This weekend in CenLA, LA

At Kees Park, take part in an energizing 90 minute dance class with DJ Bow Bow Bow that blends hip hop, Zumba, and more styles. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

This book club centers on Marie Veillon’s debut, Third and Ten, the first entry in the Camellia Rom-Com series. Set in Camellia, Louisiana, the story follows Tenley Robin, a career-focused midwife who unexpectedly becomes guardian to her teenage nephew, and JD Bourgeois, a devoted football coach who hopes to find a place in their lives. As foster parenting reshapes Tenley’s priorities, she tightens her no-dating rules while JD does his best, sometimes awkwardly, to support both aunt and nephew. Their growing connection unfolds alongside family responsibilities and custody proceedings, raising the question of whether caution will prevail or a leap of faith will. The novel is described as a minty rom-com with Cajun and Catholic influences and a mostly closed-door approach to intimacy. Readers can expect playful innuendo, discussions of sex and chastity, fertility awareness and natural family planning, semi-steamy moments that fade to black, implied nudity, crude humor, and mild language, with explicit scenes left off the page and a tone comparable to PG-13. Content notes include pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum health, body image concerns, alcoholism, grief and loss, cancer, adoption, legal guardianship and child custody, and parental abandonment, with an assured happily ever after.

Bulls, Bands & Barrels brings a powerhouse mix of Western sports and live country music to Laborde Earles Coliseum in Alexandria. The action opens with elite bull riding and freestyle bullfighting, then, once the dust clears, the spotlight shifts to a full concert featuring Hudson Westbrook with special guest Tyce Delk. For an up-close perspective, the Behind the Chutes Experience is available as a $110 VIP add-on and includes standing pit access near the stage, merchandise vouchers, a private VIP entrance, and bar access.

Alexandria gets an adrenaline-charged night as Bulls, Bands, and Barrels pairs Western sports with a live concert at Laborde Earles Coliseum. The arena action features elite bull riders squaring off with high-leaping bulls, barrel racers racing the clock, and freestyle bullfighters taking bold risks. When the dust settles, the focus shifts to a full performance from Hudson Westbrook with special guest Tyce Delk. Guests seeking more can choose the Behind the Chutes Experience, a $110 VIP add-on that offers standing pit access near the stage, merchandise vouchers, a private VIP entrance, and bar access.

Gather with fellow readers for a book club conversation centered on The Gate of Feral Gods, where Carl, a Coast Guard veteran, and Princess Donut keep pushing through a televised, multi level dungeon that never stops throwing surprises. This time the story moves to the fifth floor, featuring a skyborne stronghold held by gnome warriors, a castle shaped from sand, an abandoned submarine watched by glitching machines, and a cursed crypt lined with deadly traps. The mission sounds straightforward at first, take four strongholds inside a single bubble within fifteen days to open the stairwell, yet nothing in this game is ever simple. Discussion may explore the opening blunder that earns an achievement for failing a quest in under five minutes, the need to team up with low level crawlers sharing the bubble, and the lingering question of who can be trusted when survival depends on uneasy alliances.