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To submit an item for Out & About, email [email protected] or fax to 850-747-5097 Out & About Page B8 | The News Herald | Monday, April 8, 2013 BAY COUNTY ISSUES | MONDAYS AT 5:30 P.M. ON FM 90.7 A Broadcast Service of Gulf Coast State College TOPIC: Bullying GUESTS: Members of the Gay Straight Alliance at Gulf Coast State College & CSC Psychology Professor Wes Keene HOST: Emily Balazs TOPIC: Earth Day GUESTS: St. Andrew Bay Resource Mgt. Association BEST & Jelks Foundation HOST: Emily Balazs, News Director GC90.7FM *email questions to [email protected] Prepare Your Own Tax Return For FREE This Year MyFreeTaxes.com/UnitedWayofNWFL You Earned It. Claim It. AGI less than $57,000 Actor-turned-diplomat John Gavin is 82. Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh is 76. Former U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan is 75. Basketball Hall-of-Famer John Havlicek is 73. “Mouseketeer” Darlene Gillespie is 72. Rock musician Steve Howe is 66. Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is 66. “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is 52. Actress Patricia Arquette is 45. BIRTHDAY DEADLINES Saturday, Sunday or Monday birthdays: noon on Thursday before. Tuesday birthdays: noon on Friday before. Wednesday birthdays: noon on Monday before. Thursday birthdays: noon on Tuesday before. Friday birthdays: noon Wednesday before. Email news@pcnh. com with “Birthday” in the subject line or drop off current photo and fill out a birthday form at the front desk of The News Herald, 501 W. 11th St. REVIEW What’s HAPPENING TODAY VITA free tax preparation, with accompanying free state and federal filing, continues from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday until April 15 at A.D. Harris school. No appointments necessary. Details: 481-1322 Tues DAY The Women’s Civic Club of Panama City Beach is sponsoring An Elegant Affair, a dinner, silent auction and live auction, from 4-7 p.m. at Edgewater Conference Center. Tickets are $30. Attire is business casual. Details and ticket locations: Kay, 596-0638 Parents’ and Children’s Day will be 9-11 a.m. at McKenzie Park. Panama City Mayor Greg Brudnicki will make a proclamation at the event, which also will feature entertainment provided by the Head Start Sandbox Singers and other children’s activities. Details: 872-7550, ext. 2254 Free education workshop: Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias will be 4-6 p.m. at Home Instead Senior Care Panama City office, 200 Forest Park Circle. Seating is limited. Make reservations by noon Monday. Details: 522-1919 TRIVIA FUN EDITOR’S NOTE: “Trivia Fun” with Wilson Casey, Guinness World Record Holder from Woodruff, S.C., is published in more than 500 newspapers across the country and is a daily feature in The News Herald. • Who had the famed response to criticism, “I cried all the way to the bank”? Danny Thomas, Redd Foxx, Liberace, Sid Caesar • According to the FDA one must wait how many months before donating blood after getting a tattoo? 1, 6, 12, 24 • On the average about how many thousand steps does an American adult take in a single day? 3, 6, 9, 12 • Each year the moon is moving away from the Earth by about two “what”? Inches, Feet, Yards, Miles • What game’s original name meant “battle on wood”? Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Shuffleboard • Of these which might stimulate your melanocytes? Reunion, Blizzard, Phone call, Sun ANSWERS: Sid Caesar, 12, 9, Inches, Backgammon, Sun Comments, questions or suggestions? [email protected] WILSON CASEY Trivia Guy WHAT’S HAPPENING DEADLINES Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday events: By noon Thursday before Wednesday events: By 5 p.m. Monday before Thursday events: By 5 p.m. Tuesday before Friday events: By 5 p.m. Wednesday before Email [email protected] with “What’s Happening” in the subject line. Happy BIRTHDAY Zac Brown, Muse headline Final Four concert series PHOTOS BY CRAIG MEDLIN | The News Herald Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band, left, performs Friday during the AT&T Block Party, part of the Big Dance concert series at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. At right, Matthew Bellamy of Muse performs Saturday. Below, Concert-goers fill Centennial Olympic Park to capacity Saturday. By CRAIG MEDLIN 747-5086 | The_News_Herald [email protected] ATLANTA — While the NCAA national championship was being decided at the Georgia Dome in downtown Atlanta, big-name acts including the Zac Brown Band, Muse and Ludacris performed for tens of thousands just a few blocks away in Centennial Olympic Park. The free shows were part of The Big Dance Concert Series, a three-day outdoor music festival organized in celebration of the NCAA Men’s Final Four that was expected to attract somewhere around 150,000 concert-goers. The weekend lineup was enticing enough to attract some Bay Countians. “A mini-vacation,” said Chris Kuszajewski, 21, as to the reason he attended The Big Dance with his girlfriend, Ashley Noda, 22. Also, “a free Muse concert in the park was a nice incentive.” The two longtime Panama City Beach residents made the drive in just over five hours to see the Saturday and Sunday concerts, and although they missed out on Friday’s AT&T Block Party, there was no shortage of attendees for performances by two-time Grammy nominee My Morning Jacket and three- time Grammy winner the Zac Brown Band, despite late-week rains leaving much of the park’s grounds muddy. The two groups of decidedly different genres entertained the thousands of fans in Olympic Park in their own ways and undoubtedly garnered some new fans as well with their energetic performances. The Zac Brown Band’s cover of the Charlie Daniels classic “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was a big hit with the crowd, even among those who weren’t the biggest Zac Brown fans. Most of the weekend’s excitement came during the Coke Zero Countdown on Saturday, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis of “Thrift Shop” fame performing early in the afternoon and the park filling to capacity around 2:30 p.m. Atlanta native Ludacris took the stage next, sporting a Kevin Ware jersey in support of the Louisville Cardinals guard who suffered a bizarre injury during a regional final game last week. One of the more entertaining performances of the weekend came from Flo Rida, whose masterful stage presence and crowd interaction no doubt can teach many newcomers to the music scene how to win over a crowd. After Flo Rida finished his set, attendees were treated to a big-screen viewing of the first game of the men’s Final Four, and although some were just enjoying the atmosphere and watching the game, many were waiting rather impatiently for Muse to take the stage, with some fans having been lined up for a front-row spot since 9:30 a.m. When they finally took the stage just seconds after the game ended, their performance of about 80 minutes was far from disappointing, despite a power issue that caused the sound to go out during one of the songs and the band to walk off the stage for just over 10 minutes. “It was fun,” said Noda, who said she has been a fan of the eclectic English rock trio for four years. Kuszajewski said no one near him in the crowd seemed too bothered by the technical problems, and when the band took the stage again, the group jumped right into the next song as if nothing happened. Throughout their set, guitarist and vocalist Matthew Bellamy’s performance prowess engulfed the crowd, something hardly unexpected for a band whose fame comes largely from its lavish live performances. And although time spent listening to the group has been known to build desire for more, fans weren’t left disappointed: “Thank you Atlanta, see you in September!” Bellamy said, just before walking off stage. Entertained and impressed, Noda and Kuszajewski said they were satisfied with their choice for their mini-vacation. “It was a blast,” Noda said. “It was muddy, but it was nice.” The Big Dance Concert Series continued Sunday with the Capital One JamFest, featuring Sting and The Dave Matthews Band.
