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Tuesday, December 7 2010

Sonos: December Songs

By Josh Langhoff

How many versions of "O Holy Night" do YOU own?


Monday, December 6 2010

The Superions: Destination… Christmas!

By Josh Langhoff

My reluctance to enjoy this album may prove that I lack a sense of humor. If that's true, Fred Schneider’s Christmas music killed it.


Monday, November 29 2010

Indigo Girls: Holly Happy Days

By Josh Langhoff

Fear not, skeptics of holiday music: it gets better!


Thursday, December 24 2009

The Ten Best Holiday Episodes

By Meghan Lewit

A countdown of the 10 best holiday themed TV episodes


Thursday, December 10 2009

Santa Claus: Super Hero Icon and Religious Figure

By Aaron Sagers

Kris Kringle has flesh-and-blood status and is a religious secular figure. He is Superman, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Gandalf the White, James Bond, Dr. Who and James T. Kirk all rolled into one.


Wednesday, November 11 2009

Carla Bley: Carla’s Christmas Carols

By Richard Elliott

These beautifully arranged pieces place this among the really enjoyable and surprising Christmas albums.


Monday, November 9 2009

Merry Sitcom: Christmas Classics From TV’s Golden Age

By Terrence Butcher

The overarching theme among these stories is an often unacknowledged tension between affluent postwar consumer culture and a more austere mode of living.


Sunday, November 30 2008

Season for TV Christmas specials

By Hal Boedeker


Tuesday, November 25 2008

Loreena McKennitt: A Midwinter Night’s Dream

By Deanne Sole

On this Christmas album, the courtliness seems unnecessarily flowery.


Friday, September 19 2008

The Cold Season

By Chris Barsanti

Just when you start worrying about the state of American movies, and wondering whether the business is going to swandive into irrelevance, along comes something as vital and jolting as Frozen River.


Various: Think Global: World Christmas (Capsule Reviews) [5.Dec.07]
Jars of Clay: Christmas Songs (Capsule Reviews) [5.Dec.07]
Various Artists: Slow Jams for Christmas (Capsule Reviews) [27.Nov.07]
Low: Christmas (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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