Halloween Scene Spy!

(Stabatha La Thrills at a shoot for “The Thing With No Face”, photo by Stee McMorris)

Halloween is a time of witches. Be nice to the witches in your community, and give them food and pills. And remember, the best way to help the arts community is to cook your local starving artist a healthy meal! They’ve probably been up all night talking to Cthulhoid entities, and can use the protein and vitamins!

NEWZ

-this list!

Expect it every week, on my patreon page! And for the first month of the Scene Spy, you can see it for free on the Witchworks website too! One more week left!

-patreon news!

Patreon is the coolest. Stee managed to get two Patreon patrons already, and it made her so happy she wrote an entire horror movie short! The dream is possible! You should go give her a dollar! I have a Patreon page too, but I’m not as cute as Stee is. But that’s where the secret possession videos go, and this list will soon live there as well…

-videos by us!

This week we’re most excited about what we’re writing and filming, and the support we’ve been getting!

I wrote two more Planetary Governor commercials today, for Vermin’s opponent Captain Titus, who is a much more well-connected planetary official, and may actually give us money! These commercials are going to be EPIC, I’m really excited about them. They’re going to have crowd scenes, vaporization, crushed babies and all the good stuff! Plus Vermin is amazing!

Stee got all excited about her first two people giving her a dollar that she wrote a whole sci-fi horror comedy short! It’s hilarious! She wrote another one a few days ago, and it looks like we’re pretty definitely doing something by Stee… this December or so? People like my videos that I wrote, but Stee’s writings deal with bigger, deeper themes and people seem to like them even more! So we are all psyched. Send Stee your dollar and let her know you believe in her!

Starting tomorrow I’ll be filming for my Patreon video about how I hope to help Boston’s art scene with horror ponies and gore comedy, so some of you ought to expect a phone call soon, as Tom Kenney and I will be visiting you for an interview about fax machines and stuff like that… Let me know if you want to be interviewed, I might not have thought of you yet…

And on November 9th we’ll be filming more of The Thing With No Face, with Steven Lawlor-Jones, Jaime Devine, and Farasha! Please ask the spirits to make it good weather for us…

-fan support!

We’ve also got a feature and a TV show we could do, but we need more encouragement! Watch our existing videos and comment on them! Tell us what you like! Subscribe to our Witchworks channel! Like Witchworks on Facebook! Like Earth Heart on Facebook! Check out the different parts of the Witchworks website, and leave comments! Go to our Patreon pages and check out the free stuff! Leave comments! Tell your friends about this list, and go to the events on it and have fun! Tell media outlets about us! Get interviewed for my Patreon video! Come to the Gilded Age Salons and meet people!

If you haven’t seen the videos Stee and I made for Tom Doesn’t Care, Ugly or NSA Song, check ‘em out on YouTube for free!

There SHALL BE MORE.

-secret videos!

Check em out!

-gilded age salons!

We have twelve people together on board with the Gilded Age Salons so far! More news in that department very soon!

If you would like to host or have your art be featured at a Gilded Age Salon, email me!

-recent videos by our friends!

Robby Roadsteamer has a new video out!

-other name-dropping!

Earth Heart’s drummer is just barely recovering from his injury, and they have tons of shows coming up! There are also rumors of **** *** ***** (sorry folks I can’t say the rumor yet). Watch this Vine video… or check out Earth Heart on bandcamp, or watch Tom Doesn’t Care

Izzy Lee is skyrocketing to stardom with her explorations in the Feminist Revenge Horror genre. You may have seen her on TV’s Chronicle a few days ago! You should check out her highly anticipated Nevermore play on the 31st!

Amanda Palmer is doing a book tour soon, check it out

Walter Sickert has shows coming up including Once! Muertos, check out our actors Jojo and Dalya in the band family…

The Emperor of Humanity now has a facebook page…

-other stuff!

It’s voting season again! Go here to see where you should vote!

You can still rent Pony Trouble at Amazon Instant!

Somebody shot the Mona Lisa with paintballs. Ebola cases in Liberia are actually down. Nigeria is now supposedly Ebola-free. Everything is coming up ponies everywhere! So go out and party! Or stay home and be scared with these movies

EVENTZEZ!!!!

oct 31st

5pm Halloween Extravaganza 2014 at Aeronaut: 

Sophia and Mike performing!!!

with Somerville Symphony Orkestar, Strange Changes, and our friends MJEML!

Aeronaut Brewing Company and Somerville Symphony Orkestar present: Halloween Extravaganza 2014
Hosted by Aeronaut Brewing Company with music by the Somerville Symphony Orkestar (http://www.ssoband.com/),
STRANGE CHANGES (http://www.strangechangesmusic.com/)
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library (http://mjeml.com/)
Food by Roxy’s Grilled Cheese.
There will be Trick or Treating and Costume Contests!
No Cover, but there is a $10 suggested donation

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

7pm Umphrey’s McGee Monster Mash Halloween Bash in Boston

7th Annual Monster Mash Halloween Bash
Friday October 31st with special guests Dopapod
Saturday November 1st (nopener).
We continue our tradition of mixing live band mash-ups into the Umphrey’s rock-show to create a Halloween experience like none other.
This year we will introduce a unique umVIP experience that is guaranteed to make your trip to Beantown complete. We have arranged for you and the band to take a private tour of historic Fenway Park and walk the Green Monster, followed up with a group photo before getting ready to rock.
10/31 VIP tickets are still available.
RESERVE YOUR HEADPHONES & SNOWCONES
http://umphreys.com/tour/headphones-snowcones/
Join us for a live experience like no other as you listen to the show via a pristine soundboard mix piped wirelessly to your ears through audiophile quality headphones.
VIP AND HOTEL PACKAGES
http://umphreys.com/vip-package/seventh-annual-monster-mash-halloween-bash-2014-1031-111-boston/
WIN A TICKET AND SHOW DOWNLOAD ON FACEBOOK
RSVP as Attending by Sep. 30, you could win a ticket & show download
GET UMobile UPDATES, WIN SIGNED SETLIST, UMLIVE DOWNLOAD
Text ‘BOSTUP’ to 66937 and follow the instructions to sign-up for UMobile show-related alerts, special offers and a chance to win a signed setlist and show download to pick up at the show(s).
LISTEN TO UMPHREY’S MCGEE
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WATCH UMPHREY’S MCGEE
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*** If you want to join the street team in exchange for a FREE ticket send an e-mail to info@blackspymarketing.com

730pm 2014 Boston Halloween Bike Ride

Boston’s most anticipated, most fun, and SPOOKIEST bike ride is back, and this time it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. On Halloween Night we slither and crawl through the streets with jaw dropping costumes, ear popping tunes, and traffic stopping magnitude!
Meet at Copley Square at 7:30pm. (8pm departure)
We’ll ride for 10-12 miles at a costume friendly pace and land in Allston for an epic after-party at Wonderbar, where we’ll get freaky on the upstairs dance floor, or chill out in the downstairs lounge. We’re working on getting some free food & snacks for everyone so that we have enough energy to party all night (more on that later)
THIS is the ride you won’t want to miss, so be sure to invite all of your ghoulish friends, and start working on your costumes. COSTUMES!!!!!
ps.
Special thanks our friends Josh Zisson of Bike Safe Boston & Emily Thibodeau of Hub Bicycle Company for hooking us up with the funds needed to make the after-party a reality. Check them out. Seriously. They are pretty much the best people ever and they’ll fix all of your problems with a combination of bike know-how and hugs.

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

8pm NEVERMORE!!!

Boston–Halloween 2014
Jeffrey Combs in NEVERMORE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE

Check out the video teaser HERE!
Written by Dennis Paoli. Directed by Stuart Gordon.
Boston Production Produced by Izzy Lee & Bryan Moore
Co-Produced by Mark Redfield
One night only at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville MA.
8pm October 31, 2014
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144-2908
(617) 625-5700
Get YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.vendini.com/ticketLine/ITL/?t=tix&e=d5e933b2365aa6976a95ade5f9ff1c7f&theme=ticketLine25
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE, CLICK HERE: http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville-theatre/
See you at the Somerville Theatre near Boston on Halloween!

830pm CLUB BOHEMIA HALLOWEENIA BASH

HALLOWEEN BASH at Club Bohemia
The Four Point Restraints as The Smiths
https://fourpointrestraints.bandcamp.com/
Psychic Dog as Psychic Dog and Friends
https://psychicdog.bandcamp.com/album/big-and-lonely
The Daley Grimes as Anyone They Damn Well Please
https://www.facebook.com/TheDaleyGrimes?ref=br_tf
and MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
COSTUME CONTEST.
Best and Worst
Live Music
Some of your Friends
BEER.

738 Mass Ave, Cambridge

10pm GOOSEPIMP BOOTY BASH

The Inner Sanctum and GOOSEPIMP are hosting a 2 night HAUNTED HOUSE in Boston!!!
Tickets are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/goosebumpz-booty-bash-a-goosepimp-halloween-tickets-12931367067?aff=es2&rank=3
Friday 10/31
10pm – 2:30am
The Party Band
The Big Sway
Matter Man ft. Mike Cantor, Bob Greel & Phil Reese
Pellz Bellz – WORLD PREMIER LIVE SHOW ft. Apel Beats and Chris Belden
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
Saturday 11/1
10pm – 3:30am
GOOSEPIMP ORCHESTRA
Sexcrement
Apel Beats
Asteroids and Earthquakes with special guests ISS House Band
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
– $15 for Friday / $20 for Saturday / $25 for the weekend / RSVP only sucka
– Free snacks and refreshments
– Free vodka drinks provided by Deep Eddy Vodka
– Haunted House throughout the venue
– 2 stages
– fucking Pellz Bellz!!!

Nov 1st

7pm Evening of Evil: 

An exclusive Halloween screening of The Evil Dead w/ special guest Bruce Campbell

Price Range: $17-$68
Come experience The Evil Dead on the big screen with special guest Bruce Campbell for an exclusive Halloween screening! Following the film will be a Q&A with Bruce Campbell! After you purchase your tickets a very special Meet & Greet opportunity is able to be purchased (space limited). PLEASE NOTE: Meet & Greet voucher is a separate purchase from Evil Dead movie screening ticket.
The Evil Dead Launched Raimi and Tapert’s careers and made star Bruce Campbell a cult movie icon. Spawning two hit sequels: Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and Army of Darkness, The Evil Dead trilogy has become a fan phenomenon, ranked among the most popular and acclaimed cult horror movies of all time.

8pm ONCE Muertos! Starring Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

Join us! Dance and Dine with the Dead!
The 1st and 2nd of November are the Mexican Days of the Dead, or Dia De Muertos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead)
Cuisine en Locale is thrilled to death to welcome back Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys to celebrate our lost loved ones together, with a Saturday night and Sunday matinee filled with delicious food, fantastic sights and wonderful sounds.
November 1st – The First Day – $40
6pm: Mass Mex dinner buffet
8pm: Full band performance
The Saturday Night ticket includes a full buffet of Cuisine en Locale’s award winning Mass Mex dishes; mole made with Taza Chocolate, Stillman Farm pulled pork verde, house made pain de los muertos (bread of the dead) and so much more to satisfy your palette.
Saturday Night entertainment will move around you and throughout the evening. It will include a traditional live mariachi band, and break out performers, culminating in a full scale performance by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

830pm Janus Arts Halloween Masquerade

At Gateway City Arts in Holyoke MA

Gaze upon otherworldly visions of interactive installations, spontaneous performance, live art, exhibits and visuals with Martin Bridge, Carl Bridge, Jeff Gonci, Eric Freeman, Tom Jenks, Kaye Kitt, Jesse Massaro, Erin CPotter and many more.
Shake you bones to the sounds of:
OM-Frequency
(soundcloud.com/omfrequency)
Kidimandi
(African inspired primal rhythm troupe)
F.J. Lavoie
(Dark World Tronic)
Dress to disguise yourself among the spirits that roam the night.
Costumes are a must!… Prizes for the best!!!

830pm AjDIO of the Dead! featuring: Kicked in the Teeth, AjDIO, lack Sabbath?

Welcome to our second year of Halloween-time musical festivities in the vein of metal and hard rock. Get your horns and crosses ready…
Saturday November 1st, 2014
@ The Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
$10, 21+
Featuring:
12:00 lack Sabbath?
10:45PM AjDIO
9:30PM Kicked In the Teeth
lack Sabbath?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/lack-Sabbath/24481696184
Bringing the sights and sounds of Black Sabbath back from the obscure and dark existence from whence it came, straight into your deepest core of being…
AjDIO
https://www.facebook.com/ajdiorock
A tribute to master Ronnie James Dio and his work with Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Heaven & Hell, and Rainbow
Kicked In The Teeth
Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Advance Tix:
http://midwaycafe.com/our/details?id=101170

9pm ALL SOULS – A ManRay Halloween Reunion/Celebration

Release the bats one more time, because something wicked this way returns…
ALL SOULS – the MANRAY Halloween Reunion/Celebration SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1, at the Paradise Rock Club, in Boston MA, USA.
This is an OFFICIAL GATHERING, with former ManRay head resident DJ Chris Ewen, ManRay Bartendrix Extraordinaire Terri (Teresa Niedzwiecki), the DELICIOUS DANCERS, COSTUME CONTEST, Performances by Isobel Valo, the Ladies of PERESTROIKA: Katya Zamolodchikova, Frieda Fries & Nicholle Pride (!!!), a Guest DJ set by DJ Brian L. (WZBC’s Industrial Factory/Corrosion), TAROT READINGS by Sara Wendell, chances to WIN tickets to see The Alliance Of Sound Tour: Skinny Puppy, VNV Nation, Haujobb & YOUTH CODE live at the House of Blues Boston on November 30, + more tricks & treats! Your Hosts: Xtine Santackas and Jøhnny Evîl!
9pm – 2am. This event is 18 plus.
Advance tickets are $13 (without service fees) in person at the Paradise Box Office, or (plus service fees) from Ticketmaster here:
http://www.ticketmaster.com/all-souls-the-manray-halloween-boston-massachusetts-11-01-2014/event/01004D2AF4988F98?SREF=P_ArtistPageModule_main

11pm Saturday Night Rocky Horror Halloween Show

175 Tremont St

Join us for our special Halloween Show featuring 30 minutes of BRAND NEW preshows, costume contest, prizes, and of course a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Be sure to order your tickets online (usually available for purchase 2 weeks before the show) at www.fandango.com.

Daily Show Writers’ Standup Tour

At Great Scott

Nov 2nd
ONCE Muertos! Starring Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
November 2nd – The Second Day – $25 ($10 for under 12)
12pm: Taco brunch buffet & matinee performance by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
We invite you to celebrate the second day with an all you can eat taco brunch, and a special, matinee performance from The Army of Broken Toys.
Bring the whole family, children under 12 are only $10!

The Temple of Elemental Evil

Secret event, you can’t go.

Samhain 2014 Ritual and Feast

(contact me privately for address, this is a serious spiritual event)

Come celebrate the dark half of the year and honor our departed ancestors. We’ll gather together to eat, perform ritual, and make some seasonal magic.
Bring something vegetarian for the feast. (Beer and wine is OK, but please no hard liquor.) You can also bring an image or object representing a departed ancestor (genetic or otherwise) for the ritual.
Just an FYI, this isn’t a Halloween costume party. Sadly, Gwo isn’t holding his annual costume bash this year, but that’s no reason not to celebrate this important annual turning of the wheel!

Rhode Island Comic Con!

1 sabin st providence RI

with William shatner, Barbara eden, eliza dushku, lou ferrigno and others

Nov 4th

Don’t forget to vote!

730pm Watch “Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey” 

at The Cape Ann Film Festival!

Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey has been selected to screen at the 2014 Cape Ann Film Festival in Gloucester, MA. If you’re in the area, come by for our 7:30pm screening on November 4th! If you’re not, prepare yourself for a road trip or a hitchhiking adventure and make the pilgrimage to meet Vermin Supreme at the screening!

Nov 7th

9:30pm WTF Queerlesque!

At the Midway Café 3496 washington street jp

A crazy night of queer variety madness and absolute fuckery! Celebrating, roasting, and burlesquing pop culture – as only queers can! Performer and band roster coming soon! 10$ plus tips for your performers!

Nov 8th

DECOMP!

Omg this is always awesome, and sometimes semi-private. But I might go! No deets here but msg me if you need!

That’s it for the Scene Spy this week! If you want to help out with some of this stuff, go to my Patreon page and give me some advice, or psychically beam me a dollar!

Birthday Scene Spy!

It’s my birthday! I’m 40! I’m looking forward to my new 40something lifestyle, where I get lots more white male privilege and get asked to run foundations and given large sums of money in unmarked bags. It includes eating healthy, having a rockstar dentist, comfortable furniture, and health insurance. It includes being a patron as well as a protégé. It includes a world where people think I am gross and call me “daddy” and I tell them not to call me that. And I get fat, supposedly. But I’m not going to get fat.

It’s my party later today/night. You’re only invited if you know me, but if you do and you don’t know where the party is, send me a facebook message or a phone call and I’ll clue you in. But there will be stand-up comedy, catering, yodeling, videos and possible live music!

There are 41 parties on here this week.

NEWZ

-this list!

Expect it every week, on my patreon page! And for the first month of the Scene Spy, you can see it for free on the Witchworks website too!

-patreon!

Patreon is the coolest. It’s like Kickstarter except it’s made for ongoing artists who are cranking out more product all the time. Maybe it’ll cause wide swaths of artists to be able to make art full time, by people supporting the artist instead of paying per-content for the art? Here’s my patreon page and Stee McMorris’s patreon page. We don’t have any signups yet, maybe you would like to be my first $1 patron? Or Stee’s? It all starts with the first dollar, and we work hard to try to continually bring you fresh stuff! :):) <3<3

-recent public videos by us!

I just discovered Vine. Here’s a vine video I just made of Katie Coriander as Cthulhu.

If you haven’t seen the videos Stee and I made for Tom Doesn’t Care, Ugly or NSA Song, check ‘em out on YouTube for free!

Also I made this Zach Deputy video, this rap video about Revere Beach, this Bible Cats commercial, this commercial, this video of one of my previous birthday parties. Click on them!

For more videos, check out the Past Work section of our new Witchworks Films website!

-secret videos!

October’s video incorporates one shoot where I brought the GoPro and beat myself up in the woods, some footage of me getting possessed, and some stuff with an unseen monster, possibly the possessed me, stalking and chasing Stabatha La Thrills around. Maybe it’s the evil faeries, who can say? There’s some beautiful camera work by Alex Stinson and Stee McMorris, and some grainy stuff I shot myself… Patrons can see it here!

November’s “secret” gear test video is about exploring emotional jib shots, subjective angles, more refined woodsy sound, and trying out some of our favorite local actors with some speaking lines. And also seeing what they look like getting possessed! It’s going to have Jaime Devine, Garabed Setrakian and Steven Lawlor-Jones, and involves further revealing of the mystery of that Thing, and why Steven always carries that machine around… we’ll be shooting it in early November and it’ll be lots of fun!

Anyway, when each gear test video is done I’ll be posting it on my Patreon page in the creations section. Behind-the-scenes videos, blooper reels and other secret videos we won’t be posting publically on YouTube will end up there as well. $3 a month patrons and above will be able to see them all!

-gilded age salons!

We’re making plans for our first Gilded Age Salon, but first I’ve got to have my birthday party today. I’m turning 40, come to my thing!

If you would like to host or have your art be featured at a Gilded Age Salon, email me!

-recent videos by our friends!

Steve Onderick is great. He shot all the ritual scenes for our Ugly video, and several episodes of Quiet D. He also made a documentary about Vermin Supreme, whom we’ll be putting in some propaganda videos soon, stay tuned. On November 4th you can see that documentary, and Vermin will be there…

Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey

Michael J Epstein Memorial Library is a strange thing. Our friends Sophia and Mike have like a million bands. I do not understand which band is which and why. But they are amazingly talented, have cool songs and feminist videos, check this one out!

People keep getting video of Katie Coriander. You just want to film her. We’re doing a new video for her soon, really! But actually, Crazy Trevor, do keep filming her. He recently made a film with Vermin about ponies, and we have to be behind that…

-other name-dropping!

It’s neat having famous friends. You wonder what your friends are doing, so you just pick up a newspaper or a magazine and then you know! It makes me want to start a new section of the Scene Spy called Name Dropping!

This week’s DigBoston has Anna Feder on the front, and a picture of Nichole Snow fighting for medical cannabis reform! If you live in Salem, write her in for State Rep! And a teeny tiny picture of Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, about their show on the 25th! (see below in the eventz section)

Robby Roadsteamer is back, for those who’ve missed the ultimate ironically shitty dude and his scathing insult comedy, check him out on WEMF radio every day! He’s also playing the Middle East Downstairs in December, look here in future weeks for details!

Amanda Palmer is doing a book tour soon, check it out

Walter Sickert has shows coming up, check out our actors Jojo and Dalya in the band family… I just had to have them on TV 3 times so far because the Toys are the coolest!

Izzy Lee is skyrocketing to stardom with her explorations in the Feminist Revenge Horror genre. You may have seen her photos posing with every famous horror person ever, or some of her films in every film festival ever. You should check out her highly anticipated Nevermore play on the 31st!

And our latest Witchworks Films Hero of the Revolution, Katie Coriander has like 90 shows in late November and December. You’ll see announcements of them here! And if you just HAVE to see Katie before that, come to my birthday party where she MIGHT be jamming with people for a little while… And watch this video if you haven’t seen it…or this one or this one or this one or this Vine video…

-other stuff!

Countable is really cool. You can easily search and see all the bills on the House and Senate floor and automatically tell your representatives how you think they should vote. Sure they’re probably going to vote with all the big corporations anyway, but this at least makes it easy to get your voice heard. I get form letters from politicians all the time now!

You can still rent Pony Trouble at Amazon Instant!

There’s genome editing now. Some lady in Utah accidentally discovered how to use bacteria to edit genes. Soon this will cure everything…

EVENTZEZ!!!!

Fri 24th

-7pm til whenever WARREN’S 40th BIRTHDAY

Theme: cthulhu steampunk ponies!

This is at a secret location. Email me for directions if you want them. But there are rules. You must wear a costume OR bring a gift. You must be chill. Those are the only rules. There will be entertainment, including COMEDY(with Kevin Harrington), YODELING, VIDEOS, CATERING and maaaybe A ROCK BAND. My place will be clean for once (at the start of the party anyway). There shall be drinks and snacks. You can schmooze with our sparkly actor friends. Come join us!

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR begins

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

7pm OUT OF THE BLUE FIGURE DRAWING

Start off your weekend with Out of the Blue! Come practice your figure drawing skills with a professional model.
Bring your own supplies, all dry media welcome.
10-15$ for any portion of the two and a half hour session. Don’t forget to tip your model! (She graciously volunteers to pose and organize for us.)
And please invite your friends! The more the merrier!

541 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA!

6pm ELECTRIC MASQUERADE!
Just in time for Halloween, the ARCH Gallery events team is throwing our first, full-tilt, live music, art show, and boutique extravaganza complete with custom makeup mask design booth, photo booth, and dance party!
In lieu of having our own liquor/live entertainment license at the gallery, we’ve teamed up with The Brain Trust to curate epic art/music parties at Wonder Bar and raise money for the gallery to keep bringing amazing art and events to Allston, and have a really cool time doing it!
“TICKETS, GET YOUR PRESALE TICKETS HERE!”
http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/700571?utm_medium=bks
Electric Masquerade details:::
Friday October 24th in Wonder Bar Allston‘s main room
6pm – 10:30 >>>
We’ll have a pop-up art show featuring pieces from Daniel Levy, Ian Sanity Tartasky, Pete Cosmos, and more…
Popup accessories boutique featuring pieces by Lex McDermott, Halley Jaye Facciolo , Primal Adornments, and Ginger Snappy Gems…all available for purchase!
Don’t want to bring a mask? EVEN BETTER!
There will be a Make-up Mask Design Booth with Kelsey Rae Caouette
and a Photobooth for all your memory-making needs!
Masquerade Music!
6pm – 8:30 and inbetween acts, curated by: DJs of Boston
8:30pm live performance: Constance Mei Bainbridge aka Mei Ohara
9:30pm live performance and light show: Vi Vishno aka Vishno
10:30 – 2am: Dance Party with DJ Homewrecker
Come support your local artists and your friendly local ARCH Gallery team!
Amyko Ishizaki, Nicole Marie, Dave Unbuckled

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

Sat 25th

 

545pm Literary Jam Session with Michael J Epstein Memorial Library!

At Old South Sanctuary

Who said words needed to be printed to be recognized?

Boston’s own-and the world’s only!-librarian-attired, indie ensemble-pop act will join the festivities, showering the literary jam-sesh with their trademark razor sharp, tongue in cheek lyrics. And you thought this would be boring…

Part of Boston Book Festival. For full schedule visit bostonbookfestival.org

10pm Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Freak Show!

Don’t ask Don’t Tell is like a drag night with “regular” drag queens but where also straight people can and do go and do drag, and there are lots of women who do woman-drag and it’s fabulous.

*Nominated BEST DANCE NIGHT by the Boston Music Awards**BEST GAY SCENE by Improper Bostonian 2014*
As LGBTQ individuals outside of “normal” society we often are considered FREAKS. Lets embrace that!
Bring out your inner freak this month as we pay homage to both ourselves, our community and at the same time AHS Freak Show.
Biggest FREAK of the night gets $100 cash! You’ve earned it!
Resident DJ/MC Colby Drasher will be conducting the evil debauchery with his twisted and sexy soundtrack.
Legendary DADT queens take to the stage to shock and horrify! They will eat your one dollar bills right out of your hands. This month we are thrilled to bring back a DADT queen of yesteryear, PENNY TRATION! She will share the stage with the lucious JUANITA PERCENT and ROSE HELL!
Sip on our carnival of assorted beverages available on the DADT drink list!
Be afraid as Nick Day delivers terrifying and bizarre projections around the dance floor!
As always ALL ARE WELCOME WHO WELCOME ALL!
So come get weird. Its DADT: Freak Show
Great Scott
10/25
21+
$10

 

630pm ILLUMINUS FESTIVAL

Illuminus is Boston’s first “nuit blanche” — a free nighttime festival of creative innovation that will take place on Saturday, October 25th, 2014. This public celebration will feature over thirty regional artists – performing and showcasing large-scale projections and light installations alongside immersive sound, performance, and multimedia experiences. Illuminus will reimagine the city at night with the help of these artists, volunteers, designers, creative technologists, architects and the amazing communities of Boston.
The festival will provoke and inspire, celebrating the creative approaches to art, culture, and community that form the foundation of a thriving and dynamic city!

540 Harrison Avenue, Boston

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

Noon EGLESTON SQUARE FALL FIESTA

195 Boylston Street, Boston

Come celebrate with the whole community!
Food, music, youth performances, ribbon-cutting, mural unveiling, street art:
GRAND OPENING Boylston Public Art Gallery on Brewery Building N wrapping Brookside and Boylston Street – come to the ribbon cutting as we unveil four new murals by local artists and youth from Urbano!
Harvest Fest @ Egleston Community Orchard – cider pressing, pumpkin carving, kids activities – celebrate the creation of our 100% community owned orchard! After four years of hard work, the City of Boston is finally transferring the deed for 195 Boyslton Street to Commonwealth Land Trust, ensuring the Egleston Community Orchard is owned by and for our community in perpetuity!
Pumpkin Palooza at Egleston Farmers Market!
Community Dance Party – “Honoring JP Change Makers” – celebrate the people who are improving our neighborhood, sponsored by JP NET, 7-10pm at Urbano, 29 Germania Street in the Brewery Building F.
Boylston Street Block Party! BBQ, Face Painting, Music, Street Performers!
Fall Fiesta is co-sponsored by many different neighborhood groups – Egleston Farmers Market, Egleston Community Orchard, Egleston Square Main Streets, Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JP NET), JPNDC, Urban Edge, Egleston YMCA, Egleston Library – and is yet another piece of this neighborhood’s collaborative spirit.
http://jptransition.org/events/857/egleston-square-fall-fiesta/

6pm MA GUBERNATORIAL STRAW POLL, THE YOUNG JURKS

On Saturday at 6pm ET, The Young Jurks show returns Live on www.wemfradio.com/live with a MA Governor’s Race Straw Poll- taking your votes for MA Governor by telephone at 617-500-7100 and from our live in-studio panel featuring Republican, Evan Kenney, MA Libertarian Party, Daniel Fishman, MA Pirate Party candidates for State Rep, Noelani Kamelamela and Joe Guertin, and from the Evan Falchuk campaign, Taylor DiSantis and more TBA. With Mike Cann & Frank Capone hosting, also joined by Healthy Headie Lifestyle!
On the ballot for MA Governor, Scott Lively, Jeff McCormick, Evan Falchuk, Martha Coakley, Charlie Baker

Sunday 26th

2pm Carnival of Curiosities

We love Halloween at SoWa! And there is nothing quite like our Halloween Costume Contest to end the outdoor season with a bang! Our theme for the 11th Annual Market of the Living Dead is ..drumroll please .. Carnival of Curiosities! This special market will take place Sunday, October 26, 2014 at the SoWa Arts Market. Located at 460 Harrison Ave.
http://newenglandopenmarkets.com/specialevents/
And we’ve got some fabulous prizes lined up for the best costumes! The contest is open to all so come on down, the more the scarier! The only hitch, costumes must reflect the Carnival of Curiosities (circus freaks) theme in order to enter.
In addition to the customer costume contest, our vendors will be competing for best costume, booth decor and decorated food truck. And you can bet the the costumes and decor will be amazing, considering we have some of the best artists and designers from around New England!
HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST AND RULES:
The Carnival of Curiosities Costume Contest is open to anyone, no matter what age or where you live. But please remember, our theme is Carnival of Curiosities. All costumes must reflect our new theme in order to participate in the contest.
REGISTRATION AND CHECK-IN:
Participants wishing to enter any of the contests should check-in between 10AM – 1PM at the registration table at the front of the Arts Market, next to the main stage.
JUDGING:
Judging for the best costume begins at 2PM sharp on the main stage at the Arts Market. All entrants will parade on stage in front of the judges and crowd. Our judges will then pick six finalists who will be called back for the final selection of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.
PRIZES:
1st place – $250.00
2nd place – $100.00
3rd place – $50.00

 

7pm Old School Game Show

Horror themed alt trivia variety show

At davis square theatre

$15

the Wytches at Great Scott

with Dirty Dishes and Weird Womb

Tues 28th

6pm In Search of Our Father staged reading

On October 28, 2014, join Women in Film and Video: New England at Central Square Theater for a staged reading of our 2013 Screenwriting Competition Winner: In Search of Our Father, Sylvester Stallone by Santa Sierra.
In Search of Our Father is the story of a young brother and sister growing up in poverty in El Salvador. After they lose their mother to gang violence, the wise-beyond-their-years siblings embark on a dangerous journey to the US, hoping to find the man their mother always claimed was their father: Sylvester Stallone.
Admission: $15 for members of HSSW or WIFV/NE and $20 for non-members.
In Search of Our Father, Sylvester Stallone by Santa Sierra
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Central Square Theater: 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02134
Reception 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Performance begins at 7:00 PM and concludes with a Q&A
For tickets, please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/873325
NARRATOR: Rosi Amador of Amador Bilingual Voiceovers
CAST:
Balboa by Nicole Sarmiento
Rocky by Lucca Drummond
Sofia by Karina Beleno Carney
Drigo by Aaron Andrade
Carlos by Jose Gonsalves
Pablo by Johnny Quinones
Lorna by Becki Dennis
Alfredo by Hugo Arellano Morales
Davida by Jackie Santos
Pito by Stephen Radochia
DIRECTED BY:
Gauri Adelkar
CREATIVE CONSULTANT:
Christina Marin
EDUCATIONAL SPONSORS:
Chelsea Collaborative
SPONSORS:
Saint Aire Productions
Lesley University
Boston CISPES
High Output, Inc.
Boston Latino Film Festival
Local Sightings
Gregger Jones/Panasonic

8pm MR FOX AT THE BEAT HOTEL

What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? will conjure up some friendly demons and wicked witches in this evening of original music laced with lovely murder ballads and lyrical tales of ghosts and black widows. We have the full band with special guest, Joe Cardoza on bass.
Amazing food and drinks at this restaurant named after the infamous Parisian landmark home of bohemian artists and beat poets. One of the best sound systems in MA.

13 Brattle Street, Cambridge

29th

10pm Show Me Your Stuff@Machine

Go see! The Halloween drag show!

 

Meat Puppets at the Sinclair

52 church street Cambridge ma

30th

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

31st

 

5pm Halloween Extravaganza 2014 at Aeronaut: 

with Somerville Symphony Orkestar, Strange Changes, and MJEML

Aeronaut Brewing Company and Somerville Symphony Orkestar present: Halloween Extravaganza 2014
Hosted by Aeronaut Brewing Company with music by the Somerville Symphony Orkestar (http://www.ssoband.com/),
STRANGE CHANGES (http://www.strangechangesmusic.com/)
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library (http://mjeml.com/)
Food by Roxy’s Grilled Cheese.
There will be Trick or Treating and Costume Contests!
No Cover, but there is a $10 suggested donation

7pm Umphrey’s McGee Monster Mash Halloween Bash in Boston

7th Annual Monster Mash Halloween Bash
Friday October 31st with special guests Dopapod
Saturday November 1st (nopener).
We continue our tradition of mixing live band mash-ups into the Umphrey’s rock-show to create a Halloween experience like none other.
This year we will introduce a unique umVIP experience that is guaranteed to make your trip to Beantown complete. We have arranged for you and the band to take a private tour of historic Fenway Park and walk the Green Monster, followed up with a group photo before getting ready to rock.
10/31 VIP tickets are still available.
RESERVE YOUR HEADPHONES & SNOWCONES
http://umphreys.com/tour/headphones-snowcones/
Join us for a live experience like no other as you listen to the show via a pristine soundboard mix piped wirelessly to your ears through audiophile quality headphones.
VIP AND HOTEL PACKAGES
http://umphreys.com/vip-package/seventh-annual-monster-mash-halloween-bash-2014-1031-111-boston/
WIN A TICKET AND SHOW DOWNLOAD ON FACEBOOK
RSVP as Attending by Sep. 30, you could win a ticket & show download
GET UMobile UPDATES, WIN SIGNED SETLIST, UMLIVE DOWNLOAD
Text ‘BOSTUP’ to 66937 and follow the instructions to sign-up for UMobile show-related alerts, special offers and a chance to win a signed setlist and show download to pick up at the show(s).
LISTEN TO UMPHREY’S MCGEE
iTunes | http://www.itunes.com/umphreysmcgee
all the latest shows at UMLive | http://www.umlive.net/
Soundcloud | https://soundcloud.com/umphreysmcgee
100+ hours of free UM Podcasts | http://bit.ly/UMcast
WATCH UMPHREY’S MCGEE
UMVideo | http://www.youtube.com/umvideo
www.umphreys.com
@umphreysmcgee
*** If you want to join the street team in exchange for a FREE ticket send an e-mail to info@blackspymarketing.com

730pm 2014 Boston Halloween Bike Ride

Boston’s most anticipated, most fun, and SPOOKIEST bike ride is back, and this time it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. On Halloween Night we slither and crawl through the streets with jaw dropping costumes, ear popping tunes, and traffic stopping magnitude!
Meet at Copley Square at 7:30pm. (8pm departure)
We’ll ride for 10-12 miles at a costume friendly pace and land in Allston for an epic after-party at Wonderbar, where we’ll get freaky on the upstairs dance floor, or chill out in the downstairs lounge. We’re working on getting some free food & snacks for everyone so that we have enough energy to party all night (more on that later)
THIS is the ride you won’t want to miss, so be sure to invite all of your ghoulish friends, and start working on your costumes. COSTUMES!!!!!
ps.
Special thanks our friends Josh Zisson of Bike Safe Boston & Emily Thibodeau of Hub Bicycle Company for hooking us up with the funds needed to make the after-party a reality. Check them out. Seriously. They are pretty much the best people ever and they’ll fix all of your problems with a combination of bike know-how and hugs.

 

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

8pm NEVERMORE!!!

Boston–Halloween 2014
Jeffrey Combs in NEVERMORE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE

Check out the video teaser HERE!
Written by Dennis Paoli. Directed by Stuart Gordon.
Boston Production Produced by Izzy Lee & Bryan Moore
Co-Produced by Mark Redfield
One night only at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville MA.
8pm October 31, 2014
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144-2908
(617) 625-5700
Get YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.vendini.com/ticketLine/ITL/?t=tix&e=d5e933b2365aa6976a95ade5f9ff1c7f&theme=ticketLine25
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE, CLICK HERE: http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville-theatre/
See you at the Somerville Theatre near Boston on Halloween!

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

830pm CLUB BOHEMIA HALLOWEENIA BASH

HALLOWEEN BASH at Club Bohemia
The Four Point Restraints as The Smiths
https://fourpointrestraints.bandcamp.com/
Psychic Dog as Psychic Dog and Friends
https://psychicdog.bandcamp.com/album/big-and-lonely
The Daley Grimes as Anyone They Damn Well Please
https://www.facebook.com/TheDaleyGrimes?ref=br_tf
and MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
COSTUME CONTEST.
Best and Worst
Live Music
Some of your Friends
BEER.

738 Mass Ave, Cambridge

10pm GOOSEPIMP BOOTY BASH

The Inner Sanctum and GOOSEPIMP are hosting a 2 night HAUNTED HOUSE in Boston!!!
Tickets are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/goosebumpz-booty-bash-a-goosepimp-halloween-tickets-12931367067?aff=es2&rank=3
Friday 10/31
10pm – 2:30am
The Party Band
The Big Sway
Matter Man ft. Mike Cantor, Bob Greel & Phil Reese
Pellz Bellz – WORLD PREMIER LIVE SHOW ft. Apel Beats and Chris Belden
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
Saturday 11/1
10pm – 3:30am
GOOSEPIMP ORCHESTRA
Sexcrement
Apel Beats
Asteroids and Earthquakes with special guests ISS House Band
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
– $15 for Friday / $20 for Saturday / $25 for the weekend / RSVP only sucka
– Free snacks and refreshments
– Free vodka drinks provided by Deep Eddy Vodka
– Haunted House throughout the venue
– 2 stages
– fucking Pellz Bellz!!!

Nov 1st

8pm ONCE Muertos! Starring Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

Join us! Dance and Dine with the Dead!
The 1st and 2nd of November are the Mexican Days of the Dead, or Dia De Muertos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead)
Cuisine en Locale is thrilled to death to welcome back Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys to celebrate our lost loved ones together, with a Saturday night and Sunday matinee filled with delicious food, fantastic sights and wonderful sounds.
November 1st – The First Day – $40
6pm: Mass Mex dinner buffet
8pm: Full band performance
The Saturday Night ticket includes a full buffet of Cuisine en Locale’s award winning Mass Mex dishes; mole made with Taza Chocolate, Stillman Farm pulled pork verde, house made pain de los muertos (bread of the dead) and so much more to satisfy your palette.
Saturday Night entertainment will move around you and throughout the evening. It will include a traditional live mariachi band, and break out performers, culminating in a full scale performance by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys

7pm Evening of Evil: 

An exclusive Halloween screening of The Evil Dead w/ special guest Bruce Campbell

Price Range: $17-$68
Come experience The Evil Dead on the big screen with special guest Bruce Campbell for an exclusive Halloween screening! Following the film will be a Q&A with Bruce Campbell! After you purchase your tickets a very special Meet & Greet opportunity is able to be purchased (space limited). PLEASE NOTE: Meet & Greet voucher is a separate purchase from Evil Dead movie screening ticket.
The Evil Dead Launched Raimi and Tapert’s careers and made star Bruce Campbell a cult movie icon. Spawning two hit sequels: Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and Army of Darkness, The Evil Dead trilogy has become a fan phenomenon, ranked among the most popular and acclaimed cult horror movies of all time.

830pm Janus Arts Halloween Masquerade

At Gateway City Arts in Holyoke MA

Gaze upon otherworldly visions of interactive installations, spontaneous performance, live art, exhibits and visuals with Martin Bridge, Carl Bridge, Jeff Gonci, Eric Freeman, Tom Jenks, Kaye Kitt, Jesse Massaro, Erin CPotter and many more.
Shake you bones to the sounds of:
OM-Frequency
(soundcloud.com/omfrequency)
Kidimandi
(African inspired primal rhythm troupe)
F.J. Lavoie
(Dark World Tronic)
Dress to disguise yourself among the spirits that roam the night.
Costumes are a must!… Prizes for the best!!!

830pm AjDIO of the Dead! featuring: Kicked in the Teeth, AjDIO, lack Sabbath?

Welcome to our second year of Halloween-time musical festivities in the vein of metal and hard rock. Get your horns and crosses ready…
Saturday November 1st, 2014
@ The Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
$10, 21+
Featuring:
12:00 lack Sabbath?
10:45PM AjDIO
9:30PM Kicked In the Teeth
lack Sabbath?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/lack-Sabbath/24481696184
Bringing the sights and sounds of Black Sabbath back from the obscure and dark existence from whence it came, straight into your deepest core of being…
AjDIO
https://www.facebook.com/ajdiorock
A tribute to master Ronnie James Dio and his work with Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Heaven & Hell, and Rainbow
Kicked In The Teeth
Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Advance Tix:
http://midwaycafe.com/our/details?id=101170

11pm Saturday Night Rocky Horror Halloween Show

175 Tremont St

Join us for our special Halloween Show featuring 30 minutes of BRAND NEW preshows, costume contest, prizes, and of course a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Be sure to order your tickets online (usually available for purchase 2 weeks before the show) at www.fandango.com.

Daily Show Writers’ Standup Tour

At Great Scott

Nov 2nd
ONCE Muertos! Starring Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
November 2nd – The Second Day – $25 ($10 for under 12)
12pm: Taco brunch buffet & matinee performance by Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys
We invite you to celebrate the second day with an all you can eat taco brunch, and a special, matinee performance from The Army of Broken Toys.
Bring the whole family, children under 12 are only $10!

The Temple of Elemental Evil

Secret event, you can’t go.

Samhain 2014 Ritual and Feast

(contact me privately for address, this is a serious spiritual event)

Come celebrate the dark half of the year and honor our departed ancestors. We’ll gather together to eat, perform ritual, and make some seasonal magic.
Bring something vegetarian for the feast. (Beer and wine is OK, but please no hard liquor.) You can also bring an image or object representing a departed ancestor (genetic or otherwise) for the ritual.
Just an FYI, this isn’t a Halloween costume party. Sadly, Gwo isn’t holding his annual costume bash this year, but that’s no reason not to celebrate this important annual turning of the wheel!

Rhode Island Comic Con!

1 sabin st providence RI

with William shatner, Barbara eden, eliza dushku, lou ferrigno and others

Nov 4th

730pm Watch “Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey” 

at The Cape Ann Film Festival!

Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey has been selected to screen at the 2014 Cape Ann Film Festival in Gloucester, MA. If you’re in the area, come by for our 7:30pm screening on November 4th! If you’re not, prepare yourself for a road trip or a hitchhiking adventure and make the pilgrimage to meet Vermin Supreme at the screening!

That’s it for the Scene Spy this week! Next week, writing teasers and Shakespeare farces! If you want to help out with some of this stuff, go to my Patreon page and give me some advice, or psychically beam me a dollar! J

The Scene Spy!!!

The Scene Spy returns! (this week’s column by Warren Lynch)

RANTZ:

The “Party Spy” was an email-based events list on Yahoogroups which I used to help support and expand the performance art and underground party scene in the early 2000s. Pan 9 and Amanda Palmer got a fair bit of their initial buzz from the party spy, and it allowed me to go to 4-10 parties a week the entire time I was lonely and single, and for about 400 of my friends to know about all the parties going on every week.

Last installment was in 2010 because I turned into a film obsessor instead of a party obsessor. Who needs to go to parties when you’re making films and TV shows? Boston has had a film renaissance the past decade, and there’s been plenty of film stuff to do every minute since then.

And the underground art party scene has kind of died down while I was gone. We went from 4 underground performance art nights a month to one. Pan 9 burned down. Amanda got married and moved away. Man Ray was torn down. All Asia was torn down. Zeitgeist moved to Lowell. Mama Gaia’s closed down. Oni gallery closed. The rave scene got kind of old. Burning Man turned into a commercial.

But just recently, stuff is suddenly swinging the other way! We have an Art Czar now, and art in the Boston area is exploding in a way it hasn’t since the 90s. There’s a new art party scene growing like wildfire, and it has great potential to synergize with the film scene. Plus I want to bring Stee McMorris to weird art parties, she needs them…

It’s time for the Party Spy to come back! Except that now I’m old (turning 40 next week!) and I like different kinds of things than when I was 27. I don’t know about as many say underground dance nights, but I hear about plenty of film projects, exclusive networking parties, fundraising events, and other more grown-up type things, including oddly, burlesque, which is the only kind of performance art which has thrived throughout the recession and is even stronger than it ever was. And I hear that it is feminist, so huzzah for burlesque!

Anyway, reflecting the change of scene, my change of scene, and the lesser predominance of what could be strictly called parties in the milieu in which I swim these days, instead of the Party Spy, now it’s going to be called the Scene Spy! And it’ll go on my Patreon page, so that scenesters can help contribute to awesome art events in Boston, especially films and TV! It only costs a dollar per month, and I figure the friends I have as a 40 year old can probably afford a dollar to hear about this many cool events!

We’ll see. And the first month of it is going to be free on the Witchworks page anyway, too!

The scene spy consists of 3 sections. Some kind of intro, rant or philosophy like you just heard. Then NEWZ and EVENTZ… Here’s the rest of the Scene Spy for this week:

NEWZ

-art czar!

Our new mayor appointed an Art Czar! This will change everything.

-this list!

Expect it every week, on my patreon page! And for the first month of the Scene Spy, you can see it for free on the Witchworks website too!

-secret videos!

I’ve been filming a bunch of “gear test” and “atmosphere test” videos with Stee and Alex lately. To try out the insane new space age gear we have access to. To explore the acting range of actors we like. And to explore atmospheric horror techniques which come to us in dreams and crappy Italian horror movies. Plus the work of Sam Raimi, who is a god.

The main goal of these is to explore techniques for the New England-based Lovecraftian horror TV show we have in development. But I’ve also been stitching them together into a story in the editing room, because why not? Either we can show the work in progress to investors as example of our gear and technique and get some funding for our TV show, or there’ll eventually be enough gear test videos to make an experimental feature out of them. Or both.

Anyway, when each gear test video is done I’ll be posting it on my Patreon page in the creations section. Behind-the-scenes videos, blooper reels and other secret videos we won’t be posting publically on YouTube will end up there as well. $3 a month patrons and above will be able to see them all! Check out the October one, it’s already up! With Stabatha LaThrills!

-gilded age salons!

After making a lot of TV and film and fundraising for them, Stee and I have met a lot of patrons of the arts.

It seems like an antiquated phrase at first, patrons of the arts, but it’s the new big think. Even the Mayor is a patron of the arts now.

You might picture a 1600s Medici merchant prince with a golden hat, generously tipping his hat down and letting gold spill out. But really these are just regular people.

The dentist who’s tired of playing golf in his off hours and wants to hang out with some more interesting people. The office manager who always dreamed of working in the movies but doesn’t know who to talk to. The small business owner who wants more of a scene to develop at her establishment.  The retired person who wants to give back to the community. The consumer who buys an album on the internet. The believer who gave to a kickstarter. Anybody who wants a little more hope, sparkly glamour, art or fun in their life and doesn’t mind helping out some artist to get it!

With like a dollar! It’s everybody really. But we have some friends who are already into it. Patronage is the new cool thing, just you wait. Pretty soon we’ll all have gold hats!

AND we also have a lot of REALLY talented starving artist friends that we want to patronize ourselves, including a few that we think are going to be really famous very soon! (such as Katie!)

We want all the would-be arts patrons to see all the amazing art which is hiding under rocks in Boston. This city is oozing with life. And we want those artists to meet the patrons, and everybody be friends and make the Boston Renaissance happen more!

Plus we want ourselves to meet more would-be art patrons AND more brilliant artists. So we’re putting together the Gilded Age Salons, at which we bring the two groups together!

These will be a series of small parties lovely homes and gorgeous gardens and yachts around the Boston area, at which our city’s most brilliant artists will do exclusive private performances. We will have strange parties and make grandiose plans. We will wear strange and monstrous masks. You will all change each others’ lives.

Some Gilded Age Salons will be open to all our $1 Patreon supporters, others will be invitation only. All will be insanely cool, and they’ll all be announced on the Scene Spy!

If you would like to host or have your art be featured at a Gilded Age Salon, email me!

-recent public videos by Witchworks!

If you haven’t seen the videos yet for Tom Doesn’t Care, Ugly or NSA Song, check ‘em out on YouTube for free!

Tom Doesn’t Care is a thing we shot in just a few hours on hand-held, where Katie Coriander of Earth Heart destroys most everything at the old Out Of The Blue Gallery along with cuddling the dog, singing a song, crashing a bike, having fits, being sad, freaking out, climbing fences and trees, attacking, licking and biting the camera. We think Katie Coriander is the next Big Thing. You will be seeing more of her at Gilded Age Salons and wherever we can get her!

Ugly was a huge production. We got this famous special effects guy, 22 awesome actors and 15 brilliant crew to do so many things, and packed what was basically a half hour opera into four minutes. Beauty cannot stop the Rise of the Misfits. A ballgown bloodbath with monsters. For the heavy metal band Matalon, who all get killed in the story. Death death death. BLUT FUR DEN BLUT GOTT!

NSA Song was our first attempt to wrangle Katie Coriander and Earth Heart. It’s kind of our tribute to The Monkees and early Beatles videos, if they were in a modern surveillance state. The ending will make you feel warm and cozy inside. With a cameo by Sophia Cacciola of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling!

-recent videos by our friends!

We love people. Smoke signals magically come from them, like in the song! Our friends do videos too! They are good! You should watch them too!

The Impulse Powers did this song Knutsford, video directed by our friend Sophia, shot by our friend Mike! Check it out! Here’s Sophia in the cold open of the Steve Katsos Show, which is alive and well in Arlington apparently! I think Mike and Sophia are extra awesome because they successfully co-direct, as Stee and I like to do sometimes, plus like the Cohen Brothers, and that’s about it.  Which means they are just like us, kind of! But also famous!

Here’s the trailer for Legitimate, by the awesome Izzy Lee! She’s a feminist horror director and friend of ours and her films are getting press all over everything! You may have heard of her Edgar Allen Poe Bust Project and the play Nevermore! You may have seen her with Keanu Reeves! Here’s the trailer for her film Picket! Soon there’ll be a film by her out (I don’t know if I’m allowed to say the name) with acting by me and Stee in it!!!

Rob Potylo is still pumping out videos with Erik Angra and Steve Onderick. Although I’ve been conflicted about Rob’s portrayals of women, it’s clear that with his work on Hurricane Sandy and this dream piece about art utopias, he’s reaching out to make a better scene for us all! Plus he’s an insanely talented comedian. His Robby Roadsteamer character packs stadiums. Other people want to copy him. He has like 300 videos, like 35 of which I made with him, check them out if you haven’t.

There’s also stuff our friends are acting in, such as Accidental Incest and Transsexuals From Space! A Bad Luck Guy In a Bad Luck Town! Watch it all! And email me if you want your video listed here!

-new art venues!

Out of the Blue, the community art gallery which was home to our video Tom Doesn’t Care, a Streight Angular video, and several Quiet D events, has relocated to a GIANT space right in the middle of Central Square! 541 Mass Ave in Cambridge! It’s a great place to go for community poetry slams, painting classes, weird art events, and to buy art by local painters! It’s going to be like The Station. Some of their events will be listed here!

Boston Indie Mafia is pretty cool.

-other stuff!

There’s a new (hilariously negative) video review out for my 2005 movie Pony Trouble! Check out the review here, or rent Pony Trouble at Amazon Instant!

Our friend Stabatha La Thrills won 3rd place in the Zombie Contest at Feast of Flesh this year! You can see her starring in the secret videos section, and you’ll no doubt be seeing more of her soon! And Sarah Paterson from Ugly won first place! Congratulations to both of you!

Mustaches for Kids is back!

 

EVENTZEZ!!!!

Sat 18th

Noon: Vermin Party!

Party with Vermin Supreme! If you know Vermin, you probably know where this is. If not, ask me but I’m not guaranteed to tell you, and only hippies allowed. Vermin’s place kicks ass and we shot this commercial at it! Here’s Vermin turning another politician gay on live TV.

Saturday October 18th, High Noon till it’s over.
Blenderfestival-Campout-Potluck-Sing-Around-the-Campfire-Jamboree-Woodstack 2014.
There will be Camping .There will be blenders.There will be Putt Putt.
Bring your musical and camping gear, a dish to share, bring a friend, and something to blend.

8pm Kolobok

This small experimental performance is a part of Puppet Slam. At the Puppet Showplace Theatre, 32 Station Street, Brookline, MA. The extremely talented Katya Popova will be performing. See more info and get tickets at http://www.puppetshowplace.org/slam/

10pm Sin-O-Matic Darkest Days

Sin-O-Matic
Darkest Days: Steampunk Party
Saturday October 18th
DJ SHIVAR / DJ DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
Go Go Pole dancing all night long!
No camera or photography equipment permitted at this event. Including cell phone pictures.
Fetish dress code strictly enforced and creativity is highly encouraged.
Dress code all black at the minimum.
Absolutely NO sneakers / blue jeans / sportswear / streetwear
Ex: Steampunk, fantasy, fetish, latex, leather, vinyl, goth, pin-up, burlesque, glam fetish, cyber-erotica, post-apocalyptic, kinky drag, porno punk, sexy uniforms, ultra-formal, etc.
Feel free to change at the club
—-10-10:30pm—-
$5 fetish
$10 all black
—-10:30-2:00AM—-
$10 fetish
$15 all black
Club Machine
Doors @ 10pm 21+
at 1254 Boylston St. Boston, Ma. 02215 directions
All information subject to change.

Sun 19th

***** Birthday

It is a certain famous person we know’s birthday party. You can’t come. PBBBBBBBBFT!!!

4pm The Fantastic Berwick Hallway Show & Giveaway

Our dear Laurel Kirtz is moving to Los Angeles. A tremendous selection of cool stuff is up for grabs for free (donations accepted): furniture, clothing, movies, books, and just about anything else you can imagine.
Short musical performances by 5 local artists, including Andrew Abrahamson, Kelsey Brown, Sam Franklin, Joshua Lee Loomis… More stats on who/what will be featured here soon!
This is a free show. Music starts at 5pm. SNACKS TOO!

18 Palmer Street, Roxbury.

Wed 22nd

10pm Show Me Your Stuff@Machine

Go see! More drag! Go to all the drag!

9pm Allure

EXCESS Boston presents…
“ALLURE”
(Cirque – Burlesque – Dance)
(Down Tempo – Glitch – Electro)
EXCESS and ALLURE are moving to a NEW VENUE!
Come join us for our inaugural event at the new location at the Garage Lounge and our first event back from the summer hiatus!
$9 Cover
21+
9pm-1am
Creative and Stunning Attire Encouraged!
with DJ XERO and DJ DIRGE
In a celebration of music and movement, passion and creativity, EXCESS Boston brings you a night to immerse your senses in beauty, temptation, and pure abandon through dance. Allure is a monthly gathering of the unique, the odd, and the wondrous. Enter a stage fueled by the energizing resonance of the best down-tempo, glitch, and electro music. Enjoy incredible performances by Boston’s most captivating dancers, from circus to burlesque and beyond. Lose yourself in the charm and seduction of Allure.
This month, ALLURE welcomes performers:
FONDA FEELING
ANGE SARNO
ADRIAN COYNE
BEN REYNOLDS
NAOMI

Thu 23rd

-whenever- CLEANING PARTY

come over and visit while we clean things and set up décor for my birthday tomorrow. There will be free stuff, and you will make us happy! If you don’t know where it is, email me!

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

Fri 24th

-7pm til whenever WARREN’S 40th BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Theme: cthulhu steampunk ponies!

This is at a secret location. You are invited if I know you, and you aren’t Billy, John Potts, Tybelle, Andy Sylvester or any other junkies molesters or thieves. Email me for directions if you want them. But there are rules. You must wear a costume OR bring a gift. You must be chill. Those are the only rules. There will be entertainment, including WRESTLING (with Boston League of Women Wrestlers), COMEDY(with Kevin Harrington), and possible YODELING and A ROCK BAND. My place will be clean for once (at the start of the party anyway). We will show videos. There shall be drinks and snacks. You can schmooze with our sparkly actor friends. Come join us!

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR begins

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

7pm OUT OF THE BLUE FIGURE DRAWING

Start off your weekend with Out of the Blue! Come practice your figure drawing skills with a professional model.
Bring your own supplies, all dry media welcome.
10-15$ for any portion of the two and a half hour session. Don’t forget to tip your model! (She graciously volunteers to pose and organize for us.)
And please invite your friends! The more the merrier!

541 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA!

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

Sat 25th

630pm ILLUMINUS FESTIVAL

Illuminus is Boston’s first “nuit blanche” — a free nighttime festival of creative innovation that will take place on Saturday, October 25th, 2014. This public celebration will feature over thirty regional artists – performing and showcasing large-scale projections and light installations alongside immersive sound, performance, and multimedia experiences. Illuminus will reimagine the city at night with the help of these artists, volunteers, designers, creative technologists, architects and the amazing communities of Boston.
The festival will provoke and inspire, celebrating the creative approaches to art, culture, and community that form the foundation of a thriving and dynamic city!

540 Harrison Avenue, Boston

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

Noon EGLESTON SQUARE FALL FIESTA

195 Boylston Street, Boston

Come celebrate with the whole community!
Food, music, youth performances, ribbon-cutting, mural unveiling, street art:
GRAND OPENING Boylston Public Art Gallery on Brewery Building N wrapping Brookside and Boylston Street – come to the ribbon cutting as we unveil four new murals by local artists and youth from Urbano!
Harvest Fest @ Egleston Community Orchard – cider pressing, pumpkin carving, kids activities – celebrate the creation of our 100% community owned orchard! After four years of hard work, the City of Boston is finally transferring the deed for 195 Boyslton Street to Commonwealth Land Trust, ensuring the Egleston Community Orchard is owned by and for our community in perpetuity!
Pumpkin Palooza at Egleston Farmers Market!
Community Dance Party – “Honoring JP Change Makers” – celebrate the people who are improving our neighborhood, sponsored by JP NET, 7-10pm at Urbano, 29 Germania Street in the Brewery Building F.
Boylston Street Block Party! BBQ, Face Painting, Music, Street Performers!
Fall Fiesta is co-sponsored by many different neighborhood groups – Egleston Farmers Market, Egleston Community Orchard, Egleston Square Main Streets, Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JP NET), JPNDC, Urban Edge, Egleston YMCA, Egleston Library – and is yet another piece of this neighborhood’s collaborative spirit.
http://jptransition.org/events/857/egleston-square-fall-fiesta/

Sunday 26th

7pm Old School Game Show

Horror themed alt trivia variety show

At davis square theatre

$15

Tues 28th

6pm In Search of Our Father staged reading

On October 28, 2014, join Women in Film and Video: New England at Central Square Theater for a staged reading of our 2013 Screenwriting Competition Winner: In Search of Our Father, Sylvester Stallone by Santa Sierra.
In Search of Our Father is the story of a young brother and sister growing up in poverty in El Salvador. After they lose their mother to gang violence, the wise-beyond-their-years siblings embark on a dangerous journey to the US, hoping to find the man their mother always claimed was their father: Sylvester Stallone.
Admission: $15 for members of HSSW or WIFV/NE and $20 for non-members.
In Search of Our Father, Sylvester Stallone by Santa Sierra
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Central Square Theater: 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02134
Reception 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Performance begins at 7:00 PM and concludes with a Q&A
For tickets, please visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/873325
NARRATOR: Rosi Amador of Amador Bilingual Voiceovers
CAST:
Balboa by Nicole Sarmiento
Rocky by Lucca Drummond
Sofia by Karina Beleno Carney
Drigo by Aaron Andrade
Carlos by Jose Gonsalves
Pablo by Johnny Quinones
Lorna by Becki Dennis
Alfredo by Hugo Arellano Morales
Davida by Jackie Santos
Pito by Stephen Radochia
DIRECTED BY:
Gauri Adelkar
CREATIVE CONSULTANT:
Christina Marin
EDUCATIONAL SPONSORS:
Chelsea Collaborative
SPONSORS:
Saint Aire Productions
Lesley University
Boston CISPES
High Output, Inc.
Boston Latino Film Festival
Local Sightings
Gregger Jones/Panasonic

8pm MR FOX AT THE BEAT HOTEL

What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? will conjure up some friendly demons and wicked witches in this evening of original music laced with lovely murder ballads and lyrical tales of ghosts and black widows. We have the full band with special guest, Joe Cardoza on bass.
Amazing food and drinks at this restaurant named after the infamous Parisian landmark home of bohemian artists and beat poets. One of the best sound systems in MA.

13 Brattle Street, Cambridge

29th

10pm Show Me Your Stuff@Machine

Go see! The Halloween drag show!

30th

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

31st

-7pm and 10:30pm cirque of the dead

At Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

Boston Circus Guild celebrates Halloween with four nights of macabre and unsavory circus, live music and horror in Cirque of the Dead. This new version of last year’s sold out Halloween spectacular is not for the faint of heart, but is filled with as much humor as it is with gore.
Cirque of the Dead will perform two shows each night, at 7PM and 10:30PM, featuring Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band on October 30 & 31. 18+
Creative attire is strongly encouraged. There will be an ongoing social media costume contest, culminating on Halloween night with prizes galore.

8pm NEVERMORE!!!

Boston–Halloween 2014
Jeffrey Combs in NEVERMORE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE

Check out the video teaser HERE!
Written by Dennis Paoli. Directed by Stuart Gordon.
Boston Production Produced by Izzy Lee & Bryan Moore
Co-Produced by Mark Redfield
One night only at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville MA.
8pm October 31, 2014
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144-2908
(617) 625-5700
Get YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://www.vendini.com/ticketLine/ITL/?t=tix&e=d5e933b2365aa6976a95ade5f9ff1c7f&theme=ticketLine25
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE, CLICK HERE: http://www.somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville-theatre/
See you at the Somerville Theatre near Boston on Halloween!

6pm THE ARMORY OF HORROR

This Halloween Arts at the Armory is about to get scary. Come walk the Haunted Halls of our Maze of Horror. Join us if you dare! Details and tickets here!

830pm CLUB BOHEMIA HALLOWEENIA BASH

HALLOWEEN BASH at Club Bohemia
The Four Point Restraints as The Smiths
https://fourpointrestraints.bandcamp.com/
Psychic Dog as Psychic Dog and Friends
https://psychicdog.bandcamp.com/album/big-and-lonely
The Daley Grimes as Anyone They Damn Well Please
https://www.facebook.com/TheDaleyGrimes?ref=br_tf
and MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
COSTUME CONTEST.
Best and Worst
Live Music
Some of your Friends
BEER.

738 Mass Ave, Cambridge

10pm GOOSEPIMP BOOTY BASH

The Inner Sanctum and GOOSEPIMP are hosting a 2 night HAUNTED HOUSE in Boston!!!
Tickets are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/goosebumpz-booty-bash-a-goosepimp-halloween-tickets-12931367067?aff=es2&rank=3
Friday 10/31
10pm – 2:30am
The Party Band
The Big Sway
Matter Man ft. Mike Cantor, Bob Greel & Phil Reese
Pellz Bellz – WORLD PREMIER LIVE SHOW ft. Apel Beats and Chris Belden
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
Saturday 11/1
10pm – 3:30am
GOOSEPIMP ORCHESTRA
Sexcrement
Apel Beats
Asteroids and Earthquakes with special guests ISS House Band
Bob Greel & Mike Cantor DJ Set
– $15 for Friday / $20 for Saturday / $25 for the weekend / RSVP only sucka
– Free snacks and refreshments
– Free vodka drinks provided by Deep Eddy Vodka
– Haunted House throughout the venue
– 2 stages
– fucking Pellz Bellz!!!

That’s it for the Scene Spy! Next week, Countable, Exoplanets, Genome editing and vine videos!