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Ghostly goings-on Here’s a list of fun and frightful events
The coming week is filled with scary affairs. Choose the ones that have just the right fear-factor to suit your fancy.
HAUNTED HOUSES
DELAPORTE MANOR: Part escape experience, part haunted house, the Delaporte home and those who enter the house will learn the story of an old New Orleans family and become the house’s prisoners. A PG-13 presentation that runs through Nov. 8, the experience runs about 45 minutes including time in the preshow. Tickets start at $38. delaportemanor.com. NEW ORLEANS NIGHTMARE: The haunted house, running nightly starting at 8 p.m. through Nov. 8 at 319 Butterworth St. in New Orleans, includes The Bloodshed, The Harvest, mini escape rooms, a horror-themed bar and other experiences. Some are for 21 and older only. Tickets start at $24.99. neworleansnightmare.com. THE MORTUARY: The long-running haunted house at 4800 Canal St. in New Orleans will be open through Nov. 8; opening hours varying by date. Tickets are $25 before 7 p.m.; $35 after. themortuary.net. NORD HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HOUSE: New Orleans Recreation Department will host a haunted house Oct. 31, 6-9 p.m., at the brake tag station at Lafitte Greenway, 500 Norman C. Francis Parkway in New Orleans. All ages are welcome. Costumes are encouraged. www.nordc.org.
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Colette Candies, 1, makes her way through the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church Pumpkin Patch in New Orleans.
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There are pumpkins of every shape and size, filling the whole area from the front yard, the gardens and the side of the house. The smallest pumpkin is so small it fits in your The patch features thousands of pumpkins, a kid-friendly maze, photo spots and seasonal fun for the whole hand. And family. one year, we weighed one of the largest pumpkins ä List of area pumpkin “I have never counted how EVA JACOB BARKOFF and it was 63 BY many pumpkins, but I do know Contributing writer patches. PAGE 4G pounds. there are thousands,” said Al-
St. Andrew’s patch brings a diverse community together
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ALLEN CHIGHIZOLA, chairman of the St. Andrew’s Pumpkin Patch
Before you try to estimate how many thousands of pumpkins have been carefully placed in the Pumpkin Patch at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, let’s do some math. According to a YouTube Video titled “Over the Road,” the av-
erage size of an 18-wheeler is 53 feet long and 81/ 2 feet wide. Because pumpkins range in different shapes and sizes, the capacity of most trucks is about 1,670 pumpkins. So with five truckloads, that’s a total of 8,350.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
HOCUS POCUS LIFE POTIONS: Middle and high school students can brew their own Life Potion using a tea blending kit while watching “Hocus Pocus,” the 1993 Bette Midler comedy at the St. Rose branch of the St. Charles Parish Library, 90 East Club Drive in St. Rose. The event will be Oct. 30, 4-5:30 p.m. www.myscpl.org. NERD NIGHT: BETRAYAL!: The West Regional Library, 105 Lakewood Drive in Luling, will host an event for middle and high school students on Oct. 29, 5:30-7:30 p.m. “Betrayal at House on the Hill” is a tile game that allows players to lay out the haunted house room by room, tile by tile, creating a new game board every time. Once the haunt begins, one of the characters betrays the rest of the party, and the innocent members of the party must defeat the traitor in their midst before it’s too late. www.myscpl.org.
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len Chighizola, chairman of the eighth annual Pumpkin Patch event. “We order anywhere from three to five trailers from year to year to drop off pumpkins. And I do think that before Oct. 31, it is
MEMNOCH BALL: The 37th anniversary of the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club Ball in honor of Memnoch the Devil will be held Oct. 31, 7-11:30 p.m., at Capital on Baronne, 210 Baronne St. in New Orleans. Live music; open bar. Tickets start at $393.46 via Eventbrite. vamplestat.com/. “DRACULA”: New Orleans Ballet Theatre will perform Oliver Halkowich’s ballet based on the Bram Stoker novel Oct. 29-30 at the Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way in New Orleans. The show is suitable for all ages. Curtain is at 8 p.m., and 2 p.m. for matinees. Tickets start at $42. www. neworleansballettheatre.com. HALLOWEEN BAR CRAWL: The two-day bar crawl will be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1, starting with a required check-in at 4-6 p.m. on Friday and ending with an after party, 10-11:59 p.m. on Saturday. Registration starts at $18.41 via Eventbrite. Details at www.crawlwith. us/neworleans/halloween. DARK GIFT ALLIANCE — BELLE EPOQUE NOIR: The Coven of the Articulate will host a Halloween celebration on Oct. 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., at Generations Hall, 310 Andrew Higgins Blvd. in New Orleans. The event includes live entertainment and music, an open bar, tarot reading and a raffle. Admission starts at $124.50. Attendees must be 21 and older. www.covenofthearticulate.com.
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