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Heavy week. Thursday through Saturday, take your pick. Y2K Kids is free in Banner Elk Thursday at 6:30. Friday you're choosing between Dancing Anyways at Parallel and Chapter 3 at Betsy's Barn in Todd, ten bucks either way. Saturday the High Country Beer Festival turns 19 at the fairgrounds, 40-plus breweries, 3 to 7.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
Beckett's stark one-act play presents a post-apocalyptic scenario where characters inhabit a bunker-like space, confined and waiting as the world outside slowly becomes uninhabitable. A masterwork of absurdist drama that explores themes of futility, dependency, and the human condition through sparse dialogue and ritualistic action.
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🌔 Waxing Gibbous · 83% lit
A bright moon tonight, so the Milky Way and the faintest stars wash out.
Sky's truly dark after 9:36 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Comet 220P in Outburst →
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