HALLOWEEN

For a city filled with as many churches as it has, Pittsburgh takes it’s Pagan rituals rather seriously. Our Regent Square neighborhood alone was filled with enough house parties and Trick or Treaters to make a horrified Evangelical think the end times were on their way. Even the police, who cruised the streets from 6-8 for a little oversight, provided a strange soundtrack to this memento mori that's my aboslute favorite holiday of the year.

FILM PORTRAITS

It being the Season of the Witch, I’m tending to watch more horror films these days, courtesy the low rental fee of our local Red Box crap dispenser just up the street. Movies this issue (from top): Halloween (not crap) Trapped Ashes (crap), and Day of the Dead (poo).

LAURA HEIT

Most of two short pieces by the wonderfully wonderful artist Laura Heit from last weekend’s rather mixed Black Sheep Puppet Festival at the Brew House Association on the South Side. While Heit’s performance was all the things experimental theater should be: engaging, stimulating and absolutely entertaining, much of what we saw seemed haphazard and something of a shambles. We walked out after enduring enough of one excruciating performance that hardly featured much puppetry at all.

HALLOWEEN HOUSE

Over on the South Side is a magical place where all your very special Halloween dreams can come true. The price of admission is merely YOUR SOUL!