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bit the z betting window What are the odds you'll like these October happenings? 3:2 ODDS-ON FAVORITE The Mountaintop (Oct. 8-27, Actors Theatre) Upside: This fctionalized Martin Luther Downside: We all know what happened the Upside: Need something a little more Downside: We may have some of those details wrong. Cooper's synopsis: A married couple has a six-year-old dying of cancer. They fnd a book of supernatural rituals, one of which can cure their kid . . . with the sacrifce of another child. Can't just buy an extra one of those at the store, so the couple decides to have another kid. "One of my students asked me if they go through with it," Cooper says. "I said, 'I'm not going to tell you, but the answer comes about halfway through.' Things pretty much go downhill from there. It's a very, very grim journey." How long has Cooper been into the horror genre? The breakthrough was a story he wrote in third grade about a little girl who dies in a car accident and comes back to haunt her family. "I read it to the class, and the next day one of the students told me she'd had nightmares," Cooper says. "It's kind of sadistic, but for me, that was a triumph." OK, then. Also out this month: The Origins of Louisville's Olmsted Parks and Parkways, by late historian Sam Thomas. King Jr. play takes place on April 3, 1968, in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. following evening. 4:1 Descending Lines 9:2 Book Worms (Oct. Upside: Speaking of children's books: Downside: Let's pray there won't be any Descending 6:1 Pigs! (Oct. 11, Upside: It's the inaugural Porktoberfest, Downside: Ooooh, that smell. Can'tcha smell that 9:1 Moonshine! (Oct. Upside: Pay 400 bucks to spend a day Downside: Pretty sure this event should be taking place LONGSHOT uplifting than MLK's last day? Later this month, University of Louisville flm instructor L. Andrew Cooper, 36, plans to release Descending Lines, a hopeful new novel that's basically a children's story about a family of rainbows. 4-Nov. 23, Flame Run on West Market Street) the Pointe on East Washington Street) 18, Distilled Spirits Epicenter on South Eighth Street) Flame Run, working with the National Center for Family Literacy, got 15 glass artists from all over the country to create pieces related to their childhood favorites — Harry Potter, Where the Red Fern Grows, James and the Giant Peach, Curious George and the Rocket. "The goal is to inspire people to pick up a book," says gallery director Tiffany Ackerman. i.e. a bunch of local restaurants — including Decca, Lilly's and the Bristol — competing to see whose swine is best. Live music from . . . Hog Operation. learning about moonshine. Lines glasswork. Butchertown smell? in a holler. — JM 20 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 10.13