Christmas cards began, as many traditions do, in Victorian England. In the early 1840s John Colcott Horsley printed what we would commonly call a post card today for his friend, Sir Henry Cole, who had the idea for sending his friends a greeting wishing them a Happy Christmas. The idea took off while Europe clamored […]
This would be something to see — a 100 foot tall Christmas tree that you walk inside of. Here’s some drone footage of the tree going up and a tease of what it might look like when finished:
I am not a coffee drinker. And I will tell you straight up, I’ve dealt with Starbucks on the business end and I think little of them. My personal opinion of their products is that they sell an over-priced offering that has zero appeal to me. Yes, I’ve been in a few of their locations […]
The management of South Park Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina got the message loud and clear: nobody liked Santa’s new digs this year. As reported earlier, the mall erected a new Santa set called the “Glacier Santa Experience”, which burst forth with light at random times and featured Santa huddled in a snow cave ready […]
Russ Lorenson‘s new Christmas CD released recently is titled “In the Holiday Spirit” and features the Kelly Park Big Band. The CD is a refreshing throwback to Christmas swing and the glitter that only big band can bring to Christmas. Most amazing is the fact that Lorenson pulls this off without the classics of Rudolph, […]
The past 24 hours have seen an extraordinary burst of Christmas spirit from shoppers and Christmas fans upset at what Simon Property Group, a major mall developer with almost 300 malls in the Untied States, is doing to traditional Christmas displays associated with Santa Claus. They have abandoned Christmas trees, the traditional colors green and […]
No sooner did we publish the story on Cashing in on Santa than we started receiving hundreds of emails from Christmas enthusiasts upset that a mall in North Carolina has replaced the Christmas tree as part of Santa’s set with a glacier. South Park Mall in Charlotte North Carolina says the change was to make […]
The commercialization of Christmas is reaching ever new heights as retailers and marketers continue to try to cash in on Santa. From movies to music this has always been the case but the presence of Santa in the marketplace has usually been utilized as a draw — bring in Santa for the kids and the […]
One of the modern trends of Christmas is the complaint against it: some people either just cannot stand Christmas altogether or simply do not like to see it too early. The media calls it “Christmas Creep”, an annual gripe about Christmas mostly showing up too early in stores or too soon on radio or television […]
