HALLOWEEN EVENTS.Byline: - Jaime Spangrude Halloween events around the Valley and Los Angeles areas. SPOOKY SITES Disneyland ``Haunted Mansion Holiday Haunted Mansion Holiday is a seasonal attraction at the Disneyland park in California and Japan. Called Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare in Japan, it is a blend of The Haunted Mansion and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. ,'' a madcap mix of Halloween and Christmas inspired by Tim Burton's ``Nightmare Before Christmas,'' through Jan. 4. 1313 Harbor Blvd., Anaheim. (714) 781-4565. www.disneyland.com. The Fright Gallery presents ``Experiments in Terror,'' a walk-through haunted attraction, 6 to 10 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, 6 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, through Nov. 1. Media City Center Mall, 201 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank. (818) 840-8400. Knott's Berry Farm Knott's Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. ``Halloween Haunt,'' featuring mazes, themed rides, scare zones, live shows, and ghosts and ghouls, Wednesday through Sunday, through Nov. 1. (714) 220-5200. www.halloweenhaunt.com. Queen Mary Shipwreck 2003, its ninth annual Halloween Terror Fest, featuring mazes, Boiler Room Club, live bands, dance party and Fright Mistress' lair, Friday through Sunday (except Oct. 12) through Nov. 1. 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. (562) 435-3511. www.queenmaryshipwreck.com. Spiderbook Productions presents ``Haunted Hollywood Ghost Walk Tour,'' an interactive two-hour guided walking tour of some of Hollywood's most famous and also little-known haunted locations, 8 p.m. daily (except Wednesdays and Sundays). Tours leave from outside the Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. (800) 950-7667. FAMILY FRIGHTS Knott's Berry Farm 11th annual Camp Spooky, a nonscare family celebration of daytime trick-or-treating, themed attractions, pumpkin- carving demonstrations, and Peanuts Gang musical revue, weekends through Oct. 26. (714) 220-5200. www.halloweenhaunt.com. Santa Monica Playhouse presents the annual all-rhyming mini-classic musical ``A Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel fattened up for child-eating witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56] See : Cannibalism Hansel and Gretel woodcutter’s children barely escape witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56] See : Escape Halloween,'' weekends through Nov. 2. 1211 Fourth St., Santa Monica. (310) 394-9779, Ext. 2. www.santamonicaplayhouse.com. EERIE EVENTS BCR BCR B Cell Receptor BCR Business Communications Review (magazine) BCR Banca Comerciala Romana (Romanian bank) BCR Breakpoint Cluster Region BCR Benefit/Cost Ratio BCR Bay City Rollers hosts its ``Ghosts of Halloween'' dance for adults and teens with developmental disabilities, featuring a DJ and refreshments, 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Oct. 10. Caregivers admitted for free. McCambridge Park Recreation Center, 1515 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank. (818) 843-4907. Faulkner Farm Pumpkin Patch features acres of pumpkins, a giant sunflower forest, scenic hayrides, farm animals, haystacks Haystacks can be:
Fillmore & Western Railway Company offers the Pumpkinliner, a decorated train that stops at a private pumpkin patch or ``lightning-lit'' location during the evening. Visitors can also enjoy the Jolly Jumps, Queen Witch, hay maze, arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , food and more, weekends through October. 250 N. Central Ave., Fillmore. (800) 773-8724. www.fwry.com. Universal CityWalk unleashes ``The Big Scare'' Halloween Film Series featuring exclusive presentations of classic horror films on the IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard screen, weekends through Oct. 31: ``Candyman,'' Oct. 10; ``House of 1000 Corpses This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. ,'' Oct. 11; ``Night of the Living Dead,'' Oct. 17; ``Evil Dead II,'' Oct. 18. 100 Universal Center Drive, Universal City. (818) 622-3855. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: It has its ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits Beware of ghouls riding Colossus Colossus - (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes). 1. |
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