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From bubbly to boozy, these holiday cocktails will help you pour some cheer. …

It's become a bit of a tradition (one that I look forward to each year!) to round up some reader-reported experiences of Thanksgivings past to share with you. From big group gatherings to solo celebrations, the lesson he...

Nikki Peele didn't have ambitious plans when she bought aluminum pans for her Thanksgiving yams. Okay, yes, we exploited that opportunity to rhyme. But this is no Dr. Seuss story. It's more along the lines of a cautionar...

Celebrate your Thanksgiving by watching Shia LaBeouf be silent for an hour. In the Winter 2014 issue of Dazed, writer Aimee Cliff chronicled her time arranging an "interview" with LaBeouf. They emailed at length about hi...

Nic and Megan's Playful and Pragmatic Home I've been making a conscious effort lately to practice gratitude in my daily life. Maybe it's due to the holiday season, but I mostly attribute it to something I read in passing...

The 88th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ran through New York City on Thursday, bringing Snoopy, Hello Kitty and Spider-Man along with it. Hosted by "The Today Show's" Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker, the legend...

If you're going to score chestnuts, top-n-tail green beans, iron your table linens, polish the silver, or just spend a low-key holiday at home, you're going to need some entertainment. Here are 12 Thanksgiving shows and ...

What do you do when your neighbors are goats and sheep? Turn them into a photography project, naturally. When photographer Kevin Horan moved from Chicago to Whidbey Island, Washington in 2007, he found himself surrounded...

Box office figures have been down this year to such an extent that even the hits are considered a disappointment. "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1," which scored the year's biggest opening at $121.8 million, made 2...

I've been known to splay out on the sofa on Thanksgiving Day in my unbuttoned jeans, with a glass of wine in one hand and a plate of food in the other. Guilty as charged. But if you've got an acute case of cabin fever, o...

Imagine this: It's Thanksgiving morning and you've probably just embarked on what will be a marathon day of chopping, slicing, stuffing and basking until the sweet smells of roasted turkey (or tofurky) float through your...

The week of Thanksgiving is in full force here in the United States, so we imagine that many of our readers are currently in the process of preparing for an enormous, multi-course meal surrounded by friends and family of...

Kodo Kiyooka stumbled into a good thing by chance. It happened that one day he was hungry and tired, and wanted to make a simple dish that wouldn't require much cleaning. A trained ceramicist, he thought to use an art pi...

Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953, and since then we've followed the exploits of the spy with the license to kill from country to country and woman to woman for more than five dec...

Image from Terence Conran's "The House Book" (1977) This past spring we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the founding of Apartment Therapy, so it seems like a good time to put down on paper not only what has happened ...

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a wonderful, relaxing holiday filled with family, friends and food! In case you need a bit of last-minute entertaining inspiration, feel free to browse our ...

When it comes to setting our Thanksgiving table, most of us know very little about the history of the elements that decorate our tables. We spoke to Jim Baker, the author of "Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Ho...

There's no place like home for holiday inspiration. Your house can be a both a source of gift ideas and a festive seasonal beacon.

This time of year, Virginia is home to 100 miles of holiday lights, and two botanical gardens are part of those annual festivities.

It's simple to stick to your diet when you're cooking at home, but when your schedule forces you to make food choices out in the real world, suddenly opting for…

This is typically the time of the year I might tout hollies, conifers or even poinsettias, but as I was walking around a dark and dreary, rainy garden today it…

For many kids (and tweens, and teens, and - let's face it - adults, too), gaming is a part of life. It can be a great way to unwind by…