Adorable Christmas Cats! [Photos]
With a few hours to spare before your great Aunt Betty arrives with ugly sweaters for the whole fam, lets ‘ooh’ and ‘aww’ at some of the most purrrfectly wrapped presents this year. While not everyone likes finding their cat six feet in the air tangled up in Christmas tree lights, cute cats decked out for the holiday season are a different matter — bring it on.
25 Reasons To Love Winter [Photos]
Winter gets a bad rap. Granted it does have its flaws: blizzards, Uggs, perpetual runny noses, and pale skin complexions. These negatives aside, there are so many wonderful wonders to winter: pets in sweaters, hot chocolate, Christmas trees, Hanukah bushes, and many, many other holiday treats!

Candy Dish: Not the Father
•Bieber’s Paternity case is dismissed
•How to get laid on Thanksgiving
•What to wear to your next college party
•Playing up your best feature, a la our favorite ladies
•Travel a little cheaper this holiday season
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Celebrating Christmas, Jew Style
Christmas is a great holiday. Yes, it’s great for all of you who celebrate it; you get family time, some QT with the big man upstairs and lots of presents. But Christmas is also great for the Jews.
10 Things We’re Lovin’ About Winter [GALLERY]
HAPPY OFFICIAL FIRST DAY OF WINTER! It’s hard to remember when you’re spending half of your day bundling up in the thickest, warmest, heaviest things you own just to walk outside to get the mail, but it’s is the most wonderful time of the yearrrrrrrr! Yes, really.
Budget Stylista: Rock the LRD [GALLERY]
It’s holiday time and at holiday time the LBD goes out the window (OK, not out the window. What a waste! More like to the back of the closet; we all know the LBD will be back by NYE) and in it’s place: The LRD (the Little Red Dress).
The Post-Grad Journey: Here Come The Holidays
Whether we want to believe it or not, the holidays are approaching. I know, it feels like summer just started – even though it really just ended – but the reality is that temperatures are dropping, leaves are starting to change, and before we know it, it’ll be time for turkey, presents, and busy shopping malls.

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Candy Dish: Alexa Chung Gets The Boot
• See ya later, Alexa Chung!
• Who’s Miley smooching?!
• Kim and Khloe talk boyfriends.
• Maybe it’s better being single during the holidays.
• Those Real Housewives are some greedy bitches.
• Why did Angelina leave the Jersey Shore?
8 Under $20: Get Ready For The Holiday Parties!
So Hanukkah begins on Friday and Christmas is 17 days away, which means it’s time for holiday parties, dinners, and gatherings of family and friends. And that means you’ll need some super cute looks to show off.
Don’t Let Finals Suck All The Cheer Out of The Holidays
Every year I find myself entering December with the same longing in the pit of my stomach. All the stores are decked out in twinkling lights and ornaments. Every car that passes has a Christmas tree strapped to the top. And while we all want to be home with friends and family, we are stuck in our 4 by 4 cell studying crap we could really care less about.
The Weekly Ten: Holiday Happiness
Thanksgiving. Sigh. After being more stuffed than the holiday turkey, it’s time to come to terms with the fact that the holiday season has begun. Whether you celebrate Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or none of the above, it’s a given that you will be inundated with all kinds of holiday-ness over the next 6 weeks.

The Weekly Wrap Up: Tis the Season… Already
Thanksgiving has been over for less than 24 hours, which means that the world is already in full-fledged holiday season mode. The advent of The Season brings with it all kinds of things, some positive and some negative: major deals and awkward run-ins with high school friends, feelings of gratitude and feelings of Grinchiness, holiday nookie and so on.