Today’s entertainment picks:

Today’s entertainment picks:

v Oktoberfest, 6 to 11 p.m.: Rhine Haus Bier Hall, 40 N Phelps St., Youngstown.

vNewsboys, 7 p.m.: The Australian Christian rockers come to W.D. Packard Music Hall, 1703 Mahoning Ave., Warren, 330-841-2619.

v “MisCast Cabaret,” 7 p.m.: Broadway’s hottest stars perform songs from roles in which they would never be cast. And the results are thrilling. Presented by Youngstown State University Theater at the Flad Pavilion at DeYor Performing Arts Center, 260 W. Federal St. Youngstown.

v“The Santaland Diaries,” 7:30 p.m.: A humorous account of working as a Christmas elf in “Santaland” at a department store. Salem Community Theater, 490 E. State St., Salem, 330-332-9688.

v“Annapurna,” 7:30 p.m.: A story of love, told with just two people in one room. Youngstown Playhouse, 600 Playhouse Lane, Youngstown, 330-788-8739.

“ABC NEWS SPECIAL” (ABC, 8 P.M.): ‘Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost’ is a documentary on the 40th anniversary of the murder-suicide when more than 900 members of the Jim Jones cult consumed a deadly cyanide-laced drink.

“Last man standing” (Fox, 8 p.m.): The Tim Allen sitcom returns after a year off and on a new network. Mike and Vanessa Baxter eagerly await their daughter Eve’s visit home from the Air Force Academy.

“Cool Kids” (Fox, 8:30 p.m.): This comedy stars David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Leslie Jordan and Vicki Lawrence as group of friends living in a retirement community.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Laughs & Drafts at Whistle & Keg

The Youngstown Comedy Syndicate presents another installment of Laughs & Drafts at Whistle & Keg.

The stand-up comedy show will feature several local and regional comedians and will take place Sunday at 7 p.m., with a $5 admission price.

YSU students are admitted free with student ID and also receive 10-percent off drinks (for those 21 years-old and older).

Knight, Ledisi to honor Franklin

NEW YORK

The American Music Awards will honor the Queen of Soul next month.

Dick Clark Productions tells The Associated Press that Gladys Knight, Ledisi, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, CeCe Winans and musical director Rickey Minor will pay tribute to Aretha Franklin’s gospel roots and her iconic album, “Amazing Grace,” at the Oct. 9 event. It will air live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Franklin died last month. She won six AMAs throughout her career and even hosted the show in 1976 and 1983.

Sabrina Owens, Franklin’s niece and the executor of her estate, says in a statement: “When I heard some of the initial ideas for the tribute, I knew without a doubt that this tribute will go down as one of the best in American music.”