Budget Cuts Forcing Chicago To Downsize Christmas Tree
Chicago's deep budget crisis is forcing some unusual cuts this holiday season, even to one of the most venerable traditions -- the city's Christmas tr...
Chicago's deep budget crisis is forcing some unusual cuts this holiday season, even to one of the most venerable traditions -- the city's Christmas tr...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
Let's not get distracted by asking why in the world I would ever even think I might need personal protection -- my delusions are my own business.
Michael DeJong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
It is easy to go through several hundred New York dollars' worth of candy by the time the crowd tapers off on our street. We're looking forward to seeing Michael Jackson again and again.
Alex Santoso | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
New York, as my friends and family who live there like to say, is the center of the universe and the source of everything important in life. Like Christmas.
David Wild | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
Don't crucify me, but sometimes it takes a Jew to make truly great Christmas music. Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas" poolside at the Arizona Biltmore.
The Associated Press | RACHEL METZ | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP)-Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in ...
Newsday | CARL MACGOWAN | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
There's no Christmas in July for Andrew Spadafora. The retired truck driver, whose mammoth Yuletide extravaganza he estimates drew thousands of visito...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
We should celebrate New Years in June, not January. Things seem to more or less end in January.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green
Most people who consider themselves at least somewhat spiritual, regardless of their religion or set of beliefs, have realized that caring for the earth is imperative to their spirituality.
Tom Gregory | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment
When Jackson moved three doors away from me last December, I was thrilled. I still am. Still, the neighborhood has its rules.
Tom Gregory | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
The magnifying glass under which Michael Jackson has lived his entire life has exacted an obvious price. Still as we berate him we can't stop watching him -- no matter how often we think we've seen it all.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
My child's increasing self-reliance has given me the time to reflect on my parents' lives. I've always been grateful to have arrived at midlife with two vital parents who live nearby.
Jason Mannino | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living
I ran into a friend at the gym last week. Originally from Switzerland, he has been living in Los Angeles for 20 years. Ten years ago he and his partne...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 02.05.2009 | Style
There will be no trace of Christmas in my house. The sugar cookies rattling around the tin? Gone. The leftover eggnog? Down the drain. Gingerbread houses? See ya. Except for the cards. They stick around.
Reverend Billy | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living
So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.
Steven I. Weiss | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media
Despite the fact that many media personalities are bright and funny and fascinating and love being Jewish, so many of them have the distinct feeling that Judaism doesn't want them.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
There seem to be fewer holiday cards this year, which is either a sign that every little financial outlay, even postage, must be scrutinzed, or evidence that I'm less popular than I used to be.
Lisa Wade | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style
What experiences have you had with the Santa lie? Why have you chosen to lie or tell the truth to your children? Do you think you did the right thing?
Timothy Bay | Posted 01.29.2009 | Style
Facing the challenge of current economic conditions, Santa retooled his product line this season to create new toys incorporating space-age science and the economic spirit of the times.
AP | Posted 01.29.2009 | Home
***UPDATE*** 5:29PM SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO The AP reports that the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended it's search for the Florida woman who disappeared fro...
Val Strange | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 01.28.2009 | World
In Mexico, Posadas take place every night from December 16th until the 24th. Nine nights to commemorate the nine-day walk Joseph and Mary took from Nazareth to Bethlehem.
Doon Baqi | Posted 01.28.2009 | Living
Happy Holidays is a safe bet. It does not mean Christmas has been stolen. It just acknowledges that not everyone that hears it or reads the signs or sees the commercials is a Christian.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 03.24.2009 | World
A tense atmosphere in anticipation of more bad news and an air of sadness has engulfed East Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Gaza attacks. The spirit of Christmas has all but died.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Chicago