Celebrations

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Hanukkah, the Jewish "festival of lights," commemorates a story of a miracle, when oil meant to last for one day lasted for eight. Today, Jews light the menorah, a candelabra with eight candles—and one "helper" candle, called a shamas—to remember the Hanukkah oil, which kept the Jerusalem temple's everlasting lamp burning brightly. Each year, the holiday starts with just the shamas and one of…

Billie Eilish recently turned 21 and she throws a star-studded birthday bash. She partied the night away with some of her most famous friends, including her boyfriend, Jesse Rutherford. Many in attendance shared videos from the event, including clips of her blowing out her birthday candles while rocking a red Christmas gown with white fur trim. One of the celeb guests who posted a series of photos from the party was Lil Nas X. The singer snapped selfies with Dove Cameron, Avril Lavigne, and Eric Andre, among others, and…

Image via Marvel Studios Following the one-year anniversary of Eternals, one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most divisive films, the debate about the movie’s quality has once again reignited. The Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao certainly took a different approach to the movie’s cinematography, for instance, with many of the scenes being filmed on-location rather than in a sound studio. The unique tone of the movie certainly made it beloved amongst some MCU fanatics, with one Twitter user going so far as…

The holiday season is just around the corner. Pretty soon, wreaths and twinkle lights will adorn houses, Santas will ho-ho on downtown corners and the smell of hot cocoa will waft through the air. If you’re looking for ways to join the festivities, look no further. From Christmas plays and holiday parades to ice rinks and pop-ups, there are countless ways to celebrate this wonderful time of year around the Bay Area. Here’s just a sampling. Après Village & Skate Rink: 4 to 9 p.m. Friday-Sunday through Feb. 25, Four…

Since the Swinging Sixties, London City has been seen as a hotspot for creativity on a global scale, known for its fashion and music exports as much as its impact in film and fine art. Whatever it is, England’s capital has produced countless people, countless moments, that have been able to stand toe-to-toe with the best of ‘em from anywhere on God’s green Earth. From iconic raves that helped spawn whole genres (see: ska, jungle, UK garage, grime, dubstep...) to iconic muses such as Kate Moss and Maggie Smith—when you…

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the James Bond cinematic franchise, Decca Records presents’ Bond 25′, an orchestrated album featuring all 25 of the iconic films’ themes expertly reimagined and newly-recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  The album, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, includes new arrangements of the title themes including ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, ‘GoldenEye’ and ‘Skyfall’, tracklisted chronologically from 1962’s ‘Dr. No’, to 2020’s UK No.1 single ‘No Time To Die’ (see below for full…

Know how you can download the Har Ghar Tiranga Certificate online. With Independence Day just a day away, people have already started the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the country's independence. This year's celebration is going to be different as the Government has introduced Har Ghar Tiranga campaign as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav to mark and celebrate 75 years of India's independence. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also urged people to…

Cardhop, a popular app for managing contacts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, has a big new update out that that adds a number of new features and improvements. Those include improved integration with Fantastical, a calendaring app from the same company.That new integration means that users can use Cardhop to create a task in Fanatical and then popular it with the information needed. Users can "tell Cardhop to make a task in Fantastical to call a specific contact, placing a link to the Cardhop Call action in the task’s notes,"…