If you like: Athens’ Halloween
Go to: Park Street’s Halloween Party
This block-wide, eight-bar pub crawl comes bearing costume contests for a Kid Rock-autographed guitar and a one-year subscription to Maxim magazine. Party-goers should come bearing, ahem, as little as legally possible.
Park Street in the Arena District
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 26-27
parkstreetpatio.us
If you like: Ghost stories
Go to: The Gateway
The movie theater’s got plenty of creepy classics on the bill suitable for a weekend of laid-back haunting, including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” “The Walking Dead” and “The Shining.” Tickets cost $9.50.
The Gateway Film Center
Friday-Sunday, Oct. 26-28
1550 N. High St., South Campus Gateway
If you like: Michael Jackson
Go to: O-GEE Thriller Edition
This installment of the monthly old-school hip-hop dance party O-GEE pays mad respect to the best Halloween anthem and dance since “Monster Mash.” Cover is $5.
Madrid
11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 27
185 N. High St., Downtown
614-220-9141
If you like: Marilyn Manson
Go to: Trauma
The decor at this annual fetish party includes whips and chains, ticklers and tassels, ladies on silks and thong-clad men on stilts. Trauma is part art extravaganza, sexual theater and part must-see concert (Ruckus Roboticus and RoeVy headline). Tickets are $25 at the door.
The Bluestone
9 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Oct. 25-26
583 E. Broad St., Downtown
