Results tagged “costumes”

            

Last week, we celebrated Halloween by looking at some costumes of Halloweens past. Now, as we move on past the spookiest of holidays, we look back at a few of this year's costumes seen around town.

           

It's a slow day around the Chicagoist Office and the weather has us down. So a few of the braver souls decided to dig up some old Halloween costumes from childhood and share them with the world. Behold the glory of it all.

In the midst of many Happy Halloweeners scrambling to find last minute costumes and the best deal on fun-size candy, today the Trib outed their crotchety counterparts - the Halloween Scrooges. Sure it's fun to get all gussied up, be someone else for the night and gorge on lots of sugary drinks and chocolately snacks, but sometimes we wonder if it's really all worth it. Isn't it really just a night out, but higher-maintenance? A lot of times Halloween is built up to be one of the most rockin' party nights of the year, but in the end all you have to show for it is a puked-on rental costume you can't return and a hangover. As Trib interviewee Alex DiGiacinto put it, "If you hate Halloween, people take that as an opinion that you hate fun..I like fun. I just don't have it on the 31st." In kicking our various Friday plans around the Chicagoist offices, we determined we have a love/hate relationship with Halloween hullaballoo. Should we get in the spirit and party hardy, or hole up in our darkened houses and whip water balloons at trick-or-treaters? Here's how our decision-making process went:

Halloween is coming up quicker than Sarah Palin at a first-come, first-serve scrunchy sale at Marshall's, so it’s time to snag a costume before they all get picked over. Where to go? Here’s our list:

Chris Verene knows that sometimes you just need to feel good, and his magical art show’s gonna get you there. The Self-Esteem Salon (note: one photo is NSFW) returns this weekend to the West Loop, a three-day live-in experience that’s one part performance art, one part role play, and one part therapy session, totaling one of the most elaborate games of make-believe you're likely to see, or experience, in an art space.

Chic-a-go-go Host Mia Park