Earth Day

The Harper's Choice Community Association village election and an Earth Day Fair will be held between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday at Kahler Hall, 5440 Old Tucker Row, in the Harper's Choice Village Center. Chesapeake Solar, the Howard County Climate Change Initiative, and Columbia Wildlife and Habitat Committee will offer information on how to live a greener life. Children and adults will have an opportunity to make pine cone bird feeders and toad abodes, and plant seeds. Information: 410-730-0770.

Knowing offers mumbo jumbo on an apocalyptic scale. It's a thick, lumpy stew of devices from the sci-fi/fantasy mainstream and the lunatic fringe. The movie starts in 1959, with the packing and sealing of a grade-school time capsule, and jumps ahead to 2009, when the capsule is opened. As it recklessly mixes tropes from Chariots of the Gods, disaster movies and Steven Spielberg's space fantasies, it makes you feel as if you're witnessing That '70s Movie: The Doomsday Edition. The director, Alex Proyas (I, Robot)

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - One day was all the Maryland Terrapins had to savor an upset victory over a top-10 opponent. The next showdown came the very next day, and if the Terps wanted to replicate Thursday night's win over No. 5 Michigan State, they weren't going to get any help from No. 9 Gonzaga. It was clear from the bumps in the paint and Gonzaga's rebounding dominance, the blocked shots and the ones Maryland just missed. The Terps were simply outmatched in the second semifinal of the Old Spice Classic at the Milk House at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.

The Rev. Bob Wickizer climbed the stairs and wooden ladders yesterday inside the steeple of historic St. Anne's Episcopal Church to reach Annapolis' town clock. Eighty feet above the center of downtown, he and Kirsten Chapman, head of the church's environmental ministry, gingerly stepped over loose wooden planks coated with dust and ducked under the four metal arms of the clock mechanism to get to the 16 incandescent bulbs that illuminate the clock. Chapman slipped in front of one of the four faces and carefully replaced the bulbs with compact fluorescent ones.

The Patuxent Research Refuge will hold an Earth Day Celebration from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. today at the North Tract Visitor Station. People of all ages are welcome to participate in educational programs and help with weeding and general trail maintenance. Dress to get dirty. A program for children ages 8-10, "Earth Day, Every Day," will offer interactive activities from noon to 1:30 p.m. today that demonstrate ways to celebrate the Earth every day. A Refuge Walking Tour for ages 12 and older is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. May 3. The tour includes a look at habitats and wildlife management in the refuge.

Deer Creek Harmony Presbyterian Church will hold an art exhibit and sale, "Meeting God on the Ground II -- Touched By the Light," tomorrow through Saturday at the church on Route 161 at Harmony Church Road, Darlington. The exhibit, which will honor Earth Day, will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. An artists' reception will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, with live music by Late for Supper, featuring Barb Schmidt, Todd Clewell, Jack Hoffman and Dave DeRan.

sustainabletable.org Earth Day is Tuesday. This Web site helps you eat accordingly, with recipes, cookbook reviews and shopping tips for local, seasonal food.

Howard Community College will sponsor a weeklong series of events April 21-25 in observance of Earth Day, April 22, when a celebration will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the college's Duncan Hall lobby. Environmental organizations and organic stores and farms will be on hand. Those who attend can participate in a water taste-off, plant flowers and recycle plastic grocery bags. Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental film, The 11th Hour, will be shown at 12:30 p.m. in the Kittleman Room (ELB-100)

The Howard County Conservancy will present its annual Earth Day celebration from 9 a.m. to noon April 19 at its Mount Pleasant farm at 10520 Old Frederick Road, Woodstock. The day will begin with a bird hike at 8 a.m. Tree planting, trail maintenance and service projects will begin at 9 a.m. The event will end with a guided hike at noon. Participants are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch, and groups are welcome. The conservancy is the county's only environmental education center and its largest land trust.