A happy hella Halloween from comic Awkward Shelby

In anticipation of Halloween, one remembers the thrill and chill one had a child at about this time in the year. As adults, the manner in which we celebrate the day has gone from trick or treating and gorging on sweets to…attending Halloween parties and gorging on sweets. Yet the spirit of one particular aspect of the holiday remains mostly intact: costumes. Dressing up and playing pretend will always hold considerable fascination for us, be it as a slutty nurse or a Clone Trooper, the holiday engages our childhood imaginations and gives us an excuse to play upon these notions. With our Halloween dance coming up  on Oct. 31 and much more inevitable house parties (be safe) I thought I’d ask a few people what they would be dressing up as for the night of Halloween. Juan Rivera, a sophomore studio arts major, says he’s dressing up as the Mean Girls along with Alvarado Hurtado, a sophomore film major. “I’m going to dress as a slutty mean girl with my boy Alvie.” Gabe Esling, a freshman year film major, gave a distinct character: “I’m going to go as Talion from Lord of the Rings, Shadow of Mordor.” For those of you not familiar with the title, it is a video game based out of the Lord of the Rings universe and Talion is the protagonist that you play as through the game. Jordan Glaza, a freshman film major, was very adamant about representing his sports team through his costume. “Well I’m going to be a Broncos Fan,” he said, “throw on my jersey and boom.” Phillip Hoang, a freshman film major, who said that he would be dressing up as popular DC comics character Nightwing.             Finally I spoke to Lani Dekkler, a...

For three nights, Oct. 25-27, the Rocky Horror shadow cast, 20 promiscuously dressed student performers, heated up the Screen with an uncensored salute to the ’70s British musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show. With fishnets, speedos, wigs and an “Oh my goodness, what am I looking at?”expression from the Rocky Horror audience, the shows acted as the perfect Halloween prelude, conjuring the horrifyingly sexy side in all of us. “You gotta have some of the biggest balls to do this show,” says Rocky Horror student director Peter Crowder, who with film major Jack Brinkley initiated the shows on campus last year. “I’m referring to this metaphorically, but if you wanted to go physically too,” Crowder continues, “you gotta be strong to put on this show because you’re gonna get flack from people who aren’t used to it, who don’t like it, but at the same time you’ll be dealing with people who love it so much and so intensely that if you don’t do it right, you’re going to get smashed and pulverized.” Crowder, who watched the shows all three nights, was able to participate as an audience member, shouting out jokes that accompanied lines in the film. As well as being liaison for the Screen, Crowder’s right-hand-man Brinkley played the part of the creepy Lurch-like character Riff Raff, “a vengeful handyman,” Brinkley says, who gets particularly crazy during the Time Warp, a dance involving pelvic thrusts. “I also liked coming out in drag with oblivion in my hand.” What’s oblivion? Brinkley laughs. “It’s a 14.5-inch dildo. During one rehearsal I said, ‘say goodbye to all of this and say hello to oblivion.’” The cast called the dildo Oblivion ever since. To get a perspective of just how crazy the show is, it may help knowing that the...

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SFUAD and Santa Fe offer plenty of choices for Halloween. Here are a few picks. For extensive Halloween calendar listings, check out this round-up from SantaFe.com and these choices from The Santa Fe Reporter. October 31 “Break the Piñata”  Celebrate Halloween with the Photography Department by breaking a big scary piñata on the Marion Courtyard. Feel free to come in costume. 5 pm Trick or Treat If you want to feel like a kid again, trick or treating is always a good option. SFUAD offers a campus-wide Trick or Treat at various departments from noon to 1 pm. If you prefer to do it off campus, consider Canyon Road, where, from 4 to 6 pm, some galleries like Canyon Road Contemporary Art or Gallery 822 will have their doors open. Needless to say, being in a costume is essential.  Movie Night! What is a Halloween night without a touch of horror movies? For those who don’t want to leave the campus, The Screen will play the original Nightmare on Elm Street at 10.30 pm. The Lensic Performing Arts Center will screen the classic The Man Who Fell to Earth at 7 pm. And The Jean Cocteau Cinema offers the Vincent Price thriller House of Wax at 6:30 pm as a special benefit for The Santa Fe Film Festival, with a costume contest and Mistress of Ceremonies Victoria Price. The Jean Cocteau also will screen The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the late show at 11 pm, and throughout the weekend (costumes also welcome for Rocky Horror!) November 1-2 Once Halloween ends, the Mexican tradition marking “Dia de Muertos” (Day of the Dead) begins. Gerard’s House will offer a celebration and memorializing event from 4-6:30 pm featuring performances by Wise Fool and The Santa Fe Symphony, with...