Show us silly sweaters
Don’t worry about how to entertain your Thanksgiving dinner guests this year. Laughing at each other will do.
Tell the gang to bring their goofiest Christmas sweaters to the gathering. Slip them on, snap a photo and email it by Dec. 15 to beacon photo@the beaconjournal.com. Type “Christmas sweater” in the subject line and make sure to include your name, the names of the folks in the picture, everyone’s hometown, and your phone number.
Not having a big Thanksgiving gathering? Just send a picture of yourself, in your awesomely tacky sweater, to the same address.
We will feature some of our favorites in the paper during the holiday season.
Celebrate Cake Day
You may be knee-deep in turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie by Tuesday, but you can take a break from Thanksgiving preparations to celebrate National Cake Day.
According to www.foodbeast.com, it was the ancient Greeks who originated cake — specifically cheesecakes — which are believed to have been served at the Olympic games in 776 B.C.
The first boxed cake mixes began appearing in the U.S. in the 1930s.
Tackle that gift list
Get your hands on some hip homemade goods at Crafty Mart, an arts and crafts show in downtown Akron that bills itself as “the idiosyncratic craft fair.”
The show is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Musica, 51 E. Market St., and We Gallery, 20 N. High St. Fifty vendors will be on hand, and you can even get your picture snapped at a free photo booth.
Parking is free on the street and in the Main Library parking deck.
Details are at www.crafty mart.com.
Holiday moviegoing
Now that you’ve had your chance at Thor: The Dark World and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, give some thought to The Best Man Holiday, the new sequel to 1999’s The Best Man.
Catching up with the characters from the first film after more than a decade of life changes, the movie has some heartfelt (and sometimes tear-jerking) things to say about family, friendship and faith — as well as some pithy R-rated comments about life and relationships.
A tad predictable in spots, it’s nonetheless a nice film for adults. All adults. Not just the African-Americans drawn by the predominantly black cast. Any adult. In what’s proving a big year for movies starring and about African-Americans, let’s not narrow our attendance on racial grounds.
Free rock show
Looking to rock out before you pig out?
Then head down to the Buzzbin Art & Music Shop at 339 Cleveland Ave. NW, in Canton at 9 p.m. on Wednesday for a night of raucous rock and roll featuring Akron’s veteran punk rockers the Giggitys, along with New Jersey punks the Moms, Canadian punks Living With Lions and Canton’s own the Said So. The show is free.
