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We once stepped into a lobster fest by accident, and the proceedings were very clean, sanitary and civilized. That is, until the infamous “running of the lobsters,” which, as you’d expect, was a bloody affair that left 8 people dead and dozens of lobsters boiled. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the epicurean extravaganzas included [...]

As our nutty Christian friends would have it, today is Good Friday (aren’t they always good, though?), which means this weekend is Easter. For some this will involve lots of talk about a Jewish carpenter named Jesus being crucified – ironically enough - on a fairly standard piece of carpentry (the classic T-model). For us, [...]

It’s Passover, it’s Easter, and so it must be time for the much-maligned religious movie to make its annual rentals spike. I know what you’re thinking: “Religious movies? Oh God, kill me now.” But God knows better than that. God knows that there are at least a dozen or so great religious movies, and the [...]

With Easter and Passover upon us, what better time to check on Jeremy Barker’s epic listicle of 101 Last Suppers at Popped Culture (which he started two years ago and completed Wednesday). As one of the most important events on the religious calendar and among Leonardo da Vinci’s most iconic (and frequently parodied) paintings, there’s [...]

Passover began yesterday, and global matzah consumption is in the midst of its annual spike. That said, by the end of the holiday next week, there will surely remain massive left-over quantities. What’s the best way to avoid wasting all the yummy Matzah? Well, thanks to Jewish Robot and Michelle Citrin we now have 20 [...]

Invariably, Hallmark holidays produce a whole slate of stupid gifts and dumb knick-knacks. Inventor Spot runs through some of the dumbest Valentine’s Day gifts that you probably don’t want to give or receive.
Go To List: http://inventorspot.com/articles/15_best_worst_valentines_day_gifts_22512

We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

This is Listicles sports columnist Onesie, stuck at the office while everyone else is on ski trips with friends and family, back with another edition of Sporty Saturdays.
While I don’t miss the skiing (as a freelance mascot I specialize in team sports), I have often volunteered as a first aid person on the slopes in [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]

As we helped you do over Thanksgiving, we here at Listicles are all about avoiding the awkwardness of prolonged family interfaces through the magic of film. And with most of the obvious holiday movie picks already way backed-up on Netflix queues and missing from video stores everywhere, the movie trivia masters at AMC’s blog Horror [...]