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Steve Perry

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Steve Perry Releases I’ll Be Home for Christmas

Steve Perry has released a preview from his new Christmas album, The Season, due out in November. The Journey legend is going solo and leading out with I’ll Be Home for Christmas: The album – Perry’s first full-length seasonal outing – is due out Nov. 5 on Fantasy Records. “I …

A Boy Called Christmas

A Boy Called Christmas

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A Boy Called Christmas Debuts in November

A new film titled A Boy Called Christmas will make its international debut in November in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and China. The film is also slated to be added to Netflix but no further details are known at this time of when that will happen. …

Feels Like Christmas Time

Feels Like Christmas Time

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Steve Wariner Releases Feels Like Christmas Time

A new Christmas single from artist Steve Wariner is the title track for a new Christmas album titled Feels Like Christmas Time. Wariner has released the song to YouTube to preview the album’s release slated for October 16th: The album features re-imagined arrangements of familiar Christmas classics including “Silent Night,” …

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Celebrating the Cars of A Christmas Story

The cars of A Christmas Story are a thing. The 1983 movie, written by Jean Shepherd, quietly features a number of classic automobiles of the late 1930s and early 1940s. These vehicles are celebrated by car enthusiasts every year, as a matter of Christmas tradition. The funny thing is that …

Tinsel

Tinsel

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The Real History of Tinsel

The word “tinsel” is believed to come from an old French word, “estincele”, which means “spark”. Indeed, a browse through media history reveals that tinsel was related to anything shiny – from military uniforms to décor. It should be noted as well that in poetry, sermons and newspaper editorials the …

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The Story of The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppet Christmas Carol came out nearly three decades ago. Today it is considered a classic among Christmas movies, a must-watch film season after season in the same vein as It’s a Wonderful Life and Christmas Vacation. The movie was the first Muppet production after the untimely death of Muppet …

Mistletoe

Mistletoe

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The Rise and Fall of Mistletoe as a Christmas Tradition

Mistletoe is perhaps the most backwards of Christmas traditions. Most today associate mistletoe with a Christmas kiss – something that happens now rarely, if spontaneously – and only if mistletoe is included in festive activities (it rarely is anymore). Unlike most traditions of Christmas mistletoe has not really survived into …

Getting Christmas Trees

Getting Christmas Trees

Getting a Christmas Tree Might Be a Problem This Year

Getting a Christmas tree might be a problem this year. Between the drought, pandemic supply-chain issues, and wild fires a perfect storm is shaping up that may affect your ability to get a Christmas tree this year. Growers of Christmas trees are lamenting the high-heat summer weather that is affecting …

Pumpkin Pie and Christmas

Pumpkin Pie and Christmas

Pumpkin Pie and Christmas Day

Pumpkin pie is a historic ingredient of Christmas. December 25th is National Pumpkin Pie Day in the United States, a fact that very few know. Pumpkin pie today is as popular as it has ever been and yet few see its relation to Christmas. Strangely it is one national day …

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How Christmas Cards Have Evolved

The tradition of Christmas cards is a story of constant change and stubborn longevity. For generations experts and the media have predicted Christmas cards would slowly die as a tradition. Instead Christmas cards have persisted as a tradition by changing well with the times. ~ Disputed Origins of Christmas Cards …

Prime Day Christmas

Prime Day Christmas

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What Prime Day Means for Christmas

Amazon’s Prime Day falls on Father’s Day weekend this year. It could mean a lot for Christmas shoppers in 2021. There are already warnings in the media about two major events affecting the world of shopping: inflation and suffering supply chains. If that’s true, why is Amazon pushing Prime Day …

Norman Rockwell Christmas

Norman Rockwell Christmas

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Norman Rockwell and Christmas

Norman Rockwell was an artist who captured American life and culture on his canvas like no one else. Born at the end of the Victorian era his works documented a time when Christmas had evolved tremendously. By the time he passed in 1978 nothing quite said Christmas without Rockwell’s unique …

The Persistence of Christmas

The Persistence of Christmas

The Persistence of Christmas

Christmas has stubbornly persisted in these times of pandemic. As the world went into quarantine in the Spring of 2020 many turned the Christmas lights on outside and some put the tree back up. It was a way of coping with sudden changes brought on by isolation and long waits …

Spirited

Spirited

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Apple to Produce Spirited, A Musical Remake of A Christmas Carol

Apple TV+ will soon produce Spirited, a musical retelling of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, according to Collider. The big money project ropes in the talents of Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell to star in the flick. Reynolds will be playing the “Ebenezer Scrooge-like” lead. An additional report from Slash Film …

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

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Celebrating 75 Years of It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life premiered in New York City at Christmastime in 1946, making it 75 years old in 2021. Originally slated for a 1947 release the movie’s premiere was moved up so that it could compete for the 1946 Academy Awards. It was, in fact, nominated for six Oscars …

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