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halloween

My job is to scare you

At Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, dead bodies and killer clowns are my artistic medium

R.I.P. boring Halloween decor

Get pharmaceutical-grade juice for your fog machine and other lessons from a veteran haunted house builder.

My last Halloween

These days it creeps up on me like an ache — the occasional pumpkin in a front yard, the synthetic cobwebs in trees, the subtle turn in the weather and, yes, there’s that feeling in the pit of my stomach, the hollowness of those dreams in which you’re lost in a white tunnel, with nowhere to go but forward, though you know that every step will take you farther away from home.

Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case

The basic facts of the case are that last Halloween, a pack of black youths, with no evidence of any provocation, set upon three young white women who had come to an upscale part of Long Beach known to attract trick-or-treaters.

In the ‘hood, the treat is no trick

Halloween is seen as the crowning achievement of secular emptiness. You celebrate, glorify, trivialize and idolize something as deep and holy as death, and in return, your kids get to gorge on KitKats and day-glow jawbreakers.

Hey Kids!

\”Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,\” introduces a slew of new words and concepts. Quiz your parents, grandparents and older siblings and see if they know what is true and what is false. Are they as smart as Harry\’s gal pal Hermione Granger or as clueless as Harry\’s cousin, Dudley Dursley?

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