Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will screen at the Air & Space Museum’s IMAX theater. [Arts Desk]

Exorcist author William Peter Blatty is still trying convince the world he’s not a horror writer (and single-handedly trying to save Catholicism). [Washingtonian]

The Post‘s Philip Kennicot says the D.C. area can lay claim to a new aesthetic movement, The New American Garden, also compares the Washington Color School to the crab cake: “predictable, ubiquitous and uninspiring.” [Post]

The D.C. Public Library’s D.C. Author Festival aims to help authors with the whole publishing side of things. [DCist]

If you’re looking for eight D.C.-centric Halloween costume ideas, we’ve got some suggestions for you. [City Desk]

Maryland Music producer and folk/blues guitarist John Jennings dies at age 61. [Post]