Modest Mouse in Crosstown, an artist speed date at DKDC, and fall break at the library

Hey Memphis 👋 It's Monday, and fall break starts today for Memphis-Shelby County and Germantown kids. It's sunny and near 91, which is a lot of summer for the middle of October, and tonight only cools to about 68.

Modest Mouse — Satellite Music Hall, 1291 Autumn Ave., doors 7, show 8, all ages, no price posted by the venue. The indie-rock band brings its tour to Crosstown with Caroline Rose opening, and tickets were still on sale Sunday. Details

Musical Paris 1870–1940 — Rhodes College, McNeill Concert Hall on the West Campus, 7 PM, free. The Luna Nova Music Ensemble plays music written in Paris between 1870 and 1940. Register on the page and Rhodes emails you a parking pass the day before. Details

Artist Speed Date, Vol. 4 — Bar DKDC, 964 S. Cooper St., 6:30–8:30 PM, $10. Make a name tag out of art supplies, then rotate through seven-minute table chats with other Memphis makers looking for a collaborator. Details

Mahjong Monday — Pike & West, 2277 West St., Germantown, 6:30–8:30 PM, $25. Bam Bird Society's fall league starts tonight, and any single Monday is open. It's for people who already play American mahjong, so bring your current NMJL card. Details

Jamming Group — Lakeland Senior Center, International Harvester Clubhouse, 4523 Canada Rd., Lakeland, 2–4 PM, free. An open acoustic jam every Monday afternoon. Bring a guitar, a fiddle or just your voice and play along. Details

👶 With the kids

Pixel Pioneers STEM Workshop — Cossitt Library, 33 S. Front St., 11 AM–2 PM, free, ages 8 and up. Kids play custom-built games to learn how data actually moves online, from binary to packets to servers. Details

Fall Break Game Time — Orange Mound Library, 843 Dallas St., 1–3 PM, free, ages 5 and up. An afternoon of Uno, Jenga and Mancala to fill the first day off. Details

Pokémon Club — Burch Library, Collierville, 5–6:30 PM, free, all ages, no registration. Bring the binder. It's a come-and-go hour of trading and battling. Details

An update on Friday's note about Hattiloo: the Bridging Worlds festival is back on its website, now as a Rwanda-focused run from Oct. 13 to 25. Festival admission is free with an RSVP, and it opens Tuesday at 6 PM with a hands-on Rwandan dance workshop for kids, led by visiting artists. Tickets for We Choose Tomorrow, three original plays with the visiting Rwandan artists and Black American artists on one stage, go on sale Wednesday for $35. (via Hattiloo)

It's Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. Post offices are closed, and most banks are too, since it's a Federal Reserve holiday. MATA doesn't list today as a holiday, so buses should be on their normal weekday schedule. (via USPS)

Downtown drivers: the City is repaving Union and Monroe between Front and Main, plus Front from Peabody Place to Court, and expects to wrap by Friday, Oct. 23. Street parking on those blocks is off-limits until then, but the garages and businesses stay open. (via City of Memphis)

Midtown has a new piece of art underfoot. Artists were set to paint a designed crosswalk at Madison Ave. and Avalon St. on Sunday, a UrbanArt Commission project with the City designed by Khara Woods. (via Action News 5)

Pint Nite at the Flying Saucer — 130 Peabody Place, all day. Every beer on the wall is $5 on Mondays, which is a good excuse to try one you'd normally pass over. The downtown bar closes at 11. Details

Theatre Memphis opens Million Dollar Quartet this Friday at 7:30, the 1956 Sun Records night when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins jammed together, so get your opening-weekend seats.

Little Women: The Broadway Musical is back this weekend at Germantown Community Theatre, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 with a Sunday matinee at 2:30, and it closes Oct. 25, so pick your night.

Two Saturdays from now, the Memphis Symphony joins Opera Memphis for Verdi's Rigoletto in concert at the Cannon Center, Oct. 24 at 7:30, so book your tickets.

One week left to sign up in person for the Memphis Zoo's Howl-O-Ween Hustle 5K, a costumed run or walk through the zoo and Overton Park on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 AM, so register by Monday the 19th ($70, $60 for members).

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Día de Muertos Parade & Festival — Downtown, Saturday, Oct. 24, free. The parade leaves Court Square at 11 and heads down the Main Street Mall, then the festival runs noon to 3 at the Halloran Centre with Mariachi Guadalajara, Danza Azteca and the U of M Marimba Ensemble. Cazateatro puts it on with the Memphis Art Museum and the Orpheum. Details

Morris Day & The Time + The S.O.S. Band — the Orpheum, Sunday, Oct. 25, 7 PM, $63.85–$208.70. Two '80s funk-and-soul acts on one bill, two weeks out. Details

Memphis Art Museum opens — 55 S. Front St., Sunday, Dec. 6. The new riverfront museum opens with a free celebration weekend, and admission stays free for Shelby County residents for good. Details

Jennifer K. wrote in that she works three weekends out of four, "so I love the weekday happenings!" That's the reason we send every weekday, Jennifer. Today's list is all yours.

One more breakfast answer, from Kay E.: the black bean breakfast burrito at Brother Juniper's. That's two votes for Brother Juniper's now.

Halloween is under three weeks out. If your street or a house you drive past goes all out on decorations, reply with where it is, and we'll round up the best ones before the 31st.

The tip line never closes — a pop-up, a band, a fall-break find we missed. No gatekeeping — send it to hey@heymemphis.co.

That's it for today — see you tomorrow at 6.

— Josh