Weekend Best Bets

Friday
●If you aren't doing anything at dawn (you aren't) then join The Ladies of the Rolling Pin at The Towers Narragansett for their annual May Day celebrations. More info...

●Moses Brown will host award winning and New York times bestselling poet and essayist Mark Doty. More info...

●Rick's Roadhouse channels its inner Tyra Banks for their Coyote Ugly Party. Enjoy some whiskey, a little BBQ and the sound sof DJ Screwloose, all while strapped to a Mechanical Bull. More info...

●Scott Bradlee’s Post Modern Jukebox puts a 1940s jazz spin on contemporary pop mainstays at Lupo's. More info... 

●The Relationship (featuring members of Weezer, US Bombs, and Bravery) Gringo Star and local boys Satellites Fall play The Met. Don't hold your breath for Rivers to show up. More info...

●Every month Live Bait brings real people telling real stories to The 95 Empire Black Box. This month's theme is Hell. We've all been there, right? More info...

Saturday

●Fellow nerds rejoice, it's Free Comic Book Day! Rah Cocos Collectables in Providence and The Time Capsule in Cranston are definitely on board. Check the website for a complete listing. Excelsior! More info...

●InDowncity's Cinco de Mayo Block Party and Rock and Roll Yard Sale bring the fiesta to downtown Providence, merging everyone's love of tacos and used records into one ultimate party. Plus pinatas. More info...

●Normally a bunch of kids scouring a 200 year old mansion for clues would sound like an episode of Scooby-Doo, but this weekend it's the Kids and Family Scavenger Hunt at Linden Place. More info...

●TEDxProvidence returns for another year of "ideas worth spreading" at The Columbus Theatre. This year's topics will cover entertainment, finance and the environment. Ogie's Trailer Park will be having an afterparty. More info...

Sunday

●The United Theatre in Westerly teams up with Westerly Library & Wilcox Park for Movies in the Park. Join them for a family friendly flick under the starts every first sunday of the month. They kick things off with 2002’s Spider-Man. More info...

●A Rhythm and Blues Experience, a weekly residency, starts this week at Fete and will feature Dick Willner’s Open Mic R&B Jam. Admission is free for participating musicians. More info... 

All Weekend

●Eat Drink RI returns to celebrate Rhode Island's vibrant culinary scene. Check out their website for a complete listing of the delicious festivities happening this weekend. More info...

●Marie Antoinette opens at The Gamm this weekend. Based on the life of France's decadent teen queen, this hilarious production is more poignant than ever. More info...

●Can I get real for a minute? Nobody, and I mean nobody, does a sex farce like the Ancient Greeks. Putting a modern twist on Lysistrata, The Contemporary Theatre Company's production gets a hard R for some explicit content. More info... 

●The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to the Dunk with Circus Xtreme to showcase high flying spectacle and exotic animals. More info...