Whether you've got kids, an itch to waltz or just need an excuse to drink in costume, we've got the event for you.  

Halloween is, at its heart, a children’s holiday. Despite the hugely popular and profitable businesses of haunted houses and adult costumes, it’s kids who get more out of October than anyone else. It does not memorialize a war and has little religious significance. Its the playful, secular traditions that have risen above its Christian and Gaelic ones.  

With Halloween falling on a Friday this year, pretty much any bar you pick this weekend will have some sort of scary happening going on. But if you’re a local music fan looking for more than “Monster Mash” karaoke and costume contests, here are my picks for Friday’s fiercest, most fearsome shows.   

The best Halloween pub parties, masquerade balls, and family events in the entire city. Get scared with your friends, your kids, your relatives, and complete strangers... and have fun doing it.  

Halloween and cinema were made for each other. Open your door to the waves of trickor-treaters or head out to any costume party and you'll find a mad mass of horror movie monsters staring back at you.