Halloween at Gabe’s Gabe’s — Saturday, Oct. 31 at 10 p.m. Gabe’s is celebrating Halloween in local, DIY fashion this Saturday night with a haunting lineup of indie-pop band Dylan Sires and Neighbors (Cedar Falls/Waterloo), electro-pop group Little Ruckus (Fairfield) and Iowa City’s own Brooks Strause and The Gory Details. The eclectic lineup is gearing […]
Secular Students at Iowa, a student group for agnostic and atheist Hawkeyes, is hosting a “Graveyard of the Gods” event to kick off Halloween weekend. The event will feature headstones for gods who are no longer widely recognized or worshiped. The display is a response to Pascal’s Wager, a theory asserting that there is at […]
Halloween is only one week away, but the Iowa City parties have already started. Still deciding on a costume? Ditch the generic and/or offensive … […]
A steam-powered, post-apocalyptic Victorian future will come to life at the Granger House Museum’s Steampunk Halloween Costume Party this Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7.30 p.m. The Granger House Museum (970 10th St., Marion) was built in the late 1800s, and the architecture is in the Victorial Italiante style. The museum is on the National Register […]
Jimmy Hoenshell (I hope you are reading this wherever you are) lived on D Ave in 1977. When we were in first grade, his dad worked at the Wonder Bread factory in… […]
FilmScene is hosting a fright-filled triple feature at its Scene 1 theater in Downtown Iowa City this Halloween. The local non-profit has spent the last few days revealing… […]
One of the pleasures of Halloween is seeing the hilariously improbable costumes that some companies manage to create. Some of them are just stressful—a child’s geisha costume?—but others are just gloriously strange. Iowa City is gonna be full of sexy [insert random profession, object or cartoon character here], and if you can’t beat ‘em—well, you […]
Hello and welcome to the “HalloWeekender!” If you’re planning on getting down in the name of Halloween, this is the weekend to do it. Over the next few days, I’m predicting that I’ll see 7 college aged Waldos, and crossing my fingers for at least two “Gangnam Style” guys. Is it weird that I can’t […]
This week, you get two Weekenders for the price of one, assuming that you actually paid to read this column. One is a regular version. The other is a digest of all the Halloween events. Use one or both. The choice is yours alone. […]
This weekend the streets were crawling with folks in their best Halloween attire, and I couldn’t click my camera fast enough. I did manage to snap some of the characters lurking on Dubuque Street, most of them being drunk, happy and eager to show off their disguises. There were countless fantastic costumes that I didn’t […]
Halloween’s an important holiday. There are a lot of things to do. Here are some things that The Weekender thinks you’d be into. […]
This Weekender is brought to you by … Stuff Etc! Sweet home Iowa City, you don’t need me to tell you what time it is. Those of you celebrating your first IC Hallow’s Eve, you are in for a treat and I ain’t lyin’, er, trickin’?… Forget it. Put your lame Halloween memories behind you. […]
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