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By Erin Shultz [friday] contributor The Kokomo Tribune Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:16 AM EDT

Don’t miss these top events. To submit items for the entertainment calendar, contact Erin Shultz, [friday] editor, at 765-454-8587 or via e-mail at erin.shultz@kokomotribune.com. Items must be received by noon every Monday to be considered for Friday publication.

KCT kicks off 2012-13 season with ‘My Fair Lady’

Kokomo Civic Theatre is presenting one of the most classic musicals of all time this weekend as “My Fair Lady” comes back to Kokomo. The last time the group presented the musical, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, was 1981.

The piece tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as an elegant lady.

Show times are 8 p.m. today and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15 for adults, $14 for seniors and $10 for students through college. For more information, visit www.kokomocivictheatre.com.

Docs set to rock on Saturday

Head out to the Kokomo County Club for a night of music, food and fun — all to benefit Project Access.

Docs that Rock returns at 6 p.m. Saturday for a night of fun to raise funds to provide medical care to the uninsured in Howard County. Several bands featuring local doctors are set to play, and of course there will be delicious food, plus live and silent auctions.

Admission is $50 per person, and a cash bar is available. For more info, call 765-854-0544.

Instructor releases fitness DVD

Local fitness instructor Tara Galles is set to present a special edition of her Christian yoga class, Spirit of Heaven Yoga at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Earthen Stage in Highland Park. The class will be offered free to the community, and no previous experience is required.

The Club Fitness 24 instructor teaches the class weekly at 9 a.m. Saturdays and wanted a chance to offer the class to the community. She is also set to release her debut Christian yoga home exercise DVD titled “Perfect Peace” at Saturday’s event. “Perfect Peace” is a 49-minute easy-to-follow home exercise video that is divided into four eight-minute sessions and ends with a 10-minute guided meditation. “The goal of the meditation is to help the participant connect with God’s spirit and find peace from within,” said Galles. DVDs are $15 and available online at www.spiritofheavenyoga.com.

Also going on this weekend:

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: Sean VerLee and Aubri Colescott, of local band Loose Change are set to sing at the piano bar at Pastarrific Italian Restaurant, 3001 S. Webster St. Show times are 9 p.m. today and 11 p.m. Saturday. There is no cover charge. For more info, call 765-455-1312.

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Facebooks threads into more than I expected
“Lindsay, what’s on your mind?”
I immediately thought, “I’d have to be pretty self-centered to think my ‘Facebook friends’ would care about such an answer.” So, the section stayed blank on my profile for far longer than most.

May 10, 2013 1 Photo
Kokomo Speedway
After 18 interviews, copious note-taking, endless discussions and picture browsing for a story about something bigger than its parts — i.e. Kokomo Speedway — is nearly finished. To be honest, I’d never been to Kokomo Speedway until last year. I grew up watching the Indy 500 and picking a name from a hat, but my racing knowledge ended there. But, when you fall in love with someone who fell in love with Kokomo Speedway — most likely when he was still in the womb as his mom watched his dad race — your knowledge increases, exponentially.

May 3, 2013 1 Photo
Earth Day: Experience it every day
“No litterers allowed,” stated the sign I drew up with peace signs and flowers with extra power that adorned my bedroom door as a kid. Growing up, I was a litter patrol lady. Toss a banana out the window? You were going to face the wrath of a 6-year-old. Leave a soda can at the park? Oh my, a mistake you don’t want to make. My cousins would purposely provoke such opportunities for nothing more than to get the entertaining spiel of keeping the Earth safe from a 6-year-old. I encouraged institutionalizing recycling in our household and double-checked trash cans to make sure recycling objects didn’t make their way into the wrong places.

April 19, 2013 1 Photo
The Waving Girl
She was born on land, but her soul was given life from her love of the sea and the lives it carried. Her journey started simply and ended sentimentally. During the in-between, she was the symbol of home to the hearts of maritime travelers: At night, she was the illumination of guidance. At morn, she was the breeze the sea gently exhaled. For 44 years, she was ingrained with the Savannah River’s sand — just as she was ingrained in the minds who witnessed her waving handkerchief interrupt a sun ray’s storyline. S

April 15, 2013
Never too late for April Fool’s Day
This will be my last column for the [friday] section, as Kokomantis has been promoted from corner-side spectator to Lifestyle Editor ... Just kidding, late April Fool’s Day joke! I look forward to writing my column every week just like I look forward to my favorite “holiday” every year. For 364 days, I plan pranks of all varieties for my beloved day that’s dedicated to flipping my family and friends out.

April 5, 2013
The Egg Battle of 1990
Easter may be a time of sugary sweet Peeps and darting for hard-boiled eggs dressed in their Easter Sunday best. For me, it’s been about that and getting back to my roots. Growing up, my family and I nestled into my Pap’s motor home and headed for the mountains of West Virginia – our annual Easter Sunday home for my entire childhood.

March 28, 2013
Bracket Madness
As a Hoosier, it’s hard to believe Wednesday night marked my first bracket-building experience. Despite my love for sports, I never got into brackets. I’m a one-team-at-a-time gal so in the fall it’s the Colts; in the winter it’s the Hoosiers; and in the spring and summer I go to baseball games for the people watching and soft pretzels. So, I never learned the pros and cons of other teams and what makes them worthy of winning in a bracket.

March 26, 2013 1 Photo
Reality is only as deep as our passions
When I was in seventh grade the “Real World” was a reality show I was forbidden to watch. The behaviors flaunted were borderline unfit for TV, let alone a 12-year-old’s eyes. However, that’s what older cousins were for, I suppose, because my remote somehow found its way to MTV a time or two and lessons in how to not live your life ensued. But, today Howard County 7th graders are getting a multifaceted look into life in the “Real World” — and not the kind that encompasses Jell-O wrestling and TV-censored bleeps interrupting 80 percent of a sentence.

March 19, 2013
You belong among the wildflowers
It’s the kind of lyrics that wreck your heart and warm your heart all at the same time. The melody happily whistles well wishes while the fingertips of yearning for yesteryear slip over each note. It’s the kind of song that sounds like the simplicity of childhood and feels like the rare chance of finding and living a childhood-type happiness — even if the years between now and the date on your birth certificate say you’re an adult.

March 11, 2013 1 Photo
Save IU School of Journalism
As the doors swing to a close, the pens held at the hands of journalists aren’t writing, the recorders aren’t rolling and the cameras aren’t capturing. The envelope of Indiana University School of Journalism’s future is unfolding, but the details are sealed tightly by Lauren Robel, Indiana University Provost, who recommended the school merge with Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) last week — expelling the journalistic institution from its Ernie Pyle Hall home and potentially downgrading the nationally-ranked school to a program within the bigger-is-better school of thought.

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