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May has five weekends and three holidays (four, if you count Star Wars Day): (in chronological order) Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day, so that’s a lot of musical opportunities, rain or shine. Here are some cool-to-us shows we’ve noticed after a little digging, plus some schedules from local

Dreamland (M, 101mins) Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ***½ Like many other residents of Bismark, Eugene Baker (Finn Cole) thought the land was cursed. Having been lured to Texas’ giant plains by the promise of a new life, his family’s dreams had died, along with their crops. It was all too much for his father, who left Eugene and his mother Olivia ( Better Call Saul’s Kerry Condon) when the former was just five. Scrabbling to survive, they were seemingly saved when she married loc...