Here, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times review this year's most notable Christmas albums.
The Booker Prize was perhaps most notable this year for its lack of controversy.
Its new boss, Steve Rowe, appears to be holding his nerve, with the most notable winter promotion being a chance to buy a wool scarf for £5 when customers spend £40.
Perhaps most notable this week was the rise of Owl City, the one-man project of Adam Young, a 23-year-old from Minnesota whose song "Fireflies" has been a sleeper hit on the radio.
Perhaps the most notable: 1994's $1.06 billion deal for Texaco's petrochemicals operation.
On the Africa investment front, Orange's most notable 2016 move so far was taking an $85 million stake in Jumia Group in a round (including Goldman, AXA et al).
Most notable: December 23rd set the new record for total number of widget installs in a single day, with 900,000 widgets installed across all of the service's supported blogs and social networks.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
The event is organized by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, a company led by Jeff Strauss, and is among the most notable New Year's celebrations internationally: it is attended by at least 1 million spectators yearly, and is nationally televised as part of New Year's Eve specials broadcast by a number of networks and cable channels.
His string of lacklustre films continued with A Walk with Love and Death (1969), a forgettable medieval drama that is most-notable today for having provided daughter Anjelica Huston with her first lead role in a movie; Sinful Davey (1969), with John Hurt; and the Cold War thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970).
