Seasonal scope

The Long Descent runs from the summer solstice to the winter solstice. Within it, PROJECT SAMHAIN’s daily Halloween High Season runs September 1–October 31. After Halloween comes the run-up to Thanksgiving, then the passage from Thanksgiving to the solstice. The seasonal world continues across Christmas to New Year’s; these later phases describe its atmosphere, not an extension of the daily mailing schedule.

Editorial structure

Every dispatch runs in the same order, so a regular reader can find the part they need in seconds. One canonical record produces the web edition, the archive entry, the calendar additions and the compact email.

1. 01Field Conditions. Weather, daylight, fronts, seasonal texture, and one answer: does the world outside create an opportunity today?
2. 02The Lead. The issue’s single center of gravity. A position of prominence, not a content type: a reported development, an event feature, a seasonal rite, a personal field note, a Cultural Canon or Film Vault feature, an atmospheric essay, a visit or review, or another substantial editorial feature. Every piece carries its content type, current placement, author voice, any recurrence or date significance, and its related records. Personal material stays private unless it is explicitly approved for publication.
3. 03Denton Halloween Watch. Confirmed, observed and interpreted, kept apart.
4. 04Tonight / Next 72 Hours. A useful shortlist from dated operating times, plus clearly labeled flexible outings. Theater screenings live here.
5. 05DFW Radar. Haunt Watch; Screenings / Live; Fall / Strange / Worth the Drive. Empty lanes stay empty.
6. 06Film Vault. Primary Transmission, Alternate Frequency, Safety Signal: at-home recommendations selected from an existing collection.
7. 07Cultural Canon. One creator or work to look at, listen to, read or explore. Historical interest pieces belong in Denton Watch or DFW coverage.
8. +Utility close. New and changed calendar records, an optional Seasonal Order, the night-ahead sign-off, and sources and corrections.

Source standards

PROJECT SAMHAIN is built from four kinds of material, and nothing else:

• ·Public sources: official venue and organizer pages, ticketing pages, public city notices, public records and encyclopedic references, each linked from the listing it supports.
• ·Direct observations intended for publication: things the desk saw in public and wrote down to print, labeled OBSERVED.
• ·Submitted material used with permission: tips, listings and photographs sent to the desk, published only with the sender’s consent and credited as they ask.
• ·Properly credited, rights-cleared media: original work, public-domain work, or official embeds. See Media rights.

Every listing carries a source link and its recorded source-check date. Changes and unresolved dates remain visible. Check the linked organizer before making plans; a dated record does not imply continuous verification.

Status vocabulary

Information confidence, applied to every fact:

Listing status, describing the record at the time of the last check, not a promise about tonight:

Dated dispatches retain their original context. The current calendar carries later changes; the live forecast is separate from weather recorded in an earlier edition.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it in the web edition, note the correction at the bottom of the affected dispatch with a timestamp and the original text, and carry it in the next morning’s email. Corrections stay with the dispatch permanently. Silent edits are limited to typos. To report an error, use the contact below and include the dispatch number.

Media rights

Photographs, films, recordings and artwork carry credits and source links. Original reports and permitted contributions stay attached to the dispatch or collection record where they appear.

• ·Nothing autoplays. Video and audio show a visible play control and start only when you press it.
• ·Original video ships with captions and a transcript; every image has alt text.
• ·Third-party media appears only through an official embed or a public-domain source, never as decoration. Film and record artwork uses original treatments instead of borrowed posters.
• ·When an embed fails or images are blocked, the text carries the dispatch on its own.
• ·Every media record carries a source, a rights basis, credit, alt text, a crop position and an approval status. Only APPROVED records render; everything else renders an original PROJECT SAMHAIN card naming the subject and media type. REJECTED records are kept, with the reason, so a refusal is not repeated as a mistake.

Sponsorship and affiliate disclosure

There are no sponsors and no affiliate links in this edition. If that changes, sponsored placements will be labeled SPONSORED in the listing itself and never disguised as editorial; affiliate links will be disclosed where they appear. Sponsors do not see dispatches before publication and do not influence status labels or recommendations.

Contact

A dedicated address for corrections, tips and public event listings will appear here when it is ready to receive mail. Postal correspondence may follow. No mailing address is available yet.