Halloween Week in Chapel West: Oct 26 to Nov 1

Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, and Chapel Street is ready for it. Here is what is happening this week, from the businesses' own posts. Times and prices are as each business shared them.

Two people dressed as ghosts in white sheets and sunglasses at the bar at Three Sheets, one holding a bottle on top of their head, under the chalkboard drafts list.

Friday, October 30, 9 PM to close: Three Sheets Ham & Acid with Soft Walls. 21+, no cover, costumes encouraged.

Flyer on a bright blue background: Tell the people, it's a reggae brunch, with Risley Dale, Shaki and Scialabba Ranks, a man in a black hat with vampire fangs holding a glass, and Sat Oct 31, 11-3.

Saturday, October 31, 11 AM to 3 PM: The Cannon A Halloween Reggae Brunch with Risley Dale, Shaki and Mark Scialabba on the records. No cover.

Saturday, October 31, 9 PM: Rudy's Halloween at Rudy's, with prizes for best costume, drink and food specials, karaoke and giveaways.

Saturday, October 31, 9 PM: Three Sheets Halloween Night with The Problem with Kids Today, Glambat, Qween Kong and Skin Jump. 25+, no cover.

Flyer with a skull, a snake and red roses: Sounds by Design Halloween Night at Old Heidelberg, 1151 Chapel Street, October 31, 10 PM Saturday, sounds by OTLSKYGOD, costume contest at 12 AM, prize is a free night stay with a $50 F&B credit.

Saturday, October 31, 10 PM: Old Heidelberg Sounds by Design Halloween Night at 1151 Chapel Street, with music by OTLSKYGOD. The costume contest is at midnight, and the prize is a free night's stay with a $50 food and drink credit.

Around New Haven this week

From Info New Haven's roundup of Halloween happenings across the city, as each organizer posted them.

Tuesday, October 27

Yale Figure Skating Halloween Show at Ingalls Rink, 9 to 10 PM. Bring friends and a fun costume.

Wednesday, October 28

Halloween Movie Trivia at East Rock Brewing, 6:30 PM.

Thursday, October 29

Band Halloween at Cafe Nine, 250 State Street, 7 PM. $10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Halloween at The Blue Orchid, 130 Court Street, October 29 to 31, with wicked cocktails and a costume contest. Friday's Halloween Dance with DJ Alex Iovino runs 10 PM until late, after music bingo from 8 to 10 PM.

Friday, October 30

Halloween Festival at the Q, Dixwell Q House, 197 Dixwell Ave, 4:30 to 8 PM. Free, with games, music, food, vendors, face painting and trick or treating.
Blade Runner Live at College Street Music Hall.
Halloween Glow Party at Toad's Place, 8 PM, with a costume contest.
Halloween Costume Party at Bar, 254 Crown Street, from 9 PM, with DJ JD and prizes for best costumes.
Other Reveries, presented by Heaven, at The Bar at Firehouse 12, 9 PM. 21+, no cover.
Rodeo Halloween Party at The Trinity Bar with DJ Bry, 10 PM, with a best costume contest.

Saturday, October 31

Hallo-Clean the Green with Friends of the Green, 10 to 11:30 AM, meeting outside Trinity Church, 230 Temple Street. Costumes encouraged, all ages, rain cancels.
Halloween at Pebbles: storytime at 10:30 AM, pumpkin painting at 11 AM, and a neighborhood Halloween parade that meets at Pebbles at 2 PM.
Taste of New Haven's Trick-Or-Eat Spooky Tour, a downtown walking tour of hidden cemeteries and haunted buildings with stops at Geronimo and Yorkside Pizza.
A Dinner for the Damned at Fair Haven Oyster Co.
Eternal Night at Castle Von Grymm, from Grymm Studios, at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Halloween Costume Party at Toad's Place, 9:30 PM, with three rooms of music.
Great Gatsby Halloween Party at The Trinity Bar with live music by Ian Biggs and the Ruckus, with a best costume contest.
Nightmare on Temple St at Olives and Oil, 124 Temple Street, 10:30 PM, with DJ Alex and a costume contest. 21+.
One Sixty Ate! Halloween Edition at 168 York Street Cafe, 11 PM. Costume contest prizes are $250 for first place and $150 for second.

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