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As someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, this tradition makes the holiday feel like a second thanksgiving
For me, spicy beef, crab Rangoon, wonton soup - merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Dec 25, 2024
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my family is part italian-american so for us, christmas eve is much more important than christmas day. we all get together less now that all the cousins are adults and spread across the country, but every year growing up -- on christmas eve we’d all get together, usually at one of my aunts’ house. the men would chat and kids would play and all the women would be in the kitchen busy making dinner - the main dish being shrimp scampi. the more traditional italian christmas eve dinner is a feast of seven fishes, but we don’t do that many fish lol
before dinner there was antipasto and my aunt’s rice balls, also chicken cutlets, and after dinner we had salad, and then the sweet treats served include panettone (IYKYK), struffoli, italian butter cookies and rainbow cookies, mini cannoli, and sometimes my mom would make a pie!!! <3 and there was always lots of red wine (for the adults, but also if you were a teen you got a glass of watered down wine lol)
after several hours (when dinner is finished and cleaned up), we’d do our cousins + adults secret santa exchange, and everyone would talk for a bit longer and do our very extended goodbyes before heading home!
it was always so much fun and great to all be together, and i think food is an extra love language so i feel like that was a huge part of it also :)
Dec 12, 2024
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why be with family when you can eat an entire peking duck by yourself and then watch Millenium Mambo at the metrograph
Dec 22, 2023
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Christmas tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve
Dec 30, 2024
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A website with a collection of screengrabs from nearly every movie you could think of, and you can sort by film title, director, cinematographer, year, genre, country, etc. Great for visual references for lookbooks, or just to discover a new film you might be interested in seeing!
I've attached one of my favorite stills, a great moment from Chungking Express (Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1994).
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Just going out and picking up any kind of used physical media (books, CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes) makes the archivist in me happy, like I’m preserving somebody else’s story/ enjoyment of something
My personal favorite thing is VHS tapes, I’ve got a decent collection (all thrifted) and they’re usually the cheapest things offered
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At my local indie cinema for a projection of the new Nosferatu, infinitely grateful I have a place like this I can go to see new stuff and incredible programming!
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