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Weekly Highlights in Ohio

Every featured event of the week, past and present

BGSU Planetarium's Spooky Space Show
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

BGSU Planetarium's Spooky Space Show

Bowling Green State University's planetarium turns ghosts, witches and vampires into real astronomy with its Spooky Space show on Oct. 29, 2026, followed by public stargazing if the sky cooperates.

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David Arquette's Behind the Scream
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

David Arquette's Behind the Scream

David Arquette brings a 30th-anniversary screening of Scream and a live on-stage conversation to E.J. Thomas Hall at the University of Akron on October 21, 2026.

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Native Days at Fort Recovery
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Native Days at Fort Recovery

The third annual Beyond the Battlefield: Native Days brings 15 tribal citizens, hands-on cultural stations and free battlefield tours to Fort Recovery, Ohio, on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026.

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Poe Is Dead Musical at Summit
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Poe Is Dead Musical at Summit

A locally written musical about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death gets a workshop run at Summit Artspace in Akron October 23-25, 2026.

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Basket Weaving Class at The
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Basket Weaving Class at The

Sharon Klusmann, who has woven baskets since 1985, leads a three-hour class in Screen 1 1/2 at Akron's Nightlight Cinema on Oct. 24, 2026, with a free voucher to see Wicker.

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Monster Squad Matinee at Akron
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Monster Squad Matinee at Akron

Killer Video Retro Horror Museum and the Akron-Summit County Public Library team up for a free, family-friendly screening of 1987's "The Monster Squad" on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, at the Main Library downtown.

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The Masque at Akron Civic Theatre
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

The Masque at Akron Civic Theatre

The Poe-inspired masquerade ball returns to Akron's historic Civic Theatre on Oct. 24, 2026, with cocktails, live music, dancing on the stage and three drink tickets included.

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Frank-n-Furter's Ball at Ohio
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Frank-n-Furter's Ball at Ohio

Ohio Shakespeare Festival's 25th-anniversary Rocky Horror gala returns to Greystone Hall in downtown Akron on Oct. 17, 2026, with a live performance, fortune telling, dancing and karaoke.

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Numbers Band at Jilly's Music Room
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Numbers Band at Jilly's Music Room

15 60 75 The Numbers Band, the Kent-born institution that has played for more than 50 years without ever signing a record deal, plays Jilly's Music Room in Akron on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.

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Cosmic Recipe: The Universe in a Pie
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Cosmic Recipe: The Universe in a Pie

BGSU Planetarium's Cosmic Recipe: Setting the Periodic Table, a $2 full-dome show on how the universe forged every element, screens Sunday, October 18, 2026 in Bowling Green, Ohio.

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Panda Fest Cincinnati Debut at Smale
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Panda Fest Cincinnati Debut at Smale

Panda Fest brings 90+ Asian food vendors, 200+ street food dishes and panda-themed fun to Smale Riverfront Park in Cincinnati from Oct. 16-18, 2026.

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Clothesline Project at OHIO Southern
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Clothesline Project at OHIO Southern

The Clothesline Project, a traveling display of survivor-made shirts, returns to Ohio University Southern in Ironton on Oct. 16, 2026, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

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The Guns That Fell at Little Bighorn
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Guns That Fell at Little Bighorn

A Dover historian traces the Model 1873 Colts carried into Custer's last battle, with Civil War artifacts on display at the library.

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Fear on Main Street
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Fear on Main Street

Killer Video's independent horror short film festival brings a night of Ohio-made scares, vendors and Scareoke to the historic Akron Civic Theatre.

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Akron After Dark
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Akron After Dark

A locally owned walking tour leads visitors through downtown Akron's haunted history, from a weeping canal ghost to a movie palace's restless spirits.

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Akron's Second Annual Botanical
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Akron's Second Annual Botanical

For the second year running, a New York-based plant show brings more than 100 tables of rare houseplants to the John S. Knight Center, and the story of how it got here is as tangled as a philodendron.

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Where Pugs Became Dogs: How a Hot
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Where Pugs Became Dogs: How a Hot

Dogtoberfest returns to Lock 3 on October 3, 2026 — a free, open-gate festival of peanut-butter licking contests, look-alike competitions and pug adoptions, born from a hot dog cart, a craft-show misfit and a rescue pug named... well, lots of them.

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A Medieval Courtroom Comes to
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Medieval Courtroom Comes to

Founded in 1962 as an ad-hoc gathering with no dues and no permanent home, the Midwest Medieval History Conference brings two days of law-and-society scholarship, a hands-on facsimile exhibit, and a keynote on the weaponization of death in thirteenth-century England to Ohio University.

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Six Thousand Glowing Faces: How the
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Six Thousand Glowing Faces: How the

Now in its third year, Jack O'Lantern Glow turns a half-mile of the Cincinnati Zoo into the Tri-state's largest illuminated pumpkin trail — all of it carved by hand, by local artists.

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A Lady Raised From the Lake: The
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

A Lady Raised From the Lake: The

After a tornado hurled the beloved statue of Mary into the lake and a volunteer dive team fished her out piece by piece, a tiny Ohio community rebuilt its landmark for the next hundred years.

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Ohio flag
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

On Lima Lake, Everyone Gets a Turn

For two days each summer on a century-old reservoir in Lima, Ohio, kayaks fitted with stabilizing floats and paddle pivots give people of every ability a chance to glide across open water.

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The Harvest That Wouldn't End
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–14, 2026

The Harvest That Wouldn't End

For 166 years, the Harvest Home Fair has drawn Cheviot's west side together — a harvest celebration that survived bankruptcy, Civil War rumors, and the invention of the carousel.

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Sixty-Five Years of Turning Old
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Sixty-Five Years of Turning Old

The AAUW Book Fair in Lima, Ohio, has spent six decades transforming donated paperbacks and vinyl into scholarships for Allen County women.

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A One-Day World Cup in Dayton: The
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A One-Day World Cup in Dayton: The

After a multi-year pause, the Dayton World Soccer Games returns on September 12, 2026, bringing together immigrant and native-born residents through the universal language of soccer.

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Fifty Years of Fire and Music: How a
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fifty Years of Fire and Music: How a

The 50th Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks at Riverfest returns to the Ohio River with a 360-degree spectacle, twin drone fleets, and Japanese pyrotechnics to mark a half-century of summer-ending tradition.

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A Kaleidoscope of Rock: Eduardo
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Kaleidoscope of Rock: Eduardo

Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra transforms a downtown Cleveland parking garage into an 11,000-square-foot tribute to rock 'n' roll, capping a three-year quest by local nonprofit Graffiti HeArt.

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Fifty Years of Fire: How a Radio
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fifty Years of Fire: How a Radio

The Western & Southern/WEBN Fireworks returns Sept. 6 for its 50th anniversary with a 360-degree, theater-in-the-round spectacle that organizers say will be the biggest show in the event's history.

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Under the Centennial Oak: Ohio Honors the Tree That Suffrage Pioneers Planted
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under the Centennial Oak: Ohio Honors the Tree That Suffrage Pioneers Planted

On Women's Equality Day, Geauga County will dedicate a state historical marker to the oak planted in 1876 by the women's suffrage club at South Newbury Union Chapel.

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The Stinking Rose Takes Shaker
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

The Stinking Rose Takes Shaker

For two late-summer days, the Cleveland Garlic Festival transforms historic Shaker Square into Northeast Ohio's most pungent celebration — part foodie paradise, part county fair, and the nonprofit engine that keeps the region's local-food movement thriving.

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Under the Centennial Oak: Ohio
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under the Centennial Oak: Ohio

On Women's Equality Day, Geauga County will dedicate a state historical marker to the oak planted in 1876 by the women's suffrage club at South Newbury Union Chapel.

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A Century of Redmen Glory
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Century of Redmen Glory

On the eve of the 2026 season, Fostoria Memorial Stadium will enshrine its first Ring of Honor class, celebrating a program that once outscored opponents 595-0 on its way to a national championship.

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