Monthly Archives: October 2015

Come for dinner and meet The Addams Family

October 15, 2015 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre is proud to present a production that is creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky: The Addams Family. This Tony Award nominated macabre musical comedy is now haunting the stage at Beef & Boards. Few things frighten the eerie Addams clan. But Gomez … Read More

Cabaret Poe

October 15, 2015 | by Ethel Winslow

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary . . . “ Thus begins the most famous of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems, “The Raven,” a mainstay of Halloween literature. At Cabaret Poe, “The Raven” and other poems and stories by the unrivaled romantic horror-meister Poe come to … Read More

Eric Grayson to Screen 1931 “Frankenstein” with Censored Scenes

October 15, 2015 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Film historian Eric Grayson will screen the 1931 film, Frankenstein, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff at the Garfield Park Arts Center, 2432 Conservatory Dr., on October 17. Grayson has restored four minutes of previously censored footage (still family-friendly), so audiences will see an uncut version … Read More

Read Local Series Begins in November

October 15, 2015 | by Weekly View

IRVINGTON — On each Tuesday in November, the Irvington Branch will hold the Read Local: Tuesday Evening Author Series. Visitors can meet notable local authors who will discuss their works and answer audience questions in a panel format. Book sales and signings will follow. Books will be provided by Bookmamas. … Read More

What? The Fall?

October 15, 2015 | by CJ Woods III

I was looking at the work of an orb-weaver that had crafted a web across a good portion of my kitchen window. I idly noted a curled and yellowed leaf caught in the web. Later that day, I saw the spider. It clung to the threads at the middle of … Read More