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SThe Bee’s “Don’t Miss It” entertainment guide

Look for event details in 7 every Friday or online at planitfresno.com

september

TV: One, two, cha-cha-cha with the new season of “Dancing With the

Stars.”

TV: “Guys With Kids” show up at NBC.

CONCERT: Roots rock king Dave Alvin

returns to town, playing

Fulton 55.

BOOK: J.K. Rowling’s much anticipated new novel “The Casual Vacancy” is out.EVENTS:l Visalia’s Taste the Arts festival begins. (Through Oct. 1)l Wine Walk at Fig Garden Village benefiting Habitat for Humanity.

EVENT: Wake up early for the annual ClovisFest in Old Town Clovis. (Through Sept. 16)

ART: “Near and Far: Landscapes by Japanese Artists” opens at Hanford’s Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture. (Through Dec. 22)CONCERT: Baltimore synthpop band Future Islands plays at Audie’s Olympic.EVENT: 2012 TasteFresno Tri-Tip Cook-Off at Chukchansi Park.SPORTS: Fresno State kicks off its home

football season against Weber State. CONCERTS:l Tribute band The Double Doors plays at ApCal Winery in Madera.l Female Led Zeppelin tribute band Lady Zep rocks Starline.

TV: A&E launches “Coma” (above) miniseries.CONCERTS:l The free, all-ages Labor Daze music/tattoo festival features punk bands F----- Up and Ceremony inside the Visalia Convention Center.l It’s a hoedown at Fulton 55 with Rehab, Moonshine Bandits, Whisky Row and E. Rose.

DVD: Make a date with “The Five-Year Engagement.”MUSIC: September is big for album releases and it starts with Matchbox Twenty, Cat Power, Melissa Etheridge, Two Door Cinema Club and T.I.BOOK: Mitch Albom’s “The Time Keeper” is available.

CONCERT: Virtuoso guitarist Buckethead plays the Tower Theatre.

EVENTS:l Craft Beer & Wine Music Festival at Park Place shopping center.l The Madera District Fair begins (through Sept. 9).ART: A lively ArtHop includes shows by Julia Bradshaw at Corridor 2122, Nancy Youdelman at Gallery 25 and the group show “Transparency” at the Chris Sorensen Studio.CONCERTS:l This year’s Fresno Urban Sound Experience music festival (or, FUSE Fest) features 40 bands in 10 venues. (Through Sept. 8)l Punk band Defeater will pack in the kids at Chinatown Youth Center.l Jazz Hop jives in the Tower District and downtown Fresno.l Tower of Power performs at the Madera fair.

EVENT: Christian comedian Ron McGehee performs at “Night of 1,000 Laughs” at New Covenant Community Church.MOVIE: Make a date to see “Bachelorette.”THEATER: StageWorks Fresno opens Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” at the Severance Theatre. (Through Sept. 23)ART: Jonathan Brilliant, artist-in-residence for the Center for Creativity and the Arts, begins an installation at the Henry Madden Library. (Through Sept. 20)CONCERT: Rockers Styx play at Madera District Fair.

EVENTS:l Veterans will be honored at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District facility.l Yiddish Festival begins at Temple Beth Israel.l Margarita Fiesta Night dinner/dance at St. John’s Cathedral social hall.l A Taste of River Park event features food and wine tasting.l Fresno Pet Expo at Fresno Fairgrounds. (Through Sept. 9)l Return to the Fabulous ’50s at California Armenian Home.l A Taste of the Harvest at Garden of the Sun.CONCERTS:l Tulare Country Fairgrounds host Electric Fairy Tale dance party.l Country singer Rodney Atkins plays at Madera fair.l “The Voice” contestant Karla Davis plays at ApCal Winery in Madera.

CONCERTSl Folk artist Laurie Lewis plays Wolk Garden.l Latin star Lupillo Rivera closes the Madera fair.

TV: The new

Katie Couric talk show launches.

DVD: Andy Garcia’s “For Greater Glory” is available.TV: NBC shows us “The New Normal.”MUSIC: Dave Matthews Band, The XX, Bob Dylan, The Avett Brothers, ZZ Top, Kix Brooks and A$AP Rocky put out new albums.BOOK: “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden” by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer is released.

TV: New “X-Factor” judges Demi Lovato and Britney Spears (above) get their first chance to rate talent.CONCERT: Nineties alt-rockers Camper Van Beethoven visit Fulton 55.

MOVIES:l It’s like you’re under the sea as “Finding Nemo” is released in 3D. l Fresno Filmworks screens “Take This Waltz” at the Tower Theatre.CONCERT: Rapper Roach Gigz stops at Star Palace.

MOVIE: Fresno Filmworks screens “The Gold Rush” at the Tower

Theatre.

TV:l You say you want a “Revolution” (below). NBC has it.l Fox turns to “Mob Doctor” to cure ratings blues.CONCERT: Hold the line! Toto performs at Table Mountain Casino.

EVENT: Jamie Lee Curtis speaks at the Central California Women’s Conference.CONCERT: The Fresno Community Chorus snags vocal ensemble Chanticleer for a performance at Shaghoian Hall.MUSIC: New in music stores, albums from Pink, The Killers, Dwight Yoakam, Wiz Khalifa, Grizzly Bear, Carly Rae Jepsen, Big & Rich and Ben Folds Five.GAMES:“Borderlands 2,” hits consoles.BOOK: Author Ken Follett’s “Winter of the World” is released.DVD: “Katy Perry: Part of Me” (below) explodes like a firework into stores.

EVENT: The 23rd Reel Pride gay and lesbian film festival opens at the Tower Theatre. (Through Sept. 23)CONCERT: Country legend Merle Haggard plays Visalia Fox Theatre.

THEATER: “Singin’ in the Rain” opens at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater. (Through Nov. 11)CONCERT: Beloved singer/songwriter David Dondero plays Fulton 55.

EVENT: California Wine Month reception and wine tasting at CRU Wine Co. in Madera.MOVIE: “End of Watch” in theaters.CONCERT: Canadian indie rock band Royal Canoe plays Fulton 55 with Fierce Creatures.

CONCERT: Lance Canales & The Flood and Patrick Contreras play a benefit concert for West African Vocational School.

TV: And the winner is ... ABC airs the Emmy Awards.CONCERTS:l Pianist Jon Nakamatsu opens the Keyboard Concerts season at the Fresno State Concert Hall.l Roots-reggae band The Abyssinians play Audie’s Olympic.l 4th Annual Chamber Music Concert at First Congregational Church of Fresno.EVENTS:l The live stage show version of Disney’s “Phineas & Ferb” plays twice at Saroyan Theatre.l Cherry Avenue Auction Fall Fest Auto Swap at Cherry Ave.

DVD: Suit up! “The Avengers” comes out.TV: “The Mindy Project” begins on FOX.CONCERT: Alt-rockers Local H heat up Fulton 55.MUSIC: Mega album release day alert! Green Day, Mumford & Sons, No Doubt and Lupe Fiasco put out new material.

MOVIE: Welcome to the “Hotel Transylvania” (right). It’s such a lovely place.

TV: Final episodes of “Fringe” start on FOX.ART: The Fresno Art Museum opens two

big fall exhibitions: Arline Fische’s “Garden of Delight: Adornments” and Joel Pickford’s

“Soul Calling.” (Through Jan. 6)COMEDY: “Queen of Mean” Lisa Lampanelli

performs at Saroyan Theatre.EVENT: The Spanspek Music & Arts festival

highlights tunes and culture in Orosi.

MUSIC: The Fresno Philharmonic puts the spotlight on a hometown Grammy winner, Kelley O’Connor (above), to open the season at the Saroyan Theatre. (Through Sept. 30)DANCE: UC Merced presents the acclaimed Lula Washington Dance Theatre.CONCERTS:l Rockers Faster Pussycat roll into Starline.l Experimental band Sonnymoon and local singer Sahab share the stage at Fulton 55.EVENT: Antiques & Collectibles Fair and

British Car Roundup in Old Town Clovis.