Music: The Triple Door. Actually, this place should be called the Triple-triple Door, since it has three sets of triple doors. It's the last set of triple doors you want to get through, since that's where the music is. The theater evokes images of 1920's, New York City, prohibition era speakeasy glamour and intrigue. There's live music seven nights a week, so start with an Evening with Richie Havens on Oct 31st.
Organization: Sound Rowers, a water rowing and paddling club. If you want iron pecs, rowing will certainly do it. They have a race coming up on Oct 30th, $15, that's great for an introduction. The race is open to all human powered watercraft.
Food: Little Italy, Nov 1st, $25. 20 Italian chefs paired to 20 Italian wineries. The best meatballs you'll taste for the rest of the year.
Halloween Week: Too much good stuff going on. If you don't go to an event this week, you'd better be in a coma or in jail, and if you're in jail, break out!
Oct 27: Dinner Theatre: Murder Mystery Dinner Theater, $85. You've certainly gone out for dinner, and you've been to the theater before, so combine them both this time. Eat and be entertained while trying to figure out a classic whodunit. Literary: Open Mike Night at Elliot Bay Book Company. Listen to other people's rants or contribute your own incoherent musings.
Oct 28: Party: The Bravo Club of Seattle Opera hosts a Masquerade Party, $10, age 21+. This is the top arts group in Seattle, so their parties are always a blast. Theatre: Fiction, opening at ACT Theatre, $35. A dying wife is given permission to read her husband's diaries before she goes, and the surprises it contains. Music: Legion Within, an ethereal melodic rock band, $5 cover. They're playing at The Vogue, so wear your Halloween costume. Politics: Initiative 83 Monorail recall debate, $24. You'd think this subject has been beat to death already, but the conversation is still going on.
Oct 29: Party: Red Light at the Little Red Studio, $40. This is Seattle's own version of the Exotic-Erotic ball. Conference: Women at Work and Play, $8, more sisterhood in action and giggling over wine. Arts: 911 Media Center Opening, $15. Celebrate the opening of a new arts center with exhibitions, videos and local music. Festival: Dia de Muertos, the Mexican celebration of the deceased with dance, music, and food.
Oct 30: Film Fest: Hotwire Coffee, free. Go see the creepy classics: Young Frankenstein, Twilight Zone, and Psycho. Those shrieking violins during the shower scene in Psycho are a permanent case of the willies - go for that alone. Party: Masquerade Ball at Seattle Asian Art Museum, $65. A party in one of the coolest venues in town with some of the most sophisticated costumes. Activity: Beginning Knitting Class series, $69. You can only knit so many scarves before it's time to learn a new knot. Learn what's up and then join a Stitch and Bitch group.
Oct 31: Concert: Seattle Youth Symphony, starting at $8. Plenty of spooky music for the family with the opportunity to see tomorrow's stars today. Family: Nightmare at Beaver Lake, $6. Conclude your Halloween with a fright. Performance: Bolshoi Ballet, $40. This is a good option if you're getting burned out on all of the Halloween stuff.
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Seattle's Spookiest Spots:
“When the members of my tribe become a myth among white men, when you think that your children are alone in the field, the shop, the store – they will not be alone. When you think that your streets are deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this land, for the dead are not powerless. Dead I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.” Chief Seattle
Whether you believe Chief Seattle’s philosophy of disembodied souls wandering the Earth or not, there are some seriously creepy places in Seattle. Riding with Jake of Private Eye Tours tests Seattle’s purported crème de la creepiest:
Maynard Alley, site of the 1983 Wah Mee massacre in Chinatown. Older residents of Chinatown believe the alley is haunted and say don’t go down there. If you’re brave enough to go, peek through the window by the chained doors and you’ll get more than a sense of nostalgia when you see everything left exactly where it was on the night of the murders. One gets the sensation of the victims still linger...
Harvard Exit Theater on Capital Hill. Self-starting movie projectors and fireplaces as well as numerous purported apparitions spark the spooky here. The lobby has an “electric” feel in the air, as if more life is happening there than just a handful of movie patrons.
Comet Lodge Cemetery has a history straight out of a Poltergeist movie. This five acre cemetery became two when developers built on top of three acres of Indian burial ground and resting place of babies and children. Numerous reports of poltergeist activity in the homes built there, leave one wondering if Chief Seattle was right.
