HALLOWEEN EVENTS.Byline: - Jaime Spangrude Halloween events around the Valley and Los Angeles areas. SPOOKY SITES Burbank Park, Recreation, and Community Services Department presents ``The Haunting of Coyote Creek Mine,'' the annual haunted hike tour, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 17-18 ($5 per person). Stough Park, Burbank. (818) 238-5440. 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. holds its ``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 holds Shipwreck 2003, its ninth annual Halloween Terror Fest, featuring mazes, Boiler Room Club, live bands, dance party and Fright Mistress' lair, Friday through Sunday, through Nov. 1. 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. (562) 435-3511. www.queenmaryshipwreck.com. Six Flags Magic Mountain Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company,[1] holds its Fright Fest, featuring costumed ghosts and ghouls, live shows, mazes, street entertainers, children's area, and roller coasters in the dark (including Colossus Colossus - (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes). 1. 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 holds its 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 City of Calabasas hosts the 11th annual Calabasas Pumpkin Festival ``It's a Family Affair,'' featuring games, live music, pumpkins, and outdoor shopping, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 18-19. Paramount Ranch, Agoura. (805) 370-2301 or (818) 707-2404. Discovery Science Center Discovery Science Center is a learning complex with more than 100 hands-on science exhibits designed to spark children's natural curiosity. Located 2500 N. Main St. in Santa Ana, California, Discovery Science Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. presents ``Spooky Science,'' featuring the Mad Scientist Laboratory complete with creepy chemistry, giant skeletons, beastly beast·ly adj. beast·li·er, beast·li·est 1. Of or resembling a beast; bestial. 2. Very disagreeable; unpleasant. adv. Chiefly British To an extreme degree; very. bugs and makeup demos, Oct. 24-31. Kids ages 17 and under who come in costume will receive half-price admission to the Science Center. 2500 N. Main Street, Santa Ana. (714) 542-2823. 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: ``Night of the Living Dead,'' Oct. 17; ``Evil Dead II,'' Oct. 18; ``The Exorcist ex·or·cism n. 1. The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising. 2. A formula used in exorcising. ex  or·cist n. ,'' Oct. 24; ``Scream,'' Oct. 25; ``Alien:
The Director's Cut,'' Oct. 31. (818) 622-3855
CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Spooky doings Celebrate Halloween with some Christmas spirits in Disneyland's 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. , through Jan. 4, 13313 Harbor Blvd., Anaheim. (714) 781-4565. |
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