🥯This week in ARL: Haunted Bar Crawl, Local Indie Film and Elote Eating Contest (Oct. 29)

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Looking for stuff to do in Arl this Halloweekend? We’ve got you covered.

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-Billy

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📅 Your Weekend in Arlington

Wednesday ☀️ 79°

• 🎥 “BloodSpawn” Local Indie Film Premiere - 7PM @ Arlington Drafthouse (Arlington Village) - $15 - Want to support local filmmakers? A group of local actors and producers is premiering their old-school folk horror movie this week. It promises lots of fun practical effects and a campy style.

Thursday ☀️ 81°

• 🍸 Monsters and Margaritas - all day @ Inca Social (Rossyln) - Free - $3 margaritas all day and a costume contest 👻

• 🎨 Halloween Paint Party - 3-5PM @ Plaza at Mason Square (Virginia Square) - Free Paint some flower pots, canvases or pumpkins at this free event!

• 🎃 Halloween @ Water Park - 4-8PM - Free - Candy, face painting pumpkins and more at Nation’s Landing.

Friday ☀️ 77°

• 🍩 Fall Donut Decorating - 11AM @ Astro Beer Hall

• 👻 Haunted Carnival Party - 8:00PM @ Clarendon Ballroom - Free RSVP 3 floors of music, Halloween photo-booth and free giveaways.

Saturday ☀️ 62°

• 🔪 Halloween (1978) Screening - 7:30AM-12:30PM @ Arlington Drafthouse - $8

• 🍺 Nightmare on Wilson Clarendon Bar Crawl - 3PM @ Clarendon - $10 - this looks like fun! The barcrawl includes Clarendon Ballroom, Underground, Coco B’s, Hyde Social, Don Tito and Mister Days

• 🪄 Halloween Magic Show - 8PM @ El Rey (Ballston) - Free

• 🌽 Street Corn Eating Contest - 11PM @ Banditos (Pentagon City) - Free This is awesome. The winner gets free street corn for a year and two Ravens tickets.

• 🎃 Free Halloween Bash - 6PM @ Arlington Mill Library - children’s storytime, crafting and free food!

Sunday ☀️ 65°

• 🛒 Arlington Flea Market - 7AM-1PM @ I-66 Garage by Washington & Liberty - Free

• 🎨 Fall Craft Fair - 9AM-3PM @ The Woman’s Club of Arlington (Barcroft) - Free - Browse local artisans’ booths at the fall craft fair.

📰 Restaurant News

• 🍺Three Notch'd is coming to Clarendon! They plan to take over the first floor of the Clarendon Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble will consolidate their store to the top floor.

🍴 Local Food Review

Halal meets walking tacos at this Alexandria food truck. We saw a video of the Flavor Hive food truck last week and had to check it out. You can bring any bag of chips and they’ll cut it open and fill it with yummy salad, rice and halal meat!

We just tried their basic bowls which were VERY good and enough for several meals each. We will be back with Doritos…

We also tried the Carbonara, a new restaurant in Virginia Square. Fun new spot! The cocktails and atmosphere were highlights.

Definitely try their titular dish. I was not expecting a flaming cheese wheel show when I ordered it…

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See you next week!

-Billy