Lifestyle
Seasons greetings 🏅5 festive NYC hotels where you can get into the holiday spirit
🐼Saks Fifth Avenue may have gone dark on its traditional lavish holiday light show this year, but these Manhattan hotels have gone into sparkle overdrive to brighten the festive season.
Shopping
Extended! Cyber Monday isn’t over yet! Shop over 290 extended deals you can still snag
🌳The shopping holidays keep coming with huge Cyber Monday sales! Check out the best here.
Health & WELLNESS
Beware ‘granny’s purse syndrome’ — pediatrician warns of scary way grandparents may accidentally endanger kids
“Granny’s purse syndrome” is responsible for up to a fifth of accidental child poisonings, and one pediatric emergency medicine doctor is warning people how to keep their children safe this holiday season and year-round.
Food & Drink
Baking something special 🃏Legendary NYC pastry shop celebrates 130th anniversary with nods to customers like Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio
Veniero’s Pasticceria is celebrating its 130th anniversary this fall, and its fourth-generation owner dished on the East Village pastry shop’s star-studded clientele.
Weird But True
Out of this world ‘Alien’ optical illusion terrifies plane passenger: ‘What the f—k is that?’
There’s more to this creepy image than meets the eye.
Sex & Relationships
Married men tend to age slower than singles — for women, it’s complicated
But just getting hitched isn’t enough, a new study showed — you have to stay hitched.
Fashion & Beauty
Step forward 𓃲Are Ugg boots finally falling out of style? Stylist shares the 3 shoes that are hottest this winter
Are these kicks a shoe-in for winter?
Travel
Passenger shocked when part of airplane window breaks off during rough landing: ‘This is a first’
They didn’t protect the border.
Parenting
Ex-detective warns parents of red flags with popular video game’s new rule
💮Parents were rejoicing this week as Roblox, the popular online game marketed to children, announced that they were introducing some big changes to their controversial chat features.
Astrology
ꩲUnderstanding the zodiac fire signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
ꦓWhile all fire signs possess their own individual strengths and challenges, their ruling element lends common infernal energy.
Viral Trends
Toll House jumps on viral ‘cookie nacho’ trend — and it’s definitely not your grandma’s recipe
It’s nacho average chocolate chip cookie.
REAL ESTATE
Realtor urges parents to ditch the kids during house tours after witnessing 6-year-old girl’s horrific injury
Things got real. A Utah realtor is warning parents to think twice before bringing their children to open houses — sharing a gut-rending story that ended up with a little girl being airlifted to a hospital. Karina VanOrman shared a story on…
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