‘Macbeth’ Granger House Victorian Museum — Saturday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. Things are about to get spooky at the Granger House Victorian Museum. Beginning this weekend and through October […]
Halloween
Photos: Frightful delights at Scream Acres
Scream Acres started as a haunted hay rack ride in the early 2000s. Since then, it has evolved into a huge attraction with four separate haunted attractions that are ever-changing. […]
Circle of Ash rises again
Circle of Ash Linn County Fairgrounds — opens Friday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. ‘Tis the season to be terrified, and there is a flurry of activity happening in the […]
Winterland headlines Halloween performance at Yacht Club
Winterland Iowa City Yacht Club — Saturday, Oct. 31 at 10 p.m. There’s something fitting about Winterland performing at Yacht Club for Halloween. For those not familiar Winterland is a […]
Gabe’s celebrates Halloween with Dana T’s ‘tiny mind MASSIVE soul’
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 […]
Secular Students at Iowa to host ‘Graveyard of the Gods’
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 […]
Five Halloween costume ideas that prove sexiness is a state of mind
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 …
Granger House Museum to host Steampunk Halloween Party
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 […]
’70s Halloween Masks Almost Killed Us, But We Loved Them Anyway: A Love Letter to Ben Cooper Inc.
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 to host triple feature scarefest this Halloween
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…
N.S.F.W: Tips to trick out your treats this Halloween
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 […]
Iowa City Weekender: October 25-27
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 […]