Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, so the whole week is one long costume party. Saturday night alone has a three-stage barn show, a disco night at the Saloon, and a Lily's contest with $100 on the line. Start on the costume now.
Mon 5pm WASU $ Wizards, four students live on WASU 90.5, until 7.
Mon 7pm Horror Club Pajama Movie Night in Greenbriar Theater, Night of the Living Dead in your pajamas, RSVP, seats are limited.
Mon 7pm Middlemarch Book Club at Huzzah Books, parts 2 and 3, free.
Tue 3:30pm King Street Farmers Market, the last one of the season.
Tue 5pm Caldwell CC&TI Trunk or Treat in Building 460 on the Watauga campus, food trucks, costumes encouraged, free, until 7.
Wed 6pm Ghost Tours on Sanford Mall, APPS students lead haunted stories of the old buildings on campus's east side.
Thu 11am Party at the Polls on Sanford Mall, a student voting event, until 1.
Thu 1:30pm Postcard Protesters at the Watauga County Public Library, Indivisible High Country writes nonpartisan postcards to Watauga voters.
Thu 7pm Pauletta Hansel and Hilda Downer at Huzzah Books, Cincinnati's first poet laureate and Appalachian poet laureate H.D., free.
Thu 8pm Mean Green, Wyndrider, Hempire at Lily's Snack Bar, music at 9, $7.
Thu 9:30pm Local Love: Open Deck Night at Boone Saloon, $5, 21+.
Thursday night is mostly clear, 45, with the moon just past full. Out of Lily's by midnight? Look up.
Fri 5pm Haunted Trail & Halloween Event at the Buckeye Recreation Center on Beech Mountain, theme Jailbreak, free, until 8:30.
Fri 7pm Rockabilly Old-Time Halloween Concert at Lost Province Arts, The Tremors and the Crooked Road Ramblers, costume and scream contests.
Fri 7pm Thriftsmith presents Halloween at ZRCskate, costumes required, Bedrumor, Proxima System, and Ellie K's Wurld, $13 advance, $15 at the door.
Fri 7pm Peak Fest Halloween rave at Betsy's Barn, Sir Dezzie and Betsy raising the dead.
Fri 8pm Halloween Monster Concert in Rosen Concert Hall, the organ studio's silent movie with live organ, candy at the end, free.
Fri 9:30pm The Keith Allen Circus with Housecat at Boone Saloon, psych-jam, $5, 21+.
Fri 10pm Leather & Lace Drag Show at Lily's Snack Bar, $7 advance, $10 day of.
Sat 4pm Boone BOO! downtown, trick-or-treating with central King Street closed, until 6:30.
Sat 7pm Betsy's Alien Abduction at Betsy's Barn, three stages, nine bands, three DJs. Showers are possible after 8, so pack a rain layer.
Sat 9pm Official Halloween Party with DJ Raheim at Lily's Snack Bar, $100 costume contest, $5.
Sat 9:30pm Discoween with Isaac Hadden at Boone Saloon, with Uh. Erik, $5, 21+.
Clocks fall back at 2am Sunday, so Halloween night gets an extra hour. Every spooky night is on the High Country Haint List.
N.C. 105 northbound has a right lane closed from Sawmillers Way to S Slope Rd starting Monday at 9am. NC DOT rates it minor and gives no end time. The alert.
The Boone Town Council meets Wednesday in Council Chambers, 1500 Blowing Rock Rd, with a work session at 5pm and regular business and public comment at 6pm. The agenda covers ordinance enforcement on Oak Street, the Clement Street apartments, and drive-through hours. What's on it.
Five statewide races are on every High Country ballot. An open U.S. Senate seat, Roy Cooper against Michael Whatley. One N.C. Supreme Court seat, Anita Earls against Sarah Stevens, that keeps the court at 5-2 or tips it to 6-1. Three Court of Appeals seats. Our guide. Early voting ends Saturday, Oct. 31, at 3pm. Sites and hours.
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