At noon on Oct. 25, the Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun” rang out on Church Street as brightly colored leaves rustled in the crisp breeze. A crowd gathered – both human and canine – eagerly...

It’s finally cold, the leaves are falling, and I’ve challenged myself to watch as many horror movies as I can before autumn’s end. Body horror, psychological horror, slasher — I’m diving headfirst...

There are spider webs in the aisles of Target, jack-o-lanterns on our front porches and ghost-shaped Reese’s melting in our backpacks. Something big is coming.  As Halloween falls into our weekend...

Leonardo Barber — Edward Scissorhands Leonardo Barber is a first-year at UVM.  THE CYNIC: Okay, so tell me your name and what grade you're in and what you're dressed as. BARBER: My name is...

Everyone remembers the year trick-or-treating became lame. Maybe it was the year your parents told you that you were too old to participate, or when you began awkwardly towering over the toddlers as...

Black cats should no longer be the mystified, superstition-riddled poster children of Halloween. They never asked to be.  Every Halloween, there is a fascination with the eerie, the unsettling and...

The first time I watched “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” I had a revelation: it’s not a Halloween movie, and it’s not a Christmas movie either. Even though the movie circulates around Halloween...

It’s no secret that Halloween is a capitalist holiday, but that doesn’t mean it has to be so unsustainable. The sugar-filled, spooky holiday serves no religious or nationalistic function, yet research...

Driving down Colchester Avenue, as it turns into Pearl Street, it’s not hard to skip over UVM’s last residence hall—Jeanne Mance—before the landscape changes to the commercial center of downtown...