Oh, for the life of Jolly Old St. Nick: With a long, white beard, a hearty chuckle, and a belly like a bowl full of jelly, his job consists of making a list, checking it twice, and — one night a year — driving a sleigh to deliver joy to …
One of the few good things to be said about 2020 is that it gave us plenty of time to read. Of the dozens of books we borrowed, bought, Kindled, and Audibled, each of us had one stand-out favorite. Presenting our top book picks for 2020, perfect for gifting to yourself …
It’s that time again. Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. You know the recipe: Start with a former child star: Lacey Chabert from Party of Five; Danica McKellar from Wonder Years; or Candace Cameron Buré from Full House. Add a cup of BIG CITY event planner, marketing executive, lawyer or writer career …
Martha Stewart ushered in an era of women seeking domestic perfection for which I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive her. Thanks to Martha, almost none of us can do enough to make a party themed and festive, decorate our homes in a complimentary palette, or create lush, landscaped gardens dotted …
The folks at Rockefeller Plaza struck the perfect note when they selected this tree for the 2020 holiday season. America’s most famous Christmas tree, a 75-foot tall Norway Spruce from Oneonta, New York, was chopped down on Monday, Nov. 9 and trucked to Rockefeller Plaza, where it was set up …
Today marks the final day of our 100 Woman Project, a special series we began on July 27 to count down 100 days before the 2020 election. We began with a profile of Emma Lazarus, whose poem is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; 100 days later, …
In her TED talk, Craftivist Collective founder Sara Corbett describes using handkerchiefs to, as their tagline says, “change the world one stitch at a time.” A group advocating a living wage had tried everything to connect with the board of the British department store chain Marks & Spencer, without success. …
“I had this grand idea that Elvira’s kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween.” Self-proclaimed Queen of Halloween, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, with her signature black bouffant hair and plunging neckline, is the campy queen of horror who started life as Cassandra Peterson, a midwestern girl from Kansas. At …
Last Saturday afternoon, there was a full-on dance party at a polling place in Philadelphia where “The Cha Cha Slide” blasted from a flatbed truck and every voter waiting in line was grooving, including the man in front wearing a t-shirt that said “F—k 2020”. This happy little dance party, …
Turns out those folks in Salem Village, MA could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and a bunch of lives if they had just turned to science for the answers. In 1692, young village girls began experiencing violent fits that included contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. The general …