Halloween

Free Will Astrology: May 1-7, 2013

What's Happening This Week: Post-Hurricane Sandy Events

Many of the week's food festivities have been canceled, but the show will go on for these celebrations. Wednesday, October 31 Sound and Cinema at Nitehawk Cinema: Nitehawk Cinema will screen Nosferatu, the 1922 black-and-white silent horror flick. Sip creepy cocktails like "There Will be Blood" and ... More >>

Fun Size, The Teen Comedy That's Not Bad for You

Finally, a treat

CREATURES OF THE NIGHT

Come dance with the devils in the pale moonlight

Chao Thai Too: Blood Jell-O, Anyone?

A spin-off in Elmhurst outdoes the original

Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Foodie Significant Other

This just might be a good gift for your BF who refuses to wear an apron -- and walks around at his own dinner party covered with tidbits of the food he just cooked ... Valentine's Day -- or, more accurately, St. Valentine's Day, named after a whole slew of early Christian martyrs named Valentine - ... More >>

A VERY HAUNTED XMAS

The holidays just got a little bit creepier

If You Have An Inordinate Amount Of Time Or Patience, You Can Listen To The 24-Hour Flaming Lips Song (Or At Least Some Of It) Now

The 24-hour song's physical package. Ooh, a USB cable! ​The Flaming Lips' "7 Skies H3"—the 24-hour song that's the band's Halloween present to its most persistent/unscheduled fans—is currently streaming at the creatively named flaminglipstwentyfourhoursong.com right now, although i ... More >>

Childish Gambino Is Playing Brooklyn Bowl Tonight

Nate "Igor" SmithDonald "Childish Glover" Gambino at SXSW.​This just in from Brooklyn Bowl's Twitter feed: The special guest for tonight's Halloween extravaganza will be former Voice cover subject slash TV guy slash rap artist Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino. He'll play all of his album ... More >>

Americans Will Spend $310 Million This Year on Halloween Pet Costumes

​According to the National Retail Federation, Americans are expected to spend $6.68 billion on Halloween this year. Included in that sum is an astounding $310 million spent on costumes for people's pets. Give Americans credit: We can suffer through a recession, gross economic turmoil, a forec ... More >>

What to Drink at Forty Four This Halloween: The Black Eye

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. It'll bring you back.​​​​The drink: Black Eye The bar: Forty Four (Royalton Hotel, 44 West 44th Street, Midtown West, 212-869-4400) The price: $15 The ingredients: Honey whiskey, walnut liqueur, ... More >>

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Halloween Is On A Monday This Year!

​And that's even more of a nightmare than the day is supposed to be! It means that, after an entire weekend of dressing like Sarah Palin and scaring little children while untangling yourself from all the cheap faux spiderwebs from all those house parties you crashed in hopes of finding an app ... More >>

Get Ready: Here Is "The View," From The Lou Reed/Metallica Collaboration Lulu

​Last night Lou Reed and Metallica released "The View," the first track to surface from their forthcoming collaboration Lulu. The breathless press release introducing the album cites its "graphic lyrics of jealousy, lust, violence and revenge, its grinding riffs and tantalizing tones," and, we ... More >>

The Gathering of the Juggalos Attracts Some New Gawkers in 2011

Down With the Clown?

NYC's New Skeleton Street Signs Are Supposed to Remind You of Something

​Alert! The city would like to remind you that Halloween is just around the corner Losing weight is as easy as walking instead of driving We're all the same underneath our clothes Everybody's got to go sometime so stop and smell the roses while you can A zombie apocalypse could happen Speeding ... More >>

Fur Coats for Dogs: A Stream-of-Consciousness Discussion

​Dogs wearing fur coats! How do we feel about this? Well, it's complicated. On one hand, a dog has fur already. Isn't wearing a coat unnecessary, perhaps even hampering the chance for the dog's original fur to thrive and grow lush and shiny? Is it like when human hair is topped by a cheap Rick ... More >>

Cute Kid Pleas for Stolen Backpack While the World Laughs

Kids! We like 'em, sometimes. Especially when they're dealing with the very frustrating situation of having their backpack stolen with their Halloween candy -- and their PSP -- in it. If you stole this poor little man's backpack, you should know that karma has a way of making you its bitch. C'mon, i ... More >>

Santa Extra-Pushy This Year (or, the Christmas Creep Begins)

​It's November 3. It was just Halloween, and we're still clinging to the last vestiges of Daylight Savings Time (get ready to falllll baaaaack this Sunday!). But...have you done your Christmas shopping yet? 'Cause you have to get on that shit. As EV Grieve has noted, "Duane Reade Puts Out Its ... More >>

Oneida's Kid Millions Looks Back On Five Years Worth of Brahloween Parties

​What more can be said about the indefatigable Kid Millions and the mighty Oneida? Hell, it's not even news that they throw a killer and sloppy Halloween party, Brahloween, since the band's annual throwdown is now in its sixth year and has become an end of October staple. So instead, on the ev ... More >>

OliO Pizza e Più Opens Even Later, Gives Away a Pizza a Day for the Rest of 2010

Pizza till the wee hours.​Late-night revelers in the West Village will now be able to satisfy their craving for pizza until even later. OliO Pizza e Più is now open until 4 a.m. The newish Neapolitan-style pizzeria has also launched a new late-night menu, available every night from 11:30 p.m. ... More >>

3rd Ward and Roberta's Team up to Throw a Halloween Party

Kurt DietrichAt 3rd Ward, there's more than one way to roast a marshmallow.​The crazy kids at Roberta's and 3rd Ward know how to throw a party, and this Saturday they'll merge their bacchanalian powers to put on an all-night Halloween blow-out that will include an Asian night market feast, li ... More >>

Dresden Dolls

Is Paula Deen Scary Enough to Be Your Halloween Costume? Um, That Would Be a Yes.

Scary: Guy Fieri.​Stumped for a great Halloween costume this year? Check out CHOW's excellent gallery of food-celebrity costumes. Some are scary, like the Paula Deen, complete with lightning-white teeth. Others are just, well, awesome, like the purple-draped Alice Waters or slightly slutty Mic ... More >>

TRICK OR DRINK?

In Astoria, you can do both

Just in Time for Halloween, Artist Helen Altman Makes Skulls From Spices

​Fort Worth artist Helen Altman has combined spices and pulses (beans) with the spirit of Halloween to sculpt a series of nifty skulls, and can you imagine how much attention you'd get (from the birds, at least), swinging one of these in the West Village Halloween parade? The one made from mu ... More >>

Musto's Night Out! Get a Load of This Photo!

The annual Fashion's Night Out last Friday was a big hit, the streets swarming with zombie-like fashionistas looking for a photo op or a bargain. It was like Halloween all over again, but for people who didn't realize they were wearing a costume.

Here Is Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" Video, Finally

At the onset, the sexy/military theme here feels like it'll be content to recall Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" video and call it a day, but we (of course) get into some weirder, more ostensibly provocative stuff here, particularly the Latex Nun getup (sure to be a hit come Halloween) and the who ... More >>

Old Tower Records Space on East 4th Finally Has A New Tenant: Equinox Gym

​And thus, the pasty record clerks and furtive customers of the old Tower Records space on East 4th give way inevitably to the musclebound men and women who beat them up in high school. That vacated storefront on the corner of Lafayette--home, variously, to Halloween costume pop-up shops and h ... More >>

David Paterson's Scandal That Wasn't: A Loving Look Back

​The David Paterson "bombshell" about which we and everyone else have been writing since Feburary 5, turns out to be a story about Paterson's top aide. The aide is alleged to have punched one girlfriend and to have torn the Halloween costume off another, though neither incident got past the wi ... More >>

JERSEY WHORES

Fluff that hair high for Snooki!

Good Morning, Human Bag of Cocaine at the Vice Halloween Party

Let this be the final word on that 15th anniversary Halloween bash. All that's missing is a bloody nose. [@VICEMAG]

Crazy Yankee Chick: Yankees take Game 2, take Pedro deep

​Ahh, much better. The Yankees beat the Phillies in a much-needed, if technically not "must-win" Game 2, with A.J. Burnett outdueling old friend Pedro Martinez. The Phillies took an early 1-0 lead in the 2nd with an RBI single from Matt Stairs, but the Yanks answered in the 4th with a solo s ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Saves Halloween, Battles 'Arma-gourd-on'

Don't let your Halloween be ruined by the pumpkin shortage of '09. Instead of a jack-o-lantern, carve yourself a spooky can-o-lantern. Let Stephen Colbert show you how. [via Eat Me Daily]

Nightmares Before Halloween 4: Allegedly Religious, Lesbian-Porn Dracula Sequel

​If jack-o-fetuses don't instruct your local children in the true Christian meaning of Halloween, you may wish to try on them Dracula: The Undead, a sequel to the famous vampire potboiler co-authored by Dacre Stoker, a descendent of original author Bram. It sounds like what you'd expect -- mor ... More >>

Good Morning, Lovesick Paramore Fan

​That right there is a still from this video of Paramore performing "Brick by Boring Brick" at MTV's Ulalume Festival in Columbia, Maryland (it's Halloween themed--hence the spooky tree). We are not ashamed to say we feel the same way. [AP]

Crazy Yankee Chick: Where the Wild Things Are Not

​Maybe I was just oblivious to it all the other years, but for some reason, it seemed like whenever booth announcers were short on talking points, they defaulted to the current Wild Card playoff system. Everyone had an idea on how to best construct the postseason process so as to best preserve ... More >>

Good Morning, Matt and Diddy-Headed Kim

That right there is a candid photo posted to the official Matt & Kim Twitter yesterday. Matt's rocking a new pair of horn-rimmed specs and Kim's rocking a new head. Perhaps the real Diddy will make a guest appearance when our hometown heroes open for Weezer this Halloween at Hammerstein? One can o ... More >>

A REAL SCREAM

Studying the art of the C-movie

THE DEVIL INSIDE

One of the scariest movies of all time turns 40

This Year's Halloween Costumes and their Spooky Stereotyping

You want scary? How about a return to the '50s?

September 28 through October 4, 2007

White Briefs and Jello Shots

Where—and how—men party in this town

Controversial Game Revisits Horrors of High School

Blood Work

Rockie Weekly Horoscope October 20-26

Innocent Dance-Goers Giggle, Shriek, Cry for Their Teddy Bears!

Rockie Weekly Horoscope October 14–20

Never Met a Martini They Didn't Like—or Put on the Menu

Tricks or treat