FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010 >>>

1. DJs dAb and Suga Jones will spin new wave, '80s, funk, pop and club classics during Beat Box at the Tempest Lounge beginning at 9:30 p.m. Don't be an airhead and miss this bad party.

2. Bike-to-Work Week continues today with a bike fashion show and picnic from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Wright Park. The first 75 bicycle-riding attendees to the picnic will receive a free box lunch from Marlene's Marketplace.

3. Adventure cyclist Willie Weir tells his tale of his five-month journey through post apartheid South Africa at 6 p.m. inside Tacoma Mountaineers Club.

4. PLOP - or the Performance Laboratory for Objects and Puppets - brings the world of innovative puppetry and object theater to downtown Olympia's Northern space at 8 p.m.

5. Hot off his win at the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition Nate Jackson will perform at 8:30 p.m. at the Comedy Underground inside the Big Whisky Saloon in downtown Tacoma.

LINK: New movies open today