Halloween is one of the biggest and most festive holidays in Ann Arbor. One
of the coolest parts of Halloween by far are the costumes — whether they’re
made last minute or whether they‘ve been in the works for an entire year. We
went out during Halloween festivities to document the goriest, cutest and most
interesting costumes.
Residential Ann Arbor
Nostalgia sets in when seeing children prancing around in their
costumes, buckets full of candy swinging. You can’t help but smile.
Seven-year-old Conner dressed as a member of the SWAT team. When
asked why he chose his costume he responded cooley, “because I like it.”
Love the decisiveness, Conner.
While Avery, who is five and a half years old, opted for a softer look, as
she sported her Elsa costume from “Frozen.”
“I like Elsa! She makes ice sometimes!” she exclaimed. She cannot wait
for the new Frozen movie to come out in theatres.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Abe had opted to mesh two of his favorite
things together into one costume. “I chose my costume because I like
Pokemon a lot ... and also vampires,” Abe explained.
Asher, who is four years old, dressed up as one of my favorite animals, a
gecko. He chose this animal “because (he) like(s) the golden (shine on his
costume).” A fashion icon in the making.
When we asked seven-year-old Matilda, who first introduced herself
in her scariest monster voice, why she had chosen her costume, she
firmly responded, “Because Marcel Marceau.” Seems as good a reason as
anything.
Nolan chose to dress up as Scream “Because (he) watched the movie,”
while Sean went for the hockey-player look “because he likes to play
hockey.” It’s a very bold choice to dress up as yourself, and we applaud that.
Hazel and Fiona, both 10 years old, strutted out in their best zombie
bride costumes.
“We wanted to be something zombie, and we wanted to be matching
costumes,” Hazel explained.
10-year-old Amelia went for a costume that would please both her and
her mother.
“I’m a ’70s hippie girl. My mom rejected all my other costumes, and I
really liked this costume,” she explained.
— Reporting by Claire Meingast, Daily Staff Photographer, and Isabelle
Hasslund, Daily Community Culture Editor
Lutherween
The Luther Co-op throws an iconic annual Halloween party, so we
decided to crash it.
School of Music, Theatre & Dance junior Archie Magnus and Literature,
Science & Arts junior Julia Silverman were sporting one of the best
couple’s costumes at Lutherween. A party widely regarded as one of the
biggest Halloween parties in Ann Arbor, Lutherween pulls in an expected
attendance of over a thousand people. Julia was decked out in magician
attire and Archie (to quote them directly) was a “sexy bunny.” The
inspiration for this costume was derived from a lot of internet searching.
“We felt a little discouraged until we found our way here. This was the
simplest and most budget-worthy costume,” said Magnus. “And funny!
It’s funny and good!” said Silverman. “Yeah, we’re pretty funny people,”
agreed Magnus.
“If you count the trip we took to party city, it took us an hour to put this
all together,” Magnus said. Besides, of course, for Silverman’s shoes. To
which she eagerly cheered before departing “Wait, but my shoes are from
Chicago — Chicago!”
During her final semester in the School of Social Work, graduate student
Emily Piellusch decided that now was as good a time as any to go all out for
Halloween.
“I’m a deathly/skeletory type of showgirl. I know skeletory isn’t a word,
by the way,” Piellusch said. She got the idea from looking at an Instagram
page from Brooklyn Club “Haus of Yes.” She had been picking up the
various costume pieces for a couple of weeks until she “finally did all the
crafting this afternoon in about an hour and a half.” This was a pretty
fantastic costume for an hour and a halfs worth of work, if you ask me.
Congratulations Emily, you’re killing it.
LSA senior Leah Hardy and Engineering junior Jacob Todd were also
sporting an adorable couple’s costume.
“We wanted a couple’s costume and we have a cat, so we figured Team
Rocket would be perfect for us,” Hardy said. “It was her idea,” Todd added.
When I asked Todd if he liked Hardy’s idea he said, “I mean yeah, I
was excited about it, I’m just not a very good planner. This is our first
couple’s costume. Last year we went to Halloween together, but we weren’t
coordinated.” I asked them how long they had been together and Hardy
said, “A year yesterday!” Daily photographer Keemya and I exploded in
congratulations before sending them on their way.
LSA senior Miranda Schaffer was wearing full Britney Spears attire.
She looked as though she had walked straight out of the iconic “Oops!... I
Did It Again” music video.
When asked what inspired this years Britney Spears costume, she said:
“Last year’s Britney Spears costume! Last year’s Britney look was ‘Hit
Me Baby One More Time’ Britney, and this look is ‘Oops!... I Did It Again’
Britney. Get it?” She thought of the idea for this costume 364 days ago when
she “enjoyed being Britney so much.” She felt like it was her “true calling.”
Schaffer ordered the red jumpsuit on Amazon two months ago because
she “went to the Halloween store and some buffoon tried to pawn me off
red leggings and a red t-shirt and say that was good enough to be Britney
Spears and I said ‘No, no, no!’ So I went on Amazon and ordered it that
night. A beautiful metallic jumpsuit.”
LSA senior Melissa Newman chose to be Lord Farquad from the movie
“Shrek” for Halloween this year.
“I’m obsessed with Shrek. Obsessed. Last year I was Shrek for Halloween.
I think it is the best movie on the planet.” According to Newman, her Lord
Farquad look had gotten a great deal of positive reactions that evening.
“People can immediately tell who I am. I entirely self-made this
costume, so I am pretty happy anyone is able to tell what it is.” It took her
about four hours to make the costume, yet she had been thinking about it
since last year’s Lutherween. She was quite excited that her love of Shrek
lived to see another year.
— Alix Curnow, Daily Arts Writer
Theatre party
What better place to get pictures of Halloween costumes than from
people who dress up in costume for a living?
SMTD & Business junior Nate Pierstorff took us back in time with
his Virgil costume from the iconic 2008 Disney Channel original movie
“Minutemen.”
“In 2017, my freshman year, the university installed this new statue by
the CCTC bus stop called ‘portal to a new’ something, and it looks like
the portal that they come out of,” Pierstorff said. “And I was just like, ‘You
know, they gave me a portal, I’m giving them ‘Minutemen.’’ Pierstorff said
he did a full photoshoot in the portal.
He was so dedicated to bit that even his phone background was the
movie cover.
“I like dropping in to different costumes. Like a little DIY masterclass
that we give to people.”
LSA sophomore Kaitlyn Tom and LSA freshman Rex Rubinstein put a
fun spin on their classic costume. Their original idea to dress up as bears
with “Directed by James Harbaugh” written on their chests as an ode
to their participation in MUSKET’S “Bare: A Pop Opera” (November
22nd-24th) fell through. But they found the next best thing: the Big Bad
Wolf and (sexy) Little Red Riding Hood.
Rubinstein was in head-to-toe black and red, with a little red cape, fluffy
tutu and even sexy knee socks.
“My costume was very, very last minute — I did a quick makeup look in
20 minutes and just put ears on and a tail,” Tom said. “I also had a boa to
add a little sparkle which I thought made my costume super cute — thanks
Rex!”
This year, Tom has embraced the Halloween spirit.
“I actually used to hate Halloween because I felt there was pressure as
a girl to look a certain way,” Tom said. “But in the past couple years, I’ve
begun looking forward to Halloween because it’s time I get to spend with
my friends and wear silly costumes like my wolf costume.”
SMTD junior Ryan Moore lives for Halloween. Throughout
Halloweekend, he progressed through Lady Gaga’s iconic looks from the
Met Gala.
“I was purely inspired by my love of Lady Gaga,” Moore said. “I also am
a huge fan of the camp aesthetic so when I saw her look for the Camp Gala I
knew immediately it was something I needed replicate somehow.”
Moore took Halloween costumes to the next level. Splurging on a
custom-made wig from Wigs by Vanity, it’s now his prized possession.
“I googled looking for a pink satin slip dress, which is a lot more difficult
to find than I thought it would be so I settled for a dress that was close
enough. I like that it had a slit in it because it allowed for people to see my
eight-inch heels!” Moore said.
He continued, “I looked on Amazon for black oversized sunglasses, a
necklace and an old fashion brick phone — I thought the blow up version
was really campy.”
As a theatre fanatic and a costume designer, Halloween is Moore’s
wonderland.
“Halloween is my favorite holiday,” Moore said. “I love dressing up all
year round and the week of Halloween is the one week of the year that I
can dress in costume and it’s considered normal, and everyone else is in
costume too. I love the creativity that Halloween inspires.”
— Dana Pierangeli, Daily Arts Writer
6A — November 4, 2019
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
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By Matt Skoczen
(c)2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
11/04/19
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
11/04/19
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
Release Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
ACROSS
1 Meh
5 Rubs out a
mistake
11 Four times daily,
in an Rx
14 Isaac’s eldest
son
15 “Scooby-Doo”
friend of Velma,
Fred and Shaggy
16 Former Egypt-
Syria confed.
17 Market report
detail
19 Texter’s “I think”
20 Genetic
messengers
21 Give, as a
citation
23 Southwestern
native that
rhymes with
53-Down
26 Breakfast grain
28 Word on an
octagonal sign
29 Plentiful amount
31 Bank takebacks,
briefly
32 Home run stat
33 “That’s gross!”
34 12th Jewish
month
35 Wows
38 Examine for
flaws
41 Scissors unit
42 Single
43 French friend
44 Harsh-smelling
46 Babe __
Zaharias, multi-
sport athlete
with two Olympic
golds (1932) and
10 LPGA major
championships
49 Not good at all
50 Yale student
51 Davis of “A
League of Their
Own”
52 Beauty contest
55 Cornfield bird
57 Say “Oopsie,”
say
58 2:15 p.m., e.g.
63 __ rule: usually
64 Part of 16-Across
65 “All good here”
66 Sleep acronym
67 Requiring help
68 Canadian gas
DOWN
1 Follow-up film:
Abbr.
2 Sch. in
Columbus
3 __ Paulo
4 Beat in a meet
5 Icelandic literary
work
6 Drake musical
numbers
7 Mo. with showers
8 Certain Muslim
9 SASEs, e.g.
10 Observes
11 “Shh!”
12 “Me, also”
13 Hangs limply
18 City west of
Tulsa
22 Exhaust
23 Three feet
24 Swedish pop
band
25 “The $64,000
Question,” e.g.
27 German gripe
30 Heifetz’s teacher
31 Mr. Hyde
creator’s
monogram
34 Fed. power dept.
36 The Congo,
formerly
37 Thing on top of
things
38 One charged
with a crime
39 “Follow me!”
40 Funny Fey
42 Frying liquid
44 Materialize
45 Needing
smoothing
46 Keep in custody
47 “Young
Frankenstein”
helper
48 Collectible doll,
and a phonetic
hint to four long
puzzle answers
53 Here, in Spanish
54 Ex-Georgia
senator Sam
56 Comedian Foxx
59 66, notably:
Abbr.
60 Morning hrs.
61 “Help!” at sea
62 Boxing ref’s
decision
A deep dive into Ann Arbor’s Halloweekend fashion
COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK
ALIX CURNOW
Daily Arts Writer
ISABELLE HASSLUND
Daily Arts Writer
DANA PIERANGELI
Daily Arts Writer
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