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Mormon Halloween Party Bans Cross-Dressing Costumes

Any girl dressing up as, say, Mr. Potato Head or any boy donning a Lady Gaga outfit (a rather easy gender-bending costume choice) this Halloween were left out in the cold at one recent party in Utah.

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Video: Seattle ‘Superhero’ Phoenix Jones Arrested for Assault

Is a Seattle man’s imagination just a bit too active, or is he really called to the duty of protecting the city’s citizens as “superhero” Phoenix Jones?

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Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic ‘Subway Dress’ Auctions for $5.6 Million

Marilyn Monroe’s ivory “subway dress,” the costume that contributed heavily to America’s love affair with the iconic beauty, sold for $5.6 million at an auction in Beverly Hills on Saturday.

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Venus Williams: Game, Set and Mismatch at the Australian Open

As the American tennis ace ran across the court in a garish fluorescent top, her namesake, the Roman goddess of beauty, was probably vomiting in the heavens.

A researcher dressed in a panda costume puts a panda cub into a box before its physical examination at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province. Researchers performing physical examinations on the cub wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence, according to local media.

Paid to Dress Like Pandas, Save the Species

How far would China’s conservationists go to safeguard the country’s giant pandas, a struggling species of a couple thousand? This far: oversized, fuzzily oppressive bear costumes.

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Instant Halloween Playlist, All Free: Enjoy Your Monster Mash-Up

So you’ve offered to sacrifice your place for the Halloween bash this year–good for you! Now all you have to do is sit back and hope your place doesn’t get trashed, right? Wrong!