- Utah's favorite "American Idol" runner-up, David Archuleta, comes home to perform, tonight at 7 at the E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Dr., West Valley City. Tickets, at $22 to $32, are available at TicketMaster. (Read an interview with Archuleta by the Tribune's David Burger.)

- Ballet West launches "Treasures of the Ballets Russes," a trio of works, tonight at 7:30 at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Salt Lake City. Tonight's show is sold out, but tickets for the rest of the run - Saturday at 7:30, and Wednesday through next Saturday - are available at ArtTix.

- Utah jazz singer Melissa Pace-Tanner celebrates the release of her new CD, "Calm and Carefree," with a show, tonight at 7:30 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $15, at ArtTix.

- The Utah Symphony features violinist Viviane Hagner taking the lead on Korngold's Concerto for Violin in D major - in a program highlighting the works of Charles Ives - tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets, from $16 to $60, are available at ArtTix. (Bring a can of food for the Utah Food Bank, as part of the Orchestras Feeding America drive.)

- Singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata (pictured) plays Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre, 3605 S. State St., South Salt Lake City. Tickets are $12, at SmithsTix.

- The Utah Jazz return home to play the Phoenix Suns (who beat the Jazz Wednesday in Arizona), Saturday at 7 p.m. at EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets are available at TicketMaster.

- The University of Utah's first Documentary Film Festival runs tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Fort Douglas Post Theatre, 245 S. Fort Douglas Road on the U. of U. campus, Salt Lake City. Tonight's screening features works by students at the U.'s Film Studies division, while Saturday's event features Jill Orschel's award-winning short "Sister Wife" (read more about it here) and Rhea Garvy's work-in-progress "Mayor Rocky and the Upstarters." Free.

- The "Saints & Sinners Tour" hits Utah (an appropriate place for it), Saturday night starting at 6 p.m. at Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna. The lineup includes hip-hop/metal band Hollywood Undead (the sinners), Christian metal band Haste the Day (the saints), and opening acts Senses Fail and Brokencyde (who fall somewhere in between). Tickets are $18.50, at SmithsTix.

- The Salt City Derby Girls - Salt Lake City's own roller-derby queens - launch their 2009 home season, as the Sisters of No Mercy take on Leave It to Cleavers (go, Veronica Scars!), Saturday at 7 at the Salt Palace, 100 S. West Temple, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $10, at SmithsTix or at the door.

- Folk legend Arlo Guthrie rolls - presumably on his motor-sickle - into Kingsbury Hall, on the U. of U. campus, Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, from $29.50 to $49.50, available on the Kingsbury web site.

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