Pop and roll: Six-person Chicago band Canasta performs its brand of orchestral pop at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Firebird before really taking its show on the road: A tour of Mongolia follows this Midwest leg.
Remembering MLK: Activist, comedian and St. Louis native Dick Gregory will kick off Harris-Stowe State University's 26th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration with a keynote address at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the university's auditorium. Free.
Historic perspective: The Missouri History Museum screens "Banished" at 1 p.m. Saturday. The documentary by a New York University professor looks at the lives of African-Americans who faced racism in Pierce City, Mo., and three other U.S. communities. Free.
Tuxedo-clad band: It may be getting too cold outside for humans, but the penguins and puffins at the St. Louis Zoo are loving this weather. Visit them at 2 p.m. Sunday when the Penguin Parade marches from the zoo's gift shop to the Penguin and Puffin Coast.
SLU vs. Temple: Watch the surging St. Louis University Billikens men's basketball team take on the Temple Owls at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Chaifetz Arena. $12-$40.
Evan S. Benn is the assistant editor of Go! magazine. He also writes about beer and food, and he is author of the 2011 Post-Dispatch book "Brew in the Lou: St. Louis' Beer Culture - Past, Present and Future," available here. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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