Get Your Skulls On at Denver's El Diablo Oct. 30

Rev up for Halloween and El Dia de Los Muertos tonight, Tuesday Oct. 30 at El Diablo restaurant. We heartily recommend the tacos, but you can't go wrong at this fun joint, which has been feeding and entertaining South Denver for the past four years. Okay, we know it is really part of the Baker neighborhood, but that's just a technicality.

 The party kicks off at 8PM with all kinds of wicked fun, including a tattoo artist skull show, live music by DJ Gonzo, face painting and a silent auction that benefits Mi Casa Resource Center. No cover but if you plan on eating you will probably need a reservation.

At 11PM. El Diablo's happy hour will kick in with drink and food specials, including $1 tacos. They're to die for! 101 Broadway (First and Broadway), Denver.

Fun Things to Do in Denver, Oct. 26-29, 2012

St. John’s Cathedral – Concert at 7:30PM on Friday, Oct. 26. This concert by Saint John's own Cathedral Choirs will include Benjamin Britten's Antiphon, Gerald Finzi's "Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast" and Jonathan Dove's "Seek Him that Maketh". Get there early to get a good seat. Admission: Freewill offering. More info HERE.1350 Washington St., Denver.

Denver Art Museum  hosts its regularly scheduled Untitled  party on the last Friday of the month and the last one for this year is on Friday Oct. 26 from 6-10PM. This month's theme, Written Off examines artists forgotten in their own time, while offering odes to the museum’s own artworks that deserve a second look.  Untitled events are FREE with museum general admission ($10 for Colorado residents, $8 for students and seniors 65+). Students with ID get a  2for1 deal. FREE for members.  DAM is on 13th Avenue (Broadway and Bannock), Denver.

Dia de Los Muertos - Día de los Muertos is the theme at Denver Botanic Gardens  on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 5-8PM. Check out the schedule HERE, because there’s plenty of fun on tap, including a costume parade, sugar skull-making area, a papel picado-making area, pumpkin carving demos and more. Live music, food, arts and craft vendors will also be on hand. Admission for non-members is $12 for adults and $6 for children. 1007 York St., Denver.

Trick or Treat --  East Colfax merchants  host Boo & Brew  on Saturday, Oct. 27. The Halloween festivities are split into two parts – for little kids during the day and big kids at nighttime. From 1PM-4PM, kids and their parents can visit all the decorated businesses between Filmore and Monroe for an afternoon of FREE and safe trick-or-treating. Be one of the first 100 to show up  at  theHaunted House at GroundSwell (3121 E. Colfax Ave.) and receive a custom “Boo & Brew on Colfax” candy sack. Later that night the big kids can don a costume and hit the bars from 9PM-2AM in the Bluebird Theater area, which will offer discount cocktails, music, constume contests and all kinds of entertainment at the Rock Bar, 3014, Lost Lake Lounge, R-Bar, Goosetown Tavern and the Atomic Cowboy.

South Pearl Street – Dust off your best costume and your camera and head to South Pearl Street for all kinds of Halloween fun from 9AM -1PM on Saturday Oct. 27, when local merchants celebrate Halloween Fest. The fun will center on the 1500 block of South Pearl and feature holiday treats and old fashioned games.  There will be a kids’ costume contest at the north end of the 1500 block at noon, and a parade to Cameron Church at 1600 S. Pearl, where the judging will award prizes in the categories of homemade, Halloween theme, person, thing and critter.


Westernaires -- The dare-devil, horse-loving teens known as The Westernaires are performing their annual  Horsecapades show this weekend, and if you haven't seen their 250 rider high speed drill team, you are in for a treat. Admission is $8 at the door, and $10 to park at Denver National Western Events Center. There's three shows on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 10AM, 2PM and 7PM and on Sunday, Oct. 28 there is a 2PM matinee scheduled. 47th and Humboldt, Denver.  

Mt. Olivet Cemetery Crawl -  Meet up Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 - 1-4PM at  the Chapel at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 12801 W. 44th Ave. Join historian Tom Noel and a host of ghosts as they guide you through Colorado’s second largest  Necropolis. You will meet underground celebrities exhumed for this creepy, once-in-a-lifetime occasion, such as Horace (Dennis Gallagher) and Baby Doe Tabor (Charla Fleming), Mrs. William Gilpin (Debra Faulkner), and J.K. Mullen (John Stewart) and get a peak at the most elaborate private mausoleum in the Rockies. Free grave to grave transit provided by the Model A Ford Club of Colorado. Cost: $26 History Colorado members; $31 nonmembers.

Information and reservations at History Colorado: 303-866-4686.

The Lumber Baron Inn -- The Altitude Paranormal Group  will be doing Lumber Baron events each Wednesday, including Halloween. Additional events are slated for the Monday and Tuesday prior to Halloween. On Friday Oct 26th APG will be holding an event co sponsored by Tivoli Beer at The Stage Stop in Rollinsville. APG says they've  investigated this bar/saloon built in 1868 several times and it is one of the most active they've experienced. Their website appears to be down, but for details you can contact them through their facebook page, by phone at (720) 237-1807 or via email altitudeparanormal@gmail.com.

Denver's Ghost Tours and Tales 2012

Is Denver haunted? Hard to say, but stories of ghostly apparitions and spectral sightings abound in the Mile High City. Even better, we celebrate our past (good and bad) in Denver, offering  plenty of historical Halloween fun throughout the Halloween season.

Capitol Hill Horror -- Meet on Sunday, October 21, at 1PM at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion, 777 Pennsylvania St. for Halloween tales with  Colorado historian  Tom Noel and storytellers Edger Allen Poe (Dennis Gallagher), Mary Elitch (Debra Faulkner), Molly Brown (Charla Stilling), Mattie Silks (Patti Lundt), Mrs. Adolph Coors II (Kim Field), Mrs. Uerttea Croke (Amy Zimmer), Helen Bonfils (Susan Liehe), and other exhumed eccentrics. After these blood curdling horror stories, we dare you to join Dr. Colorado's walking tour into the autumnal gloom to hear tales of ghosts at the Governor's Mansion, the Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion, the Peabody Manse and other creepy places. Cost: $39 History Colorado members; $49 nonmembers. Information and reservations at History Colorado: 303-866-4686.

Mt. Olivet Cemetery Crawl -  Meet up Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 1-4PM at  the Chapel at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 12801 W. 44th Ave. Join historian Tom Noel and a host of ghosts as they guide you through Colorado’s second largest  Necropolis. You will meet underground celebrities exhumed for this creepy, once-in-a-lifetime occasion, such as Horace (Dennis Gallagher) and Baby Doe Tabor (Charla Fleming), Mrs. William Gilpin (Debra Faulkner), and J.K. Mullen (John Stewart) and get a peak at the most elaborate private mausoleum in the Rockies. Free grave to grave transit provided by the Model A Ford Club of Colorado. Cost: $26 History Colorado members; $31 nonmembers.

Information and reservations at History Colorado: 303-866-4686.

The Lumber Baron Inn -- The Altitude Paranormal Group  will be doing Lumber Baron events each Wednesday, including Halloween. Additional events are slated for the Monday and Tuesday prior to Halloween. On Friday Oct 26th APG will be holding an event co sponsored by Tivoli Beer at The Stage Stop in Rollinsville. APG says they've  investigated this bar/saloon built in 1868 several times and it is one of the most active they've experienced. Their website appears to be down, but for details you can contact them through their facebook page, by phone at (720) 237-1807 or via email altitudeparanormal@gmail.com.

Spirit Paranormal Investigations - Channel your inner Ghostbuster  at several sites throughout the Denver area, including the historic Denver Firefighters' Museum, and the Bennis Library in Littleton. They're also hosting several ghost hunting lectures at area libraries, including Cherry Creek (Oct. 11) and Englewood (Oct. 30). See their event calendar here, and contact them directly for more info, such as pricing.

Phil Goodstein -- If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know we enjoy the ghost tours of Denver author and historian Phil Goodstein. His affordable walking tours of Denver cemeteries and haunted sites can be viewed here.

Ghosts at the Gardens -- Today it’s Denver’s favorite urban oasis, but more than a hundred years ago, the land Denver Botanic Gardens sits on was the Mile High City’s first cemetery. Heck, they'res still digging up bodies at the Gardens. Learn more about the Gardens’ macabre history, and recount decades of the paranormal through eyewitness reports from past and present Gardens staff, in one of the city’s most haunted places. October 19, 20, 21, 26 and 28 tours include tour of gardens and the adjacent Waring House mansion, built in the early 1900s. Children 12 years old and older are welcomed (this tour is not recommended for children younger than 12). Tours will be held under any weather conditions, including rain or snow. Ticket sales are final, no refunds. $20 Adult Members, and children 12 years old and older. Non member fee is $25 Adults, and children 12 years old and older. Get your reservations now, this sells out quickly.

Denver Zombie Crawl Sat. Oct. 22 FREE!

Braiiins! At 2PM on Oct. 22, at Skyline Park (16th and Arapahoe) downtown Denver, channel your inner zombie for some good ol' fashioned brain-eating fun. ALL AGES and FREE event. Everyone is welcome. They do, however, ask that you bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the Food Bank of the Rockies. Aww. Zombies with a heart. Info  here at EyeHeartBrains.