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🎃 This Is Halloween, This Is Halloween!

Enjoy the spookiest day of the year at these Halloween activities for all ages.

On Friday:

• 👻 Escape a haunted house at Warner Park.
• 🛼 Skate your way into the weekend at Bellevue Community Center’s Halloween bash.
• 🍦 Feast on Ice Cream at TN Littles and Wanna Spoon Cereal Bar’s kid-friendly party.
• 🎥 Watch “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at Acme Feed & Seed or “Hocus Pocus” at Ascension Saint Thomas Landing.
• 🖼️ Get freaky at the Frist.
• 🪩 Enjoy the spectacle at Eastside Bowl’s Halloween tribute to Panic! at The Disco.
• 🕯️ Spend a haunted night at the museum at The Parthenon.
• 🧙 Embrace your inner witch at Cannery Hall.

On Saturday:

• 🍬 Follow the candy corn trail at Woodland Play Cafe.
• 🎃 Trick-or-treat early at the Assembly Food Hall.
• 📕 Take a look in a book at Parnassus’s Halloween storytime.
• 🖼️ Create spooky art at the Frist’s Teen Fest.
• 🎸 Rock out with kiddos at The Basement East.
• 👠 Strap on your heels for Dino’s Dolly Parton lookalike contest.
• 🍌 Dress in your least sexy costume for Jackalope Brewing Company’s Monster Mash.
• 🍽️ Feast at Fancypants or Butcher & Bee, or check out one of these Halloween pop-ups.
• 👻 Take a haunted tour of the Ryman.
• 💃 Join the masquerade at the Queen’s Empire Ball.
• 🧙 Have a wickedly good time at All Hallows East, our biggest Halloween block party.
• 🎉 Stock up on candy at Plaza Mariachi’s trunk-or-treat.
• 🍫 Check out these neighborhoods for trick-or-treating!

Have fun, folks! Happy Halloween! And if you’re not a Halloween fanatic, I’ve got more events for you below.

🍁 Our November Event Picks

November is knocking! On today’s podcast, we’re chatting about all our November plans, from where we’re eating Thanksgiving dinner to the concert worth waiting in line for at The Truth. Plus, we discuss new restaurants, holiday shopping, and a walk for a good cause. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

• Stay tuned for our newsletter guide to November hitting your inbox this afternoon!

☔ Nashville Needs Rain

Nashville’s currently experiencing a severe drought, and while it’s supposed to rain over the weekend, it won’t be enough to end it. It’s currently the 10th-driest year in Nashville, and September was the driest ever in 132 years of record-keeping. “It will take a few rainfalls to help improve those conditions, if we’d want to get closer to normal,” says Cory Mueller with the National Weather Service’s Nashville office. [Nashville Banner]

• Nashville Severe Weather says rain chances during trick-or-treating are trending down, but you should probably still bring some rain gear, just in case. [Nashville Severe Weather]

🚕 Tesla Tunnel’s Airport Station

According to design documents, The Boring Company’s Music City Loop airport station will be next to the terminal’s front door, replacing the taxi and limousine pickup area. Boring is aiming for a Spring 2027 opening. However, Boring has yet to sign the contract airport commissioners unanimously approved in February, which includes an annual licensing fee starting at $300,000. [🔐 The Tennessean]

• While Boring broke ground in February, will its airport tunnel really be complete by early next year? The Elon Musk-owned company has a history of failing to follow through. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🏘️ How Were These Funds for Homelessness Spent?

Homelessness has significantly increased in Nashville since 2022, the year when Metro’s Office of Homeless Services received $50 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to help our unhoused neighbors. How was that money spent? The Contributor breaks down Metro Council’s requirements for that funding, points out discrepancies between those requirements and what OHS reports show, and urges OHS to release a full outline of how those funds were spent and outcomes by the end of the year. [The Contributor]