If you must curl up with something on these chilly days, try a good book.

Create your own holiday traditions with the help of these suggestions.

Can you name them?

Pleasant memories of this place or that or somewhere I ate or shopped come to mind and make me smile.

This is an eclectic retelling of the Nativity story celebrating Latin American poets and the voices of women. (Sponsored)

It's not a drought buster, but it's a start.

They’re hangers-on/Refuse to leave the party.

While some divorced couples can’t stand to be in the same room, the Bienstocks have run a business together for 10 years.

Crafts at the Cathedral features one-of-a-kind wearable art, wood, glass, fiber, clay, metal, mixed media, jewelry, and much more. (Sponsored)

Suggesting that the first Thanksgiving was actually on the Upper West Side.

From our small vehicle into a mammoth edifice...It’s huge. The world’s largest Gothic Cathedral.

What to do when friends don't return your food storage containers? "People suck. Share via Ziploc." 

The daughter of violinist extraordinaire Itzhak Perlman and a former concert pianist herself, Navah Perlman's cake business is thriving.

But I've got to wonder -- does anyone show up?

Events from St. John the Divine to Riverside Park to Central Park. Plus, homemade cookies needed for free Thanksgiving meals.

Upper West Side figures float above the neighborhood.

There are at least 10 lego figures embedded in the sidewalk of West 85th Street between Columbus and Central Park West.

Yes and no, according to Stephen Harmon's photographs.

Know the feeling?

New York City was the first place to require licenses for dogs in 1894.

See a classic film; rake leaves; bake cookies for charity; end the weekend at an Irish pub.

Table for two.

As I was painting, people would stand in front of me and take pictures of the sign over the door.

There was such a great sense of community, of pleasure in just being alive.

We're all in this together.

The Morningside Players Theater has staged Arthur Miller and Ivan Turgenev -- no "fluff stuff," says the director.

Jazz at Lincoln Center; UWS Greenmarkets; Leaf Peeping.

Flavors of the day.

I hope you find something to enjoy!

Bake shop loses battle with scaffolding; new bar and restaurant in Morningside Heights; coffee; and legal weed.