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If you’re keeping tabs, this is Sun King’s sixth annual celebration of canned beer on Georgia Street. It’s always a blast.

Military Park honors the Emerald Isle with Celtic music, food, and plenty of dancing.

Seven of Broad Ripple’s most beautiful homes open their doors to the design-loving public.

Newfields celebrates autumn with goats, pumpkins, music, and performances. On Saturday, a dance theater troupe shimmies around the campus.

Milords and miladies, you’re invited to step back into the age of Queen Elizabeth I for jousts and jesters at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center.

The Athenaeum’s annual celebration of all things Teutonic includes wiener dog races, strongman competitions, and a lot of beer.

When a neighborhood is named after The Legend of Sleepy Hollow author Washington Irving, it had better put on a pretty great Halloween festival. Irvington does just that, with a huge costume parade, a Vampire Run, and vendors along Washington Street.

The Jewish Community Center presents this ode to authors, with guests like Robert Siegel, recently retired from NPR’s All Things Considered.

For those who couldn’t get enough of Pixar’s Coco, the Eiteljorg Museum offers a chance to learn more about the Mexican holiday, with elaborate ofrendas designed by local artists, craft tables, and snacks.

The theme of this year’s festival is “Intersection,” which manifests itself in events such as lightsaber battles, a panel on Afrofuturism, and a techno-sociologist’s analysis of Twitter at various venues around the city.

For those with sophisticated palates and ethics, this locally sourced brunch at Conner Prairie raises money for the museum.

The Old National Centre transforms into Hogwarts for a night of butterbeer, quidditch pong, and other Harry Potter–themed fun.

John Green hosts one session at this year’s celebration of the only local writer more famous than he is. Smart conversations about mental health, religion, and veterans abound at the Vonnegut Library.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s holiday light show features racecars and gingerbread men depicted in lights around the track.

Model trains chug around miniature, hand-crafted landscapes ranging from downtown Indianapolis to the Grand Canyon at the Eiteljorg Museum.

After a stunning debut last year, Newfields’s light show returns with more than 1 million bulbs strung through the trees on its campus.

The Palladium welcomes 2019 with live music, dancing, and small plates at this annual party.

More than 600 exhibitors and some of your favorite HGTV stars (including the ladies from Good Bones) descend on the Indiana State Fairgrounds for one of the largest home shows in the country.