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Running all October
The High Country Haint List. Haunted trails, ghost tours and a live Rocky Horror shadowcast. Everything spooky between here and Oct. 31, updated as the flyers go up. Read it →
Early voting runs through Sat, Oct. 31, 3pm. Watauga and Avery sites close the weekends of Oct. 17–18 and 24–25. Ashe stays open those Saturdays, 8am–3pm. Sites and hours.
Sun, Oct. 18.
Freeze Warning until 9am. The mountains just remembered it's October. Widespread frost hangs around until about 10am, then it's sunny. The warning.
Early voting
Watauga's first two days of early voting each topped the busiest single day of the 2022 early vote. Follow all three counties on our counter, updated each morning from the State Board. Sites are closed today and reopen Monday.
Drop of the Week
Ellie K's Pose is an indie punk EP, her transition from indie to something harder. Birdie caught her at Lily's the Sunday the tables got shoved aside for a punk show.
On Rotation
Proxima System's single Would You Be There? is a 90s-inspired rock song that ends on a question. Press play and answer it.
Bands
The bands page is on the air, built with Shred Boone. Every band with a show coming up is on it, and a tap on a name pulls up all their dates. Here's what it's for.
Missing a band? Add your act with your genre, hometown, a sentence about you and a logo. An editor reads every one before it goes up.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Hollywood Babylon
Kenneth Anger
A sensational chronicle of scandals, secrets, and darker tales from Hollywood's golden age, filled with photographs and revelations about the industry's most famous figures.
Read the pick →
🌓 First Quarter · 45% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 8:12 PM.
☄ Orionids peaks Oct 21 — look the southeast after midnight.
◆ NASA's photo today: Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars →
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