Archive for July, 2007

Gaylord Opryland Announces ‘A Country Christmas’

The temperatures outside might not spur on thoughts of the “most wonderful time of year,” but Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center brought some holiday cheer today, as the line-up for the popular annual A Country Christmas presented by Nissan was announced. A Country Christmas returns to the landmark resort Nov. 15, 2007 through Jan. 2, ...
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Posted In 31 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Entertainment, News with No Comments

San Diego Parade in Doubt

A wildly popular civic Christmas event in the San Diego, California area might not be held this year due to a ‘lack of time’. Even though Christmas comes every December 25th and even though the annual parade which draws tens of thousands is as popular as ever the community of Encinitas may not hold their ...
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Posted In 31 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in News, Social with No Comments

Nightmare Before Christmas Returns in 3D

Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas is a movie seemingly without category. Christmas fans call it a Christmas movie while Halloween fans claim it for halloween. Part musical, part animation, and all unique, Nightmare Before Christmas has endured as a popular and cult classic almost since the day it was released. It returns in October 2007 ...
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Posted In 30 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Entertainment, News with No Comments

Garden City Residents Fight Back

Last week we told you of a Long Island, New York school board who wanted to rename an annual Christmas concert to a “winter concert” and move it to February, citing the reference to Christmas as “offensive”. Citizens are not taking this lying down. Here is a recent letter-to-the-editor: First let me say, I am a homeowner ...
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Posted In 29 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in News, Social with No Comments

Vaughn and Witherspoon Sign for New Christmas Movie

Vince Vaughn must really love Christmas. He sure seems to be making more than his fair share of Christmas movies these days. The rumor mill this week has him signed to star opposite Reese Witherspoon in a relationship comedy about a couple who has to visit four sets of parents for Christmas. The film is ...
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Posted In 27 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Entertainment with No Comments

Picketing: A Merry Christmas Tradition

The Salt Lake City Council passed an ordinance last week intended to stop animal rights activists from harassing University of Utah researchers with regular picket lines in front of their homes. But a different group of activists is suing because they say the new law silences their Christmas tradition of free speech: “In the past ...
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Posted In 27 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in News, Social with No Comments

Australia Gets a Giant Christmas Parade

Nearly half a million people are expected to watch the 2007 Sydney Christmas Parade, the biggest event of its kind ever mounted in Australia. The inaugural November 25 parade, sponsored by The Sunday Telegraph and Channel Nine, is planned to become Sydney’s version of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. About 60 colourful ...
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Posted In 27 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Social with No Comments

ABC Christmas Show to Feature Foxx and Hudson

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Hudson and Jamie Foxx - recently seen together onscreen in Dreamgirls - will be joined by an array of Muppets, musicians and movie stars for “Elmo’s Christmas Countdown,” which will air as a one-hour special on ABC this holiday season. The concert will “feature the celebrities helping host Elmo ...
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Posted In 27 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Social with No Comments

New Christmas Album from Jim Brickman

The magnetism of the year-end holidays goes hand in hand with the evocative musical output that has long defined pianist, composer and producer Jim Brickman and the much-lauded musician has done it again with his new recording for the holiday season, “HOMECOMING.” Brickman who was recently crowned as the #1 Charting Artist at the Adult ...
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Posted In 26 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Entertainment with No Comments

Florida City Won’t Light It Up this Christmas

Port St. Lucie, Florida has made Christmas headlines for years as the city that cannot grow a Christmas tree. Over the past decade the city has attempted several times to plant a tree they could hang lights and decorations on every Christmas season, as tradition has dictated. But they can’t keep a Christmas tree ...
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Posted In 26 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in News, Social with No Comments

Liberty Counsel Takes Up Sea-Tac Christmas Fight

For the second time, the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is considering a ban on religious symbols during the end-of-the-year holiday season. According to the Port of Seattle’s Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee, the airport is expected to be decked out in festival attire during the holidays, but officials will not include religious symbols in the festivities. A Christian ...
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Posted In 26 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in News, Social with No Comments

Brian Setzer Riding a Wave of Christmas Popularity

Even as Brian Setzer tours the country in a reunited presentation of the Stray Cats, Christmas is on his mind. The Brian Setzer Orchestra is a grand holiday tradition and due to their runaway Christmas success Surfdog Records will rerelease their chart-topping Christmas classics ‘Dig That Crazy Christmas’ (”undeniably cool” – Chicago Sun Times) ...
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Posted In 22 July, 2007 by Newsbot, in Entertainment with No Comments
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