Hollywood Gothique

More ways to enjoy Halloween in Los Angeles: costume contests, parties, street fairs, and more

Date: October 30
Hours:

6:30pm to 8:00pm: Red Carpet Arrivals
7:30pm to 1:00am Halloween Launch Benefit

Location: The Conga Room L.A. Live, 800 West Olympic Boulevard # 235, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1366
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Description: The sCare Foundation – a newly founded non-profit organization whose goal is to alleviate the hardships of poverty and homelessness facing North American youth [...]

Date: October 29 at 8pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: Head on over to the Silent Movie Theatre for Halloween fun.
From the website:
If you’ve been a part of the Cinefamily for a while, then you know how monumental our Halloween parties are. It’s our birthday [...]

Date: October 31, 4-7pm
Location: Downtown Burbank, California
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Description: Downtown Burbank comes alive to the sounds of thousands of costumed kids and oodles of poodles decked to the K-9’s for Halloween. Parents are invited to bring their goblins and ghouls for an early evening of trick-or-treating. Downtown Burbank merchants provide free treats from store-to-store [...]

Date: Saturday, October 29 at 10:30pm
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: As part of the Halloween festivities surrounding the final weekend of the Tim Burton Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you are invited to join a ghoulish cast of friends [...]

[ October 30, 2011; 10:00 am; ] Dates: October 29-31
Hours: opens 1o:00am Saturday & Sunday; open all day Sunday, until midnight on Monday, Halloween Night
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: To celebrate the final weekend of their Tim Burton Exhibition, the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts presents some fanciful Halloween-themed festivities, including parties, performances, [...]

Location: 689 South E Street, San Bernardino, CA 92408
Date & Time: Saturday, October 29, starting at 4pm
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Description: Insomniac Events presents an all new Halloween Festival, featuring: AFROJACK, ATB, Benny Benassi, Steve Angello, Pendulum (w/ MC Verse), Markus Schulz, Doctor P, Borgore, Marco Carola, Ramon Tapia, Martin Buttrich (Live), Thomas Gold, Tritonal, Dash [...]

Location: The Beacon House, 1003 S. Beacon Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Date & Hours: October 29, 7:30pm to midnight
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Description: This year, Beacon Street House offers another Halloween party at the Barlett Center. For over 20 years, the Beacon House Association of San Pedro produced a Halloween block party, providing a safe way [...]

[ October 1, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:59 pm. ] Location: Pierce College, 20800 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA
Date: October 1, 10am to midnight
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Description: This year, Ben Von Stawn presents his second annual Monster Party at the Halloween Harvest Festival and FrightFair Screampark. In addition to all the other Halloween hijinx provided at the fest, there will be live music, artists, and [...]

With the Halloween weekend upon us, I have been busy updating the Hollywood Gothique website, making sure all the information you need is at your fingertips. Much of this is simple re-organization, but there is some new information, too.

The rather vaguely titled “Other Halloween Haunts” page has morphed into Halloween Parties & Street Fairs, which you can access here. The previous version of the page was a bit of a jumble, including harvest festivals, plays, and other activities more family-friendly, which didn’t sit well on a page mostly occupied by adult parties.

Location: MJ’s Bar, 2810 Hyperion Ave., Silverlake, CA
Date: October 31, 9pm-6am
Website: www.thegayboymansion.com
Description: MND Events & The Gayboy Mansion present their annual Halloween Costume Contest! $300 in prizes! Hosted by Ongina from RuPaul’s Dragrace, with DJs and dancing.
21 and over.
$10 admission

Planning your Halloween Weekend? Wondering What to do with these final days of October? Looking for something new and different? With the opening of the Theatre 68 Haunted House this past Friday, all of Los Angeles’s professional Halloween haunts are in full swing, leaving the Halloween yard haunts to dominate the concluding weekend of October, along with various horror movie screenings. Here is a rundown of Halloween events and attractions opening around Los Angeles this weekend.

Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Halloween (October 31), 4-7:30pm
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Description: Bring your kids for more treats on Halloween inside the safe confines of the museum grounds. Children 1 to 12 years of age, with parent accompaniment, may come in costume and receive sweet treats from our costumed interpreters [...]

Location: Stories, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, (213) 413-3733
Date: October 23 at 7:30pm
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Description: The New Los Angeles Folk Fest is co-presenting the final night of the Trailer Fire Records October series at Stories as a pre-party for their Murder Ballads festival on October 26 at the Echoplex. This free Halloween [...]

Location: El Rey Theaer, 5515 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90036
Date: October 31, Halloween Night
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Description: The Astra Dance Company invites you to step back in time and experience the world of Edgar Allan Poe, returned to life. They will perform “Astra,” their waltz ballet in three acts, followed by a turn-of-the-century burlesque show, [...]

Location: Exchange Los Angeles, 618 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90014
Date: October 31
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Description: This seven-hour Halloween celebration claims to feature the hottest DJ’s in the Techno scene in a 25,000-square-foot venue located downtown.
Tickets are $15.00 in advance or before 11:00pm night of the event, then $20 after midnight. Advance [...]

Location: Central Park & One Colorado Courtyard in Old Town Pasadena, CA
Dates: October 30-31, starting at 1:00pm
Description: Old Town Pasadena offers a weekend of free haunted Halloween happenings for the entire family! Spooky activities include a pumpkin hunt, kids Halloween craft center, costumed characters, Halloween moon bounces, live ghoulish music, scary animal and bug show-and-tell, kid-friendly haunted house, store-to-store trick-or-treating and much more! Read more from the press release below the fold.

[ October 31, 2010; 6:30 pm; 6:30 pm; ] Location: Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Date: October 31 – doors open at 5:30pm; band begins at 6:30pm; film screens at 8pm
Description: The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest presents the second of two evenings of Halloween fun, featuring Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of Stephen King’s THE SHINING, preceded by live Music from Criminal Belly. There will be a costume contest, ghoulish treats from the food trucks, and giveaways that those who attend in costume will be automatically entered to win.

[ October 30, 2010; 6:30 pm; ] Location: Los Angeles State Historic Park, The Cornfields near China Town, 1245 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Date: October 30 – doors open at 5:30pm; band starts at 6:30pm; film starts at 8pm
Description: The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest presents the first of two evenings of Halloween fun, with the zombie horror-comedy hit from 2009, ZOMBIELAND. The film will be preceded by live music from The Quiet. There will be a costume contest, ghoulish treats from the food trucks, and giveaways that those who attend in costume will be automatically entered to win.

Title: L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Halloweenie
Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Date: Saturday, October 23 at 9pm
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Description: For the first time ever, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery - final resting place to the stars – will open its gates for a frightfully fabulous (or fabulously frightful) Halloween party: the L.A. Gay & [...]

We certainly hope you followed our advice and got a jump on the Halloween season by attending the Knotts Berry Halloween Haunt, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the Queen Mary Dark Harbor. If you failed to heed our sound suggestion, it may already be too late to catch up, because even more [...]

[ September 30, 2010; 7:15 pm; ] Location: Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, Universal City, CA. Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper reunite for the Gruesome Twossome Halloween Hootenanny Tour. The stop at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City includes a special offer: a combo ticket for the concert and for a trip to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood – for $59.

Location: Heritage Junction, 24151 Newhall Ave, Newhall, CA 91322
Date: Saturday, October 23, 10:00am to 3:00pm
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Description: This free, family-friendly event takes place during the morning and afternoon, on the locatation of the night-time Heritage Haunt. Before the event a parade begins in Newhall at 9:00am and winds its way to Heritage Junction.
Entertainment includes:

Pumpkin [...]

Title: Monster Massive
Location: Los Angeles Sports Arena, 3939 South Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA 90037
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Description: The 13th annual edition of this Halloween dance party features five separate entertainment areas, with musicians and DJs: Tomb of Doom, House of Horror, Phantom Chamber, Devil’s Dungeon, Witches Wood. Tickets run $60-80 in advance or $125-150 for [...]