🎃 SFV Halloween Calendar: The community calendar now has 90+ spooky events and Halloween happenings. Parties, movies, dog costume contests, and more.

🎃 Night of the Jack (Calabasas): Family-friendly jack-o'-lantern trail. From $29. Select nights through Sunday, November 1, starting at 5:30 PM at King Gillette Ranch (26800 Mulholland Hwy.).

🦇 Burbank Haunted Adventure (Burbank): Halloween maze. $10 adults, $5 kids in advance. Fridays and Saturdays, October 16–17 and 23–24, from 7 to 9:30 PM at Starlight Bowl (1249 Lockheed View Dr.).

🪩 Community Dance Club (North Hollywood): Dance class set to nostalgic hits. Free. Every Friday, from 7:45 to 8:45 PM at Dream Big Dance Studio (5933 Vineland Ave.).

💅 Spooky Custom Nail Bar (Tarzana): Decorate handmade press-on nails. $60. Thursday, October 15, from 7 to 9 PM at 18399 Ventura Blvd. #14.

🐺 The Howling with Joe Dante (North Hollywood): Screening of The Howling, the 1981 werewolf classic. Thursday, October 15, at 7 PM at Laemmle NoHo 7 (5240 Lankershim Blvd.).

🎱 Bingo Night (North Hollywood): Weekly brewery bingo. Free. Every Thursday, starting at 7 PM at Lawless Brewing Co. (5275 Craner Ave.).

🌟 Showstopper (Sherman Oaks): 80-minute one-man show about life not going as planned. Ages 15+. $25. Thursday, October 15, at 8 PM at The Whitefire Theatre (13500 Ventura Blvd.). Also November 12–14.

🥕 Pop-Up Pantry (San Fernando): Free groceries, including fresh produce. Free. Friday, October 16, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM at Kidneys Quest Foundation (1058 N. Maclay Ave.).

✈️ Halloween Double Feature (Van Nuys): Casper and Poltergeist double feature at the airport. Bring a chair. $12 per movie. Friday, October 16, at 7 and 9:15 PM at Van Nuys Airport (7739 Woodley Ave.).

🎤 Friday Night Live (Toluca Lake): Weekly Friday night stand-up with dinner and drinks. $22.25. Friday, October 16, starting at 7:30 PM at The Comedy Chateau (4615 Lankershim Blvd.).

🔪 Friday the 16th Halloween Party (North Hollywood): All-night house music costume party. 21+. $10. Friday, October 16, from 8 PM to 4 AM in North Hollywood. Secret location shared with ticket.

🎭 Improv Special Night (North Hollywood): Slow...Children at Play, NoHo's improv troupe in its 28th season, plays a special night. $20. Friday, October 16, starting at 8 PM at Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center (11006 Magnolia Blvd.).

🌺 Harvest the Goddess Within Festival (Burbank): Fourth annual women's wellness festival with live music, women-owned vendors, and free flower crowns. $20–$88. Saturday, October 17, from 4 to 9 PM at SATARA Mystical Wellness (3017 W. Burbank Blvd.). ★ Sponsored

🍂 Early Childhood Autumn Festival (Northridge): Fall open house with crafts and treats for kids 6 and under. RSVP required. Free. Saturday, October 17, from 9 to 11:30 AM at Highland Hall Waldorf School (17100 Superior St.).

🍃 Nature Journaling Workshop (Sun Valley): Draw and learn about oak leaves at this nature journaling workshop. $33. Saturday, October 17, from 10 AM to 12 PM at Theodore Payne Foundation (10459 Tuxford St.).

📚 NoHo Library Book Sale (North Hollywood): One-day used book sale of donated books, CDs, and DVDs. Saturday, October 17, from 11 AM to 3 PM at North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library (5211 Tujunga Ave.).

🚗 Trunk or Treat (West Hills): Trunk-or-treat with a bounce house, carnival games, and a costume parade. $15 presale for kids, free for adults. Saturday, October 17, from 3 to 6 PM at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church (23838 Kittridge St.).

💀 Dia de los Muertos Family Festival (Burbank): Day of the Dead celebration with ofrendas, crafts, and face painting. $10. Saturday, October 17, from 4:30 to 8:30 PM at Walt Disney Elementary (1113 W. Clark Ave.).

🎤 Kurated Karaoke (San Fernando): Third-Saturday karaoke night with a monthly-changing playlist. Free. Saturday, October 17, starting at 8:30 PM (sign-ups at 7:30 PM) at Shadow Grove Brewing (1116 2nd St.).

👻 Nighttime Cemetery Walking Tour (Sylmar): After-dark walking tour of a historic cemetery with ghost stories and a paranormal investigation. Ages 13+. $35. Saturday, October 17, from 7 to 9 PM at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery (14451 Bledsoe St.).

🎗️ Stand Up to Breast Cancer (Toluca Lake): Comedians take the stage for a breast cancer awareness show. Two-drink minimum. $16.25. Saturday, October 17, starting at 8 PM at The Comedy Chateau (4615 Lankershim Blvd.).

🎃 Pumpkin Festival (Calabasas): Annual pumpkin festival with a patch, live music, inflatable rides, and reptile shows. From $15. Sunday, October 18, from 10 AM to 5 PM at Juan Bautista de Anza Park (3701 Lost Hills Rd.).

🧶 Crochet Class (North Hollywood): Learn Tunisian crochet in a three-session workshop. $120. Sundays, October 18, November 1, and November 15, from 1 to 3 PM at The Woven End Yarn Cafe (5712 Lankershim Blvd.).

🔦 Halloween Hike (West Hills): Spooky 1.8-mile sunset cave hike that ends after dark. Bring a headlamp. Free with RSVP. Sunday, October 18, starting at 5:45 PM at El Escorpion Park (24501 Vanowen St.). Meeting spot shared after RSVP.

📖 Storytelling Night (Burbank): Bi-monthly evening of true stories. $10. Sunday, October 18, from 7:30 to 9 PM at The Victory Theatre Center (3326 W. Victory Blvd.).

📜 Trust Aftercare Workshop (Calabasas): Workshop for successor trustees and families handling a loved one's trust. Free. Wednesday, October 21, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM at Cambria Hotel Calabasas (26400 Rondell St.). ★ Sponsored

🧛 Halloween Squares Game Show (Burbank): Jonathan Mangum hosts a Halloween tic-tac-toe game show with Dracula in the center square. $65–$75. Thursday, October 22 through Saturday, October 24, at 8 PM nightly at Garry Marshall Theatre (4252 W. Riverside Dr.).

🗡️ Little Women Vampire Slayers (Highland Park): The March sisters battle vampires in this one-hour improvised show. $12. Saturdays, October 17, 24, and 31, from 7:30 to 8:30 PM at Outside In Theatre's ArtBox Studio (5317 York Blvd.).

🎃 Boo at the L.A. Zoo (Griffith Park): Two weekends of Halloween at the zoo with trick-or-treat and a corn maze. Free with Zoo admission. Weekends, October 24 through November 1, from 10 AM to 5 PM at the Los Angeles Zoo (5333 Zoo Dr.).

🤖 Glendale: City Council approved a 12-month pilot for sidewalk delivery robots. (Glendale News-Press)

🛝 Studio City: The Beeman Park playground is open again.

🏷️ Reseda: Church rummage sale with furniture, clothing, appliances, and household items. Saturday, October 17, from 8 AM to 1 PM at 18120 Saticoy St.

🎨 Job: Product Design Intern: Disney Consumer Products in Glendale is hiring a spring intern to help design bags and backpacks for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. $23/hr. Full-time, January through June 2027.

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❓️ In June 1969, more than 200,000 people showed up in Northridge for the Newport Pop Festival (headlined by Jimi Hendrix). What venue hosted it?

Last week's question: What was the original name of the Van Nuys Airport?

Answer: Metropolitan Airport. It opened in December 1928. It became the Van Nuys Army Air Field in World War II and San Fernando Valley Airport in 1949. It became the Van Nuys Airport in 1957.