The winds: howling. The moon: full. The Snickers: fun-size. It can only mean one thing. Halloween: happening as we speak. Below, a guide to the five best last-minute parties.
Listen to Nicholson: all work and no play makes you dull. So call out sick tomorrow and head to Eleanor’s. They’re having a little party. In one red-lit room, a DJ. In the next, a buffet. A really frightening buffet.
Tonight, Halloween. Also, Wednesday. Which means you may not be willing to go all out this year, but you may be willing to go all beers and BBQ. For that, there’s D.B.A. They’ll have a band, $3 Fireballs and a screening of homemade ghost-hunting footage. Ribs taste better when you’re scared.
But chances are, you’ve got some going-all-out left in you. Which is why places like Havana Club exist. You can expect it to be filled tonight with multiple DJs, live performers, a costume contest and other scary things. So like most nights at Havana, but with more sexy cops.
Halloween. It’s the one day a year when it’s acceptable to wear next to nothing. Unless... you’re somewhere where that’s acceptable 365 days a year. The Cheetah is hosting a dancers-only costume competition with about 85 girls. The audience votes for the winner. With applause. And, um, singles.
1980s Talking Heads shows: gone forever. Well, after tonight, that is. No, it’s not black magic. It’s local electro-acoustic band Stokeswood. They’ll be playing the Stop Making Sense concert in its entirety at the Earl. They’ll have the big suit, the visuals, the lamp-dancing. We assume they save that for the encore.
