howRDUdoin? is a blog about Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

All the fun to be had in the greater Triangle area, in convenient little bullet points.  You’re welcome.

• Chapel Hill
  • If the impossibility of a place to park and a sorority pledge dressed as one of the 90-or-so Sarah Palins throwing up on your costume seems like heaven on earth, Franklin St. is open for business as it always this time of year.  Sort of.  Since the town of Chapel Hill is always loathe to think of itself as more than 8 people and a school of some sort, they’re doing all they can to actually keep attendance to the party down.  This includes alcohol checkpoints, drastically reducing parking, and limiting access to the downtown area.  If this doesn’t work, then a special task force called the “fun police” will be brought in in 2009.  If that doesn’t work, they’ll just ask Raleigh how they managed to kill the Brent Road party dead.
  • If you can climb over what’s left of the carnage on November 1st, maybe you want to check out Scare-o-lina Skies at the Morehead Planetarium.  It bills itself as a look at “Halloween-themed ancient sky legends.”  If it turns out to be another project aimed at deifying Michael Jordan, I won’t be surprised.

• Durham
  • Head over to 9th Street on Halloween night and see if you can make 9th street the kind of big-time player that can add a “whose Halloween party kicks more ass?” chapter to the Duke-UNC feud.
  • When Scrooge wasn’t in the Christmas spirit, he was visited by ghosts.  I have a feeling that won’t help you if you’re not feeling the Halloween spirit.  You can, however, take in a free night at the symphony.
  • The day after(still November 1st for those keeping score), there’s still plenty of fun to be had in Durham.  9th Street revivalists can go to yet another inaugural event, the First Annual Preservation Durham Ghost Tour.  Get ready for some feel-good action, as “this ghost building tour will highlight the architectural ghosts of by-gone structures that continue to haunt us.”  So much for downtown Durham being on the comeback trail…
  • There’s also the Zombie Walk on November 1st.  Try to pick which people are actually participating and which are the ones doing the walk of shame the day after a particularly hard Halloween party!

• Raleigh
  • Five Star has your Halloween dance party covered.  If you’re a dude, they have your Halloween dance party covered only if you bring enough ladies with you to justify your entrance into the building.  You’ve been warned.
  • The Lincoln Theater has a costume contest to go with the Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band concert on Halloween night.  I suggest dressing as whatever popped into your head the first time you heard the name of this band.
  • Just a reminder, but if you were planning on spending Halloween with your loved ones and one of those loved ones was Lil’ Wayne, that show has been canceled.

• Points Beyond
  • The town of Hillsborough is hosting a Halloween ghost tour that, as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with architecture.  If you see a real ghost, remember to ask it who you have to kill for it to be avenged.
  • If you’re willing to brave the backwoods of Alamance County, you’ll be treated to a horror show.  That’s just the locals.  If you survive them, you’ll have earned some fun at The Original Hollywood Horror Show.  This is annually a good time brought to you by a couple of guys who specialize in horror effects in those fancy Hollywood moving pictures we watch.