A detail of Ashley Hunt’s diagram of the Prison-Industrial Complex at The Contemporary Museum’s Headquarters exhibit

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• With the help of experimental musician John Berndt and his band Geodesic Gnome, we’ll conduct a sonic Rorschach test on a random sampling of radio guinea pigs, including: hip hop D.J. P Funk, Peabody musicologist Mark Katz, ten-year old Ben Brown, WYPR business manager Susan Sibiski, college student Samsam Khalid, and high school senior Teddy Minch
• We’ll talk with Contemporary Museum curator Cira Pascual Marquina about the museum’s latest exhibition, Headquarters: Investigating the Creation of the Ghetto and the Prison Industrial Complex
• And singer / songwriter Michael Patrick Smith shares a story and a song about his rural Maryland childhood, a childhood spent stealing his friends’ and neighbors’ cars

This evening (05.26), Koffee Therapy hosts The Dierker/Hopkins Ensemble. This jazz combo includes Satabdi Express upright bass player Adam Hopkins, John Dierker on sax and bass clarinet and Andrew Kirk on drums. The performance starts at 7 and wraps up around 9, and Koffee Therapy is located at 6 East Franklin Street. For more information — and some mp3s of the music — you can visit Adam’s MySpace site: myspace.com/adamhopkinsbass.

If you plan on attending Bike Jam this Saturday at Patterson Park, you can expect cycle races, loud music, and large quantities of baked goods. Dangerously Delicious Pies and Kelly Insurance present Rock N’ Roll and Pie Eating for Speed at Patterson Park during and after the Bike Jam festivities. People who think they can hold their own in the contest should visit dangerouspies.com for details.

And tight budget doesn’t mean the aspiring art collector has to live with blank walls. There’s plenty of beautiful, affordable artwork to be found at local art-student shows for reasonable prices. This weekend, Baltimore School for the Arts presents its Annual Senior Art Exhibition representing the work of its visual arts majors. This juried exhibition features paintings, ceramics, photography, and other media, all of which will be for sale. The exhibition runs through July 21st, and the BSA’s Alcazar Gallery is located at 712 Cathedral St. Call 410-396-1185 for gallery hours and more information.