News for Thursday, January 13, 2000

Thursday, January 13, 2000
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Short cuts: Instant gratification? Not nearly quick enough
Greetings from the future! It's the year 2030, which also happens to be the current weight of the average U.S. consumer. I guess you still call them "citizens." How quaint!

Civic ballet looking for dancing 'Beauty'
Dancers can get their Beauty sleep Sunday morning, and then grab their shoes and head to a ballet audition.

Suspense the appetizer at library event
Mysterious forces will combine at Memorial Hall Library on Saturday, Jan. 29, at 11 a.m., when authors Kate Flora, Sarah Smith and Skye Alexander present a program called "It's a Mystery to Me."

Warm up with PA's winter concerts
Baroque music kicks things off this winter for the Phillips Academy music department, with a program played on period instruments on Saturday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

MJT auditions 'The King and I'
The Merrimack Junior Theatre, a non-profit children's theater, will hold auditions for Rogers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I on Jan. 20 and 21 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Artist to demonstrate pastels this Sunday
Professional artist Eva Cincotta of Melrose will demonstrate and paint a completed landscape scene in pastels at the open meeting of Andovers Artists Guild on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m. at North Parish Church in North Andover.

Library is the place for writers to talk shop
The Andovers Writers' Group (formerly The Writers' Networking Group) will meet Thursday, Jan. 20, in the Activity Room on the lower level of Memorial Hall Library.