Bring out the artist in you
Hudson’s Restaurant will host its Wine & Canvas painting class with cocktails, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and March 26 at Hudson’s Copley Township location, 3900 Medina Road.
For $35, the restaurant provides all of the needed supplies and drinks, with instructors to help guide participants.
The featured painting on Tuesday is Tulip Field and on March 26, Cleveland’s Starry Night. Registration is required. Visit www.wineandcanvas.com and select “events” to register online, or call 330-338-7744 for more information.
Get the buzz on bees
Whether you’re a casual gardener or a serious bee enthusiast, you can learn how to protect these important pollinators at a couple of programs this week.
Ohio State University’s honeybee and native pollinator educator, Denise Ellsworth, will present Gardening for Bees: Simple Changes Gardeners Can Make to Help Our Pollinators at 7 p.m. Monday at Hudson Library & Historical Society, 96 Library St. The event is free, and no reservations are required.
For those who want to delve more deeply into the subject, OSU’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center will play host to The Power of Pollinators Short Course from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The workshop will address the biology, identification and conservation of native bees.
Cost is $20, including lunch. Register at http://go.osu.edu/R8k, 330-263-3723 or ellsworth.2@osu.edu.
The center is at 1680 Madison Ave., Wooster Township.
See the ‘King’
If you’ve never had the privilege of seeing The Lion King live, here is your chance. Advance tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Friday for performances July 9-Aug. 4 at Cleveland’s Playhouse Square.
It’s an astonishing show that you won’t soon forget — if ever.
Ticket prices are $20-$130. For more information, visit www.playhousesquare.org or call 216-241-6000 or 866-546-1353.
Dy-No-Mite!
Actor and comedian Jimmie Walker, known to most folks over 40 as the catchphrase-spewing J.J. Evans from the 1970s sitcom Good Times, brings his old-school brand of stand-up comedy to the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls on Friday and Saturday.
Tickets are $10-$14; call 330-923-4700 or go to www.funnystop.com.
Won’t be just any night
Cinemark theaters continue a spring run of Oscar-winning movies on Wednesday with West Side Story. Based on the Broadway musical, it stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno.
It took home 10 Oscars — including best picture, director (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins), cinematography and supporting actor and actress (Chakiris and Moreno) — from 11 nominations.
Robbins received a special Oscar the same year for his overall achievements in choreography for movies like West Side Story.
Coming soon in the Cinemark series: Lawrence of Arabia (March 20) and American Beauty (March 27).
