Photo by Julie Van Valkenburg / Gracie Gilbert appears as the aspiring beauty queen Carnelle Scott in the Chattanooga Theatre Centre’s production of “The Miss Firecracker Contest.” The Southern-style comedy ends its run Sunday.TO DO SUNDAY
* Lookouts baseball: The final game of a six-game home series pits the Chattanooga Lookouts against the Birmingham Barons at 2:15 p.m. Sunday at AT&T Field, 201 Power Alley (weather permitting). Tickets are $6-$11. Kids can run the bases after the game. www.lookouts.com
* Film series: Sunday marks the final day of films in the Bobby Stone Film Series’ Summer Spectacular offerings at the Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St. Showing at 2 p.m. is “Rear Window,” a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a man who thinks he has witnessed a murder. Showing at 6 p.m. is “Adaptation,” a 2002 comedy/drama starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper. Tickets are $10-$12. tivolichattanooga.com
QUICK LOOK AT THE WEEK
* Tax holidays: Tennessee has two sales tax holidays starting Friday. The annual sales tax holiday timed to back-to-school purchases of clothing, supplies and computers lasts from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The Tennessee General Assembly also has approved a sales tax holiday on groceries and restaurant meals that will start Friday and run for a week, through Aug. 5. A third tax holiday, this one a yearlong exemption of taxes for gun safes and safety devices, is underway through June 30, 2022. The Tennessee Department of Revenue’s website has information on all of the exemptions and exceptions. www.tn.gov/revenue/taxes/sales-and-use-tax/sales-tax-holiday.html