Shop Local, Play Local

• Kerrin Meis begins a three-week lecture series at Book Passage in Corte Madera, including visits to prehistoric Lascaux and two other sites open to the public, goes on to Roman sites at Nimes and Orange, the Romanesque masterpieces of sculpture and painting at Autun, Vezelay, Moissac and Toulouse. The class starts at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The cost is $60.

• Is one of your resolutions to eat healthier, or to shop more locally? Try the farmers market every Wednesday afternoon at the Corte Madera Town Center.

• Looking for the perfect family film? Try We Bought A Zoo at the Lark Theater. The Matt Damon picture is playing for about another week at the downtown landmark before the theater begins a new series of broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera and the National Theater London.

• Redwood High's boys and girls basketball teams host Marin Catholic on Thursday. The girls tip off at 6 p.m., with the boys at 7:30 p.m.

• Andrea Rees Davies presents her latest novel Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster at Book Passage on Thursday at 7 p.m. Davies offers tales — some sweet, some nasty — from ordinary people in the aftermath of the quake.