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Cooking Together: Celebrating the New Year with Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens Soup

By featureseditor027d778c78 on January 8, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Eating black-eyed peas and collard greens on New Year’s Day to bring good luck and wealth is an old Southern U.S. tradition where peas represent coins, and collard greens symbolize paper money.

Video: 2023 New Year’s Day “Polar Plunge,” Ocean Beach at Taraval Street

By Sunset Beacon on January 2, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

A break between storms allowed the heartiest of souls to brave the chilly Pacific for the annual New Year’s Day Polar Plunge. Ocean Beach at Taraval Street, Jan. 1, 2023.

New Year’s Day 2020 – Polar Plunge at Ocean Beach

By Sunset Beacon on January 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Hundreds of hearty souls braved the chilly Pacific Ocean waves at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on the first day of 2020 to start the new year off with an exhilarating experience.