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Goth Chick News: Taking the Week Off

The interns are between semesters, the temperatures in Chicago are sub-zero and most important, the Boss is in Belize. Belize…?  What’s in Belize?  Anybody? Well, no matter.  What we have here is the perfect storm of opportunity to take the week off and get ready for Goth Chick News’ second busiest season besides Halloween. Convention season. In the coming weeks I’ll be road-tripping to St. Louis to cover the 2012 Halloween Costume and Party Show, chatting up the disturbing participants…

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Goth Chick News: 16th Annual Halloween & Attractions Best in Show

Last weekend, St. Louis, MO played host to the 16th Annual Halloween & Attractions Show which was side by side with the Halloween Costume & Party Show. These events have not occurred simultaneous in several years and to have this much Halloween in one place was, well… Let’s just say I needed to have a nice long lie down afterwards. The HAS and the HCPS play host to vendors of every imaginable item for professional haunted attraction creators. Aisles of…

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Goth Chick News: The Huge Quantities of Latex Gross-ness

Yes, believe it or not, its time once again for the Halloween Costume and Party Show; the largest collection of Hollywood-style horror effects to be found in one place. Needless to say, this annual event causes just about as much activity in the underground offices of Goth Chick News as Halloween itself. Generally held in Chicago, this year’s event has moved south to The America’s Center in St. Louis, meaning some well-thought-out preparation is in order. Having only rarely left…

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Goth Chick News: Cool Stuff in 2011

There are bits of wrapping paper static’d to the lamp shade and tendrils of curly ribbon hanging off the chandelier. Here I lay in a sugar and red meat coma under the pressing weight of one too many conversations with the essence of Christmas spirit, three times distilled. With New Years Eve still in front and a bacchanalia of epic proportions behind, what can I do but think happy thoughts about the coming year and a time when the little…

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Goth Chick News: The International Halloween, Costume and Party Show

Chicago once again played host to the IHCPS, February 26-29, but to say the show as a whole was a disappointment is the understatement of the century. This is the event around which my entire calendar revolves, and it usually requires a full ten-hour day to visit all of the exhibitors. I actually have a countdown clock on my computer ticking away the days to this most anticipated of events. However, in their first year back after a two-year run in…

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2007 Halloween, Costume and Party Show and the 12th National Haunt and Attractions Show

February 23-26, 2007, Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont, IL Reviewed by Sue Granquist Copyright 2007 by New Epoch Press. All rights reserved. Ever visited a really high-end haunted attraction and wonder where all those blood-soaked fake zombies came from? Or better yet, watch a great horror movie and wonder what the people in charge of the special effects do with their free time? Being the sort of twisted individual who actually ponders stuff like this, I had the opportunity to attend…

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