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Daily Email - Friday - 10/17/2025

October 17, 2025

Halloween’s looking pretty solid - Stereolab, Viagra Boys, Machine Girl, and a whole mess of noise at The Far Out in Austin. DoMORE members can win 2-day VIP passes, a hotel stay, and $600 for flights. It’s the first of the Golden Ticket giveaways, so yeah - worth signing up for DoMORE.*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Tickets are selling fast for Candlelight Halloween Classics featuring haunted performances of Thriller, the Halloween movie theme, the Ghostbusters theme, and many more at The Old Church on the 25th.

  • Get tickets for Halloween Pops, an evening of scary songs and eerie bops, at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on the 25th and 26th.

  • The Oddities and Curiosities Expo is creeping back into Portland on the 25th and 26th. Taxidermy, preserved specimens, bone jewelry and other beautiful nightmares you didn’t know you needed.

  • Watch Little Shop of Horrors and The House on Haunted Hill for free at Alberta Abbey on the 26th for the perfect double feature.

  • Rocky Horror Picture Show is a year-round cult favorite, but don’t miss the screening with Barry Bostwick (the original Brad Majors) on the 27th at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

HALLOWEEN NIGHT EVENTS

Halloween’s creeping up, and we rounded up every freaky, boozy, costumed thing worth doing. From haunted house raves to Halloween balls, it's all in here. No excuses this year — get dressed, get weird, get out there.

MORE HALLOWEEN EVENTS

🧛‍♀️ Halloween Prom

Tomorrow @ Bunk Bar (9PM)

It’s prom night... but make it haunted. DJ on deck, fake blood on the floor, slow dances with strangers in masks. Dress to distress and bring your most unhinged date.

🧙‍♀️ Resting Witch Face

Tomorrow @ Bar Carlo (1:30PM)

Join the coven during the Resting Witch Face drag brunch inspired by 90s witches. Channel your inner Sanderson sisters for this one!

🎃 Giant Pumpkin Regatta

Sunday @ Lake of the Commons (8PM)

The West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta is back, and it’s as gloriously unhinged as it sounds. People. In pumpkins. Paddling across a lake.

🎪 Fright Night: A Halloween Circus

October 23 @ Portland State Lincoln Hall (7PM)

Fright Night returns with a circus tribute to horror movies both classic and new! What’s scarier than humans twisting into contorted shapes mid-air?

🔮 90s Halloween Costume Glow Ball

October 24 @ Crystal Ballroom (7PM)

2025 is a scary place. Let’s take it all the way back to the 90s, during the Halloween Costume Glow Ball. Throw on a glow necklace and dance in the decked out ballroom.

LOCALS ONLY

  • What could be better than a Halloween Ramones Tribute show? If that show featured Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney!

  • Escape the scary with a Halloween comedy show at Show Bar hosted by Mack Lee and Ally J Ward (voted the funniest people in Portland).

  • The ultimate Halloween cover show is going down at Firkin Tavern featuring songs by The Misfits, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, and The Breeders. It’s free!

  • Revolution Hall’s two-story Halloween party will be playing all your favorite 80s & 90s music videos on the big screen! They aren’t pinching pennies on the decorations either!

Find the best Halloween decorations nearby using this map by the NW Haunt Association.