1. In a year that marks their 20th, Harlequin Productions will throw a "Haunted Halloween Wild West Cabaret Auction" tonight, and, yes, the price of admission includes an open bar. What's a Haunted Halloween Wild West Cabaret and Auction, you ask? Well, it's billed as a "fun-raiser," and in addition to said open bar it'll feature lots of great food and wine, a costume contest and the cast of the current Harlequin production of Taming of the Shrew belting it out cabaret-style in a spectacle the likes of which you've probably never seen before. It costs $100 to get in, but just think about how much fancy booze you can down at an open bar on Halloween if you put your mind to it.

2. It's Halloween! It's movie night at the Brotherhood in Oly. And guess what? Carrie is on tap. Does it get any better? Classic in so many ways. Starts at 7 p.m.

3. As noted earlier, it's Halloween. If you've got kids, this means you probably need to find someplace to take them trick-or-treating. This being the case, and putting what you learned as a kid to good use, go where the money is. Rich people equal bigger candy bars. Start at the annual Proctor Treats Halloween celebration from 4- 6 p.m. if you've got little ones - where the roads (or a road) in the historic Proctor District will literally be shut down for the sake of encouraging trick-or-treaters - and go from there. There's a bounty to be had.

4. London, England 1888: We all know Bram Stoker's classic Dracula by beating heart, but that's just the launch pad for Don Nigro's sexy adaptation. In The Transylvanian Clockworks, produced by the Outfit Theatre Project in conjunction with Tacoma Little Theatre, a certain medically-trained gentleman of homicidal intent enters the picture. What better time to see the show than Halloween? The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

5. Faster Pussycat is at Hell's Kitchen tonight. Yes, that Faster Pussycat.