It’s found in pies on Thanksgiving, in Charlie Brown cartoons and has served as an occasional cranium and projectile for the Headless Horseman.
Yeah, we’re talking about pumpkins. Those large, orange earth-grown orbs that always seem to show up everywhere this time of year. And there will be plenty of them, along with a ton of family-friendly activities, at the Pony Express Pumpkinfest, which takes place tonight, Oct. 11 and 12 across from the Pony Express National Museum at Ninth and Penn streets.

This is: Extreme Carlos

Election day is less than a month away. We’ve seen both presidential and vice presidential candidates debate the big issues and campaign relentlessly for the votes of Americans. Wait a second. What am I doing talking about politics? Isn’t this supposed to be an entertainment column? Don’t worry, I’m not flip-flopping.

Calendars for Oct. 10, 2008

Nashville's biggest indie rock ambassadors Kings of Leon spent their first two albums creating libedo-driven, Southern-inflected garage rock equal parts Skynard and Gang of Four. But 2007's "Because of the Times" found the Followill boys injecting astral atmospherics into their bar-brawl riffage.
On their latest "Only By The Night," they continue to expand a sound that orbits ever-further away from the underground and their Music City zip code.

It appears there’s a Hollywood prerequisite for all romantic comedies to revolve around weddings or actors over the age of 30. But there is a music-obsessed, MySpace generation of movie-goers who want young romantic comedy characters that they can relate to.

He may be 67, but mixed media abstract artist Harold Schlotzhauer has a hard time sitting still. He’s an occasional runner, an avid snowboarder, and just last summer he decided to hang up his skateboard. He’s constantly moving, so to him there’s no reason for his art to appear stagnant.

Some people may have gotten word of the acoustic soul of 19-year-old singer/songwriter Justin Nozuka thanks to his “You Outta Know Artist” status on VH1 and his stripped-down single “After Tonight” getting steady spins on radio. But there was a time where Nozuka had the chance to reach a wide audience years earlier.
At 15, he wrote the first of the 11 tracks that would eventually comprise his debut album “Holly,” named after his mother. The songs got the attention of Universal Records, which wanted to sign him to a deal.

Recently, a step was taken in the music world that was inevitable but could be instrumental to the future of the record industry. MySpace, the social networking site that is responsible for approximately 36 percent of the country’s procrastination for people ages 12 to 38 (my own statistics), is deciding to reach for your musical dollars.

This is: “Lotus” by Jessica Lederer