Tag: Costumes

See Olivia Rodrigo’s Fans Go Full Grunge for the Guts Tour

On Friday, just outside Palm Springs, Calif., you might have thought a strange mirage had appeared: One or two zillion tweens descended upon an arena, all wearing platform Doc Martens. Had some official communiqué been issued, at a frequency undetectable to those older than 25? Had everyone been subconsciously nudged to pair boots with fishnets […]

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‘Succession’ Auctions Off ‘Ludicrously Capacious Bag’ (and Less Capacious Props)

An auction house in Dallas that is usually stocked with fine art and rare baseball cards now holds a six-foot dog mascot suit last seen in Episode 1 of the HBO drama “Succession.” Audiences may recall a nauseated Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) putting on the costume and puking through its eyeballs. The item has been […]

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Shanghai’s Halloween Party, a Rare Chance for Chinese to Vent in Style

There were evil wizards, TV celebrities and undead beings, yes. But there were also walking memes, rare public expressions of queer life, wry commentary on the state of China and at least one bipedal cucumber — a colorful burst of pent-up energy and emotion in Shanghai’s first big Halloween celebration in years. In Shanghai, revelers […]

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Ghostly Presence

Tombstones are planted in the flower beds. A witch appears to have flown into a tree and is suspended there, broom sticking out from the trunk. An undead crone, motion sensitive, accosts passers-by from the hedge. On my otherwise very quiet, very nothing-to-see-here Brooklyn block, there’s a lot to see this time of year. I […]

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Hundreds of Shadow Puppets Were Stolen. A Bystander Helped Crack the Case.

Inside the U-Haul were nearly 500 handmade shadow puppets and dozens of masks, costumes and backdrops — the culmination of three years of painstaking labor, which, on Sunday evening, came to life in a balletic performance before a crowd of hundreds at a theater in San Francisco. On Monday morning, the puppeteers awoke to find […]

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Tompkins Square Dog Parade Draws Thousands After Near Cancellation

Despite the gray skies and light drizzle, costumed dogs strutted along for the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade on Saturday as they have for more than three decades. But for the first time since the event’s inception, they had an official parade route. The dogs came on floats, leashes and in their owners’ arms — […]

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Last-Minute Halloween Costumes That Make You Seem Less Lazy Than You Are

The scariest thing you could do on Halloween? Pull up to the function with a half-assed—or worse yet, nonexistent—costume. Think about it. What other day of the year are you subject to sending the combined message of, “I am lazy, boring, and not spooky,” in one go? It’s a 69-car pileup of party pooper energy, […]

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How the Queen of Denmark Shaped the Look of Netflix’s “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction”

Once upon a time, there was a princess in Denmark who aspired to become an artist. Though she was the eldest child of the country’s reigning king, for the first 12 years of the princess’s life, only men had the right to inherit the throne. That changed when the Danish constitution was amended in 1953, […]

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Facing Cancellation, Halloween Dog Festival Gets a Formal Parade Route

It’s hard to say which New Yorkers love more — Halloween or their dogs. For more than 30 years, those two passions have converged at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, as canines have transformed into charcuterie boards, celebrities, Jesus and even bodega cats. But the 33rd annual iteration of the event appeared to be […]

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