Five things to eat, drink, see, hear, and do with your Charm City weekend.

 EAT

June 10-11: St. Anthony’s Italian Festival

St. Leo’s Church, 227 S. Exeter St. Sat. 12-8 p.m., Sun. 12-7 p.m. Free.

It’s easy to eat your heart out in Little Italy, and this weekend, beach bodies beware—the tiny neighborhood will be celebrating the Feast of St. Anthony with even more Italian food. All weekend long, enjoy live music, cooking demonstrations, bocce tournaments, mass amounts of vino, and plenty of pasta, pizza, and cannoli. Just be sure to swing by on Sunday, to participate or observe, for the Roma Sausage-eating contest. Chin chin!. 

 DRINK

June 9: Pints in the Park

Center Plaza, N. Chares & Fayette St. 5-8 p.m. Free.

On second Fridays through the summer, head to the heart of downtown for al fresco drinking under the city skyscrapers and setting sun. During these monthly happy hours at Center Plaza, start your weekend with Heavy Seas beer, tiki bar cocktails, and Linganore wines, plus BrickNFire Pizza bites, corn hole, ping pong, and live music, this month by Brave Noise. Kids and pets are welcome, know before you go: the bar is cash only.

 SEE

June 10-11: HonFest

1002 W. 36th St. Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 12-6 p.m. Free.

There are few more truly “Bawlmer” celebrations than HonFest in Hampden. This weekend, for the 24th year, don boas, beehives, and other 1960s garb to honor the blue-collar spirit and historic workingwomen of Baltimore. It’s a rite-of-passage block party with lots of local food, three stages of live music (Caleb Stine, Raindeer, Fractal Cat, etc.), dance contests, and, of course, the colorful crowning of Baltimore’s best hon.

 HEAR

June 9: Paul Simon

Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Columbia. 6 p.m. $55-175. 

After a handful of memorable concerts at Merriweather over the course of his five-decade career, Paul Simon will once again grace the Baltimore region for the first time in more than 10 years. This Friday, catch Rhymin’ Simon for a night of enduring favorites from his classic albums—fingers crossed for “The Boy in the Bubble,” “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes,” and “Obvious Child”—and new hits from his most recent release, Stranger to Stranger. (He’s also bringing Lilith Fair songstress Sarah McLachlan along for the ride.) We, indeed, are still crazy for Paul Simon after all these years.

 DO

June 11: Tour Dem Parks Hon

Druid Hill Park, 900 Druid Park Lake Dr. 7 a.m. $20-55.

With this weekend’s weather looking like something close to perfection, there’s no better way to soak up that fine line between spring and summer than hitting the pavement for this 15th annual bicycle tour of Baltimore’s local parks. With the wind in your hair, cycle through the city’s diverse neighborhoods and luscious green spaces and make new friends along the way. Best of all, there’s a post-ride barbecue with live jazz.

“Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts,” Paul Simon sings in “The Boy in the Bubble,” the opening track to his landmark 1986 album Graceland. And ever since “The Sound of Silence” first charted in 1965, Simon has been one of those heroes, influencing generations of listeners with his sophisticated, self-aware songs full of yearning and wry humor.

To honor his half-century career, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum created Paul Simon: Words & Music, an exhibit chronicling the singer-songwriter’s creative process and life, which begins its national tour with a residency at the Jewish Museum of Maryland through January 18, 2016.

“This is the first time in many years that the museum has been fortunate enough to be selected as a first venue for a significant national tour,” enthuses Jewish Museum of Maryland executive director Marvin Pinkert. “It was a wonderful coincidence. The Rock and Roll Hall wanted to start the tour on relatively short notice and we just happened to have a three-month gap in our calendar.”

Featuring more than 80 artifacts ranging from guitars to Grammys, plus narration culled from hours of interviews with Simon himself, the exhibit reveals the artistic process that yielded classics such as “The Boxer” and the Graceland album, on which Simon melded traditional Western song structure with South African township music.

“The overwhelming experience of the exhibit is the feeling that the artist is speaking directly to the visitors, as though you’ve just sat down for a cup of coffee,” says Pinkert. “I’ve seen many biographic exhibits before, but this is the first that I would truly call ‘autobiographic.’”

Concurrent to Words & Music, Pinkert has curated An American Tune, which examines the influence Jews exerted on the folk music scene. In addition to artists such as Simon and Bob Dylan, Jewish record executives, club owners, talent managers, and audiences helped to shape the movement.

“These individuals helped develop the cultural environment that was receptive to folk,” says Pinkert. In fact, Pinkert thinks the scene brought more than folk music to the mainstream. “I think of it as a moment when a kind of secular Jewish culture was born.”