Here are a few things to look forward to in December...
1. In sports:
- College football's bowl games kick off December 13th
- There's NFL and NHL action all month
- The MLS Cup Final goes down this Saturday
- The third annual NBA Cup tournament runs through December 16th
2. In theaters:
- The BIG ones this month are "Avatar: Fire and Ash" opening December 19th
- "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants" lands the same day
- "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" opens Friday
- Timothée Chalamet plays a professional ping-ponger in "Marty Supreme" on the 25th
- Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in "Anaconda", also out Christmas Day
3. On TV:
- The Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting is Wednesday on NBC
- The docuseries "Taylor Swift: The End of an Era" hits Disney+ the 12th
- "Fallout" Season 2 starts the 17th
- The second half of "Stranger Things" Season 5 kicks off Christmas Day. The finale lands the 31st.
4. And finally, the holidays:
- The big ones are Christmas
- Hanukkah, starting December 14th
- Kwanzaa starts the 26th.
There's also...
- Giving Tuesday tomorrow
- National Ice Cream Day on the 13th
- Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day on the 18th
- Ugly Sweater Day on the 20th
- The first day of winter is December 21st
- Festivus is the 23rd
- The 31st is New Year's Eve, when we finally say "so long" to 2025.
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