ART

• A combined art reception featuring live music from Projekts is set for Sept. 16 at the Contemporary Art Center.
• The Peoria Art Guild’s Fine Arts Fair will be along the riverfront Sept. 23-24, with the Central Illinois Jazz Society providing music on the CEFCU Stage from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on Saturday, and the Bradley University Groove Project and others performing Sunday.

COMEDY

• Nikki Glaser will appear at the Peoria Civic Center Theater on Sept. 16.

CINEMA

• Sequel alert! It’s tempting to speculate “Equalizer 3” to be Robert McCall vs. John Wick, but it’s not. Denzel Washington, returns as the vigilante on Sept. 1, and we hope the 69-year-old actor didn’t pull any muscles in his return.
• Directed by Kenneth Branagh, “A Haunting in Venice” stars Branagh as Hercule Poirot, thrown into a murder mystery in Italy. It opens Sept. 15 and co-stars Michelle Yeoh.

Sarah Marie Dillard will be a the Blue Ridge Community Farm for its fall concert series Sept. 10, 17 and 24.

MUSIC

• The all-horn Lowdown Brass Band will perform at the Peoria Riverfront Museum’s Rhumboogie Plaza series Sept. 1.
• The Blues & Heritage Music Festival returns to the riverfront Sept. 1-2, featuring Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Here Come the Mummies.
• Obed & Isaac’s is presenting Matt Eckberg on Sept. 8.
• The Blue Ridge Community Farm continues its fall concert series Sept. 10, 17 and 24 in the rural venue west of Chillicothe, with seven acts over three Sundays, hosted by Sarah Marie Dillard.
• Revel in Red returns to the Pour Bros. Taproom for a Sept. 16
  appearance in its Courtyard concert series.

STREAMING

• The next “Star Wars” spinoff, the eight-part “Ahsoka,” premiered with two episodes Aug. 23, but the bulk of the eight-part live-action series is this month: Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27, with Rosario Dawson and characters from the animated “Star Wars Rebels” in a plot set after events in “Return of the Jedi” and season 2 of “The Mandalorian.” Hayden Christensen returns as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
• “The League” is the critically acclaimed documentary about baseball’s Negro Leagues, now available for a fee on Amazon and other streamers. (For another sports documentary, check out “Goliath,” the story of basketball great Wilt Chamberlain, available on Showtime.)

THEATER

• “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” will be staged at Peoria Players Sept. 8-10 and 14-17. Dedra Baker stars as King, with Adam and Kates Sitton as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
• Travis Olsen is directing Eastlight Theatre’s production of “Chicago” Sept. 8-16.

TV

• The premiere of “Krapopolis” is Sept. 24 on Fox. The animated comedy, set in mythical ancient Greece, focuses on a group of humans, gods and monsters trying to get by in a place “that lives up to its name.” There’s King Tyrannis, his mother, the goddess Deliria, and his father, the mortal Shlub, plus siblings sired by a mermaid, a cyclops and other cross-species weirdness.

— compiled by Bill Knight