An action-packed weekend

The heat is on this weekend as the Lansing Lugnuts take on the Fort Wayne TinCaps, Michigan State University football faces off against Florida Atlantic University and locals battle each other in wing-eating contests at the Michigan Chicken Wing Festival. There’s also a new exhibition at the Broad, dance parties at Grewal Hall at 224, an oddities festival, a bookstore sale and more.

For Friday evening’s live music, we have one-man cover band Drew Behringer at Mash Bar at 5; country musician Jessey Adams opening for classic-rock cover band Showdown at Lake Lansing Park South at 6:15; rock cover band Lucid Vibe at Lansing Shuffle, vocal jazz duo Clique Vocals at UrbanBeat and alternative-rock band Birdie Country at Lansing Brewing Co., all at 7; solo musician Jack Schueler at the Peanut Barrel at 8; melodic hardcore-punk band Psycodelico with garage-rock band The Orchard Keepers and indie-rock band LVRS at Mac’s Bar at 8:30; and classic-rock cover band Cloudhoppers at Mash Bar at 10. Saturday evening, we have Americana musician Rollin Brummette at Dimes Brewhouse in Dimondale at 6; smooth-jazz/R&B band AWD at UrbanBeat at 7; Black Sabbath tribute band Dark Sunday with rock band Sean Anthony Sullivan at Mac’s Bar at 8; and singer-songwriter Craig Hendershott at the REO Town Pub, acoustic ‘90s cover band Moth Duster at Mash Bar and cover duo The Townsmen at the Irish Pub, all at 9. Ending the weekend on Sunday is Red Cedar Spirits’ weekly Sunday Jazz show at 6 p.m., JP Peters of pop band JP & the Energy at Summerlands Brewing Co. in Holt at 7 p.m. and Mac’s Bar’s weekly Harmony Sundays DJ show at 9 p.m.

A new Broad exhibition, “Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People,” opens Saturday. The museum will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday for guests to check out all the shows, including “Eye Witness” and “Seeing in 360 Degrees: The Zaha Hadid Design Collection.”

Art displays on view this weekend include an exhibition by mixed-media artist Lucy Synk at the Haslett Library’s Bookend Gallery, which is open noon to 4 p.m. Friday; “Extinct: An Artistic Study of Animals Loved and Lost” at the Art Williamston gallery, which is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; and “Resonant Earth” at the Lansing Art Gallery, which is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Activities for the kids include a vase-painting craft 4 p.m. Friday at Charlotte Community Library and a screening of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” 9 p.m. Friday at Beacon Park in south Lansing.

The Lugnuts will finish up their six-game series against the Fort Wayne TinCaps 7:05 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1:05 p.m. Sunday at Jackson Field. To purchase tickets and view the promotional events at Saturday and Sunday’s games, visit the Lugnuts’ website.

MSU football will open its season with a match against Florida Atlantic University 7 p.m. Friday at Spartan Stadium.

Put your dancing shoes on and head to Grewal Hall at 224 for a Broadway rave 8 p.m. Friday or a hyper-pop dance party 8 p.m. Saturday.

Visit Everybody Reads 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday for a name-your-price sale on books, CDs, videos and more. Proceeds will benefit All-Creatures.org.

Kingsmen Private Security Consulting LLC will hold a concealed pistol license class 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Capital Area Sportsmen's League. Participants will learn firearm safety, laws, fundamentals of pistol shooting and other information necessary to apply for a license.

R.E. Olds Transportation Museum will offer free admission for all guests 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

Keys to Manifestation invites volunteers to help pick up trash around its building and along the Lansing River Trail 11 a.m. Sunday.

A Festival of Oddities returns to Charlotte’s Courthouse Square Museum 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, featuring macabre vendors and performances, food trucks, a photo booth, caricatures, face painting, a kitten adoption tent and more. For a $5 fee, attendees can enter the museum to enjoy a display of oddities from around the globe, a snake adoption pit and presentations by true-crime and paranormal experts.

In coordination with the oddities festival, the Eaton Theatre will host meet-and-greets with actor Douglas Tait of “Annabelle Comes Home,” “Star Trek: Picard,” “Halloween Kills” and more noon to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Included with entry are screenings of “Annabelle Comes Home” at 3 p.m. and “Halloween Kills” at 7 p.m. both days.

Finally, the annual Michigan Chicken Wing Festival runs 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Adado Riverfront Park, offering wing eating contests, a people’s choice wing vendor contest, food trucks with non-wing offerings, live music, pro wrestling, open mics, a kids’ zone with inflatables, merchandise and art vendors, community resource tables and more. Those who would like to sample wings from various vendors should purchase wing sample tokens online in advance.

Whatever you choose to do, I wish you the best of weekends.

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