Look at this stuff. Isn’t it neat?

This Disney princess is an archaeologist. (But that’s really a minor plot detail.) The dinglehopper is only a tool to brush her hair, while she dreams about life “up there.” “The Little Mermaid” opens at Bainbridge Performing Arts Friday, with a 7:30 show. Don’t be the “poor, unfortunate soul” that doesn’t go then, or Saturday or Sunday. http://www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org/products/little-mermaid

Dancing and introspecting together is a perilous act, but the Lonely Mountain Lovers are daring enough to try. Their sixpiece sound marries rock and a love of Patsy Cline, The Meters and B.B. King. Before or after you’ll meet Planes on Paper, who have that ghostly, folksy thing going that melts your adrenaline into a blissful, bobbin’ mellow. Show is 8 p.m. Friday at Rolling Bay Hall.

Island author Jennifer Mann writes provocative picture books. The newest, “Sam and Jump,” helps kiddos process big-boy concepts like loyalty, responsibility and friendship. Hear all about it from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday at Eagle Harbor Books.

Veteran journalist (she nearly snagged a Pulitzer Prize) Gwen Florio is on to thriller No. 3, with “Disgraced,” her novel about former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks who heads to Wyoming for a Yellowstone vacation, but sees more PTSD than elk or bison. The talk begins at 3 p.m.