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Extra Extra: Halloween In NYC Is Better Than The Suburbs


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Published Oct 30, 2019


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  • Is Tulsi Gabbard planning on running a third party "spoiler campaign for Trump"?
  • When billionaires get divorced, things can get very messy in public very quickly.
  • If you're looking for a new Halloween anthem, this mashup of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" and the Ghostbusters theme is pretty tight.
  • Farmers Insurance Group pulled a seven-figure advertising deal with G/O Media this week amidst the fight between the site's owners and writers about autoplay videos.
  • Here's a striking photo of Air Force One on display at the Reagan Library while wildfires burn the hills around it.
  • For city kids, Halloween isn't like it is in the suburbs—it's better.
  • Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will no longer sell political advertising.
  • Lodge 49, one of the most unique, compelling and strange shows on TV, has been canceled by AMC.
  • A man tried to use a fake $1 million bill to open a checking account at a local bank branch in Nebraska.
  • A spooky story for Halloween eve: when a down-and-out doctor found out his rundown mansion was haunted, he pulled a quintessentially American move: opening the house to the public for a fee. Everything went wrong from there.
  • Ten years after a former Late Night With David Letterman writer wrote a story excoriating the host for his treatment of women on the show, David Letterman has apologized to the writer and other women who worked for him.
  • A fatberg weighing 40 tons — or more than 80,000 pounds — has been extricated from the sewers of London.
  • This horse ran back into the California fires to get its family.
  • You can buy the house where J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and parts of The Lord Of The Rings (if you have $6 million or so to spare).
  • Is there such a thing as too many Spider-Men in one place at one time?
  • And finally, a pupper tries to eat the rain:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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