Oct 29 2025
Finding a Halloween movie for tweens can be surprisingly tricky. They may have outgrown the gentlest pumpkin-and-friendly-ghost movies, but that does not necessarily mean they are ready for slashers, graphic horror, or the nightmare fuel waiting in the adult section. Fortunately, the space between those extremes is packed with great movies. The best Halloween movies …
Oct 27 2025
Bright, buttery, and packed with fresh lemon flavor, this two-layer lemon cake is the kind of dessert that feels just as appropriate at a spring brunch as it does at a birthday party or afternoon tea. Fresh lemon zest and juice flavor the tender cake layers, while buttermilk adds moisture and a gentle tang that …
Oct 27 2025
There’s something magical about the first crisp autumn morning when you catch that hint of pumpkin spice in the air. This homemade pumpkin spice scrub captures that essence perfectly while delivering gentle exfoliation that leaves your skin feeling silky smooth and delicately scented. Unlike harsh commercial scrubs that can irritate sensitive skin, this fine-textured blend …
Oct 27 2025
Few twentieth-century writers have become as inseparable from their biographies as Sylvia Plath. Her brief life, her marriage to poet Ted Hughes, her struggles with depression, and her death at only thirty have been examined so extensively that the mythology surrounding Plath can sometimes threaten to eclipse the extraordinary body of writing she left behind. …
Oct 26 2025
Ghost stories have been part of cinema almost from the beginning. Haunted houses, restless spirits, mysterious apparitions, cursed places, and unfinished business translate beautifully to the screen because the most effective ghost movies rarely need to show us everything. A door opening by itself or a figure standing silently in the distance can be more …
Oct 26 2025
Tender cabbage, savory ground beef, tomatoes, rice, onion, garlic, and paprika simmer together in this hearty cabbage roll soup—a comforting one-pot dinner inspired by the flavors of traditional stuffed cabbage. If you love cabbage rolls but do not always have time to soften individual cabbage leaves, prepare the filling, carefully roll each bundle, and bake …
Oct 25 2025
Few American cities embrace Halloween quite like Salem, Massachusetts. By October, the historic streets fill with pumpkins, elaborate costumes, ghost tours, street performers, seasonal markets, museum visitors, and people who have traveled across the country simply to spend Halloween in the place nicknamed the Witch City. Historic houses stand beneath brilliant New England foliage, shop …
Oct 24 2025
When most of us picture dolphins, we imagine sleek animals racing through ocean waves. Yet some of the world’s most extraordinary cetaceans live far from the sea, navigating the muddy channels, flooded forests, tributaries, and enormous river systems of South America and Asia. Freshwater dolphins are wonderfully adapted to environments that can be difficult to …
Oct 24 2025
October movie nights call for witches, ghosts, haunted houses, monsters, mysterious curses, and at least a little magic. Disney has been providing all of those things for generations, from the Headless Horseman galloping through Sleepy Hollow to the Sanderson sisters running amok in Salem. Some Disney Halloween movies are genuinely eerie. Others are funny, nostalgic, …
Oct 23 2025
New Orleans is a city where history never seems very far away. Centuries-old buildings line the French Quarter, wrought-iron balconies hang above narrow streets, courtyards hide behind weathered façades, and stories from generations past seem to cling to almost every block. It is hardly surprising that New Orleans has also developed one of America’s richest …
