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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 →
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Fri, Oct. 9.
Registration for Nov. 3 closes today at 5pm. Moved, turned 18, or never got around to it? One minute, one lookup. Miss it anyway and you can still register and vote in the same trip during early voting, starting Oct. 15.
At 11am, Plov Part Two starts cooking in the Huzzah Books parking lot, with the free food ready around 3 or 4pm. The first round sold out in an hour. The Indigo & Cyanotype Workshop runs 11am to 1:30pm at BRAHM in Blowing Rock, and Drop-In Artmaking fills the Moskowitz Gallery at the Turchin Center from 2 to 4pm. At 5pm, the Gallery Crawl opens up downtown West Jefferson.
Homecoming weekend
Kickoff against Old Dominion is 1pm Saturday at Kidd Brewer, and rain is coming with it. The National Weather Service has Boone at 80% Saturday, starting around 7am, with a half to three quarters of an inch, gusts to 31 mph, and a high near 52. Saturday night and Sunday are wetter, 1 to 2 inches possible in each. A Wind Advisory runs 5pm Saturday to 11am Sunday, with gusts of 45 to 50 mph and up to 60 on the ridges. Bring a poncho to the stadium, secure anything loose outside, and do your outdoor errands today. High Country forecasting can get tricky. Check Rays. IYKYK
Worth knowing
NOAA's Oct. 8 El Niño update puts the chance of a historic event this fall at 83%, up from 75%. Our almanac-style winter forecast has what that means for the mountains.
The site is 2006
For Homecoming, left917 is wearing its 2006 look, App State's three-straight-titles era, through Saturday night. Gold, maroon, Arial. Not your thing? The off switch is up top.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Jefferson and or Mussolini
Ezra Pound
Pound's 1933 case that Jefferson and Mussolini were running the same play with different names. Read as literature it's a mess, mostly worth it as a document: modernism's most famous poet putting his fascist sympathies on paper in his own words, years before the worst of it landed. Not a recommendation of the politics, a primary source on how a brilliant mind talked itself into them.
Read the pick →
🌘 Waning Crescent · 8% lit
Near-new moon — the darkest skies of the month for the Milky Way and meteors.
Sky's truly dark after 8:24 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Stickney Crater →
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