Thursday, October 17, 2024

Halloween Eats 2024

Wanting to nosh something when you have a monster-sized appetite? Well, we have a selection of franchised food for this October for you.

McDonald's Happy Meal Boo Buckets are back for a limited time. So, it really what your Happy Meal comes in, but their pretty great for collecting candy or giving it out.

Candy Crypt and Other Seasonal See's Candy looks simply to die for. There's just something about the coffin-shaped chocolate holder that has us slobbering for the sweets inside.

The Addams Family Menu @ Burger King. What can you get based on the latest cartoon version of the gruesome American family?

  • Wednesday’s Whopper – Enjoy the iconic flame-grilled Whopper topped with Swiss cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, and onions all toasted on a purple bun that gets its hue from purple potato topped with black sesame seeds.
  • Thing’s Rings – Hold tight to Thing’s Rings, signature BK crispy onion rings served in themed packaging of The Addams Family’s beloved, but mysterious one-handed helper – Thing!
  • Gomez’s Churro Fries – Keep the flames of love alive with Gomez’s Churro Fries – deliciously crispy, fried churros coated in cinnamon sugar and paired with chocolate dipping sauce.
  • Morticia’s Kooky Chocolate Shake – You don’t have to be a psychic to know you’ll love this delicious shake that features creamy soft serve mixed with chocolate cake batter fudge and topped with black and purple cookie pieces.
Spooktacular Polar Pizza is available at Baskin-Robbins. This...just...looks...like you shouldn't eat it alone. Please, please share with other, it's too much for one person.

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Weekly What To Do: Can You Change The Fate Of The Future & Sherman Oaks?


 
"We have a special Halloween treat for LA locals. Now scheduled for Wednesday October 16th from 5-6pm, meet and greet with actor/creator/writer David Dastmalchian (Count Crowley) signing his two all-new comic series': Knights Vs. Samurai from Image Comics and Creature Commandos from DC Comics. 👻"
 
Oct 18-20
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres
6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
$

Enjoy a weekend's worth of some of the best animated films out here before they go big on streaming or the big screen. We've been fond of this one for a while, a collection of animated works from around the world...of course, Japan and from here. See some amazing art on screen or learned a little about how they make it or just celebrate the craft.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Redcat
$50*

A president of the United States is receiving messages by mysterious means, and he doesn’t know whether to trust them. In this new Wooster Group production, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk, Richard Foreman’s 1988 play is reimagined with a multilayered sound and video score that draws from wide-ranging literary and cinematic sources, including William Blake, D.H. Lawrence, and Charlie Chaplin. Set in a spaceship-museum gallery, this surreal production follows the president as he plunges into a series of encounters with otherworldly beings, among them a giant rat with a special message. Moving between the apocalyptic and the mundane, The Wooster Group considers how technology questions what it means to be human.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 19th 6-10pm
with DJ, refreshments, live painting, video projections and more
TRNZ
Downward Facing Blooms (Gallery I)
TAYLOR SCHULTEK
Brute Force (Gallery II)
Curated by Hi-Fructose
Line Addicts (Gallery III & IV)
Sean Keeton
Rebirth (The Doghouse Gallery)






Giant Robot Book Launch Oct 19 Sat 2pm Talk and Signing with Special Guests


Art & Science Family Festival
Saturday, Sunday, October 19 - October 20, from 10 am - 5 pm
The Getty Center
Free

Pique your curiosity at this interactive family festival celebrating Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. See how light can dazzle and delight by making your own suncatcher and creating pictures with the power of the sun! Explore the medieval idea of the cosmos by making your own piece of wearable art based on your astrological sign. Imagine seeing Earth from outer space with a huge interactive globe where you can add elements to make the world a better place for us all to live. There is something for every curious mind at this free daylong event!
 
Oct 20, 2024–Mar 2, 2025 
Resnick Pavilion 
LACMA

Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, created in collaboration with scientists at the Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory, presents a group of rare and visually stunning artworks from different cultures and time periods to explore the variety of human attempts to explain the universe’s origins, mechanics, and meaning. Nearly every ancient culture has seen the heavens as a mirror of cosmic structure and process, and ancient measurements of time were directly influenced by the movements of heavenly bodies. Mapping the Infinite reveals how, as religions evolved, cultures conceived of and depicted cosmic deities and concepts of time and space through works of art and sacred architecture. The exhibition illuminates this history of cosmologies around the globe from the Stone Age to the present, from Neolithic Europe to the present day and including Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Islamic Middle East, the Indigenous Americas, Northern Europe, and the United States.

Change the Future
Sunday, October 20 | 3PM-7PM
18th Street Arts Center
Olympic Campus
1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404
Free + Open to the Public

Join 18th Street Arts Center for an all-ages event to celebrate the exhibition “An Earth Twin at the Digital Dawn: Tom Van Sant’s GeoSphere Project” presented by 18th Street Arts Center, Otis College of Art and Design, and Cypress College. This captivating exhibition celebrates Van Sant’s visionary creation of a “live Earth” model to promote planetary consciousness, and combat environmental devastation. Explore interactive installations, immersive visual displays, and spectacular sky-related artworks that illuminate Earth’s ecosystems.


Sunday October 20th from 10 am to 6 pm 
Ventura Blvd. between Kester and Van Nuys Blvd.
Free


The annual valley street fair returns, just a simple day to check out Sherman Oaks.













Extra: 


 
UCB, a cheapo comedy show almost every night, see comedians before they make podcasts and have
stories about the UCB and before they hit the big time.
 


American Cinematheque-A celebrated independent theater group that brings both the talent and catalog of films to make for some of LA's best movie nights.
 

Street Food Cinema-Outdoor cult or recent hits you'll love.

Check out classics and cult movies just a few stories above street level. Rooftop Movies at The Montalbán.


 New Bev-Tarantino owned independent theater with old school style

Cinelounge - Hollywood based tiny theater, showing off indies you've never heard of
 
Brain Dead Studios-manages to fill its schedule almost every night
611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
 
Vidiots -A one-of-a-kind hub for film lovers, filmmakers, and everyone curious about cinema. A small theater is more than made-up for with the constant content and special screenings.
4884 Eagle Rock Blvd
 
Art
 
Now-2025
Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission $

Giant Robot Biennale 5 features artists Sean Chao, Felicia Chiao, Luke Chueh, Giorgiko, James Jean,
Taylor Lee, Rain Szeto, and Yoskay Yamamoto, among others. Since 2007, JANM has partnered with Eric Nakamura, founder of Giant Robot, to produce the Giant Robot Biennale, a recurring art exhibition that highlights diverse creative works celebrating the brand’s ethos.
 
 
05.02.2024 (Thu.) – 11.03.2024 (Sun.)
JAPAN HOUSE Gallery, Level 2
Free
 
 “Yes, KAWAII is Art -EXPRESS YOURSELF-” is the first exhibition in which Masuda, known as the “King of Kawaii,” brings together multiple artworks unravelling the concepts within the phenomena while introducing his personal story of sharing kawaii with the world. Through his collection of artifacts from the origins of the culture and dazzling immersive art installations, visitors are invited to explore the cultural context and significance of the kawaii movement and step into the colorful world to feel the aesthetic for themselves, emphasizing its role in fostering a sense of joy, innocence, and community as a tool for self-expression and representation of a worldwide tribe to which we can all belong.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Halloween Hype: Tormenture, Darkplace & Shudder To Stream

Tormenture scares us on Steam October 21st.

 

Teacup is streaming October 10th on Peacock

DADDY'S HEAD is out now on Shudder

In a world of silence, a devout, female-led community hunts down a young woman, Azrael, who has escaped imprisonment. When recaptured, she faces sacrifice to an ancient evil, but she fights fiercely for her survival in the wilderness.

Starring Samara Weaving, AZRAEL premieres on Shudder October 25.



ALIEN (1979) / ALIEN: ROMULUS Free Screening Oct 19th

 


ALIEN (1979) / ALIEN: ROMULUS + Q&A with Special Guests
Sat. Oct 19, 2024 | 4:00pm
Aero Theatre
Free Screening! Co-presented by Beyond Fest!


In celebration of ALIEN: ROMULUS now available on digital, 20th Century Studios has partnered with Beyond Fest for a special double feature screening of ALIEN (1979) and ALIEN: ROMULUS at the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles on October 19th. The screening is followed by a Q&A with special guests. The first 100 guests at the screening will receive the ALIEN (1979) and ALIEN: ROMULUS 2-movie collection digital bundle, also available today. Additionally, ALIEN: ROMULUS is coming to 4K UHD and Blu-ray on December 3.

Friday, October 11, 2024

Clock Tower: Rewind Preview Event

If you've tried the ice cream, you should try the game, out Oct 29th.

Halloween Hype: Uzamaki Echh, The Witches of Los Feliz, #SaveChucky & Ghost Stories

Hoo boy, lots of problems with the Uzamaki mini-series and it's a shame.

No, The Craft showing, lame!

Oh, and if you wanted even more witchery in your life.

October 12, 2024 - October 27, 2024
Opening Reception / Oct 12, 5:00PM - 8:00PM
NUCLEUS
210 East Main St
Alhambra CA 91801
Free
 
Something wicked this way comes...

Gallery Nucleus is proud to present a new collection of illustrated work from the incredible illustrators Loïc Locatelli Kournwsky, Miko Kitka, and Sibylline Meynet! Focusing on witches and the supernatural, this spectacular show will have both an opening and a closing reception, with artist Miko Kitka attending on the opening and on its final weekend with artists Sibylline and Loïc in attendance to sign books and prints for fans.

 

SAT OCT 12, 2024 8:00 PM

PET SEMATARY

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)

Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker Mary Lambert. Moderated by Kristen Lopez. 

35th Anniversary!

Ghost Stories our favorite horror comedy anime with some very foul-mouthed kids is now on Prime.

Our Halloween Guide Lives


We keep reminding you and hopefully you're listening, our Halloween Guide is up now! We added even more screenings, you have so many chances to see a horror movie. We mean, so, so many. We just have so many places from independent theaters, museums and even regular old theaters re-showing films so studios can make money again, because many of their choices this year have been bad.

...can't wait for Nosferatu on Christmas. Yes, there's something very wrong if a big budget horror movie is set for Christmas.

 

 


Saturday, October 12, 2024
Academy Museum
$10

Stark terror that strikes in the dark! Cold fear that grips the heart! Raw shock that sears the mind!

From the depths of the world’s largest collection of movie trailers at the Academy Film Archive, this program unearths and reassembles the cult classic thrills and chills of pre-show entertainment—presented entirely on 35mm film. These retro horror trailers span decades of suspense, from artfully macabre camp monstrosities to deranged slashers calling from inside the house. To avoid fainting, keep repeating it’s only a trailer… only a trailer… only a trailer.

Here's an article and effort put into the screening, let's hope more than 10 people show up.

‘Don’t Go Into the Vault’ Is the Academy Museum’s Halloween Present to Film Lovers