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This Week in Sports Talk (TWIST) is our weekly roundup of top headlines from the past seven days in the world of sports, plus a preview of what’s up next. Heading into the week of October 25, 2020, here’s the top sports news, with a twist. Skim it, and you’ll be good to go all week.
Sending a fancy gourmet pie for the holidays can be a fantastic luxury gift. Or even just an excellent micro-luxury for you to arrange for your own food joy this holiday season. If you’re all in on this idea, what are the best luxury gourmet sweet and savory pies to order by mail? Our ace correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of the 12 best gourmet mail-order pies to order online right now, just in time for the holidays.
We’re always looking for our next great read – so what are the best books to read that will make us feel like November? We’ve shared a list of the best new book releases coming in November 2020. For additional ideas, here’s our take on the perfect books to read that capture the mood of the month of November. These are our top 12 picks of not just what to read this November – these are what to read in any November.
The year 2020 has been ghoulish – so what better holiday to go all in on than Halloween? And even if you don’t want to go big with an elaborate Halloween costume, you can join in the fun with a simple change of nail polish, and here’s how. Our intrepid correspondent Jillian Tangen has curated a list of 20 of the best luxury nail polish colors for Halloween 2020, including gothic black, vampire red, otherworldly orange and ghoulish green. And dear reader, they’re so pretty it’s scary.
OK, we have to admit it. As much as we enjoy the summer, we absolutely adore the fall. So we decided to take a journey through the world of paintings to find the most influential, beautiful, famous and evocative masterpieces – both historical and contemporary – on the season of autumn and the joys of fall. Across time and culture, city or countryside, abstract or representational, there are universal elements of fall that are expressed in stunning ways in works on paper. Our correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of some of the most stunning paintings about autumn we could find; they will evoke the best of the fall season, no matter when you view them.
