For those who've never seen cult classic 'Evil Dead,' or for those who just want to revel in its pleasures again, a new recurring event called Cincinnati Psych-OTR-onic Night makes its debut with a screening of the film 8 p.m. Friday at YES gallery (1417 Main St., Over-the-Rhine). The inaugural evening, which its organizers pimp as "Cincinnati's only grindhouse double-feature," culminates with a 10 p.m. screening of 'Tourist Trap.'  

How did salt and pepper become our default, go-to spices? Why are there four tines on a fork? How did stairs become so ubiquitous? These are just a few of the curiosities explored in Bill Bryson's latest book, 'At Home: A Short History of Private Life.' He discusses his latest literary endeavor with CityBeat in anticipation of his visit here Saturday for the Mercantile Library's annual Niehoff Lecture.   

How did salt and pepper become our default, go-to spices? Why are there four tines on a fork? How did stairs become so ubiquitous? These are just a few of the curiosities explored in Bill Bryson's latest book, 'At Home: A Short History of Private Life,' which uses the floor plan of the author's own house — an Anglican rectory in Norfolk, England, built in 1851 — as a springboard to investigate the evolution of how we live today.  

Dayton filmmaker Michael Webber makes his directorial debut with this compelling, refreshingly restrained documentary about people who possess exotic animals as pets and the various issues that arise in such cases — everything from the ethical dilemma of caging "wild" animals to the increasingly more acute problem of public safety when they escape. Grade: B.  

With Ponytail (the band, not the hair choice) currently on hiatus, its founder and guitarist Dustin Wong has injected the band's boundless creativity and merry attitude into 'Infinite Love,' a recently released instrumental solo effort driven by Wong's complex, uniquely unfolding guitar soundscapes.  

Art Rock quartet Ponytail's founder and guitarist Dustin Wong has injected his band's boundless creativity and merry attitude into 'Infinite Love,' a recently released instrumental solo effort driven by Wong's complex, uniquely unfolding guitar soundscapes. 'Infinite Love's 30 "songs" typically open with a simple repeating guitar melody before eventually blossoming into orchestral arrangements via layered and looped guitar phrases that recall everything from the antic soundtrack to an 1980s video game to the score of a John Waters film about guitarist John Fahey.  

Just in time for Halloween, everyone's favorite nurturers of the written word, InkTank, devotes its fall fundraiser to the theme of Edgar Allen Poe, as creepy and shiver-inducing a writer as has put words to page. The event, which takes over Northside Tavern 5 p.m.-midnight Wednesday, features "inspirational speakers, readings from InkTank writers, a silent auction of exciting local art and a community collaborative 'exquisite corpse' poem composed on an ancient typewriter that may or may not have belonged of the cousin of the great great grandson of the butler who tended the raving Poe upon his deathbed."  

Remember Pete Rose the baseball player, the unparalleled competitor who played nearly every inning of every game for more than two decades and got more hits than anyone in Major League Baseball history? Terry Lukemire's new documentary, '4192: The Crowning of the Hit King,' aims to put the spotlight back on a singular career that's been overshadowed by its subject's admittedly self-inflicted mistakes.   

Remember Pete Rose the baseball player, the unparalleled competitor who played nearly every inning of every game for more than two decades and got more hits than anyone in Major League Baseball history? He was a blue-collar guy whose sheer grit and determination propelled him from an unremarkable high school baseball player into one of the world's more successful and recognizable figures. And, as a West Side native, he was one of us.  

Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of juvenile thirtysomething buddies (including Steve-O, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Wee Man and Chris Pontius) are back, inflicting all kinds of masochistic mayhem on each other, much of it in three glorious dimensions. Grade: C.