This week, meditate with a Buddhist monk at Crosstown, view Mexican art at the University of Memphis and hoist a stein in Overton Square.

Dr. Lisa Beasley of the UTHSC College of Nursing joins this week’s Sidebar podcast.

With Halloween around the corner, here are some spooky films — new and old — to get you in the spirit.

“It’s your own little private party,” said Deidre Ellis, owner of The Studio Karaoke, which offers five soundproofed rooms and 80,000 songs to choose from. 

A new show, filmed in Memphis and Atlanta, stars Memphis rapper Slimeroni and features numerous other local connections. And, Eric Jerome Dickey’s novel comes to Lifetime.

This week, local theaters perform murder shows, Crosstown showcases Vietnamese culture and you can make pottery at Chucalissa.

Klondike Smokey City CDC is working to mow and maintain yards, build a pocket park and turn 150 vacant lots and empty homes into assets in the community.

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Arts Council Korea are also planning a three-year partnership that would bring emerging Korean curators to the American Southeast.

“Challengers” and “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino takes a swing at “cancel culture” and Malco’s Throwback Thursday showing this week hits home — partly.

“You’re just not going to see all of these artists together in this way any other time.”

Sip boos — er, booze — at brewery parties, haunt the South Main Arts District for a spooky Trolley Night or take your kids trick-or-treating ahead of the big day. 

Hoodoo is alive and well, one practitioner said Saturday at the grand opening of the Beale Street Hoodoo History and Folklife Museum on the third floor of A. Schwab’s on Beale Street.

Collage’s $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant was canceled earlier this year, but the Memphis dance company is forging ahead with a new season of shows that open this weekend.

“We have an embarrassment of riches of quality, excellent dance in Memphis,” Steven McMahon, of Ballet Memphis, said.

For the fourth year, the Tennessee Shakespeare Company will perform outside of the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center, this time presenting “Much Ado About Nothing.”

This week, Monster Market opens, Slowdown Cinema screens a vampire classic and Brantley Ellzey takes over Crosstown Arts’ galleries.

Lauren Rae Holtermann’s career is filled with movie designs and concert posters. But when October rolls around, her Monster Market comes out. 

The art project breathes new life into the public basketball court. 

Other plays feature “Frankenstein,” murdered Edwardian women telling their stories and a murder mystery.

A new comedic crime caper and the 25th anniversary encore of a notorious Japanese cult film are on Memphis movie screens this week.

This month, sing “The Boy Is Mine” at FedExForum, see Peter Frampton at the Orpheum and more.

Let our Halloween guide to haunted houses, corn mazes and pumpkins patches help you prepare for the season.

Other acts included Father John Misty, Galactic and Leftover Salmon on Friday, and The Flaming Lips, Mavis Staples, The Pharcyde and Puddles Pity Party on Saturday.

Plus, a Midtown eyewear boutique hosts a reflective exhibition. 

The National Civil Rights Museum celebrated the opening of the BlueCross Healthy Place at Founders Park on Saturday, the first phase of the museum’s two-part, $38 million expansion.