Maple Syrup Festival

Time: 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. today

Location: Hartman Reserve Nature Center, Cedar Falls

Details: All-you-can eat pancakes, wander through the woods to watch and learn about the process of maple syrup production.

Tickets: Advance are $6 adults and $4 for youth ages 12 and under; at the door $6.50 and $4.50, respectively.

Friends of the Waterloo Public Library book sale

Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location: Waterloo Public Library, downtown Waterloo

State Farm MVC Indoor Track Championships

Time: All day Saturday and next Sunday

Location: UNI-Dome

Cedar Falls Library Story Times

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Location: Cedar Falls Public Library

Details: Preschool Story Time (3-5 year olds)

Waterloo Library Story Times

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Location: Waterloo Public Library, 415 Commercial St.

Details: Family Story Time.

Silly Saturdays

Time: 1-3 p.m. Saturdays through May 31

Location: Waterloo Center for the Arts

Details: For ages 5-10 with adult. Make your Saturday afternoons exciting again.

Cost: $10 per student per class

Fun Bunch at College Square Mall

Time: 1:30 p.m.

Location: Mall in Cedar Falls

Details: Crafts and more with children

Cost: Free

Muddy Madness

Time: 3-5 p.m. Saturdays through March 29

Location: Waterloo Center for the Arts

Details: For ages 5-10 with adult. Work together as a family and discover the wonders of clay by shaping it into creations.

Cost: $45 for one adult and child.

Black Hawks hockey vs. Ohio

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Young Arena, downtown Waterloo

Tickets: Call 281-7680 or go to www.waterlooblackhawks.com.

Latino Ball

Time: 7-11:30 p.m.

Location: Maucker Union, University of Northern Iowa campus

Details: Hispanic Latino Student Union presents Noche Encantada Night of Enchantment.

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, Cedar Falls

Details: Joining the orchestra will be the Metropolitan Chorale and the Wartburg Choir along with Wartburg faculty member Rosemary Gast and UNI faculty member John Hines.

Tickets: Start at $19 for adults, at $9 for students. $20 Stargazer tickets, which include free valet parking, are available. Buck a Kid is also valid. In addition, student rush tickets (18 and older) day of show are being offered. For tickets call 273-4849 or visit www.wcfsymphony.org.

Lend Me A Tenor

Time: 7:30 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Sunday

Location: Oster Regent Theatre, Cedar Falls

Details: Cedar Falls Community Theater production. In Ken Ludwig's raucous farce, world famous opera singer Tito Morelli is to perform "Otello" with the Cleveland Grant Opera co. In a series of mishaps involving too many tranquilizers for Tito, manager Max masquerading as Morelli tries to fool the public, and two women in lingerie pursing the two Otellos running around the costume.

Tickets: $20 adults and $12 for students. Call 277-5283.

'Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches of Teacher'

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Lang Hall, University of Northern Iowa campus, Cedar Falls

Details: Interpreter's Theatre production. Directed by UNI student Emily Eisenman. It is a biting sature of the public school system.

Jason Aldean in concert

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: McElroy Auditorium, Waterloo

Tickets: $20 general admission; $29.75 reserved. Tickets available at NCC Main Office and Ticketmaster.

River Rats Dueling Pianos

Time: 8 p.m.

Location: Joker's, downtown Cedar Falls

Tickets: $10 advance/$12 door. Call 266-1132 or go to www.barmuda.com