Do This! Holiday events fill weekend calendar
The Holiday Pops show is always a highlight of the Jacksonville Symphony’s season. For this year’s shows, they’ll be joined by singers Erica Gabriel and Brandon Michael Nase and dancers from the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Times-Union Center. $44-$89.
Drew Thomas is Jamaica-born and New York raised, and he knows how to make you laugh. Thomas, a veteran of two seasons of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” is at the Comedy Zone, inside the Ramada Conference Center in Mandarin, which reopened earlier this month. He has shows scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday. $20.