Halloween

Five Best Neighborhoods for Trick-or-Treating in Broward and Fort Lauderdale

Halloween used to be about spending time perfecting your costume, carving pumpkins with your family, and...wait, who am I kidding? Halloween has always, and will always be all about the candy. Come Halloween night, does your neighborhood look like it was wiped out by the zombie apocalypse  ... More >>

Sandra Lee Dresses Up As Everyone For Halloween (Video)

It's Halloween and if you don't have a costume picked out yet you're in trouble. You can either head out to the local party store and see if there are any pirate costumes left or we suppose you can always staple some old newspaper to yourself, not shower and go as some day-old fish (ewww).Read Also: ... More >>

Five Gross But Delicious Halloween Cupcakes: Spiders, Maggots and Rats

Aah, Halloween -- when it's fully socially acceptable to freak out your friends by serving them oozing brains, wiggly worms, and zombie guts.  But with these five grody cupcakes, don't be surprised if your plan backfires. They are so fa-boo-lous tasting that instead of running away scared, your ... More >>

Cats as Food: Kitties in Costumes

Halloween is this week and while we're sure we'll see many dogs looking sheepish in their little devil ears and angel wings, we've thought of something even more humiliating...A cat in a costume. Read Also: Humiliate Your Dog for Halloween: Ten Terrible Food Costumes for FidoSee, while dogs will gri ... More >>

Five South Florida Food-Related Events This Weekend: Mack House Debut, Truffle Season, and More

Will Hurricane Sandy crash (and/or destroy) your Halloween party this weekend? That remains to be seen, but if you've got weekend plans anywhere in South Florida, it would pay to call ahead to ensure everything is proceeding as planned, as some organizers may pull the plug on events if conditions wo ... More >>

Florida Woman Finds Live Frog in Her Salad

It's dinner time and you break out the bag of delicious fresh greens for a nice healthy salad. Suddenly you see something pink inside the bag of lettuce. You look closer and see a tiny little amphibious hand. Then you see movement. Grossed out, you lose all your good feelings about vegetables.Read a ... More >>

Boo Bash at RA Sushi

Killer Halloween Candy? No, Really — This Stuff Can Be Deadly

Halloween. The one time of year everyone wishes they were dead. Well...better make that undead...as in vampires, zombies, mummies, and other eternal creatures of the night.In spite of all that talk of dead people and monsters, Halloween is basically a pretty benign, family-friendly holiday. You dres ... More >>

Five Halloween Cocktails: Brain Hemmorhage, Witches' Brew, and More

Some love Halloween because of all the free candy. Others love the excuse to dress up like their favorite cartoon, super hero, or "sexy" ____ [insert random fictional character here]. And still more just look at this holiday as another excuse to go out, party, and get crazy drunk.No matter what cate ... More >>

Putting the Craft in Witchcraft

Halloween Costume Karaoke Party

Kiss Kruise 2012: Mark Your Calendars for Halloween

​Kiss die-hards don't ever need to prep for what is an inevitable daily immersion in their favorite band, but getting on a boat is something above and beyond. County Grind found out all about it when we tagged along for the inaugural Kiss Kruise this past October. Our complete coverage from the 20 ... More >>

Rick Scott Halloween Mask: The Surefire Way to Scare Children

​It's Halloween, and if you don't have a costume, we've got just the thing to make children and former government workers so scared, they'll barf up their Sour Patch Kids -- the Gov. Rick Scott mask.Not surprisingly, this one's brought to you by the anti-Scott liberals over at Pink Slip Rick, whi ... More >>

Halloween Costume Contest: Dress Like Rocco Mangel

The key to success is mas tequila. ​This week, Clean Plate Charlie offered up a list of eight costumes inspired by Florida food and drink for all you Halloween costume procrastinators. The list included sartorial references to craft brews from the Sunshine State, as well as some of our more notabl ... More >>

Hungry for Halloween? Kids Eat Free on Monday at Tijuana Flats, Applebees

Take your kids to eat...then trick-or-treat!​Trick-or-treating is hard work - first you have to dress up as your favorite monster, comic book character or Disney princess. Then you have to scour the neighborhood for the good candy, while avoiding the people who give out pennies and black licorice. ... More >>

Humiliate Your Dog For Halloween: Ten Terrible Food Costumes For Fido

Costumesfordogs.com​Your dog gives you unconditional love every day of his life. Seriously! Has a human ever greeted you with such fierce devotion?  Sure, he peed on the carpet and he licks his butt, but if you want to punish your dog, take away his favorite chew toy. But in the name of all t ... More >>

Food & Drink Events This Weekend in Broward and Palm Beach

Phillip Pessar via Flickr Creative CommonsThe trucks don't take a holiday. ​With Halloween just days away, most of the weekend's food and drink related activities in Broward and Palm Beach Counties are geared to costumes, candy, and the undead (oh, and the nautical. The 52nd Annual Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

Halloween Is So Not Lame

Willie Nelson Partners With Karen O, Chipotle Mexican Grill for "Boorito" Fundraiser

chipotlethetumblr.tumblr.com​With shared stage time with Snoop Dogg, Julio Iglesias, and Toby Keith, you might call country music pioneer Willie Nelson the king of the odd duet. So it should be no surprise that the oddities continue as Nelson pairs up with Chipotle Mexican Grill and Yeah Yeah Yeah ... More >>

Halloween 2011: This Weekend in Broward/Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale

Dr_Xeno on Flickr Creative CommonsWe know the feeling. Too much pumpkin beer has the same effect on us. ​Halloween comes but one day a year, but that doesn't mean the party is confined to a 24-hour-period. The Halloween 2011 festivities in South Florida have been underway for at least a week, but ... More >>

The Five Worst Halloween Candies

​Trick-or-treating as a kid was one of the most wildly exciting times of the year. Forget Christmas -- that was all about getting pajamas from Grandma underneath the Christmas tree. Forget St. Patrick's Day, because beer was for grown-ups.  You could even forget about Easter, because being d ... More >>

The Ten Dumbest Halloween Food Costumes Ever

Endlesssimmer.com​Halloween is around the corner and every year you run into the same problem - do you wear the sexy or funny costume?  Our answer is, as always - it depends on whether or not you want to get laid...ever.Here are a collection of Halloween costumes that are truly terrifying..an ... More >>

Get Some Fairy Tail

Woofstock: Get Groovy at Yappy Happy Hour January 27th

  Flickr/paulamiranda2010 ​It's time to dig out your old bellbottoms and psychedlic shirts. No, it's not time for Halloween yet but that doesn't mean we can't keep things groovy. Grab your furry friend and head over to Woofstock, a 60's themed party for you and your pup, at the Newpo ... More >>

The Other Halloween Show: Jesus, Hell, and Sin on Stage

Reality Outreach Ministries, Inc.​Scaring the snot out of God-fearing youngsters has long been a popular Halloween tradition. Churches from Texas to Colorado stage elaborate theatrical productions known as hell houses, featuring gruesome scenes of botched abortions and AIDS-related deaths. The aim ... More >>

Economic Gloom Lingers (PLUS: Halloween Costumes to Counteract the Sadness)

​We crossed our fingers before checking the most recent unemployment data, but the preliminary numbers crunched by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and released today reveal that September was just more of the same, with unemployment in Florida at 11.9 percent, up slightly from August. Only Californ ... More >>

A Place to Bury Strangers' Decibel-Defying Thrust Could Explode Moonfest 2010

Skeletal Street Walkers

Calling on Ghosts

Photos: Pumpkin Carving at Poor House in Fort Lauderdale

​  Tuesday night, I stopped by the 3rd Annual Pumpkin Carving at the Poor House and I was amazed by the awesome turn out. A ton of tricksters came out ready to carve the night away. Walking throughout the bar, I saw Halloween enthusiasts setting up pumpkin carving stations where ev ... More >>

The Timeliest, Most Entertaining, Mudslinging Ad We've Seen This Halloween Season

​Both Halloween and the election are fast approaching, making  this a very spooky week, with unexpected twists and turns lurking ahead. Far in advance of the October 31 holiday, Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party candidate for Delaware Senate, revealed "I am not a witch" (provoking awesome pa ... More >>

Fright Night on Las Olas

Halloween Contest Shows Ugly Side of Politics

Talk about scary politics. Republicans are throwing a Halloween party in Pembroke Pines next Friday night. As part of the festivities, they will be holding a U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz look-alike contest that the invitation says "could scare the devil himself." The ... More >>

Out of the Closet

Guys and Molls

Pirates of the New River

Phish

Weekend Blog Wrap

via Family Fun​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you need to read every day, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs, this time focusing on some Halloween themed foods.Want to truly scare yourself this Halloween? It has nothing to do with th ... More >>

John DeGroot Digging Into Case of Gabriel Myers, the Foster Child Who Hung Himself

I'm dashing off for Halloween weekend, but as long we're giving props to gritty journalists who've gone blog-happy, here's some fantastic, in-depth reporting, courtesy John DeGroot, about the case of Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old foster child in Margate who hung himself with a rubber hose in April.T ... More >>

Fall-oween

Find Your Perfect Haunt

Work Out Last Night's Kinks

Scarier than President Palin

Get your haunt on at X-Scream

Taking Back Halloween

One tin can at a time.

Pump Up the Volume

Purgatory: An Art Show Worth Waiting For

Scary Night

At Tsunami, you'll have a tidal wave of a Halloween

Foodstuff

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