Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Feb. 17, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Hunter Valentine at Milestone












• Almost Famous with Blayr Nias at The Comedy Zone Charlotte

• Your Fuzzy Friends at Snug Harbor

• Dr. Kenneth Janken, author of The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s at Johnson C. Smith University

• Charlotte Stands for Heroes at Knight Theater