Weekend what's what 10/16-10/19: Zombie love

by l'etoile magazine staff • 10/15/08 • The spooky season is fast descending upon us! With Halloween just a couple weeks away, we're sure you've been noticing the abundance of creepy events (and mini-Snickers bars) taking over the land. You still have plenty of time to come up with a fantastic get-up for the big night, so use this weekend to get inspired by putting on your best un-dead face at the Zombie Pub Crawl or checking out the Soap Factory's Haunted Basement - or even going the anonymous route at Honeymoon's mask party - who knows what could happen! xo-l'étoile

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 16TH RNC ’08 Arrestees Benefit Concert @ The Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar 308 Prince St. St. Paul 7pm/donations encouraged/All ages A lot of money is needed to pay for the legal proceedings of all the journalists, protesters, street medics and legal observers. Bands that played during the RNC - Junkyard Empire and Pocket of Resistance are lined up, and a special message from Submedia.tv’s The Stimulator is promised. All proceeds go to the righteous Coldsnap Legal Collective, and Food Not Bombs. CLICK HERE FOR THE BLACK DOG SITE Photo by Kate Iverson/Digital Crush RNC '08FRIDAY ART PICK: VILLAGE PET STORE & CHARCOAL GRILL Hi, I’d like to make these hot dogs and chicken nuggets anatomically move? How did the recently-unmasked Banksy propose such a feat? If you’re in the West Village this month, stop by his first-ever show in NYC; a storefront pet store featuring rabbits putting on makeup, cameras tending to their young, hot dogs sipping from the mustard container, you name it. We didn’t think he could get any more awesome, but he just did. Mom, can we take home that hot dog? Pleeeeassseee? Click HERE to check out the Web site. FRIDAY OCTOBER 17TH Haunted Basement @ The Soap Factory 518 2nd St. SE Minneapolis 6pm-12am / $15 / 18+ or 13+ if accompanied Warning #1 the Haunted Basement is seriously scary: You have to sign a waiver. Warning #2: The Soap Factory is under investigation by the Twin Cities Paranormal Society. Think you can handle this level of terror? Buy your tickets early, this artist-designed performance project is wildly popular, terrifying over 3,000 people last year. Rusty soap vats, 12,000 square feet crawling with God-knows-what, and crazy artists? Oooohhhh….spoookkyyy! Through November 2nd. CLICK HERE FOR THE SOAP FACTORY SITECOOL LINK: DEAR-GOD Never posted an online confession? What a sin. Although, it might be more fun read one then to compose one. Well friends and literary voyeurs, you've come to the right place. Dear-God is confessions from anonymous and identified folks across the globe. Each post is categorized by the different pressing issues in life and paired with vividly explicit and often contrary images. The result? A site that ranges from uncomfortable to funny to just plain perplexing. The jump from cathedral to Internet allows anyone to play “God” and post reply comments. This link welcomes you to find absolution, be a savior or just lose yourself in visual limbo. CLICK HERE FOR THE DEAR GOD SITESATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH Zombie Pub Crawl IV @ Starts at Gold Medal Park 2nd St. and 11th Ave S. Minneapolis 4pm / free for zombies We want your braiiiinnnssss. Give us your beeeerrrr...(Arms outstretched) Well, which is it? Both! The undead are on a pub crawl today, so grab your tattered clothes and paint on some black eyes, and get down to Gold Medal Park. After a day of "undead-oke," BBQ’d limbs, undead bands, presidential piñatas, and drink specials, the crawl will culminate with a zombie dance party at The Cabooze with MC/VL and Dance Band. CLICK HERE FOR THE ZOMBIE PUB CRAWL SITESUNDAY MUSIC PICK: EVEREST With an earnest sincerity that is often associated with indie rock, the veteran musicians in Everest deliver warm melodies and meaningful lyrics perfect for colorful and cool and fall weather. Composed of members from indie music heavyweights Earlimart, Folk Implosion, and Sebadoh, the result is their much buzzed about debut album Ghost Notes, that hit shelves back in May. Neil Young has even given these guys his personal seal of approval by signing them to his label, Vapor, and inviting them to open the North American leg of his tour, along with Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie. CLICK HERE FOR THE EVEREST MYSPACESUNDAY OCTOBER 19TH The MonaLisa Project @ Pi Bar 2532 25th Avenue S. Minneapolis 6pm-2am / $10 suggested donation B-Girl down, step up! Lisa Berman aka MonaLisa, an esteemed member of the local break-dancing community is currently battling breast cancer and needs your support! Tonight's benefit features a slew of talented Twin Cities performers, musicians and DJs who have come together to rock out for this good cause. Bid on cool stuff in the silent auction, or spring for a torso casting painted by local graffiti artists - all proceeds will go to help cover Lisa's mounting medical bills, with any additional funds being donated to the breast and ovarian cancer foundation Bright Pink. So, come down to Pi tonight to support this community staple and dance educator, and have a great time doing it! CLICK HERE FOR THE MONALISA PROJECT SITEFor more weekend picks, see l'etoile magazine.