All stories published by The Hairpin on December 21, 2011

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All Stories published by The Hairpin on December 21, 2011

Dec 21, 2011

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Cary Grant’s Intimate Bromance

by Anne Helen Petersen

Nana’s Clothespin Ornaments

by Audrey Ference

The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

ABC Family’s 25 Days of Not-Christmas

by Alexandra Martell

The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

Your New Favorite Old Christmas Party Songs

by Summer Anne Burton

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

Talking About Frankincense

“Frankincense to offer have I,” says King Balthazar of “We Three Kings” fame. But apparently not for long, as…

Lauren O'Neal in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

Rapid Gift-Basketry

Gift baskets! They’re great, except that the pre-made ones you order online are overpriced, and you get approximately one…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

A List of 50 Secrets

30. Most prose writers should be discouraged from reading their work in public. See Somerset Maugham’s “Mr Harrington’s…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

“How to Start Your Candy-Cane Collection in 23 Easy Steps”

1) Be 17.

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

Portlandia Season Two Preview: Let’s Try This ‘Battlestar Galactica’?

The lovely Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen try out a new television show in the second season of Portlandia, which airs on IFC starting January 6. (Thank you, Mary.)

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

The Grouper Christmas Cookie

“Cielo makes pancit: rice noodles with chicken, sausage and vegetables. I make beef adobo, a stunningly rich braise of short ribs in soy sauce, coconut milk, chicken stock, vinegar and garlic. The first year, none of our guests had ever tasted it before. Every year since, I have…

Edith Zimmerman in The Hairpin

Dec 21, 2011

2011 in Notable Betrothables

A roundup of the year’s most colorful engagement stories, if you’re into that sort of thing, or if you don’t know what you are, but there you are anyway, at the end of it.