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When Tuna Met Snoopy 

Avatar photo by Casey Roonan December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

Something strange happened when I watched “A Charlie Brown Christmas” with my cat Tuna.

Posted inArt

What’s the Weirdest Ornament You’d Hang on Your Tree?

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 21, 2022December 22, 2022

An exhibition on view at Detroit’s Henry Ford Museum features 7,000 Christmas ornaments, from the traditionally festive to the deeply bizarre.

Posted inNews

US Postal Service Unveils Pious Holiday Stamp

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 22, 2022September 23, 2022

This year’s Christmas stamp is titled “Virgin and Child” and features a painting from the first half of the 16th century, attributed to an unidentified Florentine artist.

Posted inArt

The Artist Who Helped Create a Very American Santa Claus

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu December 23, 2021December 24, 2021

Abolitionist cartoonist Thomas Nast had a big role in manufacturing the US version of the Christmas patriarch.

Posted inBooks

A Photographer Captures Christmas Kitsch Across the US

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 24, 2020December 16, 2021

With American Christmas, Danelle Manthey presents elaborate decorative traditions as a form of folk art, but one can’t help but help but wonder if White Christmas might be a more accurate title for her project.

Posted inFilm

This Holiday, Stream the Best Movie Adaptations of A Christmas Carol

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 21, 2020December 16, 2021

From an animation by Richard Williams to George C. Scott as Scrooge to the Muppets, there are countless variations on Charles Dickens’s classic.

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Amsterdam Wants Residents to Tone Down Their Christmas Lights

by Hakim Bishara December 18, 2020December 17, 2020

If the proposal passes, yule be sorry if you go overboard with colorful lights or Santa displays in the Dutch city.

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Did You Know the First Commercial Christmas Card Featured Underage Drinking?

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

May we all be as merry as that boozy child.

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A Queer Twist on the Incredibly Heteronormative Holiday Romcom Genre

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 26, 2020October 29, 2021

In Happiest Season, Kristen Stewart stars in a Clea Duvall-directed story about a woman head over heels with another who won’t come out.

Posted inArt

Hong Kong’s Protesters Subvert the Holiday Season With Radical Christmas Cards

by Jason Li December 17, 2019December 18, 2019

Hong Kong protesters are remixing the Christmas card tradition under the #freehkxmascard hashtag and decorating cards with memes and slogans from the ongoing movement.

Posted inComics

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree Like an Artist

by Jack Sjogren November 29, 2018November 29, 2021

From Minimalist to De Stijl.

Still from Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) (screenshot by the author via YouTube)
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A Classic of the Christmas Horror Movie Genre

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 18, 2017December 16, 2021

In the lead-up to Christmas, Nitehawk in Williamsburg is screening Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), a controversial and beloved slasher film about a murderous Santa.

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