Thursday, Dec. 22 – Broadway Christmas 5 There’s the one story of Christmas best elucidated by a certain humble cartoon character going by the name of Linus – “And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.’” Then there’s...
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Wednesday, Dec. 21 – Santa Claus Jolly old Saint Nick is a figurehead best examined from a distance. Not only is the modern-day concept of Santa Claus a relatively new one – most of what we know of the guy came from L. Frank Baum, defunct retail store Montgomery Ward and Coca-Cola in the...
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Friday, Dec. 16 – Marc With a C’s Annual Holiday Show Local troubanerd Marc Sirdoreus (and we are always so tempted to spell that “Mark” just to eff with him) gives back to the fans with a free!free!free! all-request holiday show. The Monkee-loving proprietor of “The Real Congregation” radio show on Rollins student station...
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Friday, Dec. 16 – The 12 Bars of Christmas Pub Crawl We’ve never really understood the song The 12 Days of Christmas. (One day is plenty, thanks.) But it’s one of those longtime holiday traditions that everyone has to embrace each year without ever asking why, like opening tiny squares on the Advent calendar...
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Thursday-Friday, Dec. 15-16 – Joy to the World Here’s your opportunity to preclude your traditional waxy-fingered giggle fits of a drunken Christmas Eve midnight service (Silent Night isn’t funny; too much wine is) with a trip up to pastor Joel Hunter’s Longwood global-warming mega-church to bathe in the harmonies of the 170-voice Central Florida...
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Sunday, Dec. 11 – Sparkle Around the holidays, everything tends to go glam: glistening ornaments on the tree, synchronized light displays around the neighborhood, glitzy gift-wrapped presents. You’ll even find the craftiest gift-givers who can magically turn junk into gems – a raggedy pair of jeans becomes a rhinestone-clad purse, an heirloom brooch creates...
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Saturday-Monday, Dec. 10-12 – Holidays Around the World – Candlelight Processional When Neil Patrick Harris isn’t starring in his own sitcom, appearing in The Muppets and Harold and Kumar flicks, filling in for Regis Philbin on that morning show, spoofing himself in Old Spice commercials, hosting the Tony and Emmy awards (and winning some...
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Saturday, Dec. 3 – HoHoHo Down Lure Design’s annual holiday sale is a relaxed affair: There’ll be drinks and snacks of some sort (possibly barbecue! Possibly booze!), there’ll be music (could be a DJ, or just the Lure crew’s studio playlist), there will probably be a free screen-pulling workshop (everyone who participates takes home...
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Saturday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Dec. 4 – Cracker Christmas Let’s get this out of the way: Cracker Christmas, the county’s post- Civil-War-themed festival held at Fort Christmas, is not named after a racial slur. The term “cracker,” at least from a Florida historian’s perspective, refers to the cowboys who patrolled the lawless Florida of the...
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Through Dec. 17 – Wanzie’s Glittering Star-Studded A Christmas Carol In a not-so-surprising turn of events-season events (it happened the last two years, too!), cherubic whirligig of holiday jeer Michael Wanzie directs and narrates his own sort of drunken Hollywood Squares piss-take on the musty old Dickens classic meant to imbue sober children with...
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