EVENTS:l The annual Butterfly Festival (right) flutters in Mariposa (Through May 6).l Use the Force. The Star Wars Pub Crawl takes over 10 bars in the Tower District.l Enjoy Mexican food, dance and music at the annual Fresno Cinco de Mayo Festival on the Fulton Mall. (Through May 6)CONCERTS:l ApCal wine tasting room kicks off its summer concert series with Deja Blues.l Paging Jerome! Morris Day & The Time play at the Rotary Amphitheatre at Woodward Park.THEATER:l Fresno State opens the musical “Assassins.” (Through May 12)l Playhouse Merced opens “The Elephant Man.” (Through May 13)

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BOOKS: New stories from Charlaine Harris (“Deadlocked”), Nora Roberts (“The Last Boyfriend) and Veronica Roth (“Insurgent.)”MUSIC: New releases out from Carrie Underwood, Norah Jones, Santigold, Marilyn Manson and B.o.B.TV: Can’t weight? It’s the season finale of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.”

CONCERT: Rockers Middle Class

Rut pump up Fulton 55.LECTURE: David

Barsamian: Occupying Capitalism at Arte Americas plaza.

MOVIES: Stay up late and see midnight screening of “The Avengers” (above).ART: Monthly ArtHop includes the opening of a Mary Maughelli exhibition at Fig Tree Gallery. (Through June 3)CONCERT: It’s another month of JazzHop. Free music at more than a dozen venues in the Tower District.EVENT: The Great Fresno Tweetup 4 rallies the local Twitter community at the Fresno Grizzlies game.

ART: The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture in Hanford opens “Kamisaka Sekka, 1866-1942: Tradition and Modernity.” (Through July 28)COMEDY: Funnyman Manny Maldanado performs at the Visalia Fox Theatre.CONCERTS:l The Fresno Community Chorus sings Honegger’s “King David” at Shaghoian Hall.l The Fresno City College Opera Workshop presents “Opera Gala — Make a Scene” at the Old Administra-tion Building Auditorium.l Fresno State’s Clendenin Brass Quintet holds its spring concert at the university’s Concert Hall.l Three Rivers Music Festival at Lion’s Roping Arena.EVENTS:l Don’t forget, it’s “Free Comic Book Day.”l The eighth annual Fresno Tattoo Expo fills the Fresno Convention Center with ink aficionados. MOVIE: “Finding Hope Now” debuts at Wilson Theatre.

CONCERTS:l Soli Deo Gloria performs “A Salute to Spring” at University Presbyterian Church.l Keyboard concert with Emanuel Ax at Fresno State Concert Hall.TV:l Season three of Disney’s “Good Luck Charlie” starts.l “Amazing Race” reaches season’s end.l “GCB” season ends. Amen.

BOOK: New Women’s Murder Club

release from James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (“11th Hour”).

CONCERT: Indie hip-hop vet Murs plays

Fulton 55.

DVD: Make “The Vow” to rent this release.BOOKS: Big books day. New releases from funnyman Stephen Colbert (“I Am a Pole (And So Can You!),” Hilary Mantel (“Bring Up the Bodies”), Richard Paul Evans (“The Road to Grace”) and Cassandra Clare (“City of Lost Souls”).MUSIC: Keane, Silversun Pickups, Glenn Frey, Rita Wilson, Off! and Karmin release new albums.TV: You can hear who wins this season of “The Voice.”

CONCERT: Fleetwood Mac’s

Lindsey Buckingham

(right) visits Tower Theatre.

TV: “Around the World in 80 Plates”

begins on Bravo.

EVENT: Yum! Celebrate Tower District business at the annual Taste and Toast of the Tower.TV: Season finale of “The Vampire Diaries” at stake.

MOVIES: Johnny Depp (left) gets vampy for “Dark Shadows.”

CONCERT: Jazz musician Amina Figarova plays at

The Brick.OPERA: “Show Boat” at

the Saroyan Theatre closes the 2011-12 season for Fresno

Grand Opera. (Through May 12)

CONCERTS:l Rapper Andre Nickatina returns to the Crest Theatre.l Tribute band battle: The Beatles vs. The Stones at Tower Theatre.l Western/comedy band Riders in the Sky fly high at the Hanford Fox Theatre.EVENTS:l The annual Spring Fling party brings music, fashion and cocktails to the Rotary Amphitheatre at Woodward Park.l The Fresno FiberArts Guild presents a fashion show and exhibit at the Golden Palace Banquet Hall.l Spring Dessert Tea “Mother’s Day Social” at the Meux Home Museum.l Meet The Winemaker Weekend on Madera Wine Trail (above).

CONCERT: Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers visit Fulton 55.EVENT: It’s Mother’s Day. Tell your mom you love her.TV:l First dishes of eighth season of “Food Network Star” served.l Winner crowned in “Survivor: One World.”l Say farewell to “Desperate Housewives.”

CONCERT: Humorous rockers Psychostick (right) play Starline.MOVIES: Text this — Meet me at “L.O.L.”TV: Jake finally graduates on “Two and a Half Men.”

BOOKS: “The Accused” is out from John Grisham.DVD: Glenn Close’s “Albert Nobbs” in stores.MUSIC: Santana, Adam Lambert, Willie Nelson, Beach House and Best Coast are among the new music releases.

SPORTS: The Amgen Tour of California (left) stops in Old Town Clovis. CONCERT: Pop singer Rachel Platten serenades Fulton 55.MOVIES: “The Dictator” invades local theaters.

LECTURE: Stedman Graham speaks at Valley Teen Ranch’s 25th anniversary dinner at Fresno Convention Center.

CONCERTS:l Natalie Cole (right) performs

at the Visalia Fox Theatre with the the Tulare County Symphony

backing her.l Cash’d Out plays your favorite

Johnny Cash songs at Fulton 55.EVENT: The Inner Ear Poetry

Jam celebrates its 10-year anniversary at Tower Lounge.

MOVIES: “Battleship” looks to blast box office.

TV: Season finale of “Grimm” on NBC.

BOOKS: Emmy Award-winning writer Gene Perret holds workshops at Book Barn.CONCERTS: KISS tribute band Destroyer plays Starline.EVENTS: Fresno Pirate Festival at Roeding Park. (Through May 20)

CONCERTS:l S.F. rockers Soft White Sixties perform at Audie’s Olympic.l The Sounds of Freedom military concert band plays Clovis Veterans Memorial Building for Armed Forces Day.TV: “American Ninja Warrior” premieres on G4.

DVD: “Red Tails,” starring Terrence Howard, will be flying out of stores.MUSIC: New albums out from Slash, John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa and Kris Allen.TV: Last “Glee” of the season airs.

CONCERT: Blues vet Tab Benoit returns to Fresno to headline Fulton 55.TV: l ABC’s “Revenge” wraps season.l “American Idol” winner named.

EVENT: Swede Fest (right) — Fresno’s wacky festival for parodied movies — is

at Sierra Vista Cinemas 16. CONCERT: Dev and The

Cataracs bring “swag pop” to Rainbow Ballroom.

THEATER: Good Company Players open “The Sound

of Music” at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater. (Through

July 15)

COMEDY: Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam slams into Saroyan Theatre.CONCERT: Folk group The Lovebirds plays at Fresno Brewing Co.

THEATER: New Wrinkles Remembers American Bandstand

at Fresno City College Theatre.

(Through June 10)

MOVIES: They’re back!

“Men in Black III”

(left) opens .

CONCERT: The first Hmong Music Festival showcases Hmong music of all genres at Fresno

Fairgrounds. CONCERT: Fresno Community Concert Band celebrates “American Classics: A Patriotic Concert” at the Shaghoian Hall.

HOLIDAY: Happy Memorial Day!TV: Take sides. “Hatfields & McCoys” on History.

DVD: Go out on a ledge and rent “Man on a Ledge.”MUSIC: New albums released from Sigur Rós, Regina Spektor, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Travis Porter.TV: Check into “The Catalina” on the CW.

COMEDY: Funnyman

and puppeteer Jeff Dunham

(right) is at Table

Mountain Casino.

ART: An important new retrospective

of the work of

Clement Renzi (left)

opens at the Fresno Art Museum. (Through

Sept. 2)TV:

“Breaking Pointe”

dances on to CW schedule.

TV: The doctor is way out as “House” ends.