10 under $10: Fun to be found that won’t empty your bank account

1. Spokane is Reading: Wiley Cash 1 p.m. Thursday, Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague Ave., and 7 p.m. Thursday, Spokane Public Library, third floor, 906 W. Main Ave. The author of “A Land More Kind Than Home,” the Spokane Is Reading book, will speak about writing Southern fiction. http://spokaneisreading.org/. Admission: FREE

2. Thomas Hampson Master Class 3 p.m. Friday, Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Watch as world-class baritone Thomas Hampson gives a master class for four vocal students who auditioned for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for technical and performing guidance and tips. Hampson is in town for two concerts to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the restoration of the Fox Theater. (509) 624-1200. Admission: $10

3. Jazz Clinic: Ellis Marsalis 5:15 Friday, Whitworth University, Cowles Auditorium, 300 W. Hawthorne Road. All middle school and high school students who attend the clinic will be given a free ticket to the jazz pianist’s concert Saturday night. Please do not bring instruments to the clinic. Open to the public. (509) 777-4847. Admission: FREE

4. Inland NW Toy Show Classic 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Spokane Valley Event Center, 10514 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley. Check out vintage toy collectibles, new and other fine treasures. (509) 990-4325. Admission: $3 general, free/age 10 and younger; pay $10 and get early admission at 8:30 a.m.

5. Spokane Record Expo 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. Come and hang out with your friends and fellow music nerds. Browse LPs, singles, cassettes, 8-tracks and music memorabilia. All genres, sub-genres and forgotten corners of popular music will be represented. And you’ll want to come early for best selection. Proceeds benefit KYRS, Thin Air Community Radio. 206-310-5853. Admission: $2

6. Salute to Veterans Concert 7 p.m. Tuesday, Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash St. Now in it’s 29th year, the Shadle Park band presents its Salute to Veterans concert, featuring big band jazz music and patriotic pieces. (509) 354-6700. Admission: FREE

7. The Weather Station 8 p.m. Saturday, The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. A project of Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman, the Weather Project is on the road in support of the self-titled and self-produced fourth album that Pitchfork calls “the first Weather Station album that sounds as fleshed-out and powerful as the world it contains.” With with James Elkington, Liza Day. (509) 747-2174. Admission: $8-$10

8. “Getting into the Swing of Things” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, North Idaho College, Schuler Performing Arts Center in Boswell Hall, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene. The NIC Vocal Jazz and Jazz Band present a night of swinging tunes, including “Old Devil Moon,” “Besame Mucho,” “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “The Flinstones” theme song. http://www.nic.edu/. Admission: FREE

9. Michael Shermer 7 p.m. Thursday, Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. One of the world’s best-known skeptics will present his theory on how and why we believe what we do as part of the President’s Forum for Critical Thought at Eastern Washington University. A New York Times best-selling author, Shermer is a historian of science and founder of the Skeptics Society as well as editor in chief of the magazine Skeptic. During his visit Shermer will discuss themes from his book “The Believing Brain,” a comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed and extinguished. (509) 624-1200. Admission: FREE

10. “The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls” Opens Thursday, showtimes at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday with 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday through Nov. 19, Spokane Falls Community College, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr., Bldg 5. Spartan Theatre is celebrating its 50th Anniversary, with a production. Once upon a time — in 2005 — the 20-year-old Annie returned to her native Russia, where she discovers an enchanted motherland teeming with evil stepmothers, wicked witches, and ravenous bears. Annie must learn how to become the heroine of a story more mysterious and treacherous than any childhood fairy tale: her own. (509) 533-3605. Admission: $10; $5/seniors, non-CCS students, CCS employees and military; CCS students get in FREE