#halloween-festivals

#halloween-festivals

The guided one-mile journey takes participants past buildings steeped in decades of dramatic events and reported hauntings while at the same dropping tons of fascinating history of San Jose. The experience began under the prominent arch at Paseo de San Carlos and wound through areas tied to everything from Wild West saloons and brothels to brewery tragedies to sorrows at San Jose State University.

A book about witches casts a spell, and arguments about whether blue-green algae should be called blue-green bacteria, in this week's pick from the Nature archive.

This Sunday, step back a century (or ten) at the Society for Creative Anachronism's ninth annual Deck the Halls of Valhalla, featuring activities and performances highlighting the arts of the Middle Ages. New York City better known as the Crown Province of stgar resides in the East Kingdom of the SCA, a Medieval history and culture organization with members around the globe.

On Halloween Eve, teams of New York City architects will go "gourd-to-gourd" to create the most impressive work of pumpkin architecture in hopes of winning the Pritzkerpumpkin Prize! The annual Pumpkitecture Competition is one of the final events of Archtober, New York City's month-long celebration of architecture and design. If you're an Untapped New York member, you can snag one of our limited free tickets to the event and watch the live carving competition!

It started as a sworn secret between eight New England artists. In 2003, Michael Townsend and seven friends moved into the Providence Place Mall. They'd discovered an empty 750 square-foot loft space. They hauled up furniture - a couch, a PlayStation, TV, waffle-maker. Hauled up two tons of cinder blocks for an apartment wall. In 2007, mall security discovered the apartment. Townsend was arrested and banned from the mall. He named no names.

A passerby discovers it first - and lets out a piercing call. Within seconds, everyone in earshot rushes to the scene. It's mayhem... or so it seems. Crows are intelligent, and super chatty. They watch out for one another within tight-knit groups. As adults it's pretty rare for crows to be killed. So when one dies the others notice. Are they just scared? Or is something deeper going on.

While working on a graduate school paper on the mystical powers of coral, gemologist Anna Rasche ventured deep into the archives of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's library. Coral is the most powerful material to ward off the evil eye-a belief Italians have held since ancient times. Romans often gifted newborns coral amulets to prevent sickness and bad luck.