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What we checked

Every candidate we found for this weekend gets a verdict. These are the ones that didn't make the list, and why. 292 candidates considered in total; 224 made it.

Not on these dates 14

• 25th American Lebanese Cultural Festival · Phoenix
  The church's 2026 poster gives November 6th, 7th & 8th, 2026 (the 25th annual festival), the weekend after the window.
• Creepin' Candy Crawl · Avondale
  The listing from the organizer (Avondale AZ Parks & Recreation) gives Thursday, Oct 29 2026, 5-8 PM, which is before the window.
• DTPHX Hallows' Eve · Phoenix
  The Downtown Phoenix Inc. events listing gives the 2026 edition as Thursday, Oct 29, 2026, 6-9 p.m., which is the day before the window.
• Día de Muertos at Desert Botanical Garden · Phoenix
  2026 main festival is Sat-Sun Nov 7-8 (noon-6pm) with ofrenda Nov 6-9; DBG events page shows no Día de Muertos programming Oct 30-Nov 1.
• Día de los Muertos Festival · Mesa
  The organizer page lists the 2026 festival for Sat Oct 24 and Sun Oct 25, before the Oct 30–Nov 1 window.
• Hayden Flour Mills Presents Bread Fest 2026 · Gilbert
  The upstream festival guide (festivalguidesandreviews.com, Arizona page) lists 'Hayden Flour Mills Presents Bread Fest 2026' on Nov 15 in Gilbert. GrindKit's Nov 1 date appears to be wrong. The Hayden Flour Mills site returned HTTP 429, so no organizer page confirms the date, but the best available evidence puts the event outside the window.
• MIKIZTLI: Día de los Muertos PHX Festival · Phoenix
  UnoTV's 2026 roundup lists the festival for Saturday, Oct 24, 2026, 4-9 p.m., a week before the window. No second 2026 date was found. The Visit Arizona page returned 403.
• Phoenix Pizza Festival · Phoenix
  The Eventbrite listing for Phoenix Pizza Festival 2026 gives Nov 14-15, 2026, which is outside the window. GrindKit's Nov 1 date is not supported.
• Scottsdale Día de los Muertos Fiestas · Scottsdale
  Organizer site lists the 2026 art installation Oct 22-25 and the Fiesta de Muertos festival Oct 24 at Scottsdale Civic Center; nothing listed for Oct 30-Nov 1.
• Spooktacular Halloween Sunsets & Sips · Scottsdale
  The event URL returns 404. The official Taliesin West events page lists no Halloween or Sunsets & Sips event Oct 25-Nov 5 2026 (next Sunsets & Sips is Nov 19), so the lead is from an older edition.
• Spooktacular Hot Air Balloon Festival · Scottsdale
  Rainbow Ryders page lists Oct 23-25, 2026, the weekend before the window.
• Spooky Blast · Fountain Hills
  The official Fountain Hills tourism listing puts it on Oct 24, 2026, which is outside the Oct 30-Nov 1 window.
• Sunset Market · Mesa
  The Downtown Mesa page says it is held the second Friday of each month from 5–9 PM, and the next listed date is Nov 13. Oct 30 is not listed.
• Theater for the Very Young Presents: Red · Mesa
  Mesa Arts Center lists performances only on Feb 19-21 and Feb 26-28, 2027. There is no performance on Oct 30, 2026.

Out of scope (concerts, private, etc.) 20

• All Saints Sensory Mass · Surprise
  Catholic Sun lists it for Oct 31, 2026, 10-11:30 a.m., but it is a worship service (a sensory-friendly Mass) followed by fellowship, not a festival or public event.
• BOO! Arizona · Scottsdale
  Insomniac's BOO! Arizona is a ticketed Halloween electronic-music festival (DJ lineup, GA/VIP passes); the haunted mansion and World of BOO are add-ons to a music-headliner event.
• Black Lagoon Halloween Pop-up at UnderTow · Gilbert
  Halloween-themed cocktail bar decor/menu at UnderTow; a bar offering rather than an event, and no hours, pricing or age policy are published.
• Butterfly Wonderland reptile and koi feedings · Scottsdale
  The weekly Friday reptile feeding and daily koi feeding are routine programs included with admission. No Halloween or special event is listed for Oct 30-Nov 1 2026.
• Ed Mell: In the Studio · Phoenix
  Ongoing exhibitions (Ed Mell: In the Studio runs Sep 26, 2026–Apr 11, 2027) with no special program this weekend; routine museum admission.
• Fear Forest · Phoenix
  The 2026 listing is a 18+ nightlife party built around DJs and live rap/hip-hop headliners (Lil Mosey, Ty Dolla $ign, Nardo Wick), so it counts as a music-headliner event. The listing also says it does not run on Oct 31.
• Free Arizona Honey Tasting · Peoria
  Weekly in-store retail tasting held every Saturday at Honey Hive Farms (listing runs Sep 2026 to Nov 2027); a routine recurring shop promotion rather than an event.
• Gears of War: E-Day x Prince St. Pizza · Tempe
  A restaurant menu and merchandise tie-in promotion (Sep 28-Nov 1, 2026), not an event.
• Halloween Costume Party at Alamo Saloon · Fountain Hills
  An annual bar Halloween party at Alamo Saloon built around a live band set (Funyun Fields, 8:30-12:30) with drink specials and a costume contest. This is a bar party and music night, not a qualifying event.
• Halloween Monster Mash at Janey's · Cave Creek
  The organizer is EverTone, a Scottsdale classic-rock band, and the listing is titled 'EVERTONE MONSTER MASH COSTUME PARTY' at Janey's, a music venue. It reads as a band gig with a costume theme. Date Oct 31, 2026, 7:30 p.m. is listed.
• Heard Museum special exhibitions · Phoenix
  These are ongoing exhibitions included with regular admission. The Heard page lists no special programming Oct 30-Nov 1, 2026; the nearest events are Nov 10-12. That makes this routine museum admission.
• Late Night Open Mic · Chandler
  This is a routine recurring open mic, not a special event. The venue's page does list it for Fri Oct 30, 2026 at 7 PM in the Garden Room.
• Lenny Pearce: Toddler Rave World Tour · Phoenix
  The 'Toddler Rave World Tour' is a music show for young children, tagged DJ and Live Music, so it is a music-headliner performance, not comedy.
• Lit Up Halloween Party · Glendale
  Listing is a live-music bar show: two rock bands (Rusty Halos, Magnum Axxe) are the main draw, with a costume contest added.
• Phantom of Bambino · Scottsdale
  A 21+ bar promotion at Bar Bambino built around DJ nights (featured DJs HOTSAUCE and Justin Irby, plus an R&B DJ night). This is DJ-centered nightlife and a bar special, not a qualifying event.
• Ragers Hollow III · Phoenix
  Described as a costume party with 40+ DJs and performers across rooms, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. with open bar; primarily a DJ/music rave, so falls under music-centric exclusion.
• Ranfla Vida: Local Lowrider History · Tempe
  A standing exhibit at the Tempe History Museum running through Dec 31, 2026 with free regular admission. No special program found Oct 30-Nov 1; KJZZ mentions an all-women's car club show on Nov 15, which falls outside the window.
• Scottsdale Museum of the West exhibitions · Scottsdale
  Exhibitions are listed as current with no run dates. No special program on Oct 30-Nov 1 2026, so this is routine museum admission.
• Trick Or Tease · Litchfield Park
  Listing is an after-hours party at a rental ('BNB') with the address released only on the day, no organizer, and Music/Party categories. It looks like a private house party, not a public burlesque event.
• Watchtoberfest · Paradise Valley
  Retail sales event at E.D. Marshall Jewelers (watch sales, trade-in offers, servicing) - a store promotion, not a public festival or community event.

Couldn't confirm 34

• 13th Annual Halloween Bash & Costume Contest · Mesa
  Re-checked 2026-10-29. No venue site was found (roostersmesa.com does not resolve), and the allevents.in listing is gone. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted. The 2026 date and time are unconfirmed, and it may be a music-centered bar party.
• 2025 Arizona Artist Awards: Alice Leora Briggs · Phoenix
  I re-fetched the museum's exhibitions page. It lists no Alice Leora Briggs or 2025 Arizona Artist Awards exhibition, only the 2026 Scult Family Artist Award show (Alanna Airitam, Jan–Jul 2027). The museum's Arizona Artist Awards pages return 404. Downtown Phoenix Inc.'s listing (Saturdays from Oct 31, 2026, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., $23) is still the only source and looks auto-generated. Web search was unavailable.
• Ahwatukee Farmers Market · Phoenix
  No organizer site could be found: ahwatukeefarmersmarket.com and .org don't resolve. Ahwatukee.com returned 429 and web search budget was exhausted. The only source is the grindkit aggregator (citing abc15): Sundays 9am-1pm, October-May, no address. A current fall 2026 schedule and a venue could not be confirmed.
• Annie · Gilbert
  Fresh attempt: the venue article page (two URL variants) and the Discover Gilbert page confirm the Oct 9-Nov 21, 2026 run but list no individual performances. The Hale ticketing calendar URL returned HTTP 500, and web search budget was exhausted, so no performance on Oct 30, Oct 31 or Nov 1 could be confirmed.
• Boo Bash at The Park at PV · Phoenix
  The only source is the Visit Phoenix Halloween roundup, which lists Oct. 30 with no year, time or link. The Visit Phoenix events calendar has no listing for it. No organizer site was found: parkatpv.com and www.parkatpv.com do not resolve, and theparkpv.com fails SSL. The shared web search budget was used up, so no further searches were possible.
• Carnival of Illusion · Phoenix
  I re-checked the organizer's ticket calendar. It shows no shows between Oct 30 and Nov 1, 2026; its only Phoenix date is Dec 19 at the Renaissance Downtown, and it says more Phoenix shows will be added. The organizer homepage lists no dates. Wrigley Mansion's events page lists no magic show. Visit Phoenix's Oct 30–Nov 1 roundup still lists it on Sunday at Wrigley Mansion with no time. The conflict is unresolved.
• Downtown Mesa Farmers' Market · Mesa
  Re-checked 2026-10-29. The Visit Mesa events page says only that the market is 'held every Saturday', with no hours, location or organizer. downtownmesa.com/events and its calendar list no farmers market, only Sunset Market and other events, and none on Oct 30-Nov 1. Visit Mesa's farmers-markets page returns 404. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted. A current fall 2026 schedule could not be confirmed.
• Fall Family Fun Day · Peoria
  Re-check failed. The shared WebSearch budget is used up, so no organizer could be found for 7569 W Greenway Rd. The allevents Peoria Halloween page, fetched this pass, does not list 'Fall Family Fun Day'. That page has a different 'Annual Fall Festival' (Peoria) with no date. Organizer, date and city are still unconfirmed.
• Farm to Mesa Market · Mesa
  Re-checked. Visit Mesa's directory still lists the market as Sundays 8am-12pm, seasonal fall/winter/spring, at Sirrine & 1st Ave, but its event page (visitmesa.com/events/farm-to-mesa-market/) returns 404. The market's old domain, farmtomesa.com, now 301-redirects to mesaagricola.com, an unrelated taco restaurant in Escondido, CA. That suggests the market may have ended. Web search budget was exhausted, so no 2026 confirmation could be found.
• Food Truck Fridays · Buckeye
  I tried again but found no organizer or venue page. The only listing is an allevents.in mirror of a Facebook community food group covering Verrado, Buckeye and Tartesso. It has a vague 9 a.m. recurring time from Oct 2 to 30, no fixed site and no truck lineup. Visit Phoenix's Oct 30–Nov 1 weekend roundup lists no Buckeye food-truck event. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted.
• Goodyear Halloween Celebration · Goodyear
  Re-checked on 2026-10-29. The AllEvents listing is unchanged: an individual ('KingDavid Alegend') posted a save-the-date for Sat Oct 31 2026 at 3 PM at Goodyear Ballpark. It has no end time and no price, and the details it promised for July were never posted. A search found no ballpark or city confirmation. The goodyearbp.com events URL returned 404, and the goodyearaz.gov news page returned 403. Past city Fall Festivals at the ballpark were on other late-October dates, and no 2026 edition was found.
• Goodyear Market · Goodyear
  Re-checked on 2026-10-29. The listings still conflict. The allevents listing is 'Goodyear's Market' by Kids Markets, Sun Nov 1 2026, 10–11 a.m., free, run by kids. The fairsandfestivals listing is '2026 Goodyear Holiday Market', Nov 1, 9 a.m.–1 p.m., with artisan, craft and food vendors and live music; its organizer details are hidden behind a paywall. The thecraftmap listing ('Día de los Muertos Goodyear Market') returned 429 again. The kidsmarkets.com homepage showed no event listings, and a search found no organizer or school confirmation. Searching then stopped because the shared budget ran out.
• Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Halloween Masquerade · Scottsdale
  I tried again; web search is exhausted. grandhyattscottsdale.com redirects (301) to a hyatt.com resort page, which returned 403, and the Grand Hyatt page on hyatt.com also returned 403. No 2026 listing was found on the resort's site or anywhere else. The only lead is still an undated search summary.
• Hallelujah Night · Peoria
  Re-check failed. The shared WebSearch budget is used up (the search call was refused), so no organizer could be found for 9600 W Peoria Ave. The allevents Peoria Halloween listing page, fetched this pass, does not list a 'Hallelujah Night'. Host, 2026 date and time are still unconfirmed.
• Halloween Bash at Casino Arizona · Scottsdale
  Allevents lists Halloween Bash under its Casino Arizona organizer profile, alongside real Showroom shows (Ozzmania Nov 6, Beach Boys tribute Nov 27): Sat Oct 31, 2026, 8 PM, free, 21+. Casino Arizona's own pages don't mention it. The entertainment page's first show is Nov 6, and the promotions page lists only the Trick-N-Treat gaming promotion (Oct 30-31, 3-11 PM), with no bash or costume contest. /events and /halloween return 404. No organizer page confirms the event.
• Magic in Movement: Celebrating 45 Years of Arathi School of Dance · Scottsdale
  I tried again; web search is exhausted. The AllEvents listing still claims Oct 31, 2026 12:30 p.m. to Nov 1, 2026 4:30 p.m. at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, but it has no ticket link or price. Scottsdale Arts' events page returned no listings to the fetcher. The Arathi School of Dance site (arathischoolofdance.com) failed with a TLS certificate error. No organizer, venue or ticketing confirmation was found.
• Mean Girls · Mesa
  Re-checked 2026-10-29. mesacc.edu/arts/theatre-film-arts and mesacc.edu/events both return 403, and no ticketing provider page was found. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted. The Oct 30-Nov 8 run and the Oct 31 shows rest only on an earlier search snippet.
• Movies in the Park: The Goonies · Tempe
  Removed in source audit: The Tempe Tourism event page lists Oct 30, 2026 The Goonies at dusk ~7:30pm, but under a 'Spring Movie Lineup' heading. A 7:30pm dusk fits spring, not late October. Tempe Tourism's 2026 fall roundup gives the fall series as Fridays Oct 2–23, with The Goonies on Oct 16 and a ~6pm start. The event page looks like a stale spring listing. tempe.gov returned 403 and the search budget was used up, so the organizer couldn't confirm an Oct 30 screening.
• Naturalist Guided Night Hike · Gilbert
  Fresh attempt: the aggregator again lists Fri Oct 30, 2026 at 6 p.m. and links the official Gilbert calendar event 15442/59. That page and the Riparian Preserve page both returned HTTP 403, and web search budget was exhausted, so the venue, price and registration remain unconfirmed by an official source.
• Phoenix Ghost Tours · Phoenix
  Rechecked the operator and listing pages. Spirit of Arizona Tours' site lists the Murders & Mysteries and Haunted Phoenix Pub Crawl tours with prices but no schedule. Fever's pages for the Haunted Pub Ghost Tour and the Get Ghosted Phoenix History, Mystery and Ghost Hunting Tour show Oct 2026 calendars, but available dates and session times don't render in the fetched page text. No session on Oct 30, Oct 31 or Nov 1, 2026 could be confirmed. The shared web search budget was used up, so no further searches were possible.
• Red Mountain Eagle Powwow · Scottsdale
  I tried again; web search is exhausted. The SRPMIC October 2026 events calendar shows no powwow. The FY27 calendar PDF (srpmic-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/FY27_Calendar.pdf) downloaded but its text couldn't be extracted. A search of SRPMIC's OAN news site found articles on the 34th (Nov 5–6), 36th (Nov 2–3) and 37th (Nov 2–3) powwows, but no 38th/2026 announcement. Past editions fall on early-November weekends, so Oct 31–Nov 1, 2026 is plausible but unconfirmed.
• Red Velvet Burlesque Show · Scottsdale
  I tried again and still found no performance in the window. Web search is exhausted for the session. The organizer's Scottsdale page (burlesque-show-scottsdale-az.html) says only that shows run 'weekly'. It lists no weekday, no Scottsdale venue (only a New York address and 'doors open at 10 pm') and no dates. The organizer's Eventbrite page has no upcoming events. The only Almost Famous / 6 p.m. listing is an open-ended weekly aggregator entry.
• Sanctum of Horror · Mesa
  Re-checked 2026-10-29. Neither sanctumofhorror.com nor its /tickets/ page has readable dates: the calendar is an image and ticket details load dynamically, with no external ticketing link found. The only nights the site names are BLACKOUT on 11/6 and 11/7, 7 PM to midnight. KTAR says the season runs 'through Nov. 7 (select days)'. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted. Whether it operates Oct 30, Oct 31 or Nov 1 is still unconfirmed.
• Saturday Car Show at The Pavilions at Talking Stick · Scottsdale
  The venue's own car-show page (organizer DeRito Partners) describes a Saturday-evening show from 4 to 8 p.m. It is stale: its last listed date is March 22, 2025, and it says the show paused for summer from May 15 with no reopening date announced. The venue's events calendar has no car show on Oct 31, 2026; its only listing that day is live music at Roadhouse Cinemas. The food blog's Saturday-morning schedule conflicts with the venue page and is unofficial. Web search budget was exhausted.
• Spice Night Market (Halloween edition) · Gilbert
  Fresh attempt: the craft-map calendar lead still returned HTTP 429, and web search budget was exhausted. No organizer or venue page was found, so the event, its date and its venue remain unconfirmed.
• Spooktacular Art Workshop with Jennifer Summa · Phoenix
  Fetched the URL whose slug contains 'spooktacular' (js-03-26-spooktacular-art-workshop-with-jennifer-summa). It now shows 'JS-04-26 Holiday Painting Workshop' on Sat Dec 5, 2026, 10am-12pm, ages 8-11, $54. Shemer's events listing has nothing between Oct 30 and Nov 1, 2026. The Spooktacular listing seems to have been replaced or removed, so no current venue page confirms an Oct 31 session. Web search budget was exhausted.
• Spooky Paint & Sip at The Wigwam · Litchfield Park
  Re-checked on 2026-10-29. The Visit Phoenix listing still shows only the title and Litchfield Park, with no date. The Wigwam events page lists no Halloween or Spooky Paint & Sip event in late Oct or early Nov 2026, and the latest on-property event it shows is Oct 28. A search turned up only a non-themed Wigwam Paint & Sip Night on Fri Sep 25 2026 (6–8 p.m., $58, Arizona Room), which falls outside the window. No 2026 date was found in the window.
• Tempe City Hall Farmers Market · Tempe
  Tempe Tourism's 2026 page says the market starts Oct 11, 2026 and runs 'most Sundays', 8 a.m.-noon from October through April. It does not say which Sundays, so Nov 1 is not confirmed. tempe.gov returned 403 on both the market page and the calendar. The Downtown Tempe events page has no listing for the market. Web search budget was exhausted.
• Terror Nights Haunted House · Tempe
  Searched again on 2026-10-29. The azhauntedhouses.com listing was last edited Oct 29, 2018 and shows no event dates. The Facebook page it links to (facebook.com/TerrorNightsAZ) returns only its title to a fetch, with no posts or dates. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was used up. No 2026 edition, dates or hours could be confirmed.
• The House of Haunts · Scottsdale
  Fetched the Facebook page again, and again only its title came back. houseofhaunts.com failed with an expired SSL certificate. Web search budget was exhausted. No 2026 dates, hours, address or prices could be confirmed.
• Trunk or Treat at Universal Technical Institute · Avondale
  Re-checked on 2026-10-29. The allevents Avondale page still mentions 'Trunk or Treat at Universal Tech' (Fri Oct 30 2026, 6 PM) only in FAQ text, with no event page, link or address. UTI's Avondale campus page lists no Halloween events, and its events page rendered no listings. A targeted web search found nothing. The shared search budget ran out before more searches could run.
• Uptown Farmers Market · Phoenix
  uptownmarketaz.com and www.uptownmarketaz.com still return HTTP 429, and guessed subpages return 404. Web search was unavailable because the shared budget was exhausted. The only schedule evidence is an aggregator saying Wed/Sat, Oct–April, 8 a.m.–1 p.m., which isn't enough to confirm that the market runs on Saturday Oct 31, 2026.
• Westbrook Village Baby Boomers Halloween Dance · Peoria
  The Westbrook Village Association events calendar (westbrookvillage.org/events-calendar/) shows no events on Oct 30 or 31, 2026 and no Baby Boomers Halloween dance. Nov 1 shows only a Turkey Drive. The separate classes calendar was not checked. The dance is likely a residents-only HOA club event. No 2026 edition was found.
• Wicked Revelry at the Compound · Glendale
  Re-fetched the allevents listing. It still shows only Sat Oct 31, 2026, 7–11:55 p.m., at 7241 W Union Hills Dr, Glendale, organized by an individual (Chadwick Fowler). It says 'more details coming soon' and has no ticket link or price. No venue or organizer page was found, and the web search budget was exhausted. It is unclear whether this is a public event or a private party.