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It’s Halloween! Here are our Top Picks for Oct. 31st fun!

It's the last full weekend in October and we've gathered our Top Picks of Halloween events and activities for you!

Revelers in Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco will be offered a potentially life saving treat this Halloween... Safe and Sober Free Cab Rides.

October is half over! Have you found something Halloween-y to do? Here are our Top Picks for October 17-19.

Thad Starr wins again at the Half Moon Bay World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off with a 1,528 lb giant pumpkin.

Most of us will instinctively reach for candles this Halloween season when it comes time to light our jack-o'-lanterns, but there are many options available these days.

The Bay Area is filled with fun Halloween and Fall activities. Here are our Top Picks for October 10-12.

The search for love and luck is what Victorian Halloween Divination Games are all about.

Halloween spending is up despite the economy going down. If you have a little extra cash there are many upscale retailers who want to help you make your Halloween extra special.

East Bay Parks offer lots of fun harvest and Halloween events. From crafts to twilight hikes to Halloween campfires, there's something for everyone!

The Pumpkin MartiniEveryone will be throwing Halloween parties this weekend. What better way to celebrate than with a Pumpkin martini!

The Pumpkin GutterThe Pumpkin Gutter - In a world full of gimmicky products that don't work, here's a product that looks like a gimmick but isn't.

Kids and adults have a grand time at McKinley School’s Harvest Festival.

Take a ride through the dark redwood forest on the Ghost Train.

A little bit of San Ramon history and a whole lot of Halloween fun is available to everyone at Forest Home Farms Pumpkin Patch.

Pleasant Hill's pumpkin patch, Mangini Farms Pumpkins.

The pre-school crowd gets treats and maybe a trick this Halloween at Goblyns Glen.

Uesugi's Field of Screams offers a fun twist on the classic Halloween hayride.

Portola Valley's little piece of Halloween, the Webb Ranch Farm Pumpkin Patch.

The Pirates of Emerson you all know and love is back in Fremont with a new layout but the same great fun.

California's Great America scares up a great Halloween Haunt.

Orange globes of Halloween cheer await the traveler on the road to Monterey at Dominic's.

You'll find sizzling hot pumpkins and smokin' produce at Stanly Lane Pumpkin Patch this year.

Don't overlook a high school haunt. Scotts Valley High School Haunted House gets an "A" in scares!

The animals rule the roost at Pumpkin Grove!

Andreotti Family Farm offers great produce and beautiful pumpkins in a quaint and charming Half Moon Bay setting.

SPOTLIGHT

Politics and Halloween shouldn't mix but if you absolutely have to have an Obama pumpkin Yes We Carve is for you.

Don't risk burns and fire, Crate and Barrel Ghost Tealight Holder Recalled.

Does the fear of carpal tunnel make you want to sever your hand? Then how about a severed hand to prevent you from getting carpal tunnel?

Think you're funny? Then enter this Halloween prank costume contest from ZUG.com, the world's oldest comedy site.

Fearnet.com is hosting, Home is Where the Haunt is, a contest to find America's scariest home haunt. All that is required is a video of your haunt. Haunts will be voted on by visitors of fearnet.com and one of the top five will win their mortgage, up to $25,000, paid for a year by fearnet.com!

For a fascinating look at making a realistic werewolf costume take a look at the Instructables website.

Here's an ultra cool project for animators and the lovers of animation: Night of the Living Dead Reanimated.

Haunted Memory Boxes are oh for cute!

Running a haunted house is expensive and a lot of work but fortunately for the poor and lazy, like myself, you can get a taste of the experience by playing Scary Sleep Over.

Corporate zombies, not cool. The Cubes Corporate Zombies cubicle toys, way cool! Name them after 4 of your favorite co-workers. Also check out their Glow-in-the-Dark Flesh Eating Zombies Play Set and for the ultimate in time wasting the Remote Control Walking Moaning Zombie!

If you were a pumpkin, what type of pumpkin would you be? Take this decidedly unscientific quiz and find out.

Lacking ideas for your pumpkin again this year? Stoneykins.com has you covered with over 100 free pumpkin carving patterns and a members area with access to more than 500 more.

Ladies, are you undecided on what to be this Halloween? The good guys over at College Humor are dying to help with their super convenient Lady's Halloween Costume Idea Generator.

Calling all Alamedans, there are just two days left to enter your home or business in the 2nd Annual Haunt Your House competition and win valuable prizes while bootifying your community.

Mmmm, mmm, I do love me some Halloween cookies. Especially when I can have these cheerful treats delivered directly to my door!

Do you hate pumpkins? Do you want to see your pumpkin smashed in the street but don't have the guts to do it yourself? Well, have I got a tip for you! Just head over to the Better Homes and Gardens website and download one (or all) of their President and VP pumpkin stencils. It doesn't matter which one you pick, if you use it on your pumpkin, it's guaranteed to die a quick death!

So bad they're good, or at least that's the story I'm sticking to. You won't want to miss your opportunity to vote on Chiller TV's Dare 2 Direct 2!

Your office and computer just aren't in the Halloween spirit without USB Halloween Pumpkin Decor Lights from Brando!

Scott over at Stolloween is doing some amazing Halloween projects with paper mache. Crafters will want to make sure they check out his 2008 Pumpkin Patch and all his other great projects.

When I was a kid everyone I wanted to dress up on Halloween as something scary, you know, a vampire, Frankenstein, a werewolf, etc. In today's ultra-PC world there's nothing scarier than dressing up as Fast Food.

Visit Retrocrush for a blast from the past. They have a story about the The Worst Halloween Costumes of All Time. By today's standards these are pretty bad but at the time these were the coolest, must have costumes. Admit it, you secretly want one.

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