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Halloween & Recession: Scaring up Profits?
The 33 NewsThe beep of the cash register, it's the sound that makes America go around. But this Halloween season consumers plan to spend about ten dollars less than last year. Down to about $56.00. According to the National Retail Federation, 46% will buy less...Tags: Miley Cyrus, Candy, Haunted Houses (attractions), Holidays, Consumers
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Busch Gardens' Howl-O-Scream is bigger and spookier
| 247-4732JAMES CITY COUNTY — The witching hour of 6 p.m. is almost nigh. That means dozens of phantoms, ghouls, goblins and a few hulking Scotsmen are preparing for a night of morbid mischief. Behind the scenes at Busch Gardens' annual fright-fest Howl-O-...Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Haunted Houses (attractions), Gardens and Parks, Halloween Costumes
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DeBary Presbyterians, Adventists share home for holidays
They worried about the wax. What if, in their traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service, the DeBary Presbyterians dripped candle wax on the carpet of the Seventh-Day Adventist church?
This is what it is like to be a church without a home for the...Tags: Family, Holidays, Religious Festivals, Christmas, Alcoholic Beverages
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Hot Halloween Costumes
KIAHJust two weeks before Halloween and certain costumes have already sold out. At a southwest Houston Party City there are no more Barack Obama masks. It seems many want to impersonate him and other politicians like Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama, the...Tags: Michelle Obama, Holidays, Sarah Palin, G.I. Joe (fictional character), Michael Jackson
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Warp speed to San Jose 'Star Trek' exhibit
True "Star Trek" fanatics who visit "Star Trek: The Exhibition" at San Jose's Tech Museum may find some flaws in the life-size replica of the starship Enterprise's bridge.
Sure, Capt. James T. Kirk's chair sits in the middle of the bridge, encircled by...Tags: Star Trek (movie, 2009), Fires, Gene Roddenberry, Science and Technology, Television
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L.A. Opera and its $32-million Ring
In Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung," a pile of sacred gold and a ring that's fashioned from it are said to confer "measureless might." However, by the fourth scene of the 17-hour-plus opus, a drawback has emerged: A curse gets attached to the...Tags: George Lucas, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Collective Contract, Broadway Theater
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Behind the Scenes of Gossip Girl Fashion
wpix.comYou've seen some of the hot trends that the girls of "Gossip Girl" are wearing, and now you get to meet their stylist. Eric Daman, costume designer for GG, gives us a sneek peak of Blair's dress in tonight's episode. He also leaks some styling secrets.Tags: WPIX
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Joan Castle Joseff dies at 97; businesswoman led Burbank firms
As the successful head of two distinctly different Burbank business enterprises, Joan Castle Joseff achieved two equally distinct reputations.
As president of Joseff Precision Metal Products -- it primarily makes aircraft and missile parts -- she was...Tags: Ingrid Bergman, Mae West, Economy, Business and Finance, Elizabeth Taylor, Hospitals and Clinics
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Wyoming Looks at adding Human Ads to Sign Ban
FOX 17 NewsYou've probably seen them on your drive home. People dressed in costumes who try and flag you down for business. We're talking about the human hot dog or the Liberty Tax Service woman. In Wyoming, city leaders wanted to include these costume wavers to an...Tags: Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Wyoming
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Everybody’s under one tent as ‘Nightmare Alley’ becomes a musical
Life is a cabaret, old chum — unless, that is, it's a carnival show.
So step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see the slick, charming salesman Stan Carlisle morph into a carny shyster, a gospel preacher, a human monster! Watch him fall in love...Tags: Lanford Wilson, Joan Blondell, Randy Newman, The Beach Boys, Los Angeles Times
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Robert Turturice dies at 60; Emmy-winning costume designer
Robert Turturice, a Hollywood costume designer who won an Emmy Award for his work on the 1980s hit TV series "Moonlighting" and whose movie credits include "Batman & Robin" and "Big Top Pee-wee," has died. He was 60.
Turturice, a former president of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Television, Paul Reubens, Movies, Berkeley (Alameda, California)
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