Readers, we are now on our fourth week here at Lawrence.com and already the column is evolving.

Since the column tends to “go live” on Wednesdays at midnight, we realized that we should also be covering Thursday events. Let’s not kid ourselves: many of you kick off your weekends on Thursdays, if not before.

So contained within you’ll find a “highbrow” Thursday pick, a not-so-highbrow Thursday pick, and a lot of weekend music picks, including a “very special message” from Chicago rockers The Noise FM as they (like several other bands mentioned here) prepare to embark on the annual pilgrimage to Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival. Plus, we also threw in a couple of family-friendly Saturday and Sunday afternoon picks for good measure.

Documentary film screening: “Finding Vivian Maier,” 7 p.m. Thursday, Lawrence Arts Center

Everyone is into documentaries these days. Even people you would not necessarily expect to be watching documentaries seem to be talking about documentaries (especially that recent “Blackfish” documentary, which got everyone pissed off and claiming they’ll never return to Sea World).

Stop by the Lawrence Arts Center on Thursday night for a free screening of the acclaimed doc “Finding Vivian Maier.” The FB event page offers this description: “This award-winning documentary shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the intriguing life story of the late Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.”

If you haven’t attended one of the ever-more-numerous film events at the Lawrence Arts Center, you likely don’t realize that their main auditorium is an excellent place to watch a movie. Plus, there will also be a follow-up discussion of the film with three locals bringing their perspectives to bear on the film’s issues: photographer Ann Dean, filmmaker Laura Kirk, and KU photography professor John Putz.

Break away from Netflix for an evening and join the community.

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Good Time open mic and comedy showcase, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Replay Lounge, followed by rock and roll from Kim and the Created at 10 p.m.

We wrote a lot about the recent growth of LFK’s very active comedy scene over at our old blog, but it’s possible that our new readers here at Lawrence.com are not yet aware of this weekly “matinee” event at the Replay hosted by local comedy collective Harpoon Presents. Sign-up begins at 6:30 for the 7 p.m. open mic, which is followed by a showcase of three or four local (and occasionally touring) comedians at 8.

We don’t know about you, but we’re fans of ritual, and it’s nice to know that you can always count on hearing a few good boner jokes to start off your weekend. The cover is only $2, leaving you extra cash for PBR and (returning soon) tacos from LFK’s beloved Taco Zone, which is also poised to expand into a full restaurant on Eighth Street.

Stick around late on this particular evening and catch LA’s well-hyped Kim and the Created as they pass through on their way to SXSW. The flier alone is enough to sell us on this show, but the following blurb from the SXSW schedule clinches it: “Her over the top stage antics and outfits are only surpassed by the sheer strength of her Stooges and Cramps influenced garage gems.”

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The Noise FM/Archie Powell and the Exports/Me Like Bees, 10 p.m. Friday, Replay

Area fans of The Noise FM can almost always count on at least two area appearances per year from these “sleek…athletic…masters of the universe” and all-around golden gods who relocated from LFK to Chicago many years ago. They reliably pop up in December to spread cheer at their annual “Noise for Toys” benefit and they tend to swing through again in March for a pit-stop on their way to South by Southwest.

The “Noise Boys” will be at the Replay on Friday the 13th for a big triple-bill with fellow Chicagoans Archie Powell and the Exports. The tour is called “The Magnificent 7 Tour” (because there are seven of them and because this will be the Noise Boys’ seventh trip to SXSW) and we’re hoping they have a stunt planned in reference to the tour’s namesake film, such as riding into the Replay on horses.

Make sure to get there early enough for a sweet-as-honey opening set from buzzy Joplin rockers Me Like Bees, since missing their show would really sting! (Yes, that’s three bits of bee-wordplay in a single sentence). Visit the FB event page for the show here.

Old fans of our Larryville Chronicles blog may be aware of our long-running tradition of having The Noise FM send us a funny/silly blurb prior to their area shows, and we wanted to continue that proud tradition here. So enjoy the long tale about a very unusual fundraising campaign to insure their safe arrival in Austin next week. And make sure to buy them a PBR at the Replay on Friday!

*”Replay! Mop up the floors and fill up the pitchers – The Noise Boys are coming home!

For those keeping score, this is our 7th trip down to SXSW, and we have a strong feeling that this is reallllly gonna be The Noise FM’s year. It’s common knowledge in the music biz that it takes 7 years of playing SXSW before record execs start to take notice. There’s no way we’re coming home without a record deal this time around.

Assuming our van Topanga withstands the drive.

For the 3rd consecutive year we’re faced with several hundred dollars of van repairs before we hit the road, including repairs to a cracked radiator and a broken brake line. We’re not sure how a radiator cracks or a brake line breaks, let alone what either of them do, but our guy over at Logan Square Auto seems to think that both are necessary for our 2300 mile drive to Texas and back.

So here’s our latest idea, and it’s even better than when we invented the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last year:

There’s a song called “Miss You” by a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award-winning band called Blink 182. By all accounts, it’s an atrocious tune as well as our go-to karaoke song whenever everyone in the bar is having too much fun and we want to bring them down a notch. Some brave hero on YouTube created a 10 hour loop of Tom DeLonge’s verse — the one where he chimes in with that tornado siren of a voice of his to ask “Where are you?” before racing to finish a sentence with way too many syllables before the chorus starts.

We plan to listen to this 10-hour piece of shit for money. We’re proposing our version of a Walk-A-Thon, a fundraiser that does nothing to help the community and exclusively benefits The Noise FM and Archie Powell & The Exports so that we can offset our van repairs costs. A Van-A-Thon perhaps?

For every $1 donated, all seven of us in The Noise FM and Archie Powell & The Exports will listen to Tom DeLelonge’s verse of “Miss You” for 1 minute in the van.

For every $5, 10 minutes.

For every $20, an entire hour.

Donations will be accepted at shows or via paypal at archiefmtour@gmail.com

We’ll be documenting the Blink 182 experiment during our travels at twitter.com/thenoisefm, twitter.com/archiepowell, IG: thenoisefm, IG: archiepowell, www.facebook.com/thenoisefm, and www.facebook.com/archiepowellandtheexports.

We have a 36 hour drive ahead of us. Bring it on, Tom!”

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Till Willis and Erratic Cowboy/Jon Harrison and the Cash Cows, 10 p.m. Friday, Frank’s North Star Tavern

If you’re not really into the Noise Boys or you’re worried that they might just get drunk and play Blink-182 songs instead of their usual set (entirely possible), head north of the river for an evening of rock at Frank’s, assuming you are not afraid to hang out on Friday the 13th in a dark basement that probably used to be a cockfighting pit. (Actually, the FB event page claims the show is upstairs. We just wanted to make that joke).

Tonight’s double-bill feature Till Willis and Erratic Cowboy along with Jon Harrison and the Cash Cows playing an evening of “future-rustic roots-rock.” We don’t think we’ve encountered this particular Harrison band-name before (is it a different line-up than the Harrisonics?) but we always trust Jon is up to something awesome.

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Psychic Heat cassette release show, 9 p.m. Friday, The Bottleneck

This show has our favorite (local) flier of the week and is almost certainly the best bet for local music collectors, with Psychic Heat “re-releasing their EP Lighter and Brighter on Cassette through Whatever Forever with an additional unreleased B side and full live performance of the EP on side B!”

Stop by and greet the Heat (do people call them the Heat?) before they head down to impress the masses at SXSW the next week. With The Sluts and Gnarly Davidson opening up, this is also our pick for LOUDEST show of the week. Visit the FB event page here.

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Lolla-Pi-Looza, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lawrence Public LIbrary

Readers, is it possible that some of you want us to cover more family-friendly events that don’t necessarily occur at night and center around beer? We’re just not sure, since no one ever comments on Lawrence.com posts in this new era of talkback-accountability.

Just in case, we’ll offer a plug for the Lawrence Public Library’s goofily-titled Lolla-Pi-Looza, a celebration of Pi Day (3/14) featuring LFK’s Alferd Packer Memorial String Band performing “songs about math and science.” Find info via the LPL website.

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Marx Madness, 4 p.m. Sunday, Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall’s popular “Marx Madness” event returns for the second year starting Sunday to delight those who prefer to supplement their basketball-watching with some Marx Brothers hijinks. We were on hand last year for “A Night at the Opera,” and a man in the audience laughed so hard at the legendary “stateroom scene” that we honestly thought he might die.

This year features four lesser-known films from the Brothers. “Animal Crackers” screens on Sunday at 4 followed by “At the Circus” at 6. “The Cocoanuts” and “Horse Feathers” are slated for March 29.

Don’t worry: none of these films will conflict with actual KU basketball games, most of which (we’ve heard) are also slated to be shown at Liberty Hall barring conflicts with previously scheduled conflicts.

As ever, tweet us @LarryvilleLife with tips or rants or raves. We’re (often) happy to plug your events if we know about them and they have enough of an online presence to warrant the space.