Weekend roundup: Downtown trick-or-treating Friday, Halloween parties Saturday, cowboy breakfast Sunday

LOS ALAMOS - Halloweekend runs Friday through Sunday in Los Alamos and White Rock, with downtown trick-or-treating Friday and adult parties Saturday night, according to Los Alamos MainStreet's event listing.

Friday, Oct. 30

Central Avenue closes to vehicles from 4 to 6 p.m. for Trick-or-Treat on MainStreet. During those hours the Bradbury Science Museum hosts its free High-Tech Halloween, with bubble, potion and wind-tunnel stations, and PEEC-A-BOO runs at the Los Alamos Nature Center. The Mesa Public Library follows at dusk with s'mores outside, and high school teens have a free Halloween Carnival at the Teen Center from 7 to 10 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31

Voting in the Los Alamos Arts Council's 25th annual Scarecrow Contest along Central Avenue closes at 1 p.m. White Rock Baptist Church holds its 19th annual Trunk or Treat Fall Festival from 5 to 8 p.m. and asks guests to bring a cereal box for LA Cares.

For adults, the Bradbury holds its first Brad-buried Halloween Bash from 7 to 11 p.m., with a dance party, food truck and horror movies; there is no fixed ticket price, and guests are asked to donate what they can. Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op hosts Halloween Tubaoke from 6 to 11 p.m., with a costume contest at 9 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1

The Los Alamos Sheriff's Posse serves its monthly Cowboy Breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. at the Posse Lodge, 650 N. Mesa Road; it costs $10 for ages 10 and up and $5 for ages 4 to 10, and children 3 and under eat free. Secret City Games in White Rock closes the weekend with a skeleton figure-painting session from 3 to 6 p.m.

Times and places for every listing are in the paper's daily events calendar.