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📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Oct. 19–25

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | Oct. 19–25

Why it matters: Early voting opens Tuesday, the State Fair opens Thursday, and Saturday stacks the Lebanese Festival, a bourbon fest, the Ogden Park Prowl and a live Clue into one packed fall day.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 20

🥕 Red Stick Farmers Market at Goodwood—3–6 p.m. 📍 Main Library at Goodwood Plaza, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

  • BREADA’s seasonal Tuesday market opens with local produce, bread, plants and prepared foods; SNAP purchases are matched up to $40 a day. A Wednesday market also reopens 9 a.m.–noon at the ExxonMobil YMCA. Both run through November. Details.

🗓️ Wednesday, October 21

🎤 Dax: The Anger Management Tour—9 p.m. 📍 Texas Club, 456 N. Donmoor Ave.

🗓️ Thursday, October 22–Sunday, November 1

🎡 Greater Baton Rouge State Fair 📍 BREC’s Airline Highway Park

  • A Baton Rouge community tradition. Rides, fair food, livestock shows and live music for 11 days. Tickets.

🗓️ Thursday, October 22

🎵 Rock N Rowe: 2 Domestic 1 Import—6–9 p.m. 📍 Perkins Rowe Town Square

  • Free. Bring lawn chairs. If it rains, the show moves to The Great Hall. See the schedule.

🗓️ Friday, October 23

🎵 Live After Five: The Michael Foster Project—5–8 p.m. 📍 Rhorer Plaza

  • Free brass, funk and jazz from Baton Rouge’s longest-running brass band. See the fall lineup.

🐿️ Radio Bar Double Bill—6 p.m.–close 📍 The Radio Bar, 3079 Government St.

  • Mid City Gras starts the night with a free, adults-only Squirrel Week social and silent auction for parade funding (6–9 p.m.; details). At 9 p.m., DJ Ryan McKey kicks off a Halloween dance party with a costume contest paying up to $100. 21 and older, no cover (details).

🎸 Night of the Living Ladyrat—8 p.m. 📍 Hartley/Vey Studio Theatre

  • All-ages garage rock and punk release party for Bozo Red, with Scab Labor and Snowmiser.

🎃 Juicy Halloween: A 2000s Night—10 p.m. 📍 Chelsea’s Live, 1010 Nicholson Dr.

  • A costume dance party built on 2000s throwbacks. 18 and older. Tickets.

🗓️ Saturday–Sunday, October 24–25

🎃 Boo at the Zoo—9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. 📍 BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo, 3000 Zoo Circle

  • Trick-or-treat stations, characters and live entertainment. Costumes encouraged. Regular admission; members free. Highway 19 is down to one lane, so the Thomas Road entrance is open. Details.

🗓️ Saturday, October 24

🥕 Red Stick Farmers Market—8 a.m.–noon 📍 5th & Main streets

  • Weekly Saturday market downtown. Details.

🧺 St. George Farmers Market opens—8 a.m.–noon 📍 The Artist’s Loft, 7126 Antioch Road

  • A new weekly market with up to 20 vendors selling produce, eggs and plants. Details.

🧆 Lebanese Festival—11 a.m.–8 p.m. 📍 Main Library at Goodwood, 7711 Goodwood Blvd.

  • St. Sharbel Maronite Catholic Church serves homemade falafel and saj, plus music and Lebanese beer and wine. Free admission. Details. More from RedEye.

🥃 Louisiana Bourbon Festival—11 a.m.–10 p.m. 📍 L’Auberge Casino Hotel

  • Sample the bourbon aisle, including rare bottles. Grand Tasting is $100; VIP $200; designated drivers $50. Tickets. More from RedEye.

🌕 BREC’s Full Moon Fête—noon–3 p.m. 📍 Independence Community Park, 7500 Independence Blvd.

  • Free trunk-or-treat trail, character meet-and-greets, face painting and a kids’ play zone. Details.

🎨 Ogden Park Prowl—1–5 p.m. 📍 Ogden Park neighborhood, Mid City

  • A free neighborhood arts festival of open houses and yards filled with local artists, makers, music and food. Manship Theatre runs a free stage on Wilshire Drive. Details.

🔍 Clue: Live on Stage—8 p.m. 📍 River Center Theatre for Performing Arts

  • Broadway in Baton Rouge brings the whodunit based on the 1985 film and the board game. Tickets.

🪩 You Should Be Dancin’: ABBA & Bee Gees Tribute—8 p.m. 📍 Chelsea’s Live

  • Where Y’Acht serves up disco-era hits. 18 and older. Tickets.

🗓️ Sunday, October 25

🧙 Witchy Brunch—11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. 📍 Mid City Beer Garden, 3808 Government St.

  • Brunch in the garden with palm and tarot readings from Belladonna MoonBeams, tarot cards and witchy books from Red Stick Reads, and caricature drawings. Details.

🎬 A Lesson Before Dying—2 p.m. 📍 Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette St.

  • Free screening of the Ernest J. Gaines adaptation, starring Don Cheadle, ahead of the Oct. 29 Gaines Award. Presented by BRAF. Details.

🐱 Cat Haven Grand Opening—2–5 p.m. 📍 530 Shadows Lane

  • The rescue opens its new 7,200-square-foot adoption center with Baton Rouge’s first cat café. Tailgate-style party with adoptable cats. Free. Details.

👻 Haints, Haunts and Halloween—2–4:30 p.m. 📍 LSU Rural Life Museum, 4560 Essen Lane

  • An old-fashioned country Halloween with storytelling, cake walks, hayrides and trick-or-treating. $12 adults; $6 ages 4–12; free 3 and under. Details.

🧛 Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really—7:30 p.m. 📍 Mid City Civic Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd.

  • One-night-only staged reading of Kate Hamill’s play. Mature content. Tickets.

📋 Civic Duty

🏛️ Press Club: U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis—Monday, October 19, noon 📍 Drusilla Place Catering, Drusilla Shopping Center

  • Doors open 11:30 a.m. Lunch is $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers. Details. LPB posts video on its YouTube channel.

🏛️ Planning Commission—Monday, October 19, 5 p.m. 📍 City Hall, 222 Saint Louis St.

🗳️ Early Voting—Tuesday, October 20–Tuesday, October 27 📍 Parish early voting sites

  • 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. daily, except Sunday, Oct. 25. Details.

🏛️ Metro Council Zoning Meeting—Wednesday, October 21, 4 p.m. 📍 City Hall, 222 Saint Louis St.

🎭 A Christmas Carol Auditions—Saturday, October 24, 2–5 p.m. 📍 Mid City Civic Theatre, 7155 Florida Blvd.

  • Adults and kids 8 and older can try out for every role but Scrooge, reading cold from the script. The show runs Dec. 11–20. Details.

🗣️ Civic Sips: Civic Speed Dating registration 📍 Louisiana’s Old State Capitol

  • PAR and the LSU Reilly Center seat residents with state and local leaders, including Mayor-President Sid Edwards, on Nov. 12. Seating is limited. RSVP by Nov. 10.

Reach us: Want to submit an event item for consideration? Email us the information at news@redeyebr.com. Details: The calendar is on a Monday–Sunday rotation, and the submission deadline is the Wednesday prior.

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