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Fort Smith, Arkansas: Inflatable Screen Great Party Accessory to Enthuse the Crowd

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A capacity crowd listens to the final performance of Ollie's Trash Can at Webby D's.

Lines with wait times of about 30 minutes were common at several popular bars. Ron Le, a bouncer at Webby D’s, said there was a line that began at 7 p.m. and had not abated all night. The capacity of the venue is 175 people and as people slowly trickled out, an equal number were admitted to watch the final performance of the band Ollie’s Trash Can.

Other live music could be heard at La Huerta where The Blue Collar Band performed.

The hoots and hollers of happy celebrants were drowned out when in the proximity of MS Mobile DJ’s converted ambulance that pumped out the tunes and showed music videos on several monitors. Marc Sparks, the owner of the DJ service, also had a remote controlled camera that he panned and zoomed to capture crowd video that was streamed live to a large inflatable screen.

Fort Smith police cruised the avenue on bikes and cars to keep order although the party scene was one of good times and no trouble in the two hours this observer spent bar hopping, taking photographs and talking to people.

Joel Rafkin

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Houma, Louisiana: Reading Program Started with Outdoor Movie Series

Still from "The Great Gatsby"

The film screening begins at twilight Friday in Memorial Park, across Bayou Terrebonne from the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum in downtown Houma.

Moviegoers are invited to bring picnic blankets and lawn chairs.

The event includes free copies of the novel, “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald along with reader’s guides, audio guides and bookmarks.

The screening and freebies are part of The Big Read, a national program that encourages Americans to read.

The outdoor movie series, which features family-friendly movies, continues on the third Friday of each month. The series is a project of the Houma Downtown Development Corp. and the Houma Regional Arts Council.

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Prattville, Alabama: Free Outdoor Showing for Family Entertainment

Still from Planet 51

Still from 'Planet 51'

On Friday, March 26, the City of Prattville will present a free showing ofPlanet 51 on a 30-foot inflatable movie screen at Cooters Pond Park for the entire family to enjoy.

The film is an animated adventure comedy and features the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman, and John Cleese.

Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker (Johnson) lands on Planet 51 and to his surprise finds that it is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders … like Chuck! Baker must rely on his robot companion, Rover, and his new friend Lem in order to find a way back home before it’s too late.

So, bring your lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic baskets and prepare to blast off into space! The movie begins at dark and Ria’s Pizzaria will be onsite selling $5 large pizzas. No alcoholic beverages are allowed.

This is the second year that movie under the stars will be held at Cooters Pond Park.

“We have had great success with our free movie series in that location,” said City of Prattville Special Events Director Kellie Cook. “It is a great, open area and the grounds make a natural theatre seating effect.”

Melissa Parker

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Yerevan, Armenia: Youth Protest the Demolition of Open-Air Cinema

A group protesting plans to tear down Yerevan’s only open-air cinema has collected through Facebook social network – a breakthrough in social activism for Armenia as other parts of the world have rallied causes via internet long before. 

At the beginning of March the Armenian government decided to approve a proposal made by the management of Moscow Cinema Ltd to alienate the territory currently occupied by its outdoor theater (18 Abovyan Street, central Yerevan) in favor of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin – for the purpose of building a new church. The St. Paul and Peter (Poghos-Petros) Church that used to stand there until the 1930s was demolished during the Soviet regime. 

The decision raised a clamor both among public and architects. Some interested youngsters sent a special letter to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, and they are still waiting for their replies. 

“We are against not the Armenian Apostolic Church, but against the idea of constructing churches at the expense of the cultural values,” Sarhat Petrosyan, 28, co-founder of the group «Save Cinema Moscow Open-Air hall» told ArmeniaNow, expressing their protest against the decision.

Karine Ionesyan

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