The resale shop eyedia, design it again at 1631 Mellwood Ave. now has a gallery featuring original art. 

•Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zang Dance Co.

Saturday, Nov. 21

Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center
501 W. Main St.
562-0100
$20-$38; 8 p.m.

All right, try this on for size: an interpretation of Lincoln. Sounds a little stiff and boring, eh? All right, let’s modify this in an important way: interpretations of Lincoln through dance. And this isn’t just a ton of dancing Lincolns (although I hope there are some); this is a fully developed speculation on what America would be like had Lincoln completed Reconstruction. Bill T. Jones (Tony award-winning director) aims to explore a much more complicated idea of Lincoln than we normally get, to try and come to a conclusion on what contributions the man really left, and what he could have done had he lived longer. This work, commissioned by the Ravina Festival, premiered at the American Dance Festival just before arriving in Louisville this week. —Pawl Schwartz

•Carrie Newcomer

Saturday, Nov. 21

Crescent Hill Baptist Church
2800 Frankfort Ave.
896-4425
$20; 8 p.m.

Carrie Newcomer, renown singer/songwriter, will be in concert at Crescent Hill Baptist Church on Saturday. This concert is a benefit for Choices, Inc. which offers transitional housing and help for women and their children.

•’The Piano Man’s Piano Man’

Louisville Palace
583-4555
LouisvilleOrchestra.org
$25-$75; 8 p.m.

Broadway sensation Michael Cavanaugh, hand picked by Billy Joel to star in his smash hit Movin’ Out, brings a thrilling night of the Piano Man’s music to the Louisville Orchestra on Saturday.

•Lights Under Louisville

Nov. 21-Jan. 3

Mega Cavern
1841 Taylor Ave.
855-6342
www.louisvillemegacavern.com
$20/car

The Mega Cavern is offering a whole new way of viewing Christmas lights. No longer do you have to peer through steamy windows at multi-colored yard displays. They’re taking this experience underground, where the temperature stays a smooth 58 degrees all year ’round. Lights Under Louisville features more than 35 holiday displays using nearly 1 million points of light. And for the first time in the Cavern’s history, you get to drive your own vehicle through the massive limestone quarry, which, even though underground, is actually the largest building in the state.

While the idea of paying to see Christmas lights may be a bit far-fetched this holiday season, the Mega Cavern is offering a way for local charities to make money. Check the website for details. —Sara Havens

•Neighborhood talk w/ Tom Owen

Sunday, Nov. 22

Clifton Center
2117 Payne St.
Free; 2 p.m.

Owens will deliver an expanded version of his popular neighborhood talk titled: “Everybody’s Gotta Be From Somewhere — Close!” He will also show highlights from his six neighborhood videos.

•Kings of Pop Concert

Sunday, Nov. 22

Jewish Community Center
3600 Dutchmans Lane
www.jccoflouisville.org
$12; 3 p.m.

“Kings of Pop” will feature music from The Beatles, Billy Joel and Michael Jackson.  Families are invited to bring their blanket and the JCC will provide popcorn for a popcorn picnic.

Nov. 20-22, 27-29

Kentucky Center
584-7777
myspace.com/ayutc
$16; 8 p.m. (2:30 p.m. Nov. 22 & 29)

Book, Music, Lyrics by Rick Besoyan, it’s one of the most successful off-Broadway productions.

Nov. 20 & 22

Brown Theatre
315 W. Broadway
584-7777
kyopera.org
$35-$85; 8 p.m. (Fri.), 2 p.m. (Sun.)

The Hansel and Gretel story began in a Grimm Brothers fairytale called “Babes in the Woods.” But the Grimm story is pretty grim, with a mother sending her children off into the woods to lose them. A much happier version — good mom, bad witch — is the tale as we know it today through the opera “Hansel and Gretel,” written in 1893 by Englebert Humperdinck, and presented this weekend by the Kentucky Opera. It’s a beautiful opera, and many of the melodies will be familiar to audiences. Humperdinck was a part of the German musical world of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, helping create a lush, romantic, symphonic sound. “Hansel and Gretel” is laced with multi-tiered chords and sweet harmonies — like a gingerbread house, if you will. Victoria Livengood appears as the wicked witch, with Leah Wool as Hansel and Anya Matanovic as Gretel. —Bill Doolittle

Holy Spirit Church
3345 Lexington Road
893-3982
hspirit.org

Features 35 booths this year with a variety of vendors selling jewelry, artwork, pottery, children’s clothing and accesories that are fun and ‘edgy,’ so to speak, home decor items, stationary and also ’off the wall’ items.

Friday, Nov. 20

Carmichael’s Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Ave.
896-6950
Free; 7 p.m.

You’ve seen them — underground band posters with cute animals, hand-drawn type and complex, muted colors advertising My Morning Jacket, Built to Spill, The Melvins and others. The artist, Jay Ryan of Chicago, has a new book out called “Animals and Objects In and Out of Water,” and he’s coming to town Friday to do a book signing at Carmichael’s. The book is a collection of 120 of Ryan’s personal favorites from the last three years with a foreword written by Andrew Bird. If you’re a connoisseur of design, poster art, screenprinting or illustration and you’re not familiar with his work, now’s your chance. Graphic artist Paul Hornschemeier of “Forlorn Funnies” will join Ryan at the signing. —Britany Baker

Friday, Nov. 20

Seelbach Hilton Hotel
500 S. Fourth St.
www.gallopalooza.com 
$50-$100; 7:30 p.m. 

Gallopalooza, Inc., the civic pride project that is currently displaying more than 130 life-size horses designed by professional and amateur artists throughout the Louisville area, plans to auction approximately 100 of the horse statues to the highest bidders in Live and Online Auctions next month to raise money for community beautification projects done in partnership with Brightside.  The 32 remaining horses were bought by their initial sponsors, who had the first right of refusal to purchase the artful equines outright.

Friday, Nov. 20

Louisville Palace
625 S. Fourth St.
583-4555
$57-$97; 8 p.m.

I don’t find nothin’ wrong with a little bump ’n’ grind either, as long as your partner is of legal age and it’s consensual. I also believe I can fly, have been trapped in a closet and remind myself of a Jeep. So when I heard R. Kelly was coming to town, I was first in line to see the world’s greatest contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. I mean, this is the man who penned Michael Jackson’s “You Are Not Alone” and had his hands all over Aaliyah’s debut album in 1995. Sure, R has faced some hardships throughout his career — a few sex scandals with minors here and there — but he’s back and ready to rock the mic right. R comes to town Friday on his Ladies Make Some Noise Tour (I gotta get a T-shirt for this one!). Come let him croon the pants off ya. —Sara Havens

Nov. 20-22

Slugger Field
$5 ($3 for children); 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
HelpKosairChildrensHospital.com 

This year’s 20th anniversary Festival of Trees & Lights will herald the start of the holiday season while benefiting the Kosair Children’s Hospital neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Presented by Republic Bank, the event will be held at Louisville Slugger Field Nov. 20 to 22, and will feature activities for all ages as well as an opportunity to get a jump-start on holiday shopping. A special ticketed event, Dickens Family Night, presented by Northwestern Mutual – TheKentucky/Southern Indiana Group, will be held the evening of Nov. 20.

Through Nov. 21

Walden Theatre
1123 Payne St.
589-0084
www.waldentheatre.org
$15 ($10 students); 7:30 p.m. (w/ 2 p.m. matinee on Sat.)

In the spirit of the Greek tradition of The Festival of Dionysus, you can celebrate by singing or dancing, or seeing Walden Theatre’s “It’s All Greek …” With this production, Walden continues to provide an opportunity for young people to grow and develop through the comprehensive study of theater. And what better opportunity is there than to start where theater began — with the Greeks. Greek theater introduced the world to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, who brought us such plays as “Agamemnon,” “Antigone” and “Oedipus,” among others.

Adapted and directed by Julane Havens, “It’s All Greek …” celebrates some of the Greeks’ most fabulous females. Taking a closer look at these women, it’s amazing to realize how these influential female characters have been recreated over and over in history. We have the opportunity to take a glimpse of where it all began. —Laura Morton