THINGS TO DO
Music study club offers free piano concert

Meet Colby, the new giraffe, at the Zoo on Friday.

Music Study Club of Pensacola presents, "Time to Go Back to School," a presentation by pianist and teacher Carol Wallace Payne. It will take place on Wednesday, May 14 at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of Pensacola, located at 500 North Palafox.

During her 22 years in the Pensacola area, Carol was an instructor at Pensacola Junior College for 21 years and at the University of West Florida for nine. She maintained a home teaching studio, recorded 4 compact discs with the late Pierre Huybregts and performed regularly in recitals.

Last fall, Carol entered the PhD program in Music Education/Piano Pedagogy at Florida State University. At the Music Study Club presentation she will speak about this decision and the program, answer questions and perform on the piano.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Robert Turner of the Music Study Club of Pensacola at 850-438-9226.

The ZOO hosting LongNeck Party

The ZOO Northwest Florida will be hosting its LongNeck Party on Friday, May 9 from 7 to 10 p.m. Ticket prices are $30 per individual and $50 per couple. The ticket includes admission and two drink tickets.

The event will include live music, heavy hors d'oeuvres catered by Classic City Catering, a cash bar, the unveiling of the renovated Giraffe exhibit and the introduction of our new Giraffe 'Colby.'

There will also be a 50/50 Raffle of 100 tickets at $100 each, with half of the proceeds going to the Zoo and the First place winner. Second prize is $2,500 and Third is $500. In addition to the raffle, their will be chance drawings for several items.

Tickets may be purchased by calling The ZOO at 850-932- 2229, or by stopping by the ZOO at 5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway prior to the event.

Go hear what the 'Rumors' are all about

America's premier comic playwright, Neil Simon, delights audiences with his out and out funny offering, "Rumors." The comedy opens Friday, May 9 at Pensacola Little Theatre for a two-weekend run.

In the play, four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it's only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed.

"Rumors" is a Curtain Call production, produced and starring Valerie Russenberger. The talented cast includes many veterans of Pensacola Little Theatre and Curtain Call productions, including Scott Haring, Carol Kahn Parker, Kevin P. Kern, Donna Quinn, Bob Lamar, Laura Sebastian, James Poule, Larry Hines and LaVetta Fowler.

"Rumors" begins at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2:30 p.m. on Sundays. Ticket prices are $22, $18,or $15 each. A$2 discount per ticket is available for senior citizens, students and active-duty military. Group discounts are also available for parties of ten or more. Purchase tickets at the PLT Box Office, by phone at 850-432-2042, or on their website, www.pensacolalittletheatre.com.

Free origami workshop at UWF

The University of West Florida Japan Center will offer an origami workshop on Saturday, May 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the UWF Japan House, Building 71. The workshop is free and open to the public, however, donations to the UWF Japan House are appreciated.

Space is limited and participants should reserve space no later than the Friday before the scheduled class. Participants may bring their own paper in 5 7/8 inch squares or purchase it from the instructor. The workshops, hosted by the UWF Japan Center, will be led by instructor Yachiyo Gunn.

For more information, contact the Japan Center at 850-

4 474-3363 or email them at japan@uwf.edu.

Glove Lady's exhibit on display at Wentworth

The glove lady stopped to pick up her first glove, a ladies cotton gardening glove, when she was in college. Twenty years and 400 gloves later, she finally had an outlet where the world could see them.

Linda Bills Shirley has 338 of her "Found Gloves" displayed in the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum in Pensacola. They will be on display until the end of May.

Gale Messerschmidt, curator of exhibits for the museum, was trying to find an exhibit for their theme "Cabinet of Curiosities, Home to Magnificent Obsessions." She thought Shirley's gloves would be perfect.

Messerschmidt met Shirley and originally saw her collection just as she was beginning to make it.

"I remembered them forever," Messerschmidt said. "Every time I saw a glove, I would think of her."

The display consists of three wall panels filled with rows upon rows of gloves. Some were too fragile to hang, but Shirley still considered them some of her better specimens.

It took Shirley about five days to complete it. She would step back from her work, rearrange it and hang more gloves. She also did her own lighting.

Shirley, a Gulf Breeze resident, has tagged her gloves with the day, time, place and what she was doing when they were found. She did the same with the contributed gloves.

Shirley's display will be a part of the Gallery Night on Friday, May 9 as well.