exhibits. www.6thcavalrymuseum.com.
UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY – University of the South, Georgia Avenue, Sewanee, Tenn. 931-598-1223. “A Pale; Place Into Parts,” work by Glenn Herbert Davis exploring language and intellectual concepts by playing with the viewer’s experience of architectural and sculptural forms, through Feb. 13.