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Minions and fire dances to highlight this year’s Howl-O-Fest at Boyd Hill

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Halloween is all about trick-or-treating for most kids. But this year families can enjoy the fun the weekend before too. Boyd Hill Nature Preserve is hosting its annual Howl-O-Fest October 23 and 24 from 6-10 p.m. each night. The festivities include games, crafts, airbrush tattoos, a “Minions Trail” (you know, those little yellow dudes from Despicable Me,) festive trick or treat cabins, fire dance and “Viking Tale of Terror” live shows. Families can also peruse haunted houses and trick-or-treat stations…

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Halloween spending to be up in Florida, down nationally

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The Florida Retail Federation (FRF), the state’s premier trade association representing retailers for over 75 years, announced today that the average person celebrating Halloween this year will spend $74.34, compared with $77.52 last year. Total spending nationally on Halloween is expected to reach $6.9 billion, according to the National Retail Federation’s Halloween Consumer Spending Survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. “Even though the national survey shows a decrease in spending on Halloween this year, we don’t expect that trend…

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What’s hot for Halloween? Turtles, Walking Dead, superheroes

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Expect to see a lot of Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael this Halloween. Some of the most popular costumes are expected to be based on the reptilian superheroes after the 2014 release of the film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” according to Steven Silverstein, CEO of Spirit Halloween, a chain of more than 1,150 pop-up stores devoted to costumes and decor for the holiday. Children love the Turtles, and so do adults who watched them on TV and in movies when…

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Today on Context Florida: Corrine Brown, weather scares and a vibrant Pensacola

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Today on Context Florida: U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown filed a federal lawsuit opposing the reshaping of Florida’s CD 5, the district she represents. Brown contends that redrawing her district in an east-west configuration – as the Florida Supreme Court has ordered state lawmakers to do – would deprive African-American voters the opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice. But would it, Julie Delegal asks. Two annual events occur whose sole purpose is to scare people, says Marc Yacht. Halloween, where…

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Is Kathleen Ford’s new TV spot some sort of Halloween spoof?

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When I first saw Kathleen Ford at a podium in front of a green-screened American flag, I thought this had to be a Halloween spoof. Evidently, this commercial really was put out by her campaign. Not as bad as that fake commercial for Joe Smith, but this ad certainly is the worst television commercial produced by one of the mayoral campaigns. And I don’t think anyone EVER wants Kathleen Ford imagining anything for them!

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