MOUNTAINS ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES CITIZEN-TIMES.COM WEEKEND PLANNER Catch the fair, By Tony Kiss tkisscitizen-ti mes.com This is the weekend for cotton candy, cattle, corn dogs and carnival rides as the 20th annual N.C. Mountain State Fair lights up the midway at the WNC Agricultural Center. For details on what's going on today at the fair, see Page A1. Meanwhile, "Cats" is on the prowl at Flat Rock Playhouse's Henderson-ville theater, an afropop band rocks the Isis in West Asheville and Asheville is honoring a pioneering country music legend who once lived here. The Broadway blockbuster "Cats" is on stage through Oct. 6 at Flat Rock Playhouse's cozy downtown Henderson-ville theater, 125 S. Main St. The thriller "Deathtrap" is playing on the mainstage, 2661 Greenville Highway in Flat Rock. Weekend performances for both are 2 and 8 p.m. today and 2 p.m. Sunday. Call 693-0731. www.flatrockplay-house.org "A Few Good Men" finishes at 7:30 tonight at Parkway Playhouse, 202 Spectators at the Mountain State Fair on Friday watch as Chachi Valencia shoots out of a cannon at 55 mph and travels more than 150 feet, dillon deatonddeatonicitizen-times.com Green Mountain Drive in Burnsville. Call 682-4285. www.parkway playhouse.com "Hamlet" gets free performance by the Montford Park Players at 7:30 tonight and Sunday at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre the Montford Community, www.montfordpark players.org. And the comedy "Mary, Mary" gets readers theater performances by the Autumn Players at 2:30 this afternoon at 35below at Asheville Community Theatre and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the plays on stage Reuter Center at UNC Asheville. Afropop band Zansa is shaking the house at 9 tonight at the Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Singers and songwriters Ben Bedford and Tim Grimm play a Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse show at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place. Country music legend Jimmie Rodgers "the singing brakeman" will be honored with the unveiling of a historic marker and a Sunday tribute show. The marker at the corner of Battery Park Avenue and Haywood Street honors the the time in 1927 when Rodgers was performing in Asheville. The unveiling ceremony is at 2 p.m. Sunday, followed buy the 4 p.m. show at the Asheville Music Hall. At the movies "Riddick" starring Vin Diesel is playing at the Carolina Asheville, Biltmore Grande and Beaucatcher. "Blackfish," a documentary about a performing what that killed its trainer at Sea World, is showing at the Carolina Asheville.
