First up: All you cyclists itching for a communal ride are in luck, because Critical Mass returns on Friday afternoon. Meet up with the group at Cannon Park if want to join in.
The Charleston French Film Festival takes over town through Sunday, featuring great movies like Micmacs and Persepolis.
Get your feet dirty at the Grape Stomping Festival. As long as they’re dirty after you stomp the grapes and not before.
Kenny Z performs at Theatre 99 on Saturday night, and there’s the Improv Jam and The Have Nots! shows.
Thee Southern Belle has comedian Tim Kidd on Sunday night. They also have strippers, in case you didn’t know.
The Beach Music and Shag Preservation Society hosts the Charleston Beach Music and Shag Festival.
The Battery better kick some butt on Saturday night; they’re playing in the USL-2 Championship game. The girls of the Lowcountry Highrollers will try to triumph over the Soul City Sirens in the Debutante Brawl. And the N.Y.C. Streetballers take on the College of Charleston’s alumni basketball players in a benefit for the school’s atheltics department.
There are two golf tournaments this weekend, one benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Trident Area and the other for the Wounded Warrior Project.
All my biker ladies can unite at the Harley-Davidson Garage Party, a special women-only event covering cycling topics.
Music Loves Fashion is a stylish party benefitting the Boys & Girls Club and showcasing the fashions of StyleXchange and Anna Lassiter.
Stretch those vocal chords at the Sacred Harp, or see Oszkar Morzsa and Eva Morzsa present a couple of intimate concerts.
Aster Hall hosts a Summer Soiree to benefit We Are Family.
Theater fans can choose from August: Osage County, Is He Dead?, Shakespeare’s R and J, and Simply Divided. Or for kid-friendly fare, check out Hansel and Gretel.
The S.C. Aquarium will release two sea turtles on Folly Beach on Saturday afternoon.
Who will come out on top at the Lowcountry Blues Challenge? And you can say aloha to Jason & the Juggernauts at their Luau at the Mill.
The last time a CPer made jokes about MJ, she kind of got vilified. So I’m going to refrain and just say that you should bring a toy to the Michael Jackson Earth & Arts Festival for free admission.
Get your suds on at the Southern Tier Beer Dinner.
And you should stop by the Custom Home + Remodel Show for some design ideas. It happens all weekend, but it’s free on Friday.
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