The Kardashian Christmas Card Is Here–See the Stunning Holiday Family Pic!

stars revealed their highly anticipated holiday card. The whole family is dressed in black, with Kim standing on a staircase in a cleavage baring, body-hugging dress, while Khloé lounges on a chair in a sparkly black dress with Kourtney’s son …
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MetroStage’s ‘A Broadway Christmas Carol’ is stubborn, infectious fun

through “Avenue Q,” would add to anyone’s enjoyment, because this show messes with song lyrics from at least 31 of them to tell Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas.” It’s as if one of those visiting spirits took …
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U.S. Retail Holiday Sales Up 2.3%, Foot Traffic Declines

Giselle Suazo, 28, and her husband Luis Aracena, 26, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, shopped with their 7-year-old daughter and three-year-old son at a Wal-Mart store in Salem, New Hampshire, on Friday. Suazo, who was unemployed and in school at …
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Single Mother Needs a Man: It Must Be Christmas on TV

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown,” he concluded. We can only guess what Linus would be thinking today were he to sample the avalanche of Christmas-themed made-for-television movies that began rolling down on us a few …
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Michael McDonald brings Christmas tour to Strathmore

Michael McDonald has one of the most recognizable voices in music — a husky baritone you might remember from “What a Fool Believes” and other 1970s hits by his bands the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, as well as from such solo material as “I Keep …
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Christmas wish: Let’s stop buying and giving things that people don’t want or need

As “Black Friday” morphs in one direction to interfere with the celebration of Thanksgiving and in the other toward Cyber Monday, people continue to buy one another things just because they “have to get someone a gift,” even if it may be re …
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Save the holiday of Thanksgiving: Move it to the second Thursday of November

So when, exactly, did the Pilgrims and the Native Americans get together for the first Thanksgiving? One source sets the date for the three-day feast giving thanks for the bountiful harvest of 1621 somewhere between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11. It had to be …
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The History of the Thanksgiving Holiday

One of my favorite times of year is Thanksgiving. What a great tradition—where we gather together to recount the Lord’s blessings. I love the statement from columnist Mark Steyn: “Speaking as a misfit unassimilated foreigner, I think of …
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For Christmas, all I wanted was a new dreidel

The New York I lived in as a kid was a village of four or five blocks. I could wander anywhere my curiosity took me, safe and secure and knowing I’d still find my way home. I could go around the corner to the barber shop and get a trim for a …
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