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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Those looking to have a musically spooktacular time will soon have that opportunity Halloween night.

The AmeriCoustic duo of Dan Miller and Wendy Corr will be performing Friday, Oct. 31 in Maskus Auditorium at LHS as part of this year's Community Concerts of Liberal series. The show will start at 7:30 p.m., and tickets will be available at the door that evening. 

As Miller tells it, the pair has been performing for quite a while.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

There are times when it’s somewhat hard deciding what to write about on here and this week was one of those times since there’s been a lot of other news to cover. After some thought, I decided to do an album review and after I decided that, I went online to see if there were any new albums recently released.

Among the ones already released this month so far was Say She She’s newest album “Cut & Rewind.” I had never heard of the band before and after thinking “Well, their name certainly sounds fun,” I found the album on YouTube and I am SO glad I did so, because it ended up being a great listen.

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

October is here, which means it is officially the spooky season, which further means it is acceptably time to engage in more horror-themed media.

The creative minds at Marvel apparently thought the same with their latest Disney+ project, “Marvel Zombies,” which released last week, and honestly, I can’t think of a better way to kick off the official month of horror than with zombies. The four-episode miniseries is set in an alternate timeline introduced in the "What If... Zombies?!" episode of Marvel’s animated series “What If...?” and follows a group of survivors as they risk their lives fighting super-powered zombies to save the world. 

ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

Some of you might remember a column I wrote earlier this year listing some animated media I thought was underrated and/or underappreciated, and thanks to Disney+, I believe I might have found a late addition to that list with Pixar’s “Elio.”

The movie follows 11-year-old Elio Solís, who is mistaken for the leader of Earth after being beamed up to the Communiverse by aliens for making contact, and must navigate a crisis that involves the warlord father of a new alien friend. I’d heard stories throughout the summer of its unfortunate underperformance at the box office (and, of course, rampant speculation as to why that happened), and after watching the movie on Disney+, I honestly can’t believe more people didn’t go see it in the theaters.