Editor’s Pick

Free Fall Festival on Jerome

 The public is invited to the Jerome Gun Hill BID’s 17th annual free Fall Festival, Oct. 13 from noon to 6 p.m. on Jerome Avenue between East Mosholu Parkway North and East Gun Hill Road. The street will be closed to traffic. Visitors can enjoy food, music, games, arts & crafts, face painting, live performances, and a pumpkin patch. For more information, call (718) 324-4946.

Onstage

Lehman College for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd., W., presents Tony! Toni! Tone!, Sheila E, and Deniece Williams, Oct. 13 ($100/VIP) and Tito Rojas, Tito Nieves, and Tito Allen, Oct, 20, performing salsa ($125/VIP). Tickets for each are $50 to $85; each show at 8 p.m. VIP tickets include pre-concert reception at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 960-8833.

Bronx Arts Ensemble, 80 Van Cortlandt Park So., presents Woodwind Music of Mexico and Russia featuring Bronx pianist, Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. ($20; $30/at door). For more information, call (718) 601-7399.

Events

The New York Botanical Garden presents Spooky Pumpkin Garden, a Halloween makeover of the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, through Oct. 31. Included are huge scarecrows, pumpkins, hand-puppet show at the Pumpkin Puppet Theatre, and live snakes and lizards. Also scheduled are Ukulele and Slack Key Guitar, Oct. 13 and 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. featuring Hawaiian music; and Giant Pumpkin Weekend, Oct. 20 and 21 at 1 p.m. in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, featuring monstrous pumpkins from around the country. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.

The Bronx Zoo presents Boo at the Zoo, weekends, through Oct. 28. Events include magic shows, costume parades, professional pumpkin carving demos, crafts, and the extinct animal graveyard. Bootoberfest returns with music, lawn games, haunted pirate hayride, and more. Most activities are included in the price of a general admission ticket; all activities are included with the purchase of a total experience ticket. For more information, cost, and a full schedule, visit www.BronxZoo.com/boo-at-the-zoo. Also scheduled is Brew at the Zoo, beer and wine festival for over age 21 (no children allowed), Oct. 19 from 6 to 11 p.m. Events include beer tasting, food options, mentalism shows, a spooky haunted trail, live music, dancing, DJs, and a game room featuring old school favorites. Guests are encouraged to come in costume for a costume contest. For more information, ticket purchases, and a full schedule of events, visit www.BronxZoo.com/Brew.

 The New York Botanical Garden’s Farmers Market is scheduled to be held Wednesdays through Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., just inside the Mosholu entrance and across the street from the Botanical Garden station of the Metro North commuter railroad. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.

Wave Hill, a Bronx oasis at 675 W. 252nd St. in Riverdale, offers Family Art Projects: Papermaking With Lavender, to make paper from scratch, Oct. 13 and 14; and Wormy, Squirmy Decomposers Parade, to listen to storyteller, then make an ecosystem of insects and decomposers on a tall hat, topped with a flower, followed by a parade, Oct. 20 and 21, both in the WH House from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Also scheduled are Concert: featuring Jolie Holland singing  jazz, blues, soul, and rock and roll, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. in the WH House ($28/includes grounds admission; WH members 10% discount; $12/ages 8 to 18; info: ext. 251); The Boneyard, to see what’s left after an animal carcass decomposes including skeleton, Oct. 20 and 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds; and Vulture Culture: A Live Bird Presentation at 2 p.m., to observe birds of prey, Oct. 20 in the Ecology Building and Oct. 21 in the WH House. Grounds admission is free until noon Tuesdays and Saturdays all year. For more information and a schedule of events including tours and walks, call (718) 549-3200.

Bronx photographer Walter Pofeldt and his daughter Eileen present “Kenya and Tanzania in Focus” through Dec. 16 at Metropolitan College, 60 West St., on the sixth and seventh floors, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during normal business days. For more information, email pofeldtww@gmail.com.

Exhibits

The Museum of Bronx History, 3266 Bainbridge Ave. (208th Street), presents Women’s Suffrage and New York City: A Centennial Celebration, through April 11, 2019; and His Muse: The Women of Edgar Allan Poe’s Life, through April 7, 2019. For more information, call (718) 881-8900.

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), 1087 E. Tremont Ave., presents River Rising, through June 30, 2019, featuring an exposition of science, art and technology, located in Starlight Park. For more information, call (718) 589-5819.

Library Events

Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents for children: Storytime/Arts & Crafts at 4 p.m.: (ages 3 to 5; preregistration required), Oct. 11 and 18; Arts & Crafts at 3:30 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12; preregistration required), hands on projects, Oct. 14 and 21. Teens/young adults can enjoy Maker Mondays at 4 p.m.: crafts: Oct. 15 – Pumpkin Craft, and Oct. 29 – Cat Craft; and film: “Stardust,” Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. Adults can attend films at 2:30 p.m.: “The Monuments Men,” Oct. 13 and “West Side Story,” Oct. 20; and Computer Basics: Oct. 16 at 2 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.

Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St., offers for children: Crafty Fridays at 3 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12), crafts, Oct. 12 and 19; Family Storytime at 3:30 p.m.: (ages 3 to 5), stories and crafts, Oct. 11, 15, 18, 22 and 25; STEM: Kids’ Science: (ages 5 to 12), “reactions,” Oct. 16 at 3 p.m.; and Toddler Storytime at 11 a.m.: (18 to 36 months), stories, songs, fingerplays and crafts, Oct. 18 and 25. Teens/young adults can enjoy films at 2 p.m.: “Ready Player One,” Oct. 12, and “Rampage,” Oct. 26; and Birds of Prey: to meet hawks, owls, falcons or others, Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. Adults can attend Knitting Circle: Thursdays at 3 p.m. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

Jerome Park Library, 118 Eames Place (near Kingsbridge Road, offers for adults: Computer Basics at noon: Oct. 18 and 25. For more information, call (718) 549-5200.

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