LITTLE ROCK — October is the month of home-grown pumpkins and home-groan haunted houses, when shadows stretch into creepy nights of mothers-in-law and other horrifying visitors who look like cows and rabbits - and might be, actually, cows and rabbits.
1 Squirrel Awareness Month, Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Self-Promotion Month. Nuts, mutts, struts.
HE SPOKE NOT A WORD, BUT WENT STRAIGHT TO HIS WORK
2 Just 84 days before Santa visits. National Custodial Worker Day celebrates the other guy who comes in at night and carries a bag.
3 How to celebrate National Stamp Collecting Month: Push the envelope.
FEELIN’ DROPPED LIKE A DROP BISCUIT
4 King Biscuit Blues Festival with Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Bobby Rush, barbecue cook-off and blues symposium, through Oct. 6 in Helena. Details at kingbiscuitfestival.com. Call (870) 572-5223.
FAIR TREATMENT
A Fair to Remember music, games and auctions benefit Arkansas Hospice, 6:30 p.m. at Metroplex Team/Summit, Little Rock. Details at arkansashospice.org. Call (501) 748-3306.
WARD, I’M WORRIED ABOUT THE BEAVER
Leave It to Beaver begins its six-year, 234-episode run on TV, 1957, proving time and again that Dad always knows just what to say.
THE WISDOM OF WARD CLEAVER
“I guess so.”
“That’s it.”
“Oh ?”
GUITAR PICKS AND OTHER CHOICES
5 MusicFest with Jake Owe, MC Hammer through Oct. 6, downtown El Dorado. Details at musicfesteldorado.com. Call (870) 862-4747.
Johnny Cash Music Festival with Rosanne Cash and Willie Nelson, 7 p.m., Arkansas State University Convocation Center, Jonesboro. Details at johnnycashmusicfest.com. Call (870) 972-2781.
PEOPLE’S COURTS
Drama Enemy of the People through Oct. 6 and weekends through Oct. 20 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Details at weekendtheater.org. Call (501) 374-3761.
Community Theatre of Little Rock drama, 12 Angry Men, through Oct. 7 at the Public Theatre, downtown Little Rock. Details at ctlr-act.org. Call (501) 410-2283.
INK! SPLASH! WOW!
Little Rock Comic Con through Oct. 6 at the La Quinta Inn, downtown Little Rock. Call (501) 786-9951.
COTTON FIELDS BACK HOME
6 High Cotton on the Bayou, mule plowing and Dutch-oven cooking, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Scott Plantation Settlement, Scott. Details at scottconnections.org. Call (501) 351-0300.
Dutch-oven cooking workshop, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott. Call (501) 961-1409.
AND THE BAND BEGAN TO PLAY
Beatles tribute band Classical Mystery Tour with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Oct. 6 and 3 p.m. Oct. 7 at Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.
ROAD FOOD
Main Street Food Truck Festival, downtown Little Rock. Details at downtownlr.com. Call (501) 375-0121.
FOLKS, WE HAVE A WEINER
Weiner dog races, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Loch Lomond Park softball field, Bella Vista, benefits the Bella Vista Animal Shelter. Details at bellavista-animalshelter. org. Call (479) 855-6020.
ROCK STARS
Central Arkansas Gem and Mineral Show through Oct. 7 at Jacksonville Civic Center, Jacksonville. Details at centralarrockhound.org. Call (870) 255-3679.
MEAT AND GREET
Jonesboro Barbecue Festival with .38 Special, downtown Jonesboro. Details at jonesboro.org. Call (870) 336-7268.
World Vegetarian Day, but barbecuers just don’t carrot all.
WINGING IT
Flying Jam Music Festival, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Searcy County Airport, Marshall. Details at searcycountyairport.com. Call (870) 448-5289.
Argenta Neighborhood Boosters Gems & Junk neighborhood yard sale, 7 a.m.-noon around downtown North Little Rock. Call (501) 376-1127.
Alzheimer’s Arkansas Walk, 7 a.m. at the Little Rock Zoo. Details at alzark.org. Call (501) 224-0021.
GREENER GRINNER
7 World Smile Day, National Dental Hygiene Month, Spinach Lovers Month, and how come Popeye squints at Olive Oyl: It’s that green blob between her teeth.
SHAPED UP, SHIPPED OUT
8 Columbus Day, the federal holiday. Explorer Christopher Columbus went looking for the New World in three ships: (A) The Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, (B) The Nina, Pinta and Santa Marie, or (C) The Nino, Pinto and Mail Truck.
Answer at Oct. 23.
FESTIVITIES ACTIVITIES
Jefferson County Extension Homemakers Council Holiday Foods recipe and table setting demonstrations, 10 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Pine Bluff. Call (870) 534-1033 for reservations.
MTV IS BACK! WHERE’S NINA BLACKWOOD?
9 Journey with Pat Benatar and Loverboy, 7 p.m. at Verizon Arena. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
Comedy Busy Body through Nov. 4 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock. Details at murrysdinnerplayhouse.com. Call (501) 562-3131.
Tales of the Crypt historical re-enactments by students from Parkview Arts-Science Magnet High School in Little Rock, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock. Call (501) 804-6239.
MOO-TIVE FOR THE CRIME
10 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was blamed on: (A) Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, (B) The cow that jumped over the moon, or (C) Bullfeathers.
Answer at Oct. 29.
STRING THEORIES
11 Chamber Music Society of Little Rock concert, American String Quartet, 7:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Little Rock. Details at chambermusiclr. co. Call (501) 661-0520.
Brad Paisley, 7:30 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS!
Little Women by the Royal Players, through Oct. 14 and Oct. 18-21 at the Royal Theatre, Benton. Details at theroyalplayers.com. Call (501) 315-5483.
THE COWS COME HOME
12 Arkansas State Fair, bull riding, pig races and grizzly bears through Oct. 21 at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds, Little Rock. Details at arkansasstatefair.com. Call (501) 372-8341.
WHAT’’S-UP DOCS
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival through Oct. 21, Hot Springs. Details at hsdfi.org. Call (501) 538-2290.
MA AND POP KETTLE
Arkansas Rice Festival and rice cook-off through Oct. 13 in Weiner. Details at arkansasricefestival.com. Call (870) 919-0726.
National Popcorn Poppin’Month.
Arkansas Chamber Singers Fall Concert, Singing for Breath, 7:30 p.m. at St. James United Methodist Church, Little Rock; also 3 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock. Details at ar-chambersingers.org. Call (501) 377-1121.
WINE AND DANDY
13 Wiederkehr Weinfest and grapestomp at Weiderkehr Village near Altus. Details at wiederkehrwines.com. Call (800) 622-9463.
Wiggins Cabin Festival, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Crossett. Details at wigginscabinfestival.com. Call (870) 364-6591.
THINK RINK
14 National Roller Skating Month.
Joe Weber Arky Bicycle Rides of 25 to 100 miles, 8 a.m. from Sheridan. Details at arkansasbicycleclub.org. Call (501) 912-1449.
PROCESSED SERVER
15 American Cheese Month poses the question: Is it cheese or what? You can roll it in a ball between your fingers, but it isn’t a cheese ball, so what is it? And is the best “American single” a slice of cheese or George Clooney?
BLURBED FOR VERBS, RENOWNED FOR NOUNS
16 Dictionary Day: A celebration of dictionary-maker Noah Webster’s birthday, 1758.
WORK ELATED
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Fall Job Fair at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock. Details at jobsarkansas.com. Call (501) 918-4539.
17 Photographer Appreciation Month, Right-Brainers Rule Month, Raptor Month. Click! Clique! Snap!
Disability Awareness Day celebration, 10 a.m.-noon at the state Capitol, Little Rock. Call (501) 614-7020.
GRIND TIME HAD BY ALL
18 War Eagle Mill Fall Crafts Fair through Oct. 21 at War Eagle Mill near Rogers. Details at wareaglemill.com. Call (479) 789-5343.
SPOOK UP
19 Voices from Eureka’s Silent City cemetery tours through Oct. 20 and Oct. 26-27: Living history re-enactments, 5:30-8:30 each night at Eureka Springs Cemetery, Eureka Springs. Call (479) 253-9417.
Boo at the Zoo, 6-9 p.m. through Oct. 21 and Oct. 26-31 at Little Rock Zoo. Details at littlerockzoo.com. Call (501) 666-2406.
WHO’S WHO OF WHOSE GOO
20 World Cheese Dip Championship at the ClintonPresidential Center, Little Rock. Details at cheesedip.net. Call (501) 993-7502.
AND A POT MORE
Bull Shoals White River State Park
Dutch Oven Cook-Off
near Mountain Home. Call (870) 445-3629.
Harvest Home Festival
, apple bobbing and pie contest, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Plantation Agriculture Museum, Scott. Call (501) 961-1409.
BOOLA-BOOLA CALENDULA!
21 The flower for October is the calendula, pronounced “calla-doola-oola-whatever.” Can’t say it? Give her the stone of the month - an opal.
22 How to celebrate National Orthodontic Health Month: Brace yourself.
COLUMBUS STOP
23 Saw three ships a’sailin’ quiz answer: (A) Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. Answer (B) is off course, and (C) is just plain ridiculous. Columbus could not have arrived in a mail truck. The post office is closed on Columbus Day.
THE YOUNG AND THE REST
24 Young Artists production, Singin’ on a Star, through Nov. 3 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org.Call (501) 378-0405.
Workplace Politics Awareness Month: Curtain up for the never-ending tap-dance and sing-song of the office.
FLEA CIRCUS
25 Red Hot Chili Peppers at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
National Chili Month.
BEAN THERE, RUN THAT
Bean Fest and Outhouse Races through Oct. 27, downtown Mountain View. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com. Call (870) 269-8068.
WASCALLY WAMPIRE
26 Bunnicula through Nov. 11 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
DOUBLE CLUTCH
Power of the Purse luncheon benefits the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, noon at the Peabody Little Rock hotel. Details at womensfoundationarkansas.org. Call (501) 244-9740.
HERE! - BY GUM
27 Geocachers’ chili cook-off and bubblegum-blowing contest, 11 a.m. at Quarry Cove Pavilion, Lake Nimrod near Danville. Call (501) 922-3333.
DASH THE DIRT
Mud Run 5K run, skip and cavort ends in a 300-foot mud pit, 9 a.m. in Two Rivers Park, Little Rock. Details at mudrun.org. Call (501) 371-4639.
Downtown Fall Festival and chili cook-off, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Russellville. Details at mainstreetrussellville.com. Call (479) 967-1437.
PINPEX stamp show through Oct. 28, Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 868-4553.
FEUD FOR THOUGHT
28 Mother-in-Law-Day, National Bake and Decorate Month.
This special day, she takes the cake,
And says, “It’s much too dry;
“But thank you, dear, you tried your best,
“And bought one on the sly.”
HEARD IT THROUGH THE BOVINE
29 Udder delight quiz answer: (A) Mrs. Catherine O’Leary’s cow was said to have kicked over a lantern that started the fire. But accounts vary on what really happened, and chances are the clumsy cow was merely a scapegoat.
GREEN THUMB AND THEN SOME
30 Shreck the Musical through Oct. 31 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
31 Nevada admission day, 1864. Nevada admits that what happens in Vegas might not stay in Vegas. (Just ask Prince Harry.) Losers’ money is what stays in Vegas.
NIGHT OF THE HAUNTER
Halloween - eeks!
National Chiropractic Month - creaks!
Coming next month: November! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or e-mail
[email protected]by Oct. 15 to suggest November calendar entries or how to celebrate November as Banana Pudding Lovers Month. The situation peels down to a sad truth: We can’t all be top banana. Somebody has to play second banana. In case of a tie, it’s a banana split. Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.
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