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The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate our community’s diversity. Whether your prefer vodka or rum, straight up or on the rocks; celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Diwali, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice, we’ve got cocktails for all.

All through the holiday season, you just want to stuff your face - but don’t forget to share the bounty. In the spirit of St. Nick, offer your friends and family some of the best tastes of the season.

If you’re looking for gifts that might last a little longer than a bottle of bubby, then you could do worse than peruse some of the selections from this year’s "Home for the Holidays" gift guide.

This year, instead of waiting until the last minute and ducking into a drug store for a case of Altoids and a bow, pause and reflect upon the people on your gift list. Then reward them with your thoughtfulness.

If good grooming products make you happy, then think about sharing those elixirs with the nice (and the naughty) on your holiday gift list.

This hi-tech age of ours is more than email, music files, and movies on your smart phone: Enter the virtual tasting for fans of wines and spirits!

If names like Patou, Worth, Cire Trudon, Santa Maria Novella, and Lalique set your heart beating faster, then the biannual Elements Showcase, which takes place in Manhattan in August and January of each year, is every perfume fanatic’s fantasyland.

If you’ve a friend fortunate enough to have secured a summer sanctuary and if you’re fortunate enough to have secured a weekend invitation, then at least have the decency to arrive with a host/ess gift - and without a list of demands.

It’s not always about vodka - and martinis in summer can knock you out for the night. And it’s not always about gin-and-tonics - not unless your name is Muffy. Sometimes you want a little bit of tropics - even on the mainland.

Lest you’ve forgotten, he took you to your first ball game (before he realized that he’d also be driving you to dance class). If your father wasn’t completely a saint, he did the best he could do. This Father’s Day, treat your daddy right.