PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM 25 JANUARY + 31 DAYS + FRESH START + OUR 78TH ISSUE {quickpunch} Start Up + Don’t miss the NFL season’s finale: the 49ers play their last game on January 5. + Celebrate the King’s wish—Martin Luther King Jr., that is—on January 20. + Get ready for our new (and returning) president on Inauguration Day, January 20. + Make sure you return those unwanted gifts; many stores give you just 30 days. Venture Out + GET COZY at Après Village, a ski lodge-themed popup at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley. Rent private chalets stocked with fluffy blankets and fire tables while sampling an alpine menu with fondue and s’mores, nightly through January 7. + MAKE GOOD on your exercise resolutions by joining the Crystal Springs Trail Run in Woodside on January 12. The redwood-lined courses range from 8K up to 50K. + SET OFF on an adventure as Peninsula Symphony Orchestra performs film scores like Jaws, E.T. and Indiana Jones, January 18 and 19 at Campbell’s Heritage Theatre. In this rapid-fire world in which we live, time seems to accelerate, bringing elections and holidays and birthdays to us at blistering speed. It seems as though we are just settling into 2024 and, yikes, it’s over and done, and here we are trying to remember to sign our checks (Remember those?) with 2025 instead of 2024. After all the excitement of December, poor January seems lost and adrift, with nothing in its days to bring excitement or happiness. But perhaps we can find joy—if we want to call it that—in taking care of all the stuff that we ignored in those last months of 2024. And with that, we wish you a bright and cheerful 2025. “Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley welcome back
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