Monday, Oct. 31
Lowdown: STILL No Plans For Humboldt Halloween?!? Click Here, You Lazy Ghoul!
Monday is an anticlimactic day for Halloween to fall on. At this point you’ve already consumed mucho candy and booze, already donned several sexy costumes and have already driven your car through a university sign, as is tradition. You’re all spooked out!
Well too bad. You have to go have fun for one more night. Scroll your Lowdown listings below for all the actual Halloween joy and then go ruin your Tuesday work productivity. —AG
Top Events!
(Look ahead!)
Trick-or-Treating Downtown Arcata
Arcata Plaza
/ 4-6 p.m.
Streets will be closed so families can safely enjoy treats from participating stores, free cider from Arcata Main Street & Wildberries Marketplace, and pictures with Shoshanna, the Halloween Fairy.
Kids Karnival at Redwood Acres
Redwood Acres Fairgrounds
/ 5:30-8:30 p.m.
/ Free
“The Kids Karnival is a safe option for children ages fifth grade and under to “trick or treat” Halloween night.”
/ Web site
Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors
Arcata Kinetic Lab
/ 7 p.m.-midnight
/ $12
/ 18+
“Prepare to freak out as you are tricked and treated to the best Halloween venue in town. The Haunted Kinetic Lab of Horrors is the annual FUNdraiser that helps keep the Kinetic Sculpture Lab up and running.”
/ Web site
Haunted Mill Tour
Blue Ox Millworks
/ 7:30 p.m.-11:55 a.m.
/ $12
The Haunted Mill Tour Returns this October with an expanded tour, more special effects, and an all new story of passion, deceit and obsession.
/ Web site
Stranger Than Fact, Dead Drift, Blood Queen
Palm Lounge at The Eureka Inn
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
/ $6
“A Halloween show with all the gore and macabre that you would expect from a foggy town enveloped in doom. Music to reflect the darkest angle of All Hallow’s Eve.”
Bach to the Future: Two Nights of Rosewater
The Jam
/ 9-11:59 p.m.
Grateful Dead tribute band truckin’ for two straight themed nights. Click for details.
/ Web site
The Undercovers’ Halloween Extravaganza
Logger Bar
/ 9-10 p.m.
/ 21+
Scary covers.
/ Web site
Halloween Scary-oke and Costume Contest
The Miniplex at Richards’ Goat Tavern
/ 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.
/ 21+
Karaoke and costume contest. Prizes, drink specials.
/ Web site
The Humbrews Halloween Party
Humboldt Brews
/ 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
/ $20
/ $15 adv.
/ 21+
Booty Shakin’ Music Productions Presents. Featuring The Human Experience, BOA, Amae Love and The Beat Vixens.
/ Web site
All Events!
Organic Matters Farm Pumpkin Patch
Organic Matters Farm
/ noon-6 p.m.
Located at 6821 Myrtle Ave., Freshwater. Annual u-pick community pumpkin patch. We have plenty of beautiful pumpkin varieties to choose from.
/ Web site
Warren Creek Farms Pumpkin Patch
Warren Creek Farms
/ 1-6 p.m.
Located at 1171 Mad River Rd., Arcata. Get your pumps, daily in October.
Fortuna Trick-or-Treat
Main Street, Fortuna
/ 4 p.m.
Friendly candy.
Aber Miller and Drew Mohr
Sushi Spot McKinleyville
/ 5-8 p.m.
Electric jazz.
Open Bluegrass Jam
Redwood Curtain Brewing Company, Arcata
/ 6-8 p.m.
/ Free All ages
Bring your instrument.
/ Web site
Paint Night Out: The Art of Painting and Drinking
Chapala Authentic Mexican Restaurant
/ 6-8 p.m.
/ $35
/ 21+
Kick off your Halloween night! Choose from one of three Day of the Dead paintings. A local artist will guide you through a 2-hour painting step-by-step.
/ Web site
Weott VFD Haunted House
See Event Description
/ 7 p.m.-10 a.m.
/ $10
/ $8 Children
Friendship Circle Dance
Humboldt Hill Grange
/ 7 p.m.
/ $4
Dancing to live music featuring tunes from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
Swing Dance Night
Redwood Raks World Dance Studio
/ 7-10 p.m.
/ $7
/ Web site
Karaoke with DJ Marv
Six Rivers Brewery
/ 8 p.m.
/ Free
Monday night sushi and “singing.”
/ Web site
Really Cheap Bowling
Harbor Lanes
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
$1.75 per game? Steeeee-rike!
Movie Showtimes
Broadway Cinema
- AMERICAN HONEY: 2:15, 8:00
- DEEPWATER HORIZON: 5:40, 8:15
- INFERNO: 12:20, 1:45, 3:15, 6:10, 7:45, 9:00
- JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK: 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10
- KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: 12:55, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25
- KEVIN HART: WHAT NOW?: 4:30, 9:40
- MAX STEEL: 12:00, 5:45
- MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE: 1:00, 3:20
- MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 2D: 12:35, 3:35, 6:30, 8:45
- OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL: 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:25
- STORKS 2D: 12:10, 2:20
- THE ACCOUNTANT: 12:05, 3:00, 6:00, 8:55
- THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN: 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20
- THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN: 4:35, 6:45
- TYLER PERRY’S BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN: 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30
Mill Creek Cinema
- INFERNO: 3:30, 6:20, 8:25, 9:10
- JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK: 3:10, 6:00, 8:50
- KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15
- MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE: 6:15
- MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN 2D: 3:00, 5:50, 8:40
- OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL: 4:25, 7:00, 9:30
- STORKS 2D: 4:10
- THE ACCOUNTANT: 2:55, 5:55, 8:55
- THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN: 4:05, 6:50, 9:25
Minor Theatre
- DONT BREATHE: 8:00, 10:45
- GHOSTBUSTERS: 5:30
- KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: 3:30, 6:15, 9:00
- MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDERN: 4:15, 7:30
- TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: 10:15