Comic actor Will Ferrell takes on a more serious role in his new film “Stranger Than Fiction.”

The film tracks the life of a dull IRS agent, Harold Crick, whose life is meticulously planned out including the number of brush strokes he makes while brushing his teeth and the steps he takes to the bus each morning.

The man who wrote the script for the terrific “Training Day,” once again puts two people on the road in the dangerous neighborhoods of Los Angeles. This time, they aren’t cops. One is an Iraq War veteran, who is going more than a little crazy, and one is his best friend, a young Latino man looking for work so that his wife will get off his case.

 
Stars on the Southern Crescent coffee house returns with its fifth annual Celtic Christmas event on Nov. 17 and 18, with a dream line-up of exquisite performers, including Three Quarter Ale.

The Miss Northgate Pageant will be held this Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Centre for Performing Arts on Lower Fayetteville Road in Newnan.

Event raises funds for the new Senior Services Wellness Center

For more than 20 years, the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce has implemented a forward-thinking approach to the development of business and community leaders through the sponsorship of Leadership Fayette classes. The program runs from late fall through early spring, and provides participants with a broad awareness of the Fayette County community, businesses, and governmental entities. Each year teams are established and required to complete service projects in the community.

Celebrating birthdays at the October senior luncheon are left to right Kathleen Hunter, Delma Hayes, Martha White and Ginny Bartlett. A covered dish luncheon is held the first Wednesday of each month at the East Coweta Senior Center on Howard Road in Senoia. The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. with a program to follow. Everyone is welcome. Photo/Special.

The Wiggles will play The Arena at Gwinnett Center next week and this year marks the 15th anniversary of the band, which has earned them the title of the highest grossing entertainers from Australia for two years running. Anthony Field, a founding member of the band, took some time out of his current tour of the United States to speak with The Citizen.

The origins of the band start in the 1980s when Field, along with his brothers, Paul and John, and future Wiggle, Jeff Fatt, toured Australia as a surf rock band known as The Cockroaches.

Yes, this movie has been hyped up a dizzying amount in the weeks leading up to its release last week and especially after it hit number one at the box office on only 800 screens nation-wide. It gets wider release this week and it deserves it and all the hype that surrounds it. You will not find a funnier movie this year and you may be hard-pressed to find a funnier movie in the last 10 years. “Borat” is a hilarious look at America and the world through the eyes of a brilliant satirist and his fantastically well-conceived and constructed character.

Classic Christmas opera brought to life in Fayetteville

Gather ‘round children, Christmas is almost here, and the season opens on the south side of Atlanta next week with Southern Crescent Chorale’s presentation of “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”

A tuneful, charming Christmas classic, “Amahl” is an excellent way to introduce opera, as a genre, to children. The opera, in one act, was written and composed by Gian Carlo Menotti for NBC Studios, which aired the first performance of the production live on Christmas Eve in 1951. It became the first Christmas special to become an annual television tradition, with shows broadcast on or around Christmas Eve until 1966.

Humorous mystery continues this weekend

“Audition for Murder,” Offshoot Productions’ fall 2006 comic mystery presentation which made its debut November 3 at Tyrone’s Roger Spencer Community Center, will continue this weekend with to more performances Nov. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. This dessert theatre production aims to delight audiences with humor and improvisation.

As on so many occasions during its 13-year-history, the company transforms an unlikely space into a theatre through set, lights, and outstanding performances from its professional cast.

From the creators of the “Wallace & Gromit” shorts comes a new family friendly film. “Flushed Away,” DreamWorks’ latest animated flick to hit theaters, tells the story of Roddy St. James, a sophisticated pet mouse who calls the upscale Kensington neighborhood of London home.

Twelve years ago on Christmas Eve, Scott Calvin put on Santa’s suit and became Santa Claus. Then, Santa discovered that he had to get married. Now the magic man is back and this time Santa (Tim Allen) will have to deal with Jack Frost (Martin Short) in the final chapter of the Santa Clause trilogy.

When Fayette-Coweta Family Theatre's (FCFT) Select Performers take to the stage at the Fayette Family YMCA to present "An Evening of Broadway, 2006" the lodge house will rock with the sounds of “Godspell,” soar with the music of “Oklahoma,” giggle with songs from “Seussical,” enchant with memorable selection from “Beauty and the Beast,” beat with the rhythms of “The Lion King,” touch hearts with the themes from “Fiddler On The Roof,” serenade us in the melodies of “Les Miserables” and hypnotize all with the harmonies and powerful vocal selections from “Wicked.”

Pulling from timeless stories of many continents, “Folktales for Fun” by Carlos Perez is a multicultural play for young people. The Popcorn Theatre Series production, staged at Newnan Theatre Company starting this weekend, is directed by Bert Lyons and presented in the Black Box.

Members of the area's three veteran's organizations will memorialize the contributions of all U.S. military veterans during the second annual Veterans Day Remembrance on Saturday, Nov. 11 from 9:30 to 10 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial in Peachtree City.

Enjoy a slice of cake and history as the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum celebrates “Gone With the Wind’s” 70th anniversary and Margaret Mitchell’s 106th birthday on Sat., Nov. 11. David O’Connell, author of “The Irish Roots of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind,” will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a book signing.

Atlanta radio station 99X's legendary "Mistle Toe Jam" presents the biggest line-up in its 12 year history on Dec. 6 at Philips Arena with The Killers, Jet, AFI and OK/GO.

Don Nixon has by now become well known for his many coups d'art in bringing prestigious events to the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County. Last year he managed to get the Miss Georgia USA and the Miss Georgia Teen USA officials to agree to use the Arts Centre as the venue for their annual pageants. The officials were pleased and have decided to return the the Arts Centre to hold this year's pageants. 

Bring in a gently used coats or jackets to bella boutique, ltd. in Peachtree City during the month of November and receive 10% off your entire purchase.

It’s fun to stroll the many festivals during autumn and enjoy uplifting music and tasty food. This year, try something that will last a lifetime and attend Boundless, a learning festival in Old Town Sharpsburg.

Line Creek Civitan Club’s annual tasty fund raiser

The always anticipated Line Creek Civitan Club’s 2006 Great Chili Challenge will be held tomorrow, November 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Shakerag Knoll, adjacent to the Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater, in Peachtree City.

Admission for the general public is $2 per person or $5 for a family of up to five immediate family members.

The ticket price includes a ballot to vote for your favorite chili and a chance to win one of many door prizes. If there are more than five family members in attendance, additional door prize tickets may be purchased.

Landmark students take to the stage this weekend
 

The Company players of Landmark Christian School present the sweet, but painful tale, of innocence and its loss in their fall production of “The Fantasticks” this weekend.

Author Augusten Burroughs memoir “Running With Scissors,” has been released as a major motion picture and Burroughs was recently in town for an advance screening of the film and interviews with the press.

Lending aid to man’s best friend

The Georgia Heartland Humane Society (GHHS) and the Peachtree City Dog Park will sponsor the fourth annual 5K Doggie Dash tomorrow in Peachtree City.

Registration for the event begins at 9 a.m. at Shakerag Knoll, next to the Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater and Peachtree City Dog Park, which recently celebrated its first anniversary.

The walk will take place over 3.1 miles of the city’s shaded bike paths beginning at 10 a.m. Pet lovers will be out with their canine friends to participate in the event which will benefit other animals who need a good home.

The image of the Marines raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima is still in the minds of the American public over 60 years later. It has come to represent victory and the cooperation of men towards that goal, but the story behind that photograph and the aftermath for the three survivors who went on a promotional tour to drum up support for war bonds is the story that director Clint Eastwood tells with this film, while also focusing on the brave soldiers who gave their lives in that battle.

Katy, played by Alison Lohman, is a girl who loves horses so much that she thinks about them at school. When she is supposed to be writing an essay, she is daydreaming about horses and turns in a blank sheet of paper! That night at dinner, her dad, Rob (Tim McGraw) and her mom Nell (Maria Bello) tell her and her older brother Howard how much the family goes through so she can have a private education. Then Katy finds a beautiful young mustang that she tries to capture, but instead it gets away and Katy runs into a mountain lion that the mustang saves her from.

This weekend, Southside Theatre Guild will once again breathe new life to the classic horror story, "Count Dracula."

The show, which opened Oct. 12, will play Oct. 20-21 and 26-28 at Southside Theatre Guild, 20 West Campbellton Street in Fairburn.

Supporting local conservation

Bluegrass on the Green, a benefit to support community conservation, will be held this Saturday, Oct. 21 on the lawn of historic Catalpa Plantation, 2295 Poplar Rd., in rural Coweta County.