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Entries by Jeff Westover
Pentatonix Releases That’s Christmas to Me
Pentatonix had the surprising top video hit of 2013 with Little Drummer Boy and they’ve followed up this year with the release this week of a new Christmas album titled That’s Christmas to Me. Hear that song in preview here: [mp3j track=”http://mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com/music14/thatschristmastome.mp3″ title=”” volslider=”n” style=”bigger3″] The new album is available via the Pentatonix website or […]
Halloween Photo Contest
Show us your ghosts! Show us your goblins! Show us your costume! Show us your pumpkins! It’s time once again for the annual Halloween Photo Contest on the Merry Forums. Open to all members, the contest is a simple exercise of sharing your photos or videos of your Halloween celebration. Just upload them to the […]
Sara Evans Announces New Christmas Album
Country superstar Sara Evans has announced that her new album titled “At Christmas” will debut on November 17th. The CD features nine classic Christmas and one original work, including a song where she sings with her daughters. “I was very emotional recording this,” Evans told ETonline. “I was doing ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ […]
Consumers Cry Cash is King Over Credit Cards
The credit card breach at Target stores during the 2013 Christmas shopping season affected 70 million shoppers from Black Friday forward. The effects of that event have been far reaching. Target suffered a horrible holiday sales period and has since struggled to recover. The whole nasty situation has left a hesitant taste in the mouth […]
LeAnn Rimes Releases Her First Chapter of Christmas
Pop star LeAnn Rimes is out with her “first chapter” of Christmas — which we assume to mean there is more. On this first one, she releases these six songs of Christmas: One Christmas: Chapter 1 1. Silent Night Holy Night 2. I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas 3. Blue Christmas 4. Someday at Christmas […]
Eggnog Sticker Shock Awaits Americans
A recent poll found food prices overall putting the pinch on American spending plans for Christmas but grocers are bracing for the coming backlash for one of the priciest increases in holiday food costs: eggnog. Common pricing in stores early in the holiday season show eggnog topping $6 in some markets for just a half […]
Protesting Thanksgiving
The battle lines are being drawn all around us. The rumblings of discontent and the cries of revolution are warming up. There is a storm coming. It is called Thanksgiving. It never used to be this way. Way back in the old days when I was a kid — when the world was all in […]
Muppets Coming to Temple Square for Christmas
The annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City is a PBS tradition each season and this year some PBS veterans are joining the party for the first time: the Muppets will be featured guests for the 2014 show. Joining them will be Broadway star Santino Fontana, who appeared with the […]
Christmas Tradition of Gingerbread
By Mac Carey Gingerbread is a popular Christmas treat all over the world, in many different forms. Gingerbread first appeared in central Europe in the Middle Ages, made from sugars and spices that had been brought back from the Middle East by soldiers returning from the Crusades. In England, gingerbread only meant “preserved ginger,” referring […]
The Real First Christmas
By Jeff Westover There is a saying common among Christian believers: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” This saying speaks to the eternal nature of the soul and that thought is at the very center of Christmas. In countries around the world Christmas is […]
