As usual peninsula residents have out done themselves with some wonderful and creative decorations! When I grew up in England we did not celebrate Halloween, although it is thought to have originated from an old Celtic custom,
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Halloween is an annual holiday observed on October 31, primarily in Canada, Ireland, Scotland and the United States. It has roots in the Celtic festival of “Samhain” and the Christian holiday All Saints’ Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.
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October is the month where ghosts, goblins and evil spirits arise for one evening on Halloween. And what more evil spirit than Cruella de Vil as portrayed by Glenn Close in “102 Dalmatians”. This evil creature is out to kidnap the adorable Dalmatians and it looks like nothing can stop her.
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I am the in-house tour guide at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and have been giving tours several times a month since 2002. This work has been such an incredible gift and I've made many new friends along the way. Two years ago the cemetery tour yielded what has been perhaps my most unusual and unexpected friendship.
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1952, refinery workers took a huge vat of black, orange, and white paint and put it onto a large tank in Wilmington, CA and turn this into a jack-o'-lantern. this has become a Halloween tradition that is going on for 65 years.
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Universal Studios had a hammerlock on the horror genre during Hollywood’s studio era. Their stable of stars, directors and writers understood the very nature of putting the face on a memorable monster. An eerie remote locale…dark and desperate situations…flawed characters (including a fair share of assorted loathsome ghouls), and a script tinged with wicked humor; this was the recipe for success.
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Have you ever been afraid of the dark? I can vividly remember what it was like as a small child imagining the spooky frights lurking in the shadows of my room when I was supposed to be sleeping.
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Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi are horror film legends, but few know them as union activists and founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. Between 1933 and 1937, both actively recruited actors and actresses to join the as-yet-unrecognized union – a delicate and risky business.
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Point Vicente Lighthouse Palos Verdes, CA
Situated at Point Vincente, Palos Verdes, this 185 foot tall structure offers some of the best views of the California coastline around. As well as being a scenic, relaxing spot favoured by tourists and romantics alike; this lighthouse also has a darker side... and its very own ghost...
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Gingerbread houses are a fun holiday activity to do with the kids around Christmas time so why not take the same activity into your Halloween celebration.
For my Haunted Chocolate Spice houses, I use the gingerbread house cookie cutter and decorate it with Halloween candy and use chocolate molds to create spooky skulls, tombstones and ghosts. For the roof, I used shredded wheat cereal. The Death by Chocolate Brownie gives the perfect texture and ground to place your haunted house.
I will be teaching how to make this Haunted Chocolate Spice house at Le Gourmet Culinary (www.legourmetculinary.com) October 24th and 31st 9am.
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It’s that time of year – the air is cooler, the leaves are turning colors and we are looking for something warm and full of goodness to sink our teeth into. This is also the time of year for #pumpkinspice everything. The problem – most of the items we turn to are loaded with sugar, fat and lots of calories. However, with a few simple tricks, you can keep all your pumpkin goodness and still avoid the holiday weight gain. After all, you need to save some calories for all the other decadent holiday goodies.
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Lots of people claim to have seen mermaids, but unfortunately no sightings have been proven.
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What would this haunting Halloween season be without our favorite monsters, Munsters and ghouls?
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One of the greatest Halloween stories ever told, Mary Shelley’s 1818 tale Frankenstein still enthralls audiences to this day. Considered the first science fiction novel by many, it spawned a genre of horror plays, books, and movies and remains prescient in its tale of a scientist mortified with the resultant horror of what he has created after forming a new creature from the body parts of the dead.
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There was a 3rd Annual South Bay Witches Paddle, which took to the waves near Redondo Beach on Saturday, Oct. 29 2022 by the Portofino Hotel & Marina.
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It’s that time of year again, Halloween. As a paranormal author and investigator, this is the busiest time of year for me, and as I sit here in the security booth of the USS Iowa Museum, my mind is awash thinking about all of the events I have coming up, book signings, paranormal conventions, and talks scheduled for libraries and historical groups all around the South Bay.
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As a paranormal researcher and author, this time of year is not only my busiest, but also the most fun. Halloween may not be an official holiday, but throughout the year, folks all over the country wait impatiently for October 31st, buying up decorations for their homes, haunted houses, queuing up horror films both old and new, and boosting retail sales as much, if not more so than at Christmas time.
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As I take my daily walk, at this time of year, I find myself marveling at the fun and creative decorations that I see. When I was growing up in England we did not celebrate Halloween at all, so I still feel like a kid when I see all the decorations!
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