If you live east of downtown you probably already know this but the Irvington Halloween Festival is this Saturday, Oct. 31, Halloween day. Our neighborhood does it up big around this holiday – the festival is in it’s 63rd year and a crowd in excess of 10,000 is expected. There is a crazy calendar of events related to the street festival, including a miniature version of the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange. The IHE Halloween ‘mini’ will take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m in a big white revival tent in a parking lot off Washington St. between Tiqueables and the scooter shop. There will be 20-some-odd vendors and live music by Shirtless Biddles, Pholly, and Julia Schafer & D. Mark Conway. If the weather holds it’ll be a damn fine day to stroll around our beautiful neighborhood. Hope to see you there.