Happy Friday, friends! As a point of housekeeping: Our End of the Year coverage starts Monday; we will be posting less but still have planned plenty of fun and interesting stuff for you to read through the end of 2024 before coming back with a vengeance when the Golden Globes happen on January 5. Thanks so much for hanging out with us here during our 20th year!
Speaking of things to read, this week at Drinks With Broads, we talked about Red One, discontinued beauty products, bad Christmas movies, and poisoning on Tuesday. Yesterday’s edition tackled the new Aaron Rodgers doc (boo) and fun New Year’s Eve traditions across America. A lot of towns are dropping taxidermied animals!
At Pajiba: Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult Reunite To Talk ‘About A Boy’
IMPORTANT: Christmas Tamales by the Dozen, the Hundreds, the Tens of Thousands. I used to have a tamale hookup that provided us with PINEAPPLE TAMALES and they were amazing. I also used to go to my friend Jennifer’s grandma’s house for her tamalada every holiday season and “help,” i.e., Jennifer and I would make a few tamales and then the adults would get annoyed by how pokey we were and send us off to watch TV. It was great fun, and I really loved her grandma. Now I want tamales. [Eater]
I enjoyed this Reddit thread: What holiday appetizer always blows guests away?
This outfit on Rihanna cracks me up. [Lainey]
This is a wild headline, at Socialite Life: A phallic laser pointer led to the physical altercation involving Jamie Foxx at Mr. Chow
The Ringer rungs down the best things their staff watched this year. (One of the entries is “whales” one is “50 Cent’s Instagram”)
The New Yorker asks, How Dare Celebrities Cheat?
I WANT THIS SWEATER. [J.Crew, affiliate link]
Useful, at Vulture: A Festive Guide to All the New Holiday Movies on Streaming
At Town & Country: How to Make Carbone’s Famous Rainbow Cookies at Home
Also very festive: Hunting for Harold Lloyd’s Legendary Christmas Ornaments. These trees are beyond. [Messy Nessy Chic]
WILD, at Curbed: “They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That Was Only The Beginning. Nine stranded passengers made a mad dash across Africa to meet back up with their boat.”
What IS going on with all these drones? (My pet theory is that it’s a well-organized prank that has absolutely spiraled.) At the Verge (as of Thursday morning): Here’s everything we don’t know about New Jersey’s drone mystery
The NYT gives us The Search for van Gogh’s Lost Masterpiece. Love an art mystery. [gifted link]
Bon Appetit runs down The 19 Best Cookbooks of 2024.
So interesting: How did Turkey become the world capital of hair transplants? [Vox]
The Tampa Bay Times collected its readers top 100 petty grievances of the year. It’s funny.
OMG I LOVE these Christmas plates at Williams Sonoma but I do NOT need more plates but I WANT. [affiliate link]
I love House and Garden UK so much. Ahem: A maximalist Christmas at Sean Pritchard’s 17th-century Somerset cottage. Maximalism forever!
Finally:
