Comment on Weekend things to do (*): Swank Farmers Market returns, John Legend and the ultimate Oktoberfest turns 50

Pity the poor asterisk — seldom has a typographical symbol been asked to do so much. Represented as a little star, some see a flower, the asterisk has been in use from the time of the ancient Greeks, who decided their writing required a graphical reference mark that, loosely translated, said: Who the hell knows? Between the time that these words are being typed and the moment you see them, Hurricane Milton will have arrived on the west coast of the state on a path that also may have wreaked havoc on portions of South Florida, or not so much.