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tiffanynnguyen/Getty Images From a #holiday light show downtown to holiday fireworks in Manhattan Beach, there’s a lot to do in #LosAngeles this December. Here’s a guide to the best December events in and around L.A. iPhoneography: Pet Photography December 1 If you’re looking to make your pup an Instagram influencer, Grace Chon ( @thegracechon ) can help. The pet photographer teaches you how to up your game at this iPhone-camera workshop, open to shutterbugs of all levels, at Wallis Annenberg PetSpace. Your models? PetSpace’s adoptable paw-lebrities. Unique Markets Holiday Pop-Up December 1-2 Cram all your holiday shopping into two days at the California Market Center, where more than 300 artisans hawk jewelry, leather wares, ceramics, enamel pins, and other goodies. With so many cool things up for grabs, there’s no way your brother, aunt Sally, or super-hard-to-shop-for niece will be disappointed. Hauser & Wirth Holiday Market December 1-2 If ...

Amazon is making rivals like Walmart sweat a bit more over the holidays by offering free shipping with no minimum purchase to everyone. The company announced that it's waiving the usual $25 minimum fee required for non-Prime customers in a US-only promotion -- the first time it's done that, according to Reuters. The deal is effective starting today and will last until just before Christmas when Amazon can no longer promise free delivery in time for Christmas. Amazon notes that it has the largest selection in the US of products available for free shipping, with "hundreds of millions" of items. To make sure it doesn't miff Prime clients who pay $120 for the same privilege, Amazon also seems to be extending free same day delivery to those folks on "over 3 million items," it said, on top of the regular two day free shipping (Engadget has reached out to confirm that). While over half of all US households have a Prime subscription (think about that for a ...