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Halloween - Los Angeles
So how does Los Angeles fare in the spook city smackdown? There are few houses old enough to be haunted, too much sunlight for traditional vampires. How spooky can it be?
Los Angeles breaks from Southern spectre sensibilities but is nonetheless creepy. When there’s that much angst, darkness, and delirium concentrated in one place, the energy must remain. It’s the city of Pulp Fiction for a reason. Many a broken heart hangs from the Hollywood sign. Plastic surgery has turned beautiful women (and men) into zombies while ghosts of old starlets remain via their doppelganger impersonators on the boulevard. Amidst countless dress-parties where actresses dress up as, well, themselves… I recommend tapping into LA’s broad ethnic fabric for unforgettable (vs regrettable) Halloween experiences.
It may not be Bonaventure Cemetery, but Hollywood Forever Cemetery can deliver its own dose of good and evil. Hollywood Forever is the site of LA’s Dia de los Muertos Festival ie Day of the Dead. Here, death is not so much spooky as it is sweet. In Mexican / Mayan tradition, Day of the Dead is a time to celebrate ancestors, rather than run from them. The atmosphere in Hollywood Forever is of merry macabre. Sugar skulls in all sizes grace altars where full-size skeletons, dressed in their best, have tea over tombstones. Soulful folk singers croon in mausoleums while ancient warriors are raised from the dead and dance on the lake. When the night comes to a close, a parade with bobbing devil paper machete heads and human demons dance like wild things to the cemetery gates.
If spandex, pogos, and wrestling are your favourite Halloween treats, Lucha Va Voom’s luchadores will deliver the hottest body slam north of the border. These famed masked Mexican wrestlers hit each other with their best shot. Chupacabra vs. El Bombero vs. Shamu Jr., even shorties like Minis Y Mas Minis. In between smackdowns, burlesque acts kiss kiss and bang bang. Roky Roulete, for one, promises to disrobe while bouncing on a pogo stick.
