Halloween is coming a few months early as the visually arresting In This Moment releases its latest album, “Ritual,” July 21.

Locals who love to laugh have been in a longtime embrace with ComedySportz Philadelphia, the competitive improvisational sketch-comedy troupe based on Sansom Street. The troupe celebrates its 25th birthday this weekend with two anniversary performances at the Mandell Theater at Drexel University.

DAYS GONE ‘MY’: Pop/rock band One Republic revs up this summer in support of its latest album “Oh My My,” as part of the Honda Civic Tour, 7 p.m. July 22 at BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-365-1300.

This week’s Portrait is a man of many skills. A master’s-level, licensed clinical independent social worker with a private practice in Bucks County, he also has a healing center in Asbury Park, N.J. Manjot Singh Khalsa is also an ordained interfaith minister, Reiki master, advanced Shamanic practitioner and Kundalini yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a member of NASW, ISSTD, WPATH and ACFE. I don’t even know what they mean, but they sound good.

The Lightbox Film Center (formerly International House) is offering viewers a peek “Inside the Chinese Closet” later this month.

Country singer/songwriter Chely Wright came out publicly in 2010 after topping the charts with hits including “Shut Up and Drive” and “Single White Female.” She then made a moving documentary, “Wish Me Away,” about her struggles with coming out, and published her autobiography, “Like Me.”

ENCORE!: Philly-born and Tony Award-winning actor Andrea McArdle, who originated the role of Annie on Broadway, comes to New Hope for an evening of songs and stories 7:30 p.m. July 15 at The Rrazz Room, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope. For more information or tickets, call 888-596-1027.

A lazy, sunny summer afternoon perched next to an open window on the second-floor dining area overlooking Locust Street is a great way to get acquainted with Misconduct Tavern. The aptly named spot at 15th and Locust streets will do delightfully sinful things to your diet.

Out Portland-based singer-songwriter Matt Alber is coming to the East Coast for a string of shows that includes a stop at the Rrazz Room in New Hope July 14.

To explain the work of the LGBT Equality Alliance of Chester County, I’m going to share this info directly from the group’s website:

“In January 2015, Rachel Stevenson sought to revive the LGBTQA social scene that once thrived in Phoenixville, from 2001-09, in a little gay bar called Frank Jeffreys. Once closed, and with the need for social contentedness, the first monthly afternoon ‘tea dance’ was held on Jan. 11, 2015. These ‘tea dances’ brought together the LGBTQA community from Chester County and surrounding areas.

“Maurice,” from out filmmakers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, is receiving a 4K restoration release at Ritz Theatres in honor of its 30th anniversary. A classic film in the queer-cinema cannon, this heartfelt adaptation of gay writer E. M. Forster’s posthumously published novel is set in the Edwardian era. “Maurice” depicts issues of sexuality and class as the title character (James Wilby) falls in love first with Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) at Cambridge, and later with Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), the irresistible gamekeeper at Clive’s estate.

Gay writer/director João Pedro Rodrigues’ spellbinding drama “The Ornithologist,” opening at the Ritz at the Bourse, has Fernando (Paul Hamy) observing black storks along the Douro River in Northeast Portugal (by the border with Spain). After getting caught in some rapids, he encounters a pair of Christian Chinese hikers, Fei (Han Wen) and Ling (Chan Suan), as well as Jesus (Xelo Cagiao), a hunky deaf shepherd with whom he has a tryst, and a trio of topless female hunters (Juliane Elting, Flora Bulcao and Isabelle Puntel). The further Fernando gets on his journey, the more he discovers about himself.