J-W Staff Reports

Plenty of entertainment remains for the Fourth of July weekend.

Here’s what is happening around the area:

Today

• “Blooms and Booms,” 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50, Kingsville, Mo.
• Spirit of Independence Concert Band, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50, Kingsville, Mo.
• July Puppet Show Series, noon and 2 p.m., Level 1 Atrium, Crown Center Shops, 2405 Grand Ave.
• “The Hundred and One Dalmatians,” 2 p.m., The Coterie Theatre, Level One of Crown Center, 2450 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
• The Bowery Dancers, 4:30 p.m., South Park.
• Kansas City Spirit Festival, featuring Buddy Guy, Los Lobos, Jay McShann, The Hipnotics and Bobby Carson and Dirty Sugar, 5:15 p.m., Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Mo.
• Taproot, BoySetsFire, 7 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mass.
• Live jazz, featuring Mr. Van’s Jazz Band, 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m., Bichelmeyer’s Steakhouse Restaurant, 427 E. Fourth St., Tonganoxie.
• Branson-style country music, 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m., Glen’s Opry, Fourth and Main streets, Tonganoxie.
• Will Matthews Quartet, 8:30 p.m., The Blue Room, 18th and Vine streets, Kansas City, Mo.
• The Midnite Evils, Peal, 9 p.m., Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
• Casket Lottery, Rocky Votolato, Elevator Division, 9 p.m., The Brick, 1727 McGee, Kansas City, Mo.
• The Original Low Riders, Brody Buster, 9 p.m., Grand Emporium, 3832 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
• The Feds, Man Down, Space Cadet, 7 Fold Tomorrow, 9 p.m., The Hurricane, 4048 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.
• Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.
• Jazzhaus Big Band, 10 p.m., The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Mass.
• Fetish Night, 10 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

Sunday

• Brunch and music, noon-3 p.m., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
• “A Magnificent Age” guided tour, 1 p.m., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo., (816) 561-4000.
• 1904 Independence Day, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Lanesfiled School Historic Site, 18745 S. Dillie Road, Edgerton.
• “The Hundred and One Dalmatians,” 2 p.m., The Coterie Theatre, Level One of Crown Center, 2450 Grand Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
• Rocky Volato in-store, 5 p.m., Love Garden, 936 1/2 Mass.
• Brand New, The Beautiful Mistake, Senses Fail, Moneen, 7 p.m. (early show), The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.
• Fork Knife Spoon, Showering Ashes, This Building is Cursed, 7 p.m., Burcham Park, 200 Ind.
• Train, 7:30 p.m., The Beaumont, 4050 Pennsylvania Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
• The Legendary Shack Shakers, The Silvermen, 9 p.m., Grand Emporium, 3832 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
• The Clintons Restoration fund-raiser, featuring The Strange Bedfellows, 9 p.m., The Hurricane, 4048 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.
• The Capitol Years, High Strung, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.
• Don Mumford and Friends, 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Eighth Street Tap Room, Eighth and New Hampshire streets.

Ongoing

• Mini train and carousel, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Topeka Zoo, 635 S.W. Gage Blvd., Topeka.
• “Defining Craft I: Collecting for the New Millennium,” through Sunday, Spencer Museum of Art, KU campus.
• “Juke Joint,” American Jazz Museum’s Changing Gallery, 1616 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
• “Wenda gu: from middle kingdom to biological millennium,” through July 12.
• Russel Crotty, “Globe Drawings,” through Sunday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
• “Threading the Eye: Fiber Invitational” and “John Louder: The Landscape in Particular,” through July 19, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
• “Our Artists, a 25 year Retrospective,” Carnegie Cultural Center, Fifth and Main streets, Ottawa.