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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'allhallows'

October 31, 2007

Is there an age limit for trick-or-treating? While there appears to be little consensus on this head-scratcher, a national hunger-focused campaign is giving college students the opportunity to trick or treat, guilt-free. This All Hallows' Eve, 3,000 volunteers from Humber College, U of T, and Ryerson University will don spooky costumes and go door to door collecting non-perishable food items for Trick or Eat 2007. They’ll be collecting on behalf of Meal Exchange, a......

Continue Reading "Trick Or Eat(ing Their Lil’ Hearts Out)"

October 31, 2006

After being hotly anticipated for months- at least by stores- All Hallows' Eve is finally here. If you're at all concerned, the so-called North American Halloween Prevention Inc. has released a charity single, "Do They Know It's Halloween?" (It's really a spoof of the well-intended-but-slightly-patronizing "Do They Know It's Christmas?") It features a slew of Canadian musicians, including Arcade Fire, Buck 65, Sloan, Feist, and Wolf Parade; even better, all proceed go to UNICEF.......

Continue Reading "Halloween: Not Just For Partying On The Nearest Weekend"

October 29, 2006

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you......

Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse"

October 22, 2006

Hallowe’en is cool. For one night each year, the dead return to walk the earth with the living, like a George Romero film with candy. We all have our own way of celebrating Halloween, whether it’s scarfing down bags of tiny Snickers bars, petty vandalism against pumpkins, or a drunken encounter with a costumed weirdo at a party. However, there are much more ancient traditions out there, and people who still observe them. Hallowe’en has......

Continue Reading "Kickin' it Old School on Halloween"

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