Best bets: Zoom into charity car show in Volo
Auto extravaganza
Get ready to ogle all sorts of vintage cars and famous Hollywood autos (including Lightning McQueen from “Cars”) when the George Barris Charity Car Show and Festival returns this weekend to the Volo Auto Museum, 27582 W. Volo Village Road, Volo. $15; $5.95 kids. (815) 385-3644 or volocars.com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 3
Art & garden
More than 75 juried artists display their botanic-inspired wares at the return of the Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival this weekend at 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe. Free admission, but $20 parking fee per car. (847) 835-5440 or chicagobotanic.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday, July 1-3
Camp Cantigny
Cantigny Park and First Division Museum opens up its grounds for a special overnight Family Campout complete with a twilight nature walk, campfire s'mores and more tonight at 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton. $24 per person. Families are encouraged to register online and to bring their own tents, sleeping bags and flashlights. (630) 668-5161 or cantigny.org. 5 to 6 p.m. arrival Friday, July 1; 8 a.m. departure Saturday, July 2
Mucho metal
Get out your torn black T-shirts and feather your hair like it's the 1980s when metal bands Mötley Crüe and Poison appear with opening act New York Dolls tonight at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, 19100 S. Ridgeland Ave., Tinley Park. $17.50-$95. (877) 598-8694. 7 p.m. Friday, July 1
IU centennial concert
Superstar violinist Joshua Bell is one of Indiana University's most famous graduates. So it's only natural that Bell teams with the IU Jacobs School of Music Summer Festival Orchestra for a special IU Centennial Concert this Saturday at the Ravinia Festival, 418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. $35 reserved seats; $10 lawn; $50 dining package. (847) 266-5100 or ravinia.org. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2 (gates open at 5 p.m.)
Movie music
John Williams' iconic film scores get the symphonic treatment when conductor Arnie Roth teams with members of The Chicagoland Pops Orchestra for the concert “E.T. has Close Encounters at Jurassic Park with Indiana Jones in ‘Star Wars'” this Saturday at the Ferro Pavilion on the shores of Geneva Lake at George Williams College of Aurora University, 350 Constance Blvd., Williams Bay, Wis. $15-$80. (866) 843-5200 or musicbythelake.com. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2
Independence Eve
Under Christopher Bell's baton, the Grant Park Music Festival performs American classical favorites and more for the Independence Celebration concert on Sunday at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion, near Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Free admission. (312) 742-1168 or grantparkmusicfestival.com. 5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 3
Back to Buress
Chicago native and rising star comedian Hannibal Buress (a former writer for “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live”) returns to his hometown for an unprecedented two-week run at Zanies, 1548 N. Wells St., Chicago. $25 plus a two-menu-item purchase. (312) 337-4027 or zanies.com. Wednesday, July 6, through Sunday, July 17: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday: 7, 9 and 11:15 p.m. Saturday
Dating doozies
A single mom and Texas transplant tries to make her way in New York's competitive dating scene in Fox Valley Repertory's new production of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 one-woman comedy “Bad Dates” starting Thursday at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. $29-$39. Dinner packages also available. (630) 584-6342 or foxvalleyrep.org. Starts at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 7; runs in repertory with “Around the World in 80 Days” through Sunday, Aug. 7