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
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.
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."
442-1784 /
mlemen@eurekafaithcenter.org /
Web site
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."
822-4805 /
Web site
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
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."
The Jam
/ 9-11:59 p.m.
Grateful Dead tribute band truckin' for two straight themed nights. Click for details.
822-5266 /
Web site
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.
826-2739 /
Web site
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.
407-3276 /
Web site
Warren Creek Farms
/ 1-6 p.m.
Located at 1171 Mad River Rd., Arcata. Get your pumps, daily in October.
822-6017 /
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.
362-9933 /
info@modernskillz.com /
Web site
Humboldt Hill Grange
/ 7 p.m.
/ $4
Dancing to live music featuring tunes from the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s.
725-5323 /
Harbor Lanes
/ 8 p.m.-midnight
$1.75 per game? Steeeee-rike!
