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The Weekend Plan-It: Aug. 5-7

The Daily Fact: Happy 50, Tawny.

WEEKEND PICKS

5-9 p.m. Friday, in and around downtown.
The monthly evening of art openings, wine, snacks, and shopping specials.

Fri-Sun., Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville). $15-$35.
Local and regional theater groups from across East Tennessee come together for a weekend of workshops and performances.

7 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Market Square. Free.
The Tennessee Stage Company continues its summer season, with The Comedy of Errors on Friday and Sunday, and Othello on Saturday.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Confederate Memorial Hall. $50$10.
Daughters of the Confederacy presents clothing and accessories from the 1860s.

3-8 p.m. Friday, Market Square.
Dress as a zombie for a protest of TVA's nuclear program, with a zombie walk through downtown to follow.

8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Tennessee Theatre. $6-$8.
Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon shine in Billy Wilder's gender-bending classic.

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Theatre Knoxville Downtown. $10-$15.
The third in a series of plays set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. 

7:45 and 10:15 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Side Splitters Comedy Club. $4-$6.
Divorced-dad stand-up with a line in living room humor.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Bethel Cemetery (1917 Bethel Ave.). Free.
The Mabry-Hazen House opens the refurbished Confederate soldier cemetery.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Chilhowee Park, $10.
Hot rods, street rods, muscle cars, and more.

2 p.m., Lawson McGhee Library. Free.
An all-star cast of local actors will give a reading of Linda Parsons Marion's new play.

7-11 p.m. Saturday, Cherokee Mills. $20.
Local performers Kelle Jolly, Kukuly, Nancy Brennan Strange and others in a fundraiser for the Anna's Angels scholarship fund.

8 p.m. Saturday, the Shed (Maryville). $15. 
Florida bluesman Bill Wharton offers tasty licks of more than one kind: He makes gumbo onstage during his shows, and everybody gets some at the end.

7:30 p.m. Sunday, the Valarium. $23.50-$26.50.
A bill of snarling metal and rap-rock.

8 p.m. Sunday, Relix Variety Theatre. $10.
New York/Nashville singer's latest album is a tribute to Kitty Wells. You won't hear a better voice this summer. 

7 p.m. Sunday, Alvin K. Bissell Park (Oak Ridge). 
Pretty much what the name says, with nods to the Tijuana Brass and Scott Joplin.



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