Published September 18, 2009 06:47 pm -
Diversions -- Sept. 17, 2009
HALLOWEEN
Cheeseman Fright Farm , 147 Kennedy Road, Portersville, in Butler County, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special deal this weekend: ride all night - as many times as you like from open to close for $12.
It’s open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays - Sept. 18 through Oct. 31 - beginning at dark, and will be open till 10 p.m. or until the last ticketed guest has ridden. Additional dates: Oct. 23 and 30.
Info: 724-368-3233 or www.cheesemanfrightfarm.com
The Travel Channel is coming to The Scarehouse in Etna, near Pittsburgh, on Saturday and on Oct. 3, meet the TAPS crew from “Ghost Hunters” crew Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango and Kris Williams. Buy limited-edition tickets at www.scarehouse.com
The Scarehouse, with three haunts (Rampage, Delirium 3-D, and The Hall of Nightmares) for the price of one is in a former Elks lodge which holds its own secrets. It opens at 7 p.m. this weekend (starting Friday) at 118 Locust St., Etna. Info: scarehouse.com or 412-781-5885. Use discount code ETNA for the best ticket prices online.
Also, starting at 10 p.m. every Friday and Saturday in October, The Scarehouse presents the Moonlit Mayhem Horror Film Festival at the nearby Oaks Theater, 310 Allegheny River Blvd. in Oakmont. Admission is $10. For details: 412-828-6311 or www.theoakstheater.com/moonlitmayhem.html
The Oaks Theater is also showing “Rocky Horrow Picture Show” at midnight on the last Friday of every month. Admission is $7.
SPOKEN WORD
Put yourself in the mindset to “eat, pray, and love” with award-winning writer Elizabeth Gilbert whose 2006 memoir by the same name took the planet by storm. She is a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New York Times bestselling author and will open this season’s Drue Heinz lecture series at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. Call for tickets now - a sellout crowd is expected. Info: 412-622-8866 or http://pittsburghlectures.org
ART
Weller Gallery’s Floral Series is presented through Sept. 27 by Fellows Riverside Gardens, Mill Creek Metroparks, Youngstown.
The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, shows “The Story of Harness Racing by Currier & Ives” through Oct. 23 in its main galleries. Info: www.hoytartcenter.org