- PB&Js for all — or at least more
. Daily Edition • October 22, 2025 SUPPORTED BY Each October, people gather in Tualatin, Oregon, for a unique water race: the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta. The event, dating to 2004, is exactly as it sounds — participants climb into massive, carved out gourds, and paddle around a lake in the Portland suburb. “You’ve got an exciting activity that crowds love, you’ve got the costumes, cheering people, spectacle, pumpkins sinking, it has everything,” this year’s first winner, Gary…Read more
- Indecisive? It might be FOBO
Daily Edition • March 4, 2025 SUPPORTED BY It’s Mardi Gras! Also known as Fat Tuesday, the occasion is traditionally celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, a holy day of fasting for Catholics. But the holiday has spread beyond the church to become a wider cultural phenomenon, one often associated with regional treats — like New Orleans king cake and Polish paczki, doughnuts with a delectable sweet filling that are abundant in the Midwest this time of year. Get more Mardi Gras recipe ideas....
- Rare footage of polar bear cubs
Daily Edition • March 3, 2025 SUPPORTED BY We’re going to get sentimental here, so just bear with us. Today marks three years since Nice News sent out our very first newsletter. In some ways, it was a shot in the dark — we believed that Nice News filled a gap in the media landscape, that people needed more reminders of the good in the world, and that a dose of positivity in the inbox could create ripple effects of optimism. But who knew if it would work? Thankfully, we needn’t have worried....
- Not your average “old ladies”
Sunday Edition • March 2, 2025 SUPPORTED BY If, say, Colman Domingo takes home an Oscar at tonight’s Academy Awards, Timothée Chalamet and the other best actor contenders can at least leave the Dolby Theatre knowing they lost out to some serious competition. But imagine coming up empty-handed while a literal cartoon character earns a golden statuette. Such was (sort of) the case in 1932, when Mickey Mouse won an Oscar. At least, so goes the internet lore: Learn what actually transpired and...