
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas Day
On this summer day in 1953 Gayla Peevey recorded one of the biggest novelty hits of Christmas, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. We declared today to be I Want a Hippopotamus Day of Christmas, with just 169 days remaining until Christmas.…

New England Christmas
The Puritans who first settled New England may have been hesitant to celebrate it. But their children and grandchildren have embraced it wholeheartedly. Many of today's iconic images of Christmas come from traditions long celebrated in New England.…

Unreal Santa in Art
That's Santa, right? Look closely. Is he real? Or merely unreal? Whether with a brush or its computer equivalent this video showing more than 50 hours of tedious attention to detail in making this photo realistic Santa Claus is something…

Richard Marx and Everyone Else Has the Christmas Spirit
Trying to get a little Christmas spirit going? This video, on the recommendation of many, is good medicine. From his largely under-appreciated Christmas album of 2012 this video features the selfie videos of celebrities in music new and old…

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas to Debut on BluRay
In mid-December 2014 NBC aired a stop motion animated special called Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas, based on the 2003 hit movie titled Elf. The television special was well received by critics and seen by millions. The holiday musical movie…

Bill Murray Teases Christmas Special
Bill Murray is hyping his 2015 Netflix Christmas "special" early, for whatever reason and today released a teaser (seen below). This is not your garden variety television Christmas special -- or even a comedy. Murray himself calls it "a…

A Different Kind of History of Christmas Trees
Pick a history resource out there and you will find a history of Christmas trees that dates back to pagan traditions of the Winter Solstice. The History Channel says Christmas trees took root from ancient use of evergreens as an end-of-year…

Top 10 Videos of Christmas 2013
In a world dominated by phones, tablets and small screens the on-demand of Christmas is by far the fastest growing form of entertainment at Christmas. A recent televised Christmas special variety show by Kelly Clarkson drew about 30 million…