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It’s a wonderful feeling when you discover a great all-purpose gift you can give to multiple people on your list, perhaps even year after year. Since everyone needs a few of these presents up their sleeve—after all, you’ve got to get something for your picky sister—we’ve collected Slate staff’s favorite one-size-fits-all gifts.

Everyone in your life can use a MiFi right now. Seriously! What’s a MiFi, you might ask? It’s a device that allows you to go anywhere that

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November 27, 2020

I Love My Grown Children, But I’m Not Willing To Die Because Of Their Pandemic Choices

I love you, but I do not want to die because of your good time.

Not that I am opposed to your personal enjoyment. I am all for recreation — within reason, of course. But the eschewing of caution, throwing it all to the wind in order to hang out with your friends and laugh for a few hours, stand near each other, drink, eat — well, it’s just too reckless for me.

Because you will come home and breathe on me.

Now that two of you are living back home because of COVID-19 ― and there is room for all of us and you are welcome here, of course ― it becomes my business where you go and what you do on the weekends. And when your middle brother comes home to visit for Thanksgiving, we all need to be vigilant.

I know you have had multiple tests, but

Recreation

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November 19, 2020

Michigan holiday gifts we love to give: online ordering and downtown shopping

Last year’s holidays feel like so long ago. Maybe you remember standing in long lines, battling crowds in a Black Friday shopping frenzy, or slipping into a busy restaurant just to take a breather. This year, retailers predict holiday shopping will look a lot different amid the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing may mean more people are doing their gift-buying online or picking out presents closer to home.

“Shop early, shop local” is the mantra being encouraged by big retailers and mom-and-pop shops across the state this year. If you’re hoping to keep your holiday dollars in The Mitten, we’ve pulled together a handful of unique Michigan gift suggestions from across both peninsulas. Nearly all offer customized gifts that can be shipped, purchased locally or picked up curbside. Add to this mix the countless small-town and downtown shopping destinations across the state – from West Michigan’s waterfront Saugatuck and Grand Haven

Adventure

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November 18, 2020

Death, Love, and the Solace of a Million Motorcycle Parts

Inside, Joanie’s condition deteriorated. It seemed like an endless, cruel thing, the waiting game of death. Then one night we were awakened by a loud thud. Joanie had slipped out of bed and fallen onto the living room floor. We rushed downstairs, a few steps behind Elettra’s stepfather, hurriedly turning on a few lights as we went. I reached Joanie and hovered over her. I didn’t know where to place my hands, what I was reaching for. Joanie seemed brittle. Elettra grabbed for the pillows to layer underneath her until we could place Joanie back onto the bed. She begged for her husband, even though he was already there. She asked him if he, as a doctor, could write her a prescription that would end all this.

I left on an assignment a few days later, not far behind the rest of Joanie’s siblings who had dispersed (return tickets prebooked,

Hotel

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November 17, 2020

The 24 best custom photo gifts anyone will love

Best photo gifts of 2020 (Photo: Uncommon Goods, Shutterfly, Fujifilm)

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An old adage says a picture is worth a thousand words. We say they’re worth even more when given to a cherished someone. Photos can commemorate a special experience or person, and they can serve as a fun visual reminder of past good times. It’s the holiday season, so spread these remembered joys with those you love.

In that vein, here at Reviewed, we spend all year researching and testing the latest products, making sure we can confidently recommend our favorites just in time for the holiday season. Here are 23 photo gifts that we are really excited about—from the best vlogging camera we’ve ever tested to the photo album from our favorite photo printing service.

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Adventure

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November 13, 2020

Why Kevin Jonas and Danielle Jonas May Have the Sweetest Love Story – E! Online

Eager to get on with the start of their happily ever after, the duo pulled together their vows—held, appropriately at a castle on New York’s Long Island—in just five months. Some 400 guests turned out (in a blizzard) to see Danielle brave the chill in a strapless tulle and Chantilly lace Vera Wang ball gown, a silk-and-crystal flower in her updo, a nod to their first meeting.

“So many people have said that to us, like, ‘You’re so young, why the rush to get married?'” he told PR.com, “but honestly, from the minute we met to the minute we got married, we wanted to do things our way.”

Their wedding coinciding with an extended Jonas Brothers break, they decided their way would involve living that reality TV life, the pair agreeing to feature their early years of marriage on E!’s Married to Jonas.

At their five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath domicile (complete

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November 5, 2020

Why Kevin Jonas and Danielle Jonas May Have the Sweetest Love Story

At their five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath domicile (complete

Vacation

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November 5, 2020

Ludovic de Saint Sernin SS21 is a love letter to TikTok’s e-boys

Life online has always come as second nature to Ludovic de Saint Sernin. Across his eponymous brands’ two Instagram accounts — one being an, uhm, ‘intimate’ community-showcasing finsta — the Parisian designer engages his following with an endearing excitement and casual warmth that doubtless have large brands’ social media managers frantically taking notes. The lack of the cloying mock-friendliness that we all know too well from many labels’ socials accounts, though, owes little to any ingenious strategy on Ludovic’s part — rather, he just sees each of the people that make up his loyal 150k following as part of a digital network of friends.

Ludovic’s URL savvy came in handy as soon as lockdown hit; when store orders were swiftly cancelled, “my boyfriend and I just shot all the stock, put it all up on our website, and sold it there,” he says, with the LdSS community stepping in to

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November 4, 2020

Did a love triangle ultimatum lead to Anna Repkina’s murder?

Produced by Susan Mallie, Jennifer Terker and Cindy Cesare

In April 2017, Moscow native Anna Repkina was found murdered on a remote Oregon logging road. Fifty-five hundred miles from home, investigators were puzzled as to what she was doing there and who could possibly want her dead.

Turns out she’d met American Will Hargrove online and after a whirlwind romance, the two became engaged. Anna relocated to the U.S. not knowing she was moving right into the middle of a love triangle.

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Ryan Joslin and Amie Matusko, both deputy district attorneys in Benton County, Oregon, received an urgent call that a body had been found on April 17, 2017.

Ryan Joslin: This is outside of Corvallis quite a ways out in the Alsea area … and up a remote logging road.

Amie Matusko: He and I were both on scene … to … take a

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November 1, 2020

I love luxury hotels, but rented an RV and lived to tell the tale

a living room filled with furniture and a large window

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My idea of camping is when a hotel surprises my kids with an adorable tent pitched inside the bedroom.

I hate bugs, being hot, sticky, staying in cramped quarters or sleeping on anything other than a mattress. I’ll happily go hiking, make some s’mores by the campfire or spend a day exploring nature, but when it comes time to sleep and shower, I’d like to do that in a house or hotel room with running water and air conditioning, thank you very much.

This year has taken many of us to places (mentally and physically) we’ve never been before and didn’t intend to go. Recently, 2020 took my kids and me — the self-professed non-camper — to our

Travel

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October 23, 2020

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