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Zelda’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017
Some call it the most wonderful time of the year. Others call it a commercialized, expensive anxiety dream masquerading as fun. I most definitely fall into the former, but I can understand the concerns of my friends in column number two. Gifting can be stressful! There’s a lot of pressure to find the perfect something…
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Scout’s Holiday Gift Guide 2017
Happy December, y’all! Every year here on Z&S in the days leading up to Christmukkah, we like to provide a little holiday inspiration by bringing you our favorite gift ideas. From the couch potato to the feminist grandma, we’ve scoured the internet to find something for everyone on your list. So without further ado, here are…
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Early Winter Playlist 2017: Holly Jolly
Sleigh bells ringing, lords a’leaping, dreidels spinning, candles glowing: The holiday season is full of magic and light. But our absolute favorite part may just be the music. We count down the days until that magical Friday in November when, Thanksgiving safely stowed away until next year, we can let our festive flags fly. It’s…
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Friendsgiving: A Guide
It’s almost Thanksgiving, the time when we all — in the United States, at least — take a quick sojourn from the everyday to feast with family and celebrate what we are thankful for in our lives. But before the family celebrations, there is Friendsgiving, the holiday sensation that’s sweeping the nation (Seth Cohen is…
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Come on You Boys in Purple
When we think of the South in the fall, many of us automatically think of football. And growing up, Saturdays in the fall were all about that all-American pastime: driving the hour south to Lexington, eating a ton of tailgate food, and probably falling asleep before the fourth quarter, at least when I was really…
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Civic Duty
Twenty-five strangers walk into a room, where two men stand at a table. One is well-dressed, dapper even, with a fastidiously trimmed beard and a bold choice of colored necktie. He gesticulates freely and frequently, projecting his slight lisp all the way to the back of the fluorescent-lit room. The other wears his rumpled suit…
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Late Autumn 2017: Spook
We both have a soft spot for Halloween, and all things spooky. (Except horror movies: We do NOT like horror movies. Witches, curses, ghosts, all great, but you can keep your jump scares and gore to yourself, thanks.) We love tales of vampire slayers and charmed ones, murder mysteries and sister witches, demogorgons and pumpkin…
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Cocktails for Your Coven: Madame Leota’s Magic Potion
Well lovely readers, it’s that time of year again — the best time of year — when the crisp air creates just enough chill to spook us all a little bit. And when October rolls around, us Kentucky girls like to channel our inner mountain witches and cook up some potions to ease our ills. My…
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Everything is Terrible: Tips for Self-Care
Hi friends. It’s been a rough couple of weeks (slash months…slash years) in the world. There have been hurricanes and earthquakes and mass shootings and wildfires, disasters both natural and political, the stripping of rights and the exposure of decades of sexual harassment. The avalanche of bad news is overwhelming and incessant, and it’s easy…
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All The Fixin’s: Sweet Potato Sonker and Milk Dip
This installment of All The Fixin’s comes from Ronni Lundy’s Victuals. We’d never heard of sonker until friend-of-the-blog Jason mentioned it during a discussion of the great cobbler versus pie versus crumble debate. “Sonker?” we asked. “What on earth is a sonker?” Well a sonker, we learned, is a deep-dish, cobbler-like dessert unique to a specific…
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