Kansas City might be the place to be this weekend. The Harlem Globetrotters will be heating up the court at Kemper Arena, and Ray Charles will be cookin' up some blues at the Music Hall.
In Lawrence, the action is low-key.
Today
Cabin Fever Fiction Book Sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Antioch Library, 8700 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam.
Academic chess tournament, 9:30 a.m., Southwest Junior High School, 2511 Inverness Drive.
"The Great Mystery" puppet shows, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and River and Prairie Storyweavers, 1 p.m., Toy and Miniature Museum, 5235 Oak, Kansas City, Mo.
Harlem Globetrotters, 1 p.m., Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee, Kansas City, Mo.
Gerald Trimble, record release party for "Celtic Cantigas," 2 p.m.-4 p.m., Borders, 700 N.H.
"Lumber Jacks in Love," 6 p.m., New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park.
Glen Campbell, The Oak Ridge Boys, 7 p.m., Ameristar Casino Hotel, 8201 N.E. Birmingham Road, North Kansas City, Mo.
Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, 8 p.m., Folly Theater, 12th and Central streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Ray Charles and the Kansas City Symphony, 8 p.m., Music Hall, 13th and Central streets, Kansas City, Mo.
Bobby Vinton, 8 p.m., Topeka Performing Arts Center, 214 S.E. Eighth St., Topeka.
U.S. Hot Rod Thunder Nationals, 8 p.m., Kansas Coliseum, 1229 E. 85th St. North, Wichita.
Saturday Nite's Main Event, 9 p.m.-11 p.m., Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive.
Sunday
"Lumber Jacks in Love," noon, New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park.
"The Orchestra Games," with the Kansas City Symphony, 2 p.m., Lyric Theatre, 11th and Central streets, Kansas City, Mo.
"Martin Luther King Jr.: the Minister and the Movement," 2 p.m., Antioch Library, 8700 W. Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam.
U.S. Hot Rod Thunder Nationals, 2 p.m., Kansas Coliseum, 1229 E. 85th St. North, Wichita.
St. George Serbian Orthodox Church choir concert, 2:30 p.m., Heartland Orthodox Christian Museum, 523 S.W. Van Buren, Topeka.
Last Night's Fun, 2:30-3:15 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
Ongoing
"Quilts: The Ties that Bind," through Sunday, Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
"Winter Interlude," through mid-January, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Kansas University.
Lawrence Art Guild All-Members Show, through Jan. 29, Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St.
"Pieces of My Life: A Quarter Century of Quilting," quilts by Lawrence resident Patti Butcher, through Jan. 30, West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kan.
"Hatching the Past," through Jan. 31, Natural History Museum, Kansas University.
"Truth of Souls," quilts by Marla Jackson and watercolors by Kathleen Anderson, through Jan. 31, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt.
"Treasures from a Missouri Attic," through Jan. 31, Carnegie Cultural Center, 501 S. Main, Ottawa.
"Sticks of Thunder," through Jan. 31, Union Station-Science City, Pershing Road and Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Works of Bridget Dobson and Phillip Geller, through Feb. 3, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, 2818 Frederick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
"Lewis and Clark" exhibit, through Feb. 10, Union Station-Science City, Pershing Road and Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
"Kwang Jean Park and Shinoda Toko," through Feb. 24, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, KU.
"Faces from the Mulvane Permanent Collection," through Feb. 24, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, 17th and Jewell streets, Topeka.
Spring Garden Conservatory Show, through March 3, Powell Gardens, east of Lone Jack, Mo., on U.S. Highway 50.
"American Indians of the Northwest Coast," through March 8, Museum of Anthropology, KU.
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