Queensrÿche

It would be a crime to miss Queensrÿche perform all of “Operation: Mindcrime” for the first time in 15 years. The acclaimed 1988 album set the tone for the Seattle band’s blend of heavy rock grooves and bombastic art rock that artistically bridged the gap between Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. Few will forget the constant MTV overplay of the act’s hit single “Silent Lucidity,” which went multiplatinum in the early ’90s. But don’t expect to hear the song, as it did not appear on “Operation: Mindcrime.” Queensrÿche performs 8 p.m. today at The Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway St., Kansas City, Mo.

Band Together For Learning

Sellout!, Lawrence’s premier rock cover band, is headlining Band Together for Learning. The event will benefit the Strategic Learning Center (1245 N.H.), a nonprofit tutoring center dedicated to assisting learners of all ages. Also performing are country-swing act The Pickups and ’80s cover band Strange as Angels. The benefit runs from 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday at Liberty Hall, 642 Mass.

Scissor sisters

Take heed fans of Duran Duran, The Bee Gees, The B-52’s, The Village People, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and Frankie Goes to Hollywood: There’s a new queen of the dance floor. New York’s Scissor Sisters have been lighting up clubs from London to Paris with the band’s genre-defying mix of pop, glam rock and dance music. Throw in some burlesque, a few drag queens and a disco remake of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and you have a pretty good idea why Elton John asked the group to support two recent shows. Scissor Sisters appear 7 p.m. Saturday at The Granada, 1020 Mass.

‘Flaming idiots’

This comedy follows two former postal workers who decide to start their own restaurant. Needless to say, the results of their bumbling efforts are more comic than culinary. After a neighboring restaurant achieves instant success when a mobster is gunned down while dining there, the fledgling restaurateurs decide to engineer a fake mob hit to duplicate their competitor’s dubious fame. The show opens 8 p.m. today at Lawrence Community Theatre, 1501 N.H., and runs for three weekends.

Story Time

Priscilla Howe was just 13 when she made up her first story and shared it with some young people. Now, she makes a living spinning tales in schools, libraries, nursing homes and living rooms. For Howe, though, it’s not as simple as picking up a book and reading to a room full of people. She commits stories to memory — she knows about 150 — and performs them. She’s done so across the United States and Europe, and has released two recordings in the process. Howe will perform yarns from “Chickens and Other Stories” and “The Ghost with the One Black Eye and Other Stories” 2 p.m. Sunday at The Raven Bookstore, 6 E. Seventh St.