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Can you top these costumes for a $1,000 prize at the Maui Tacos Halloween Costume Contest on Maui?
Trick or treat?
Numerous places around town
offer frightening sights and
activities for all ages
All events are tonight except where noted.
HAUNTED HOUSES
Shock House
At Blaisdell Center. Created by Tom Moffatt and Act One Theatre Design, being billed as "the scariest haunted house in Hawaii." Open through Saturday. Admission is $7.50 general, $4 for 12 and under, and free for 3 and under.Spooky's Halloween Town's Scare Factory II
At 46-018 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe (between Kahuhipa and Kaneohe Post Office). Labeled "super-intense," this haunted house also has a costume shop that is open from noon to midnight. The Scare Factory is open from 6 p.m. to midnight. Admission is $6.
SPECIAL
Precision-cut Fright
Architects Hawaii designers turn their talent from homes to pumpkins during the group's 15th annual Pumpkin Carving Competition. Check out the display from 8:30 a.m. to noon today at the Bishop Square American Savings Bank Tower Lobby, 1001 Bishop St., and cast your vote for your favorite architecturally inspired jack-o'-lantern. The display continues to 4:30 p.m.Kid's Halloween
Dress your child in a costume to receive a special treat at the Hawaii Children's Discovery Center, where there'll be face painting, mask decorating and water play from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is $8 general; $6.75 for kids 2 to 17; and $5 for 62 and older. Call 524-KIDS (5437).Hallelujah Celebration 2003
At Calvary Chapel Pearl Harbor, Moanalua Shopping Center. Games, candy and more, from 5:30 p.m. No "evil" costumes allowed. Call 423-2775.Halloween Extravaganza
At Salt Lake Shopping Center. Pumpkin-carving contest, Halloween crafts and scary tattoos, a haunted bouncy house and more, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Call 735-8822."Spooktacular Celebration"
At Koko Marina Shopping Center. Doggie costume contest, trick-or-treating, pumpkin carving contest, a haunted bouncy house and more, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.Augie Rey's Masquerade Ball
Celebrate Augie Rey Fernandez's 60th birthday. Dinner, dancing and entertainment by Jimmy Borges, Dick Jensen, Melveen Leed, Glen Pinho and more, 6:30 p.m., Monarch Room, Royal Hawaiian Hotel. $100 per person, $1,000 for a table of 10. Proceeds benefit Special Olympics Hawaii. Call Melissa Blake at 943-8808, Ext. 24.
COSTUME CONTESTS
Kahala Mall
Keiki awards for funniest/cutest, most original and judge's choice. Registration at 5:45 p.m. Contest begins at 7 p.m. Call 732-7736.Salt Lake Shopping Center
For children ages 16 and younger, 4:30 p.m. Categories include most original, scariest and best celebrity look-alike. Call 735-8822."Enter the Matrix"
At Wave Waikiki, 1877 Kalakaua Ave. Even if you don't compete, this promises to be a gawker's delight, beginning at 8 p.m. Admission is $15 pre-sale (available at the Wave), $20 Halloween night. Must be 21 or older. Call 941-0424."Hulaween: Comics Are the Best"
At Hula's Bar & Lei Stand, 134 Kapahulu Ave., second floor. There's no official start time for this date with ghouls in varying states of dress and undress. Must be 21r. Call 923-0669.
TRICK OR TREAT
Check out Oki Yucker's display of sweet treats at Chocolate Sushi in the Enchanted Lake Shopping Center, where chocolate bats and witches await, and a chocolate mask may even pull double-duty: Wear and eat if it doesn't melt all over your mouth first!
Ala Moana Center
Pick up a flier at the customer service center (across from CenterStage) for a listing of participating stores. Event runs 5 to 7 p.m. Call 946-2811.Kahala Mall
Look for balloons at participating stores for events from 5 p.m. Photo booths at Macy's and PacSun will document your tricks. Photo packages start at $10. Call 732-7736.Pearlridge Center
At Uptown and Downtown locations, 5-7 p.m. Call 488-0981.Salt Lake Shopping Center
Treats will be distributed in the main courtyard area, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Call 735-8822.Victoria Ward Centers
At Ward Warehouse, Ward Centre, Ward Village Shops and Ward Gateway Center. Look for black bats hanging from participating merchants' doorways, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Halloween photos also at Ward Centre, ground floor. Call 591-8411.Windward Mall
A keiki magic show begins at 6:30 p.m. Centerstage; events run 6 to 8 p.m. Call 235-1143.Treat Street
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St. Trick-or-treat at a custom-designed neighborhood of colorful buildings constructed by the students of the University of Hawaii's School of Architecture, 5:30-8 p.m. Also enjoy spooky stories, games and activities. Don't miss "The Creepy-Crawly Roach Race," a new "spook-tacular" event that's sure to be a hit with trick-or-treaters. Bring the biggest, fastest roach you can find, and race it down a 44-inch specially designed track. The owners of the speediest roaches will be rewarded with prizes. Scientists also will be on hand to identify the types of roaches and teach you everything you wanted to know (or not) about the eating patterns of cockroaches. Bishop Museum's entomologists will bring out a variety of exotic cockroaches from their collection -- roaches found in Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia. Admission is free, but a $1 donation at the door will help support the museum's education and outreach programs.
NIGHTLIFE
Adult Halloween Party
At Dixie Grill, Aiea. Country music dance tunes, costume contest and more, from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. For more information, call 485-CRAB (2722)."I Want My '80s"
At Fusion Waikiki. "Anything Goes" costume contest and a Gender Bender Lipp Gloss Revue "Tribute to the '80s" show, from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. The cost is $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call 924-2422 or visit www.gayhawaii.com/fusion.Meritage Masquerade Party
Featuring music by Chant, beginning 9 p.m. at Restaurant Row. Call 529-8686."Get Freaky"
At Blaisdell Center, with party people in two massive dance arenas: "The Get Yo Freak On Room" with DJ Wreck spinnin' 100 percent booty, hip-hop and reggae, with $300 cash and prize costume contest and $100 "Get Freaky" booty contest; and "The Rave-A-Holics Room" with trance and house music by DJs G-Spot, Ikon, Spellbinder, PSI and Tide. Doors open at 10 p.m. for the all-ages show. Tickets $20 at the door; includes admission to Shock House. Call 221-3707 for details.Dungeon's 10th Anniversary
At 1739 Kalakaua Ave. Lots of fetish performances, rope cage, iron cross, flogging stocks, slave stages and "pervy" projections, from 10 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. Must be 18 or older. The cost is $21 in advance, $25 at the door. Visit www.dungeonhawaii.com for more information.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Spooky Tales
At Waikoloa Beach Marriott. Rick Carroll shares Pele stories from his latest book, "Madame Pele: True Encounters with the Fire Goddess," 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Call 808-886-8133.Halloween in Lahaina
Ghouls and goblins galore will take to the streets of Lahaina tonight with Front Street closed to vehicular traffic from 3 p.m. until midnight to accommodate thousands of spectators who will witness a parade of alien and exotic beings.Banyan Tree Park is the site of the Halloween Arts Festival starting at 5 p.m. Event-goers can have their faces painted and fortunes read, and can purchase event T-shirts and food throughout the night.
Bone-rattling entertainment will be featured on Front Street from 5:30 p.m. until midnight.
The most spectacular and creative costumes will be on center stage at contests throughout the night. Contestants will compete for cash prizes, dinners and more. The competition begins at 7 p.m. at the Maui Tacos Halloween Costume Contest at Banyan Tree Park, with a top prize of $1,000. Registration takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the staging area. There is a $20 fee to enter. Winners will be announced at about 10 p.m.
For more information, call the LAC Event Hotline at 808-667-9194 or the Lahaina Visitor Center at 808-667-9193.
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STAR-BULLETIN / 2001
Adela Chu, right, is back with Espiritu Libre, and they'll be rousing spirits during the "Day of the Dead" celebration taking place tomorrow at The First Unitarian Church of Honolulu.
Day of the Dead celebration
The sixth annual "Day of the Dead" celebration will take place 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at The First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, 2500 Pali Highway.There will be entertainment and dancing highlighted by Adela Chu and Epiritu Libre, with salsa, samba and Latin jazz and dance music. Clairvoyant Mystic also returns to keep guests entranced.
The celebration is based on El Dia de los Muertos, an old Mexican belief that once a year the spirits of the dead return to visit. It is a time for the living to welcome them back with special food and entertainment.
The serious part of the celebration is the placing of a commemorative item on a special altar -- a photo or a flower or some other memento of the beloved relatives.
Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children and a "Family of Four" price of $25. Food and drinks will be sold separately.
For more information, call 988-8043.
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