This is an in-store event. Photos and autographs. Tickets start at $20. For complete details visit https://thewrestlinguniverse.com
Location: The Wrestling Universe, 34-29 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Flushing, Queens
Category: fandom
Event for fans living in New York Tri-State area.
Dungeons & Monkeys Virtual Gaming Event October 22-25
Play Dungeons & Dragons from October 22-25 with your favorite Red Monkey Theater Group and Cast Party performers. This year’s event will also include a a free workshop from Cast Party’s Matt Gordon to help you run awesome online D&D games on Roll20. New to D&D? Always wanted to play but never had the chance? Don’t worry, we’ll teach you!
Four times as big, all virtual, and featuring a roster of all-star Dungeon Master’s Guild creators and plenty of Halloween-themed adventures!
SOURCE: http://www.redmonkeytheater.org
New York Japanese Fall Festival Upper Manhattan October 18 ~Manhattan~
We can hear the footsteps of winter! But before winter, there is a season we shouldn’t forget. Yes, it is fall!
Let’s restore your energy at JAPAN Fes’s Fall Festival so you can overcome the coldness of winter!!!
SOURCE: Facebook
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan
IMAGINE Science Virtual Film Festival October 16-23
The flight of the arctic tern, the multi-generational travels of the monarch butterfly, the return of eels to the streams they hatched in. The arduous journeys of displaced peoples. Data systems in flux. The complex movements of cells, from embryonic origins to developed organisms. This year we seek MIGRATIONS of all kinds.
Q&A with directors will happen immediately after the screenings.
SOURCE: https://imaginesciencefilms.org
John Steinbeck Award for Short Fiction DEADLINE November 1
Open to most styles and approaches, including experimental and literary. All works should be stand-alone short stories, not chapters of a longer work.
SOURCE: https://www.reedmag.org
The Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction Contest DEADLINE December 31
Stories may be previously published or unpublished, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication online in The Lascaux Review. The winner and all finalists are published in the annual print edition of the journal.
SOURCE: https://lascauxreview.com
Dungeons in Dragons in the NYC Metro Area
Sakura Matsuri in Connecticut, New Jersey & New York Metro April-May 2019
- April 6-14: Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival, Branch Brook Park, Bloomfield, NJ
- April 7: Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
- April 20: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
- April 27 & 28: Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- May 5: Sakura Matsuri, New Cannan
- May 5: Ryu Shu Kan’s Cherry Blossom Festival, Stony Brook University, Long Island
Connecticut, New Jersey & New York Professional Wrestling Schools
Connecticut
- Pro Wrestling AcademyChesire, CT
New Jersey
- East Coast Professional Wrestling, Lake Hiawatha, Parsippany-Troy Hills
- Pro Wrestling Syndicate, Rahway
New York
- Fight the World Wrestling, Port Jefferson Station & Ridgewood, Long Island
- House of Glory, Ridgewood, Queens
- New York Wrestling Connection, Deer Park, Long Island
- Warriors of Wrestling, Staten Island
- World of Unpredictable Wrestling, Brooklyn
My Favorite Halloween Activities in New York City Metro
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Bane Haunted House Is the best haunted house experience in NYC Tri-State. You will be touched, you will be yelled at, you will slide down slides, be put in a box. You will be scared, you will laugh, you will be ENTERTAINED!! It’s an AMAZING experience!
Location: Bane, Livingston, NJ
Brighton Asylum This haunted house isn’t just Halloween, Brighton hosts Halloween all year round. It’s all live actors, they have interactive zombie shooting in some houses. If you wear a glow necklace they will enhance the haunting experience-scream in your face, touch you, all that fun stuff! My favorite haunted experience was Brighton’s Christmas Haunted House!
Location: Brighton Asylum, Passaic, NJ
Horseman’s Hollow is in the actual Sleepy Hollow, not to far down the road from Irvington, where Mr. Washington Irving himself lived. The event takes place on an actual plantation owned by one of America’s first wealthy families the Philipses. On regular days you can go and learn how the slaves who lived and worked on the plantation lived (well worth the trip for you American History fans). During the month of October experience the fright of the Headless Horseman on his giant black steed riding the grounds along with other 18th Century ghosts including Red Coats and Ichabod Crane! My favorite memory of this event was watching my mother and aunt throw my youngest brother straight into the Devil who resides in the barn. Hilarious!
Address: Plilipsburgh Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
The first time I went to Rye Playland’s Scared by the Sound was about a decade ago. Waiting in the dark at Rye Playland is creepy. Add to that the calm waves of the Long Island Sound as your background music and before you even enter the haunted portion of the amusement park you are freaked out. However once inside you realize you are going to be even more creeped out! People with chainsaws popping out, clowns, and having to walk through a grave yard where anyone can reach out and nearly touch someone (mainly you). My favorite memory of my first visit was a pitch white woman, with flaming red curly hair, walking stiff as a board, swiftly chase my screaming brothers from the grave yard down the boardwalk. Priceless!
Address: Rye Playland, 100 Playland Parkway, Rye, NY 10580
I ventured to Carmel, Putnam Valley, NY to Smalley’s Inn and Restaurant. Yes, it is actually haunted. My family and I have been honing our psychic skills for a couple of year, and before I even walked in the restaurant I felt immediately the spirit it was a woman. Mind you I knew nothing about the place and no one in my family mentioned to me the ghost was actually a woman! She even joined us during our meal (the air around the table became COLD), she was especially present when the owner charismatic and enthusiastic current owner Tony Porto came to our table and showed us picture ghost hunters professional and amateur had captured of the woman who haunts the restaurant. The pictures are downright creepy and confirmed what I felt about the resident spirit. Who according to my impressions of enjoys her celebrity status! Even if you are NOT a believer of spirits you have to visit Smalley’s for the incredible Halloween decor. The best I’ve ever seen! Think of any stereotypical monster, doll, clown, and vampire fright and it is on display. The atmosphere is literally to DIE FOR! Call ahead, I visited in late September when the Halloween crowds were not large. Mr. Porto says in October they bring in actors and the wait to be seated can be long.
Address: Smalley’s Inn and Restaurant, 57 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel, NY 10512
Halloween Train Show at Lasdon Park takes place on the weekends in October. This is a cute Halloween activity for kids. I attended several years ago and my nephew had a blast! The main house is decorated for Halloween, inside are a variety of trains (including Thomas). In addition you can purchase plants and seasonal gifts at the Shop at Lasdon.
Address: Lasdon Park, 2610 New York 35, Katonah, NY 10563
