Adam Carter Extravaganza Weekend!

It's Gull Lake grad Adam Carter x 2 this Friday and Saturday: As director of "Sick Day" at Fancy Pants Theater, Studio 246 on the Kalamazoo Mall, 8 p.m. (also 7 p.m. Sunday), $10; then as the "a" of the t&a improv comedy team, Farmers Alley Theatre, 10 p.m., $5.

Annie at the Civic

Time to get your tickets for Annie at the Civic Theatre, before they sell out. It runs Nov. 26 to Dec. 12, and you'll have the added pleasure of spotting Gull Lake alumna Mary Teutsch as Grace, Daddy Warbucks' assistant. Go to the Civic's website for tix.

A great weekend for music

You can enjoy traditional Irish music with your fish and chips or Guinness with Whiskey Before Breakfast--featuring Richland fiddler and WMUK host Dave Marlatt--playing Friday, November 12, at the London Grill in Kalamazoo, starting at 7 p.m.

Then on Saturday, November 13, check out the blues band Sneaky Pete, whose drummer, Greg Anson, is a Gull Lake grad. They'll be playing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Old Dog Tavern.

Coyote Trio

Enjoy great acoustic music by the Coyote Trio (which includes our own Robin Nott) at Koffee Klutch in Galesburg, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. There's good food, too!

Poinsettias!

Gull Lake Band Parents are taking orders now (until Nov. 30) for gorgeous poinsettias, to be delivered Saturday, Dec. 11. Go here and order now!

Music miscellany

Enjoy the Ryan Intermediate Fall Vocal Showcase at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Nov. 4, at Richland Bible Church . . . then the 4th-grade music program at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8 and Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Gull Lake Middle School Cafeteria. (Monday night will showcase the students of teachers Howe, Badiner, Curtis, and Wisser; Tuesday night is for the students of Deming, Fournier, Misner, Kenyon, and Fuehr.)

And don't forget the Performing Arts Foundation meeting at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov.9, at the Richland Area Community Center, 9400 East CD Avenue. All are welcome . . . Just remember that we're meeting at 5 p.m. nowadays, still on the second Tuesday of the month!

Bryan Charles at Kalamazoo Public Library

It's always fun to "Meet the Author," and in this case, the author happens to be 1992 Gull Lake grad Bryan Charles. You can meet and greet him at the Kalamazoo Public Library (Central Branch), Wednesday, November 3, at 7 p.m. Charles's new memoir about his struggling days looking for work and becoming a writer in New York City, There's a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From, is officially published today, November 2, and I'll wager there will be an opportunity to buy a copy--and perhaps even to get it signed?--at Wednesday's event. Read a Gazette review by KPL librarian Kevin King here. And get more info about the event at the KPL's website. You might also enjoy picking up a copy of Charles's first book, Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way, which is novel but based strongly on the author's adolescence in the Kalamazoo area and thus very recognizable.