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FRIDAY

Off-kilter pop crooner Morrissey is back, and with a new album no less, “Years of Refusal’’ which dropped in February, and a return engagement Friday at the House of Blues. Doors open at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $29.50-$74. House of Blues is at 4640 U.S. 17 South, Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach.  Call 272-3000 or visit www.hob.com

 

SATURDAY

Are you ready for some baseball? The Myrtle Beach Pelicans hope so as the advanced Class A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves host Fan Fest on Saturday at BB&T Coastal Field, featuring behind-the-scenes guided tours of the stadium, a scavenger hunt, and a chance for kids (and wannabe ballplayers) to play catch out on the field. And all you hams out there, the Pelicans organization will also hold tryouts for national anthem singers and P.A. announcers so get your pipes warmed up. Fan Fest is free. But what would a baseball stadium sans a baseball game be without hot dogs and other concessions? They’ll be on sale Saturday for $1. Gates open at 10 a.m. Saturday and event will go until about 2 p.m. BB&T Coastal Field is at 1251 21^st Avenue N., Myrtle Beach, at the intersection with Robert Grissom Parkway. Call 918-6000 or visit www.myrtlebeachpelicans.com.

 

SATURDAY

Find out who takes home the title of Miss Myrtle Beach when the official preliminary for the Miss South Carolina and Miss America pageants invades Coastal Carolina University’s Wheelwright Auditorium on Saturday. The pomp and pageantry starts at 6 p.m. Admission is $25 (which will also get you into the Miss Myrtle Beach Teen pageant from 2-5 p.m.). Wheelwright Auditorium is on CCU’s Conway campus, between U.S. 501 and S.C. 544.

Call 446-6019.

 SATURDAY

Put your hands in the airrrrr, and wave ‘em like you just don’t carrrrre.That’s right, yo, another edition of the hip-hop flavored local showcase, Myrtle Beach Rocks – The Mic, is on tap for Saturday night at the House of Blues. Featured acts include L.I.D. Boys, Jim Snooka a.k.a. Dirty Dickens, 843 Boys, Turpentine and Neff and The Masterminds. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are a recession-friendly $5 each. House of Blues is at 4640 U.S. 17 South, Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach.  Call 272-3000 or visit www.hob.com

 TUESDAY

Tuesday is 3-in-1 Day at Huntington Beach State Park’s Atalaya Castle – but get your mind out of the gutter. The event is a three-way celebration of the park’s namesakes’ birthdays and wedding anniversary (Archer Huntington and his wife Anna Hyatt Huntington were both born on March 10 and that’s the same day they were wed, too), and a mini-arts festival of sorts from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday. The shindig will feature local artists displaying their wares, tours of the Moorish-style castle, a live painting-in-progress by local artist Danny McLaughlin, and a cake and champagne toast. Regular park admission is waved for 3-in-1 Day participants, but there’s a $10 charge per person for the festivities, which benefit Friends of Huntington Beach State Park. Space is limited, so you must make reservations. For reservations, call 237-2162. Huntington Beach State Park is at 16148 Ocean Highway (U.S. 17), just south of Murrells Inlet.

 

TUESDAY

Indie rock darlings Modest Mouse (“Float On,’’ “Dashboard’’ and “Missed the Boat’’), which will Morrissey’s former Smiths band-mate Johnny Marr on guitar, also returns the House of Blues for a gig Tuesday night. Japanese Motors and Mimicking Birds are also on the bill. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30-$32. House of Blues is at 4640 U.S. 17 South, Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach.  Call 272-3000 or visit www.hob.com

 WEDNESDAY

Are you one of the growing ranks of gainfully unemployed – or simply fed up with your crappy job? Then make no excuses and hike your ass down to the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Wednesday for the 2009 Job Expo, hosted by the Myrtle Beach Area Hospitality Association.  The job fair, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature roughly 150 businesses looking for new employees. There is no admission fee or registration charge for job-seekers. Myrtle Beach Convention Center is at 2101 N. Oak Street, Myrtle Beach. Call 626-9668 or visit www.mbhospitality.org.