Rolling the Dice on Fun and Strategy National Play Monopoly Day on November 19 invites families and friends to dust off their game boards, appoint a banker and embark on an epic journey of property deals and friendly competition. Monopoly has been a fixture on game night tables for nearly a century, teaching players about negotiation, […]
Honoring Lives Lost and Confronting Violence Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), observed every year on November 20, is a solemn day dedicated to honoring transgender and gender-diverse people whose lives were taken by acts of anti-trans violence. The day was founded in 1999 by activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith to memorialize Rita Hester, a Black transgender […]
A Sweet and Spicy Tradition Gingerbread has a long and flavorful history that spans continents and centuries. In China, ginger has been used medicinally for more than 4,000 years. Medieval crusaders returning from the Near East brought ginger and other exotic spices to Europe, where bakers began blending them with honey to create spiced biscuits. […]
The Heart of the Holiday Table Stuffing—or dressing, depending on where you live—has been part of festive tables for centuries. Recipes for filled birds and baked breads span civilizations and continents, from the Roman Empire to the modern American kitchen. National Stuffing Day, celebrated on November 21, pays homage to this humble yet essential dish […]
Celebrating Alaska’s Most Improbable Creature Alascattalo Day, observed on November 8, pays tribute to one of Alaska’s great inside jokes: the mighty, mysterious, and entirely mythical Alascattalo. This fictional beast—a cross between a moose and a walrus—is a symbol of the state’s singular sense of humor and frontier spirit. Conceived in the mid-20th century as […]
A Festival of Light Born from Courage and Restoration Hanukkah returns each year as a warm, flickering beacon against the deepening nights of winter. Its story reaches back to the second century BCE, when the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes outlawed Jewish practice and desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In response, a small group […]
The Final Sprint of the Holiday Shopping Season Super Saturday — sometimes called Panic Saturday — is the last Saturday before Christmas, a day when millions of shoppers flood stores and websites to complete their gift lists. Falling this year on December 20, it stands as one of the busiest retail days of the season, […]
Welcoming a New Year of Renewal and Good Fortune Lunar New Year is one of the world’s oldest and most widely celebrated holidays, observed across East and Southeast Asia and throughout global diasporas. Falling between late January and mid-February, its date is determined by the lunar calendar, marking the transition from one zodiac animal year […]
A Night When Light Takes Center Stage The Lantern Festival glows on the 15th day of the first lunar month, marking the joyful close of Chinese New Year celebrations. It is a night when lanterns rise, riddles dance across paper, and families gather under the first full moon of the lunar year. Rooted in over […]
A Festival of Light Born from Courage and Restoration Hanukkah returns each year as a warm, flickering beacon against the deepening nights of winter. Its story reaches back to the second century BCE, when the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes outlawed Jewish practice and desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In response, a small group […]
The Final Sprint of the Holiday Shopping Season Super Saturday — sometimes called Panic Saturday — is the last Saturday before Christmas, a day when millions of shoppers flood stores and websites to complete their gift lists. Falling this year on December 20, it stands as one of the busiest retail days of the season, […]