Eighth and N streets, Arcata
/ 7 p.m.-midnight
/ $10
Humboldt's most twisted, horrific tradition returns for another year of hair-raising, vomit-inducing delights! 13 and older.
Arcata Theatre Lounge
/ 7:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
/ $25
/ 21+
Featuring samba/reggae/funk powerhouse SambaDá!, DJ Mantease and Samba de Alegria.
613-3030 /
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Eureka Theater
/ 7:30 p.m.
/ $25
Neil Diamond tribute. Proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
442-2970 /
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Blue Ox Millworks
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
/ $10
Terror has a new home this year as the North Coast Repertory Theatre and the Blue Ox Historic Park bring you the Haunted Mill Tour. Sexy zombies, demented blacksmiths, and all manner of creepy crawlers will be taking over the historic Blue Ox Millworks site for this four night event.
444-3437 /
dave@ncrt.net /
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Mateel Community Center
/ 8 p.m.
/ $30
/ $27 adv.
KMUD and the MCC present bands Heavyweight Dub Champion featuring Dr. Israel, Ganga Giri, El Radio Fantastique and Liberation Movement. Costume contest!
923-3368 /
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Nocturnum
/ midnight
/ $5
/ 21+
Where's Queer Bill's Halloween party with DJ Razorburn. $50 cash prize for best costume.
499-0163 /
Redwood Region Audubon Society
/ 8:30 a.m.
After spending an hour or so in the park, Ken Burton (707-499-1146) will then take participants out farther into the Arcata Bottoms in search of early winter raptors and waterfowl, migrant sparrows and blackbirds, and other open-country species.
Humboldt Baykeeper
/ 9-10:30 a.m.
Humboldt Baykeeper offers free natural history boat tours of the north Humboldt Bay at 9 and 10:30 a.m. Call for details.
268-8897 /
Arcata Plaza
/ 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Local produce, meats flowers and more. Music at 10 a.m. (Click for music schedule.)
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Main Street, Ferndale
/ 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
On the corner of Shaw and Main streets. Sustainable farms sell local produce direct to the consumer.
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The Jefferson Project
/ 1-6 p.m.
/ $5
Get your imagination caps on, and jump into a rocket ship with the artists and puppeteers from the Ink People Center for the Arts. Guided tours leave every few minutes to other worlds where travelers will talk to robots, crawl through an underwater maze, pet strange aliens and more.
442-8413 /
marzers@gmail.com /
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McKinleyville High School
/ 2 p.m.
/ $5
Performs the soundtrack for to silent films, Two Tars starring Laurel and Hardy and Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton.
Gist Hall, HSU
/ 2-9:30 p.m.
/ $15
/ $10 students & seniors
/ 18+
It’s alive! And it dances! Get ready for Halloween with the scary, sexy and very silly HSU production of Mel Brooks’ classic.
826-3928 /
attentionservices@sbcglobal.net /
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Fortuna River Lodge
/ 5 p.m.
Family friendly Halloween carnival and Illusionist show.
725-7572 /
Old Town Coffee And Chocolates (Old Town)
/ 7 p.m.
/ Free
Humboldt's resident wandering spectre Carpathian serves up his annual night of scary stories and spooky songs, to the delight of young and old alike.
445-8600 /
carpathian@patientcreatures.com /
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Crush
/ 7-9 p.m.
Bluesy rock to Americana folk.
Sequoia Park
/ 7 p.m.
Featuring the horror "classic" Salem's Lot filmed in Ferndale and based on the best-selling Stephen King novel. Music provided by Deep Groove Society DJs.
McKinleyville High School
/ 7 p.m.
/ $5
Performs the soundtrack for to silent films, Two Tars starring Laurel and Hardy and Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton.
Gist Hall, HSU
/ 7:30-9:30 p.m.
/ $15
/ $10 students & seniors
/ 18+
It’s alive! And it dances! Get ready for Halloween with the scary, sexy and very silly HSU production of Mel Brooks’ classic.
826-3928 /
attentionservices@sbcglobal.net /
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Ferndale Repertory Theatre
/ 8 p.m.
/ $10
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the very first production of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play.
786-5483 /
info@ferndalerep.org /
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Six Rivers Brewery
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
/ $5
Featuring none other than The Pine Box Boys and Colonel Jimmy and The Blackfish. Costumes strongly encouraged.
839-7580 /
6rbmusicbooking@gmail.com /
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Synapsis
/ 8 p.m.
/ $20
Bands! DJs! Sideshows! Aerial acrobatics! Aliens? Music by The Monster Women, Blood Gnome, DJs Zanapod and Onhell, magic shows.
616-3104 /
muppet33@gmail.com /
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The Ritz
/ 9:30 p.m.
/ 21+
Dance ... dance ... get on down in ya undapants ...
Alibi
/ 11 p.m.
/ $5
/ 21+
A night of punky tonk.
822-3731 /
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