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Haunted Halloween happenings |
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Written by Tahoe World staff
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
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Oct. 26
UNICEF collections
The students of Glenshire Elementary kick off their UNICEF drive on Friday, Oct. 26 and will be collecting donations this Halloween season to assist less privileged children around the world in acquiring the medicines, food, clothing and shelter they need to live better lives. Please support this Kids Helping Kids campaign by contributing when the students come around to trick or treat.
Truckee Halloween parade
The Truckee Donner Recreation and Park District hosts its annual Halloween Parade on Friday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. The parade starts at the west end of the train station parking lot and ends at the Truckee Community Center for trick-or-treating in the halls. Donations are sought for candy or prizes: call Dan if you can help, (530) 582-7720.
Make a difference at the Boys and Girls Club haunted house
On Oct. 26, the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation AmeriCorps program will participate in Make A Difference Day by soliciting donations of household goods for the Mountain Rose Safe House as the admission cost for a haunted house they are putting on in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club’s Harvest Festival.
 Make A Difference Day was created by USA Weekend in order to encourage community members to become personally and positively involved in their communities. To that end, the region’s AmeriCorps members decided to put on a collaborative event, one which will provide a safe and fun Halloween experience for the local children, raise awareness of the Mountain Rose Safe House Program, and to collect some much needed small donations for the Safe House.
The Mountain Rose Safe House program provides a violence-free temporary living environment for women and children leaving abusive relationships. They are in need of such small household items as calling cards, grocery gift certificates, laundry products, toiletries, diapers, paper towels, etc. The AmeriCorps volunteers are asking that parents and children will bring small donations of that type to the Haunted House as the price of admission.
The Haunted House will be held from 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 26 at the Boys and Girls Club at 8125 Steelhead Ave, Kings Beach.
Monster Ball raises money for Incline schools
Monsters, witches and all sorts of other Halloween creatures will be present during the Monster Ball on Friday, Oct. 26 starting at 6 p.m. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. a dinner buffet will be served and from 7 to 11 p.m. their will be a live DJ with a costume contest at 10 p.m.
The Monster Ball is an adult costume party at the Hacienda de la Sierra in Incline, but the benefits will go toward children in the schools. Sponsored by the Incline Village Board of Realtors and Hacienda, the Monster Ball’s $25 donation will be given to the Incline Schools Academic Excellence Foundation.
 The donation at the door, however, will give the party-goer a great party of dancing, prizes, DJ, costume contest, buffet and drink specials. Plus, Intero and Mortgage Broker Associates is offering free rides home from the Monster Ball as a community service.
Oct. 27
Tahoe Mothers’ Club hosts Halloween party
The Tahoe Mothers’ Club, will host a Halloween Party for kids from 0-6 years old on Saturday Oct. 27 at the Rideout Community Center on the West Shore from 3-6 p.m. The fun includes pumpkin decorating, a costume parade, carnival games and a silent auction. K2 women-specific skis, golf passes, ski tickets and many more items will be up for bid in the silent auction, along with a balloon raffle for many more prizes. All proceeds from the auction and raffle are for the Truckee Tahoe Nutrition Coalition.
The cost for Tahoe Mothers’ Club members is $5 per family, non-members pay $20 per family or $6 for adults and $4 for children (kids 1 and under are free). For more information contact the Tahoe Mothers’ Club at (530) 470-1074 or www.tahoemothersclub.org.
Watch “Night of the Living Dead” for free
Truckee Book & Bean offers free films every Saturday at 7 p.m. and October’s theme is classic horror. On Saturday, Oct. 27, Truckee Book & Bean offers “Night of the Living Dead.” Arrive early as seating is limited, and you definitely won’t want to be tucked into any dark corners in the back for this film.
Creeper’s Ball Halloween Costume Party with Tainted Love
For the fourth consecutive year the Crystal Bay Casino is hosting the North Shore’s spookiest party, The Creeper’s Ball. Step into the mist of the Crown Room graveyard and sample free “Finger” food from 8-9 p.m. Ladies in costume drink free during the same pre-show hour of power. There will be prizes given away throughout the evening including a $500 Grand Prize for the best costume. Whatever you wear don’t forget your dancing shoes as Bay Area favorite Tainted Love supplies the beat for the year’s best party.
 Tickets are $17 advance, $20 day of. Get them at www.crystalbaycasino.com, 775.833.6333 or at the venue.
At the beginning of the 1980s — with the fall of disco and the commercial demise of punk rock — music took a turn into what was dubbed, “one of the most romantic periods in the history of popular music.” Musicians abandoned their guitars and traditional drum kits for the latest in state-of-the-art technology: synthesizers, drum machines, and special effects.
They donned a more androgynous look known as “New Romantic.” The result was music alive with sensual crooning, searing synthesizers, pulsating bass lines and pounding electronic drums, carrying a message of love, politics and sexual being. Thus was created a “New Wave” of pop and dance music, when bands like Duran Duran, Eurythmics, The Cure, and the Thompson Twins were on the cutting edge. The 1980s also saw a multitude of unforgettable “one-hit-wonders” such as Modern English, Gary Numan, and Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Tainted Love, the seven-piece outfit from San Francisco, brings you back to the days when keyboards ruled the airwaves, cascading hairdos were commonplace and outlandish fashions lit up the pioneering early days of MTV.
With a stellar line-up of three high-energy singers driven by a power house band whose credentials include Pride & Joy, Super Diamond, Car Wash, Panama, and Yah-Yah Littleman, Tainted Love delivers a non-stop 80s live show featuring “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “I Melt With You,” “Obsession,” “Safety Dance” and many other pop gems from that deliriously decadent decade. One night of Tainted Love and you’ll forget that disco ever happened!
Oct. 28
Hear that lonesome whistle blow
Nights turn darker earlier than expected in California this coming Halloween season as The Rolling Darkness Revue returns. Glen, Pete Atkins and friends are on board the Midnight Special this October to deliver thrills and chills in celebration of horror fiction’s favorite holiday. Save the date, Sunday, Oct. 28, for a very special spooky celebration at Truckee Book and Bean in Truckee. Visit www.truckeebookandbean.com for details.
Oct. 29
 KidZone Halloween Carnival
On Monday, Oct. 29 from 4 to 6 p.m., the KidZone Museum plays host to a free Halloween Carnival and Dia de los Muertos celebration for children under 6 and their parents. Games, face painting, a fire truck visit, a mad scientist, prizes and Halloween books will all be part of the fun. Call (530) 587-5437 for more information.
Oct. 31
Glenshire Halloween parade
The students of Glenshire Elementary will participate in the annual Halloween parade at the school on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 9:20 a.m.
Village Trail of Treats and Terror
All Incline Village trick-or-treaters with parents are welcome to join this special Halloween quest from 4-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Please park your mere mortal vehicles at the Incline Middle School parking lot before walking the plank to “The PCC Scary Skeleton Soiree” at the Donald W. Reynolds Community Non-Profit Center located at 948 Incline Way. Then wind your way through “The Talking Tree Forest” to the IVGID Rec. Center for “Ghoulish Games & A Spider Shindig.” Slither along “Jack-O-Lantern Lane” to “The Snakes Nest” at The Lake Tahoe School. Slide out through the Haunted House if you dare. Continue with care through the “Groovy Graveyard” to The “Haunted Halls of Sierra Nevada College” and listen to scary stories by the fire.
Along the trail, be sure to scare up your old eyeglasses for donation to the Give the Gift of Sight Foundation.
The Spooky shuttle will return any survivors to their cars parked at the Incline Middle School parking lot. Come and join the fun… we are dying to see you! For more information please call (775) 298-0118.
Rusty Strings take over the Bar of America’s Halloween party
The Bar of America will host its annual Halloween night celebration, Oct. 31. Make the best of Halloween, get dressed-up and head to Bar of America for a night of live entertainment provided by the Rusty Strings and a costume contest with cash prizes.
From Kings Beach, Calif., the Rusty Strings are a tasty mix of old-timey, new-timey and good-timey. This five-person band incorporates a variety of instruments, including a fiddle, mandolin, and banjo to blend together traditional old-time bluegrass with original material. The Strings pride themselves on getting their audiences up and dancing, so if you’re looking for a rocking good time, be sure to stop by the Bar of America on Halloween.
Music starts at 9 p.m. with a $10 cover charge. Must be 21 to attend. For more information please call (530) 587-2626.
Hella-ween Fright Festival and Little Goblins Ball
A special Halloween party is going down at the North Lake Tahoe Conference Center on Oct. 31 with something for ghouls and goblins of all ages.
 The night will kick off with the “Little Goblins Ball” — a free trick or treating party for the young goblins, family and young at heart. From 6-8 p.m. come for the treats, ghoulish games, a costume contest and live music with the Chad Bowen Project.
Then, as the little ones head home and the moon begins to raise over Lake Tahoe, so does the now 18 and over party. Two separate stages and rooms featuring some of the best live music and DJs in the land will also play host to a costume contest and a full bar.
Starting things off at 9 p.m. on the Supernatural Stage will be Ten Cent Lure, a band that draws from a diverse background and combines elements of rock, funk, groove and even country to create their trademark Funkin’ Swanky Tonk sound.
Then shoot over to the Monster Stage at 10 p.m. for a killer set from Mama’s Cookin’, a band that’s new to the Tahoe area but emerging on the scene with a sound that could only come from the modern age: Hip-hop beats and conscious lyrics melded with a solid base of rock and delta blues. The four players generate sounds completely unique to this young band. Audiences across the country attest to the fact that this is music that inspires.
Blood will be beginning to boil at this point and the only cure is Absynth on the Supernatural Stage at 11 p.m. From jam band roots and electronica influence, Absynth creates a unique blend of improvisational jams with intense break beats and dynamic melodies. The instrumental trio combines drums, bass, and guitar with computer based loops and samples to produce their own brand of Absynth.
What could top this already amazing night? How about a full out, wild and crazy set like you’ve never seen before from Frame of Mind on the Monster Stage at Midnight. Frame Of Mind is a band, whose very limits cannot be defined. Interweaving epic songwriting with improvisational exploration, catchy melodies with groove driven rhythms, and thoughtful lyrics with skilled instrumentation, their eclectic sound is best appreciated in their extended musical excursions that highlight the very essence of live music.
Throughout the night the Monster Stage will feature a special live interactive real-time visual experience by Helium Visuals. and local Tahoe brews will be flowing thanks to south Tahoe’s Mt. Tallac Brewing Co.
Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door ($20 at the door without costume). Pick them up in Kings Beach at the Conference Center, Java Hut, and at Mad About Music or online at www.JamBaseTickets.com. For more information see www.PaesanoProductions.com or contact Nick Catanella via e-mail at
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The North Tahoe Conference Center is located at 8318 North Lake Blvd. (Hwy. 28), in Kings Beach.
Music schedule:
Supernatural Stage
7-8 p.m. Chad Bowen Project
9-10:20 p.m. Ten Cent Lure
10:20-11 p.m. DJ JahBliss
11-12:20 a.m. Absynth
Monster Stage
10-11:20 p.m. Mama’s Cookin’
11:20-midnight DJ Chango
Midnight-1:30 a.m. Frame of Mind
Le Chamois Halloween party
Calling all naughty nurses, blood sucking vampires, roller-skating ballerinas, and saucy superheroes! Get out the costumes and the face paint and creep on over to Squaw Valley’s Le Chamois on Wednesday October 31, 2007 for the annual Halloween Costume & Dance Party.
Revelers are encouraged to dress up in their most clever costumes and celebrate all-hallows eve with great music and a fun party. Tables will be cleared from the downstairs restaurant to make room for dancing with tunes from The Space Cowboy’s DJ Mancub & DJ Sol, starting at 9pm. Upstairs; the bar welcomes partygoers with beer, wine and sake for a ghoulish good time.
Doors open at 8 p.m. and kids are welcome to trick-or-treat until 9 p.m. After 9 p.m . there is a $5 cover and only adults age 21 and older are permitted.
The Halloween Party marks the opening night celebration for Le Chamois for the 07-08 winter season, with the restaurant and bar scheduled to open daily in mid-November.
Le Chamois is located in Squaw Valley USA’s historic base village behind the Squaw Valley Sport Shop. For more information about the Halloween Party call 530-583-4505.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 October 2007 )
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