The 808, the music venue that opened at 808 Sevier Avenue in October with national touring acts, gives Friday to the locals. College Night is three Knoxville bands on the hour, Ella Pinchock at eight, Fort Knox at nine and Pocket Ace at ten, with the doors at seven. It is five dollars at the door and free for anyone who RSVPs on the venue's Posh page, eighteen and up. The room's own line is come out and support the city's local talent. The Vols are not playing until Saturday, so the avenue is yours Friday.

SoKno Sourdough, the all-sourdough bakery on Barber Street, opens its doors for First Friday with Peter Riesing's art on the walls and Paradise Chocolate at a table. Paradise, the Knoxville bean-to-bar maker, was at the bakery for an earlier First Friday and is back with its bars and something new from its kitchen: a chocolate tonic, which it will be pouring as samples. The bakery and the chocolate are both small, woman-run South Knoxville businesses, and this is the kind of evening where you meet the people who make the thing. Paradise moves on to the Drop Inn's fire pit for Fall Fest on Saturday with s'mores and drinking chocolate.

Cut Corners, the Atlanta collective that describes itself as engineering random acts of creativity through music, dancing and interactive art, is on tour and taking over Fly by Night, the seventies cocktail lounge on Sevier Avenue, on Saturday. Their own announcement promises a toolbox of bouncy techno, banging club and bubbling house from nine until one, ten dollars at the door. Fly by Night is the lounge that ran four Halloween nights in a row last week, so the floor is warmed up. Kentucky kicks off against the Vols at 6:15 Saturday; the game should be done around the time the first DJ goes on, and the Sevier Avenue bars will be emptying out of the fourth quarter.

Knox Vintage Pet Project is the small rescue that finds homes for the old dogs and the ones with medical bills, and Bow Wow Bingo is how it pays for them. Sunday's is at Printshop from two to four: bingo cards, cold beer, and foster dogs walking the patio looking for a lap. The rescue's own rule is that it is kid friendly, dog friendly and beer friendly, so bring the leash and the stroller. Last month's bingo was at Alliance Brewing; this one moves up Island Home Avenue to the brewery on the river, and the forecast is mostly sunny and 65, a patio day.

UpTop is the rooftop bar on the Kern's patio, the newest of the food hall's three bars, and Thursday it runs its first karaoke night: two hours of singing from seven to nine with half off select drinks, pop-ups, and a drawing for a date night that Kern's itself will host. Thursday is also the night Roni's Mac Bar runs themed trivia on the Scruffy Bar screens downstairs at 6:30, so the building has a warm-up act. Rain showers are likely Thursday; UpTop bills itself as indoor-outdoor, so the microphone stays dry.

All Play Live is a touring game show for families: parents and kids form a team, the host runs interactive games and challenges, the audience plays along and there are prizes. Kern's puts it on the lawn Thursday at seven, and the food hall's own advice is to grab dinner inside first and a sweet treat after. Showers are likely Thursday afternoon and evening, so check the Kern's feed before you load the car; the hall is open until ten regardless.

Misfit Herd's goat yoga is a yoga class with small goats loose in it, which is to say the goats climb on you during the poses and everyone takes pictures. Kern's had it booked for November 1 and 7; the first date was cancelled, so Saturday's 8:30 class on the lawn is the one. Tickets are sold on Misfit Herd's page, linked above. Saturday is mostly sunny but starts at 42 degrees, so dress for a cold mat, and the food hall opens at eight for coffee on the way in.

Moss, the park says, is where children learned to look for fairies, and it is also an organism that holds the story of the forest in its structure. Moss Meander is two hours at Mead's Quarry with an Ijams Nature Center naturalist, learning to tell the species apart and what each one says about the ground it grows on, at the one time of year the moss is the greenest thing in the woods. Meet at the picnic tables by the quarry lot at two; it is fifteen dollars, for ages sixteen and up, and the walk is on uneven trail. Saturday is mostly sunny and 66.

Outside can be a scary place, the course description admits: bears, winter storms, critters and mountains. Wilderness Basics is the park's introductory answer, three hours on Saturday morning learning to prioritize in a survival scenario, build a shelter, start and keep a fire, and find and store food, with some walking between the lessons. It is for ages fourteen and up, fifteen dollars, and it starts at nine from the visitor center at 2915 Island Home Avenue with the parking fee waived for the class. The waiver at ijams.org/waiver covers you for the year.

The Ijams community science team runs a bird banding station in the woods behind Meads Quarry, and a few mornings a season it lets the public in. Sunday's is one: at eight the group meets in the quarry lot, walks five minutes to the station and watches migratory and resident songbirds safely netted, measured, banded and released, the data going toward the health of the birds around South Knoxville. Five dollars is the whole ticket, it is ninety minutes, and November is late migration, so the nets catch the birds that stay. It is 41 at dawn Sunday and clear.

KB Sound Healing brings Tibetan singing bowls, crystal bowls, a gong and the rest of its instruments to the big room at the Ijams Nature Center visitor center Sunday at ten for an hour-long sound bath, which is a lie-down meditation where the sound does the work. Bring whatever makes an hour on the floor comfortable: a mat, a blanket, a pillow. It is twenty-five dollars. If you want to stack the morning, the bird banding at Meads Quarry ends at 9:30, a five-minute drive away, and Hope Irwin's Sunday yoga class follows in the same building at 11:30 for ten dollars.

Earl's, the bar and kitchen on Waterfront Drive at Suttree Landing, runs one special a day from eleven to ten, and Saturday the game-day board comes out on top of it: the Vols host Kentucky at 6:15 and Earl's runs two dollars off drafts, six-dollar Orange Bliss cocktails, six beer buckets for the price of five, two dollars off pizza and four- and five-dollar shots all day, with eight-dollar house margaritas as Saturday's standing deal. Thursday is ten-dollar Patrón mango ritas under likely rain showers, Friday nine-dollar spicy pineapple ritas on a partly sunny 70-degree afternoon, and Sunday seven-dollar mimosas and Bloody Marys for whatever the score was.

In August we reported that the Planning Commission had approved 225 apartments for people 55 and over on the old Kerbela Shriners site, and that design and permitting came next. They don't, for now. On October 13 City Council upheld an appeal from members of the South Waterfront Advisory and Advocacy Group and overturned that approval, 5-4. The commission's own vote had been 7-6.

The fight was over seven exceptions the developer, CR Endeavors, wanted from the South Waterfront code. The company says the site's unusual terrain makes it hard to meet every requirement. Council attorney Rob Frost said the vote turned on whether the project met the code's intent, and that this was the first appeal of its kind ever to reach the council. Debbie Helsley, Lynne Fugate, Denzel Grant and Doug Lloyd voted for the apartments.

CR Endeavors can bring a new proposal, walk away, or take it to Knox County Chancery Court, and Frost said it has 60 days to file suit. The company said in October that it would evaluate its next steps, and we found no announcement as of Monday. The Shriners still owned the land as of the last reports. We'll be watching.