FRIDAY –

If you wanna get the weekend, and the party, started PINK will be at Petco Park for a concert.

If you’d rather your party starts with a more punk vibe, PENNYWISE and the CIRCLE JERKS will perform at Soma in SAN DIEGO.

If you’d rather your party starts with some outlaw country, WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78s will play the Belly Up Tavern in SOLANA BEACH.

ANTHONY CULLINS, who’s won numerous San Diego Music Awards (including “artist of the year” a few weeks ago), will be at the Jazzy Wishbone in OCEANSIDE.

And one last party you can get started – the ELECTRIC FEELS INDIE DANCE PARTY is happening at the Observatory in NORTH PARK.

SATURDAY –

SAN DIEGO FC has a home game against FC Cincinnati. You can also listen on San Diego Sports 760 starting at 6:00.

FOREVER MOTOWN is going to be at the POWAY Center for Performing Arts.

BEN FOLDS is bringing his piano to the Magnolia Performing Arts Center in EL CAJON.

If you don’t like the lovely piano sounds of Ben but heavy metal, check out POISON THE WELL at the Observatory in NORTH PARK.

SUNDAY –

Two bands that don’t go together, but sort of do now because of a marriage. The Cowsills’ JOHN COWSILL is married to The Bangles’ VICKI PETERSON, and they’ll be performing their new songs, along with some of their classics, at the Bernardo Winery in RANCHO BERNARDO. As a balding man, I will scream: “Give me a head with hair!”

ON STREAMING ….

Rip and Beth have moved to Texas in DUTTON RANCH, yet another Yellowstone spin-off on Paramount+.

PROJECT HAIL MARY starring Ryan Gosling as a high school science teacher tasked with saving the world is out now on video on demand on Amazon Prime and AppleTV+. But, I recommend that you see this charming family film in the theaters where it’s still playing.

AT THE MOVIES…

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES

If Agatha Christie wrote a children’s book with sheep, and the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) was the Wool-verine – this is the movie they’d make. It’s a great family picture (well, one dude does get poisoned and dies, but I think kids could handle that, right?). I have to admit, the premise sounds utterly ridiculous. A shepherd reads murder mysteries to his sheep. And when he’s murdered, they use what they’ve learned to solve the crime. I was hoping to hear some Pink Floyd (Sheep) or Cake (Sheep Go to Heaven), but I’ll happily take all the versions of The Proclaimers (I’m Gonna Be) we got to hear. This movie is charming. It’s funny. It’s sad. And it’s got CGI sheep that are rendered beautifully. I’m going to feel guilty the next time I buy sheep skin seat covers. Since everyone will rave about the cast, let’s give a shout-out to screenwriter Craig Mazin (The Last of Us, Chernobyl) who gave us a superb script from the novel “Three Bags Full.” Emma Thompson plays a nasty lawyer. Molly Gordon, who was so great in the underrated “Oh, Hi”, is wonderful. Who does Bryan Cranston play? A sheep, of course. The rest of the herd include Patrick Stewart, Chris O’Dowd, Regina Hall, and Julia-Louis Dreyfus. If you liked “Paddington” and “Babe” but wish it was more “Knives Out” – well, this is the movie for you. 3 ½ stars out of 5.