PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 17 OCTOBER 2025 + 31 DAYS + B O O ! + OUR 87TH ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + Pack up the family and head out for some autumn leaf-kicking this October. + Watch for a brilliantly bright lunar display this Harvest Moon on October 6. + Game One of the World Series begins on October 24. Let’s hope for no snow. + Make the kids happy with full-sized candy bars this Halloween, October 31. Venture Out + SOAK in the eco-ethereal art of Steven Spazuk at Studio Shop Gallery. Opening night October 10 and exhibited through November 22. + GALLOP on over to Woodside for the Day of the Horse, October 11 and 12. + OGLE giant gourds at the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival, October 18-19. Our summer was a mild one, though we almost always get a late heat wave just as we’re hoping for cooler days. Still, the calendar marches on, and here we are in one of the most exciting months of the year. Football dominates our screens, baseball playoffs wrap up (without the Giants—again!) and every store is brimming with Halloween candy, decorations and inflatable monsters. It all builds toward the Night of the Great Pumpkin, when children don their sweetest costumes and set out to earn a well-deserved haul of sweets. “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” —W.S. MERWIN welcome back
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