Catch some cartoonists’ openings, freak and geek out at bingo, cackle at comedy, scratch your brain at trivia, and more ways to get October started right.

Get a chill with Icelandic films, have an old-school skate-down, rock out for hurricane relief, and more ways to have a splendid week.

Battle for some bourbon, bookend your week with literature, celebrate radical black composers, and more ways to have a splendid week.

Have a laugh riot, run through murals, walk around a Superfund site, dance it out in the daytime, and more ways to have a divine weekend.

Roller-skate the night away, listen to opera while drinking Bloody Marys, dance like you’re in the tropics, and more ways to have a hot weekend.

Groove through a garden party, scream at B-movie stripteases, careen through a cartoon festival, and more ways to have a splendid weekend.

Calling all trash pandas: Your time is now, your ideas are sought, your Department of Sanitation ephemera collections are needed.

Celebrate scientific ladies, abide with The Dude, meditate on the afterlife, be boggled by Bollywood, and more ways to kill it this week.

Rock out with your imaginary instrument, hear opera in a garden, learn the titillating history of burlesque, and more ways to have a cheeky weekend.

Today is May Day, and thousands of people across the country are going on strike to stand in solidarity with workers and immigrants. […]