Submitted by Melissa Howsam — Correspondent
THE DECEMBERISTS: If you're tired of "pegging clothing on the line" and "training jasmine how to vine ... break day with a panoply of song" as Portland-based Indie folksters The Decemberists hum some hymns to "welcome in the day and herald summer's early sway" at Raleigh Amp. Just don't forget your yellow bonnet. Where: Raleigh Amphitheater. When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $22 and $32. More info
SPAGHETTI WESTERN DINNER: If you felt Kid Rock's call to be a cowboy, baby — "riding all night because you sleep all day ... where you can smell a pig from a mile away ... but you can't pack up your game and head out west ... to start an escort service for all the right reasons" — you know, because that's* what cowboys do, you can always wrangle a spot with DeadEye Jack at LoneRider's four-course spaghetti Western dinner. Besides, it's better than rollin' sunset woman with a bottle of Becks. Maybe you can cuss like a sailor ... just don't get thrown in the mix and tossed out of bars. Where: Tir na nOg Irish Pub, Raleigh. 218 South Blount Street. When: Tuesday, 7 - 10 p.m. $39, includes tax and tip.
SATURDAY MARKET: Eco is chic. Go loco for local at Raleigh's emerging sustainable street shop. Now you can hoof just past a chicken coop and gardens in the heart of the historic city-center Heights and bring the farm to table. So, cluck over for a crop of crafters, farmers and bites 'n' bev buses. And if eco nor chic are on your to do list, they have group yoga and music and chair massages. Yeah, rub downs always get everyone's attention. Oh, and crafts for the kids, too. So bring the fam to the city farm. Where: Rebus Works, Raleigh. 301-2 Kinsey Street. When: Saturdays through November 19, 2011. 9 a.m. - 2p.m. Vendors vary weekly.
SING FOR THE CURE: While posting the color of your bra last year on Facebook--or indulging that you weren't wearing one-- seemed like a cute way to save breasts, at the end of the day, it did little to bolster awareness. But some choral crooning for the cure gives you a real shot to make a difference. So slap on your bolder holder, head over for a trill treat and save a life. A portion of proceeds to go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure-NC Triangle. But you guessed that. Where: Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts: Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh. When: Sunday, 7 p.m. $15-$30, plus online service fees. More info
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL: GALA PERFORMANCE: Why does Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" automatically start looping in your head? And if Whitney Houston really wanted to dance with somebody like she convinced us in 1987, it's really too bad she's not a part of ADF instead of jacked up somewhere in her post Bobby Brown blues. But I digress. Strut over to DPAC for some phenom fancy footwork as ADF opens its season with "a special gala performance in celebration of Charles L. Reinhart's incredible career and final season as ADF director." Do it for Whitney. Where: Durham Performing Arts Center When: Thursday, 7 p.m. $23-51. More info
