There is no one single style of Christmas beer, but brewers have long loved creating special brews for the yule season. Spices are common, dark malts are often used, and many Christmas beers have enough alcoholic punch to help settle your brain …
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Celebrating its 30th birthday this year, Swiss watchmaker Swatch helped design the tree … Last year, the Obamas were criticized for decorating their home with an apparently excessive 54 Christmas trees. This year, they have only 24.
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Chris Botek, a tree grower in Leighton, Pa., is used to people being shocked by how much his Christmas trees cost. “People come from the city and they’re used to paying $150 to $200 a tree,” he said. They look at you and say, ‘Are you …
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Every December, when our friends and relatives send us family portrait Christmas photos on holiday greeting cards, my children pass them around as a form of good cheer, but also a bill of indictment. The pictures are a reminder that another …
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On the first day of December, from the time the children were … Each day, as we counted the time left until Christmas, our four children, starting with the youngest, took turns filling another pocket with a small toy or candy cane or reindeer …
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Santa Claus never came to our home in Boyle Heights. Not even in a half-baked disguise. But if he had shown up on Christmas Day, I probably would have wondered why, because Christmas Eve was the day our family got together — our Super Bowl of …
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I’m always nostalgic this time of year — for big Italian holiday feasts, midnight mass at St. Monica’s church, and punk rock.Let me explain. The association between Christmas and punk rock started when I was 13, when my friends and I went to …
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Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot. CAL: Would it surprise you to know, Bob, that the …
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Reflecting on the meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis urged the faithful “not to … as the people’s pope and was chosen as Time magazine’s Person of the Year. “We really saw it all on display today,” Elliott said. “Even as he encouraged all …
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Santa’s helper laughs as Santa Claus prepares to enter the Cannon Caucus Room for the 24th annual D.C. Children’s Christmas Party on the Hill in Washington, D.C. As the center of the biggest commercial season in the U.S., it’s no surprise that a …
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