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Folk singer/songwriter Tom Chapin, whose career spans five decades, 24 albums and three Grammy awards, is returning to Prescott for a show that kicks off Folk Sessions’ 17th year.

The Central Arizona Concert Band is welcoming 2020 and a new decade with their first performance of the year featuring new music along with old favorites, according to a news release from Publicity Manager Joe Cotten.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time. 928-775-7444; www.harkins.com.

Dr. Dolittle, who favored animals and shunned humans, was on to something.

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Though most of the productions for Prescott Center for the Arts’ 50th season were director’s choice, the upcoming production of Agatha Christie’s “The Unexpected Guest” was one of two plays that weren’t assigned to someone, said director Bill Osborne.

Celebrate the launch of Brad Courtney’s book, “The Whiskey Row Fire of 1900,” at The Palace Restaurant and Saloon from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1.

Your guide to galleries and art in the Greater Prescott area.

Guy Ritchie's honor-among-thieves meta-caper "The Gentlemen," with Matthew McConaughey, has all the tailored tweed suits and smoky atmosphere of a handsome scotch commercial.

"Parasite" has officially infected Hollywood's award season. Bong Joon Ho's Korean class satire became the first foreign language film to take top honors from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday.

The Sir Harrison Band and the Electric Swamp Poets, comprised of Christian Berry and Tall Paul Epoch, are headed to Memphis for the 2020 International Blues Challenge.

Take a look at the effort it took for women to be granted full citizenship and the vote with an AZ Humanities Lecture called “Hyenas in Petticoats — “How Arizona Women Struggled to Win the Vote” at the Prescott Public Library at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time. 928-775-7444; www.harkins.com.

The third edition of the “Bad Boys” franchise starts as it must do: With a gleaming Porsche swerving at impossible speeds through Miami traffic under the expert control of Will Smith, with Martin Lawrence growing very sick beside him.

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The Phoenix Symphony is coming to Prescott Sunday, Jan. 19, for its first concert of 2020, with two pieces by Felix Mendelssohn and one piece by Robert Schumann, according to a news release from Sue Bray of the Yavapai Symphony Association.

I first heard about New York Times bestseller Nell Freudenberger’s newest book, Lost and Wanted, from book critic Maureen Corrigan, who had it listed as one of the top ten reads of 2019.

Your guide to galleries and art in the Greater Prescott area.

Everything else that's happening in the Prescott area.

Your guide to galleries and art in the Greater Prescott area.

Movies playing at Harkins Theatres, 7202 Pav Way, Prescott Valley (Highway 69 between Glassford Hill and Lake Valley roads), as of press time. 928-775-7444; www.harkins.com.

Prescott Center for the Arts is shuffling into its new show, D. L. Coburn’s “The Gin Game,” coming to Stage Too next week.

Yavapai College Performing Arts Center fan favorite, “The Price is Right Live” is coming back to give people a chance to win cash and prizes at a Friday, Jan. 17, show, according to a news release from Yavapai College Marketing & Communications Specialist Michael Grady.

It's been a good time for World War I buffs — especially if they're also movie buffs. A year ago director Peter Jackson applied state-of-the-art technology to century-old war footage to bring the Great War alive with sudden, stunning immediacy in his documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old.”

Local musicians Drew Hall and Anton Teschner have formed a new acoustic trio with Lady Antebellum lead guitar player Slim Gambill called THiS Trio.