7 Ways to Spend Halloween Weekend Around Altadena

Thursday to Monday

• 1. Starting tonight until Halloween, adults can find a way to enjoy literature and some Halloween fright at the Wicked Lit performance of three literary classics in the .  Starting tonight, the theater group is performing Mark Twain's A Ghost Story, M.R. James' Casting the Runes and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher.  For more on this group, including a video from last year's performance, check out this .  Ticket purchase information is available on the group's website.

• 2. In Old Pasadena there is the annual Old Town Haunt, which starts at 7 p.m. nightly.  The haunted house takes place in the basement of a historical Pasadena building.  There are also two matinee events for kids age 7-12. 

Friday

• 3. The is hosting a at 3:30 p.m., which will include trick-or-treat bags, decorations, Mexican paper flowers and sugar-skull decorating.

• 4. From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. merchants on Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge will be , and there is also a costume contest.

Saturday

• 5. Over in La Crescenta there is a for kids and teenagers from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Monday

• 6. Games food booths, and face painting are all part of the family event from 6 to 8 p.m. on Halloween evening.

• 7. In Old Pasadena, there will be trick or treating from 4 to 9 p.m. as well as free outdoor screenings of Monsters Inc. (6 p.m.) and Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride at the One Colorado Courtyard.

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