How to Track Santa on His Yearly Trip South
Photo: tum3123 (Shutterstock) So, your long-awaited holiday trip to visit family or friends was cancelled—for the second year in a row. It has occurred to you that, yet again, the…
12 TV Shows That Nakedly Explore Sex Work, Porn, and Sexuality
Image: Sex Educatiom/Netflix There’s plenty of sex on TV, though much of it is incidental window dressing—thoughtlessly tossed in as if by decree from ratings-hungry executives (looking at you, Game…
What’s New on Hulu in January 2022
Few shows have blown a lead quite like How I Met Your Mother. For a few years there in the mid-aughts, it looked the the most natural successor to Friends:…
Where to Get Your Pet’s Picture Taken With Santa for Free This Weekend
Photo: Photo-SD (Shutterstock) Listen, I don’t have pets. My three kids under age 9 keep begging for a dog, to which I say, “Are you going to pick up its…
11 of the Weirdest Christmas Traditions We Should Absolutely Bring Back
Photo: Xseon (Shutterstock) Back in the old days, Santa had a posse. St. Nick’s rogue’s gallery of criminal associates went by different names in different places: Krampus, Schmutzli, Perchta, Knecht…
13 of the Weirdest Christmas Traditions From Around the World
Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) I don’t know what it is with Catalonia and Christmas poo, but along with the pooping boy hidden in their nativity scenes, Catalonian Christmas tradition also includes…
What’s the Best Way to Tell Your Kids the Truth About Santa?
Photo: Lucky Business (Shutterstock) I may not remember much about my childhood, but I do remember this: Third grade. Mrs. Cannon’s class. She’s reading Beverly Cleary’s Superfudge. Partway through, she…
Do You Know the Meaning of These Foreign Words We Use in English?
Photo: A StockStudio (Shutterstock) It all started when I couldn’t remember if an apéritif was a before-dinner or after-dinner drink. (Correction: I said it was a before-dinner drink—the “per” in…
What’s New on Netflix in November 2021
Screenshot: Cowboy Bebop/Netflix Say what you will about Netflix (and there’s a lot to say, especially this week), you have to give the streamer credit: They may be $18.5 billion…
8 Types of Toys Lifehacker Readers Have Banned From Their Homes
Photo: Ekaterina_Minaeva (Shutterstock) We were a little surprised when we saw these childhood staples in the comments. But when we read why, it made us wonder why they weren’t banned…