This year's version brings a new drunken Judy to the set in the person of Troy Mink (who replaces Andrew Tasakos), and if you ever wondered how hysterical it might be to watch Nathan Lane fight with Judy Garland for control of the same body, Mink sets the standard.
The play [...]
A Christmas Carol has been turned into a musical, performed on ice, animated with Scrooge McDuck and Mickey Mouse as the leads, told on recordings, broadcast as a radio play, and mangled in numerous Hollywood knockoffs (the latest an eye-popping Disney/IMAX amazement starring Jim Carrey)... [...]
Don't be misled by the cheesy, generic poster for Kirk Jones' retelling of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 Stanno tutti bene, in which a grinning Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Kate Beckinsale pose with Robert De Niro for their characters' family photo in front of a Christmas tree. It's a m...' [...]
Barnes and Noble has announced that their Nook e-book reader won't be available until January 11th. That clickety-clack noise you just heard is thousands of people giving up on B&N and buying a Kindle instead.
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' [...]The White House ordered the Office of Personnel Management—headed by a gay man—to ignore a judge's order to extend federal health insurance benefits to the partner of a lesbian court employee. Fierce! But, hey, the Obamas hired a gay man to decorate the White House for Christmas. So... [...]
As Mr. Schmader wrote in The Morning News this morning, Obama is sending 30,000 troops to Afghanistan over the next six months, with some expected to land as early as Christmas. You can read about that at the New York Times.
However, it looks like he's also establishing [...]
Ramon Villalobos and his wife Raquel prepare poinsettias for shipment last week at SunWest Growers in Sunnyside, Wash. About 30,000 of the Christmas flowers are shipped not only to Tri-City nurseries and florist shops but from Ellensburg to Baker City, Ore., as well. (AP Photo/Richard Dickin, Tri-City Herald)
Question: Do you usually buy [...]
I watch store clerks working themselves to a frazzle during the Christmas season and I realize how easy their job is this time of year. I have worked in such jobs and I tell you the easiest work is the hardest work because it makes the day move [...]
OrangeTV: As a non-religious person who doesn't give much though to Jesus' various bodily fluids, I actually enjoy the shallow commercialization of the holidays and find it slightly un-American when people complain about it. I like mindless consumption. I like plastic crap. If the season were more religious, I [...]
And here's the best decoration I've seen yet, slapped on the side of a Metro bus:
I am not an atheist—to me, atheism seems like the most benign form of fundamentalism—but I approve of atheism being part of the religious conversation. (Also, this bus ad struck me as' [...]
Bing Crosby didn’t have to dream of a white Christmas — he could bank on it. The crooner was from Spokane, a city that is among the most likely to have a white Christmas each year. According to weather experts, Spokane has a white Christmas about 70 percent [...]
Tonight's only reading—all the bookstores will be busy putting up garland and bows and hanging the Christmas Gristle with care— is the annual Haiku D’etat at the Richard Hugo House, with "featured poet Blair." This is a battle using haiku. Since it the name is a play [...]
In the mood for some holiday entertainment? Let's see: Nutcracker, Messiah, Black Nativity, A Christmas Carol...hmm, saw all those last year. And the 20 or 30 years before that. But wait: Surely smaller theater companies—the ones that are... [...]
KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho writes: Nothing says Christmas like ... shotgun shell lights on the tree. These, and other outdoors-themed lights like Coleman lanterns, are displayed at Cabela's in Post Falls.
Spokane reports another swine-flu death/John Stucke, SROne truck, 3500 pounds of cheese/Sarah Rose Fredlund, Shoshone News-PressAlbertson [...]The Literary Saloon and MobyLives are the most recent blogs to report the news: It looks as though Borders UK might be going belly-up. Their website has stopped taking customer orders, and the rumors suggest that the company is about to file for bankruptcy unless it can get [...]
"In today's very early hours, the Hagadone Corporation tested its annual Christmas decoration displays," e-mails Don Sausser, HBO's Eye On Sherman Avenue. "The 50-foot lighted tree topping the headquarters building required follow up to get everything properly lit."
Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRTravel weather still looking good/Mike Prager, SRCdA schools [...]As much as I enjoyed our son living on the East Coast for the past decade, it’s nice having him back out West — especially during the holidays. Sure, I loved spending Christmas in New York City last year, but flying over the rivers and through the woods is not [...]
