The Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library and the Orange County Arts Commission will hold a reception Sunday for the new exhibit 'Animals Without Borders' at the library, in the McDougle Schools Media Center at 900 Old Fayetteville Road in Carrboro. The multi-media exhibition features the work of 23 local artists, depicting animals from all seven continents. The reception to meet the artists will be Sunday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. The show will be up until June 9. 969-3006.

SUNDAY

The Horace Williams House, 610 E. Rosemary St., will open 'Tales of Two Cities,' an exhibition of photographs taken in New York and Paris by Peter Filene, with a reception Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. For 20 years Filene, an author and retired professor of history at UNC, has prowled the streets and museums of his two favorite cities - New York, where he grew up, and Paris, where his aesthetic imagination comes alive -- with his camera in hand, searching for evocative moments to transform into art. The reception is free and open to the public. The show will remain on display through May 3.

SATURDAY

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter and dobro player Rocco DeLuca with his band, the Burden, will play at the Cat's Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro, Saturday. DeLuca released his second album, 'Mercy,' and played on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno earlier this month. HoneyHoney will open. Showtime is 8 p.m., and admission is $12 in advance, $15 the day of the show. 967-9053, www.catscradle.com.

SATURDAY

Adam Meuse will sign copies of his "Sad Animals" minicomic Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Chapel Hill Comics, 316 W. Franklin St. Meuse's book offers a perspective on the absurdities of human nature through his drawings of, well, sad animals. www.chapelhillcomics.com.