Here are my picks for this weekend's can't-miss live performances in the Coachella Valley and surrounding communities. Rock: Singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren has several hits such as "We Gotta Get You a Woman," "Bang the Drum All Day" and more. He also produced albums for Grand Funk Railroad, Cheap Trick, Bad Religion and the New York Dolls. In 2021, Rundgren was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rundgren will perform on Saturday at Spotlight 29 Casino. If you go: 8 p.m. Saturday, Spotlight 29 Casino, 46-200 Harrison Place,...

The show is free and a pass-the-hat collection will be taken at intermission to support the series, presented by the Springfield Arts Council. Week three will feature five shows in which audiences will find something different each night. Leahy is a familiar name. Doug Leahy performed here several years ago with his own 10 siblings of an Irish dad and Scottish mom and raised in Canada, playing all over, including supporting country star Shania Twain on her 1997 tour. His wife is one of 13 children, so it would figure...

Mercy Health REACH Services – Springfield will host a free, six-week series of smoking cessation classes from 10 to 11:30 a.m. starting today through July 23, at the office located at 30 W. McCreight Ave. The classes are led by a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Mercy Health provides nicotine replacement therapies such as nicotine patches, gum and lozenges are provided at no cost while supplies last, as well as carbon monoxide testing. The class size is limited to 10 for comfortable group interaction, and only Clark and Champaign County residents...

The second “Third Thursday” event of the year is coming up this week on June 20 in downtown Danville. Started in 2022, “Third Thursdays” are full of pre-weekend fun, featuring extended hours for shopping and eating downtown. This month’s “Downtown Adventures” event invites community members to explore the food, shopping, and activities available in Danville’s historic business district. Vendors from the Boyle County Farmers Market will join in the fun by hosting pop-ups throughout downtown, setting up shop on the sidewalks in front of favorite brick-and-mortar shops like The Derby...

Sitting at the very heart of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s campus—nestled amid gardens, meadows, woodlands, art installations, and sculpture—is the Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater in the Museum Park. Here, for over a quarter of a century, we have welcomed some of America’s finest singers-songwriters, and acclaimed musical ensembles, including Gladys Knight, Neko Case, Rhiannon Giddens, the Avett Brothers, and Lake Street Dive. This year we invite you to join us again for our annual outdoor concert and film series, sponsored by First Citizen’s Bank. We’re excited to...

The exhibition "Photography is Art" will be on display June 12 through Aug. 11 at the Amarillo Museum of Art, located at 2200 South Van Buren on the Washington Street campus of Amarillo College. Art museums have not always embraced photography. One of the earliest museum efforts to define the medium’s contribution to the arts came in the mid-1930s, when New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) asked its librarian, Beaumont Newhall, to create an exhibition survey of photographic history. Relishing the challenge but unclear on how to shape his...