Ghoul For It! A Monstrous Lineup Of Parties For A Halloween Friday Night
For your Halloween pleasure we have summoned a bevy of frightful fun from the bowels of the Inland Northwest’s bars and clubs.
There’ll be bands, booze, bobbing for apples and costume contests splattered across this town like blood in a slaughter house (that was a stretch, I know).
Creepy cliches aside, let the haunting begin.
Celebrate “Jazz O Ween” at Hobart’s Jazz Lounge tonight. Jazzmania will crank up some cool jazz tunes as prizes are awarded for the best costumes. Music runs from 8 p.m. to midnight. Cover is $4 ($3 for students with ID).
Check out the Ghostbusters Ball at the Bonner County Fairgrounds in North Idaho tonight featuring a performance by Rocky and the Rollers. They’ll play the hits of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s amid elaborately spooky decorations. Partygoers can also participate in costume contests and lip-synchs. The ball will help raise money for the annual “Lost in the ‘50s” event held each May in Sandpoint. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. with music lasting from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission is $10 and you must be a grown-up to attend (that means at least 21 years old).
The Halloween Scream begins at 9 p.m. tonight at the Masonic Temple Ballroom. Wear a costume and dancing shoes and bring $5. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Vanessa Beehan Crisis Nursery. There will be a costume contest, dance contest and a no-host bar, so don’t forget your ID.
The Black Cat Fright Night Bash hosted by Cat Country 94 KDRK F.M. will scratch its way into the Double Tree Hotel, City Center, tonight. Over $2,000 in cash prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. Organizers also will be taking $1 donations to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Doors open at 8 p.m. and music starts at 8:30 p.m. Advance tickets are available at area Zip Trip stores for $5 and at the hotel door for $6. Attendees must be at least 21 years old.
Z-Rock 103.9 FM hosts the Halloween bash at Outback Jack’s tonight with the bands Worm Drive, Wiser Sin, Auto Poets and Pajamazon. Among the fun and games: costume contest and bobbing for apples. Best of all, there will be cash prizes and even some pumpkin pie. Cover is $4. Music starts at 9 p.m.
Capones Pub and Grill in Coeur d’Alene will host a costume contest and night-long raffle for prizes tonight. Partiers are invited to dance to the music of the ‘70s and take in a few drink specials.
94.5 KHTQ FM will host a Night of the Living Dead Halloween party tonight in the ballroom at the Double Tree Hotel in the Spokane Valley. A thousand bucks in cash and prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. The fun runs from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
In honor of the spooky holiday, drink away your fears with $1 beers at Moon Time in Coeur d’Alene tonight. Cheap beer starts at 10 p.m. Keep your eyes open for prizes and give-aways.
KZZU presents the The Haunted Hotel Halloween Party at the Davenport Hotel tonight. Doors open at 8 p.m. with dancing to last from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Lots of goodies here: A $1,500 costume contest, tarot card reading, spooky tattoos, four big screen TVs playing classic scary movies and a recreation of the dance scene from the Michael Jackson video “Thriller.” Tickets are $12 and available at Affordable Nails and The Party Palace.
Catch The Desotos tonight at the Mad Daddy’s Blues Club Halloween party in Coeur d’Alene. Prizes will be awarded for the best and worst costumes. Cover is $6.
Casey’s Pub and Grill in Post Falls hosts a Halloween party tonight complete with a costume contest, food and beer specials and pumpkin beer. Fun begins after the sun goes down. The costume contest is at 9 p.m.
The Laffin’ Bones Blues Band has about the best name a band could want at Halloween. Catch them tonight in Coeur d’Alene at the Fourth Street Ale House Halloween party, which comes complete with a costume contest that lands the winner a $100 keg of their choice. Show starts at 8 p.m. and there is no cover charge.
Toss a little reggae into your ghoulish evening at The Shed tonight. Jamaican-born reggae artist Raggs Gustaffe performs with his band Bush Doktor at 9 p.m. The band Legend also performs tonight. Cover charge is $5. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes.
Tubs Cafe in Coeur d’Alene will host a Halloween bash with the band Sweet Fancy Moses. Show starts at 9 p.m. Cover is $3. One hundred dollars goes to the ghoul with the best costume.
Thudpuckers downtown will celebrate Halloween tonight by giving away $500 in cash for the best spooky costumes. There will also be a variety of drink specials, free snacks and dancing to the band Kidd Sister. Band starts at 9 p.m. Cover is $5.
City Slickers, a bar that recently opened in Coeur d’Alene where Bogey’s used to be, offers up a frightfest tonight that includes a costume contest and music from Sammy Eubanks. Eubanks begins his show at 9:15 p.m. Cover is $3. You’ll find the establishment at the corner of Third Street and Coeur d’Alene Avenue.
Catch four bands at Ichabod’s North tonight as well as beer specials, prizes and a costume contest. The Drags headline the Halloween show with The Fumes, Dwarf Bitch and Lopez also on the bill. Music starts at 9:30 p.m. Cover is $4.
Tonight and Saturday The Bayou Brewery is hosting a Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball. Costumes are encouraged but not required. There will be door prizes and a costume contest and the band Rhythm Method will perform both nights. Tickets are $7 and the fun begins at 9 p.m. both nights.
105.7 FM The PEAK hosts their Halloween shindig at Cavanaugh’s Inn at the Park tonight. The Planetary Refugees will perform and the winner of the costume contest will receive front row tickets to the Sarah McLachlan show in Seattle on Nov. 19 as well as airfare, hotel accommodations, and $500. Tickets to the event are $7.50.
The Dead End Tavern will host a costume contest and drink specials for their second annual Night of the Living Dead celebration tonight. Get a pitcher of beer for $1.50 and cans for for only $1.
Swackhammer’s will have drink specials and costume contests in celebration of the fright night this evening.
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