This time of year is usually when families and friends get together to celebrate but Australians are feeling more lonely coming into the festive season, new data from the Australian Red Cross has found. According to the annual survey of 1000 people, 33 percent of people feel lonely in the lead-up, and during, the festive…
Nativity Scenes on Display at 40 State Capitols This Christmas Season
After a year of court battles over government-ordered church closures and ignored religious objections to COVID-19 vaccines, two Illinois groups say they have the perfect societal antidote—Nativity crèches celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ displayed inside 40 state capitol buildings from New Hampshire to Hawaii. It is the ninth year of a partnership between the…
Holiday Cookies: 7 Festive Recipes for the Must-Bake Cookies of the Year
It’s the most delicious time of the year. The holiday baking season has begun, and for extra inspiration, we’ve rounded up a collection of Christmas-ready cookies from this fall’s fresh batch of baking cookbooks. First, we stop in Germany, where the Advent season is marked by a steady parade of traditional treats. For Anja Dunk,…
Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescents)
Vanillekipferl originate from Vienna in Austria, but versions of them are loved and baked throughout Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Switzerland, too. They are a non-negotiable must during Advent for me, and I regularly eat one with the first coffee of the day while it’s still pitch black outside—there’s something most satisfying about eating a moon-shaped…
Proven Strategies to Cut the Cost of Christmas
Can you feel the tug? It’s the strong pull of the culture that works hard to get the best of us this time of year, to get us to spend more than we should. The best way to counter that force is to have strategies in mind ahead of time, before we feel we have…
8 Clever Ways to Make Your Holiday Celebration More Sustainable
The holidays are a time of gifting thoughtful presents and adding festive decor inside and out. However, all the cheer often means a lot of “stuff.” And a lot of waste. Americans toss 1 million extra pounds of garbage each week between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, according to the National Environmental Education Foundation. Wondering…
‘Holidays by the Sea’ Returns to LA Port
December 3, 2021
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The Port of Los Angeles is bringing back “Holidays by the Sea” this year, with events starting Dec. 4 at its new location on the LA Waterfront. “We are transitioning from imagining the possibilities for the LA Waterfront and West Harbor to actually experiencing them so I encourage everyone to join us for the first…
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’s Lesson on Individualism
In 1964, NBC aired what would become one of the most beloved Christmas TV specials that has withstood the test of time with incredible stop-motion animation, sets, and colourful characters, all having been enjoyed by generations. The story and one song in particular, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” teach us about how being an individualist and…
Norwegian Glogg (Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic)
Serves 4 to 6 For the Garnish (Optional) 3/4 cup dark raisins 1 cup brandy or aquavit, or boiling water for a non-alcoholic version 1/2 cup slivered almonds, toasted For the Wine 1 cup white sugar 2 cups water 1 bottle light, dry red wine (pinot noir, merlot, Beaujolais, malbec), or 3 1/2 cups of…
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Twitter announced big news this week with the resignation of founder and CEO Jack Dorsey. The company’s relatively unknown CTO Parag Agrawal was tapped to replace him and on day one with Agrawal at the helm, Twitter unveiled a new privacy policy. What does it foretell about the social media platform? That’s what we ask…