Get Out Of The House And Go To These Haunts

  All Hallow’s Eve is coming up, and it’s a fun time filled with much more than candy-corn martinis and masked children leaning on the doorbell. If you’re looking for trick-or-treating times for the kids, traditional haunted houses, or bars with drink specials that will let you show off your sexy ex-cabinet-member costume, please check out our Agenda listings online at chicagoreader.com/chicago/Agenda. For now, read on for some events that capture the spirit of Samhain season but may have escaped your notice.



  Arts in the Dark’s family-friendly Halloween parade with participants from 80 Chicago theater organizations starts on State and Lake at dusk and travels south to Van Buren. Sat 10/19, 6-8 PM, artsinthedark.org, free.



  The Mummies & Martinis event at the Oriental Institute Museum promises small-group tours of the galleries led by University of Chicago Egyptologist Foy Scalf, including the coffin and mummy of the Egyptian singer-priestess Meresamun, libations, and a DJ. 6:30-9 PM, 1155 E. 58th, oi.uchicago.edu/events, 21+.

Sat 10/26

Mon 10/28

  Babes With Blades hosts Halloween HamBingo to benefit the theater company with a special costume contest. Wed 10/30, 7 PM, Hamburger Mary’s, 5400 N. Clark.