The Daily Fact: May Day!
WEEKEND PICKS
9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Howard Baker Center, UT campus. Free.
Scholars including Frances Fox Piven and John Gaventa will discuss the challenges universities face in promoting social justice in the 21st century.
7 p.m. Friday, Gay Street. Free.
The annual procession. Always a good time.
7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Clarence Brown Theatre. Free-$35.
CBT's revival of the Meredith Wilson musical. Count the trombones.
7:45 p.m. Friday, World's Fair Park. Free for UT students, $20 otherwise.
DJ/producer/party guy Girl Talk headlines the end-of-school-year blowout, with Matt Costa and Kingston Springs.
8 p.m. Friday, Morelock Music. $10
Mize grew up in Sevier County, but his fingerstyle guitar playing has made an international rep (and won a Grammy). Nice chance to see a major talent up close.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Theatre Knoxville Downtown. $10-$15.
Adaptation of the 1983 drama about a middle-aged woman contemplating suicide.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oak Ridge Playhouse. $16-$20.
A romp through the Hitchcock spy story.
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Market Square. Free.
Local artists will turn the Square's sidewalks into a canvas (and sell some of their own art on the side).
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday, Ijams Nature Center.
Eight local nurseries will be selling wildflowers, shrubs, and trees.
8 p.m. Saturday, Laurel Theater. $12.
Singer/songwriter Longmire is a local treasure.
8 p.m. Saturday, the Shed (Maryville). $15.
Snider is a good, often funny songwriter, and in concert he's a great storyteller to boot. And Elizabeth Cook is a serious talent worth showing up early for.
FRIDAY
6 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art. $9.
Some good-natured blues from Texas, at Alive After Five.
7:45 and 10:15 p.m., Side Splitters Comedy Club. $4-$6.
Stand-up comic with a long TV résumé.
9 p.m., the Cider House. $5-$8.
Local bands team up for Exam Jam III to raise money for WUTK, UT's student-run station.
10 p.m., the Valarium. $5-$11.
A duo from Athens, Ga., recreate the live Daft Punk experience.
10 p.m., Longbranch Saloon.
Shuffling, folky power-pop.
10 p.m., Barley's Taproom
Local indie electro-poppers won the most recent Sound Off band battle.
10 p.m., Preservation Pub.
Circus folk-punkers, with local singer-songwriter.
SATURDAY
6 p.m., Preservation Pub. Free.
Folk-rockers are touring the country in their Airstream trailer.
6 p.m., the Hill. $5.
Local bands PsychoSystem, Chrome Molly, Our Mother Theresa, Scarlett, and Jeremy Cate team up for the local food bank.
Family Force 5 with Stereo Skyline
7:30 p.m., Bijou Theatre. $16.50.
Atlanta Christian rockers are warming up for the 2011 Vans Warped Tour.
8 p.m., Oak Ridge High School. $8-$25.
The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Chorus play a program including works by Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber.
10 p.m., Pilot Light. $8.
Old-time music from J.D. Wilkes of Th' Legendary Shake Shackers.
SUNDAY
3-5 p.m., Messiah Lutheran Church. Free.
A nondenominational blessing of cyclists and their bikes, with free maintenance checks by the Bike Zoo.
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