Didn’t it feel good to get out of the house last weekend? I don’t know about you, but between the Pico Art Walk, all those openings at Bergamot and the shopping I did at Gracie, I think I walked about 20 miles. Maybe I burnt enough calories that I can eat some Halloween candy next weekend.

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Speaking of Halloween, Powerhouse Theatre Company gives us a head start on the holiday of spooks with a new Angus Oblong play opening this weekend. It’s your last chance to see City Garage’s “The Bacchae,” and on Sunday, there’s a one-afternoon-only Stravinsky performance at Miles. Fairview Library’s celebrating their 50th birthday ... and since my feet are still hurting, you’ll find me sitting through it all.

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Angus Oblong’s “The Victorian Hotel”
A young couple checks into a beautiful old hotel for a romantic weekend getaway but the resident ghosts and ghouls provide them instead with a raucous and spine-tingling adventure. Celebrated eccentric and illustrator Angus Oblong (Adult Swim’s “The Oblongs”) has created a living cartoon, and The Rogues, a collective of multi-disciplinary artists and designers, bring it gleefully to life with a mix of live actors, puppets and digital media in the Rogue’s signature “hyper-theatrical” style.

The Powerhouse Theatre Company
3116 Second Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 396-3680
Oct. 20 - Dec. 2

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Fairview Library is 50
The Mighty Echoes perform at Fairview Library
Join the friends and neighbors of the Fairview Library on Saturday, Oct. 21, starting 10:30 a.m., to celebrate the library’s 50th birthday. America’s favorite a cappella doo wop singers extraordinaire — The Mighty Echoes — will be lending their spectacular voices to the occasion at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., while other events include a puppet show at 10:30 a.m. for ages 4 and up, and freestyle hula hoop at 11:30 a.m. Fifties style attire optional.

Fairview Library
2101 Ocean Park
(310) 450-0443

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Kane, Welch and Kaplan at McCabe’s
McCabe’s offers up Appalachian balladry from Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin performing songs from their intensely intimate album Lost John Dean. As if that’s not enough to get you out of the house, you also get stellar singer-songwriter Fracasso, one of Austin’s best kept musical secrets. How can you possibly stay away?

McCabe’s
Friday, Oct. 20
3101 Pico Blvd.
(310) 828-4497

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Last chance for The Bacchae at City Garage
It’s closing weekend for City Garage’s stinging contemporary production of Charles Mee’s “The Bacchae.” In the hands of director Frederique Michel, it’s a darkly disturbing venture casting us back into a state of nature that is animalistic, brutish and tragic.

Closing Oct. 22
Admission $20; Students/Seniors $10
Sundays “Pay-What-You-Can”
(310) 319-9939
City Garage can be tricky to find but it’s definitely worth it. Their address 1340 1/2 Fourth Street Alley, between the Third Street Promenade and Fourth Street in Santa Monica, and between Santa Monica Boulevard and Arizona Avenue. There is convenient parking in the neighboring Parking Structure #3, located on Fourth Street.

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Stravinsky at the Miles Playhouse
Before heading back to work on Monday, take a Sunday afternoon breather in the serene environs of the Miles Playhouse there the L.A. Chamber Players will perform a very special matinee of Stravinksy in Autumn.

One performance only.
Sunday, Oct. 22, at 1 p.m.
$10 general admission, $5 for seniors and children 14 and under.
(310) 458-8634

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Mark your calendars now for the Creative Capital community workshop and town hall meeting on Nov. 8, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Santa Monica Main Library. We’ll be presenting the first draft of the new cultural plan that will map the future of the arts and culture in our city.