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How To Give an Entertaining Gift
For a present that gives all year long—and isn’t a typical gift card—try gifting a membership or season ticket package to your friend’s favorite non-profit organization or sports team. There [...]
How To Get Crafty This X-Mas
By Joani Delezen and Lilia Del Bosque Oakey Whitehouse For most of us, handmade gifts are a holiday myth—like the Elf on the Shelf or new year’s resolutions. We love the idea of getting crafty [...]
How To Be A Better Gift Giver
By Joani Delezen If there's one thing I pride myself on, it's being a good gift giver. I've never given a generic gift basket in my life—even when I worked at a lotion shop in the mall and gift [...]
How To Mind Your Manners
By Jennie McKeon While you attend holiday parties, graciously give and receive presents and spend quality time with out-of-town relatives, don’t forget to be on your best behavior. When it comes [...]
How To Shop Local
It shouldn't come as a surprise that the IN is encouraging you to shop local whenever possible this holiday season. We do it every year. But just because the message is familiar, doesn't mean it's [...]
How To Survive the Holidays as a Vegan
By Sarah McCartan ’Tis the season to spread holiday cheer and share good tidings of peace and joy, not being put on the defensive for one’s dietary needs. Now you may be thinking: Why do [...]
2012 Winners & Losers
Picking winners and losers in an election year is relatively easy, but we at the Independent News chose to ignore the candidates, of course. Besides we prick and praise them on a weekly basis [...]
WTFF?
How Many Floridians Does it Take to Screw An Election? By Jeremy Morrison There it was, the awkward protrusion, screwing it up again. A national embarrassment dangling from the bottom of the [...]
Maximum Comfort
Five Dishes You Have To Eat ASAP Carmen’s Baked Whipped Potatoes Potato-lovers are in for a surprise with Carmen’s Baked Whipped Potatoes. But you won’t catch the restaurant’s owner, [...]
Soup’s On!
There’s nothing like cupping your hands around a warm bowl of soup after a long, cold day. And when local restaurants serve it, they are always thinking outside of the can. At East Hill Market, [...]
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