The Jambar

On Friday, Cedars Lounge will be in for a mystical showcase with Youngstown's R&B outfit The Sweet Delights. To get into the Halloween spirit, the band will be covering Prince's masterpiece: the "Purple Rain" soundtrack. Since 1999, keyboard master Sean Tress and vocalist Obie Savage have been molding The Sweet Delights into funky fruition.

"The Rocky Horror Show" will open 8 p.m. Friday at the Oakland Center for the Arts in downtown Youngstown, and will run the following weekends until Nov. 14. "The Rocky Horror Show" was originally written for the stage by Richard O'Brien in 1973. It was then adapted to film as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in 1975 and immediately became a cult classic.

On Saturday, expect to see Youngstown's Fifth Avenue become the center of student activity and creativity as the Youngstown State University Homecoming Parade commences as part of Haunted Homecoming, right before the Homecoming football game. With the parade comes the tradition of different fraternities, sororities and other campus organizations creating floats for the event.

Some may compare it to prom court, but others look further than that. At times as intense as a presidential race, the fight for places on Homecoming Court at Youngstown State University is an enduring tradition, each year culminating in the crowning of two lucky participants.