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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 →
Voting Nov. 3? Registration closes Fri, Oct. 9, at 5pm. Dates, early-voting sites, ID rules and a sample-ballot lookup, all on one page.
Mon, Oct. 5. For the week ahead.
Tonight, Huzzah Books' book club takes on César Aira's Ema, the Captive at 7pm, free. The App Theatre keeps its Halloween-month screenings going all week, Shadow of a Doubt Tuesday, free Maximum Overdrive Wednesday, North by Northwest Thursday, Beetlejuice Friday, all at 6pm. Thursday also brings the documentary Theory of Change at 6:30pm and APPS' Silent Disco in the Grandview Ballroom at 8pm.
Friday, Huzzah throws Plov Part Two, free, cooking from 11am and ready around 3 to 4. That night Resonant Mirage, Inquest, Rylee Bapst, and Admiral play the Leif Erikson Day jam at Betsy's Barn in Todd at 7pm. Sunday, the App State Jazz Ensemble plays the App Theatre at 5pm.
Worth knowing
New from us. Howard Street’s social district could go downtown-wide. The downtown board has been weighing a bigger map than the Howard and Depot blocks, and the town says it is still too early to pin down a timeline.
Blowing Rock's Town Cleanup Week runs through Thursday. Crews pick up old appliances, yard debris, mattresses, furniture and grills, and leaves go out separate from branches.
Maintenance on US-221 hits both directions between Deerfield Rd and Possum Hollow Rd Tuesday night, all lanes affected. A debris removal project will clear 769 acres of hurricane-damaged material near Boone along the Parkway to cut wildfire risk.
The N.C. Council of the American Postal Workers Union is organizing an effort to save the Fleetwood Post Office, closed since Helene.
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◆ 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 →
🌗 Last Quarter · 42% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 8:29 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: M104: The Sombrero Galaxy's Tidal Streams →
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