Best bet: Step Show

The weekend is Halloween heavy with bashes and concerts and parties involving costumes.

For a change of pace and an event with a beat, check out the Homecoming Step Show at 5 p.m. Saturday in Bedell Performance Hall. The Southeast Missouri State University's National Panhellenic Council organizes the show and invites other Southeast fraternities and sororities as well as other universities to complete.

In a step show, groups of people choreograph routines with movements like stomps and claps that form a beat. They sometimes involve chants or short bits of music. Buy advance tickets for $12.50 at the River Campus box office or metrotix.com.

Tickets at the door Saturday will be $16.50. The money helps the NPHC with other projects.

-- From staff reports