This week at westword.com/restaurants, Jason Sheehan discovers a taste of Puebla at Chili Verde. Photos by Mark Manger.

October was a busy month in the Denver music and nightlife scene. Relive it -- well, most of it -- with out monthly round up of the month's best parties, and see more music coverage on the Backbeat blog.

OK, so it's pretty tame -- but it's your tame, photos culled from the Denver Westord Flickr group. Upload your photos there and see them featured on westword.com.

Westword.com nightlife photographer Aaron Thackeray is oddly obsessed with Halloween, so we set him loose on the area's haunted houses and other Halloween-type places for a look at Haunted Denver. Today: The Reinke Brothers' year-round Halloween store in Littleton.

Promoter Kevin Larson hosted his annual Victorian Fetish Ball at the club formerly known as Wish on Saturday, October 24, 2009. Photos by Aaron Thackeray. (See last year's Fetish Ball slideshow here.

Zombies overtook downtown Denver on Saturday, October 25, 2009. Photos by Aaron Thackeray.

Mark Brasuell Through November 1, Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo Street, 303-477-7173, www.edgeart.org. You of All People! Here of All Places! Through November 14, RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe Street, 303-296-4448, www.redlineart.org.

DJ Miss Audry spun her last set on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at Funky Buddha on Lincoln. Photos by Uriah West.

Freakys tattoo artist Scotty Savell tried to tattoo as many people as possible in 24 hours in a breast cancer-awareness fundraiser Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24. Photos by Taylor Boylston.

Westword.com nightlife photographer Aaron Thackeray is also oddly obsessed with haunted houses, so this Halloween season, he'll be visiting some around Denver. Today: Field of Corpses in Arvada.

Westword.com photographer Aaron Thackeray was among the artists who showed off his work during the Denver Creative Co-Op's metal and apple-bobbing bash on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Since he was there ...

The University of Denver's Cable Center hosted the Bombay Sapphire Experience on Sunday, October 18, 2009.