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Witch City Today.
A daily guide to what's happening in Salem, Massachusetts — live music, restaurants, bars, shops, festivals, and the full month of Haunted Happenings. Made by locals, made for tonight.
Launching Summer 2026
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What we're building
Salem is one of America's most-visited cities every October — and a lively year-round arts town the rest of the year. Existing event sites are slow, fragmented, or only show up for Halloween. We're building something faster, fuller, and locally-voiced.
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Live Music & DJs
Every venue, every night — from Bit Bar to Gulu Gulu and beyond.
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Tonight & This Weekend
What's actually happening — pulled from venue calendars, not stale event sites.
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Restaurants, Bars & Happy Hours
Real hours, current specials, and where locals actually go.
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Halloween & Haunted Happenings
Deeper than the official calendar — tours, parties, parade routes, queue intel.
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Year-Round Festivals
Salem Film Fest, Salem Arts Festival, Salem Horror Fest, Christmas in Salem.
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Shops, Museums & Tours
Independent retailers, witch shops, ghost tours, the PEM, the House of the Seven Gables.
Why Salem, why now
More than a million people visit Salem every October, and roughly 1.8 million across the year. Halloween night 2025 alone drew nearly 100,000 visitors. But ask anyone planning a weekend in Salem where to find tonight's live music, this Saturday's market, or the queue times for the best haunted house — the answer today is "scroll a dozen Instagram accounts."
Witch City Today brings it all into one fast, mobile-first guide. Daily updates, full venue coverage, and the kind of opinionated local voice the official sites can't write.