Various businesses in downtown Ardmore will present a number of activities during “Third Thursday” this week from 5 to 7 p.m.

What do a local police chief, a dental office receptionist and a water treatment plant superintendent have in common?

Abigail Breslin is a living doll in ``Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,'' but her character is nothing to toy with.Rather, she’s to be feared, especially if you’re a petty criminal or Dakota Fanning, whose reign as America’s No. 1 tweener is officially usurped by the precocious  Abigail, spectacular as a Great  Depression-era  Mother Teresa tending to the poor and disadvantaged of Cincinnati.

John Hancock uses side streets as launching pads to soar through Los Angeles, tosses criminals aside as if they were tin cans and sips whiskey from a jug while villains futilely shoot bullets at him.

Writer-director-animator Andrew Stanton left his native Rockport, Mass., and headed west when he was 18, but he still carries a piece of home with him — in fact, it’s a piece of the Red Sox.

The public is invited to a special preview performance of Ardmore Little Theatre’s competition play, “Frozen,” at 7 p.m. on Saturday in the Charles B. Goddard Center auditorium. ALT will compete against nine other theaters from across the state during the Oklahoma Community Theatre Association’s OCTAFest July 24-27 in Guthrie.

News on the Cardinal Trait forefront has been quiet for a while. But the band — now a foursome again with the re-addition of bassist Will Porter — is coming out of the shadows Saturday night.

You’d expect a new fish-out-of-water character from Mike Myers to be refreshingly original.

Wishful thinking.

The Goddard Center Summer Art Experience 2008 is titled “Larger than Life: A Mosaic of Art Elements.”

Country music singer and song writer Ty England will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. on June 21 in the Pauls Valley High School Auditorium.