Author Archive for: Editor
Entries by Jeff Westover
Bing’s Christmas TV Special of 1977
Bing Crosby was the face, the voice and the soul of Christmas for nearly 40 years. Through radio, movies and ground breaking television Crosby took Christmas to millions year after year. Already an established radio star in the 1930s Crosby broke out in movies in the 1940s and established the standard of all gold standards […]
Pentatonix Releases Expanded Christmas EP
A cappella super group Pentatonix is riding a wave of popularity launched more than a year ago after their Christmas album That’s Christmas to Me went Platinum. They have a new non-seasonal album out that debuted at #1 on Billboard — a historic first for an a cappella group. The deluxe edition of the album […]
There are No Heroes Among Retailers at Thanksgiving
The Black Friday mania is starting to ramp up as evidenced in this Sunday’s newspapers coast-to-coast. Supposedly Christmas shoppers are cheering the blockbuster deals already. But no doubt you have seen percolating on social media the inevitable memes showing which retailers will “honor employees and their families” while staying closed on Thanksgiving day or evening. […]
Bad Santa 2 Coming Next Year
As we posted last May Bad Santa will get a sequel and Billy Bob Thornton is in. The project got the go ahead this week and it was announced that filming will begin in January with hopes of a holiday 2016 release. Thornton will reprise his role as the despicable criminal Willie Stokes who pretends […]
Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Miracle on 34th Street
Three films made in quick succession post World War II have endured in the minds of Christmas fans as among the best of films ever made: It’s a Wonderful Life, The Bishop’s Wife and Miracle on 34th Street. But of those three films only Miracle on 34th Street was hailed as a classic from the […]
Christmas Life Hacks
There’s a billion great ideas out there about how to make the chores of the holidays a little more simple. Between social media like Pinterest and specialized sites in Christmas organizing there are plenty of resources. The problem is that when we need them we are in the rush of the season and we just […]
What God Wants for Christmas
This album from last year and this singer does not get the credit he deserves. This was a great album and this is a timeless Christmas video. Enjoy:
Osmond Brothers Christmas Medley of 1969
Andy Williams’ Christmas television specials of the 1960s and 1970s were traditional seasonal viewing back in the day and the Osmond brothers practically grew up on those episodes. More or less discovered by Williams after an appearance at Disneyland in the early 1960s the Osmonds went on to a storied career as teen idols and […]
Grandfather Transforms Scooter for Christmas Charity
Here’s a great Christmas story: Barrie Hall, 73, has spent eight months converting the second-hand 7mph disabled carriage into the iconic red wagon to raise money for a cancer charity. The ten-wheel imitation truck comes complete with a picture of Santa holding a bottle of pop on the side and is lined with red-and-white flashing […]
The Controversy of Who Wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas
One of the more romantic notions associated with Santa Claus and Christmas comes in the form of an early 19th century poem titled A Visit from St. Nicholas. As the legend goes, college professor and devout church man Clement Clarke Moore was out delivering Christmas turkeys on a snowy Christmas Eve at the behest of […]
