Christmas Links #6

Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments:
"There are just 13 left."

Estate defies Covid to organise its own Christmas lights switch-on:
"Families wanted to boost community spirit."

Submarine Santa brings festive cheer to Tokyo aquarium:
"Dressed in a Santa Claus costume, a mask and flippers, a diver waved through a curtain of tropical fish in a Tokyo aquarium at socially distanced spectators watching from behind glass."

‘A present you make is so much better than one you buy’: 10 brilliant homemade Christmas gift ideas:
"Want to give a little love with a handmade present, but don’t know where to start? Try these ideas from artists and designers."

Saying Goodbye to Hanukkah:
"I lit the menorah as a child, but my kids are growing up in a different type of household."

Can You Name All 12 Days Of Christmas?
"So. Many. Birds."

Shakespeare and Christmas:
"In all of his works, Shakespeare uses the word ‘Christmas’ only three times. Why is there so little of Christmas in the works of Shakespeare?"

2020 broke Christmas music. Here’s what I’m listening to instead:
"The holidays, it appears, are here. And with them, the annual sleigh-dump of Christmas music, which this year arrives like an unsolicited fruitcake: unexpectedly heavy, disproportionately sweet and near impossible to digest."

IndieWire’s Guide to ‘Mank’: 25 People and Places in David Fincher’s Historical Epic Explained:
"David Fincher's movie is filled with complex reference points — some real, others imagined. Confused about what to believe? Come here for answers."

Red squirrels going nuts for Ottawa couple's Christmas lights, but reason remains a mystery:
"'We're trying to figure out what they're doing with the bulbs' says frustrated homeowner."