Things to Do

Things To Do This Weekend In Cleveland: Oct. 4-6

The Pumpkin Ale Fall Festival, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band and the Holden Arboretum's Goblins in the Garden offer an otherworldly start to fall. 

by Dillon Stewart | Oct. 2, 2019 | 3:00 PM

Pumpkin Ale Fall Festival
Come fall, we’re starting our day with pumpkin in our latte and we’re ending it with pumpkin in our beer. If you’re like us, hit up the Pumpkin Ale Fall Festival, a celebration of gourd-infused and fall-forward beers from craft breweries such as Southern Tier, Sibling Reverly, Great Lakes Brewing Co., Platform and more. The event, moved from Patterson Fruit Farm to Lake Metroparks due to its swelling attendance, also features live music from Flannel Planet and Sunset Harmony. $40, Oct. 4, 6 p.m., Lake Metroparks Farmpark, 8800 Euclid Chardon Road, Kirtland, facebook.com/tastecle

FMX Band (The Fleetwood Mac Experience)
At Stella’s Music ClubOctober is the perfect time to embrace your inner witchy women. While Stevie herself might not be gracing us with her mysterious presence, the FMX Band is the next best thing. The five-piece, Niagara Falls-based tribute band, named one of Buffalo’s best, surely delivers hits such as “Go Your Own Way,” “Rhiannon” and “The Chain” at Downtown Cleveland’s newest music club. $10-$40, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., 2217 East 9th Street, Cleveland, stellasmusic.com

Jurassic World Live Tour
Show a little respect. The Jurassic World Live Tour is brings alive the acclaimed dinosaur films with larger than life animatronic versions of T. Rex, raptors and more. The traveling stage show brings you on a trip to Isla Nublar, which takes a terrifying turn after the Indominus rex escapes and wreaks havoc. The participatory show asks you to pitch in to save the day. Maybe the scientists shouldn’t have created the dinos in the first place, but with a show like this, we’re sure glad they did. $15-$200, Oct. 3 7 p.m., Oct. 4 7 p.m., Oct. 5 11 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7 p.m., Oct. 6 11 a.m., 3 p.m. & 7 p.m., Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, 1 Center Court, Cleveland, jurassicworldlivetour.com

Goblins in the Garden
This family-friendly fall traditions is like entering the world of Where the Wild Things Are. Lifesize paper mache goblins and fairies on stilts run around the Holden Arboretum as the kids trick-or-treat, enjoy the petting zoo, climb the straw pyramid, explore the hedge maze and more. Matthew Ball provides live music, and on Saturday, the Holden beer garden offers a little treat for the grown-ups. $6-$20, Oct. 5-6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., The Holden Arboretum, 9550 Sperry Rd., Kirtland, holdenarb.org

Garden Bros. Circus
The circus comes to town this weekend. With an elephant, human pyramid, daring aerial artists and six motorcycles zooming around the Sphere of Fear, this 90-minute show is jam-packed with excitement. $17.99, Oct. 4 7-8:30 p.m., Oct. 5 4:30 p.m.-6, Oct. 6 7-8 p.m.  I-X Center, 1 I-X Center Dr, Cleveland, gardenbroscircus.com

Dillon Stewart

Dillon Stewart is the editor of Cleveland Magazine. He studied web and magazine writing at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and got his start as a Cleveland Magazine intern. His mission is to bring the storytelling, voice, beauty and quality of legacy print magazines into the digital age. He's always hungry for a great story about life in Northeast Ohio and beyond.

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