Halloween

USC Halloween Shooting: 4 Hit, 2 Taken Into Custody

Updated at the bottom with details, including four hit and two in custody. Headline has changed. First posted at 12:28 a.m. At least two people, possibly three, were shot outside a Halloween party at USC overnight. The attack on Trousdale Parkway was reported sometime before midnight, according to ... More >>

Peelander-Z - Bootleg Theater - 10-27-12

Peelander-Z with Electric Eel Shock Bootleg Theater 10-27-12 Better Than: That "Masquerade Ball" down the street. I face a dilemma before going to see Japanese punk rockers Peelander-Z on Saturday night: What the hell should I wear? It's the Saturday before Halloween, and this is a band that dres ... More >>

The 13 Best Things to Do For Halloween in L.A.

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *10 Oddball L.A. Museums Worth Seeing By Tanja M. Laden One of the best things about living in Southern California is the idea that Halloween is a month-long celebration that a ... More >>

Death, Anime and More Death: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week's list is especially for horror lovers. Friday, Oct. 26 Feeling the autumn blues (by L.A. standards, anyway)? Soak up some inspiration from Seeds of Resiliency, an indie flick that spotlights an assorted mix of people, from the Guinness World Record holder for performing flips in his whe ... More >>

Zombies and Mummies: 
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see includes some evidence of Halloween creeping in: Thursday, Oct. 18 Andrew Shea's thriller of a documentary, Portrait of Wally, traces the legal journey of the titular 1912 painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele of then-17-year-old Valerie "Wally" Ne ... More >>

International Cosplay Day is Saturday. But Why Do People Cosplay in the First Place?

Dressing up as famed characters from across the pop culture landscape for events other than Halloween is nothing new. Certainly, people were doing it well before the term cosplay came into being. But, with every passing year, the image of the superfan dressed in detailed, oftentimes complicated, cos ... More >>

Long Beach Gay Bashings Have Community On-Edge: Police Increase Patrols

The Gay and Lesbian Center of Long Beach​Updated at the bottom with comments from a Gay and Lesbian Center official. First posted at 3:55 p.m. West Hollywood isn't the only community in the midst of a gay bashing scare. Gay rights activists in Long Beach are planning on bringing back long-go ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Treats for the Kid-At-Heart

​No matter how you slice it, Halloween brings out the sweet tooth in all of us. Sure, you can raid your kid's bag for something sweet, or grab that family-size bag of Kit Kats at Target (you feel the pull, whether you're giving out candy or not), plenty of local restaurants, bakeries and confe ... More >>

Downtown L.A. Halloween Bar Crawl [Photo Gallery]

Guzzle & NoshPunch from Broadway Bar (top), the scene at Las Perlas (bottom), angry Scottish Highlanders from Seven Grand (right).​In Los Angeles, even the bars get dressed up for Halloween. This year, all eight of the downtown L.A. bars owned by Cedd Moses -- Casey's, Cole's, Las Perlas, Tony ... More >>

Top 5 Weirdest Halloween Candies

S. Bonar​Some see squishy eyeballs as the perfect inspiration for gummy candy. Others feel the same way about spongy brains. Someone out there thought, "What if you took body parts and put them on sushi rice? Wouldn't that be cool?" Yet another fine fellow pondered, "How 'bout I make an energy ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Halloween Horror Flick Crunch

"It Was Dark as F*ck on the Streets": Hip-Hop Does Halloween

TheUrbanDaily.com​The Halloween season is here again, which means very soon the streets will be filled with trick-or-treating children as well as women dressed as everything from slutty kittens to slutty paperclips to slutty sluts. If you're throwing a Halloween party you're going to want your ... More >>

7 Must-See L.A. Halloween Events This Weekend

Nanette Gonzales​ No plans for Halloween? Not looking forward to trying to park in WeHo for the parade Monday night? Check out these seven other weekend events. We won't say they're spook-tacular. If we did you'd have to shoot us.

Lucha VaVoom, Please Send More Bazooms

Photos by Timothy Norris​Lucha Libre is a peculiarly Mexican phenomenon, but titties speak a language anyone can understand. So the Lucha VaVoom show, which had its Halloween event last night at The Mayan in downtown, has cleverly placed itself at the intersection of colorful wrestling masks a ... More >>

5 Cutest & Least Scary Halloween Treats

Halloween is not supposed to be cute. Scary, yes. Creepy, yes. Death-obsessed, yes. Still, cute Halloween goodies abound. Adorable Frankensteins, precious zombies, ticklish vampires with candy corn teeth and ghosts that would make Casper look like a crank. What the $%^#!@! is going on? Here are five ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Pumpkins from Your Local Farmers Markets

Felicia FriesemaOne of many pumpkin displays at the Hollywood market.​Second only to fireworks and the old Victorian tradition of lighting actual candles in a dead pine tree (the stuff of California nightmares), the Halloween jack-o'-lantern tops the list for ways to make your local fire depar ... More >>

Top 5 Halloween Candy Urban Legends

T. NguyenWhat evil lurks in this year's bag of Halloween candy?​Trick-or-treating is a time-honored, once-a-year tradition when, just for this one night, children are ask for, and receive, candy from strangers. Reliance on the kindness of strangers, only goes so far. Every Halloween, parents Q ... More >>

The Damage, Halloween 2010: Three-Year-Old South L.A. Trick-Or-Treater Slammed By Hit-And-Run Driver, Boyle Heights 22-Year-Old Kills Girlfriend And Child In SUV

Sow There!​The night of October 31/morning of November 1 are inevitably rough on the crime front -- something about unlimited Skittles and slutty schoolgirls brings out the evil in any community. This year was no exception in L.A., with a slew of messy shootings and even more deadly road rage ... More >>

Halloween Shooter Took Out Four Guys In Hollywood -- Right In Front Of The Cops

AirSplat​West Hollywood -- L.A.'s central Halloween hotspot -- may have stayed relatively tame last night (if you call 8,239 trannies doing the "Time Warp" tame), but Hollywood proper just to the north gave the infamous 2006 Halloween shootings in the Castro a run for their money. It was str ... More >>

We Met Outside The Mummy Ride: The Best Of Halloween Weekend's 'Missed Connections'

PHOTO BY NICHOLE O'CONNORDon't be fooled -- he's as lonely as Mark Zuckerberg​The only thing harder than making a lasting connection in L.A. is making a lasting connection when you can't recognize the person the next day. In the tradition of our sister news blog at the Village Voice, we've be ... More >>

From Rated G to Around R: 2010 Food Halloween Happenings

Photo: Andy ReaserSome good, morbid Día de los Muertos creative fun.​ We've all been getting into the groove of fall foods and pumpkins and such. And in case you haven't stepped foot in a drug or grocery store since September, it's also that time of year when high fructose corn syrup gets shi ... More >>

Chipotle Debuts "Horrors of Processed Foods" Halloween Program

ChipotleHappy Halloween From Chipotle's Chairman & Jamie Oliver​ Still undecided on a Halloween costume? With only a few days to go until every man, woman, child and family pet transforms themselves into some version of a super hero, sexy nurse, pirate, and four-legged bratwurst, we've got an ... More >>

Top 10 Scary Beer Names for Halloween

Wychwood Brewery​ Looking for a chilling potion to compliment your Halloween horror fest? Three L.A. brew experts -- Christina Perozzi of The Beer Chicks, Ryan Sweeney of Verdugo Bar and The Surly Goat Bar, and Alex Macy of City Sip LA, which will be hosting a beer and zombie book pairing this ... More >>

Trick or Hide Your Kids Hide Your Wife?: Here's Your Antoine Dodson-Approved Antoine Dodson Halloween Costume

They're trick or treatin' everybody out here: Antoine Dodson cashes in for Halloween (good for him)​First came the viral video, then the hipster remix, then the covers and the ringtones and the BET awards appearance, and now "Bed Intruder Song" accidental chanteur Antoine Dodson has licensed a ... More >>

Maggots and Aliens and Clowns, Oh, My

At Monsterpalooza, finding out what scares the scaremongers

Would You Put A Squid On Your Head? Josh Freeman's Etsy Squid Hats Explained (Sort Of)

All photos courtesy of Josh Freeman and his squids​Josh Freeman, 34, is the guy behind those infamous Squid Hats on Etsy. You know, the ones that made the rounds of the weird crafts blogs not too long ago? Here below, he tells the story behind the Internet's most bizarre headgear. What's with ... More >>

WARNING: NOT THAT NICK CAVE

Five Luanne Platter Moments We Love

View photos from the last King of the Hill table reading here. For King of the Hill fans, Brittany Murphy, who died yesterday after suffering from cardiac arrest, will forever be remembered as the voice of Luanne Leeanne Platter Kleinschmidt, the cute and naive niece of protagonists Hank and Peggy ... More >>

LAPD Searches For Halloween Acid Attacker

Los Angeles police are searching for a suspect who they say poured acid on the face of his girlfriend during a physical and sexual attack on Halloween.LAPD​ They're looking for 30-year-old Miguel Angel Herrera of Los Angeles, who they allege tortured his girlfriend by hitting her, cutting her ... More >>

Halloween in LA: The Recap

Patrick Range McDonald​Now that the costume stress and sugar rush are history, take some time to check out LA Weekly's Halloween party coverage.

Phish at Coachella, Day 2: For Halloween, The Band Covers Exile on Main Street (with Sharon Jones)

By Jeff Miller Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds here. Halloween's a holiday that Phish built their reputation for unpredictability on - since 1994, when a show by the band's fallen on October 31st, they've celebrated by donning ... More >>

Phish at Coachella, Night One: An Expansive Introduction

By Jeff Miller For me, watching a Phish festival on the same field that hosts Coachella each year's like introducing your college friends to your high school friends for the first time: you love them both equally, but there's always something kind of...off about that first introduction. Though they ... More >>

Billionaire Hopes To Revive Hospital Of Horrors

A doctor who says he was moved by the story of a woman who bled to death in the emergency room waiting area at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital is putting a $100 million in loan guarantees behind a movement to revive the troubled institution. The question is, on this Halloween eve, is the plac ... More >>

There Will Be Blood (Shots) at Katsuya

Rather, there will be "blood" at Katsuya, in shot form. Tomorrow on Halloween, strawberry-flavored rum and acai berry juice, called "Blood Shots," will be two for $5 at the restaurant's Glendale location. Adding even more holiday color to the restaurant's white and tan palate, a costume contest in t ... More >>

A Hand Guide for HARD Haunted Mansion

A Handguide for Hard Haunted Mansion

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

WHERE THE WILIS ARE

Ladies In Da House: Apollonia, Spinderella and Lady Miss Kier Spin In LA Tonight

Only funky femmes like these could tempt us to abandon our plan to hibernate 'til Halloween. Tonight, Thursday, Oct. 29, three of dance music's most beguiling females take over the decks in LA. ​At AFEX, Adam 12's old school hip-hop joint, one time Prince protégé Apollonia takes the decks ... More >>

For Those Who Never Saw Klaus Nomi Live

Knomi "Total Eclipse" Ever wondered what it would be like to see Klaus Nomi live? Yeah, I have too. So, last night, I headed to Church of Fashion's Halloween party to see Knomi, which is essentially a tribute to the late, great singer. Watching the ghost of Klaus Nomi appear before a group of cost ... More >>

The Gorbals To (Re)open This Saturday: Probably, Maybe, 80% Sure It Will, Why Not?

Okay, let's try this again. The Gorbals, Ilan Hall's new downtown restaurant, will open this Saturday night, according to the restaurant's co-owner Natan Zion. Or at least he's pretty sure it will open. "About 80%" sure. Apparently they were good to go when the electricity went out just as the inspe ... More >>

Buen Provecho: Dia de Los Muertos Cooking Class in Long Beach

Jennifer Banash​Halloween is without a doubt the ultimate food-driven holiday for kids. Between dressing in ridiculous costumes and getting massive amounts of free candy, there isn't much not to love. However, in Los Angeles, with its massive Mexican population, there is another holiday with ... More >>

THIS'LL HAVE YOU IN STITCHES

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

'Weekend At Bernie's'-Like Scene Unfolds in MDR

Authorities called to an apartment complex in Marina Del Rey last night discovered the body of a man slumped on a third-floor balcony. The deceased, said to be about 75, had suffered a gunshot wound, thought to be self-inflicted. The twist: Neighbors had seen the body, in plain view, over the much o ... More >>

RADIO GOO-GOO

Slumlord Millionaire: Property King Frank McHugh Condemned

Sunday's L.A. Times unloaded on Frank McHugh, the 84-year-old owner of, once upon a time, about 200 vermin-infested properties mostly located in Pico Union and South L.A. For half a century he had weathered lawsuits and wriggled around court orders until 2007, when a judge forced him to sell off hi ... More >>

Presidential Wrestling Christmas Tree Ornaments

Fifteen presidential candidate ornaments for your very own tree. In this, an election year, perhaps consider doing a White House themed tree. I'm all for themed Christmas trees. I did a Goth tree one year with skeletons and spiders, essentially repurposing the decor I couldn't let go of from Hallowe ... More >>

Rockie Ascendent: A Farewell to Our Favorite Stargazer

A farewell to our favorite stargazer

Elfdoll: Don't Call It A Toy Company

By Liz Ohanesian Winner of the Elfdoll Halloween contest that took place October 25. Photo by Jackie Canchola. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Hyper_Real_Elfdolls_Take_U_S_By_Storm'; The popularity of resin-based ball-jointed dolls (BJD), typically made in Japan, South Korea and China, h ... More >>

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