Happy October! We welcome in the new month with this tender cover by illustrator James Christopher Carroll. Don’t snooze on this issue, which has our second annual Fall Arts Preview—a stacked line-up of all the best concerts, staged performances, and art exhibitions to catch this season. We also visit the haunted octagonal home of artist Jesse Bransford, pop into new cocktail bar @padrona_hudson, and round-up the area’s best cideries, breweries, and distilleries for drinking in the fall foliage .