Author: The Hopeful Romantic

The Yoshida family in Waikele is celebrating 20 years of having a Christmas Light Show. You can find it on Anapau Place.  The Yoshida family is accepting donation to help bring holiday cheer to children of families trying to transition out of being homeless.

The Swiss Colony http://www.swisscolony.com offers a Double Guarantee on 7 Christmas gift classics. Their bakery uses local ingredients to make festive, fresh products a favorite at family gatherings and parties with co-workers and friends.

CHRISTMAS BELLES, a delightful Holiday Comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, is the next offering of the season at Broadway Onstage Live Theatre when it opens on Friday, November 30. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm through …

It’s the season of giving, and Christmas is that time of the year when people are filling up their homes with goodies, gifts and all things new. Are you wondering how to send your Christmas gifts out to those near and far, what to get them and how to pack …

SEUSSIFIED CHRISTMAS CAROL The kids of Creative Arts Theatre & School perform a whimsical adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas story in rhymed Seuss-inspired couplets. Dec. 7-22 at Mosaic in Arlington. 817-861-2287. creativearts.org. BATMAN LIVE …

The Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center awaits lighting on Nov. 28, 2012 in New York City. (Photo: John Moore, Getty Images) 6:10PM EST November 28. 2012 – NEW YORK (AP) — An 80-foot Norway spruce that made it through Superstorm Sandy is …

Just in time for the holidays, Canada’s best-loved denizens of Sunnyvale Trailer Park return with tidings of joy — well, as much joy as you can have in a show titled Dear Santa Claus, Go F— Yourself. Five years after the original TV series …

In the 1960s, nine out of 10 holiday gifts that Americans bought were made in the U.S. But these days, more than half of what Americans purchase for the holidays is made overseas. So with U.S. shoppers expected to spend more than $700 this holiday season …

BEFORE THE STEADY STREAM of Emmy Awards and Grammy nominations and Oscar consideration came The Idea — the one that producer-director Lee Mendelson, nearly a half-century later, calls with a certain zest “the best idea I’ve had in my entire …

Christmas tree growers Rob Brown and Don Hilliker had an idea: They would gather Christmas trees from their fellow New York farmers and send them to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York City’s devastated Staten Island. Friends and colleagues all agreed …