1. Wallenda s Daredevil Rally Drive-in Thrill Show
Sarasota native and international circus celebrity Nik Wallenda returns to his hometown this weekend and next with his Daredevil Rally Drive-in Thrill Show. The production, which debuted at Benderson Park last June, will again feature the famed funambulist and his star wife, Erendira Wallenda, as well as a cast of acclaimed daredevil performers that includes FMX freestyle jumpers, BMX riders, motorcycles in a steel globe, a wheel of steel and a human cannonball. Tickets start at $20 for general admission, but there are other options, too, including $50 VIP tickets that allow attendees to sit front row on in their own lawn chair. 5 p.m. Friday, 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; 5 p.m. March 4-5, 1 and 5 p.m. March 6-7; Nathan Benderson Park, 5851 Nathan Benderson Circle, Sarasota; 941-870-7444; daredevilrally.com
Lowe Mill Arts: An Art Pilgrimage in Huntsville, Alabama
Back in sepia-toned times, it began as a textile mill and was later a shoe factory. Since 2001, this cavernous brick building has been home to a tech town’s arts/culture heartbeat. Nineteen years later, organizers tout
Lowe Mill as The South’s largest privately owned arts center. It’s located in a soulful working class neighborhood, on the west side of Huntsville, a North Alabama city known for aerospace engineering that helped NASA put men on the moon with 1969’s Apollo 11 mission. Huntsville is also famously home to Space Camp, where generations of kids, including those of celebs like Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen, come to indulge astronaut daydreams. The past several years, Huntsville has attracted bold font endeavors like the FBI, Blue Origin and Facebook to locate here. The city is about about an hour’s drive from Muscle Shoals, and the fertile recording studio scene that birthed classics by the likes of Ar