There will be no trace of Christmas in my house. The sugar cookies rattling around the tin? Gone. The leftover eggnog? Down the drain. Gingerbread houses? See ya. Except for the cards. They stick around.
Craig Newmark | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living
The occasional prank is run on craigslist, but people are pretty good at responding in a positive way. What started as hoax culminated with dozens banding together to help those in need.
Reverend Billy | Posted 12.31.2008 | Living
So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.
Steven I. Weiss | Posted 12.30.2008 | Media
Despite the fact that many media personalities are bright and funny and fascinating and love being Jewish, so many of them have the distinct feeling that Judaism doesn't want them.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business
There seem to be fewer holiday cards this year, which is either a sign that every little financial outlay, even postage, must be scrutinzed, or evidence that I'm less popular than I used to be.
Lisa Wade | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style
What experiences have you had with the Santa lie? Why have you chosen to lie or tell the truth to your children? Do you think you did the right thing?
Timothy Bay | Posted 12.29.2008 | Style
Facing the challenge of current economic conditions, Santa retooled his product line this season to create new toys incorporating space-age science and the economic spirit of the times.
AP | Posted 12.29.2008 | Home
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Richard Valeriani | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
DEC. 29, 2008. News Update. Hamas kills Israelis with rockets from Gaza. Israel kills Palestinians with air raids. Hey, where's the Christmas ...
Val Strange | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.28.2008 | World
In Mexico, Posadas take place every night from December 16th until the 24th. Nine nights to commemorate the nine-day walk Joseph and Mary took from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
Doon Baqi | Posted 12.28.2008 | Living
Happy Holidays is a safe bet. It does not mean Christmas has been stolen. It just acknowledges that not everyone that hears it or reads the signs or sees the commercials is a Christian.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.27.2008 | World
A tense atmosphere in anticipation of more bad news and an air of sadness has engulfed East Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Gaza attacks. The spirit of Christmas has all but died.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.26.2008 | World
Today could be the 3rd of June or the 9th of September, because in Cuba, there are hardly any signs that it is Christmas.
Karin Badt | Posted 12.26.2008 | Style
Surprisingly, neither of the two taxi drivers I asked to take me to the pyramids understood my destination -- despite the fact that I would think these large stone edifices are a mainstay of Cairo tourism.
Katie Halper | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
I would like to give birth to a new holiday tradition. Forget the happy Hanukkah cards. How about thank you notes?
Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 12.26.2008 | World
WILL stands in front of Harold Pinter's dead body while NIC reads the paper. WILL. Well he's dead. NIC. What? WILL. Look, there. He doesn't move...
Reverend Billy | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
Christmas is the celebration of a birth--and so it celebrates a death, too. The heat and the light increase in each 24-hour period, and this day in wh...
People | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment
Jennifer Aniston met up with friends David and Courteney Cox Arquette and their 4-year-old daughter Coco Wednesday for their annual Christmas Eve dinn...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.25.2008 | Style
Here's a recommended week long itinerary in New Orleans if you're short on good times rolling.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics
It's hard not to wonder why we look at other countries' connections to religion as fanatical or misplaced theocracy, but don't see any aspects of it in our own culture.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 12.25.2008 | World
As the rest of the world braces for a global economic dive, thousands of visitors flood into Beirut. The streets are crowded, shops are bustling and political chatter takes an unusual backseat to celebration.
Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
As I sat Christmas morning meditating as the dawn broke here in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean over Hawaii, I was struck by the many faces of the Ultimate Unknown/Known Otherness that were presented to me.
Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
While maintaining a somewhat provocative edge, my holiday message provides a bit of humor, followed by compelling evidence on how the Catholic Church might have originated.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
Faith is certainly not theology to me these days. Church (for me a local Greek Orthodox church) is just one of the places I look for answers to the only real question I have: Why do we long for meaning?
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