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Working Class Dweeb: Halloween in Los Angeles Suckahs!

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by Brenda Shea

!!Halloween!!

Ohboyohboyohboy do I love Halloween! I love seeing the amazing costumes people create. I love watching the kids Trick r’ Treat and see what characters are popular this year. This one’s gonna be number one!

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Not a sleestak

 

Tons of fun stuff to do. Here’s some of my favs:

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Deo de los Muertos
October 25-Nov 3
Olvera Street and El Pueblo Historical Monument
FREE!!!!

A great festival that pulls out all the stops. There’s children’s workshops, a candlelight Novenario procession nightly, pinatas, tons of art and dance, Community Altars (of course), sugar skulls (naturally) and face painting. The lines are always loooooong for the face painting, but it’s a blast to see all the kids with Calaveras faces. And did I mention free Pan de Muerto? Cause it’s there too and it’s delicious.

Also puppets.

The daylight and twilight hours are for one and all. At night, it turns into a bit of a free for all as the party adults turn up. Plan accordingly unless you really want to see a Sexy Raptor costume.

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Nope, can’t make this shit up

 

Easy access from every train line since Olvera is directly across from Union Station. Get in some historical architecture while you’re there.

Check for more details here! 

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SCREAMFEST
October 13-22
Chinese 6 Theaters

6801 Hollywood Blvd.
Across from the (haunted) Roosevelt Hotel
$11 for a feature plus short or complete double feature each night

$11 for a full double feature of two never before seen scary films. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I’m slowly going through all the movie descriptions and choosing the ones I can’t miss. This is an established festival that attracts creators new to horror as well as seasoned creatives branching out into the genre. There’s full length features, short films, and featurettes to see.

The very first film Wednesday night is called Curve and here’s the first sentence in the synopsis:

Curve – “A young woman becomes trapped in her car …” Shit. Already terrified. That one’s directed by Iain Softly who directed The Wings of the Dove and Hackers.

There’s also one called Don’t Fall Asleep, Motherfucker. A twenty minute short from Puerto Rico by an up-and-comer. So a little something for everyone.

Parking at Hollywood and Highland (flat rate) or take the Red Line to the Hollywood stop nearby to avoid the hassle.

 

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Craft and Folk Art Museum
Friday October 30 7-9
5814 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
$20, but that includes materials and pumpkins

Chemistry experiments and pumpkins! This is sponsored at the Craft and Folk Art Museum by a group called Machine Project. They host a couple of other workshops this month like Algorithmic Hiking and Landscape Photography and Blisters, Boils, and Open Wounds – and FX Makeup Workshop. So that sounds pretty cool. Sign up for their email list to hear about this stuff.

That said, I can’t find a lot of details on how this workshop is gonna operate other than that it includes pumpkins and explosives. But really, what else do you need to know?

http://www.cafam.org/programs/

$5 flat rate parking after 5pm.

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Dark Shadows Marathon
October 24-25 and October 31-November 1
The Decades Channel KCBS Los Angeles
Channel 2

There was about three feet of space between my mom’s side of the bed and the wall. When I was a kid, it was just enough room for tiny me to hunker down comfortably with a book or watch TV on the set opposite the bed. I watched cartoons, reruns, classic horror, and Dark Shadows.

If you’re busy Halloween weekend, here’s one you can run in the background as you go about your bidness. You’ll see plenty of live flies on the faces of actors professionally – and not so professionally – ignoring them, waving cardboard headstones, and set pieces slipping out of place as the camera rolls but who cares? You also get floating hands, a crazy woman singing “I’m gonna dance for you” and BARNABAS COLLINS.

Here’s some bloopers, LIVE bloopers, 1:25 is my favorite:

For indoor kids into everything horror in Los Angeles, here’s an exhaustive list of what’s available.

I’m off to a screening of Shaun of the Dead Halloween night. Pics to follow!

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