Dear Crabby, Do You Watch Scary Movies?

Dear Crabby, Every October, the Freeform channel does ’31 Nights of Halloween.’ The movies shown are pretty tame: The Addams Family, Ghostbusters, Hocus Pocus, you get the idea. Do you watch Halloween movies? And if you do are they the really scary ones like Nightmare on Elm Street? Thanks! Gwen Gothic Dear Gwen Gothic, Last year a reader asked what I thought about haunted houses. I told this person that I find daily life scary enough and I don’t need to fork over my hard-earned … [Read more...]

Trick-or-Treat in Downtown Rochester

Trick-or-Treat Downtown, Costume Parade, Spaghetti Dinner, Kid’s Craft, and Movies in the Moonlight On October 20, join your friends and neighbors in downtown Rochester for Trick-or-Treat Downtown, a costume parade, a spaghetti dinner and a Halloween edition of Movies in the Moonlight. Kids are encouraged to dress-up and Trick-or-Treat Downtown from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Nearly 50 businesses will participate in Trick-or-Treat and the participating businesses will be marked with window … [Read more...]

Who You Going to Call a Rochester Posed Winner?

Ghostbusters! Downtown Rochester held its fifth annual Rochester Posed event on Thursday, October 5, 2017. During the event twenty participating businesses turned their storefront windows into live mannequin displays.  This year’s theme for Rochester Posed was Science Fiction. Attendees were dazzled by a variety of mannequin displays including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Avatar, and Game of Thrones. “Rochester Posed is one of my favorite events said Jenna O’Dell, Events Coordinator of the … [Read more...]