FREE! Enjoy some incredible free pumpkin carving patterns using simple stencils of your favorite celebrities.

The pumpkin carving patterns are all easy and all free. And whereas it’s easy to pick out a wonderful looking pumpkin today for Halloween, finding a great looking stencil pattern is a different issue.

Some are just boring, others have no design. But LALATE featured the below popular patterns in 2008 and there are still good today.

In total 11 free Pumpkin carving stencils are available. CLICK HERE to get them.

Better Homes and Gardens provides the patterns and said of the Obama-latern that you can “cast your vote for a Hope-y Halloween”. But if political pumpkins are not your pleasure, the carving stencils are also available for your favorite celebrity (the Stephen Colbert one is hilarious) including Michael Phelps, and even Oprah (was too much hair).

Happy carving!

For LALATE’s mega Halloween category, from celebrity costumes, to parties, to presidential pumpkins,click here: http://news.lalate.com/category/halloween.

• Comments (1)

Chipotle Free Burrito Day is back! Get your free Chipotle on Boo Rito day October 31 2009.

But you may shout BOO to the requirements of the Boo Rito free food bit. As profiled on LALATE in 2008, you don’t just get a treat without a trick – the trick is you have to dress up like a Burrito.

Seriously? Yes, pull out the aluminum foil and rub taco sauce on your face and hope, just hope, none of your friends are close by with cameras. “Come in on Halloween dressed like a Chipotle burrito, taco, bowl or salad and we’ll complete your costume with a FREE BURRITO. Friday, October 31, 2009 6pm- closing”

Dressing like a salad bowl just to get a burrito ? Well, that is simply … scary.

• Comments (9)

Here are the details on the West Hollywood Halloween Parade Carnaval! The excitement of the 2009 West Hollywood Halloween Parade Carnaval starts early Saturday afternoon and goes … well until you collapse from all the fun.

Back in 2007, the West Hollywood Halloween parade was one of LALATE’ first stories ever. Here now are your 2009 details. The parade officially starts at 6 pm, but you should get there much earlier than that.

1. Traffic / Street Closures
Due to the City of West Hollywood’s annual Halloween Costume Carnaval, the following streets will be temporarily CLOSED as follows:

* Santa Monica Boulevard between La Cienega Boulevard and Doheny Drive 12 p.m. Saturday, October 31 through 6 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.
* Robertson Boulevard between Melrose Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard from 12 p.m., Saturday, October 31 through 6 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.
* San Vicente Boulevard between Cynthia and Melrose Avenue from 12 p.m., Saturday, October 31 through 6 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.
* La Cienega Boulevard between Holloway Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard from 4 p.m., Saturday, October 31 through 6 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.
* Sunset Boulevard eastbound and westbound turn lanes onto La Cienega Boulevard from 6 p.m., Saturday, October 31 through 7 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.
* La Peer Drive eastbound turn lane onto Santa Monica Boulevard from 12 p.m., Saturday, October 31 through 7 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009.

The City of West Hollywood will suspend permit parking for the Halloween Carnaval from 5 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 to 6 a.m., November 1, 2009. Meters will be enforced.

2. Contact information:

Halloween Carnaval Hotline at (323) 848-6307.

Online – weho.org

3. Planning

As always, the parade is expecting to again bring in hundreds of thousands of Halloween fans. The parade in recent years is a mixture of people in costume, and not. It’s not really a parade, but simply people walking down Santa Monica Boulevard together, ad hoc. Along the path, there is food, restrooms, and a gazillion crazy people who love their picture being taken.

Wear comfortable shoes, because there is a lot of walking. Keep your cellphone on vibrate, because you can loose your friends. Once the crowds set in, you will have to text because you can hardly hear yourself at some points. Don’t expect it to be cold. There are so many people, you never really get chilled.

If you like a “beverage”, in 2007 and 2008 many alcohol companies had private booths that they passed out free tags to come in and partake, for free, for certain time. Those pass outs were early on.

Here is the top 5 things you need to remember.
1. Comfortable shoes
2. Catch the stage on San Vicente with the cover bands. They are really good.
3. And most of all, come early. If you want to show up, do so early, later afternoon preferably, and hang out. If you try to make an entry after 8 pm, good luck. If you can, do yourself a favor and arrive hours early, before 7, find easy street parking, and just chill.

For LALATE’s mega Halloween category, from celebrity costumes, to parties, to presidential pumpkins,
click here: http://news.lalate.com/category/halloween.

• Comments (0)

VIDEO! Catch the WJLA video of a breast exam on tv. The WJLA breast exam video will air on TV featuring a naked breast prompting health critics to praise the decision and media analysts to be skeptical.

Why the concern?

The WJLA Breast Exam video will air during the critical fall sweeps period. That period is important for a tv station’s ad revenues.

The videos aired last night at 5 pm and 11 pm and will air again tonight the same time. Station Manager Bill Lord defends his decision in a statement to AP: “In talking to women, we found out there really weren’t a lot of women who knew how to do self breast exams.”

The Parents Television Council is skeptical:

“We hope that WJLA-TV is not using a crucial public health issue as a ratings stunt, and that the station has fully considered what is appropriate to tell this important story to the public in the most suitable manner possible.”

Featured on the video are Elizabeth Edwards and Tanya Snyder, wife of Dan Snyder (Redskins owner)

• Comments (1)

Final Score in Phillies Yankees World Series Game 2 last night was 1-3. The Yankees win in game 2 ties up the series 1-1 as we head to Philly for Game 3 Saturday.

The Phillies scored early and first last night. That would be all the Phillies would produce the entire evening. The first and only Phillies run came came at the top of the 2nd tonight. Ibanez delivered a ground rule double to left. That was followed up Stairs singling, bringing in Ibanez for the run.

In the 4th, the Yankees tied it up. Rodriguez flied out to left. Hairston and Cano couldn’t deliver. But then came Teixeira who homered to right center.

Finally, Matsui brought the Yankees into the lead in the sixth with a blazing homer. Score 1-2. In the next inning, Yankees delivered again. In the 7th, Posada singled bringing in Gardner.

Final Score 1-3.

• Comments (0)