August 25 — The Tivoli Turnhalle will be transformed Aug. 28 to house a poetry play of a whole different frequency. Directed by Metro senior Hashim Hakim, “I Didn’t Think” is a poetry play about how a young man’s promiscuous ways affect more than himself.

August 18 — 1876 was the centennial of the United States. It was in late June of that year that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, a graduate of West Point and a Civil War hero, was to meet his Waterloo. As Nathaniel Philbrick validates in his new book, Native American decisiveness and U.S. military blunder still reverberate through time in this retelling of The Last Stand.