Old Sevier's weekend: a book night Thursday, adoptable dogs Saturday, stained glass Sunday
The corridor runs a quiet, generous weekend — cheap pints and a reading night to open it, a grown-up book fair with rescue animals in the middle, and a craft workshop to land it.
- Thu Aug 20
- Pages & Pours at Fly by Night · 5:30–9 PM · RSVP
- Thu Aug 20
- Pint night at Hi-Wire · $4 drafts
- Sat & Sun
- Weekly yoga at Hi-Wire · 11 AM – noon
- Sat Aug 22
- Fairy Tales & Fuzzy Tails — books & adoptable pets · 2–6 PM
- Sun Aug 23
- Stained glass workshop · 2–4 PM · RSVP
- Where
- Hi-Wire, 2020 Barber St · Fly by Night, Sevier Ave
Sevier Avenue and the streets hanging off it are having the sort of weekend that doesn't announce itself — no festival, no headliner, just four days of small things worth walking to.
Thursday: read something, drink something cheap
Fly by Night hosts Pages & Pours from 5:30 to 9 — bring whatever you're reading and share a room with people doing the same, which is a lower-stakes proposition than a book club and about twice as pleasant. They ask that you RSVP. A few blocks over, Hi-Wire's standing Thursday pint night puts drafts at four dollars.
Saturday: a book fair with a foster program attached
Then the weekend's best idea. Fairy Tales & Fuzzy Tails runs 2 to 6 at Hi-Wire on Barber Street — a grown-up book fair crossed with a pet adoption event, which is to say tables of books, adoptable animals in the room, and a genuine risk of going home with more than you planned. Yoga holds down eleven o'clock that morning if you want to earn the afternoon.
Sunday: yoga, then glass
Yoga runs 11 to noon again Sunday, and at two the taproom turns into a workshop — a two-hour stained glass class, registration required, ending at four with something you made yourself. It is a good closing move for a weekend, and a better one than scrolling.
And two rooms that need no plan at all
The students are back this week, so it's worth saying plainly: SouthSide Garage, the food truck park at 1014 Sevier Ave, and Trailhead Beer Market over on Island Home Avenue are both open all weekend with nothing scheduled at either — which is exactly the point when you just need somewhere to land.
