John Lamb

​This weekend, thousands of St. Louisans will fill the streets and the pubs, using a saint they know little about to celebrate a heritage they likely lack.

If wearing green, drinking Guinness and starting riots isn't your bag, how about ditching the kilt for something a bit more comfortable? This weekend, the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard) hosts a different kind of debauchery (sub crack and domestic abuse for green beer and shirtless fist fights) with Muddy Waters Theatre's production of Tracy Letts' Bug.

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Kholood Eid

​Misplaced your Christmas cheer? Hop in the car and head to St. Louis Hills after sundown, because the denizens of the south city neighborhood have plenty to go around.

View a slideshow of St. Louis Hills holiday lights.

Every November to December, the 6500 block transforms into Candy Cane Lane and plays host to thousands of carloads of St. Louisans flocking to see the twinkling lights. It's sort of the perfect set-up: Buy your Douglas fir at Ted Drewes a block-and-a-half away, and then join the snaking line of idling motorists waiting their turn to marinate in the artificial glow of mass-produced Christmas wonder.

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Jeremy Rabus

A painting by Jeremy Rabus, who will be selling work at Deck Yer Walls on Saturday.

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Deck Yer Walls: Art sale features work by Kit Keith, Timothy Meehan, Jeremy Rabus and Jay Alan Babcock at affordable prices perfect for gift-giving. Sat., Dec. 17, 2 p.m., free admission, call 314-719-6830 for info. Grand Center Artist Studios, 3840 Washington Ave, St Louis.

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Tate Foley

We Buy Gold

​ We Buy Gold: An exhibition of painted works by Tate Foley that explore the advertising phenomenon of the ubiquitous "We Buy Gold" signs. Opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, December 9. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Jan. 28, free. Webster University-Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, 8342 Big Bend Blvd., Webster Groves, 314-968-7171.

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Jeffrey Combs as an Andorian, one of the aliens Lewis had a large part in creating.

​Star Trek make-up artist Jeff Lewis is at the St. Louis Science Center tonight for First Fridays, a monthly series for Trekkies to geek out with their half-betazoid loving kin. The six-time Emmy nominee will make-up one lucky girl -- the the costume contest winner from last month's inaugural event -- as a Borg, the pseudo-humanoid race of aliens meanies. Afterwards they'll be showing First Contact, the 1996 Star Trek film. We caught up with Lewis to talk all things Trek, and what it was really like to work with George Clooney.

Daily RFT: So I hear you just recently got a new job?

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Lifesaver, by Damon Freed. Opens Friday at Bruno David Gallery.

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Damon Freed: Life Saver: Freed's second solo exhibition with the gallery features paintings that delve deeper into the dichotomy of balance and symmetry. Opening reception from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, December 2. Wednesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Jan. 20, free. Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-531-3030, www.brunodavidgallery.com.

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KDHX

If you don't bid on a painting at Art Attack, the painting receives a thorough critique via chainsaw at the hands of the Master Critic.

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Art Attack 3: Thirty-two paintings compete in a head-to-head competition, with the winner determined by audience vote. The losing painting is destroyed onstage in a flamboyant manner, unless an audience member bids on the work. Proceeds from sales benefit KDHX. Fri., Nov. 18, $15, www.kdhx.org. NEO on Locust, 2801 Locust Ave., St. Louis, www.neostl.com.

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Jeff Aeling, Sunset Pond

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Jeff Aeling: New Paintings: Painter Jeff Aeling pays homage to our terroir and to the venerable art of Romantic landscape painting with his large-scale representations of the Midwest. Opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 11. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Dec. 17, free. Philip Slein Gallery, 1319 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-621-4634, www.philipsleingallery.com.

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Helen Maurene Cooper, Cat Tails, 2007. Archival pigment print, Edition of 5, 30 x 40 in.

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Romantic Notions: Group show features work that examines contemporary cultures idealized notions of romance. Opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, November 5. Nov. 5-Dec. 3, free. Los Caminos, 2649 Cherokee St., St. Louis, www.loscaminosart.com.

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Andrew Millner

Detail from Red Rose III, part of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, opening Friday at William Shearburn Gallery.

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