What Are The Top Halloween Costumes For 2014?

What Are The Top Halloween Costumes For 2014?
- Internet personality quizzes are all the rage right now, why are we so obsessed with getting to know ourselves?!  Do you take the quizzes?

 - And Lululemon is finally catching a break in the media. The fitness wear giant accidentally out a huge order of hats.  But instead of asking for them back, the company said, share the Lululemon love!

 - Also, if you are already on the search for Halloween costumes you need this list that we are sharing today!  We have the top 10 costumes that kids want this year... #1 will probably not surprise you!

 - Plus, we have last night's ABC4 weather kid talking about how juvenile diabetes has changed his life.  And how you can help make a difference for him and others at a special walk in Provo this Saturday!



Volunteers prepare for Halloween Fest’s 25th year
    BIG ROCK—The haunted house that started in one room in Sugar Grove has grown to include two haunted houses, a haunted trail, games, entertainment and food for the whole family at Plowman’s Park in Big Rock. And this year, Halloween Fest will celebrate 25 years of scary fun.

The event is set for 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25.
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“This is our give-back to the community,” Colleen Franks said.

Colleen and her husband, Gene, started the event in a school classroom when he served on the parks committee in Sugar Grove.

“Everyone else was involved with sports, so Gene suggested a haunted house,” Colleen said. “The walls were made out of cardboard and plastic.”
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After outgrowing several locations, the event moved to Plowman’s Park in 2001. Construction of the haunted house—and less scary kiddie haunted house added in 2006—takes place during the weekends between the Big Rock Plowing Match and Halloween for the one-day festival.

“The intent of the haunted house is to scare by surprise, and there are many opportunities for surprise,” said Charlene, the Franks’ daughter-in-law. “This is a unique event that’s not put on by an organization. It’s run strictly by volunteers, with donations for everything, so the event is free. It’s a fun place for parents to take their kids.”
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Colleen said donations are accepted, but any funds collected are used to pay for the food and the party.

The organizers estimate the fest brings in about 3,000 people each year. Many return year after year, and that’s because the haunted house is different every year.

“My husband and I provide the theme. We design both haunted houses and provide props and costumes and sound effects,” Colleen said.
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“It’s a lot of work for just one day,” Charlene admitted, but more than a hundred volunteers return each year, too. “Some parts of it, we work on all year long, but the actual building can’t start until after the plowing match.”

Four generations of the Franks family have worked on the festival.

“Mom is 85, so she won’t be out there this year,” Colleen said. “We have six children and eight grandchildren, and they’ve all been involved at one time or another.”
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She said Charlene was just dating their oldest son the first year of the festival; they eventually married, and she’s still part of the volunteer crew.

Colleen said this may be the last year for the haunted house, because she and Gene are retiring from the event.

“There won’t be a haunted house unless someone steps up to volunteer,” Colleen said.

Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Expecting Baby No. 2!

Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Expecting Baby No. 2!
MAJOR news, everybody: Kate Middleton is pregnant with another royal baby! This will be the second child for her and Prince William.
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“Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” an official announcement said this morning. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.”

Kate has to cancel her recent appearances due to the pregnancy: “As with her first pregnancy, The Duchess is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Her Royal Highness will no longer accompany The Duke of Cambridge on their planned engagement in Oxford today. The Duchess is being treated by doctors at Kensington Palace.”




How to Buy Your Halloween Costume Online
Just as in the “real” world, there are many costume shops on the internet that all claim to be the best source for costumes and accessories. Obviously they can’t all be the best, but how can you tell which ones will be the best to deal with? After all, it’s a little harder to judge them from a website than it is by walking into their store and actually looking around and speaking with someone.

When shopping for a costume online, you should follow the same principles you would when dealing with a traditional store.

Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Expecting Baby No. 2!

Kate Middleton and Prince William Are Expecting Baby No. 2!
MAJOR news, everybody: Kate Middleton is pregnant with another royal baby! This will be the second child for her and Prince William.
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“Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child,” an official announcement said this morning. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.”

Kate has to cancel her recent appearances due to the pregnancy: “As with her first pregnancy, The Duchess is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Her Royal Highness will no longer accompany The Duke of Cambridge on their planned engagement in Oxford today. The Duchess is being treated by doctors at Kensington Palace.”




How to Buy Your Halloween Costume Online
Just as in the “real” world, there are many costume shops on the internet that all claim to be the best source for costumes and accessories. Obviously they can’t all be the best, but how can you tell which ones will be the best to deal with? After all, it’s a little harder to judge them from a website than it is by walking into their store and actually looking around and speaking with someone.

When shopping for a costume online, you should follow the same principles you would when dealing with a traditional store.

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'Frozen' expected to dominate Halloween costumes
(CNN) -- Move over witches, goblins and ghouls, the stars of Disney's "Frozen" are taking over Halloween. Well, at least this year.

Holiday retailer 'Spirit Halloween' projects not only Anna, Elsa and Olaf costumes to be the hottest this year, but other classic Disney characters like Snow White will be in high demand.

Beyond Frozen, expect "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", some superheroes and a few nostalgic characters like Dr. Seuss' "Cat in the Hat" to come knocking on Halloween.
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True Story: The Rooster Who Went to Vegas for Halloween
School started, so happy Halloween.

Since Christmas gets to start the day after Halloween, Halloween for me now starts the day after school starts. Consider this global holiday warming; they keep arriving earlier and more aggressively every year.

So, boo.

The best costumes don't always win trophies. In fact, sometimes they're not even condoned, as is the case with the rooster who went to Vegas for Halloween.

I grew up on a farm, and among our various critters and mammals was a particularly horrible rooster by the name of MS DOS. Maybe he was angry about being named after Microsoft's then-cutting edge "disk operating system." Maybe that justifies why he constantly chased the children of my mom's at-home daycare, jumping on their backs and pecking their heads. Or maybe MS DOS was just a rotten egg.

But one October, when my dad's feisty coworker Mark asked if he could borrow the rooster for his Halloween costume, my dad was more than relieved to turn the bird over; that meant he wouldn't have to pry the demon-rooster off the faces of innocent trick-or-treaters this year. Mark promised to treat the bird kindly, and we figured he was probably going to place MS DOS in a cage by his front door and dress up like a rancher or something like that.

Life lesson No. 1: Before you lend out your livestock, ask more questions.

I remember the scene clearly. We were sitting on the front porch when down the long, dusty, never-been-plowed-or-graded dirt road we saw two out-of-place headlights. They were connected to a long white car with at least 10 windows: a limousine.

Mark stepped out, wearing a long black fur coat and clutching a champagne glass in one hand.

"Come on, rooster!" he sang, before MS DOS's knife-like beak stabbed holes through most of Mark's face and hands. "We're going to Vegas."

My parents never did tell me the details about our rooster's adventure, beyond a few bits and pieces: Mark tried to hide the rooster under his coat as they entered various clubs, with the intention of letting his gobbly head peak out and scare people. But MS DOS had other plans, all of which involved trying to take out the human race. Mark was kicked out of every club in Vegas. After the police intercepted his last effort, Mark and MS DOS left, their tail feathers between their legs.

Obviously, MS DOS was never harmed. I can't say the same for his date.

And lest you think a little vacation is good to cheer up anybody (or anybird), the small peck-scar between my eyes is proof of the contrary. Maybe the flashing lights on The Strip skewed his aim of my eyeballs. In which case, I guess I should be thankful for Mark's most creative -- and scary -- Halloween costume ever.

I do not condone misusing innocent (or even guilty and demonic) animals for any occasion. However, the adventures of MS DOS are a reminder to think outside the box (or coop) when you're pulling together a costume for this year's back-to-school Halloween parties.

And don't try to sneak a rooster into a nightclub.

Now you know.

Read more articles from the strangest city in America, Boulder, Colorado, here: Only In Boulder.

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Melissa Rivers: A Daughter's Courage
ET has an in-depth and really sweet look at the mother-daughter bond between Joan and Melissa Rivers.

VIDEO: Melissa Rivers Only Sees One Outcome for Joan

We first sat down with the Joan and Melissa in 1988 just nine months after the suicide of Edgar Rosenberg -- Joan's husband and Melissa's father.

"We've had a very rough two years and it's brought us very close together," Joan said at the time. "It also almost ripped us apart. When there's a suicide in the
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family it's terrible for survivors. But if you do live through it, you come out much closer, and I think we're really on our way to being close now because of

these horrors we went through."

In 1994, the two got to tell their story in the TV movie Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story.

"We're finally able to state our point of view," said Melissa. "I don't know if it's necessarily our version of setting the record straight but it's our version

of what we went through."

NEWS: Joan Rivers Being Brought Out of Coma

On Sunday, doctors started the process of bringing Joan out of a medically induced coma. A family source told ET that Melissa is only looking at one outcome --

that Joan will eventually come out of this.

"There is only one outlook Melissa is looking at now -- She's like, 'When my mother wakes up...,' 'When my mother see this and that ...' There is only one

trajectory she sees this going in the direction of, which is positive," a family source tells ET exclusively. "She refuses to acknowledge any other outcome than

Joan coming out of this."

Beyonce’s VMA Perfomance: ‘What More Could We Have Asked For?’

Beyonce’s VMA Perfomance: ‘What More Could We Have Asked For?’
My first notice of last night’s VMA performances came from my “Camille Paglia” Google alert. Someone wanted a Paglia analysis STAT. Curious, I checked my feminist
feeds for some reaction context. They were either glowing about Beyonce’s Divine Feminism, asking as MTV did, “What more could we have asked for?” or silent.
Then I watched and I understood.
I’m all for sexy women. Being a feminist shouldn’t mean that old trope about not ever being sexy. But I’m more than sure that feminist thought fights against the
notion of women as primarily a sexual being.
So I admit, I am stunned to find proud feminists this morning, like Jessica Valenti who is waiting to pounce upon the expected irrelevant feminism article, heaping
praise on a performance by a scantily-clad Beyonce, with glitter-lubed backup dancers in thongs presenting their asses to all in face down submission, singing songs
with refrains such as, “I can’t wait to get home and you can take my cherry out” and “Bow down bitches”.
All this from the performer who will feature prominently on the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack. (Beyonce sings the song in the trailer.) In case anyone is unfamiliar
with the feminist implications of 50 Shades of Grey, here is a lengthy but worth the read book review notable both for the declaration that  even people who see a
distinction between bondage sex play and misogynistic aggression consider 50 Shades solidly in the misogyny category and that Twilight–that nadir of women’s
empowerment– is a much more nuanced and tolerant story. (I put both Beyonce’ s VMA performance and the 50 Shades trailer after the jump as neither are safe for
work.)

You Don’t Need a Lover to Love Lingerie

You Don’t Need a Lover to Love Lingerie
I can’t deny it, I love lingerie. I do. I have drawers full of the stuff—saucy bras, basques, corsets, skivvies, you name it. I usually buy my extravagant unmentionables on a whim—not for some romantic occasion—and I’ve never given it a second thought. So naturally, I was very excited when The Museum at FIT announced its current exhibition, Exposed: A History of Lingerie (on view until November 15). However, the news of the show broke at a time when a new wave of feminism seemed to be at the center of most of my conversations. Prada’s feminist Spring ’14 was in stores (“I want to inspire women to struggle,” Miuccia Prada told Tim Blanks after her powerful show), as was Rick Owens’ sporty Spring range, which was presented on muscular American step dancers. And, of course, there was Anja Rubik’s Free the Nipple campaign, as well as the fight against Instagram to allow women to proudly display their breasts without being banished from the social platform. So after pondering all of the above, I, a woman who considers herself to be a feminist, suddenly thought, Good God, I’m a terrible hypocrite for loving sexy, lacy lingerie.

To be sure, there’s something empowering about secretly donning ornate underwear and thigh-high stockings beneath my boxy Comme des Gar?ons frocks. But lingerie is often thought of as appealing to the male gaze. And you can’t tell me that crotch-less panties, sheer lace bras, and little satin onesies weren’t produced with the male viewer—or at least sex—in mind. Is the case of my lingerie the same? Do I love it only because I’ve been trained to love it by watching old Sophia Loren films and reading too many magazines? Can I be a feminist and embrace delicate underpinnings?

Red Corset“Absolutely,” offered Colleen Hill, the curator behind the FIT show, which includes everything from 18th-century corsets to Hanky Pankys.”I think that nowadays, particularly since we have options—we’re not forced into wearing a corset or a push-up bra or anything that may have been somewhat more dictated in the past. You can absolutely love to wear basically any item of clothing for yourself and be a feminist.”

Let’s explore those corsets and things of the past. Something about a garment that suffocates a woman—often to the point of fainting—in order to enhance her bust and taper her waist seems pretty antifeminist to me. But perhaps that’s because the corset could be qualified as antifeminine. That is to say, it was originally designed for men. “Men had been wearing corsets for hundreds of years before women,” explained Carlis Pistol, the go-to couture corset-maker for everyone from Oprah to Sarah Jessica Parker. “It started in the medieval period, and when the 16th century came along, they began making corsets for women. I think women were looking for a new silhouette, and in wearing corsets, it showed that women could do what men could do.” Wait, so does that make the corset the ultimate feminist garment?

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According to Hill, corsets were often worn for medical reasons (actually, one of the sexiest corsets in the show, a bright red number from 1889, above, was marketed as a health corset), particularly to correct one’s posture. Because of that, they were initially quite plain. “They were modest garments—a lot of them during the 19th century were just white or black or brown. It wasn’t until the late 1800s that you start to see colors and decorative elements,” said Hill. It was at that time, too, that “the idea of beautiful undergarments in relation to a happy marriage began to be talked about a lot more.”

There it is. The shift. The point when men took away our lovely lingerie. It wasn’t until the mid 1970s that Chantal Thomass, the queen of contemporary French lingerie, brought back the concept of decorative underthings for her, not him (below, right). “It was actually really unfashionable at the time,” said Hill of Thomass’ more traditional styles. Indeed, Thomass’ aesthetic was a strict departure from the ’60s feminist movement’s “burn the bra” mentality. In fact, when Thomass introduced her line, the unstructured “no-bra bra”—a sheer brassiere designed by Rudi Gernreich, the same man responsible for the monokini—was all the rage (below, left). But in the end, Thomass prevailed (and her brand still exists today). “I think by the 1980s, this idea that you could embrace this really feminine style of lingerie as a way to please yourself as a woman was finally accepted,” Hill added.

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“In the ’60s, women were like, ‘I’m tired. I’m not even going to wear a bra. I don’t want to feel like I have to be a slave—like I’m bound,” said Jennifer Zuccarini, a Victoria’s Secret alum who cofounded Kiki de Montparnasse before launching her current lingerie label, Fleur du Mal. “Then you get to the ’80s, when fashion was all about lingerie. It was like [women] really took it back. We made it our own, and that was very empowering.”

But what about the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, where supermodels strut down a runway wearing next to nothing? Where does that fit into lingerie’s girl-power narrative? “That’s a tough one,” Zuccarini told me. “It is male-oriented. And you know, there’s a conversation about women wanting to see real women…I don’t necessarily buy into that. I want to see an idealized version of something. That’s why I like fashion. And there’s something about those supermodels and the image Victoria’s Secret puts out there that women do like. They continue to shop there—it’s the most successful lingerie brand ever created. So the show definitely appeals to men, but VS is a company led by women, and when I was there, no one ever said, ‘Are guys going to like this?’ It wasn’t even part of the conversation.”

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Even so, one has to consider that the popularity of the Vicki Secret show among male viewers is just another example of women either consciously or subconsciously wearing lingerie for men. “Women love lingerie because it embraces their bodies and makes them feel good about themselves,” said Pistol. “It’s a celebration of your own body. You feel strong with it on. It’s not that women wear it for men—it’s about making yourself feel good.” But the corset-maker also raised an interesting point about ladies who do buy lingerie to impress a gentleman. “The happiness of the woman is still believable if she’s doing it for a man. It makes the woman happy, but other people are able to appreciate it as well.” Hill had some similar theories as to women’s adoration of luxe underwear. “I think lingerie tends to be some of the most beautiful clothing. When we get up in the morning, we are presenting ourselves to the world. But knowing that you’re wearing something special underneath, even if it’s not going to be seen by anyone, that’s beautiful and special. It sets the tone for the day.” For her part, Zuccarini (whose designers are pictured below) wears a little something special under her work-ready clothes on a daily basis. “I mean, I’m not wearing a garter belt every day, but everything I have is pretty nice,” she laughed. “There’s something emotional about lingerie—it inspires an emotional response and there’s almost an impulsive need to buy it. I think most real lingerie enthusiasts buy it for themselves. They get something from wearing it. And why wouldn’t you want to wear something beautiful under your clothing?” she reasoned.

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You know, despite all the expert opinions, I was, until the tail end of this journey, on the fence as to whether one could be a feminist and a lingerie lover. I wasn’t convinced that I adored wearing lingerie for any other reason than, since youth, movies, magazines, and TV ads brainwashed me to believe that lingerie was an instant and necessary sexuality enhancer. So I asked my mother, a deeply chic, incredibly modest woman who happens to be my personal style icon, what she thought. She’s been in the hospital for the last few weeks, and her only response was, “Oh, Kate. That reminds me. Can you go and pick me up some nice things to wear under my gown?” So I did (nothing too risqué—she’s my mother, after all). When I returned from my shopping excursion (during which I bought something for myself, too, obviously), she smiled the biggest smile. I had my answer. Whether or not it’s made with males in mind, today’s women own their lingerie. It’s ours. We can do with it and wear it as we please. And now, I love lingerie a little bit more.