Trying to describe the work of Sara Century is like painting a portrait of adverbs; you can skirt around a central idea, but you’re really just taking swipes at the intangible. What I can safely tell you is that the queer-identified Gatas y Vatas musician, artist and self-described proof “that you can be high on both life and weed at the same time” brings her original, 85-minute, one-woman musical AQUARIUM to The Tannex (1417 Fourth Street SW, thetannex.com) on Saturday, May 16. “There's definitely a plot” in this humorous “musical play focusing on feelings of detachment, solitude and loss,” she tells me, “but it changes every night. I wrote a script long enough that I could move scenes around, change the songs and end it differently depending on my mood.” Which means you have a chance to see an AQUARIUM that’s never existed before and never will again. With an aesthetic informed by everything from feminism to art-house cinema, Century says, “I just play myself” in the stripped-down traveling show. “We're showing a couple of my short films to open the night … otherwise I'm just funny, and it'll be arty, weird and cool.” Bring seven bucks, and show up early, because the fun starts at 8pm, and Tannex latecomers doom themselves to public embarrassment. (Lisa Barrow)

In the words of Dean Martin, “Baby, it's cold outside.” So lend a helping hand to the homeless folks in Burque by contributing to Astro-Zombies' 8th Annual Holiday Sleeping Bag Drive. Now through Saturday, Dec. 24, drop off new, adult-sized cold weather sleeping bags at the comic store to help local homeless people weather the winter cold. The bags will be distributed throughout the community on Christmas Eve. And for each bag you donate, you'll also be entered in a raffle to win awesome prizes from the likes of Masks Y Mas, Rude Boy Cookies, Archetype Dermigraphic Studio and more. After all, when told, “Baby, you'd freeze out there,” even Dean's lady asked him to lend her a coat. (Renée Chavez)