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CHS Pics | It was a good Hilloween for jellyfish costumes and other getups that incorporated umbrellas

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When it comes to Halloween rain in Seattle, how much isn’t as important as when.

This year’s Capitol Hilloween celebrations weren’t completely dampened but the quarter inch of rain that fell on the city on October 31st seemed to come nearly all at once. The kids in the Capitol Hill Trick or Treat hot zone made the best of things with lots of Pikachus and princesses sporting rain jackets.

Seattle Halloweens have been on a pretty dry run, all in all. 2023? 0.00 inches fell. 2022 brought nearly an inch of precipitation to the city but the night’s festivities were drizzle free. The wettest in recent memory? 2015 when just under an inch fell that night.

Here are a few soppy scenes from this year’s trick or treat. Happy Hilloween. Continue reading →

20+ pics from the Pike/Pine Hilloweekend — Plus, your map to the Capitol Hill Trick or Treat Hot Zone

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The boys and ghouls of Pike/Pine already got Hilloween started over the weekend. Below, you’ll find some more scenes from the Hilloweekend.

Even with a midweek instance of the holiday — and a drizzly forecast — you can still expect crowds around Capitol Hill for the real thing Thursday night. Continue reading →

Hilloween spirit will live on with new Halloween Pop-up Market above Capitol Hill Station

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A scene from Hilloween 2023

The neighborhood’s annual kids carnival may have gone poof in the night but a new event planned for the heart of Capitol Hill on October 31st should scare up some interest.

Seattle’s Urban League has announced it is making its next REVIVAL pop-up market and party in the plaza above Capitol Hill Station a Hilloween event.

“Get ready for a ghoulishly good time at the REVIVAL Market, the thrilling Halloween vendor market that promises tricks, treats, and plenty of shopping,” the announcement reads. “This spooktacular event is a must-visit for ghostly friends and families looking for an evening filled with eerie excitement and unique treasures.”

The organizers are promising “Spooky Vendor Stalls” with “a curated selection of unique goods and services from BIPOC and AAPI-owned businesses, including artisanal crafts, fashion, beauty products, home décor, and much more,” plus “spooky sweets, savory bites, and seasonal drinks from local food artisans and vendors.” Continue reading →

Broadway Business Improvement Area says no Hilloween kids carnival this year

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Capitol Hill is always lively for Halloween but a more than a decade-long trick or treat tradition won’t take place this year. There will be no Hilloween kids carnival on Broadway in 2024.

The event survived a COVID-19 hiatus to return in 2022 but the Broadway Business Improvement Area and director Egan Orion said the time and effort required to raise funding and sponsorship for the annual October family-friendly event just didn’t pencil out this year. Continue reading →

40+ pictures and one pretty good JD Vance joke from the Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park

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There was no candy but plenty of kibbles and bits on Capitol Hill this weekend as neighborhood fur babies and those who love them gathered for the annual Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park.

Sunday’s Volunteer Park Trust celebration included a fun march around the park and this year’s edition of the pet costume contest. As usual, canines dominated the stage in getups including this year’s best selection of “tiny arm” costumes.

A monstrous month of politics ahead brought one of the best jokes on the day. We endorse the little four-legged prankster who showed up in the frying pan riffing on JD Vance’s baseless rumor about immigrants.

Looking for more Hilloween things to do? Check out the CHS Calendar.
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Hilloween begins Sunday with the annual Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park

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A scene from 2023 (Image: CHS)

It’s already Hilloween season. This weekend brings a costumed start to the festivities with the annual Halloween Pet Parade in Volunteer Park.

The yearly celebration from the Volunteer Park Trust will take place Sunday and will include a costume contest, live music, vendors, food trucks, and the parade led by the 8-Bit Brass Band.

The festivities begin at 11 AM with the parade leading up to the contest on the amphitheater stage starting at 12:30 PM. This year’s categories include Best Pet/Owner Combo, Most Creative, Spookiest Pet, and Best Personality. You can check out pictures from 2023 for inspiration.

Visitors to Volunteer Park accompanied by their four-legged friends, meanwhile, are advised to keep your pals on leash and an eye out for the area’s wild canine citizens. Reports in recent weeks include tales of coyotes stealing shoes, sniffing feet, and exhibiting increasingly nonchalant behaviors around humans and pets. So far, conflicts have been limited by with coyotes seemingly less concerned about making space, it might be a good time for the rest of to enforce some boundaries and help keep our wild friends safe.

 

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CHS Pics | No trunk-or-treating in the Capitol Hill trick or treat hot zone

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You saw the Hilloweekend crowds of grown-up partygoers celebrating around Broadway and Pike/Pine. Here is a look at Hilloween 2023 from the streets of the Capitol Hill trick or treat zone around 16th and 17th Ave near Volunteer Park.

Like many essential services including public transit, the level of Hilloween enthusiasm is also back to pre-pandemic levels with lines of kids — and a few adults — scoring candy from the area’s haunted houses. Continue reading →

50+ pictures from the Hilloweekend crowds — Plus, a map to the Capitol Hill Trick or Treat Hot Zone

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When you have wrapped this much effort into your costume, you’ll want to show it off for more than one night. Ghosts and goblins got their usual early start to Hilloween over the Hilloweekend with costumed fun lovers filling up the neighborhood on their way to favorite bars, neighborhood hangouts, and parties with friends. CHS enjoyed the scene from Cal Anderson, Pike/Pine, and up and down Broadway and have a few dozen photos from the night to share.

The serious sharing continues Tuesday night. Venture into the Capitol Hill Trick or Treat Hot Zone on the blocks surrounding 16th Ave E and E Aloha near Volunteer Park for bowls and bowls of candy and some great haunted houses. The area gets crowded but many of the streets are closed to cars and locals prepare for lots of trick or treaters so spirits large and small should do well. Remember your pleases and thank yous. Don’t try to drive and definitely don’t park in the area. It’s best to either jump on a nearby Metro bus line or arrange to be dropped off on the edges of the zone.

Happy Hilloween.

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Behind the Capitol Hill curtains at a ‘macabre Halloween cocktail party,’ local theater makers and ‘tiny moments to scare the partygoers’

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You can look at the return of the Haunted Soiree “macabre Halloween cocktail party” to Capitol Hill as the return of a soul-stealing zombie business that haunts the neighborhood sucking dollars from unsuspecting tourists and filling them with watered down cocktails.

Afterall, Capitol Hill does Hilloween just fine on its own. Bars and restaurants up and down Broadway and across Pike and Pine look forward to the weekends around the holiday for almost Pride-levels of business.

It is also true that the concept is part of a nationwide production company’s ventures that swoops onto Capitol Hill once a year to cash in on Hilloween enthusiasm.

But you’ll be missing most of the fun. And some of the cocktails are actually good.

“I’m a teaching artist and I heard about Haunted Soiree through some friends,” cast member Hannah Votel said. “I love the tiny moments to scare the partygoers, luring them in with a false sense of insecurity. You can tell they like to be messed with.” Continue reading →

Hilloween trick or treaters ready to march on Broadway

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The forecast calls for a crisp, cool, and candy-filled Hilloween.

Saturday, the annual kid-friendly Capitol Hill Halloween fest returns to the AIDS Memorial Plaza for a day of games, performance, music, costume marching, and, yes, trick or treating.

CHS is again proud to help host the fun organized annually by the Broadway Business Improvement Association and partners. This year in the plaza above Capitol Hill Station just north of Cal Anderson Park, you will find the usual mix of arts and crafts, games and prizes, a pet costume contest, magic and music, plus an appearance by the Chaotic Noise Marching Corps for the costume parade onto Broadway where trick or treating is encouraged to ensue.

For more Hilloween 2023 things to do, check out the CHS Calendar. There, you can also add Hilloween community events we may have missed.

Learn more at hilloween.me.

 

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