While many may have taken up a chorus of Auld Lang Syne as the clock struck midnight on the new year, few likely knew the meaning of the words first put to paper by Robbie Burns back in 1788. The old… Read More ›
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I Reveal Myself, One Mask at a Time: New Year’s Eve Costume Inspiration
From The Masque of the Red Death to Eyes Wide Shut, the masked ball has been a fixture of our collective imaginations since the late medieval period, waxing and waning in popularity throughout Carnival celebrations in the 15th century, Renaissance Italy in the 16th… Read More ›
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping: 31 Creepy Vintage Santas to Haunt Your Holidays
From a 4th-century Anatolian bishop to a jolly elf in a fur-trimmed suit, the personage known as Santa Claus has evolved over time, an amalgam of folk and religious traditions from pre-modern pagan influences to veneration of saints, cemented into… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 