Long-form recaps of the best local events, region by region.
Rangers at Utahraptor State Park near Moab host a free moon presentation and telescope viewing on October 23, 2026, at the park's historic CCC site.
Rangers fire up cast iron at Campsite #11 in Blanco State Park on Saturday, November 21, 2026 — bring your own Dutch oven, your appetite, and $5 for park entry.
Sherman magician Rudy Reynoso takes the Hoxie Thompson Auditorium stage at Austin College on Oct. 23, 2026, a century after Houdini's own 1924 lecture there.
Sherman's own Rudy Reynoso brings a one-time-only lecture and magic show to Hoxie Thompson Auditorium in Sherman Hall on the Austin College campus on Friday, October 23, 2026, with free tickets capped at four per person.
The Smith County Master Gardeners bring their free From Bulbs to Bloom conference and bulb sale back to Pollard United Methodist Church in Tyler on October 24, 2026.
A 2004 teen slasher script that never got filmed becomes a one-night-only live theatrical reading at Hyperreal Film Club in East Austin on October 24, 2026, with all ticket sales going to Austin Bat Cave.
The Fall 2026 Austin Record Convention brings hundreds of dealers and more than a million records to the Palmer Events Center on October 24-25, 2026.
UT's Herbert College of Agriculture celebrates its student experiment bound for the International Space Station with a free Space Launch Party on October 19, 2026, at the Agriculture and Natural Resources Building in Knoxville.
The Clarksville Civil War Roundtable holds its 242nd meeting on Wednesday, October 21st, 2026, at Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1410 Golf Club Lane, with Karel Lea Biggs speaking on "Tennessee's Civil War Ghosts."
UT's Tickle College of Engineering dismisses undergraduate classes for one day each October so hundreds of high school and community college students can explore engineering at the Zeanah Engineering Complex — a tradition more than a century old.
Matthew Davis discusses "A Biography of a Mountain," the 2026 One Book South Dakota, at the Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library on October 20, 2026.
The live-action Scooby-Doo (2002) screens free at Vermillion's Coyote Twin Theater on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 7 p.m.
Kay's Kuchen brings three flavors of South Dakota's state dessert — and free samples — to the K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, from 6 to 7 p.m.
Lakota educator and award-winning flutist JJ Kent brings a tipi demonstration and Native American flute concert to the High Plains Western Heritage Center in Spearfish on October 25, 2026.
The SCNPS Midlands Chapter's Fall Native Plant Market returns to Hunter-Gatherer Brewery at the Hangar in Columbia on October 25, 2026, with South Carolina-grown natives, gardening books and craft beer.
Dogs in costume take over Sesquicentennial State Park near Columbia, SC on Sunday, October 25, 2026, for games, giveaways, a pet costume contest and photoshoots.
The Nightmare in Elmwood 5K and Kids Fun Run returns to Columbia's historic Elmwood Park neighborhood on Saturday, October 24, 2026, with a costumed course, decorated houses, and proceeds for the neighborhood association.
The South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia hosts its Ooky Spooky Tour on October 23, 2026, an evening of living historians, pirate tales, and eerie artifacts paired with a National Guard Trunk or Treat.
South Carolina Ballet's gothic rock-and-jazz Dracula, premiered in 1991, returns to the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia on October 23 and 24, 2026.
The 6th Annual Blythewood Fall Championship Rodeo brings IPRA cowboys, cowgirls and bucking stock to Prisma Health Arena in Blythewood, SC on October 23 and 24, 2026.
PRISM Moose Jaw's free witchy, queer and alternative market takes over the Moose Jaw Senior Centre at Timothy Eaton Gardens on October 24, 2026, with 20 vendors, tattoos, tea readings and a food bank drive.
Sturgeon Lake First Nation's Lloyd Johnson Memorial Healing Lodge hosts the Miyo-Pimatisiwin Conference on Oct. 21-22, 2026, sharing community-led health research and a new community-owned digital archive.
The Humboldt and Area Theatre Club stages A Comedy Quartet, four twenty-minute plays by four first-time Humboldt directors, October 23-24, 2026.
Ten Yorkton artists will work in public view at the Godfrey Dean Project Gallery from Oct. 20 to 24, 2026, in a free drop-in exhibition presented with Arts Guild Yorkton.