The Everett Sausage Fest is serving Bavarian-style dinners, entertainment and family fun from noon to midnight today and noon to 7p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 2619 Cedar Ave. Everett. There are two entertainment stages – one for families and one for big folks in the Bavarian Beer Garden – plus a carnival, arts and crafts, food booths and a farmers market. Information: www.everettsausagefest.com or 425-349-7014.

Granite Falls celebrates its railroad heritage with Railroad Days all day today in the downtown area. There’s a grand parade at noon, craft and food vendors, a carnival, breakfast and lunch at the American Legion, entertainment and a dinner at the Eagles, and a petting zoo. Also, the fire department is hosting a barbecue, pie sale and Jaws of Life demonstration.

The Everett Theatre Society opens its season with “Streetcar Named Desire,” Tennessee Williams’ classic stage drama that centers on the relationship between Blanche DuBois, a faded Southern belle, and Stanley Kowalski, her brutish brother-in-law. “Streetcar” is one of the seminal works in American stage history, and there are performances at 8 tonight and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Everett Theatre, 2911 Colby Ave. Tickets for adults are $12 at the box office, 425-258-6766.

Works by some of the finest craft artists in the Northwest on view this month at the Arts Council of Snohomish County Gallery in Everett. The Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibit features works by 55 artists who are members of the Northwest Designer Craftsmen, a group that for the past half-century has been promoting and preserving the fine-craft movement. See the exhibit, which includes ceramics, pottery, weaving, mixed-media, glass, furniture and a whole lot more, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at 1507 Wall St., Everett. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday, admission is free, 425-257-8380.

The Everett Theatre opens its “Silents, Please!” film series with a scary classic. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” starring John Barrymore, plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the theater, 2911 Colby Ave. It’s the first of five silent movies in the theater’s Mystery Series, and theater organist Dennis James provides the musical accompaniment on the pipe organ. Tickets are $11 adult, $10 senior, military and students, and $5 children 12 and younger at the box office, 425-258-6766, www.everetttheatre.org.