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When the weather outside is frightful, sometimes the only solution is to make the mood scarier with a spooky movie. Christmas rom-coms and holiday classics are always delightful, of course, but occasionally you want something with a little more kick. This is where the Christmas horror movie comes in. While it may seem counterintuitive to celebrate a joyful holiday with something scary, remember that ghosts are the cornerstone of some of the most classic Christmas tales.

Sometimes, a decision in the kitchen of a fancy restaurant far, far away may end up as the vegetable you serve your kids on Wednesday. Take kale, for example. A few months after chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York wrote up a kale recipe for a food magazine, the once forgotten vegetable became the focus of a healthy trend, a fashionable addition to the foodie plate and now has dug itself into the mainstream.

Some celebrities take Halloween more seriously than others. For those on the more dedicated end of the spectrum, it’s always fun to see what they can pull off with a team of costume designers, makeup artists, and photographers at their disposal. While the quality ebbs and flows, every year there are certain people to keep an eye on (e.g. Heidi Klum and Beyoncé). This year did not disappoint, with a wide range of looks from TikTok star Addison Rae dressing up as Lady Gaga’s iconic 2009 VMA performance—the one where she’s hanging above the stage drenched in blood—to Diddy enthusiastically embodying The Joker in full makeup and garb.

Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code brims with mysteries: Did Jesus have a girlfriend? And did they have a daughter, whose descendants live today? Is the Priory of Sion an ancient covenant whose Grand Masters, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, have sworn to protect this royal blood line? Is Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic sect Brown paints in such lurid colors, really that awful? Can a fictional thriller that is nothing more or less than (as one Biblical scholar called it) "