8 Days A Week 

The Charlotte Hornets play the Indiana Pacers and superstar guard (and mouth) Reggie Miller tonight at 7pm at the Charlotte Coliseum. Tickets are $9-39, available by calling 800-4NBA-TIX.

The Mystical Arts of Tibet are coming to Davidson, as Tibetan monks take up a three-day residency. The monks will create a sand mandala on the first floor atrium of the Alvarez College Union beginning at 10am. They will also perform in the Duke Family Performance Hall tomorrow at 8pm and offer a closing ceremony on March 23 at 2pm. For more information, call 704-894-2441.

NC Dance Theatre 2 will give a free lunchtime performance today from 12:15-1pm in the Duke Power Theatre of Spirit Square. Dance Break gives an experience of modern dance in a casual setting and makes for a great alternative to the usual lunch break. The program features Marius Petipa's Sleeping Beauty Suite, with music by Tchaikovsky. Special box lunches will be sold. For more information, call 704-372-0101.

THURSDAY 21
All My Sons, a compelling early play by Arthur Miller, will be presented at Theatre Charlotte tonight through March 24. Tickets are $15-$20. Showtimes are 8pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30pm on Sundays. For more information or to purchase tickets call 704-334-9128 or visit online at www.theatrecharlotte.org.

Husband and wife acoustic New Agey/jazzy/folky duo Tuck & Patti will play at Spirit Square's McGlohon Theatre tonight at 8pm. Tickets for the couple are $22 and $25, and can be purchased by calling 704-372-1000.

Victory Pictures' Terra Nova, the story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's trek to the South Pole, begins tonight. The epic Antarctic drama runs through April 7, all shows are at 8pm in the Matthews Community Center. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors. For more information, call 704-455-8542 or visit online at www.victorypictures.net.

FRIDAY 22
Charlotte Youth Ballet artistic director Gay Porter is celebrating her 20th year with the company. CYB has always been a semi-professional dance troupe "importing" dancers from all points of the compass for their annual productions. This year, for Sleeping Beauty at Ovens Auditorium, homegrown talents will assume the leading roles. Georgia Tucker, who started her ballet studies with Porter as a child before moving on the NC School of the Arts, will dance the title role. Benjamin Weatafer, who left NC Dance Theatre this season, will be the Prince. Tickets at $6 for children under 12 and $18 for adults will be available at the Ovens box office, or call TicketMaster at 704-522-6500.

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra presents Legendary Wagner tonight and tomorrow at 8pm in Belk Theater of the Performing Arts Center. The program will feature several works by Wagner including Overture to Reinzi and Preludes to Act I and III of Lohengrin. Tickets range from $12-$55. For more information, call 704-972-2000 or visit online at www.charlottesymphony.org.

Relations, 2001, the only permanent architectural glass installation in North America by Stanislav Libsnsky and Jaroslava Brychtova, will be celebrated at a dessert reception tonight from 8-10pm. Patrons will be able to take part in the celebration for the installation of the "Great Wall of Charlotte." The reception will be held at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design. For more information, call 704-337-2000.

The Smithsonian/Orkin Insect Safari, a 53-foot mobile unit which serves as an insect education initiative, will visit Winterfield Elementary School today and the Schiele Museum in Gastonia tomorrow and Sunday. Visit www.insectsafari.com for more.

SATURDAY 23
Paramount's Carowinds will re-open today and unveil two new attractions: Ricochet, Carowinds' 11th rollercoaster featuring 17 curves that will drop, twist, bank and curl riders along a 1200-ft long track, and Meteor Attack, a 4 1/2 minute motion base ride experience where recruits learning to fly the Rocketstar fighter craft must leap into action to save their home planet. For more information, call 704-588-2600.

Sharing Traditions in the New South will take place at the Levine Museum of the New South as part of the conference of the North Carolina Folklore Society. The statewide Brown-Hudson Awards will also be held, honoring the age-old Charlotte string band, the Briarhoppers; Jim Scancarelli, cartoonist of Gasoline Alley; and the Charlotte Folk Society, currently celebrating their 20th anniversary. The Briarhoppers will play a free 7:30pm concert at the United Presbyterian Church. For more information, call 919-681-8925.

The NBA Hoop It Up basketball tour visits Knights Stadium today and tomorrow (9am-5pm today and 9am-4pm tomorrow). It's too late to sign up, but we bet the hoops will be much more spirited than recent efforts by your New Orleans/Charlotte Hornets.

SUNDAY 24
The Charlotte Checkers take on the Greenville Grrrowl, winners of the stupid sports team name award, tonight at 6pm at Cricket Arena. Tickets are $6-19, available by calling Ticketmaster at 704-522-6500.

TUESDAY 26
The Harlem Globetrotters will throw confetti, do tricks, make slick passes, crack jokes, and beat the other team -- just as they've been doing for decades-- tonight at 7pm at Cricket Arena. Tickets are $12-18, available by calling 704-522-6500.

The Peking Acrobats are some of the most amazing athletes you'll ever see, performing acts and set pieces that leave people gasping and wondering if laws of physics are being broken. The internationally acclaimed acrobats are selected from as early as age five to master complex acrobatics. Along with a Chinese orchestra, they'll transform 2000-year-old traditions of agility and grace into a performance in Belk Theater of the Performing Arts Center at 8pm. Tickets range from $12-$30. For more information, call 704-372-1000 or visit online at www.performingartsctr.org.

The Levine Museum of the New South and the Charlotte Woman of the Year Committee present A Woman's Place -- The Evolving Role of Women in the New South tonight at 6pm. This year's topic, to be discussed by a panel of professional women, is "The Heroic Work of Women." Admission for non-members is $5. For more information, call 704-333-1887.

WEDNESDAY 27
Book of Days, an award-winning play by Lanford Wilson, will be presented by Actor's Theatre of Charlotte tonight through April 14 at Spirit Square. Showtimes are Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday April 14 at 2pm only. Tickets range from $14-$18, except on tonight when all tickets are $9, and on April 2 which is "pay what you can night." For more information, call 704-372-1000.

The Charlotte Gay & Lesbian Film Festival presents its next installment at Carolina Pavillion (AMC 22). The first film, The Monkey's Mask, starts at 7pm and stars Kelly McGillis. The second film, Boys Life 3, starts at 9pm and features a series of new gay "shorts" exploring gay life, identity and sexuality. Tickets are $7 per film at the door. For more information, call 704-563-2699 or visit online at www.outcharlotte.org.

The Charlotte Hornets take on the Orlando Magic, led by all-star guard Tracy McGrady, tonight at 7pm at the Charlotte Coliseum. Tickets are $9-39, available by calling 800-4NBA-TIX.