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012 LET’S GO<br />
EVENTS<br />
October<br />
OCT<br />
Oct. 1-Nov. 1<br />
Haunted Poe<br />
PHILADELPHIA Edgar Allan Poe would have<br />
turned 200 this year, and his birthday is being<br />
celebrated in a spooky 10,000-square-foot<br />
haunted warehouse. Move from room to room<br />
down dark and twisting hallways to watch<br />
scenes acted out (by people and puppets) from<br />
some of his most famous hair-raising masterpieces,<br />
like The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the<br />
House of Usher. www.bratproductions.org<br />
Oct. 9-17<br />
Litquake<br />
SAN FRANCISCO The<br />
West Coast’s largest<br />
literary festival<br />
celebrates its 10th<br />
anniversary this year<br />
with nine days of quirky<br />
programming. There’s<br />
a roast/tribute to Amy<br />
Tan, a Bay Area punk<br />
history collaboration<br />
with Porchlight Storytelling<br />
Series and the<br />
closing-night Lit Crawl,<br />
which takes attendees<br />
through the bohemian<br />
Mission District’s pubs<br />
and bookstores for<br />
readings and open<br />
mics. www.litquake.org<br />
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23<br />
Oct. 10-11<br />
Taste of Atlanta<br />
ATLANTA Spend two days<br />
gorging yourself on Southern<br />
specialties from some of the<br />
region’s best chefs. Be sure<br />
to check out the Farm-to-<br />
Festival Village, which will<br />
showcase several Atlanta<br />
restaurants at the forefront<br />
of the local food movement,<br />
and catch “Top Chef” Carla<br />
Hall’s demonstration on the<br />
main cooking stage.<br />
www.tasteofatlanta.net<br />
GO MAGAZINE OCTOBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
Oct. 12-18<br />
AT&T Performing Arts Center<br />
Opening Celebration<br />
DALLAS This grand-opening<br />
celebration of the city’s new $354<br />
million cultural center—home to<br />
an opera house, theater, artist<br />
square and performance hall—will<br />
feature concerts by the Dallas<br />
Symphony Orchestra and Grammy<br />
Award-winning saxophonist David<br />
Sanborn. Other highlights include a<br />
forum with architect Rem Koolhaas<br />
and the world premiere of Legacy<br />
by the dance company Morphoses.<br />
www.dallasperformingarts.org<br />
San Francisco musical revue Beach<br />
Blanket Babylon honors author Armistead<br />
Maupin at a recent Litquake<br />
Oct. 9-13, 15-18<br />
Solar Decathlon<br />
WASHINGTON, DC See the<br />
results of a competition<br />
in which 20 college and<br />
university teams from around<br />
the world attempted to build<br />
the best energy-efficient<br />
home. The innovative houses,<br />
which are also judged on<br />
aesthetic design, will be<br />
reassembled at a temporary<br />
“Solar Village” on the National<br />
Mall. Public tours take place<br />
throughout the week.<br />
www.solardecathlon.org
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