If you kept meaning to get out to Shakespeare at Ijams Park and never did, this is the weekend the window closes. The Tennessee Stage Company's thirty-sixth festival plays its final four nights on the lawn, with King Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor trading places one last time.

The move to make is Thursday. Henry V — the big, rousing one, Agincourt and the St. Crispin's Day speech — is the week's pay-what-you-can night, so it costs whatever you decide. Bring a chair or a blanket, because the lawn is the seating, and parking's free starting thirty minutes before the 7:30 curtain. Kids under fifteen get in free through Penny for the Arts. Everyone else, twenty dollars.

Friday brings the comedy, Merry Wives, and Saturday swings back to Henry V. Then Sunday the whole thing moves indoors to the Visitor Center for a proper send-off: a two o'clock matinee and a 7:30 evening show, both of them Merry Wives — Falstaff getting his comeuppance twice in one day. If it rains any night, the Visitor Center is the backup, so weather isn't automatically a washout.

One small heads-up from the box office of experience: the online ticket page has been a little inconsistent on price from night to night. If a screen quotes you something odd, twenty is the number, and 865-546-4280 settles anything else.

Not everything in this week's Ear is happening for the first time this weekend — some of it has just been waiting for us to catch up. Mimosas opened last November on the ground floor of The Davy, the apartment high-rise at Blount Avenue and Chapman Highway, and somehow we haven't sent you there yet. Fixing that now.

It's an all-day brunch-and-cocktails room from Kennedy Concepts — the group behind Cafe 4 and The Kennedy downtown — built around exactly what the name promises. Bottomless mimosas on the weekend, five-dollar mimosas and six-dollar Bloody Marys any day, and a proper brunch menu Saturday and Sunday from nine to three. There's a happy hour on weekdays, three to six, if a Tuesday needs saving.

One housekeeping note, because we like to get these right: the address turns up two ways online — 222 East Blount Avenue in most listings, a Mimosa Avenue number on a couple of others. It's the ground floor of The Davy at Blount and Chapman; you'll find it. Brunch is a walk-in kind of morning, so you can just show up — but if you'd rather lock in a table, reserve on Resy.

For a month, the big outdoor screen at Kern's was the neighborhood's World Cup living room. The tournament wrapped Sunday, and rather than go quiet, the food hall leaned into what it does the rest of the year — a weekend of live music with a barn dance bolted on.

Friday's the anchor. The Corey Clifton Band plays a rock set from five to a quarter of eight, timed to hand the night straight off to the main event — the Kern's Ho'Down Social, eight to eleven, moved indoors right inside the hall. This is the one to clear your Friday for: honest-to-goodness country dancing, two-steps and line dances, boots encouraged and no partner required. Never done it? That's the whole point — dust off your boots and come find out.

The rest of the weekend keeps the music going. Saturday afternoon brings a candle-making class, then Rossdafareye's loopy "Appalachian space funk" at six. And Sunday winds down easy with the Chattanooga duo Kaylee Brooks and Levi Ouimet, country covers and originals, one to four.

And it's not all music: Friday still brings half-price bottles of wine at Eggspectation, the sit-down spot inside the hall, from three o'clock on. Call it proof the party didn't stop when the World Cup trophy got handed out — Kern's just swapped the big screen for a band and a bottle.

Saturday night, Hi-Wire on Barber Street throws "Panic! At the Drag Show" — an emo-themed drag night, nine to close, eighteen and up, eight bucks in advance. It is exactly as much fun as it sounds, and precisely the kind of thing that makes a brewery district a neighborhood.

Sunday slows the tempo way down. Hi-Wire hosts an Intro to Stained Glass workshop from two to four — eighty dollars for the class, materials included, and you leave with a copper-foil suncatcher of your own; ages fourteen and up. And around the corner, Alliance Brewing on Sevier Avenue has the Breadlosers playing free bluegrass at four, all ages, the kind of easy Sunday-afternoon set you can bring the porch energy to.

Between the two rooms that's a full weekend of Old Sevier nightlife without repeating yourself once.

Earl's keeps its weekday happy-hour rhythm on the waterfront. Thursday it's ten-dollar Patrón mango margaritas; Friday the spicy pineapple ritas we told you about last week are back at nine, both in the four-to-six window, both with a dollar off liquor, beer, and wine on the side. Daily specials excepted, as always.

And the same handy fact still applies: Friday's happy hour lets out at six, ninety minutes before Shakespeare's curtain up the road. Some plans just build themselves.

While the Bard has the lawn, the rest of Ijams Park runs its usual gentle slate. Friday and Saturday both offer a guided Evening Paddle at 7:30, sunset on the Tennessee River with boats provided — register ahead. Saturday fills in around it: free storytelling at the Nature Playscape from ten to noon, and a three-hour Wilderness Basics class in the afternoon for anyone who wants to be a little more capable outdoors.

But the one to circle is Sunday at 7:30 in the morning, when the bird-banding table is back after a couple of weeks off. Researchers net, measure, band, and release wild songbirds close enough to count the feathers — real science, all ages, coffee encouraged. And if you'd rather ease in, Self Care Sunday yoga is in the trees at 11:30.