So you have a little dinner party scheduled for the holidays. What are you going to wear? Luckily, sixosix stylist and fashion writer Kami Bremyer can sort you right out.

In addition to his side gig as a master's student at the Medill School of Journalism, Andy Rathbun tells it like it is, movie-style. This month, you'll find out the best films that take place on New Year's Day.

Last month, Maureen Morrison discussed a few cheap day trips out of Chicago, but this month, she stays in town to tell you all you wish you didn't know about Lake Michigan. Feel like a swim?

Photographer Joe Gallo, the only sixosix contributor who is married with children, travels the country in search of photos of the strange and burlesque. This month he tackles Mexican wrestling with Lucha Va Voom.

A. E. X. Watkins is originally from Naperville, Illinois which has inspired numerous poems involving angst and frustration with a societies obsession over wealth. He hopes to take this show to an MFA program far, far away.

Has the iPod's shuffle function revolutionized the way we listen to music? In his first feature for sixosix, Karl Mueller is determined to find out. Follow his anthropological field notes here and read more of Mueller at www.cincity2000.com .

Helen Burken, a.k.a. Miss Redd, shot her first sixosix essay this month with Zeitgeist. It's dinner for three, a meal for one. See more of Burken's work www.missredd.net .

In her first assignment for sixosix, Allison Fagan wanted to let you know that she's as confused as you are about the city's Sister City program. Have you heard of it? Didn't think so. Let her enlighten you.