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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 →
For Homecoming, left917 is wearing its ASU 2006 look, App State's three-straight-titles era, through Saturday night. Gold, maroon, Arial. Just how the site looked in 2006. Not your thing? The off switch is up top.
Fri, Oct. 9.
Homecoming weekend starts tonight. App State hosts Old Dominion Saturday at 1pm at Kidd Brewer Stadium, and the full Homecoming schedule runs all weekend.
Tonight, the App Theatre screens Beetlejuice at 6pm, and Resonant Mirage, Inquest, Rylee Bapst, and Admiral play the Leif Erikson Day jam at Betsy's Barn at 7pm. Four bands take over Lily's Snack Bar, American Death Cult, Blankstate, Good Knights Rest, and Bongfoot, music at 9pm, $5.
Saturday night, Pillow Fight turns Brikhouse into a slumber party with Allaprima, Saturdaze, and Admiral. Pajamas encouraged, doors 7pm, music 8pm, $10, 18+. Ellie K comes home to Betsy's Barn the same night, and DJ Raheim runs the Homecoming dance party at Lily's, 10pm to 2am, free.
Worth knowing
Rain moves in Saturday around 7am (80%) with a half to three quarters of an inch and gusts to 31 mph, then 1 to 2 inches Saturday night and again Sunday (100%). A Wind Advisory kicks in at 5pm Saturday and runs to 11am Sunday, with gusts of 45 to 50 mph, up to 60 on the ridges, and a few power outages possible. Get the outdoor stuff in tonight, and tie down what you can't bring in. High Country forecasting can get tricky. Check Rays. IYKYK
A new local podcast, The Queer Report, lands Mondays, with a segment on LGBTQ+ events in Boone.
The site is in its 2006 look through Saturday night. 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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