SATURDAY, AUG. 13, 2011 >>>

1. For four years The Red Hot has served stellar craft beer and hefty, unique hot dogs from an intimate, red-walled space on Sixth Avenue. Today, beginning at 11 a.m. TRH celebrates its success with an outdoor beer garden, outdoor charcoal grilled hot dogs and 7 Seas Bloody Seas Bloody Mary-infused Beer, Snoqualmie Falls pub-only keg of Little Si Kolsch, Cascade Brewing Test Drive IPA and Cascade Lime/Ginger/Honey Sour, and Two Beers Heart of Darkness Imperial CDA.

2. The D.A.S.H. Center's Hip-Hop In the Park will go down in People's Park from noon to 8 p.m., filling the bowled grass and surrounding streets with all things hip-hop: dancing, rapping, poetry, singing - including a Freestyle MC Battle. There will be food and merchandise vendors, a beer garden at the Tempest Lounge and more.

3. An artist reception for Bill Colby's Beta exhibit will take place from 2-5 p.m. at flow gallery. To read Weekly Volcano art critic Alec Clayton's review of the show, click here.

4. For the third year, Tacoma neon artist Galen McCarty Turner will throw on a funny helmet and jump his bicycle through glowing neon tubing sometime between 7 and 10 p.m. in the alley at Sixth and I Streets before a cheering crowd. The Weekly Volcano was there last year.

5. The Hollywood Kill Krew celebrates the release of their new album, Smoke Monster, with BooZ E CollinZ, Free Whiskey and host Tom Booze at 9 p.m. inside Le Voyeur in downtown Olympia.

PLUS: More events in our Weekend Hustle

LINK: More arts and entertainment events today in the South Sound

LINK: Wine tastings!