Halloween haunts

Places to go on Halloween night



Every year, students look forward to Halloween weekend, a series of nights devoted to dressing up, going out and having the best time of their lives.

If you’re looking for the perfect place to go on Halloween night, than Fells Point may just be the spot for you. Located right on the water, with a strip of bars and an excellent reputation, Fells Point offers all one would need on this spooky night: friends, music, costumes, crowds and bars.

Groups from surrounding schools and Baltimore neighborhoods come out looking their absolute best, be it in frightening, comical or revealing costumes, and roam the streets taking pictures and bar-hopping. Year after year, Fells Point continues to live up to its expectations of having high-energy crowds and a fabulous bar scene. Those who have attended in previous years have described Halloween night at Fells Point as “insane” and “absurd.”

If this is what you’re looking for this October 31, get your costume together and head downtown. Broadway Square is located at the intersection of Broadway and Thames Street.

-Brittany Jakubowitz



Baltimore is notorious for its Fells Point Halloween celebration, but if you aren’t 21, don’t have an ID, or just don’t want to get drunk and be stampeded by thousands of crazy costumed Baltimoreans, don’t worry—you can have a great time on Halloween too. Here are a few under-21 friendly ways to celebrate All Hollows Eve.

Field of Screams: The frightfully fabulous Field of Screams, only a 45 minute to one hour drive from Towson, is four haunted Halloween attractions all in one—a haunted trail, haunted house, haunted hay ride and a 15 acre corn maze. Go to the Field of Screams if you wanted to be scared and terrified by some of your Fellow Towson students. Check out our Field of Screams feature on page ? for more details.

Fells Point/Mount Vernon Ghost walk: These award-winning ghost walks will take you to haunted buildings, pubs, shops, and residences around the historic Fells Point or Mount Vernon neighborhoods of Baltimore. Do this if you love history, architecture, ghost-lore and coming face-to-face with the strange and unknown.

Haunted Halloween movie marathon: Are you planning on staying in this Halloween? Have a Halloween movie marathon! Make yourself some treats from our Halloween “Scarecipes” to munch on, get comfortable on your couch, and turn on the silver screen. Here are some of my Halloween-y favorites: “Hocus Pocus” (classic!), “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Beetlejuice,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” the “Saw” movies, “The Exorcist,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Sweeney Todd.”

--Autumn Rose





Besides the barhopping and ghost-walking, the Baltimore area is crawling with quality places to go for Halloween.



Egg Babies Orchestra

The Baltimore-based cover band will play a Halloween show at the Metro Gallery (1700 N. Charles St.) Friday night. The set list is a closely guarded secret, but the band, composed mostly of people from other local bands, promises to play “spooky stuff.” Tickets are $8.



“Specters, Phantoms, and Poe”

What would a Baltimore Halloween be without some kind of nod to the writer who called the city home? On Friday evening, the Maryland Historical Society is hosting a performance from the Ballet Theatre of Maryland exploring the symbolism of Edgar Allan Poe's work. The show will be held at the society's headquarters at 201 W. Monument St. Tickets are $30.

Meanwhile, over at the Baltimore Museum of Art (10 Art Museum Drive), they have an ongoing exhibit of art inspired by Poe's work. Pieces include a portrait of Poe by Henri Matisse and a selection of works by local artists. Admission is free.



Death Expo

Neighborhood artists and performers at Riverside Stage (1530 Battery Ave.) will stage an interactive murder mystery, featuring grave diggers, undertakers, embalmers and “tombstone poets.” The event's Web site claims it will “put the 'fun' back in 'funeral.'” The mystery starts Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.musicalartiststheatre.com.

--Tyler Waldman

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