This Weekend: There and Back Again

Ted Waldbillig |

The nearly 30-year-old USBA Boomerang Tournament will swing by this weekend, so get your fill of Australian sport at the Soccer Park in Eau Claire. Six events, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, include an accuracy competition, Aussie round (accuracy, distance and catching), fast catch (make five catches as quickly as possible), endurance (as many catches as possible in five minutes), maximum time aloft (MTA), and trick catch. Sunday will be less spectating and more dangerous: public lessons on how to properly use a boomerang.

Also on Saturday: Walk a Mile in My Shoes Walk-a-thon, 2nd Annual Blues on the Chippewa, ECCT presenting Huckleberry Finn, Eau Claire Express baseball game, Truck + Tractor Pull, Clyde and the Fabulous CornSnakes, and metal! Cwn Annwn + Desolate Void + Lavinia + Solanum Plague.

Also on Sunday: 2nd Annual Blues on the Chippewa just in case you missed it Saturday, Ski Sprites Water Show, and Team Trivia at Poo's.

Art Shows: Art & the Blues opening reception, Roger Adams (@ Infinitea), Gretta Otto (@ Acoustic Cafe), Jack Barquist (@ Tangled Up in Hue), Story Lines: Narrative and Sequential Images (@ L.E. Phillips Memorial Library), and Tracy Lea Landis' "Color Statements" (@ School of the Arts in Menomonie).