Santa Ana Star Casino’s The Stage is hosting “Cirque — New Mexico’s Ultimate Halloween Party” featuring strange and fantastic frights of a circus freak show tonight. (Courtesy of Santa Ana Star Casino)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Halloween falling on a Friday night is awesome enough, but tonight many area casinos are aiming to outdo each other with their macabre celebrations.
Santa Ana Star Casino’s The Stage is turning things upside down with a circus freak show theme. “Cirque – New Mexico’s Ultimate Halloween Party” is featuring “strange and fantastic frights” of circus freak shows, according to a Santa Ana Star Casino news release.
Partygoers can watch a fire-eating siren, a “grinder” burlesque beauty, an extraordinary contortionist, a death-defying stilt walker, a little person barker and a unique half-man, half-woman little person. The performers will be scattered around The Stage doing bizarre performances all night.
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The party also will have a little bit of Vegas flair. DJ Karma, resident DJ at the Aria’s Haze nightclub in Las Vegas, Nev., will mix the hottest music and keep things going bump in the night. Step off the dance floor for a moment to enter the costume contest. It might just pay off and earn you the top prize of $1,000.
“This year, Santa Ana Casino is bringing the big top to the Stage for a very special night of fright-filled fun,” Santa Ana Star Casino of Marketing Tammy Neil said in the news release. “Through elaborate styling by Bravo Alpha Events, the space will be dramatically transformed into a realm where the freak show spills into the nightclub and where the ordinary and extraordinary intertwine.”
For the ultimate bewitching time VIP tickets allow you exclusive access to the Sky Level VIP Lounge and VIP bar, “Cirque” signature cocktails, a candy bar of sweets and treats, a tarot card reader and more.
Doors open at 9 tonight. Costumes are required to enter and guests must be age 21 or older to attend. Tickets are $35 individual, $60 per couple and $100 VIP. For tickets, visit thestageatthestar.com and for information, call 771-5680.
SANDIA RESORT & CASINO: Head over for a howling good time to Sandia Resort & Casino for its Devil’s Delight party tonight. The event is usually filled with guests in some pretty remarkable costume choices. From the menacing to the spine-tingling to the enchanting, there is usually a costume for every category conceivable and then some.
Wear your best for your chance to win some big cash prizes, trips and more. There will be $15,000 in cash and prizes. Giveaways include a trip for two to Denver with tickets to see the Broncos, trips to Taos for ski or snowboard excursions, a trip for two to Mardi Gras and a trip for two to Alaska. There also will be $2,500 in cash given away.
The costume party will be held in Sandia’s ballroom from 9 tonight to 1 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are $25 at the door or at ticketmaster.com. Information, call 796-7500 or visit sandiacasino.com.
SKY CITY CASINO HOTEL: Sky City will host its annual Halloween costume contest at 7 tonight in Club 102. Categories are scariest, funniest, most creative, judge’s choice and best overall. First place wins $500, second place gets $300 and third place takes home $200. Judges’ choice wins $100 and best overall takes $700 cash.
ISLETA RESORT & CASINO: Come to Isleta for bewitching bingo. It will conduct a special evening bingo session from 6 to 10 tonight. The buy-in is $10. All the packs you can play and every game pays $1,000. There will be a special $2 Halloween game that pays $1,000, plus a special Halloween Costume Contest for a total of $1,000 in cash prizes, according to an Isleta news release. For more information, visit isleta.com.
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Shortly after Michigan announced it would begin to shutter its brick-and-mortar casinos for a second time as a part of another round of COVID-19 restrictions, other states have begun to follow suit.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced that it will shut down the state’s gaming market starting at 11:01 p.m. Thursday night. He did not announce how long these closures will last, according to a report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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If any of the state’s 10 casinos refuse to close during the mandated shutdown, they could lose their gaming license, according to the Illinois Gaming Board’s website.
Along with Illinois, New Mexico casinos are also beginning to cease operations in response to a COVID-19 surge. Route 66 Casino Hotel closed in mid-October response and according to local media outlets, the government is urging the 23 other tribal casinos to follow suit.
Santa Ana Star Casino announced the closure last week and Sandia Casino never reopened since it shut its doors in March. Since the entire gaming industry in the state is run by tribes, the state government is unable to unilaterally shut down the entire market.
While Pennsylvania hasn’t announced a statewide mandate, one of its biggest cities is beginning to enact strict lockdown measures and one of the state’s biggest casinos is being forced to close again.
Rivers Casino Philadelphia, formerly SugarHouse Casino, is shutting down Friday and will not be allowed to reopen until January 2, 2021. South Philadelphia Race and Sportsbooks will be closed during that same timeframe.
Other states, like California and Ohio, are beginning to implement curfews on its citizens. While state officials haven’t announced anything specific to the gaming industry, it’s still unclear what effect curfews will have on the casino industry.
Before reopening in July, New Jersey was one of the strictest and most cautious states when it came to its casino industry. This time around, however, it appears that Garden State casinos will avoid another shutdown. According to a report from the Press of Atlantic City, Gov. Phil Murphy said that there is no evidence that his state’s casinos are linked to any outbreaks of COVID-19.
Colorado casinos were in jeopardy of being closed as new restrictions were imposed Monday, but Teller County officials said earlier this week that the casino industry would not be affected.