Hopefully everyone will have a wonderfully horrifying time tonight. Haunt a graveyard, party with the ghouls, hide under a bed to scare a kid, or cast a spell on someone.

Or you can play it safe by hiding behind your computer monitor.

Looking for something to do in the neighborhood this eve?
Goes Cube, Takka Takka and someone still loves you boris yeltsin are playing at union hall.

702 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York
Cost: $5 w/ costume; $7 w/o

I won’t be wearing a costume as I’ve already halloweened it up a plenty.
Here is a bit of proof.

Our cat Wiggum was establishing “house rules” with our latest addition, the mini-gnome.

Pictured here is one of three kittens Skittles, Taffy and Wonka that are available for adoption in the Long Beach NY area. Isn’t he insanely cute (and perhaps a little loopy in the head looking?)

I need help! I’m having a small dinner party for Halloween (didn’t you get your invite?) and I was thinking of doing an evil tapas type thing. But the only technique I’ve really mastered in the kitchen is boiling. I thought I’d once again turn to the fine readers of 423smith for some easy, tasty (and possibly spooky) recommendations. So far I’ve got “stake through the heart chicken sate.” Any other good Halloween food suggestions much appreciated. (like a dry ice smokey bowl of punch?)

sent in by chris (thanks!)

Join the folks at the 2nd Place Transit Garden
this Saturday October 14th for,
Bococa Wine and Food Tasting Event Benefiting
South Brooklyn LDC and The Transit Garden,

where: corner of Smith Street & Second Place
when: Saturday 10/14/06 2PM-6PM

featuring samplings from:

Wine Tastings, Cheeses, and Crudities in the garden. Food Tasting booths will be on Subway Entry Plaza, (Smith/2nd Place) Second Place will be closed to traffic while we allow for music from our local talents and mingling. Seating will be around the entertainment and in the
garden.

There we will be a Ribbon Cutting to celebrate Carroll Garden’s newest garden, The Transit Garden at the corner of Smith Street and Second Place. Five years in the planning and creating, this garden occupies 2,280 sq. ft. at the corner of Smith Street & Second Place.

We will celebrate having secured the finalpiece of funding needed to upgrade the Culinary Arts Facility at the School For International Studies Court & Baltic Streets) to house a State of the art fully NYS accredited three year High School Course of Study in the Culinary Arts for the youth of our Brooklyn neighborhoods, a campaign SBLDC has worked on for many years along with the growth of Smith Street as a Food venue.

Coupon Books with Values of $20 (12 Tastings) and $10 (5 Tastings) (Mix & Match Food and/or Wine) will be sold in advance and on that day. Of course there will also be some child-friendly items to drink & taste, plus bottled water.

Rain date Sunday 10/15 , 2-6PM

Here’s a little something local to get your Halloweiner on. As you may have heard by now, local high-concept theater troupe Les Freres Corbusier is putting on a full-scale Hell House at the neat-o St Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo. That’s right, Hell House as in Christian Evangelicals and that documentary from a few years ago.

Done unironically and straightfaced directly from the recommended script by Hell House innovator Rev. Keenan Roberts (who also sells Hell House kits for $300), it’s a tad pricey ($25) and worth every penny. Yes, much of it is unbelievably campy and wonderfully gory, but the final third is something of a meta-theatrical triumph. You’ll not only realize how detailed, elaborate, and convincing the unforgettable production is, but how the whole idea is really just awesomely batshit weird Americana.

“Hell House” is running almost the entire month of October. Tours run every 15 minutes from 7:30p to 9:45p.

My folks ,who live in Maine, were driving around checking out the fall colors when they came across this sign.