Possible future Governor of New York State Carl Paladino knows how to close a deal! While his rival Andrew Cuomo entered the election's home stretch by rallying his supporters and campaigning, Paladino knew all he had to do was kick back, crack open a cold one, and remind everyone that the only reason he's running for office is because his son tragically died in a car accident last year. Check and mate, Cuomo—and while you were out there breaking a sweat, Paladino had plenty of free time to celebrate Halloween in a Buffalo bar with a guy in blackface, thus proving that Paladino can't be racist, because he has a (temporarily) black friend. more ›

A Long Island student who dressed like Aunt Jemima for Halloween was sent home from school when he refused to wipe off his blackface make-up. Before being kicked out, Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski — who has dressed in drag for every Halloween since third grade, going as Barbie, a nun, Wilma Flintstone, and Pocahontas in past years — donned a wig, a bandana, and blackface and "darted in and out of classrooms toting a syrup bottle, asking, 'You want some pancakes?'" more ›