Fall is decorative squash season. It is also decorative gourd season. Those two sentences are not redundant. While most of us lump gourds, squash, and pumpkins into one lumpy, bumpy, hard-to-peel ...

The Children’s Museum of Manhattan offers pumpkin painting, mural painting, collages, a magic show, and more. Boo!10/24–10/31. (cmom.org); free with $10 admission. Play Pumpkin The Shadow Box Theatre ...