Nightlife

What: Surfing buffs and retro-design junkies will drool over this new exhibit at the California Auto Museum.

WHAT: Amador Flower Farm's thousands and thousands of daylilies are blooming in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink and purple. Walk the garden path, tour the farm by tram, and listen to hourly gardening demonstrations. Buy food there or bring a picnic lunch.

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Ink is the word, and tattoo artists from as near as Sacramento and as far as Italy and Japan are writing history at this eighth annual event.

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WHAT: The Ron Cunha Big Band featuring premier area musicians including Tom Peron on trumpet, Steve Homan on guitar, Brandon Matthews on trombone, and Darius Babazadeh on saxophone.

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WHAT: The Sacramento River Cats, during today's game against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, host a "bring your own dog" event with a costume contest, an on-field parade and free food.

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WHAT: Twangy guitar, great three-part harmony and high lonesome country music is what this adventurous four-man band is all about.

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Shane Dwight plays the blues. It says so, right there on the cover of the new CD. "Plays the Blues" is the title.

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WHAT: For the Memorial Day weekend, the Camerata and the Camellia join forces on a "Peace and Remembrance" concert ...

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WHAT: Final performance of the 60-voice Sierra Community Chorus' spring concert, inspired by the Tony-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza,"

Our critics picks of seven things to do this weekend.

WHAT: Last day of the sixth annual springtime open- studios tour, featuring 12 Loomis-area artists in their personal work spaces.

Our critic's picks of things to do.

WHAT: This excellent Portland-based vocal ensemble tours internationally and has been singing early and contemporary music since its inception in 1991.

What: The Artery, home of the Artists' Cooperative of Davis, is sponsoring the 20th annual California Clay Competition, a contest that showcases the best in California- made ceramic art.

Our critic's picks of things to do.

What: Sacramento State presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' "In the Blood," a re-envisioning of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

Our critics picks of things to do.

What: So you think you can flow? Sacramento Area Youth Speaks, a nonprofit spoken word program encouraging youth empowerment through written and oral literacy, is inviting kids ages 10 to 18 to attend and perform in the first California Middle School Poetry Slam.

Our critics' picks of things to do

What: This annual production features new and original works by UC Davis students.

Our critics' picks of things to do

What: Artistic Differences presents this unique musical, a succession of three dramatic tales based on the short stories of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Fresh from showing his latest independent film at the Sundance Festival and making the rounds of composers in Manhattan looking for a collaborator on a musical – of all things – Bobcat Goldthwait was calling to talk about his return to stand-up comedy.

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After the fourth grade, concentrated lessons in California history can be hard to come by.

There is infinite variety among human beings in life, but when it comes to the great dance-floor Petri dish, we all tend to fall into one of two categories.

Just as hypnotism has gained more respect in the field of psychotherapy, so it has in entertainment. Long gone are the hokey artists in flowing robes who swing medallions as they repeat, "You are getting sleepier and sleepier."

WHAT: Concert violinist Janet Packer joins pianist Anthony Padilla in a program offering works by Irving Fine and Franz Schubert.

There are 76 million of them out there.

What: If ever there were a trio of musicians who embodied the sanguine, effortless aura of spring, this would be the one.

There's some sort of frenetic, wordless relationship between the open-mike artist and his audience.

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Call it an ale or call it a stout, but it seems to me that St. Patrick's Day is this nation's most adorably disheveled holiday.

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WHAT: An exhibition of 86 framed images from the National Archives that explore the changing American workplace from the mid-19th to the late 20th century.

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A list of things to do around town this weekend.