Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

At 11:59 PM, the sixty-second countdwon starts as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his special guest push the Waterford crystal button that signals the descent of the New Year’s Eve Ball.
The lighted Ball - a geodesic sphere that is 12 feet in diameter, descends 70 feet in sixty seconds. The Ball is covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and lit by 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs and weighs 11,875 pounds.
At the stroke of Midnight (12:00 AM), the lights on the New Year’s Eve Ball are turned off as the numerals of the New Year are lit.

The first New Year's Eve celebration to be held in Times Square took place on December 31, 1903.
At the time, the square was still named Longacre (a few months later it was renamed after the newspaper) and Adolph Ochs, the owner of the New York Times had moved the newspaper's headquarters to number one. He decided to celebrate the opening of the new headquarters with a midnight fireworks show on the building roof. And thus started a tradition which evolved in 1907 with the construction of the first Time Ball.
The story says that the first time it actually dropped one second after midnight.

Empire State of Pen

British artist Patrick Vale drew the view over Lower Manhattan from his 102nd floor Empire State Building window.

The drawing took him four to five days. 
What makes this drawing so special is that he recorded the whole process on his iPhone and posted the time-lapse video online under the title "Empire State of Pen".

The soundtrack is Charles Mingus' Moanin'.

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in NYC  is one of the iconic moments of Thanksgiving in the US.

And so is the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation which takes place at the White House.
This year, president Obama pardoned Cobbler and Gobbler, two forty-pound turkeys from Virginia.

Thanksgiving 4th episode

You thought I was done with singing turkeys?

 

Thanksgiving 3rd episode

This song never gets old!

Thanksgiving 2nd episode

Since you've understood that Thanksgiving has to do with turkey, here are the turkey Supremes!

Thanksgiving 1st episode

This is Thanksgiving break!
And to get you in the mood, I will post different articles on the topic.
Here is the first one : Tex Avery's 1945 version of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving:

Jimmy Kimmel - Halloween sequel

Last year, after the "I told my kids I ate all their Halloween candy - YouTube challenge", Jimmy Kimmel interviewed the two best Halloween Candy Kids CJ and Jake Booth on his show.

Can't wait to see what Jimmy Kimmel invented this year.

Halloween : Gimme my Candy!

Tonight is Halloween, one of the most celebrated holidays of the U.S. And Halloween is mostly about playing pranks and eating candy: trick or treat.
Have a look at Jimmy Kimmel's idea of a Halloween trick!

 

How does this video show the cultural importance of Halloween to little kids? What is most striking or influential about this holiday, to both parents and kids?