LIVING To Do: Boo Bash

Get your li’l pumpkins and mini monsters into the spooktacular spirit at an evening of family-friendly Halloween fun. Don your kookiest costumes to explore a witch’s cabin, rub elbows with a mad scientist, give Boo Bowling a spin, and win prizes in a variety of games, crafts, and hands-on activities. Let the orange and black fingerpaint flow!

Friday 10/24. $6-8, 6pm. Virginia Discovery Museum, 524 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. 977-1025.

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