Here’s a look at what’s happening around the Colorado Springs area the next few days:

STARTING FRIDAY

– This is the time to go to that “I’ve always wanted to eat there” restaurant. The fourth annual Colorado Springs Restaurant Week has special gustatory features all around the area with every type of food. See Restaurant Week pages inside this section or check out csrestaurant week.com for the special meals at set prices, $30-60 for two, and treat yourself! Restaurant Week runs through Oct. 18. Read more here.

– One of the favorites at The Mezzanine: Dueling Pianos. Always a fun crowd because it’s crowd interaction with the musicians and performers. Comedy and music and whatever the crowd decides. 9 p.m. Friday, The MZ, the alley behind 20 N. Tejon St., $15, $20 at the door, themezzcos.com.

– The grand beauty of St. Mary’s Cathedral, 22 W. Kiowa St., is the setting for Cathedral Classics: Music in a Great Space by The Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Deborah Jenkins Teske conducts a capella pieces from the English Renaissance and contemporary Scottish composer James MacMillan. It’s free but donations accepted. cvae.org.

– It’s all about the coats: 650 winter coats for this year’s recipients, the kids at Evans Elementary School in D-49. Come join the fun for a great cause at the ninth annual Koats 4 Kids, 5:30 p.m. Friday at The Pinery at the Hill, 775 W. Bijou St. Admission is new coats, with tags still attached, for kids sizes 5-18. Monetary donations will benefit The Colorado Springs Conservatory which will be providing the dance music. RSVP: koats4kids.org.

OPENING FRIDAY

Old Colorado City is filled with scarecrows, some pretty, some scary, some funny, some weird. It’s the traditional Scarecrow Days from Friday through month’s end, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., along West Colorado Avenue. Visitors encouraged to vote for their favorites: post a photo to #OCC scarecrow. shopoldcoloradocity.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

– More weekend science activities as part of the Colorado Springs Science Center Science Festival. Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. it’s DOING Science Downtown at Plaza of the Rockies, 111 S. Tejon St. Electrical circuits and batteries activities: designing and building electrical circuits, building and testing batteries. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. is the Mini Maker Faire at Library 21c, 1175 Chapel Hills Drive. Here’s the description: Makers show what they’re making and share what they’re learning. “Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers.” Free. More: cssciencecenter.org.

STARTING SATURDAY

– Remember trekking through that wonderful Venetucci Pumpkin Patch? Well, it’s punkin time. Pick your own from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Monday at Venetucci Farm, 5210 S. U.S. 85. The farm stand will be open Saturday with fresh produce, too. Pumpkins are 50 cents a pound and proceeds benefit the farm’s education programs. On Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Venetucci pumpkins will be for sale at the Downtown Sunday Market in Acacia Park, 115 E. Platte Ave. for $6 each, large or small.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

– Gamers, this is your weekend. The Kwazi-Con gaming convention, with tabletop, video and PC, lures hard-core fans – some in costumes – from 10 a.m. Saturday through 11 p.m. Sunday to the DoubleTree by Hilton, 1775 E. Cheyenne Mountain Blvd. $15-30, special passes available, galaxyfest.org/kwazicon.

– Apple cider, a pumpkin patch and a hay-bale maze. It’s definitely fall. The Western Museum of Mining and Industry will celebrate the season with the Reynolds Ranch Harvest Festival. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 225 North Gate Blvd., $5 ages 5 and older; 488-0880, wmmi.org. Event preview here.

SUNDAY

– Their fans started out with them years ago, following them through the skateboarder-music phase, thrash metal, rumors of are-they-or-aren’t-they real gang members – and then Suicidal Tendencies ditched it all in the mid-1990s after “Suicidal for Life.” There have been studio releases since with different iterations of the group. Now you can catch up with the 2015 version at The Black Sheep, 2106 E. Platte Ave., at 7 p.m. Sunday. Also on the bill, punkers RETOX and The Mostly Don’ts, $25, $28 day of, blacksheeprocks.com.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14

– This is the sixth year for the popular Colorado Springs Saxophone Quartet as part of the St. Andrew’s Recital Series. “Music of the Americas,” offered by Phil Perry, Bob Dunn, Ed Hureau and Fred Martinez, starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 800 Manitou Ave. Admission $10 at the door, students free. Meet the musicians at a reception following the program. 475-2396.

ONGOING

– When and where to find farmers markets in the Pikes Peak region. Read more here.