The sun may set at 5:05pm now, but there are still plenty of exciting things to do this weekend. Here are some ideas for you.

Music historian Richie Unterberger shares rare film clips and unheard recordings from his new history of the Velvet Underground, the band Brian Eno said inspired everyone who bought its first album to start a band. 12:40-1:30pm, free.

Drop your name in the watering can and you might get five minutes to tell a true story. Don Reed hosts, and the night’s winner gets coached for a mainstage show at Deer Park Villa. 7-8:30pm, $18.

The rock photographer who shot Woodstock, the Doors’ “Morrison Hotel” and Crosby, Stills & Nash on that famous couch shares stories behind his 250-plus album covers. 8pm, $33.

The restaurateur behind Shake Shack and Union Square Cafe talks leadership, culture and bouncing back from setbacks in his new book, “What Could Possibly Go Right?” 6pm, $35 including the book.

DJ Yuka Yu, my heart is yours to fill or burst. She’s played BottleRock, but for this one night, she spins My Chemical Romance, Paramore and Jimmy Eat World at the downtown arcade bar. 9-11:30pm, $12.

Over 40 artists open their studios at the Novato Arts Center, a former Hamilton Field military building, for wandering and chatting with the artists. Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8, 11am-4pm, free.

Altars fill downtown storefronts, and a candlelit procession winds through the Canal. There’s live music and performances at Pickleweed Park’s Boro Center. 3-9pm, free.

A road-trip documentary about small-town movie houses fighting to survive (including the nearby Monte Rio Theater), screened at a 1940s single-screen theater the Marin community saved. Director Rustin Thompson stays for a Q&A. 4:30pm, $16.

The Nicasio farm animal sanctuary throws a cow-baret gala that raises money for the rescued animals and youth programs. El Radio Fantastique plays, plus there’s magic, burlesque and more. 5pm at the Fairfax Pavilion, $250.

Four-part harmonies about love and romance for the chorus’s 75th annual show, plus guest quartets. Pizza with the singers afterwards at Mountain Mike’s. 2pm at the Showcase Theatre, $35 ($25 for 18 and under).

Bid on items from the estate of Stag’s Leap founders Warren and Barbara Winiarski, whose Cabernet won the 1976 Judgment of Paris and put Napa on the map. There’s furniture, rugs, art and Savile Row tailoring. Closes Sunday at 3pm (pickup in Napa on November 14, some items can be shipped).

Over 200 artists fill the Marin Center Exhibit Hall at the Marin Arts & Crafts Show, Friday-Sunday, 10am-5pm, with free entry and parking. On Sunday, The French Market is also back at the Civic Center’s Armory lot, 9am-3pm, free.

Nicasio’s town square looks like it stopped changing a century ago, and the roadhouse at its center fits right in. Stagecoaches stopped here in the mid-1800s. The 1867 Hotel Nicasio burned down in December 1940, and the white-stucco Rancho was built on the same spot a year later.

These days it’s best known for its summer BBQs on the Lawn concert series. In winter, consider it an indoor roadhouse and grab a seat in the Western Room. It has knotty pine, animal heads on the walls, wagon-wheel chandeliers, a long oak bar and a brick fireplace. Owner Bob Brown came from the music industry, most famously as the manager of Huey Lewis and the News (and Bob played a big part in getting Huey Lewis and the American Express to change their name). In 1979 he brought that young band here to open for Van Morrison. Almost twenty years later he bought the place, mostly to save one of California’s last true roadhouses.

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— Allison + Brian