The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. In...
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It's Halloween season again. Skeletons dangle from porches, pumpkins sit carved on doorsteps, and the air is filled with an eerie excitement...
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Former MLB player Doug Glanville thought he'd devised a real treat for a costume contest. Turns out, the trick was on him.
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I'm talking about illegal drugs and how they hurt people and how they hurt families, hurt kids, some of them just like you.
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Purim unequivocally kicks Halloween's rump. Of course, I am slightly biased: If Halloween featured a Queen Esther, I might be inclined to change my preference.
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This year, I am going to let my son trick-or-treat alone with his friends. I will try, with all my might, to walk at least a block behind my...
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Halloween at the Market is an annual free Market event, a huge community nonprofit fair that doubles as a bonus dress-up/trick or treat opportunity for...
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Listen to Professor Neil Lerner explore the staying power of John Carpenter's iconic theme music and how it remains so unsettling all these years later.
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The Catholic faith describes natural and supernatural realities existing in a relationship of communion or coinherence that is called sacramental.
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Airbnb is deploying an AI-driven anti-party system across the US and Canada to help reduce the risk of disruptive and unauthorized parties over the holiday...
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