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What to do tonight?
CIA
the CIA in North Hollywood WILL BE JUMPING with Haunted Cologne, the McDaniels, and special mystery guests??? Doors open at 8pm, all ages (ps. We suspect THE RADIOACTIVE CHICKEN HEADS!!!)
THE BIGFOOT LODGE
will be showing scary movies, plus drink specials and DJ Lee will be spinning a scary assortment of Halloween themed records from the 50s - now.
Starting at around 9:00 PM!
410 BOYD
410 Boyd (410 Boyd St) combines the closing reception for Suzi Moon's Art Show with its First Halloween Party. Starting time is 6pm. The real show may be at the loft of Lilli Muller where folks will gather at 5pm before making the short trek through Skid Row to Boyd. The Rooftop Bar at The Standard Downtown (550 S. Flower St.) is holding an All Hallow's Eve Masquerade Ball hosted by Dance Right, James Outlaw and Metromix.com.
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MR T's BOWL
PSYCHOSEXORAMA! DON-O-WEEN(DONS NIGHT) with THEE CORMANS, ROVER'S PINKY, The Guilty Hearts, The Magnus Project,
with HOT BURLESQUE CHICKS action...
and other surprises with Haunted George...
no cover 21and over.......
SAFARI SAM'S
Devil Dolls, Rezurex Grave Danger Drop Dead Beats
8:30pm . Only $12
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THE WILTERN
The Pogues, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
The Pogues aren't exactly Halloween music, but some of that Irish music is seriously creepy.
Show up early tonight to catch an opening set by Ted Leo, one of MacGowan's most committed successors.
The Rooftop Bar at The Standard Downtown
All Hallow's Eve Masquerade Ball hosted by Dance Right, James Outlaw and Metromix.com. The entrance is free, but costumes are required and it's a guest list only affair. RSVP at metromix@danceright.com. (550 S. Flower St.)
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Restaurants
TAIX
If you like a good steak, and you like crazy jazz-punk-New Orleans fusion, check out the Atomic Sherpas tonight. Featuring Vince Meghrouni of Bazooka.
LOCANDA DEL LAGO
For a more mellow evening, this restaurant celebrates Halloween Italian-style with a "Hal-Lago-ween" party on Wednesday evening, October 31, with the Third Street Promenade outside the Santa Monica restaurant offering a colorful passing parade. Chef Davide Vedovelli's devilish delicacies include a distinctive menu of "Spooky Specials" and "Creepy Cocktails." For the faint-at-heart, the Lago's regular menu will also be available.
Halloween reservations are available, as is valet parking. All major credit cards are accepted. Locanda del Lago is located at 231 Arizona Avenue, Santa Monica. (310) 451-3525. www.LagoSantaMonica.com
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Cinema
HÄXAN w/ Bob Mitchell on the organ (1922) AT The Silent Movie Theater
Join us for an evening of transcendent strangeness as we present Danish director Benjamin Christensen's alternately horrific and hilarious 1922 pseudo-documentary about the history of witchcraft. Somewhere between a live-action Hieronymous Bosch painting and a painfully awkward session of Show-and-Tell, the vignette-style film features Christensen himself in the role of Satan. What begins as a dry instructional doc soon veers into mondo territory as Christensen catalogs ancient occult sordidness: nuns flip out, monks torture monks, flamenco-dancing witches make out with the devil. Häxan is acknowledged by most as the strangest silent film ever made. To be preceded by a shorts program and featuring live accompaniment on the organ. 611 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 480-3232 8pm
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Walt Disney Hall Concert Hall holds its annual Halloween event tonight. Organist Clark Wilson will be playing the soundtrack for silent film classic "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" on the hall's pipe organ at 8pm.
IMAX
Sea Monsters in 3-D!!! Call for times. 700 Exposition Dr., Los Angeles, (213) 744-2019
For girls who like girls and any boys who like boys:
WeHo. Obviously. Nuff said.
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SHOTGUN AT THE EAGLE
Dont take that wig off yet, cause the party continues Wednesday night at The Eagle!
Xochitl Brown is hosting a Masquerade Ball not to be missed. I'll be giving away free drinks all night to the best dressed and you brave ones can join the competition on stage for even more sassy loot. Good times, cheap beer and cheaper girls.
With Pups (and we don't mean children)
THE LOFTY DOG
don't forget that the lofty dog has a halloween party tonight. bring your dogs trick-or-treating in costume and you could win free grooming, dog food, and bragging rights. Even if you don't have a dog, walk by their glass storefront on 2nd and watch all the dogs in costume, it should be a riot 120 W. 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 ph: 213-687-8820 email: loftydogcafe@gmail.com
Other:
Book Soup
Hotel St. George co-founder Aaron Petrovich performs The Session: A Novella in Dialogue ... while wearing a straitjacket! Alex Rose reads from The Musical Illusionist. Joseph Mattson reads from Empty the Sun, a collaborative novel with Six Organs of Admittance. First 50 attendees get a free Six Organs of Admittance CD. 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (800) 764-BOOK
Mondo Video Closing Tonight!
Every thing in the store must go!
4328 Melrose Ave. Free 9PM
GHOST PHOTOGRAPHS
SEEING THINGS
October 27 - November 4, 2007
SPECIAL HALLOWEEN HOURS! 7 PM - 12 MIDNIGHT!
drkrm. Gallery
2121 San Fernando Road, Suite 3
Los Angeles CA 90065
323.223.6867
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BATBOY: THE MUSICAL
Glendale Community College Auditorium Studio Theatre
1500 N. Verdugo Rd. , Glendale , 91208 818-240-1000 Ext 5618
Batboy the Musical is finally back!!! Who isn't obsessed with Batboy? "The musical differs in a few of its plot details from the Weekly World News portrayal of Bat Boy. In the musical, Bat Boy learns to speak from his adoptive family, yearns for acceptance and tries to join society, only to face hatred and violence from a town that fears him and jealous rage from his foster father. Although full of blood, violence, incest and interspecies sex, Bat Boy: The Musical has won several awards and rave reviews. John Lahr of The New Yorker observed that "this is the only play in the history of the theatre whose hero ends Act I with a rabbit in his mouth, and who moves on in Act II to an entire cow's head." October 19, 20th, at 8pm and the 21st at 2:00pm (Plus additional dates
ZOMBIE JOE's UNDERGROUND THEATRE GROUP
Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
Just North of 101/134 FWYS., across from KFC
4850 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, 91601 (818) 202-4120
How can you resist a theater troupe that boasts of its proximity to KFC? Experimental theater, "Zombie Joe's Underground brings Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror story of obsession and murder to the stage in a spectacular new production. An exceedingly eerie Halloween treat! For All Ages 13 and up." Every Fri, Sat, October 5th - October 27th. $12
HELL HOUSE
If you were horrified by the documentary Hell House, you'll love this faithful interpretation by an ever-changing, big-name cast of comedians at Hollywood Hell House every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in October. The first tour departs at 8:30pm sharp and every 15 minutes there after until the last one at 10:45pm. 385 N. La Cienega Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90048
Also check out Tonight in Rock
As well as many killer Haunted Houses!
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