Events that happened on Friday, May 12, 2017

May is National Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month. With early detection, melanoma has an almost 100% five year survival rate. Heartland Plastic Surgery invites you to choose skin health by having a free skin examination by one of our...

Gardening Class: Tomato Grafting; 1 to 3 p.m. $20. A fun and intriguing technique for the home gardener. Come learn the basics of tomato grafting and learn how to graft tomatoes. Hands-on. Participants will take home grafted plants. Anyone can take...

These Exhibitions feature student artists graduating with a BFA in studio art with a specialization in ceramics, digital art, graphic design/illustration, painting, printmaking or sculpture. There will be a different group of artists' work each week...

The Gordons will perform at this free concert on the Common Pleas Courthouse Gazebo. Bring your family and your lawn chair for this great concert series.

Local Uptown Jackson Performing Arts Studio feature set on KFVS performs selections of their rendition of Hamilton the American Musical. This performance is FREE!

Holly Benton will play in Keller's from 6 to 10 p.m.! Come enjoy great music!

Friends of Riverside Regional Library at Jackson hold their SPRING BOOK SALE. PREVIEW SALE for MEMBERS of FRIENDS (may join at the door) will be held THURSDAY, May 11, 4:30 - 6:30. Sale will be open to public Friday, May 12, 9-6, and Saturday, May...

NEW this summer to the Cape Girardeau SportsPlex --- Elite Performance Camp! Take your performance to the next level! Maximize your potential through this intense 6 week Elite Performance PAC (Power-Agility-Coordination) Training Camp with AFAA...

Dave Carter and Randy Hays have a special Veteran's Day display for May's Visual Art CO-OP window.

This accomplished local artist focuses on mixed media abstracts. Her works are on display Tues.-Sat., 10 AM-4 PM at the Sikeston Depot Museum & Gallery.

New miniature art will be on display at the Visual Arts CO-OP Gallery

Includes a broad sampling of media encompassing a wide range of studio practices, such as ceramics, paintings, drawings, processes of printmaking, sculpture and digital technology. Admission is free. There will be an opening reception from 4-8 p.m....

Housed in a beautifully restored 1896 building, the museum features an extensive collection of telephones manufactured from the 1900s through the 2000s, hundreds of pieces of telephone-related equipment and memorabilia and military telephones from...

Enter your best 4th of July photos in Painted Wren Art Gallery's next themed photo contest. Photo size should be no smaller than 8 inches X 10 inches and no larger than 16 inches X 16 inches. No mats, no frames, just photographs. Entry fee:...

Silver Fox will be playing at The Library from 6 to 9 pm

Head to VFW Post 3838 for karaoke.

JR's Bar & Billiards will have a nine-ball pool tournament every Friday.

Tom Runnels art exhibit is now open at the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill. Tom Runnels was a local artist, writer, and sculptor. Metal sculptures, paintings, and prints by Tom Runnels will be featured in this exhibit....

Explore how WWI affected the lives of small town Americans on the home front and overseas in our World War I exhibit. Included in the exhibit are uniforms, photos, personal items, stories telling the World War I experiences of Samuel A. Baker, and...

Utahraptor was probably the largest of raptors, 23 feet from head to tail and weighing around a half a ton. It used a huge killing claw, located on it's hind feet, for slashing and ripping prey. See a replica of this ferocious predator at the...