Godzilla returns to Little Tokyo with a special Godzilla Pop-Up Shop and special screening of a classic Godzilla film.
🛍️ 【GODZILLA POP-UP SHOP 2026】 📅 Oct 31 – Nov 15, 2026 (Closed Tuesdays) 📍 Anime Jungle Pop-Up Space Shop U.S. early releases, event-exclusive sofubi figures, limited apparel, and special purchase bonuses (tote bags & posters)!
Celebrating the classic "Terror of Mechagodzilla" (1975) with an exclusive film screening, special guest panel, and limited merch! 🎬 【SPECIAL FILM SCREENING & PANEL】 📅 Sunday, Nov 1, 2026 (Doors open at 12:00 PM) 📍 JANM Tateuchi Democracy Forum 🎫 Tickets: $25.00 ✨ Every ticket includes a FREE exclusive B2-size commemorative poster!
Join us for an exclusive talk show and Q&A session with actress Tomoko Ai immediately following the screening, where she will share unforgettable behind-the-scenes stories from her iconic role as Katsura Mafune and her experiences working on classic Japanese tokusatsu productions! Special Signing Event: Following the screening, an autograph signing session will be held at the Godzilla Pop-Up Shop! Signing Event Fee: $21.00 (Cash Price: $20.00)
General Admission tickets are $35 and include ten 2-ounce tastings, equivalent to approximately four full scoops. Tickets are shareable with friends and family and include access to festival entertainment and activities. The Scoop Collective is $70 and includes all General Admission benefits plus exclusive collaborations, special treats and festival extras not available elsewhere at Scoop Palm Springs. Space is limited.
Yes, I think we all want an ice cream right about now, but you'll have to wait and head to Palm Springs for this tasty ice cream festival to beat the heat.
Scoop Palm Springs has two new features this year: the first time Scoop Palm Springs Best Flavor of the Year competition and The Scoop Collective, a limited experience featuring exclusive local collaborations.
You can read more about each below from the press release:
For the first time, participating frozen treat makers will enter one of their flavors for the chance to be named Scoop Palm Springs Best Flavor of the Year. During the festival, David Cox of Dining with the Davids will guide a panel of judges through a live taste test of the competing flavors. This year’s judges include:
● Luna Barrios, Executive Pastry Chef, Grand Hyatt Indian Wells ● Juan Morales, Executive Chef, Agua Caliente Rancho Mirage ● Deven Green and Handsome Ned, Palm Springs personalities
The competition will unfold live throughout the festival as judges sample entries from participating makers before a Best Flavor of the Year is crowned.
Also new this year, The Scoop Collective will offer a more curated festival experience featuring collaborations created exclusively for Scoop Palm Springs. The limited experience brings together local ice cream and gelato makers with Coachella Valley culinary, coffee and creative businesses for one-of-a-kind treats and extras.
Collaborations include an exclusive ice cream sandwich from Con Amor, Nina y Leon x I Scream, along with mini affogatos created by SOTToVOCE Café x Gelato Granucci. Scoop Collective ticket holders will also receive a custom-engraved ice cream scooper from Signed by Alex, a mini curated bouquet from Flor Del Mar, a Scoop tote, bandana and temporary tattoos, with water provided by Desert Water Agency.
Additional festival highlights include: ● More than 20 local ice cream, gelato, paleta and frozen treat makers ● More than 50 flavors to discover ● Live music by DJ MODGIRL ● Kids Zone by Palm Springs Parks & Recreation ● Photo booth experience by Party Life Photo Booth ● Hollandia Dairy activation with samples and giveaways ● Community food drive benefiting The LGBTQ Center’s Community Food Bank ● Blue Zones Project Palm Springs Shake Bike, where guests can pedal to blend their own shake and learn more about living a longer, healthier life
Benefiting The LGBTQ Center’s Community Food Bank, the festival will bring together more than 20 of the Coachella Valley’s top ice cream, gelato, paleta and frozen treat makers for an afternoon of tastings, live music, family-friendly activities and community connection. One hundred percent of net proceeds will be donated to the Community Food Bank, which provides free nutritious food to more than 500 local families and individuals each week.
Last year’s inaugural Scoop Palm Springs festival raised $21,000 and collected more than 300 pounds of food for The LGBTQ Center’s Community Food Bank. Festivalgoers are once again encouraged to bring non-perishable food items to support the community food drive. Tickets for the Second Annual Scoop Palm Springs Ice Cream Festival are available now at scoopsandiego.org/scoop-palm-springs.
Since the Hollywood Reporter let director Joseph Kahn have an opinion piece go up, it was immediately greeted with dismay. Not for just he's weird takes, but for the nonsensical writing. It's hard to get a bead on whatever his point is.
Perhaps, in his mind, that horror films having political themes is bad or people adding political themes that aren't there is bad for film fests. I'm not quite sure and I'm not sure he is either. It's really all over the place. If anything it seems like he's a director of the 80's coked out of his mind and was let to write down his thoughts after a big bump. A terrible funny read.
"By night, it’s a meat market, serving face-peeling gore to the poors." -Kahn
Dude, it's just people enjoying horror films.
It’s pretty crazy to publish a “column” that ultimately ends up being about how horror fans are poor unwashed morons. Like what was the point of this? Some anti “woke” tirade would have at least felt like it had a point but the “politics” part of this is just tangential at best.
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, 5700 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Free, RSVP Required
In "Haunted Archipelago," Haruo Shirane examines both the “natural”—snakes, foxes, mountains, rivers, tall trees—and the “supernatural”—serpents, demons, ghosts, and tengu—as key parts of what he calls the “eco-social imaginary” in Japan. “Eco-social imaginary” is a singular way of living and seeing that binds the community with its physical environment. The “social” is not just humans but the larger community of animals, reptiles, birds, trees, and the surrounding rivers and mountains, which are often treated as earth beings. The “eco-social imaginary” extends to the spirits of the human dead, who are welcomed back to the family at Obon (Festival of the Dead), as well as the spirits of the deceased non-humans, from animals to utensils.
Bob Baker Marionette Theater 4949 York Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90042
Tiered Tickets: $35 - $500 This event is 21+
On October 24th, celebrate Halloween with a party unlike any other, with all proceeds benefiting our nonprofit Theater. Our Fourth Annual Costume Ball will include:
Special performance of Hallowe’en Spooktacular
Costume contest hosted and judged by The Law Office of MOWS Special guests Demi Adejuyigbe, Hannah Pilkes, Camirin Farmer, Clowns of Color, and the Dimbledots of Dilly’s World
Dancing on our world-famous red carpet with tunes spun by DJ Kindness
Wine & Cocktail Bar
Attendees have the chance to participate in a costume contest and show us your best costumes on our red carpet!
Boo at the L.A. Zoo is free with paid Zoo admission or an active L.A. Zoo membership.
The Halloween spirit will be in full swing for two fun-filled weekends at the L.A. Zoo, with trick-or-treating stations, special keeper talks, pumpkin animal enrichment sessions, themed photo-ops, live performances and more. Costumes are encouraged!
Explore Little Tokyo with a haunted scavenger hunt hosted by the Terasaki Budokan. Families are encouraged to dress-up for the festivities. Collect all of the stamps for a special treat.
Get into the spooky season mood, have lots of laughs, enjoy delicious food and drinks, and support our non-profit community center all at the same time!
Plus, buy your tickets before 10/1 for 20% off- use promo code "SPOOKY26"
You definitely don't want to miss this one as we're celebrating a huge milestone- this will be our 10th BudoComedy Show!
Gloria Molina Grand Park transforms into an illuminated, sacred civic sanctuary for the 2026 presentation of Downtown Día de los Muertos. Running October 24 through November 2, 2026, this free, 10-day outdoor cultural exhibition invites all of Los Angeles to honor departed loved ones and celebrate living community connections.
I wish we had reverence for Halloween music the same way we do for Christmas, because this deserves to return to #1 in the charts every October and I’m deadly serious.
Here's the full music video. You've never heard of it, cuz it's came from England.
The new Spooky Month came out...in October.
I vant to suck your... Sprite! Burger King just dropped a new Vampire's Bite soda creation for Halloween and it comes with a SOUR PUNCH STRAW!
This one blends Sprite with a Strawberry syrup for a nice flavor combo but even better look for spooky szn!
Are you grabbing this one?
#burgerking #fastfood #soda #sprite #Halloween
Another part I really like from the Korone interview:
She asked who's gonna die first if Zach and Austin were thrown into Raccoon City and they agreed they'd just die together while looking at each other's eyes (Korone noted that they're really in sync too lol) https://t.co/8z3VMDawWM
i've been waiting, you've been waiting, everyone's been waiting and yes, spooky season is officially on!!! The 2026 Lofi Girl Halloween Radio is finally here!
This year the dress code is orange! Pick up your finest pumpkin, carve the most terrifying face on it and get ready to… pic.twitter.com/9BU2s7cKIR
Of course, the Blumhouse Cheetos comes with a horror short. And, it's pretty good.
Jeffrey Dollmer on Digital and On Demand November 3.
One of the dumbest horror films coming out and their missing the Halloween window?
The Dia de los Muertos edition of Ghost Face is heading to Dead by Daylight and honsetly, we'd have no problem if it was going into Spanish speaking territory for the next one. Olé!
For dumb haunted fun, nothing beats Ghost Stories, the dirty dub changes the Japanese anime kid show into a never-ending insult barrage. 5 school kids and a talking cat have to save themselves and their school from all kinds of yokai and Japanese ghosts. The things that come out of their mouth will be more funny and frightening that anything on screen.You can find it free online from multiple sources. We spotted it free on YouTube from two official sources, it just comes with commercials.
*Silliest part, the ending theme is perfect for the dub, but makes very little sense for a Japanese kid cartoon show with sexy, sexy being repeated throughout it.
Buffalo Wild Wings is celebrating Halloween with their new Fright Feast Menu... and Sarah Michelle Gellar is helping to launch the vampire slayer-approved treats.
Press release: Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment today announced the STREET FIGHTER "Bonus Round" Opening Night Fan Event, a one-night theatrical event for the die-hard World Warriors. Fans will have the chance to level up their moviegoing experience with an exclusive STREET FIGHTER event featuring collectible rewards and special fan offerings at Opening Night screenings on Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 p.m. local time. The event will be presented exclusively in IMAX® and premium formats, including Dolby Cinema, 4DX, D-BOX, ScreenX, and other premium large-screen auditoriums at participating theatres.
Fans at the “Bonus Round” screenings will see special bonus content curated for this event. Each ticketholder will also receive an exclusive collector's art print given away at their local theatre and one of three different pin-back character buttons – while supplies last.
STREET FIGHTER early shows (starting at 2:00pm local time on October 15th) and general showtimes are on sale now. To purchase tickets and to find participating “Bonus Round” Fan Event theatre listings in your area, visit streetfightermovie.com/bonusroundevent. Tickets are also available at exhibitors’ websites and mobile apps, and participating theatre box offices nationwide.
