🕶️ Happy almost weekend!

• It's Alayna, with a look at the new Denver festival bringing lots of local music to the Baker neighborhood.

🎧 Sounds like: "Back and Forth" by Vanna Blue.

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The porches of the Baker neighborhood will transform into stages on Saturday for the city's first-ever PorchFest.

Why it matters: The new event gives local musicians a bigger audience, nudges Denverites beyond their playlists and brings thousands of customers to Baker businesses.

🎸 By the numbers: The free, volunteer-run festival features 192 local artists performing across 80-plus porches, lawns, driveways, garages and more.

• Organizers tell us attendance could hit 20,000.

State of play: Unlike some PorchFests in other cities that organize performances into genre-specific zones, Denver's version is mixing things up.

• Spokesperson James Richard Lane describes it as a "multicultural discovery festival," with different sounds spread throughout the neighborhood to encourage attendees to stumble onto something new.

📍 Zoom in: Dailey Park (1 S. Cherokee St.) will serve as the hub, with food trucks, a beer garden and arts and crafts vendors.

• And Cookie Factory (425 W. 4th Ave.) will have food and drinks, plus live performances.

👉 If you go: PorchFest runs from noon–7pm Saturday. It's free (though donations are encouraged) and open to all ages.

• Several streets will be closed, and portable restrooms will be available.
• Organizers recommend downloading the Denver PorchFest app to navigate closures and plan your musical crawl.
• Leashed pets are welcome. Chairs are, too.

🧹 Yes, and: The party continues Sunday morning with a neighborhood cleanup.

• Snooze will serve volunteers breakfast at 9am before a final neighborhood sweep starts at 10am. RSVP.

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We picked 10 bands worth watching this weekend.

Here's where to find 'em:

🌞 Noon: Lady Denim — 177 W. Maple Ave.

• Kick things off with upbeat Colorado indie rock tinged with '80s pop.

🤠 1pm: White Rose Motor Oil — 432 Bannock St.

• A married Denver duo playing a rowdy mashup of cowpunk, garage rock and country.

🎺 2–7pm: Badda Boom Brass Band — roaming

• This 10-piece band mixes New Orleans brass with funk and hip-hop — and they'll be weaving around the festival, so maybe they'll find you.

🎤 3pm: DVNEHPPY — 232 Bannock St.

• The hip-hop artist, pronounced "Divinehippy," fuses rap with jazz and lo-fi for an experimental and very danceable sound.

🤘 4pm: Pick your poison

• Pink Ranger — 23 Acoma St. — for dreamy, atmospheric rock with some bite.
• head slug — 117 W. Byers Pl. — for a heavier dose of shoegaze.

🪩 5pm: Dance or funk

• Pleasure Prince — 118 Fox St. — for lush, infectious synth-pop.
• Beasts of No Nation — 375 Elati St. — an eight-piece Afro-funk band built to get a porch moving.

🌙 6pm: Finish strong

• Jaguar Stevens — 215 W. 2nd Ave. — for theatrical, raucous rock.
• Vanna Blue — 124 W. 3rd Ave. — for dreamy alt-rock and a mellower finish.

Not ready to jump into spooky season? Here are four new streaming titles to ease you into October.

"East of Eden" — Limited series available today on Netflix

• Florence Pugh stars as Cathy Ames, a fiercely independent woman who drives a rift between brothers Adam (Christopher Abbott) and Charles Trask (Mike Faist), igniting a family saga that spans two generations.

"Scrubs" — Season 2 available today on Hulu

• Back at Sacred Heart, J.D. (Zach Braff) supports his longtime mentor, Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley), after Cox's autoimmune illness stops responding to treatment.
• By the numbers: The revival's Season 1 premiere drew more than 11 million views during its first five days.

"War" — Drama series available today on HBO Max

• Rival London law firms represent opposing sides in a high-profile divorce between tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and movie star Carla Duval (Sienna Miller).
• The latest: Ahead of its premiere, the show was already green-lit for a second season starring Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald and David Harewood.

"Kill Jackie" — Revenge thriller premieres tomorrow on AMC+

• Former drug smuggler Jackie Price (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has spent two decades hiding behind a luxurious new life until seven hitmen are hired to kill her, prompting her to hunt them first.
• Behind the scenes: Damon Thomas, a director and executive producer on "Killing Eve," adapts the novel "The Price You Pay."

Go deeper: See last week's picks.

🍁 John is headed to the mountains for one last yellow fall weekend.

💛 Alayna is taking fall family photos at Golden Ponds in Longmont.

📺 Esteban is headed to Game Show Battle Rooms for a friend's birthday.

Thanks to our editor, Gigi Sukin.