In This Issue

Issue 04: "Holiday Special"

• Choose Your Fighter: White Lights vs. Color Lights Five takes on the yuletide debate. By Sarah Archer

• 43 Futurist Holiday Dinners Provocations and rituals for the festive season. Fruitcake included. By Allan Wexler and Michael Yarinsky

• Your Holiday Cocktails Deserve Wacky Glassware Serve a little harder this year with these six options—plus, the bevvies to go with them. By Aaron Lefkov and Lila Allen

• In Defense of Ugly Ornaments On learning to love the garish, the tacky, and the totally-falling-apart. By Dan Howarth

• Noz Nozawa on the Art of Cutting Down Your Own Christmas Tree Chainsaw Mary weighs in on the practice of finding, and cutting down, a Christmass tree in a real forest. By Lila Allen

• Let’s Crack This Nutcracker Case Wide Open How a quest for a Black nutcracker realigned my holiday values. By Sydney Gore