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It’s gonna be a gorgeous weekend, folks; make sure you get out there and make the most of it. For the most comprehensive arts and entertainment listings, be sure to check our Cultural Calendar. But if you want a little help planning your weekend, here are your Best Bets.

TODAY

Today’s sun will greet the Creative Grove Artist Market as it returns to the Grove Street PATH plaza after a short winter hiatus (2-8 pm). Tonight is also the kickoff of Saturday Nightmares, the three-day horror convention at the Loew’s featuring film screenings, Q&As, vendors and a costume contest. The festivities get started at 4 pm; our pick for tonight is Night of the Living Dead at 10:30. Those of you with less cash to spare or less guts and gore on your minds can swing by The Warehouse at 6 pm and check out the opening reception for Camilo Godoy‘s latest photography exhibit, My Royal Family or head to the Stockinette, which will host an opening reception for a show of landscape paintings by Neal Risdal (6 pm). The Brennan Coffee House also returns tonight with Jim Dawson, a singer/songwriter whose songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Mary Travers and Sesame Street‘s Elmo. The show starts at 7:30 pm and is followed by an open mic. Last but not least, the Actors Shakespeare Company production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is back for another weekend of shows beginning tonight at 7:30 pm.

SATURDAY

Today is the big day for local artist, curator and JCI contributor Irene Borngraeber: months of hard work culminate at 5 pm in the grand opening of The Distillery, a new art gallery in the Heights. The inaugural exhibition at the gallery is SPLICE, an examination of how certain technologies have become modern icons worshiped to the point of deification. The Saturday Nightmares horror convention continues today from 10 am to midnight; don’t miss the panel discussion featuring George Romero and Adrienne Barbeau. And for you night owls, the Lamp Post will be hosting Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun and Cats Are Everywhere starting around 10 pm.

SUNDAY

Saturday Nightmares runs from 10 am to 5 pm today, and the big draw is Joshua Turi’s Special FX Makeup Show, where two lucky winners will be transformed into zombies for a photo-op with George Romero. There’s also plenty of options for film fans tonight: At 5 pm, Art House Productions and _gaia present What I Want My Words to Do to You, a documentary on the women inmates of New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. Later on, romance classics Casablanca and Gone With the Wind are on the bill at LITM starting at 6 pm.