Thanksgiving

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06 Nov 2023

California’s Bizarre Thanksgiving History

BY DAVID COPPIN LANEGAN David Coppin Lanegan (@willybillybilliam, @wavesons.band) is a writer and musician. Find his SubStack Jawbone here, and his band Wavesons’ music here.  Thanksgiving has been an official holiday in the United States since 1863 when, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in

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22 Nov 2022

Read This Before You Eat in a Restaurant on Thanksgiving

Do you want to forgo the hassle of roasting the perfectly golden turkey for Thanksgiving dinner? Is curating an impeccable combination of side dishes and desserts while also getting your home in peak “company’s coming” condition proving too much for you? Then make a reservation for your family at a

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03 Oct 2024

The KQED & Noise Pop Festival Looks Awesome

When two wonderful SF institutions get together to throw a block party it’s a great reason to get excited.  KQED has teamed up with Noise Pop and is blocking off the streets in front of its storied SF headquarters and opening up its doors for an all-day, live music-infused, street

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23 Nov 2021

Tips and Test Locations for a COVID-Safe Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving is shaping up to be the first real holiday gathering since the pandemic hit the world upside the head in March 2020. People are planning to stuff themselves into kitchens and living rooms with loved ones as they stuff (and likely drink) themselves silly. But that pesky COVID-19

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23 Nov 2021

8 Things to Avoid and Discuss this Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving seems to have gotten intense the last decade or so. Granted it was always a time fraught with family wide arguments about politics or sports. Maybe someone brought a vegan home or a person of color to a family with beneath the surface racisms. But this year has been

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18 Dec 2020

SF COVID Cases Up 50% Since Thanksgiving

That’s a pretty striking headline isn’t it? I saw this info on the new publication Public Comment and had to share it. You should check them out. The moral of the story though is that Americans are stupid and selfish and we keep doing idiotic things and then wonder why

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23 Nov 2020

What Your Server Wants You to Know About Eating in a Restaurant on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is here and with the Center for Disease Control strongly advising people to not travel for the holiday this year in order to lower the risk of getting and spreading COVID-19, more people may be searching for a restaurant to eat in instead. Depending on where you live and

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11 Aug 2020

Brach’s ‘Turkey Dinner Candy Corn’ Is Here To Make 2020 Even More Terrible

The year’s most horrifying Halloween apparition is bloodcurdling its way to candy aisle shelves across America, according to top candy blogs and experts. Candy Hunting, the hard-hitting confection industry investigative journalists who’ve uncovered such sickening scandals as Mountain Dew-flavored Doritos and Wendy’s Baconator Pringles, now report the existence of Brach’s

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27 Nov 2019

How to Survive an Impeachment Thanksgiving

If the recent CNN poll holds any weight, about half the U.S. adult population wants Donald Trump impeached and removed from office, and the other half think he’s doing a super fantastic job as president. It’s pretty much split down the middle, which could present the opportunity for awkward family

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