Thursday, October 27, 2011
Give me a drink, arghhh! / Photo courtesy: Shutterstock/Kzenon
October 31 is a time for costumes, candy and kiddy-fun activities like going door-to-door and “trunk or treat.” But what are all the grownups in Northern Virginia to do from Friday at 5 p.m. through Sunday? Not to fret – check out below for some 21-and-up rousing merriment and serious celebrating going on throughout NoVA this weekend. [For our other Halloween guides, check out the food and wine round-up, scary events, where to bring your pets and activities for kids].
Elliot In The Morning’s Halloween Bash
Friday, Oct. 28. Doors open at 5 p.m.; music starts at 8 p.m. Start Halloween weekend right with Arlington’s recurring ghoulish bash, brought to you by DC 101. Clarendon Ballroom is the place to be costumed, jam out to Junkfood live and mingle with other costumed Northern Virginians. It’s $15 before 10 p.m. and then jumps up to $20 after 10 p.m. And don’t just cut eye holes in a sheet and call yourself Casper – the night’s best costume gets $3,000. Let the creative costume planning commence!
Fright Night Monster Bash
Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. The adult Halloween festivities continue at Arlington’s Front Page on Saturday, where costumes are the coolest thing since sliced bread and DJs Pat Premier and Clinton Matthews will have everyone breaking out their spookiest dance moves. Make sure to register your Halloween outfit masterpiece from before 10 p.m. Prizes for costume winners abound and bonus: there’s no cover charge. Take that, DC!
The oranger, the better we always say. / Image courtesy: Shutterstock/Sarsmis
Clarendon Ballroom’s Annual Halloween Party
Saturday, Oct. 29. Doors open at 6 p.m. And the hauntingly good times continue at the Ballroom. With the return of their killer costume rooftop extravaganza comes not one, not two, but all three floors open for partygoers. Mr. Greengenes and Burnt Sienna are performing on the main stage while DJ Lil Fos will be scratching in the lower lounge. Bring your costume/game face and maybe you’ll take home some cash. The one downside to it all? Cover increases from $10 to $20 by volume of people – so avoid the massive line and get your costumed self there on the early side.
Tally Ho Hauntings Film Series: Slasher Night
Saturday, Oct. 29. First film starts at 9 p.m. Love the thrill of a good, campy horror flick? Don’t miss out on Tally Ho Theatre’s last double feature weekend event of the month. They’ve done Stephen King, haunted house, creature and comedy. Now for the chilling final installment: slasher (insert creepy sound effects here). Watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween in one night? Sounds like a done deal. Admission is only $5 per person.
Día de los Muertos: The Art of Remembrance
Saturday, Oct. 29 from 8 to 11 p.m. This weekend, the Torpedo Factory gets a little, well, dead as they throw their annual Día de los Muertos - or Day of the Dead – costume and dance party. Tickets are $15 (buy in advance here) or $25 at the door. Wear your finest dead/scary costume and enjoy some mini altar-making, live music and dancing, plus bubble gum painting, a cash bar and snacks. Have a gently used instrument you’re no longer playing? Event partner Hungry for Music, a non-profit musical organization, will be gathering up all donations and distributing them to under-privileged children in the area. Also, stop by the art center’s main hall for the Altar Exhibition, displaying local and regional artists’s festive creations (through Nov. 4th).
Poe in Alexandria
Sunday, Oct. 30 – Monday, Oct. 31 from 8 to 9:15 p.m. What better way to embrace the ghoulishness of the holiday then with a little recreation of literary genius Edgar Allen Poe? Actor David Keltz will be portray Poe’s visit to our great state in 1849, right before his death, at Alexandria’s History Museum: The Lyceum. Hear the likes of uber-popular “The Raven,” as well as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” This chilling story event costs $15.
