For anyone portraying Santa Claus – especially in a “professional capacity” – you better watch out! Defending Santa.com, a web site dedicated to restoring honor, dignity and respect to the person of Santa Claus, has recently highlighted the poor judgment of a group of professional Santas who visited a brothel museum while appearing “in uniform” [...]

The iconic holiday movie “A Christmas Story” has legions of fans and enjoys cult status as replays of the film cover the airways each holiday season. But what of those in the film? Whatever became of those child actors? Scott Schwartz, who played the poor flagpole licker in the film, recently talked about his not-so-storied [...]

The International University of Santa Claus has come under fire for taking a group of professional Santas to a brothel museum in Skagway, Alaska during a recent “School4Santa.” In recent weeks the same group received a lot of publicity for their travels to North Pole, Alaska. Now their extracurricular activities are being questioned — as [...]

Michael Rielly, founder of ClausNet.com announced today that ClausNet will team with Santa-America for charitable support. Funded solely by private donations, Santa-America’s volunteers support local hospices and children’s hospitals in their hometowns.
“We are thrilled to be helping such a wonderful organization like Santa-America and look forward to this opportunity,” said Michael Rielly, founder of [...]

ST. LOUIS – It’s an international mystery: How did a Missouri family’s Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family and friends, and was posted on her blog and a few [...]

Christmas has come early for a 13-year-old schoolgirl after she won a contest to design a festive card to celebrate Big Ben’s 150th anniversary.
Ellie Williams of Cefn Saeson comprehensive school, Neath, beat competition from 2,500 UK schools.
Ellie, from Tonna, received her winning certificate during her first ever visit to London where she was [...]

A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa will be released on DVD on September 29, 2009. The 2008 Christmas special production features the Muppet gang on a quest to get three misplaced letters to Santa Claus before Christmas Eve.
The musical special features appearances by Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Griffiths, Jane Krakowski, Petra Nemcova, Uma [...]

Kristin Chenoweth has been cast as the lead in “Twelve Men of Christmas,” a Lifetime original movie set to premiere in December as part of the network’s annual “Fa La La La Lifetime” programing stint.
Based on Phillipa Ashley’s novel “Decent Exposure,” the romantic comedy centers on a down-on-her-luck PR executive who uses her media savvy [...]