Category: Holiday Cheer
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Required Reading, Volume Ten: Love Stories
Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! I know this holiday can be controversial, whether you’re aggressively single and feeling lonely, or in a relationship and resentful of the capitalist complex that compels you to drop wads of cash on flowers, chocolate, stuffed animals, and more on an arbitrary February day. But personally, despite my usual status among…
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Thankful
It goes without saying that 2016 has been a bit of a year. From shootings and refugee crises and legends lost to the festering dumpster fire that was this year’s presidential election, there is no shortage of doom and gloom around us. Even in this season of twinkly lights and cocoa, it can be hard…
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Five Golden Rules for Surviving the Holiday Season
Happy holidays, y’all! The great festive season is upon us, bursting with trees and carols and tinsel and mistletoe. It’s a truly wonderful time. But you know what isn’t so wonderful? The overwhelming stress, anxiety, and exhaustion that can result from trying to contend with the social demands of the Yuletide period. This season is…
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Holiday Cocktails Three Ways
December is upon us, which means we are in the season of holiday parties and cocktails. Let’s be honest: Our real talent lies in drinking, and the holidays are when we really put thos skills to the test. Come December, you can find us throwing back festive libations at parties and pop-ups and bars, especially…
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Zelda’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year again, y’all! The gifting season is upon us, a time of secret santas and white elephants and wrapping paper galore. I love to gift: Nothing gives me quite the same thrill as finding the perfect present for a particular person, the perfect blend of thoughtful and fun and unique all…
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Southern Spookery
It’s that time of year again, when we embrace all the cobwebs, adorn our homes with skeletons and decorative gourds, and channel our inner granny witches. That’s right, the spooky season is upon us, and in celebration we thought we’d tell you about some Halloween-appropriate Southern men, women and monsters. The South is known for…
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Fourth of July Fruit Tart
The Fourth of July is just around the corner, and from Berkeley to Brooklyn folks will be celebrating our nation’s independence the American way: with lots and lots of food. Every cook-out is bound to have some of standards — your burgers, your hot dogs, your potato salad, maybe even an apple pie — but…
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Derby Dapper
The supposed purpose of Derby might be horses, but aside from the two minutes of the day when we actually watch the ponies go around the track, most of our time and attention is spent on other matters. Derby, my friends, is really about the fashion — and the booze, but mostly the fashion. And it’s…
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Your Complete Z&S Guide to All Things Derby
It’s here! It’s here! Derby week has officially arrived! We are bursting with excitement, buzzing with preparations, and more than a little homesick for our old Kentucky home. For those of you not lucky enough to be Louisvillians, this whole horse racing madness can seem a bit overwhelming, maybe even verging on crazy. But we…
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15 Derby Hats That Will Have You Ready to Run for the Roses
Forget your handicappers and announcers and ESPN. Despite what you may have heard, Derby Day is, first and foremost, a social event. It’s an occasion for people to let loose, to see and be seen, and the true Derby goer knows that the perfect day starts with the perfect ensemble. And what is the key…
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