November 5, 2012
Halloween may be over, but the frightening festivals aren’t. Eastern State Penitentiary’s iconic and award-winning haunted house, Terror Behind the Walls, has another week to go until it closes for the rest of the year. So make sure you take advantage. An extraordinary theatrical production, Terror Behind the Walls features Hollywood-quality sets, custom-designed props, animatronics [...]
Read more»October 31, 2012
Halloween 2012 is here, and after two days of cabin fever due to Hurricane Sandy, it’s the perfect time to get out in the city. We’ve got all you need for a fun holiday evening, with a guide to everything spooktacular happening at bars, restaurants and concert venues tonight plus a roundup of locally made [...]
Read more»October 26, 2012
From devilish dance parties and peculiar pumpkin patches to eerie explorations through graveyards and abandoned prisons, there’s something spooky for the whole family this Halloween season in Philadelphia. Check out our Super-Sized Weekend Picks: Halloween in Philadelphia Edition below for everything you need to plan a fun weekend in the city. Not into spooky celebrations? [...]
Read more»October 26, 2012
Halloween brings back memories of childhood trick-or-treating adventures. Gaggles of children trolling neighborhoods for candy. Lights aglow at houses and apartments offering sweets. Trails of candy wrappers strewn on sidewalks, evidence of a night well spent. In a city, it’s a little more difficult to trick-or-treat; no one really wants to traipse through a 20-story [...]
Read more»October 25, 2012
As usual, Shake Shack is taking the craft of milk shaking and snack making to a whole new level. From Friday, October 26 through Halloween night, you can get a discounted gulp of gourmet with the two scary good specials they’re offering. Our mouths are watering just telling you all about this: take some hand-spun [...]
Read more»October 25, 2012
If you haven’t yet taken a tour of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, a.k.a Philadelphia’s Underground Museum, you’re missing out on some serious haunted history. But even if you have seen the place, we encourage you to take a twilight walking flashlight tour this weekend for the ultimate Halloween spirit-enticing experience. As you learn about the [...]
Read more»October 24, 2012
Even for the most carnivorous of folk, there’s always still something slightly unnerving about staring into the face of a whole pig as it turns and browns on a spit over a fire. So Halloween is as good a time as any to carry on the old celebratory tradition of a pig roast. That’s the [...]
Read more»October 24, 2012
Halloween is the one night of the year you can binge, guiltless, on end, on mini Kit Kats and crinkly packets of M&Ms and cherry ropes of Twizzler and sugary candy corn. And if you’re spending Halloween in Philadelphia, which we hope you are, your options for All Hallows’ Eve treats of the local variety [...]
Read more»October 23, 2012
Celebrate the best of Halloween this Saturday, October 27 at the annual Rittenhouse Row Halloween Celebration. Bring the kids to the Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel from 10 a.m.-noon for a Halloween celebration they’re bound to remember. This family-friendly event will have activities to keep everyone busy all morning. Dress up in your most impressive Halloween [...]
Read more»October 23, 2012
Calling all witches, wizards and muggles: Chestnut Hill is bringing back its bewitchingly popular Harry Potter Weekend for 2012, once again magically transforming the neighborhood’s businesses along Germantown Avenue into restaurants and shops straight off the pages of J.K. Rowling’s books. A whole weekend’s worth of spellbinding events will transport you to Hogsmeade with delicious [...]
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