Lansing Area Happenings...on the cheap!: October 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Halloween Craft at Toys R Us

Halloween Craft
Toys R Us
1982 W. Grand River Ave.
Okemos, MI 48864
10/30/2010 12-3 PM

Celebrate Halloween with Toys''R''Us! Personalize your Halloween bag with Crayola's Glow Explosion, make a Safety Pledge get a free giveaway!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Trick or Trunk at Capital Honda

Trick or Trunk

Capital Honda

2651 Jolly Road

Okemos, MI 48864

10/27/2010 5-7 PM

Phone: (800) 730-9043

Website: http://www.capital-honda.com/

Trick or Trunk in cars. Horse drawn wagon rides. Face and pumpkin painting. Cider and donuts. Cupcake walk with prizes. Marshmallow bob. Dunk tank with all proceeds donated to Child and Family Services of Lansing. Costume contest at 6:00PM. Bring a non-perishable food item to be entered in the drawing for a gift card. All food donated will go to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank.

Schuler Books & Zombies presents our 2nd Annual Zombie Night!

Schuler Books & Music
2820 Towne Center Blvd.
Lansing, MI 48912

10/28/2010 7:00 PM

Phone: (517) 316-7495

Website: http://www.schulerbooks.com/

Schuler Books is getting geared up for a second year of undead mayhem with its 2^nd Annual Zombie Night, paying homage to the recently reliving and rotting. We’re building on the success of last year and thinking up new ways to get you in the Halloween spirit, including Feed the Hunger, a food drive to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Bring at least one canned or boxed food item and receive a bag of Zombie party favors! Once again our centerpiece will be the unveiling of a new round of Zombie Pin-up Photos by up-and-coming Lansing photographer Jena McShane. Featuring local models in a bizarre mix of horror and beauty, you’ll be able to reserve your copy of the new pin-up calendar, Beauty and Brains 2011. Bring four non-perishable food items for the Food Bank and receive a dollar off your calendar!

The evening’s festivities will culminate in two Zombie-tastic costume contests -- a standard contest with prizes for the top 6 costumer wearers, and our first-ever Zombie Baby Costume Contest! The Zombie Baby contest is open to parents and their babies (2 years of age and under), with the best costume winning the Grand Prize: an Animatronic Zombie Baby!

There will also be a Zombie Dance Party in the Chapbook café featuring DJ Sammy -- resident DJ at Spiral Dance Bar -- with drink specials and graveyard goodies; a Zombie Gaming Corner; a Zombie film screening; a professional Zombie photographer to document the goings-on, and more!

Presentation and Book Signing with Knightscares authors David Anthony and Charles David Clasman

Schuler Books & Music
1982 Grand River Ave
Okemos, MI 48864

10/28/2010 6:00 PM

Phone: (517) 349-8840

Website: http://www.schulerbooks.com/

The duo of David Anthony and Charles David Clasman write thrilling children's chapter books, including Heroes A²Z and Knightscares. They’ll be presenting a family friendly and frighteningly fun book talk and signing featuring their newest book Aware of the Wolf, the eighth book in the Knightscares series! Spooky snacks will be provided!

Ghost Hunter Brad Mikulka presents his new book Spook House

Schuler Books & Music
1982 Grand River Ave
Okemos, MI 48864

10/27/2010 7:00 PM

Phone: (517) 349-8840

Website: http://www.schulerbooks.com/

Brad Mikulka is the Director of the SouthEast Michigan Ghost Hunters Society (SEMGHS). He has been doing paranormal investigations for over 14 years and was featured on the Discovery Channel’s ‘A Haunting’. Spook House details the experiences Mikulka had when he took up residence in a haunted house in Middleton, Michigan. Mikulka is also the author of I Am Ghost Hunter, which chronicles some of his more interesting investigations.

Girls' Night Out presents MI author Heather Sellers, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know

Girls' Night Out presents MI author Heather Sellers, You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know

Schuler Books & Music
2820 Towne Center Blvd.
Lansing, MI 48912

10/27/2010 7:30 PM

Phone: (517) 316-7495

Website: http://www.schulerbooks.com/

Michigan author Heather Sellers, professor at Hope College and author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know. The book is a fascinating story of how Heather came to recognize and understand her face-blindness; she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. It is also the story of her family and coming to terms with her highly strained, and strange, childhood. You won’t want to miss this incredible event, complete with goodies and our Grab Bag Books Drawing!

DeWitt Shopping Center’s Pumpkin Palooza

DeWitt Shopping Center

13161 Schavey Road

DeWitt, MI

10/27/2010 4-6 PM

Phone: (517) 668-9622

Trick-or-treat at more than 20 businesses, enjoy the inflatable obstacle course and pumpkin bowling.