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Spotted: Best Costumes at the Church Street Halloween Block Party

WHERE: Church Street, from Alexander to Gloucester streets WHEN: 6:30 p.m. October 31 to 2:30 a.m. November 1 WHAT: Expectations for this year’s Halloweek in the Village were running a little lower than usual after the Church and Wellesley Village BIA announced it would scale back the festivities, foregoing the party-boosting DJ stage and light [...]

Toronto’s Fanciest Movie Theatre

As a new treat for Toronto Halloweeners, the TSO turned Roy Thomson Hall into the city's newest participatory movie theatre, complete with popcorn, shouting, and even annoying viewers on their phones.

The Wizard of Oz with Orchestra Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street) Halloween lends itself spectacularly to the pageantry of cult movie public screenings. Extravagant costumes, uproarious behaviour, and plotlines that are just plain weird are essential in explaining why movies like The Room and The Rocky Horror Picture Show remain captivating spectacles through the [...]

Vintage Toronto Ads: No Tricks—Just Treats

Finding Halloween-inspired bargains at your neighbourhood Stitches store.

Ghouls definitely aren’t fools when it comes to style or a bargain. Never mind if the garments from a purveyor of affordable clothing for teenagers might not be top of the line—if you’re dressing as a zombie, tears to clothing resulting from their first visit to a laundry machine only add to the illusion. As [...]

Alice Turns Ballet Topsy-Turvy

This Alice gets a particularly elaborate unbirthday. Jillian Vanstone as Alice, Robert Stephen as the Mad Hatter, and Jonathan Renna as the March Hare. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen St. West) June 4–12 and June 23–25 The Luminato festival is a lot of things: international, diverse, grand, bold, large in scale, [...]

Boo, Yeah!

Sure, there were bound to be a zillion Lady Gagas—and there were—but Halloween exhibitionism on Church Street is still one of the city’s most enjoyable annual events. Here are some of our favourite costumes from 2009, featuring loads of blood, pop culture, and plenty of ghoul-on-ghoul action. We should note that a couple of these [...]

An Officer and a Gentleman

Photo by Michael Takasaki. Only four sleeps left ’til Halloween! Have you decided what you’re going to be yet? Zombie Michael Jackson? Balloon Boy? Racist? What about Hitler? Oh, sure, there’s a distinct touchiness about specifically impersonating the man behind the Holocaust. That’s why we’re thankful to Value Village for selling that there “German Officer [...]

Not Just For Idiots

If you’re like us, you’ve been waiting to put that old shopping cart you lugged home from the grocery store one day to good use. Well, what if we told you that you could participate in an event that allowed—nay, encouraged—you to dress up in a silly outfit while pushing said cart in a death [...]