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Don’t anger the bartender. Dolly McMahon’s “special” recipe, witches brew, is made from the body parts of unpleasant customers, according to Dolly’s cocktail wall at Harry’s on the Green in Denton. The witches brew is a mixed berry sangria with floating blueberries and sour gummy worms that infuse the sweet, fresh-tasting drink with a dose of sourness. It contains, allegedly, no actual body parts ­­— human or worm. McMahon loves Halloween, and her holiday drink menu gives a n

Our mother sewed our Halloween costumes. Come mid-September, my brothers and I piled into the way back of the Caprice Classic and headed over to JoAnn Fabrics. Together we sifted through rectangular envelopes of patterns from Simplicity or McCall’s. Mom studied our choices, and together we agreed upon which ones she could sew. Some were quite elaborate. She made a costume for each child in the family, including my dad. One year, I was a dapper Peter Pan, cloaked in varied sha