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July 13, 2007

This summer weekend brings bands and butterflies

With a warm weekend ahead, there'll be plenty to do.

At AS220, on Empire Street in Providence, bands play at the Foo Fest tomorrow from noon to 1 a.m.

Here's the lineup:

Chris Moore and Sons, Aa, Japanther, Stinking Lizaveta, Pwrfl Power, Avarus, Neptune, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, Lazy Magnet, Teenage Waistband, Battlesnake, Get Killed, The Empire Revue, Miss Fairchild, The ’Mericans, Route 44, Tiger Face, Rhode Show, Cloudsplitter and Between the Pine. Call 831-9327. No cover. All ages. Street party.

Or maybe it's a good weekend for something more mellow. Try butterflies.

The Butterfly Zoo, 409 Bulgarmarsh Rd., Tiverton, will have guided tours of its screened-in greenhouse filled with hundreds of living butterflies from Africa, South America, China, and the South Pacific Islands. Go to www.butterflyzoo.com.

Photography is encouraged. Tours are daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; closed rainy days. Fees are $6 for adults, $4 for children. Groups need to make advance reservations.

And there's a WaterFire in Providence tomorrow night, scheduled for the 8:20 p.m. sunset. As part of the festivities, there's a swing dance lesson at 7 p.m. with instructors from the Brown University Swing Club. There'll be a band from 8 p.m. to midnight and a special candle-lighting ceremony that is, in part, in honor of Rhode Island's 2007 high school valedictorians.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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