From a classic comedy double bill to Handel’s famed femme fatale to a festival devoted to flesh-eating plants, there are a lot of great shows and events to catch this weekend.

Here’s a partial rundown.

Carvey + Spade = major laughs

Two all-time great “Saturday Night Live” greats — Dana Carvey and David Spade — have teamed up for what should be a hilarious comedy tour that touches down June 14 at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga.

Carvey likely ranks as an all-time great comedian — period — whether or not you are just referencing “Saturday Night Live” or his overall work in the funny business.

Sure, he was an absolute laugh riot on “Saturday Night Live,” where he performed for seven seasons (1986-1993) and earned five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations — one of which he’d win.

Carvey, who grew up on the Peninsula and practiced his comedic craft in San Francisco clubs, is also known for such films as 1990’s “Opportunity Knocks,” 1994’s “Trapped in Paradise,” 2002’s “The Master of Disguise” (2002) and, of course, 1992’s “Wayne’s World” and 1993’s “Wayne’s World 2.”

Spade was a writer and cast member on “Saturday Night Live”  from 1990 to 1996, then went on to achieve even greater fame in the fabulous role of Dennis Finch in the NBC sitcom “Just Shoot Me!” (1997–2003). His move credits include 1995’s “Tommy Boy,” 1996’s “Black Sheep, 1998’s “Senseless,” 2001’s “Joe Dirt” and  2003’s “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.”

The two stars also collaborate together on the “Saturday Night Life” themed podcast “Fly on the Wall.”

Details: Showtime is 8 p.m.; tickets start at $101; mountainwinery.com. Also of note: Mountain Winery has a new restaurant, La Cucina Italiana, so consider making reservations to check that out before the show.

— Jim Harrington, Staff

Classical picks: ‘Alcina,’ SF Opera

The music lover’s summer season brings operas, concerts and more. Here are some high notes on what’s coming up.

Handel’s “Alcina”: Set on a magical island, the title character of “Alcina” seduces every unfortunate man who lands there, then casts a spell that turns them into stones, trees, or animals. In Festival Opera’s new production of Handel’s 1735 opera, the deadly enchantress returns in a new production, with two concert performances June 13-14 and two staged performances June 19 and 21. The production is in collaboration with the San Francisco Early Music Society. Nikola Printz sings the title role, and the cast also includes Courtney Miller as Ruggiero, Shawnette Sulker as Morgana, and Sara Couden as Bradamante; Zachary Gordin is the director and Derek Tam conducts.

Details: Concert performances are 7:30 p.m. June 13 and 2 p.m. June 14 at Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley; $40-$80; www.sfems.org; Staged performances are 7:30 p.m. June 19 and 2 p.m. June 21 at the Lesher Center, Walnut Creek; $55-$95, $20 student tickets; lesherartscenter.org.

Opera still to come:  San Francisco Opera has made its summer a thrilling one, and there’s plenty to see and hear in the days and nights on the calendar: the company has performances of “The Barber of Seville” (June 12-21) and “Elektra” (June 11,14,19, 23, 27); and the season ends with the company’s always-joyful “Pride Concert” June 26.

Details: Tickets and more information at SFOpera.com.

— Georgia Rowe, Correspondent

Here’s a festival with bite

Like dogs and cats, carnivorous plants can be fed and watered. They can be given scritches and baths in the sun. But are they capable of giving us love in return?

Until somebody breeds a talking Venus flytrap a la “Little Shop of Horrors,” we may never know the answer. But humans’ love for these plants is undeniable, as seen in the return of the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Festival, billed by its organizers as the “largest carnivorous plant festival in the country.”

Taking place at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School, in Alameda, the plant-travaganza gathers thousands of flytraps, pitchers, sundews and other bug-devouring species for admiration and purchase. Their human handlers will be there, as well, coming from all across the U.S. to exhibit rare and expertly tended specimens.

There will be talks and demonstrations from growers, music and food (no tossing the plants any scraps, please) raffles and the sale of growing accessories. Children and parents alike can expect a day of wild education – perhaps culminating in taking home their own leafy guy or gal, to provide endless hours of meat-eating enjoyment this summer.

Details: Noon-5 p.m. June 13 at 1011 Chestnut St., Alameda; free; bacps.org

— John Metcalfe, staff

Lestat is back, appetite intact

“The Vampire Lestat,” AMC’s excellent adaptation of Anne Rice’s iconic “Interview With the Vampire,” novel gave us two exceptional seasons that were just as good as the book and better than the 1994 movie that spawned it. For the third season, lead showrunner Rolin Jones pulls off a hell of a hat trick and puts a lot onto the chiseled shoulders of Sam Reid, reprising his role as the sexy, witty bloodsucker Lestat de Lioncourt.

The good news is Reid is electrifying and looks, acts and struts around like a legit rock star from the Bowie and Jagger age. Rice’s novel did miff some since it turned her bisexual toxic hunk into a vain, vamping rock star. Others lapped it up. Jones puts an exclamation point on the music — making the audience the roadies to Lestat’s wicked showman ways. Reid is mesmerizing to watch. Jones also further expounds on the vampire’s wretched lineage and mythology through flashbacks. He smartly shifts the time frame too, from the ‘80s to 2025 with Lestat embarking on a multi-city tour (the titles to the seven episodes are taken from the city where his band is performing). His tour coincides with the “Great Conversion,” which witnesses a big uptick in the number of vampires amongst us. Unlike the previous seasons, Lestat is the focus in Season 3 with Louis de pointe du lac (Jacob Anderson) — the lover he turned into a vampire and who was the one interviewed before — popping in. Other regulars appear and play key parts, including the evil Armand (Assad Zaman) and the ego-driven journalist and writer Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).

The origins of Lestat’s vampirism gets explored and important characters surface and resurface. In between, it gives us wild concert performances, trips back to 1772 to watch Lestat’s dysfunctional family in action and a slew of killer songs from composer Daniel Hart. AMC has made six of seven episodes available and the best way to view them is indeed every week, rather than in one big binge.

Details: Available on AMC and AMC+.

— Randy Myers, Correspondent

Here are your freebies of the week

The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival is serving up an interesting mix of free shows June 11 and 12. Kicking things off at 12:30 p.m. June 11 is San Francisco multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Camellia Boutros, a first-generation Lebanese Palestinian who is the very definition of a self-made musician. She honed her musical style for years playing the trumpet, oud and bass for a variety of bands covering Arab, Mexican and Balkan music. Then she designed and constructed her own fretless 12-string guitar to develop her unique blend of Arab rock and psychedelia.

These days, Boutros is performing with a variety of bands touching on everything from Middle Eastern folkloric music to Balkan jazz to Mexican son jarocho to Latin hip-hop. Boutros brings her band to the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival at 12:30 p.m. June 11. On June 12, the kid-friendly harmonica-and-juggling duo Coventry & Kaluza play half-hour sets at 11 and noon. And at 6:30 p.m. June 12, you can catch “Good Medicine,” a comedy show featuring a cast of Native performers. The group was formed by Oakland comedian and author Jackie Keliiaa, a mainstay of the Bay Area stand-up scene. Performances are at the Yerba Buena Gardens Great Lawn, on Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th streets.

Details: More information is at ybgfestival.org/

— Bay City News Foundation

And another freebie

Even the release in February of a new film by Emeryville-based Pixar about a feisty group of beavers (it’s titled “Hoppers,” and you can rent it now on a variety of platforms) can’t change the fact the beaver capital of the world is already in the East Bay, but not in Emeryville. We’re talking about Martinez, of course, and the beloved Martinez Beavers of Alhambra Creek.

The critters moved into the creek in 2006 and despite plans by some concerned officials to evict them, some remain there today, adored and revered by Martinez residents and many others. So popular are the whiskered ones that a festival is held each year in their honor. On June 13, the 17th edition of Beaver Fest will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Susana Park, at Susana and Estudillo streets in Martinez. The event will feature a parade, an 18-piece jazz band, a huge, stocked aquarium, live displays of a variety of wildlife and assorted presentations devoted to science, nature and more. Organizers are promising — wait for it — a dam good time. No word on whether they will offer chunks of wood to nibble on.

Details: Admission is free; more information is at martinezbeavers.org

— Bay City News Foundation

It’s fiesta time at Lesher Center

Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center this weekend is hosting its fourth annual Fiesta Cultural, featuring two days of Latin American art, music, dance and more. The celebration takes place on June 12 and 13 with two very different events. It kicks off June 12 with a concert by the Grammy Award winning Pacific Mambo Orchestra. The San Francisco-based outfit is widely recognized as one of the premiere mambo/Latin jazz bands in the world, known for merging the traditional sounds of Tito Puente and other mambo kings with its own contemporary influences. The 20-member band won its Grammy in 2014 in the Best Tropical Latin Album category for its debut recording. So versatile is this group that its setlist features mambo-flavored covers of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Overjoyed’, Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Night in Tunisia’, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto. The concert is at 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $50-$83 at www.lesherartscenter.org. On June 13, the festival takes it outside, with a street-fair-style series of music and dance performances, films, workshops and more taking place around the Lesher Center from noon to 5 p.m.

Details: Find the full schedule and more information www.lesherartscenter.org.

— Bay City News Foundation

A classical triple treat

The probable main draw for this weekend’s San Francisco Symphony concerts, with Chinese-born New Zealander Tianyi Lu at the podium as guest conductor, is “Scheherazade,” the shimmering symphonic suite from Rimsy-Korsakov that is a dazzling display of orchestral colors and textures. But concertgoers should also sit up and take note of the Violin Concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the composer who fled Nazi Germany and gained fame here as a Hollywood composer, winning the Oscar for his 1938 original score for “The Adventurers of Robin Hood,” marking the first time the award went to the composer rather than to the studio.

First dismissed by critics as overly romantic in the era of sharp-edged atonalism (one caustic remark labeled it “more corn than gold”), this work dedicated to Korngold’s neighbor, the great violinist Jascha Heifetz, is now widely praised for its technical virtuosity and rich emotional impact. The soloist for this performance is the young Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas, first prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition’s senior division in 2021 as a teenager. The third work on the program is the San Francisco Symphony’s first performance of Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi’s “Zhiân,” written in 2023 in support of the Iranian people’s struggles for freedom.

Details: Performance times are 7:30 p.m. June 12-13 and 2 p.m. June 14 in Davies Hall; $30-$155; sfsymphony.org.

— Bay City News Foundation