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Charlie Daniels Plans Christmas Charity Event

Charlie Daniels and friends Rodney Atkins and Taylor Swift will offer their time and talents to perform at the 11th Annual Christmas For Kids Benefit Concert Monday, November 19th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN beginning at 7:00 PM.
The charity event raises money for the Christmas For Kids organization. Tickets to the [...]

City Hopes Summer Debate Will Dim Christmas Controversy

Fort Collins, Colorado is going to try this again.
Forced into the frenzied annual debate of the “War on Christmas” by a policy allowing only Christmas trees as part of the city’s annual “holiday display”, Fort Collins is looking for a way to placate Christmas traditionalists without offending community religious leaders.
Why the controversy?
Because Fort Collins [...]

Disney’s Christmas Carol to Debut in 2009

Disney’s Christmas Carol to Debut in 2009

Since Bob Hoskins let the proverbial cat out of the bag regarding Robert Zemeckis’ newest motion capture project, a remake of A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge, more news has surfaced about the project.
Tom Hanks is being tabbed to play Bob Crachit, Christopher Lloyd will be Marley’s Ghost and Michael J. Fox will voice [...]

Hallmark Christmas Movie Gets Emmy Nod

“The Christmas Card” - a love story filmed in Nevada City, California and aired on the Hallmark Channel in December 2006 - has been nominated for an Emmy Award.
Edward Asner is a candidate for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role in the film, which achieved the highest ratings ever on [...]

Firehouse, Dokken to Contribute to Twisted Sister Christmas Album

According to PJStar.com, Firehouse will collaborate with various hard rocking bands on a project Twisted Sister is spearheading — a Christmas album.
“We did ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’,” Firehouse guitarist Bill Leverty said. “We’re waiting on Dokken (to finish their song before the album is released before the holidays).”
Twisted Sister last year released “A Twisted [...]

Radio City Christmas Spectacular Popular, Even in July!

     TOP 10 THEATRE EVENTS
Event                                                              This Week    Last Week
Wicked                                                                1                   1
Jersey Boys                                                        2                   2
Lion King                                                            3                  3
Grease                                                                4                  6
Mary Poppins                                                    5                  5
Phantom of the Opera                                      6                  7
Radio City Christmas Spectacular                  7                n/a
Legally Blonde                                                   8               n/a
Monty Python’s Spamalot                               9                 4
Cirque Du Soleil: The Beatles: LOVE    10         n/a
“Radio City Christmas Spectacular” [...]

City Works to Embrace Christmas Light Enthusiasts

Finally! A good-news story of a city working to keep a tradition of Christmas lights alive. The Grand Haven Tribune reported over the weekend on a move of a popular Christmas light destination from a residential area to a better situated public area for a light display that drew more than 60,000 people last [...]

Josh Groban Christmas Album Coming

Word on the street is that Josh Groban has spent several weeks in London recording with the London Philharmonic on a new Christmas album to be released this fall. This album, like others from Groban, is evidently being produced by David Foster. Details of a release date and the contents of the new Christmas CD [...]