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• Inspired by the Celtic New Year’s Festival of Samhain, join in the All Hallows’ Eve Nightwalk through the night woods of Priest Point Park, 2600 East Bay Drive N.E., Olympia. The walk runs from 4:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday. Meet the strange creatures that live between the seasons and enjoy family games, hot cider, a dessert auction and entertainment.
• Walk the dark streets of old Olympia with OlyWalks guide Dixie Havlak as she visits the sites of death that shaped Olympia. Her Haunted Halloween Downtown Tour runs tonight from 8-8:50 p.m. Rgistration is required by calling Olympia Parks, Arts & Recreation at 360-753-8380 or go to olympiawa.gov/experienceit. Cost is $10 per person.
• Get spooked at The Old Firehouse Haunted House at 201 N. Capitol Way, Olympia, tonight through Monday. It’s a fundraiser for the Family Support Center and Capital Playhouse’s Kids at Play program. Then take in a dance performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” to round out the ghoulish experience. Hours are 5 p.m.-midnight tonight and Saturday and 5-10 p.m. Sunday and Monday. Admission is $5.
For more events, go to Page 18. “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is a play of mystery, suspense and quite a bit of tomfoolery. Theater Artists Olympia in association with The Outfit Theater Project have co-produced this comic riff on Sherlock Holmes’ most infamous case. Catch it at The Eagle’s Underground, 805 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Nov. 4-5 with the final show at 2 p.m. Nov. 6. Tickets are $12 at 360-790-1138.
Meanwhile, Harlequin Productions’ comedy “The Love List” has been extended through Nov. 5 at the State Theater, 202 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia. Tickets are $31 for the shows at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. For more details, go to harlequinproductions.org or call 360-786-0151. Vince Neil made a name for himself as Motley Crue’s lead singer. He’s firing things up with by himself with his third solo album “Tattoos & Tequila.” He’ll play at 8 p.m. Saturday at Lucky Eagle Casino, 12888 188th Ave. S.W., Rochester. Tickets are $35-$55. Call 800-720-1788 or go to Ticketmaster. The Miles Davis Experience deftly evokes the time from 1949-59 through the lens of Davis, one of jazz music’s most iconic innovators. It will delve into an exploration of Davis’s work leading up to his seminal recording “Kind of Blue.” Tonight’s 7:30 p.m. show includes live music as it was first presented, photographs, film clips and a beat poet-style narrator at The Washington Center for Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia. Tickets are $10.50-$37. Call 360-753-8586. Ballet Northwest brings the Eugene Ballet Company to Olympia for a performance of its “Romeo and Juliet” at 3 p.m. Sunday at The Washington Center for Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia. The tragic epic of forbidden love as a ballet highlights sword fighting, lavish masquerades, elaborate scenery and virtuosic dancing. Tickets are $21-$39 at 360-753-8586. In a showcase of Latin flair, Jose Barrios will perform Flamenco Algarabia’s “I Refuse to Stop Laughing” at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Casa Patas Flamenco Foundation returns with this new offering at The Washington Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $14-$32 at 360-753-8586. Listen to up-and-coming indie-dance band Rubblebucket and High Ceiling at the OlyWeen 2011 starting at 8 tonight at the Eastside Club Tavern, 410 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia. Spin magazine called Rubblebucket “a Bonnaroo-ready hybrid of world music influences as re-imagined by well-educated collegians.” Tickets are $10 at brownpapertickets.com.
