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Check out just a sampling of great Halloween-themed events that were #SEEN.
Yelp’s Monster Bash: It was a ghoul-ish good time for more than 400 partygoers Wednesday night at the Mattress Factory, a museum of contemporary art on the North Side. Guests enjoyed food from more than 20 local vendors and had their fortunes read by Shay Port who looked into the windows of the soul through her psychic eye readings.
#SEENBestCostume: Christopher Hykes went above and beyond with not one, but two!, over-the-top homemade costumes. He arrived as the Pumpkin King (which took 30 hours to create, 20 hours alone on the foam head). Later, he changed into “The Plague Doctor” complete with an enormous beak mask. I overheard one guest say, “I don’t know whose costume was better ... that guy or the Pumpkin King?”
Carnegie Museum of HORROR: Thursday night was frightfully fun at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland where a packed house of nearly 500 guests enjoyed George Sabol’s heavy metal live score of the 1922 classic silent film “Nosferatu.” Mr. Sabol’s atmospheric performance earned him a standing ovation. The crowd, decked out in costumes from artsy to downright creepy, swelled to more than 600 as Hundred Acres Manor zombies led tours of the museum's eeriest collection of objects. Makeup pros from Kennywood Phantom Fright Nights zombified guest after guest, while improvisational performers from Arcade Comedy Theater — playing Carnegie, Warhol, Frick — and werewolf Fred Rogers held court in an oddball costume contest.
HEAVEN: Are you heaven sent or hellbent? Friday night at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, Downtown ushered in both the angels and those little devils to its HEAVEN-ly Halloween event. MetroMix DJ John Hohman (of the original HEAVEN) spun tunes while partygoers danced, mixed and mingled and took photos in the VIP shutterbooth upstairs. Standouts included Tori Mistick’s handmade “one foot in the grave” gown, while her friend David Stoehr made a grand entrance as Mr. Peanut. Among the sexy pirates (which were plentiful!), and action heroes, there were also a few costume missteps involving appropriating cultures such as Native American and Japanese geisha girl costumes that were #SEENInPoorTaste.
First Published: November 2, 2015, 5:00 a.m.
