Weekday events of note, 8/22-8/25:

Fall is encroaching fast: I'm seeing reminders for Oktoberfest, the Polish Festival, the mushroom festival, football season - all great things, in their season, but I'm a summer lover.  Give me Beach Boys, give me fresh local tomatoes, give me steamed crabs and baseball.  And summer ain't over until I say it is, in my household.  Still, the reminders are everywhere, mocking me.   Fall just can't wait its turn, can it?  I think I need to get back to the beach, pronto, to ward off the chill I'm imagining in the air.  It is not yet time for me to cry Old Bay- and sunblock-scented tears over the vanishing of my favorite season.

Oh, and here's what's to do this week.

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Monday:

• One day left to get a Groupon for 6 tickets to the Newark Film Festival for $25. http://www.groupon.com/deals/newark-film-festival?c=dnb&p=4
• Theatre N showing (one last showing of a popular film that ran a couple of months ago): Winter In Wartime.  7pm, $7.
• Open mic night at Mojo Main, 9pm.
• Blues jam at the Kennett Flash, doors at 7, $3-$5.
• Groove Night (local r&b bands) at the Queen.  7pm, $7.  It looks like the Monday 4W5 acoustic jam has been shelved.  Probably a good idea to combine that with the 4W5 blues jam that happens on Wednesday, anyway.
• Fenwick Island Farmers' Market, Coastal Hwy, 8-noon.

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Tuesday

• The Tough Shits at Kung Fu Necktie.  21+, doors at 8, $8.
• Rehoboth Farmers' Market, Grove Park near the lighthouse circle, noon-4pm.

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Wednesday:

• 6th annual 'Tour De Lance' run/walk 5k along the Wilmington riverfront, to benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  Registration at 5, race starts at 6:30, Dravo Plaza (next to outlets).  $25
• Wilmington Farmers' Market, Rodney Square, 10-2.
• A Johnny Cash tribute musician, David Stone, at White Clay Creek State Park. 6:30pm, free with park admission.
• Blues jam at the Queen, 7pm, free.
• Free all ages show at Piazza at Schmidt's, 6pm: Nicos Gun, Cheers Elephant, and Hezekiah Jones.
• Buckethead (guitar player who wears a bucket on his head and sometimes plays with Les Claypool) and Wolff at the TLA.  21+, doors at 7, $27+.
• And for those not on any particular budget, The Gipsy Kings are playing Longwood Gardens at 7:30.  Tickets are $50 - $140. 

(Don't try to go to the Birds Of Avalon show at JB's: it's been canceled.  Seems like there have been a lot of show cancellations this summer).

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Thursday:

• A Graffiti Radio Presents show at Mojo Main: Revolution I Love You, Look Out Houston and The Gut Strings. 21+, 9pm, $5.
• Top Pick: The Felice Brothers and New Sweden at the Queen.  (They sound interesting, but I find this part of FB's bio dubious: "They are self-taught, not one of them played an instrument prior to the band's inception in 2006 when they started busking in New York City subway station.".  You have to audition for a permit to busk in that subway system, and competition is extremely high - ever notice the calibre of musicians around NY subways? Not buying this story). 8pm, $13-$25.
• UD Farmers' Market, next to Morris Library, 11-2pm.
• Brandywine Village Farmers' Market, Concord Ave. & Market, 4-7pm.
• Cool Spring Farmers' Market, 10th & Van Buren, 4-8pm.