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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 →
Missed the registration deadline? Early voting runs Oct. 15–31, and you can register and vote in the same trip at any site in your county. Bring proof of where you live. Sites and hours.
Tue, Oct. 13.
1pm Pumpkin Carving with a ranger at Grandfather Mountain, Profile Parking Area. Free, pumpkins provided, register ahead, capped at 20.
6pm Hitchcocktober at the Appalachian Theatre, until 8pm, with Notorious (1946) on the bill.
7pm Noise at Huzzah Books with Collapsing, Dead, Channel, and OHS/Blisster, $10.
7pm The Falling Spikes at the Todd Mercantile with The Yipps and Grayson McGuire, $10 at the door.
Worth knowing
Boone Town Council meets Wednesday at 9am in Council Chambers, and the first thing up is Ridgehouse. The Town's agenda packet lists 332 units and 716 bedrooms on about 63 acres along the 105 Bypass, with a request for annexation and zoning. It's an informal discussion, not a vote. Our breakdown of the packet has the numbers. Council also holds a public hearing on closing out the Deck Hill water tank grant and hears a resident's plan to reverse traffic on a block of Howard Street. What's on the agenda.
Early voting opens Thursday. Our guide, Marching to Early Voting in the High Country, has where each march and rally meets and where it ends, starting with Thursday's 5:30pm Voterfest march from Howard Hall. Saturday, No Kings: Vote Early runs 4–6pm at the Ag Center with speakers, bands, dancing, and a community art project, then a Honk N Wave on King Street until 6:45pm. Sites and hours.
The Littlest Gay Bookshop picked five queer reads for spooky season, from a swampcore novella to a sapphic Halloweentown romance. The list.
◆ 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 →
🌒 Waxing Crescent · 7% lit
Near-new moon — the darkest skies of the month for the Milky Way and meteors.
Sky's truly dark after 8:18 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Desert Stairway to Heaven →
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