By choice, too. As part of Bill Lobdell’s series, “Living Vicariously,” he endured a makeup chair and an hour inside a maze at Knott’s Halloween Haunt, scaring the crowds by threatening to give their phone number to the Times subscriptions sales department. Okay, he wasn’t that scary. Fun stuff. Read […] Read more
The Los Angeles Vampires October Meet Up is this Saturday, October 20th, so if you are a bloodsucking beast of darkness and you’re feeling a bit isolated and misunderstood, this is your chance to engage with kindred spirits. I won’t divulge the location, but if you join their online group […] Read more
Helen Jupiter has assembled a handy guide to Dead Celebs at Hollywood’s Historic Cemeteries. I can’t decide if the best thing about graveyards is that they’re open year round, or that they’re free to visit. But what better time to visit than in the weeks before Halloween? Read more
Drama After Dark: A Night of the Macabre with Poe and Gorey The rolling, manicured grounds of the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens are a beautiful enough spectacle during the day, but the idea of wandering through them in the moonlight as actors perform stories by Edgar Allan Poe and […] Read more
On Saturday, October 27th, Answer LA will hold a “Mass March, Rally & Die-In” in Downtown Los Angeles. If you’ve ever been to a war protest, you can probably agree the comparison to a Halloween parade is easy: tons of people are dressed up, as anything from politicians to giant […] Read more
An article from the July 1st, 1917 Los Angeles Times is unusual in its lack of one key detail: location. Perhaps at the time the reported haunted house was so well know it deserved little more detail? “Spook” Haven Razed by Fire “Haunted House” of Hollywood Burns Despite Efforts of […] Read more
“You can’t look to the stars until you’ve fixed the cracks in the sidewalk.” A fourth-generation Angeleno, City Council President Eric Garcetti was born at Good Samaritan Hospital and grew up in Los Angeles. Elected to the LA City Council in 2001 as one of its youngest council members, he […] Read more
Selected events from the Creepy connoisseur… The Nightmare Before Christmas In 3-D Thursday Oct. 18th at 7:00 PM, opening night panel discussion; Screening and Sing-A-Long at 9:50 PM. El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood. Runs through Nov. 19th. Tickets $13.00. Not to be missed, the genius of Tim Burton in pre-CGI stop-motion […] Read more
“My kitty litter cake is always a huge hit. People have applauded me for how authentic it looks, and are surprised at how tasty it is.” Our friend, Mary Patton, the indie-artist manager and entertainment consultant, has been in the kitchen again. You may remember her Jell-O brain from last […] Read more
ABC7 has video of a pirate ship a San Dimas family built on their front lawn for Halloween, “complete with a 40-foot mast” and animatronic skeletons. Read more
