How Kacey Musgraves Single-Handedly Saved My Pandemic Christmas
If you’ve never listened to Musgraves’s 2016 holiday album “A Very Kacey Christmas,” you have a seasonally appropriate gift in store.
If you’ve never listened to Musgraves’s 2016 holiday album “A Very Kacey Christmas,” you have a seasonally appropriate gift in store.
The "chosen versus biological family" quandary that Eddy faces feels all too relevant this year, as many of us are eschewing the traditional pilgrimage home out of concern for COVID-19.
Enough screen time already. Spend the last days of 2020, or the first of 2021 with a good, on-paper book. Your eyes will thank you.
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Whenever I thought about a hot water bottle, I pictured the ones from cartoons — slick and rubbery and steaming hot. Then there was the idea of a heating pad, running cords and cables to tangle around my feat. It was all unappealing, to say the least, but I knew that my aches and pains (and need for all things cozy and warm these days) would be satiated once I added one to my routine. That’s when I came across this one from OSTRICHPILLOW, makers of some of the best and softest pillows around.
An illustration from “The Haunting of Girlstown.” | Illustration by Will Staehle for Epic and Vox
These stories have a remarkable richness — not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it.
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Michael Caine gathers with the Muppets for a very festive Christmas. | Disney/Jim Henson Studios
The critic at large (40) and critic at small (5) talk Mickey’s Christmas Carol and The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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Lots of people will be exchanging gifts tomorrow, but we all get one on January 1st when new material enters the public domain in the US for the third year in a row — and, also for the third year in a row, we're hosting our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1925. We're looking for designers of all stripes to create games using some of the works from 1925 that are running out of copyright protection in the new year, and offering prizes in a bunch of categories. Читать дальше...
Pope Francis's teachings about the moral urgency of the climate crisis are being spread from the Vatican all around the world by the Global Catholic Climate Movement.
Reporter Leo Hornak produced his first traditional holiday dessert filled with fruit, alcohol and centuries of British history. Britons love to serve up the dish — even if they don't actually like it.
After bid protests and litigation, some of the largest cloud contracts the government has attempted can get underway.
The Essential Austrian Economics
by Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. Boettke
Fraser Institute, 2020
68 pages
Big Renewables companies rose to the top of the global energy market this year. Can they turn a profit to match?
The diplomats also summarized the results of the relations between Russia and Japan in 2020 and set out goals for the next year
The stimulus check saga continues after President Trump demands a $2,000 second stimulus check to replace the $600 maximum in this week's COVID-19 relief bill. Here's what's happening now and what could happen next.
In a year when star Bianca Andreescu didn’t play a single match because of injuries, several other Canadians stood tall during a pandemic-shortened season. As for what Novak Djokovic was thinking — at the U.S. Open and his own superspreader invitational — who really knows, Rosie DiManno writes.
Food writer and editor Suresh Doss specializes in highlighting the culinary gems in Toronto’s strip malls and plazas. He joins the Star’s food reporter Karon Liu on “This Matters” to talk about the particular challenges of food businesses in the suburbs, how younger generations are keeping their parents’ businesses alive and, of course, where he’s been getting takeout.
STACEY DOOLEY took Strictly Come Dancing by storm in 2018 with her partner Kevin Clifton, but he revealed there was one time he issued her a warning after she cursed live on-air.
ETF Wrap is a briefing of what investors need to know about the exchange-traded fund sector, including exclusive commentary and interviews on the industry from MarketWatch
Paris Saint-Germain have fired their coach Thomas Tuchel with former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino lined up as his replacement, according to various media reports on Thursday. The French champions declined to make any comment when contacted by AFP to confirm the reports carried by L'Equipe newspaper and RMC and German tabloid Bild.
Tehran Times - Zob Ahan and Gol Gohar football teams shared the spoils on Matchday 8 of Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.
Amazon Wholesale India attributed the drop to the change in the government regulation resulting in lower customer adoption. The government had introduced Press Note 2 with an aim to bring a level playing field between online and offline retailers in December 2018. It got implemented in February 2019.
"I had to struggle a lot, which is part of the job," said Pankaj Tripathi