The week ahead: Feb. 22-28

The Week Ahead is our hand-picked event guide to the next seven days in Sioux Falls and slightly beyond. For guaranteed placement or to promote your event ahead of time, email [email protected] about a featured event listing.

Feb. 23-25: Home Show

The Home Builders Association of the Sioux Empire will host the 2024 Sioux Empire Home Show from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. Tickets cost $8 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and are free for children 12 and younger. To receive $1 off admission, have the Sioux Empire HBA guide downloaded.

Sioux Empire Home Show prepares for biggest event yet

Feb. 24: Rock the Shrine

Pop Rocks will perform at the 2024 Rock the Shrine at the El Riad Shrine, beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday. For tickets, click on this link.

Founded in 2006, Pop Rocks is a  backing band and a rotation of singers who impersonate performers from all genres and eras of music. Acts vary from Katy Perry to Ozzy Osbourne, Missy Elliot, Garth Brooks, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and more. During the average show, the audience witnesses over 30 costume changes.

Feb. 25: Puzzle races

Gather up your friends and may the fastest puzzlers win. The event is from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Severance Brewing Co., 701 N. Phillips Ave. It’s free to play with prizes of gift cards for the winners.

Feb. 25: Chili cook-off

Looking to spice up your Sunday? Come to The Orion Pub, 127 W. 10th St., from 1 to 4 p.m. along with your favorite chili. The people’s choice award will win an Orion Pub T-shirt and a $50 gift card. There will be happy-hour pricing on drinks during the event. Bowls and spoons will be provided, but it’s BYOL — bring your own ladle. And you don’t have to enter to be a taster and judge.

Feb. 25: Tecmo Siouxper Bowl

Tecmo Siouxper Bowl VIII, a time of retro video games and adult friendship, will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday in the lower level of Blarney Stone Pub at 12th Street and Phillips Avenue. It’s a free event with donations going to the Family Visitation Center. Tecmo Super Bowl will be the main event, but other classic games from the 1980s and ’90s will be available.

Feb. 26: Photo shoot

Photographer Amber Sorter is hosting a Sisterhood photo shoot at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Terrace Park. The free event is designed to celebrate sisterhood with other women age 18 and older. It is an outdoor event. There will be group photos and individual portraits for those who want them.

Upcoming: Feb. 29

We won’t have another Feb. 29 for four more years, so it might be good to plan ahead on how to make the most of those 24 hours. Here are some suggestions:

• “This Is My Body,” the world premiere of a play co-written by Grace Ahles, Hanna Beshai and Richard Swanson, 7:30 p.m., Augustana University theater. Also performed at 7:30 March 1-2 and at 2:30 p.m. March 2-3.
• Open house social for Rare Disease Day, presented by the Coordination of Rare Diseases at Sanford and Rare By Design team members, 6 to 7 p.m. at Falls Overlook Cafe. The Falls and Arc of Dreams will be illuminated in rare disease colors. Enjoy hot chocolate, rare-themed cupcakes from Oh My Cupcakes and coloring activities.
• The Vaudies: Leap Year Show, 7:30 p.m. at Remedy at 611. Dancers, singers, comedians and magicians will perform. Purchase tickets here.
• Thai dinner featuring Small Lot Wine at Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen, 7 p.m. Small Lot Wine co-owner Joel McLay and representative Erin Mitzel will join the En Place Catering team for this five-course dinner wine pairing. Each ticket allows you to pick your favorite bottle of wine to take home to enjoy. Purchase tickets here.