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OOOH, GETTING POLITICAL up in here: I for one ain't gonna drill an ulcer into my gut via doomscrolling every jerk and twitch of the dark 'n' fashy new regime. It strategically feeds on the paralytics of such obsessive despair. Art, theater, music, ideas, food – all
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FROM CRUISE-SHIP COMEDIES to vintage motorbike shows to junk journal parties, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🚢 Friday Jan 17 * I'm 99 percent confident there's a nonzero chance that this book sale at the tiny, hella quaint Blue Diamond Library
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YOU'LL BE A full-fledged escape artist when you're done with this week's List. Whether it's fanciful flights to 1929 Berlin, bookworming deep into your next great read, or hanging with horror franchise icons, we've got plenty of fantastic ways to
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FROM TIME-WARP ORCHESTRAS to teacher pig roast parties to Costco bulk tubs of laughter, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🐖 Friday Jan 10 * Not that we shouldn't continue shrieking for better pay and proper funding of public education, but today you can
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AS A RADICAL ACT of pre-emptive self-care, I've decided to take it easy on the new year's resolutions this year. I'm thinking that if I manage to get the Christmas lights down by the end of March, then, zibbity-boom, I've notched my
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A COUPLE YEARS ago, we did a staycation. Staycation, staycation — whenever I say the word in my head, it’s always autotuned with an apologetic eye-roll, or a little self-conscious bray of irony. Like I’m making an excuse or deflecting embarrassment. Maybe it’s because a staycation is slightly
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DAMN, NOW I know how Santa must feel on Christmas Day after spamming the globe with gifts – quivery-legged and nubby with hernias from hefting all that weight. See, me and the rest of the elves at The List hit the workshop extra hard, sourcing two weeks' worth of things
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FROM CIRCUS SHENANIGANS to VCR sketch comedy to holiday choral sing-apaloozas, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 🎹 Friday Dec 13 * Seasonal cynics, I see you. If cloyingly clamorous holiday songs give you a case of the shivering grinchies™️, check out the sophisticated renditions by
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WE WENT FULL-ON doorbusters mode and pulled a frenzied smash-and-grab on this week's most happening holiday events. Is it a riot or just a mad seasonal shopping rush? I don't even know anymore! 🤷♂️ But whether you're looking for family holiday classics or you'
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FROM 'ROUND-THE-WORLD holiday parties to rodeo shopfests to cookie cartel meetups, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍 ☃️ Friday Dec 6 * There's probably no better way to lock in positive holiday vibes for the season than at a family-friendly event that celebrates
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HOLIDAY TRADITIONS come in all forms, but my favorites are the personal and peculiar ones we develop ourselves. For instance, Christmas season hasn't officially started for me until I've inaugurally snort-scoffed through a six-hour block of hysterically cheesy Hallmark holiday movies, fortified only by ironic appreciation
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NO MATTER HOW divided our nation is, Thanksgiving offers hope to even the most coal-hearted cynics like me because heedless, excessive eating and shopping are, like, core biological functions that reflect the magic of our shared human condition. And, on top of that, what human doesn't also like