Outdoor Notes

-- Tribune: Horsing around on Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

-- Tribune: Tiger trout fishermen land state records at Scofield

-- Tribune: Wharton: Utah politicians could learn from The Lorax

-- For the latest wildlife news and information and the fishing report visit the DWR website

Weekend Events

New Films

-- Declaration of War: Tribune review 

-- Friends with Kids: Tribune review 

-- John Carter: Tribune review

-- Rampart: Tribune review 

Concerts

-- American West Symphony, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $10 adults, free for students

-- “Singing Prayers,” Friday, 7:30 p.m., Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City, free

-- University of Utah Performing Dance Company, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Kingsbury Hall, $20 general public, $10 students

-- Vocal Point, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center Street, Provo, $10-$12

-- “Bring Forth My Zion” Brigham Young University-Idaho Tabernacle Symphony Orchestra and BYU-Idaho choirs, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Temple Square Tabernacle, Salt Lake City

-- “Carnival of the Animals,” Utah Symphony, Saturday, 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, $6-$20

-- “Puttin' On The Ritz,” Jubilate, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church, 210 South 700 East, Salt Lake City, free

-- Ring Around the Rose: Kid Fiddlers, Saturday, 11 a.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, $5

-- Utah Premiere Brass Presents: A Night at the Movies, Saturday, 7 p.m., SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 South State Street, Orem, $10 adults, $8 seniors, students and children

-- NOVA Chamber Music Series, Sunday, 3 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $18, $15 for seniors, $5 for students.

-- Wasatch Community Symphony Orchestra, Sunday, 7 p.m., Saint Episcopal Church, 1710 S. Foothill Blvd., Salt Lake City, free

-- Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free

Theater

-- “Tremendously Tall Tales” through March 9, SCERA Center for the Arts

-- “Fiddler on the Roof” through March 10, Dixie State College

-- “Gleek School Musical” through March 10, Off Broadway Theatre

-- “Tartuffe” through March 10, Weber State University

-- “Seven” through March 11, Pygmalion Theatre Company

-- “Cinderella” through March 12, Riverton Arts Council

-- “The Importance of Being Earnest” through March 12, Little Brown Theatre

-- “The Elixir of Love” through March 18, Utah Opera

-- “Rare Bird” through March 18, University of Utah Theater

-- “The Third Crossing” through March 18, Plan-B Theatre Company

-- “The Crucible” through March 24, Grand Theatre

-- “The Drowsy Chaperone” through March 31, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre

-- “Xanadu” through April 7, Hale Center Theater Orem

-- “Zorro the Musical” through April 11, Hale Centre Theatre

Museum Exhibits

-- Wide-Open Spaces: Capturing the Grandeur of the American Southwest Exhibition through March 10; Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Exhibition through April 7; The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art Exhibition through May 19; Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture Exhibition through September 29, Brigham Young University Museum of Art 

-- J.T. Harwood: The Lone Years 1927-1940 Exhibition through March 15; 40th Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show; Wayne Kimball, Robert Marshall and Bruce Smith: A Collective Retrospective, Exhibitions through March 23, Springville Museum of Art

-- 100th Anniversary Exhibit of the Girls Scouts of America; Art by Artists at the Main, Exhibitions through March, Eccles Community Art Center

-- 10th Anniversary of Salt Lake 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Retrospective; SCI Institute: The Art of Science; Visualizing Finance, Exhibition through April 7, Kimball Art Center

-- Joshua Luther: Meaning Exhibition through April 21, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

-- At Work: Prints from the Great Depression; The Faculty Show: Recent Work by The University of Utah Art Faculty, Exhibitions through May 6; George Rouault: Circus of the Shooting Star / Cirque De L'Etoile Filante Exhibition through May 13, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Et cetra

-- Family Art Saturday: Moving Mobile Explosion, Saturday, 2 – 4 p.m., Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

-- "No Strings Attached" Puppetry Festival, Saturday and Sunday, The City Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City

-- Winter Silent Movie Series, through March 23, The Organ Loft, 3331 S. Edison St., South Salt Lake City