Happy (early) Halloween. In this epsiode I'm joined by Monica, who works for the American Library Association and is a host on Pinky and a Sip podcast. She's a fan of everything spooky and true crime, and has plenty of her own real-life ghost stories to tell from her travels. You can listen to the [...]
A fun but exhausting trip to Tokyo's Disney Sea during it's Halloween season.
I arrived at Disneyland in not the best "happiest place on earth" mood. Getting there had been a pain, mostly because I hadn't fully understood the Shinkasen/how transfers would work out. This meant I didn't get there until the afternoon which wasn't what I had planned. Plus I was lugging my suitcase with me. So [...]
Most old theaters, I'm sure, have a good size collection of old movie posters hidden away. The Logan Square Theater, while going through a renovation found a ton of vintage old Horror Movie Posters, so they did something really cool. They made a free exhibit at I Am Logan Gallery which happens to be right next [...]
This weekend I stumbled upon the 10th annual Logan Square Halloween parade. It's a family friendly event and tends to be the weekend before Halloween starting around 5pm at the Illinois Centennial Monument which can be seen at the Logan Square park, right next to the blue line CTA stop. At 5:30 the parade begins. This year [...]
This Halloween the city of Chicago's Daley Plaza was turned into Franken Plaza, a plaza for Halloween fun. There were different tents with little shops, selling sweets, masks and other random goods. They had dyed the fountain orange and had set up a photo booth that was really just a person taking your photo and [...]
