The Spiritual H.O.P.E. Society — or the Spiritual Historians of Paranormal Evidence— is a local paranormal team. Their new series of public ghost hunts, “Ghosts in the Museums,” will visit five area museums, starting with the Cincinnati Observatory Center, to allow the public to investigate paranormal claims. 7-11 p.m.  

It’s spring outside, but it’s spring inside too … at least inside the Krohn Conservatory. Their Spring Floral Show kicks off Saturday with a simple theme: “Glorious Spring.” To celebrate the true beauty of this season the Krohn has built a traditional spring garden, already in full bloom. Through April 11.  

Started in 1967 as a religious procession, this parade quickly turned into a citywide party. Since then, it has become a true parade with street closings, floats, pipers, step dancers, Irish families, marching bands and more. The parade starts promptly at 11 a.m. and proceeds from Fifth and Sentinel streets down Plum and ends up at Third Street and Central Parkway.  

Starting at a much more reasonable hour, 10 a.m., and running until 10 p.m., O'Nati's is the perfect place to set up camp to watch the parade go by and then celebrate the rest of the day with several Guinness (Guinnesses? Guinni?). Live music starts at 1 p.m. with The Tigerlillies, followed by Mt. Pleasant String Band, Magnolia Mountain, The Super Desserts, The Tillers, The Buffalo Killers and Deer Tick.  

The Cincinnati International Wine Festival is a charitable, non-profit, fundraising organization established to raise funds and distribute grants in the Greater Cincinnati area for programs in the arts, education and health and human services. This year's featured guest is Michael Mondavi, co-founder of the Robert Mondavi winery. Along with the Grand Tasting, guests can also attend a special tasting room, winery dinner, and charity auction and luncheon. Thursday-Saturday.  

This five-star evening features a red carpet welcome, cocktails, entertainment, drive-in movie inspired appetizers, a three-course gourmet meal, and emcees from WCPO-TV and the Academy Awards. The evening includes silent and live auctions, door prizes, and an array of surprises. The night is capped off with an after party featuring djdq, dancing, games and more. At the Hilton's Carew Tower Arcade.  

Oakley is a pleasant place. Imagine that you’re Goldilocks but looking for alcohol instead of porridge. You’re probably all “Mount Adams is too sloppy,” and “Northside is too cool.” But if you land in Oakley, where you could walk from bar to bar to watch flat-screen T.V., you say, “Oakley is just right.”  

Bockfest, Cincinnati’s annual Renaissance celebration of Bock beer, Over-the-Rhine and the coming of spring, also means the coming of the Sausage Queen competition. This weekend marks the third and fourth preliminary rounds of competition for the Sausage Queen: 9 p.m. Friday at Blue Bar and 9 p.m. Saturday at Milton’s Prospect Hill Tavern.  

The Human Rights Campaign brings its third annual “Laughing OUT Loud” comedy night to Below Zero Lounge with comedians Dana Goldberg and ANT. This is a fundraiser and membership night for HRC, America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. 8 p.m. at Below Zero Lounge.  

Accomplished and award-winning fiction writer Lorrie Moore makes a stop at room 427 in the Engineering Research Center on the University of Cincinnati’s Clifton campus for a reading at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Much of Moore’s work deals with grief, terminal illness, the Midwest and other relatively bleak themes with a touch of humor and moments of sublime beauty.