Eagle-eyed parade fans noticed something strange when the confetti rained down at the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday: that some of the confetti was poorly shredded police documents with important information on it.
Oh, no! You were so busy eating and being thankful for family, friends and good health yesterday that you forgot to Instagram your turkey! Don't worry, everyone else remembered. Thanksgiving was the busiest day ever for the upstart social network.
Every year the Detroit Lions play the first game of Thanksgiving Day while the rest of America sits at home and eats their delicious turkey dinners and every year for the last nine the city has been left heartbroken by the cold reality of defeat.
Before you yell at us for defying the whole spirit of Thanksgiving, hear us out. Family is great and wonderful and they provide for us and love us unconditionally, but sometimes you need to get away from them. Family, frankly, can be annoying.
You're watching this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade because that's what you're supposed to do while mom and dad cook, and football hasn't started yet. The floats are a bit unspectacular this year, so we've gone into the archives and assembled our own parade from years past.
At the very least, he wants to tell you, via this new Funny or Die animated short, what Thanksgiving was like with his family growing up in Brooklyn. Hint: It's dysfunctional.
So, it's Thanksgiving. What in the world are you going to talk about with your aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, parents, grandparents, and relative strangers? We've collected some of the most helpful packages, anecdotes, and news entries from around the Internet.
If you thought an icky sex scandal would damage the selling power of all those furry, red, loveable Elmo toys this holiday shopping season, you underestimated the selling power of Sesame Street's all-time best-seller.
Yay, it's Thanksgiving! Meaning you can eat lots of food and watch football and jump around in leaf piles and oh god if you don't get out of this house you are going to scream, so it's time to go to the movies. But what should you see? Well, it depends on who you're with. Here's a handy guide.
Going meatless is a great way to green your Thanksgiving. But meat-lovers have long mocked the idea of vegetarians replicating their most indulgent creation, the turducken—until now. Meet the veggieducken.
The annual presidential pardoning of a turkey is a slightly morbid tradition that doesn't make much sense, but that doesn't mean it's without value. It gives us the opportunity to watch the highly stylized and ceremonial Office of the President interact with nature in the form of a hideous, uncooperative fat bird.
Are you feeling ... dare we say it ... not so festive? Look, we understand. It's been a rough month! What is there to give thanks for? There are things! Here are a few.
Despite pitting two animals against one another in a Facebook contest to choose the National Thanksgiving Turkey, the president will still pardon both birds—Cobbler and his alternate Gobbler—per the White House.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Mark Bittman on Thanksgiving dinner, Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel, Jeffrey Toobin on the filibuster, Ian Bremmer on Syria, and John Podhoretz on how Obama won.
The White House turkey pardoning ceremony is a Thanksgiving tradition, but what happens to the poor birds that don't pardoned? The White House's new social media outreach makes us go all existential on the holiday.
Mother Jones on Thanksgiving in a warmer world, Grist on a "realistic attitude" about a carbon tax, The New York Times on bluefin, Co.Exist on a sustainable toilet, Environmental Health New on pollution and cargo ships.
Wal-Mart unveiled its first plans for the holiday shopping season, which includes moving their Black Friday shopping deals earlier into Thanksgiving Thursday then they've ever been before.
Increasing numbers of single adults are choosing to spend the holidays with their friends, rather than travel home to hang out with their biological family.
With all the nightmare political debates and Kardashian divorces and everything else conflicted and terrible going on in this country (let alone the rest of the world! the rest of the world is too big a place to consider right now) let's just all try to have one day of peace.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Thanks to technology and science, Thanksgiving has gotten better for astronauts.
The Department of Homeland Security will take things from here.
If you haven't booked your Thanksgiving flights yet (you better get on that), then our Chart of the Day just may be able to help you choose which airline is most likely to get you home on time for turkey.
The search for the most alarming fried turkey tutorial stops in Texas, Thanksgiving greasefire capital of America.
Plus: Justin Bieber takes his paternity test, Diddy isn't changing his name, and the updated power structure at Conde Nast
Shreveport's KSLA 12 cuts the season's most explosive turkey frying promo.
Want to learn how to deep fry a turkey way too fast? Denver's KDVR has your gameplan.
From Arkansas, the least-safe Thanksgiving safety video we've seen this year
In Roanoke, the fireballs were in short supply, but the tension remained high
That's William Shatner beneath those computer-generated flames.
Millions of Americans will deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkey this year, but only one video of exploding poultry will be good enough to be win The Atlantic Wire's award for holiday public service announcements.
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