PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 19 NOVEMBER 2025 + 30 DAYS + GOBB L E ! + OUR 88TH ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + The first wagon train arrived in California 184 years ago on November 4. + The TV’s on, with all the college bowl games and playoffs filling the airwaves. + Wouldn’t be here without them: Honor our devoted veterans on November 11. + Save the drumstick for your favorite uncle on Thanksgiving, November 24. Venture Out + FLIT into the Andra Norris Gallery for Yay Birds!, a group exhibition featuring a flurry of feathered friends, running through November 7. + MINGLE with A Christmas Carol characters and tread the streets of 1860s London at The Great Dickens Christmas Fair, November 22 to December 21. + BURN off that pumpkin pie and sweet potato casserole at the Spartan Turkey Trot in Mountain View on November 27 with a 5K or 1-mile run, plus shorter dashes for kids. Everyone has a favorite holiday, but there seems to be a consensus around Thanksgiving: Turkey Day is the definitive winner. It has so many good things going for it. There are no decorations to be set up, no gifts to be gathered—or to be expected, even by little ones—and no houses of worship to be visited. Just football and great food, preferably the traditional dishes that so many of us anticipate, to be enjoyed with our family and friends gathered around the table. Even if it’s not one of your favorite holidays, there is always room for a sincere prayer of gratitude for all that we have and for the beautiful place we call home. Pass the dessert! “Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.” —JEFFERSON BETHKE welcome back
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