(1) Jesse Quintanilla, 20, dressed as Bruno, competes in a Halloween costume contest during Santa Monica College's Club Row on Thursday, October 29, 2009. (2) Weland Bourne, 19, (right) and Cary Martin, 19, from the Gaming, Animation and Effects Club compete in the Halloween costume contest. Club Row is an annual event is designed for many clubs at SMC to recruit members and raise funds. Club participants set up colorful booths across the SMC Quad, where they discussed their activities to prospective members and attract a multitude of students with promises of food and prizes. The event turn's out new club devotees and at least a spark of interest in many others.

(1) Jocelyn Schutte, 24, carries 6 pumpkins during the "All You Can Carry Pumpkin Patch at the Third Street Promenade on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. (2) Charlie Lucas, 21, carries 4 pumpkins during the "All You Can Carry Pumpkin Patch. (3) Chef From Houston's Peter Prime carry's pumpkins during the "All You Can Carry Pumpkin Patch. (4) Chef From Houston's Robert Harding carries pumpkins during the All You Can Carry Pumpkin Patch. (5) Jennifer Taft carries pumpkins during the "All You Can Carry Pumpkin patch at the Third Street promenade on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. (6) Santa Monica Police Captain Wendell Shirley, (center) Officer  Miguel Rodriguez, (left) and PAL Officer Austin Brown (right) carry pumpkins during the "All You Can Carry Pumpkin patch at the Third Street promenade on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The pumpkins will be donates to the Santa Monica Police Activity League which will be decorated by the PAL youth and featured at the PALloween Carnival at Barker Hanger on Saturday. The PALloween Carnival is from 5pm to 9pm. Free entrance.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's one and only acorn-loving Scrat demonstrates his skating abilities during the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. ICE at Santa Monica is an 8000-square-foot outdoor ice rink in Downtown Santa Monica. ICE at Santa Monica will remain open daily through January 31, 2010, and admission is $10 and includes rental skates. For hours and more information, please go to http://www.downtownsm.com/about/winterlit.html.

(top) Figure Skater Ella Ales, 8, performs  during the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. (above) Members of California Gold synchronizing team perform during the opening of  ICE at Santa Monica on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.  ICE at Santa Monica is an 8000-square-foot outdoor ice rink in Downtown Santa Monica. ICE at Santa Monica will remain open daily through January 31, 2010, and admission is $10 and includes rental skates. For hours and more information, please go to http://www.downtownsm.com/about/winterlit.html.

(top) Santa Monica Police Activities League (PAL) Officer Jennifer Sekera helps PAL member Juliana De La Cruz to ice skate during the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. (above) Kate Corsmeier helps her daughter Ondine, 4, ice skate for the first time during the opening of  ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. ICE at Santa Monica is an 8000-square-foot outdoor ice rink in Downtown Santa Monica. ICE at Santa Monica will remain open daily through January 31, 2010, and admission is $10 and includes rental skates. For hours and more information, please go to http://www.downtownsm.com/about/winterlit.html.

(top) Champion Ice sculptures Peter Slavin and Kevin Roscoe chisel a 45 foot Ice sculpture at ICE at Santa Monica on Tuesday, October 27, 2009. (above) Civil Engineer Paul Chretien takes an electronic distance measurement of the giant ice sculpture at ICE at Santa Monica on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Downtown Santa Monica will set the Guinness World Record for the tallest ice sculpture in the world at the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica, on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:00pm. In the likeness of Ice Age’s Scrat character, this historical event coincides with the DVD and Blu-ray disc release of Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The community and press are invited to witness the unveiling and adjudication by the Guinness World Records™.

Doug Smith paints a memorial for Dennis “Polar Bear” Agnew at Memorial Skatepark in Venice on Saturday, October 10, 2009.