Festival honors Earhart’s legacy

Country singer Paisley to take stage at Lakefest

Aviation enthusiasts might want to attend the Amelia Earhart Festival today in Atchison. The festival includes demonstrations, music and fireworks.

On Sunday, a benefit concert for breast cancer is taking place at Abe and Jake’s Landing. Here are some other offerings:

The Band That Saved the World is among the bands performing at Breastfest:

Today

Amelia Earhart Festival, all day, downtown Atchison, featuring Lakefest 2002 at 7 p.m. with Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Thunderheart.

Crown Center Weekend of Wheels, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

28th Annual National Depression Glass Assn.’s Convention Show and Sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., John Knox Village Pavilion, 520 N.W. Murray Road, Lee’s Summit, Mo.

“Alice in Wonderland,” 2 p.m., Theatre for Young America, Mission Center Mall, 4881 Johnson Drive, Mission.

Americana Music Academy community acoustic jam, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Aimee’s Coffee House, 1025-A Mass. St.

Poison, Cinderella, Winger, Faster Pussycat, 6 p.m., Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs.

Luke Town and Amy Millsted, 6:30 p.m., Glen’s Opry, Fourth and Main streets, downtown Tonganoxie.

“Quartet for The End of Time,” 7 p.m., Westport Presbyterian Church, 201 Westport Road, Kansas City, Mo.

“Live on the Lot,” featuring Delbert McClinton, 7 p.m., across from the Beaumont Club, 4050 Pa., Kansas City, Mo.

“Prairie Fire, Parts I and II,” 7:30 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall, Kansas University.

“The Taming of the Shrew,” 8 p.m., Southmoreland Park, Cleaver Boulevard and Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.

“Hello Dolly,” 8 p.m., Topeka Civic Theatre, Gage and S.W. Eighth streets, Topeka.

“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” 8 p.m., American Heartland Theatre Co., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

Dunn/Freeman Mix, 8 p.m., Blue Room, American Jazz Museum, 18th and Vine streets, Kansas City, Mo.

Sunday

Crown Center Weekend of Wheels, noon-6 p.m., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“The Wild Side of Kansas History, 1854-1880,” 1:30 p.m., Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” 2 p.m., American Heartland Theatre Co., Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Alice in Wonderland,” 2 p.m., Theatre for Young America, Mission Center Mall, 4881 Johnson Drive, Mission.

“Breastfest: A Benefit Concert,” featuring The Band That Saved The World, Autumn Dog, Vibralux, Captain Overreact, 3 p.m., Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.

Alma Whitney and The Whitney Singers, live gospel music, 3:30 p.m., Union Station, Pershing Road and Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.

Elizabeth Egbert Berghout, university carillonneur, 5 p.m., Campanile, KU.

“Quartet for The End of Time,” 5 p.m., St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 1301 Holmes, Kansas City, Mo.

Korn, Puddle of Mudd, Deadsy, 7 p.m., Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee, Kansas City, Mo.

“Prairie Fire, Parts I and II,” 7:30 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall, KU.”

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 8 p.m., Southmoreland Park, Cleaver Boulevard and Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.

Ongoing

Topeka Zoo, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays, Topeka Zoo, 635 S.W. Gage Blvd., Topeka.

Quilt 2001 Contemporary Quilts, through July 28, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, 17th and Jewell streets. Topeka.

“FLASH! The AP Covers the World,” through July 28, Harry S. Truman Library, U.S. Highway 24 and Delaware Street, Independence, Mo.

“From Reservation to Corporate Office: A Donation of Southwest Art” and “Early Us (and Them) in Africa,” through Aug. 18, Museum of Anthropology, KU.

“Rodin’s Obsession: The Gates of Hell,” through Aug. 25, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 701 Beach Lane, Manhattan.

“Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues and other Icons,” through Sept. 1, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

“Fish, Flower and Flying Things: Nature at the Spencer Museum,” through Sept. 1, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU.