Rick Steves offers travel advice
With his books, TV and radio shows, website and more, Rick Steves has been guiding travelers to lesser-known places around the globe since 1976. Seriously, who had heard about the Cinque Terre before he made those five Italian fishing villages sound so irresistible? He’ll speak about how to get the most out of your overseas journey at 7:30 p.m. at the Connor Palace at Playhouse Square. Tickets are $15-$100 at www.playhousesquare.org.
Batiuk to sign books at KSU
Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean comic strip is another cultural institution, particularly in Northeast Ohio, where thinly disguised local touchstones like Luigi’s have been showing up in its panels for more than four decades. Kent State University Press is in the process of publishing all of the Funky strips in book form, and Batiuk will sign copies of the latest, Volume 5, and his other books from noon to 2 p.m. at the Kent State University Bookstore, Student Center, 1075 Risman Drive, Kent.
Free concert at Medina winery
And yet another veteran, Ryan Humbert, will play a free concert at 6 p.m. at High & Low Winery, 588 Medina Road, Medina. For more information, call 844-466-4456 or go to www.searchhighandlow.com.