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Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at nightfall on Sunday, Dec. 18 this year. On each night, Jewish families gather to light another candle on the Hanukkah menorah while reciting a special blessing. After the nightly candle lighting, it’s time for food and games — eating latkes with sour cream and applesauce, sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) and other traditional Hanukkah foods and spinning the dreidel to collect some gelt (usually chocolate coins covered in gold foil). Sonoma County offers several ways to celebrate Hanukkah this year, from restaurants preparing special dishes to live music and menorah lighting events. Hanukkah...

ALDI Finds for the week of 12/14/22 include their comfy sweatshirt dress, Lacura eyeshadow, little personal planners, keto dinner rolls, beef tenderloin, and more. Check out this week’s picks below, and let me know what you want to Find! Let’s start with dinner rolls, if you’re planning ahead to the holidays with these. L’Oven Fresh butter or potato dinner rolls have returned to the shelf, at $2.89 per 12 roll pack. You can instead grab a cheaper $.99 pack of L’Oven Fresh brown & serve rolls, if you prefer — or, go fancier with Izzio Artisan Bakery everything artisan rolls at $3.29....

Move and rehang your Command bath products using these refill strips, now on sale for 67% off at Amazon.ca. Regularly $15.75, the price is currently just $5.20 for this assorted package. Get 2 medium and 4 large water resistant refill strips per package. These water resistant refill strips hold 3-5 pounds each, and make it easy to relocate your Command bath products after cleaning, redecorating, or reorganizing. They stick to surfaces like painted varnish/wood, metal, tile, painted drywall, and glass, but are not recommended for wallpaper, brick, or other rough surfaces. Use the strips with Command bath products like the...

Learn how to reverse weed vinyl and when to use my favorite tips and tools! Cutting an intricate vinyl project with a Cricut is so exciting! Until you get to the weeding, that is. Weeding is not my favorite part of vinyl projects, and I know some of you feel the same way. That’s ok! I’m going to share some of my favorite weeding tips and tools, especially the technique to reverse weed vinyl. This approach works really well for adhesive vinyl. I’ll also share some tips for weeding iron-on vinyl with less hassle! Watch the full step-by-step tutorial on...

Ask longtime Oakland residents for the geographic constraints that define the city's Uptown district, and you'll hear everything from the sliver of space between 14th and 17th streets to the blocks that stretch from 12th to 25th. Ask them when it first received the moniker Uptown (despite being located in what other municipalities would consider decidedly downtown), most will reference the renovation of the Fox Theater or the turn of the new millennium as benchmarks. But ask which area of the city most encapsulates Oakland today, with its juxtaposition of old and new mixed with rapid gentrification, opportunity, and possibility,...