Neighbors Get Violent Over Light Display

Claremont, California - Every night in December, Richard Viselli’s Christmas-light display transformed his normally quiet, north Claremont neighborhood into a light-show spectacular.   The 55-year-old Whittier Avenue resident put up more than 58,000 multicolored lights and synchronized the blinking...

Music to Kill the Christmas Spirit

Now even the cast-offs from American Idol are making Christmas music— in May! Antonella Barba on her own MySpace has sought to completely bury her bad girl image, adding the completely off season “Christmas Song” to her play list.  People out and about have been offering up positive...

Italy?s War on Christmas 2007 Has Begun

Though Christmas is months away, the traditional celebration of the birth of Christ in Italian school districts has become a raging controversy. Parents of pupils at the Casa del Bosco nursery school in the multi-ethnic Oltrisarco district of Bolzano have been informed that at the school’s Christmas...

UK Town Hall Bans Christmas

The global war on Christmas continues: A COUNCILLOR in Oldham wants to know why town hall bureaucrats have cancelled Christmas. Councillor John Anchor is concerned that the council’s draft diary of meetings for 2007/2008 identifies the Muslim festival of Ramadan beginning on 13 September; it...

‘Christmas in Wonderland’ Filming at Canadian Mall

Leslie Nielsen is getting into the magic of Christmas. Seriously.