• Empowerment Resources, Inc. will hold its Third Annual Scholarship Banquet May 5 at Deercreek Country Club. Trenesa Stanford-Danuser, vice president of global communications for Origins Natural Resources, a division of the Estee Lauder Companies, will be the keynote speaker. Tickets are $40 per person and proceeds will benefit the organization’s “Journey Into Womanhood” program and its scholarship fund. For information, call 268-8287.
• Cathedral Arts Project’s annual “Showcase of the Stars!” will be held May 5-6 at the Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum. More than 900 elementary school children will perform during the two-day recital. The performances and awards presentations are open to the public. Tickets are $4 each and can be purchased at the door. Cathedral Arts Project was founded in 1993 by St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral and has since grown to become the largest provider of free standards-based instruction in the visual and performing arts for public school students in Duval County. For information and show times, call 291-5599, ext. 12.
• The new Baskin’ Robbins/Dunkin’ Donuts at the beach may open soon. The building has been finished for several months, but the space remained unopened. Last week, the signs were installed and the drive-thru menu is up, but there’s a note made of masking tape on a door that says, “not yet.”
• Lots going on these days at the University of North Florida. The board recently approved doctorates in nursing practice and physical therapy and the school expects to break ground on its new 33,000 square-foot addition to the Brooks College of Health this year. The four-story addition will cost $11 million. Construction on the new $27 million College of Education and Human Services building will also begin later this year.
• John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company, is the guest speaker at the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s next quarterly Cornerstone luncheon. It’s June 1 at the Hyatt.
• The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens newest exhibition is opening May 17 and running through August 12. The exhibit “Rather Strange Developments:” Picasso, Kandinsky and Mondrain from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute will feature collections of European modernist art. Funding was provided, in part, by the National Endowment of the Arts, and the New York State Council for the Arts.
• Clarification: The 2nd Annual Beaches Broadway Bash was held last week at the Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, not Bonefish Grill.
• Jacksonville Lawyer Magazine is presenting the Roast of Florida Bar President Hank Coxe June 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hyatt. Roasters include State Attorney Harry Shorstein, retired Supreme Court Justice Major Harding, Lamar Winegeart, retired Jacksonville educator Chuck Badger and Attorney David Barksdale with the Bedell Firm. All proceeds benefit Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. Admission is $150 per person or $1500 per table. For more information, call 388-7797.
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”
— David Mamet, U.S. playwright