SUNAug 9 all day Vanderburgh 4-H Center · browse and haggle EXPO Evansville Guns & Knife Show | 10:00a Wathen Farms · tractors, barrel train, bounce house FAMILY Farm Day | 12:00p cMoE · free hands-on science FREE Spark Lab: Free STEM Sunday | 1:00p Angel Mounds · make it, taste it, learn it HISTORY Fry Bread: A Sordid History | 6:00p Evansville Pagoda · 2nd annual, aim true WEIRD Chancla Toss Contest | 6:30p Evansville Pagoda · open-air social dancing DANCE Dancing on the Riverfront |
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| MONAug 10 5:00p Henderson Brewing Co · adoptable dogs, cold pints DOGS Paws on the Patio | 7:00p Main Street Dance Studio · adult intro class DANCE Salsa 101 |
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|  | | | 🛰️ ON OUR RADAR Local Business Spotlight.Nearby spots we'd actually send a friend to. | Breakfast before the browsing: Kite & Key Cafe on Franklin nails diner comfort with the Franklin Street Belly Buster and those German potatoes, plus a coffee shop and back patio tucked out behind it. Get there early Saturday, then walk the Bazaar with a latte and zero guilt. | Your post-show move: High Score Saloon is Evansville’s adult playground, five minutes off Main from the Ford Center, with free-play classic cabinets, quarter-hungry pinball, craft cans on tap and cocktails. Chase a high score, argue about the setlist, call it self-care. | Vintage that actually fits: Philthy Vintage Clothing keeps your rotation stocked with pre-2000 tees, jackets, jerseys, hats, and the occasional Evansville deep cut. Buy, sell, or trade, talk shop with Phil, and leave feeling like you time-traveled. |
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| | | | 🐝 FOR THE LIL’ BEES Got kids? We made you your own issue. Zoo lanterns four nights running, bluegrass on the Henderson riverfront, Smokey Bear’s birthday, and a farm full of tractors. Every kid-friendly thing this week, day by day. READ THE FAMILY GUIDE → |
| 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 | | | Meet Marley Mo.⌁ velcro dog, fetch enthusiast, looking for his people ⌁ | 📷 photo: It Takes a Village K9 Rescue | BREED Lab mix | COAT Tan 🐻 | ROOMIES Cats + dogs ✓ | CATS Kids ✓ |
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| Marley Mo was born around November 2024, and his foster family describes him as pretty much a dream dog. He is a fully vetted tan Lab mix who plays fetch, tug, soccer, and frisbee with equal commitment, then folds himself onto the couch for cuddle duty like it was the plan all along. Roommate situation: good with cats, though he occasionally forgets personal space exists. He plays well with his foster family’s corgi, and after a slow start the two are now snow-day besties. Great with kids too. He knows sit, lay down, shake, and has added wait and stay, and he is very food motivated, so training sessions are his favorite game. Still working on leash manners and crate training, and he is a big fan of car rides. Think he’s your match? Apply at ITVrescue.org 💛 | 🍕 Bonus Buzz: He is a true velcro dog, so wherever you are is where he wants to be. If you work from home, he has already applied for the job of sitting on your feet. | | Apply to meet Marley Mo · It Takes a Village K9 Rescue | ADOPT → |
| All ITV dogs are examined by a veterinarian, given age-appropriate vaccinations, dewormed, microchipped, spayed/neutered, and heartworm-tested (and treated if needed) before going home. | | 🐾 | a buzz weekly · spotlight | 🐾 |
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🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 🐾 | | 🐝 THE FINAL BUZZ 🎵 Same Three Chords, New Verse Forty years is a long time to keep playing the same three chords and still pull a crowd down to the riverfront. That is the whole trick of a bluegrass festival, and honestly it is the whole trick of a town like this one. You play the thing you love. You play it again next year. Eventually people show up not because it is new, but because it is simply what happens here in August. Shakespeare has been running its play for fifteen years. Friday After 5 just wrapped thirty seasons. The zoo lights go up, the bazaar sets up on Franklin, somebody launches a sandal off the Pagoda. Same chords, new verse. School starts soon and the calendar gets narrow fast. One more festival. One more free Friday. One more verse. See you out there. |
| 📸 Tag us with #EvansvilleBuzz to be featured. Photo ops this week: 🎣 A row of lawn chairs at Audubon Mill Park with the river behind them.
🏮 The biggest lantern at Mesker, shot from directly underneath.
🪲 A chancla mid-flight at the Pagoda. We are begging for this one. |
| 🐝 | Spread the buzz. Forward this to the friend still finding out about shows the day after. We'll save them. |
| Stay local. Stay weird. Stay buzzin'. - The Buzz Team ✌️ |
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