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Complete holiday guide

Gift-buying tips, events, photos, movie and TV features, and more.

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Gisele's Boston

See where Mrs. Tom Brady shops, eats, and chills around town.

Holiday magic photos

We want to see your photos of what makes the season so special.

The Natural World

Pictures of the wonders of nature from around the world.

Meredith Goldstein

Meredith Goldstein Marriage or soul mate . . . or both?
Meredith Goldstein He’s beautiful, I’m not, what’s next?
Meredith Goldstein As their dates pile up, so do her suspicions

Stone Zoo's festival
is fun for the family

The living-and-breathing residents of the Stone Zoo take a back seat to the mechanical animals and lighted trees.

More Bring the Family columns

Looking for a midwife

mckate writes, "Anyone know of someone they would recommend in West Roxbury or Roslindale?"

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Dog Whisperer debate

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PARTY PHOTOS

The Seen

Check out Bill Brett's party pictures around town.

Blogs

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I like the bartender

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Climate talks end with no formal agreement

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Pony up for Gaga

Oh, the places you'll go . . . on the interwebs. Don't ask me how I stumbled upon this amazing work of kitsch and art:[Photo...

Recommended Garden Gift Books

Here are some of the best 2009 garden books that I would recommend for holiday giving:"Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden,"...

Real Italian biscotti

Americans have turned biscotti into a softer, richer, cakier cookie than it's supposed to be. Real biscotti (and all of the twice-baked cookies) contain...

How to Calculate Your Target Heart Rate

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If Christmas morning will be different this year

Hey Barbara -- I'm dreading Christmas morning.In the past, Christmas morning has been everything our kids imagined and then some. We realize now that...

On a personal note & open thread

Since I started my other blog, I've been using this one more-or-less exclusively for the "Miss Conduct" stuff. I must say, it's been a lot...

Gisele's message to fans

(Screenshot from giselebundchen.com) The Brady baby finally has a name: Benjamin.Gisele Bundchen, the wife of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, posted the name of the...

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Search here for your favorite causes and find ways to make a difference.

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He gets the (celeb) picture

Mike Giannattasio, 19, has been finding his way into photos with celebrities for only a year but already has an album stuffed with more than 100 Kodak moments with Hollywood stars and professional athletes. Not bad.

Photos Mike Giannattasio's shots with celebrities

Serve up five holiday cocktails

Skip the carton of eggnog this year. Instead, try these five creative holiday drinks from some star bartenders and local enthusiasts.

Holiday cheer from the ladies of LUPEC

More holidays news, photos, features, and events

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Today's Boston Globe headlines

House & Home

Make it an old-fashioned Christmas

Karen Bartolomei will be the first to tell you that she’s mad for holiday decorating. But the city’s stationery guru - known best for the lavish wedding invitations she creates for celebs and other jet setters - is really just a bit obsessive. In a good way.

- Photos How to make a holiday ornament
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- Decorating tips
- Video How to make an ornament
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- Video Old-fashioned Christmas

Voices

Season's greetings

When it comes to holiday cards, nothing beats a handwritten note.

Food

Luxury on the cheap

Overwhelmed and afraid of warehouse clubs? Don't be. They offer beautiful buys for assembling a dinner party for 10. Here's how you can throw a luxurious get-together with surprising finds from warehouse shelves.

Sunday supper and more

Simple fare makes multiple meals

Beef and carrots is what the French call bourgeois cooking: simple, honest food served with rice or potatoes. The next day, you can chop some of the meat, add cooked brown rice and grated hard cheese and stuff it into acorn squash shells.

More Sunday Supper recipes and tips

Health

Fishing for facts

Good for your health, or toxic to you and the environment: It’s hard to know what fish to eat.

Fashion/Style

Great gifts for $50 or less

Try these funky and unique ideas to thrill everybody on your list.

Photos What local shoppers really want

Photos

Remembrance of (cool) things past

Everything about the holidays exudes nostalgia - and this season those warm memories extend to the gifts. Nearly every decade, from 1960s Beatles Trivial Pursuit to 1990s hip-hop ice cube trays, is represented in stores to remind us of our halcyon childhoods. Here are a few flashback suggestions.