Lite + Brite: 36 Ghostly Austin Events 10/31

Hello, what’s up, and welcome to the Lite + Brite newsletter.

Trick-or-treat! Jk we’re all treats, no tricks in the L+B HQ. We’re coming at you from this most festive of days: All Hallow’s Eve. That is, the eve of All Saints’ Day, Samhain, + Dia de los Muertos. This week is dominated by events devoted to all things dark, spooky, occult, + deceased, but that’s not all…

Non-spooky stuff this week includes queso tasting, bbq fêting, masc celebrating, comedy festing, word perving, animation collecting, + park volunteering. On the spooky side we have blacklight dance parties, costumed bicycling, Victorian séances, occult burlesque, medieval insult battles, vintage silent horror films re-soundtracked, + crystals full of pulsating light. If your appetite for spooky cannot be sated by this paltry collection of events below, we have so many more Halloween + Dia de los Muertos events listed on our Halloween 2025 spreadsheet. We even have a playlist of Halloween tunes for you to rock out with your drac out. We’ve thought of it all, really.

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Let’s do fun stuff!

—Leila + Brian
liteandbriteatx.com

WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO

Over the past week, we marched in The Clash of the Titans Halloween parade, which was SO FUN. (See pics on our Instagram.) Leila gave a talk about the business of writing and publishing at ATX Writing Club, and Brian broadcast a spooky hour of italo, synthpop, darkwave, + acid house over on KPISS (playlist below). We went to the Austin Salon and learned about coral reefs, and we saw local bands Skateland and Holy Wire perform at 3TEN. A good week!

EVENTS WE’RE EYEING

Friday 10/31

Saturday 11/1

Sunday 11/2

Monday 11/3

  • Masc-erade at Kick Butt Coffee
    “Celebrating the masculine side of burlesque” + variety acts

Wednesday 11/5

  • Oltorf Block Party at Loro
    Vendors, live music, + one-off food collaborations
  • Magical Mind Mysteries at the Vortex
    Alliterative magic show for adults w/Magical Mystical Michael
  • Word Perv at Smelt House
    Storytelling + variety show about gender + sexuality

Thursday 11/6

No Humans Allowed 256
Horrorshow

Halloween is almost here! We had one last gasp of spooky italo, synthpop, darkwave, + acid house before all hallow’s eve.

Stream Horrorshow

Tracklist
Bryan Ferry – Zamba
Robotussin – 80rr0r Show
Love Command0 – Providence
Black Bizarre – You’ve Got the Devil Inside (Cap’ Edit)
Kano – Ikeya Seki
Digital Emotion – Outside in the Dark
Empire – Ooh Dracula (Cap’ x Bella Festa Edit)
Smashing Atoms – Cannibal 44
Spike Hellis – Mouth
James “Jack Rabbit” Martin – Only Wanted to Be (Acid Mix)
Bobby Konders – Nervous Acid
Gunship – Tech Noir 2 ft. John Carpenter, Charlie Simpson, Tim Cappello
Harsh Symmetry – Virtual Killer

No Humans Allowed is Brian Blackout’s award-winning, weekly robots-themed radio show on internet station KPISS.fm. Machine vibes 4 machines. Songs for robots, androids, mandroids, cyborgs, AIs, cylons, skinjobs, roombas, wifi routers, smart devices, anything colored Bondi blue, and virtual assistants. Humans not required. Broadcasts live every Wednesday at 6pm CT on kpiss.fm, with over 200 episodes now streamable in the archives on topics like and Beach Simulations, Roomba dance parties, undersea adventures + Cyber Texas.

PATREON THANKS

A huge thank-you to our Patreon subscribers James Gray, Emily Heddleson, Andrew Creswell, Robert B., Roman Gonzalez, Nick Ivons, Molly Fonseca, Lilly Ettinger, Michael Sales, Zach, Gino Scaramuzza, Erica Speegle, Jarrett Holtz, Thomas Refferson, Bones Malones, Katie Green, Christina Jue, Colleen MB, Alexander Freed, Kristen Backor, and Timon A. We’re deeply grateful for your support, which allows us to do things like “pay our Mailchimp fee” and “spend hours researching Austin events when technically we should be working.”

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SOCIALS

Recent weeks found us celebrating the fifth anniversary of No Humans Allowed, attending a Blue Lapis Light aerial dance performance on the side of a building, and readying our annual spreadsheet of Halloween events. Follow Lite + Brite on Instagram to keep up with our adventures. We’re now on Bluesky too. Yay federation! And come chat with us and the rest of the L+B community on our Discord server (where we sometimes post stuff early too).

ABOUT US

How do we choose which events to feature?

Honestly, it’s pretty random. We might include anything in Austin that we, personally, would conceivably want to go to, generally excluding normal concerts, comedy shows, and movie showtimes because there are many other good resources for finding those. (We especially recommend Showlist for live music, The Darker Side of Austin for goth and metal stuff, Concept Animals’ ATX Art for You for gallery openings + artist talks, and the 60+ Weirdest Things in Austin for exactly what it sounds like). This list is by no means exhaustive; it’s just stuff that caught our eye this week. If you have an event that you want us to consider including, send it over.

Who are we?

We are Leila + Brian. We make this newsletter. We do our own events, most often No Lights No Lycra, + also BYOT, a party where we share very good YouTubes (here’s a playlist from the last one). We go very hard seeing bands at SxSW (here are playlists of our favorites from 2025). We once got called “local Austin couple” by KXAN. We do some other stuff here and there. We love going out to creative events in Austin, and we want you to join us. Visit us at liteandbriteatx.com, and support us on Patreon if you like what we do.

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK, CHAMPIONS

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