What to do in Milwaukee this weekend: Oct. 7-9
Chris Foran
LEGO KidsFest invades the Wisconsin Center Friday through Sunday, with activities including an interactive LEGO Star Wars relay race and action-figure building area, and the Master Builder's Lab, the on-site home of LEGO's model designers and creators. Organizers of the event, at the convention center at 400 W. Wisconsin Ave., expect that the traveling building-block fest will have its 1 millionth visitor while in Milwaukee. Tickets are $19 for sessions from 4-8:30 p.m. Friday and 3-7:30 p.m. Sunday; and $22 for sessions from 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (the 3-7:30 p.m. session Saturday is sold out). Remaining tickets will be available at the door and via ShowClix.com.
Info: legokidsfest.com
Or you can get revved across the street at Mama Tried's Flat-Out Friday, an indoor-track motorcycle race run on a "Dr Pepper soda syrup surface" in the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, 400 W. Kilbourn Ave. The competition, divided among nine motorcycles, begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $47 for VIP reserved admission, $17 for adult general admission and $12 for kids general admission.
Info: wcd.org
The Milwaukee NARI Fall Home & Remodeling Show camps out at the Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park, 8200 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis., noon-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $10, $8 for seniors, and free for kids 17 and younger and for members of the military with I.D.
Info: milwaukeenari.org
It's Meijer Free First Friday at the Milwaukee Art Museum, which means free admission all day Friday at the museum, 700 N. Art Museum Drive. Per usual, it's open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays.
Info: mam.org
Milwaukee Empty Bowls' 18th annual fundraiser combining artful bowls, good soup and a great cause is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kern Center, 1245 N. Broadway, on the campuse of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The artful bowls are $25 each, with kid-made bowls going for $10; the soup and bread come from local chefs as part of the deal.
Info: milwaukeeemptybowls.org
It's still October, so there's still plenty of Oktoberfest action in Milwaukee. Find out more in the Beer Here column on 8E.