For those not wanting to hit the big Halloween parade (led by today's interviewee) there are other options: Park Slope's Halloween Parade (info here), Clinton Hill's Halloween Walk (info here) Prospect Park South's Halloween Parade (info here) and Williamsburg's Witches Walk (info here). EVENT: Hallowe'en is Happening Downtown at Trinty Church where both both kids and adults will find spooky spectacles tonight. For the little ones there will be an early evening filled with games,......

After seeing Liao Yusheng's beautiful photograph of the Morgan Library's addition, we decided that we should head over to the museum soon. The Morgan has a collection of early books, historical manuscripts, and more. And one exhibit catches our eye: The Morgan has some of its "Masterworks" on display, and we're particularly interested in the literary and historical manuscripts:Manuscript drafts that show works in progress include Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband and Bob Dylan's......

Metropolitan Playhouse hosts Poe-Fest, starting tonight. As you may have guessed Poe-Fest is inspired by the life and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Performers from all over the country congregate for a two week festival of Poe saturated theatricals. Included are performances, musicals, monologues, dances, jokes and whatever else the Poe-esque style can be injected in to. Each night gets kicked off with a reading of one of Poe's works, including his unfinished play,......

It's our favorite weekend of the year, Halloween weekend! Ghosts are always roaming our streets and sitting on our ancient pub stools in this city, and this is the best weekend to go out and see them face to invisible face in some good 'ol fashioned walking tours. Yeah, we ain't afraid of no ghosts! Seventh Annual Midnight Madness with Dr. Phil (not the Dr. Phil of you're thinking of). Greet Halloween at Midnight! See......

Trying to figure out what to do this Halloween weekend? We've got some ideas that are just slightly better than *bobbing for PBR... [First off, whatever you decide to do should be done while continually eating candy. Here are a couple of our favorite candy shops: Economy Candy in the LES & Dylan's Candy Bar in fancy pants Uptown.] Now on to the events... All Weekend: Go see Shaun of the Dead. It's a romantic......

As suspected, the TriBeCa kidnapping yesterday was over real estate. The Time spins it as an Edgar Allan Poe tale, detailing the the ordeal of the alleged victim, Lawrence Schlosser, 63 year old real estate investor. It was a real estate meeting gone sour, with the alleged kidnapper, Lawrence Omansky, forcing Schlosser to sign over buildings after punching and threatening him with a knife for a few hours. Then he tied Schlosser up and hid......