Little House on the Scary $8. 6-10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 27. Sharon Woods Park, 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville. heritagevillagecincinnati.org.  The historic village at Sh  

Amusement parks are already creepy after dark if you ask me, but when you add in hundreds of ghouls and monsters and pea soup fog, it becomes the stuff of nightmares. The Kings Island Halloween Haunt   

You’d think a cruise along the banks of the Ohio might be a low-key way to unwind on a cool autumn evening. But even though Halloween is still weeks away, the crazies aboard the USS Nightmare are al  

There’s a little red house mounted to a wooden stand in front of Afsaneh Fowler’s home in Loveland. At first glance, it looks like a bird feeder or a dollhouse or maybe even a quirky mailbox. It’s actually a Little Free Library, a homemade, DIY, old-fashioned community investment that connects neighbors, books and ideas.  

Rail trips are sobering in this way and accommodations — both coach and first class — that seem spacious in daylight can feel like hard little boxes at night. There’s a curious mix of comfort and discomfort that comes along for the ride.  

Episcopal Community Services Foundation’s BikeFest is more than a charity ride; it offers riders from a variety of athletic backgrounds — both serious and occasional riders — the opportunity to learn about and engage with the local charities they’re serving.   

Ohio death row inmate Abdul Awkal wasn’t trying to avoid his execution. He just wanted his meals prepared according to his Muslim faith.    

For many folks, first-person video games offer all the thrills they need. But others crave the tactile realness of an actual obstacle course with knotted ropes to climb, mud pits to crawl through and walls to be surmounted. The typical ingredients of adventure races include a military-style course, a river of mud and whatever torture tests a perverse mind can conjure. Throw in a small legion of weekend warriors and you’ve got yourself a fresh baked adventure — or a hot mess, depending on your point of view.  

They shared the same Christian values, they shared a love of children and Jonathan Zeng was ready to start as a music teacher at his new school. But 15 minutes after accepting the offer, Zeng received a phone call from a school board representative because something was weighing on his mind — whether or not Zeng is gay.   

For those who have never ridden the snaky, shaky path from Lake Erie to the shores of the Ohio, it might seem odd that a map is needed for a single bicycle route. But the ride, like a miniature Route 66, meets many small towns along the way, and figuring your way between where the path ends on one side of town and picks up on another can be confusing.