Boo News & Costume Sources

	Haunt and Scare website directories for around California and the Country
	Local Los Angeles Area Events
	daCat's Favorite Resource Links for Costumes
	More links for Halloween fun

Updated for the year!!!!

Haunted House Searches

Check out these haunted search engines for activities around the country. They have haunted houses, chat, costume tips and more...

Haunt World

http://www.hauntworld.com/

Dark Side of the Net: Halloween

http://www.darklinks.com/dhaunthouse.html

Horror Find

http://www.horrorfind.com/

How to Haunt-it-yourself

Monster List of Halloween Projects

http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/

Pumpkin Patches and Hay Rides

Southern California pumpkin patches & farm events

http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/CApla.php

Or for all over the country: http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/

Finding more Los Angeles Events

Use city specific search engines for events around Los Angeles. Note: no search engines have everything, so dig for info.

General Calendars

Check out DigitalCity.com Los Angeles. Search by Key Word and narrow down you choice by area or category. They have a special Halloween section with events broken down by category, including a kid friendly section. They also have photo tours of haunted hotels and other fun stuff to get you in the mood.

Los Angeles Almanac list a lot of family friendly activities for October including street fairs, harvest festivals and museum days.

They list the events by month now, so you'll need to check the dates yourself.

At-LA.com is a nice directory of many event links and other directories, Halloween just being one of them.

The Los Angeles Times' CalendarLive.com has a long list of children's happenings and costume contests - most on the Saturday and Sunday before Halloween. Check out the BOO section for local events.

Clubs

Looking for more club events, especially on the west side? Check out...

Alex's In LA's Halloween page:

http://www.alexinla.com/halloween

This website is a major site for LA Club news anytime of the year.

Also club and bar contests will be listed in the LA weekly and LA.com.

Day of the Dead and related activity calendars

Plume Norie's Day of the Dead in LA has a large list of festivals from all around SoCal.

http://www.plume-noire.com/feature/halloween/dayofthedeadlosangeles.html

LA's city calendar for Latino Heritage

http://www.latinoslacity.org/calander.htm , select October, and go to the end of the month. Check November too. (Link is dead, looking for the new address, if there is one.)

Costume Resource Links

Some of da Cat's favorites Costume Links.

Costuming links and resources on AlleyCatScratch.com

Lord of the Rings Costume

	Want to research a costume from one of the most popular movie series ever??? We got over 700 web pages in this one section. Come play with us at Alley Cat Scratch's LOTR Costume.
	Looking for quick LOTR Costume ideas???
	We've also got lots of other tips for how to make costumes, search our site and check us out.

Movie Costume Study

This a a launch point for lots more costume research links

Check out Making 'Em for techniques and tips

Come talk to use about making Fantasy, Science Fiction and Movie costumes on F-Costume

King Kong Costume

Easy costumes with a vintage flare

Future Fashion Design

Ever have an idea about what folks will wear in the future??? Then this section is for you. We keep you updated on the latest future fashion contests and future fashion shows.

We've also got a selection of fashion figure to use to help you create your own designs.

da Cat's favorite collection of costume links sites

Includes lot of great costume reference link sites, costume groups, local calendars for costuming group so you can continue to play all year long.

Costume Sites, great stops in the internet super-highway....

The Costumer's Manifesto - www.costumes.org

Links to just about everything costume on the web you can think about, and some things you probably would never dream up.

The Costume Site - http://www.milieux.com/costume/