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Are we mixing our seasons?
Munsters fans know the original 1964 series was followed by two films (now out on DVD) starring the original cast. After that came the second series, The Munsters Today (a.k.a. The New Munsters) in 1988, then the telefilms Here Come the Munsters in 1995 and The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas in [...]

Todd Agnew will co-headline a Christmas tour with group NewSong this year, following his 2006 critically-acclaimed Christmas album Do You See What I See?.
Agnew will also prepare for the Christmas season by creating a collection of performance tools for churches, using music from the Do You See What I See? project. The resource collection [...]

A fan of the 1980s pop band Wham! tormented neighbours by playing their hit song Last Christmas all night.
Brian Turner repeatedly played the song at full volume from 1am onwards one night in May this year.
Now he has been silenced after becoming the first noise nuisance to be prosecuted by Newcastle city council’s night watch [...]

More than 18 million Mattel toys on recall world-wide
Fisher-Price recalls almost 1 million toys
Thomas & Friends toys recalled for lead poisoning
And thats just a few headlines and in one part of industry; toy manufacture. And its not just the fault of the factories in China and the companies who readily outsource to them. All in [...]

One of the biggest arena attractions in rock music, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO), will once again take to the road this holiday season for what will be its largest-ever tour, more than 90 cities coast-to-coast over a ten-week period beginning November 1st.
Established in 1996 by producer/composer/lyricist Paul O’Neill, TSO has been a true [...]

Country music singer Wynonna is all set for her fall tour that kicks off with an appearance in the 81st annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov. 22. The 43-year-old artist plans to take her first Christmas Album, “A Classic Christmas,” on the tour along with her other hits.
“I have always loved the [...]

The City of Los Gatos, California just can’t fight it any more. A citizen of that fair city has written DefendChristmas.com to inform us that the annual Los Gatos Christmas Parade will now be called the Children’s Holiday Parade.
We suspect that the emphasis on “children” is so that the rest of us possibly won’t [...]

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Aug. 13 — The temperature in the room was over 90, and the crowd was angry. The topic at this regular August meeting of the school board: what else?
Christmas.
When most people complain about the Christmas season beginning earlier and earlier each year, they do not usually mean the [...]