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Beyond Brokeback

[BE A BROKIE FOR A DAY] SATURDAY, FEB. 11

Extreme fans of Brokeback Mountain, called Brokies — think Trekkies, but wearing Rick Perry’s jacket — just can’t quit the stereotype-busting movie. They’ve posted huge amounts of stuff on the Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum website, some 500,000 items. Playwright Gregory Hinton threshed the material into Beyond Brokeback, a staged reading of excerpts from that deluge — essays, poems, messages, music. Six reader/musicians will handle the presentation, brought to you by the library district and Nevada Conservatory Theater. “Nevada has a rich country-western gay and lesbian culture, and Beyond Brokeback is a comprehensive oral history of the rural gay west,” Hinton says. Saddle up! SCOTT DICKENSHEETS

2 p.m., Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, www.lvccld.org, free.

Polar Bear Plunge

[CHILL OUT] SATURDAY, FEB. 11

If you’ve still got love for polar bears after all those Coke commercials during the Super Bowl, read on. This event might be for you. Cool-braggers, bear-huggers and daredevils in good health are invited to join the City of Henderson’s first-ever Polar Bear Plunge, a safer and nonliteral alternative to swimming with endangered white arctic cannibals. Plus, there are treats! Three groups, divided by age, will rush down water slides into freezing cold outdoor pools and emerge to claim commemorative pins and hot foodstuffs. The first 100 to arrive get goodie bags, and there’ll be games, raffles, a bounce house and lots of food. The best part: No commercials! KRISTY TOTTEN

1-4 p.m.; Whitney Ranch Aquatic Complex, 1575 Galleria Drive, 267-5870 or www.cityofhenderson.com/parks, $5 to watch or participate.