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  The Best Cookbooks of 2024: Big Dip Energy, Ottolenghi Comfort, and More

  This year’s best cookbooks provide inventive, well-tested instructions for dips, barbecue, beans, and pasta. There’s even a book that tells you what the heck to do with celery root.
  
  Wired - 7h
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  Cutesy goths and McMansions: the viral 2024 trends you didn’t know about

  This year’s TikTok microtrends drew on mid-2000s screensavers and Tuscan kitchens, romanticizing (supposedly) better days. Of all the havoc unleashed on the world through TikTok, gen Z’s ...
  
  The Guardian - 8h
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  Tax brackets and more are changing in 2024, 2025: What to know

  We're more than 100 days out from Tax Day, but there are some impending updates you may want to prepare for.
  
  The Hill - 2d
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  New York’s Best New Restaurants of 2024

  Our three critics name the places, from classic French dining to a buzzing shawarma stall, that dazzled them the most this year.
  
  The New York Times - Dec. 11
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  Amazon Kindle Scribe (2024) Review: Room for More

  The Scribe remains a great digital notebook for Kindle loyalists, even if not much has changed over the original.
  
  Wired - Dec. 8
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  11 Best Cold-Brew Coffee Makers (2024): Oxo, KitchenAid, and More

  Good cold-brewed coffee tastes like magic. Learn how to make it right—no barista necessary.
  
  Wired - Dec. 6
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  33 Viral TikTok Gifts That Are Actually Worth a Look (2024)

  We’re testing gadgets that keep showing up in our feeds. Here are the ones that deserve the hype—and would make awesome presents.
  
  Wired - Dec. 6
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  Best Albums of 2024: Charli XCX, Mk.gee, MJ Lenderman and More

  Charli XCX, Mk.gee and MJ Lenderman top our pop music critics’ lists this year.
  
  The New York Times - Dec. 4
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  2024 Light the Lights 5PM News Mention

  Micah Smith live at City & County Building for Light the Lights, Danielle Grant does weather from Civic Center Park
  
  Yahoo Sports - Dec. 3

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