Pumpkin Carving Halloween 2009: Ideas and Patterns

Pumpkin carving is as essential to Halloween as picking out an excellent costume can be, and many enjoy the feeling of squishing the pumpkin between your fingers as you carve it out, but pumpkin carving can be...

Mike Byrne, 19, Smashing Pumpkins' New Drummer

19-year-old Mike Byrne from Portland, Oregon, is Smashing Pumpkins' new drummer. Byrne auditioned for the job in April, 2009, and beat out the competition of nearly 1,000 other drummers. The band's singer Billy...

Fiori di zucca fritti, an Italian specialty

Fiori di zucca fritti, an Italian Autumn specialty Fried Zucchini Flowers When visiting a restaurant this time of the year in Italy, I always know exactly what I will order as an antipasto because zucca fritti is...

Pumpkins to Help Animals

DERBY, N.Y. (WIVB) - From pumpkins to cold hard cash, a brother and sister business is truly paying off, and helping some four-legged friends in need. It's an empty field right now, but this plot of land...

The Passion of a New England Farm

Smolak Farm is surrounded by preservation land in a country setting in North Andover, Massachusetts. A distinct seasonal personality of New England set in a green valley surrounded with vivid warm autumn foliage....

Idaho Harvest 2008

Wilder, Idaho--Idaho farmers in the Pacific Northwest are in the thick of the 2008 Harvest. Yields across the board in Southern Idaho are expected to be as good if not better than last year thanks to plentiful...

Growing Plants the Disney Way

Daniel Terdiman over at CNET has a pretty cool job. He went behind the scenes at Epcot Center to check out the factory-like vegetable gardens that contribute to the theme park's various eating venues. WHo knew...

Smashing Pumpkins Announce 20th Anniversary Shows

The Billy Corgan train just keeps on rolling. Guess it's time to shave my head again, rev up the Ice Cream van, and break out that old, ratty Zero t-shirt."Smashing Pumpkins are to celebrate their 20th...

Smashing Pumpkins To Headline Montreal's Second Osheaga Festival

" MONTREAL — Last year's Labour Day shindig in Montreal, the Osheaga Music And Arts Festival, was such a grand ol' time that organizers have decided that a repeat is in order. The newly and partially reunited...

Interactive parenting T-shirts?!

Has parenting gone too far? And does everything have to be a toy...

Boston sets Halloween "Jack-o'-lantern" record (Reuters)

" BOSTON (Reuters) - Bathed in the orange glow of illuminated "Jack-o'-lanterns," Boston smashed a world record on Saturday when thousands of volunteers lit the largest number of Halloween pumpkins ever assembled in one place. "We have just busted past 29,000 lit pumpkins,...

Fungus causes pumpkins to develop mold (AP)

" LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Halloween lovers hoping to create the perfect jack-o-lantern might want to shop carefully this year because of a pumpkin fungus that has put a dent in some crops. Two types of fungus or rot...

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