Halloween Weekend: Goblins and Witches Hideouts

Here’s a comprehensive listing of all the Goblins and the Witches hideouts, plus some tasty specials in the Greater Pasadena area.

By Brian Rodriguez

Editor’s Note: As last minute events are still pouring in from various organizations, this will be a live post with new updates throughout the week.

(Click on highlighted event title for more info).

Friday

– 10:00 am – 8:00 pm: Day of the Dead Tour of Altars

Take a self-guided tour hosted by participating businesses (@ All over Pasadena).

 

– 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Sierra Madre Annual Halloween Trick or Treat

City’s sponsored Trick-or-Treating event (not to be confused with the trick-or-treating on Alegria that takes place on Saturday) (@ Sierra Madre’s downtown businesses).

 

– 5:00 pm – 9:30 pm: Fall Fun Festival & Haunted Zone

Festival with trick or treating, carnival games, a costume contest and food (@ San Gabriel Mission Playhouse).

 

– 6:00 pm – 10:30 pm: RISE of the Jack O’Lanterns

A unique and iconic family-friendly fall event (@ Descanso Gardens and Santa Anita Park).

– 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm: Free Scary Face Pancake

All kids 12 & under get a Scary Face Pancake between 7am and 10pm Friday, October 30^th at participating locations. One per child. Dine in only (@ IHOP).

 

Saturday

– 11:00 am – Closing: Halloween Neon Retro Style

The first Halloween Retro style with cool gifts and contests (@ Neon Retro Arcade).

– 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Halloween Brunch and Dance

The Scott Pavilion is ghoulishly decorated as guests enjoy a brunch, music and dance (@ Pasadena Senior Center).

 

– 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Tricks, Free Pix & Flick @ One Colorado

Store-to-store Halloween Trick-or-Treating (@ Old Pasadena).

 

– 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Pasadena Fall Festival 2015

An exciting night of safe family fun, fun, fun (@ Victory Park).

 

– 5:00 pm – Close: $3 Chipotle Burrito

Visit any Chipotle on Halloween in costume with your own interpretation of something “unnecessary,” Hat on top of a hat, Superman costume with a mustache, etc. at participating locations (@ Chipotle).

 

– 5:30 pm – 11:00 pm: Sierra Madre Halloween

Popular Sierra Madre Neighborhood Trick-or-Treating (@ East Algeria).

 

– 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm: Halloweenland

In anticipation of Star Wars Episode VII, a whole new land comes to Halloweenland (@ Pasadena Foursquare Church).

 

– 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: The House on Howard Street

A safe and fun-scary place for kids and adults alike, on Howard Street, between El Molino and Lake Ave. We won’t give you the address, but you know when you see it, bowahhaha (@ Howard Street).

 

– 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Farnsworth Park Halloween Candy Gveaway

Davies Auditorium haunted house is cancelled and is replaced by candy and pumpkin crafting (@ Farnsworth Park – Altadena).

 

– 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Halloween Movie @ One Colorado

Halloween on the big screen with the showing of “Mad Monster Party” (@ One Colorado).

 

– 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Silent Movie Night

PPC’s screening of the iconic silent-film classic Nosferatu, with Dr. Timothy Howard playing on the church’s massive Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ (@ Pasadena Presbyterian Church).

 

– 8:00 pm –9:30 pm: The New Sound of Silent Film

Bassist Tom Peters re-imagines the terrors of this classic silent horror film. New score performed live (@ Boston Court).

 

– Dusk – 9:00 pm: Madison Heights Fun Block

A Halloween fun for kids and adults alike (@ Madison Heights, Between California & Alpine and El Molino & Oakland).

 

Sunday

– 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Day of the Dead Fiesta

Tons of fun activities (Old Pasadena @Mercantile Place).

 

– 8:00 pm –9:30 pm: Shakespeare’s Night of Terror

Appropriate for mature audiences only [language and violence] (@ Lineage Performing Arts Center).