issue 29: an organ that hijacks your radio + a werewolf cheerleader seeking a pack (extended cut)

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hey tiny.

last week i asked what halloween is for. ritual won. costume came second, and one tiny voted with a note attached:

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I want to be a werewolf cheerleader. Admittedly I am starting a bit late. But I have been a snow leopard this entire time, so perhaps that means something. ... I seek other wolves to form my pack.

wolves, hit reply. i will make the introductions and hold up the top of the pyramid with one finger.

a hundred and eight of you climbed out of the reddit sewers last week. hello. the welcome emails already told you who i am. this is the part where i show you.

eight days to the battle jacket royale. oct 23 at brujos, free, 21+. wear the patches you swore you would sew on in august. paid tinies get a gift i made by hand. count yourself in.

you made it behind the wall. wipe your shoes. thirty-four more things this week, sorted by section, plus forty-five songs leaking out of twenty-three rooms in vibing. a smash bros tournament where the bar matches half the pot, so you can finance your digital violence. a trivia night at a place called wonderwood springs. a tuesday where the tacos cost a dollar five and the winners drag home two whole pizzas like conquered prey.

every haunt i dropped from my hand up top is on the halloween list, sorted by week. the new ones are tagged so you do not waste your brief mortal lifespan rereading the pile.

start anywhere. i will be up here watching you scatter.

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[ HALLOWEEN ]

about a hundred and fifty new haunts crawled onto the halloween list this week. it holds close to four hundred now and sags in the middle. five are below. the rest are behind the wall, sorted by week, the new ones tagged.

Kenton Station Haunted Basement Tour: Halloween Open House Oct 15, sign-ups 18:00, basement 19:00 to 20:00 Kenton Station | Free [ more ] the first open house for the basement under kenton station. it has been a speakeasy, a fight club and sam's bar, and it made it onto the history channel. a short talk, then you wander it alone. costumes welcome. edition one of the hunt walks these same blocks. i have stood on this roof for years and nobody told me about the basement.

Squishing of the Squash Oct 17 at 13:00 Oregon Zoo | included with admission [ more ] [ + all ages ] the elephants get some of the biggest pumpkins in the region. they stomp them flat, then eat them. a grower's whole summer, gone in four bites. do not get too attached to your vegetables.

Michael Barnes Hallowe'en Organ Recital Oct 21 at 12:00 The Old Church | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] the yearly lunch-hour halloween recital on the hall's historic tracker organ. past years played bach's toccata and fugue in d minor, the song every haunted house is legally required to own. bring a sandwich. eat it ominously in the pews.

The Haunted Eye Oct 23 + 24 and 30 + 31, 18:00 to 23:00 The Old Pawn Shop | $13 [ more ] a haunted house inside a pawn shop more than a hundred years old. it exits straight into a pop-up bar. drinks come in blood bags. jello shots come in syringes. 21+. it sold out last year. everything in a pawn shop has a past. now it has a plan.

Halloween at the Bronze! Oct 24 at 20:00 Holocene | $19.17 [ more ] holocene dresses up as the bronze, the club from buffy, for the ninth year. cover bands play songs from the show. a goth dj. a buffy costume contest. sunnydale had one club and every vampire in town went to it. holocene has accepted the risk.

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[ SEEING ]

PNW Miniature Show Oct 16 to 18 Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel | $6+ [ more ] handmade miniatures from makers across the region. a tiny dorm room. a tiny surf shack. a calico critter murder mystery. jack the ripper's desk, small. everything in the room is smaller than you, tiny. now you know how i feel all day.

Nu-Glitter Queer Comedy Show Oct 17 at 19:00 Peacock PDX | Free+ [ more ] local queer comics, including sofiya alexandra, who has a comedy central credit. 21+. tickets start at zero. the only thing you can lose is your composure.

Loupe Oct 20 at 17:30 Loupe | Free [ more ] an open evening at loupe's workshop, where industrial robots and mathematical sculpture share one floor. watch a machine make something beautiful on purpose. i keep one robot arm's length from anything that sculpts.

Ghost Show Oct 22, doors 18:00 The Old Church | $28 to $50 [ more ] telltale's fifth annual ghost show. eight performers, then a hall of vendors with names like st. sylvester's home for wayward souls. ghost stories told inside an old church. that is cheating. i allow it.

Altares y Muertos altars up Oct 24 to Nov 6, free tour Oct 31 at 11:30 Central Eastside | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] milagro sets community día de muertos altars inside businesses across the central eastside. walk it yourself, or take the free tour on halloween from el zócalo. ritual won the poll. this one is for you.

[ LISTENING + DANCING ]

Buckhorn, Halfbird, NAH Oct 15 at 22:00 Swan Dive | $10 to $30 [ more ] a tiny sent this one up. night three of the creative music guild's improvisation summit, tonight, three acts and no set list. the notes drift up to my ear like smoke. nobody knows what happens next, including the band.

Kenton Club 20th Anniversary Bash Oct 16 at 19:00 World Famous Kenton Club | $10 [ more ] twenty years of the kenton club. howlin rose, violetera, stumblebum, thee day walkers, and kyle & the wandering kind. five bands for ten dollars. the paul bunyan statue down the street has watched every one of those twenty years. he is the only neighbor taller than me. he has never once complained about the noise.

Gamelan Listening Session Oct 23 at 18:00 Fumi | see info [ more ] toko tape plays traditional gamelan recordings and ambient edits by joshua limanjaya. you sit. fumi burns its gateway incense. reservations required. bronze gongs and smoke. church for your ears.

Oh My Goth! Oct 23, 19:00 to 22:30 Oaks Park Skate Rink | $13 [ more ] [ + all ages ] the well & good club djs a goth night at the roller rink. brooding is hard at twelve miles an hour. they will find a way. the couples skate is now a funeral procession.

Siempre Bailando Oct 24, 14:00 to 18:00 New Deal Distillery | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] ideal pdx opens a día de muertos altar for nightlife people who died young. a tinsel memorial fence. a community ofrenda. a free cumbia dance. the dance floor remembers who used to hold it down. dance for them.

Brickbat Mansion: A Night of Dark Danse Oct 24, doors 20:30 The Midnight Society | see info [ more ] a goth night from 2008 rises for one night. ethereal, darkwave, shoegaze, post-punk. live sets from suzanne perry of love spirals downwards and venetial veil. 21+. the eyeliner from 2008 still fits. that is the thing about eyeliner.

[ MAKING + DOING ]

Spooky SCRAP Bingo Bash Oct 20 at 17:00 Wayfinder Beer | $12 [ more ] a national reuse day fundraiser for scrap. you collage a paper witch hat, then play bingo for donated haunted prizes. trick-or-treat bag included. costumes or all-black encouraged. 18+. the prizes are haunted. the hat is mandatory. both are reused.

Craft 'n Drink: Naughty Halloween Collage Oct 21, 17:30 to 19:30 Sandy Jug | $7 [ more ] scrap brings a collage table to a dive bar on sandy, stocked with nsfw and halloween material. everything supplied. 21+. seven dollars to glue a werewolf somewhere it should not be.

Felt Treasure Crows Oct 23 at 16:00 Literary Arts | $7 [ more ] [ + all ages ] sew a felt crow, then cover it in trinkets. ages six and up. a crow that hoards shiny things is not a costume. it is a documentary.

Learn to Darn Oct 24 at 10:00 Leaven Community House | sliding scale [ more ] repair pdx teaches you to darn the holes in your knitwear. materials included. you go home with a mending kit. the moths have had a long run. it ends saturday. i patch my sweaters with retired ship sails. you can use regular yarn.

Fam Class: Let's Dissect Large Owl Pellets! Oct 24 at 14:00 Mausoleum PDX | $25 [ more ] ages eight to eighty-eight. an owl swallows a mouse whole and coughs the bones back up in a tidy pellet. you take it apart with tweezers. pay by venmo with names and ages in the subject line. the owl did the hard part.

[ ROAMING ]

Portland Arbor Day Oct 17 at 10:00 Harrison Park | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ + all ages ] tree planting, crafts, music, jade district food vendors and rides up in a bucket truck. two hundred-plus free yard trees for people who pre-registered. a bike bus leaves glenhaven park at nine. the bucket truck is the closest you will get to my eye level. wave.

Bridgestone Ride, Autumn Edition Oct 17, rolls at 14:30 Su Casa Super Mercado | see info [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] eight to fifteen moderate miles through outer east portland parks. some gravel. maybe powell butte. run by ted buehler and the bridgestone gang. a biker gang where everyone signals.

West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta Oct 18, 10:00 to 16:00 Tualatin Commons | Free [ more ] [ ~ outdoors ~ ] [ road trip ] [ + all ages ] grown adults in costume paddle hollowed-out thousand-pound pumpkins across a lake. some of them capsize. that is the show. these pumpkins could have been elephant lunch. they chose the sea.

Headless Horseman Halloween Train Oct 24 + 25, departures 09:00, 11:00, 13:00 + 15:00 Chelatchie Prairie Railroad, Yacolt | $18 to $24 [ more ] [ road trip ] [ + all ages ] a vintage diesel train through the north clark county forest, with the headless horseman riding alongside. two days only. he has no head and still keeps a tighter schedule than most buses.

[ EATING + SHOPPING ]

Spooky Market Oct 16, 17:00 to 22:00 Shanghai Tunnel Bar | Free [ more ] macabre local vendors, plus tattoos by ladyshy and sumthing grimm, in a bar named for the tunnels under old town. the dress code is costume. 21+. the flyer says the darkness calls. let it go to voicemail. go shopping.

Spooky Music Swap & Sale Oct 19 at 19:00 Dear Sandy | Free [ more ] horror soundtracks, goth, metal, darkwave and video game music, swapped and sold. bring the crate you are ashamed of. somebody here will pay for it.

Portland Fermentation Festival Oct 22 at 18:00 Ecotrust | $15 advance, $20 day of [ more ] [ + all ages ] kids twelve and under free. a room full of things that were left alone on purpose until they changed. it smells like time.

Costume Swap & Art Sale Oct 24, 11:00 to 15:00 Oregon Arts Center | Free [ more ] [ + all ages ] elbow room, the southeast studio for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, turns six. the oregon arts center turns one hundred. they share a halloween art party. spooky art for sale, a costume swap, face painting, mask-making, art tables in the garden. got a clean costume you are done with? drop it off by the 23rd. i could scoop the whole garden up in my palm like a terrarium. bring a mask.

Sagra del Radicchio e Fagioli Oct 24, open to the public from 16:00 The Redd on Salmon | see info [ more ] the culinary breeding network throws a tasting festival for radicchio, chicories and beans. the growers and cooks show up to explain themselves. a party for the bitter leaf. finally, a vegetable with my personality.

[ BULLETIN BOARD ]

Yamond Siligon Rare Korean Radio Organ until sold [ more ] a hundred and fifty dollars. a mint-green organ with no speaker. it broadcasts to any fm radio nearby. find your neighbor's frequency and become the song stuck in their kitchen. the seller searched the internet and found nothing. you would be its first fan club.

Handmade Venetian Costume Mask until sold [ more ] eighty-five dollars, sellwood. spiral horns, a sun on the forehead, a curtain of gold fringe over the mouth. listed four months ago. i could wear it as a pinky ring. it is sized for you. it has been waiting all year for the thirty-first.

Lisa, Portland Graphic Designer, For Hire available now [ more ] posters, logos, album covers, books, websites, motion graphics. one tiny, every format. your band's flyer deserves better than the free template. hire her.

Community Ofrenda: Share a Photo drop-off through oct 24 [ more ] the tigard library is building an altar and wants your dead on it. up to three photos or small keepsakes. register first. forty-six spots. the ritual tinies already know what to bring.

Scare Actors Wanted: Hallowed Halls show is oct 30 [ more ] a halloween show on se 64th needs people to jump out at strangers. sitting or standing, their words. you get in free plus a guest. a seated haunting. finally, a scare with lumbar support.

Mini-Play-a-Thon: Actors + Crew Wanted auditions through october [ more ] a dozen tiny plays in one afternoon, jan 2. they want actors and crew. they also want proof you are human. i would fail the audition on size alone.

Outlet's 2027 Calendar: Call for Submissions nov 1 [ more ] the riso studio wants your art on a month of its 2027 calendar. twelve months. one of them could be yours. a whole year on somebody's fridge.

nearly eighty posts are pinned up right now. one of them is an xxl ape suit for forty-seven dollars. no hands or feet. it comes with black gloves. bring your own shoes and your own reason.

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