halloween
Al Roker in Blackface and Other Today Show Halloween Horrors
Caity Weaver · 10/31/13 11:35AMHalloween descended on New York like Hallowe'en upon a city Thursday, which meant the goons and goblins over at the Today show were up at dawn, peeling off their flaky reptile hides and stretching the skin of real people over their spikey, misshapen bodies. On top of that: a Halloween costume, as is appropriate for the day.
This Terrifying Halloween Prank Is Fabulous
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/31/13 10:50AMThere are terrifying Halloween pranks and there are terrifying Halloween pranks.
Blessed Be Halloween, America's Only Honest Holiday
Ken Layne · 10/31/13 10:06AMHalloween digs itself out of the chilly autumn ground for a few weeks each year, too weird and primal for governments or religions to claim. It is an ancient pagan harvest festival and a leering plastic skeleton in a front-yard cemetery of styrofoam tombstones. It is candy and liquor, sex and death, and the only "moral lesson" of Halloween is a sneering threat from a child in the night: Give me mine or you'll get yours, mister. It is the only honest American holiday.
Not Cool: Blackfaced Football Coaches Dress As 'Jamaican Bobsled Team'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/30/13 01:40PMBad Neighbor Will Hand Out Shaming Letters to Chubby Kids on Halloween
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/30/13 10:02AMOhio Teacher Goes On Racist Facebook Halloween Rant
Lacey Donohue · 10/29/13 07:24PMWoman Wearing 'Abusive Wife' Costume Arrested for Beating Up Boyfriend
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/29/13 04:33PMDon't Dress Up Like 'Bloody Asiana Airlines Pilots' Either
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/28/13 04:50PMLet's Get Judgmental: Should I Give My Kid Guns for Halloween?
Tom Scocca · 10/28/13 03:00PMMy mom was cleaning out the attic a while ago, and she came up with the homemade cowboy costume I wore when I was five or six. The hat was long gone, but there was a little vest and a set of fuzzy fake-cowhide chaps. It fits my older son, who's in first grade and who didn't have any other Halloween costume lined up.
There's Something Oddly Satisfying About Watching This Guy Kill Pumpkins
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/28/13 09:45AMMeet the Morons Behind the Racist Trayvon Halloween Costumes
Lacey Donohue · 10/27/13 07:22PMThere’s been a lot of conversation this weekend about blackface and its relationship to Halloween costumes, especially in the context of this lovely Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman trio. For those who initially jumped to defend these partiers as “not racist” and "just kids," I’m sorry to break it to you, but thanks to some sleuthing from The Smoking Gun, we can indeed confirm that all three are morons and at least one is an unapologetic racist.
Banksy's Newest NYC Installation: The Grim Reaper in a Bumper Car
Camille Dodero · 10/25/13 06:39PMAt dusk, Banksy revealed the newest piece in his month-long rampage of New York City's streets: a Grim Reaper in a scythe-powered bumper car, listlessly bobbing to Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." The installation sits at the corner of Houston and Elizabeth Streets and, according to Banksy's site, will remain there through Sunday.
How to Change Your Twitter Name for Halloween
Max Read · 10/25/13 04:30PMCrest Switches Kids' Candy with Health Food, Laughs As They Throw Up
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/25/13 03:13PMWith Halloween just around the spooky, poorly lit corner, Crest decided to play a little trick on the littlest Halloweeners by switching their candy with terrible tasting "veggie-flavored treats."
Yes, Virginia, Some Halloween Decorations Are Too Scary
Caity Weaver · 10/25/13 03:00PM“I’m not going to hurt kids,” said documentary filmmaker Joyce Draganosky to the New York Post earlier this week. Here are some of the seasonal items currently festooning Draganosky’s red brick home—the subject of its own dedicated photo galleries on both Gothamist and the Post's website—in the charming Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn: a baby doll lying on the ground with a fake-bloody knife through its forehead; a baby doll chained to a rocking chair with duct tape covering her mouth; a baby doll hung by its hands from a tree branch with a fake-bloody incision in its stomach (into this has been stuffed a smaller fake-bloody baby doll); a baby doll sealed in a jar filled with fake blood; a pumpkin surgeon (presumably unlicensed) looming over a fake-bloody gurney, on which rests baby doll covered in fake blood.