October is the month of boos in the news. Pint (of blood)-size Alice Coopers make the rounds with bags of stamps, biscuits, Ding Dongs and other treats of this very hairy merry month of Halloween.
1 First Model T Ford hits the road, 1908, only to find the road is closed for construction around Robinson Center in Little Rock. Even Corvettes have to detour.
VETTE'D
Corvette Weekend through Oct. 4, Eureka Springs. Details at eurekaspringscorvette.org.
PIGS IN BANQUETS
Hawgs for a Cause barbecue, 6 p.m. at the Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled multipurpose center, Little Rock, benefits the AEDD Children's Learning Center and Lacy Landers Skills Training Center. Details at aeddinc.org. Call (501) 801-3648.
READ IT AND SWEEP
Great Arkansas Cleanup volunteer projects around the state through October. Details at keeparkansasbeautiful.com. Call (888) 742-8701.
EL KABONG
2 El Dorado MusicFest through Oct. 3 with Dwight Yoakam, Jason D. Williams. Details at musicfesteldorado.com. Call (870) 862-4747.
THE TRUCK STOPS HERE
3 Main Street Food Truck Festival of 30 vendors, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., downtown Little Rock. Details at mainstreetfoodtrucks.com. Call (501) 375-0121.
FOSSIL FUELED
Greater Little Rock Area Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 3 and 4 at Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 379-8653.
BETTER AND VERSE
Poetry Day, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at Cox Creative Center, downtown Little Rock, with Poets Roundtable of Arkansas events including poetry critiques with speaker Hope Coulter. Details at poetsroundtable.webs.com. Call (501) 831-0341.
WATER AND COLORS
Art on the Creeks showcase of more than 60 artists from five states, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in the courtyard at Village on the Creeks, Rogers. Details at facebook.com/artonthecreeks.
High Cotton on the Bayou Festival, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Scott Plantation Settlement in Scott, southeast of Little Rock. Details at scottconnections.org. Call (501) 351-0300.
WHAT FORE
4 National Golf Day -- the usual celebration, par for the course
FRAME AND FORTUNE
5 Artists as Mentors exhibit opening, 11 a.m. at the Capitol rotunda, Little Rock. Exhibit continues through Oct. 16. Call (501) 525-2958.
GOWN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
6 First Ladies Luncheon with Arkansas first lady Susan Hutchinson at the Governor's Mansion, Little Rock, benefits the Old State House Museum's collection of gowns worn by wives of the state's governors. Details at arkansasheritage.com. Call (501) 324-8647.
BELLS OF THE BALL
Ding Dong Days Festival through Oct. 10, Dumas. Fun Day and Dylan Scott concert Oct. 10. Details at dumasar.net. Call (870) 382-5447.
COSMIC COMIC
Bill Nye the Science Guy, 7:30 p.m. at Ferris Center, University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Details at uca.edu/reynolds. Call (501) 450-3265.
"Science is the best idea that humans have ever had." -- Bill Nye
THE REST IS GRAVY
7 King Biscuit Blues Festival with Bobby Rush, Taj Mahal through Oct. 10, Helena-West Helena. Details at kingbiscuitfestival.com. Call (870) 714-2844.
BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS
8 Motley Crue with Alice Cooper, 7 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
CLUES IN THE NIGHT
Royal Players mystery, Love From a Stranger, through Oct. 18 at the Royal Theatre, Benton. Details at theroyalplayers.com. Call (501) 315-5483.
SWIM WITH THE SNARKS
Sarcastic Month. Yeah, right. Awesome. Whatever.
FAIR PLAY
9 Arkansas State Fair through Oct. 18 at the State Fair Grounds, Little Rock. Details at arkansasstatefair.com. Call (501) 372-8341.
MATTERS OF FACT
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival through Oct. 18 at venues including the Arlington Hotel, with baseball hall-of-famer Lou Brock. Details at hsdfi.org. Call (501) 538-2290.
BEARS WITH IT
Leslie Mountain Man Festival through Oct. 10 near Marshall. Call (870) 448-2557.
PINK PANTERS
10 Komen Race for the Cure, 7:30 a.m. through downtown Little Rock. Details at komenarkansas.org. Call (501) 202-4399.
THE NOSE KNOWS MERLOTS
Wiederkehr Weinfest at Wiederkehr Village near Altus. Details at wiederkehrwines.com. Call (479) 468-9463.
HEE-HAW HOO-HAH
Pea Ridge Mule Jump rebounds from last year's rain-out with mule stubbornness, barrel races and mule beauty contest, Pea Ridge near Rogers. Details at pearidgemulejump.com. Call (479) 903-1520.
COWBOY LOVIN' NIGHT
Tanya Tucker concert on the singer's 57th birthday, 7 p.m. at The Center for the Arts, Russellville. Details at tanyatuckerconcert.com. Call (479) 304-7777.
UP SCALED
11 Camp Aldersgate Fish Fry, noon-3 p.m., benefits the camp in Little Rock for children with special needs. Details at campaldersgate.net. Call (501) 225-1444.
Arkansas Bicycle Club Joe Weber Arky 100 Bicycle Tour, 8 a.m. from Sheridan Community Center, Sheridan. Details at bikereg.com. Call (501) 912-1449.
LETTER R.I.P.
12 Christopher Columbus writes home about his discovery of America, 1492, only to find the post office is closed for Columbus Day.
DOWN AND DOUBT
13 International Skeptics Day, so-called and supposedly.
POOCH COBBLER
14 National Dessert Day, Adopt a Shelter Dog Month and after-dinner menu:
mChocolate Maltese
• Great Danish
• Affenpinscher Mint
GHOSTS OF THE TOWN
15 Historic Ghost Walks through downtown Rogers, 7-9 p.m., also Oct. 16 and 24. Details at rogershistoricalmuseum.org. Call (479) 621-1154.
Voices From Eureka Springs Silent City cemetery tours with living history re-enactors through Oct. 17 and Oct. 30-31, Eureka Springs. Details at eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org. Call (479) 253-9417.
OLD MILL SCHEME
War Eagle Mill Craft and Culinary Fair through Oct. 18 near Rogers. Details at wareaglemill.com. Call (479) 789-5343.
IN A WORD
16 Dictionary Day, Bosses Day. Boss: (n) one who tells the cow how to eat the cabbage. Bossy: (n) cow that ate the boss's cake, instead. Bossa nova: (n) boss gone blooey.
BEE. B-E-E-E. BUZZ!
Musical 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee through Nov. 8 at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Little Rock. Details at therep.org. Call (501) 378-0405.
HI-YO, SILVERS
17 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Arkansas Senior Expo, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock. Details at arkansasseniorexpo.com. Call (501) 244-4344.
HAVE A RICE DAY
Grand Prairie Rice Festival and carnival in City of Hazen Park, Hazen. Call (870) 255-3042.
HEAD FOR THE HIGH LIMBER
18 Jean-Claude Van Damme's 55th birthday.
TAVERN SONGS
19 Arkansas Chamber Singers' Beers and Cheers fundraiser, 6:30 p.m. at Stone's Throw Brewery, Little Rock. Details at ar-chambersingers.org. Call (501) 377-1121.
LONG IN THE TOOTH
20 Dracula actor Bela Lugosi's birthday, 1882.
SUPREME HONOR
21 National Pizza Month, goo'ed any way you slice it.
N'YUK-N'YUK. WHO'S THERE?
22 Curly Howard's birthday, 1903. Big brothers Moe and Shemp Howard got Curly into the family business, The Three Stooges.
HORSE OF A DIFFERENT PALLOR
23 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow through Nov. 8 at the Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, Little Rock. Details at arkarts.com. Call (501) 372-4000.
COAL JUSTICE
Great American Smoke-out barbecue cook-off through Oct. 24, Marshall. Barbecue lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 24. Call (870) 448-7125.
ROCKY HOROSCOPE PICTURE SHOW
24 SCORPIO (Oct. 4-Nov 21): Is today your birthday? If so, then step out with all eight legs. The drink of this day is the Stinger. Leave no rock unturned in search of your fellow Scorpios -- Katy Perry (31), on Oct. 25; Hillary Clinton (68), Oct. 26; and Bill Gates (60), Oct. 28.
DIRTY COMPETITION
Mud Run leads to a 300-foot mud pit in Two Rivers Park, Little Rock. Details at mudrun.org. Call (501) 371-4639.
MAN OF THE BAND
Levon Helm Downhome Jubilee with the Lockhouse Orchestra, 7 p.m. at the ballpark in Marvell west of Helena, benefits restoration of late musician Helm's boyhood home. Details at levondownhomejubilee.com.
LICK AND A PROMISE
Stamp Collecting Month.
Pinnacle Stamp Club of Arkansas PINPEX stamp show through Oct. 25 at Jacksonville Community Center, Jacksonville. Call (501) 868-4553.
CARNIVORES DON'T CARROT ALL
25 National Vegetarian Month.
MOM BOMB
Mother-in-Law Day once again fails to catch on for lack of suitable greeting card verses -- until now:
I'd like to call you Mom,
But you'd pretend you didn't hear;
I'd like hug you tight,
Except you'd toss me on my ear;
I'd like to bake a cake,
But then you'd only say, "It's dry";
So here's to you this happy day,
Said strictly on the sly.
TRY IT, WYATT
26 The gunfight at the OK Corral, 1881.
DRUM ROLL, PLEASE
27 How to celebrate International Drum Month: to beat the band.
KERNeLS OF TRUTH
28 National Popcorn Popping Month pings the pot with prodigious production of people-pleasin' puffery.
TOMB WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
29 Dracula Unearthed, music and dance version of the vampire classic, through Oct. 31 at Wildwood Park for the Arts, Little Rock. Details at wildwoodpark.org. Call (501) 821-7275.
CREEPING EXPECTATIONS
Big Boo!-seum Bash trick-or-treating, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at nine museums and other venues in downtown Little Rock, including the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. Details at arkmilitaryheritage.com. Call (501) 376-4602.
OUT TO LURCH
30 Arkansas Public Theater (formerly Rogers Little Theater) comedy The Addams Family through Nov. 1, Nov. 5-8 and Nov. 12-15 at the Victory Theater, Rogers. Details at arkansaspublictheater.org. Call (479) 631-8988.
RUNS LIKE A PINTO
BeanFest through Oct. 31, downtown Mountain View. Bean cook-off, beans and cornbread and outhouse races Oct. 31. Details at yourplaceinthemountains.com. Call (870) 269-8068.
GHOULS OUT FOREVER
31 Halloween.
• "Welcome to my nightmare." -- Alice Cooper
Coming next month: November! Call (501) 399-3633, write to Ron Wolfe, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or email
by Oct. 15 to suggest November calendar entries or how to celebrate November as National Sleep Comfort Month, such as: from A to Zzzzzzzzzz. Each event requires a phone number that is answered during business hours or by an answering machine that identifies the event or its sponsor.
Style on 09/29/2015