F.Y.I.

Battle of the Bands

BOARDMAN — More than a dozen area bands will compete for cash and studio recording time at Battle of the Bands 3, which begins at 6 p.m. Saturday in Boardman High School Performing Arts Center, 7777 Glenwood Ave. Admission is $7.

Each of the 13 bands will play for 15 minutes. A panel of local music teachers and music-industry insiders will judge the contest, said Joyce Reid, president of the Boardman High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association, which is sponsoring the event. The winner will receive $150 in cash and 10 hours of recording time at Jungle Recording Studio in Lorain. Second place will receive $100 in cash and three hours of recording time at Nexus Sound Studio in Warren. Third place will receive $50 cash.

The winners will perform Feb. 12 at Jillian’s in Southern Park Mall.

What if Malcolm, MLK met?

ALLIANCE — The Grimes Theatre Group will perform “The Meeting” at 7 tonight in the Mount Union College Theater. The play is based on a fictional meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Playwright Jeff Stetson portrays what a clandestine meeting would have been like between these two influential figures. The fictional meeting takes place in a suite in a Harlem hotel in February 1965.

Differing in their views but alike in their mutual respect, the two men discuss their approaches to the same social problems. However, within a week, Malcolm will be assassinated, and in three short years, Dr. King will be martyred while crusading for freedom. This production is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Richard Jackson, assistant dean of students and director of multicultural student affairs at jacksonrg@muc.edu or (330) 823-2138.

Thorogood’s guitarist

SHARON, Pa. — Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat will perform a free concert at Tully’s at 8 p.m. Feb. 8.

Suhler, the lead guitarist for George Thorogood and The Destroyers since 1999, often shows up in top-10 guitarists lists released by music publications. The blues-inspired rock and roots band will release its next CD, “Tijuana Bible,” Feb. 17 on Underworld Records.

Promo tied to temperature

CLEVELAND — The Wyndham Hotel and PlayhouseSquare are offering a unique two-night weekend package called Snow News is Good News now through March. The Friday rate is $109, but the Saturday rate will be the outside temperature (as recorded at noon at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport).

The Wyndham, 1260 Euclid Ave., is a full-service boutique-style hotel with fine dining, just a few steps from the PlayhouseSquare theaters, which will host three Broadway shows during the period: “Chicago” (now through Jan. 24), ”In The Heights” (Feb. 9-21), and “Xanadu” (March 2-14). Call the Wyndham at (216) 615-7500 or (866) 270-6768. For tickets to all PlayhouseSquare shows, call (216) 241-6000.

Elms concert at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University will present The Elms, in a rock concert for YSU students only at 8 p.m. tonight at Peaberry’s Cafe, inside Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus. Admission is free with a valid YSU ID card.