CHICAGO -- No matter what you may think (or have heard), dogs and cats can’t talk. Neither can snakes or guinea pigs or any other species of animals that people consider pets. So it is impossible for ...

While my daughter stopped trick-or-treating long ago, she and her friends often went door-to-door on Halloween, taking whatever candy the homeowner would give them. It was an interesting transition ...

On any night during the week leading up to Halloween at UNC, you’ll see battalions of jack-o'-lanterns guarding front porches, spot becostumed revelers traversing Franklin Street between bacchanals, ...

Growing up, I loved to include my family dogs in our Halloween celebrations. My grandmother fondly recalls that when I was about 4 or 5 years old, I insisted on matching costumes with my pup Shadow.

There are two things we should keep going after elementary school: nap time and art class. Yes, I know in college you can just take a nap. Or take an art class. But I’m not talking about art ...

Absent the ghoulish and the foolish, Halloween can be a fun holiday for the young. Whether dressed as Superman, Batman or Popeye the Sailor Man, many of us have warm memories of trick-or-treating on ...

In the first act of the Judgement House drama, actors gathered for a raucous teen party with lots of booze. In the second scene at the born-again haunted house, the young Matt Mitchell and other kids ...

My algorithm fed me the funniest Reel the other day: Delivery drivers walking up to porches and getting the bejesus scared out of them by seasonal animatronic decorations. What an age we live in. Of ...