Halloween brings the ghouls, the gals, the costumes, and more! But there's still a little non-pumpkin themed fun to be had. Who are we kidding, everything's spooky this week!

There are still a few non-Halloween events to enjoy before the entire city transforms into a week-long freak show of costumed capers strolling around. In the meantime, you and (the real) Clint Eastwood should meet up at the Hollywood Bowl.

On Oct 24 and 25, spend the weekend roaming The Brewery, the world's largest artist-in-residence community. Take in a little artistic sensory overload at the annual fall Art Walk, and maybe even pick up the perfect holiday gift.

You may not be able to afford the $1,000 general admission ticket to the Playboy Mansion party, but Los Angeles has plenty of fun and playmates wandering off the grounds to satisfy your taste for terror-ific dancing.

You need more Bright Eyes, more alcohol, more dancing, and to relive a few memories. This week Los Angeles also gets Tifanny, Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis, and Santiago & Bushido.

Leave it to the party gods to throw a wrench in your tupperware party plans by announcing at the last minute that Chromeo will DJ at Discotheque this Friday.

The strangest of women and the weirdest of men arrive to enliven your spirits. Fever Ray, Linda Perhacs, Motorhead, Bob Dylan, and the whole Lucent Dossier crew disperse entertainment upon our fine city.

The pastry chef behind Eagle Rock's Auntie Em's has opened an oven in the former L.A. Bread digs. Atwater Village welcomes The Village Bakery and Cafe and all the carbs that come with it.

It's an invasion of Brits, Norwegians, legends, and zombies in Los Angeles this week! Prepare to be rocked and popped until you rise from the undead for more.

This week, Los Angeles gets invaded by French musicians, hip hop, and a reason to hang out at the cemetery.

Music, food, art, fashion, teepees, horses, wilderness, hiking, camping, and magick await on the other side of the rainbow.

This week, the ladies are strutting their stuff, with Kate Simko and an-all female DJ night, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, legendary band The Avengers, and, sure, there’s plenty of men to go around, too.

Hard Haunted Mansion wants to put the freaky in your Halloween festivities. 16 hours of music over two days from dance music heavy hitters such as Justice, Deadmau5, Basement Jaxx and more —no turning back!

All the living ghosts of rock and roll flock to WeHo this week for the Sunset Strip Music Festival. If that ain't your bag, Lazer Sword, Dam Funk, Calvin Harris and Egyptian Lover are in town too.

All this week, fire and NIN fill the Los Angeles sky with clouds and ash. Prepare for Labor Day with DANCEiSM, Magda, Andy Caldwell, Patti Smith, and Glass Candy hitting the right spots around town.

Arts organization Create:Fixate has put together a veritable sensory overload for its sixth annual all photography show, SnapFlash.

This Week in LA, we’ve got a lot of visitors from distant lands, mostly Brits. Bat For Lashes, The Duke Spirit, and The Faint come from overseas. George Clinton arrives from another planet.

F*** Yeah Fest’s seminal yearly event has arrived with a fun-filled lineup of rambunctious bands that love animals and trees. Save the parks!

Half the town will swarm to Silverlake this weekend for Sunset Junction, the other might get down a Avaland’s 5 Year Anniversary. Also, we've got visits from equally tall and famous men, Quentin Tarantino and Jack White.

Our own modern day super group that does not consist of musicians from the ‘70s, who are probably in their 70’s by now, The Dead Weather cannot be stopped.

This Week in LA, the Love Fest and Fresh Fest keep things wild and crazy, while big old-timers Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, and Depeche Mode drop in for a visit. Find out what else you should pencil into your schedule, here.

Los Angeles gets festive this weekend with Hard Fest, Funk Fest, Topanga Film Fest and a little bit of Lyle Lovett to kick the recipe up a notch.

Disco’s electro resurgence get its love-handles fondled by visitors Piloosky, Runaway, and In Flagranti, spending the night at Scion’s House Party. The tailfeathers shall wag August 12th at the Roxy.

Los Angeles gets popping with Lykke Li and The Ting Tings, or go experimental with Deerhoof and Busdriver. Meanwhile, beatheads make a bee-line for Jujubeats in the O.C.

There’s way too much to do in Los Angeles. We’ve got movie overload at the L.A. Shorts Fest, Philip Glass, Jewel, Jarvis Cocker, Cut Chemist, and even wrestling ladies to keep us occupied for days.

It seems probable the reason Grace Jones, Of Montreal, and Dengue Fever are playing together as part of KCRW’s World Festival is because they rock my world. This should be a night of strange music and stage antics to remember.

This week, Infected Mushroom lands on stage, Victor Calderone takes down the house, and Dance Right celebrates its three year anniversary as scene-setter magnet.

Mobile restaurants will usher us into the future. One day, life will be just like The Fifth Element, with food being delivered to your bedroom window by a man on a flying boat.

This week, get your romantic on with Andrew Bird or hitch a ride to the Fresh Squeezed Festival full of oranges and techno, before settling in for some Beyonce worship, and meet the DJs who beat out Silverchair’s record on the Australian charts.

The Hollywood Forever cemetery’s pearly gates have opened so the masses can attend their annual summer movie series. Bring your blanket and a bottle of wine for a night with the Wicker Man, Kenneth Anger, the Muppets, or Frankenstein.

One day a year we get to celebrate our love of blowing things up with pretty colors in the sky. MetroWize wants you to overeat and get a sunburn but also get out of the house party before spin the bottle takes over and join the city in good times.

With DJs Sander Kleinenberg, Treasure Fingers, Donald Glaude and DJ Dan on the loose in Los Angeles this week, you have no excuse for leaving your dancing shoes at home. Work off your 4th of July dogs at the club.

Why not do something a little different this week? This week LA's got the Electric Daisy Carnival, Trouble and Bass, James Zabiela and Bone Thugz up its sleeve.

This week, Dub Club’s done it again, bringing in another historical Jamaican band to take the stage and blow your mind to reggae heaven. Don’t miss The Heptones on Wednesday night in Echo Park.

Ward off the final curses of June gloom with DJ collective Trouble & Bass, coming all the way from Brooklyn to crush witches with their house beats—proving there’s strength in turntable numbers.

Time to break that piggy bank and camp out in Westwood for a while, with competition screenings, documentaries, features, shorts, galas, and all things film related at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

This week’s edition of Steve Aoki and Matt Colon’s Banana Split Sundae party will hopefully usher summer into Los Angeles with young rapper Rye Rye throwing down dancefloor magic. The girl can shake her ass!

Fill your ears with DJ magic and chlorine at Swimming With Sharks then unclog with rock at Vice’s Summer Bender.

Clowns and acrobats tumbling in mid-air while hot babes breathe fire and roll around on the floor in ways you can only mimic in the pool. Sound dreamy? Catch Cirque Berzerk’s three-weekend run and taste the burlesque rainbow under the big top.

A dozen Sonic Drive-In fast-food joints are in the works, attacking your digestive system by way of strategically locating the eateries at a late-night corner near you. It’s bad for the bod, but it’s so good to be served by a chick on roller skates.

Customizing your duds just got a little kick in the pants by Apliiq, a new store downtown that’s as much a verb as it is a place and concept. Boys and girls alike can keep the basics but love them better.

On May 28th, take a well-deserved road trip with Dublab to Big Sur for a night of electronic and nature-induced relaxation. Float all the way back to Los Angeles in the morning.

There’s a new wine bar in town, spilling a bit of modern Cali wine country chic onto the sidewalk. One look at the 24-foot-high, tiered wooden shelf that displays over 800 green wine bottles and you know you’re in good hands.

We met up with The Presets at Coachella’s artist trailer park. Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes sat between two coolers filled with beers and sodas, and contended with the fact they were expected to consume all the drinks in one afternoon.

Over the course of three days in Indio, CA, MetroWize saw some weirdness, and also witnessed amazing marvels we’d like to share with you. Here’s some of the best stuff we encountered at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Under a shaded canopy in the V.I.P. area at Coachella, MetroWize sat down with legendary producers Crystal Method to uncover the next milestone in their career.

Those Chicago music critics enjoy the slow burn of anticipation. Pitchfork
Music Festival is taking its sweet time announcing their lineup, but we
are excited nonetheless.

Always wanted someone to serenade you with a little Tom Jones' "You Can Keep Your Hat On?" possibly backed by the Pusscat Dolls? (Youtube that, it exists!) Be prepared for your fantasy to begin by Fedora shopping asap.

Restaurants and booze providers know, if the word "free" sneaks into their promo, we come a runnin'! Add music, TV, Sarah Silverman or politically themed cocktails, and we're your best customer.

There's a difference between a mixologist, trained professional bartender who can make up weird recipes (like veal-infused hibiscus martinis) and your drunk friend mixing anything they find in the kitchen together. Here are some bad ideas.

A coffeeshop with internet, exotic ambiance, good prices and painted little eggs hanging from the ceiling with streamers dangling off their butts is pretty much a freelancer’s wet dream. Find out why Café Tropical has got it going on.

The address in Silverlake is all we know about Pho Cafe. No sign out front, no website, yet the forces of reverse triumph are at work here as the mysterious Vietnamese hot spot packs it in every night. Sure to impress your less savvy acquaintances.

Cheap Margaritas and a crowd too cool to be employed infiltrate Barragan's every Wednesday. Shall we shun the scene? Or, as they say, if you can't beat 'em, join them for a cocktail or four.

Hyperion Ave is reinventing itself as a Silver Lake hot spot. Legend has it that when you get a Crossroads Trading Co. on your block, things are pretty much guaranteed to bloom, like a Venus fly trap for coolness.

A fleet of lime-colored Green Trucks are bent on taking over smog city. Any given weekday, you may pass one and notice the aroma of organic "Mother Trucker" vegan burgers and breakfast burritos on sprouted tortilla mingles. Sound enticing?