•Barking at the Brewpub
Saturday, May 12
BBC St. Matthews
3929 Shelbyville Road
Free; 1-8 p.m.
If your two biggest loves in life are dogs and beer, the BBC in St. Matthews is the place to be on Saturday. Not only does this event celebrate the reopening of their dog-friendly patio for the spring (The Wort Dog Café), but all money collected from the silent auction and a portion of the beer and food sales will go toward the well-being of your puppy’s brethren at Saving Sunny and the Kentucky Humane Society. There will also be a wide variety of culinary treats from local vendors for your four-legged friend, and you can pick up a dog for adoption if one happens to melt your heart. There will also be live music from Rude Lucy and The Potluck Ramblers. Woof? Woof. —Joe Sonka
•Deborah Butterfield
Saturday, May 12
Speed Art Museum
2035 S. Third St. • 634-2700
$10 (museum admission); 2:30 p.m.
Internationally renowned sculptor Deborah Butterfield is the main speaker at the Speed Art Museum’s next “Artist Dialogues.” She will discuss her work as well as her love of horses and dressage. Other members of the panel are local artists Chris Radtke and Gaela Erwin, with curator of contemporary art Suzanne Weaver directing the conversation. They will talk about the artistic process and how one’s passions are reflected in art (Radtke and Erwin are also accomplished horsewomen). The museum has recently acquired Butterfield’s horse sculptures “Danuta” and “Burnt Pine,” which are on view in the show “Inside|Out.” The panel discussion and exhibition are included in museum admission. —Jo Anne Triplett
•Bonnie Raitt
Sunday, May 13
Kentucky Center for the Arts
501 W. Main St. • 584-7777
$54.50-$67.50; 7 p.m.
Her first new album in seven years, first for her own label, sees Bonnie Raitt taking greater control of what has already been an incredible career. Slipstream is the result of locking her longtime touring band in the studio and seeing what happened; some songs get to breathe in ways that her earlier material never did. What makes the new record even more special is her time in Joe Henry’s home studio in California, working with his core musicians, playing covers and Henry originals. Here’s hoping we’ll see a “Deluxe Edition” of Slipstream soon that unveils the rest of their work together. In the meantime, I implore you to sit in a dark room and listen to her take on Henry and Loudon Wainwright III’s “You Can’t Fail Me Now” with someone you more than like. —Damien McPherson