To balance out the extreme spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday started in 2011 – encouraging the support of nonprofits and organizations which help others.  We have featured hundreds of amazing and worthy local nonprofits throughout the years. For the first time, we’re giving you a suggested

This organization is putting real money in the hands of hundreds of local artists, and plans to sponsor incredible public art projects as well.

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

we are told that it was the best Cyber Monday ever, a $9.4 billion juggernaut that was up 19 percent over last year’s figure, with Americans spending $11 million every minute at its peak. Indulge me as I parrot the most obnoxious phrase in online contrarianism, then italicize it: Am I the only one who thinks that this is really, really weird?