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Halloween Country: Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, New York

By Lisa Van Allen If there’s one quintessential American ghost story, a good case could be made for Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Never mind how the original Headless Horseman story has morphed over the years from cute and spooky into occult and gory—as in Fox’s series Sleepy Hollow. The story is as integral as any to Halloween, so there’s no better place to celebrate the holiday than

America?s Best Pumpkin Festivals

For some, the start of fall means that it’s officially pumpkin spice latte season, but there are other ways to enjoy everyone’s favorite gourd. This time of the year, you can find pumpkins for sale everywhere from city markets to roadside stands, but why not make a day of it? Across the country, farms are celebrating the season with family-friendly festivals where you’ll find all the pumpkins, freshly baked desserts, and

The Sims remade in the style of Pokémon is wonderful and sad

Sometimes you come across a video game mashup so perfect it makes you question why anyone let Mario and Sonic compete in the Olympic Games. Pokémon Sims is an example of a game we’d like to play – the chocolate and peanut butter of video games. It comes from the brain of YouTuber Hat-Loving Gamer (thanks Kotaku) and mixes the graphic style of the older Pokémon games with the gameplay

Updated: Facebook introduces happiness, laughter and anger 'Like' buttons

Update: Facebook has now officially announced the new ‘Like’ buttons, which are called Reactions and allow you to give alternative responses to the standard thumbs up. Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook, shared a video of Reactions in action and said, “As you can see, it’s not a ‘dislike’ button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly. “We studied which comments and reactions are