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 [...]

Sorauren is one of Toronto’s quieter parks, most of the time. There’s a farmers’ market Monday afternoons, and the neighbourhood kids get together some pretty good softball games, but it isn’t a park that draws people from beyond the nearby blocks, generally. Except, that is, the day after Halloween. Every November 1 for the past [...]

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 [...]

Every so often, when we’re struck by a particular theme or subject, we look back through all the wonderful photos that have been submitted to the Torontoist Flickr Pool, and collect our favourites. All Hallows Eve is upon us! Young ghouls, ghosts, and goblins will be travelling door to door in search of their annual [...]

RALLY: Halloween day festivities will start a little earlier this year, as more than 200 people have pledged on Facebook to show up at City Hall dressed as “princess warriors.” They’re donning their red bustiers to protest Rob Ford’s conduct in his encounter with This Hour Has 22 Minutes‘ Marg Delahunty (played by Mary Walsh). [...]

With Halloween comes all sorts of spooky spectacles and performances: haunted houses, risqué cabarets, and countless theme-party events. There are also plenty of theatre companies programming work in the spirit of the season—with spirits, perhaps—a mix of classic Halloween fare and new works. Few of these shows are happening in traditional theatres; many independent companies [...]

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 [...]

Photographer Finn O’Hara likely didn’t expect to find one last pumpkin stubbornly holding its ground at Sorauren Park, two nights after Halloween and one night after the Sorauren Park Pumpkin Parade made the most of the area’s carefully carved jack-o’-lanterns. But there it was on Tuesday night, with no other pumpkins in sight: Rob Ford. [...]

Photos by Nancy Paiva/Torontoist. WHERE: Sorauren Avenue Park. WHEN: November 1, 6:30 p.m. (top) and 7:45 p.m. (bottom). WHAT: The annual Sorauren Park Pumpkin Parade, which is more or less what it sounds like, is Halloween’s—and carefully carved pumpkins’—last gasp.

Happy Halloween! This weekend, we've got scary movies at the Underground, a new installation from Ian Wallace, ghoulish Toronto history events, costumey dance parties, a Halloween and Day of the Dead Brick Works celebration, an improv show honouring August Strindberg's moody melodramas, and the annual Halloween show from Fucked Up, with The Sadies.

Streeter collects only the finest overheard conversations. Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com. Overheard by reader Madeleine Cohen at 9:10 a.m. on the St. Clair streetcar eastbound. Woman in her late twenties, to her friend: So, are you going to be a cat lady or a dead cat lady for Halloween?