This week's fun is perhaps heavy on the heebie jeebies, given the proximity to Halloween. There are two stage productions adapted from novels and a party with a very successful children's book author. Today, editorial director Mary Cashiola and newsletter editor Bianca Phillips discuss those events and more.

Plus:

• A controversial East Memphis liquor store license is denied
• Two Memphis restaurants are making comebacks
• The judge who presided over the Lindsey Whiteside case recuses himself
• Germantown Schools see fewer students who live in the district
• Shelby Drive is to remain closed when a new fire station reopens